southern nevada recycles 100% of its wastewater. so for every gallon we put back in the colorado, we can take an additional gallon out, or we send it to reuse facilities. and we deliver it to golf courses and parks and other outside applications. man: water's about a third of our budget. that's a lot of money. the lake right over here, 24 hours ago that was in somebody's house. it's been through a treatment plant. and now it's in our lake and we're watering with it. narrator: these reuse and conservation techniques enable las vegas to exist in the desert. another important form of conservation is preventing leaks. man: every drop counts. all water systems have what they call an efficiency rating. so if you were to measure the water that goes into your system and compare it to the water that goes out, how much is unaccounted for? most states have a goal of 10%. ours is at only 5.5% right now. and we have plans to lower that to 4%. man: we actually have our entire distribution system mapped out in a computerized or electronic format.

monsoon moisture into southern california, southern nevada. for us we're watching for a pretty strong low to move in from the pacific northwest starting tfog is definitely front and center. in san jose, from 77, 79. san jose sitting at 60. 7 at mount tamalpais. there's half the sea breeze at cordelia. crockett/vallejo, 54. pleasanton, 54. the fog will burn off sooner. 35 up in tahoe. the days are in the upper 80s. it's hot once you get in the afternoon fors warmer than here. ukiah warmup, lake county will have a lot of 90s. you can see the low of that monsoon cloud cover down towards palm springs and las vegas. but a very strong system drops down from seattle. they are talking about rain towards the end of the week. today, after that fog burns off, it will be slightly warmer. upper 80s to low 90s. cooler, though, pretty significant cooling trend will take us into thursday and friday. dave? >> 7:41. as you know, the bay area has a long and very impressive history to it. the construction crews out there working on doyle drive in san francisco ar

a lot of tropical moisture, monsoon moisture but staying down into southern california, southern nevada. for us another system is digging down here. that starts tuesday night into wednesday. it will carry us right into probably thursday. so clearing back to the coast. cool days ahead. low crowds, drizzle, be back tonight. thick, morning fog continues to be with us. that's not much of a change the i did go with a few brief 90s. antioch and also out to brentwood. stockton is 80. it will be close. fog, sun, cool to warm. a cooler pattern, wednesday/thursday it look like right into the end of the week. august starting cool. >> thank you, steve. >> you bet. >>> the man who came to fame with his television "sing along with mitch." mitch miller first went on in the air in 1961. ♪ >> miller would encourage his audience to following the balancing ball. he died in a new york hospital after a short illness. he was 99 years old. >>> you might have noticed more and more cleaning products showing up on store shelves with the words "green" or "natural." but a lot of consumers wonder if this can trust

definitely hot through southern nevada through the deserts of arizona. much of california is going to be warm, too. the exception, as i said, we've got the morning clouds lingering on the coast with that marine layer. in los angeles, call it 80, 68 in san francisco. look at the pacific northwest. it's going to be one of the warmest stretches we've seen so far this summer. 97 in medford, 92 in portland. all areas in washington state and oregon state should have an abundant amount of sunshine today. grab the sunglasses and enjoy. it will be hot from vegas to phoenix p city. that's where the temperature is very cool. otherwise, nice forecast, astoria, oregon, 85 degrees. enjoy. we're going to talk about the warm-up. temperatures will get very warm in seattle. may even have to turn the air conditioner on. shocking news. >> 103 for las vegas. can you do something about that? i'm heading in that direction. >> i'd like to recommend a trip during the winter. >> thanks, bill. >>> cisco sinks stocks, and a judge comes down hard on a woman for stealing. your early

a lot of tropical clouds or monsoon moisture erupting into southern nevada, arizona and southern california. fog, drizzle, sun, cool and a little warmer especially away from the coast today. upper 80s to near 90 degrees. by the coast and around the bay though may not even notice it. more fog and cooler weather really kicks in tomorrow. that will take us into the rest of the week. >>> all right. time now is 6:10. having a glass of wine or beer may soon cost you more in one bay area city. coming up, why it's on the table and whose siding. that's when we come back. >>> good morning. time now 6:12. the engineers of bp will conduct one last test before they start sealing up the broken oil well. now the engineers will test the well with an oil-like liquid to make sure it can handle the sealing up process which is being called a static kill. now if it can hold up, they'll spend today through thursday pumping heavy mud down that well then sealing from the top end with concrete. the same thing will be done from beneath the well weeks later. right now the only thing keeping oil from spilling into the

reporter: and he's connected folks in the tunnel with a local nonprofit group called help of southern nevada the light at the end of the tunnel, the prayer that's answered. >> getting back to normal -- >> reporter: it was for randy, who now has an apartment thanks to help, which has placed more than 70 people in transitional housing, giving hope to the hundreds still living in shadows beneath the neon. seth doane, cbs news, las vegas. >>> and that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. hope you'll join us later for "the early show." i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. ,,,, >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. comments@captioncolorado.com >>> good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, the 11th day of august. good morning. i said good morning again. i need a double

reporter: and he's connected folks in the tunnels with a local nonprofit group called help of southern nevadawe could be that light at the could be that prayer that's answered. >> getting back to normality. >> reporter: it was for randy who now has an apartment thanks to help which has placed more than 70 people in ran the transitional housing. giving hope to the hundreds still living if the shadows beneath the neon. seth doane, cbs news, las vegas. of a heart attack or stroke. i was going to tell you. if you have p.a.d., plavix can help protect you from a heart attack or stroke. plavix helps keep blood platelets from sticking together and forming clots, the cause of most heart attacks and strokes. call the doctor about plavix -- please? i will. [ male announcer ] certain genetic factors and some medicines such as prilosec reduce the effect of plavix leaving you at greater risk for heart attack and stroke. your doctor may use genetic tests to determine treatment. don't stop taking plavix without talking to your doctor as your risk of heart attack or stroke may increase. people with stomach ul

we call the monsoon season down into arizona has been filtering into southern california and southern nevada. you can see if you have travel plans maybe down to palm springs or l.a. , san diego or las vegas, it's kind of hot and humid. not just the dry heat. for us slight warming trend today. by the coast it won't matter. i don't think around the bay. but inland the sea breeze cut in half and there's slightly warmer air aloft. slightly warmer weather for a few. not much. san francisco 53. 55 and 60. high of 62 degrees. still going to be below average along the coast and probably around the bay. fog, some mist and then sunny. cool to warm. upper 80s to low 90s well inland but still 60s and 70s. around the bay 59 san jose. oakland berkeley running one degree warmer than liver march concord. it seems like they've been there all week. 53 for san francisco. 87 las vegas and reno at 58. very hot july readings. and reno it's their seventh warmer july ever in las vegas their warmest july ever. cool conditions l.a. down to san diego and crescent city and around here as well. just too much fog. a coup

tropical moisture in arizona and southern nevada. for us a system will dig into the north and increase fog and give as cooling trend. so some low clouds, fog, mist, then sunny and cooler. windy at times, so 60s, 70s, some mid-upper 70s for a few, then some low to mid 80s and pretty far inland upper 80s, but the trend is cooler and will continue that right into thursday and friday, claudine and dave. >> all right, 5:08 and coming up in the morning news california democrats now say they have a budget plan. we are going to have details. and will oakland mayor ron dellums ask voters for another term in office? >> plus president obama turns 49 years old today. we will tell you how he plans to celebrate his birthday. >> reporter: and coming up a new report takes a look at how much oil from that broken well is still in the gulf. >>> bp says the effort to seal the broken oil well appears to be working. heavy mud is holding back the flow of ill in what is called a static kill. there is also word this morning that 75% of the oil from that spil

. >> fresh and easy, a grocery store chain popular in southern california, nevada, and arizona is coming to the bay area. the company has announced it plans to open seven stores by early next year. they'll be located in concord, danville, pacifica, san francisco, san jose, walnut creek. the new stores are expected to create 140 new jobs. >> a new poll suggests that b.p.'s image is starting to improve now that its capped the well in the gulf of mexico. finds the approval of the handling of the gulf disaster has more than doubled but still to just 33%. some 66% of those surveyed still disapprove of the oil giant and confidence in the gulf is not increasing. more than half of the people said they are not confident yet it's safe to eat from the oil-spilled areas and don't think beaches in the affected areas are safe for swimming. >> something new to charge airline passengers for because it's not nif, right? american airlines says it will charge passengers to sit in what it calls express seats. those are the first few rows of the coach section. includes the right to get on the plane in the fi

tropical moisture ending for southern california and nevada and arizona.ystem will develop right there where it says fog sunny right there in the pacific northwest and it will develop  right on us. that means a lot of low clouds and fog. that's already lifting. sea breeze showing itself big time for some. 50s, 60s, 70s. some upper 70s. concord, danville, morgan hill only 80. napa 71. it has been a cool summer for napa. that's not the airport. that's downtown. 71. get up and get hot. that's not been the case except for a couple times. low clouds, cooler, take that into saturday. night morning low clouds only gradual warming away from the coast. >>> a san jose man accused of assaulting a sing fresh vietnam has pleaded not guilty. 61-year-old tong faces five felony charges related to the attack which happened on july 18th. they say he dressed up like a wong and attacked with pepper spray at a concert. if convicted he could face more than six years in prison. >>> your time is now 5:39. the concord man whose pit bulldogs attacked and killed his 2-year-old gra

southern california. that system -- there's two lows one in nevada, that triggered pretty good storms yesterday. tahoe had errors of hail and street flooding. the next low dropping down, that's the one controlling our weather. that gives you a lot of low clouds, mist, drizzle. rather windy a times. temperatures upper 70s for many that should be a lot hotter than that. 60s, 70s coast and bay side. on the five-day it looks like there could be warmer weather. bit the coev, as we were talking -- coast as we were talking about during the break, it's really socked in. >> i coon get over how gray it is. -- i can get over how gray it is. >> from eureka. >> we need the sun an vitamin- d. >> i'm working on it. >> okay. thank you. >>> a new bay area report shows the market is stabilizing but it's still slow. the median home value is $4 7,000. the report shows some home values declined in about a third of the zip codes. >>> gavin newsom will help launch a project to make the city more bike-friendly. that project will add 34 miles of new like lanes across the city. at 1:00 p.m., the first strike will be laid

nevada tonight. they're sold in southern california. the company says the bars are made from tainteded pulp which was recalled just a few weeks ago. it's a popular fruit in latin america and caribbean. so far no illnesses have been connected to that frozen fruit bar. >>> a local truancy program could become law in california if passed, parents would pay the price with jail time. that bill by san francisco senator mark leno would make it a misdemeanor punish building by up to a year in jail. it goes before the state senate tomorrow for a vote and the assembly passed it today. >>> do you need a police officer's help? if you live in vallejo, getting one to respond has become nearly impossible. the city is bankrupt. and it seems police force shrank by more than 40% leaving taxpayers feeling like they're totally on their own. as jodi hernandez shows us, while police are doing what they can, residents feel completely unprotected. >> i want my daughter back. and i'll do anything in the world to get her back, back home where she's supposed to b

new york city down to atlanta, dallas, we are 90 through phoenix back up to nevada and even all the way up here into southern canada we were into the 90s yesterday. today is going to be very similar to what we saw yesterday with the coastal areas are going to remainstreamly cool. looking at san diego right through the weekend, you should be about 8 to maybe 10 degrees below average. it's just been an endless story here. a huge area of high pressure off the coast that allows the trough to sit over the coast itself. the hot conditions are further inland. that will be the case once again today. phoenix 110 for you. vegas 106. boise slightly cooler. yesterday near 100. today 96 for you, medford 91. not bad in the pacific northwest, kind of 73, need a light jacket at times. now around las vegas, san diego coastal clouds early today. that's a loo bakersfield and fresno, even nevada around 93. oregon, 90 for you also. take a look at that weekend forecast coming right up bill, thanks. >>> well, unemployment numbers loom over wall street. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, at the box

nevada. we have that chance of showers for the northern, the southern sierra, even to southern california whileack side of it and high pressure builds on in. that's a return to more normal temperatures. 65 monterey, 79 sacramento. you know we're still looking at the 60s and 70s. just 69 yesterday in livermore. 71 los angeles with the clouds and windy conditions from the tahoe area. just 55 there. definitely cool in lake tahoe. today then look for partly cloudy skies brightening up there with low 70s, maybe a little cooler by the water, milpitas, 69. 74 in campbell. peninsula numbers maybe the mid to upper 60s by the water but we should top out in the lower 70s as you head towards palo alto and los gatos but continued breezy here with the high to build in along the coast so upper 50s pacifica. san francisco coming up about 4 degrees, 64 downtown. a little breezy for you but in the north bay holding on to some mid to upper 70s the further north you get. 70 san rafael. near east bay about 4 or 5 degrees warmer for you in berkeley, 67. low 70s for union city and fremont. that is an improvement. so

nevada. the rain, maybe a few flakes of snow to the northern, even southern sierra.stery day, chilly, temperatures just in the upper 60s for milpitas and sunnyvale. 74 los gatos. look for a lot of clouds around the peninsula. 66 san mateo, 69 mountain view. windy conditions. some of these wednesday falling through the san bruno gap could reach 40 and 50 mph today so chilly day to say the least. 60 downtown san francisco. north bay numbers, mid-70s should dodd it for loaferdale. 70 novato. breezy winds today and near east bay low to mid-60s. kind of a gusty day for you in union city at 68. over the hills looking at lower 70s but dublin only 68 today. 70 livermore and down by the monterey bay breezy, cool. some sprinkles perhaps late tonight. 72 gilroy. the seven-day forecast, calling this light chance of showers in the north bay today. maybe down the peninsula tonight into the south bay tomorrow and then you'll notice numbers try to recover tomorrow. but as we look ahead remember going to gain a couple degrees each anden day. we'll get back to normal by the ends of ne

nevada. that's bringing high fire danger. the greater lake tahoe area with upper 70s there today. upper 80s throughout the southernrra and the heat holds for fresno at 95. some of that heat expanding northward. that's where our warming trend is coming from tomorrow, really getting underway monday and tuesday. today just clouds in monterey at 62. low 70s santa clara, 76 los gatos. 72 cupertino today. lots of cloud cover abeing lo the peninsula. the mist and drizzle throughout the day. only 57 pacifica. mid-60s san mateo. cooler day for you. cooler in san francisco with later clearing. 61 downtown. coming from airport delays. 68 san rafael. a couple 70s, not many. even up in sonoma, 72. widespread 60s here. breezy conditions. a very gray, cool day. but it's not gonna last. so today the coolest day you'll see in hayward at 64. and over the hills today coming down for you out of the 80s, only 74 in danville, 75 livermore. even by the delta. some late morning clearing with 77 in pittsburgh. 65 in salinas. only 72 in hollister. we're even cooler today but things will reverse itself tomorrow with low clouds and fog. mid

southern california company is now recalling eggs that originated from the same farm in iowa where health officials say a salmonella outbreak originated. they said today their eggs were distributed in california and nevada under the names altadina dairy. driftwood dairy and hidden villa ranch. bacteria was found in its supply. the fda while recommending throwing away recalled eggs says thoroughly cooking them can kill the bacteria. the food and drug administration also says americans consume 220 million eggs a day. thousands of them are dished out at bay area restaurants morning, noon and night. and as ktvu's john sasaki reports, many residents are not quite scrambling away from their staples. >> reporter: on weekend mornings few things are more fitting than branch. pancakes, bacon, eggs. and in spite of the danger of salmonella in the u.s. egg supply, today there was brisk business for all kind of eggs at giant chef restaurant in pleasant hill. >> sunny side up? >> that's really pretty raw. >> that's perfect. i like it like that. >> reporter: not everyone ordered eggs but most said saying they feel little reason for concern. >> i've been coming here a long time. i know how they do business here. >> a l