northbound 101 of the vermont street off-ramp stalled big rig partially block the off-ramp. a quick look at milpitas, westbound 237 silicon valley commute so far looks great. that's traffic. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 5:10 now. republican presidential candidate herman cain lashing back at women who accused him of sexual misconduct. >> and still to come, pension reform on bay area balance. cbs 5 political analyst joe tuman is going to be breaking it down for us. >> plus, one source says support is eroding. how the penn state football coach is still fighting for his job despite some high level resting nations. that and much more when we come back. ,, >> closed captioning is sponsored by palo alto medical foundation, a part of sutter health. ,,,,,,,, i couldn't afford my health insurance anymore so i just started wearing this helmet instead... which, you know, it's... to me it makes sense. i mean, it can get awkward sure, when you're meeting new people but i just explain to them that i wear it because i dropped my insurance plan, and they're like wow, this is a smart guy. i

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this is the vermont way. the state and seeing things that i remember as a child that had always been there and i assumed it would be there all my life, and destroyed in a matter of hours. the storms are going to enter the history books alongside the horrific floods of 1927 in our state, something i remember my grandparents and parents talking about. i remember my opinion grandparents and my parents saying we hope we never see something like this again. they didn't, but their son did. and i can't tell you how much it hurt. but i cannot tell you how much it means to me that, again, senators joined and saying we will find the money vermont needs. back in 1927, the national government helped our states recovery, as they should. because, after all, we are the united states of america. american people come together in times like this, just as vermonters have always been among the helping hands extended to other states in their time of need. so the progress this bill makes in helping vermont and other states meet the

in our little state, we're stretched to the limit. vermont moved immediately -- i mean as the rain stopped, we had crews in there working to repair things. we didn't wait for anybody else. we started moving neighbors, helping neighbors. our state and local governments working. our national guard, red cross, everybody working. but we do need federal disaster recovery loans and grants to help those whose lives were upturned by irene. federal disaster recovery aid has always been available to other states after something like this. we need it now in vermont. and this bill is an essential part of the work that congress should be doing in response to major events like irene and the apparent pulling together as a nation to heal these wounds. the senate -- the presiding officer will recall when we reconvened after labor day, those of us on appropriations worked on this bill and other disaster relief legislation have been top priorities for vermont and for many other states. many other committees were involved. certainly the vermont delegation worked

we'll take you to the roadways where we're looking at vermont, sbl 101 the vermont off-ramp has a disabled big rig blocking part of your off-ramp there. no major concern because of the easy drive right now. but we'll let you know as chp arrives on scene whether or not this is going to be a problem if they'll have to close the off-ramp. it is open right now. the bay bridge, a live look at the construction, zoned for the lower deck, that has cleared up. barely see any taillights. there we go, traffic going on below heading over towards the oakland side. an easy drive in both directions across the bay. we are looking over here to the south bay where 880 has a construction zone still going on from old bayshore highway down towards 280, still have lanes blocked there. no major issues for the south bay or the altamont pass. an easy 14-minute drive through the dublin interchange. we'll end with a look at 880 with the construction on high street cleared up. the nimitz, no problems, guys. back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> a change of power in it li is giving a big-time boost to markets in as

bernie sanders, the independent senator from vermont who caucuses with the democrats in the senate. he is outspoken.

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i don't know some possible the state of vermont is trying to be the first statement country to set up a single wide single payer state wide single payer system health care system two different nonpolitical governmental agencies you know basically guys in green age in vermont crunch the numbers on this and the state of vermont will see if they put into place was. basically medicare part d. everybody's garbage and it was put into this place and they will say to anybody you want your point eight billion for everybody one point eight billion dollars over the next decade and here's a chart this is from the national nurses association the church shows how a national single payer system would not only replace all the jobs lost in the last year the bush administration the two point six million jobs and medicare and. it's over here and. look at the economic stimulus the citi group bailout cost us three and this is for a national health care program the secret to our cost is three hundred fifty one billion they made for america. this is two hundred thirty billion causes one hundred sixty eight

to get rid of, to snuff out all of the murals that exist on the vermont heights branch library is movingd with the cooperation of the unseeing, and knowing, apparently, arts commission. at a library commission meeting of july 21, the presenter of the so-called project manager for this project of replacements said we are not going to the art commission with this until september, when i called the art commission late in august. it turned out the visual arts committee had already heard the whole thing, and this person also said it would not be on the consent calendar, but they approved the plans for the demolition of that historic mural, which includes victor, holly, and others, and it did so without having a single presentation from the library, from the artists, or any documentation whatever of the new or old mural. most recently, on august 12, in response to an information response to an information request from us, the library

i live at the vermont hotel. it has a working elevator. it is kept working. no one would go in there until there was one. two, we have case managers changed and front desk workers trained on issues that seniors face that others do not -- have not faced yet. 3, no sro should be operating unless it has janitorial staff and case managers. four, mental illness set in, wheelchairs' are required, walkers are required. if they do not have an elevator, they should be down in the first floor. and lastly, a licensed clinical social worker with proper training can supplement and support the case managers. ours has one. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. none of these issues are really knew. i believe the city and county and board of supervisors are ripe for a lawsuit based on substandard housing. you must institute a program where all owners of sro's must where all owners of sro's must set up a program where the sro

the f.s.a. a new study done by two nonpartisan vermont government agencies looked at you know peter shumlin the new governor of vermont ran a platform of a single payer health care system for a state and it has passed the legislature he signed it in a lot and they're waiting for a waiver from the president of course they have to organize and put it together so that two different agencies of the government say what's this impact going to be financially in the state of vermont and the reports came in today and what they found was that the state at the very worst which we now in front. twenty twenty would save the very worst a little over five hundred million dollars and at the very best would save one point eight billion dollars money that would be skimmed off by united health care to pay one hundred million dollars a year you know salary and benefits to people like. you know the stephen j. hands that are sent you know. is the national or since united this is a little more direct to the right care industry. another part of a cancer in the body politic is now it's a national or says united working

i was in the state senate in vermont. i was able to appoint members to the committees. e is a tradition in vermont to a point the minority party to chair committees. we had the republicans chairing committees. some people said i was a good guy. it had nothing to do with that. it was important they have a seat at the table. at the end of the day, it was a product of honest deliberation in an open process. i would like to see congress moved for the direction the caller was suggesting. host: we ask bernie sanders about the go big approach that you advocated and others as well. listen to what he had to say. guest: that agreement chopped cut for working people and said that we would establish a super committee to look at 8 $1.2 trillion. the rich people have been asked to pay more in taxes -- not one penny. the largest corporations have not been asked to pay more than one penny. all the cuts have come from working families and the middle class. i don't have a crystal ball. i worry that the burden will be placed on working family, the elderly in terms of cuts and social securi

executives do suck us dry leave us sick all so they can just get fatter and fatter and fatter the state of vermont is working to knock these bloodsucking leaches off their back and it's past time for the rest of the nation to do the same thing i healthcare system should not exist to turn people into millionaires and billionaires like it does here in the united states and should exist to make sure that everyone has access to basic health care which is considered a human right in every other developed country in the world it exists so that health care can be delivered at the lowest possible cost with the best possible quality and goal is hard to achieve of people of dollar bill mcguire are constantly skim into that cash off the top exist so that we're all healthier so that we can avoid disease outbreaks so that we can all be more productive and all raise better families live healthy and available to make this nation a better place. a single payer system is the best way to achieve this as we've seen in the examples of countries all over the world and we'd be insane if we didn't all start putting work

a motorcycle rider died in an accident on northbound 101 near the vermont street exit about 2:45. the medical examiner was called to the scene and several lanes were blocked off until just after four. traffic in both directions is slowly returning to normal. >> they say that the 99% but it's not an occupy rally, they are csu staff members. >> it was cold last night. freezing temperatures in the north bay. we have another cold one in store tonight. i will have specific forecasts for your city for tomorrow. i'm forty-six. and the tooth fairy doesn't come when you're forty-six. just lots of referrals and appointments and bills that costs tons. maybe i'll keep it... it adds character... right? [ male announcer ] we know life can be unpredictable. that's why we offer affordable health coverage and dental plans. blue shield. [ zapping ] there goes dwayne's car. oh, man. there goes dwayne's house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does not like dwayne. [ male announcer ] state farm's got you covered. nice landing. it was. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. . >> pro

two different agencies in the government say what's this impact going to be financially in the state of vermont and the reports came in today and what they found was that the state at the very worst between now and twenty. two thousand and twenty would save the very worst a little over five hundred million dollars and at the very best would save one point eight billion dollars money that would be skimmed off the united health care to pay one hundred million dollars a year you know salary and benefits to people like. you know the stephen j. hands of their c.e.o. . is the national or says united this is a little more direct to the right care industry. another part of our cancer in the body politic is now it's a national or says united working on single payer health care issues as well absolutely it's one of our top priorities we had some of the organizers who are doing the work behind governor shumlin out in california talking about what's happening or not we have asked in a coalition of us in california have asked governor brown to request a waiver from president obama so we can implement single

will be half full of water because we'll see the flooding that we've seen around the world including in my home state of vermont the last couple of years absolutely record off the charts. just increasing more and more and more all the time. >> stephen: are you from vermont. >> yes. >> stephen: did you ride your bicycle down here, drive ox cart, how did you get down here, or dow have a vehicle that ones on hypocrisy, how did you get down here. >> there is to doubt that, you know, i'm a hypocrite. i've spent the last four years on the move around the planet, building this big global climate movement and spewing carbon behind me as i went. and you know, it's possible that, i can't make up for as much as i have put out. i hope that this movement that we're building and the people who have been willing to go to jail and to sit in outside the white house and do all the other things maybe making enough difference to make up for that kind of carbon. >> stephen: can i sell you on the oil sands for a second here. they're getting the oil out of the oil sands, okay. on the upside, doesn't that leave us nice clean sand when

it happened in the northbound lanes near the vermont street exit about a quarter to 3:00. hree of the four lanes of traffic. >>> in news of the world tonight in vienna the atomics agency says it has evidence that iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon but says iran has not yet built a nuclear war head. iran says that its nuclear program is simply for energy. >>> in syria the military today bombarded the city that's the base of the uprising against the president. 3,500 people have died since that protest against the regime began in mid-march. now there are signs that protesters are doing more than marching on the streets, some are arming themselves and fighting back. >>> and in the democratic republican of congo the most active volcano in africa is spewing again. sometimes the eruptions go on for months. so far the lava is not flowing toward any populated area. the sol volcano is located at a national park that is home to 200 endangered gorilla's. >>> residents are looking for answers in the town of marina. >> reporter: this is the fire damaged facility in marina. a hous

funding for this presentation made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. the newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> and now, bbc world news. >> egyptian activists call for a mass rally in cairo demanding that the ruling council step down. saif al-islam's fate under discussion at the international criminal court chief prosecutor visits libya. former khmer rouge officials go on trial. welcome to bbc world news. and three astronauts return to earth after five-month stay iit -- stay at the international space station and why this year's christmas trees may be a little shorter and a little less green than usual. >> tens of thousands of demonstrators are out in cairo calling for a million strong march on the fourth day of protests. at least 26 are killed and hundreds more injured. these are live images from the square. egy egypt's muslim betterhood will be talking with military rulers to end the deadly khrrbs after the civilian cabinet resigned

it happened in the northbound lanes near the vermont street exit about a quarter to 3:00. tied up three of the four lanes of traffic. >>> in news of the world tonight in vienna the atomics agency says it has evidence that iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon but says iran has not yet built a nuclear war head. iran says that its nuclear program is simply for energy. >>> in syria the military today bombarded the city that's the base of the uprising against the president. 3,500 people have died since that protest against the regime began in mid-march. now there are signs that protesters are doing more than marching on the streets, some are arming themselves and fighting back. >>> and in the democratic republican of congo the most active volcano in africa is spewing again. sometimes the eruptions go on for months. so far the lava is not flowing toward any populated area. the sol volcano is located at a national park that is home to 200 endangered gorilla's. >>> residents are looking for answers in the town of marina. >> reporter: this is the fire damaged facility in mari

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. the newman's own foundation. and union bank. union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? and now, bbc world news. >> a former aide, mistress of a british member of parliament accused of being a spy will be able to stay in the u.k. brent outlines measures to boost the economy. long queues are forming on day two of egypt's historic elections. welcome to bbc world news. also, conrad murray the man found guilty of causing michael jackson's death is sentenced british liberal took this newspaper archive on line. >> a former russian aide accused of being a spy will be able to stay in the u.k. she has won an appeal against deportation. she works for mike hancock a liberal democrat m. pfpp. the s alleged to have had an affair with him. >> a russian spy at the heart of westminster. a honey trap set to steal secrets from the powerful. that is what pheufrpblgm guest:-5 claimed but the special immigration appeals commission d

speaker, saved its greatest fury to the end when it descended upon vermont. it was the biggest damaging storm that we have had in 100 years. we lost 700 homes of hardworking vermonters. many of whom had no flood insurance. 260 roads and 30 bridges were impassable. 13 communities were entirely cut off. the good news was that the vermont response was extraordinary. people came together. they started a school on the town green when they were in pittsfield unable to go north or south because the road was cut off. when the main atery was reopened so school buses could pass but they couldn't get out on their roads, they got their chain sauce out and cut a half mile path to the woods so kids could get to school. that's the kind of spirit that we find in our district. and i'm very proud in vermont and our colleagues are as well. mr. speaker, i also want to express a statement of gratitude. i have had the opportunity to visit with mr. rogers. i have had the opportunity to visit with mr. latham. with mr. olver, mr. kingston, with mr. dicks, with mr. cantor. where they h

proud to represent the state of vermont. ll be running for reelection for that position, but thank you. host: a nice segue into the election. some news outlets say that you have not yet thrown your endorsement behind the president. what do you think of the campaign, when will you make a decision on when you will be supporting the president? guest: it is a sad moment in history when you have one of our major parties, the republican party, which used to be a center party, dissolve into a right- wing extremist party. and i say that not without any joy. many viewers may remember, my predecessor, jim jeffords, a lifelong republican. he finally said, it is not that i am leaving the republican party. the republican party has left me. they moved their report to the right. the democratic party, i am afraid, which used to be a center-left party, identified with lower income people, needs of kids, they have become a more conservative party and are now a centrist party. democrats are dominated by money coming in. a right-wing party heavi

the people at vermont associates were different. they really care. they wanted me to make a better life for myself. they took the time to explain to me the duality of the senior community service employment program. they play senior workers and paid training positions in 501(c)(3) organizations. firstly i thought that was brilliant. community people helping each other. is assigned to train at the office of the native american nonprofit group. this is a 20-year-old organization run by volunteers. i set up their files and put their finances in order and started to catalogue their library and museum holdings in noveck siemens the chief started to commie the secretary. i looked around and i thought hey i'm pretty good at this. i told vermont associate supervisor would like to learn to write grants to help fund the library. it is kind of way but we work together to make it happen and i took an amazing two-day grant workshop in boston. it was a key addition to my resume. as part of this program vermont associates holds monthly training and employment meetin

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murder. >> and dozens of arrests were made, and despite the action, a heavy police presence remains in downtown oakland. deaths in burlington, vermont, have been linked to the occupied protest movement. police have moved in against anti capitalist demonstrations held in portland, oregon, and other cities across the united states. the protesters may have to find more conventional methods to get their message heard. >> the norwegian government u.s. confessed to killing 77 people and shooting rampage in july has. in open court for the first time. he attempted to give a speech justifying his actions but was cut off by the judge. >> as we was brought from his prison cell to court, brei vik knew today it would be different. for the first time, the hearing would be open to the public. outside the courtroom in the capital, long queues of people, including relatives of those killed in the attacks and some of those who survived. this, their chance to be face- to-face with the man responsible for the atrocity. >> i want to try to understand why, or not understand what sort of get the meaning of why he did what he did. >> the hearing itself was

and initially, the true heroes in response, as we saw in tusk louisa and saw in newark, new jersey, recently. saw in upstate new york and vermont are the first responders. the police officers, the paramedics, the e.m.t.'s and nurses and doctors and neighbors helping neighbors. talked to a woman in tennessee last year during the floods in nashville, and it was this home that was completely flooded. actually it was a week later, and it was being mucked out or cleaned out by again, lutherans and another, i forget the other name of the other faith-based group. there were two groups cleaning up her front home and she's sitting out this 86-year-old woman saying all these nice people are helping me clean out literally what's left of their home and she said i wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for my neighbor that broke my front window out and pulled me out and saved her life. he was a nice young man, a 63-year-old neighbor, the nice young man that saved her life. [laughter] >> but it's neighbors helping neighbors. those are the heroes. those are the people that we need to make sure that they are part of our team as we plan to go forw

who ever knew vermont would get struck bay hurricane? and on the ground in joplin, missouri, 14 hours after the tornado went through there. and i was in tuscaloosa, alabama, smithville. mississippi. northern georgia, all affected by the tornadoes. and up in north dakota from the floods. and when i was flying over north dakota, had the opportunity with the general and a couple congressmen. and as we're flying over, and it was just cresting. in looking at the damages, the general is explaining how many homes and businesses were damaged. in sort of a side mentioned we've really done a good job and haven't lost any lives and working hard, and we saved the school and did this and did that. later i went and talked to the mayor and governor and police, fire, e.m.s. folks and chiefs and command staffs and a lot of people that had been working on fighting the flood in north dakota for literally -- much longer, but this part of it for two weeks. and sometimes i think we miss things and we forget things. but for total devastation, they did not lose one life.

the head. he could have a concussion. >>> a vermont man died after apparently shooting himself in the head. cupy protest in burlington, vermont. police say he's a 35-year-old military veteran. >>> defense secretary leon panetta says careful consideration would need to be given before a strike on iran's nuclear sites. earlier this week, the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency said iran may be developing nuclear weapons. iran says it isn't. one u.s. lawmaker raised concerns that israel might atta attack iranian nuclear facilities. panetta says a strike could have unintended consequences. panetta adds an attack on iran's nuclear program could set them back a few years at most. >>> yesterday, the senate passed a bill to help jobless votes. employers would get up to $5,600 in tax credits for hiring veterans out of work for six months and it goes up for hiring disabled vets. 240,000 vets are out of work. >>> let's go to meteorologist reynolds wolf in atlanta. good morning, reynolds. what are we looking at in flight delays? >> wie we'll see quite a few, especially in the northeast. we see the weather maps

when he rear in a vehicle just after the vermont street exit which is right there. we have video from the scene that would just got in. this was shot just after the wreck was cleared. you can see traffic is still moving at a snail's pace. this impacted traffic all afternoon long. three left lanes were closed as a result of this accident. the name of the deceased motorcyclists has not yet been released. >>pam: at 5:00 p.m. the sex abuse scandal grows at penn state. why legendary football coach joe paterno may be the next person to fall after allegations of child molestation involving a former assistant coach. and election day around the bay area, we take you live to san francisco where voters are choosing the next mayor. a new report is bringing hope to the bay area housing market. why the same firm that predicted that housing will burst now says home prices are on the way back up. plus, too close for comfort a look at the big asteroid that is at buried near earth right now that is all ahead. >>jacqueline: here is a look at our current conditions, we're going to chill

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murder. >> dozens of arrests were made and despite the hard-line action, a heavy police presence remains in downtown oakland. deaths in burlington, vermont, and new orleans has also been linked to the occupy protest movement. police have also moved in against anti-capitalists demonstrations being held in portland, oregon and other cities across the united states. it seems the protesters may have to find more conventional methods to get their messages heard. jonathan josephs, bbc news. >> a warning europe faces its biggest challenge since the second w >> yes, indeed, chris that's angela merkel, who is at center of attempt to hold of union together, pushing for a stronger political union to overcome the continent's problems. but how do europe's leaders feel about her plan? from brussels, matthew price reports. >> they changed the guard in italy and greece. out with silvio and george, in with the gray men. in rome today, mario monte, the new prime minister, is being hailed the man to save italy and by extension the euro. he's an economist, respected university president, he knows how europe works, commissioner for a decade and stauge defend

finally we've got republicans and democrats to work togetherç and we fully funded the disaster relief program, and for vermont important, we took the $100 million cap off because our damage is in the range of $200 million. we're very optimistic. we'll vote tomorrow and it couldn't have happened without republicans and the irene coalition, and i have to thank mr. cantor and mr. boehner for their willingness to help vermont out. they got it. this was a disaster and won't political. >> congressman peter welsh of vermont offering immense praise to speaker boehner. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and we'll be right back to clear the air. ♪ ♪ ♪ when the things that you need ♪ ♪ come at just the right speed, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ medicine that can't wait legal briefs there by eight, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ freight for you, box for me box that keeps you healthy, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ saving time, cutting stress, when you use ups ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ free gold ! we call that hertz gold plus rewards. you earn free days, free weeks and more fast. that's a plus. upgrade your ride. that's a plus. rewards wi

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. >> reporter: some liberals in congress are now quietly saying failure might not be the worst thing. vermont senator bernie sanders is among them. >> the american people right now are in the midst of a horrendous recession with the middle-class collapsing. they don't... do not want to see medicare cut, medicaid cut or social security cut. that is very clear. >> reporter: the supercommittee deadline may be on wednesday, but they are required by law to come up with a blueprint by monday so that all the members of the supercommittee can review it before they vote. scott? >> pelley: they'll be working the weekend. thank you very much, nancy. in an important opening today, the president said he will send the secretary of state to one of the few countries on earth that the u.s. has refused to deal with. next door to thailand, the country calls its myanmar, but relations are so bad the u.s. government still calls it by its old name, burma. a brutal military dictatorship has had a great there since the 1960s, but a new ruler has begun easing some of myanmar's oppressive policies. there is another di

that the veterans day the occupy burlington movement in vermont the thirty five year old vet shot himself in the head yes he committed suicide this highlights a disturbing reality today veterans day here in the united states over two hundred thousand homeless vets in the united states while they're nine percent of the general population veterans are they are fifteen percent of the homeless population and shouldn't we enact a new g.i. bill. we have a duty some people just don't take advantage of it and for whatever reason they should be spotted i agree with you that we should be a little more. while there is this reaction to the existence of such. a path jim webb's revised are kind of the updates to the work work great in terms of trying to help bring back the percentage the g.i. bill paid for in terms of education here's what i will say i think we need to really update look at is our veterans affairs in terms of the funding because we have people that are coming back that maybe thirty years one and able to come back because of medical technology and because we've become so efficient at re