every public accommodation needs to be wheelchair-accessible. there are also other other forf disability. most of the issues we are hearing about are wheelchair accessibility issues. there is a small group of private individuals who are wheelchair-down that go around the city and they look at small businesses. and i dare say anybody in small restaurants have some accessibility issues. it is another attempt at making your building wheelchair accessible. i am not sure which of you may be merchants and which it may be landlords. the law applies to both. and that means you were 100% liable for any barriers to access and any damages that may be associated with those barriers. there are ways you can defend yourself. with your landlord or at senate -- or a tenant, this can avoid a lot of problems later on. the inspections offer a limited attempt at bringing a civil action for damages. it does not affect the ability to bring damage claims under the symbol laws. however, most lawyers -- they will not pursue the case. so, oftentimes, it works it to stop t

this man wheelchair-bound much of police officers before he goes down. it looks pretty violent and aggressive from outsiders. some witnesses at the time saw the officers left of the wheelchair and ground phase first. they put in his knee in his back. >> they say harris was drunk, combative, in a violent. fall.od up and began to taking the officers with him. >> i saw him stand up momentarily. now after a five month investigation, the u.s. justice department says it is not prosecuting the officers. evidence was insufficient to prove beyond reasonable doubt that delivered in a specific that the do something prohibits. -- pro -- that the law permits. >> i think they could've handled lot better. >> two days after the incident, dropped assault and drinking charges against terrorists. are now back on theelease job. plans are being made for them to receive additional training for those inrests of wheelchairs. >> thank you. >>> a ravens linebacker is support ofand in sex marriage. the football player is featured in an on-line same-sex marriage campaign sponsored

you also have to have a sign out front that your business is wheelchair accessible. and various signing issues. each one of those things you do not have if someone must use to you is a separate claim. the statutory damages are $4,000. a person can come back three times and see three different wheelchair-accessibility issues, that is nine claims. the attorneys' fees are only recoverable -- only the plaintiff has the ability to get the attorneys' fees. if you fight a lawsuit and win, you do not get attorneys' fees. is a one-sided statute. the policy is to promote access. one of the issues for a merchant to look at is your least. virtually every commercial lease, what ever the business maybe come up switches to the tenants all responsibility for code compliance. what that means is coming you have to indemnify the landlord on the insurance or the least, or any money that the landlord may have a. clearly, the landlord -- the lease does not stop the plaintiff from suing the landlord. therefore, the attorney for the plaintiff is going to target the person they are getting t

navy and government of sengal get involved to make sure they delivered 400 wheelchair for the handicaps. this was an outstanding, a major break through and thank cbn for their leadership. >> chairs are manufactured by the u.s. through a ministry through pet, personal energy transportation. >> these men would get together on a saturday and build these carts out of wood and get wheelbarrow tires and put them together. >> pet wheelchairs have lifted the land capped off the ground in more than 80 countries giving them personal independence from one day to the next. >> he saw one handicap that bought and sold goods. >> he went to the market, bought his goods and said i am independent. >> at the one distribution, the imam, head of the mosque and the town got up and offered a prayer praising god for cbn's presence there and giving these chairs. >> stan jeter, cbn news. >> fantastic. this is a quick show, already over. we are so glad you joined us. >> until next week, good-bye and

he was knocked out of his wheelchair from the force of the blow.athering, along with a $10,000 reward are all a part of the effort to generate leads in the case. >> even if it was an accident, stop and help him. he was left industry to die. >> i told him to stop, he did not stop. officer: with other traffic patterns are the same for people to be back and forth to work. the vehicle should have some significant front and the damage. >> the vehicle involved is a black older model lexus like the one seen here. >> still ahead, president obama will be talking to advocates in washington d.c.. >> let's take another live look outside to see if we're getting any clearing yet. it is a mixed bag out there. robyn winston will tell us all about it. cochran or and >> nin details on the strike that killed in to al-qaeda leaders in yemen. officials said the strike also killed a key bomb maker. he was linked to the failed christmas 2009 airliner bombing. the strike also killed an american born cleric allan we keep. al walkie is one of the top terrorist recruiters an

. >> sherry is a lawyer, a special assistant to the inspector general at hh s, and wheelchair-bound. while recovering from treatments related to her disability, she felt a lump. she had a mammogram, then a biopsy. >> four days later i found out i had a cancer russ lump. >> reporter: research finds women with disabilities tend to get screened less often than women without limitations. sometimes even healthcare workers don't encourage screening. they and the patient focus on the disability rather on the health conditions like breast and cervical cancers. in some cases women with disabilities feel like lightning can't strike twice. there is no way i can get breast cancer in addition to this. >> reporter: but several factors outside the disabled woman's control often create barriers to screenings. >> i have a tracheotomy, it was trying not to hit it on the machine. it takes awhile and it is not comfortable. >> reporter: with two komen-funded grants, the american association on health and disability surveyed 55 area medical facilities and hospitals, to measure accessibility. starting with

and it was two cops versus one guy in a wheelchair. so what's happened to the cops now?sounds like there was some sort of deal made there. >> hear what a judge decided about the video takedown. nothing about marriage counseling. but i have a feeling these two could use a few sessions? >> i gave you everything! >> you just walk away. >> the guy has a turtle has some issues they need to work out. >> rage issues. >> what are you doing? you -- you don't walk out this door in front of me! >> that's a fast-moving turtle. >> wouldn't you if you were getting screamed at like that? >> i didn't sleep with your sister! >> wait, that's fiscally impossible. >> the person who shot this video must have been insanely bored. >> look back at me. >> i guess he could put his head inside the shell. >> it's turtle abuse. >> too bad it's not a ninja turtle. >> turtle power! >> a whole different video. completely. >> i'm done. >>> i found a cool do it yourself how-to video just in time for halloween. >> instead of buying candy corn this year, we'll show you how to make your own. court syrup, po

and it was two cops versus one guy in a wheelchair. so what's happened to the cops now?sounds like there was some sort of deal made there. >> hear what a judge decided about the video takedown. >> a whole different video. completely. >> i'm done. >>> i found a cool do it yourself how-to video just in time for halloween. >> instead of buying candy corn this year, we'll show you how to make your own. court syrup, powdered milk, salt, food coloring, sugar, and butter. >> you can make your own candy corn. >>> two things struck me, like this just breaks down how much sugar you're actually using. >> sugar, sugar and more sugar. >> exactly. >> and what a pain in the butt. >> if you're going to consume that much sugar on halloween, anyway, isn't it better that you do it yourself and you know exactly what's going into your candy corn? i hate candy corn, but if i can make it myself. i might eat it. >> i for one love candy corn and i think people who don't are commie pinko red. nothing beats the joy of getting it in your pillow sack when you say trick-or-treat. >> so it's not actua

the garage is an extra-large space for wheelchair accessibility and we placed some of our equipment there. the garage will continue to provide access for wheelchair's and handicap vans. >> there is no diminishing of actual, usable space for which the garage was designed? >> no, sir. commissioner miguel: that's all i have for you. thank you. i have not been presented with any facts that would cause me to turn down this request. me, personally, i cannot speak for the rest of the commission. we have to deal with factual material. i greatly appreciated the fact that supervisor cohen, in an attempt to resolve things asked for a continuance, which we automatically granted, as we always do when a supervisor requests it and should be done. i appreciate her efforts of that enters staff in trying to resolve this issue. i am very disappointed that it cannot be done. i may do some follow-up on that personally. since there have been no factual materials presented to me i can consider in this, that would cause me not to grand this, i am going to move approval with conditions. >> second. president olagu

. >>> and a person in a wheelchair run down on the streets of san francisco. the news at 11:00 am starts right now. >>> good morning and thanks for being with us at 11. i'm marla tellez. >>> and i'm jon kelley. a major milestone this morning for the bay tiec s oonas sectio eastern span bridge deck is being lowered into place. eventually, it will connect the bay bridge with yerba buena and treasure island. >> christie smith is live with a look at the progress. >> reporter: good morning to you, jon. happy friday. we have an incredible view as this final piece, the 28th piece, is lowered into place as we speak. this is a thousand-ton piece of steel. what it means is that the self-anchored suspension span is no longer in bees out here. it's one continuous road. still needs concrete and earthquake ties at the joints. a lot of other work. really, this is, as you said, a major milestone. stronger in a quake after a section of the old bridge went down in the loma prieta quake in 1989. this connects the yerba buena to the eastern skyway. it essentially means that oakla

a bystander cell phone camera only saw what it saw. >> he's in a wheelchair. what's going on? >> reporter: in utah last thursday a group of football fans go into the haka, a polynesian battle cry familiar to some sports teams, and are pepper sprayed by police. at the start of new york's occupy wall street protests, a police inspector fires his pepper spray canister at a clearly nonviolent crowd. a woman standing on her own property while taping a traffic stop arrest -- >> this is my friend. i'm just recording what you're doing. it's my right. >> reporter: -- is herself arrested when she refuses to move. >> i'm observing what they are doing and they are arresting me. in other words what's going on. >> reporter: what is understood by the aclu is while there may not be more of these incidents, more of them without question are being caught on tape. that raises next level issues in the age old interactions between law enforcement and the public. >> for the first time in our history, 80% of the population are carrying video cameras in their pockets with them on smartphones. >> repo

those of us not in a wheelchair, you might get your hand caught. it is too close to the door and the wall, and that is not shown here. this building is so tightly designed around the columns, that the building does not provide that. to redesign that would require everything on the internal life out to be changed, which will be very difficult if not impossible. somebody said to me, where are you going with this? the reason i am taking the technical side of the discussion is, we do not have any standards, not in the residential guidelines, the neighborhood discussions, about what constitutes have ability and livability. it is partially addressed in the chapters of the building code, which deal with health and safety. the overriding policy statement, what is a good unit, what is even a small a good unit? i believe that this design, and i'm not talking about policy, does not meet the minimum requirements of functioning units from the bedroom discussion in which commissioner miguel take off to the elevator exiting discussion i mentioned on the ada gener

of the injuries from what we saw were whiplash and those to the elderly and people who were in wheelchairs there. we are not sure what happened, but we can see some inspectors looking at the switch which is just behind me. upon looking at it myself, the train railroad switch track has not switched over in the position that would push the pacific starlight on to the other track so it could go around the bakersfield amtrak train. so that appears to be what

i and, as all wheelchair users will have to exit and enter the ramp from the bike lane. this plan fails to provide any tactile paths of travel information. those who are blind, low vision. members of that disabled constituency can easily walk into either the active bike lane or an active traffic lane. this is dangerous for people with disabilities, seniors, and others. thank you. >> john, daniel, leah, and then bruce. lawrence lee and daniel tomasavich. >> good morning. john daniel. i heard comments about people that may be disabled and do not look disabled. i am in that category. i am on medicare, social security, for disability because i got aids about 20 years ago, full-blown aids. i asked my upstairs neighbor, a nurse, what i should do, and one, it was travel. i had 17 t-cells left, so it was time to go to europe were used to live as a kid. she also suggested bicycling. right now, welcome in 1999, i got hit by a car in a the bike lanes when they went in on valencia's street. they gave me the illusion of being said, but a car hit me in the bike lane at the corner of v

tonight the other big story a vigil held in richmond for a wheelchair-bound man. david cox was hit last week. they're still looking for the driver with a $10,000 reward being offered in this case. >> the memerchants-in for fe fruitvalle are arming themselves with weapons. >> and vallejo, is cracking down on marijuana dispensaries. at the same time in vallejo leaders are considering a change to zoning ordinances that would allow a medical marijuana. right now, they are using a technicality as a " nuisance " as part of the law to shut them down. >> an american born terrorist was killed today in yemen >> one of the world's top terrorist recruiters and the al queda leader is dead. he was killed in the u.s. grown air strike inf yemen joint intelligence operation between the united states after yemen. >> it is for the reporproved thl qaeda won't beat n >> he was in the states until 20 02, the muslim cleric was considered a major threat to u.s. security. he had ties to 911, and the man accused of killing 13 soldiers at fort hood. also he is believed to help recruit the m

the ramp is about 52 inches long, and a wheelchair is about two and a half inches wide. they might slip into the biplane a little bit, but not especially. this is how some of the current blue zones would. there is no landing strip. there are about 11 spaces like this. what we're proposing would give people landing areas that they do not have currently. now we get to the, perhaps one of the controversial issues, which is over the parking situation overall. there are 1900 spaces in all of the golden gate park, about 480 and jfk. 800 spaces exist underneath the surface. there are about 1400 spaces near the concourse. heuter about a half mile circle around the museum's, and that is all the area that is in red on this presentation. we look at some of the areas and attributed those as parking for other attractions. of the 460 regular, anyone can use those spaces. about -- we have gotten it down a little bit. in our last presentation, it was about 100 to be removed. but we're talking about gaining back some spaces elsewhere. specifically some on bowling green drive, mlk, and so

. >>> plus, -- bart unveils a wheelchair ramp in the east bay. advocates say there are major things missing. >> south bay teacher who got a surprise gift. unbelievable gift today for the classroom.  >>> a transportation security administration at new york kennedy's airport apologize a breast cancer survivor after what she went through. she was heading to san francisco last week when a full body scanner detected tissue expanders implanted after her mastectomy. the tsa agent refused to let her retrieve her medical card which had information about the prosthetics. her documentation would not have spared her a patdown but the procedure would have been done privately. the agency is in the process of training agents how to screen people with prosthetics. >>> bart under fire for failing to connect a new two million dollar wheelchair ramp with the parking lot at its washington station. it didn't include a curb cut-out for chairs to get from the south parking lot to the access ramp 117 space lot doesn't have a single space for the disabl

. >> reporter: sherry a lawyer, a special assistance at hhs and wheelchair-bound. while recovering from treatments related to her disability, she felt a lump. she had a mammogram and then a biopsy. >> four days later it was july 4th weekend i found out that i had a cancerous lump. >> reporter: research finds women with disabilities tend to get screened less often than women without limitations. sometimes even health care workers don't encourage screening. they and the patient focus on the disability rather than the health conditions like breast and cervical cancers that women still face as women. >> in some cases women with disabilities feel like lightning can't strike twice. there's no way that i can get breast cancer in addition to this. >> reporter: but several factors outside the disabled woman's control often create barriers to screening. >> i have a trach. it was trying not to hit the trach on the machine. it takes awhile and it's not comfortable. >> reporter: with two funded grants the american association on health and disabilities surveyed 55 area medical

. >>> plus, -- bart unveils a wheelchair ramp in the east bay. advocates say there are major things missing. >> south bay teacher who got a surprise gift. unbelievable gift today for the classroom. >>> a transportation security administration at new york kennedy's airport apologize a breast cancer survivor after what she went through. she was heading to san francisco last week when a full body scanner detected tissue expanders implanted after her mastectomy. the tsa agent refused to let her retrieve her medical card which had information about the prosthetics. her documentation would not have spared her a patdown but the procedure would have been done privately. the agency is in the process of training agents how to screen people with prosthetics. >>> bart under fire for failing to connect a new two million dollar wheelchair ramp with the parking lot at its washington station. it didn't include a curb cut-out for chairs to get from the south parking lot to the access ramp the 117 space lot doesn't have a single space for the disabled. federal gui

you know, wheelchair ramps, handicapped accessibility, it's a top priority in san francisco. but for years nephew gleeked it in their own chambers and, now, it's really cost them. as home improvements go it has got to be one for the books. a 10-foot-honk wheelchair ramp that, by the time it witness all said and done, wound up costing a whopping $567,000. this rife always the cost of a home in san francisco? >> interview: you know, san francisco, we have always stood on the forefront of accessibility. >> reporter: the ramp it only cost about $16,000. that was just the start. they had to take the president's desk apart, drop it four steps and put it back together. a job that meant building a special box around the whole deal just to keep the dust from getting in the rest of the wood. they had to match the wood, manchurian okay, which is now extinct. they had to keep a shadow of the old former steps. >> this was the best selection that could balance the interests of the historical preservation needs with the community needs. >> reporter: but it has a price. this was big. to hire

the one officer put his leg in front of the guy in the wheelchair and throwing them to the ground. this is allegedly because he was drunk in public. the department of justice said after the investigation, there is not enough evidence to but sue federal criminal charges. >>> a weekend travel alert and a warning about your credit card debt. maureen umeh has your fox 5 top five. >>> we begin with the question: how much do you owe on your credit cards? it might be more than you think. number five, the new study said americans underestimate their credit card debt by a third. the average household thinks it's $4,700 some say it's like 7100. the study said that many people are uninformed about chars and don't keep close track of -- charges and don't keep close track of their balances. >>> a need pantry in virginia will reopen on tuesday. action and community had to close the center monday after running out of food. they thought it would be shut down until november 1st. when the news got out, help started coming in. >> now you can own maryland pride. the popular football jerseys worn by th

he was forced out of his wheelchair by the impact of the collision. we are told he had a back injury and possibly a head injury. the family members live in haywood. they say they were waiting here at the oakland station for their paralyzed son to arrive when they heard what sounded like an explosion. what we have beenaible to see is that train 718 the passenger train struck the seattle train with such force it broke the concrete platform here at the jack london station sending concrete spraying all over the platform. right now emergency crews are not confirming how many people were actually injured. we do know that more than 10 people were injured as a result of this collision. of course we are told they are still gathering more information about those on the train and still trying to figure out what is going on. there was one employee work in the area who said that the tracks actually controlled by union pacific. he claims that right at this location there is a switch to change the trains from the right side of the track to the left side of the track

now, i'm able, when i'm in my wheelchair to go into the closet. it's a huge, roll-in closet.an turn around in here. >> reporter: in the bathroom, a special shower and state of the art amenities. small, but important details to help them take care of themselves. >> you don't feel limited. you don't feel limited to your physical situation that you are in. you are able to adapt that to you. >> reporter: atlantic builders coordinated the construction and volunteers who worked for four weeks. other area businesses got involved through fund-raisers. >> it hannan eye opener for me. it's given me more motivation to see how our company can participate more. >> reporter: they say they plan to participate, too. >> we want to work as hard as we can to get the rest of these soldiers homes like this. >> reporter: in order to help keep the home fires burning for returning wounded troops, homes for our troops plans to builds 100 more of these specialty adapted homes. at least one built here in fredericksburg. jane watrel, news 4. >>> on october 24th, a fund-raiser will be held for our charit

go it's got to be one for the books, a ten foot long wheelchair ramp that wound of costing $567,000. >> this rivals the cost of a home. >> you know san francisco we have always stood on the forefront of accessibility. >> reporter: the ramp only cost $16,000. that was just the start. they had to take the president's desk apart, drop it four steps and then put it back together. a job that meant build agriculture ing a box to keep the dust out. they had to match the wood, which is extinct. >> this was the best solution that could balance the interest community with the disabled. >> reporter: history has a price and this was big. $170,000 just for the plan to hire experts to oversee it another 40 -- and a custom made brass rail. while they were at it they decided to upgrade the audio. >> a lot of the work needed to be done carefully. >> reporter: the supervisor who voted against the project said the money could have been better spent on handicapped problems. >> elevators that go out for people who are disabled, they can't get in and out of their own buildings, that's one thing, along the

like many, i have a wheel -- a wheelchair and a minivan with a side ramp. it would be impossible to enter and exit to the vehicles, and 10 more seconds. we should have a little bit more than two minutes. i can tell you that i will not feel safe or be safe with this. let's focus on this particular design, -- >> diane and paul? >> i ride a bicycle between 8000 and 9,000 miles per year, 2,000 miles per year on the streets of san francisco. this beautiful new repaving, i consider this, in its current state, to be one of the most accommodating venues for bicycle riding in san francisco. i am terrified -- terrified of the prospect of driving through this as it is currently designed. it will often be populated by bicycle lists with different levels of speed, often driving being followed by the training cyclists, trying to pass them. i expect the buffer zone will be a passing zone and a passenger and loading zone. this is for accidents and close calls, among the population of the bike path. i think the commission for their interest in the well-being and positive ex

you can see the wheelchair slammed up against the front of the truck there. the driver is cooperating with authorities. >>> stealing from the pto, a former treasurer for the trace elementary school parent/teacher organization in san jose has pleaded no contest to embezzlement charges. 49-year-old ann zingali was with the group for one year during 2008. she used the debit card to withdraw cash and make over $20,000 in unauthorized purchases. she was caught when a new member reviewed the organization's financial documents. earlier this year the pto's president pled guilty also to the same crime. >>> still to come at 5:00, keeping the streets safe for children this halloween, a look at the new plan to keep an eye on sex offenders. >>> and backing down, an about-face by big banks when it comes to those extra fees. >>> and it's beginning to look a lot like ski season. we'll take you to the one place in northern california already making its snow. >>> and good afternoon, i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. above average across the bay area and fog free right now

his life will be in a wheelchair.many cases of young people who are in the prime of their life who become permanently paralyzed from violence. it is devastating. >> in the days that followed, danny's grandmother was constantly at his side, and the hospital assigned him a mentor, another victim of gun violence to help him through his ordeal. >> it is okay to feel the way you feel. don't think that you wrong. you're young, you got your life ahead of you. >> when he struggle, he sit in one spot and don't want to move. >> what do you want to do? there's plenty of young guys been caught in the same situation you in. you can do everything on your own. >> can't go downstairs on my own. >> when he was released from the hospital, he felt like a prisoner in his own home. his grandmother couldn't afford a motorized lift which would allow him to get up and down stairs by himself. >> how often do you think about that day and retrace in your mind exactly what happened that day? >> every day. every day. sometimes i think if i took a

but this is -- >> in a wheelchair?> in a wheelchair, yes. >> unlike most high-security units in american prisons, where inmates are locked in cells 23 hours a day, borak and other section 20 inmates are given access to common areas. but less than 24 hours after our arrival a fight breaks out between two inmates. surveillance footage would later reveal that borak ursin, shown speaking on a pay phone, was one of the participants. he is suddenly approached by another inmate, who has just picked up supplies and food from the prison canteen. and just seconds later they take each other to the ground. correctional officers swarm the two men and take borak into custody while the other inmate picks up his supplies and leaves the scene. borak will be confined to this stripped-down isolation cell until he attends a disciplinary hearing for the fight. >> we went to interview borak in his isolation cell a few minutes after this fight. he was very upset. he felt he was being treated as the perpetrator when in fact he was actually th

but getting to and from the ramp poses a few problems according to some people who use wheelchairs. >> there's really nowhere to go once you come down the ramp into the parking lot, there's no way to go. there's no ramp. >> there are also no disabled parking spots on the south side of the station. they are all on the other side in the larger north lot. bart says they will fix the curbs and provide disabled parking and promise to have it done by christmas. >> other stories making headlines around the bay area. vandals -- the chance to release thousands of salmon they raised over the last year. sometime between monday and tuesday morning, nets that were keeping the young fish protected were cut. 20,000 salmon were released prematurely into the bay. >>> a uc berkeley as trough physicist won the nebel prize. proving that the universe is expanding indefinitely by measuring streams of light from exploding stars. pearl will share the $1.5 million prize with two other scientists. >>> the rick perry is in the bay area tonight raising money. that fundraiser at the jordan vineyard and winery. co

but it does not connect the wheelchair with the southern parking lot. there are no curb cut out like these on the other side of the station and no handy cap parking spots in the 117 space southern lot. >> i think that really to l meet ada accessibility we would want to include para transit parking in this lot as well as wheelchair accessible parking right up front which we don't have. there are not even curb cut into the parking lot. >> it's true we don't have cut out in the parking lot now but we heard from people and we are going to complete a cut out within 6 months. it's not anything that is compliance issue. it's just listening to our customers and responding. >>reporter: bart spokesman says upper parking lot takes care of compliance with its cut out and handy cap parking a total of 27 spaces for the combined 1528 spaces at the lafayette lot. >> bart is in compliance and in fact we have more parking spac spaces for the disabled at lafayette station than are required. >>reporter: disability rights attorney says he would have to study the station mor

if you are in a wheelchair, a shower curtain would be a barrier. thinking about the door to the bathroom. you want to have a nice, white door. 3 feet would be very nice. even a little bit larger bathrooms are you could maneuver in it would be helpful. >> let's look at some six. we got an e-mail from some of who watches us online who had a question about whether or not there are any downside to getting one of these vessels sinks, one of the six that sits on top of the counter. >> that is one of the reasons i like j.c. plumbing. they have a great selection, and i can make my point. let's compare these two six. this is a bowl shape, and this is a ceramic that comes straight down. the disadvantage of this -- and it is very beautiful and makes quite a statement -- and i alluded to this before. it is about cleaning this, and coming year. getting down here, that is difficult to do, so that is going to be more difficult to clean. this is a good one. again, clean lines that come straight down. there is no difficulty cleaning that. >> would someone call that

she had cancer and heart problems and was in a wheelchair, and they didn't take the wheelchair. that's the assumption. they don't know anything. and then the statement ends with, you know, an appeal to the kidnappers to return her body to france. tragic end to this story. she wasn't on holiday. she actually lived there. she lived there for quite a long time, this woman, and she's a well known woman in france. back in the 197 's, she was a feminist. >> dreadful story, hugh. thank you very much indeed. ivory coast was once one of the most prosperous nations in africa. earlier in the year, the country was brought to its knees, you may well remember, by the violence following elections. 3,000 people killed, as the incumbent president refused to concede defeat to his rival. we've traveled to the commercial capital to find out how two families, one on either side of the political divide, are coping now. >> life is slowly returning to normal. only a few months ago, these street vendors were hiding in their homes as bloody clashes took place all around them. now the buzzword is reconcil

he has been in a wheelchair all his life. he has cerebral palsy and rides bart often. >> there is really nowhere to go once you come down the ramp into the parking lot. there is nowhere to go. there is no ramps or curb cuts. >> reporter: wheelchairs would have to jump down curbs but of the 117 parking spaces on the south side, none are for disabled drivers. all the blue zones are on the other side of the station in the larger north lot. bart's spokesman: . >> the ramp was built essentially to connect to the south side of the station to a trail that leads to lafayette citycenter and nearby homes and businesses not to the parking lot itself. >> reporter: it costs a lot of money also, $2 million. $2million. >> wow. that's a lot of money. >> i didn't know it was $2 million. >> reporter: however, bart says it will fix the curbs, provide disabled parking and promises to have it all done by christmas. in lafayette, don ford, cbs 5. >>> it's the best iphone yet. >> apple's latest secret revealed. what the new iphone can do that the o