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walt hunter shows us why city says having more medics available is making a difference on the streets of philadelphia. medic 23, might look like most other philadelphia fire units. but there is something, very special about it. >> unaudible. >> reporter: responding to a call in west philadelphia, it is the first, of 25 brand new unit that willful i replace half of the cities aging fleet, by years end. >> we want everyone to know that the city and fire department believes in their care. >> reporter: new equipment options let machinery not medics to do lift to go get patients in and out. >> when you open up the the door that the medic unit kneels and lowers, which allows an easier access to get inside and out of the medic unit safely. >> proceed. >> reporter: dispatchers in the fire communications center where cbs-3 was granted rare access now screen incoming calls, making sure that advanced life units like medic 23 don't get tied up with less serious runs while people calling with life threatening emergencies are forced to wait. >> what is at dress of they're mergecy. >> we will have t

many lives around the years we've be focusing on the future to insure we remain a city for the one hundred percent that's why i've been working hard to make sure we attract investment and create jobs and investment no our city when our residents have access to good paying jobs they're to succeed and with the low employment rate weaving we're going to make sure that happens and our focus on housing we'll help all our residents. i've set a goal for rehabilitating thirty thousand homes before i 2020 with at least a third of fooshtd affordability to low income families. with our commitment to the rapid rehousing were trying to make sure that resident don't become homeless to begin with today, we're here to utilize highlight the successes and the challenges and opportunity within the last 10 years. 10 years ago mayor gavin newsom asked then supervisor angelo who will be here to create a 10 year plan to end chronic homelessness in the city he knew we were up for a big challenge you'll see in the report today 10 years later we've made significant progress as we've struggled 0 through the worse revisions. today, we'

why city leaders want to review security at music fest. >> and how would you like to get the behind ofne of these? find out how you could drive the car of your dreams just minutes from now. we'll be right back. ♪ we showed people a survey that stacked fios up against comcast. what's it like paying for internet rated 6 out of 7 in customer satisfaction? not good, it's not the best. no, it's not fun. look at it this way, you're kind of on top. if i was like this, all day. switch from the bottom to the top and see why millions of satisfied customers have made fios #1. sign up for a verizon fios triple play online with a 2-year agreement and get an amazing $400 back plus a free lg g tablet or up to $200 off any tablet from verizon wireless. but hurry, don't wait - this great offer ends august 10th. >> investigators in delaware are trying to figure out why this plane crash landed today near the town of wyoming. authorities say that the pilot landed the single engine piper on the grassy runway of jenkins airport. but the plane then skidded across the road and stopped in that front yard. neit

why city leaders want to review security at music fest. >> and how would you like to get the behind ofne of these? find out how you could drive the car of your dreams just minutes from now. we'll be right back. ♪ >> investigators in delaware are trying to figure out why this plane crash landed today near the town of wyoming. authorities say that the pilot landed the single engine piper on the grassy runway of jenkins airport. but the plane then skidded across the road and stopped in that front yard. neither the pilot nor the passenger who were both from new jersey were injured. >> gm is urging owners of seven models of suv's to park them outside because they could catch fire even if they're not ru running. power window switch in the drivers side door can cause an electrical short and overheat. possibly causing smoke or even a fire. today's recall affects noorly 185,000 suv's. among them the 2006, 2007 chevy trailblazer and gmc enjoy. owner took this video of the part in question. now there have been no deaths connected that this problem but there have been dozens of fires and hundreds

why city hall is taking the questions seriously. good evening, thanks for joining us. deatz. >> a member of the san jose city council is accusing the people of not taking breeches as seriously as they could. the next step to expose the hole, then, plug them. david louie is live at mineta san jose with the story. david? >> a congressional study indicates every airport has five security breeches per year. the san jose city council wants to know how many cases have gotten here. >> it will look at every aspect in search of loopholes and vulnerabilities. staff maintain there was no breech of security when the 62-year-old was able to get by a screener and gate agent without a boarding pass. >> if we have weaknesses i would rather they find them and correct them and contact the public. >> police staffing may be scrutinized. just four years ago, 41 officers were assigned to the airport. that number is now 19. two are posted at security check points the airport director acknowledged she would like to see more officers patrolling the terminals. >> pas

residences and i join with supervisor kim in acknowledging the level of anxiety that exists in the city, and that's why i have to make sure that the city family of agencies from ocii and the great leaders and the commissioners are working closely with dbi and the house -- office of housing and the incredible resources and niby brothers and working with the office of engineers to the office of disabilities to make sure they're for the residents here and only when they feel comfortable is our job to rest for a minute but we're not resting. i think today is both a celebration but yet another call to action just like last november under construction when we announced our aggressive goal of 30,000 units and 33% affordable but also over 50% of the housing we're going to build will be reachable with work force that are here that are also feeling a lot of pressure as well. we've got to build more housing and we've got to do it more aggressively and when you look at the numbers here and all of the complicated things we put together whether tax increments, using the ocii's abilities, using acquisition in a creat

reason profits there only declined slightly in the past few years while atlantic city lost 40% of its revenue. and it is why atlantic city's casinos were desperate enough to offer high stake gamblers like don johnson whatever advantages they wanted. what happened to the house always winning? >> you are going to see big swings when you let people bet a lot each hand. why not just keep playing? >> find out exactly how don johnson did it coming up. ♪ >> atlantic city, winter 2010. casino profits are in a freefall. casinos will do anything to win back high rollers. it is the opportunity of a lifetime for don johnson. he is about to stun the gaming industry. walking away with $15 million. the key to the success is what he negotiates with the casino upfront. >> if you are playing enough, you can negotiate a discount policy. three hands for $15,000 a swing. >> it may not give a player vip treatment in vegas, but when he bets that much in atlantic city, it gets the casino's attention. >> the right game with the right odds for the right discount policy. >> why do you think they gave you such a big discount and chang

why city hall is taking the questions seriously. good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm ama deatz. >> a member of the san jose city council is accusing the people of not taking breeches as seriously as they could. the next step to expose the hole, then, plug them. david louie is live at mineta san jose with the story. david? >> a congressional study indicates every airport has five security breeches per year. the san jose city council wants to know how many cases have gotten here. >> it will look at every aspect in search of loopholes and vulnerabilities. staff maintain there was no breech of security when the 62-year-old was able to get by a screener and gate agent without a boarding pass. >> if we have weaknesses i would rather they find them and correct them and contact the public. >> police staffing may be scrutinized. just four years ago, 41 officers were assigned to the airport. that number is now 19. two are posted at security check points the airport director acknowledged she would like to see more officers patrolling the terminals. >> passenger volumes pick

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it ethics city's newest 2.5 billion dollar casino has declared bankruptcy twice in the past two years -- why atlantic city's newest $2.5 billion casino has declared bankruptcy twice in the past two years. ? >> this is "taking stock your co--- taking stock." it cost over two point $5 billion to build and it has declared bankruptcy twice and asked to years. -- cost over two point $5 billion to build and it has declared bank -- over $2.5 billion to build and it has declared bankruptcy twice. we are joined from princeton new jersey. he has studied atlantic city gambling. he joins us via skype. i want you to lay out the landscape. a what is the economics right now of operating a casino in atlantic city? >> atlantic city is a very troubled area from a gambling perspective. gambling revenue has declined from over $5 billion in 2007 to under $3 billion today. that is about a 40% decline. they have three they are going to close if they can sell themselves to someone else. >> how did they get into that situation? >> there are a lot of factors that led to that situation. number one was the general econ

so why are -- why is new york considered so unhappy? because big cities attract people who are difficulto satisfy. so you're hearing a bunch of whirns right now, but new york attracts people who are -- >> but the wealthiest areas are the least happy areas. how does that compute? >> say if you lived in allentown where it's inexpensive, you don't have to make a lot of money to actually get e the things you want. >> you know what i think, if you know the neighbors, know the people around you and you build relationships, it's hardener new york. >> i was born in allentown and i agree, it's a lovely place to grow up, but you can see the trees and the sun and it's a slower pace. that's why people like the south. >> they have back yards. >> you never had one of those? >> there's such a horrible joke there. >> please. >> i almost bombed myself. >> dwoent want to get called into a meeting, okay? >> i'm going to say i don't get it but greg will probably tell me on the break what that meant. katy perry wants a baby with or without a man in her life. she says it's 201

the city wants to move forward with this and why this is an important project. it's a partnership. a public private partnership, not perhaps the most classic sense, but nonetheless it is a privately delivered project that fulfills the city's space needs well into this coming century. it also is a mixed use development. and mr. woody will speak to that if a moment as well and why this is important to related. out of this will will come an office building that suits the city's needs a we try to consolidate our presence in the civic center and try to stabilize our cost, but most importantly this provides efficiency of city operations and provides efficiency of service to our constituents. so, i'll speak to that briefly. this is a consolidation of staff out of number of properties, 30 van ness, portions of 1650 mission, portions of 1660 mission, 1680 mission, and 1145-55 market street. this provides proximity to transit. so, it's great to have public services on this property. as you know, we have a strong foothold on the block at 1 south van ness at the corner of va

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what a woman says has been happening for almost a month and why the city says they can't fix it rightystery structure in the south bay comes from big announcement from apple. >>> we are live in napa once again this morning. where some business owners are very angry. tara moriarty is in napa. coming up she will tell us why the city is concerned about a lot of those buildings. >> you looking for fog or clouds. >> i see both of them. there is a little bit more of a stronger delta breeze. all of that is combinin

what a woman says has been happening for almost a month and why the city says they can't fix it right now. >> a mystery structure in the south bay comes from big announcement from apple. >>> we are live in napa once again this morning. where some business owners are very angry. tara moriarty is in napa. coming up she will tell us why the city is concerned about a lot of those buildings. >> you looking for fog or clouds. >> i see both of them. there is a little bit more of a stronger delta breeze. all of that is combining to give mostly cloudy skies to partly cloudy skies. the higher clouds so far to the north. 60s orinda and lafayette. that is usually a sign it will be cooler today if it holds. oakland west, napa west. breezy at times. highest today 60s and upper 80s and 90s. >> we are looking at a nicer commute than normal. it's expected on a friday before a major holiday. this is a look at highway 24. the drive time hasn't changed from being pretty much standard. on 580 westbound that is another commute that shows me things are better than usual. we do have a little bit of slow traf

why would you not be in favor of a bill that would save philadelphia schools? >> because it doesn't affect them. their constituency doesn't know what's going on in the city of philadelphia or have a connection to why that cigarette tax even though it's taxes citizens in the city of philadelphia, how that impacts them and then they say, i'm generalizing. they are republicans representatives and others who are very upset that the legislator tur is not coming back. they think our schools have problems, what are you going to do about them, many have problems but not the burning fire that philadelphia has. >> how about the tax thing, general tax issue i'm not in favor of raising taxes. >> but look, it's easy on one level for lawmakers not in philadelphia to vote for a tax that only affects philadelphia cigarette buyers, but the problem is the disorganization and the chaos in the house republican caucus, there are republicans widely reported he were that were not going to get back from vacations in other places. one republican leader a york county republican dan taylor was upset over the hotel tax. >> which was added on by the senate. >> that was added on by t

. >>> safety concerns, surrounding one of the largest music festivals of the summer, why city leaders are calling for a review of security at music fest, coming up in our next half an hour, we will be right bac longhorn knows what happens whthings get interesting.s. introducing new steaks across america, like the new kansas city bbq sirloin for $12.99 or the texas 3 chili pepper ribeye, drizzled with onion straws. longhorn steakhouse. you can't fake steak. >>> abused on facebook web of lies on social media ends with victims robbed at gunpoint. >>> also ahead, football is back and eagles and bears in preseason action. we will hear from head coach chip kelly and also our steve paterson is standing by live. >> reporter: it is 2014 bass master classic elite professional series. for the first time here in philadelphia i'm steve paterson and guess what i'm on a boat. we will have a live report from the delaware river, that is next. >> today is saturday august 9th. good morning everyone. i'm elizabeth hur. the time right now 6:28. here in center city philadelphia here is meteorologist carol

reason profits there only declined slightly in the past few years while atlantic city lost 40% of its revenue. it is whytic city's casinos were desperate enough to offer high stake gamblers like don johnson whatever advantages they wanted. >> what happened to the house always winning? >> you are going to see big swings when you let people bet a lot each hand. why not just keep playing? >> find out exactly how don johnson did it coming up. ♪ >> atlantic city, winter 2010. casino profits are in a freefall. casinos would do anything to win back high rollers. it is the opportunity of a lifetime for don johnson. he is about to stun the gaming industry. walking away with $15 million. the key to the success is what he negotiates with the casino upfront. >> if you are playing enough, you can negotiate a discount policy. three hands for $15,000 a swing. >> it may not give a player vip treatment in vegas, but when he bets that much in atlantic city, it gets the casino's attention. >> the right game with the right odds for the right discount policy. >> why do you think they gave you such a big discount and changed

what's needed for a lasting peace. >>> and it's an unexpected site in the waters off of new york city. why the people there should get used to spotting whales. tonight, several major cities dealing with dangerous flooding. storms dump 8 inches of water in the baltimore area, and that prompted the national weather service to declare a flash flood emergency. in some places, water receded almost as fast as it flooded, in i-95, the harbor tunnel had to be closed. parts of the parking lot at dwi airport are underwater, and it's stale raining tonight in detroit. parts of that city have seen half a foot of rain over the past few days, and there's a concern that detroit's aging infrastructure is making the flooding even worse. >> from the city to the suburbs, when the rain started coming down, it came fast and hard. parts of every major freeway in metro detroit, underwater. >> it's frustrating >> reporter: there was 14 feet of water on some freeways. thousands of drivers were stranded. >> i could be here for a couple of days. you can try going up here if you want, but i would suggest to not drive

the darby township fire department has a bone to pick with the city's officials. why officials say they shut down the fire companies social hall. >>> and then police make a swift arrest in a string of robberies against the elderly. but there are still more robbers on the >> landscape is changing, in downtown burlington city, new jersey. now, the city's mayor and members of the city council announce add new high-end residential and retail project called pearl point. well, it is going along the high street and pearl boulevard, exactly where yesterday's big unveil was. the project would be ready to go in less than two years. and you'll find restaurants and 183 luxury multi family homes. pretty darn nice. >>> volunteer fire fighters darby township are really upset after their social hall next to the firehouse was shut down. >> yes, fire company number four has been around since 1926. the current chief admits the previous administration had its share of problems. and yesterday darby township officials shut down the company's social hall, claiming the building isn't fit for

economy internet access should not be considered a luxury it should be a right which is exactly why cities like chattanooga tennessee and lafayette louisiana have done the same thing as rockport maine and set up their own city run fiber optic networks comcast and risin don't want you to know this but the main reason internet access and internet speeds are so bad here in the united states compared to the rest of the developed world is that the private companies that dominate our telecom industry have so little competition that they simply don't give a rat's patootie about making things better for their customers. best in your ultra fast fiber optic networks of the kind now available in rockport is actually pretty expensive when the really big internet giants the way they see it it's far easier and more profitable to just keep prices high and speeds low the fact that the biggest internet service providers are virtual monopolies pretty much guarantees it's going to stay this way too because without any meaningful competition they have zero incentive to change their ways that's why it's going

city is complying to anything. and that needs to be checked out. why is it, that the city has been getting away with this, for quite some time, so you are not going to get no answers, they are going to come with the excuses and they are still going to be spending money that you don't need to be spending because you don't know where it went, and so i would just like somebody, to find out why is it that this is continued to be happening in this city, without a city certificated compliance officer? and there is not, none, and that is certificated, they got compliance officers. but they are not certificated. and they cannot be certificated. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> i do appreciate supervisor london breed for you calling about these audits and your question is of two years and how they have not done it before you got in the office. but let me say to you perfectly clear. that this has been going on for years. and the corruption, and that has been going on here, in the city hall and you need the papers today, and this is the headli

>> the former bank of england deputy governor tells us why the city of london is a benefit for europe. london as asees benefit. you have to get a good deal from the eu. >> we're live in salt burn with the biggest names in the industry including douglas flint. >> the red cross is still working out the details of a safe package plan for the envoy to ukraine. >> we will talk to the head of companies that reported earnings. >> hello, welcome to countdown. the ecb gets ready to dig over banking remission in europe. tucker, --p with all paul tucker one of the keynote speakers. he warned there is no quick fix to shore up europe lenders. >> it will take some good framework. legislation is needed, but the , and theyestructure need to issue bonds. bondholders need to take losses without depositors taking law is. -- losses. not all banks are structured that way. >> fighting continues in eastern ukraine. russia is calling for a sees higher while ukraine continues to accuse russia that cease-fire while ukraine continues to accuse russia of stoking the fire. where are we, hans? any progress? >> it

city before. >>> kids going to school and learn about math and science and fire. whyyear-old girl is paying attention to house fire. >>> tonight 2 investigates uncovered unjust tickets. imagine getting ticks that you never receive on a car that's not even yours. >> parking on the thousand block of mission street after 2 a.m. could get you a deserved ticket, unless if the ticket is for a car that did not belong to you. >> charlie has never been to san francisco. he lives in san diego. he did not know about the parking ticket until getting this collection notice from ldc collection systems. it hand ms special collection for the san francisco. here is a ticket that's not mine and you have to pay and you know you are guilty until proven innocent. >> paul rose is the spokesperson. >> we do make mistakes and that could include writing the license plate down wrong or writing the make and model of the car wrong. >> the department of vocabulary flakes the citation. >> dmv looking for inaccurate information or information that does not match up on record. >> last year 10, 9000

may not be surprised to hear that some locals have taken to twitter to express their anger over why their city has been turned into a high security zone area more like an outdoor prison cell they're also asking for example was any need to iraq to anti duck war so we spoke to lindsey german from the stop the war coalition and she thinks the fact that nato leaders have to hind behind fences some awful lot about their policies they're closing lots of schools that children won't be able to attend because of the summit and of course if there's a teachers' strike or something and the teachers close the schools as there's an outcry but this is supposed to be acceptable many local people as well are absolutely fed up with the money that is being spent on this summit when they're faced with austerity we think nato is not a force for peace with a forceful military action on the wall says a great deal about the unpopularity of their cause that they feel they have to meet behind. highly fortified. places after one of the places they fenced off is called if castle well if a call solicits a cure for the hea

assault case became a homicide investigation. >> plus, red light tickets on the rise in one bay area city. whyte lawmakers are wanting to know why. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. i'll have details on the warm-up coming up. >>> classes have resumed and scrambling for an unusual reason. >> schools are preparing for an influgs of unaccompanied children. handling the needs of those can kids who cross the border. laura anthony is live with the story. >> reporter: this is oakland international high school. this will be impacted perhaps the most by this new population of students. administrators told me today they are ready. with registration just a day away administrators are preparing for packed classrooms. >> and because oakland has a sizable central american community, they're leaving the detention centers in texas and coming to oakland. >> reporter: carmelita reyes says they are mostly boys arriving to stay with family members or guardians. >> first stop, a bus pass. the we teach them how to use it. we explain free breakfast, free lunch and give them an adviser and say as you have problems

there is nobody three city in most of the city's districts connection is also very unstable this is why people cannot even call for help but it seems that so far the shortage of water is the biggest challenge for the residents those who didn't leave the city and the country let's listen to these voices from the shell city of the surge in the region. that we're going to be with you soon you know the very beginning of the rebels and the reason for them a little money to cover the cops a little far from sort of the new bit of the one you can use not only give you but probably most of the guards we heard accusations from kiev that this is not a humanitarian aid but in such a way russia is trying to send its troops and weapons to you crave but just on monday the red cross confirmed that it went through all necessary details and agreements with the russian side also adding that they are also planning to send their own humanitarian aid to ukraine but later or people living in the two key cities in kiev military sites are being told to leave their homes ukraine security forces say they're prepa

why your city? >> geographically, we are positioned perfectly to begin with.e have also worked really diligently over the last three years to hopefully begin what i would call the origins of a space hub in texas and in brownsville. mayor, this project, it has been three years in the making. tell us what it is going to mean in terms of jobs in brownsville and economic growth? you'll have capital improvement close to $85 million to begin with. you are going to have construction jobs. then you'll probably have an annual payroll of about $50 million that will be generated once the construction is completed, which we hope will be between 18 and 24 months. so, you are going to impact the influx of capital and moneys in the city, and that will impact the taxes, whether they be sales taxes or property taxes. so, besides the energy it will create and the enthusiasm, i think it has a lot of great economic benefits. we are looking forward to it. >> sir, tell -- talk to me about the supply change -- supply chain logistics you and the development council will have to work

city, otherwise the deal is off. they had a couple of homeowners who held out wanted access to the driveways. so here we are. that's whyhe city is now repaving the street and keeping this street open. live in downtown, kiet do, kpix 5. >> thank you. >>> 6:49. let's check the traffic. >> all right. we start off on 280. we have a traffic alert northbound right at montague expressway. looks like we have a couple of cars involved in this accident in lanes. there is an oil spill in the roadway. so they have two lanes shut down -- actually, that's magdalena not montague. northbound 280 at magdalena. it's backed up. crews are clearing oil off the road. yellow sensors so speeds not too too bad through there. looks a lot better than 101. 101 still dealing with some very slow drive times this morning. northbound 101 slow 280 to highway 237. 38 minutes. had an earlier accident there blocking lanes. two separate accidents what slowed you down there give yourself some extra time. northbound guadalupe parkway also sluggish because of the wrecks on 101. bay bridge backed up metering lights are on backed up into the maze slow off the