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the first of the miners are back [ cheering ] breaking news after 70 days trapped beneath the earth, the first of the miners are back aboveground. we'll show you what it takes to get them out. a public menaces ticketed but free to continue harassing a neighborhood. why people arewid wired about her. somebody in your campaign referred to ms. whitman as a whore. >> answers in tonight's debate. and a growing fad people hope will last a lifetime. two down, 31 to go.
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[ chanting ] >> miners trapped underground for months have been waiting for this. they're being pulled out one by one seeing their fames and breathing fresh air. you're looking now where crews are hard at work. each rescue takes about an hour round trip. there are still 31 miners underground. they have got a long way to go before everyone is out. we are shown the operation being watched from around the world. >> reporter: the first of the trapped miners are finally free. florencia silva embraced his young son and wife. he hugged the rescue workers who saved his life. then paramedics whisked him away for treatment.
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chile's president said this rescue makes his country proud. they are being pulled one at a time. each journey from 2000 feet below will take about 20 minutes. it could take more than 36 hours before everyone is out. ship leader is expected to be he last man out. keeping their stable on the journey is a big concern. they'll wear pressure stockings while pulled out. if they're up to it, they will see family. they'll then be flown to a hospital for a complete examination. some miners are suffering skin and respiratory problems. everyone is keeping their fingers crossed that every man makes it out okay. while some are planning celebrations, many families are asking for privacy after their
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two-month ordeal. cback news. >> here's an idea of what the miners see inside that capsule. it is a tight space. they have to travel with their arms folded in front of them. one woman has been terrorizing people in a bay area neighborhood for months now. despite calls to police, the harassment just keeping happening. and she is getting more and more violent, they say. joe vasquez caught up with the woman and talked to people that were alleged assaulted. >> reporter: one of the great neighborhoods of san fransisco here, but like many neighborhoods, struggling with the homeless situation. in this case, it's a woman who's been assaulted people. in most cases it's verbal but it's been increasingly violent. >> she grabbed me with both hands and just started shaking me. >> reporter: a woman pushing
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her child in a stroller. >> she said i'm going to hurt you. why are you being like this. and i said i don't know what you're talking about. >> reporter: a man walking down the street. >> out of the blue, i was hit in the back with a board. >> reporter: random acts of violence in the inner sunset. a punch here, a thrown coke can there. constant yelling at strangers. the victims say the attacker is this homeless woman. >> she is suffering from mental illness but yet the system isn't treating her. >> reporter: the police are called quite often. in some cases she is given a ticket and is back on the street. >> we want to be sympathetic but at the same time she is beating people up. >> reporter: people tell me she's walked the streets for years and she is getting sicker and more violent. we caught up with her as she was boarding a bus.
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she declined an interview. so we left her alone. the mayor's chief says the city has huge cracks. instead of being flagged by the courts. in the current configuration, they can hope that homeless people will accept an offer of a shelter. >> it's really frustrating for me that it's going on in the streets. especially when i know that someone has been offered services day in and day out and they've decided to turn us down on that. >> reporter: saying they're trying to work on a new system. they're trying to identify the 40 worst offenders in the city of san fransisco and focus their efforts on them. in the meantime, what we're hearing from both victims out here is if they want restraining orders on their attackers, they have to actually serve those
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restraining orders themselves, that is hand them the paperwork. >> paper is not going to work in this. there is a certain percentage of the homeless out there that need mental help. they're sick people. and giving her tickets and serving her papers is not going to work, they need her in the system and figure out what's best. >> reporter: and the system needs to figure out how to deal with people like that. the san bruno neighborhood destroyed in the pipeline explosion is all cleaned up. it's been five weeks since the natural gas exploded killing eight people and leveling 35 homes. city has promised homeowners they can start rebuilding soon. but some say they're not so sure they want to rebuild. >> why would i want to build a home right next and runs up
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that street there, why would i want to build a home here knowing that can happen again. >> air and ground monitoring tests show the crews managed to clean up most if not all of the toxins left behind. a federal judge has ordered the military to stop enforcing don't ask, don't tell. it ends the military's 17-year ban on openly gay troops. it accomplished what president obama and congressional democrats were unable to do. didn't of justice lawyers have 60 days to appeal but they are not obligated to do so. and legal experts say they could decide to let this ruling stand. the nasty comment from a jerry brown campaign staffer, meg whitman's exhousekeeper, both subjects came up at the third and final debate tonight. robert lyle shows us it didn't take long for things to get testy. >> reporter: as you just described, fireworks were expected on the stage here
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tonight at dominican university and both candidates fired at one another in explosive exchanges. as you're about to see, it's the moderator who fired tough questions at whitman and brown. >> somebody in your campaign referred to ms. whitman as a whore. a campaign spokesman then apologized. we heard no outrage from you about the use of that kind of language which to many women is the same as calling an african- american the n word. >> i don't agree with that comparison. number two, that is a five-week old private conversation picked up on a cell phone. >> reporter: brown said the whore comment was recorded from a garbled conversation that it was hard to see who it was. whitman went on the attack.
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>> i think everyone californian woman knows that is terrible. >> who calls congress whores to the public sector unions? >> you know better than that. that's a completely different thing. >> reporter: but she refused to say how her use of whore was different. so brokaw didn't relent. he went to immigration. then went for the jugular. >> if you couldn't find someone in your home was undocumented or illegal, how do you expect businesses to be able to do that? >> reporter: whitman's answer: she went through an employment agency and diaz falsified the documents. >> it broke my heart but i had to let her go. this is why we need a good e-
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verify system. >> that's like treating mexicans like surfs to use them and send them back. it's not right. >> if you were so interested in the state of california why didn't you vote all those years or get involved in state commissions or other parts of public life? >> i am not proud of my voting record. it was wrong. and i take full accountability and responsibility for it. and i apologize to the people of california. >> reporter: whitman says she invested millions of her dollars so she wouldn't be in the back pockets of the unions. >> i want to add one more thing on the cops. i've got the police chief's in backing me because i'm tough on crime. [ laughter ] >> i think he said he's got in his back pocket. >> no. >> reporter: brokaw wrapped up tonight by asking brown with president obama coming to town if he will be stumping for
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votes with the president. brown said yes. brokaw asked whitman with sarah palin coming to town would the two be campaigning together. her response: she'll be campaigning alone. >> let me ask you, was it more light or more heat? >> reporter: i can tell you that it started off incredibly slow. we were in the media room. there were a lot of responses about what they would do financially with the budget. then it quickly turned into heat. i can say it progressed and even ended with some heat. particularly with the questions about how they would be campaigning together. >> all right. thank you. switching gears here, here is a way to celebrate the giants division victory. you can adopt a cat with giants colors. the humane society are running a special promotion. look at the kitties. you can adopt a black or orange cat for just $9.
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the standard fee ranges from $50-$80. >> cats have nine lives, giants have nine players on the field in nine innings and they win. we adopted 27 cats last weekend. >> the adopt fees include spay or neuter fee, the chip, and health and behavior screening. >> can't do it. >> yes, you can. >> i got three six week old kittens in my house right now. coming up a peeping tom spotted on the cal campus. what he did to get pictures of women. wants to send fifth graders to hang with the big kids. why sending 10-year-olds to middle school is necessary. and is your teen toxing?
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using b? as you look at the bay area today on this day, it's a day with heat. why wednesday could be a third day. [ whitman ] they say california can't be governed anymore. i say baloney. this state belongs to all of us. we just have to decide we want to change. i know government isn't a business and it shouldn't be, but the same values of accountability and focus that make california businesses among the best in the world could do a lot to fix sacramento. i'm on a mission to create more jobs, stop wasteful spending, and improve our schools. let's get to work. ♪
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as ceo, she laid off 30,000 workers and shipped jobs to china. china. india. russia. poland. i know precisely why those jobs go. [ male announcer ] because fiorina shipped them there. to shanghai instead of san jose. bangalore instead of burbank. proudly stamping her products "made in china." 30,000 workers gone while fiorina took $100 million for herself. carly fiorina. outsourcing jobs. out for herself. [ barbara boxer ] i'm barbara boxer, and i approved this message. been spotted in a cal women's locker room, apparently taking a man dressed up as a woman has been spotted in a cal women's locker room apparently taking pictures. police are trying to find him tonight. it happened twice last week at the recreational sports facility. last monday officers say a guy
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was spotted wearing a short curly wig, sunglasses, and a towel around his mouth. suspiciously pointing a camera toward the shower room. wednesday there was another sighting of a man this time with a long wig. police don't know if it's the same guy. school administrators in dublin want to send fifth graders to junior high school. parents say that is a bad idea. the 400 people signed a petition in two days asking the district to reconsider. parents are worried about younger children mixing with the older ones. some say they are too young to be shown to discussions of sex or guns. and now they're talking about adding portable classrooms. they call it toxing or using b. using botox.
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yes, teenagers. the demand for teens and young woman doubled last year. >> reporter: 19-year-old morgan is a sophomore in college. but this beautiful coed is like a growing number of young women who feel they need botox to improve their appearance. >> i decided to do it because i have wrinkles on my forehead already. not the best case scenario for someone my age. >> reporter: doctors are seeing more young women coming in for botox treatment. >> most of them come in with their mothers. >> reporter: the idea behind this logic? that attacking the fine lines early on will prevent deeper wrinkles in the future. >> i think it's a choice. if it bothers you, you can fix it why not. >> reporter: doctor says achieving real beauty has
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nothing to do with botox. >> it's in taking care of your health. should consist of getting enough sleep which they don't do, eating properly, exercising, using sun block and taking care of things that may disfigure their face. >> reporter: but young women have their own definition of what's attractive. >> everyone in hollywood is getting it done. and they have perfect bodies an argues. it influences people my age that fool the need to do it. >> reporter: can leads to all sorts of problems. now as for toxing, one says giving cosmetic procedures to young women and teens is inappropriate. adding what's next a facelift at 30? cbs 5 health watch. >> what's next?
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i'll 82 you what's next. roberta with the weather. that's next. >> what's next is more heat. the heat is definitely on here in the bay area. highs today between 86 degrees to 95. illuminated moon tonight. three more record highs across the bay area. including san jose which tied a record that was set back in 1901. so this weather isn't typical this time of year. a new record of 94 breaking the old record of 1971 and set back in 1959 was 85 in oakland. these are your averages. and we are sitting anywhere between 15 and 21 degrees above normal for this time of the year. a repeat performance for wednesday. lots of clear skies. that is an offshore flow. jet stream well to the north of the bay area. we have a heat warning in effect for the entire day for
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wednesday for the san fransisco area, bay, and side. not conducive for this time of the year. a red flag warning in effect until 6:00 a.m. then we expect it to rotate so the humidity will climb gently. air quality taking a hit. not much a wind across the valley so the ozone is stagnant. getting trapped very close to the surface. tonight's lows 50s in santa rosa. numbers, 70s, 80s at the beaches. 90s peninsula wrapping around the valley. east bay numbers from 88 oakland. north bay numbers stacking up in santa rosa. we have the extended forecast which calls for repeat performances on thursday. cools down by 10 degrees friday inland.
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california created 1.9 million jobs. as attorney general, jerry brown took on wall street banks, mortgage scammers and public officials stealing from taxpayers. at this stage in his life, jerry brown has the independence to make the tough decisions california needs. as governor i'll cap government salaries and pensions. on the budget, we have to face reality. make do with what we have. and no taxes without voter approval. jerry brown, knowledge and know-how we can trust. generation ago, northern california streams and rivers were full of wild salmon. they were everywhere. tonight's good question: what has caused the salmon population to dwindle down to
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nothing? >> reporter: 200 years ago, california streams were the perfect spawning growns for hundreds of thousands of wild salmon every year. those days are gone. >> some areas are gown do hundreds or a few thousands where they used to be hundreds of thousands of fish. so we're talking about a eat- 99% decline depending on which population you look at. >> reporter: california's increasing need for water for housing and agriculture and the dams has all but killed off the fish. >> fish couldn't migrate past these dams and even when we put fish ladders on the dams, the juveniles that were then spawned up stream can't get through the lakes that forms behind the dams. >> reporter: the results low water, higher water
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temperature, and increase delta pumping over the last 40 years has now put several native salmon populations on the endangered species list. a number that could grow if better water management is not implemented. >> they can tolerate a lot. we don't need to restore the rivers to pristine condition, but need to manager the rivers with care or we won't have them anymore. >> i need your good questions. send them to me at cbs5.com. baseball's final four is finally set. details coming up. termine the fall the moment you feel run down or achy nip flu-like symptoms in the bud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel like yourself again. oscillococcinum, nip it in the bud. it's a belief in everything we do.
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it's a 5 year, 50,000 mile promise. with complimentary scheduled maintenance no-cost replacement of wear and tear items and 24/7 roadside assistance. because when you create the most beautiful, fast cars on earth, you create an ownership experience to match. so who called prop 13 a "fraud" and a "rip off?" jerry brown. who raised the gas tax as governor, and pushed for higher sales taxes? jerry brown. who tried five times to raise property taxes in oakland? jerry brown. who supported higher statewide income taxes? jerry brown. and who says, if elected, he'll ask voters for even more new taxes? jerry brown. governor jerry brown, again? hide your wallet.
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up in the series where the home team didn't win a single game. lee struck out 11. complete game. beating the rays for the second time this series. plenty of offensive support. kinsler. texas up 3-1, that's insurance. they win the playoff series for the first time in their series. bring on the new york yankees. the nlcs schedule is out tonight and the giants and phillies. the first two games will be in philadelphia. the giants host the middle three. game six and seven if needed would be back in the city of brotherly love. usa taking on columbia. the game ends nil-nil. nba preseason. i know you want to know what happened here. beat by 19 points. from demarcus cousins who used to be a starting point guard
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for the warriors. >> all right. [ male announcer ] carly fiorina. as ceo, she laid off 30,000 workers and shipped jobs to china. china. india. russia. poland. i know precisely why those jobs go. [ male announcer ] because fiorina shipped them there. to shanghai instead of san jose. bangalore instead of burbank. proudly stamping her products "made in china." 30,000 workers gone while fiorina took $100 million for herself. carly fiorina.
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