len ramirez shows us how livermore prepartying. >> reporter: they are calling it bike night and they are going to let people celebrate bikes. getting a start city status in a grand tour like the amgen tour of california is a big deal because people throughout the world -- because cycle something a popular sport throughout the world -- will be reading about livermore, california in their morning pages. folks around here are very excited about that. in downtown livermore, anyone can see that the bike race is good for business. >> we have done a drive through for the amgen tour a few times. this is our first time being a start stage. so very exciting for us to have a chance to be in the international spotlight here in downtown. >> reporter: the amgen tour of california bike race is coming to town starting on the downtown's main street. the route will take the riders out of town into the hills of mount hamilton but not before passing the area's picturesque wineries and downtown shops. >> lighter than my bike... >> reporter: today shop keepers were busy sprucing up their stores and in the

at camp roberts, len ramirez, cbs5. >> len was saying research -- saying researchers could have other uses. you could wear a wrist band and could sense an emergency such as a heart attack and could send out a message via cell phone. >>> a california lawmaker thinking it is a bad idea. planning to name a cargo ship after cesar chavez. it says it unfairly overlooks military war heros. the navy has not commented. it is expected to officially make the announcement tomorrow. >>> the city college of san francisco joined the mexican government today to preserve an historic work of art to protect this 1940 muriel called pan american unity. a memorandum of understanding signed with the council general of mexico. the mural 72 feet high, 74 feet long is impossible to see in its entirety in its current location so the two parties want to build a venue to better display it. it is american history. it is mexican history. it is also very, very san francisco. >> well, various college departments used the mural in their curriculum. the college hopes to preserve it for the next 200 years. >> fabulous.

len ramirez on the one clue police and her family are focused on. >> reporter: a new photo of missing nursing student michelle lee were posted on her sister jocelyn's blog. they found her car with everything in it. how can she drive? it's one of the many questions and concerns of lee's family, friends, and fellow students. >> we're all deeply concerned about michelle le. our thoughts and prayers are with her, her family, her friends, we are -- we main hopeful she is safe and will be located soon. >> reporter: le, who is 26, lives at this condo complex and attends classes at samuel merit university nearby. on friday evening she had a special class here at the kaiser permanente medical center in hayward. she was last seen leaving for a break at 7:30 p.m. her car was driven out of the parking garage but found a few weeks away near sleepy hollow avenue. she had made plans to meet up with a friend and drive torino but she never met the friend. >> i've never heard of this kind of foul play, people missing or something like that, in this area. we have had problems with cars being vandalised

that's where len ramirez is tonight. he has been watching all the action. len? >> reporter: very dramatic stage today. you know, we're only about six miles away from downtown san jose but as we go to some video we just shot from chopper 5 it felt a little bit like the french alps today as thousands and thousands of people biked and hiked their way to the top of this sierra road mountain to see this stage of the amgen tour of california. >> whoo! >> reporter: they came by the thousands to see the cycling showdown. >> whoo! >> reporter: it's the final dramatic climb to the amgen tour of california's first-ever mountaintop finish. >> it's much steeper than it looks on tv. >> guys are absolutely amazing. >> reporter: no need to adjust your television set. the road really is that steep. a 14% grade in some places. the pro stands on their pedals on the way up. >> it sucks! >> reporter: but for recreational riders it's pedal and gasp all the way to the top. >> a chance to see the riders we always city in europe. >> reporter: she came a long way to see this and didn't l

len ramirez in san jose to explain why it's the perfect storm. >> reporter: that's right. these businesses are about 30 blocks away from downtown san jose, where most of the crowds gathered last night. but they bore the brunt of it when police moved the crowds from that area into this direction where people then started trouble. on yet another may 6th morning, san jose shopkeepers were picking up the pieces. >> it's a pain in the ass. it's not fair. >> reporter: weaver tax service was one of four businesses on alum rock avenue near highway 101 which suffered thousands of dollars in damage as well as lost time and the trouble of replacing broken windows, another was alberto avila's clothing boutique. >> i'm not sure why these people do that, damage other people's property. it's not right. >> reporter: it was the damage done by a small number of vandals part of a crowd of thousands who came to downtown san jose to celebrate cinco de mayo. at about 10:00, with throngs lining the streets, fights broke out. one man was stomped on the head. another was stabbed. seven people were

len ramirez in santa cruz. thank you. >>> more trouble tonight for some san francisco undercover police officers. another two dozen felony drug cases are being dropped because of the credibility of those officers under investigation for questionable search practices. linda yee on the new charges brought against those officers. linda? >> reporter: allen, the public defender releasedded yet another video today. a video that he claims shows a pattern of alleged police misconduct. now, these are the same officers that are now under investigation by internal affairs and the fbi. the video shows an undercover officer on the left of the screen approaching a suspected drug dealer on a tenderloin street corner. what is seen in the video disputes what the undercover officers wrote in the police report. >> raised his right hand to his mouth and spit it into his hand. that never happened and the video clearly contradicts the officer's sworn testimony. >> reporter: the public defender also brought in a couple whose son was

as len ramirez shows us, those victims pushed for harsh punishment today. len? >> reporter: that's right. labor leaders here in the bay area say that this type of fraud happens a lot especially among the immigrant workforce but this particular case is going to go down as one of the biggest in alameda county. >> what's this about? >> worker's rights. >> reporter: they came to the alameda courthouse to voice outrage over what's happening. >> people are taken advantage of because all they want to do is have a job. >> reporter: and to see justice served to the woman responsible. monica ung. >> hopefully today the message whether go out that you cannot cheat and get away with it. >> reporter: but no one felt a mix of emotions of this emotions. >> how much do you think you have lost? >> about 50,000 per year. >> for how many years? >> for four years. >> once a rising star on the east bay political scene and her construction company was awarded tens of millions of dollars in contracts to build such projects as oakland's 81st street library. but ung was ultimately arres

but as len ramirez explains, this round may be particularly painful for san jose. len? >> reporter: that's right, dana. we talked a lot about police and fire layoffs but the new budget plan released just yesterday 1000 pages long has a lot of pain to be shared by just about everybody. >> reporter: in a city where the budget battle seemed to go around in circles one thing that may come to a complete stop is the children's carousel. under the city's new budget plan there is no money to run it. >> it is a big disappointment for me especially for my daughter. i think they should have money for things like that to make it available for our kids for the future. >> reporter: right now the future looks very different in san jose from quality of life to public safety. to police officers the best case scenario laying off 22 police officers, worst case 260. >> certainly the time we have laid off police officers. it is not just a few it is hundreds. >> reporter: 64 firefighting jobs would be eliminated with about 20 current firefighters laid off. going to the library? plan ahead. b

len ramirez with the story. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: in a sacred ceremony at st. joseph's cathedral the auxilliary bishop of san jose, an answer to the bishop who appealed directly to the pope in rome for extra help in ministering to the rapidly growing catholic flock in san jose. >> it is a great gift for the diocese and to me. >> reporter: in recent years growing to over half a million registered catholics now. most is happening among the spanish and immigrant populations in east san jose and south santa clara county. >> i came to holy cross and i really increased my faith. >> reporter: he is from mexico and like many mexican immigrants joining a parish was one of the first steps he took to establish a new life here. >> so we came to look for it over here too. >> reporter: a church in east san joe's seats empty today but filled many times over for weekend masses which take place in three languages. it is the same for nearby most holy trinity. >> bedo 10 masses every weekend. sunday. 7200 people come for service each week. >> reporter: besides mass baptisms, wedd

len ramirez, thanks so much. we will be right back. [ music ] ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, look . >>> many of us of a certain age, women and men alike have asked ourselves what would we look like with grey hair? well, after 20 years of coloring my hair we now know what i look like. the decision to go grey is often an emotional one. tonight a look at what it takes for people to finally ditch the dye. >> great. it's good. >> for shirley tubein it started in her 30s. >> and i kind of liked it. >> so she kept it. >> i never thought of my hair as something that was going to stop me from doing anything. >> but many women see grey as the dividing line between young and old. men, too. just because president obama or george clooney may look powerful, distinguished, even sexy, it doesn't mean salty hair is always welcome. >> we all want to stay young. >> artist ray says he spent years darkening his hair. >> i am coming out of a generation of people who grew up with what i think is the wrong notion that going grey was a negative thing.

len ramirez in hayward where investigators say they have few clues to go on tonight. len? >> reporter: that's right, what happened to michelle lee is still very much a mystery tonight. what is known is that on friday evening she came to a class here at kaiser permit in hayward. at 7:00 she took a break, left the building and then simply vanished. a new photo of missing nursing student michelle lee and fresh details about her car, a white honda crv were posted on her sister's blog. jocelyne lee wrote they, meaning the police, found her car with everything in t how can she drive? it is just one of the many questions and concerns of lee's family, friends and fellow students. >> we are all deeply concerned about michelle lee. our thoughts and prayers are with her, her family and her friends. we are remaining hopeful that she is safe and will be located soon. >> lee, who is 26, lives at this condo complex in san mateo and attends classes at daniel merit university nearby. on friday evening she had a special class here at the kaiser permit medical center in hayward. she was last

this is len ramirez, cbs 5. >>> san francisco is also taking on pension reform tonight. today mayor ed leap is reigning in pensions and retiree health benefit. it would cap the benefits and raise retirement ages by three years and require greater cost sharing by city employees. and the mayor says it affects earn on the payroll. >> it's a comprehensive proposal that reflects the belief that all of us, no matter what level of work that you have in the city, will contribute to the solution and recognize the tremendous efforts. are. >> reporter: the mayor says the plan will save the city between $800 million and $1 billion over the next decade. he says most city unions store it along with 9 of 11 city supervisors. it is expected to go to voters in november. but public offender jeff odache who is collecting signatures for his own reform plan says the mayor's propose a.m. doesn't go far enough. >> our proposal saves twice as much as the mayor's proposal. and we have to make sure that going forward we have a comprehensive solution that's going to deal with this problem so we do

so len ramirez shows us these city leaders have a pretty tough decision to make. >> reporter: that's right, allan. there are let's just say certain elements out here on the street that have known that selling pot makes a lot of money. well, they are now starting to realize that when it comes to medicinal marijuana at city hall. those extra dollars could help keep more police officers, ironically, on the streets. >> when it comes to generating money, san jose is finding there is nothing quite like pot. >> this might be the thing that helps to fund those services. >> at a time when the city is cutting back on just about everything, san jose's new tax on pot clubs could put some services back. >> this won't solve the pension crisis but it will solve being able to keep some people employed. >> in just the first month on the books san jose's new 7% tax on pot clubs generated $290,000. coupled with state sales tax, councilman says the revenue stream worth $4 million a year to the city. >> i think it might be nearly our entire budget for road paving in the general fund. it operates, you kno

len ramirez's says his family members say this is just a big misunderstanding. >> reporter: that's right, the affidavit that was released this afternoon really details how this flight wept from a routine flight in chicago from a mid-air emergency. how the suspect in this case apparently got up and went to the bathroom one-half hour outside san francisco. instead of going back to his seat he went to the forward part of the plane and tried to get into the cockpit. the door was lock. he began shaking the door. the flight attendant reminded him that the restroom door was on the left. that happened not once but twice. when the man still tried to get in, lowered his shoulder and tried to get into the cockpit door that's when the flight attendant asked the passengers for help and he was eventually arrested. >> in the back of the san francisco police car our first look at ramay, the man arrested upon arrival at sfo last night. the 28-year-old who holds a california id car and a yemeni pass card became unruly on flight 161 near chicago last night. police say he went to the front of the boeing 737

as len ramirez explains, the idea is getting a lot of support. len? >> reporter: that's right, dana. you would have to say that in the recent past year the san jose police department when there would be any type of complaint that came in there would be a tendency to sort of circle the wagons. a new police chief and a new police auditor and some new options for both officers and people bringing complaints. and that is to sit down and talk it out. the san jose police have more than 400,000 calls for service a year, plus many more face-to- face interactions with the public. they don't always go well. >> i just thought the attitude was really condescending. >> reporter: katherine whitney of san jose thought she was treat the un professionally by an officer two years ago. back then the only way to complain was to take it to internal affairs. now there is a different way. >> the new approach is to have the officer against whom the complaint has been made and the complainant to sit down at a table just lick -- like this and basically have some face time with

len ramirez is there live with how news of bin laden's death has touched one woman so deeply. len? >> reporter: well here at the flight 93 memorial here in union city there are 40 individual monuments that are just a tiny fraction of the thousands of people who were killed on september 11th. one of them right here mark bingham, 31 years old out of san francisco, we did speak to his mother today about the killing of osama bin laden. >> it does seem hard to be but boy i'm ready to be it and i do believe it. >> reporter: for alice the relief is setting in but she does feel satisfaction with word that osama bin laden is dead. >> it feels are good to know that osama bin laden has been brought to justice and it is closure for me to know that terrorism has -- the perpetrators of 9/11 have meta just end. >> reporter: as the mother of mark big ham, one of the people on board flight 93 on september 11th who fought back against their terrorist hijackers, hogue land feels the connection between her son and the man who masterminded the plot. >> i'm gonna go to my dying day missing marks, but in

in san jose, len ramirez, cbs 5. >>> a double homicide investigation is under way in vallejo tonight. gunfire erupted near reese and woodrow avenues close to the interchange of 80 and 780 just before 11:00 last night. sheriff's deputies found one man dead inside his car. the other victim was down the block in a driveway. a suspicious man was spotted in a garage nearby. and he was arrested on drug charges. but police do not think he is connected to the homicides. >>> neighbors are being given the all clear after a hazmat spill involving a railroad tanker car in pittsburg. this happened about midday on the track near cornwall street. tanker car derailed spilled some refinery chemicals. authorities did not issue a "shelter in place," however they did block off the nearby street. >>> devastation in spain. at least seven people are dead after two earthquakes hit. the quakes caused buildings to crumble. one woman says her house was split wide open. large chunks of stones falling from buildings smashed cars parked in streets. the quakes had magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.2 and were close to the tow

len ramirez in san francisco, thank you. >>> the meaning took photos of the flight is giving a firsthand account of what happened. kiet do at the san mateo county jail with more on what the man says actually happened on flight 1561. >> reporter: we are here at the san mateo county jail where almurisi was being held until a couple of hours ago. he has been handed off to the fbi and we are learning more about the guy who snapped the photos that went viral on the internet. he is of a civil engineering student. andrew walked past almurisi and said he looked like a clean-cut normal joe. >> i noticed just this guy in the very last row sort of fidgety a little bit not really comfortable, didn't know if he was sort of blowing air. >> reporter: andrew was trading nodes with the guy sitting next to almurisi and said it was normal. andrew fell asleep and was woken up. >> i woke up to a bunch of passengers running down and, you know, tackling a guy up front. >> reporter: passengers were worried there might have been some sort of coordinated attack because you could hear something shouting do, go, go

len ramirez explains why it could be a perfect storm for trouble. len? >> reporter: w we ll, dana, the weather is nice, cinko de mayo on the minds of people. concerned there will be a repeat of what happened last night. on yet another may 6th morning san jose shop keepers were picking up the pieces. >> a pain in the ass. that's that. >> reporter: w we aver tax service was one of four businesses near highway 101 which suffered thousands of dollars in damage as well as lost time and trouble of replacing broken windows. another was a clothing boutique. >> i'm not sure why people do that. damage other people's property. and they think it is all right. >> reporter: it was the damage done by a small number of vandals, part of a crowd of thousands that came to downtown san jose to celebrate cinko de mayo. one man was stomped in the head another stabbed and seven people were arrested after fights broke out. police on motorcycles began pushing the crowds out of the downtown area but only to create problems down the street. >> as they started walking eastbound we

len ramirez spoke with a family of one of them, mark kendall, bingham. >> yes, it does seem hard to believe but boy i'm ready to believe it and i do believe it. >> reporter: foray les the reality is still set not guilty but she does feel a sense of satisfaction with word that osama bin laden is dead. >> it feels very good to know that osama bin laden has been brought to justice. and it is closure for me to know that terrorism, the perpetrators of 9/11 have met a just end. >> reporter: as the mother of mark bingham one of the men on flight 93 who fought back against the highjackers, she feels the connection between her son and the man who master minded the plot. >> i am going to. >> to my dying day missing mark. but in this matter, the death of osama bin laden i do feel a definite counter point and closure with the ugliness and violence that osama bin laden miles per hour traitsed on -- perpetrated on us on september 11th. his death a precise and very fitting execution is much more just than the kind of ugliness and in justice that he wreaked upon us. >> reporter: a former flight attendant w