at this los angeles station, it's $3.79. >> extremes continue to widen. california uses a very stringent type of gasoline coupled with high gas taxes. >> reporter: when it comes to the higher prices, she says she doesn't have much of a choice. >> it is what it is. you have to pay. you have no choice. you have to drive. >> reporter: chris martinez for cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> well, following a successful run here in philadelphia, jon bon jovi cut his band's pittsburgh concert short last night because he was feeling under the weather. the group was performing at ppg arena on wednesday night when jon bon jovi told the audience he had a cold saturday night. after 90 minutes of an expected two and a half hour show with living on a prayer. >> and he's been out of the spotlight for more than three years. but now richard simmons is back. the fitness mogul will be represented by. no word on how involved simmons will be in the promotion of these new products or wham exactly the products will be. >> coming up kids across the area have a new place to check out. >>

he called me once about nancy driving him to the train station, los angeles. and getting out and the two of them, the los angeles train station and coming and going. you know, the two of them, and they are embracing as if they are the only two people in the world. he told them he never witnessed a single devotion that day watching the reagans together. they were crazy about each other somebody once said -- jim carter once said if men he had been married to reagan when he was at its peak in hollywood, he would've won two academy awards. but the other thing said about reagan was if he wanted to be a shoe salesman, nancy would've made sure he was the best shoe salesman in the world. it just so happened he wanted to be president. she sometimes was the staff hu jintao for hurricane ronnie. she complained herself, did he get enough rest, but is he being properly treated by staff, properly briefed, speeches and scheduling times. that's where she divided her attention was around break-in, but not the policy around ronald reagan. >> a geoff rowley, almost crowley. i ju

live pictures from our sister station in los angeles. there's been a deadly shooting at an elementary school in san bernardino. two people are dead, four people were shot total. two students hospitalized. th two people are dead. we'll go to live coverage from our sister station knbc. >> are the kids coming here? >> there's going to be a media briefing area. the police are setting down at 1275 north park. >> can you tell me about the kids. are they back there in the school buses? >> i don't have any information. i just arrived on the situation. i don't have anything for you, tony. >> no worries. thank you for your hard work. i appreciate it. i know this is a chaotic situation. all these parents behind me and wondering is my kid okay? >> i've got an elementary school kid, too, so it gets to me. i have an 8-year-old son, so can i imagine what these parents are going through. in fact, i want to bring in this lady over here. i talked about earlier. did you find out if your fifth grader is okay? >> his teacher just taked and they are going to

our nbc station in los angeles has more. >> reporter: to properly tell her granddaughters about the l.a. riots she brought them to the l.a. peace parade. but there's one piece of history she left out. >> i was hand in hand slipping, falling, taking food, taking liquor. >> reporter: one of the stores 21-year-old hayes broke into was tom's in florence. while conducting the interviews at the parade we discovered the owner of the liquor store was standing just a few hundred feet away. >> somebody broke in and take all the merchandise out. whatever they need. >> reporter: that somebody was hayes and her message for choy she says is long overdue. >> during the riots i was a partaker of the madness and i'm honored to have the opportunity to apologize. >> oh, thank you very much. >> i am so remorseful. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: a well received apology from choy who has since rebuilt his store. >> remembered 25 years ago. i'm very happy today. she said we've been friends again. >> reporter: a friend for life and a less son to go with it. >> not to participate. not to do things that ju

sister station in los angeles says two people are dead. also hearing two students injured along with a teacher. shooting happened an hour ago at north park elementary school. there's no longer a threat on campus, but students are taken to a nearby high school where parents are asked to pick them up. you can see them all lining up there in a field. we'll continue to monitor this story following us on twitter for updates as they come in. >>> also coming up on abc 7 news at 4:00, an unusual recall of popular salad mix pulled from the shelves after a discovery was made inside the container. >>> bay area middle schooler going on tour for a big time california band in south america. that story tonight on abc 7 news at 5:00. >>> a florida man said he was denied $100,000 jock pot because he let his friend try her luck. >> putting $50 in the slot machine at a casino in ft. lauderdale and let the friend push the button for luck. she hit the jackpot, but he did not win a dime. why? >> well, according to the rules, the person who pulls the arm or pres

carlos granda from our sister station in los angeles has the story tonight. >> reporter: president donald trump issues an executive order that could lead to more offshore drilling. officials here in california vow to fight it. the order includes parts of the pacific, atlantic and arctic oceans. it directs the department of the interior to conduct a review of all federal locations available for offshore drilling. this reverses a plan signed by president obama in december that blocked new drilling. officials estimate there could be 90 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and 327 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas. but opponents say getting to that oil and gas could lead to an ecological disaster. a spill off the coast of santa barbara back in 1969 released 3 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean and created a 35-mile oil slick. environmentalists say there will be a fight. >> i guarantee you there will be litigation over this by the state of california, probably by us, by other environmental groups. i'm sure the oil companies will get involved. if they buy a lease they're g

he told me once about nancy driving down to the train station in los angeles. driving reagan. and getting out and -- two of them are in the lobby of the train station. there's this whole swell of activity and the two of them are embracing. and the only two people are in the world. and the city never witnessed singular devotion that he did that day watching the reagan's together. they were crazy about each other. they prefer to be in private with each other. you know somebody once said jimmy carter once said if nancy had been married to reagan when he was in his pecan hollywood he would've won two academy awards. but the other thing that was said about reagan was that ap wanted to be a shoe salesman, nancy would have made sure he was the best shoe salesman in the world. but she did not get involved with policy because she was you know, sometimes with staff when she thought they were hurting ronald. she can find herself finding out he was eating and had enough rest and properly briefed and with his speeches and scheduling. she put her attention there. but not the policy around r

our sister station in los angeles has a look. >> when i was in new york i had a license. >> erica james says she's a total tomboy, into cars, the outdoors and fishing. turns out she's not alone. >> i love fishing. actually, when i have time off i go to the lake and pretty much where i spend my time. >> emma working on her ventriloquist voice. on top of all that -- >> magic tricks. i'm good at magic tricks. you got $100? i could make it disappear right quick. magic tricks is something i picked up and have fun with people may not know about me. >> saying her hidden talents is singing and acting something people don't know and her star can train horses, play the guitar, sing and -- >> i can draw on pain. my mother was an art teacher. >> now, you're just showing off. now, you're showing off and why you're an overachiever. >> i can draw and i can paint. >> peter was an art major in school and says she loves doing portraits in charcoal and nic also shares this hidden talent and wanted to be a cartoonist as a kid. nic has one more hidden talent. >> i also can drink a beer really fast. >>> no c

in los angeles. we don't say on the other hand the vaccine information center says it doesn't work. there's no question they do have side effects and the need to be tested ferociously for safety but most of the routine vaccinea some do come up and some children do occasionally guide to go on the internet and look at old medical films of kidsdyin dying of tetanus or adult dying of tetanus you would see what the results would be. >> i'm studying to become an epidemiologist and i was wondering how difficult you found the balance in alertingng about a disease outbreak versus inducing panic. >> usually it is in the second paragraph. and i would point out to you people that have the disease if your uncle was dying of cancer and you see a story about a study done on mice and austral australia. i see my job as trying to calm down the panic and try to also spread a little panic. the early days there was another example of trying to spread a little panic. at the flu every year i keep an eye on the cbc and you

rob haze from our sister station in los angeles has the story. >> reporter: six days. that's how long rioters took to the streets. >> quite frank lesion we were overwhelmed. >> reporter: looters rated businesses. and shop owners opened fire. [ gunfire ] not only was los angeles coming apart at the seams, it was burning. >> we had about 3600 fires. it destroyed 1100 buildings. during our peak activity time we were averaging one fire per minute. >> reporter: today ralph is the l.a. city fire chief. in 1992, he was on the verge of promoting to captain, little more than eight years experience as a firefighters. he had never seen anything like the mayhem fire crews were thrust into. >> this was people setting arson fires. it wasn't just won, it was the entire block was on fire. >> reporter: the kooif chief talked about the riots with l.a.'s horizon behind us. 25 years ago it looked like this. 3600 fires, 3500 firefighters. >> we drove by more fires than i can recall. we did not stop. i lost track as to how many fires we had been on. because you didn't go to sleep. just non-

rob haze from our sister station in los angeles has the story. >> reporter: six days. that's how long rioters took to the streets. >> quite frank lesion we were overwhelmed. >> reporter: looters rated businesses. and shop owners opened fire. [ gunfire ] not only was los angeles coming apart at the seams, it was burning. >> we had about 3600 fires. it destroyed 1100 buildings. during our peak activity time we were averaging one fire per minute. >> reporter: today ralph is the l.a. city fire chief. in 1992, he was on the verge of promoting to captain, little more than eight years experience as a firefighters. he had never seen anything like the mayhem fire crews were thrust into. >> this was people setting arson fires. it wasn't just won, it was the entire block was on fire. >> reporter: the kooif chief talked about the riots with l.a.'s horizon behind us. 25 years ago it looked like this. 3600 fires, 3500 firefighters. >> we drove by more fires than i can recall. we did not stop. i lost track as to how many fires we had been on. because you didn't go to sleep. just non-

reporter marin austin from our nbc station in los angeles reports. >> to properly tell her granddaughters about the l.a. riots, precious hayes brought 9-year-old london and paris to the l.a. peace parade. there's one piece of history she left out. >> hand and hand, slipping, falling, taking food, taking liquors. >> one of the liquor stores then 20-year-old hayes broke into in 1992 was tom's on florence and normandy. while conducting our interview at the parade, we discovered the owner of the liquor store was standing just a few hundred feet away. ? somebody broke in, take all the merchandise out. whatever they need. >> that somebody was hayes. and her message for choi, she says, is long overdue. >> during the riots, i was a partaker of the madness. and i'm honored to have the opportunity to apologize. >> oh, thank you very much. >> i am so morseful. >> thank you very much. >> a well received apology from choi who has since rebuilt his store. >> the food, remember, 25 years ago. i'm very happy today. we will be friends again. >> a friend for life. and a lesson to go with it. >> not to part

. >> and steve, we now have our knbc helicopter, our station in los angeles made it over to that school in san bernardino. you can see that there are what appear to be students outside of it. actually, that was the wrong school. now we are looking at the right school, and that is completely deserted and empty. but outside of the school we can see very young children on the sidewalks walking with teachers and guardians, walking to a safe space. we do see some police activity there, and i'm sorry, i'm looking at the screen that's just under my desk, but not a ton of what we would see as extremely urgent activity. it seems to be pretty calm at the moment. those children, as you can see, are holding hands and walking into an open field. joining me now by phone is brian levi levine, criminal inspector at cal state university in san bernardino. we heard that san bernardino is in a shelter in place order. are you there now? >> no, i'm off campus today doing research. i can tell you, though, yes, it was a shelter in place order. this event was reported approximately 40-some-odd minutes ago. the

. >>> good ooef evening from los angeles. i'm tavis smiley and last year americans chose a political outsider when they elected donald j. are trump the 45th president of the united states. he ran a highly unconventional campaign for sure, and since he has taken office he has broken all kinds of political norms. tonight, a conversation with john dean, the former white house counsel to richard nixon and he argues that president tr trump's rule breaking is beyond unorthodox, but down right going to test our democracy. we en thank you for joining us, and insight fful conversation coming up with john dean in just a moment.

. >> and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you, thank you. >>> good evening from los angeles. i'm tavis smiley. dark muffin has been a huge issue clouding our political atmosphere for sure. one agency is charged with enforcing the nation's campaign and fund raising laws, but the fec has been paralyzed. tonight a rare conversation with a former fec panel member. you will want to hear this, a conversation with ann ravel coming up in just a moment.

. >>> good even from los angeles, i'm tavis smiley. having a conversation tonight with somebody who tracked the world of the ultra rich and their effort to push politics to the right. it has created a private political machine and one control of state houses and courthouses, and now fills cabinet positions in the white house. we are glad you have joined us with a conversation with jane mayer coming right now.

. >>> good evening from los angeles, i'm tavis smiley and when you are thinking of the term civil war, what comes to mind? the answer is not surprisingly depends upon who you ask. tonight, the harvard author and historian david armitage joins us to talk about his new book "civil war, the history and ideas" and in the text he explores the conplex notion that has molded our ideas about politics and democracy. then we pivot to a conversation with a.c. horn about a better conversation called saul. we will retwurn a conversation with david armitage and a.c. horn in a moment.

. >>> good evening from los angeles, i'm tavis smiley. we'll speak with russian national security expert, tom nichols about russia's u.s. election meddling, possible support for the syrian chemical weapons attack and more. we are glad you joined us. a conversation with national security expert, tom nichols coming up right now.

. >>> good evening from los angeles. i'm tavis smiley. it was three years ago when the people of the flint, michigan were poisoned by their own water supply. tonight we'll get an update from the front lines of that struggle. then, someone who has been fighting for clean water on a global scale. he is the eldest son of the famous beatle john lennon. we are glad you joined us, coming up right now. ♪

. >>> good evening from los angeles, i'm tavis smiley. tonight, we are talking about music and the arts. first a conversation with the former president and the ceo of the los angeles fill har mphilh deborah border widely credited for lifting it from the shadow of a orchestra to the world stage. she is soon going to take her magic to the big apple as the orchestrator of the new york phil. and we will talk to her about her decision to move back to new york and the arts funding and, and whether it is the collaboration with drake and the seat at the table for solange's latest album, a name for himself, now, invoking the likes of bill withers, the british born musician is going to t

. >> our sister station kttv the fox affiliate there in los angeles is sharing these -- this video with us. >> they have to get this guy off the road. they have to try to get a pit maneuver at the moment they do and it's becoming more and more challenging with more cars, more pedestrianses out there. kids on their way to school for their early classes. i'm seeing bicyclists just ripping down alandro boulevard through bellflower and this commute is on. we've got you covered up here watching overhead in addition to at least five patrol cars. long beach police, other agencies involved as well. he's got a little trouble here and he's going to have to pop into this mexican restaurant parking lot to evade that backup. making a turn. now that he's slowed down a little bit let's see what they do here. i'll try to get you a street here in just a moment. turning northbound because of that congestion at that intersection. >> okay. so we are listening a little bit. you heard it's a big concern obviously for safety for everybody else there on the road and as our, you know, reporter there mentioning

. >>> good evening from los angeles, i'm tavis smiley, tonight a conversation with a legendary folk artist ar arlo guthrie and the son of the famous troubadour artis gutherie. we hope that you will enjoy a conversation with arlo guthrie in just a moment.

, pbs. >>> good evening from los angeles. i'm tavis smiley. tonight a conversation with investigative journalist annie jacobsen. her latest book "phenomena" gives a behind-the-scenes look at the u.s. government secret psychic programs used in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives and identify possible national security threats. then we'll pivot to a conversation with the president-elect of the homeland universe, actress elizabeth marvel, you might know her as heather dunbar in the hit series "house of cards." we are glad you joined us. all of that coming up in a moment. ♪ ♪

. >> reporter: mir era villarreal, cbs news, los angeles. >> quijano: we'll be right back. >> quijano: today about 250 miles above earth american astronaut peggy whitson took over as commander of the international space station. at 57 whitson is the world's oldest and most experienced space disz woman. on april 24th she'll set a new u.s. record for the most accumulated time in space, 535 days. she is not due back on earth until september. whitson was recently featured in a cbs evening news series living stronger which this past week introduced us to 56 year old kristen vines. don dahler shows us why you want want to cross swords with her. >> feel the blade, touch your blade, release and go. >> kristen vines is a no nonsense fencing coach. >> trains your self-to be ready. >> reporter: one of the best in the nation. >> good, then i come back, you come forward. >> reporter: she drills her baylor school team in chattanooga, tennessee, on the tactics and techniques that have lead to 17 state titles. >> do you think people without don't fence understand the intricacies. >> absolutely not. >

. ♪ >>> deborah border is the former ceo and president of the los angeles philharmonic, and spearhead ed the opening of disney concert hall and brought in the conductor gustavo and built the financial coffers of the institution and oversaw the rebuilding of the hollywood bowl, and she has stepped down to become the ceo of the new new york philharmonic in ept september, and should i get down on my knees. please, please, don't go. don't go. i want to beg you to stay. this is so not fair. you are leaving us. >> and hey, you know i'm a new yorker, and hey, i did well becoming a californian here, and people always accused me of the new york accent and the new york walk. but i have loved it here. it has been the greatest of the professional 17 years of my life. it has been my joy, and my life's work. and so, it is time to return home to my family, and to help one of the great orchestras besides the los angeles fill hor m monic, and it is funny that i have worked for two philharmonic, new york and los angeles, and two really to assume the rightful place in the pantheon of orchestras, because

many saying in similar -- similar in los angeles and new york, they believe it's a hack. we received a statement from the fbi they're monitoring the situation, but there's no sign of criminal activity at this time. that coming from our local san francisco headquarters. the twitter -- pg&e saying they don't know the cause yet so they do not know if this was a hack. you've heard the fbi looking into it as well. >> christian, we should see power coming back on in eastern -- coming back on in an hour. >> that's what i heard. they hoped to have power back on by now. it could be a moving deadline because the cause of that outage could be more difficult for them to repair than they fought. we'll keep monitoring the situation and keep reporting on it and make sure people are aware as soon as we're aware -- >> christian, thank you. >>> there's a new person in charge of the bart police department. the transit agency announced this morning it has hired former santa ana police chief carlos rojos. this hire comes with controversy. it reports violent crime in santa ana increased unde

bart says there has been an 11% decrease system wide in bike thefts over the past year. >>> los angeles is getting a thumbs up from pakistan. this is all about the 2024 olympics. more than a million facebook users like the idea of l.a. hosting the olympics. however, according to the ap most of those likes have come in the past six weeks from pakistan. there are a number of ways to explain this. analysts say media attention withdraw people to a page. also facebook advertising can be tailored to boost the number of likes. and some countries like those from pakistan offer bundles of fake likes. >>> the arts festival headliners are lists. metallica, the who, gorilla, lorde, and a tripe called quest. tickets go on sale on thursday. they start at $375. >> i'm down with metallica. >> i like lorde. >> coming up, we'll show you the fight that the warriors gave us. nobody told me to expect it. intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. it's not likely to go away on its own. it took my most honest friend to help me do something about it. she told me premarin vaginal cream can help. it p

on the west coast, drivers in los angeles were treated to their own impromptu waterfall. >>> the gun thief who sent a manifesto to the white house. a wisconsin tv station released portions of the 161-page document believed to have been written. and reveals the anger with the government calling it a gang of terrorists. another letter sent to a judge in 2008 has come to light. he referred to troubles with alcohol and a difficult family life. >>> a florida police officer now faces attempted manslaughter charges after shooting an autistic man's caretaker. >> the arrest warrant for that officer says other officers closer to the victim didn't feel threatened. abc's gio benintes story. >> reporter: the officer is facing serious charges because prosecutors say he should not have fired his gun. trying to help a man with autism who has wandered on to the street from his group home. listen to what the therapist was yelling. north miami police officer seen here pointing his rifle, apparently thinking this was a dangerous situation. >> he has something inside his hands. >> reporter: but the arres

author of making black los angeles, professor marnie campbell. >> we have to kind of rethink at we think about south central. >> campbell notes it now majority latino american. from 45 to 65% today. and less african-american from 50 to 29%. toni was a student of professor campbell. campbell saying toni's understanding of racial nuance is innate. south central community leaders don't see amazing but they do see progress. there's a change for instance from the 1992 tension filled relationships between african and korean americans. >> i believe at least in race relations have improved. i think the second generation, they speak english. >> but they want more community investment. >> well, we need more private corporations in to help the government create something in the communities. that's what i look at social enterprise at. >> at the core is a blue collar working class community. >> from the hispanic perspective i think that's what you're built to go to work, get a job. because of that, that becomes a working class. >> but there's still those seven minutes of rodney king on tape. a histor

cuba gooding senior was found dead in a car in the woodland hills neighborhood of los angeles yesterday. gooding was lead singer for the soul group "the main ingredient". he had his biggest hit in the 1970s with the song-- "everybody plays the fool." police are still investigating the cause of death... but say there was no sign of any shooting at the scene. gooding leaves behind his wife and four children... including oscar-winning actor cuba gooding junior. he was 72- year-old. ( james ) president trump is paid a visit from his a- lister friends. rockers ted nugent and kid rock... and former alaska governor and reality show host sarah palin visited the white house. this is a picture of them posing in front of the portrait of former first lady hillary clinton. you can see palin making a gesture towards the painting. the also took a few pictures in the oval office with president trump. former president obama had beyonce and jay-z among his a-lister friends. those are your entertainment headlines... james back to you. (james) coming up... more details in the death of aaron hernandez. what

nancy driving onto the train train station in los angeles. and getting out and taking care of them and that they are at the los angeles train station. they are coming and going. the whole slow but kennedy and it's a mirror of it embracing as if they are the only two people in the world. he never witnessed a devotion as he did that day watching the reagan together. prefer to be in private with each other. somebody once said that nancy had been married to reagan when he was in his peak in hollywood he would've won two academy awards. but the other thing that i said about reagan if he wants to be a shoe salesman, nancy would've made sure your subissues salesman in the world. but she was sometimes with staff who she thought were hurting romney. she would combine herself to his care. was he being properly treated by staff, but the scheduled time, but the atmospheric around reagan but not the policy around ronald reagan. >> and geoff rowley, almost crowley, but not quite. i just have one comment and then i have a question. the comment on trump and