you re watching cbs 5 eyewitness news in high definition. five days and counting, still no vote to raise the debt ceiling. now they are praying on capitol hill. school is out, but thieves are in. and they keep coming back. the gold mine they discovered. predicting crime before it happens. the new weapon police have and how it helps them work smarter. good evening, i m allen martin. and i m dana king. we are just five days away from default. and tonight, there is no doubt about who is running the show in washington. in fact, take a look at this. the headline on the conservative drudge report reads the vote, tea party in charge. tonight for the second time in a week, republican house speaker john boehner was forced to cancel a vote on raising the debt ceiling. jessica stone shows us people in the capital are resorting to prayer. there was no vote thursday on house speaker john boehner s bill that would cut $917 billion in spending over ten years. it appears he is st
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robert lyles shows us the mounting damages. reporter: at vallejo franklin middle school this is not only going onto the school, it is the only way to get to the scene of the crime. three to five thieves the superintendent believes sliced through metal brackets. they know how to cut live wire and they know how to pull it. reporter: at least 1500 volts are flowing through this one pipe. very high voltage. this is 300 feet. reporter: the devil may care the danger these bandits are after the treasure inside copper wiring. $5000 just for the wire. in this one pipe? in this one pine. a rash in the month of july it has been 10 hits in july alone and we had 14 overall. reporter: spread over eight vallejo franklin has been hit four times. threr they are not only professional, they are fearless. someone interrupted the job a few days ago. what did they do? came back this morning to finish the crime. no fear. they don t believe in cuts. reporter: they may know ther
issue, then government building may have to stop issuing social security checks, medical reimbursement or even stop paying salaries. congress started the day bracing for a vote. listen for the sakes of jobs, for the sake of our country, i m asking the representatives in the house in a bipartisan way and asking let s pass this vote. reporter: but by midday the vote did not go. this plan aims to hit our seniors, our children and low income families. far more draconian cuts. both plans call for up to $2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade. democrats want to raise the ceiling until 2012. boehner would only raise the ceiling until before the election. joe boehner wants to force another debt debate. reporter: economists say the debt has been raised over 100 times. he says the losers can end up being the american people. right now the white house is trying to decide who won t be paid if they default on the government debt for the first time in history, they ex
against bey and mackey. sometimes unfortunate that you have to play with the devil to get the dirt. reporter: the prosecution is the leader of yusuf bey iv. it s quite clear that yusuf bey iv and the people who followed him in his violent acts are a group of street gang thugs. more and people die and breathe in his innocence, i do. reporter: the attorneys it have bey and mackey plan to appeal. i thought per happen it is jury was not going to reach a verdict. because they had been out so long. and it s always disappointing when your position doesn t prevail. reporter: bey and mackey are due back in court for sentencing. they could spend the rest of their lives behind bars. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. after the death of bailey, bay area journalists joined forces to continue bailey s investigation. one of the keynotes was to show that a journalist was assassinated for his work and other journalists would step up to hold accountable the people who are respons