Transcripts For KBCW CBS 5 Eyewitness News On The CW 44 2012

KBCW CBS 5 Eyewitness News On The CW 44 November 18, 2012

November 18th. Thanks for joining us this morning. We have a lot of news in the next hour. The situation in israel. Also, the situation in sacramento. Were going to sit down with state senatorelect jerry hill to talk about the new surplus that suddenly popped up on the screen. Yeah, californias fiscal future and talking about the petraeus scandal. Its, of course, a big one in the headlines all week long. Were also going to talk about how safe is our email. And were going to talk about the safe streets of San Francisco as we shift state prisoners on to the county. Meanwhile, there is an apology this morning from the bishop of san jose, after a registered sex offender was allowed to volunteer at the festival. The church and Sheriffs Office are trying to figure out how he got written permission for the event last month. In a Statement Issued yesterday, the bishop said no one was found guilty of sexual abuse can be allowed to volunteer in any activity that involves children. Mcgraff went on to say i am deeply troubled and apologize to you that this policy was not followed. The man at the center of the controversy is Mark Christopher gearies. By state law, a registered sex offender is only allowed on campus with a written permission from a school official. His was his was identified by a parent. The sheriff will be at the school on tuesday to meet with concerned parents. New this morning, a man was shot to death during a robbery in menlo park in front of his wife. That happened on iivy drive. The victim was sitting in a car with his wife when at least two people approached. No arrests have been made and this is menlo parks second murder of the year. Friends and family say goodbye to a san jose marine killed not in the line of duty, but by Police Officers in california. Police say 22yearold Corporal Allen belina was yelling obscenities at officers in palm springs, saying he tried to drive off and in the process hit one of the officers. They fired their guns killing him. Yesterday, his body was returned to the family here in the bay area. My son was a great kid, well loved and had a charisma and the marines and worked at different platoons in the baital crops. The funeral is scheduled wednesday morning in freedom. And overnight, we saw heavy rain in the area. And roadways were wet and looks like drying is in their future. Hes more what we can expect today, brian . The storm is barreling through the area and that is posted through 10 00 a. M. Today. The entire state, the nowhere half of it is looking for clearing skies. The highdef doppler is showing not a drop out there and there is fog in the north bay. And more high clouds, but aside from that, today looks like well start out some fog in the north bay and some mild temperatures and changes ahead. Ann, phil. Thank you, brian. President obama said israel has the right to defend itself. Speaking in thailand today, mr. Obama said any effort to resolve the conflict in gaza, quote, starting with no missiles being fired into israels territory. Today is the fifth day of attacks against the gaza rocket operations. Israeli strikes hit two Media Centers in gaza and wounding six. Seven civilians were killed in todays airstrikes. 53 palestinians including militants died since wednesday and at least one rocket was fired at tel aviv and intercepted by israels iron dome Missile Defense system. In indonesia, more than 5,000 people marched to protest against the israeli air strikes in gaza. The protestors marched to the u. S. Embassy carrying indonesian and palestinian flags flags, as well as posters against israel. Indonesia, a muslim nation, has no diplomatic relations with israel. Back here in the states, black friday deals may be red hot, but who is really paying the price for them . Stores like walmart, target, and best buy plan to open as early as eight p. M. On thanksgiving night to get more sales. Employees of the Retail Stores are not happy about it and hundreds of thousands have taken their frustrations out online. On corporateaction. Org, a campaign is asking people to boycott walmart and its growing. Shoppers seem to sympathy with employees forced to work on thanksgiving. And that is selfish. Most americans are overworked and underpaid, so, give them the day off. Over 200,000 tarset employees and customers signed a petition to change. Org. Some say its hard to find the spirit of christmas past, even with more Holiday Shopping days this year. And some point out the fiscal cliff that looms over christmas future. Cbs reporter drew levinson shows us now retailers are trying out new strategies to bring out shoppers. Reporter as in years past, shoppers are getting primed for black friday, the most analyzed day of the retail year and the Holiday Season opening. The good news for retailers, an early thanksgiving means the season on longer with 33 shopping days. The economy is still sluggish and washington atmospherics have rattled consumers. Retailers are very concerned about the fiscal cliff situation. In a recent survey, 72 of consumers say they were changing their Shopping Patterns as a result of the uncertainty over the situation. Reporter also, dampening the forecast is superstorm sandy. By one estimate, nearly 5 million households in the path will have to curb spending this year is to counter, theyre going in and offering discounts. Look last year, some stores will open on thanksgiving at midnight with walmart, target, sears, and toys r us opening earlier. In a fierce competition to get the very first shoppers. Retailers know after many black fridays that typically the place where the person shops first is the place where they spend the most money. Reporter the strategy is working. Last year, a quarter of all black friday shoppers were in the stores by midnight. And the weekend was a record breaker. Drew levinson, cbs news, new york. Things are looking up for californias state budget. Well, there are signs pointing to a possible surplus even and what lawmakers need to do to keep it that way. Our conversation with assemblyman jerry hill next. And planning on joining the black friday madness . When you should really hit the stores to score the best deals. Well be right back. ,, me and you. Ghirardelli squares chocolate. A little rendezvous savor our luscious filling combined with our slow melting chocolate. That little reward for all the things you do. Only from ghirardelli. Cbs five consumerwatch reporter julie watts shows s best of black friday deals may not come on black friday after all. Cbs 5s consumer watch reporter julie watts show us when the best deals turn up. Reporter we see it every year. The shopping stampede after the last slice of pumpkin pie. This year, you may want to stay home and digest because a lot of those black friday specials arent so special. The its to drum up excitement. Matthew many black friday ads this year look awfully familiar. Ninety of the retailers we look at are going to at least one of the exact same items of the exact same price on black friday as last years black friday. Reporter for example, last year radio shack advertised this 500gig usb for 49. 99. This year, its offering the same product for the same price and it turns out its not the best price. This went on sail this year. Reporter he said the usb price hit rock bottom five days ago when it was selling for five bucks cheaper than the black friday ad. Its a similar story for the wireless printer at staples, selling for 1. 99, this black friday, the same as last black friday. You could have bought it cheaper a month ago. And the rock bottom price was 179. 99. The stores use flashy ads to get you in the door hoping you will sell your basket once there. Buyer beware, because something says its on sale does not mean its a bargain. Sent on assume everything is a big deal. Reporter avoid buying toys, jewelry, Winter Clothes and watches on black friday. The prices for those are likely to be cheaper later in the season. Remember, a lot of the doorbuster deals are for limited quantities. Julie watts, cbs 5. Brain hackney has the pinpoint forecast. Are we looking that far in the future . Shes camping out. That would be a cool thing to do. In front of best buy. You need to buy. That will be exciting. Im there. And we are going be looking for things to progressively dry out and this morning, they have a few high clouds and to san jose, can you buy some sunshine and there is some fog in santa rosa,s few high clouds as well and we begin with numbers chilly. 52 degrees and things have dried up, the high def doppler picking up not a thing. And were going to look for mostly sunny skies, the showers exited and exited and did we get dumped on last night through south San Francisco and that came down the last 24 hours. Out of the door this morning, the feel will be mostly sunny skies and meteorologically, looks cloudy. That is a thin layer of high clouds, 2000s of an inch; San Francisco, a half an inch of rain. San carlos, a third of an inch and to livermore, a half an inch. And look at the hills, almost two inches of rain the last 24 hours and that is nice. Santa cruz mountains, the redwoods needed rain and the satellite and radar shows the system on the way, the rain making potential will stale stay north of the bay area and we dry out and another shout of showers into the bay area by midweek. Out of the bay area, there is winter storm warnings posted in the sierra through 10 00 and if youre heading out tomorrow, partly sunny at sfo and no weatherrelated air traffic delay is expected, sunny in new york for a change and 52 degrees and numbers on the chilly side, and hazy sunshine. The extended forecast will increase the clouds again tuesday night and this is favoring the north bay. They will linger through wednesday morning after that. Thanksgiving looks dry and looks like it will stay dry right into the weekend. And one more shot at showers late tuesday and that will do it. Ann and phil . Thank you, brian. Encouraging news on the california budget situation. The states nonpartisan legislative analyst said the deficit in the next fiscal year will be much smaller than we have seen in the past. And we may see surpluses down the line. That would be since the First Time Since 2001. This morning, assemblyman and state senatorelect jerry hill explained were not out of the woods just yet. Were still short about 1. 9 billion, if things go according to plan the way it is now, and that is still a challenge this we have to face. Its difficult. What we have seen in the past are the i responsible budgets. When i got to the legislature 3 1 2 years ago, fur four years almost, we had 42 billion we had to cut and you look at that budget and it was put together with springs and we spent more money than we had, there is no reserve or accounting. The debt service is almost 9 of the General Fund Budget and that is irresponsible. We had to deal with it. I think we did and unfortunate, the citizens of california had to face it and live with it. We cant get to that position again, and that is going to be the struggle. Because even as we speak, there are a number of groups, the education and others who said its time now since we do have this meany coming in, to restore the cuts. In other words, start spending again. Well, we cant. We cant do that. If you look at the budget and part of the deficit were looking at next year, that is because the facebook ipo did not come in as high as it was supposed to in terms of the sale. The stock sales. How can the eighth largest economy depend on a social media stock price . It will come back and haunt us again. There is no reserve in the state. We have the High Debt Service and should take the onedebt money. Spend it on onetime causes to pay off the debt service. Try to balance things in the long run. That is not what. Done. I think the pressure is the other problem were faced with is in the assembly, almost 50 new members. They were not there four years ago spending all night on the legislative floor trying to balance that 42 billion. They dont remember that, so we have to really show them the responsible way, i think. Well, right, you see a seem a little temperd about this. We have the new people coming in and you know there are a lot of departments out there who will tend forward massive spending. Of course. Are you going to balance that . Unfortunately, the governor made it clear he wants a responsible and evenkeeled budget as we go forward. He doesnt want to raise taxes unless it goes to the voters, which i sing a responsible thing to do, but that is going to be the challenge, the whole back and heat restoring this. And certainly education, we owe education a large amount of money and have to pay that back. We have to bring k12 education where it was before or this economy is not going to be the 8th largest in the world again. On the spending front. No new taxes on the vote of the people. We have fees. There are a number of vacant seats to be filled and we have added foes already and that is something we can do historically and i think there will be an adjustment with the cost associateed with the project, but i dont think they will be to be responsible, and i think the legislature will be responsible in this time. We know that we cant afford not to be. Do you trust the legislative projections . I do. They have been accurate in the past. They have been close. The problem with the projections showing the 1 billion surplus a couple of years and the problem with the projections is its based on status quo. No salary increases or excessive spending, you know, we have 40 billion of bonds we have not sold yet that we can sell and that is going to add to that 8. 9 billion debt Service Every year. That is the problem. Its good and that is not going to stay the same. Well, we expect to see more cash for the states budget. And the same may be true for californias prison realignment effort. San francisco sheriff on what it means to bay area agencies. Senatorelect jerry hill abt car horn paying with your smartphone instead of cash. phone rings thats a step forward. With chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyones checking account. I guess hes a kicker. Again, again oh, no you dont take a step forward and chase what matters. Jerry hill about c s budget situa. We spoke with a Family Member and senatorelect jerry hill about californias budget situation. Prop 30 will help, and it means more money for prison realignment. And that is for the people coming out of state prison and into county jails, a way for the state to save money. The question is how safe is that . We turn to San Francisco sheriff and asked him are you worried about what is going to happen the next two years . We have a real opportunity in San Francisco to demonstrate to the rest of the state how we can do something and the state average for many years has been around 77 or 78 . So, in essence, they have failed and failed for many years. Recidivism, the repeat offender rate. It was my predecessor who shouldered much of the burden for many years. He invented many of the rehabilitation programs. Now, many of the local criminal justice partners like Adult Probation Department and others are coming in line to do something about high recidivism rates. This the first for San Francisco. Were onlys few counties in the whole state with undercrowding. People still get their cars broken into. Right. The houses robbed by the low level, nonviolent. Right. Who tend to, if they comfortable, go to jail for a certain amount of time. Right. Keep going around and around. That merry go round, if you talk to sfpd, and when i chaired the citys Public Safety committees, the board of supervisors, and i was dogged about getting the kind of attention to my district, and why it was suffering chronically. And just that area. That is the norm. I wouldnt accept that and the idea, its not responding to what is stagger us in the face, high recidivism rate. Its not new criminals but repeat offenders. This is the person who goes around. The priorities budgetarywise has been a fraction on those reab tative programs and no mechanisms for accountability to make sure that youre doing your job and doing it well. And which is why were not working closely together. Do you ultimately think the programs can keep people out of crime . No. Not without the participant, the inmate themselves being held accountable. As sheriff, when i came in earlier this year into office, i asked adult probation to make it a condition to the probation. A sentence to a condition of their probation that they must complete a program while in custody and out of custody or else they violate probation. And sanford talks, one of the best College Football teams in the country. It was not the only big upset this weekend. Vern glen has them all. Vern. Good morning, everybody. Wow, what a night for College Football on saturday. The number one and two teams lost and stan fod, the big hand for one them. Ap, number one in overtime, oregon. Maldonado, 41 yards and now. As stanford scores, they win. Whose got it . Stanford football and in this overtime situation, it was time for jordan williamson who would miss earlier in the game is true from 37 yards and stanford of a threetouchdown underdog, was a stunner, 1714. Number one, kansas state bit the dust. Running back lake for the baylor bears. Eighty yards to the hissy. Baylor, knox off k state, 52 24. And last night in san jose, david failed for the spartans. Gets brisby on the run, led 20 seven, late in the game. How about that . Nine wins for the season. They are rolling and loving it. Five straight wins now. For the spartans. Hey, when you go to the raider game later on today, its a 1 00 kick off and hosting the new orleans saints. Theyre going to be passing out wrist bands, like im wearing on my right arm. And this is to salute the troops. This is what they want you to do. They want to you take your wrist band and during the national anthem, put your hand over your heart and that is a special honor for the u. S. Forces. Wrapup later on, early newscast and on game day as well and freeway and have a dry sunday, folks. See you later. The affairs, emails and a fall from grace. The cia sex scandal that forced general petraeus to step down. The conversation with a legal expert from uc hastings in the next half hour. Well be right back. Exactly su

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