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would buy it knowing it's stolen. >> reporter: it certainly isn't worth anything on the open market. everybody knows about it and everybody has an opinion. >> sneaky sales. just get the picture out... get in a taxi go home without anyone finding him. that's intelligence and entrepreneurism. well done. picasso would applaud him. >> reporter: by the way, she was not in the art gallery of she was in the bar down the street you may have guessed that. the big fear now is that because everybody has seen this guy, he may destroy it just to get rid of the evidence and that within a shame. if you have seen this guy, you know this guy, call san francisco police. >> i mean, it would be amazing if this guy actually got away with it. it sounds like he just lost the movie thomas crown affair and thinks he can walk into an art gallery and take a picture and walk out. >> reporter: i said it was double locked down. it was really two hooks and now they are going to get surveillance and security in there because maybe it was a little too easy for this guy it walk out with a picture. >> thank you, mike sugerman in san francisco. this evening the mexican navy is promising not to give up on the search for bay area fish american missing after their charter boat capsized. and for the first time tonight we're hearing from some of the survivors. joe vazquez shows us some video of the survivors moments after their rescue. joe. >> reporter: you will be able to see it in the video. they have been through an emotional and physical marathon but these survivors are still down in mexico holding out hope for their seven missing colleagues. as the search goes on in the sea of cortez, many of the survivors have decided to stay in mexico to help, including michael ng of belmont whose uncle don lee is still missing. >> i'm still hopeful, the rest of the people here. i was in the water for 16 hours. and i was okay. so given it's maybe the third day, there's still some hope. >> reporter: we are now getting our first look at video shot by the mexican navy showing the survivors moments after they were rescued. they were so exhausted, military members had to carry some of them to the helicopter to be evacuated. after a surprise storm sank their ship early sunday morning, they swam for miles in shark-infested waters to reach land. some were plucked from the water by nearby boaters. for a second day, a c-130 took off from sacramento's coast guard station to assist in the search. the mexican government had told family members the search only had a 9 six-hour window. that would mean -- 96-hour win don'ting at 2:30 tomorrow morning. now state senator leland yee's office tells cbs 5 he has been assured by the mexican consulate the search has been extended indefinitely. now we want to take you live to that news conference. you can see that's a picture of senator leland yee. we're having a little transmission breakup there. but we'll tell you what he has to say as he is surrounded by some of the family members of the survivors and the missing. we have also learned that the mexican government is opening an official inquiry into this incident which will likely include a thorough questioning of the captain. now, contrary to what the family has been told, they have been told the captain has been arrested. we have checked thoroughly and we are being told by state department officials as well as officials in the mexican state of baja that the captain has not yet been arrested or -- and there is no plan under way right now allen to arrest him. he is participating in the investigation as we speak. >> thank you, joe vazquez. crews battled a house fire in the burlingame hills this afternoon. the call came in to dispatchers about 90 minutes ago. you can see the flames of the roof of the two-story house on los robles drive near mills creek park. people who called into the newsroom reported seeing a large cloud of smoke. we don't know whether anyone was inside when the fire broke out. and tonight we're hearing the police dispatch tapes from a deadly police shooting at a san francisco bart station. >> shots fired, code 3 ambulance, he had a knife, officer-involved shooting. >> investigators are asking witnesses to come forward with anyone cell phone video they may have. security footage gives a partial view of what happened but doesn't show exactly what the man was doing when police shot him. bart says the man was drunk and acting aggressively while carrying a broken bottle and a knife. the feds are now stepping in to help fight gang violence in east palo alto. the federal agents met with police and state law enforcement today to discuss the ongoing gang problems. they are specifically targeting the nortenos and serenos gang members including those who are already behind bars. >> gangs are driven by money. so the pressure comes in even in jail is still the financial way of life in and out of jail so by disrupting their illegal operations, you're disrupting the cash flow. >> today's meeting follows the killing of a 3-month-old baby on june 5. now, police think the gunman mistook the baby's family for rival gang members. the city of oakland is hoping a divide and conquer approach will help cut down on crime. that sums up the way oakland's police chief is reorganizing his department. christin ayers reports on the changes announced today. >> reporter: chief tony batts of the oakland police department says this big reorganization will mean more beat cops on the streets of east and west oakland and more officers behind the scenes involving violent crimes. gary abdullah owner of essence unlimited knows how tough it can be to get a property crime solved on east oakland's international boulevard. his company laptop was stolen a few years back and says oakland police had bigger fish to fry. >> everything is more important. and you know, i mean everything is just more important than your property. >> reporter: a new plan to revamp oakland's ever shrinking police department will shake up the property crimes unit. instead of a handful of detectives juggling tens of thousands of cases per year, a watch of patrol officers will be working property crimes too. >> we try to build an organization that was fast, that was bold, that was quick, and try new and different things. >> reporter: chief batts' reshuffle is nothing if not different. the plan divides oakland into two parts, area one west oakland and area two, east oakland. deputy chiefs the department's third highest ranking officers will control each area from the street not -- not a desk. >> sounds good something they need to do. >> reporter: and that's not all. in august, the overwhelmed homicide unit will collapse into one major crime unit that also focuses on other violent crimes. injured beat cops relegated to desk work will pick up the slack learning homicide detective work on the job. >> it will take time to get up to experience. i think it takes anywhere from five to six years from my liking to have a homicide investigator that has all the techniques and talents. >> reporter: chief batts' plan also slashes specialized groups like motorcycle and bike cops putting them all in cars. he admits it's an experiment. >> we'll evaluate and shift into change if necessary. that's the focus of what we're trying to do. >> reporter: residents hope it's one that will work. >> sure. i'm hoping all the time things change. >> reporter: oakland police will start funneling some of those specialized officers into patrol cars starting on saturday. the reorganization of property crimes and homicide crimes units won't start until august. as for whether there will be any new officers hired, the opd does to rehire 22 officers who were laid off earlier this year. that will happen this summer. live in oakland, christin ayers, cbs 5. a sign. times. major change coming -- a sign. times. major change coming to your child's history lessons. >> the sneaky way three pta moms are accused of scamming dozens out of millions of dollars. and we got into it and it was just black. >> it's like a scene out of that movie the mummy. astein swallowed by a dark cloud of dirt. just ahead what it's like to be in the middle of a massive disthe dust storm. ,,,,,, closed captioning of eyewitness news is brought to you by shreve & co. jewelers, a san francisco original. voting mostly along party lines, state lawmakers sent the governor a bill that would make california the first state to require public schools to include in the curriculum the contributions of gays and lesbians. phil matier reporting from sacramento now. the bill may have passed but the fight is far from over. phil. >> reporter: that's right. now, this is one of those cultural wars issues that has hit california from gay marriage on down and it hit the rest of the nation. we are the first to do this. people will be talking about it across the country and they are still talking about it under that dome. >> i think it's a very dangerous precedent. we're not -- we're actually going to tell children what to think. >> if someone was accomplished in their goals in life and changing america, then honor them for that but not because of the way they have sex. >> reporter: that was the reaction of two republican lawmakers to a bill now on the way to the governor's desk mandating that california public schools start teaching the contributions that gays and lesbians and transgenders have made to the state's history. just as we teach about the impact of say martin luther king, jr. or cesar chavez, but gays history says the bill's author san francisco state senator mark leno is bean censored because -- well, they're gay. >> we just want to include this community as well as all the others. we are probably the last one to be included. >> reporter: what rankles the republicans is that the bill states that the history lessons concerning days must all be positive. >> one thing to record history. it's another thing to say we're only going to present the positive aspect and we're not going to record the reality. >> reporter: so this would bar anything negative being taught about face with or transgenders or anybody else. >> just as we currently prohibit any kind of bias or discriminatory information regarding african-americans in the classroom or mexican- americans in the classroom. >> we have seen in california a history of pushing the home sexual agenda in legislation. we have seen it being pushed in the education system at every, single level. >> if the gay agenda is for full inclusion in society and for first class citizenship, put me at the head of the list. >> reporter: the bill now goes to the governor. he has 12 days to decide whether or not he is going to sign it. allen, they are not commenting. i spoke with the governor's staff today. they said he is going to review it and make up his mind. but i'm also told if he does sign it chances are he will do it in san francisco. allen? >> all right. phil matier in sacramento, thank you. how should the u.s. deal with its massive debt? today president obama searched for suggestions on twitter. the president logged on to the social networking site at the white house and took questions on jobs and the economy. he kicked off his first twitter town hall by tweeting, quote, in order to reduce the deficit, what costs would you cut and what investments would you keep? tomorrow mr. obama meets are congressional leaders over the debt ceiling. coming up, why getting sick in the summer is worse than a cold in the winter. >> and you think you're eating healthy? the misleading labels found on some organic food. and this was no escaping it. the massive dust storm that to everyone by surprise. >> it's been a trifecta here in the bay area. good evening, it's been a combination of fog, heat and thunderstorms. your pinpoint forecast as eyewitness news continues. ,, a bill in california could soon be the first state in the nation with the legal definition of a hot dog. it's going to be defined as a whole cured cooked sausage that's skin less stuffed in a casing or served on a bun or roll. the sponsor says the definition is needed to give health inspectors more oversight over the vendors who sell wieners, red hots, franks and similar meat. if you have been buying natural and organic hot dogs thinking they are healthier, think again. on the consumerwatch, julie watts explains why some of those labels can be misleading. >> reporter: they say all natural, uncured, no nitrates or night rights to added. >> i would assume it was healthier. >> i would think that there were no nitrates in this. says it right there on the label. >> reporter: but he would be wrong. >> nitrites are added synthetically or naturally by adding natural ingredients. >> reporter: and show points to a flaw in labeling mandates requiring meat products with natural preservatives label the products uncured and no nitrates or nitrites added even though they are cured and they do contain the chemicals that have long been linked to cancer. in fact, a study by the journal of food protection found those all natural hot dogs have as much as 10 times the amount of nitrites as the one you pick up from your local hot dog stand. >> it's very confusing. >> reporter: he is also a ph.d. in biology. he explains that specially treated celery juice is added to the all natural meat products as an alternative to the synthetic nitrates. but when treated with a bacterial culture, the celery juice also produces nitrites in spite of the label. >> they say no nitrates or nitrites added or except what's natural occurring in the celery juice. >> reporter: he says it gives the hot dogs their color and act as a preservative and antimicrobial but are naturally derived nitrates any safer? >> i don't know. >> reporter: but it is a market issue? >> it is. >> reporter: and that's why in a rare move, the hot dog manufacturers are siding with health advocates and pushing the federal government for more honest labeling because as sims points out -- >> it's really difficult for families to make healthy decisions when it can be so confusing. >> reporter: now, the fda says it's open to reviewing its hot dog labeling guidelines and the industry points out there are far less nitrites today than there were 40 years ago. most processed meats do contain nitrites, so as dr. kim always points out, eat in moderation. liz? >> all right. thank you. for the very first time we are hearing the frantic moments after the roof ripped open on a southwest airlines jet in midair back in april. >> we have a hole in the fuselage in the back of the airplane. >> wewould like 10,000 feet. can a prove that? >> the air traffic control recording was released by the faa today showing controllers scrambling to make sure there were no other planes on the path of the boeing 737 as the pilot made a harrowing four- minute descent. investigators later found pre- existing cracks in the plane's fuselage which caused the hole to open just after take-off. some incredible video that's being called the mother of aldus storms. a huge wall of ominous billowing dust blanketed phoenix last night. this storm is blowing from the south right about sundown as you can see by the lights from the city. the cloud is estimated to be more than a mile high, 100 miles wide and traveled at up to 60 miles per hour. now, the dust storm stopped airline flights, knocked out power, and smothered everything in dirt! >> we thought it was a cloud. and we were like, oh, that's interesting. we're taking pictures and then we got into it and it was just black. people had their -- >> it is monsoon season but dust storms are hard to predict so last night's storm still took everybody by surprise. and let me show you a look at how it was right in the middle of it. look at those lights. traffic cameras show how this dust storm made it almost impossible to see in some areas. we were all over the map today. we had rain -- not rain, some thunderstorms, some heat, cooling. roberta, tell us what it's all about. >> i'm still looking at that video. i was once in one of those storms in arizona before and i can't believe people were actually driving. we came to a complete standstill and the paint was literally ripped off the car from the dust and the car was completely stalled out. we could not restart that engine again. amazing. it is monsoonal season and we have the subtropical moisture causing thunderstorms pretty severe thunderstorms now in the high sierra back in through yosemite and all the way in towards fresno. meanwhile a cloud of a different sort. low clouds and fog straddling the coast continuing to dry to deepen as this marine layer. and it will penetrate the immediate seashore and work its way into the bay overnight tonight. let's compare that with our live cbs 5 weather camera and confirm the clouds and that's the commute in and out of the city of san francisco on the golden gate bridge. the condensation on the camera lens due to that marine layer. and the temperature adversely affected by the clouds. 59 degrees in pacifica but 38 degrees warmer in our inland areas, full on sunshine, in the mid- and high 90s. so out and about this evening, a variety of numbers, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and mid-90s. out to giants baseball action, it's the rubber match, 6 2 degrees, bundle up, windy, as well. there are your headlines. cooler thursday, subtropical moisture in the interior sections but we have the low clouds and fog, watch the clouds and the clock tick on by here and you see your morning commute, overcast conditions. then we'll have some sunshine by the midafternoon. high pressure will continue to weaken with an area of low pressure well to the north of bay area. that will enhance our marine layer. but tonight numbers dropping to the 40s and 50s. tomorrow cooler temperatures out of the triple digits, into the low 90s and the inland areas. 50s and 60s around the coast, 70s bayside. we have coming up not -- that wasn't this sunday but this sunday we do have plenty of sunshine but temperatures coming down as we see below average numbers by sunday all the way through wednesday of next week. > cold of?$. >> 70s and 80s sounds great. i live inland. >> that's perfect. bring it on. >> thank you. well, we usually associate getting a cold or the flu with winter weather. but turns out summer colds can actually be worse. dr. kim explains. reporter: the summer is off to a lousy start for this person with a miserable cold. >> i started with scratchy throat and then nose started running. >> reporter: turns out the cold and flu viruses that make us sick in the winter combine with warm weather viruses in the summer including an enterovirus. that combination can cause stomach problems and a cough that won't go away. it can last longer and it's more likely to come back. >> it really taxes the immune system more. they are more rundown and i think that's what is making it last longer. >> reporter: doctors say too much strenuous exercise after a long winter can also run us down making our bodies more susceptible to summer viruses. air-conditioning and recirculated air on planes also spread a virus. and sometimes colds are actually allergies. >> most of the time people don't realize they have allergies. so they think it's a cold. >> reporter: so how can you ward off a summer sickness? wash your hands, get sleep and stay hydrated. after two weeks ellen is feeling better. >> next week i'm already planning activities, things to do. >> reporter: and ready for a better late than never start to summer. and just like with winter colds, there's not much you can do for a summer cold. cold medicines, saline drops and mom's chicken soup may give soul relief. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. ,,,, it's really delicious, mom. it's not too well done? nope. but it is a job well done. what are you reading, sweetie? her diary. when you're

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