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KPIX CBS 5 Eyewitness News At 6PM October 19, 2012

Undermine it to keep Outstanding Young people like ryan out of scouting. Reporter it all comes on the day the boy scouts were forced to release secret files it kept on decades of sexual abuse within the organization. Including cases which scout leaders covered up and shielded abusers from prosecution. The bow scouts as an organization pride themselves on honesty and truthful nevertheless and yet the boy scouts dont practice it. Thats outrageous. Reporter ryan says he enjoyed scouting for 12 years and is hoping that someday the scouts will change. Unfortunately, the boy scouts are being bullies. They are pushing young men like me away who really need the boy scouts. I wasnt the first person to suffer under this policy and surely wont be the last. Reporter the boy scouts of america say they dont proactively inquire about someones Sexual Orientation but in this case it came out because ryan was doing his project for his eagle scout award which was an anti bullying wall at his middle school. As part of that project, he revealed that he had been bullied because of his Sexual Orientation. Once that got out, the process was started to kick him out of the organization. I notice len, reading the editorials in the Council District in Contra Costa County he is getting a lot of support from different people. Reporter thats right. The support is here locally as well as nationwide. 400,000 signatures. He said he thought that people out there understand this is not about Sexual Orientation, its about the person you are inside. He wants that award. He feels he has earned it and hopes to put pressure on the organization that somehow they will relent and let him have it. Keep us updated. Len ramirez, thank you. One of the latest crime victims in oakland is a City Council Candidate robbed at gunpoint. It happened after he attended an anticrime meeting. Cbs 5 reporter joe vazquez on the robbery right outside the candidates home. Reporter were in a neighborhood here 51st near broadway. You know, this is not a place where they see a lot of crime but neighbors say they have noticed street crime lately and a man running for city council noticed it firsthand last night. I had the phone with the earbuds in my phone. Reporter dan kalb, a candidate for oakland city council, district 1, was just getting back from a neighborhood Crime Prevention meeting last night around 8 30. He had just parked his car down the block from his North Oakland home. I felt a poke right about here. Reporter what he felt, a robbers gun in his back. I thought oh, my god i just came from a neighborhood Crime Prevention Council Meeting and here i am now a victim of crime. Reporter he says he is okay. The robber took his iphone and wallet and told him to leave. He ran home and called the cops. He now can emphathize with his constituents in oakland. The heart is racing. The feeling of your life could end at any moment. Now i know how some people feel when they are the victims of a crime. I just was lucky. There are some people in our city who are victims of crime who are not lucky who are shot, who are permanently injured or murdered. Youth should be part of the solution of violence in oakland. Reporter teenagers who grew up with murderers of friends and family members have spent months trying to make their community a better place through video. They were film on the street. Their project is based on using creativity and theater to try to imagine alternatives to violence. Reporter this footage is only part of the project done by those students who are participants in a program at the Ella Baker Center for human rights. The rest of the video is gone in the hands of two young men who robbed the filmmakers before of about 3,000 worth of camera equipment. While they were doing one of the video shoots on the street two people came up behind them with guns and the whole group backed away from the equipment and the equipment was all taken. Reporter now, niece ella baker kids these ella bakers kids you would think they would say just forget it. But instead what im told by their mentors is they are more determined than ever to finish their video and they are asking the community to donate some money to help them buy new equipment make an antiviolence video. No better time than now to get that one out. Thats what its going to take is to turn it around and people have to stand up and take back their city an streets. Reporter absolutely. Thank you. You dont need me to tell you it has been warm outside. Our heat wave is waving good bye, however. But not before setting a few records today. Paul deanno shows us how hot it got. Were midway through october. 13 days away from halloween and talking about record highs. Some of you near 90 today. Mountain view a new record 89 degrees. Sfo at the airport 86. New record high. Also new record high set in oakland and concord. Both of those communities in the mid to upper 80s. So we broke these records today. Already, were beginning to see a change. The onshore flow is slowly but surely returning to. Pacifica is now down to 76. San rafael down to 77. And its weird to say this but downtown San Francisco is down to 81 degrees. Well talk about the cool change. Ill ver weekend forecast and we may be setting records for rainfall coming up soon. Details when thats going to happen coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Investigators are trying to unravel a suspicious death and fire in castro valley. The Alameda County Sheriffs Office says an accelerant was used to start the fire at this home on san carlos avenue. When firefighters arrived they discovered a womans body inside. Investigators say if this was a homicide, they, quote, have the upper hand on it. Oakland police have given the all clear after a search for an armed man closes a campus. Officers were called to Holy Names University this morning after someone reported seeing a man with a gun. They evacuated the campus, searched the buildings but didnt find a suspect. Police reopened the school later this afternoon. In San Francisco, a man who owned a dog walking business is sentenced to 60 days in jail for animal cruelty. His four dogs were malnourished and found living in filthy conditions. They are all healing now. 36yearold abe were ham taylor will not Abraham Taylor will not be able to care or breed animals for three years. Historians will tell you the cold war has been over for years. But we found an important relic of those uncertain days floating right in San Francisco bay. And its a story you will see only on cbs 5. Reporter from the outside, it looks like any other large rusting barge in the bay. But 40 years ago, it was the centerpiece of a top secret cia project code named jennifer. How see contract a project was this . Ha. Reporter was this top secret . This is probably as tight as it gets. Reporter there was an elaborate cover story that this was built to do under water mining by howard hughes. The truth . The cia designed this to go pick up a sunken soviet submarine. Wanted to pick up the sub, built a claw to pick it up. Reporter few cameras have been allowed inside the barge which was secretly submerged under the hughes mining ship and then positioned over the soviet sub. In 1974, the cia successfully raised the stricken gulf class sub along with the bodies of several russian seamen and several secret nuclear missiles. Theres various stories. They only got part of the submarine. They got this, that. You know, that stuff will probably be aired out in a couple of hundred years when the cia declassifies the rest of the story. Reporter but thats not the end of the story. In 1985, the department of defense used the covered barge once again. This time to build and launch the sea shadow, the pentagons first stealth experimental naval ship which is still here. The huge pontoons, the stealth steel skin, and the sophisticated bridge allstate of the art during the reagan administration. It was built inside the barge to shield it from soviet spy satellites. The project, though, was scrapped in the early 1990s. And now, sea shadow will be scrapped as well, sold off in fivefoot sections. They operated it for a couple of years on two different occasions. And it was successful beyond their real beyond their expectations. Reporter all right. Of the code name hmb1, the hughes mining barge number one. It will live on. The big barge, is being refurbished as a floating covered dry dock and headed back out we are told this time for civilian use. It could solve cold cases around the country. The secret bay area scientists can extract from the mouths of the dead. Billions of dollars lost in less than five minutes. The mistake that sent google stocks on a freefall. If you missed the big boom, dont worry. The show is just getting started. Where bay area meteorite hunters are searching for space debris. ,,,,,,,, a south bay pediatrician facing serious drug charges made his first appearance in court today. Formal charges were brought against dr. Marvin bonham in san jose. He is accused of prescribing powerful drugs such as oxycontin unnecessarily and to convicted drug addicts. It was allegedly in exchange for cash and methamphetamine. He is facing 18 charges but there may be more. The investigation is still ongoing as new information comes in, there is always the possibility that well be adding additional charges. It really depends on what the nature of those additional charges is, whether they get filed separately or added to the same complaint and it goes forward from there. Dr. Bonham did not enter a plea. His medical license has been suspended while this case is ongoing. The indicates of a murdered Nursing Student is the case of a murdered Nursing Student is going to the jury. Prosecutors say Giselle Fernandez killed michelle le. Defense attorneys protested today when prosecutors called the suspect a sociopath. The judge allowed it. Esteban did not testify. The science of Crime Fighting is taking another leap forward. Researchers in the bay area have developed a new tool to help forensic investigators some some of their most baffling cases. As cbs 5 reporter don ford shows us, they have done it by unlocking a secret we all carry in our teeth. Reporter across the country hundreds of human remains were found each year that cannot be identified. Right now there are almost 8,000 open john doe and jane doe case. A doctor a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore national lab. Dna matching is the Gold Standard for identification. But if you dont have any idea who youre trying to match, it doesnt work very well. Reporter the doctor says carbon dating can fix that. If you knew the victims date of birth would you dramatically increase the odds of you would dramatically increase the odds of determining who it is. He uses the victims teeth. What our technique does is determine a date of birth from dental enamel plus or minus a couple of years. Reporter the sample is loaded into an ionnizing carbon 14 analyzers and ions are shot down this accelerator. The results are compared to a known amount. Precision for Something Like that is typically plus or minus one to two years. Reporter one local Coroners Office we spoke to has nearly 25 cold cases stretching back to the 70s and is very excited. They said this accuracy is unprecedented and might help them solve most all of their cases. When remains are found this lab can help tell quickly who should get the call, the archeologist or the coroner. In some cases they dont know if a body is found whether its been there for 40 years or 4,000. Reporter the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory believes this new approach could significantly reduce the number of the nations open cold cases. In livermore, don ford, cbs 5. You think of it as accidentally hitting send on an email only this sent google stock me a tailspin today. This morning, google released its 3rd quarter financial numbers which included a big miss on target profits. But that report was supposed to be released at the end of the day not at the beginning of the day. Within four minutes, shares were down nearly 68 bucks or more than 9 . Thats about 20 billion lost in less than five minutes. I dont recall ever seeing this happening where their earnings are mistakenly released early. Sometimes they will be released early based on rumors or if they had good news and wanted to provide it to the market earlier. Something like this happening where the statement is released earlier than it should it doesnt typically happen. Wall street hates surprises like that. Google hates them, too. It blames a Printing Company for the mistake. If you saw the flash or heard the boom, it only lasted for a few moments. But now the day after the big meteor show in the sky, people are looking for something more. Cbs 5 reporter da lin joins us live from just outside martinez where the hunt is on. Da. Reporter last night, people were asking, did you see it . And now they are asking, did you find it . We noticed a lot of folks out here looking for meteorite fragments. In fact there is a lady out here who owns some land. She says her son is on a horse right now tracking down any fragments. Reporter astronomers say this meteor about the size of a car hit earths atmosphere around 7 40 last night and fragments might have landed in the hills around monsoonp martinez. Thats got Treasure Hunters climbing all over the place looking for meteorite fragments. I was looking for something, looking for something dark, looking for something that might create a crater. Meteorites do grab a little bit of money. Reporter Michael Kerwin came to mount wanda hoping to go home a richer man. Did a little bit of research from last night to this morning finding the trajectory of it, about where it hit and the direction that its going. So ive pretty good idea of where i might find some fragments. I could be wrong. Reporter can you share that information with us . [ laughter ] what, are you going to take away from my pocketbook or what . I have children to feed. Reporter some people came with binoculars. Others came with bigger devices. Michael came with a knife and magnet. Im going to dig for it with that. And i brought a regular speaker magnet to let me know that ive got iron ore. Reporter some people hiked for hours under the hot sun and came up emptyhanded. They say they will be back this weekend for more digging. I saw nothing. Boy, its hard to find something in acres of hills that are all brown. Reporter experts say large intact pieces could go for thousands of dollars. But dana, folks are telling me they are not finding anything out here today. Yeah. No, thats way worse than a needle in a haystack. Reporter pretty much. Thats like a needle on a planet. Reporter yeah. There you go. They are very small pieces. Yeah. All right, da, let us know if you find anything. Reporter ill be sure. Okay. And we have more meteor images on our website, cbssf. Com. Heres the thing thats weird. We actually have video coming in, there were some security cameras on somewhere, you cant get away with anything these days. No, not even meteors. Not even a little piece of space dust in the atmosphere without being caught. We caught a beautiful sunrise this morning with Lawrence Karnow showing you the forecast. I want to show you what should be a gorgeous sunset, as well. But look at this image here. Look off in the distance. Whats that . Thats cloud cover. The onshore flow is back even though we had record highs today. Things are changing. And youre going to notice a big drop in temperatures coming up tomorrow. Rain will be dropping from the sky and we employed the strongest radar in town, call it hidef doppler looking at the north bay right now. Marin county, youre dry but next wook it is going to get very, very wet. Heres the change thats coming tomorrow. First things first. High pressure being shoved down to the south. The squeeze play is on. Low pressure to the north winning a battle and with High Pressure farther to the south we are not getting an offshore wind, were getting a northwest onshore flow bringing back Morning Cloud cover dropping the temperature down 10 do 15 degrees. Next week this low will sit off to our west three or four days firing in waves of low pressure into the bay area. Rain chance begins on monday likely will not end until wednesday night. So three days of rain coming up next week. For tomorrow, temperatures cooling down. We are talking 80 for livermore, 67 degrees for downtown San Francisco. Redwood city just back to normal but its not the upper 80s. Its the mid70s tomorrow. San jose 76 and concord all the way down to 76 degrees. Even cooler over the weekend. Upper 70s low 70s near the bay. Mid to upper 70s inland with Morning Clouds afternoon sunshine. Then the rainfall. Rain likely on monday, rain likely on tuesday. Rain likely on wednesday. [ applause ] ken and his lawn are thrilled. I hope you are, too. Yeah like it or not its coming. Thats your cbs 5 forecast. Extreme sports hits the bay area. Why theres criticism over the sponsor of one event. One of the worlds most expensive yachts is docked here in the bay area. The billionaire owner of the octopus. ,,,,,,,, by mountain dew. San extreme words being used against an extreme sports event sponsored by mountain dew. San francisco Supervisor John Avalos is criticizing the dew tour toyota championships going on at Civic Center Plaza right now. He is questioning why a soft drink brand is sponsoring an event in a city trying to fight childhood obesity. Avalos also says construction for the event shut down the plaza for too long. The compe

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