Transcripts For KPIX CBS 5 Eyewitness News At 6PM 20121208 :

KPIX CBS 5 Eyewitness News At 6PM December 8, 2012

Little longer. Reporter the Supreme Court will likely hear the arguments in march and have a decision by the end of june. There are nine justices. It is entirely possible they have nine differ opinions. One thing is for sure, this is an historic moment. Juliette goodrich, cbs 5. Not only will the Supreme Court hear the prop 8 case but also a challenge to the National Defense of marriage act. Theyve got to solve this as a National Level because its just too much administrative confusion right now. Who gets health benefits. Who can visit who in the hospital. All of these, which marriage counts. All of these questions. Lori little calls it an historic time for the Supreme Court, a decision that is as big as brown versus the board of education which said separate schools for black and white students was unconstitutional. This is equivalent to the Supreme Court take on one of the most devicive sort of exciting constitutional questions of this generation and deciding that they have to issue an opinion on this. So, for now gay marriages in california remain on hold. That stays in place and will stay in place until they issue their decision which probably wont be until june. Gay couples in San Franciscos Castro District are cautiously optimistic the Nations High Court will rule in their favor. Cbs 5 spoke with a number of them about the courts decision today. I think it will be a close call. The Supreme Court may be a 54 split depending on how kennedy comes down. I was married in San Francisco in 04, which was very historic. Im divorced now and i deserve the freedom to divorce. Thats like the easy way out. Public opinion seems to be shifting towards acceptance of same sex marriage. In 2011 rare salmon gallop poll found for the first time majority of americans support it. The battle over same sex marriage has a unique story here in california. We were only the second state to allow it and the only state to then ban it. It began in San Francisco back in 2004. Over a period of mount, San Francisco issued some 4,000 marriage licenses under the direction of the then mayor newsom, but the practice was outlawed with the passage of prop 8 in 2008. That ban was later ruled unconstitutional. Same sex marriages will remain on hold until this case is finally settled by the Supreme Court. For more on todays announcement and reaction, two to cbsf. Com. People in san jose are getting a Little Something extra with their utility bills. Not an extra charge or promotion, but as cbs 5s reporter len ramirez shows us, Police Officers arent too happy about it. For 200,000 households in san jose it came in the mail. We have to think creatively and cost effectively. They are talking about an insert her office enclosed ared in garbage and water bills for san jose residents that solicits complaints act san jose Police Officers and provides Contact Information for her office to follow up. We are required to get information out about our office and let people know that if they do have a complaint or concern about san jose Police Officers, we are the people to call. When we mess up and we d were human. We expect to be held accountable. We dont have a problem with the system in place. But, the police union does have a problem with the method and time. With murders matching a 20 year high and Police Response times getting longer, Union Officers say the city should be mailing out crime watch information and witness hotlines. The message they should be sending is your Police Department is depleting scene getting worse. Our response times are going up. Crime is going. Moral has plummeted. We have another six officers that walked out the door just this week. Nine more officers are going to be resigning by the end of this month, and this is the type of thing the city sends out. It is just insult to injury it is another example of the animosity of city hall and its Police Officers over pension reform. Citizens like eddie gail says it is high time the two sides settle their differences. Im not saying she is right or wrong or this the officers are right or wrong. I am saying there needs to be respect on both sides. Reporter delay do have an internal affairs unit where officers investigate officers. Reporting live in san jose, len ramirez, cbs 5. In richmond, police are telling people to keep an eye out for this guy. Investigators say this is the same suspect from two different kidnappings and rapes. Police also think he tried to attack another woman last month. All of the attacks have happened near 23rd street in richmond. In oakland, police say a man plunged during last nights raiders game, it was accident. The he climbed over the wall outside the third deck, hung briefly from the railing and then dropped 30 feet. He is now in serious condition at Highland Hospital in oakland. In livermore, they have been open less than a month and the outlet already has a new name and new owner. Sun Ridge Property group said it acquired the outlet which is home to 130 stores. The price was not released. The new owners have already changed the name to Livermore Valley premium outlet. Bullying at school. More troubling is what happened when the two girls spoke up. Girls tell us they are being bullied, even physically threatened at school and the district and school arent doing anything about it. Watch what we found when we checked into it. The school sign proclaims in bold letters be safe, responsible, respectful. But keep elementary is anything but according to these two fifth graders. They punch us, they slap us. Samantha and autumn say they are constantly bullied in school by two brothers. They take our snacks. It started last year. Their parents say they knew there was a problem. My daughter coming home crying telling me she is being called names, tramp, whore, slut. But the bullying got worse. He said i know where you live. I was like how. At that time i looked at his hand and i could see a pocket might have. Got to the point where a child pulled a knife on our daughter. We werent aware of it. Samantha was too scared to tell but said she did report the incident to her principal. There is a lot of things that have happened we dont know about and were not privy to it because they say it is confidential. If youre not communicating to me how am i to help my child. Autumns mother feels the same way. My child has made complaints and we have. She says the School Solution was to keep the girls inside for recess which just made things worse. My husband was in the room talking to her and found a crumpled up piece of paper. He looked at it and it was a suicide letter. Autumn said it was a recent incident in class. I felt this movement on my desk. He was pumping my desk. I didnt feel safe. I went home crying. I didnt want to i dont know. I really didnt want to honestly i didnt want to live that day. Can you see what the boys are doing . Yeah. And nobody is stopping them is this. We saw similar things going on during the playground during a recent undercover visit. The final straw for the girls parents was this torn sweatshirt. Samantha says the boys were chasing her and tried to gab her. With no answers from the school or district both parents took the matter to police the Police Report reveal the alleged bullies admit to shoving the girls and making sexually suggestive comments. We wanted to ask the principal about it but she didnt want to talk to us. The School District didnt want to talk to us either but sent us a statement saying the safety of our students is extremely important, but this bullying expert says. The school is not getting to the root of the problem. He watched this video. If that is true, it is a hostile environment and the courts are trying to get high schools to remedy this or they suffer damage. Obviously i didnt want to live that day. If you hear a child saying this you have to investigate it. There are some tax cuts dont stop and do take their life. It seems like a culture of this. Samantha and autumn hope they can make a difference by speaking out. We dont want other kids to feel the same way that were feeling. Now, the girls parents say they allowed their daughters to go on camera because they thought it was important for them to speak out. Police have told them the investigation will go to the District Attorney next week. Just breaks my heart. What about the boys and their family . We did look into that. We are told they are being raised by their dad and he is disabled. According to the Police Report which we have he says the school never informed him what the boys were targeting the girls and through the disdepartment, dana, he told us he does not want to comment. All right. Were going to stay on i. We have heard from one other parent in that district too, now. Thank you for bringing this to light. You bet. They told me i would never walk again, i might not ever talk again. But now hes doing both and thanks to a local group hes driving, too. How theyre providing a little freedom to the men and women who fought for all. A rare sighting in the aftermath of our recent storms where a salmon has suddenly appeared after a 50 year absence. Sunshine has been a rare sighting, but it did come back. A beautiful evening in san jose. Here is a live look outside. What are the prospects for more. Ill have your forecast coming up. Veterans, the transition frm service to civilian life cae a ro for some service members, especially combat veterans, the transition can be a pretty rough road. But one auto body shop is doing what it can to help returning vets get a little traction. Marine sergeant is starting up his new ride, a 2006 chrysler 300 donated by the recycle rides program. I drove home and then i will drive back to san diego sunday. He was actually looking for a car and was chose a data base on needs. We chose to help military veterans. No one is more deserving of this donated Toyota Carolla than jordan stevenson. I was injured last december. I got shot in the left side of my head. Jordan was shot in afghanistan. They told me i would never walk again, i might not ever talk again and i can stand here and talk to you now. He is still working bark from his head injury which paralyzed his body. Just reenlisted. For another six years never in a million years did think that would happen. Ill get better. Im going beat it. Im not going to let them win. These are just the first of two cars that this body shop has refurbished. They hope to do it at least once a month. Reporting from San Francisco, cbs 5. A rare sighting in a Berkeley Creek has biologist really excited. This 24inch chinook salmon has been spotted in a creek along the Berkeley Albany border. Fish biologists say it is a first time chinook salmon has been seen in that creek in about a half a century. They also think the efforts the resore the creek are paying off. I will not go near the creek. I promise. No. If there is one, theres more. Yes. Reporter Mother Nature will take care of us this week. You know what, you deserve this after many, many cloudy days. We had a beautiful sunny at the same time san jose, you had 64. 59degrees is your high today. Doppler radar, ground clutter offshore. Were going to have nothing but nice weather for the next four days. Right on through the weekend, storm track for portland and seattle, they will get rain and mountain snow. For us, we will get a lot of sunshine. You get sunshine saturday, sunday. The top of next week, mornings will be chilly. The afternoons will be nice and mild and sunny. Sunny all the way through. Starting wednesday we will be getting a little colder. That is still four days away. Livermore, 62. San jose 63. Low 60s for concord and santa rosa. 61degrees milder on sunday. Beautiful monday and tuesday. Cooler weather starting wednesday with highs back down in the 50s. Roberta, something this evening . It is my favorite tame of the year where channel 5 for the past 10 years have welcomed food for bay area families into the art studio. Joining us tonight paw lori from black hawk and Regina Rogers all from black rock. Then we have someone from the San Francisco food bank who are you . Lucy. Youre so cute. Another adorable child just entered the room. Lucas. My name is lucas. Hi. Thanks for joining us today. Came with a very special big check tonight. Indeed. Thank you roberta. Pleasure to be representing black rock with aaron and regina. We are here to present to the San Francisco food bank a check for 25,000. Whoa. 25,000. We need a round of [applause] for that. Leslie, how many people will this feed . We will be able to turn that 25,000 into 75,000 meals that will go to people in need right here in our community for the holidays. That is wonderful. I hear all the employees of black rock are tremendous volunteers. Eyewitness news continues. Well be right back. Thats awesome. Many miles away in home with no one to contact or ask for help. A Bay Area Church group robbed of everything minutes after arriving in florida. How a local sports team came to the rescue. , you know how much grandma wanted to be here for your fist christmas . You see grandma lives waaaay down here, and you live way up here. Brian, your cousin, hes a little bit older than you, he lives here, in chicago. And your aunt lisa lives here, in baltimore. Uncle earnie . Waaay out in hawaii. But dont you worry, we will always be together for christmas. [ male announcer ] being together is the best part of the holidays and cheerios is happy to be part of the family. You just ate dallas but a Bay Area Church groupa trip to florida has learnede hard way. People do. Oung people were on their way from the airport o the bank when they stopped o grab a bite to eat at a Fort Lauderdale restaurant. Thats when thieves broke io their van. Stole 12 thoud dollars in cash. Along with their luggage and id. Its not that you stole our money and the amount of mony that you stole, but you stoe dreams you stole those thins that we wanted to do you had just left not just me but yu have left many people rightw without shelter, without fo the group is no longer strad without money. Today, they were surprised with a 15thousand dollar gift froe miami dolphins. In the vineyards and farms f sonoma county, theres a ple that saves lives. Hanna boys center is a school fors ed. Or hurt. O the bible says thou shall not steal, but a Bay Area Church group on a trip to florida has learned the hard way that people do. The 24 young people were on tear way to the airport and then to the bank when they stopped to grab a bite to eat at a restaurant. Tax cuts when thieves broke into thats when thieves broke in and stole 12,000 of cash along with their luggage and i. D. S. It is not that you stole the money. The amount of money that you stole, you stole dreams. You stole those things that we wanted to. Do you had just left not just me, but you have left many people right now without a shelter, without food the group is no longer stranded without money, though, because today they were surprised with a 15,000 gift from the miami dolphins. In the vineyards and farms, there is a place that saves lives. A school for boys who are troubled or hurt or in the case of our student rising above tonight, both. Introduce. Good morning boys center. That is nick lions on the left anchoring the Hannah Boys Center news. We are going to have chicken. Good grades, college bound. Hard to believe this is the same kid who came here from Juvenile Hall in ninth grade. I would have to describe nicks arrival here at hannah as one of a broken human being. I was giving up. I was done. His parents were addicted to drugs. Nick is the toddler on the left. His parents would leave the children alone for days. One time in a motel. We didnt have any money. We had video games which kind of kept us busy. It wasnt really. What did you do for food . We didnt have any food. They moved every few months. Then, one day, their parents took them to their grandparents in oak ridge. They dropped us off and said they would be back and they never came back. They left all four of us up there. They became wards of the court. Two foster homes and then in their third placement, nick was in and out of Juvenile Hall. His sister and brother ran away. There is times when i was at home when i wished i was in Juvenile Hall because i ended up making friends in Juvenile Hall. And then he came to hannah. His intake photo says it all. He was very difficult to work with because i dont think he had any trust. I was in fights. I was suspended. The arguments were everyday and multiple times throughout the day. Then one day, something clicked. It was after another argument with a supervisor of the cottage. I ended up apologizing to him the she told me obviously things would need to change if i wanted to stay at hannah. It was almost like a lightbulb moment. After that it was just remarkable. It felt like it was literally overnight. One day you had a kid getting kicked out of three, four classes a at the same time the next day you had a kid who was just trying really hard to be a standout student. I decided i was going to do something successful with my life. I wanted to lead my life rather than have my life lead me. Nick began to learn how to connect with peo

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