Good mood but you cant beat this bunch. One, two, three. Kaepernick. I was born out my mom womb i came out with a football in my hand, 49ers, lets go, lets do it. Reporter some people wear 9ers gear but rob ross has actually become 9ers gear. 9ers, baby lets go. Reporter the girls are from new orleans. They are coming along as tour guides even if they are saints fans. Can 9ers fans party like saints fans . Theyre learning from the best, ill tell you that. I imagine youre going to teach them this week . Were gonna teach them. Reporter it doesnt seem like that will be much of a challenge. Whos got it better than us . Nobody lets go. Reporter at San Francisco international airport, john ramos, cbs 5. Reporter check this out. The super bowl roman numerals finally arrived today and they came by barge. True story. The official numbers traveled up the Mississippi River, will be docked at a stretch of waterfront designated as a super bowl boulevard through sunday. The numbers stand 30 feet high and 100 feet wide. And speaking of super bowl boulevard, its really just one long stretch of musical venues and acts. Its a fourday festival on four stages with food, drink, live tv broadcast, lots of other offerings. Brass bands, dixieland, zydeco, blues, jazz. If its a new orleans sound its probably playing here. The boulevard is free open to the public. Now, the one thing that you find when you have covered as many super bowls as we have been able to go to, everybody has a press conference. Doesnt matter who you are. You are going to get a press conference today. Beyonce had hers. Now, of course, she is going to be at the super bowl performing, pop star will perform at the halftime show on sun. That means both coaching staffs may have a hard time keeping their teams in the locker room. Ill be out there. Backup dancers. Im a single lady im a single lady im a single lady [ laughter ] if coach would allow me to go and watch the halftime show like im wanting to, you know, see those beyonce dancers, you know, it would be fun. Reporter now, beyonce did admit she lipsynched at the inauguration but will perform live sunday at the super bowl. And ken and liz, i will be holding a press conference in about five minutes to announce that the cbssf. Com live on new orleans on bourbon street tonight at 7 30. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, buddy, friday and saturday nights, the big party nights before super bowl sunday. Tonights thursday. I expect you in the sack early. Reporter i will be at the fermin cowboy 7 30 check it out live ken. Troublemaker. [ laughter ] Dennis Odonnell in new orleans, thank you. Of course, by now you know we are your super bowl station. Watch the 49ers play the ravens this sunday february 3rd kickoff at 3 30, the game will be followed by cbs postgame show. Potato chips are on mow and a special episode of elementary followed by our cbs 5 super bowl coverage. And well have live reports from new orleans every day in our newscast 5, 6, 10 and 11, and on our morning shows, as well. Dennis is with vern and michelle in the big easy. Mike sugerman wil join us in a few minutes on the road to names. New at 6 00 they say you cant please everyone all the time. And when it comes to real estate, that old expression hits home. Juliette goodrich tells us the hotHousing Market has created a sellers paradise, bad news for buyers. Reporter in the past, you could really find a for sale sign when you drive around in any neighborhood in the bay area. But now times have changed. They are really far and few between. Inventory is low, demand is high. And according to real estate agencies, you better have cash to secure a house right now. When edwin put his san ramon home on the market it was a sellers dream. I was surprised to see it sell that fast. Reporter he took his family on vacation and returned home to multiple offers and a home sold. So we had a good deal and we made money on the house. Reporter he and his family are moving to texas where everything is bigger and cheaper. But for ruth, its been a home buyers heartache. How many offers have you made on the house . I think 7 or 8. Im not sure exactly. Reporter just last weekend 17, 18 other families looking at that house. They all came out, got right on the cell phone to the realtor. And my husband goes, just bid. So we bid like 25,000 over, i think . And the winning bid got 66,000 over. Reporter they relocated from seattle to the bay area for her husbands job. They have been living in an apartment for 10 months with their two teenagers. My husband says im not going to go into mortgage debt and eat pancakes every night just so we can have a house. I think cash is king. Reporter the Bay East Realtors Association says inventory is low. Homeowners waiting to sell until the market recovers a bit for the highest return. I was talking to another agent who wrote on a property 50 offers and 46 of them were cash. So then you have to figure out who is going to pay the most money to get it . Reporter there is no question the Housing Market is hot. Dozens of cities are registering doubledigit increases in home prices some up nearly 40 in the 4th quarter. A key force behind real estate demand in the bay area, the economy building and more people finding jobs. And while edwin is moving out of the state, ruthie hopes one day to call the bay area one day home sweet home. We have to let it go and see where things lie. Reporter you will recall in 2005 the Housing Market was on fire. People would send letters and videos to try to obtain a house. And also have their offers on the table. Its not quite like that yet, liz. But its getting there with the multiple offers and the difference now is that home buyers had that solid cash offer right now which actually is a good thing to build that equity as you get your foot in the door. The competition is so high it makes it hard. Reporter absolutely. Thank you. Bay area headlines tonight in san jose, three Home Invasion suspects appeared in court. The teenagers are accused of breaking into a house in Almaden Valley last week tying up an elderly couple with duct tape of police say they took electronics, credit cards, cash and cars. They also are suspected in other armed robberies this month. In sunnyvale medical exercise are trying to identify a woman killed in a mobile home fire. That fire broke out last night at the plaza del rey complex. Fire investigators say the cause does not appear suspicious. For the second time, mistrial in the case of a former police Lab Technician in San Francisco. 62yearold Deborah Madden faced a federal charge of taking small amounts of drug evidence from the lab in 2009. Similar to maddens first trial in october, the jurors could not reach a verdict. Taggers leaving their mark practically everywhere you look. Coming up, we ask why one bay area city seems to be suffering its worst graffiti epidemic fa decade. A rare airshow over the bay area today. Why this special nasa aircraft took to the skies above us. We all know that january ended on a very dry note dry for the month. How does february shape up . And how about this . We have a little bit of light in the sky at 10 minutes after 6 00. Your forecast right on through super bowl sunday coming up. I just want to say, go 9ers all the way. Super bowl bound. San francisco, city of champions go 9ers well, well, well. Growing up, we didnt have uverse. We couldnt record four shows at the same time. In my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. And if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george, thats all we watched. And we liked it todays kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for 1 year when you bundle tv and internet. Rethink possible. Graffiti in the last decade. Tagging on freeways, bridges, and wall san jose seems to be having its Worst Epidemic of graffiti in the last decade tagging on freeways, bridges and walls exploding. San jose used to have officers investigating graffiti crimes full time. But cbs 5 reporter mark sayre says the city cant afford that anymore. Mark. Reporter well, elizabeth, graffiti of course a problem in any big city. San jose no exception. But in a time that the city itself is working to quickly paint over graffiti problems like this, the Police Department has lost important resources to investigate these crimes. Drive along highway 101 between interstate 880 and alum rock and its hard to miss the graffiti problem as you can see from chopper 5, taggers have nearly covered a Railroad Overpass and sound walls on both sides of the freeway. For resident vin win, it is an eyesore. I dont like it. Makes the neighborhood look ghetto i would say, you know,. Reporter while numbers to are hard to come by San Jose Police say anecdotal evidence suggests that graffiti tagging is on the rise. Not only along the freeways but in neighborhoods, as well. They would look at trends. They would do outreach in the community. Reporter Police SpokesmanAlbert Morales says the departments Graffiti Task force was eliminated as part of the recent budget cuts. Two officers ran intelligence and surveillance operations and made arrests. I think most of us look at some graffiti on the wall and trying to figure out, hey, what does that say . These guys were able to look at it and say i know who that guy is, i know what theyre tagging, what part of the city they are responsible for. Reporter but the city is fighting back. Meet julio bonilla. He is a city contractor who responds to reports of graffiti sent in by residents by phone, email and even smartphone app. Bonilla says there is no shortage of work. It changes. Sometimes slows down, sometimes a lot of graffiti. I dont know how to explain that. Reporter and city Officials Say getting to graffiti quickly helps prevent the problem from getting even worse. And so the minute they throw it up, we want to get on top of it. I want to see how many cans he has and well keep painting it and painting it. So yeah, there is that psychological angle of not leaving it up so that the person reaps the rewards of the fame. Reporter now, as for the stretch of highway 101, that takes a combination of caltrans and also Union Pacific to get that cleaned up. The city says it is working with both of those agencies to try to make some quick work of that. It is definitely an eyesore out there, liz. No question about that. Back to you. Quite a battle. Thank you. Nasa taking to bay area skies to find out what is in the skies above us. Several aircraft including one from Moffett Field took off today to collect data on air quality. It was flying low over pollution hot spots like interstate 680. It will also study wind current to help predict where the dirty air is coming from and where its going. Probably got perfect air today. It was absolutely gorgeous outside. Really nice outside. Often when you get a High Pressure dome literally pushes down on the atmosphere thats when the pollution can get trapped so air quality not the best but it was a nice day to get out. Hope you enjoyed it because not everyone in the country is enjoying mid60s and sunshine. Theres a lot of spots that cant get to 36 let alone 6. The gorgeous bay bridge viewed from the top of cbs 5, how about santa cruz . 71 degrees today. Redwood city high 69. Oakland 66. Fremont 65. Our inland locations lagged behind a bit but still last day of january 63 degrees not so bad. Heres the not so good part of this. We need the rainfall in the winter to supply us in the summer. We didnt put much in the bank over the past month. San francisco 4 below average, san jose 2. 25 below average same in livermore. We are dry in january. No change through the first week or so of february. This is atmospheric water content. Water vapor you see the white thats typically where we get rainfall because we have a lot of moisture where you see the dark we are just bone dry. Thats whats going on over northern california. So the catalyst for that is a big area of High Pressure. Theres a lot of moisture on the periphery of it all the way around the edge of the system here but High Pressure not moving deflecting all of the moisture all the rain all the cloud cover away from us. So until it moves, its decided its not going to through the weekend well stay mainly dry mainly sunny and darn were stuck in the low to mid60s for highs. So several more dry days. If anything it will be a week from now before we see any arena here in the bay area. Clear nights, yes, sunny afternoons, yes. Mild through monday, that includes super bowl sunday, chances are youre going to go to a friends house or family members house. Its going to be a Beautiful Day outside. Late next week, we do see the pattern change. Several days off though before we see any rainfall. Highs tomorrow in the city 63. Livermore 64. Maybe consider lunch outside tomorrow in san jose with a high of 67. Pacifica 64. Concord 63. Livermore tomorrow 64 degrees. Weekend Super Bowl Weekend lest i remind you, we are the official station of the super bowl, mid60s with sunshine monday, mid to upper 60s. Next week cooler and clear why you but no widespread rainfall until next thursday at the earliest so if you are looking for the rain, get on a plane and go somewhere else because i dont see it. This is a very dry pattern. Well enjoy it. Mid60s and sunshine. Darn, were stuck. Well deal with it. [ laughter ] heres some of the 49ers pictures you sent to us. These are the students at Saint Francis of Assisi School in concord cheering on their home team. Wow. These are bay area expats in southern california. Sarah mullsent us this picture. She used to live in sunnyvale and San Francisco. Now shes cheering on the 49ers in l. A. And here are ee like. And jasmine wade of San Francisco, elijah and jasmine flexing their muscles for the camera. This picture from now radio the fernando and greg in the morning team. We dont know who they all are but they are joined by the producer jason and assistant producer shawn. They have so much fun. We would like to see your super bowl photos. Email us at news kpix. Com or upload your photos to our website, cbssf. Com. Im Mike Sugerman on the side of the road to the dome. Getting my kicks on route 66. The storys coming up. Will sundays game be the fine of alex smith in a 49ers uniform . The former number one pick knows it is in the hands of the front office. Theyre going to do whats best for the team. I dont know what that is. You know . So i dont think theres any necessarily right thing to do. Well see. I dont know what the options are. If smith remains a 49er he will be the nfls highest paid backup. At the super bowl, im Dennis Odonnell. Save up to 500 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Get a sealy queen set for just 399. Even get 3 years interestfree financing on tempurpedic. Keep more president s in your wallet. Sleep trains president s day sale is on now. But tonight, hes inching his way ever closer to new orleans. Whats that songs, the tough road to the dome for cbs 5 reporter Mike Sugerman but tonight he is inching his way even closer to new orleans. He is now within 500 miles somewhere east of dallas. An mike, theres a big San Francisco connection to that tiny town you just found. You know youre right. I pulled off the side of the road on route 20 because i saw a sign for minute yell la, texas. Mineola. I think i in that. Thats the hometown of former mayor willie brown so here i am at a truck stop in mineola. Ill try to find out what its like in town and see why he left. I think i got a pretty good idea. Anyway, highway 20 is where i am now. Most of the trip my wife janice and i were on a somewhat iconic highway. Let mow show you what that was about. So where are we going . South . North . East. Generally were headed east on this trip. A lot on mothers road. Get your kicks on route 66 reporter one of the first u. S. Highways 1926, chicago to santa monica bringing dust bowlers out west in a drive for a better life. [ indiscernible ] it became a symbol of the american dream. Reporter martin smith is a professional photographer from london who travels the route taking picture. But now he is chronicling the demise of local towns who prospered during the heyday and fell into disrepair when the interstate bypassed them. I think it was a symbol of the american dream. Now its a symbol of the decline of it. I probably did it eight times. Reporter smith was a kid and his snowbird parents headed west from colorado. He now works at a route 66 museum in kingman, arizona. Built along the route of trains living on route 66 these days means a lonely whistle. Every 15 minutes. I first moved here i thought it was kind of neat. But then at 3 a. M. When youre sleeping its not so neat. You know . Reporter some of the current speed limits are as slow as 25 miles per hour. We cruised it briefly met some nice people like ken an Atlanta Falcons fan. He saw our 49ers gear and wished us well. If we hadnt beaten his team in the nfc championship he might be off to the super bowl instead of us. We had you. Yeah . I think the better team took it. He was a good sport. Reporter he really was but im sure glad its us making this trip instead of him. Road trip you know, i realize now, i forgot winona. Like the song says, and we were driving i asked my wife she was driving, to pull over in winslow, arizona, so i could stand on a corner in winslow arizona. I fell asleep, she went right by it so i didnt get that, either. On highway 20, im in within 100 100 miles of the louisiana border. I may be in new orleans tomorrow. Youre almost there. Stay out of trouble. Talk to you soon. I will do my best. Coming up, a counterfeit crackdown in the bay area and beyond just two days before the super bowl. Why the feds think fake gear like this is tied to drugs and violence. 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