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CHINO, San Bernardino County (CBS 5) — An innovative program is taking California’s felons and problem parolees, teaching them how to become highly skilled deep sea divers and keeping them out of jail.

California spends nearly $50,000 per year to incarcerate an inmate. Since 2006, program administrators calculate the dive program has saved California taxpayers $2.5 million.

“When they leave here they are not the same people they were when they came thru the gate on the first day,” explained lead dive instructor Fred Johnson.

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The facility is the Marine Technology Training Center: a commercial dive school on prison grounds at the California Institution for Men in Chino.

The curriculum is mind-boggling.

“I’ve learned a lot about commercial diving, physics, dive medicine welding, blowtorch cutting, and torching, and a lot about myself,” said Joshua Roberts. The 19-year-old was put behind bars for assault with a deadly weapon.

The training will take these inmates from the cell block to the open sea, where they could make up to 6 figures as commercial divers, underwater welders, and heavy construction riggers.

“It has opened up an arena of opportunity that I didn’t know was available to me,” said inmate Zachary Love who was convicted of drug possession.

“I came to this program hoping to change my life and it did,” explained inmate Jeremy Moose who was convicted of robbery.

According to the instructors, the biggest challenge is to get these inmates to believe in themselves. “In most cases, all of their lives, somebody told them they were worthless,” Johnson said.

The whole idea of the program is to make these convicts not only responsible for themselves but to their fellow workers. At the dive facility, race doesn’t matter: all men work together as a team.

Johnson said because these men have lived in prison, they’re well-prepared and in high demand to work and live on oil platforms, doing dangerous work, hundreds of miles offshore.

“They don’t have that problem of living in confined space and they don’t have homesickness,” Johnson quipped.

The training is grueling; inmates are required to spend four times more hours training than civilian divers.

By the fourth month, they must be able to swim 5 miles without stopping and weld not only above ground but underwater as well.

80 percent of the inmates don’t make it through the program, but those who do surface as skilled deep sea divers capable of patching pipeline from hundreds of feet underwater.

Perhaps the bigger skill for these men is staying out of prison. Many of these convicts are so well trained, they are in high demand and some have jobs already lined up once they get out of parole.

“This is life training. These guys are learning how to survive. They’re learning how to take orders, how to show up for work,” said dive instructor Jeff Powers.

And this program is working at rehabilitating these men: less than six percent of inmates at dive school land back behind bars. Compare that to 65 percent of the state’s general population.

Who pays for this program? Not the taxpayer. All the funding comes entirely from inmate produced goods and services under the California Prison Industry Authority.

“I probably would have ended up coming back because it’s all I knew,” said inmate Roberts, “but now that I have this I have something to look forward to for the rest of my life.”

(Copyright 2012 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

PETALUMA (CBS SF) — Two Petaluma Fire Department battalion chiefs appeared in an acclaimed commercial that aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Phil Sutsos and Jack Schach appeared for about two seconds in Chrysler Group’s “It’s Halftime in America” narrated by Clint Eastwood. The firefighters appear one minute and four seconds into the spot, which aired right after the halftime show that featured Madonna.

>>Gallery: Super Bowl Commercials 2012

The theme of the commercial, shot in black and white and color, is that America and the auto industry are back after tough times, and neither can be knocked out by one punch.

“We get right back up again and when we do, the world’s going to hear the roar of our engines,” Eastwood said.

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Schach said he and Sutsos were the only ones in Fire Station 1 at 198 D St. when the film company knocked on the door in early January.

“They asked to take pictures of some fire equipment and if we wanted to be in a Dodge commercial that had the potential to be in the Super Bowl,” Schach recalled.

The shoot lasted about 15 minutes and the film crew was gone in less than an hour. Both battalion chiefs posed with a fire department vehicle in the background.

“They said, ‘Stand here and look serious, don’t smile but don’t look mad’,” Schach said. The chiefs look calm, confident and reassuring in keeping with the car company’s message.

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Last Thursday, Schach said he received an email informing him the spot would indeed be broadcast during the game.

Schach, 38, a Rohnert Park resident, watched the game at his mother’s Santa Rosa home.

“My cellphone was blowing up a couple minutes after it (the commercial) ended, he said. “Everyone cheered.”

Schach is the younger man on the right. Sutsos, a Sonoma resident in his early 50s, has been a firefighter 31 years, Schach said.

“He’s very excited. We got emails from all our friends telling us, ‘you owe big time’,” he said.

Part of being a firefighter means buying ice cream for other firefighters if one’s name or photo appear in the media. Schach’s and Sustos’ Super Sunday likely means super sundaes for their brethren.

Each of them earned $100 for the commercial. The money will be put in a general fund for fire equipment or donations.

Schach said he emailed his contact with the film company asking, not entirely unseriously, whether some memorabilia, perhaps a Dodge Challenger, might be in the offering.

“She said probably not,” Schach said.

“We’re very proud to represent Petaluma and the fire services as a whole. It’s cool they wanted to have fire representation and we’re honored to be a part that,” Schach said.

(Copyright 2012 by CBS San Francisco and Bay City News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – A day of action by Occupy Oakland activists on Monday resulted in tense encounters with police and counter-protesters but there weren’t any arrests or reports of violence.

The daylong series of actions, which activists organized to protest police actions at previous demonstrations, began and ended with rallies at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse, where a small number of activists had brief hearings on charges stemming from the previous demonstrations.

But the most intense activity occurred during the noon hour at Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall, where about 150 Occupy Oakland protesters outnumbered a group of about 50 counter-protesters who wore green armbands, carried a banner that said “Stand for Oakland” and criticized the tactics of Occupy demonstrators.

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The two groups engaged in a shouting match at one point and then about 20 Oakland police officers in riot gear marched into the plaza in formation and confiscated a sound system that Occupy protesters were using, saying that protesters didn’t have a permit for it.

There was some pushing and shoving between the protesters and police, as well as angry words from protesters, but no one was arrested.

KCBS’ Bob Butler Reports:Occupy Oakland Protesters, Counter Protesters Gather at City Hall

Moments after the skirmish, Brian Glasscock, a 20-year-old student at Laney College in Oakland, said it was his sound system that was seized and he was worried about getting it back, as he estimated that the equipment is worth between $700 and $1,000.

Glasscock also said he wondered why police decided to confiscate the sound system today, saying there has been amplified sound at numerous previous protests at the plaza the last several months but police had never acted before.

“It’s a concerted effort by Oakland police to destroy the Occupy movement,” Glasscock alleged.

He described it as “a heavy-handed strategy” and pledged “we’ll be smarter next time.”

Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said officers acted Monday because several business owners complained about the noise from the Occupy Oakland protest.

Watson said police didn’t act previously because in some cases the protests were on weekends and no one complained and in other cases because the crowds were so large that if would have been dangerous for officers to come into the crowds and seize sound equipment.

Watson said Monday’s actions were “relatively peaceful” despite the tension when officers grabbed the sound system and said the system eventually will be returned to Glasscock.

Watson said the Stand for Oakland counter-protesters had a permit for the sound system they used for their rally Monday.

Occupy Oakland protester Adam Katz noted that there were more than three-dozen officers at the plaza Monday afternoon. He said police should be focusing on investigating several shootings that occurred over the weekend rather than monitoring protests.

Daud Abdullah, a 51-year-old electrician who is one of that group’s leaders, said the group consists of “Oakland residents who are fed up with the whole movement and what’s gone along with it,” particularly fringe groups who are violent.

Abdullah said police have been so distracted by dealing with Occupy Oakland protests that they haven’t been able to adequately focus on the city’s crime problems.

He said an example is a lack of police attention to a drug gang that is operating where he lives in the Maxwell Park neighborhood in East Oakland, near Mills College.

“I want my kid to be able to walk down the street and be safe,” Abdullah said.

About two dozen Occupy Oakland protesters came to the Wiley Manuel Courthouse on Monday morning to attend a hearing at which 10 activists were arraigned on misdemeanor charges of obstructing a sidewalk during a demonstration Jan. 4.

The activists are scheduled to return to court Feb. 22, when their attorneys will ask that the charges against them be dismissed.

More than 100 protesters marched from Frank Ogawa Plaza back to the courthouse Monday afternoon for a hearing for activist David Bowen, who is charged with felony assault on a peace officer for his actions at a protest Jan. 7.

Bowen, who isn’t in custody, is scheduled to return to court March 27 for a preliminary hearing.

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Banana Sam, the squirrel monkey that made headlines when he was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo at the end of December and was later returned, will be back on exhibit starting Saturday.

Zoo visitors who bring a valentine for Banana Sam get $1 off admission all weekend, and Banana Sam’s keepers will give talks at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Zookeepers discovered the 17-year-old monkey missing from his enclosure the morning of Dec. 30. Someone had breached a perimeter gate overnight, climbed onto the roof of the squirrel monkey exhibit, and cut two holes into the mesh there.

An investigation was launched and a $5,000 reward was offered, and the next day, a man came forward with the monkey, claiming to have found Banana Sam in San Francisco’s Stern Grove.

The man told police he had lured the monkey into his backpack.

Police are checking out the man’s story and continuing to investigate the disappearance. In the meantime, the reward money is being withheld.

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco’s Sunset District reopened Monday after being closed for three days last week because of a stomach virus, said school officials.

As of last week, the virus had sickened more than 300 students and 30 teachers, but Principal Patrick Ruff said Monday that the bug hit more than 500 students and 70 faculty and staff altogether.

Twenty-eight students remained absent Monday but that is about average for a normal school day, Ruff said.

The high school, located at 2001 37th Ave., was shut down on Wednesday because of an outbreak of gastroenteritis.

Fifty students had called in sick on Tuesday, and another 90 were sent home that day, many of whom had vomited in trashcans or in bathrooms on campus, Ruff said.

The campus underwent a deep cleaning, and the city’s Department of Public Health cleared classes to resume on Thursday, but school officials decided to keep St. Ignatius closed until Monday “to ensure the health of our students,” Ruff said.

Dr. Tomas Aragon, the Department of Public Health’s director of population health and prevention, said the extended closure was wise, in part because it would be difficult logistically to hold classes with so many teachers out sick.

In addition to the campus closure, several of the school’s sports teams had games postponed because of the outbreak, including the boys’ and girls’ basketball and soccer teams, Ruff said.

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STANFORD (CBS / AP) — In a rarity for a prestigious academics university that prides itself on a higher standard, Stanford had a player get into trouble with the law.

Star linebacker Shayne Skov was arrested and jailed last weekend for driving under the influence.

A Stanford University Department of Public Safety spokesman said Skov was arrested for driving under the influence Sunday at about 2 a.m. The incident, first reported by The Stanford Daily student newspaper Monday night, occurred on campus.

Skov was pulled over in the parking lot of his dormitory after his vehicle swerved several times, SUDPS spokesman Bill Larson said. Skov was booked at the Santa Clara County jail, he said, and the case is being turned over to the Palo Alto District Attorney’s office.

“We have an expected standard of excellence and conduct for our players and Shayne failed to adhere to those standards,” Stanford coach David Shaw said in a statement released through a team spokesman. “It’s a matter we are taking very seriously. Shayne will be responsible to adhere to any legal responsibilities regarding this event along with ramifications which will be determined by the program.”

Skov’s signature Mohawk and liberal display of eye black made him the unquestioned face and leader of Stanford’s defense.

Skov led the Cardinal with 84 tackles and had 7 ½ sacks two years ago. He tore a ligament in his left knee in the third game of the 2011 season, sidelining him for the year and likely through most of spring practice.

The senior figured to be preparing for the NFL draft right now.  Instead, his career took a big detour in a victory at Arizona on Sept. 17 and so did Stanford’s national championship hopes.

Moving in to make a tackle in the second quarter, Skov had his left knee buckle when Wildcats receiver Juron Criner barreled into him. Stanford announced the next day that Skov was done for the year, putting the go-hard-all-the-time linebacker on the shelf and ending thoughts of heading to the NFL early.

Stanford also could’ve used his presence in the two biggest games of the year.

A 53-30 loss to Oregon cost the Cardinal a chance at a Pac-12 championship and a BCS championship, with LaMichael James leading the Ducks stampede past Stanford defenders. The Cardinal finished with an 11-2 record, including a 41-38 overtime loss in the Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma State.

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NEW YORK (CBS / AP) — Mike D’Antoni shook his fists in the air as Jeremy Lin’s clutch shot fell through the net.

It wasn’t just the basket that had D’Antoni giddy. It’s the feeling that he’s found the point guard who can get his offense running.

“It’s fun, you can actually draw a play up and (say), this might work,” D’Antoni said. “So it was good.”

Lin scored a career-high 28 points in his first career start, Steve Novak added a season-best 19, and the New York Knicks overcame the absence of Amare Stoudemire and early loss of Carmelo Anthony to beat the Utah Jazz 99-88 on Monday night.

Stoudemire left the team to join his family in Florida after older brother Hazell was killed there earlier Monday in a car crash, then Anthony left after just six minutes with a strained right groin.

Despite missing two All-Stars and using a lineup of second-teamers, the Knicks won their second straight thanks to another remarkable performance from Lin, the former Harvard point guard.

“Basketball’s so fun when you play on a team where people want to work together and work through tough times and overcome them and have victories like this,” Lin said. “This one was ugly and we lost a couple of players, but this team has a lot of will.”

Al Jefferson scored 22 points in a disappointing effort for the Jazz, who may have lost their edge when they saw who the Knicks were missing.

“As you seen out there tonight, you come in here with that attitude, you’re in trouble,” coach Tyrone Corbin said. “These guys can play, man, and they got pride. They get an opportunity to play and they make the most of their minutes.

“They stuck it to us, really.”

Going nowhere all season without a real point guard, the Knicks turned to Lin on Saturday against New Jersey, and he delivered 25 points. He was even better in this one in front of a crowd that again chanted his name much of the night, adding a career-best eight assists.

He made the biggest basket of a game, a desperation 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down and 1:58 remaining that gave the Knicks a 95-86 lead. He previously converted two three-point plays in the period, the latter pushing the lead to 10 with 4:29 left.

He did have eight turnovers, surely influenced by fatigue while playing 45 minutes, but D’Antoni was going to keep riding him.

“I’m riding him like freakin’ Secretariat,” D’Antoni said.

Lin and Novak, whose photocopied bios are included in the game notes package because they were signed too late to make the media guide, helped the Knicks overcome the absence of about 42 points per game from their two stars. So did Jared Jeffries, who added 13 points and eight rebounds while battling the much bigger Utah front line.

“It wasn’t the starters out there but it was definitely guys that are aware that this is the NBA, where on any given night any five can beat any five,” Novak said. “That’s kind of an understood thing in the NBA. I don’t think it will typically happen, that a team that has their starters against a team that doesn’t will win. But I think tonight we just really pushed together, played well and were able to get the win.”

D’Antoni decided to start Lin, the first American-born NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, earlier Monday, and the position could be his for a while. Baron Davis, the expected starter when he becomes available, revealed that an infected right elbow had recently caused him to stop his workouts and it is unknown when he will resume practicing. D’Antoni said it would probably be a week to 10 days from the time he returns to practice to when he’s ready to play in games.

The Knicks led 19-16 after one, gradually increasing it to 37-22 midway through the second quarter as the Jazz simply couldn’t get any offense going. Novak came on to play the final 5:06 and scored 10 points, with Lin driving into the lane and kicking it out to him in the corner for a 3-pointer with 27 seconds left that gave New York a 51-38 halftime lead.

Jefferson grabbed only four rebounds in 35 minutes. Power forward Paul Millsap was limited to nine points on 3-of-10 shooting before fouling out.

“We dug ourselves in a deep hole. You can’t do that no matter who’s on the floor,” Jefferson said. “We’re all professionals. Everybody is a pro. So no matter they didn’t have their star player, they’re still a team that you just can’t go out there and take for granted. We dug ourselves in a deep hole and they got the momentum, got their confidence up and made shots.”

Tyson Chandler picked up his fourth foul and went to the bench about 1 ½ minutes into the third quarter, leaving the Knicks with a lineup of Lin, Novak, Landry Fields, Bill Walker and Jeffries. The Jazz capitalized and nearly caught all the way up, pulling to 75-73 with 45 seconds left on a 3-pointer by Raja Bell, who scored 11 in the period and finished with 15.

NOTES: A half-dozen members of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, including receiver Hakeem Nicks, were brought onto the court for an ovation during a second-quarter timeout. … The Knicks held a moment of silence before the game for Hazell Stoudemire. The Knicks don’t know when Amare Stoudemire will return to the team. … Utah visits Indiana on Tuesday.

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SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – San Jose police on Monday identified a man who was shot and killed in San Jose on Sunday night as 20-year-old Ramon Ruano.

The San Jose man was fatally shot in a rear parking lot of an apartment complex in the 4300 block of Blackford Avenue at 10:15 p.m.

He was pronounced dead at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.

Police have not identified any suspects, and the circumstances and motive for the shooting are under investigation.

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Ruano’s death marks the city’s third homicide of the year.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Sgt. Stewart Davies or Detective Jaime Jimenez at (408) 277-5283.

Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at (408) 947-STOP (7867) or visit http://svcrimestoppers.org/.

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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/AP) — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s effort to brand the city as the world’s high-tech capital is getting a boost as cloud-computing company Riverbed Technology Inc. announced its new downtown headquarters.

The mayor said Monday the company’s move to the renovated space could bring more than 600 new tech jobs to the city.

“This additional new space has a total of about 168,000 square feet that will allow Riverbed to grow,” Lee said.

KCBS’ Barbara Taylor Reports: Tech Company Riverbed Signs 10-Year Lease To Stay in SF

Riverbed plans to move into its new offices in the South of Market neighborhood in 2014. It has signed a 10-year lease to a five-story building at 680 Folsom Street.

CEO Jerry Kennelly describes Riverbed as an industrial strength network technology company; the kind that’s more likely to be based in Silicon Valley.

However, he wanted to set up shop in San Francisco when the company started 10 years ago and his business commitment to the city hasn’t wavered.

“We’re starting our second decade here in the city and hopefully for a long time to come,” he said.

Since his successful effort last year to persuade Twitter Inc. to stay in San Francisco, Lee has cultivated an image as a tech-friendly politician eager to present the city as a Silicon Valley alternative.

The city’s 7.6-percent unemployment rate is below the national average, helped by its thriving tech scene.

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Palo Alto native Jeremy Lin was the starting point guard for the New York Knicks on Monday against Utah.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – A federal appeals court plans to announce whether it thinks California’s same-sex marriage ban violates the civil rights of gays and lesbians, and if the trial judge who struck down the voter-approved measure should have revealed he was in a long-term relationship with another man.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a three-judge panel was ready to publish its long-awaited opinions Tuesday on the ban and on the possible conflict-of-interest by former Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker, who ruled that Proposition 8 did not pass constitutional muster.

Walker presided over the first trial in federal court to examine if same-sex couples have a constitutional right to get married.

KCBS’ Holly Quan Reports:Ruling Expected Tuesday for Federal Prop. 8 Appeal

Even if the 9th Circuit panel agrees with him and overturns the ban approved by voters in November 2008, same-sex marriages are unlikely to resume in California any time soon. Supporters and opponents of Proposition 8 have said they would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if they lose in the intermediate court.

Some legal observers believe the written heads-up the court gave Monday indicates it concluded there is no reason why Walker should have disclosed his relationship status while he had the case.

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“The notice appears to indicate that the panel will rule on the constitutionality of Proposition 8. That seems to suggest that the court will deny the effort by Prop 8 proponents to vacate Judge Walker’s ruling on recusal grounds, and also that it will find that the Prop. 8 proponents had standing to pursue the appeal,” University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff said.

The panel heard arguments on the ban’s civil rights implications more than a year ago but delayed a decision while it sought guidance from the California Supreme Court on whether Proposition 8’s sponsors had legal authority to challenge Walker’s ruling after the governor and state attorney general decided not to appeal it.

The California court ruled in November that the state’s vigorous citizens’ initiative process grants official proponents of ballot measures the right to defend their initiatives in court if state officials refuse to do so.

Further complicating the 9th Circuit’s consideration was a move in April by lawyers for the coalition of religious conservative groups that put Proposition 8 on the ballot have Walker’s ruling vacated because of the now-retired judge’s same-sex relationship.

Walker’s successor as the chief federal judge in Northern California, James Ware, rejected arguments that Walker was unqualified to preside over the 13-day trial that because he stood to personally benefit from declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

The 9th Circuit held a hearing on that question in December.

The 9th Circuit Court’s decision is expected to be filed before 10 a.m. Tuesday. CBSSF.com will report the ruling as soon as it becomes available.

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – The $1.1 billion project to replace San Francisco’s dangerous approach to the Golden Gate Bridge could face another delay, as leaders scramble to line up funding.

The first phase is nearing completion on Doyle Drive, an approach originally built in 1937 that sits on unstable soil and lacks a median or shoulders.

The second phase was scheduled to start within weeks. But according to the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority needs to come up with $60 million that hasn’t come through from federal and state sources.

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The California Transportation Commission is considering whether to approve a $34 million advance from a regional agency. But officials still must find the remaining money.

A delay could further drive up the price on a project that already costs $25 million more than projected.

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The Chicago Cubs have claimed infielder Adrian Cardenas off waivers from the Oakland Athletics.

First baseman-outfielder Conor Jackson has agreed to a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers. Jackson hit .244 last season with Oakland.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) – Time is running out for a 35-year-old Oakland welder who is suffering from failing kidneys and fighting to get a surgery that could save his life.

Jesus Navarro needs a transplant. He has insurance, and his wife wants to donate a kidney, but University of California, San Francisco won’t do the transplant. Navarro is an undocumented worker from Mexico who spoke to CBS 5 through a translator.

“I’m worried that I might fall ill, or something might happen to me. I’m worried what might happen to my daughter,” said Navarro, whose daughter is 3-years-old. “I was mad and sad at the same time. I assumed that they were here to help save lives.”

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Navarro has been in the U.S. for over 15 years. Although UCSF insists his immigration status is not the reason for the rejection, it is a significant part of the decision. The hospital released a statement which included the following:

UCSF does not reject potential transplant patients based on their immigration status and has performed transplants on undocumented individuals…Undocumented individuals have no access to Medicare and may have limited access to Medi-Cal for critical long-term care.

Stanford ethicist David Magnus said he’s surprised by the medical center’s stance.

“You have to do a full evaluation of the psycho social system, how far do they live from hospital, do they have transportation to the hospital, are they able to make appointments,” said Magnus, PhD/Professor of Biomedical Ethics. “Simply relying on immigration status is not enough to rule someone out for a transplant.”

The case is getting a lot of attention, thanks to the efforts of Donald Kagan, who launched a petition campaign on change.org.

“If you have kidney failure, you are going to die. I’m one of the lucky people to have gotten a transplant. It’s my job now to give back to those that aren’t quite as lucky,” said Kagan.

Navarro said he hopes the support leads to a resolution.

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – California homeowners in danger of foreclosure could soon be getting relief from five of the nation’s biggest lenders.

It all depends on the state’s final answer to a proposed landmark settlement – a multi-billion dollar, multi-state settlement.

As recently as two weeks ago, California Attorney General Kamala Harris rejected the plan, saying banks were asking to be absolved from any further action, something she described as too lenient. Now, California is back at the negotiating table and said to be close to signing off on the settlement, which requires financial institutions like Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo to overhaul their mortgage servicing and foreclosure practices, as well as come up with a $25 billion pot for mortgage relief.

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“People who have been foreclosed upon would get something like $1,800,” explained Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance. “Not a huge amount, they’re not going to get their homes back but nobody expected that. Perhaps the biggest hunk of the money would go to borrowers who are in distress now or who have underwater mortgages and that would pave the way for some principal forgiveness and more loan modifications or refinances down the road.”

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“Because California is the largest state and because most, the largest share of the $25 billion they’re talking about carving up with the states would go to California, it is very important to have California involved,” Cecala continued. “If California’s not involved, the amount of the settlement goes down and it certainly has less impact.”

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OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A planned trip by an indicted former drug squad leader to Los Angeles to appear on the “Dr. Phil” television talk show has been blocked by a federal judge in Oakland.

Norman Wielsch, 50, of Antioch, the former commander of the Central Contra Costa County Narcotics Enforcement Team, known as CNET, faces federal charges of stealing and selling drugs from the program, extortion and conducting phony law enforcement stings.

He is free on $100,000 bail and is required to remain in Northern California while awaiting a not-yet-scheduled trial in U.S. District Court in Oakland.

Last week, Wielsch applied for permission to travel to Los Angeles on Sunday and Monday to tape an appearance on “Dr. Phil,” a daytime reality talk show hosted by psychologist Phil McGraw.

On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Laurel Beeler granted permission, despite the written objections of prosecutors.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Hartley West argued in a filing that Wielsch might be likely to flee and that the trip was not for the normal family, medical or employment purposes usually allowed for exceptions to travel restrictions.

Prosecutors then appealed to U.S. District Judge Saundra Armstrong, the trial judge assigned to the case, in a telephone hearing held Friday afternoon.

According to a brief order posted on the court’s electronic docket Monday, Armstrong on Friday overturned the magistrate’s approval of the trip and blocked the trip, which had been scheduled to begin Sunday.

The order said Beeler’s ruling granting permission for the trip was set aside “for the reasons stated on the record at the telephonic hearing held on February 3.”

The order gave no information about the judge’s reasons, and prosecution and defense attorneys declined to comment Monday.

U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Jack Gillund said, “I have no comment.”

A spokeswoman for defense attorney Michael Cardoza said, “We’re no longer speaking about that matter until it is resolved at trial.”

Cardoza said last week that Wielsch’s purpose in the planned unpaid television appearance was to reach out to other law enforcement officers who may be under stress and encourage them to seek psychological help.

Wielsch and co-defendant Christopher Butler, a former private investigator from Concord, are scheduled to appear in Armstrong’s court for a status conference March 20.

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SAN JOSE (KCBS) — San Jose police are asking for the public’s help in solving a high-profile hate crime that happened late last year.

It was just before Thanksgiving Day that Atul Lall was driving out of a Lucky Supermarket parking lot in San Jose, when a gang of men attacked him, pulled him out of his car and smashed a bottle of Tequila over his head.

Lall, who is of East Indian descent, said his attackers called him a “terrorist,” in a very public space.

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“I could hear cars, shopping carts and when I was in the store I saw how many people were there. I can’t believe nobody helped,” he said.

The 32-year-old industrial engineer is hoping that someone will help now by identifying his attackers.

Police Chief Chris Moore said San Jose has seen several similar crimes just recently, but that hate crimes were actually down last year compared to 2010.

“We need to get the message out that hate crime’s unacceptable and intolerable throughout this county and throughout the country,” Moore said.

Erin West specializes in hate crimes for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office.

“The reported hate crimes are down. We’re always concerned about what crimes are being committed that people are afraid to report and to come forward on,” she assessed.

The city is offering a $1,000 reward in the case.

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SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) – It appears increasingly likely that Gov. Jerry Brown will have competition in November when he asks California voters to raise taxes as a way to stabilize the state’s perpetually out-of-balance budget.

On Monday, proponents of two other proposed tax initiatives pledged that they will have enough money to get their initiatives on the ballot and declined to back down despite entreaties from the Democratic governor.

Each of the three tax campaigns has influential backers that have been politically aligned in the past, a dynamic that could complicate the campaigns by splitting the donor base, dividing grassroots support and confusing voters. Each also would dedicate at least some of the extra revenue to public education.

Molly Munger, a wealthy attorney and civil rights advocate from Los Angeles, outlined her proposal in Sacramento to a supportive crowd at a statewide meeting of the California Parent Teacher Association. The PTA helped draft the initiative, which would increase income taxes on a sliding scale and raise $10 billion annually for 12 years.

“We are going to get this on the ballot and we are going to win, because we’re prepared to not only get it on the ballot, but be sure that it has a very strong campaign behind it,” Munger told reporters after her speech.

The political novice, who is the daughter of billionaire Berkshire Hathaway partner Charles Munger, a partner of Warren Buffett, said she is prepared to fund a multimillion-dollar signature-gathering campaign on her own. She already has contributed $800,000 to the initiative.

Also Monday, supporters of a so-called millionaires’ tax said they were ready to hit the streets with a signature-gathering effort for their own proposal, which would raise income taxes on those who make more than $1 million a year.

Brown has warned repeatedly that a general election ballot containing too many similar-sounding tax initiatives could jeopardize the success of all of them. His political allies have tried to persuade those behind the competing initiatives to unify behind their measures.

The governor has displayed political might by raising nearly $2.2 million for his campaign, but the other groups appear unlikely to succumb at this point.

Supporters of the millionaires’ tax include the California Federation of Teachers, the Courage Campaign and the California Nurses Association. On Monday, they held a conference call with reporters to say they are not backing down.

“We’re the one measure that doesn’t put an additional burden on the back of middle-class and working-class families,” campaign chairman Anthony Thigpen said.

Supporters expect to raise the $2 million they will need to get the initiative on this year’s general election ballot, then another $8 million to $10 million for the campaign, Thigpen said.

Those groups oppose the broad-based sales tax in Brown’s plan, which they said affects those who can least afford to pay more, although the much larger California Teachers Association is supporting Brown’s plan.

The governor’s proposed initiative would boost the statewide sales tax by half a cent for four years starting in January 2013.  It also would raise the income tax rate on those making $250,000 a year, increasing it from 9.3 percent to a maximum of 11.3 percent, depending on the amount of income. The income tax increase would start in January 2013 and last for five years.

A recent survey by the Public Policy Institute of California found that likely voters overwhelmingly say they favor raising taxes to pay for K-12 education, but want to do so by raising income taxes on the wealthy and not boosting the state sales tax.

A political spokesman for Brown, Steven Glazer, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.

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SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) – A man suspected of killing a Santa Rosa woman on Sunday died Monday morning when he ran in front of a tractor-trailer on Interstate Highway 5 after challenging Stockton police to shoot him, a Santa Rosa police sergeant said.

John Quincy Ellis, 46, of Stockton, was suspected of fatally shooting 61-year-old Carole Marie Brooks at her home on Sunday afternoon.

Police received a call at 1:48 p.m. from someone who reported hearing gunfire and a woman screaming at a home at 934 Clark St., near downtown Santa Rosa.

Brooks had been shot and was taken to a hospital, where she died.

Police were told a man—later identified by investigators as Ellis—had left the area in a sliver-colored compact vehicle, police said.

Santa Rosa police learned the car had been rented in the Stockton area, Sgt. Lisa Banayat said. Investigators went to Stockton and, with the help of Stockton police, identified Ellis as the murder suspect.

Ellis was spotted this morning around 8:20 a.m. driving the rental car, Banayat said.

Stockton police Officer Pete Smith said Santa Rosa police had been watching Ellis’ rental car in unmarked vehicles and asked Stockton police to pull him over with their patrol cars.

They did so on southbound Highway 5 near March Lane, Smith said.

Ellis got out of the car and made “furtive movements” and told police to shoot him, Smith said. He then ran into traffic, jumped a median barrier and was struck by a diesel tractor-trailer in the northbound lanes, Smith said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Santa Rosa police have not disclosed the relationship between Ellis and Brooks.

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