Every sport, though. Reporter alongside is my coanchor, michelle griego. What amazes me is that any town can host two harbaugh brothers at the same time. But turns out they can do a whole lot more. Theres a saying here. Its let the good times roll. And that is exactly what new orleans knows how to do. They know how to host a good party. Theyre not just throwing one; theyre throwing two. Mardi gras is well under way in new orleans. Two weeks of nonstop parades, booze and beads. But this year, the festivities serve as book ends for the super bowl. We control crowds better than anybody in the world, hands down. And this year, we wanna do something even more. Reporter thats because 150,000 people are expected for the big game alone, and even more for the last week of mardi gras. Our Police Department has more experience than any other Police Department in the nation in managing large crowds, because we do mardi gras every year. I mean, its the equivalent of a super bowl every year. Reporter theyre working around the clock, including the dozens of mounted officers lining the street in the french quarter. Here, safety is priority. Theres one trick to keeping the peace in new orleans. Our offices learned from their first days of service, our officers learned, you gotta make friends and you gotta talk to people and work with people, and then that crowd will support you, no matter what. Reporter theres no doubt its a big undertaking for the city. But the millions theyre expected to rake in during the next week is worth it. Were going to eclipse everything thats happened to us in the last ten years, in these next three weeks, and the men and women of this department are not going to let the people down. Reporter so far, theyre not letting the people down. We were walking down for the last couple of nights and the police really do have a Good Relationship with the people here in new orleans and thats really how they keep the peace. Pretty amazing. Southern hospitality. When i came to town, there were two cruise ships. About 5,000 people off the cruise ships were out on bourbon street. So you had the cruise ships, the parades from mardi gras, and the super bowl. The other thing, the 49ers are going to be hosting a super bowl at some point when they finish that stadium. There are lessons to be learned. For the 10th time, the super bowl is coming to the city, so they have a lot of good things to learn, San Francisco does, from this town. Absolutely. Learn from the best. Learn from new orleans. You guys look like youre having so much fun and its just monday reporter just monday. We have a long way to go. It is . One day at a time, liz. One day at a time. Just Getting Started, dennis. All right. Have fun. Well, last week we told you about the mayor of San Francisco and his call to bar owners to be careful. He doesnt want them to overserve anybody. Well, tonight the citys bartenders tell sharon chin they have a message for the mayor. Reporter he says this would sidesline his Mission District business. By not allowing us to do our job. Reporter he is an ambassador to the u. S. Bartenders guild. He represents one of the trade groups thats taking a stand against lees suggestion. He calls it a ridiculous idea and urges the city to avoid demonizing a perfectly legal product. He says he understands the mayor wants to prevent the kind of riots that erupted after the world series, but restricting hard alcohol sales isnt the solution. Responsible bench consumption, it goes hand in hand, and we as free americans have a right to do it. Reporter about a block away, adam demeza, says hell add extra security and be extra alert how much bartenders serve. As long as were not feeding people shots of booze and, you know, sending them out on the streets, i think theyll be fine. Reporter many people we talked say even if they limit booze, its not going to do any good. Its not going to keep people from bringing. If they want to do it, theyre going to do it. Reporter a spokesperson for mayor tells me he just wants to take sure partyers are responsible. The mayor wants them to know that he wants the super bowl parties to be safe. Im sure the bartenders are going to have to be extra vigilant on sunday, just keeping track of all the people in those bars. Reporter absolutely. They say theyre ready to do that. They say theyre trained to do so. Their licensed. Theyre going to be alert to people that have drunk too much, who to serve, not to serve. Theyre going to use their good judgment, they say. All right. Thank you. A hayward couple is out almost 6,000 because of a super bowl ticket scam. They found an ad on craigslist for four tickets. They wired the seller, in baltimore, 5900. Today, they got this. A picture of quarterback Colin Kaepernick and joe flacco with a message underneath that read enjoy the game. Go ravens. They tell us they havent gone to the police. Well have live coverage from new orleans all week long. Dennis and michelle, plus vern glenn, live in new orleans. Oakland police are looking for the suspect who shot and injured an eightyearold girl in a driveby. It happened in a house on 65th avenue at around 2 30 this afternoon. The girl was hit in her leg and is in the hospital. Police say from the looks of it, she was caught in the cross fire and not targeted. The house, and the suv in the driveway, were riddled with bullet holes. The chp is looking for the drivers who did this. This is a Youtube Video posted over the weekend of whats called a sideshow, cars doing donuts in the middle of the nimitz freeway near the oakland coliseum. Joe vazquez is there tonight with more. Reporter liz, this is bizarre, even by oakland standards. Picture this. Thick traffic on the freeway. Then you have to stop while these souped up cars start doing donuts around you. That is not okay to put peoples lives in danger like that. Reporter look closely and you can still see the circular marks burned in the freeway. This was the scene saturday afternoon, northbound 880, near the coliseum. Traffic came to a dead stop in both directs as people gawked. Some got out and sat on their cars, took pictures with their phones and saw several cars do stunts, donuts, as theyre popularly known. Heres another Youtube Video shot from the other side of the highway. Nobody got hurt. But chp says it caused a major disruption. We have the airport thats there, hospitals, people that need to get to places. You had both sides of the freeway blocked. Its extremely important that people dont think that its fun. Its not funny. You have a lot of people that you have affected that day. Reporter the chp says it will agressively pursue the people responsible for this activity. In fact, the sideshow only lasted a few minutes before the Highway Patrol arrived. You can even hear people in the video yelling, 50. Thats street slang for police. The chp hopes the drivers, with the help of family members, will turn themselves in. Its senseless, absolutely. We as a Community Need to address the issue. Family, parents, Everybody Needs to get involved. You need to speak out. You need to tell these people its not okay. Reporter again, nobody got hurt but the chp says they really want to get these guys off the street for what they describe as extremely reckless driving. Live in oakland, joe vazquez, cbs 5 eyewitness news. Coming up, an ex49er, accused of beating up an old boyfriend over soy sauce. And how a california man got tricked into being the getaway driver for a woman who robbed a bank. And a mystery, hidden all over one bay area city. Whats with all these tiny nomes . Weve had a lot of cold air, nearly four degrees above normal in concord and san jose. Find out when were going to warm up. But before we go, a little taste of bourbon street in new orleans there is no mass produced human. 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The two had been dating off and on for four years. Assistant District Attorney al says it all began when the victim messed with harriss order of rice. I believe it was soy sauce that had been poured into the container, and thats apparently what started the argument. Reporter the victim tried to leave the Chinese Restaurant and call a taxi. The former Football Player then accused his former lover of stealing his underwear. He followed his exboyfriend outside. At one point, harris attempted to pull down the victims pants to try and find the stolen underwear. Thats when it got violent. He grabbed on to him, pinned him against the glass wall of the restaurant and began to hit him repeatedly to the face and head. Reporter the victim suffered compound facial fractures that required surgery to insert a metal plate. Harris was one of the 49ers top draft picks back in 2003 and went on the play four seasons. He then played for the raiders for one season back in 2008. No one was at harriss home in palo alto and he did not return our phone calls. The d. A. s office says their case is strong and that no one is above the law. The fact that he used to be a 49er, does that mean he gets special treatment . Absolutely not. We treat people based on the nature of the crime. And their own background. But not based on who they are in society or what position they may have held. Reporter and back here live at the restaurant, where the whole thing went down, part of what makes this story interesting is that there arent a lot of pro athletes who are openly gay. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges. Theyll be back in court in april. Kiet do, cbs 5. A man in his 80s got a very unusual request from a woman who wanted to buy his car. She needed a lift to the bank to get the cash. And thats when it got messy. The man drove the woman to bank of america in manteca. She went inside, got the cash, came out and then they drove off. Thats when he realized uhoh. She kind of pulled the top of her purse open like this, and kind of leaned it toward me. She said, well, i got the money. Police say the woman robbed the bank and used the man as her getaway driver. Officers a quickly swarmed the car. Didnt take long for police to realize the elderly man was actually the victim and they arrested the woman. An unusual art display has been popping up all over oakland. Gnomes painted on wooden tiles. They look harmless, but Christin Ayers explains, theres just one problem. Reporter if you werent looking closely, youd miss them. Whimsical, watchful, like something out of a fairy tale. An army of tiny gnomes. So you dont mind them at all . Not even come on theyre cool, you know. Somebody hand painted it. I mean, its art. Right on. Reporter the man who created the gnomes is keeping as low a profile as the gnomes themselves. But we found out hes created more than 2,300 of them and hidden them all over the city of oakland. For about a year, the magical little gnomes have lived in peace. But every fairy tale has a villain. And when Pacific Gas Electric got wind of the gnomes we have a policy as a company not to allow installations of that nature. Reporter they promised to remove them. They come out at night and steal and break into cars. Thats why we gotta worry about it. And Pacific Gas Electric is trying to protect us. Reporter in all seriousness, pg e says if left unchecked, public art on power poles could get in the way of crews trying to restore power. That didnt sit well with the twitter verse. Just search hashtag gnomes within hours, pg e had reversed its stand. Were going to actually work with the artist, the city and Community Groups to find new homes for the gnomes and we will not remove them from the poles until we have identified where theyre going to go. Reporter someplace where they can live happily ever after. In oakland Christin Ayers, cbs 5. Tons of you have been sending us your 49er photos. Heres some of them. Take a look. Thats fouryearold daniel junior. And we dont want any sibling rivalry. This is his sister, sevenyear old tia. Very cute. And thats rocky, the 49ers boxer. And little kaylene from san jose. Keep them coming. Email us your photos to news cbssf. Com or upload them to our website, cbssf. Com. 49er fever has hit the bay area and its not going to quit. Its getting closer now. I know countdown is on. Five days tomorrow. Tell you what, were getting there. Were getting closer. Were going to have some fantastic weather leading up to the big game coming up on sunday. If youd like to get outside, please do over the next couple of days. Tonight, a chilly night. When you get these nice sunny days, we cool off rather efficiently in the evening. Redwood city, 39. San jose, 38 tonight. We are chilly because our source of air is still coming down from the north. So the first question i asked, will the area of High Pressure dominate our weather . The answer is yes. The next question, where is that High Pressure centered . Thats critical. Because its off to the west right now, giving us that northerly flow. Tomorrow, chilly but sunny. We keep the sunny on wednesday but now the High Pressure has moved. That will take away the northerly flow. We keep the sunshine and now temperatures climb into the low to mid 60s. We will be mild on wednesday but chilly tomorrow. And every night will be chilly. 40s near the water but 30s inland. Mainly sunny, mild afternoons and we will stay dry all week long. It is not going to snow this week. What will happen tomorrow, highs in the 50s. Santa clara, 57, san jose 58. Los gatos, 58. Pleasant hill, 56 with sunny. Mill valley, 57. San leandro, 57 degrees. Extended forecast, hello 60s on wednesday. Sunshine, throw mid 60s. Thursday, friday, saturday. Super bowl sunday, we are trending a bit cloudier. Low 60s and a chance of rain enters the forecast by the middle of next week. But dry and sunny for the next couple of days. Well be right back. Im Dennis Odonnell at the super bowl. Quarterback alex smith, who lost his starting job to Colin Kaepernick, is reportedly considering asking the 49ers for his release so he becomes a free agent, due to make 7. 5 million in 2013, too much to pay for a backup quarterback. Im Dennis Odonnell in new orleans. Now, the super bowl isnt just about the game. Its also about all that good food. And wait till you hear how much exercise youll need to burn off some of your favorite snacks. Eight ounces of cheetos have almost 1300 calories. Youll have to play a half hour of pro football to burn that off. Six buffalo wild winged dipped in ranch, about a thousand calories. Youll have to do the wave 300 time. And three pepsis have 450 calories. Youll have to spend 57 minutes dancing to beyonce during the halftime show. Dennis has been dancing all weekend long in new orleans. Well send it back out to him. Reporter you forgot to tell me how much ill have to run off a deepfried crab. Anyway, president obama and Jim Harbaughs son will tell you about that, coming up. At embassy suites, you get more delicious moreness every morning with a free breakfast made just the way you like it. With a breakfast like this you could pretty much handle anything. Anything . Anything. [ screams ] a rambunctious toddler . Of course. Uncle ralph . Sure. A roman gladiator . You bet. The thing under my bed . Why not . Yes. [ female announcer ] get more with embassy suites. Book early and save up to 20 . The ravens arent the only opponent that the 49ers are dealing with this week. Dennis is in new orleans with more. Hey, dennis. Reporter the nfl claims it is greatly concerned about concussions and today that concern was felt at the super bowl by way of the white house. President obama told the new republican, quote, im a big football fan, but i have to tell you, if i had a son, id have to think long and hard before i let him play football. The 49ers reaction . President obama feels that way, then there will be a little less competition for Jack Harbaugh when he gets older. Thats the first thing to my mind, if other parents are thinking that way. But its still early, jack. Only five months old. But hes a really big kid. Hes got an enormous head. Whats his 40 time . We dont have a 40 on him yet. But his wing span is a plus one. As soon as he grows into that head, hes gonna be something. Reporter while jim harbaugh had fun with the topic, alex boone took exception and said the benefits outweigh the risks. I love our president obama. I dont mean to disrespect him. But i wouldnt mind if my kids played football. This is americas past time. Once you play, you understand so much more about life and being in a group, being around guys. You build a brotherhood, learn to rely on each other. It is a physical game but its a fun game. If he doesnt want his kids playing it, then sorry, dude. Reporter sorry, dude. Okay. To the hardwood now. Typically warrior night, on the night that andrew bogut made his debut, first time in uniform since november 7. Stephen curry twisted his right ankle. He left the game. Hes listed as day to day. As for bogut. He made his presence felt. Fourth quarter, warriors up nine with two minutes left in the game. David lee to bogut. Warriors snap their twogame losing streak and win 114102. Tiger woods had plenty to smile about in san diego. Only 11 holes left to play. His shot from the bunker would stop a few. Tiger wins by four strokes to pick up his eighth career win at torrey pines. Liz, back to you. Well be at media day. Thats when everybody shows up to interview both teams at the super bowl. All right. Another fun day in new orleans. Well be right back. Ning at 430. 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