that our photographer shot overnight. a harrowing experience, a lot of violence, almost 50 people arrested after a standoff started at this vacant building that the protestors were trying to take over. this happened around 11:00 last night. i m here with our chief photographer rick villaroman who was there after this broke out a little bit after 11:00. rick, thanks for being here so early this morning. tell us about what you saw and the fires that started. well, it was complete pandemonium. the cops moved in with tear gas first. then there was a flash-bangs. bonfire got set. and it was complete chaos from that point. reporter: tell us about this bonfire. it was in the middle of the street. we re talking about garbage, wood pallets. at 16th and telegraph, the protestors took over a building, barricade themselves in with garbage and pallets. then once the police moved in they set everything on fire. reporter: when we re talking about taking over the building, they were
orinda, elementaries, as well as kennedy high school in richmond. those campuses serve more than 1600 students, robert liles shows us, on the, the classmates warned closures to lead to violence. robert? reporter: well, ken, consider this. the west contra costa school district says there is no more money so the city of richmond stepped into the tune of 1 1/2 million dollars and saved three schools in this city from closing. well, now, the board wants the district to take, or wants the city to take that a step further, and save those schools for two years. now one councilman tells us that they are being financially bullied by the board but, about to see, pending elections just may sway tonight s vote. closing kennedy high school is more like a lecture in history. there s been generations passed through this school. reporter: a seminar on psychology. it s like a home wrecker, like tearing down schools, that s a home wrecker. reporter: and a term paper on how to encoura
going to be impacted. that s a lot. it s almost 10 miles an hour of the student population. reporter: but councilmember nate bates isn t buying the argument. he says they have already given kennedy high and two elementary schools $1.5 million to keep them open. contra costa unified school district has been known for misspending. they got to get their act together. they can t keep looking at richmond as an atm machine. it recently received a settlement from chevron to keep the school doors open but the city says that money is earmarked already. now, will the response from teachers, students and parents change the perspective of the school board? that s yet to be seen. what is expected is that this vote will go late into the night. so this decision, it goes will be immediate? it will not b immediate. the city has already given the district $1.5 million to keep those open for the school year. if they don t get it the board has to start sending noticings to parents to s
significant if not deadly threat. we have no tools in terms of any kind of tranquilizers or managing a mountain lion or wild animal like that. the entity that s responsible for managing the wild animals is the california department of fish & game. so they are called immediately and asked to respond. from sacramento? from sacramento. reporter: neighbors were startled. deer. we see them all the time. well, my neighbor has to put nets around her roses to keep them from the deer from eating them. and i had to put like a fence to keep the deer from coming in because they used to come in my backyard and sit on my compost. reporter: so not that surprising to think the mountain lion was here to feed. take a look. it came down from the hills. not that far of a distance from those hills back down here to the neighborhood. nobody wanted to see it happen to the animal but this is a residential neighborhood. tough call for the police. as you said before. if there are deer, m
in short increments of time t wasn t like a year or two went by. it was like within a month or two. reporter: they replaced the copper pipe with heavier copper pipe, replaced that with copper pipe wrapped in insulation and replaced that with pvc, plastic pipe which doesn t conduct electricity. slabs of new concrete along this stretch of 15th show where water pipes have been dug up and replaced repeatedly. cbs 5 investigated the mysterious pipe leak incidents three years ago and interviewed experts who agreed that the cause of the leaks may be muni s light rail system. laszlo at the time worked on corrosion issues for pg&e. i think it is possible that the large number of leaks on the water service pipes are generated by stray current corrosion. reporter: in 2007 after cbs 5 brought the pipe problem to the city s attention, the water department paid out $5,000 to residents in this one block to cover water bill overcharges related to 30 leaks and pipes. but a promised clos