New tonight tempers flare in Southern California after a call for police help. It ended with the death with another black man this week. This time the man was killed after he was tased not once but twice by police in pasadena. It started at 2 00 this morning at an apartment around orange grove boulevard. The girlfriend of the victim said was acting dysfunctional. Thomas was in distress. Question eight fire distinguish sure and he decided to call the police for help on his own. No one knew that his call for help with and in a tragedy. I woke up this morning to a bad dream. Two police came on the scene with a flashlight. They asked him to drop the knife and the fire extinguisher. Its not the first run in with him. He was a good father. They did not have to kill him. We hear that over and over again. We did not have to care them. He ignored the command and try to go inside someones apartment. Thats when the officers chased thomas. A fight started that ended in thomass death. After the fig
And when we can expect warmer temperatures coming up and the four weather first forecast in just a bit. The city of cedar rapids recently had their final press conference for the 2016 blood. Connor morgan joins us live to explain the citys focus going forward. Reporter the city of cedar rapids is officially in cleanup mode. As far as sandbags are concerned, residents have three options. They can keep them which is encouraged for future tickets at them outside on the curb and wait for the city to pick them up or they can drop them off at one of these sites. Noelridge park open this morning at 7 am for dropoff and ellis park will open starting tomorrow at 7 am. What about those who cant take your sandbags to either site . The city will collect those for free starting october 10. Weeks. City officials recommend using your driveway if possible, giving of street between the curb and sandbags to allow storm runoff. As far as the press conference was concerned, everyone is echoing the same se
Rebuild. Reporter there were firefighters that stayed the night last night. They were checking to see if any smoke or flames would rekindle. Firefighters are completely gone off seeing and its hard to see. The relatively minor damage done to the rest of the building, gives the minister hope. In times like this to find out who your friends are and we have a lot of friends. We are grateful for that. Reporter senior minister malik was in San Francisco when she heard, she felt discouragement as she watched the distraction unfold. When the smoke cleared, several other churches offered there buildings for the congregation to worship. They will be across the street at First Presbyterian on sunday. We are so grateful for them for opening there doors. Reporter disaster remediators are looking at pumping water out of the mostly unburned sanctuary. Insurance companies are assessing the damage to pilgrim hall and engineers are working to figure out if it will need to be demolished just it started
This weekend is all about returning to normal after aftera very stressful week of hard work hope and uncertainty. But for thousands of people heading back to their homes its mostly all s. Smiles. Cbs 2 news spoke with a number of people moving back . Into their homes yesterday. They say moving everything out and then back in a few days is no easy task but its better than dealing with flood damage. Even for the people who were untouched by flood waters it still tough. Work it took us to do this, missing out on work and you know, having to get a hotel room and eat out, it cost us all something. Something. Even with the invconviences residents say the Community Rallying together let them know they didnt go through it alone. Theres just so many people. There was hundreds of people here just helping, didnt matter, in and helped save out homes. I was so over whelmed because they just kept coming and coming out and helping. Without them we never could have done this. There are some families w
420 day, when thousands will light up marijuana and what is part of San Francisco culture. This is what 420 day looked like on hippie hill on Golden Gate Park. We just here to chill. Reporter and this is what it looked like at Harborside Health care in oakland where joe cha keeny and his wife decided to try medical marijuana for the first time. Hope to get some pain relief mainly. Reporter how old are you . 87. Cannabis is being used mostly for intoxication purposes. What you see here is cannabis being used mostly for wellness purposes. Reporter fortune just named steve did i angelo one of the top seven influencers in the marijuana industry. This is the biggest dispensary in the country, serving 1500 people a day. Inside this lab, they extract compounds from cannabis to create capsules and ointments. Patients instead of, say, going and buying a gram or two of cannabis flowers and trying to figure out how many hits they should take, they know exactly how many milligrams of exactly which