[ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to find big savings on the things you need. just make a straight line to safeway. your club card gets you deals you can t find anywhere else. this week, folgers is $6.88 for the large size. that s a lot of coffee. skip the warehouse. charmin is $13.99 for 24 double rolls. and lean cuisine entrees are just a buck 99. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. this is kpix5 news. e discovered tonight.. hundreds of people get sick after eating chicken produced here in california, what we discovered tonight that makes you wonder how safe is the food we buy? good evening. i m elizabeth cook. i m ken bastida. it s a salmonella outbreak involving one of the most popular brands of chicken out there. we talked to a bay area man who was just about to dig in. the number is right there. reporter: ed vanick says he bought foster farms raw chicken today and was about to prepare dinner when he
a proposal to establish citywide park closure hours in san francisco was passed by a board of supervisors committee. the legislation would establish closure hours of midnight to 5 a-m. at most parks around the city. the proposal is an attempt to combat vandalism and illegal dumping in parks which cost san francisco more than 900-thousand- dollars annually to clean up. violators would face a fine of up to 100- dollars for a first offense, with escalating fines for subsequent offenses. the legislation will come in front of the full board at its october 29th meeting. the santa clara county sheriff s office says the streets are a little safer after seizing close to a million -and a half- dollars in drugs from a san jose home. the bust was the culmination of a two- year investigation by the sheriff s office confiscating crystal meth, cocaine and heroin. several weapons and 825 -thousand dollars in cash. detectives believe it is all part of a meth distribution organization.
farms chicken that the usda says is suspect at this safeway store. there is no recall, so the chicken is still being sold here tonight. officials say, if you do buy it, you should take some precautions. reporter: this is the foster farms chicken authorities are concerned about. it s stamped with the number 36137a. tonight, it s on display at the meat section of this safeway. it includes p6137, p6137a. the agriculture department issued the health alert today. most of the illnesses here in california. those people who have low immune systems are those people that actually have kids, or elderly are actually at risk. reporter: officials say strains of salmonella are produced at three foster farms facilities in the central valley. reputable stores, and all in all, the quality is going to be better. reporter: foster farms is not sold at piedmont. the center says there s not necessarily anything wrong with foster farms, but they prepare their poultry to be air chilled, not
the monster cyclone phailin heading state for the state of odissa. hundreds of thousands taken to government shelters. tourists have left beaches. phailin is so large it s the size of france. twice the size of hurricane sandy and fills almost the entire bay of bengal, supercyclone one of the biggest india has ever seen. said to expect sustained winds of 167 miles an hour and gusts of 200. seth jamil has more from india s coast. these are the waves that people come to the beach to look at. couple of meters high and much more frequent than they usually are. this is literally the calm before the storm, cyclone phailin. now, the outer edge it is really to the north of here where the main part of phailin is expected to hit. there we hear hundreds of thousands have been evacuated into shelters and several units of the national defense forum have been stationed there. this is not going to be a repeat of 1999 where thousands of people were killed. they re telling people to get out
good to have you with us. no deal as the debt ceiling dead line is just days way.away. nearly two weeks after the government shut its doors, now the u.s. senate is the site of talks. the nfnlg i the engine is bearing down and the question is whether the congress will come to the rescue and save this country. with all this back and forth i want to bring in john terrett on capitol hill. this is not a movie and there s no script but do we know how this one s going to end? i like that movie analogy. that s very good. we had a double feature and now we ve got a grainy on black and white movie, thomas. today we had the house and senate working on this issue and the house has captain late capid given up. now it s all eyes on the senate. to that end senate democrats are meeting with president obama in the oval office. to make sure all the democrats are on the same page, followed a meeting this morning with chuck sheurschumer and lamar alexande, harry reid the majority leade