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be delayed. >> reporter: six people shot at a sweet 16 party and intruders shot dead by a how many owner. the rash of violence has bill cook fired up. >> it's getting worse, not the point where we need to do anything, we have to do something. >> reporter: cook they volunteer on the crime prevention commission is and said the police force is stretched to thin. >> i have done two rida locks and they are overwhelmed. they are getting 20 calls and having to pick what is a priority. we are making a huge impact on crime considering the limited resources. >> reporter: the police chief said the crime stats back him up. police say violent crime was down last year compared to the year before, homicides dropped 61%, rape 34% and robbery down 7%. property crime is up, police say the solution is more
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community involvement. citizens groups like take back antioch say they have readyo help. city leaders stay the cost of adding more officers could mean making sacrifices elsewhere. >> what are you willing to gyp up to get more police? > willing to give up you know i don't like to think that. i don't want to give anything up. i want new, creative solutions. >> reporter: one of the ideas is a parcel tax to help pay for more officers . i talked to the mayor who said he is hoping to get that emergency town hall meeting to happen next week. the victim was stabbed once and was taken to the hospital, police say there have been no arrest arrests and a motive is
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unclear. >> police are looking for a man suspected of trying to kidnap a 8-year-old. this is a sketch of the man who tried to grab her as she walked to carver elementary. the victim managed to break free and run. >> also, police have made a second arrest in an explosion at a home that sent a 12-year- old to the hospital. thom was weed was arrested, his girlfriend is already in jail. investigators say they think the blast at the home a week ago was set off by a butane tank used to make drugs. >> the search for the victims of the two speed freak killers could soon shift to a new dig site.
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>> reporter: we will show you where the dig site is. it's about a mile away, an abandoned well, we learned there was more progress there, more bones found but families of missing people are still waiting for answers. for identification of many some of the remains. the digging resumed today and more bones were added to the tally of one thousand bones and pieces. a map drawn by a death row inmate lead investigators to the abandoned well. 25 miles south a girl is following the search. her 34-year-old mother disappeared in modesto in 1986. >> i still had the station -- she wasn't -- she was in a
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black car and she said good-bye from the car but that's all. >> reporter: her case is like many women who went miss be the same time the two men were according to prosecutors on a drug fueled 15 year crime spree. the case is -- things seem to collect with this one. the right location and time. >> reporter: she hopes this dig and what could be a mass grave may bring closure. investigators think they have hit the bottom and few remains are there. >> we will send a camera down to make sure, we want to make sure before we reseal that well. >> there is another well nearby, just up the road that they are interested in.
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they may dig that well up. the dna testing will take some time. ken pritchett. >> stay with us for the latest. we will update you on any new developments. a judge today said an accused killer can continue to be his own attorney he is a accused of killing four women in the late 70s and mid-90s. today the judge found him capable and informed of the risks of representing himself. he is scheduled to re-enter his pleas in two weeks. >> san bruno accusing pg&e of breaking off talks about restitution for a neighborhood wiped out by the explosion. we are in san bruno where rebuilding the community should first start with their own
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home. >> i was under the impression from the city leaders that this is going to be sped up and people will be back on their feet and try to recover. to me a year and a half is to long. >> pg&e came around with their representatives that we thought was great. they were coming door to door. they promised the same thing. >> reporter: that happened arrest blast but today the mayor said this. >> city is concerned that pg&e is dodging its commitment to pay. . >> pg&e is stalling negotiations to settle millions of dollars in restitution to the community. >> reporter: the restitutions
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for enhancements including to scholarship funds, youth sport leagues, mental health, local nonprofits, libraries and a memorial park? pg&e said it's not stalling. >> we have a meeting that's scheduled the leader later this week to continue the discussions and we look forward to that and bringing to resolution that the city and it's residents will find well. >> reporter: while those resume on friday residents say both sides need to walk a mile in their shoes. . >> live here and see what we are going through. then maybe you would speed it up more. >> reporter: so community enhancement negotiations with pg&e resume on friday but the recovery here seems to dragon. reporting live. ktvu channel 2news. >> pg&e said so far 4400 customers have opted out of its
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the fire damaged about half the home. there is no word on how that fire started. >> cisco waging a court college to the microsoft take over of skype. they said they want to make sure the deal won't create problems for people who use its web conferencing product. . >> a group in support of a millionaire's tax in california kicked off it's campaign today. they launched their ballot initiative in four cities including oakland. the measure would add another 3% tax on people who earn between one and two million.
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organize ires say the income tax would help fund different services including education. the number of california ans making $500,000 or more each year dropped between 2007 and 2009. the franchise tax board said more than 146,000 californiaance made a half million or more in 2007. by 2009 it dropped to 98, 610. economists say the decline reflects lower incomes. >> a new audit of foreclosures found widespread banking problems and some of the foreclosures may have been illegal orrin valid. the violations include conflicts between federal filings and recorded documents, back dated documents and
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allegedly fake signatures. >> you have a party that is selling a home at an auction that according to our land records has no connection to it. >> king said this report is being passed on now to the state attorney general, san francisco's da and the city attorney. . >> how is he braking barriers and records along the wait a minute. >> no turning back. the one possible snag bay bridge crews have ruled out for this weekend's closure. >> back here in ten with a very cold forecast for your thursday morning. @@1 8
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. >> caltrans said the planned weekend closure of the westbound bay bridge is on. caltrans said the weather forecast helped concerns that rain would delay their work so crews will build a detour on the oakland side to allow construction of lanes for the new eastern span of the bay bridge. the closures starts friday on the upper deck at 8:00 p.m. and is set to last until 5:00 a.m. >> the president has a bay area visit and local teens will be among the guests. . one of the president's fund- raisers tomorrow at masonic center. the president is expected to arrive in san francisco just before one tomorrow afternoon. he will attend three fund- raisers, the first is a small
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gathering at the mark hopkins hotel. it's followed by a private dinner at pacific heights . >> we have breaking news we are just getting word of a quake that hit about three miles south of vallejo. the information that we have is it was a 3.7, a shall that's considered a minor one and there won't be much if any damage orrin juries as a result. we are working to get more information as we do we will bring it to you but 3.7 quake just hit about three miles south of vallejo. the vice president of china headed west for a california visit. he is set to arrive in los angeles tomorrow following visits to washington dc and iowa.
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. >> puts it up, fires! lin from downtown. >> lin strikes again. he nailed a three-pointer last night for the knicks with just a half second left in that game against the raptors. the rookie sensation is getting a lot of attention but not all of it is good. new, maureen naylor is live in san jose with the role race is play. >> reporter: he is no doubt the most talked about nba player right now and he is the reason why the group from san jose came out to rookie sports bar to watch the game saying it's one of the few places you can see the next game. he is making headlines for his set and for breaking barriers. this last minute shot by lin only added to the craze. >> i saw the shot last night. amazing. >> reporter: noel robertson hopes to add a photograph of him above the trophies. he played with the chapter.
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>> he is showing -- what it is to be a student athlete and someone that other kids can look up to and say you know i would like to carry myself like that. >> reporter: with the praise is comments about his race. on twitter a boxer posted lin is a good player but the height is because is he asian saying black players do it every night and don't get the same praise. others say these types comments a teachable moment. >> they are racist but what the -- event has created is an opportunity for all the things to come to the surface. >> reporter: he said lin is breaking barrier as the 4th asian american to play in the nba and the first american born adding nobody would pay attention if he wasn't a great player. >> i think that one can't help but look at race. it's nice to think we would think beyond it but it's a factor, doesn't have to be negative. in this case it's a positive one.
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>> reporter: not only is he breaking bayyers but nba records. . >> music recorded throughout the bay area in the 60s. >> the first major winter storm. thehe year hit dumb many putting up to a foot of now snow. the weather made a mess of the area. all sections were back open by noon. bill martin is live monitoring the conditions here. . >> i wanted to start off with the breaking news.
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you had the quake just south of the vallejo area. i have a map to put to that it. let's look at the weather computers, 3.7, it's a minor quake. three miles south of vallejo, 6:09, we are definitely monitoring for you as it goes. that's a small one. we see them often in the bay area this time of year. still worth noting. outside its beautiful, clear, crisp, the wind is cleaned out. as we go into tonight the winds die down and it gets down right cold. that's what you notice tomorrow morning. no rain, not really any clouds but cold, and frosty. get ready for that. tomorrow morning you will have a little more time -- the kids will need jacket thes, you may need to scrape the wind sheil. at 33 degrees, even at 37 degrees in fremont you get frost. you don't have to have freezing.
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it's basically a nonplayer in terms of february for weather. the forecast thursday, then, nice looking day. it'll warm up nicely midand upper 60s. friday morning the clouds come in. sprinkles. up around echo summit but not much. saturday morning, kind of partly cloudy, party sunny. ty kid wills be chilly tomorrow heading off to school and scraping wind shields. >> all right.
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thank you. >> once again as bill said a moment ago, we are getting word now of a 3.7, it happened just south of vallejo and already we have 70 comments on the facebook page for people who essentially felt it all over the east bay. people from concord, they said it was a severe jolt but at 3.7 that's a minor quake so probably not any damage and probably not any injuries as well but we are working to get more information as we do we will bring it to you. the headline a 3.7 hitting three miles south at nine minutes past six. >> push the door back and then kicked it in. >> coming up on the news at seven, one resident describes a home invasion, part of a day long crime bing, police say includes a stolen patrol car. and one lawmakers says it's
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. lance armstrong giving a lying up to a ballot measure. is it would add a dollar tax to a pack of cigarettes to pay for anti smoking. >> mark is here for sports. a lot of basketball. >> yeah, spring training just a few day away. basket ball has the floor. they will be home at their gym for the final couple of home games of the year against oregon and that means end of the line as far as the home schedule for aim couple of seniors. cal on top of the pack 12, they have a lot at the championship. that's the immediate goal and the seniors feel like they have left the undergrads a very solid work ethic.
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>> we leave -- [inaudible], either the way we do it or the way they do it but somebody has to do it. . jeremy lin back in action. first bucket of the game. he draws a foul as well. knicks off to a nice start against sacramento and then lin up top to the stanford man. dunk it down at half time. we will have full warrior high lights as well as lin but the knicks undefeated since jeremy lin was put into the new york starting line up and the beat goes on for him. that's the sporting life for right now. >> great story.
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>> pretty much all positive with him. >> that was so fun to see. they love the circus. >> thank you mark. >> she was accepted to mit at 15 but she never went. >> so why in the world would she do that? it's because of a unique program started by a bay area billion area. what it is and how it works tonight at ten. thank you for again for trusting us.
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