. >> abc 7's vic lee is live with what led to the arrest. vick?> this news comes as a surprise to members of the law enforcement community. he is well known among police narcotics officers because he's in charge of this task force which is comprised the various police departments and targets mid to high level drug dealers. the state ag tells us they launched this investigation sometime in mid january. welsh is a 12-year veteran of the narcotics bureau and the team that works out of an office in this building next to the police department. he was arrested this morning in benecia with a private detective, christopher butler out of this office in concord, agents came here with a search warrant. mark owns a roofing company next door. >> this morning about 9:30, and walked out of the office. there are, like, three -- three police cars here, one a chp and about nine or 10 police officers. >> welsh reportedly sold drugs with butler who is by the way working on a tv show called p.i.mommy. >> he's a very good tenant for six years, he's -- i believe he's in

abc 7's vic lee has the story. vick? >> dan, that is the paradox, he was only 22 when convicted of a double murder, he's now 416789 a lot changed in 18 years. >> you must have resolved or resigned yourself to the fact you're going to be there until you die. >> yes. >> on january 12th after spending 18 years in prison he suddenly found hip self a free man. a judge had overturned a conviction after learning that the prosecution received money from future police chief and connelly has a hard time describing his euphoria when told he he go home. >> i would wake up in that small cell and look at the walls like wow. you know? this is it. the moment came it and was like, surreal. you can't describe it he was 22 when convicted of a high profile drive by shooting in 1989. it killed two people in the bay view and he served time in nine prisons. >> it's like when you know you're innocent of something and you're subjected to that it's like being bury add live. boy have to say i have a lot of moments at of depression in there. >> con

lee is there, his uniform is spotless, andth there's. yulless seize s. grant. was he just wasn't into all that. but he sees lee's sword, and one of the things happened was he decided to let lee and his men and officers go home, did not keep them there.e fo these were traitors, after all, they had rebelled existencean their country. g and granto said, go home, live your life in peace promising never to raise arms against the united states government again. and it was the sight of that sword. so, imagine, we're at this pivotal moment when everything is changing, when we're going to this new kind of technology,nd w when war's going to be a matter of innovative weaponry andut i technology, but it's a sword,th the simplest weapon there is, ac piece of metal dangling from robert e. lee's waist that persuades grant to let the men go home and to show this charity and mercy. it was the sword, it was this great crossing, as you say, between the romantic age and this tough new technological age that soon was going to make the world a very bloody place. >> i think we are ab

abc 7's vic lee has the story. >> we need to focus on creating jobs regionally. not just in each city or county. >> this assembly managery hill joined by a host of public officials from san mateo county. all voiced their opinions to called local hiring ordinance. in december, supervisors passed an ordinance requiring 20% local hirings for city public works projects increasing to 50% in 2016. hill's legislation preventing state moneys from being used on those projects as well as others in city was a similar ordinance. standing in the wings were workers from san francisco who opposed this bill. most were from bay view hunter's point. >> we need jobs in the community. we're the last ones hired and first ones fired. >> hill maintains san francisco's local hiring till bill would apply to projects at sfo in san mateo county. carol groom is president of the county supervisor autos for a neighboring county of ours to say that men and women cannot work on projects in san mateo county is unacceptable. >> the author of the local hiring ordinance is supervisor john avilos. >

this photograph was taken lo 1880's and you will see the lower right, the founder. john lee is actually my grant grant grand father. you might think it's remarkable to be a descendant of the guy, but he had 21 lives and by my count about 2500 descendants right about now. let's go to the next. you probably all know the overview of the river. those that never heard of the colorado river let me give you facts. 7 states and two nations share it. the fastest growing part of the nation by percentage or numbers. including utah, arizona, and nevada and california just on sheer numbers. 8 percent of the land area in the united states and it has 60 million acre feet of storage and that's closest to the highest in the world relative to it's annual flow of 15 million acre flow a year. it's about five to 25 million acre feet. there are 35 million people served in an enormously complicated legal environment. what happens after 7 years of drought on the river. these are two parts that have 50 million of the river in storage and we started out with full reservoirs and you end up with these

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lee was re-elected s to a second term last fall. right now be live at booktv.org, former defense secretary donald rumsfeld is talking about his new memoir, "known and unknown" at the national constitution center in philadelphia. he's being interviewed by historian michael beschloss live as an exclusive book tv webcast. go to booktv.org right now to see it. this weekend on "book tv" on c-span2, george freeman, founder of "next decade" and also donald rumsfeld sits down with michael beschloss to talk about "the noun and unknown." and abbas milani on the shaw of iran. find the schedule at booktv.org and get our schedule e-mailed to you. sign up for our book tv alert. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, voting discrimination in the south and kennedy's administration's strategy to overcome it. also the look at the beliefs of our founding fathers and role of christianity in our nation and senator norway with his service in world war ii with the 442 &ed remptal combat team. experience american history tv on c-span 3. all wee

s. so it hasn't already been spent. ms. lee: let me be clear, reclaiming my time, be clear up front that our service men and women have performed with incredible courage and commitment in afghanistan. they have done everything asked of them. but the truth is that they have been put in an impossible situation. in fact, this concern of war without end is why i oppose the resolution. i know we disagreed with that, but many of us agree now that we should not have this war without end continue. but i oppose the resolution authorizing military force on september 14 because it was a blank check. i believed then and it remains one now. there are a few things we know with certainty regarding the situation in afghanistan. we know corruption persists unabated and in many cases has been fueled by the u.s. occupation and influx of foreign cash. president karzai has proven himself time and time again unwilling or at least unable to meaningfully root out corruption in his own administration. we know the united states' troop presence has incre

s office tells me felony charges could be filed as soon as a joint investigation is over. reporting live in walnut creek, patti lee. >>> a two -month-old boy has been declared brain dead and taken off life support. his father confessed to punching the baby in the face tuesday night in an effort to make him stop crying. sigifredo lua is charged with abuse. lua is being held on $1.1 billion bail at the contra costa county jail in martinez. >>> we're now just about two or three minutes before air force one touches down. we'll show that to you live momentarily. >>> a warehouse store getting into the bridal business. which one and what you can get there. >>> and we have new information about california homes, what the new median price is and what's selling. >>> the on again off again air fare hike. one airline headached fares then took it back. -- one airline hiked fares then took it back. what that triggered within airlines. >>> the median price for a california home dropped more than 3% last month from $247,000 to 239,000. that's according to new figures out from dataquick. the number of sales sold dropped. a number

lee ax later. but-- will relax later. napa, 39. that's at the airport. but 48 concord, 52 s an francisco.thing continues to fly up and over as we see high pressure not going anywhere for a while. danville, san ramon, 65. livermore is 61. mid-60s morgue be hill, los gatos a little warmer. sunnyvale at 65. same for palo alto, redwood city. even on the coast. it's sunny. it's going to be cold tomorrow morning and then sunny. warmer weather arrives friday and saturday. >>> a cyclone in australia is intensifying at this hour ripping roofs from buildings -- buildings and cutting power to thousands. tens of thousands have fled their homes after warnings of potential devastation, saying cyclone is likely to be more life-threatening than any storm in generations. >>> wind gusts up to 190 miles per hour are expected. those who cannot escape are being encouraged to go to evacuation centers or take shelters in the bathrooms at home. >>> japan's volcano is spewing more smoke and ash in the air. it erupted twice today. it shattered windows several mile a -- several miles away. the volcano has -- the vo

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