the group lists personal information of top city officials including the police chief, city council membersoup posted a statement explaining why it is so mad. anonymous says: we have been watching since the inception of occupy oakland. we are shocked and disgusted by your behavior. before you commit atrocities against innocent people, think twice. the group then goes on to list the home addresses, property value, birth dates, phone numbers and other information like that of city leaders and their family members. except for councilmember rebecca kaplan under her name it just says, thank you for your support. this grown is known internationally anonymous has launched cyber taxes against several government agencies including the pentagon and the white house and now the city of oakland. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> we are following breaking news in newark police investigate the shooting of a federal officer. >> police are not saying much more just that a federal officer was shot before 6:00 this morning. no word on the condition of that officer or which agency he or she is connected to. we kn

decisions are based on opinions from the city attorney, who has a duty to defend the very same city officials that we report for wrongdoing. thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners. maria. i was pushed out and forced out of the kahane after over 20 years of service to the city. two years ago, we made three whistle-blower complaints to the ethics commission. the first one regarded health director michel --mitchell katz, with a group that had an affiliation. this complaint was dismissed by ethics. our second complete recorded davis john s. sicilians, who was awarded a $2 million department of public health contract. the white, a high level dph executive, played a major role in awarding the contract. after two years, the comptroller revoke the contract siding, quote, irregularities. this complaint was also dismissed by the ethics commission. the laguna honda gift fund was reported as well. it is a charitable fund for poor patients that was being plundered for staff parties and perquisites by the laguna honda administration. nine months later, pressure led to an audit which restored t

. >> it is time to start our official press conference. this involves city officials and it is about the city's commitment to grain transportation. without further ado, i want to introduce the honorable mayor ed lee of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you, everybody, for being here this morning. it is a joy for me to be here with you today at yellow cab to celebrate an accomplishment that i think the city will be proud of. i have been this city administrator for quite a number of years. i really enjoyed hearing the goals that then mayor gavin newsom had announced in so many areas. i have been very excited. in fact, when gavin was mayor, and these were the things that i really enjoyed inheriting from you. it was what warren hellman always said. even when you are doing the hardest thing possible, you have to have fun. i think it is fun when you can accomplish environmental goals for the city. there are so many generations ahead of us that we know will enjoy this. they will enjoy that cleaner air that we have promised generations to come. we are not going to

pg&e to get their reaction to this campaign in the words of san bruno city officials. pg&e has yet to come up with a statement in response. heather ishimaru is inside the news conference now where san bruno city officials are making their announcement. she will have the full story at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. if you would like to see the news conference in its entirety we are streaming it on abc7news.com. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> law enforcement officials and volunteers continue the grim task of digging for human remains. convicted killer wesley shermantine directed authorities to the mass grave. shermantine and herzog are(0qpw suspected of up to 30 murders in the 80s and 90s. >> reporter: a san joaquin county spokesman just wrapped up his briefing in the last hour he revealed more about the well where crews are digging and what happens next. crews have been digging since friday. they've dug at least 45 so far they've found at least 1,000 bones and fragments. personal items, including clothing and journal . the big dan when serial killer wes shermantine made a deal a

pg&e to get their reaction to this campaign in the words of san bruno city officials. pg&e has yet to come up with a statement in response. heather ishimaru is inside the news conference now where san bruno city officials are making their announcement. she will have the full story at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. if you would like to see the news conference in its entirety we are streaming it on abc7news.com. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> law enforcement officials and volunteers continue the grim task of digging for human remains. convicted killer wesley shermantine directed authorities to the mass grave. shermantine and herzog are(0qpw suspected of up to 30 murders in the 80s and 90s. >> reporter: a san joaquin county spokesman just wrapped up his briefing in the last hour he revealed more about the well where crews are digging and what happens next. crews have been digging since friday. they've dug at least 45 so far they've found at least 1,000 bones and fragments. personal items, including clothing and journal . the big dan when serial killer wes shermantine made a deal a

governmental ethics, and open meetings and public records, and the roles of public and other elected officials, city institutions, and the city electoral process, and i think the idea that they put public meetings and public records and there is really demonstrating that your responsibilities are more than just willful violations, so we would appreciate the opportunity to discuss that with you with the commissioners themselves rather than going through memoranda with ethics staff. thank you. >> good evening, ethics commissioners. my name is thomas. i am also a victim of your staff dismissals with orders of determination. i will not go into the merits of the case. you have the records. but the statistics cited by mr. grossman and the doctor are very troubling in terms of the dismissals of all sunshine ordinance orders of determination. from the members of the public or watching the proceedings, they should be advised that the sunshine ordinance task force makes a determination when there is a violation of a request for public records or not being able to participate in public meetings. the sunshine o

right pickax there is absolutely no ethical violation. >> missing from the list, any of the city's top officials from the economic development agency. asked to recall any business you might have invited that was considering moving to the city, the mayor said she would have to look at the list. she scoffed at the idea that the skybox is a perk. >> it is something for the good of the city that i personally, and my team, choose the people that attend. >> some tickets were provided to religious leaders and to recognize city employees. more than half were given to the mayor's family, political friends and supporters, and staff. the watchdog group common cause issued a statement saying the mayor has made decision to use the skybox for personal and political purposes, rather than to make a people's box. the group is calling on the mayor to make future guest list public and transparent. jane miller, wbal-tv 11 news. >> bureau ravens are now finalized for the former mayor of nablus, dennis callahan. visitation is from 2:00 to to 5:00. a memorial service is scheduled for monday, february 13 at 10:00 a.m.

. >> you're parking your official city vehicle blocking a fire pump? you ought to be ashamed of yourself. you're supposed to enforce the law, not violate the law. are you allowed to park within 15 feet of a fire hydrant in new york city? >> yes. >> you are? so you don't even know the laws. >> get out of my face, please. >> jimmy's not surprised he catches these agents with his camera, twice. first at a fire hydrant and then at a bus stop. but when they pull their official vehicle up to another hydrant -- >> ooh, it's a fire hydrant. oh, my. >> a third violation? he's seen enough. >> she's in there writing a summons to someone else when she commits a violation with her own official city vehicle. what a shame. shame on you! it just shows the systematic abuse of authority. that's why i do what i do. that's why i make these videos, because i'm trying to change the system. >>> coming up -- >> get out of my face, man. >> danger ahead. a department of education employee tries to teach jimmy justice a lesson. >> stop. >> and playing with fire. >> you ought to

we pulled out the ledger, you know, with like the official city ledgeser of moving houses. there were tons of them. i don't know, at some point it just kind of petered out and somebody moves a house like once every 15 years now. >> so we in our digital age, issue house moving permits once every couple of years. i pull out this little book. it's got a piece of carbon paper in it. you put the carbon in and you write, you know, house moving permit number, you know, 36. you say from here to there. we charge a fee. a very low fee. it's really right out of the turn of the century before. >> yeah, it has that dusty, old-school feeling. >> actually, we maintained that. i tried to maintain this little book. we still do it that way. >> would the post earthquake installation of building codes and building requirements have impacted carville to expand? and ultimately was that part of the demise as our desire and need to have structures that were earthquake safe and fire safe? did that have an impact on it, i guess? >> well it seemed more that they were health issues. they were really n

in retaliation it posted first the formation of city officials. >>grant: here is the kron4 crime tracker, police are looking for a man who is accused of robbing people while they are working out. police say that he takes items from locker rooms. this has happened in several places. here is the suspect. police say he gets a date passed the gyms and robs members while they're working out. >>pam: and arrest has been made in the investigation of of a federal agent shooting. the agent was gunned down in front of his home in newark. the agent was taken to hospital. there's no word on his condition. later this afternoon, dennis bagwell was arrested at a traffic stop and police are trying to figure out what led up to the shooting. >>maureen: the shots rang out just before 6:00 a.m. on this usually quiet corner. witnesses say it happened in the victims driveway. you can still see evidence markers on the ground. >> i heard someone yell, get down on the ground. i heard multiple gunshots. after that, i saw a guy fleeing the scene. he was limping. and >>jaquel

city officials really deflected that. jordan was passed over the job five years earlier. so when he got the call, he was very happy. >> some people will be surprised to know that i actually shed a tear. the last time i was interim chief, i dealt with the death of the fowfer officers. >> reporter: not to be overlooked, the new fire chief, teresa reed, is making history. she becomes female's -- oakland's first female fire chief. she's been working for san jose fire since 1986. but oakland, she says, has her heart. >> this is not just any department. this is my fire department. this is the department that serves the city that i call home. that makes it very special. having the opportunity to serve the community i live in is a huge honor for me. reed talked about how she would -- >> reporter: reed talked about how she would watch the rigs going through oakland and she talked about how she wanted to do that one day. same thing really as jordan, back to you. >> thank you. >>> a private high school in san francisco is shut down for the day because of a flu outbreak. the principa

mayor of san francisco, the president of the board of supervisors, former mayor brown, and other city officials in celebrating -- this is the second year that we celebrate the filipino-american history month. it is also quite appropriate to announce perhaps that the u.s. senate has passed a senator solution proclaiming october 2011 as philippine-american history month as well. i think it is also appropriate to announce that govern merck -- governor edwin brown announced that he had signed ab 199, school curriculum, social sciences, filipinos in world war ii. i think that all of these events show that the filipino- americans are really coming out of the woodwork and showing themselves as a group that needs to be recognized. as we, this evening, a well recognized quite a number of them. we welcome you tonight. may i also ask you to welcome the honorable mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> well, welcome. welcome to city hall, everyone. it is my pleasure to welcome all of you here to the seventh annual philippine-american celebration heritage month. counsel general, thank you. mayer brown, thank you ver

the elections commission will meet tomorrow at city hall. >> city officials are taking the federal governmento task over a gas pipeline safety standards. a lawsuit filed today by city attorney, dennis herrera alleges u.s. pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration failed to oversee a pipeline safety program for a decade. the filing cites three gas pipeline explosions in california since 2008 including deadly san bruno explosion that killed eight in 2010. san francisco wants the federal agency to better oversee the cpuc. 2,000 san francisco residents spent the morning with no electricity after a metallic balloon floated into power lines. the outage in the city south of market and mission districts before 9:00 a.m. utility officials say mettle talic balloons that come in contact with power lines can short circuits. the problem is a ledgedly more common on valentine's day and mother's day when people buy the balloons. pg & e restored power within an hour. >> february 14th. how did you snow your love on this valentine's day? roses? a card? well a woodside woman did it with food? in fa

the other part that is not in an official city document is that we think we can leverage volunteerism from our court -- corporate partners. we have had discussions with the family about the sales force donation and using employees and volunteers to step up and help provide some of the move-in support. we are exploring an adopt-a- family approach. it is a good way to galvanize san francisco's companies employ using guinta stubhub. -- and get them to step up. the next steps on how the program will be expanded and the mechanics of the contract and that sort of thing the less i believe that the salesforce foundation reps will be meeting with our nonprofit partners. we can learn how to move forward as quickly as we can. the goal is to get as many families into permanent housing to the authority or subsidies before christmas. it is a very aggressive time line. we recognize that. we have referred -- we will refer 25 to 30 families today to the hamilton subsidy program. that is already in motion. with the 51 families processing on tuesday and the 25 to 30 that we are referring to the subsidy

we pulled out the ledger, you know, with like the official city ledgeser of moving houses. there were tons of them. i don't know, at some point it just kind of petered out and somebody moves a house like once every 15 years now. >> so we in our digital age,

i also want to thank all the city officials whose support has been instrumental from the beginning. criticized, but i can't think of a better, more fitting expression of what it means to have the strong support of mayor lee and the board of supervisors with a cause that matters so deeply to california and the nation. we will take your questions shortly, but the mayor and members of the board have some additional obligations. i want to give them the opportunity to say a few words haland express their thoughts. [applause] >> thank you, dennis. i have often said this is the year of the dragon, and that means you have to confront your challenges. what a way to confront this challenge that has been with us for some many years. this is the greatest opportunity i have seen, it is one that i truly am celebrating with the city family, but i most want to thank the people that have battled this for some years. on behalf of all families in the state of california, and this is a family issue, one that we felt we were on the right side of history for some many years. without hesitation, i want to

tomorrow, phil mendelson will question city officials about the status of the alcohol program during a council city hearing and how far off it might be. >> they acknowledge the urine samples return dubious results. >> reporter: that's correct. the chief toxicology for the city acknowledged the results can fluctuate high and low and there is -- it's not as accurate as a blood test or an intoxa letter, the results from the breathalyzer, should say and they not accurate. what they do is recommend a police officer has to witness the behavior of the person long with the results, brian. >> paul wagner tonight. >>> a prince georges county councilwoman walked away with a written warning after getting busted going more than 100 miles an hour on the beltway. karen tolls was caught doing 105 in a 55 and driving a county vehicle when she got caught over. the prince georges county police confirm one of the officers issued tolls, a written warning for speeding and gave her a $90 ticket for an unsafe lane change. >>> the news edge of virginia now. the pain at the pump is felt more than usual these d

i asked that our city officials of hold city laws regarding our sanctuary status. our city has two decades of laws on our books in support and project support of safe and legal access to cannabis, evolving from the aids crisis. 16 states have fallen in our footsteps. our city has a medical cannabis task force comprised of legal experts. this major media attention and concern, as this also affects a leading contributor to the general fund. we asked the mayor to step up, speak up for the patients. thank you. >> my name is denise story. herbal medicines are under attack, and so are the commons, which covers public space and libraries. the dea and drug companies seem to want their bill money back. they miss it. we, the people, have seen victims of casualties of election-time politics. the middle class are mainly liberal. we need to preserve the middle class, what is left of them. i worry about increasing corporate control of government and vulture capitalists eroding our democracies around the world, privatizing to serve their own interest, buying our government. they

. >> it is time to start our official press conference. this involves city officials and it is about the city's commitment to grain transportation. without further ado, i want to introduce the honorable mayor ed lee of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you, everybody, for being here this morning. it is a joy for me to be here with you today at yellow cab to celebrate an accomplishment that i think the city will be proud of. i have been this city administrator for quite a number of years. i really enjoyed hearing the goals that then mayor gavin

saw were similarities, and it was impressive to learn the meeting with dutch planners and local city officials that amsterdam and san francisco -- i will focus on amsterdam because that is where i spent most of my time, but these cities are very similar. similar populations, similar population densities. they are laid out very similar in terms of residential density. we're centers for strong regional economies, similar in economic drivers. tourism is number one. viking is part of their tourism. also big finance, creative technology, that as part of the economic driver. also big similarities in terms of cultural or political persuasions. we are a population that values environmental sustainability. it values and social equity. we are cities that understand the benefit of the greater good , and are places where sometimes we are out lyras for the rest of our country. there are places that can be models for the rest of our country. in our cities, i can't talk about it without addressing the flat this issue. as flat as amsterdam is, when you are riding on a really heavy by with no barriers over cou

the other person you see is a city official. what she is pouring in cortes' mouth is cinnamon. you can hear people laughing in the background as martin runs out of the room. reportedly vomits in the bathroom. >> then they go and post the video. >> you think they would be smarter than that. >> at the beginning of the video, you hear him introducing himself and laughing along with everybody else. >> this is tez. he will do the cinnamon challenge. >> you get a sense that he is going along with the game. but it wasn't only this video that the officers posted. in this video, we're seeing police captain jimmy johnson boxing with mark. >> okay. nerve mind martin's mental capacity what are they doing goofing around on the job on city property like this. >> i'm not putting the mental capacity aside. even if somebody seems compliant, if they have diminished capacity you have to treat them with care. >> the community reacted immediately. because of this, jimmy my john was fired, the police chief was fired and two other city officials. there are two other videos of the police officers payi

drew a hard line at oakland's industrial growing warehouses, threatening criminal prosecution of city officials if necessary. the city decided to put the pot production plan on hold. not long after, the we grow pot superstore in oakland, which had opened with such fanfare just six months earlier, closed its doors. the politics of pot are, for now, at a stalemate. but the state's marijuana marketplace, legal and illegal, is still thriving. >> you can see that large patch that's vacant here. that was all weed. >> montgomery: a few hours south of oakland, among these vegetable fields in the state's central valley, drug agents say pot production is now booming right in plain sight. >> they're drying some in that white truck right there and they're processing stuff, but that's pretty much all that's left. >> montgomery: bill ruzzamenti was a special agent with the dea for 30 years, and now runs a federally-funded drug task force in california to seek out and seize illegal marijuana and eradicate the grows. >> can you open it up? sure. open that up, too, if you don't mind. can i... i'm going to take

making sure everyone is recognized, that we have our education institutions reflect that, our cities, officialto have worked with so many leaders of the arab-american community. the business leaders have done very well here. knowing, also, the challenges that you face -- i also know there are so many examples of arab-american leadership in the technology world. just look at silicon valley and see how successful arab- americans have been. we are now recruiting those very companies to come to san francisco to make sure that we work with you for job creation. i am also very excited about so many small-business owners who are of arab-american descent. you have done so well in working in all of our different neighborhoods. i want to continue working with you. i also want to work with those leaders who have been in the cultural world. thank you very much for your contributions. [applause] and i also want to work with people like michelle and the arab film festival. thank you very much, michele. my wife, anita, has really loved going to those film festivals, too. [applause] that's why i want to signa