it was only a matter of putting the pieces, the final pieces together. >> reporter: alice sims father who spoke with us 12 years ago about losing his only child says tonight he's glad for the arrest finally. he says he misses everything about alice, but he's been busy raising her son. a baby then, now 13. >> i have a grandson to raise up, so that made -- that gave me something to do. >> how is he? >> he's fine. >> reporter: the murder charges against raymond wong carry special circumstances killing for financial gain which rules out bail. so police say they won't be losing his again. we're live in martinez, debra villalon, ktvu news with the end of the year just two days away we wanted to take a look at homicide totals in the bay area's three largest cities. here's what we found. san jose has seen a huge increase reporting 38 homicides compared to 20 last year. and if authorities included two people killed in san jose state that number would be 40. this is san jose's highest number in 15 years. oakland has totals 102 killings so far compared to 92 last year. that's an increase of abou

it was only a matter of putting the pieces, the final pieces together. >> reporter: alice sims father who spoke with us 12 years ago about losing his only child says tonight he's glad for the arrest finally. he says he misses everything about alice, but he's been busy raising her son. a baby then, now 13. >> i have a grandson to raise up, so that made -- that gave me something to do. >> how is he? >> he's fine. >> reporter: the murder charges against raymond wong carry special circumstances killing for financial gain which rules out bail. so police say they won't be losing his again. we're live in martinez, debra villalon, ktvu news with the end of the year just two days away we wanted to take a look at homicide totals in the bay area's three largest cities. here's what we found. san jose has seen a huge increase reporting 38 homicides compared to 20 last year. and if authorities included two people killed in san jose state that number would be 40. this is san jose's highest number in 15 years. oakland has totals 102 killings so far compared to 92 last year. that's an increase of abou

pinol police say the break in alice sims murder came on december 19th after vong arrived from a long stay in china. police found in links tieing him to the murder and arrested him on sunday. >>> today the supreme court help for the government's plan to shut down redevelopment agencies to put a dent in the state's budget troubles. ken pritchett live in san francisco, ken obviously not everybody is happy about this. >> reporter: that is true, mission bay where we are right now is an example of a place that has received a lot of redeveloped money over the years. san francisco says the redevelopment projects are responsible for about half of the affordable housing units in this city, so it's end will impact this city and cities across the bay area and california. it is a project 11 years in the making. an over all investment of $500 million, this is the union city station district project. >> the plan calls for 1,900 units within a quarter mile of the b.a.r.t. station. >> reporter: mark evinof with the city's redevelop agency says it took property with no value and turned it into somethi