ballard served as newsom's communication director. his attorney said he expects ballard to be acquitted of all charges. >>> the state's unemployment development department is under fire. they are being slammed for not stopping a fraud scheme. they are asking the governor to stop payments going to inmates in sunnyvale. these five seem swindled money from unsm pected victims. they did it by stealing credit cards, mail and other personal information. >> the landlord is demanding her rent. what am i supposed to do when $1,000 was taken away from me. >> we're a small partner. me and my partner, we have decreased hours. we're in a predicament people. >> at least four people have come forward to say they have been victimized. >> coming up on kpix 5, how a storm thousands of home's been there for us all year long. so let's celebrate the holidays with gifts for home that add some style to the things we do together. find great gifts and deals for everyone at lowes.com >>> welcome back. the phesed are suing facebook for discrime narks accusing t

ballard's attorney sending us this statement.rly 8 years of continuous sobriety nate resumed drinking in april after his father died. he is now clean and sober again and currently in a residential recovery program to deal with his drinking problem in a responsible comprehensive manner. >>> facebook is taking yet another step on cracking down on misinformation. the company says it'll remove false claims about covid vaccines that have been debunked by health experts. the move expands facebook's current plans. it's already taking down false information and conspiracy theories about the pandemic. facebook says it targets misinformation that poses a risk of imminent harm. >>> all right, up next head coach kyle shanahan not happy with santa clara county. we'll show you what's happening with the 49ers in arizona. stay with us. >>> well, the 49ers are a little ticked off. today kyle shanahan confirming that the team isn't happy with santa clara county not for essentially kicking them out of the county but for the lack of communication. 4

according to napa county sheriff deputies a woman claimed ballard was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana when he pushed her into a glass door and attacked a four-year-old child. ballard served as governor new some's communications director when newsom was mayor of san francisco. his arraignment is scheduled for december 29th in napa county. tonight his attorney says he expects ballard to be acquitted of all charges. >>> also tonight the state's employment development department is under fire. prosecutors are slamming the department for not stopping a widespread pandemic assistance fraud scheme. in a new letter, nine district attorneys urged governor new some to ewe emergency powers to stop payments they believe are still going to prison inmates. in sunny vail, these five suspects were arrested for allegedly swindling a million dollars in edd benefits. from unsuspecting victims in santa clara county. investigators believe they did it by stealing credit cards, mail, and other personal information. at least 100 people have come forward now to say they were victimized. >> my la

ballard was arrested and charged in napa back in october. his wife told police ballard was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana when he pushed her into glass doors causing her to fall. she also claims he grabbed a pillow and tried to suffocate their 4-year-old child. ballard has denied the allegations. >>> well, animal abuse or normal training? a vacaville police officer is being investigated tonight after video surfaces showing him punching his four-legged partner. a vacaville man says he heard a dog crying in pain near a fire station so he started shooting this cellphone video. while it showed the dog being punched just once the man says he thinks at least ten punches were thrown before he started recording. a police captain confirms this is a vacaville police officer and his canine partner in the video. however, the captain says what's on camera may not be abuse. he says the dog tried to bite the officer and he had to act quickly. >> this is commonly referred to as a position of dominance. and the dog has rolled on its back to cre

ballard that releasing a statement today reading in part, i'm confident that my client will be fully acquitted of these charges after the da's office has a chance to review the facts and learn all sides of the story. he went on to say after nearly 8 years of continuous sobriety nate resume drinking again in april after his father died. he is now clean and sober again and he is currently in a residential recovery program. 3 former u.s. presidents want to show their support for the covid vaccine. bill clinton george w bush and barack obama are all now volunteering to get their shots on camera in public to try to generate awareness obama said today if doctor anthony fauci said the vaccine safe he will take it. president bush reached out to fauci and doctor deborah birx of the white house coronavirus task force to see how he could help promote the vaccine. and clinton said he's willing to get the shot in a public environment to promote the idea. president elect biden says he will also publicly take the vaccine. meanwhile president elect biden says he is keeping doctor fauci on as chief m

gavin newsome faces domestic violence and child abuse charges napa county prosecutors say nathan ballard attacked his wife and a 4 year-old girl. investigators say alleged attack happened in october at the kamara's resort and spa in napa his wife told sheriff's deputies that ballard was under the influence of alcohol marijuana when he pushed her into a glass door and placed a pillow over the child trying to suffocate or ballard was arrested but bail was posted and he was released. in the north bay a peeping tom is wanted for recording women in public restrooms in vallejo here's a picture of the person who police are looking for and at least 2 incidents women reported seeing a cellphone slip underneath the partition of their stall before the suspect gets away. this photo of the suspect was taken on tuesday during the second incident as he also ran away. well flags at the state capitol will be flown at half staff this week in honor of a fallen san francisco sheriff's deputy, 56 year-old lynn martin senior died on tuesday night after suddenly collapsing at the county jail in san bruno gover

ballard attorneys released a statement reading in part. confident that my client will be fully acquitted of these charges after the da's office has a chance to review the facts and learn all sides of the story. he went on to say after nearly 8 years of continuous sobriety they resumed drinking again in april after his father died is now clean and sober again. and he is currently in a residential recovery program. >>coming up at 5 as the world awaits a covid-19 vaccine which bay area county is pushing for teachers to be a priority plus 5 men arrested in connection to a million dollars unemployment fraud scheme. how police were able to track them down and the card to prove you have received the covid vaccine. what we're learning about that and the vaccine distribution process that's after the break. i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow few more clouds moving into our skies, another cold front headed toward the bay area this weekend get a little bit closer >>in our first look tonight at the new vaccination cars which will be given to everyone on

ballard's that put out a statement that reads in part quote i am confident that my clients, nathan ballardll be fully acquitted of these charges after the district attorney's office has a chance to review the facts and learn all sides of the story to the south bay now and these 5 people are in custody in connection. >>with a million dollar fraud case involving at least 100 victims sunnyvale police say that the victims for the suspects rather use the victims identities to apply for unemployment benefits through the state officers searched the hotel room of one of the suspects. earlier last month that is where police found large amounts of stolen mail social security cards credit cards utility bills and a machine used to make fake credit cards. >>these type of crimes are occurring and we wanted spread the word too. look out for these things if you're receiving suspicious mail. please report any kind of identity theft a e d if that's if you believe that you're a victim of a just be aware of your finances. take a look at at at what's going on to frequent checks if you're receiving mail that lo

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ballard worked as a back when newsom was mayor san francisco. he is said to be arranged december 29. >>> police in sunnyvale said they have cracked the verbal. ktvu crime reporter henry lee joining us live with more on this case, henry? >> reporter: alex, please tell me this crew used the names of at least 100 victims and thousands of others to rack up fraudulent claims, another sign that the scam is rampant. sunnyvale police say these five suspects are responsible for fraudulent unemployment claims with a secure vented potential loss to the state. >> $1 million worth of funds. >> reporter: the group broke into mailboxes, cars, and homes in sunnyvale and across the south bay. >> they would commit burglaries, still personal identifying information, credit card, utility bills, things with a name on it, then they would open fictitious accounts and steel funds. >> reporter: police say they are still try to identify victims whose identities were used for edd claims. >> we identified hundred victims at this point. there could be potentially thousands

ballard's that released a statement reading in part i am confident that my client will be fully acquittedthese charges after the da's office has a chance to review the facts and we're all sides of the story. he went on to say after nearly 8 years of continuous sobriety nate resumed drinking again in april after his father died. he is now clean and sober again and is currently in a residential recovery program. >>so i had aide call it a public awareness effort how 3 former presidents are offering show their support when a vaccine. finally gets approved. plus the demand for animal adoptions is at an all-time high in the bay area, >>the demand for pets is at an all-time high at animal shelters here in the bay area. it's a direct result of the pandemic so if you're interested in adding a new family member kron four's haaziq madyun has what you need to know. >>the pandemic continues to impact just about everything in our lives these days including the population of available animals at local shelters the demand is about the same. >>but the supply is low or yeah adoptions are down but intake is

governor newsom faces domestic violence and child abuse charges napa county prosecutors say nathan ballard attacked his wife and 4 year-old daughter investigators say this happened in october in their carneros resort and spa in napa his wife told sheriff's deputies ballard was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana when he pushed her into a glass door and put a pillow over the child us try to suffocate her ballard was arrested. he has posted bail and released now. it's 5.22 and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news the demand for animal adoptions is at all-time high in the bay area. >>how you can add furry friend to your family. ♪ (vo) add some thrill to your wish list. at the season of audi sales event. get exceptional offers now. we have the power to harness california's abundant solar and wind energy, but it's not available all day long. use less energy from 4 to 9 pm for a cleaner california. (vo) ♪ add some thrill to your wish list. at the season of audi sales event. >>right now and the pandemic is having an impact on local animal shelters. yes officials at contra costa animal

the next morning where they say the attack happened ballard was gone, but he turned himself in 2 dayser. he was released the same day on $75,000 bail dollars to turner released a statement reading in part quote, i'm confident that my client will be fully acquitted of these charges after the da's office has a chance to review the facts and learn all sides of the story. he went on to say after nearly 8 years of continuous sobriety nate resumes drinking again in april after his father died he is now clean and sober again. and he is currently in a residential recovery program. >>still ahead people in southern california facing a new problem along with the pandemic so growing wildfire threat. we'll have th >>for sports. the glendale 40 niners are adjusting to life in goodall arizona that's what we're going to call them now. it's not an ideal situation, but what is in this day and age of covid. >>their headquarters for the next few weeks. it's a renaissance hotel and they're the practice field right on the hotel's it's similar to that levi set up and at levi stadium that is inside the hotel

an attorney for nathan ballard appeared before a judge virtually. ballard is accused of shoving his waif into glass doors at a napa valley resort last month, and also accused of trying to suffocate his four-year-old daughter with a pillow. he said he has been wrongfully accused. his next court date is set for march. >> a police k-9 officer in vacaville was caught on video hitting his police dog. the department said the officer was correcting the animal, put the man take fact video said the officer weren't too far. henry lee has the details. >> reporter: this is video showing a vacaville police k-9 officer in training straddling his dog on the ground is punching it. >> i was wondering what could the cog have done to deserve that kind of punishment? >> reporter: roberto palamino was at his warehouse when he heard a dog in distress on monday afternoon. >> i heard a dog crying, kind of like in pain. >> reporter: he looked outside and saw the officer with his dog in a park lot near a vacaville fire station. >> i saw the officer constantly beating the dog

marijuana when he pushed her into a glass door and put a pillow over the child trying to suffocate or ballardas arrested but he has posted bail and been released now. >>still ahead on the kron morning news police arrest 5 people from the bay area in a million dollars unemployment fraud scheme will tell you how investigators cracked the case. this holiday season, it's all about the bedroom. so you can wake up in a winter slumberland. and give a little comfort to everyone on your list. the fluffiest down duvet you'll ever feel, soft and light percale sheets, a cool, supportive mattress and plush pillows, for your best night's sleep. so go ahead, give the gift of a better bedroom with 10% off for a limited time at casper.com >>right now and we're looking at beautiful live shot all around the bay of the big wall in the big window. >>looking clear sign might be a nice morning to go out and take a walk i that though like i don't know after november. i guess i just i hope that it's not as need it though i don't know john wayne sunny all day today. if there's ever december you need some sunscreen it

is going to take cal ballard 30 days for you to really begin to see a change. his life and death man there's only 3 ways out of this which is get sober which is what i pray for you on the 2nd one is his prison if you're lucky. 3rd one is. the bury. i don't know how else to say it but a memory and i can't do that said norm or as. our own so much that i would rather not see. them who are or at this moment i don't know i. really would be out of the view who i will. call to good care or not. kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids. how it feels horrible i've loved my body is a a lot. like thought process it's slow. and just about a lot of pain and then there are a lot of sad emotions in the assist i can't keep my lotions in one place. you know it's. her i just love the little bit. of our friends and it's all of us friends and. after that we in my friends kind of stuck together and were doing these pills and it was just blocking out so much pain we were so stressed out and. fighting back tears every day i think that's how i wanted things and it was just bl

then we talked about assistance of germany in ballard we discussed the visa question, just to simplifyetting visas for those who are under pressure or for injured people. >> yesterday you said less people would be protesting on the streets, that the energy is not more really there. what do you think, how long can this protest continue? flex they are looking for different ways of protesting. they are changing forms of protesting. like now they use underground methods of protesting and all this stuff. they are strengthening their organizations, their trade unions. please don't tell that to me, that the protest movement is in prison, no way. >> is there interest in mpower change in belarus? >> you know, we will have to ask russia about this. the main question is, the people themselves, do they want the power to change? they want to build a new democratic country. this is what matters. >> what gives you hope that you will succeed? >> what gives me hope that we will succeed? >> to reaching the victory. >> the people. our unity, our understanding of this regime, the violence, the tortures of

you know, i was a brand new second lieutenant when sergeant first class fox ballard took me in and taught me the way of the world. so i owe him and many others a great deal. as sir isaac newton famously said, if i have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. i've been very fortunate to have the love and support of my family as well. my mother and father, who was a postal worker who along with a number of my uncles and other relatives spent time in the military, and that inspired my own desire to serve. i've also enjoyed the strong support of my brother and four older sisters. four older sisters. most importantly, most importantly my bride, charlene, who i have been truly lucky to have by my side all these years and i am so grateful for her enduring las vegas and for her support. you know, i've spent much of my military career tackling tough issues and formidable adversaries in challenging parts of the world. president-elect biden, as you mentioned, we worked closely together on some tough issues. we have got ton know each other under some intense and high-pres

table there was in the last allow child marriage to happen legally easter basically archaic walls ballard's often legitimize them grega was pedophile. online jumping to the quick $16.18 to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there. with corona virus cases rising across europe in the run up to christmas warnings from the world health organization with a pandemic could worsen across the continent next year. hello i'm adrian for the good this is al jazeera live from go also coming up the besieged gaza strip is seeing a rise in corona virus infections the ongoing israeli blockade making the situation even worse. as many parts of latin america struggle to slow the spread of covered by teen cuba battles to keep in fact.

table there was in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls ballard's often legitimize them griego one is pedophile. online jumping to the quick fix and the team to be part of this stream on out is the era. hello again this is al-jazeera mr roger and i use this of the us house of representatives as back to 3 fold increase of direct pandemic relief checks to $2000.00 eventually to 2 thirds majority of the senate passed the house is also a trump speech out of the annual defense spending bill. south africa's president so i'm opposing has announced stricter measures to combat a surgeon to run a virus cases driven by a fast spreading variant so after it became the 1st african nation to pass 1000000 checks. the government of bangladesh has started to relocate a 2nd group of rohingya refugees who fled there from up to 1800 refugees being moved from their camps in cox's bizarre. island. the family of a prominent saudi women's rights activist said that they'll appeal her jail sentence to jane flaw was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison on monday drawing i

you know, i was a brand-new second lieutenant, and sergeant first class fox ballard took me in and taught me the way of the world. so i owe him and many others a great deal. as sir isaac newton famously said, if i had seen a little further, it's by standing on the shoulders of giants. i've been very fortunate to have the long support of my family as well. my mother and father, who was a postal worker, who along with a number of uncles and other relatives, spent time in the military. that inspired my own desire to serve. i also have enjoyed the strong port of my brother and four older sisters -- four older sisters -- and most importantly, most importantly, my bride charleen, who i have truly lucky to have by my side all these years, and i am so grateful for her enduring love and for her support. you know, i spent much of my military career tackling tough issues and formidable adversaries in challenging parts of the world. president-elect biden, as you mentioned, we have worked closely together on tough issues and have gotten to know each other under intense and high-pressure situations. si

jailers are china saudi arabia and egypt but the study also cited an unprecedented crackdown on ballard's which is seen months of unrest since its just beating the election the report noted a pandemic effect where countries used the coronavirus crisis to increase control over the media. for more that we can speak now to christian mirror he's the executive director of reporters without borders germany christiane good to have you with us 1st of all i have to ask you about the prominent iranian journalist. he was executed on saturday and that provoked an international outcry what kind of diplomatic response would you like to see. i mean 1st of all i mean it was really i mean we were shot this were part of the war is about hoaxes execution because we were expecting this and we even had words u.n. human rights commission a. list recently said about as possible it's huge and i was happy actually that we at least has. some diplomatic career mentions that an ambassador is panel at a prominent conference an economic and european conference in tehran has been canceled or the purse patient of europe

but i want you to talk about the loss of marines in the ballard explosion. you brought up the success of the vaccine by the trump administration, which must be celebrated, but it is equally played out with a tremendous loss of lives that has to be laid at his feet because of the failures of his administration. guest: you are absolutely right. i will take the second point in thethat donald trump, context of history, must be judged on the success of the pandemic, but the previous questionable actions about the operation and all those other things. for a historian must take both of those considerations. you are right. as far as ronald reagan and the middle east, those policy failures -- he did it, he did not want to do it. in beirut, he knew that the middle east was a spiders nest. that these people have been fighting with each other for about 4000 years and there was no way to bring about -- in fact, peace at that time. but i will say that donald trump must be commended for the opening of arab emphases in israel. who would've thought that morocco, for instance

where their stock is up more than 1,000 % for the year and nearly $60 billionmarket cap or how about ballard system and don't forget bloom in the morninm nerge, energy, stocks at 20%. velodyne lidar, up 2%. how about quantum scape. the darn thing more than doubled than last month. oh, let's not forget at the electric charging stories. stocks surging 2500% congress passed an alternative fuel packet credit why not? another charging station place easy come and easy go. then there is the mac daddy, quantumscape the company is developing a faster and better charging batteries, they say it is better than tesla 39% run. why not? quantumscape is $46 billion. i don't know look, i can go on and on these are a lot of names you get the picture so what's driving these? three things many of these alternative energy have novel technology that used to be too expensive. they have not been able to become real business america is about to have new president. you expect the biden administration to be friendly to green energy third is tesla this gives you stunning games. tesla makes a lot of electric vehicles an

ballard. directors, are there any comments for mr. ballard? seeing none, i will move into public comment. moderator, are there commenters on the line who'd like to speak on the citizens advisory council report? >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> wonderful. our first speaker, please. >> hi. i'm calling as a resident of soma directly impacted by the fourth street subway. i live on fourth street, and i'm -- i wanted to address some of the traffic impacts that have been going on here, and while we haven't -- we don't have the luck -- a luck of a supervisor advocating for us, like gordon mar and the great highway, the street traffic impacts right between brannan and bryant and those streets have been known by the sfmta since the project started, and we haven't seen any progress or any work to address those. the biggest issues right now are zoe street having increased traffic and being too narrow for what it is. it's designated as three lanes, two lanes of traffic, which are two way, one lane of parking, and it is only 21-feet wide.

one of the investigators assigned was veteran homicide detective mike ballard. >> we knew this could endangered person. >> why the homicide unit when she has barely been missing. and i'm sure soldiers do go missing from time to time. >> some soldiers do, usually they have problems with their units, disciplinary problems. kelli bordeaux was not problem soldier, always contacted her family, her friends, and then she just disappears off the face of the earth. >> breaking news in the case of kelli bordeaux, the fort bragg soldier missing since saturday. >> the disappearance of the beautiful young army medic was now big news and covered extensively by local media like nbc station wral tv. >> right now it is still a missing person case. there is a lot that is not known at this time. >> olivia and mike arrived in fayetteville where they took a grim meeting at police headquarters. >> what did you tell them? >> that we were hoping for the best but preparing for the worst and they should do the same thing, too. >> i remember at one point the detectives were trying to take us back to talk to us

county officials a 51-year-old nathan ballard shot his wife into glass doors at a resort last month. to suffocate his 4-year-old daughter with a pillow. 's attorney said he is now in an alcohol recovery program in a statement today, that i have spent my career in crisis communications, fighting on behalf of of the wrongfully accused. now, for the first time, i really know what it feels like to be in their shoes. i will be exonerated. i love my children more than anything on earth. we will be reunited. >>> police in sunnyvale say a burglary defrauded at least $1 million in a fake unemployment claims. crime reporter tells us the ring allegedly used the names of at least 100 victims and possibly thousands of others. >> sunnyvale police say these five suspects are responsible for project and implement claims with a significant potential loss to the state. >> $1 million worth of fence. >> reporter: they broke into mailboxes, cars, and homes. >> they would commit. release, still personally identifying information, utility bills, things with your name on it. they would open fictitious accou

one of the investigators assigned was veteran homicide detective mike ballard. >> we knew this could endangered person. >> why the homicide unit when she has barely been missing. >> kelli bordeaux was not a problem soldier, always contacted her family, her friends, and then she just disappears off the face of the earth. >> breaking news in the case of kelli bordeaux, the fort bragg soldier missing since saturday. >> the disappearance of the beautiful young army medic was now big news and covered extensively by local media like nbc station wral tv. >> right now it is still a missing person case. there is a lot that is not known at this time. >> olivia and mike arrived in fayetteville where they took a grim meeting at police headquarters. >> what did you tell them? >> that we were hoping for the best but preparing for the worst and they should do the same thing, too. >> i remember at one point the detectives were trying to take us back to talk to us more and we were walking into a room and it said homicide on the door, and i was like i'm not going in there. they were like, no, no, this

the attorney for nathan ballard appear before a judge virtually.is accused of shoving his wife into glass doors at a napa valley resort last month. he is accused of trying to suffocate his 4-year-old daughter with a pillow. he's as he has been wrongfully accused. his next court date is set for march. >>> 14-year-old girl died in a car crash in santa rosa. it happened at 1:00 yesterday afternoon at bay village circle. the teenager had no visible trauma to her body. she was under his month of in the backseat and later pronounced dead at the scene. police say the 16 all driver hit another car and took off. there were cotton arrested for drunken driving. she had moderate injuries. the case remains under investigation. >>> now an update on a frightening story that we told you about last night. the chp and contra costa county is asking for the public's help in finding the person that threw a rock from an overpass, seriously injuring a woman driving to work. authorities are looking for any dash camera video of what happened. pam burnett, that worked as a

the incident allegedly happened at a napa resort in october and ballard consumed a large amount of alcohol and marijuana. the 51-year-old long-term advisor to governor newsom said i will be exonerated and i love my children more than earth. >>> starting today, gusts with no history of positive reviews on airbnb will be prohibited from making one night reservations on new year's eve. this applies to entire home listing not individual rooms. the san francisco based company took similar action at halloween. that comes one year after a deadly shooting at a home where five people were killed during a halloween party. >>> a lot more to come here, transit trouble, bart facing cut backs because of coronavirus but critics say a decision today could actually make things worse. >>> big demand, new game consoles selling out but if you're looking for a career this could be the key, actually. >>> and movie moves, a movie studio announcing a plan that is really shaking up the industry. all of that and more as abc 7 news a but you can work out anything wowith comcast business.w. get fast, reliable, and se

you know, i was a brand-new second lieutenant, and sergeant first class fox ballard took me in and taughthe world. so i owe him and many others a great deal. as sir isaac newton famously said, if i had seen a little further, it's by standing on the shoulders of giants. i've been very