fop chairman christopher bowman is here to spain. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> we know you sent a letter to the mayor saying you made a number of misrepresentations and misleading and deceptive answers with regard to mpd and crime in the district, including the patrol personnel to cover the occupy d.c. protest. i know s you said. what do you believe -- what part of what the mayor said was deceptive? >> reporter: well, what we know what the mayor citizen deceptive. we documented it in the letter. number one, the crime sun since occupy d.c. has been here. the mayor said he had no idea that crime was up. they're up in double damage its since occupy d.c. started in 2011 and if the mayor doesn't know we're having a speak in the vehement, we have a problem. >> are you saying the occupy d.c. protestors are responsible for this speak in the crime or is this a result of -- spike in the crime or how you have been deployed? >> they're not committing, the assertion is not that they're committing the crimes. what we're ta

earlier today i spoke with christopher bowman about the situation. >> we know what the mayor said is deceptive because we down thed in a letter that no. 1, crime is -- we documented in a letter that no. 1, crime is up since the occupy d.c. protests. crime has been up in double digits since october 1st, 2011. if the mayor does not know we're having a double digit spike in violent crime in the district, we've got a real problem. >> bowman says the spike in crime is directly related to officers pulled from neighborhood patrols to patrol the occupy protesters. >>> meantime occupy d.c. protests are will stay in d.c. for some of the coldest months of the year. the national park service granted them a new permit to camp down at freedom plaza until the end of february. their next big protest is scheduled for mid-january called occupy congress. fox 5's matt ackland has more. reporter: having his morning cereal after a cold night sleeping in a tent, barry knight says this has been his routine since the movement began on october 1st. >> everyone here seems to be united in the purpose. reporter:

. >> neither bowman or clap were related. he was reunited with his family in time for christmas. tonight clemens is facing a variety of charges. however police are not saying at this point why he is not facing murder charges. >>> police george's county police are asking for help solving this crime here an armed robbery of a burger king. three weeks ago, one man serves as a lookout, while two others jump over the counter to raid the register. police say this trio recently robbed a wendy's. if you recognize any of these men, please call prince george's county police. >>> we are over a week away from the nation's first presidential primary. tonight newt gingrich is taking aim at virginia as well as iowa. both gingrich and texas governor rick perry failed to get the required 10,000 signatures to have their names listed. they planned to launch an aggressive write in campaign. the only republican candidates on the virginia balance for march are mitt romney and ron paul. >>> a recent usa today says 2.9 million americans have switched their political parties. they have taken a big hit. >

dwight bowman. thank you for coming in tonight. >> it's my pleasure.nk you for having me. >> i'm sure you take all of these threats seriously, but on a scale of one to ten, what do you think as far as a reality? >> this is a real threat. the republicans decided that they were going to pass something that the president cannot live with, that the senate can't live with, and it is not good for the people that we represent. >> the government reached the brink many times we have seen over the last year or so, over issues just like this. what do you tell all the people of the american federation of government employees leading up to this on how to prepare, just in case? >> on our website or those people who are members of the union, we have a list of things that they should do and we have been repeating that time and again throughout the year because there have been so many threats. we talked to them about how they should spend -- we don't tell them how to spend their money, but they should be conservative in the way that they are dealing right now because w

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. >> for the people who voted and for each guy that made it, i feel like bowman was a qualified guy to be on that list. >> there are a lot of guys that still should have made it, but it will show you what kind of football team we have and the kind of caliber of players we have on this team. >> go bears. >> thank you and thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news.

patrick willis and bowman were among authorize visiting the kids.ey delivered toys and visited with the kids and took photographs and they made a lot of kids really happy. that is your toyota sports report. those smiles are great. >> thanks very much. "nightline" is next. that's our report. for larry beil, sandhya patel and larry johnson. keep track at abc7 news bay area. we'll see you tomorrow. have a good night. [ female announcer ] what's so great about...jcpcash? no exclusions. with jcpcash get 10...15 or... $20 off. storewide. unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save! get up to $20 off with no exclusions. we make christmas affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. no exclusions. with jcpcash get 10...15 or... $20 off. storewide. unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save! get up to $20 off with no exclusions. we make christmas affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney.

thompson of the lexington institute, john barry, formerly of newsweek after 26 laudable years and tom bowman national pentagon's radio reporter. ;v program. >> glad to be hee. >> -- glad to be here. >> tom, u.s. forces will have withdrawn from the end of the year from iraq, there will be troops based as a regional premise. how will it evolve if iraq comes off the rail? >> it's unlikely you'll see u.s. forces going back into iraq. they may go back as trainers, if prime minister nouri al- maliki and president obama can work out some sort of a deal next year. but at this point there will be some troops working out of the embassy with diplomatic training, operations. even if things start to fall apart there and that's a big if, i don't think you'll see american troops go back into iraq. there's just no appetite for it anymore. >> back when iraq was part of the empire, it was not one province, it was three and that's because it had three major ethnic groups or factions scattered across its territory. >> and putting them together was the best idea. >> right i think the only way to hold this place

. >> cris: bowman took over for jennings at the cornerback slot. a lot of one-on-one coverage on the outside. but you can't expect a whole lot more than that when you have aaron rodgers running the football. eventually somebody is going to get one-on-one. and james jones on this team is really the third or fourth threat. tonight, james jones did great. >> al: brandon saine, the number three running back. the rook ree out of ohio state. >> cris: well, we talked about henry melton earlier in the game. watch the run through. the former running back, do you remember we were talking about that? looked like a running back out there. 290 pounds. very impressive young player. they think this so much of the key to this bears defense is having that guy playing that tommy harris position that you alluded to earlier. they think they found him. >> al: third double play and three. that will make it fourth down. >> cris: that's called a got a leg and if you throw it, you're fired play. >> burn a time-out. >> al: and chicago takes that time-out. >> matt ryan and a

patrick willis and bowman were among authorize visiting the kids.ey delivered toys and visited with the kids and took photographs and they made a lot of kids really happy. that is your toyota sports report. those smiles are great. >> thanks very much. "nightline" is next. that's our report. for larry beil, sandhya patel and larry johnson. keep track at abc7 news bay area. we'll see you tomorrow. have a good night. ngs. >> that's not cool. >> that's inappropriate. and vicks doesn't live in santa monica. he's adding to the controversy. >> a diverse country. good luck. if you plan on trimming a tree and haven't done it yet, you will want to hear this. serious injuries linked to putting up holiday decorations on the rise. 13,000 people went to emergency rooms during november and december last year. that's a pretty sharp increase from '07. each year there are actually four fatal christmas tree fires a year. injuries from ladder falls and cuts from broken glass ornaments are a lot more common. >>> follow-up to a beautiful work of art here on "world news n

including police officers let's go to speed this is the other big story tonight a correspondent tom bowman on the case told me what's happening there. well so far kevin ten have been reported dead more wounded those figures come from the prosecutor general's office they are hard to confirm at the moment there have been reports that there were more dead again those are proving tough to confirm the trouble seemed to start ahead of preparations for the country's independence day celebrations kazakhstan left the soviet union twenty years ago to the day a crowd had gathered in the central square where a stage and been set up but this crowd contained a lot of people who had been there for a long time since the summer in fact a crowd of oil workers striking and protesting when hundreds of their number were fired from a an oil company then for demanding higher wages police moved in to try and clear the central square and then what happened has been debated witnesses and protesters say that the police opened fire on the crowd the police say that the crowd attacked them and that they were forced to

choke point bob bowman deb this strategically critical horn of africa because every day about a third of the world's oil passes through the straits between the red sea in the indian ocean and all the trade between europe and china pass and asia passes through the horn of africa every day so the united states and its western lackeys are pretty much determined to hang on to this because the day that the western powers the bank paper ships and the financial terrorists in the west lose control of the horn of africa they're going to this marks the day that it's the end of their beginning of the end of their empire so a lot of these things that are going on in the horn these days are pretty much a sign of the desperation we see that's facing the you know the banker ships in the west yeah let's follow up on that a little bit i'll bomb a century to uganda south sudan d r c a central african republic what's going on is it just so in the horn of africa is really the model isn't it for this kind of a corruption and militarization of throughout the continent is not some while give you an example

is that correct bowman -- is that correct? >> i work for goldman sachs for 18 years. >> up until the time you decided on november 3 you were not going to participate anymore, you have regulated mf global. correct? >> as chairman of the commission overseeing thousands of other registrants. >> it never occurred to you prior to november 3 that you should not be participating? >> i raised a question which companies to be involved in or not, and they said there was no specific reasons to participate, but as this turns to an enforcement matter on halloween, they repeated that, but as we were getting closer to about friday's surveillance meeting, i indicated i thought it would be best not to be a distraction. the hard-working and excellent staff of the agency with regards to something that could be a specific investigation of that .ndividual as well >> why would you be a distraction? you see what it feels like up here, when this got uncomfortable, the money that is there should be there, and you did not discover about until it was to

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as said by which you get involved in the olympic bowman? he said to me, imagine a boat in the middle of the lake and the waters calm. it does take is wrapped up the boat and what happens? they get vibration. he said absolutely. go out to the fire into the lake. he said that it wanted boycott is that rock. he said if you guys chose to step back from the olympic games, the greatest thing is that you're not killing anybody. you are not putting anybody down. as a man, the woman you're making the statement, i'm choosing to step back. he said to me also, imagine what would happen if the black soldiers there's looking back i'm not going to war. will america be as great as it is today? i said that's heavy. put that in my little basket. he said to me, john, you said you had another question. yes, that you can, i have another question. you said they have a letter with a bullet with your name on it. why would she go back to memphis? and when he said what he was about to say, i used to wear shades and they didn't dilate like they knew dano. i pulled my

. >> general, tom bowman with npr. could you do a little cleanup on what is left to do so far? you said you have a thousand soldiers there. you know how much more equipment do you have to take out? how many trucks do you expect to head to kuwait and also talk about what's being left behind, how much equipment, how much depth to the iraqi's want? >> well, as i mentioned, we have 8000 soldiers that remain inside the country. we are on a glide path to get it done in accordance with the security agreement of, that says we'll have to be out of here by 31 december and we will do that. the number of truck was i think is less than 1000 right now and that is really, we are in very good shape for the number of truck loads of equipment. we have a very very deliberate plan, a very very detailed process of how we go about doing that. as far as the equipment that is being left behind, i have to tell you, that every piece of equipment that is left here goes through an agonizing process to determine number one, can we legally leave it here? does it enhance the security acceleration capability