. >> reporter: city council president bruner told us that city hall would close at 6:00 because of the concern of safety of staff. with the way people have been talking since the sentencing, a peaceful protest tonight is seeming less likely. >> they burned down oakland, i wouldn't give a dam because something needs to be done to get these people's attention. black people in general, we're tired. >> there's some sort of issues with the police department against black youth. what else can it be. that i've known since the day i was born. we need to do something to stop this because this is unacceptable. >> reporter: right now you are looking at a picture of 14th and broadway the intersection that police tell me last time around, last time they had rioting, the rioters had actually taken over, actually group had taken over that intersection by the pheuld middle of the afternoon. they believe since that hasn't happened yet, they believe jeff thomas from the police department told me he believes it won't be as that this time around. oakland police -- department hoping that this time around i

. >> reporter: so today's protest did draw a reaction from jane bruner who said, although the committee cannot stop these antennas from going up, they will -- >>> a student showed a text message to a teacher, parents were alerted. police were called and a lot of students stayed home. those who did attend class say the threat may have originated from a fight earlier this week. >> it's like a gang thing. they were in a fight so -- i think it stemmed from that. >> reporter: students are off next week for the thanksgiving holiday. and administrators say they hope tensions will ease by the time classes resume. >>> more than 100 bay area fifth graders are now armed, not with weapons but with new skills to help keep them in the straight and narrow and quite honestly change their lives. john sasaki is in oakland to explain. >> reporter: this is this one sign of the criminal element that lives in this east oakland neighborhood. just across the street is the lockwood campus where student school kids graduated from a program aimed at keeping them out of gangs. 100 oakland fifth graders graduated f

i was invited by bob bruner. you'll meet him in a little bit. that from hundreds of feet away. even more impressive was what i learned about teamwork in that steel mill. bob will tell us about it, ahead as part of our "work with me" series. >>> it is time. it is health care benefits enrollment time. if you're thinking of checking the box, same as last year, stop right there. costs are going up. and mellody hobson tells us how to keep yours under control. the costs under control. >> there's a lot of changes this year. stay tuned for this segment. >>> also, our last half hour, audrey hepburn. >> timeless. >> now, her family has gotten a collection of her photographs. >> admired her style. >>> and the queen of country music. reba. reba mcentire rules our fall concert series. that's our last half hour. >>> let's begin with news. the elizabeth smart kidnapping trial is back in session this week. it began with two hours of dramatic testimony from smart herself. mike von fremd has the latest from salt lake city. as smart relived her time in captivity,

jane bruner said the city wasn't taking any chances and closing city hall at 8:00. >> i think we're just taking precautions because the last rally did not end very well. so we're just getting staff home early in case there's any problems. >> reporter: i spoke to a retired officer he told me that he didn't think anything was going to happen tonight. anything was going to go out of control based on what he saw in the crowd. but about five minutes ago, he told me i might be changing that view because he did see some things that things might actually happen. i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> oscar grant's family said after the sentence that mehserle did not apologize directly to them. >> when rita williams from ktvu did an interview, allowing him to apologize, he not one time in any of those exclusive interview, we're talking about for almost a week, acknowledged the family or everyone stated he was sorry. >> here is what mehserle said during his interview last month with rita. >> i can't say how sorry i am enough. because there's nothing i can say or do that would ever bring him bac

while she understands the protesters' concerns, oakland city councilwoman jane bruner, who joined theys their hands are tied. >> as the city council we're a little frustrated because we can only look at cell towers on design and the design for this one was fine. so we can't look at it based on health issues. and that's the question. >> reporter: parents, students, and neighbors marched to the emeryville verizon store in hopes of drawing attention to the issue and getting the company to take notice. >> with the proliferation of cell antennas the last decade no one really knows what is at stake here, right? so i don't really want my kids to be guinea pigs as part of one of the world's biggest grand experimen experiments. >> i'm thinking of maybe changing the school of my daughter. that's how worried i am. >> reporter: these are not the first cities, nor will they likely be the last to deal with this issue. other cities in the bay area, richmond, san francisco, palo alto to name a few have also dealt with this resident upset about the placement of cell phone towers near neighborhoods and

jennifer bruner is ohio's secretary of state, another key ballot ground state in this election 2010. thanks for being with us. we have seen projections from you that you're expecting a 52% turnout in your state, and wondering how you're doing with early voting in ohio. >> early voting is very popular , and in fact, the president will be in cleveland today and we do expect that there will be bus loads of folks who will be going to the board of elections to vote today. and i think the board is prepared for the large number of people who will be doing that. >> questions for ohio's secretary of state. >> secretary, with this influx of early voting in 2008 one of the main concerns there in ohio was there were very long lines at the polls. do you think this will curtail some of the lines? how are you equiping the precinct captains there to expedite the lines and deal with the process sf >> in 2008, there were some lines during early voting in franklin coipt because that coint has more voters than they had planned on the with the ballot on demand machines that they decided to use at their s

jennifer bruner is ohio's secretary of state, another key ballot ground state in this election 2010.hanks for being with us. we have seen projections from you that you're expecting a 52% turnout in your state, and wondering how you're doing with early voting in ohio. >> early voting is very popular , and in fact, the president will be in cleveland today and we do expect that there will be bus loads of folks who will be going to the board of elections to vote today. and i think the board is prepared for the large number of people who will be doing that. >> questions for ohio's secretary of state. >> secretary, with this influx of early voting in 2008 one of the main concerns there in ohio was there were very long lines at the polls. do you think this will curtail some of the lines? how are you equiping the precinct captains there to expedite the lines and deal with the process sf >> in 2008, there were some lines during early voting in franklin coipt because that coint has more voters than they had planned on the with the ballot on demand machines that they decided to use at their sth