dozens of officers from camden and nearby cities are now setting their sights elsewhere. rapheal martinez was forced to turn in his badge less than a year into service. >> it may be what is meant for us. >> leonard keeler is recruiting here in camden, part of an effort to hire 200 new officers over the next 18 months. >> for us, the bottom line is, it's simple. they need jobs, we need officers. >> reporter: they are veterans with varying years of service, but every one of these men and women faces the same recruiting process, and each new hire will have to begin again at nashville's police academy. >> i'm still waking up every morning and looking at what would have been my schedule, okay, would i have been at work today. >> reporter: the city's crime rate has spiked, 15 shootings, the police union says, nearly a 50% jump over the year before. >> the ultimate solution would be the city, the mayor getting their act together and bringing back all the police officers that they've laid off. >> camden's mayor says the officers wouldn't accept lower salaries, the charge the unio

drive and out of camden drive. this would be a right turn in and a right turn out. it would increase the permeability of the site, and it would address the concerns of the commercial viability of that long-time shopping center and the small businesses located therein. second on follow-up issues, we've heard many, many comments about seismic safety of new construction. i don't want to spend a lot of time on this. two important points i think are worth hearing here. the first is, of course, that any new construction under the california and san francisco building code would be held to the highest standard of seismic safety. it is impossible for our department of building inspection to improve anything but the most recent seismic standards. secondly, and i think this is more important, this particular area in the city is probably one of the best from a liquifaction perspective. as many of you know, a substantial core downtown is in a high liquifaction risk area. we approve high rises that are for the most stringent pe

camden gets a bad rap too. you're from camden.the thugs are, that's where the killers be. if i came from there, you know, and i think i'm pretty well rounded, i think i'm, you know, modestly intelligent, and i'm -- i love my work ethic. i'm a hard worker. if i come from there, i know that others like -- like me are there too. if i can create something that will expand their mind, you know, get them excited about living, then that's what this foundation does. >> what are some of the programs that you all offer young people? >> well, we've been offering a scholarship program. it's not completely scholarships where we pay your way. we say, the phrase is, i don't know if i can actually say that out loud, my idea is, you don't throw pearl to swam. if you're working hard and making grade but you can't afford your books this semester, i got you. we're going to help you out. if you're working hard and you're making your grades and putting forth the effort but you can't afford dorm fees, we'll try to help you out. that kind of thing. >> li

if you want to eat in camden you have either church's fried chicken or doughnut shops.reece and sugar. food desert. you can go to a cold out areas of west virginia, and it is the same. these post industrial pockets, as our society is reconfigured by corporate forces into a knee of feudalism will only expand. it is incumbent upon us to wake up, understand what these forces are doing to the environment and that corporate capitalism, which is distinct from the penny capitalism that existed in the farm town where i grew up where farmers would come in and have a market and sell their vegetables and fruit. it is distinct from the regional capitalism of the small-business owner who has a factory or a hardware store and lives in the town and sits on the school board. corporate capitalism is something else. it is super natural that destroys like a parasite the host state that allows it to thrive, which is what nafta is. now we are watching large-scale factory closures over the border in mexico as these industries moved up, move overseas and to the cut rate embrace of china or vi

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camden new jersey is this second most dangerous city in the country you didn't see many cops on the streets to begin with and now. the city's had to lay off nearly half of their police force in detroit a city where people have been too broke to bury their dead the city's too broke to repair dying infrastructure to fix roads or lights in the desert state of arizona cuts have been a matter of life and death. governor jan brewer taking a lot of heat over the death of another transplant patient after the state cut funding for the operations here in new york city huge piles of garbage like this one are all over city streets this city's behind on picking up trash after getting behind cleaning up after our snowstorm now public officials blame that on any number of reasons but one accusation that keeps coming up is this is the result of budget cuts cuts have consequences you can't just sort of cut there isn't enough wasteful spending so to speak to cut your actually do have to cut services that people depend on just analysts say the slashing will amount to an increase in unemployment and a lowering

and camden, new jersey is a great example. we have a tremendous mayor right there that is in the thick of a battle for her life because that city can't afford its police department. they have had to cut nearly half of it. but they're thinking of innovative ideas. and this is where the mayor is saying why don't we disband the city police department, create a regional policing operations where we can create an entirely new contract that is much more in line with affordability, but also creates more public safety on our streets. so these are the kind of outside--the-box ideas that folks are going to have. but i get articles every day. fresno, you know, new york city, almost 60% of our cities right now are making major cutbacks in public safety. and we know that cities live or die on their crimes recuperates. this is why newark for three years was pushing it down. but it really to sustain that in these economic times is going to be difficult. >> and in the face of unemployment. >> absolutely. >> it continues to persist. what are y

times reports that in recent months the clip clop of police hooves have been silenced in newark and camden new jersey and san diego in california in tulsa home and in boston massachusetts as well many people many police departments say that the cuts by city hall have hurt their efforts to do their jobs so police department say the mounted patrols. our valuable tool especially when you're dealing with large crowds they claim that one mounted officer is effective than ten officers on foot because well from that high up they can see a large portion of a crowd pleaser bartman say that horse patrols are very popular with the public now critics say the keeping horses isn't a good use of taxpayer money when you might have to lay off officers to balance the budget so i guess that they have a point has a horse ever solve the murder case now in new york city the police commissioner says that there's a big he is a big defender of the mounted units he pointed out two mounted officers were in times square last may when vendors alerted police to a smoking s.u.v. that was ready to explode now the officer

once again yelling again, camden got hot with birdies at six, four and nine.birdie, and this puts the pressure on kimer. kimre has a shorter attempt for birdie. he was up three by the time he got to 16 and only needed two put from here for the win. kime rex concede the short one after that. donald had a the win without pushing the drive. tiger woods is ranked fifth. >>> cari web won the tournament in singapore for the win. >>> that will do it for this late sunday's sports wrap. have a good evening folks. >> that's unusual, no tiger woods. >> yeah. >>> be sure to join ktvu morning news, they'll have the latest on the search for the man in san francisco. >> and as always, ktvu.com is always on. and mark, is

developer with united workers tackled a public baseball stadium a victory tonight at camden yards but we're not talking about the orioles and successfully raise wages from four fifty to eleven thirty in our. across the country workers are leaving the unions behind last year unions lost ten percent of their members the largest drop in twenty five years unions are less powerful right now and less sort of willing to shake up the apple cart instead workers are organizing themselves to push for reform and no unions means no bloated hierarchy no an affordable dues no close ties to washington at the expense of real pressure for reform i believe the unions in virginia tenants of workers united has scooped up workers left behind by women who work as domestics day laborers probably taxi drivers who are considered independent contractors all these folks thousands if not millions of folks are excluded so that bet that's another sort of piece that i do not covered by basic labor law yet they don't have a mechanism at this point for coming together the a.f.l.-cio donated more than fifty million dol

we have that camden avenue ruby avenue all getting wet. you can see the snow around hamilton. let's move up to the north livermore showing a pretty healthy cell over you so looks like light rain may be falling in your neighborhoods and the altamont pass. so far i don't think there's been any problems with the pass with traffic but we'll touch with frances and make sure that is connect. around the bay shore and out to the coast we have mid-30s in the north bay valleys and upper 30s, low 40s the east bay valleys. a chilly rain today. that's our first highlight. best chance of that falling in the south and the east bay. all right. showers. we'll have those again tomorrow with some thunder and hail. looks like it will be dry and chilly for sunday. a look at the rainfall about 2:00 this afternoon. takes over about two-thirds of the bay area. the north bay the least likely area to see the steadier rain but you still could have a scattered shower. may make 50 around oakland and palo alto. the monterey bay it's raining now. going to continue to rain all day and your higher elevations

camden and half of the police department. so be it. this is how things happen you people don't understand it. i don't according to the speaker. he understands it. the city of my home state. how long ago were you laid off? . these guys are tough guys, let me tell you i was laid off january 18. friday will make a month that 60 of my fellow firefighters were laid off. i want to thank congressman pass quell and the democrats that makes this possible. camden right now, this has got to be the worst time. all the democrats working so hard. you cannot put a price on people's lives. the cuts cannot be so harsh. thank you that you see to it. someone's lives by me getting my job back, i'll continue with public safety and to be able to save lives. thank you. [applause] the safety of our citizens. i serve on the homeland security committee. we call it home town security. you need firefighters and policemen to provide that security. it's a core mission. the other is to reduce our deficit. how do we do it. do we do it responsiblily or cut blindly? i

by restoring cops funding for cops hiring grants, camden and other municipalities all across the country could get grants to cover the three-year cost of rehiring officers they were forced to lay off or hiring new officers they need but have been unable to afford. after three years when the economies expected to be in much better shape these municipalities would be required to take on the cost of these officers. while i support the gentleman's amendment, we should restore funding for the cops program, i am deeply concerned about the offset the amendment relies upon. mr. schiff: nasa's cross agency support account funds for many of the vital efforts for nasa's centers across the country. currently there is a backlog of deferred maintenance needs at nasa facilities and this backlog has been growing at a rate of 9% a year. growing funding will only make 2345sa's backlog worse and impede nasa's mission. we need to support cops hiring at adequate levels and hope by the end of this process we can find a way to do that. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time.

for the spectator slowdown for 101. 280 south bound not much better. 101 and 280 jamming and 85 at camden 101 at 85 causing distraction. >> thanks, mike. firefighters are shocked that no medical workers were on hand when a man collapsed and died at a mayor athan. firefighters who were running in the half marathon say there were no medical staff or life saving equipment near the finish line. the firefighters say they tried to revive the man and claim that they waited 22 minutes for a city ambulance too arrive. no one on the scene identified themselves as a medical worker. event organizers say emts were on line and they tried to help the runner within five minutes but he collapsed and died. more coming up in a half hour. the "today" show returns in less than a minute. >>> 8:00 now on a wednesday morning. it is the 9th today of february, 2011. what a pretty shot from the top of the rock here in rockefeller center, looking a little bit south over manhattan island, the empire state building and lower manhattan in the background. the hudson river behind that. a pretty, pretty day. although it i

also in san jose, northbound 85 at camden avenue the right lane remains blocked, heavy there.n san jose, here's a live look at northbound 280 right there by the 880 interchange. this is our typical commute. it continues slow all the way out towards cupertino. and let's take a quick check now of traffic heading out of san francisco. look at this camera showing you a live look at traffic near the central freeway. southbound 101 jammed from interstate 80 all the way to sierra point parkway, where we had an earlier accident that's now cleared off to the right shoulder. that's your traffic. here's lawrence with a check of your forecast. pushy, pushy, lawrence! [ laughter ] >> all right. outside chilly right now but looking great. we have a whole lot of sunshine right now, mount vaca cam looking fantastic out there. by the afternoon, going to stay that way all day long. the winds not going to be as strong today so it's going to feel good, too. still chilly 38 in livermore, 39 in concord, 34 in santa rosa. in the afternoon, we'll bring in some 50s and 60s. ,,,,,,,, >>> welcback >>> w

she had toured the country before camden yards and it landed in pittsburgh.re's what willa cather thought of it. she said of the lead actress, never was olga so absolutely unique or original exception or finished or brilliant in execution. okay, here's our third name, buffalo bill cody. and how often you go to the speech we have henry ward beecher and buffalo bill cody in the first paragraph. buffalo bill cody, we all know who he was, a showman of the west. he was also a man with a heart, and he fell in love with, frankly, a nasty little piece of work named catherine. he thought she was talented. no one else did, and he dropped about $70,000 trying to make her a star. she eventually dropped him, what i refer to as the obscure actress lottery by marrying the younger son of the great railroad baron. howard coulda family was so appalled by this connection that they invoked a clause in jay gould's will in which they stripped her half of the fortune. it's not uncommon in such cases this marriage was later followed by this divorce, and hummel acted for catherine cl

the next call comes from robert, in camden, new jersey. caller: thank you for letting me speak my mind. the problem that we are having with the influx of the bedbugs is attributed to other countries that cannot control it, and when those people travel over here, we are getting a lot of it because of that. guest: there are a lot of cultural differences. there are countries where the folks are not bothered by them. they have bigger problems on their hands than bedbugs. we think international travel, and increasing affordable international travel, has contributed to the reemergence of bedbugs in our country. certainly, it is -- there were reservoirs of bedbugs all of these years that we did not have them the in any great numbers in our country, but there were reservoirs around the world. somehow, they have been transported into our country, and have started what now becomes quite the epidemic. host: wayne white we are identifying it as an entomologist. we have referred to as a doctor. is an entomologist a doctor? >> i am not a doctor white. i

>> we provide funding to make sure we can keep cops on the beat in camden, new jersey.it is not either/or. we have tried to preserve funding for the cops program. why are we supporting the training of police in afghanistan? to withdraw troops, afghanistan will need the ability to protect itself so we are not put at risk and that is part of our plan. >> i was talking about the security in our own country. >> we have witnesses in high demand and want to make sure every member gets a chance. please reduce your questions to four minutes each so we can accommodate everybody. >> i was going to object because it was my time variant [laughter] . [laughter] we need to get taller or you guys in the front row need to get shorter. i find myself leaning forward a lot. i have three areas i would like to ask you about. looking at your budget, you basically keep 80% of the bush tax cuts for about 95% of the people that receive them. does that suggest that you don't think those went to the rich, particularly, and two, that you see them as having been and continuing to be beneficial for

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discussing the cops program earlier this evening, last night, they were talking about what happened in camden, new jersey 3 -- new jersey. they're laying off half the fire department, half the police department. don't we have some responsibility in this? and by the way, that part of homeland security which protects the nation and protects them through our first responders since they're the first people there, god knows when a catastrophe occurs, what, are we putting the brakes on them? are we going out on recess? these are the lines between us and perhaps disaster. we cannot -- much of the equipment that was bought in the fire act, competitive bidding, much of that equipment saved lives already. most of the firefighters, all of the firefighters that were hired, because we wanted to give some in every town an edge when they were down below the ranks, those firefighters saved lives. we need bipartisan support on this amendment. it's good for america and it works. no one has questioned that this evening. thank you. the chair: the gentleman yields back? mr. pascrell: i yield back. the chair: the