michael cardoza said $25 heart attack was received to educate voters in east and west oakland on the city's new ranked choice voting program. >> they were supposed to spend six weeks doing that. they, in fact, spent four days. shortly there after, that same group went back into the community and began campaigning on behalf of jean for mayor. >> we don't have a relationship with her. we never paid anything to go out and advocate. we went out and explained the trotters in oakland that they would have three choices for voter this year. >> monty says he believes cardoza and his clients have ties to don perata and that's what's behind the complaint. cardoza wants to make sure there's no use of public fund for political purposes. >>> californians have until midnight on monday to register to vote in the moisture 2nd election. with three weeks to go before the election, nearly 17 million californians are already registered. democrats represent the majority with 44% of registered voters while republicans make up 31%. about one in five voters declined to stay the party presence. for all of the

. >> in modesto with one of the worst jobless rate in california, cardoza faces a tough challenge from republican farmer berryhill. in the northern california swing district 11, two-term incumbent democrat mcnurney in a close battle with lawyer dave harmer. but the campaign trail could hardly be worse for what is called the valley forgot. here democratic incumbent jim costa faces sky high unemployment and a costly federal water policy and well-organized plain-spoken g.o.p. rancher with tea party support. >> costa and pelosi is bankrupting the country. the state is bankrupt already. as california and the rest of the nation goes, don't follow california over this cliff. >> here in the central valley like much of the country, the top issue is jobs. that means farm water to turn the land green again. since they're not doing anything to open up the federal pumps, republicans say the only recourse in the short-term is turn democratically controlled blue districts to republican red wins. chris? >> chris: carl cameron reporting from california. thank you for that. is the justice department sto

cardoza school of law. what do you recollect about this case, bar? >> this was unforgettable.iend from law school. it was just extraordinary. we had a -- as people will see in the movie, it's not just getting a dna test on the blood and, you know, that wasn't enough. we had to go out and we had to interview the witnesses. we had to reinvestigate the whole case. >> larry: did you take it right away off just her visit? >> well, we -- >> larry: how do you choose what you take? >> our standard is very simple. if a dna test can prove you innocent at the innocence project in new york, we'll take your case. there are now 50 other innocence projects in the united states. not all of them rely just on dna. we do, but that's a very simple standard. dna proves you innocent. we'll take your case. >> larry: simple as that. >> simple as that. >> larry: how about all the times there was no dna? >> well, that's a key problem because, you know, only 10% of serious felony cases have any biological evidence where you can do a test and find out whether somebody is guilty or innocent, much less ide

cardoza will call for the investigation outside of the alameda county superior courthouse at noon. >>> in san bruno, the gas pipeline explosion is very real and the rebuilding and the search for answers is far from over. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live in san bruno now where victims and survivors hope to get more important information today and more information about more buried pipelines. bob? >> reporter: good morning to you, brent. here we are just over a month since the september 9th explosion, and what has and has not changed. it's very interesting here at the blast site here in san bruin oh you can see barricades are still up. they still keep the public out. as you look beyond the barricades, the view has changed a lot of instead of the ruins of homes, remember there were 37 homes destroyed in that immense explosion, there is just leveled dirt lots. the city and county officially announcing that the cleanup has finished. the health department with the city of san bruno has said it tested the soil on about a third of the lots so far, at least testing those soil samples an

cardoza will call for the investigation outside of the alameda superior court in oakland at noon today>>> it is 5:34 right now. we have a red flag warning, a spare the air day and high temperatures coming to the east bay today. kris sanchez is live in oakland hills with more on the very dangerous weather we're facing. good morning, kris. >> reporter: good morning to you, laura. we are watching the red flag fire warning for the oakland hills and north bay hills as well because things are getting a bit dry. even if you don't live around this area but drive through this area, you can see that a lot of the hillsides are really dry and brown and that's because of the offshore winds that have been coming from the inland areas and sweeping across, drying things out that have already been dried through the summer. what you can tell from the foliage behind me is a lot of folks heed the warning to plant vegetation that is fire resistant. you can also see there is a bit of a breeze. that's not going to go away until friday, but the red flag warning does expire at daylight today, so we are watchin