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morning, though the boy's parents will not be charged in a criminal case, we understand that child protective services is investigating and as for the boy we're told he is responsive but remains in critical condition. in oakland abc 7 news. >> there is a fame akutsed of neglected residents. you can see four suspects here that are free on bail saying they were beaten and for bidden from using toilet paper. the home operated with out a license. adult protective services found other areas. >> and oakland police responded to the scene of a hit and run hoping to find a video that could lead thom a driver. the dark colored sedan struck at 81st avenue around 9:30 last night. sky 7 captured picture as above the scene where investigators discovered kid marks leading them to believe the driver tried to avoid high cliffs. >> there is we're looking for damage in the girl area. if anyone can see the vehicle they're urged to call the police department. >> the victim appears to be in his 40s. >> and right now, traffic going on the bay bridge after a crash made it nearly impossible to try to cross the bay from san f

child welfare, cps workers, child protective service workers have ways that they look at the risk factors in a family. imminent risk is: this is something that is critical and the child must be removed from that family right now in order to keep that child safe. so there's danger to their life? there's danger to their physical life, to their safety. meaning that the risk of who else is in the household can't be controlled so that there might be something going on that they need to say, right now, we need to make this removal. but there are about 200,000-a little more than 200,000 children removed each year. whereas, there are about 3 million children that are investigated for abuse and neglect. and within those 200,000, are there cases where they are removed where the parents are having either a mental or substance use disorder? the vast majority. ivette, may i go back and kind of piggyback on what nancy was saying? you started by describing sort of what it looks like for a child who is in school and how they may present. and so to say what is happening at home in those situations, if you

kind of approach, that is relatively new, just starting in 1996, but it really takes the child protective service system and the family court and the substance abuse treatment providers and addresses the whole family. so, just as fran was saying, the importance of collaboration. what does that actually mean when you're working with a particular family and importantly what does that mean for all of the families. so it uses some key concepts about making sure that we can identify families with substance abuse and mental health problems as they're entering the child protective service system quicker, getting them access to services quicker. making sure that each of the family members has a support system, has a treatment plan when needed. uses the court, the family court to more carefully monitor what is going on in the treatment plan, particularly around the parent and their substance use disorder and the child and how the child's permanency and the relationships that they must develop are being provided for them. so that the child and the parent is seen as the unit of intervention, which is so imp

her doctor contacted child protective services and cps call the police. he will appear in court tomorrow. >>> search continues today for a missing 16-year-old girl who authorities worry might be in jeopardy her 3-year-old brother remains in critical condition possible victim of child abuse police were called to a home in oakland monday about the 3-year-old. four of his siblings were missing. three were found with a relative. the mother, stepfather and babysitter are under arrest. police opened that investigation because of the extent of the boy's injuries and evidence of past abuse. investigators are still trying to locate the 16-year-old. >>> major development in the trayvon martin murder case in florida. a judge's decision on suspect george zimmerman's new request for bail. >>> debris crews are targeting in a special cleanup operation underway right now in the oakland estuary. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> a florida judge ruled today that a neighborhood watch volunteer can be released from jail. the judge granted bond fo

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public school officials are part of a select group who must report someone to police or child protective services when there is a reasonable amount of suspicion a child has been accused. >> she allowed mr. chandler to continue as a teacher in a classroom which gave him access to a child and, an ultimately ult resulted in the molestation. the principal's attorney said she was mortified when she learned of it happening and other people knew of chandler's strange behavior but didn't believe anything of a sexual nature was happening behind closed doors. >> there is a sense of naivete. they don't want to believe this is happening in their universe. and they -- they are not open to the poss -- possibility this is occurring. they don't do what they're legally required to do. >> a quick note, we found ms. vijayendran's photo on her lin s ed -- linkedin page. for now, live in san jose, nbc bay area news. >>> new at 5:00, how would you handle this situation? a 12-year-old girl is in the headlines for how she handled thieves? the burglars struck in the middle of the afternoon while she was inside. she remai

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. >> they must report someone to police or child protective services when there is a reasonable amountsuspicion a child has been abused. >> it's a hard lesson in economics and accounting. the city college is in danger of shutting doors next year. they could lose accreditation. they are meading to discuss the future. the team that evaluated city college blamed the school spending beyond their means. the school must address financial inspablt by march 15th. they must meet the deadline to show progress. >> it was a scorcher and the hot weather is not done with us yet. >> i'm jeff ranieri in the bay area whether center. near record setting and the hottest weather so far of summer. gilroy was 104 and south san jose low 90s. here's a look at the south bay forecast. mid 80s by noon and hotter for the east bay. check this out. you could have 90 by lunchtime. who will get near 100, in a few minutes. >> home alone? not really. mead the 12-year-old girl who hid in her closet while burglars ransacked her home. >> prescription medications that pack on the pounds. the unexpected side effects you may

>> do you know if the investigation is going to include child protective services being called in? >>> the accused movie theater killer's life behind bars right now. >> they put these evidence bags on his hands and he started to play with them as if they were hand puppets. >> plus christian bale helping families of the victims. >>> suri cruise, flying commercial for the first time. the new shot with katie. plus tom's son connor deejaying in new york's times square.

. >> tonight that boy remains in the care of child protective services.e william county police say their investigation is ongoing and the papers will be due in court soon to face these charges in front of a judge. derek. >> thanks, ken. the fbi missed warning signs that might have helped to prevent that deadly shooting rampage at fort hood, texas. that is the finding by former fbi director william webster. he led an independent investigation into the 2009 attack. army psychiatrist nadal hasan allegedly killed 13 people and injured 23 others. the west report says the fbi knew hasan had been trading e- mails with a terror leader but the bureau decided it was part of a research project and did not consider hasan a threat. >>> you don't normally hear this from a car maker. stop driving our suv's. but that is the message from ford to those driving their brand-new escapes. ford is recalling the escape for 2013. those are equipped with a 1.6- liter four-cylinder engine. it seems the fuel line can crack open and set the engine on fire. >> it's going to put a nega

system in sacremento california dependency drug court brings together the superior court, child protection services, alcohol and drug services, sacramento child advocates, parents advocates of sacramento, dependency associates of sacramento, bridges' stars program, and sacramento treatment providers. parents in the program not only receive treatment, but gain an understanding of the root causes of their disease in an effort to break the intergenerational cycle of trauma. we were failing our families. before dependency drug court, we only had 18 percent of families who actually were unified and had their children come home and their cases closed out, with parents who no longer had substance abuse problems. as i went through the stars program and realized that these people that are trying to teach me about my disease have gone through it themselves. it was a blessing because it wasn't somebody who's never experienced what i've experienced telling me what i needed to learn, somebody who had actually been there and was doing the deal, staying sober one day at a time. everyone agrees that we want parent

the child is in the custody of child protective services. >>> 9 wants you to know there are new allegations of more misspent tax dollars at the general services administration. the inspector general is now launching an investigation into a reward and motivation conference the gsa held in 2010 at a marriott in arlington. the one-day conference allegedly cost taxpayers $270,000 and here are some of those costs according to investigators. $41,734 for travel, more than $34,000 to rent the venue, $28,364 for time and temperature picture frames, $20,578 for 4,000 drumsticks to be used during a drum exercise, and $7,697 on a commissioners reception which included a violinist and guitar player. >> it's still blatant abuse of taxpayer dollars and it's going to stop. we'll continue to investigate. >> that was california congressman jeff denham. his house subcommittee has scheduled a hearing into the latest spending irregularity. >>> the pentagon is taking steps to limit leaks of classified information. leon panetta has ordered the senior pentagon officials to monitor all major national level media re

say there were three other young children and the home who have been put in the care of child protective services. police in san ramon are looking for a fourth suspect in connection with a botched jewelry store robbery. one of the four suspects were shot and killed by the shop owner. you are looking at video from the scene on may 30th. it happened that the golden treasure jewelry store. police have issued a warrant for this man. under california law the suspect will face possible murder charges because someone was killed during the crime. >> a look outside this evening from the san mateo bridge. mostly clear skies and a little bit of cloud cover to. we will see the fog returning through the overnight hours. right now temperatures remained fairly mild. here is a look at the weather has lines. the fog is expected to reform overnight. tomorrow afternoon will be sunny once again in one now with more 80 degree readings. it will even get hot inland. we will take a less activist and a moment. tomorrow morning's out of the golden gate i think it will also be hovering over san francisco and ocean beach. b

she did not report a parent's complaint against a teacher to child protective services.er faces up to six months in jail if convicted. the teacher is charged with lewd acts on children. >>> we top see a lot of new crashes out there and let's look at what we have with highway four. the good news is we don't have problems and if you are driving it has been a nice drive. as we mentioned between walnut creek and oakland, it is starting off nicely and there are in problems through that tunnel. 280 southbound and 101 getting into the valley. so far it has band nice drive. >>> we have shallow temperatures and inland temperatures, it is very warm air a aloft and it is about 80 degrees and as we get up around 2000 feet. so coast a lot to fall. and port rays was hot and haze u.s. temperatures will be in the 90s to he have -- and temperatures will be -- hot and hazy and temperatures will be in the 90s. sonoma airport, high pressure is here for today and this little guy said, you know what it is 'extreme dips depending on your inland temperatures. it was a much stronger push yesterd

her doctor contacted child protective services and cps called police, police say three girls lived in the house but they believe it was soley the 16-year-old whom he abused. >> oakland authorities located a missing 16-year-old girl. they say they're not concerned now for her safety. her 3-year-old brother remains in critical condition, possible victim of child abuse. and police say they found him floating face down in a tub, four siblings were missing but three were found in patterson with a relative. the baby's mother, stepfather and a baby-sitter are under arrest. police opened this investigation because of the extent of the boy's injuries and echdz of past abuse, investigators say the 16-year-old is elijah marie johnson. >> time to check on the weather today. >> there is sandhya patel. >> cooler today, areas 10-13 degrees cooler. this evening, we're looking for patchy fog along the coast. there are mid-50s to 70s, into afternoon, mild conditions inland and there are temperatures coming up away from the coast line. 62, 86 degrees tomorrow afternoon. and we're going to start to see a

teacher is required to turn this information over to the district attorney office or to the child protective services in the process may have caused evidence to be destroyed. >> this is just inconceiveable to me an act of child abuse is being reported to her. >> it happened last october in a class taught by craig chandler. he was arrested in january after another victim's family reported to it police. since then, a total of five families have stepped forward claiming their daughters have been pollested. the -- molested. the principal apparently dismissed the complaint. the prosecuter says the principal may have let a key piece of evidence be destroyed. >> he was provided with a jacket the child was wearing during the alleged incident that had a sus spishus stain on it that was allegedly douring the incident and the

under state law, school officials are a select group who must report to child protective services whenre's suspicious than a child has been abused. . >> you can't plead ignorance, if something is brought to your attention, it's your obligation to look into it, to call the authorities, to err on the side of caution, not just turn a blind eye to it. >> reporter: the first girl who stepped foard, showed the principal a jacket with a suspicious stain on it but the principal allegedly disregarded it. the jacket has since been washed several times. >>> police in the east bay have arrested a man who sexual assaulting a minor nearly ten years ago and tonight they want to know if there are more victims. detectives have arrested this man in lovermore. police say he sexual assaulted a 6-year-old boy who was an acquaintance. detectives only learn of this last month, nunez is being investigated in -- to see if they had any contact with nunez when he lived in livermore. >>> in san francisco police want you to let them know if your cell phone was stolen during beta breakers. san francisco police now

parents came to me and asked, there are serious issues, so we have submitted that issue to the child protective services, we're working with the d.a. and most of all the board is in agreement not to renew their funds. >> they claim to have 198 students and how many teachers? >> they say they have one >> just looking at those numbers, anybody would think something is going on here. that begs the larger question, who is actually going to check the school's out to see if they are legitimate? >> that with the problem is in to be honest as of this week we have hired to additional officials to monitor and evaluate and provide assessment on all of these 30 schools beyond st. andrews so the oakland unified school district will be providing a quarterly report to the board and the public in terms of how these schools are progressing >> responded but they did not give you any numbers. >> we will not approve it and i think it is still under investigations of the bottom line is that the board of education was in a unanimous agreement that we will not support the school based on all the allegations and investigation

they were introduced by police and child protective services will move from the home briefly and they back at home with their father. back to you, laura. >> are they saying anything about a possible motive here? >> they not say anything of that information because of the age of the victim and at the 12- year-old who was accused of murdering her. we're going to -- withes iss and hope to get more information for later. >> audrey barns, thank you. >>> we're following more breaking news out of montgomery county. someone brought a grenade to the police station. this is at the intersection of wisconsin avenue and montgomery avenue in bethesda. a resident found the old grenade and tried to turn it in. we're told that he didn't make any threats, but the station was evacuated as a precaution. the drivers are being asked to avoid the area as it unfolds. we'll bring you more as it comes in. >>> nearly a week after massive storms ripped through our area, more than 25,000 people waiting for the power to come back on. pepco reporting more than 15,000 customers. dominion virginia has over 8,000, bg

to me and asked, there are serious issues, so we have submitted that information to the child protective servicesd most of all, the board is in agreement not to renew the funding >> . how many teachers did you say they have? >> they say they have one teacher >> just looking at that number, anyone would go up, something is going on. that begs the larger question, if we have these other schools, it was actually checking these schools out? >> to be honest, as of this week we have hired two additional employees within the oakland unified school district to monitor, evaluate, and provide assessment on these 30 schools beyond st. andrews so the oakland unified school district will be providing a quarterly report to the board and the public in terms of how the schools are progressing >> the school responded but did not give you numbers >> we will not approve it. i think it is still under investigation so the bottom line is that the board of education was of unanimous agreement that we will not support this school based on all the allegations and investigation by our own legal counsel in to the enrollmen

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neighbors have learned he was adopted from russia and had a glass eye and now in the custody of child protective services and so are the younger sweeney children. ron cramer is happy he could be there to answer his door. >> i feel if there are any charges against this person or these people, that they certainly deserve to let them have at it because it's -- we don't tolerate you know, unkindness to children. >> news 4. >>> drivers who use the dulles toll road are learning how much more they are going to have to pay. the airport authority is revealing what the toll increases will be for the coming years. the toll for a driver using the main plaza and one on or off ramp would be $2.75 next year. $3.50 the following year and $4.50 in 2015. that money will be used to fund metro silver line. >>> the whooping cough up demic is the worse in years. [ obama ] i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. [ female announcer ] every woman who believes decisions about our bodies and our health care should be our own is troubled mitt romney supports overturning roe versus wade. romney backed a law that outlaws all ab

so child protective services to me back into the system. >> now he is living with lilly, she grew upping him. lilly helped push david towards college, but in second grade, he was referred to a specialist because he was failing in school. being diagnosed, and put in special education helped david get the support that he needed. jerry helps him learn not to obsess over the small things, and some basic social skills. >> standing in line, standing up and looking to someone and you talk to them, giving people their space. >> it has devices in here to keep the current flowing. >> sunday davis says that he would like to invent a machine that would generate clean energy. but for now he says >> it is amazing that i am here. and i'm amazed by myself. because, despite my disability, i have risen above everything. >> david will need a lot of support to get through college, and if you would like to help him and other low-income kids like him, consideration to the students rise in the most callous of funds, go to students rising above dye packor and you can get updates on all the kids you have hel

with her baby in tow.but what she does next that lands her child in protective services. 3 3 today is 3 3 3 we are continuing to follow breaking news this morning... cal ripken's mother.... has been found... after being reported missing last night. night.we've been talking to police since this news broke around 5:30 this morning.megan gilliland joins us now with the latest. good morning guys,we just hung with police again minutes ago... this time with good news. neww...74-year old violent ripken... the mother of the ironman... is alive and well. police say they found her in harford county.right now, she is being interviewed by police... about what happened and where she went.mrs ripken lives in aberdeen... and until now... hadn't been seen since last night... around 8:15 in the ebenezer road area of essex. essex. police say she doesn't have a record of health issues but they are looking into that. we're waiting for a news release from police to come down with more details.again, the good news... mrs ripken is alive and well. any word on why she was in harford county? county?no, not ye

the $60 million going toward child protective services and awareness of the issue makes it somethingve. there is a constructive aspect. every time they take the field, if they are smart, there will be something -- public service announcements, phone numbers posted around the stadium that will show they are in the right place in terms of raising awareness for the issue and making amends. >> back to the present event. you hear the choppers. security is in place. it's tomorrow night. i'll be watching like every other viewer. this will be a great opening ceremonies. thanks for being with us. >>> up next tonight as we continue, the olympic swimming star for the u.s. team who nearly drowned as a kid. now he's on a mission to teach african-american kids to swim so it doesn't happen to them. get your cash back! oh, hi. which cash back booth looks better to you, chase freedom or the largest cashback card? oh, i'll try the largest. oh, that is too bad. apparently you don't know chase freedom guarantees you 1% cash back. 4 times more than the largest cash back card, which only gives you a quart

. >> the 8-year-old is now in custody of child protective services and say the other younger kids in the household are at least for now in outside care. in bristow, virginia, news 4. >>> there's a new push to allow a tax on people who work in the district but live in maryland or virginia. a house republican, darrel issa noted d.c. is the only place not allowed to impose a commuter tax and he's requested a hearing. issa isn't necessarily endorsing a commuter tax but says it's a bad idea to give workers an incentive to commute into d.c. but live elsewhere. >>> pepco has gotten gear over the outages after the storms. pepco wasn't the only group to come under fire. tracy wilkins reports. >> we ask the psc to defend us, to protect us, the customer, consumer, i believe they have fallen down on the jobs for years. >> reporter: what started as a tough hearing for pepco turned into a rougher one for the maryland public service commission. >> if you don't turn them around, then and i speak to all of the commissioners, the governor needs to replace you with people who will. that's what we deser

that girl reported the abuse to her doctor on monday who then called child protective services. further investigation has been going for years. domingez is held on $4.6 million. he will be arraigned in hayward friday. >>> an estimate wrong by a hundred times. we have learned the state department of corrections and rehabilitation originally estimated that two more criminals would shift to jail. they will accommodate an additional 247 inmates each year. the fellons have been convicted on weapons charges. corrections officials say the miscalculation was an accident error by the department's research office. the production of the state prison level is part of an effort to reduce overcrowding that began in october. >>> the legislature agreed to delay the vote on an $11 billion water bond measure until the 2014 ballot. this is the second time lawmakers have delayed this vote. they believe this year's november ballot is not the right time to ask voters to approve $11 billion water bond because of the current state of the economy and voters will be deciding on the gov are in's proposed

. >> jimmy: my parents wouldn't get me cable and i called child protective services on them. [ laughter really strange. i wasn't allowed, to, eat, like, deviled eggs, because they were called deviled eggs. i had to call them angel eggs. get this, i wasn't allowed to watch "the smurfs." now i'm smurfette. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yeah. >> i really know how to stick it to 'em, hey. >> jimmy: they must be horrified? >> horrified. >> jimmy: are they coming to the premiere? >> my 91-year-old grandma, who is just hilarious, is going to be here tomorrow, as well. >> jimmy: did she like this sort of thing? >> well, she doesn't acknowledge that i'm actually famous. she doesn't care. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: really? >> yeah, but she's proud of me, but she's just so full of sass. she has seen it all. >> jimmy: she lives in las vegas. >> she lives in las vegas and a hootenanny. >> jimmy: she is? all right. all right. do you think she'll pretend she had fun tomorrow, or -- >> i don't know if she can be bothered, honestly. >> jimmy: we're going to take a quick break. katy perry is with us. we'

he's now in child protective services. >>> a small plane crashed near ocean city today. that crash happened in the middle of a golf course this morning. the single engine piper super cub appeared to have engine trouble after dropping its barney and the plane's wing hit a tree and it crash -- banner and the plane's wing hit a tree and it crashed to the board. >>> a brushfire has been burning for weeks on the eastern shore has been linked to a marijuana farm. about 20 houses were evacuated. the capital of annapolis reports it's believed to have started at the marijuana farm in queen anne's county. the fire is still burning. it's now contained and, topper, no jokes about the fire. >> i'm reeling it in. we got some rain yesterday, big thunderstorms on the delmarva and we had some storms here. we went to code red yesterday, even stronger storms in the boston area. check out what happened when lightning hit boston tv station wbz in the middle of storm coverage. >> it's about to pound this area with some gusty winds, torrential rain, a lot of lightning unfortunately and, of cou

the child is in the custody of child protective services. >>> 5:04 now. 9 wants you to know there are new allegations of misspent tax dollars by the general services administration. the inspector general is now launching an investigation into a reward and motivation conference the gsa held in 2010 at a marriott in arlington. the one-day conference allegedly cost taxpayers almost $270,000. here's what some of the investigators think the money was spent on. $41,734 for travel, more than $34,000 to rent the venue, $28,364 for a time and temperature picture frames, $25078 for 4,000 drumsticks for a drum exercise and $7,697 on the commissioners reception for a violinist and guitarist. >> california congressman jeff denham's house subcommittee has scheduled a hearing into the latest spending. >>> president obama went after mitt romney's plan to turn medicare into a voucher system. the president told a group of voters in florida florida that the system would cause senior citizens more money for medicare coverage. >> mitt romney continued his attack on the president's handling of the economy.

i don't think you should report this to child protective services. i think the compassionate thing to do would be to just talk to this sociology professor, and then ease him out. would he have that kind of influence? would he be able to obscure good judgment that way? i don't think so. >> the question is to me all week has been how did this happen in a big institution? this is much bigger than a sports story. how do you get to a point in a big institution where you fail the most basic moral test, which is protecting innocence, and in this case children in your midst, who didn't have any business being on a college campus under these circumstances in the first place. how much pain do you think penn state should feel as a sports matter, as a sports program, should it be made an example of? how do you see this playing out? >> women, i think now in the aftermath of the freeh report that the powers that be at present at penn state ought to have the good grace to suspend their football program for at least a year, perhaps more, without the ncaa stepping in