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david louie is live with the preview of that for us. >> the mayor thinks residents might be willing toles taxes if the money can go to hiring more police officers and restoring pay cuts. the reason is rising crime. >> san jose had four homicides so far this year. and a string of robberies. >> crime has gone up. it's scary. y know? thinking about safety of kids and everybody. >>ó) needs to be addressed. >> interest there is not enough offices to respond to calls when people are in danger. >> is that an issue that needs to be8 >> i think yes. everybody believe that's. >> the mayor won't disappoint and gave us a preview saying beefing up police will be a top priority. >> priority to restore capacity in the police department. we'll start working on that now with savings we should able to add officers but in the short run we need to retain officers we have. >> skeptics wonder if the mayor can fix a problem he created by pushing for benefits that cause officers to leave. >> this made the problem worse by demoralizing thephx7 >>> at san jose city hall david louie abc 7 news. >>4wk >>> we have

let's get to abc 7 news david louie live with the latest in san jose. caved?e stanldzing off camera jo. i want you to see the man behind us on camera in the white tee shirt looking distressed. he's been identifying himself as the brother of the fifth homicide victim of the year.k>: >>> police are going to have to hunt down suspects and trying to piece this crime together. we see a family tragedy unfolding behind us. >> thank you. >> the fairfield man accused of t%vcciuape and murder of a 13-year-old girl made his first court appearance today and today, we learned anthony lamar jones could get the death penalty if convicted. the murder of jan yell conway allen. laura? >> this hearing lasted just minutes. anthony jones answer td simple question was a yes, sir, or no, sir. his members of his family were in court along with the man who found this young girl's body. dressed in a jail jump suit, 22-year-old anthony lamar jones said just a few words as he made his first appearance, jones charged with kidnap, rape and murder of a 13-year-old@pc allen a 7th grader who

now try creamy crunchy hazelnut crisp david louie explains what is behind such a sweeping proposal. >ty necessary the nine bay area counties. it's sometimes difficult to tell when you cross a border unless you see the city limit signs. paul challenged business and civic leaders to think about dissolving the lines as the opportunity arises. >> what you have to do is catch a moment when the politician or a leader is retiring and say maybe it's time to combine our city management positions or our fire departments. >> he's a tech futurist. he spoke at the state of the valley conference, suggesting the bay area should think of itself as a city-state. a single entity that works cooperatively to save money and improve services. some have already recognized the benefit of consolidation. the police, fire and emts are combined and they also serve residents of monte sereno. >> they have lots of small fire departments. l.a. county costs less per citizen and they have a fleet of nine fire helicopters. the bay area has no fire helicopters at all. >>> the president of the san jose silicon valley cha

at nasa aims, david louie 7 news. >> from practicing pollution to tracking the national park.oogle now taking the street view to the grand canyon. travelers can digital explore the grand canyon from on the ground advantage point. they stuffed the are camera into a backpack quiving people 360 agree angle of the park. stunning. google hopes this do this with all national park all over the country. even in the world as well. great idea gives you unique view of the parts you haven't seen before. >> cool. i like tonight what's is cool weather right now and the weather man spencer. >> it gets no cooler than the weather conditions that's for sure. here's a live view from the high definition roof top camera at abc 7 along the embarcadero along the lit up bay bridge the light is up under clear sky tonight and another illustration of the clear sky in our live doppler 7 hd radar image. no cloud in the sky. no precipitation in the area. we have temperatures beginning to drop a bit. it's cool overnight. not cold. we have temperatures right now 42 degrees in fairfield. 46 at napa. right aro

that is where david louie is for us. david? >> we're at the vista point. you can see behind me is that some snow is starting to felt. but a couple hoursing ayork the storm that came through was enough to set off lots of snow and to cause snow to accumulate here at the 2000 foot level. >> if i just came up to see what it's like. >> robert couldn't miss out on the novelty. >> i think it's awesome. i came to check it out. >> he arrived in time to see a winter wonderland unfold between 11 and 11:30, snowfall became heavy, slush covered by a blank yismt snow plows are out in force to keep sclin boulevard open. but the snow covered the road, again. >> i'm okay but if you don't have four wheel drive you have >> i heard it might get a dusting but this is sitting on the ground. it's fun, though. it's nice. >> the face reflected how puzzled he was by the flakes. he had a smile from time to time and got used to this new experience, mom tried to acquaint him with how to make a snowfall. he will soon catch on joys of a snow ball fight. or others there is a time to take

abc 7 news david louie is live in san jose to explain what is behind this sweeping proposal. david? the cities operate their own separate police and fire stations but budgets get tight it's suggestsed they should consider consolidations to improve services and that the nine counties or beyond should consider rate praiting as a single unit. >> there are 101 cities in nine counties. it's sometimes difficult to tell when you've crossed unless you see city lines. >> what you have to do is catch the moment when a leaderki is retiring saying maybe it's time to combine our fire departments. >> he suggested the bay area should think of itself as a city state working while saving money and improving services. some benefits, police fire and los gatos police serve residents. >> bay area has six million people. >> l.a. county costs less per citizen. they have a fleet of nine fire helicopters. bay area has no fire helicopters. >> we do as a regionin need to figure out how we cooperate and son sol dade dait operations from a public sector to give our taxpayers more bang for the buck. >> elected o

east bay are creating numbers abc 7 news david louie slif for us in san jose with more on this, davider whether index might go by a broader name. many of the jobs being created in other parts of the bay area are tech related. >> over 42,000 jobs were created in the past year, nearly 16,000 in san francisco. online gaming and social media start ups have become major tenants south of market. another barometer is a new companies formed. >> it's colorly being driven by mobile devices and the cloud. and the storage capability of the clouds. also, by software and the internet. >> income is another bright spot. per cap pit yity income inching close to prerecession figures, however, african americans and hispanics saw their incomes drop by 18% and 5% resfektively. >> we see two important populations falling behind the curve so. what that says is that we have to take intentional steps through education sis imto make sure no community is left behind. >> with jobs growing workers are spend morgue time commuting and an index found 21,000 people commute south, 13,000 traveling north from san jose.

david louie joins us live with the latest on this investigation. david?kind of attack in which the trauma can hinder what the victim remembers about the rapist. police say there is skpripgs a sketch. now that, will help them track him down. >> i can see i'm more concerned in the day. not a good thing. >> an uneasyness as surfaced across the park and campus. a 21-year-old raped and battiered on sunday at 12:30. it's close to a student yun skbrin buildings when it's shielded from view. this path located in a remote section of the campus and probably not likely many people were out here though this happened in the middle of the day. despite injuries the woman was able to give university police a description of the suspect. a 200 pound stocky white man in his 30 was black hairks green eyes a mustache and goatee. >> this victim provided police with an amazing description. very detailed. we're grateful for that and happen yes to report she'd been released from the hospital where she was taken. that is good news. >> an alert was activated. however, two students

. >> david louie is live in san jose tochl plain. david?ink about this, if you're to split off the bay area from the rest of california we'd nobody suggesting independence from california but some are suggesting we ought to consolidate cities, counties and some agencies to create a power house. as you drive around the bay area, it's often difficult to find when you cross from one city to another. technology futurist paul sapho is calling for the bay area to recognize itself as a city state. >> so it's big enough to have global impact and small enough that everybody knows where they belong in the region well. vai strong regional identity. >> transit agencies, police, and fire departments and governments could be consolidated to 3Ñ money skpb more efficient. some cities have taken steps in that direction. >> there this is not about hard boundaries but cooperation wex need to reach out and cooperate more with santa cruz down they and beyond. >> would this make sense to business leaders and politicians? >> for business, you can see a reduced la

david louie is live. a green straid zwraimd for red and gold. >> well put the 49ers stadium is incorporating sollar from the start. advances in technology andy are yaitive problem solving have gone into this planning. work on the stadium is seen where fr sky 7 moving along quickly. the site lines will be great for fans. how do you power these lights? the president and ceo of sun power know autos we've got panels on enry ways. there is going to be a leading edge renewable area. >> this is an artist's covered walkway. energy energy is doing installation. the panels will be manufactured locally by flex tronics for sun power. solar system will be a showcase for silicon valley technology. >> we're engineering it and bilgd next door. the team here with manufacturing. we built the panel then we can see it put on what is going to be the world's best football stadium. >> on game days the stadium will draw 4,000 homes. silicon valley power serving the city is building a new substation nearby to make sure the stadiu

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more from david louie. >> reporter: one of the first things airline passengers see as they land in sanling tent city. it popped up about a month ago after cal trans ousted them from stand owned land. many of the homeless moved a short half mile away to vacant city owned land. the state in effect dumped the problem on to san jos san jose. >> we are stating to lock crowded now. it wasn't as many as when i first got here and now, yeah. >> the city is preparing to do what the state did, shut it down and move the homeless without within 30 days. >> the mayor is in a hard spot. this is not the city problem her say. they have no resources to deal with this. >> the city will have to foot the bill for taking down the tents and other structures that have sprung up and the city is counting on social service agencies to find temporary shelters for 75 t 75 to 100 pe. >> we have to pay attention to it because it does get worse if it is not tended to. >> reporter: the mayor is particularly concerned the site is near public transit and it will become a magnet tore home trillion other parts of the regi

in sap jose, david louie abc 7 news. >> very encouraging news. people want to work in silicon valley but not everyone wants to live there. they would rather commute from san francisco or east bay. live picture now on traffic along interstate 80 in the berkeley area. now that drive time adds up now a new study shows the bay area traffic is just as bad as that in los angeles. in fact there's only one other city where drivers have it worse than we do. but there is a silver lining to the all the frustration. more now from 7 news transportation reporter heather. >> texas a&m confirmsg# the bay area commute are miserable. >> sitting in my car hour and a half each way is a lot of time wasted >> after washington, d.c. the bay area is tied with l.a. for worst commute in the nation. with 61 hours spent behind the wheel last year. costing bay area commuters more than 1200 dollars in time and gas. >> another way of looking at it is that congested regis a working region and that's a pretty good trade off. >> metropolitan transportation commission says the top

business technology reporter david louie explained what is behind the sweeping proposal. >> there are area counties. sometimes difficult to tell when you cross a border unless you see the city limit signs. paul challenged business civic lead daers to think about dissolving the lines at the opportunity arises. >> what you have to did is catch the moment when politician or leader is retiring and say maybe it's time to combine our city manager position for our fire department. >> tech future and spoke at the state of the valley conference suggesting the by area sudden think of itself as city state. seemless intent saving money and improving services. some bay area city recognize the benefit of consolidation. sunnyvale police fire emt combined. los gatos places serve resident of monty. >> the bay area has 6 million people but lieutenants of small fire department. l.a. county cost less per citizen and they have a fleet of 9 fire helicopters. the bay area has no fire helicopters at all. >>reporter: president of the san jose silicon valley chamber of commerce embrace the city state con situa

we'll never forget commander rick hudson, pilot louie mckool and the five mission specialists, michael anderson, david brown, calputa char la, eli ramon and laurel clark. as a member of congress, who grew up with astronauts, i have been blessed to meet some of the famloifs columbia's last crew. one of them said words i'll never, ever forget. in the final moments, columbia and her crew came home to texas. may the columbia crew rest in peace with our eternal thoughts and blessings. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. engel: thank you, mr. speaker. this morning i attended the tunall of former congressman and former mayor ed koch in new york new york city. ed was larger than life. a great mayor of the city of new york. a fantastic congressman before that, a personal friend of mine and so many others. it's generally thought that ed was the one who brought new york city back from the bad days, starting the good days. he was the quintessential mayor of new york, walking up