department called on the e u to boost its military autonomy by raising defense spending. state department council director lay says that sim, washington's own interest. we want a stronger europe. it's in america's interest for europe to be more capable militarily. it's important to get out to the theoretical realm, the think tank, realm, strategical, tommy, and to talk about pragmatic, practical solutions. what shall i added that european defense ministers of long pledge to spend more on weapons, but that so far they've always been blocked when they go back to parliament and governments for approval. and he also offered washington's expertise on what kind of capabilities member state should focus on. but a political analyst told us that its main interest in wanting all this is to sell more american weapons to allies. a lot of cracks within the nato alliance. and we can mentioned, we're chicky, entranced with the glock recently about with the u. s. did by stabbing france in the back and thinking over of 52 in your budget. a france to people in france are saying, but we're a major arms and we've go

but the mayor yesterday committed to helping this department working with the city council to hopefullyas potentially additional resources that we can bring to assist this department, to address crime in our city. but i also want the community to know that we are continuing to investigate these homicides. that we are following up on every lead that the community brings to us. and today after i get -- take questions, our homicide commander will be prepared to speak to the tenth arrest we have made for homicide in the month of november. so although we continue to see crime occurring, that concerns us, we want to make sure we're following up on those who pick up guns in our community by holding them accountable. that's critically important as well. so with that, i'll take questions and then i'll have the lieutenant come up and speak to the ten cases we closed in the month of november. >> chief, can you confirm the current status of cease-fire? you were talking about -- with covid. are we -- just remind us where we are. >> yes, our cease-fire strategy is continuing. our cease-fire strategy

department. the union says opd is losing about 10 officers per month and also blames the city council for defunding the police department when, in fact, this past summer the city council did increase funding for opd by millions of dollars but did cut back on a higher proposed increase and instead sent that money to fund violence prevention and social services. reporting live, bob riddell. >> such a young life taken too soon. bob, thank you. >>> the white house is launching a nationwide push to launch of covid shots for the youngest children. they will encourage more parents to vaccinate their children in that age group 5 to 11. doses for this group are being given at 10 micrograms, which is one-third the size of grownups and kids 12 and older. tonight santa clara county will host a virtual town hall to answer questions from parents. that starts at 6:00 this evening, and you can find a link to all of those details on our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> also new at 11:00, we are getting a better look at the covid vaccination rate for employees including officers. as the news reports, out of the 100 offi

council meeting. the development meant the city police department would be without any black officers. >> the council it african-americans to this department. i believe it is the first time in three or four decades we have been without an african-american officer. that is shameful. >> abc 7 news spoke with the former officer who confirmed it to be the case. the former officer added "throughout the entire department currently, there are only three black employees, two dispatchers, and one record specialist." >> this is something i'm glad residents spoke up about. >> councilman tanaka plans to ask about an ethnic breakdown to talk about how the police foe is reflective of the community. residents say although palo alto might be a melting pot, they don't feel it is the case for the police department. >> we can walk around and see what type of people are wearing a police uniform. definitely not diversity. >> recruiting has become much more challenging. with a shortage of applicants and other issues industrywide. while the city must do more to diversify its police department, others say safety matters most

council meeting. the development meant the city police department would be without any black officers. >> the council nt. i believe it is the first time in three or four decades we have been without an african-american officer. that is shameful. >> abc 7 news spoke with the former officer who confirmed it to be the case. the former officer added "throughout the entire department currently, there are only three black employees, two dispatchers, and one record specialist." >> this is something i'm glad residents spoke up about. >> councilman tanaka plans to ask about an ethnic breakdown to talk about how the police force is reflective of the community. residents say although palo alto might be a melting pot, they don't feel it is the case for the police department. >> we can walk around and see what type of people are wearing a police uniform. definitely not diversity. >> recruiting has become much more challenging. with a shortage of applicants and other issues industrywide. while the city must do more to diversify its police department, others say safety matters most. >> we are very good here. that is

including in minneapolis, where voters rejected a bid to replace the minneapolis police department with a city council run public safety department. >> decisively so. first, let's begin on that tight race where the incumbent phil murphy has, though in recent hours, added to his count this morning. john berman is at the magic wall. so it's inching up his margin. where are the remaining votes concentrated, what does that mean for where this is likely to go? . >> inching up by 67 votes. it was 61 votes all night long. you can see it growing bit by bit here. where is the remaining vote? right now 85% of the vote in. let's look at what happens when you have 87% or less of the vote in. you can see they're blue counties, democratic counties, meaning there is more votes for democrats, hudson county, new jersey city, 80% reporting in a county where phil murphy has 73% of the votes. essex, neuralgic, the biggest urban center in new jersey, phil murphy has 73% of the vote there. 72% in. as it gets closer to 100 remember r, the murphy campaign believes he will be able to stretch his vote some. are there republica

council the office of secretary of defense holding degrees from american university and georgetown. and with university of texas at austin during the bush administration he served as the state departmentnd the national security council and from stanford and the undergraduate hr mcmaster serving at the white house national security advisor to president trump and in the united states army where he rose to general and working on dereliction of duty last year he published battleground the fight to defend the free world fellow at the hoover institution holding an undergraduate degree from the united states military academy and doctorate from the university of north carolina at chapel hill. jamie and hr, thank you for joining us jamie will set the scene on his first trip to germany 1978. make it visited the site where 16 years earlier an instrument was shot while to the no man's land the former california governor and delegation also introduced berlin from what they saw under east german communism. between 1978 when ronald reagan first visited the wall in 1987 when he spoke in front of the wall changed? to use the soviet time out of the correlation of forces then shifted? >> thank you for h

council and in the office of the secretary of defense. he hoelt william inbulin, he served at the state department and national security council. he holds his degrees from stanford and yale. h.r. mcmaster was in the white house's national security advisor to president trump and in the united states army in which he rose to lieutenant general. general mcmaster is the author of the classic work on vietnam "dereliction of duty." he published "battleground, the fight to defend the free world." he holds an undergraduate degree from the united states military academy and a doctorate from the united states of north carolina at chapel hill. thanks for joining us. jamie, let's set the scene. on his first trip to germany in 1978 -- i'm quoting your essay for the reagan institute. reagan visited the site where 16 years old, an 18-year-old, an east german who tried to escape over the wall, was shot and bled to death in no man's land. they were disturbed by what they saw of life under east german communism. between 1978 when reagan first visited the wall and 1987 when he spoke in front of the wall, what had changed? how had the correlation

maybe this is again part of a longer-term project but the role of the urban forest council and the fact that the departmenthe environment you have any ups aboutthat you could share . >> does recommend working with the council on our management plan. i think the council was set up really within the department of the environment because they were not a managing department and the department who managed trees are all represented on the council but i think based on i was not in any role in the city when the council was established but my understanding was that sort of the policy group was sitting within the department of the environment which is for the most part a policy agency and public works wreck part and the puc often had management roles or by the numbers in the council was maintaining some independence by being in the other city agencies i think it's been a productive relationship with the council. we have gotten advice and feedback from the council over the years. he played an important role withthe urban forest master plan development . they also played a great role with the development of what ultim

you were the general counsel and you come to the table and you bring the department of defense's general council's view at the table and i had that feeling in the context of when i was legal adviser for the nsc or i was trying to represent perspectives in different agencies and departments in that context, so you have a responsibility in a sense, and the system, generally, the process that's been set up has been set up with that in mind that you have a lawyer at the table who is going to bring those perspectives to the table so that you can actually incorporate them into the thinking and the decision making that's being conducted and each plays a role in the sense that they're bringing forward what it is that they're buildings or offices have worked on and they're best in these areas. for the intelligence community there's enormous craft that goes into analytic work and when the intelligence community has come forward with, this is not something that somebody just decided that morning when they woke up, there's a lot of work that interests into, okay, we have a base for that judgment. we've done o

city council members who were part of previous ballot pushes in similar public safety regards not get back into office. lisa benner was among the first to push for calls of a public safety departmentcil member philippe cunningham was among those who spearheaded a similar ballot initiative last year and doesn't appear he will get re-elected as well. so we're seeing some of the policy side of things play out about a year and a half after the murder of george floyd in minneapolis. >> you just delineated a lot of messages that voters sent on that initiative and that push. omar jimenez, thank you very much. >>> let's turn to the major mayoral races in the state of new york. eric adams will be new york city's second black mayor, a moderate as well, easily defeated his republican challenger curtis sliwa. >> and in buffalo, the state's second largest city, the incumbent mayor byron brown is declaring victory. he had to mount a write-in campaign after losing the primary to democratic socialist india walton. let's get to miguel marquez. miguel, the write-in votes have a clear lead. but there is still not a winner being called in buffalo at this point. >> this is a shock and a shock back. in

in oakland, our police department increase staffing throughout this busy shopping weekend. also at the next city councilting. our administration will propose adding an additional police academy to continue our effort to properly staff. the oakland police department oakland is currently at 680 officers. the lowest in a decade. our residents and local businesses deserve safety properly staffed police department to respond to emergency calls and to prevent burglaries before they occur. we've also reached out to the chief for a statement on the ongoing violence tonight as of right now, we're waiting to hear back. to the south bay now san jose officials about lined their plan to tackle the growing number of smash-and-grab thefts around malls there. kron four's, rob fladeboe was at the event today. he joins us now live from the oakridge mall in san jose. >> with details on that. good evening, rob. >> good evening, grant. that's right. i'm here at a san oakridge 2 more robberies here in san jose to tell you about. there's also been a couple of arrests that we can tell you about and also a message here a city o

death parchment of defense, the general counsel, you come to the table and bring the department of defenses general councils view to that table and you have associates behind you. i had that context and i was legal adviser at an sec, or i was trying to represent different agencies and departments. so, you have a responsibility, in that sense. the system, generally the process that has been set up, with that in mind, that you have a lawyer at the table, so that you can incorporate that into the thinking decision-making that is being conducted, right? that is true for the policy maker and for the intelligence officer. each plays a role in that sense. they are bringing forward what it is that they are building, or offices, have worked on. their best view for those areas. for the intelligence community, there is an enormous trade craft that goes into analytic work. when i put a judgment that the intelligence community has come forward with, this is not something somebody just decided that morning when they woke up, right? there is a lot of work that goes into, okay, we have a basis for that judgment, we have tr

staffing, and for the three weeks until the president delivered, with the state department in the national security council opposed it and tried to stop it, in part by submitting one alternative draft after another, each which omitted the phrase turn on the wall. is a common where it's exit out the call to tear down the wall. there's a memorandum to colin powell, was number two in the security council at the time, and as you'll see a memorandum calls a speech mediocre and a missed opportunity. in italy, the president in attending an economic summit before going to west berlin, in italy as they got on air force one to fly to west berlin, the state department cable over yet another alternative draft and in west berlin, i heard this from can do bernstein, the deputy chief of staff who is traveling with the president, ronald reagan explained that he was going to deliver the speech as written, and then the boys it state are gonna kill me for this, but it's a great thing to do. that is the story of the speech the ronald reagan delivered on june 12th, 1987. >> there is one sign that the soviets can make that woul

departments spots to superstorm sandy and other natural catastrophes. now that he has left office, he provides strategic advice to major electric utilities, trade associations, and the electrical subsector coordinating council to help them strengthen preparedness against cyber threats. he chairs the resilience subcommittee of the department of energy's electricity advisory council, and serves on the national association of regulatory utility commissioners task force on emergency preparedness. miss elisabeth braw's work focuses on defense against emerging national security challenges, specifically focusing on hybrid and gray zone threats. she published a new book , the defenders dilemma, identifying gray zone aggression. she is a columnist with foreign policy, she writes on national security and the globalized economy, and a member of the national preparedness commissiod economy. and a member of the national preparedness commission in the united kingdom. before joining, elizabeth was a senior research fellow at the royal united services institute for defense studies in london where she founded the modern deterrence project. she has also been an associate fellow at the european leadership, a senior fellow at

department. four city council members who supported defund the police were voted out.ploded. the city lost a third of its officers. did you see what happened in seattle? seattle basically voted in a republican city attorney who said you know what? enough with the mayhem from rioting like antifa. i'm about public safety. that is according to ann davidson. we have reports that virginia democrat abigail spanberger telling democrats on a postelection call don't ever again use the words, defund the police. >> well, i will take you one step further, emac. actually the mayor-elect in cleveland called defund the police the worst label in american political history. so yes, virginia rep spanberger is absolutely right. it took the democrats two election cycles to realize this. i will say this, what happened the difference between the slogan and reality. in minneapolis, a city 70% democrat for this to go down by 13 points, reality of the constituents between a slogan and needing a cop. elizabeth: the democrats didn't mention it at the convention. the president didn't mention it i

advancing diversity and equity and inclusion and accessibility, we launched the department's first deia leadership council and as noted the first chief diversity officer. we sought diversity in our senior appointments. there's a lot of other work that is going on that i can speak to during the q&a. we've made considerable progress, but there's a lot of work ahead. we've reduced the lengthy hiring timeline and made security clearance processing more efficient, but we need to do better. our passport processing during the peak summer travel season was inadequate. i won't try to gloss over it. we've surged resources in recent months that have reduced waiting times. finally, i just want to thank the committee for the large number of nominees, over 40, who had their hearings in the last two months, but we still have 80 nominees pending before the senate. many of them on the executive calendar. as i understand it, most of the confirmations are delayed due to unrelated policy disagreements. the development and execution of our national security policy depends on having senior leaders in place in our embassies and

statement reads in part, quote, in oakland, our police department increased staffing throughout this busy shopping weekend. also at the next city council meeting our administration will propose adding an additional police academy to continue our effort to property staff. the oakland police department oakland is currently at 680 officers. the lowest in a decade. our residents and local business deserve safety properly staffed police department to respond to emergency calls and to brent burglaries before they occur. >> another big story tonight, south bay officials announcing a united front and addressing the retail thefts threatening to disrupt holiday shopping at the same time, police have arrested 2 men in connection with 2 more shopping mall thefts there. well, off, that double has the latest from san jose. >> private security in san jose police making themselves visible here at oak ridge and other shopping malls in san jose at the same time, officials pledging a strong response to the rash of retail theft plaguing the bay area. >> investigators from all over the bay area and all over the state have already begun to uncover much of w

to the staffing and for three weeks, until the present delivered at the state department and the national security council opposed it and tried to stop it and in part by submitting one alternative draft after another each of which emitteder that phase two clip printed on the wall printed they exit here's another side to: powell the number two on the national security panel at that time, and we t shall see the cas this speech mediocre in a missed opportunity. initially the president had been attending an economic summit before going to west berlin and in italy is in on air force one, the state department gave another alternative draft and in west berlin, on the way to the wall, and i heard this from the deputy chiefth of staff who wasn the limousine with the o president, ronald reagan explained he will deliver the speech as written and then he said, they will coming for this but it is the right thing to do. and that is the story of the speech that ronald ragan delivered on june 12, 1987. and there is one side that the soviets can make ithe would be unmistakable predict. >> it would advance dramatically the

and for the three weeks until the president delivered it the state department and the national security council opposed it and tried to stop it in part by submitting one draft after another each of which omitted the tear down the wall. here is one where it is x'd out the call to tear down the wall. and another one to colin powell, the memorandum calls the speech mediocre and a missed opportunity. in italy the president in attending an economic summit before going to west berlin, in italy as they got on airforce one to fly to west berlin the state department cabled over yet another alternative draft and in west berlin in the limousine on the way to the wall, i heard this from the deputy chief of staff who was in the limousine with the president ronald reagan explained he was going to deliver the speech as written and then he said the boys at state are going to kill me for this but it's the right thing to do. and that is the story of the speech ronald reagan delivered on june 12th, 1987. >> there is one sign that the soviets can make that would be unmistakable that would advance dramatically the

council meeting. but the development also meant the city's police department would be without any black officers. >> council needs to make sure we do our job to recruit african-americans to this department. i believe this is the first time in three or four decades that we have been without an african-american officer. that is shameful. >> abc 7 news spoke with the former palo alto police officer, who confirmed that to be the case. the former officer added, throughout the entire department currently, there are only three black employees, two dispatchers and one records specialist. >> i think this is something which i'm glad the residents spoke up about it because i think a lot of us were unaware. >> greg tanaka plans to ask about an ethnic bre t pdowolice force is reflective of the community. residents say although all alto may be a melting pot -- although palo alto may be a melting pot, they don't think that's the case for -- >> we can see what type of people are wearing the police uniform, so there's definitely not diversity. >> it is important we have applicants of all types. >> palo alto pd says police r

sanctions where we have the proof and evidence to do so but we rely heavily on the council of those at the treasury department and the doj in terms of how that enforcement and also the intelligence that we have at hand. on certain persons with respect to the humanitarian rights crisis that was issued by the administration on september 17th. >> senator, we are committed to finding a peaceful resolution in the situation in ethiopia. the president has issued an executive order and we continue to work with bringing them to the table but it's clear that we are also willing to use that executive order to do so and are committed to keeping you informed as we do so. >> i'm looking forward to the action and i have other questions i will submit for the record. >> the senator for montana is recognized for his office. for the increasing pressure both militarily as well as financially on taiwan whose neighbors in the south china sea and at the same time edging itself from the international pressure with new anti-sanctions laws. how does the decision not to extend the sanctions laws and to hong kong and form our own a stra

and a very interesting update happen recently a little over a month ago, special council for the justice department, john durham died in lawyer michael sussman, who pleaded not guilty. jasmine is accused of lying to f. b. i general counsel james baker in 2016, the justice departmental ledges. sussman said he was not working for any client, but the private practice lawyer was in fact working for a tech industry executive and the clinton campaign. but let's go through a quick refresher here. let's take a step back. this so called russia gave scandal consisted of really 3 scandals put together into 1. 1 was the steel, darcy a showing donald trump had all these russian ties and liked to urinate on people in hotel rooms, etc. the still not the a has been completely debunked, even the a p reported the phil darcy, a one fella braided by liberal washington politicians in journalists, is officially debunked. according to a review of special council, robert muller's $448.00 page investigative report, which is no surprise considering the dossier creator of course, diverse peel was paid with money from the hil

understand the quota system, in the 1930s, the impact the german jews because the state department was instructed his councils in germany, the people that issue the visa to come to the united states, the instructed them to put as many obstacles as i could in the way of jews who were applying for visas and you see here, that the were increasingly persecuting the german jews between 1934, in 1937, an average of 18000 pieces a year to america they were allocated for the germans because they had a higher quota and not being fulfilled because the people, or jews. so the quotas were not only happening in several legislations some of the quotas against the jews also established in colleges and universities. the problem arose in columbia where the students were singing the songs of harvard run by millionaires and cornell as run by former sons and columbia is run by jews to give a cheer for baxter street another one for - and sheeny the native were produced, the soul will go to so columbia is deemed acknowledged what became the problem on the lower east side and where they were coming from their and from columbia. he

department and the district attorney to submit quarterly report to see the board of supervisors regarding the number of cases of domestic violence, and item 4 is a hearing on the family violence council's 10 comprehensive report on family violence in san francisco for fiscal year 2019-2020, and requesting the department of the status of women to support. members of the public who wish to make public comment, dial 415-655-0001. enter meeting i.d. 2485-242-3908. press pound twice, and then press star, three to enter the queue. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. >> chair mar: supervisor stefani, the floor is yours. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair mar, for scheduling these two important items. the ordinance contained in item 3 was introduced in may. it was continued in july, and i think it's very fitting to be heard today in october, which is domestic violence awareness month. this came out of the domestic violence community where i was hearing about domestic violence cases and they weren't being resolved in a way that was protecting victims, and there was serious resolve about the state of domestic violence cases in san fr

and a very interesting update happen recently a little over a month ago, special council for the justice department. john durham died in lawyer michael sussman, who pleaded not guilty. stockman is accused of lying to f. b i general counsel james.

it would also rearrange the leadership structure of this department under the mayor and city council s would have 30 days to name interim commissioner of the new department of public safety, and the ones that are sworn in in january would have the task of of course filling this department. and we've already seen enthusiasm at least going to the polls so far. more people voted early in this election than in any municipal election we've seen here in the past 45 years. of course now is election day. jim, erica? >> quite an interesting result to watch. omar jimenez, thanks very much. >>> we are also closely watching the mayoral race here in new york city where democratic former police captain eric adams is poised to win over republican curtis seewood. errol lewis, political anchor for spectrum news, always good to see you. as we look at sort of picking up where omar left off, as we look at police reform and support for law enforcement around the country, eric adams running on this pro-police platform here in new york city, but i think it does really, you know, bring into focus what we're

and now every bureau has typically someone who is assigned the task, and we have a department why diversity council that the secretary chairs. on the recruitment issue, i have to tell you i look at the statistics of people taking the exam. and it's not a very good picture. both a gender parity is not there. the ratio between men and women taking the exam is two to one. and underrepresented communities are not signing up to take the exam. our human resources bureau has done some analysis on both why women aren't signing up and why african americans in particular are not doing very well on the test. and so that will guide our thinking on how we try to strengthen recruitment. one of our programs for diversifying the pipeline are the wrangling and pickering fellowships, they are critical. but there is and we cannot flip a switch and improve it, but we have not made material progress -- >> i appreciate all those statistical pieces of information. i've been accruing statistical information for 25 years and making the case that we are not having a diverse workforce. that information is very well situated

the chief says that his department cannot stop the violence alone council member lauren taylor, who is running to be mayor of oakland tells us that there needs to be a bigger investment in both the police department as well as non police responses such as violence intervention programs. the oakland police officers association has routinely criticize the city council for voting to sa call a defund the police. we asked taylor whether he agrees with that movement. >> the defund it movement in and of itself was about taking away an unfortunate. we have to look at how we add and increase safety. we build stronger safety net and support networks. and so it's important that we continue some of the things that have come out of the d fun conversations around alternatives to police response and putting in place violence prevention. but we cannot take away from the response that we have on the streets and that includes our law enforcement officers. >> taylor notes gun violence has been declared a public health emergency in oakland but adds it will take real action for there to be change his goals

people for a measure to replace the police department where they department of public safety, which would have been overseen by the city council. now the possible possible of actually dismounting, the police department was on response to the death of george floyd in the summer of 2021. however, the question failed by 57 percent to 44 percent to discuss if this is the end of the d from the place movement and bringing former police officer dominic either dominic, thank you so much for joining me. thanks for having me. okay, so what is the effect of it? yesterday's referendum failure on the issue? i didn't think was going to go anywhere in the 1st place. and we have to start really looking at what the says. one of my favorite sayings is. it's hard to be focused when you're confused and this whole issue with police reform. it's hot potato, right? you look at it, use emotionalism. no blame the police for everything. i honestly think of people, we were teaching our kids everything in school except for hot obey police. i'd obey the law and i will be the constitution. and when you have an issue that is that is this black and white bet