that the board of supervisors approve the ordinance authorsing the department to receipt actively and extend grant funds in the amount of $424,107 from the united states department of justice solving cold cases with d.n.a. program and amending ordinance number 191-10, annual salary ordinance, to reflect the addition for three part-time investigator positions in the san francisco police department. president marshall: looks like we've come upon some money here. [laughing] president marshall: two in a row. any questions on this? >> i move to accept. president marshall: mr. hammer? commissioner hammer: if no one is prepared to go into this, i just have a couple quick questions. it is now deputy chief? >> no, no, no. commissioner hammer: i apologize. i have been working with assistant chief schmidt in terms of trying to update the d.g.o.'s, but the last time we talked at the tender loin meeting, we weren't clear how old the untested case is. is there anything about how many backlocke log cases there are now? >> i don't have a timeline now in terms of the oldest case to be tested, but according to our information, there are no backlog cases except for i have been told this even

recommend that the board of supervisors approve a resolution authorizing the police department to receipt actively accept and expend a grant totaling $320,274 from the u.s. department of justice/national institute of justice for the fy-2010 forensic d.n.a. backlog reduction program , action only. >> motion. commissioner dejesus: second. president marshall: public comment? hearing now public comment, then without objection the motion is approved. thank you. let's move to item number 7. >> item 7. discussion of possible action to recommend that the board of supervisors approve a resolution authorsizing the police department to receipt actively accept and expend a $750,000 grant from the u.s. department of justice/office of community oriented policing for fiscal year 2010 technology program for a gunshot location system. commissioner dejesus: motion to approve. >> just briefly, if we could have a very, very brief splanks explanation of -- brief explanation of what the shots fired system is? >> good evening, commissioners. we currently have 3.3 square miles of the city. 1.3 in the bay view, one in the mission, and one in the northern district. those areas are currently opragal. w

he also stated that the department of justice's office of professional responsibility would investigate the actions of the two officers, yet a year after that, we still have heard nothing out of office regarding their conduct. the department of justice has publicly talked about how they increased training in terms of discovery obligations, and they have issued memos in terms of what they are supposed to be doing, yet they have yet to do anything regarding the behavior of those prosecutors. contrast that to the case that occurred a couple years ago, that boasts -- that of the prosecutor in north carolina, where six months after the charges were brought against the lacrosse students, and they were charged with rape, the defense attorneys uncovered evidence in the files, and north carolina is open, but they found evidence in the files showing their clients were innocent. the state attorney general immediately dismissed the charges against those individuals, and a few months after that, he was disbarred for withholding evidence and evidence of innocence as well as improper statements he mad

the department of justice does have about 60 days to file that appeal. reporting live in san francisco, ktvu, channel 2 news. >> freedom may be very near for 33 miners who have endured 69 days underground. let's look at what's happening at that mine. these are live pictures. a capsule will hoist the miners nearly half a mile through the rock one by one starting just about two or three hours from now. it's more than one hour ago there were cheers as they lowered the empty capsule for a test. it's expected to take about 20 minutes to bring each man to the surface in this tight- fitting steel tube. >> the whole world is going to share this joy of these 33 miners and the 33 million chilians. we're going to have an unforgettable night. >> it could take as long as 36 hours to pull all 33 miners to the surface. they'll be reunited with their families before being take ton the hospital for a physical evaluation. >>> facing off in their third and final debate. it's going on right now. mike is there with a live report. >> reporter: protesters specifically, those f

citizen from the turkish government in july passed it on to the department of justice and the department of justice was in theory responsible for making a judgment as to whether it should be carrying out an independent investigation we've heard absolutely nothing of course and you tried to contact when i asked the problem of justice they refused to comment. they it's really just an aberration now tell me this too because the media when the actual attack occurred in may the media coverage was all over this that there was a lot of it we kept seeing those videos that we later found out had been edited and they were handed over by israeli forces we saw them played over and over again of them descending on to these ships and so this time around now that the report has come out why is the media silent why do we not you know this is a very interesting question and i've been thinking about this a lot and i have a couple of observations about this one is that you know i have seen a very strong tendency of the corporate media in the united states to decide what is news and what is not news in larg

our first panelists are from the department of state and the department of justice. preciate those of them being here. ambassador nancy mceldowney the assistant secretary of staty is the principle deputy assistant principle deputy assistant secretary of state of the bureau of european and eurasian affairs at the state department. she is served as u.s. ambassador to bulgaria, the deputy chief and turkey and baqubah opera by sean and has served as the white house director of european affairs on the national security council. she has held a series of posts at embassies abroad. and we thank her very much for being with us today in the forward to your testimony. joining the ambassador deputy assistant attorney general bruce swartz. mr. swartz was appointed deputy assistant to the attorney general in january of 2000. he served as deputy independent counsel in the hud corruption investigations as counsel for international law and enforcement. he was also detailed to the u.k. serious fraud office. he served as counsel to the assistant attorney general and if a law clerk to ju

then yesterday the department of justice asked the judge to say her ruling so it would go back into effectwhile all this is going on service members who are gay and lesbian are really confused about what they should do. we had one in texas try to re-enlist and was turned away. gay rights groups are warning service members not to come out because it is in flux and no one's really certain if the policy, because it's going to be appealed and probably will make its way to the supreme court, if the military can still do this what happens. no one really knows. and at the same time you have congress and the president still trying to figure out how to deal with this legislatively, and it's been kicked into the lame duck session that will happen in late november. >> belva: why did judge phillips -- it was sort of a surprise to everyone -- act in such a way that would say to the entire universe here, this policy is not to be enforced? >> because it's pretty no -- common sense ruling. everybody out there is saying that this policy is bad, from the president to congressional leaders to republicans in

choice of form has been a subject of debate for some time the this is a manipulation by the department of justice and those trying to prosecute these people in terms of choosing form or form shopping and trying to select certain localities that will ensure the greatest chance of conviction and the greatest amount of punishment so that they can demonstrate to the american public that there are successful ways to to prosecute these people the problem is that it's all built upon intelligence gathering not criminal justice it's all based on or a lot of it's based on tortured evidence that was. gained and you know there really is no way out of this mess and to try they're trying to force the hand of you know the u.s. government the the the article three court to pursue this and i think what's going to happen it's going to backfire because they're going to find the tortured evidence is not admissible and the government's not going to have the case that they thought they had right let's talk about this particular case. but with regard to the witness problem of the moment but you mentioned a whole bunch

. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasa's shindigs. i cracked down because big government shouldn't be funding big banquets with your money. some people say i'm a bit of a tightwad. i say, i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. >>> it's breezy. normal high is 66, 67. today it's only around 60. take a look at temps. it's 60. oakland at 41 degrees. as i mentioned earlier, up in snow shoe, west virginia, they had service for a hue hours this afternoon. 50 in cumberland. 62 in washington. 62 in ocean city. 56 in packs river. they picked up an inch and a half of rain. baltimore region a half. two points low at 38 degrees. the winds west, northwest. the wind gusts have been higher. 25 here. 22 at ocean city. so far this afternoon i did see a wind gust up to 30 at the airport. that's about the strongest i've seen. up to the north it's still windy. it's still rainy. that low pressure is around the eastern section of maine, causing rain across new york, new hampshire and maine,

why didn't the california department of justice prosecute him after agreeing to do so? why has jerry brown refused to respond to my letter seeking his help in the prosecution of used for these three murders in the interest of justice? in this capacity, -- and when he used was interviewed by the chief of police, there were others there not related to nichols senior. i realize i am at a time. i have comments for each of you here. i hope that some of you will contact us because we have people identified as murders in our city and we cannot get the chief of police to assign anyone to interview a sillier asking for your help. that is your job, and understand. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you for the opportunity to address you. i pray that you will be healed. as has been stated, mr. lee rice, i do not slander, i asked questions. is anyone opposed to transferring the functions to the san francisco shared apartment? does anyone oppose the immediate arrest? do you know how much a commission receives in payment if anything? $80? i recently met a young woman out who is ass

. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasa's shindigs. i cracked down because big government shouldn't be funding big banquets with your money. some people say i'm a bit of a tightwad. i say, i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. >>> mexican tv reporter who says she was harassed in the new york jets locker room is returning to work. not to locker rooms. ines sainz says she only wants to interview players outside the locker room or on the sidelines. >>> parents be aware. thousands of booster seats are being recalled. evenflo company is issuing a recall on the child booster seats. the officials say lab tests reveal the seats with crack and fail in a front-end car collision. no injuries have been reported. >>> an emotional ordeal for a pennsylvania mother. her newborn was taken away because of what she ate for lunch. dave highfield has the story. >> i was shocked. i was at a loss of words. i started crying and crying. >> reporter: liz gave birth to her daughter in april. aft

of lincoln where key races could not be tighter. every vote will matter november 2. the justice departmentlinois may have missed the deadline for mailing absentee ballots to members of our military serving overseas. at least one county with a large portion of military ballots now admitting it sent them late past the deadline. now the state election officials say it's possible those ballots may not be counted at all. we have the chairman of the republican lawyers association. you have state officials admitting the military is going to get short end. sorry, we couldn't get them out in time. you men and women serving overseas will be disenfranchised. >> it's not a first. it happened before. all the way back to 2000 before we were in a war in the florida recount. and there was a big to-do about a lot of military ballots that came in late. that was the wakeup call it's now 10 years later and we still have counties all over the united states, new york, new jersey, arkansas arkansas. connecticut is not alone. megyn: you can make an argument that's valid or respond with boo-hoo, they are fighting

. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasa's shindigs. i cracked down because big government shouldn't be funding big banquets with your money. some people say i'm a bit of a tightwad. i say, i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. >>> mostly cloudy and 55 degrees. good evening. here's some stroifort ris people are talking b finally safe at home. many of the rescued chilean miners are with their families tonight. we have more on their first full day of freedom. >> reporter: the 33 rescued miners found their new sprawled fame across the headlines. they read chilean newspapers in the copiapo regional hospital. they also met with sebastian pinera who promised to improve worker safety. he said we will never allow workers to work in unsafe conditions. doctors say all the miners remain tns. they're being release once medical exams are complete. >> from their psychological view point, they're going to receive extra support for at least the next six months. >> reporter: family and

. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasa's shindigs. i cracked down because big government shouldn't be funding big banquets with your money. some people say i'm a bit of a tightwad. i say, i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. and leave your phone in your purse, i don't want you texting. >> daddy... ok! ok, here you go. be careful. >> thanks dad. >> and call me--but not while you're driving. we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today in hd. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back. i am stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. >> it is a little cloudy the sport with temperatures around 50. we can see all the rate is up in new england. there are some clouds and showers to our west. there are some breezy conditions to be ex

. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasa's shindigs. i cracked down because big government shouldn't be funding big banquets with your money. some people say i'm a bit of a tightwad. i say, i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. >> here is a look at the stories we're working on tonight. a man learns of his mother's death only to be told hours later she is still alive. a trip to a southwest florida home, one person killed. their latest on the investigation. officials are urging you to get your flu shot. we will have those >> just a lovely day for the marathon. they had the winds. >> sometimes you had better face, sometimes at your back. nature is a thing of balance. tomorrow, sunny. not as wendy. 65 monday. we will pick up clouds. the place. over 63, rain chances on tuesday. wednesday morning, things clear rep. late thursday, we might pick up a shower. going into next weekend, cooler, but dr appeared >> that is it for 11 news at 6:00. we will see you back here tonight at

. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of nasa's shindigs. i cracked down because big government shouldn't be funding big banquets with your money. some people say i'm a bit of a tightwad. i say, i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you.

. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasa's shindigs. i cracked down because big government shouldn't be funding big banquets with your money. some people say i'm a bit of a tightwad. i say, i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. >>> scientists in new mexico unveil a new machine that could help ease up strict airport restrictions. for years ago, bomb scares made it difficult for travelers to carry liquids on the plane. a liquid scanner was show cased to screen the bottles and aluminum cans without opening the container. >>> a virginia man caught stealing from a local halloween store agreed to an odd punishment, and it's landed him in a sesame street costume. bert slipped in a pair of fangs into his pocket and tried to make a run for it. the store owner busted him and agreed to let the 18-year-old hold a sign outside for six hours without pressing charges. he learned his lesson, shoplifting is just not worth it. >>> comet hartley ii. maybe not a familiar name now, but next

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department of justice attorneys will have 60 days to appeal or that ruling will stand.gon had been given a december 1st deadline to repeal don't ask, don't tell. >>> this morning there is no longer a pan on deep water oil drilling in the gulf of mechanic co. the obama administrati lifted the six machine month ban after they met a host of regulations. deep water could resume as early as today. president barack obama imposed the ban follow the april 20th spill, the largest in u.s. history. bp expects to pay at least $32 billion to handle cleanup and damage claim. >>> candidates are hitting the campaign trail hardin decision 2010. another round of heated debate. and for the first time since the presidential campaign, first lady michelle obama will hit the trail. nbc's tracie potts reports. >> reporter: politics exploded into the streets in california. in their last debate, jerry brown said palling theudget could be painful. >> i want those in power to lead by example. >> good evening and thank you. >> reporter: jobs also the big issue in ohio. senate candidates debated the

. $60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. $66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasa's shindigs. i cracked down because big government shouldn't be funding big banquets with your money. some people say i'm a bit of a tightwad. i say, i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. >>> 19 days ntil election day. %-sayywill ffect their vote, fx 45 news has created baltimore's wailing wall. >> that's crazy. taxes. >> need to lower ttem a little bit just so people can survive mainly. >> because you got a lot of peeple out here don't have health care. >> i'm going to say replace all politicians in washington with representatives. >> i believe it would be less crime in baltimore. >> they are not afraid to@ express their opinions and that all of the latest information on election day can be found on oor website foxbaltimore.com slash vote2010. >>> cooler today but we understand it's going to get wet as the days progress. >> chief meteorologist vytas reid is here now with a first look at your forecast. >> looking at some rain comi

the department of justice has 60 days to appeal, but legal experts say they are under no legal obligation to do so. >> new at 6:00 p.m., the montgomery county man accused of a murder for hire plot will stay behind bars for the time being. 42-year-old richard boyd, please take amassed an acquaintance to kill his estranged wife. -- police say, asked an acquaintance to kill his estranged wife. >> he is facing life plus 20 years. authorities say his plan unraveled when that acquaintance when to the cops. >> outside richard boyd's rockville home, children's toys and a basketball hoop sit unused. that was not the case, neighbors say, before a custody battle broke out between richard boyd and his wife, elizabeth. >> he would wait and say hello and his wife was lovely. >> court documents show a different story. boyd was upset his wife plan to move out of the area with their children. he offered to pay an acquaintance $2,000 to have his wife killed. he allegedly gave half the money and 5 aqsa code to an appeals to the clintons as -- and five oxycoton pills to the clintons while the police listen t