the call made to roxanne ellis before her murder originated from the tiki lodge.owever, robert acremant had no motive to kill roxanne ellis or her partner, michelle, and he had no criminal record. >> he'd never been charged with any criminal activity. in fact, he ended up going into the air force. he served honorably in the air force. he went on to get a master's degree, and he had a good job, really, working for roadway trucking in california. >> a credit card check revealed that acremant had been spending a lot of time and money at a strip club in las vegas. >> he had some money. he headed for vegas and fell for this stripper who he envisioned as his girlfriend. >> he had run himself into debt, obviously had an addiction to her and to that lifestyle. >> the stripper's stage name was ecstasy. >> she said that she was spending up to 3,000 bucks on a weekend. he ended up running through, i think it was about $80,000 worth of credit card debt. he had a retirement fund that he managed to max out. so, he spent a ton of money on that woman. >> the stripper said acreman

stop torturing ellie about the nanny.t you're gonna say, but i really did read it in a magazine. i swear on my mother's life. what magazine? what kind of a friend wouldn't let that slide? now my mom is gonna die, you murderer. do you know how hard it is for a man to find a gift for his wife that she thinks is for her but is actually for him? lingerie didn't work. she saw right through that. oral sex class? ha ha. huge mistake, and as it turns out, really insulting. but the nanny? ellie sees that as totally selfless, but to me it means being able to go out to a dinner or a movie or even dancing once in a while. do you know when the last time i went dancing was, laurie? huh? do ya? no! this... was still fresh. how long are you gonna keep doing that? (horn honking) come back! dad, it won't listen! it's just a balloon! (horns honk, tires screech) i'm gonna get you, baby! i'm gonna get you! aah! dad! dad? oh, thank god. (laughs) wait. did you know there was another ledge here? no. i may have got a little caught up in the momen

ellis island to angel island -- we know there are 12 million who come through ellis from it. -- ellis island during its period of operation. 20% of all immigrant arrivals are detained. the women and children who are arriving to join their husbands. they need to wait until their husbands and fathers come and retrieve them. or those who are being kept for contagious diseases, 20% are detained. but it is not too long. detention time is 1-2 days on average. in the end, 90% are admitted. this is why we think of ellis island as more of a process center going through. the numbers are much different half a million come through angel island. the scale is quite different. but you see the differences right away with attention. -- with detention. 20% on ellis island, 60% of all immigrant arrivals are detained on angel island. instead of counting detention times in days they count them in , weeks, months, years. the longest detention time is 756 days. 93% of chinese are admitted. that is much higher than one would expect. but, it is only after these long detentions, after really lengthy legal batt

and so, while everybody focus actually on ellis and owner move in, the real uptick has been in breach and nuisance and we think that that is obvious why? in a down market where the units are going begging the land lords will put up with behavior that they are not going to come up with as much in the hot rental market that we are experiencing right now. >> the next slide shows all eviction notices over the last 20 years. and what you really see is a significant reduction in owner move in eviction notices. we think that is because in 1998, proposition g passed which made it much more restrictive to move in for owner or relative occupancy, which of course, led to an uptick in ellis. >> and the next slide, shows the big four, which is really breach, nuisance, and owner move in and ellis for the last ten years, and as we said, in 2010, owner move in notices have declined for the middle of a decade but they have begun to rise in the past three years to the highest number in the past ten years, and the ellis notices have shown a general decline, followed by a recent increase in the past thre

ellis act evictions are impacting district three and neighborhoods all over the city and we are finding a lot of the long term residents being moved out and these eviction and buy outs are disproportionately impacting senior and low income residents who have been finding it very difficult to find equivalent and or appropriate housing for their current needs. speculation, has upset the balance of our neighborhoods, and it is displaced land lords, and it has displaced residents and land lords content with modest returns over longer terms cannot complete financially and have been priced out of the market. a lot of our buildings have been hoteled, purchasing, and combined with the short term rentals. >> may i --. >> we have lost our quorum. >> okay. >> pause the meeting? >> yes. >> hoteling, and speculative purchasing of the real estate in the district, plus the income possible with the sort term rentals has created a work around to the restrictions that prop g intended to impose. making me believe that short term rental enforcement is critical to the retention of housing stock in district

immigration through ellis island. that story of european immigrants coming to new york, passing through ellis island -- certainly there were examinations, there were physicals, there was some tension, -- some detention, but it was primarily pretty short-lived and most immigrants were admitted pretty easily into the country. not only that, but this story has taken on a myth of its own. it is the bedrock of this idea that the u.s. is a nation of immigrants. how do we reconcile this great immigration debate that is going on today and then this idea that we are a nation of immigrants? i think one of the ways that we can think about this constituted history of immigration is through looking at immigration through angel island. because we know that not all immigrants were welcomed into the country. not all immigrants were able to achieve their american dreams. but rather, we picked and sifted and chose which immigrants to let in and which immigrants to let out. many times, this really was dependent upon an immigrants race,

but he has returned to see his wife, katie ellis. chad informed her that he had contracted hepatitis and that she is likely to have it as well and should be tested as soon as possible. but katie has shown considerably less concern than chad. >> i'm not totally freaked out or scared or anything. just something that i'm going to have to deal with. >> in fact, katie has yet to report to the medical clinic to test for hepatitis. she fears a positive result will mean transferring to the infirmary for an indefinite period of time, forcing her to leave behind the good friends she's made in her housing unit. >> without them it would be very lonely, very depressing. you know, trying to get through this by yourself. >> there's no possible way she doesn't have it. it's impossible. >> chad is still living at the salvation army in downtown tampa. but today he's ridden his bike ten miles to the jail to see katie again. >> did you go get tested for your hepatitis? >> no. >> no. and the reason why is because you don't want to get moved out of that p

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an eviction occurs, we also have housing preferences for tenant whose have been evicted using the ellis act. >> and well i will quickly run through these and if you are watching take my word for it that there is a presentation and i can e-mail to anybody. >> the ellis act, housing preference, provides priority consideration for income eligible applicant and that is cross the housing and, that is city funded and multifamily and, affordable housing and that is also for the inclusionary house and that is the house thating is built by the private developers. and we also could have a preference for our down payment assistance programs. the certificate applicants do need to meet the certain criteria and that is what the landlord initiated the eviction on or after january first of 2012 and the applicants need to have lived in the unit for a minimum of ten years. and the second category, of programs that i want to highlight are our community development grants. and we fund eviction prevention and we fund the grants and we also provide the access housing to support and by the way of prevention,

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it's almost a non-hearing isn't it in 2013 i along with 21 other neighbors were evicted under the ellis act this is on one block on the street tatted there was no placed to go and still no place to go i went to padding lemon and got an a waiting list and still i'm on the list ellis acts are once again up in north beach and the rest of the city after a hiatus and other leases i'd like to see one that pieces be put in the enforcement of short term rental law those units are being taken out of the housing stock and being illegally represented and that means the at that time, from the airbnb this is going to continue to happen i'd like to see the small sites program expanded it is i think this is much better to have housing that is here and keep it retain it much faster and people want to stay within thorough homes and like to see real landlords not speculators landlord regarded for not vogt people i'm a volunteer person at telegraph hill center and like to see my community stay intact. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> other members that want to speak i'm sorry you've spoken already

as we said, another name missing, probably the biggest one from the freedom summit, is john ellis bush bush. the former florida governor instead is going to be giving a commencement speech at liberty university in lynchburg, virginia. the school famously founded by jerry falwell and also where ted cruz announced he was

also here liberal commentator ellis hen acan. s.e. the rodney dangerfield of the republican field right? here's a guy who won 11 states. he was the runner-up to mitt romney. and you'd never know it from the way the media treats the field. >> yeah. he gets no respect, which i think is where you were going with that. and it really is kind of surprising when you consider that the last time, not only was he the runner-up, but of the last three guys standing, two were social conservatives, him and newt gingrich. and the guy that ended up winning never really captured the excitement of the base. so if you're rick santorum, you have to think, okay, this time around there is also room for a social conservative and now we've got to compete with mike huckabee, ted cruz and he knows there is probably room for someone like him. he's just got to sort of clear the field and get through. so i think it's bizarre to dismiss last year's runner-up as so many liberals and conservatives do. i think it's a mistake. >> ellis, chris christie seems to be chec

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and however, last year, we were able to buy a building that was actively under the ellis and that was only because the tenants were aware of their rights and they reached out to the non-profit, legal assistance and active groups to put the pressure on the local owner who then agreed to sell the building and therefore, worked with us as a community organization to sell the building. and so, i think that the lesson there, was that information is key. so the sooner that the tenants can receive the information about free services to connect with the legal services the sooner that the community is work together to try to work with the owner to come up with an alternative win/win solution. and for that property. and right now, on the regular market, the market is really and has really sky rocketed since 2014, we are unable to compete on the private market. and we have lost about ten, however i want to emphasize that the information exchange is so important that i support this resolution, to bring more data afaster to the city agencies and the supervisors so that we all can work together fro

. >> ellis, chris christie seems to be checking all those boxes. he ditched common core this week.out against the president, visavy israel and what i'm thinking of is that you check all those boxes and that is great you appeal to the gop base and in the end you put yourself in a worse spot for a general election. >> you're absolutely right. it may not be the most furtm m fertile territory for chris christie. i go back to the rule of fractions that i learned at holy name of jesus. when you have so many people in this race it doesn't take a very big slice to have the largest slice. so you can find that a lot of different places. the odd thing at the moment is that the super conservative side of the eequation is pretty crowded and that middle zone where chris christie would have normally have played is not so crowded. so frankly, i'm not so smart it is smart for him to outconserve the conservatives. >> jeb is the one who stand to gain from all of this. >> i think christie has a clear strategy as we're learning it. that is to take on the opposition and his party viavy and he can take o

best selling author ellis is here with us. you have a twitter account, right?ite $1.5 million -- >> i'm close. we have to work on that. the state department says it needs until january of next year to review hillary clinton's e-mails while she was secretary of state. why so long? >> have you ever tried to read 50,000 e-mails. >> hillary clinton wants it out there. >> deal with it, face it and take the heat but it does not seem like that's going to happen. >> what kind of affect will this timing have on our campaign? >> it does drag it out but i have to tell you, i don't think this is something that's going to make a huge difference in the long run. if you love her, you love her. if you hate her, the e-mails won't change it. it's one of many things out there that's the atmosphere around hillary clinton. a dozen people full time at the state department. >> that's it? >> all they do is read her e-mails. wouldn't you like to see some of those. >> that's a boring job. >> i don't know. there might be juicy stuff. this is juicy. the governor of texas signed a bill ban

and ellis island operated from 1892 through 1954 and angel island operated from 1910 through 1940. but the united states eventually moved away from the concept of having detention centers and the old immigration and naturalization services which preceded the department of homeland security in 1954 when they closed ellis island a sad the dataset we are pretty much going out of the detention center business, we will have some things that cannot be resolved in other ways but basically they would not do anything to imprison large numbers of people. the supreme court in 1958, the justice wrote that physical detention of aliens is now the exception. certainly this policy reflects human qualities of an enlightened civilization. so the supreme court was applauding this development in the step forward in our moral development as a nation. that lasted for about 22 years and it kind of changed in the face of 125000 individuals some of you may not even know about that episode in american history. when it was in 1980 all of these people fled fidel castro, there was a flotilla of boats him it wa

talent night there on fillmore a lot of of may not remember or don't know there was a night at the ellis theatre ellis and of him back in the day like johnny matthew and on and on and on that sank and performed and got their start it will be a great place to have a major talent show for the san francisco area not just for the fillmore but the san francisco area i'm also a dj on k po o every tuesday morning from 9:00 a.m. to 12 on a the bob i didn't web blues show from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon i'm capable and qualified and member of the local 6 musicians i'm a union i'm one of the few blacks in the union as a musician i'd like to get something going through at f that place i could do justice i'll appreciate if i keep in mind me and i think i can do a great job i've been in the fillmore all my life and still live in the fillmore since the age of 5 live off mcallister street thank you. >> mr. emmett powell. >> we're taking comment on the warriors item. >> thank you very much board i'm emmett powell i've had a restaurant called powell's place otherwise known for 35 or 36 years i'm a singerer

that was a 3.5 and the third happened three minutes after that, centered at ellis lake park near ellis street and that was a 2.7. contra costa fire reports no damage to any buildings. but we did speak with some people getting ready for work and they described a swarm of quakes -- the swarm of quakes with a big jolt. >> i was thinking if we were in the house, where would i go? what would i get? i'm definitely cognizant of it. >> reporter: not only were there three small quakes today, there was a 3.7 on sunday afternoon around 3:15. the experts say they are on the concord/green valley line. it runs to lake berryessa. the smaller swarms of earthquakes are similar to the same quake that happened in the same area back in the year 2000. >> we see this as a repeat of that similar earthquake and so there's likely to be this sort of swarm going on for a while. but certainly not out of the ordinary. >> reporter: experts say don't be surprised to see these small -- swarms of earthquakes for the next few days. they say likely getting to to a 7 is unlikely. but they are not ruling it out. just a fe

rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >> the 2016 presidential race is kicking it up a gear this week withal more republicans expected to announce their candidacies. after weeks of running unchallenged by her own party, hillary clinton is now facing her first official primary opponent. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker has the report. >> reporter: the republican field is about to get more crowded with three more candidates about to throw their hats in the ring. former arkansas governor mike huckabee, dr. ben carson and former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina. polls suggest the new arrivals they have their work cut out for them with some securing big dollar donors. meanwhile, new jersey governor chris christie is trying to save his presidential hopes after two of his former allies were indicted and a third entered a guilty plea in the george washington bridge scandal on friday. christie is not implicated and denies wrongdoing but the indictments cast a cloud over his potential candidacy. today sources tell nbc news aides and allies working the phones trying to salvage support. >

a key way to issue it is basically a safety net for people living in san francisco that have faced ellisct evictions in the last year since the inception of the year we've processed hundred and 34 households being housed in affordable housing in san francisco. >> we're calling safety net services on this slide is about $7 million of general fund commitments that goes out the door to support the services see of the san franciscans on the slide a few of the key areas those grants go towards eviction and legal services a variety of services for immigrants we our office is one of the main offices in the city that focuses

rehema ellis, nbc news, chicago. >> that will do it for us on this monday night. i'm lester holt.or all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. primary emotion that i felt. >> right now at 6:00 he claim he was pulled over repeatedly because of the color of his skin. now new numbers appear to back up his claim. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. >> is sjpd pulling over blacks and latinos at a higher rate? a troubling report says yes. san jose's mayor is taking action as one man launches a legal attack against sjpd. robert has the exclusive interview and is joining us this evening. >> reporter: the young man who filed the civil rights lawsuit has a compelling story. a story he says starts with personal humiliation, one he hopes will lead to unity. >> what you go through and how -- >> reporter: shauncey burt says his civil rights lawsuit is a last resort. he said he wasn't surprised by the statistics released last week that show while black and latinos make unone third of the san jose population they make up two thirds of the police stops with 6% resulting i

rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >> what a great moment. >>> when we come back, words of wisdom for the class of 2015 from some of the best commencement speakers you could hope for. >>> we end tonight with one of our time-honored traditions here at "nightly news." a salute to the college graduates embarking on the next chapter of life and some of the best pieces of advice the class of 2015 has received at ceremonies all over the nation. ♪ >> it is my responsibility as a commencement speaker to prepare you for what awaits you in the future. here it is. no one has any idea what's going to happen. >> if you haven't found a job or decided on a career path yet, don't freak out. but do from this day forward open yourself up to possibilities you might never have considered. >> life is a long, bumpy road. that makes for an exciting ride. choose a direction, and if the road turns, turn. >> do not be afraid to be disgruntled. find new ways to do the convention useful, and do not run from big and bowl challenges. >> find your north star. and that means choices. some are easy. some are hard. an

rehema ellis, nbc news, philadelphia. >>> and that is going to do it for us on this wednesday night. a big thanks to our colleagues at wcau here in philadelphia for their amazing coverage, also for providing these views of the wreckage of that amtrak train. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news and our colleagues here in philadelphia, thank you for watching and good night. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >> right now at 6:00, tracking a developing story. it turns out the engineer of that amtrak derailment in philadelphia worked here in the bay area. good evening and thank you for joining us. >> the deadly crash was in philly, but the story stretches here. as we first reported on our 5:00 newscast 32-year-old brandon bastion worked for caltrain. caltrain officials won't say what job he held here, but he was reportedly a san francisco resident before moving to new york. this is a photo from his myspace page. bastion has not given a formal statement to investigators, but he has hired a lawyer. so what happened 24 hours ago? excessive speed likely the cause. the ntsb says the trai

rehema ellis, nbc news, baltimore. >> that will do it for us on this friday night.'m lester holt reporting from baltimore. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. >>> right now at 6:00 sweeping the south bay looking for criminals. an exclusive look at a manhunt under way. good evening. thanks for being with us on a friday. i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. a massive raid in the south bay right now. dozens of police parole and probation officers hitting the streets, looking for gang members. david trujillo is the only reporter on today's briefing of the gang task force. he joins us live from the sheriff's office. the timing here is no coincidence. >> reporter: no coincidence at all. this is the start of the cinco de mayo weekend. one former gang member told me the kind of sweep taking place right now is a good thing. >> uniformed and plain clothed officers. >> they gathered just after 3:00 today. dozens of gang cops looking for gang members. >> we're trying to let people know we are prepared for the weekend starting today. again, t

enforce the components of law and turn them from bad actors we're going to ask if the property has been ellis acted so we don't reward hosts every single one of our proposed amendments have been recommended by the planning commission after much deliberations and public input our proposed reforms take a holistic approach towards short-term rentals in san francisco if we as a result board are serious been a regulatory framework in san francisco i believe we have to put forward and encourage the incentivize laws to follow so they don't continue to build their own website or go underground we seek to address even though industry as a whole rather than talk the walk the members on one company walk airbnb your amendments make sure we protect the city's housing stock and streamline the host and make the law fully enforceable by investments now, while i appreciate my good colleagues supervisor campos and the b's l a report they continue to focus on prohibitions this sets a precedent around personal information to the government to be clear again those recommendations are solely targeted against one c

a key way to issue it is basically a safety net for people living in san francisco that have faced ellisct evictions in the last year since the inception of the year we've processed hundred and 34 households being housed in affordable housing in san francisco. >> we're calling safety net services on this slide is about $7 million of general fund commitments that goes out the door to support the services see of the san franciscans on the slide a few of the key areas those grants go towards eviction and legal services a variety of services for immigrants we our office is one of the main offices in the city that focuses on the capacity building to help strengthen the infrastructure for our city we do have some grants for transition youth and we focus on literacy and improving the listcy for translation services on that note improving the access to housing we've been working over the last few years take into account and working with the cd to make sure we have appropriate services we have been and continuing to improve our website to make it more friendly and increasing the technology tools

both the teen and his father spoke with our rehema ellis. >> reporter: when baltimore streets erupted in flames earlier this week, carlos brooks couldn't believe what he was seeing. >> i was sitting in the house looking at the tv and was just shocked that it was going on. >> reporter: he immediately thought of his second oldest child, his 16-year-old son. >> my dad called me and told me, don't go out there. don't go out there. >> reporter: but what did you do? >> i went out there at nighttime. i thought i was slick. >> reporter: for the first time ever, with no previous record, carlos jr. was arrested. his dad says for looting. being in police custody was beyond expectations. with chains around your ankles? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: what was that like? hard? >> yeah, kind of hard to walk. i thought i was going to fall. a caged animal. that's what i felt like, a caged animal. >> reporter: you felt like a caged animal. >> he didn't come from a broken home. me and his mother might not be together, but he was still raised with morals and god. >> reporter: learning his son was arrested,

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>> reporter: rehema ellis, nbc news, chicago. >> tall do it for us on this monday night.f us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. >>> tv blood batting from american idol to catherine heigl's state of affairs, dozens of your favorite shows get the ax. >> which shows could bee saved now on "extra"? >>favorite shows get the ax. >> which shows could be saved now on "extra"? >> the end of american idol, the final act of revenge, the mindy project history. the fan outrage today as the networks clean house. >> which sitcom could come back on hulu? >> plus fall tvs new faces, rob lowe eva longoria neil patrick harris can we save prime time? >> kim kardashian naked in the dessert, her daring new photo shoot as bruce brings the family to tears. >> why kim

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nbc's rehema ellis takes us into the classroom. >> made me frightened.house there was a car on fire. >> i was upset when they lootsed the stores. i was angry when they smashed and burned up stores. >> reporter: heartfelt essays from students in edgewood elementary in baltimore about how the violence in their city has effected them. >> go around messing up everything. and then what do you have for yourself? >> reporter: for students across the city a teachable moment. >> we want to be positive in all that we do even some of the negative things we want to turn that around and make it positive. >> reporter: raise your hand if there was anything that happened this week in your city that made you proud. did you find something that made you proud? >> i was so proud to see people cleaning the areas after all of the chaos. >> cause and effect -- >> reporter: and they have high hopes for the future. >> i've seen the city accomplish a lot of good things. and i believe if we work together we can accomplish more things. >> i think after like a program that would bri