and that can be very difficult to keep your spirits up, your work ethic up. when he was given a chance tonight, it wasn't perfect, but it was really, really good. the same thing with jordan hill. >> mike: gasol, 20 points, 14 rebounds, nine assists. westbrook will bring it up. eight-point game. sefolosha will try a three. that won't go. rebound blake, and that will do it. the lakers with their biggest comeback victory of the season. what a performance down the stretch from kobe bryant. and an unlikely bunch of lakers. steve blake was marvelous. jordan hill. devin ebanks. mike brown has to be thrilled with his team's victory, as they will hold onto that third spot in the western conference. meanwhile, a tough loss for the thunder, a key for them, though, the injury to james harden, hopefully that concussion or perhaps the concussion won't president toot serious. bryant, now with lisa salters. >> lisa: thank you, mike. kobe, you had a nice moment with mike brown just now. what did he say to you? >> well, you know, just basically said, way to keep the guys calm,

and that can be very difficult to keep your spirits up, your work ethic up. when he was given a chance tonight, it wasn't perfect, but it was really, really good. the same thing with jordan hill. >> mike: gasol, 20 points, 14 rebounds, nine assists. westbrook will bring it up. eight-point game. sefolosha will try a three. that won't go. rebound blake, and that will do it. the lakers with their biggest comeback victory of the season. what a performance down the stretch from kobe bryant. and an unlikely bunch of lakers. steve blake was marvelous. jordan hill. devin ebanks. mike brown has to be thrilled with his team's victory, as they will hold onto that third spot in the western conference. meanwhile, a tough loss for the thunder, a key for them, though, the injury to james harden, hopefully that concussion or perhaps the concussion won't president toot serious. bryant, now with lisa salters. >> lisa: thank you, mike. kobe, you had a nice moment with mike brown just now. what did he say to you? >> well, you know, just basically said, way to keep the guys calm,

it is up to ethics commission to make a recommendation to the board of supervisors. >>> coming up, occupy protesters clashed with police in the past, this is what they want oavoid in the future -- to avoid in the future and the days of social security could be numbered. a report reveals when the program is expected to dry occupy. how that could effect you. >> coming up, up, the giants explode in new york and the a's working at home. we will have had the highlights and -- we will have the highlights and a few sad stories later in the broadcast. . >>> this is the scene that police want to prevent in the future. this was from a occupy protest. followed by complaints against the officers. now the police department put new policies in place as another occupy protest is expected in eight days. kron 4's haaziq madyun was at city hall. >> reporter: better training on thew deal with scenes like this. this is one of several new reforms in crowd control policy. >> three major changes. one is better communications. better coordination between officers and smaller units in terms of smaller -- more mob

that outcome will determine whether the ethics commission takes up the misconduct case against him monday. in the newsroom abc 7 news. >> thank you very much. the uc davis police chief stepping down in the wake of a pepper spray assault last year. the lieutenant sprayed students during a november 18th protest. the uc davis police chief says she's decided to retire after discussion was the family. and says, quote, the university does not want had to be the defining moment nor do i wish it for it to be mine. >> deputies admit they're withholding information about evidence found during a search for young sierra lamar and insist it's necessary because of the investigation. the sheriff's dive team continued its search of what is called perk yolation pond. and it's not far from the spot where the 15-year-old disappeared more than a month ago. you can imagine the search is a double edged sword, finding something could mean very bad news. >> it's scary in some ways but if they can find us smg that leads to us her alive that would be g you know? maybe there sefdz they threw in the water. >> the sh

the city's ethics commission takes up the case next week. law officers from across california will be in modesto for the funeral of a stanislaus county deputy. deputy robert paris was killed in line of duty last week. funeral service will be at noon and a procession will take his body to liquid memorial park for his burial. in part ticket agent facing disciplinary hearings today. he could lose his job for helping a family friend after gathering unused tickets left behind by commuters and gave them to an east bay teenager whose commute to a school in san francisco cost $11 per day >> p-diddy great thing for somebody >> i know. >> station agents, the rules are very clear that the tickets are like cash >> bart employees cannot give an unused tickets away but passengers can donate them to the tiny tickets charity program. so what you think? should the agent lose his job? in a cbs poll 95 percent of you say no. the parking situation is so bad in san francisco that police said one woman bit another in a dispute over a space. police arrested the wo

the ethics commission has lined up a meeting to examine the mayor's charges of official misconduct. he is challenging the suspension in court. an audio tape appears to shed some light on planning by the new orleans saints. their former defensive coordinator greg williams spoke before the saints 49ers playoff game. >> that last comment apparently referred to 49ers wide receiver kyle williams. greg williams has been suspended indefinitely under charges that he paid players for each injury that they cause from 2009-2011. if that is true there's a good chance he might never coached in the nfl again. >> i have to tell you, lawrence has a tie with nice tulips on their >> my mother always told it that tulips are better than no lips. how can i argue with that logic? if you're headed outside today we have chilly temperatures to begin with. frost advisories in the north bay valleys this morning. we will see a warmer day ahead as we look to the afternoon. temperatures running into the '30's. 44 in san francisco. high pressure sneaking in overhead as it builds across the skies, we will see temp

it may end up being referred to ethics. if there was compliance, we resolve that. >> i don't think as a commission we necessarily expect to handle a lot of non-willful violations where the task force is able to enforce the ordinance. >> there are times -- sorry, i saw a picture of myself. [laughter] there are times that the willful violation will come to win the respondent is refusing to comply or disagreeing. they won't turn over the records, disagreeing with what ever it might be, they may disagree that certain things and don't apply, that the exemption should apply, and they refused to turn it over, that is something that might have come before the ethics commission. >> what is the volume we are talking about in terms of the past year or two? if there are non-willful violations the you would have referred to the ethics commission? >> i would say that we have made referrals to other agencies like the district attorney and the state attorney general. there are provisions to go that route first. but we have -- there are a n

. -- board of election and ethics. >>> five council seats are up in the primary in the district. marion barry, who served four terms as mayor, is campaigning for his third term on the d.c. council for ward 8. he spent the last hours before the election at a meeting to review the 2013 budget for ward a. he disputed t

the ethics commission has lined up a meeting in the domestic the violence trial. he is challenging the suspension and court banned the hearing is set for april 20th. the suspect of the gruesome murder of five people last month is pleading not guilty. we are not allowed to show his face but bihn thai luc appeared very nervous during the 20 minute hearing yesterday. prosecutors say he used a blunt instrument as the murder weapon. he is charged with robbery and five counts of murder. this morning marks three weeks since 15 year-old sierra lamar was last seen near her morgan hill home. another big volunteer search is set for tomorrow. 40 niner quarterback alex smith is expected to take part for the second straight weekend. volunteers are asked to register at the burnett elementary school before the search begins tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. >> a bicyclist is allegedly blocking his version of the events after fatally hitting a man at market and castro street. a pedestrian was killed while in the crosswalk. the cyclist. allegedly posted the account hours after the crash. he br

ethics said the complaint would not stand up in court. the sunshine ordinance does not say that complaints must be court sustainable. ethics is formulating a requirement that has no basis in law and is on known to anyone. in regard to the 123-page memo from ethics, this shows an attempt to avoid dealing with complaints by focusing on whether a violation was willful. there is an easier way to address this. there is a requirement of commissioners, department heads, and program managers, to take periodic training. people signed a declaration under penalty of perjury. thus, if an employee complaint against has signed that document, it is possible that they have been negligent in their retraining, and have committed perjury by signing it. its ethics simply looked at whether the sworn statements are filed, that is an easier way to establish whether there was negligence and culpability on the part of the respondent. ethics approach now is a hybrid legalistic and will discourage complaints from being filed. these observations are coming from the o

. >> today san francisco's ethics commission takes up the case. at stake is the shares job. >> it has been five years since the san francisco ethics commission has conducted a misconduct hearing but this afternoon they will begin hearing regarding suspended sherrif ross mirkarimi and want to know if he acted in official misconduct in regards to new year's eve incident that involved his wife. last month san francisco's mayor ed lee suspended the sheriff after he pleaded guilty and was suspended for one count of false imprisonment after an argument with the sheriff and his wife that resulted with the bruise on his wife's arms. today the ethics commission will hear testimony. the process can take several weeks before a recommendation is made. it will include several briefs and oral arguments >> these are not legal processes though they are it legal in connected to the city charter. their political but not in a bad way. reporting live, lisa washington. >> here is a little bit about the ethics commission, it is a five member panel, each member is appoin

it may end up being referred to ethics. if there was compliance, we resolve that. >> i don't think as a commission we necessarily expect to handle a lot of non-willful violations

the services so ethics committee takes up the case of sherrif ross mirkarimi. >> good morning. n fransisco ethics commission hearing begins at 4:30 p.m. here at city hall. last week a judge threw out the sherrif's request to have the hearing dismissed and also last week we learned another lawsuit was filed in this case. the mayor is requesting that phone records from his campaign manager pete turned over. it was the mayor that suspended sherrif ross mirkarimi last month after he was sentenced for one count of false imprisonment. it was an incident that involved the sheriff's wife and it happened on new year's eve just a few days before ross mirkarimi was sworn into office. the ethics commission will hear oral arguments from the attorneys for the city and ross mirkarimi and also review several briefs before making a recommendation to the board of supervisors. it would take nine votes from the 11 supervisors to remove him from office of course that has not yet been determined if the commission will allow live testimony as they continue this misconduct hearing. but we do know that

hand sanitizers contain up to 62% ethic alcohol. teens figured out a way to separate it from other ingredients. and doctors say it could cause illness or death. >> and google launched a long-rumored online storage service. it's called google drive and will store first five giga bites for free. additional storage will cost $2.49 per month. and this is available on chrome operating system and smart phones. a version compatible to iphone is due in the next few weeks. >> some new regulations kicked in to mandate banks make atms accessible to visually impaired. >> an investigation found some banks have been slow to comply. >> have you noticed when you go to an atm a certain amount can talk back at you? more are going to be talking back at you. and there is visually accessible atms mandated with a deadline to comply last month. consumer world.org surveyed 200 teller machines and found all atms surveyed from bank of america comply with the americans with disabilities act. citi bank is ada compliant but consumer world found half of the atms

against mercury me yesterday and says he will not get paid what he is suspended the city's ethics commission takes up the case next week. it's that live look at sanford florida right now and that is where a man accused in the shooting death of an unarmed florida teenager is back in course george simmons lawyer requested release during a bond hearing police arrested the neighborhood watch volunteer last week after he was charged with second-degree murder. zemin claims he shot a lawn mower and in self-defense during a confrontation in february he has requested a meeting of minds family law officers from across california will be modesto today for the funeral of the stanislaus county deputy sheriff there is a vigil last night for robert parris was killed and led to last week along with locksmith landed and urged the our services will be at noon and the procession will take his body to the memorial park for burial and the five people died in last saturday's yacht racing accident will remember the next two evenings on san francisco bay an ominous silence his plans to the corinthian yacht club in and tomor

gun arrests, robbery arrests, agreed follow-up, traditional police work, ethical, thorough, efficient police work. our last two presenters are surgeon hart -- sgt hart and sgt o'connor. they will be becoming lieutenant said sen. we will be sorry to see them go. they had up a team of multi- ethnic officers at work in plain clothes. they are retreating most of the fire arms on the street. they will give you a dog and pony show about what they do. >> good evening. nice to be in front of the commission again. i cannot be more excited. one of the things that you do not hear about in terms of staffing, commissioner dejesus, what quantity is great, we're blessed that bayview station has a quality. there is such excitement go to work every day and to do great work. being a sergeant, i never have to tell my officers to get out of the car and do something. i am always trying to hold them back. they come out and say we have five search warrants and of this project and that project, i actually have to slow them down. let's prioritize. as if i have such a great influence over them but that love to

ethics reform. matt. >> hey, brian it is up to mayor grey to send nominees to the council for it to consider who willonly problem, well t mayor hasn't done it yet the names were expected by mid-april, one councilmember is tired of waiting, and will take action tomorrow. >> some believe there should have been more over site when it comes to ethics enforcement, harry thomas' scams to steal hundreds of thousands of city dollars would have been caught earlier. >> we set up tight timeframes for this new board to be up and running. >> they put in regulations for stricter ethical rules and a new board to enforce them but has not received a list of nominees from mayor grey. tomorrow she will receive emergency legislation to nominate one person without delay >> i will talk to my colleagues about how strongly they feel about moving forward, with some urgency, and being able to have one of the appointments. >> kwame brown is concerned about the delay but seemed to give the mayor slack on timing. >> clearly you are always concerned things are not moving as quickly as possible but at the same time, you know, the

this is all fallen hundred his -- it will be up to the ethics commission and board of ss to figure outors to figure out if she should lose his job. and if he stays suspended if he should be paid while on suspension. but it's all looking like a long shot for mirkarimi. in a tentative ruling the judge should figure this out scene said he is not entitled to pay. it was after that ruling that mirkarimi said this about continuing to fight. >> forward thinking sheriffs department for san francisco. that is one of the main reasons we are working so hard. >> reporter: so let's take you through what is ahead. the hearing take place this morning which is expected to leave the suspended sheriff at status quo suspended without pay. monday we have the ethics commission hearing and following that the board of supervisors would be leading. >>> 6:48. several u.s. senators are keeping up the pressure on african war lord joseph kony. they are now asking the american people to sign on as cosponsors the legislation would condemn kony and the resistance army. the movie invisible children documented the lra

administration why is that what is behind that we need an adult in the room we need someone to stand up and say ethics in government is important and those in the government who want to suppress dissent have to be pushed back were they have to be fired we have to be aggressive on this or bomber has essentially taken national security and all of the issues and all of the whistleblower concerns and ditched it he's been good and whistle blowing in the private sector he's actually on the schizo from it on some whistleblower issues he's been good but for national security for people who want to expose violations in the f.b.i. and the cia iraq and afghanistan critical issues he's been terrible but he follows in the footsteps of every other president except the founding fathers who actually defended national security whistleblowers and pushed through the first amendment that's why in this case we're not sitting back and saying you know prosecute me destroyed me we're getting aggressive we're demanding that the f.b.i. hear the first amendment and that rules and regulations that are in violation of that fundam

ethics. but, see it doesn't live up to those promises and it won't live up to them now. that's a problem for them. >> tom: it's "nightly business report" for monday, april 23. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. stocks fell sharply today on wall street and in markets around the world. tom, it was an edgy day for investors with new worries about europe and political uncertainty after the first-round of the french presidential election. >> tom: the worry is what the french election means for the future of solving europe's debt crisis. the stock selling started in europe, where the major averages fell by 2% or more. here in the u.s. the stock indexes were also in the red. the dow tumbled 102 points. the blue chips had been down as much as 184 points. the nasdaq lost 30 and the s&p fell 11. >> susie: for u.s. investors, european politics may continue to push around stock prices here on wall street. >> reporter: mark your calendar for m

up? we're headed into the ethical dimension next. actually, we're headed into islam- you know, we're going to be looking at islamic teachings and again asking islam to help us understand doctrine. but the key underlying point in this class and the previous one with jonestown- and chris's comment was also a very helpful way to kind of end this class- that hey, folks, you know, we're not just- you know, it's just not hanging out getting humanities credit or three units of credit. we have to pay attention to religion- it can't just be a privatized thing in a free society. maybe it was okay when vastly everybody was protestant or something, you know, 150 years ago. but as we become more religiously diverse, as we see more pressures on people, we are going to see more extreme kinds of religious behavior. so that's the power of religious belief, and we'll keep on it in the next class, looking at islam.

meantime the ethics commission has lined up and april 23rd meeting to examine the mayor's charges oficial misconduct. he is challenging the suspension in court and that hearing is set for april 20th. >> a big weekend ahead with easter, good friday, and the oakland a's kick off their baseball season tonight. >> i have to complement lawrence on is to let pie. >> tulips are better than no lips. but that is what my mother used to say. but you are headed out the door this morning, mostly clear skies, cold spots. members running in the '30's and '40's with a frost advisory in the north they valley. those temperatures could get into the upper teens or 20s before we get going this morning but otherwise it will be a nice day as we see plenty of sunshine and it looks like warmer temperatures by the afternoon. 37 degrees in concord and 38 in livermore and 40 degrees in san jose. by the afternoon highs in the '50s along the coastline with mid-60's in the warmer spots. the weekend starts to get a fee as we head towards easter sunday and saturday looks great but by sunday afternoon a chance of sho

order" you have a judge who's eminently fair, a prosecutor who is completely ethical, a defense attorney who doesn't show up half the time. these images really result -- i know this as a public defender, because the portrayals of public defenders are usually negative. why? i ask this to the entire panel. why is there such a disconnect between the reality of what really happens in our court and the way that many americans are force fed, really, this mythology? tony? >> i think in a corrupt society in a perfect society as we have, there has to be a hope or a projected ideal that there is justice, we'll say, in the court system and that there's idealistic lawyers, and there's fair judges, and there's not, you know, indelible bias and prejudice and rac racism, sexis, and all of those things dissipate, you know, when we approach the per diem. it's just like blinding our self. it's a way of taking the placebo instead of the medicine. great reform is required. we're threatened now by totalitarian tactics, grand juries, informants, mandatory sentencing. it's not very good, my friends. we're losing constitutional ri

frustration, however, the ethics committee consistently declined to take u ethics committee consistently dedine clined to take up these issues because they felt they were clinical matters. for me the final straw was the center's failure to take action to discover a technician was intoxicated while providing care. i could not continue to work at a facility where a veteran's well-being second secondarily to making the numbers look good. i very much hope the va will make real dhings address the problems i've described. i believe there are steps va can take beyond increasing staff. the va should stop rewarding taf for measures that are not real measures of health care. extensive oversight into how care is being provided and how program funding is deployed to ensure the funds go to the programs they are intended to supplement. finally, i would urge the committee to press the va to develop and implement a very long overdue empirically supported mental health staffing methodology so it is no longer to guess whether 19 more mental health staff will be enough. in closing, i'm honored to have had the opportunity to share

up. you know not only is there a work ethic there, there's a level of enthusiasm that reflects a strong value of love for neighborhood and a love for the city. that is why note -- mohammad nuru has been selected to be our new public works director for the long haul and will help naomi and all the other departments of the city administrator's office collaborate with the rest of the city family to get things done. i am so proud of mohammed, proud of his consistent effort to reflect his love for neighborhood, that i will be out of their wine saturday from this weekend, on a march 10, to begin my resurgence in the cleanup teams of saturday mornings, and to make sure that you know that just because the mayor said in room 200, i do not sit in that room, i use that room to empower the rest of the networks. i will be out there. when it comes to carmen's district, i will not only be part of the cleanup teams, but i will spend a couple hours both saturday's opening up myself to a neighborhood involvement. and i ask neighbors to join me. i will buy them a cup of coffee. because i am proud to be part of

organizations like that so it's not shocking to me i guess it makes sense but obviously opens up a lot of legal ethical questions not only of killing from afar with a push of a button which by the way there's a really great piece of rolling stone about that today by michael hastings but. it's really good of them to be listening to it over the. privacy issues as well and you have to wonder what it's going to mean for those drone operators already some of them have p.t.s.d. and at the same time some of them feel like they're a little bored because they're not getting on the action and just have to push a button from far away so. let's move on but i endorse this only for the food delivery drones that we've heard pitched by some tech companies go down prices go. down and let's move on because we have to get there's a paid bankers in the netherlands to be on the lookout because you know similar to this maybe in their future. solemnly pledged to consecrate my life to the service and. i will give my teachers. to respect to the gratitude that is they do. ok so not a product but the dutch want their bankers to

ethics scandal. federal investigations will end up forcing the front office for the national parks service is being interpreted tours back to the national mall. they will replace the tourmobile. starting today open tops i say will add a national mall routes. tickets are $32 for adults and $20 for children and visitors can hop on an awful day. >> the country club that hosts the masters golf tournament may have to change its ways now that the ceo of one of the tournament's biggest sponsors is a woman. >> all issues of membership are now and have been historical subject to the private deliberations of the members. >> this is the new ceo and she has traditionally been offered a membership at augusta national. the club has never admitted a woman. agusta national is so secretive it does not reveal who its members are. they have not talked about whether she has been offered a membership. >> that policy has gone on for a long time. rain canceled the game last week but the players put on quite a show. they'll try to play again next month. >> very cute. that was entertaining. let's get a look at traffic and weather ever