. >> the federal communications commission is now investigating last thursday's cell phone shut down. the acls trying to determine whether any rights were violated. we talked with the aclu and bart about the shut down today. >> what the government should do to protect the public from public safety threats is regulate conduct threats. >> they made the decision that if necessary to protect our customers life and safety -- our hark aches when we are forced to make a decision like this. in this case it was the protesters. >> as the fbi, the fccc and the aclu investigate the dispute between anonymous and bart, we will continue to cover the story. >>> a live look outside at the golden gate bridge. it's fair. 58 degrees. quick warm up tomorrow. lunchtime 72. 78 for the afternoon high. let's look that rest of the bay area. this is tomorrow. cooler weather coast side, 62 degrees in half moon bay because the fog lingers. 74 for red redwood city. 81 for los gatos. 82 morgan hill. 77 napa. 72 vallejo. santa rosa 81. 84 for fairfield. seven day around the bay forecast, tomorrow, just as nice as to

. >> the agency has presented evidence to the federal communications commission, the fcc is looking into whether bart shut off the signal or interfered with it. he believes bart has a good case. a public meeting will be held to address the issue though no date has been set. >>> san jose police named a suspect in a triple homicide. investigators say the man wearing a bullet proof vest in this video is velazquez. they went to the club january 8 to kidnap the owner. two were shot to death in a battle long with one who was defending the owner. they are still on the loose. >>> the police chief for the oakland unified school district stepped down after apologizing for what he called hurtful remarks. pete sarna was on lever after an incident at a golf event last month. he was with three officers when he made racial slurs. pete sarna said there is no excuse for the hurtful words i used and said he would focus on his recovery. >>> a former raiderette who became a police officer says she was harassed. only on 2, ktvu's paul chambers spoke to the woman who said the humiliation began on the first da

whereas in march of 1941, the federal communications commission licensed kalw to the san francisco unified school district as the first educational fm station in the country and the first noncommercial fm station west of the mississippi river and whereas in 1941 they went on the air as san francisco's first fm station and whereas kalw trained generations of broadcast engineers and played an important role in opening that field to women and whereas kalw was a leader in the growth of public radio, introducing national public radio to the san francisco bay area in 1972, and beginning broadcast from the british broadcasting corporation soon transfer. and -- soon thereafter and whereas they have consistently provided a platform for innovative programs in public radio and worked with community partners to develop programs that reflect the creativity, diversity and ideals of the people of san francisco area, and whereas in a time of consolidation, kalw has maintained its independence and devotion to local news, producing reporting that has received dozens of awards, and whereas kalw celebrates 70

the chairman of the federal communications commission and the coalition of several call center companies are set to announce a major hiring commitment today. the coalition plans to hire 100,000 call center employees in the u.s. in the next two years with some jobs returning from overseas. the chairman says improvement in broadband availability are making the new jobs possible. the new call center is being built in southern indiana where 175 positions will be added. the coalition called jobs for america includes sprint, nextel corporation and the non-profit american teleservices association. >>> remember the days when bay area cities had large budget surpluses and growing economies? well, city leaders in the east bay town of brentwood say it's exactly what they are going through now, despite the recession. abc7's laura anthony is in brentwood with the story. >> despite having the ten-year housing boom halted by the bad economy, brentwood are in a financial position most other cities would envy. greenwood is the director of the economic development. he points to the new 28 million city hal

the federal communications commission announced plans on wednesday to address the technical challengeske that happen. it may take more than five years before the service is available. >>> in health news, a new medical study is generating intense interest among cancer researchers. it's a pioneering concept for a new way to fight cancer. for the first time scientists have successfully used a patient's own blood cells to wipe out a type of cancer. dr. jon lapook reports. >> reporter: for years researchers have been trying to figure out a way to kill cancer cells using a patient's own cells. a victory for dr. carl june and his team at the pennsylvania university school of medicine. >> this is a form of personal surgery. that's the wave of the future. >> reporter: chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a type of blood cancer, the only known cure is a bone marrow treatment. which is risky and only effective in about half of patients. in this new approach scientists use the patient's own t-cells. scientists remove the t-cells, white blood cells that help fight infection such as bacteria. genetically

in the meantime we're told the federal communications commission is sending teams to boston an atlanta to be in position to repair damaged cell phone towers. fema's big fear is the hurricane is targeting cities unacostumed to hurricanes. >> we are taking the steps to ensure that the city is prepared. >> reporter: we learned the u.s. navy is shipping its second fleet out to sea to better protect the ships against the wind an rain that irene is certain to bring along the east coast. >>> a noontime vote today by the un security council to unfreeze $1.5 billion in assets and give that money to the rebels. the united states is pushing to unfreeze that money. back in march the government froze the assets as part of the effort to pressure muammar gadhafi to stop attacking the libyan people. rebels are still fighting. there's a 2 million-dollar bounty for muammar gadhafi dead or alive. >>> this morning governor jerry brown will announce what he is calling job creation legislation. the governor is proposing to tighten the corporate tax formula. in basic cheap he's offering businesses sales tax

the federal communications commission is putting teams in place for cell phone service. the navy is moving the second fleet out of sea to better protect the ships from the rain and wind and protect the piers as well. it's targeting place unacustommed to it such as new york. >> one is a suggestion that people move and another is that the mayor has the power to issue an executive order and force people to move which we would do only in the worst of sacts. >> fema is setting up a seat in ft. brag, north carolina. reporting for ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> the east coast was shaking again overnight. a strong 4.5 earthquake rattled virginia late last night. it was centered outside the town of mineral. mineral is 80 miles outside of washington, d.c. look at the washings ton monument -- washington monument. more cracks were discovered. the washington monument will stay closed until repairs are finished. >>> meanwhile, the damage at the national cathedral forced a change. organizers have to find a new site for this weekend's dedication for the memorial of martin luther king, jr. >>

it really is a question of political will there's a set number of policies that the federal communications commission and the congress could enact that would not only encourage new competitors to enter this market lower the barriers to entry for them to do so but it also would force the existing companies to drive down rates and free up some of the innovative energy in the market right now and it's really a question of political will a several other countries that you mentioned japan france the netherlands they chose to walk down that road they chose to create an adopt open access policies which would allow several competitors to. over the wires that companies like comcast horizon own and they made an investment. in pushing those policies they fought hard to get those policies adopted and what we see afterwards are countries like japan offering service for half the price at twice the speed as average americans here in the united states get and they're still going on and they're still making money it's absolutely profitable and you know all of these countries i think just like any profit seeking firm

federal communications commission has launched a formal investigation and the federal agency will investigate whether bart has the legal right to selectively i will limb name -- eliminate cell phone service over concerns of a possible protest. we will have reaction from a bart union official in the next half hour. >>> overnight in beaumont a dive team pull add car out of a pond and street racing may be responsible. the dive team off island parkway around 3:00 this morning divers ended up finding a severely damaged volkswagon jetta. a woman who saw it says the jetta lost control in a street race. the driver made it out of the car before police arrived. >>> an extra set of eyes will be watching downtown gilroy. a new security camera will be watching the intersection. deborah tells us where it is located and how it could be the first of several. >> reporter: that is the plan in the city of gilroy. this is the first of about six they are planning on putting up and they are putting it up in a specific part of downtown but the second reason they are putting it up is they want the ability to protect

men one nine hundred eighty seven the federal communications commission under reagan was a five commissioners are sometimes one not appointed you voted for zero unanimously to stop enforcing it it was still on the books they were just no longer in force and they democrats immediately went nuts they controlled the house the senate passed a bill saying the fairness doctrine should be back again reagan vetoed it couple years later when bush was in they were threatening to pass another bill bush threaten to veto it and they never got to the legislation so then it kind of went underground but it was on the box office telemachus is aside isn't this is this a little more of like a just a simple power story i mean if the law is on the books and a regulatory agency says we're not going for it was well it was the regulation policy is a regulation it was never a law ok it was regulation at the f.c.c. that's why congress tried to pass a law so that they could be the ones it's harming our struggle as opposed to giving the admin is a one of the greatest because when they first started one way ninety seven

and the federal communications commission is partnering with several private businesses to help create 100,000 call center jobs over the next two years. >> provide very meaningful opportunities for jobs across the united states. >> reporter: right now, 5 million americans work at so-called contact centers around the country. more than 400,000 of them at telephone call centers. and 4,000 new positions are being added every month. an advantage to called centers that unskilled workers or the unemployed can be hired, and with a few weeks' training, can be put to work in jobs making an average of $14 an hour. 40-year-old tim richards was out of work k r eight months before he landed a call center job last march. >> it's better than minimum wage job. there is growth within the economy. >> reporter: part of the domestic call center job growth appears driven by public backlash over foreign-based call centers. satirized in the nbc television show "outsourced." >> yesterday, we outsourced the entire call center to india. >> what we hear is, they ask us a question. do you do any outsourcing overs

. >>> federal communication commissions has begun an investigation into bart cutting off cell phone service last week. the fcc said it has received compliance and now gathering information from bart. federal regulators say they'll look at whether bart has the right to eliminate cell phone service because of concerns about possible protest. bart says it does have the right citing public say. fcc said it would investigate the hacking group posting some information of the passengers over the weekend. aclu getting involved in ktvu with posted a letter of civil liberties group. it says bart's decision to disrupt cell phone service was unjustified and says bart should not repeat that. >>> what we know about the group called anonymous and its motives. >>> oakland police officers pursuit of two carjacking suspects ended with their arrest this evening but not before a frightening crash. an officer responding hit another car in the intersection of 35th avenue and international boulevard. the collision happened at about 6:30 tonight. while it looks bad, no one was hurt. witnesses say police car had it

. >>> federal communication commissions has begun an investigation into bart cutting off cell phone service last week. the fcc said it has received compliance and now gathering information from bart. federal regulators say they'll look at whether bart has the right to eliminate cell phone service because of concerns about possible protest. bart says it does have the right citing public say. fcc said it would investigate the hacking group posting some information of the passengers over the weekend. aclu getting involved in ktvu with posted a letter of civil liberties group. it says bart's decision to disrupt cell phone service was unjustified and says bart should not repeat that. >>> what we know about the group called anonymous and its motives. >>> oakland police officers pursuit of two carjacking suspects ended with their arrest this evening but not before a frightening crash. an officer responding hit another car in the intersection of 35th avenue and international boulevard. the collision happened at about 6:30 tonight. while it looks bad, no one was hurt. witnesses say police car had it

. >> several public interest groups are asking the federal communications commission to declare that bart broke telecom laws. the group that includes electronics foundation, say bart's decision and action is setting a dangerous example. bart says it was intended to keep passengers safe. >>> oakland police are still searching for two armed men involved in a carjacking. it started when four men used a gun during a carjacking yesterday morning in west oakland. the suspects led police on a chase and eventually crashed a car and ran off. one man pointed a gun at an officer that fired back. two near schools were placed on lockdown as s.w.a.t. teams converged on the area. they eventually captured two of the men. they say they are connected to other crimes. >> a court in san francisco will hear arguments from a lawyer that is representing deadly shooting in arizona. prison officials or a judge should decide whether a mentally person in prison should be forcibly medicated. he has pleaded not guilty for 49 charges in the january shooting that killed 6 people and wounded 13 others including ari

. >>> the federal communications commission is sending teams to boston and atlanta to be ready to deploy. emergency cell phone towers to maintain communications throughout that region. a category three hurricane is a very serious hurricane. our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking it. >> the most fascinating thing here is day two and three when you get up to the new york area. in the carolinas saturday. this is pacific standard time. so our time 11:00 a.m. it's going to hit that area and move right across through kitty hawk. this next move here as you go north. new york doesn't get hurricanes, but if this thing staying intake intact, that is an extremely -- that would be a big deal. it remains to be seen. it's still a ways out. the forecast for the fog is going to be pretty similar to what we saw this morning. right now we have fog in the avenues of san francisco all the way out to south on market out toward the ballpark. fog out toward krissy park as well. today's highs were nice. they were a lot like yesterday. tomorrow's highs will be warmer. as we go into this bay area weekend

and saying that that reflects fear mongering and the federal communications commission is considering whether to grant clearance after it gave preliminary approval in january. that is business at the new york stock exchange, i'm deborah kostroun with the bloomberg after the bell report. >> united airlines is giving pilots ipads to replace their paper flight manuals. united plans to distribute the tab bs lets to all 11,000 pilots by the end of the year, including navigation charts and united says it will save 16 million sheets of paper and 326,000 gallons of jet fuel. alaska and delta have given ipads to pilot autos and a shocking number of bay area families struggling for food. though we're in one of the agriculturely rich areas of the nation. >> and i'm michael finney. sue g wants to know what is up with grocery store deals offering multiple products for a low price? ♪ ♪ free access to chase atm's wherever you are. that's a step forward. chase customers can avoid atm fees with over 16,000 nationwide. take a step forward and chase what matters. fiber one. almost tastes like one of jac

the federal communication commission and business leaders announce plans to bring 100,000 call center jobs back from over seas. several telecom company including sprint have agreed to build or expand call center facilities. center will be located in areas with new broadband technology making it possible to handle high scroll yuma of call and on line chat. job phased in over the next two years. >>> new law restricting use of form from jail house informant is stirring up controversy in the law enforcement community. vick lee with reaction now to the bill governor brown signed that restricts how evidence from those informant can be used. >> person who is looking at 130 years was offered a couple years in prison to testify against my client and l later we proved that that person was lying and in fact may have been the one who committed the crime. >>reporter: public doe fender is talking about a jail house informant who lied about his former client in a murder case. the new law will now require all testimony from jail house informants to be corroborated independently. supporters hope this

> the president of bart's board of directors confirmed that the agency contacted the federal communications commission to open a dialog about the wireless shutdown. a group called anonymous hacked into a bart website this weekend and not only published names, addresses and passwords of website users but urged people to assemble once again for a protest tonight. bart says the hackers should be blamed for violating another right. >> the fbi's investigating, as well as other agencies are investigating to get to the bottom of it. trying to figure out why these protestors thought it was important to be able to violate our customers' right to privacy. >> okay. take a look over there. the protestors are still over there with the swat team. the police swat team made up of bart police officers and san francisco police department officers. now, from what we understand, these protestors are still headed toward the ferry building. there are still stations that are closed. civic center station is stopping their trains stopping there, but they're not allowing passengers to get on. only to get off from what we under

the f.c.c., the federal communications commission, also has to weigh in on this deal. both agencies, both the justice department and the f.c.c., have to approve the deal. so this is a big hurdle. we have to hear from the judge at the u.s. district court of the district of columbia on her decision on this case. but this is just one more step in the process. but a significant one. this is also politically in sending a message to the companies. the justice department really is making an unprecedented step, especially in this administration, when it has proved so many other mergers that's come before it, including comcast merger, joint venture with nbc universal, google's acquisition of a travel company by i.t.a.. this is the first time the justice department has made such an audacious move to block a energyer. >> suarez: i'm glad you mentioned the other mergers because in some of those cases the first salvo, if you will, was the justice department or the regulator in some cases the f.c.c. saying if you meet certain conditions then we can talk about the merger. >> that's r

i think there will be a lot of legal ramifications of this, but the federal communications commissionever gone against the department of justice. so if the department of justice pursues this and says we're not going to let this deal go through, i don't think it can happen, because the fcc will not go against the doj. it sounds very complicated, but basically those two government entities are not going to fight with each other over that. >> wow. sue herera with this big development. thank you. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> a huge fight breaks out at an amusement park as scarves are banned from certain rides. more details on what happened here. >>> plus, rick perry leads the pack of republican presidential candidates and yet another poll surging again ahead of mitt romney. we'll tell you how he stacks up against president obama in this latest poll that's out. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities. excuse me? my grandfather was born in this village. [ automated voice speaks foreign language ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same lang

the chairman of the federal communications commission and the coalition of several call center companiesannounce a major hiring commitment today. the coalition plans to hire 100,000 call center employees in the u.s. over the next two years with some jobs returning from overseas. the fcc chairman says the improve in the the broadband availability make new jobs possible. new call center is being built in southern india, where 175 positions will be added. the coalition called jobs for america includes sprint nextel corporation and non-profit american teleservices association. >>> remember the days when bay area cities had large budget surpluses and growing economies? the city leaders in one east bay town brentwood, say that is what they are experiencing right now despite the recession. despite having a ten-year housing boom abruptly halted by the bad economy, brentwood is in a situation other cities would envy. they point to the $28 million city hall project as an example of the relative wealth that the community enjoys. the shopping center is 95% release and fresh revenue by companies that

what kind of actions could be taken against bart, which have heard statements from the federal communications commission that they're quite interested in this episode, and they're very worried that bart might have violated the communications act and various laws related to the operation of cell phone networks and telephone networks. i would not be surprised if we saw some kind of investigation. the other part of this that is relevant is that bart might have violated the california state law. the california public utilities commission have similar requirements to be fc with with a gets to the access they have to provide. they could face liability from the federal and local government. host: jacksonville, florida. cliff, good morning. caller: this is starting to french on the age old thing of shouting fire in a theater if i have people that can use these cell phone and take over a train, why would the police not have the right to say it is an illegal demonstration because it is a safety hazard for all of those folks that are trying to get there were -- to work? why could they not a protest and not at a tr

the federal communications commissions contacting the wireless carriers and public safety call centerstermine the cause of the outages after the earthquake and how to address them. >> most importantly we were concerned about the fact that 911 calls were also congested. we want to make sure that people who need emergency respect were able to get it. >> right now there is no technology in common use to make sure 911 calls from wireless phones go to the top of the queue when there is heavy volume like after the quake. the fcc is working with phone companies to improve that and get it in place on a wide scale and regulate it. as for the cell phone outages, our question to the major carriers was simple. why wouldn't the networks handle that volume when people needed it the most. spokes people would only acknowledge there was congestion and said the networks didn't experience damage, but never said why they couldn't handle the volume. i spoke with this technology expert. >> couldn't the companies build more volume capability into their systems? >> of course they can. >> why don't they? >> no

we also want to thank our partners in law enforcement, including the federal communications commission and the state attorneys general, who have assisted and partnered with us in this investigation. >> just no, today's justice department briefing on the at&t/t-mobile merger rears tonight at 8:00 p.m. here on c- span. next, president obama called on congress to pass extensions of the surface transportation bill and legislation that we authorizes the federal aviation administration. after that, two organizations, the u.s. chamber of commerce and the afl-cio called annual labor day briefings on u.s. jobs and the economy. earlier today, the white house said that president obama is calling on congress to hold a prime-time address next week, a joint session of congress. he sent a letter to speaker boehner and harry reid asking for the joint session on wednesday, september 7, at 8:00 p.m.. ahead of the, the briefing from the president, the comments on the passing of the transportation bill, and also the faa reauthorization bill. both bills are set to expire at the end of september unless cong

federal stimulus money. a hearic took place today after showing the energy commission and department of community services didn't have plans to spend millions of federal dollars. this is a second time they found agencies not spending stimulus money fast enough. >> we got it, we got it, we will take corrective measures and here we are with another audit. >> california has $280 million left to spend. if it doesn't use it by april it must be returned to the government. >>> man faces 5 years in prison after admitting to securities fraud. he ran california star properties. prosecutors say he admitted to taking a million dollars from investors. he fled to costa rica and was arrested there. >>> it appears plants nabbers are stocking san francisco. folks say someone is steeling their flowers and plants. in some cases planters are taken. police say they are on the look out for anyone in the area walking around with a plant. investigators would like to talk to this man. some resident bought cameras in the homes of stopping the crimes. >>> the death of a bay area soldier serving in afghanistan. he died yesterday after enem

federal guidelines. i realize there is a lot of concern in the community, and i appreciate that concern. but the place to voice that concern is that the department of health and the health commission. not here. it starts there, and that is where, in my opinion, have those concerns should be voiced. in particular, you're looking at installation that has been approved by a hospital. a medical office building. even the city, to some extent has done something similar. there is a parking garage directly across the street that services the general hospital and has two largest air towers. these structures are multiple and test. the hospital and the city health department have not objected to this. as i say, this is the wrong venue. and with that, i would move to approve. >> on the motion to approve with conditions. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. president olague: aye. >> so moved. it passes unanimously 5-0. that places you on item 15. request for a conditional use authorization. >> we're presenting on behalf of sarah. the request is for a conditional use authorization to allow the installation of nine panel antenna

federal and local governments work together, establish in community family service programs and implementing strategic planning and information systems. while in office he chaired the western governor's association, education commission of the state, was lead governor on energy policy and served on a variety of national and regional technology initiatives. he was a member of the committee on america's climate choices under the national academy and served on the mapping science committee under the national research council, current member of the community resilience committee under oak ridge national laboratories, advisory committee for the global positioning satellite system, board of governors of park city center for public policy, current share of the board of trustees of the western governor's university. he joined environmental systems research institute in the summer of 2003 as director of policy and public sector strategy to work with senior elected and corporate officials on how to use gaea's spatial technology in business and government. welcome. to our panel. >> thank you. i think the reason for the lengthy introductions is to establish our authenticity and authoritative and this. has nothing to do with the

federal and local governments work together, establishing community-based health and family service programs and implementing strategic planning and information systems. while in office he chaired the western governors association, the education commissionf the states, was the governor on energy policy and served on a variety of national and regional technology initiatives. he was a member of the committee on america's climate choices under the national academies, served on the mapping sciences committee under the national research council. current member of the community resilience committee under oak ridge national laboratories, nassau advisory committee for the global positioning satellite system, the board of governors of the park city center for public policy, the current chair of the board of trustees of the western governors university. he joined environmental systems research institute in the summer of 2003 as director of policy and public sector strategies to work with senior elected and corporate officials on how to use geospecial technology replace these decisions in business and government. governor, welcome to our panel. >> thank you rand. i think i've figured out the reason for these lengthy introductions, is to establish