did in florida in two thousand when they purged the florida voter rolls using names of convicted felons who lived in texas why suddenly start looking for convicted texas felons who might be voting just ahead of the election in florida because given the flaws in our criminal justice system a list of convicted felons will be disproportionately full of minorities people who vote for democrats and african-americans have a smaller pool of last names than white americans so there are a lot of good law abiding african-american floridians with similar names to african-american felons in texas so at least eight thousand legal non felon registered african-american floridians were knocked off the voter rolls just before the two thousand election a disaster for al gore but for conservatism florida result in success for george w. bush who officially won the state by little more than five hundred votes even though later a recount by a consortium of newspapers found that al gore actually won the state of matter which recount criteria was used. if those eight thousand minority voters who were kicked of

if we deal with addiction it makes no sense to turn an addict into a felon. [applause] >> chief, you've been committed to evidence-based practices in your administration of the adult probation department. to what extent does that inform your approach when you look at senator leno's measure and deciding whether or not to support it? >> my view is not only from evidence-based practices but also from spending almost 30 years working in the california prison system, managing prisons, working in prisons, performing oversight, and what i know and what i can definitively say after 30 years is that prison does not address more change behavior. in fact, it actually, for those who do have addictions and illnesses, in fact it actually makes them worse. it's like sending individuals that have a sickness to criminal camp, they learn how to be better criminals but still don't get their addiction addressed. and the research out there tells us that incapacitation, period, does not change behavior. it also tells us that basically what changes behavior is approximate 200 hours

those charges could be more severe because he is an ex felon. lorraine blanco, channel 2 news. >>> they will decide if the deputy will have to turn over his court records. they want to obtain records of his calls and texts. >> reportedly he and his campaign manager said he bruised his arm. they ordered the attorneys to return to court on thursday. the ethics hearing is set to begin on june 19th. >> a hearing is scheduled at 2:30 for seniors in brentwood. they were suspended for taking part in a planning. they filed papers in court claiming they were unfairly suspended. they took part in a senior planning and included graph feat tee and a lamb -- graffiti. and they may not be able to attend graduation. >>> what happens, it creates algae. a stench, mosquitoes. >>> people say they are fed up with a problem on their street and demanding that the city do something about it. rosemary is up to tell you about the temperatures and news about the windses. >> this is in the hard times. >> bay area team helps out the community. what is being done today that

why would the department of justice not want states to remove ineligible felons, ineligible noncitizens, and of the dead from their voter rolls? the administration's actions aren't just wrong. they are arrogant, and democratic, and an insult to the rule of law. the administration's disregard for the constitution and rule of law not only undermines our democracy, it threatens our national security. the justice department has not taken the initiative to prosecute leaks of national security secrets.

the washington examiner says the felons were responsible for collecting the signatures and certifying that they were gathered legally. but montgomery county is challenging the petition saying there is an insufficient number of signatures to put the issue on the november ballot. >>> a man credited with launching several careers in the comedy world is dead. the body of d.c. improv founder mark anderson was found inside a hotel room near phoenix, arizona. he had been missing for weeks. investigators say that anderson was found alone as a result of a gunshot wound. he was a well known pioneer and promoter in the world of comedy and he owned clubs around the country. >> he came up with an idea to take those improvs and franchise them and make them comedy clubs in big cities across the country. that's exactly what he did. >> that was anderson's brother- in-law greg sax. he says anderson had been battling depression for years and believed that people were daz chasing -- were chasing him. >>> a shocking development about the belmont stakes this afternoon. the horse i'll have another is report

suspect surrendered and he is facing felony charges and it will be more severe because he is an ex- felon. lorraine blanco ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> the battle over same sex marriage, here is more from san francisco where the court's decision is expected hours from now and paul will explain what is at stake here, good morning paul. >>> good morning torii, we are live outside the courthouse like you said. >> reporter: they are expected that the u.s. court of appeals will consider whether same sex marriage will be banned in california and you can see the 9th court of circuit appeals will decide whether or not to visit the vetter approved ban under cons using itnal. they -- unconstitutional. they went on to say proposition 8 serves no purpose other than gays lesbians in california making them inferior to those of opposite sex couples. >> i think it should just be a right everybody has. >> reporter: now supporters request the 9th circuit to hear the case and if they decide to hear the case it will go before 10 randomly selected judges and it could take 10 months to a year and if they d

police arrested a 1-year-old ex--- 41-year-old ex-felon without incident.are showing you exclusive video of him surrendering. it happened at jenson for about several hours. you can see right here they rescued a man from the home at 11:00 last night. >> we were able to make entry and with our negotiation team have a dialog with the suspect. >> and before the standoff, the suspect fired a gun at an alameda sheriff's deputy and that deputy was trying to pull him avenue after spotting him with a car on 41st and international. >>> and in just under two hours the pole will be open and the following stations are being closely monitored. >> reporter: that's right, you can see a few voting fires and they are written in selflanguages and that's -- several languages and that's because they are required to help with several languages to latino voters, essentially making sure nobody is discriminated against whether they have received a complaint or not, we are not sure but we have put in a call to them. voter turnout may set a record for lowest ever. only 6 million are

rick scott said convicted felons no longer have the right to vote. this affects democrats and african-americans. 43% of those affected, the 7,000 felons purged are african-american. they make 13 to 14% of the florida population. it is unfair to say the least. >> what look what he did in 2010. one of the first options was to roll back voting rights. that disenfranchised the voters and made it difficult for 1.1 million voters to have the right to vote. after that he went on and made it hard for groups to register voters like the league of women voters and rock the vote and cut back early voting. both affected african-americans and hispanics. african-americans are twice as likely as whites to register through voter registration. early voting, african-americans were 54% of early voters. on the sunday before the election when african-american churches mobilized. this is obvious what republicans are up to. >> as a convicted felon yourself, i understand. >> he wants the right back. >> what strikes me as notable is they bring up the voter fraud, but they are

as an ex-felon, it's not my first effort with a public defender in public for a bunch of people who i know are working hard to make this substance abuse incarceration cognitive behavior thing work all together. i started doing my career in rehabs and jails and shelters and where i live. it's a privilege to work for people who chose to be the audience. oddly enough, they don't get that in the jails and prisons as a joke, really. they don't, i have been sober 23 years and incarcerated in a lot of the 1980's -- [applause] >> thanks, listen, i hope some day we reach a point where that's not necessary to applaud for. i really do. 23 years sober means that i have run out of excuses to misbehave. that's all it means. i'm criminal by nature. i'm challenged by generically designed. i'm a comedian by trade. i love the effort that it takes to make this disease, alcoholism addiction co-dependency, the trifecta of dysfunction that comes from a family source that's really nothing to make fun of. i make a living during humor about a disease that kills more people than car accidents, cancer and war c

council chairman until two days ago walked out of court a convicted felon. >> i have not stolen or improperly used in the public money. >> but he did plead to falsifying irs 1099 income statements to get personal loans from industrial bank. it was a $166,000 equity loan in 2005. he claimed he was a vice president of an unnamed company. it was untrue. and he forged a name as the company -- forged a friend's name has the company president. then he claimed he was an employee for unnamed company to. >> we discovered that mr. brown had falsified documents for a loan. at that point, we had to act upon it. >> brown paid off with the house loan and was current on the boat loan. but it was still fraud. >> i want to apologize from the bottom of my heart to all those i have let down. for the people of this great city. >> he left federal court and went to d.c. court and pled guilty to violating laws on paying campaign workers. some residents questioned the prosecution appeared >> how many people live on applications to look bigger than they really are? >> but it is illegal. >> but how many people get cau

they discovered 100 marijuana plants and investigators sate suspect is a convicted felon. >> there is breaking news out of marin county. there is a rescue operation of a injured cyclist at china camp state park. there is a chopper called out into a remote area. the terrain apparently too rugged for them and once was the cyclest was air lifted out the chopper returned to the scene. and looks like he took him out of a ravine. >> and there is a man under arrest for child molestation and rape. the 33-year-old was accused of sexually molesting two in thinks care and raping a woman with the mental age of a kindergartener. and there is a facility for developmentally disabled. investigators fear there may be more victim autos this week a dive team will look for new evidence in the disappearance of sierra lamar. it's in the santa cruz mountains west of oak r morgan hill. investigators want to know whether sonar equipment might detect something new under the water. and he is charged with kidnapping and killing her based on nda evidence found in his car. >> there is a judge ruled suspended stude

they waited until towards the end of their projectat the lasta felon at the rear of the deck -- fill in at the rear of the deck. there has been substantial excavation. there has been more living space added then i am aware of. having requested but never seen any plans, i do not think this will work. i talked to the owners, and i thought we were going to reach a compromise, but without notification, we decided to go ahead and push it at the appeals level, and this letter i hope you have encourages you to at least drown the planning department to reconsider the work you to at least let the department reconsider the work. i checked, and since the project began there have been five permits. there has been expansion of the patio at the ground floor, expansion at the lower level, addition of the lower deck in the real level, privacy wings, and we feel that any of those would trigger a design review. there has been no configuration of alternate stairways. i would like to figure out a compromise that would work. i called the owner and ask for a meeting, which he agreed. the owner called back

low pressure builds the upper the low clouds build up by monday night, in 24 hours the low clouds felon along sonoma county and marin county coastlines, it looks sunny. sfo looks good with the forecast i have 67. denver 99 degrees tomorrow. los angeles 75 thunderstorms in new york city. pinpoint calls for temperatures to rebound to 74 in santa clara, 74 in campbell, in east bay in brentwood up to 77, 76 fairfield, 68 vallejo, bodega bay 58, in san francisco 64 degrees, extended forecast the pressure is on, it does not heat up dramatically in the set to where we should be. wednesday and thursday in the mid '80s inland. for next weekend we cool it down. we go back to the usual stratus quo. it >>> nearly killed during his job bodie in the swing of things. >>> i'm dennis o'donnell coming up on game day last week in the u.s. open tonight in sonoma a thrilling finish to the toyota save mart 350. >>> it tastes better in victory lane >>> another a threat of venice for the a's and giants, 93,000 here, a great sports weekend we recap all and a couple minutes. >>> and new kind of fairy tale prince

i happen to disagree with purging felons. on a case-by-case basis, you can make the argument for someone to come back into the system to be a part of the voting population. so my broader point is, i think the party is kind of put itself into rhetorical hot spot unnecessarily. by creating an impression that our, our end goal is to tell black folks, we don't want you to vote. and that is not the case at all. >> but let's be clear about the way that american politics works. i mean it is the case that 90% of voters voted for barack obama. african-americans, what 92, something like that there are certain constituencies, particularly true of african-american voters, that vote reliably for one party. so it is strategic imperative, even if you are the most racially enlightened republican in the universe, right, to create obstacles for people you know are going to vote against you to go to the polls. >> but when you're voting at those percentages, 90-10, 98-2, you're not going to impact that vote to the point where unless you can get

, despite striking down the part of republican governor rick scott's law that made her a potential felon and shut down the age-old good government nonpartisan little old lady voter registration drives, despite all that, the judge did today levin tact the other part of rick scott's voter suppression law. early voting is still slashed in half from 15 days in florida down to only eight days. even though you won't have to avoid -- abide by the random 48-hour time frame on turning in voter registration forms, if you do want to do a voter registration drive in florida, you want to help somebody else register to vote, rick scott's law will still force you to register yourself with the state as if you're a sex offender or something. and as we have been reporting, governor rick scott is trying to purge thousands of eligible florida voters off the states' voter rolls. florida elections officials around the state. first the state sent over 2,000 names to the counties to be purged alleging that voters were noncitizens even though that doesn't seem to be the case in a lot of cases. the state has also