force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters.of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye. welcome to the san historic preservation commission regular meeting for december 3, 2014, i'd like to remind members which the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind please silence all electronic devices that may sound proceedings and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll arrest president hasz commissioner wolfram commissioner hyland commissioner johnck commissioner johns and commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman notified me he's stuck on the 101 and couldn't anticipate couldn't be able to make the hearing commissioner f

the best way to end graffiti is to clean it up so they tire. that hasn't happened so far. >> someone with a problem. i hope we can get him some help. >> reporter: if not help then arrest and restitution for the thousands of dollars of damage he caused. he is willing to call a truce if he would stop but he is not counting on that is. ken wayne, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the san francisco board of supervisors will vote tomorrow on whether to pay $3 million to the family of levialist -- of lynne spalding. she spent missing at san francisco general hospital. her body was found 17 days later in a stair well. they filed a claim in march. they accuse the hospital and the sheriff's department of negligent and creating a dangerous condition. if they do not approve the settlement the family is expected to sue. lynne spalding was admitted for an infection but disappeared two days later. >>> we are back on storm watch tonight. even though today's storm wasn't as severe but the impact is still real in san jose. two power poles snapped this morning. falling o

mohammed nur rue says crews cleaned up the graffiti and there was new graffiti. i just wiped out all the tags off the freeway. if you know him or her $1,000 reward. nuru believes the best way to end graffiti is to clean it up quickly and the taggers will leave. but murs keeps coming back. >> we are going to find him and he will pay for all of these because this cost the taxpayers a lot of money. >> he is willing to call a truce with this tagger. he promises not to seek criminal charges if the taggers will stop. >>> the high ranking san jose city official who was escorted out of city hall as a new job but also includes a huge pay cut. alex had served as the top labor negotiator. now city officials say he has taken a much lower position as an entry level analyst for the parks and rec department. he tells the san jose mercury news he was given no reason as to why he was fired annoys courted out -- and escorted out of the office. >>> san francisco supervisors are set to vote on whether to authorize a settlement of nearly $3 million to the family of lynn spalding. the

the best way to end graffiti is to clean it up so the taggers eventually tire. but that has not happened so far with merz. >> it sounds like someone with a problem. i hope that we could find him and get him help. and the resolutioners for the thousands of dollars that he has caused. >> and they say that they will be willing to call it truce, but they will not seek criminal charges, trying to have the person prosecuted if he would only stop. but he's not counting on that happening. in san francisco ken wayne ktvu channel 2 news. >>> beneficial rainfall falling over the last week or so. check it out. oakland is at 191% average right now. look at san jose. 244% above average. numbers at this time of the year doesn't mean a ton, but it's sure nice. look at how close we need to be in oakland. this is for the entire year. they're about half of that need as nay are coming up on the half way mark in san jose right there too. so a lot of rain around here that has been helpful as we will need more and they will keep coming, especially as we head through the afternoon hour

. >> they were doing a photo shoot right on park boulevard in front of all the graffiti. >> they were in their wedding dress and two or three little girls wearing red dresses. >> police say the stolen equipment is worth about $13,000. of course the pictures are irreplaceable. there's a $25,000 reward in this case. >>> probably the germiest restroom you will ever get on will be on a plane.

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. >> a war in san francisco against a graffiti offender who just won't stop. the exception one city official is willing to make in order to make his work disappear forever. >>> welcome back. a boutique hotel damaged by the napa earthquake nearly six months ago is now back open. the hotel's first straight reopened two floors to guests yesterday. two other floors are being worked on though. until recently the thought of the hotel had been covered in scaffolding. >>> san francisco's public works director declaring war on the person he calls the worst graffiti offend never san francisco. crews cleaned up highway 101 last friday and there was new graffiti by the tagger called mers by monday morning. nuru tweeted saying i'm at war. i just wiped out all the tags off the freeway. if you know him or her, $1,000 reward. he says the best way to end graffiti is to clean it up quick and the taggers will leave. but mers keeps coming back. >> we have to find him. >> the public works director says he promises not to seek criminal charges if the tagging stops. >>> coming up ne

it was called the graffiti blasters. painted over and constitutional law was passed to ban the sale of spray cans. >> i was always told, no, i was always arrested and locked up or beat up by the police or, you know, it's very, very rough city. one of the most anti-graffiti cities that i've ever seen in the world. >> but things are beginning to change. >> you look around and all the cool neighborhoods have street art. and that in graffiti co-exists in that. those are the neighborhoods that are being sought after for some of the highest property values. >> be sure to check out the full show at cnn. >>> the shooting death of two new york police officers comes at a difficult time in this city. sen tensions are strained between the police and the mayor's office. >> and also between officers and the communities that they patrol as well. in the aftermath of yesterday's shootings, reactions were divided. we have the public safety administrator for the dekalb county police in georgia. i want to ask you do you think this was a ref

the graffiti has some people riled up. >> it does. those images were on this wall here.cleaned up, some of the words too strong for us to show you on tv. >> it's disgusting, absent minded. i don't know what the thought process of people and the hatred but to put something like that, it's juvenile. >> john says he is fed up with the anti-police protests and remarks. >> an officer goes to work. they're not looking to kill anybody. >> some of the vandalism references, ferguson, and new york grand jury decisions and others, a recent philadelphia shooting in which police say a man was shot and killed when he reached for a gun during a traffic stop. >> we had an armed, convicted felon with a loaded, stolen firearm. what are the police to do? he went for that firearm. it was either the police or him. >> residents walking by the images say it's sad. >>

graffiti, red jacket having his portrait on the wall is the same thing as scrawling red jacket was here1828. the interesting juxtaposition is if we fast forward 150 years toed american indian movement and the occupation of the bureau of indian affairs in the 1970s, one of the most dramatic things they did during the occupation, besides destroying documents or reclaiming documents was the spray paint graffiti all over the walls of the office. sending messages -- claiming those walls claiming that space within the office of indian affairs as an indigenous space. i think that's an interesting connection across time. >> the buffalo bridge you mentioned, was that another example of claiming space? >> the buffalo bridge to me is an example of how washington, d.c. is itself the city is a multi-layered urban archive of indigenous history. so there's this bridge that exists that connects q street in georgetown with q street kind of bordering dupont circle. georgetown exiftsted prior to washington. i think 1751 is when tifs founded. decades before washington or the district of columbia. but as th

. >>> it's the graffiti that's caused outrage. it says "cop lives don't matter." somebody scrawled the anti-police messages on a wall, a fence and even the side of a church in west philadelphia. this after the recent grand jury decisions in ferguson, missouri, and in new york. philadelphia police say the graffiti will be investigated like any other act of vandalism. >>> meanwhile, hundreds lined the streets yesterday in northeast philadelphia to show brotherly love and sisterly love to the men and women in blue. it was part of a nationwide event called blue lives matter. the pro-police protest ers tells they want to show their support for philadelphia police officers who the demonstrators say are being unfairly judged following the deaths of michael brown and eric garner. >> they're men and women that go to work every day and try to do their job and try to do the best they can. and they're not going to be perfect. >> last night's rally was loud and noisy, it was mostly peaceful. >>> a few dozen people gathered for a similar rally in port richmond. some of the offi

taking notice of graffiti appearing on walls with the signature, guess who. >> what we do know is that there images are turning heads. take a look at some of these images and you'll probably recognize some of them. this looks like john lennon there, marilyn monroe. >> norma jean. >> yes, ma jean, ronald mcdonald, the colonel, dali, van gogh, picasso, and on an online interview with papers, the guess who, start a dialogue with the public to talk really about social issues. the reason for staying anonymous is to keep the focus on the artwork not the artist. this graffiti has been popping up since 2012 but it hasn't gone viral until recently. >> thank you ines thank you for bringing it to our attention. that's it for us. "real money" with ali velshi is next. >> for the first time every country in the world has agreed to cut back on burning oil, gas, and cole to counter climate change. i'm looking at who wins and who loses. and the investors who brought up all of those foreclose sures after the housing collapse could be looking to cash in soon. plus see why some people are giving up their

. >> reporter: other graffiti condemned killing of brandon tait brown who was shot and killed by police on monday after police say he reached for a gun during a traffic stop. while most condemn graffiti some also see it as a symptom of broader issues. >> i think that people don't trust policeman anymore. >> reporter: it is a sentiment donna garvey hopes to help change. he is hosting a pro police rally in northeast philadelphia tonight for what he calls the 99 percent of officers who are good people. >> there can be corruption, racism in certain police forces, and i want to make it clear we don't support that at all. >> reporter: facebook page for the rally has attracted thousands of followers. >> it is a good surprise. it is great. i think it shows that it is long overdue. >> reporter: he is not sure home people will show up but hopes to show police officers there are those in the community who support them. organizers asked us to stress that they are not here in response to anyone specific incident but rather here to show their support for police in general. the as for the philadelphia

the graffiti, it's graffiti artists. some people, they say it's like the same sort of guy. also a real masterpiece with some scribble on it. too bad. disrespect. the future, yeah. good luck. >> to a small scandal here in the uk. a british mp is in hot water after he was filmed in a parliamentary meeting playing a game on his tablet. a conservative politician made the front page of the newspaper. you can see him here seemingly engrossed in a game of candy crush saga. if you play this game, you'll know how addictive it absolutely is. he did say he was sorry, though, and said he's going to try not to do it again in the future. a quick reminder of our top story here on "gmt." a south african judge has dismissed charges against a british businessman accused of paying for his wife to be murdered on their hon eymoon in 2010. shrien dewani was in cape town with his wife anni when she was killed in an alleged botched robbery. thanks for being with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ a mint flavor that hointensifies as you chew.. 5 ascent gum. stimulate your senses. and you want to get an mba. but going back

. >> he started off yesterday night, he drew a bunch of gang graffiti on the walls. staff attempted to go in there, restrain him, take pictures of the graffiti, he refused, became belligerent. this morning i went up there and talked to him. he decided he would cooperate. we did restrain him, bring him out. we did take photos. probably 30 minutes later, i'm guessing because other offenders probably gave him a hard time that he did back down and let us do our job, now he's covered his window, started throwing fluids under his door. unless he does calm down and follow our rules, he'll be cell extracted. >> here's what's going to happen. if you don't uncover that window. >> i know what's gonna happen. >> is that what you wanna do? you get the [ bleep ]. >> he's refusing to uncover his window. >> he's throwing some kind of liquid out under his door. >> okay. >> he's begging for the s.w.a.t. team to come in. >> all right, guys, real quick. we got hall. he's down in f-1. he's been acting up all morning, refusing orders. he talked to everybody. he's refused all orders. we'll

. >>> graffiti. we'll tell you how one northern virginia neighborhood spent the holidays cleaning up after vandals. >>> new video at 5:00 tonight that might make you change your habits when you go out for dinner and drinks. >>> and a remarkable recovery. an encouraging story of a local rugby player who got back on his feet after his final injury. ♪ wow something sounds sweet in here!!!! ♪ need a little honey in the bowl. yeah!!! badabopbopbopa!!! no? must be the honey!!! >>> a historical first for prince george's county. two latino members now sit on the school board. >> prince george's reporter darcy spencer has more on their plans to help shape the future of education for thousands of students there. >> i feel really excited and very optimistic. >> reporter: these two women, lupitay grady and de nora hernandez are making history as the first latinas ever elected to the school board. >> the new face of the county with a huge immigrant population, many of which are first-generation born. >> reporter:

the official whose declared waroon graffiti artist. jewel -- war on a graffiti artist.hese stories and much more coming up new at 6:00 p.m. >>> most parents could do without the sound of a crying baby but for a woman from sacramento it is the most beautiful sound in the world. >> that woman has never heard her son cry till today. she is the mother of six. she lost her hearing and she was one of a dozen people who received a hearing aid from a hearing aid center free of charge. >> thanks to this lady they gave me my hearing, my life back. thank you so much. >> new day. >> every year for the last 5 years that hearing aid center gave the gift of hearing to those who couldn't afford it. >>> san francisco bed and breakfast has a new clientele. it is giving teens and other homeless people a place to stay. ktvu's david stevenson is live in san francisco where they say having a home changed their life. >> reporter: the building has been given a new coat of paint and remodeled and they say it has given them a new lease on life. >> reporter: he is finally home after 9 years in fo

a window was broken at the station.and you can a wall here with graffiti on it. just before that.hundreds of protestors briefly shut down interstate 8-80 in both directions at market street. c-h-p and oakland police called for backup as the crowd refused to move.and blocked traffic. eventually c-h-p was able to clear the interstate. at least one person was arrested at that time. earlier tonight.protestors vandalized a clorox company building in oakland. you can see the glass was broken there. this is at 12-th and broadway. a march also happened in san francisco tonight. where protestors blocked market street at least twice. and staged what's called a "die=in" at powell street. that blocked muni service on the f-line.and blocked cars. here you see protestors marching with hands up.and police are in riot gear. protestors also marched into the powell bart station one point. but the crowd has since dissipated. now to another developing story in the south bay. rain soaking the bay area again and there is a major storm coming in. jacqueline bennett>>: we're going to se

san francisco's public works director declaring war on the person he calls the worst graffiti offendern francisco. mohammed nuru says crews cleaned up highway 101 last friday and there was brand new graffiti by the taggers called mers. he even tweeted i am at war with mers. if you know him or her $1,000 reward. nuru believes if if you clean it up quick, the taggers will stay away. but mers keeps coming back. the public works director says he's willing to call a truce with this tagger. he is is promising not to seek criminal charges if the tagging will stop. >>> most people see the beauty of the holiday lights and the decorations but fire crews also see the dangers of the season. emergency rooms treat thousands of people for electrical shock, burns, and falls related to holiday decorations. one of the biggest hazards is the christmas tree. >> once the needles start to drop off in mass, we need to get the trees undecorated, get them outside, away from any combustible. >> everybody forgets to water them, they dry out very quickly up here and instantly that is a tinderbox. >> another emerg

there's a war in san francisco against a graffiti tagger who just will not stop. the exception one city official is willing to make to make the tagging vandalism go away forever. >>> i have been wanting them. i never got any but i finally did. >> the early christmas gift for children in need. how a small pair of shoes goes a long way. >>> concord police are stepping in after gifts were stolen for christmas. sometime thursday or friday last week, a thief broke into a storage container at the salvation army in concord and took all of the gifts. this afternoon, the concord police association is set to present a check for $1,000 to the salvation army to make up for some of the losses. >> wow, that's great. >>> 7:25. here is a story that will make you smile. hundred of kids in east san jose received an early christmas gift. it wasn't toys. it wasn't games. something you might take for granted. more than 200 children in need received a new pair of shoes. ktvu's maureen naylor tells us how for some it really meant a lot. >> reporter: inside this building -- >> merry chri

. >>> meanwhile, outrage over graffiti in west philadelphia that says "cop lives don't matter." somebody scrawled the messages on a wall, a fence, even the side of a church. this after the recent grand jury decisions in ferguson, missouri, and new york. philadelphia police say the graffiti will be investigated like any other act of vandalism. >>> a bucks county man is charged with making a hoax call during the manhunt for bradley stone. stoep stone is the former marine whom authorities say went on a shooting spree earlier this week. according to investigators, luke sanderlin claims that a man looking like bradley stone tried to carjack him in doylestown on monday night. the report led to an all-out search in and a lockdown of central bucks ymca and bucks high school. he also told them he fired a gun at stone to scare him off. police began searching for stone after they say he killed his wife and five members of her family monday. they found his body on tuesday in montgomery county but no clues ever turned up in doylestown. investigators say that's because sanderlin made up his c

attention grabbing graffiti bringing light to a lot of social issues.nes is back with that. >> hotel i'm ray suarez. if you drive a lot, you just got a discount on gas, bun you may foretell pain hear it, the falling price of oil from what you buy to what you pay to fear in foreign capitals and throughout global markets. join us live at the top of the hour. >> beyond the verdict and on the streets >> there's been another teenager shot and killed by the police >> a fault lines special investigation >> there's a general distrust of this prosecutor >> courageous and in depth... >> it's a target you can't get rid of... >> the untold story... >> who do you protect? >> ...of what's really going on in ferguson >> they were so angry because it could have been them >> fault lines, ferguson: race and justice in the u.s. one hour special only on al jazeera america >> an anonymous indian artists is being compared to the elusive british artist banksi. ines is back with us on that. ines. >> tony, we're not sure whether it's one artist or a group of them who are respon

my brother used to do graffiti. happening anywhere else. so it was just something that could only have went on right in that area. in the bronx. >> okay. you may be thinking about what about the sugar hill gang? what about them? they were an industry band like the monkeys or the archies, built to cash in quick on what was seen as a fad. and they did cash in. >> the most popular record was rapper's delight. i used to live on the fifth floor walk-up. somebody was playing it next door. it was playing on the fourth floor, third floor, second floor, first floor. somebody had a boom box outside playing it. a car that drove by had it on. you could hear nothing. it was like a plague. it was like locusts. and that's when i realized, you know, it's something that was beyond what we was doing out in the street. critically, it's not a great record, but if you play it right now, it's still a good record. >> in this case, at least, history has come around. today, nobody looks back at the sugar hill gang as having been originals o

the immediate neighborhood by installing trees which was not required for city permits and removed graffiti in all direction of our facility. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> public speaker: hello, my name is steve. i'm a father and grandfather. i have noticed a blighted area near the mcdonalds for 15 years. i'm a medical user. where policemen say all of a sudden this person is an economic development specialist. this is a coffee, lively area, bike area across from the sparks club. ask is the pizza people how many people come in and buy from them and i never smelled smoke outside of the sparks facility, thank you. >> next speaker. >> public speaker: good evening, my name is bob madela. i have lived in the excelsior district for 25 years. i'm a patient of sparks and i'm here to show my support for this project because sparks is a non-profit organization that focuses on patient centers and deserves to be in the neighborhood. further more i believe that sparks is in full compliance with the board of supervisors ordinance for medical cannabis lines and medical cannabis dispensary zonin

crowd, a crow bar, and rocks, one officer was injured and several police vehicles were tagged with graffiti the police used flash cameras and smoke to stop them. others who refused to move off telegraph avenue were jabbed with police batons, some call it excessive force. >> the fact that police chose to attack huge quantities of people using violent means of chemical weapons and break up their right to peaceful assembly is a violation of our first amendment right. >> reporter: jeff walker says the protest message has been lost. >> we're trying to get a mental -- message to our people, our kids are getting gunned down, tearing up stores and windows, that is not representing our folks. we're kind of tired of it. >> reporter: in berkeley, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >> another look at sky 7 hd, this is over in north oakland where some protesters have made their way onto the highway to highway 24, near children's hospital. police have met them there, though, and we have seen them take some of the protesters into custody, but you can see the cars stopped there on highway 24. traffic backed up a

casper quickly painted over the graffiti on his garage door. he couldn't make out what was written but investigators think some of the words may have been an ethnic slur. >> i tried to see if i could see something into it, but i couldn't see anything that would indicate that it was something. the police came back and asked if -- they wanted to know if i was jewish or something, because some of the signs, i guess, were along that line. but i said no, i wasn't. >> reporter: and a spokesman of the loudoun county sheriff's office tells me along with the obvious case of vandalism, they are looking at this too as a potential hate crime. reporting live from sterling, virginia, julie carey, news4. >>> the latest response to the campus rape controversy at the university of virginia could change state law. there's new legislation of virginia's general assembly. it would force police to report any campus sex assaults to local prosecutors within 48 hours. delegate eileen fellacorn is outraged. uva has been accused of not doingnough to investigate rape accu

on the inside he has gang graffiti listed here.e in our facilities, as well as out on the streets. this is a list of monikers these guys go by. they have numbers here. we go through and see if we have those listed. do we know who peanut is and do we know who bill is, things like that. if we don't, we have them identified as who this person is. we can use that for later on. >> so now this inmate, armando, what happens to him, given this book? >> what happens to him? it's not a crime to have this information. what we'll do is we'll take it, we'll let him know that we confiscated it. basically puts him on notice that, listen, stiu's on to you, you know. we're looking at you, we're staying on top of your correspondence, things of that nature. what it will do is it will give him an opportunity to quell his activity. because he knows the heat's on a little bit. also what he'll do is he'll contact these other guys and stay, hey, the stius are looking at me, know what i mean? while he is doing that, we will see who he's corresponding with

. >>> this graffiti that you see there on your screen has sparked outrage in one philadelphia community. it says "cop lives don't matter." somebody scrawled the anti-police messages on a wall, a fence and even the side of a church in west philadelphia. this after the recent grand jury decisions in ferguson, missouri, and in new york. philadelphia police say the graffiti will be investigated like any other act of vandalism. >>> meanwhile, hundreds lined the streets last night in northeast philadelphia to show their brotherly love and sisterly love to the men and women in blue. it was part of a nationwide event called blue lives matter. the pro-police protesters tell us they want to show their support for philadelphia police officers. the demonstrators say police are being unfairly judged following the deaths of michael brown and eric garner. >> preliminary are not saints. they're men and women that go to work every day and try to do their job and try to do the best they can. and they're not going to be perfect. >> while last night's rally was lloyd and noisy, it was peaceful. >>> a few d

there was a trial for a whom wrote graffiti on the wall.e to say, but it said, mohamed is a pig. and the woman who wrote it was caught and sentenced to four years in prison. that's what i say how society deals with the extremist sends a message to the rest of the society. can religion play a role? absolutely. after 9/11 and people were carrying out suicide terrorist attacks, the threat is real and also elsewhere in the world as we see just even in the past week so many instances in pakistan and elsewhere. i would love to see and maybe professor you can promote this, i would love to see an international statement come about by leaders of faith religions across the world saying there is no place in heaven for suicide bombers. just as simple as that. let's get as many faith leaders as we can. i'll sign it later. okay. and because we all need do that. i'm saying, because have you better international connections than i do, that's why i point to you. i want to conclude with the story of one of my favorite develop the talmid as well. abraham, see

refugees were supposed to be housed here soon, but someone set fire to the buildings and rate nazi graffiti outside. the authorities are investigating and the attack prompted the various interior minister to leave. his colleagues want to forge a response to rising anti-foreigner sentiment. a movement calling itself p agita has been gaining strength. but the people behind the demonstrations are nazis in pinstripes. they are woman extremists. many of the people go to these protests are ordinary people. -- they are well-known extremists. many of the people that go to these protests are ordinary people. >> while big knowledge that many germans are worried at the number of refugees entering the country, the interior minister insists germany remains a welcoming place. >> there are may be 10,000 marchers in dresden and much smaller crowds in some other places but there are tens of thousands who want to help refugees. >> for now, it is brutes like -- that are commanding the headlines. >> airspace over london has reopened after a computer failure forces closure for several hours friday causing chaos

i was never one to glorify graffiti. there are now art exhibits, but to me, this was a symbol of a city out of control, a city that was just the on order. one of the things they tried to do in the book as a counterpoint to graffiti was the pooper -- he saidcause that he would never get a dog because he did not want to have to pick up after it. the pooper scooper was a first attempt to regain control, to sort of reassert the social contract. you could make an argument that seatbelts are similar, that similar, bute are the pooper scooper, in its own way, we're telling people. there were laws about curbing your dog and things like that, but the pooper scooper at that time was the first attempt to tell new yorkers, you have a social obligation to your neighbors. you have got to pick up after your dog. you want a dog, fine. we all love dogs. great. you have got to pick up after your pet. counterpart,as a just like the dropdead headline in the daily news, which is also in the book. that,was a counterpart to which i will show y

graffiti, red jacket having his portrait on the wall is the same thing as scrawling red jacket was here828. the interesting juxtaposition is if we fast forward 150 years toed american indian movement and the occupation of the bureau of indian affairs in the 1970s, one of the most dramatic things they did during the occupation, besides destroying documents or reclaiming documents was the spray paint graffiti all over the walls of the office. sending messages -- claiming those walls claiming that space within the office of indian affairs as an indigenous space. i think that's an interesting connection across time. >> the buffalo bridge you mentioned, was that another example of claiming space? >> the buffalo bridge to me is an example of how washington, d.c. is itself the city is a multi-layered urban archive of indigenous history. so there's this bridge that exists that connects q street in georgetown with q street kind of bordering dupont circle. georgetown exiftsted prior to washington. i think 1751 is when tifs founded. decades before washington or the district of columbia. but as the

. >>> foul mouthed graffiti about police officers was found today in west philadelphia. it was discovered in at least two different locations including one near 49th and baltimore avenue. in fact we had to blur the spray painted words here because they're too graphic to show on television. another building with similar graffiti was being painted over while our cameras were there today. police don't know who is behind the vandalism. >> we are still working to learn the name of a driver who died in a nasty crash this morning in chester county. chopper 6 hd were you over the wreck on medina road. it happened around 5:00 a.m. and you can see it blocked the entire roadway. that portion of medina road stayed closed for most of the day. police say there was only one car involved in this wreck but they have not said what caused it. >>> family and friends of missing college student shane montgomery are hosting a fundraiser this weekend in manayunk. montgomery went missing on thanksgiving morning after leaving kildare's on main street. there's been no trace of him since then despi

they found a portfolio of taggings with sketches that matched the graffiti. >>> turns out the show will not go on. at least when it comes to the new york premiere of the film "the interview," scheduled for tomorrow night but sony has canceled it, amidst new threats that a 9/11 style attack could occur at theaters which show the film. the movie's about assassination attempt on kim jong-un. the department of homeland security says there's no credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters in the u.s. we spoke to moviegoers about the controversial. >> scary considering what happened with colorado and aurora, "the dark knight." >> for me it's not going to stop me. i think it's going to hype up the movie more and make people between see. >> very different perspectives. sewny does not plan to pull the movie. >>> heard of cramming? the practice of doing so will apparently cost more wireless phone service a lot of money. for more on that and news before the bell, landen, good morning. >> good morning to you. futures point to higher open, as stocks bounce back after a cra

problematic and i don't see nothing but chaos it going to end up happening i'll ask that you have him do a graffiti removal class for free he can be part of that i'll do the training with him to do stuff like this to make an impact on the block because even though he isn't open until 6 again, if he gets the dj thing they'll end up building an apartment in connection next door to that building eventually and i'll ask you to let him have a jukebox that's correct. >> thank you. is there any more. all right. seeing none the matter is with the commission >> commissioner joseph. >> so i'm concerned one concern he has no experience and two because the bars described is very small and he's ordered a function one sound like system we know it's big and audio disco and places like that has a cabinet around it makes it revisibility the sound and intense fizz the sound as if it didn't have a cabinet i'm concerned if the space is really that small the sound system is an issue i'm concerned he does not have experience but more than anything i'm concerned about the before and after we have an agreement not an agre

. >> anti police graffiti is popping up in west philadelphia. someone spray paint add fence at 48th and baltimore avenue with the words "cop lives don't matter". police believe it happened sometime over into the and they're taking this very seriously. it comes on the heels of a philly paramedic's post showing two black men holding the gun to the head of a white cop. pro police rallies are hitting the streets and we have it live in a live report coming up at 6:00 o'clock. >> cloudy but dry friday across our region. live look in old city philadelphia this evening. pretty picture. not bad night at all to get out and get that holiday shopping done. but what about the last weekend before christmas? meteorologist domenica davis here for scott williams with the answer. a lot of people are hoping for good weather. domenica. y, indeed. they're going to get because this last weekend before the holiday is looking pretty quiet. now that doesn't mean, though, we still don't have some big weather to talk about. because a storm is brewing by the holiday. so th

they believe murphy and another person left graffiti as far south as bakersfield and as far north to seattle. >>> we're hearing from one of the survivors from that australia deadly hostage situation. >> i never felt so much relief when i turned the corner and saw the police waiting for me. >> and what he said about the two people killed. >>> more drama about the comedy called "the interview." the chilling threat against anyone planning to see the movie. ?.=(=pcpcpcpcpcpcpcpcpc2h >>> pakistan is preparing for mass funerals for 148 people, most of them children, killed in a taliban attack on a military-run school. a three-day official mourning period started today. one day after seven gunmen stormed the army school in the city of peshawar. students were gunned down. some of the female teachers were burned alive. army commandos stormed the school and killed the attackers. the taliban says it was a revenge attack for a military offensive against their safe havens in northwest pakistan. >>> in australia, one of the survivors of the hostage situation is now speaking out. 83-year-old john o

. >> it depresses and frightens the family to see graffiti the facing jewish-owned shops. anti-semitism seems to be on the rise in france. >> there are clear historical parallels. these slogans scored on stores owned by jews -- we saw that back in the 1930's. one day, we'll wake up here and see a new night of broken glass. that could happen in france today. >> many young jews say they no longer feel safe, especially in socially depressed neighborhoods. some young muslims have brought the israeli-palestinian conflict into the french suburbs, and they have support from left-wing pro-palestinian groups, which sometimes also set the tone at universities. that makes some jewish parents worry about their children's educational future. >> my children will soon go to college. i don't know how that will turn out. we all know what is happening at the universities these days. my children will not be able to say openly that they feel tied to israel or even just that they are jews. >> people will point them out, and the other students will provoke them. >> the smear campaign against je

also coming just hours after disturbing graffiti was discovered in west philadelphia about police officers>> i want to thank all the police that are out there. >> reporter: this gathering and this one in port richmond also supporting officers like others came under the cloak of protection provide bide police. >> this community group just like any other protest and demonstration that is we've handled throughout the past month and a half or throughout the year at any point in time, everybody has the right to express themselves and their first amendment right of being out here this is no different. >> reporter: police tell us there were no incidents of violence here. this was just a peaceful gathering and a chance for folks in this community to show appreciation for the men and women in blue who protect and serve their community. we're live in mayfair tonight, natasha brown, "eyewitness news" at 10:00 on the cw philly natasha thank you. >>> there's new reaction tonight to this image posted on instagram by a philadelphia paramedic. it shows two black men pointing handguns as a man posing as a

a gentler form of graffiti that was commissioned by the city's business alliance for the second straight year. >> we think it's a great celebration of everything whimsical and fun about portland. >> reporter: and they don't just want to dress the statues. this also brings awareness to their clothing drive for the homeless. >> how did he get it on? >> reporter: at the end of the holidays there were still some statues like these beavers in need of nice cozy sweaters and carves. but not for long. the yarn bombers came together despite the frigid rain to install more of their handmade creations. >> thank you for bringing holiday cheer. >> reporter: an effort that will continue throughout the holiday season. >> we did it. >> reporter: young artists using so-called ugly sweaters to make a city feel even more attractive. joe fryer, nbc news, portland. >>> there you go. that's our broadcast on a wednesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. >>> a microclimate weather alert. >> there was just a buzz. then it became a ho