the district handicapped parking invite from?ing prime downtown parking spaces for free all along. >> right here is the epicenter of the abuse you were talking about. more than half and sometimes up to 90% of the cars parked here are illegally using their handicapped placard to get free all-day parking. on any given day cars displaying handicapped placards take up the majority of parking spaces. we documented dozens of cars here and another downtown streets illegally parking all day long. >> there is an issue with the accepted misuse of the disabled placards. >> businesses have been complaining for years. >> people that are parking their all day, others cannot get in there to do business they need to do. >> in the 1200 block of k street nw 41% of the cars. in the 900 block of pennsylvania avenue, 48%. in the 1900 block of f street 57%. the spot with the most parking flaws, the 300 block of the plaza where 91% of the cars were abusing the system. >> cheaper care of it for free? >> right now. >> you are only allowed to park for fou

i have not seen a program for the handicapped. i have not seen anything that would give evidence that you are sincerely wanting to help people who have disabilities, who have needs for programs that would help them to become stabilized citizens, as you call it. there are a lot of things that have happened here in san francisco that is fraud. i know that there should be housing for the homeless citizens, for the senior citizens, for that quadriplegics, for those who are handicapped. there is no housing for them. there is nothing for them. there's something they call a day center, where they go and sing and dance and have apartments. these people need help, too. but what about homeless? what about those who are really down and out? those who really need someone to take notice. i think san francisco is going to find out if they do not hurry up and do something about these people that there is going to be a condition that they will not be able to handle. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is jose morales. i am a member o

. >> they were missing the handicap sticker. >> each of the cars had the blue handicapped plaquers taken. >> it's extremely frustrating. >> the neighbors being victimized are convinced they are selling them on the street. >> they sell everything. >> they are taking the stickers and selling them to people who want to get that free parking and close parking. >> these residents depend on the handicapped plaquered every day. they have a difficult time finding parking everywhere they go. now they and others are stuck nearly $200 in the hole with window repair bills and asking for help in putting an end to this. >> people need to step up more and say look, don't be buying it from them. when they come to you. >> we reached out to prince georges county police who said they are aware of the problem and looking into it. however, they weren't able to provide details. >> one of the two women hit in that church city in ellicott city last night remains in critical condition tonight. st. peter is online support and her family says they plan to provide the gift of life through organ donation. brenda bre

they are abusing their handicap placards. not happy to see our cameras. i can't right now. onhe and other restrictions parking? gosh yes. >> they can park for free but r hours in the same neighborhood. we documented alarming of cars down town the placards the part all day and some of the busiest parts of the city. it is particularly bad downtown. he found more than half stay here all day long, including this black pickup truck. >> you know you're only allowed here for four hours a day? >> you park all day? hong >> i don't. >> but it was parked there for than eight hours a day after day. not everybody gets away with it parking enforcement wrote 409 of 2010between october and october 2011. ticket a day,one fight is only $25. compared to $20 a day to park and abroad. odds are that they won't get caught. that is why they want to change the law. >> lived in focus on removing the incentive. >> still to come, matchmakers for dating. >> it is may end we are going to clouds, we need the rain. and we are going to get some. we have some drizzle and maybe some patchy fog. outside right

we found more than half of the cars that had handicapped placards and most of them stay there all day long including this pickup truck. do you know the restrictions on parking? >> yes. >> you're only allowed to be here four hours a day. you park here all day. >> no, i don't. >> we documented his car in the same spot day after day. parking enforcement wrote 409 tickets between october 2010 and october 2011. 143 tickets between october 2011 and last month. that is about one ticket a day. the find is only 20 box. the aunts are that they will not get caught. -- the fine is only $20. the odds are that they will not get caught. >> this is removing the incentive. >> nice work. coming up, gabrielle giffords receives a prestigious honor in the district this evening. her mother accepted the award on her behalf. what her mother is saying about what her daughter remembers. >> tim tebow, a prom date? >> you are watching it abc7 new saddle of an -- abc news at 11:00. >> a busy weekend filled with activities across the region. beware if you're going to try to write the metro because they will be wor

. >> we have a handicapping tent and they teach you to handicap races to win money. >> what are you suggestingwill be an issue. we have sold so many tickets. the best is to do buses or cabs, because we are full in our lots. >> what is that like immediately after the race as people tried to get out? >> we have the traffic flow and we have changed streets, so it is better leaving their now. >> for years, everyone has been saying we may lose the preakness, can we keep it? i have not heard that this year. why do you think that is? >> the preakness is huge. if they left, there be a huge loss. when we were up for sale, they did not know who was going to buy. it brings a lot of money into baltimore and maryland and to pimlico. >> if people want to see the lineup of the concerts' so they can plan their day, where should they go? >> preakness.com >> georgianna hale, thanks. wbal-tv 11 news is your home for the 137th running and we will carry the second round live on the 19th plus live team coverage before and after the big race. do not go away. we will be right back with more news. here is david gregor

towards his mother's house just before he walked inside he was taped in the back yes a mentally handicapped boy with tase for walking away from police officer let's move on to the story of everett howard the recent high school graduate was taking part in a jump start program before beginning college classes at the university of cincinnati where he was tasered by campus police now police claim that they were responding to an assault call when they encountered howard and wallace fists were drawn he didn't have any weapons on the police taser howard he wanted a cardiac arrest and died a short while later now these are just a few examples of these kinds of tragic incidents but as these stories continue to come out and tasers continue to be used people are taking notice groups like amnesty international have argued that tasers need more regulations the police don't understand or take into consideration the potentially lethal reaction when they're used in the field now some tasers use compressed nitrogen to fire their darts not gun powder so there's no legal requirement to test to regulate the co

and i think handicaps, if you will, main street america. >> well, listen, thank you. again, i really enjoyed the time and look forward to furthering our conversations. i know the last two witnesses have referred to the resolution piece. and while it didn't end up perfectly, that's certainly an area that i know myself and senator warner spent a lot of time on and hopefully officials will have the courage to put a bank out of its misery if it fails. i know the tools certainly have been given there. and i think there's some more evolutions that need to occur. some of the bankruptcy components that we were not able to get into the bill should be there. dr. kroszner, you spoke about in your testimony, you made comments about cost/benefit analysis. i'm hearing out there in sort of the world of people dealing with regulators, that there really aren't appropriate cost/benefit analyses being done on these rules and there are many people that are predicting a plethora of lawsuits down the road as these rules actually come into play because the regulators are not adhering to con

don't feel handicapped, because a lot of small business owns say i cannot get rid of this person, but don't be afraid, because you can get somebody else. >> i have felt handicapped when we made the tough decision, and we get somebody ten times better, and you have to create the space. >> and you are talking about the culture of the whole company and if you let one person get a away wit, then it is okay for everybody to feel like you get away with it, and in small businesses, you don't have room for that kind of things. and the hr issues are incredibly tricky and almost black and white if you have the muster to deal with them. >> it is never worth compromising, because you want the a-plus people on the team. >> absolutely. thank you so much for all of the advice and very helpful all day today, thank you. if any of you out there have questions for the experts go to the website, and the address is openforum.com/your business and there hit the ask the show link and submit your question for the panel. or if you'd rather you can e-mail us your questions and that address is yourbusiness@msnb

. >> a handicapped person could park in a no parking. >> are you handicapped? >> how do you know that? i could be handicapped. >> when he gets videos like this one, jimmy justice posts them on youtube, he says, to expose what he sees as a double standard. his clips have gotten more than a million hits. >> the general public loves what i'm doing. everybody would love the opportunity to yell at a police officer, scream at a police officer, when they catch a police officer doing something wrong. not everybody has guts to do it. so some of my fans on youtube are living vicariously through me. >> and jimmy's kicking it up a notch to keep those online viewers coming back for more. >> wah, i'm calling for backup. wah, i'm calling for backup. wah. he has a camera. he's dangerous. >> jimmy knows he sounds like a crybaby. but he says this is a serious issue that needs attention. and he thinks these antics help. >> you broke the law. >> what has jimmy justice so upset in this video? these new york city sanitation enforcement agents are blocking a bus stop. >> look, the bu

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i created a piece called "turnaround surround" for the park that consists of a half-mile long, handicapccess path that encircles the central mound. i used glassphalt, a mix of asphalt and recyclable glass bits that catch and reflect the light. it's symbolic of the public's power to turn things around, to bring life back to a place of decay. feldman: underlying all of this is her understanding of the history of art. many artists have made beautiful artworks dealing with materials that would be discarded. she starts with the lowest base level, our refuse, and builds beautiful artworks from that, and that's absolutely essential. it's been going on for centuries, and she just steps in and does it exactly where it matters most. ukeles: my work is about transformations. my artwork grows out of real systems, out of the place itself. but beyond revealing the system and the space, my work reimagines them. then, it's not only the place itself that changes, it's also how we see the place that changes. so, it's us that changes, our attitudes about the land and how we use it. doherty: fresh kills la

the internet is extremely slow in china and cut the handicap on research efforts. this is a proxy for what the limits are of chinese wealth and the eventual competitive threat. >> there is tension between capitalism and the demands of society. will this forced china to be more open? >> one of the barriers is that the military controls all of the aerospace. in the grouting is very indirect. it is an illustration of the struggles happening between the security forces on one side and the economic modernizing forces on the other. >> how should the u.s. view this? it is its a good then? >> it will be a good thing if china succeeds. it will be an easier society to deal with overall because of liberalization. >> attributes have been pouring in for a disco-era of giant that died last night. as part of the bee gees, he helped define the sound of a generation. david looks back at his life. >> when disco ruled the airwaves, they had, at one point, five songs in the u.s. top-10 at the same time. there sounds defined an era, and it had all been done more than 20 years before. >

>> anyone with a certain handicap that can qualify to get into that, yes. i may not know food fight, but i know the u.s. open. >> foo fighters, sir. [laughter] >> i will be ready next time. >> harding park has become known as one of the very best municipal golf courses in the world, something maintained by our own staff. we should all be proud. >> i'm keeping my fingers crossed because my niece's boyfriend is going to be one of those persons. >> how about that? gregg's yes, exactly. he goes around the country doing this and the -- >> yes exactly. he does run the country doing this and he is hoping to qualify. >> what is his name? >> kory. that is when he goes by. >> all right, tom, make the grain is nice and flat, and the holes big. with that, we have jamie hopper, who does such an incredible job with sf gov tv and we have our very own video to show you this week with parks. for which we appear to be having technical difficulties. >> give me one moment. ♪ >> is a partnership with our city, but also our neighborhoods here. especially people who are willing t

i would like to ask the supervisors, especially for the handicapped issue. and some ways that the restaurant is quite different, the update -- if you have to do that, so you can see, this is very busy.

i would like to ask the supervisors, especially for the handicapped issue. and some ways that the restaurant is quite different, the update -- if you have to do that, so you can see, this is very busy. i would like to ask all the supervisors dto help the small businesses. thank you. [applause] president chiu: thank you, supervisor mar. i want to take a moment, i know it is a crowded chamber, we have an appeal that will happen at the end of this particular ceremony. it will last another 40 minutes or so. there is an overflow room in 263. i want to welcome all of you here to the celebration. i am pleased to be part of the third annual ceremony to recognize our cities small- business this. -- businesses. i have worked with many of the small business leaders to recognize those businesses that are an integral part of our city. this is a ceremony that serves as recognition for the businesses here today and for the 85,000 other small start up businesses in san francisco. i want to join my colleagues and the mayor to recognize those businesses that standout in our d

. >> you will never guess who is bending the handicap parking rules.t showed us from the confronted him about the parking have it. our team investigates tonight at 11:00. >> the weekend may be here by your chance to win a new ford fiesta and $3,000 in cash continues on our facebook page. >> we will take our next finalists on monday on abc 7 is it 5:00. you can enter every day and get two additional entries by sharing the contest with your friends. if your name is called the will have 30 minutes to claim your spot. we will pick one lucky winner from the final 15. >> tim brant and doug hill will wash the car for you. >> let's see what is happening with the cold front. a few lingering showers in southern maryland. toward midnight maybe a few more showers and thunderstorms. it looks pretty good. otherwise partly cloudy and low were 80's. one of the things you can do on our web site is check out the new blog on the superman. -- supermoon. >> it is huge. ♪ ♪ ♪ hit the road, jack ♪ ♪ and don't you come back no more ♪ ♪ no more, no more, no more ♪ ♪ hit the ro

other bills include special handicapped parking registration plaplates. a mechanism designed to help local governments and for hiring teens for summer jobs was also left undone and so was a bill creating a hybrid elected school board. bills will be introduced but their fate is of to the presiding officers. >> here is the timetable. the legislators will be called to his office. it will hold a news conference to determine the scope of the special session. it begins on monday and is expected to last at least 3 days. >> they were cheated out of thousands of dollars by a man they trusted to do some work inside their apartment. >> more on the local couple who've contacted the iteam to investigate. >> they returned home with a piece of history. more of that in sports. >> we will see of showers had four cameras >> a local couple says they were cheated out of thousands by men they trusted to do some work inside their apartment. >> when he did not deliver and took their money, they contacted the iteam. >> the couple thought they had done everything right but after

megyn: you tell me if you're handicapping this.wards lawyer right now and you're handicapping this and very this a hung jury on virtually all the counts, that means there are some jurors in there, what number x don't know, but there are definitely some jurors in there who do not think john edwards is guilty, okay. they've convinced some of those jurors -- >> of those counts. megyn: of those counts. all of the jurors feel the same way about one of the counts, it has to do with rachel bunny melon, and the evidence in this lawyer's view, take it for what it's worth is the most compelling with respect to rachel bunny melon, in terms of a paper trail on her motivation and why she was giving to edwards, and i read some of it earlier to you, hire handwritten notes. she wanted to pay for expenses without government restrictions. the testimony from her interior designer that he forwarded the check, quote, for the rescue of america . i'll start with you on it brian, you're the defense lawyer, are you assuming a guilty or a not guilty on that

up tonight at 5:00, ofss who's taking advantage handicapped parking spaces and day free parking? you will be shocked at what the cameras reveal and the reaction we confrontrs when them. abc 7 news investigation tonight at 5:00. justerica's tallest man wants the simple things in life. >> i have been in searching for almost 15 years. is from russia and lives in minnesota. he traveled all the way to so defined footwear. has a pituitary gland problem. just want their can cost made sneakers dollars. of all heard about his search for shoes and they started donating. sneaker giant reebok got on board and now they're making him a brand new size 25 shoe for free. they would normally cost about $20,000 for custom sneakers >> . about 7 foot 8. >> that big. overall looking good for the weekend. slight chance of thunderstorms tomorrow. sunday, partly cloudy and cooler, back in the '70s. 70's all next week. like a pretty good chance of storms later this afternoon and evening. be strong to severe. if we have the nationals game, potentialared for delay. >> thanks. thanks for being with us. monda

i do not know how the elderly and handicapped people could withstand those riggers'. so, again, if you could please facilitate that system on behalf of many. thank you .. [applause] >> let's have one last round of applause for those folks that shared with us. [applause] >> just to reiterate, that everyone will not have the chance to speak today, but everyone who put their name on a card, put them in the bowl at the front desk, we are drawing them randomly and will be calling people up to speak. there are members, there are grants and percentages, but those are also helping people that those numbers of fact and relate to and impact. today is really a listening session. it is our time to share how would will impact us, what the reality is. i would like to ask the people called up -- it is not so much a question and answer time. there are a lot of people that have joined us and we do not have time for all of them to respond, but now is about changing -- telling your story. how have budget cuts impacted you? what do you see in your community? what do you need, what do you

want to congratulate you on trying to form a task force to take on this problem of the seniors and handicapped. i believe, firmly, in senior centers and where we can gather. i think that the senior center that i joined by retired as a volunteer has kept me mentally alert, physically well. i am able to have a hot lunch every day. i do not have to cook, shop, or prepare. no dishes. it is wonderful for me. i have just passed my 90th birthday and i think i am here because of that. thank you very much. >> sorry to be speaking of sequence. i have another meeting to attend at noon. my name is herbert weiner, in '73, a social worker for the city and home support services program. i want to address some major concerns. first, the transit effectiveness project is an agent that stands for trashing elders. the district supervisor, people are expected to walk a quarter of a mile to some us stop, including the 33 ashbury line on ashbury street. what are people expected to do without the services of muni? are they expected to crawl to their destinations? this is the most in human proposal. it basically has t

it took a while to get past forgetting to register street cleaning hours and love, love was my handicap. though i had no permits to hang from my rear view so i collected 7 or 10 slips i had every intension to pay off except i skipped town for the summer. and returned to find the guy staying in my apartment toss them. i'll admit i was relieved not to face these expensive reminders of the girl i have been how stupid i was about life in the city. and as i finished school, was moving south for good this time. and as i lived then in a state of great anticipation. the potential of a record never acrossed my mind. but now, on account of those parking tickets i can't go back there with a car. though everyone who loves me know i love that tiny window each october in the south nub of the state you can't reach without driving. i missed it once and waited a whole year regretting the lost chance to track the lyndon leaves tiny migration. the next fall, refusing to endure that state of desolation again i asked everyone who loved me to please meet me just south of the border. we ordered green mussels