so was sheriff mike hennessey. so was the chair of the public utilities commission. current state senator mark lino. current senator leland yee. >> there were reports in the newspaper about various board members being nominated. we were concerned about how the conflict of interest laws would apply to them. very specifically for foreign issues. perhaps there would be six board members who would be not able to bridge as a paid in a successor mayor selection and appointment process. we would lose quorum. we have to contemplate how we would then bring back quorum. i went to bed every night with it on my mind. i woke up with every morning. >> time was running out. there were no more meetings scheduled in november due to the holidays, and the board did not meet again until december 7. san francisco citizens again waited on the mayoral selection. >> we want someone who has the greater good of the people of san francisco in mind, not just business owners. >> i am here today basically to urge you to select an interim mayor who will prioritize our nonprofit sector coming here

law-enforcement officials, including our san francisco sheriff mike hennessey, the yellow county sheriff, and the retired chief police -- chief of police have concern about damage caused by secure communities on community policing. the u.s. congressional spanish secaucas, -- spanish caucus, and others have urged obama to suspend secure communities because of the reckless nature in which victims of crime and those witnesses have also been treated. the resolution speaks for itself. the rest i will submit. thank you. clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. president chiu? president chiu: today, i have been in more remote region -- i have an in memoriam. she was a cyclist, tragically missed by her friends and family. the rest i will submit. clerk calvillo: thank you. note supervisor campos? supervisor campos: i would like to add my name to the secure community program. then there is legislation that introduced previously to provide a more cohesive definition about what we mean by community policing in the city and county of san francisco. i am proud and pleased to report that my off

in that level, recover everything >> reporter: there water treatment plant is situated below lake hennessey, used for dranking water, but above the creek which feeds into the napa river. one of the primary missions was to prevent the water from reaching the dirt and tapping into the water supply. i had a cannes to talk to the plant manager who said the cleanup crews have arrived at the plant. once that is done, there will be more answers about what happened here today. but the cleanup could take days. >> >> new at 10:00. swastikas and slashed tires, what is left behind after vandals struck 50 cars in santa cruz. eric is standing by live to show us the damage. >> >> reporter: 24 is 1 of the streets where we found car after car, including that 1 there with slashed tires and angry owners. a rash of vandalisms so large -- >> i had 2 flat tires on with your car and another flat tire on another. >> reporter: dozens of crews suddenly had something in common overnight. >> i was pretty stunned. i don't know why anybody would do it. >> reporter: suzanne said someone slashed the tires on all 4 of her

hennessey says state aid won't come close to covering the costs of reopening and running this old san bruno jail to accommodate an influx of inmates. >> we will have to reopen the closed jail probably in spring of 2012 and the annual cost is seven to $12 million a year. >> reporter: but with california prisons at 187% capacity, state officials say keeping some inmates in local jails will help lower the rate. >> the prison system holds a longer time, the lower serious offenders which we can handle well. >> reporter: an important note, it only affects low level offenders who were convicted after that date. david stevenson, ktvu news. >>> a hunger strike is expected to begin tomorrow. inmate advocates rallied today in crescent city. the prisoners claimed they're subjected to long term solitary confinement and other abuses in the secure facility. >> when you're put in a six by 10 cell with no windows, with no human contact, with only cement being your friend, you are put in a condition of torture. >> a spokeswoman told ktvu the agency is reviewing the inmates accusation and will monitor t

sean hennessey of wcbs tv has more on that. >> reporter: ever since the 9/11 terror attacks, the worldtood apart, a seemingly perpetual construction site, off limits and unwelcoming to the public. but that will all change in september when people will finally be allowed on the now hal ode ground where the towers once stood. after ten years, finally a fitting memorial to the 2,983 victims of the attacks including those who died at the pentagon. aboard united flight93 and the six who perished in the 1993 trade center bombing. >> because so many families never got any human remains returned to them, this really is their final place, it has been their final place to say good-bye. >> usa, usa! >> reporter: with the death of osama bin laden, the tenth anniversary of the attacks has taken on new meaning. public interest is so strong that nearly 30,000 tickets were distributed free of charge the first day alone. >> such a large turnout today. i mean, it makes me feel like everybody said on 9/11, never forget. and i think america hasn't forgotten it. >> reporter: the centerpiece of the memorial

bill hennessey, an expert. he has brought us images from some of the high profile cases in recent history. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate the question. >> we want to get to the bottom of it. what happens to the courtroom trawgz. >> i own the courtroom drawings. i have them going back about 30 years. i have abeen doing this for just about 30 years. and the television buys the right to air them. the ownership of the drawing remains with me. i have them. it is about 5,000 drawings i've estimated if you can believe it stored in my studio. some have been purchase-worthy. lawyer or someone who appreciates the subject matter has collected them so they've purchased the drawing outright. but otherwise, i have them. >> you answered the question. the other question is do you get paid for your work. do you get paid from the people who air them or the attorney who purchase them. have you ever had any individuals who has wanted to buy your artwork. >> i have had several people purchase. it used to be a daily situat

>> it's called hennessey. mystery solved. the decoy hands me the correct chat log. henry guzman, 20 years old. he was what perverted justice calls a fast mover. the chat began a few hours ago. wasting no time, he made a date for sex with her and then drove right over. that's what caused all the confusion. >> faked your name and age. >> i knew this would happen. >> you knew this would happen? why don't you tell me what you came here for? >> i have no idea who's going on, man. >> i'm confronting him in the backyard, that other suspect is still out front sitting in his truck. so who did you think you were talking to there? a minute ago, that girl. >> i don't know. i don't know anything about it. i'm serious. >> he doesn't seem to know something else, i have the entire chat log of his conversation with the decoy. so you already had sex, you ask her. >> what is this? what is this? >> you say you have condoms. can you bring? okay. do you have condoms in your car? >> no. why -- what's up here? >> well because i'm chris hansen with "dateline nbc" and doing a story on men wh

keith hennessey has a great post on the 17 problems with the gang of six. it tactically helped our side by keeping it fluid and saying the answer. >> sean: i think the opposite. i think it undercut the house when they should have passed it and folded their hands and said the ball it in your court. >> they took the ball and said we will take an ice pick and stab the ball and deflate it right there which is exactly what they did. >> sean: that is their problem. >> that gave the president a chance to turn it back on us and we needed to stay on the offense and we did with the boehner proposal. >> sean: but they never laid out their plan. they never voted on -- >> never. sean, we don't have control over what they do. we have control over what we do and as conservatives i think we did the right thing by keeping on the offensive and keeping -- there is a second proprosal laid out and helped highlight further the president's lack of leadership and the senate's lack of leadership and in fact the only people talking about answers are the house republicans. >> sean: t

keith hennessey has a great post on the 17 problems with the gang of six. it tactically helped our side by keeping it fluid and saying the answer. >> sean: i think the opposite. i think it undercut the house when they should have passed it and folded their hands and said the ball it in your court. >> they took the ball and said we will take an ice pick and stab the ball and deflate it right there which is exactly what they did. >> sean: that is their problem. >> that gave the president a chance to turn it back on us and we needed to stay on the offense and we did with the boehner proposal. >> sean: but they never laid out their plan. they never voted on -- >> never. sean, we don't have control over what they do. we have control over what we do and as conservatives i think we did the right thing by keeping on the offensive and keeping -- there is a second proprosal laid out and helped highlight further the president's lack of leadership and the senate's lack of leadership and in fact the only people talking about answers are the house republicans. >> sean: t

keith hennessey has a great post on the 17 problems with the gang of six. it tactically helped our side by keeping it fluid and saying the answer. >> sean: i think the opposite. i think it undercut the house when they should have passed it and folded their hands and said the ball it in your court. >> they took the ball and said we will take an ice pick and stab the ball and deflate it right there which is exactly what they did. >> sean: that is their problem. >> that gave the president a chance to turn it back on us and we needed to stay on the offense and we did with the boehner proposal. >> sean: but they never laid out their plan. they never voted on -- >> never. sean, we don't have control over what they do. we have control over what we do and as conservatives i think we did the right thing by keeping on the offensive and keeping -- there is a second proprosal laid out and helped highlight further the president's lack of leadership and the senate's lack of leadership and in fact the only people talking about answers are the house republicans. >> sean: t

current sheriff michael hennessey is retiring. >>> san francisco police have arrested a suspect in a two men that happened last night on ellis and jones streets in the tenderloin. one of the victims is in critical condition. a 78-year-old bistander was also hit in the foot. police have recovered a gun, they say they believe was sewed in that -- used in that shooting. >>> a new memo has licensed bay area cannabis dealers concerned. it warns of the obama administration is not going to allow large scale cultivation of medical marijuana by departments. the memo is a departure from the original hands off approach to medical marijuana. >> i think the timing is with the presidential election coming up. >> i think this memo is to prevent people from profiting having these farms. it says state local ordinances are not a defense. >> the memo could expose nonsanked medical marijuana clinics to greater enforcement of federal raids. >>> u.s. law enforcement says a drug cartel is targeting american tourists in the border town of nuevo laredo. 100 americans died in mexico last year. mexican authori

sean hennessey of wcbs in new york has more. >> on this weekend strauss-kahn is enjoying his own freedom. the case is now hanging by a thread. for the first time in weeks, dominique strauss-kahn left his manhattan apartment finally free from house arrest gone with the ankle bracelet after prosecutors admitted there are problems with the housekeeper who accused him of sexual assault. >> there are substantial credibility issues. >> reporter: prosecutors admitted the 32-year-old told them a series of lies and her whereabouts after the attack, first claiming to hiding in the hallway, but later admitted to cleaning two rooms. >> i understand the circumstances surrounding the case from the viewpoint of the parties have changed substantially and i agree. >> reporter: the judge quickly returned $1 million bail to the former head of the international monetary fund, the 62-year-old strolled out of court all smiles, a far cry from the dark days in may when he was paraded before cameras in cuffs. it cost strauss-kahn his job and taking him out of the running for the french presidency. >> we believed

a friend of mine sent me an email tonight, keith hennessey, an interesting way to put it for people who follow the financial markets, he said we face both a liquidity crisis right now which is the federal government can't borrow to meet its needs, but we also face a solvency crisis which is the federal government deficits and the accumulation of those deficits and the debt is at historic levels, and already harming the economy and threatening to harm the economy in very significant ways. so we need to deal with both. one way to show this commitment to the solvency problem, to the debt problem, is to be sure that we guarantee $1 in spending cuts for every dollar we raise the debt limit. this was laid out several months ago by speaker boehner and i think it's been widely agreed to. you'll see it in the proposal that majority leader reid has proposed. as we'll talk about in a minute, unfortunately some of the budget savings he thought were there based on the congressional budget office analysis are not real cuts. but that was the formula that he used. the president has also talked about th

we're getting your take on another write-up this morning, in "the baltimore sun," by katherine hennessey. your reaction the next five to 10 minutes. john? caller: i think that guy from paris had a good idea. we should look into that. what is wrong is congress. we have all of these radio conservative d.j. is -- deejays. we have the republican party. it is gloom-and-doom. no wonder people are not buying anything. people are pulling their money out of the stock market because they are afraid this guy is falling -- the sky is falling. we need to go out and spend money. that is what we need to do. host: noreen, crestline, california. caller: good morning. god bless america. there are so many bad things about america, but there are some any good. we have wallabies resources that we need -- have all of the resources we need to run this country and get things working like they were years ago. until we can get all the green energy going, we need to use our own resources, and we haven't. and if we did that, i know things aren't going to get as fast as we want it to, but, in the meantime, we still