hicks between 1950 and 1965. melinda dawson was one of them. >> my mom was told that she could not have children and she wanted a baby, so my father and her purchased me from the doctor. >> reporter: he routinely forged birth certificates, making it impossible for christie and all the hicks babies to ever find their birth parents. >> we've just never had any definitive answers. nobody to turn to. it's been a big dark secret. >> reporter: for christie and the hicks babies, time is of the essence. their chance the of finding a birth mother still alive fading. so "nightline" asked the genealogy site ancestry.com to see if they could help. >> what would it mean to you to, ding, find a sibling? >> that would make me feel i found a part of my true self. >> reporter: the hicks samples are sent to a lab. ancestry.com agreed to analyze their dna for free. >> when we share this information with the hicks babies this will be the first contact they have with the relative in their entire life. >> reporter: against the odds me

melara president loftus you have a could you please state your name and also chief of police and joyce hicks. >> thank you. good evening, everyone and city hall welcome to the wednesday, august 19, 2015, of the police commission sergeant the next latin-american preparation retired police reverse rodney. >> colleagues you have in your packet a note regarding retired police reserve cpr last year to the city we're here to honor him. >> chief and members of the public and i'm officer, i'm the court reporting for the san francisco police department to my left is officer rodney until 2007 worked an details and assignments he got numerous captains accommodates and letters of appreciation from the public. >> oh, yeah. i wanted to say thank you for having me here the last night was 25 or to thirty years ago i was up here debating against the police hike my cousin was a member of the police commission and working in a difference city with people of color changed through the years i was born here in san francisco and raised here in san francisco and the reason he got into the program to marine about th

hicks' health. we reached out to hicks' attorney for more information about the lawsuit but he did not want to talk. >>> barry bonds broke his silence tonight. for the first time since the government dropped its case against him, he said this was a huge weight off of his shoulders. bonds was at the ballpark this evening. he told the "associated press" he is not holding any grudges about the federal court case against him. he's just thankful it's finally over. the 51-year-old home run king reiterated tonight what he told us last year that he, quote, deserves to be in the hall of fame. however, thus far, the players associated with the steroids era have been shunned by hall of fame voters. >>> coming up next at 11:00, we investigate a charity that claims they help veterans. but it's not what it seems. wait until you see where the money leads us. >>> it's not just any used car. take a look. this one apparently belonged to one of silicone valley's greatest minds. and it can be yours if the price is righ

. >> obviously director hicks and i spoke of this in the meeting i too have been actively involved in the investigation in order to know what i know. >> got it thank you. >> on a lighter note the 248 academy class started on august 3rd, '55 recruits 50 for the san francisco police department and 5 from the oakland police department we continue to build that it is the returning in oakland you might have seen the press conferences we got a driver of a vehicle in custody because of the relationship back and forth with oakland in short order that class we congratulated the 2 hundred and 44 friday night thank you commissioner turman for making comments 32 recruits graduated a good story on two of the recruits are dental twins the truman brothers and pretty good interplay the video starts off with one of the officers meeting one the twins wishing he had more like him and the next frame the dental twin walks up cadet i'm happy to report two of the cadets from the month magic presentation like last week on wednesday we're excited about that when you think about the statistics that sheryl davi

it is noted anything further on this thank you director hicks and sergeant please call latin-american>> commission report and discussions and commissioners report. >> yes. mine will be fairly brief colleagues 90 days ago we asked the chief and the departments to do something ambitious it was aggressive to see if the department can come up with a draft el camino del mar for the commission to review in 90 days depending on when you start the 90 days sliktd a week or so behind but in the ball park an incredible work by the working go up i've observed those meeting on august 11th the group met were any of you at that meeting i wasn't the chief said they voted to bring the policy to us we didn't ask them to agree but i wanted to let you know i'm going to be working with commander moss you are you have a sense all the minutes sergeant skill shaw did a great job minutes all will be available on the website and to the commission there will be some reading material on september 2nd meeting we'll get you the binder all the policies that the group considered and include all the version and minut

you'll be all right. >> hicks has a wealth of experience to draw from.has had numerous stays in jail on convictions including sale of a controlled substance, criminal trespassing, receiving stolen property, and eluding police. >> ain't honor amongst thieves, ain't no honor. smile at your face, stab you in your back. nobody will say it too loud. the first chance they get, they're going to cross you. >> hicks is currently charged with eight felonies. the most serious being three counts of sale of a controlled substance. he has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. >> just the time after going to scuffle, get into something. guys are going to try you. you might be showing, look, i don't play, i'm a man, you're going to treat me like a man. if you don't, they're going to run over you. >> jones is one of two men accused of a double murder of a young couple. his codefendant is his future brother-in-law nathaniel wilkins, a former employee of the male victim. wilkins is housed in another part of the jail. both men say they are innocent. >> deep down inside it'

. >> hicks has a wealth of experience to draw from.e has had numerous days in jail and quicks with a substance. criminal trespass. >> no honor. they don't care. smile at your face and stab you. this antia church choir, man. the first chance they get, they're going to cross you. >> hicks is currently charged with eight felonies. the most serious being three counts. he has pled not guilty and has awaited trial. >>. >> guys will try it. you'll have to show them, look, bam, you won't treat me -- if you don't, they'll run over you. >> jones is one of two men accused of a double murder. his co-defendant is his future brother-in-law, nathaniel wilkins, a former employee. wilkins is housed in another part of the jail. ultimately who say they are innocent. >> i still had -- i tighten up. given the gravity of his charges, swroenz can be? jail for a long time before his case is ever resolved. >> when i was told you might be in here for a we're or two years, his reaction was, like, somebody just drained although life out of him. i'm, like, that's

hicks: thank you for that softball. i had the pleasure of being in fort hood the day the cuts were announced. it is definitely going to have an effect on special operations forces. it is going to have an effect overall. the united states has made a decision to reduce the amount it will spend on defense, at least in the base budget, and that's a national-level decision. that's a political decision that has to do with what we spend, how we tax, what we spend on our entitlements, what we spend on domestic programs, and the national security piece. defenses the tail on the dog. those of us who live in the defense community, it boggles our minds. we are the fleas in the tail, if i keep going with the analogy, but the rest of the public are not focused on that. whether it is the army drawdown, readiness decline, the up tempo that forces are feeling in several key areas, whatever it is going to be, that is going to be lagging, unfortunately, and that is what we have to live with. the telltale signs that we have underinvested i

hey, swap noses with him. >> soon after the fight, hicks says he felt like he was swindled.er officers moved him to a segregation cell for fighting, hicks realized he was missing he was missing several items he purchased from the jail commissary. >> a lot of things came up short. 12 soups, seven bags of chips, missing a bar of soap. >> jones admits to taking the items but says it wasn't a swindle, it was debt repayment. >> and i realized he still owed me some items. we call that a pc move, you try to owe somebody something but try to hurry up and get kicked out. [ bleep ]. >> no, no, heck, no. he took way more than what was owed. if he did collect, he took way more than what was owed him. he took way more. i told him. i gave him the game of the jailhouse. listen, this is things you do and don't. >> among other things he warned jones not to talk to inmates about his case because they might report that information, truthfully or not, to authorities. hicks says now he's in just such a position because of what jones has told them about his case. >> i'm like, mike. like i know yo

. >> hicks has a wealth of experience to draw from.d numerous stays in jail on convictions including sale of a controlled substance, criminal trespassing, receiving stolen property, and eluding police. >> they don't care. they'll smile at your face and stab you in the back. nobody singing too loud in the church choir. the first chance they get they're going to cross you. >> hicks is currently charged with eight felonies. the most serious being three counts of a sale of a controlled substance. he plead not guilty and awaiting trial. >> because, you know, guys will try it. you have to show them like no. i'm a man. you're going to treat me like a man. if you don't they're going to run over you. >> jones is one of two men accused of a double murder of a young couple. his co-defendant is his future brother-in-law who is a former employee of the male victim. wilkins is housed in another part of the jail. both men say they're innocent. >> deep down inside it's still killing me. i tighten up. i got to be a man first among these. i can't be a s

it is noted anything further on this thank you director hicks and sergeant please call latin-american>> commission report and discussions and commissioners report. >> yes. mine will be fairly brief colleagues 90 days ago we asked the chief and the departments to do something ambitious it was aggressive to see if the department can come up with a draft el camino del mar for the commission to review in 90 days depending on when you start the 90 days sliktd a week or so behind but in the ball park an incredible work by the working go up i've observed those meeting on august 11th the group met were any of you at that meeting i wasn't the chief said they voted to bring the policy to us we didn't ask them to agree but i wanted to let you know i'm going to be working with commander moss you are you have a sense all the minutes sergeant skill shaw did a great job minutes all will be available on the website and to the commission there will be some reading material on september 2nd meeting we'll get you the binder all the policies that the group considered and include all the version and minut

director hicks is represented. it is a diverse group of stake holders discussing and balancing a number of interests. [inaudible] acknowledged the policy has to balance a number of competing priorities and i was grateful to observe the discourse and dialogue so colleagues you will get the minutes from the meeting and will know who was there and what was asked and hope this will happen at the onedf august. we'll do 2 community meeting where the public weighs in but it is good to observe. i don't play a formal role other than watching deliberate and think they will give food for thoughts. thank you chief and members of the commands staff for handling that. we had a good meeting with the parole special. >> as many know the police commission basically supervisors the parole special program. we are involved in their discipline, the rules and procedure, picking the uniforms, the handling and background check frz hiring. president loftus was great, she met with myself and member thofz command staff and had a line frup the

hicks said the coach and staff knew or should have known about neurological diseases associated with concussions, permanent damage hicks says he now has. >> what a jury is ultimately going to decide is did the university of california, did coach and his training staff act reasonably under the circumstances for what was known back in 2004 through 2008. >> reporter: legal analyst steven clarke says if a jury rules for hicks and other athletes bring similar suits schools can second guess keeping their program. >> are they going to want to take the risk of having a football team if they can be subjected to this type of liability for what is inherently a contact sport? >> reporter: the university responded to the lawsuit, our coaches, physicians and medical staff and everyone vausked with cal athletics are dedicated to safety of student athletes. we were saddened to read the lawsuit statements about mr. hicks' health. >>> a connecticut family is expressing emotional reaction to a surprising turn in a nearly decade old triple murder case that left a mom and her two daughters dead. it was t

hicks: let me jump in. i think it is really important to remember that we are operating under authority. these are authorities given in time of conflict that include the ability to use targeted approaches for capture, for intelligence gathering, and in some cases, for targeted killing. so i just want to start their because i do think -- there because i do think the drone debate has become unhelpful. does it have strategic sense? absolutely. and as policy makers, we have to be mindful of that reality. but if you look at the progression of warfare over time, we don't invade villages, we don't buy in large strategically bomb anymore, and the fact that we have it will set now that allows us to reduce the number of civilian casualties -- and we have really reduced the number of civilian casualties in a conflict -- that is important to tell. are there civilian counsel to use that occur? yes. address that.d to but i think it has been a good tool in the toolkit. used well. and something we should continue to look a

director hicks is represented. it is a diverse group of stake holders discussing and balancing a number of interests. [inaudible] acknowledged the policy has to balance a number of competing priorities and i was grateful to observe the discourse and dialogue so colleagues you will get the minutes from the meeting and will know who was there and what was asked and hope this will happen at the onedf august. we'll do 2 community meeting where the public weighs in but it is good to observe. i don't play a formal role other than watching deliberate and think they will give food for thoughts. thank you chief and members of the commands staff for handling that. we had a good meeting with the parole special. >> as many know the police commission basically supervisors the parole special program. we are involved in their discipline, the rules and procedure, picking the uniforms, the handling and background check frz hiring. president loftus was great, she met with myself and member thofz command staff and had a line frup the

hicks: when the strike occurs, you point out that it is a recruiting tool. whether it is a recruiting tool or not can be debated. -- weto have attacks that used to have a tax that would be ks thated as -- attac would be described as drone strikes to enable recruiting. isis has incredible recruiting and a low-tech way. twitter is extremely simple. follow taylor swift. i think we are safe, but we in the united states, we really have -- this is back to the toolset issue. this is not a challenge that is first in fundamentally by a government organization in the light of day trying to tweet out government positions. it has to be more organic than that, and there is a big intelligence support piece of that, and it has to be regional. m. vickers: and the best recruiting tool for these groups is success, successful attacks on the united states, successful conquest of territory. you look at why people are flocking to isis. they have established a caliphate, and they are successful. k. dozier: that brings me to transparency. disclosure, discuss this before hand and it

thank you >> colleagues any questions for director hicks? >> thank you. >> director hicks, i want to thank your and your department because know that you have had challenges with resources and you always have done a extremely good job. i want to find out though with the new success in the budgeting process, i'm sure you told me this already, but where are you planning to allocate these new 4 members of your staff? has that been decide or are you still considering it? >> where are we going to allocate the staff members or the positions that are authorized to our investigator positions as well as a attorney position as well as information technology position. >> good to know. thank you very much. thank you mrs. fletcher for joining us as well. all right. [inaudible] >>iteal 3 c commission report. commission president report, commissioners reports. >> [inaudible] vice president has nothing to report. anything further? another to report, colleagues? commission announcements and scheduled items. identify for consideration at future meetings is th

it is noted anything further on this thank you director hicks and sergeant please call latin-american>> commission report and discussions and commissioners report. >> yes. mine will be fairly brief colleagues 90 days ago we asked the chief and the departments to do something ambitious it was aggressive to see if the department can come up with a draft el camino del mar for the commission to review in 90 days depending on when you start the 90 days sliktd a week or so behind but in the ball park an incredible work by the working go up i've observed those meeting on august 11th the group met were any of you at that meeting i wasn't the chief said they voted to bring the policy to us we didn't ask them to agree but i wanted to let you know i'm going to be working with commander moss you are you have a sense all the minutes sergeant skill shaw did a great job minutes all will be available on the website and to the commission there will be some reading material on september 2nd meeting we'll get you the binder all the policies that the group considered and include all the version and minut

bernard hicks played from 2004 to 2008. he says he suffered several concussions and has permanent injuries. now the lawsuit accuses cal of failing to take measures to prevent concussions and failing to warn players about the long term consequences of head injuries. >> the university has responded late today saying our coaches, physicians and medical staff and everyone involved are dedicated to the safety of our student athletes. while we cannot comment on any student specific medical history we were saddened to read the lawsuit statements about mr. hicks' health. >>> late last night protests and tonight more questions. the police department is taking more heat for killing a robbery suspect. demonstrators smashed the windows of a local starbucks. the mayor shows the man indeed pointed a gun at the officers before the shooting. jodi is in oakland with a lot more details. jodi? >> police are still not revealing the identity of the 24-year-old man that officers shot and kill ed the coroner is confirming that he died of multiple

this card at the car mike hick re8 theaters on bell road a. s.w.a.t. team has been dispatched to the scene. no word on the number of injuries or if there are any injuries comment for this one report from a local television station. we are trying to gather information at this time. >> we have gotten a tweet from police in nashville. where is the mic? we have just gotten information from police in tennessee. what was the tweet? >> the suspect is dead. >> this is from city of nashville, police. >> yeah met row nashville p.d. suspect dead. >> from metro pd. >> here's what we can tell you, during the part where rick leventhal was speaking. we got word this was an active shooter situation and that the s.w.a.t. team had arrived at this movie theater. this is the picture of it. this is a google picture of course not a picture that comes from recently. we can tell you that the authorities have informed us while rick was speaking that was an active shooter situation. then seconds later police confirmed the shooter is dead. did the police shoot him or her? did he

director hicks is represented. it is a diverse group of stake holders discussing and balancing a number of interests. [inaudible] acknowledged the policy has to balance a number of competing priorities and i was grateful to observe the discourse and dialogue so colleagues you will get the minutes from the meeting and will know who was there and what was asked and hope this will happen at the onedf august. we'll do 2 community meeting where the public weighs in but it is good to observe. i don't play a formal role other than watching deliberate and think they will give food for thoughts. thank you chief and members of the commands staff for handling that. we had a good meeting with the parole special. >> as many know the police commission basically supervisors the parole special program. we are involved in their discipline, the rules and procedure, picking the uniforms, the handling and background check frz hiring. president loftus was great, she met with myself and member thofz command staff and had a line frup the

former cal bear bernard hicks for medical malpractice. he said he suffered head injuries for concussions from his playing days. these suits accuse cal of failing to take adequate measures to prevent concussions and warn players about long-term impacts. >> what a jury is going to have to decide is did the university of california and the coach and training staff work reasonably under the circumstances for what was nope back in 2004 and 2008. >> the university responded to that lawsuit saying, quote, our coaches, physicians and medical staff and everyone involved with cal athletics are dedicated to the safety of our students' health. we were saddened to read the lawsuit statements about mr. hicks' health. >>> barry bonds breaking his silence for the first i am since federal prosecutors dropped the obstruction of justice case against him. bonds made an appearance last night at at&t park telling the "associated press" he is not holding any grudges about the federal court case, he is just thankful that it's all over. bonlds also reiterated wha

director hicks is represented. it is a diverse group of stake holders discussing and balancing a number of interests. [inaudible] acknowledged the policy has to balance a number of competing priorities and i was grateful to observe the discourse and dialogue so colleagues you will get the minutes from the meeting and will know who was there and what was asked and hope this will happen at the onedf august. we'll do 2 community meeting where the public weighs in but it is good to observe. i don't play a formal role other than watching deliberate and think they will give food for thoughts. thank you chief and members of the commands staff for handling that. we had a good meeting with the parole special. >> as many know the police commission basically supervisors the parole special program. we are involved in their discipline, the rules and procedure, picking the uniforms, the handling and background check frz hiring. president loftus was great, she met with myself and member thofz command staff and had a line frup the

president loftus, commissioners chief suhr, director hicks my name is sergeant john [inaudible] assigned to officer involved shootings vgzs. i'm here for the quarterly report which includes the [inaudible] and then an update on open investigations. you should have received i believe reports were distributed prior and you have those. um, the last fdrb had convened the first quarter, 2015 had convened march 31, 2015 so this was the second quarter fdrb convened tuesday june 23, 2015 and reviewed 4 caizs. the board reconvened wunz day july 1, 2015 to review a 5th case. the 5 investigations reviewed by the second quarter were officer involved discharge, oo 115. officer discharge oo 215. officer [inaudible] officer involved shootings oo 9. [inaudible] oo 4. as i said, the quarterly board convened twice so first convened tuesday june 23, 20s 15 with the numbers shown here deputy allah and redman and schmit and [inaudible] commissioner dadajesus [inaudible] lieutenant dur aunt ozand sergeant [inaudible] when the board reconvened to consider the 5th case the voter members with alee, redman, comma

hicks: when the strike occurs, you point out that it is a recruiting tool. whether it is a recruiting tool or not can be debated. -- weto have attacks that used to have a tax that would be ks thated as -- attac would be described as drone strikes to enable recruiting. isis has incredible recruiting and a low-tech way. twitter is extremely simple. follow taylor swift. i think we are safe, but we in the united states, we really have -- this is back to the toolset issue. this is not a challenge that is first in fundamentally by a government organization in the light of day trying to tweet out government positions. it has to be more organic than that, and there is a big intelligence support piece of that, and it has to be regional. m. vickers: and the best recruiting tool for these groups is success, successful attacks on the united states, successful conquest of territory. you look at why people are flocking to isis. they have established a caliphate, and they are successful. k. dozier: that brings me to transparency. disclosure, discuss this before hand and it

thank you >> colleagues any questions for director hicks?thank you. >> director hicks, i want to thank your and your department because know that you have had challenges with resources and you always have done a extremely good job. i want to find out though with the new success in the budgeting process, i'm sure you told me this already, but where are you planning to allocate these new 4 members of your staff? has that been decide or are you still considering it? >> where are we going to allocate the staff members or the positions that are authorized to our investigator positions as well as a attorney position as well as information technology position. >> good to know. thank you very much. thank you mrs. fletcher for joining us as well. all right. [inaudible] >>iteal 3 c commission report. commission president report, commissioners reports. >> [inaudible] vice president has nothing to report. anything further? another to report, colleagues? commission announcements and scheduled items. identify for consideration at future meetings is that w

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a lot of these girls getting hear hair done today spent the summer in hicks.in the neighborhood. it is a great idea, special take for the kids, to kind of get them ready to school, build up their confident throughout the the year by having their hair done and their nails done. >> so the the nails are happening in the back, so jared, maybe we can take a quick peak. there is also a little surprise in the back, which we will have to show the viewers real quickly and tell us a little bit about what the surprise is. >> inside these goody bags are a number of different items. toilet supplies, lotions, perfumes... >> no audio. >> they shouldn't have gone to the back. the the surprise was the the camera breaking. >> there is no signal back there they got jenny back. it is nice. >> hey, candy kane in the control room, could you find out if kid can still go over there to wilmington to this salon where they are holding it the the rest of the day, give us some details in case kid want to go over it. cool. >>> a massachusetts high school is one of am cross the country to b

everyone had pushed the price up so much if there was any hick up at all they had taken a beating for but in the short term they are the leader and i think he will continue to be. emily: anything jumping out to you as strong competitor? stephen: if they can open up their credit card provider products and give someone access to something like apple pay, i think that that is a strong competitor. those are the features that people want. as those devices, as they start to pick up heart rate sensors it will have to continue innovating and continue offering something the competitors aren't. otherwise all these devices look similar and are priced in a similar way. the software is relatively similar. they have to keep differentiating themselves. emily: you pointed out a trend of rising coaching. what other trends are you seeing? stuart: it is an enormous trend in tracking your specific data where you are able to take out the noise and get the signal of what the data is. the brain is one of those key areas where there is enormous opportunity. emily: the brain? what do you mean by that? stuart:

look at the block by jordan hicks right here.away and he is gone. 92 yards for the touchdown, and your eagles are up 23-3 at the half. third quarter, what time is it? it is tebow time. fans could not wait to see him in his eagles debut. he goes 4 for 5 on his first drive connecting with come lynson, 15 yard gain. and on the next drive, tebow to rasheed bailey. nice grab there. he made an impression in this game. tebow calling his own number. scores a touchdown. he says this reminded him just how much he missed football. tebow is 6 for 12, eagles win 36-10. here are the quarterbacks on how they did. >> felt good to get out and play against another team, get a scoring drive going. i got to use my legs a little bit. that was fun. a couple throws i thought i could have completed. got a touchdown there. it was fun. good. i just wanted to play good football. if that didn't make a statement, so be it. i wanted to make plays, be consistent with the football. the important thing is to just get completions. then the drive starts going and

his name is bernard hicks. he played for the golden bears 2004 to 2008. he says he suffered several concussions and has permanent neurological injuries. the lawsuit accuses cal of failing to take measures to prevent concussions and failing to warn players about the long-term consequences of head injuries. the university has responded. "our coaches, fits and medical staff and everyone involved with cal athletics are dedicated to the safety of our student athletes. while we cannot comment on any student's specific medical history, we were saddened to read the lawsuit statements about mr. hicks' health." >>> on a lighter note, counting down towards giants baseball on nbc bay area. this is a good one. two teams fighting for a playoff spot. let's take you outside towards mccovey cove. at&t park, perfect for baseball this evening. giants and washington nationals. let's bring in gerard moncure from field level during batting practice. this is when the season gets a little stressful? good stress we should say. >> absolutely, very important series. huge for the gi