ktvu's janna katsuyama is live now in the city with our story. janna?reporter: well, julie there was certainly a lot of action with two teams playing for much bigger stakes than just sinking the baskets. they were firing off shots and running the court. but this was no ordinary lineup. in the blue uniforms, police officers and park officials went head-to-head with a team of coaches from the san francisco housing authorities. they were all part of an exhibition game to kick off the city's midnight basketball league. >> we welcome the opportunity to compete again and to have a sharing of relationships. >> reporter: the program gives youths ages 17-25 a chance to play basketball with people from around the city, including police officers. it also includes a second league for kids ages 13-16 founded by police officer lauren henderson back in 1993. >> and i wanted to do something for the kids, something to keep them out of trouble, educate them, get them on too high school and get them on to college. >> reporter: and that's the point. building teamwork and r

ktvu's janna katsuyama is live now in alameda with the story. >> reporter: heather, you might say for all of these old buildings, it's just back to square one. the city council meeting lasted until 2:00 this morning. and in the end, the council voted by a vote of 4-0 against moving ahead with the sun cal developer. for 13 years the alameda naval air base has remained largely undeveloped with many buildings vacant and decaying. and it appears that will remain the case for a while longer. last night the city council voted against a pre pose al by sunday cal of irvine, california, to develop the 800- acre parcel. the plan included more than 3,000 housing units, public parks, commercial retail space and two schools. >> the project was actually quite large. and i think larger than the island could bear. >> reporter: city council member frank said there were also concerns about the company's financial stability. >> sun cal and de shaw, who were in negotiations with us have a project in albuquerque that went bankrupt. and i didn't see any assurance that we wouldn't suffer the same thing here

ktvu's janna katsuyama is live at civic center plaza with the story. janna? >> julie, laura's law was passed by the legislature back in 2002. but so far only two counties, la has adopted it. tomorrow this resolution will go before a board of supervisors for a vote. according to san francisco's mental health director, up to 23,000 people receive treatment for mental illness and substance abuse last year. for many of and their families, mental illness can be devastating. >> i lost my first born son, tim. tim was a rock star. he was a straight a student. he was an all star athlete. >> reporter: the doctor smith says his son tim was bi-polar and began having psychotic episodes at age 20. >> i had one episode where tim about a beat me up and medical staff had to i want convene. and i was in a hospital room at the time because he had me confused as somebody else. and in a dilution. >> reporter: he says there were times when tim resisted treatment and he eventually committed suicide. >> we would have benefited dramatically from laura's law because we would have had

ktvu's janna katsuyama is live now in the city with our story. janna?porter: well, julie there was certainly a lot of action with two teams playing for much bigger stakes than just sinking the baskets. they were firing off shots and running the court. but this was no ordinary lineup. in the blue uniforms, police officers and park officials went head-to-head with a team of coaches from the san francisco housing authorities. they were all part of an exhibition game to kick off the city's midnight basketball league. >> we welcome the opportunity to compete again and to have a sharing of relationships. >> reporter: the program gives youths ages 17-25 a chance to play basketball with people from around the city, including police officers. it also includes a second league for kids ages 13-16 founded by police officer lauren henderson back in 1993. >> and i wanted to do something for the kids, something to keep them out of trouble, educate them, get them on too high school and get them on to college. >> reporter: and that's the point. building teamwork and rel

ktvu's janna katsuyama is live at civic center plaza with the story. janna?> julie, laura's law was passed by the legislature back in 2002. but so far only two counties, la has adopted it. tomorrow this resolution will go before a board of supervisors for a vote. according to san francisco's mental health director, up to 23,000 people receive treatment for mental illness and substance abuse last year. for many of those people and their families, mental illness can be devastating. >> i lost my first born son, tim. tim was a rock star. he was a straight a student. he was an all star athlete. >> reporter: the doctor smith says his son tim was bi-polar and began having psychotic episodes at age 20. >> i had one episode where tim about a beat me up and medical staff had to i want convene. and i was in a hospital room at the time because he had me confused as somebody else. and in a dilution. >> reporter: he says there were times when tim resisted treatment and he eventually committed suicide. >> we would have benefited dramatically from laura's law because we woul