jeff brown bailed out, when he bailed out, it gave me the opportunity as the mayor to appoint. i didn't appoint my friend jeff adachi, i appointed someone else, jeff adachi ran and won. call me up and said," okay, i'm still your lawyer, i wondered aloud whether or not i had a problem, would he negotiate a plea for me." rather than defend me as he has done for so many people, successfully. but he said, i want you to come to my swearing-in. i said, well, jeff, wait a minute. i'll come to your swearing-in. but i want to be anonymous at your swearing-in. he said, no way, you'll never be anonymous in my life. you're the mayor of the city. you're my friend and i want you there. and i came to his swearing-in. and one or two of his people didn't like the fact that i was there. and jeff said, if you don't like he's here, you leave. that was the nature of who jeff adachi, for all of us, really was. he was a stand-up friend, a talented lawyer. he chose to be a criminal defense lawyer, in the public section, not for private, but in the public section. and in the public way. at every stage

jeff adachi. i hope you will join mayor breed, mayor brown, and the members of all board supervisors and everybody commitment by honoring jeff by the way we live. to preserve the legacy of jeff's life and for his work, so today we'll be closing today's service with the benediction from reverend ron, you guys. please give it up for reverend ron. [applause] >> thank you for your patience and hopefully i join you in appreciating all the expressions of support, condolence and encouragement that i received from the speaks this morning. and that we can continue to share that spirit, as brother shared with us of love and determination to continue the life of wisdom, compassion that inspired jeff and will hopefully continue to sustain our community for generations to come. there's the little reflection about what's the difference between a buddhist and a non-buddhist. well, the response is a non-buddhist thinks there's a difference. [laughter] and that's what i would hope we can appreciate. that differences are all things that we create in our heads. we make our own assumptions about the other. but the sp

our former public defender jeff brown is here. thank you so much for joining us [applause] >> as well as peter king. thank you so much for being here with us, commissioner king. thank you to all the members of the elected family who has joined us here today. we all know how difficult the past couple of weeks have been, not only for our city and the people who work with jeff over the years, but also especially for the people who worked directly with him at the public defender's office. matt gonzalez has let this office, has worked with each and every one of us in city hall during this very difficult transition. he's been a great leader, a great advocate for continuing the work of jeff's legacy, and i wanted to provide him with an opportunity to say a few words about mano at this time. [applause] >> i just want to say that i've never been concerned about this transition. of course, losing jeff was a big loss to our office, it is not one that will ever quite get over, but mayor breed has been a long time friend, not just of jeff adac

brown ... paid final respects to jeff adachi yesterday. adachi died unexpectedly on february 22nd.. he had served as the city's public defender since 2002. those who spoke at the service all agreed... he was a man dedicated to his work. adachi died from what investigators believe was a heart attack in a telegraph hill apartment. he was 59 years old. (robin) and here's a live look outside... at the golden gate bridge. dry right now but rain is moving in. john shrable tarcking the hollywood minute is coming up after the break. welcome back to the kron four morning news. i'm tracking your entertainment headlines today... movie and music news now -- here's david daniel with the hollywood minute. "she's young, supple..." "she'll be my greatest victory.""you don't stand a chance.""care to make a wager on that?"it's been 20 years since the seduction and betrayal of "dangerous liaisons" hit the new york prep school set in "cruel intentions." now the romantic drama starring sarah michelle gellar, ryan phillippe, and reese witherspoon is returning to theaters for one week, beginning march 22n

brown... paid their final respects to jeff adachi.adachi, who died on february 22nd, had served as the city's public defender since 2002. kron 4's charles clifford reports. well, here in san francisco on monday a memorial was held at san francisco city hall for jeff adachi. adachi died back on february 22nd and at today's memorial hundreds of people attended including former mayor willie brown, current mayor london breed and matt gonzalez who works in the public defenders office.they all recall a man dedicated to his work.sotjeff understood that making a difference in people's lives wasn't about just fighting for them in court room. he knew the work started in the community to keep kids from getting into trouble in the first place.sot during every stage of his career, during the time that he served all of us. he was a strong advocate for every aspect for what ought to be the rights of all the people. sotin the 28 years that i knew jeff , i never saw him run away from injustice. rather, he ran towards it. it was something he wanted to combat. in san francisco, charles clifford kron4 news. (vic

we saw senators sherrod brown and jeff merkley and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg all say they're not running in the past week. in the same iowa poll, 64% of likely caucus goers say biden should run this time around. and 31% say he should hold off because they think his time has passed. >>> joining our conversation now is the former senior adviser to the sanders campaign in 2016 and congressman ro khanna is back with us, along with the rest of our panel. you worked for senator sanders last cycle. you won't be working with him this time around. what do you think senator sanders has learned or did learn sanders has learned or did learn since 2016 that would help him in 2020? >> he learned an enormous amount. when you first run for president of the united states, it's an extraordinary jump even if you're coming from the united states senate. i think he learned a lot about the way you guys in the media work, the demands of a candidacy and organization that needs to be put together. we were pretty notorious last time around because you covered it and know this. we were a pretty

same with sherrod brown and jeff murkly.ut joe biden, it is expected that he's going to get into the race? >> it is. and it's really ultimately up to him. he's got everything in order right now. it's on the launch pad. he's got the family on-board. he's got staff on-board. he's got effectively everything that he needs except his own blessing. so joe biden is going to run from president from the moment that he announced four years ago round-about that he wasn't going to run for president in 2016. so the real question here is, is he going to be able to find an opening in what is a crowded field. you mentioned some people who haven't gotten into the presidential race over the past six, seven days. that's due in larg part large pe nature of the field. the one thing joe biden has going for him is instant name recognition. he has a great network and a lot of money to bring to bear. the big question is if you're a democrat do you want to go to predonald trump era politics or are you looking for a candidate going toward the future.

got a couple of big name stauers out there -- stars out there, so that makes it harder sherrod brown or jeffde -- merkley who both decided not to do it. a lot of the operatives have been sucked up by other campaigns. but the other one is what you get to, which is we have an ascendant wing of the democratic party that's highly progressoff, very, very -- progressive, very, very intolerant of those in the middle, and i think some of these candidates like michael bloomberg understood that their views on wall street, on the idea that capitalism is a good thing, on the idea that maybe you can't have medicare for all, it's too expensive, those are just not very popular and would make a run very hard right now. charles: and, of of course, gillian, with the brown, senator brown not getting in, folks are wondering who could win back the blue collar vote, because that was his angle, right? the ohio game, he went to iowa recently. is there someone like that that you think right now in the current -- >> in the current lineup? charles: yeah. >> i mean, i think they really do have a problem here because yo

brown... paid final respects to jeff adach today. adachi died february 22nd,,,he'd served as the city's public defender since 2002. kron 4's charles clifford reports. well, here in san francisco on monday a memorial was held at san francisco city hall for jeff adachi. adachi died back on february 22nd and at today's memorial hundreds of people attended including former mayor willie brown, current mayor london breed and matt gonzalez who works in the public defenders office.they all recall a man dedicated to his work.sotjeff understood that making a difference in people's lives wasn't about just fighting for them in court room. he knew the work started in the community to keep kids from getting into trouble in the first place.sot during every stage of his career, during the time that he served all of us. he was a strong advocate for every aspect for what ought to be the rights of all the people. sotin the 28 years that i knew jeff , i never saw him run away from injustice. rather, he ran towards it. it was something combat.in san fran

brown ... paid final respects to jeff adachi yesterday. adachi died unexpectedly on february 22nd ...rs believe was a heart attack. he had served as the city's public defender since 2002. those who spoke at the service all agreed ... he was a man dedicated to his work. ( james ) jeff adachi was 59 years old. ( darya ) outrage in a california community... after a group of teenagers were caught on camera using cups to make a swastika sign at a party. the photos have caused a firestorm across the newport mesa unified school district in orange county. extra police officers patrolled the campuses yesterday... several students posted on social media asking for their classmates to wear blue to denounce anti- semiti

brown ... paid final respects to jeff adachi yesterday. adachi died unexpectedly on february 22nd..served as the city's public defender since 2002. those who spoke at the service all agreed... he was a man dedicated to his work. ( darya ) adachi died from what investigators believe was a heart attack in a telegraph hill apartment. he was 59 years old. ( james ) a big national story we are following... house democrats are stepping up their investigations into president trump. the house judiciary committee sent letters requesting inofrmation from 81 people connected to the president. manu raju has the latest. the house judiciary committee today announcing a sprawling investigation into the president's inner circle .. trying to uncover evidence that the president obstructed justice and abused his power. the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, sent letters to 81 individuals and entities connected to the president ... including family members

brown... paid final respects to jeff adach today. adachi died february 22nd,,,he'd served as the city's public defender since 2002. kron 4's charles clifford reports. well, here in san francisco on monday a memorial was held at san francisco city hall for jeff adachi. adachi died back on february 22nd and at today's memorial hundreds of people attended including former mayor willie brown, current mayor london breed and matt gonzalez who works in the public defenders office.they all recall a man dedicated to his work.sotjeff understood that making a difference in people's lives wasn't about just fighting for them in court room. he knew the work started in the community to keep kids from getting into trouble in the first place.sot during every stage of his career, during the time that he served all of us. he was a strong advocate for every aspect for what ought to be the rights of all the people. sotin the 28 years that i knew jeff , i never saw him run away from injustice. rather, he ran towards it. it was something he wanted to comba

brown ... paid final respects to jeff adach today. we first brought you this story on 'kron-on'. adachi died unexpectedly on february 22nd.. he had served as the city's public defender since 2002. kron 4's charles clifford reports. well, here in san francisco on monday a memorial was held at san francisco city hall for jeff adachi. adachi died back on february 22nd and at today's memorial hundreds of people attended including former mayor willie brown, current mayor london breed and matt gonzalez who works in the public defenders office.they all recall a man dedicated to his work.sotjeff understood that making a difference in people's lives wasn't about just fighting for them in court room. he knew the work started in the community to keep kids from getting into trouble in the first place.sot during every stage of his career, during the time that he served all of us. he was a strong advocate for every aspect for what ought to be the rights of all the people. sotin the 28 years that i knew jeff , i never saw him run away from injustice. rather, he ran towards it. it was something

brown ... paid final respects to jeff adachi yesterday. adachi died unexpectedly on february 22nd ...ve was a heart attack. he had served as the city's public defender since 2002. those who spoke at the service all agreed ... he was a man dedicated to his work. ( james ) jeff adachi was 59 years old. ( james ) coming up at 7 o'clock on the kron 4 morning news...the cost of rent is going up in san francisco. a look at why you may be paying more to live in the area. lowe's knows you'll do it right, to save big on the floors you want. we do it right, too. with exclusive options that are waterproof and easy to install. so, you can get a better look at a better price. showers back today with south bay rainfall pos

brown ... paid final respects to jeff adachi yesterday. adachi died unexpectedly on february 22nd..served as the city's public defender since 2002. those who spoke at the service all agreed... he was a man dedicated to his work. ( james ) adachi died from what investigators believe was a heart attack in a telegraph hill apartment. he was 59 years old. ( darya ) outrage in a california community... after a group of teenagers were caught on camera using cups to make a swastika sign at a party. the photos have caused a firestorm across the newport mesa unified school district in orange county. extra police officers patrolled the campuses yesterday... several students posted on social media asking for their classmates to wear blue to denounce anti- semitism and bigotry. the superintendent also released a statement denouncing the photos.

jeff, this was a big week for people to announce they weren't running, sherrod brown, hillary clinton, michael bloomberg, eric holder, jeff merkley. how does that change the dynamics of the race moving forward? >> well, there's no question that the race is crystalizing, it's taking shape really week by week. and i think this was a big week because had mayor bloomberg gotten into this democratic race, yes, he would have had an uphill climb, no question. largely because he's not seen necessarily by some activists in the party as a democrat. but, boy, had he gotten in, he would have been spending a lot of money and that would have impacted everything. particularly, as the race goes on. california has moved up its primary to just the month after iowa and new hampshire. so had bloomberg gotten in, he would have had an impact on the race. since he's going to be on the outside still trying to influence the dialogue, that is significant. i thinker is r er isherrod brow biggest development of this week. i traveled around with him when he was doing an exploratory tour in iowa and he was visitin

attorney general, senator shared brown of ohio, and senator jeff merkley of oregon, oh, and add hillary clinton who also said, quote, i'm not running to a new york city television station. but by judging by the candidates who are running, this is a democratic party different from even three years ago when clinton last ran. some say more liberal, others say too liberal to beat president trump. joining me is one of the candidates, former housing secretary and former mayor of san antonio, julian castro. let me start by asking you, mr. castro, in a crowded field, how are any of the candidates distinguishing yourselves? does it make it where you have to do something provocative to even be noticed, or do you just run your race hoping your message breaks through, even though you have so many people on the stage with you? >> it's good to be with you, reverend al. for me i've always believed that the the first thing that you should do when you're running for office is to tell people what you're going to do for them and their family if they i'm god articulate a strong, positive future. i've talke

sherrod brown, hillary clinton, eric holder, michael bloomberg. does -- >> jeffe senator from oregon. does this suggest to you that people are seeing that joe biden is in the race and it's not worth running -- he hasn't fully announced, but we all think he will. >> i think for a lot of folks, they're looking at time and money. with 20-plus, 15-plus potentially people in the field, you have to be able to raise the money. you have to have the time to speak to the voters and get people to work for you. these are strategic decisions. i think some of the people you named, all of them would make great presidential candidates, but we have a good feel that's not done being filled out. but the people that are in the race think they could be the president. the other people who are not maybe think this isn't my time. >>> the record that joe biden will get with his record. when he was senator, he opposed bussing, the efforts to integrate schools. very controversial at the time. in a recent story in "the washington post" was quoted in a story in 1975 saying i do not buy the c

brown class. >> thank you. i did not even write down any of the comments that i was going to talk to about jeff today because it is still painful for me. i know i was, when i first heard on friday, and i knew -- and just trying to reach out to a lot of different folks in the community, and people reaching out to me, it was hard to wrap our brain around this world without jeff a dodgy -- jeff adachi. i will talk about my personal experience with jeff. i met jeff a little over 20 years ago when i was teaching art at hunter's point. he came up, he wanted to know what i was doing, how i was getting the money, the impact that i thought it was happening on the community, i didn't even know who he was. he was still -- it was before he ran for public defender, anyway, he made a huge impression on me. when i was a neighborhood activist in the western edition, and we were fighting the violence in the western edition, and just how it was completely destroying neighborhoods and families, jeff started getting involved. he first started be magic in bayview which is an amazing program where it is a convenor. they bring all th

jeff adachi. the city hall rotunda was filled with adachi's family, former co-workers, friends and politicians both recently elected as well as past officeholders like former mayor willie brown. >> he chose to be a criminal defense lawyer in the public section, not for private, but in the public section and in the public way. >> current mayor london breed who first met jeff adachi well before she ran for office. >> we've lost so much in losing him. i've lost a friend. the community has lost a champion and our city has lost a man who will never be replicated, but who will always be remembered. >> rudy corpus, executive director of the violence prevention group called united players talked about his long time friend who was on u.p.'s board of directors. >> jeff was about the people. he was a fierce fighter. jeff fought for the have not's. jeff fought for the people who couldn't stand up straight. jeff fought for the people who people wouldn't stand up for. so my brother jeff, you see him on the screen looking clean as clorox like always, got his hair greased back. >> and stan adachi spoke about his brother's passion for helping those who couldn't for whatever reason help thems

on all of this with me now, cnn senior white house correspondent pamela brown, cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz, jeff mason, a white house correspondent for reuters, and steve hall retired cia chief of russia operations. glad you could all be with me. so pamela, this is something else, that the president has not said a peep, you know. so the whole team is there in support of, and likely controlling him from tweeting out, commenting. how hard are they working to do that? >> trying to. i think we've seen the president kind of does what he wants to do. it's clearly a wait and see approach by president trump. he was very vocal before this news came out yesterday, in that interview, where he said, look, robert mueller didn't even get vote, and now he's going to write this report on me. now that the report is delivered, the president has a muted response, he is not even saying anything and even the white house response yesterday was pretty restrained saying basically we will leave this up to bill barr and i spoke to a source close to the president's legal team who said look, this is a wait and see approach

held at san francisco city hall for jeff adachi. adachi died back on february 22nd and at today's memorial hundreds of people attended including former mayor willie browncurrent mayor londnzalez who wo public defenders office.they all recall a man dedicated to his work.sotjeff understood that making a difference in people's lives wasn't about just fighting for them in court room. he knew the work started in the community to keep kids from getting into trouble in the first place.sot during every stage of his career, during the time that he served all of us. he was a strong advocate for every aspect for what ought to be the rights of all the people. sotin the 28 years that i knew jeff , i never saw him run away from injustice. rather, he ran towards it. it was something he wanted to combat. in san francisco, charles clifford kron4 news. (pam) san francisco mayor london breed is proposing a new waterfront housing location for part of her overall one -thousand bed homeless shelter plan. today, breed proposed a new 200-bed "safe" navigation site at seawall lot- 330 ... on the from piers- 30 to- 32. the site would provide temporary housing for unsheltered ci

they're not going to run this week, senator sherrod brown, former presidential candidate clinton, eric holder, former mayor michael bloomberg. >> jeff>> jeff merkley, senator from oregon. does this suggest to you that people are seeing that joe biden is in the race and it's not worth running? because he hasn't fully announced, but we all think he's going to. is that what's going on? >> i don't think it's -- i think perhaps for some folks, vice president biden is a factor. for a lot of folks, though, they're looking at time and money. and with 20-plus, 15-plus potentially people in the field, you have to be able to raise the money. you have to have the time to go out there, speak to the voters and get across the country. and you have to have people to work for you, okay? so these are strategic decisions, i think, some folks are making. i think some of those people you named, all would be great presidential candidates. but we've got a good field this year. it's not done being filled out. but, look, i think the folks in the race right now are in the race because they think they can be president of the united states. the people that are

jeff merkley. >> the best contribution i can make is by working to make the senate a full partner in-- in this-- this bold agenda to save america. >> reporter: just today, ohio senator sherrod brown, who had generated some buzz for ad he hd to forgo a run. early polls show biden would start the race at the top, where he's never been before in a presidential race. he sputtered out of the 1998 campaign amid a plagiarism scandal and dropped out of the 2008 race after finishing far back in the iowa caucus. he didn't run in 2016, in part because of the death of his son, beau. this time, biden could be quickly cast as out of touch with today's democratic party as voters scrutinize his four- decade senate record. he has already apologized for his handling of anita hill during the clarence thomas supreme court confirmation hearings, and for his support of tough on crime legislation in the 1990s. >> we must make the streets safer. i know we haven't always gotten things right, but i've always tried. >> reporter: one other potential challenge-- for a democratic party increasingly relying on younger, female, and minority voters, biden is a 76-year-old white man. if he wins the white house, h

jeff adachi. having said that, i am on a mission today to address a situation in san francisco at 555 santon street. we have serious problems additively browned middle school and others. we have supervisors who are involved in all sorts of shenanigans, but are not addressing seriously the education of our children. a principle, 25 years of teaching, one and a half years at the school as a principal, ganged up on and the san francisco unified school district did not give a hoot. this black woman got a nervous breakdown, and normally i don't like to interfere, i used to, and supervisor sandra fewer knows about this in the past, but i don't like to interfere, but i was forced to. i advise the principal to get a dr. dr.'s certificate where she will be getting three weeks to look after herself, and i will address the board of this school district at about 6:00 p.m. >> thank you for your comments. >> next speaker. >> hello. my name is denise. i stand before you as a representative of taz auto detailing. the only company that meets the requirements and mandated by s.f. shasha charger. taz is the only vendor awarded detailing contracts, all the other

jeff merkley. >> the best contribution i can make is working to make the senate a full partner in this bold agenda to save america. >> reporter: today ohio senator sherrod brown who generated buzz for a candidacy, said he had decided to forego a run. early polls show biden would start the race at the top where he's never been president in a presidential race. he sputtered out of the 1988 campaign amid a plagiarism scandal and dropped out of the 2008 race after finishing far back in the iowa caucus. he didn't run in 2016 in part because of the death of his son, bo. this time biden could be quickly cast as out of touch with democrat's democratic party as voters scrutinize his four-decade senate record. he's already apologized for his handling of anita hill during the clarence thomas supreme court hearings and for his support of tough on crime legislation in the 1990s. >> we must make the streets safer. >> i know, we haven't always gotten things right but i've always tried. >> reporter: one other potential challenge, for a democratic party increasingly relying on younger, female, and minority voters, biden is a 76-year-old white man. if he wins the white house,

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jeff adachi. he was remembered as a man who fought for a more just and equitable san francisco. mayor london breed and former mayor willie brownamong the speakers. adachi died on february 22nd from a heart attack. he was 59 years old. >>> a group of students voiced their oppositon today to nearly $22 million in budget cuts for the oakland unified school district. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony tweeted out the video. students marched to the school board meeting today to protest cuts. >>> in san jose, neighbors left flowers in a home where a woman was killed. we are on the story and posted this picture. we'll have a live report on the murder mystery at 5:00. >>> in the national headlines, deadly torn aids tore up alabama, storms blamed for a dozen deaths. we are joined by rachel scott from alabama with the latest. rachel? >> reporter: yeah, well crews have blocked off this area here behind me as they continue their search and rescue efforts well into the night. but this small community is just heartbroken. homeowners say they're not only mourning the loss of their property, they're also mourning the death of their neighbors.

jeff merck irkley new york mayor michael bloomberg this week hillary clinton confirmed in the local television interview that she was not running for president again. in the latest senator shared brownould rather stay in the senate. which brings us to joe biden. the former vice president of the united states, the ride or die besty of barack obama is reported to be seriously considering his third run for president. the challenge is joe biden comes from that law and order school of democratic politics. if you reach into his crates, what you'll find is the dialogue on crime that used to be the way that you became the nominee. whether it's the way he over saw clearance thomas hearings and the treatment of anita hill or wrote and defended the 1994 crime bill thanks will sound very different when you hear it played again today. for joe biden, the upside is he would enter the race as the front runner if he gets in, full stop. he was the vice president, everybody knows him but the risk is the replay. today "the washington post" published parts of an interview that biden gave in 1975 to a local delaware paper. at the time, he was a freshman senator on the verge of surk stressfully passing a

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jeff van drew. it's good to see you again. thanks so much for joining me this morning. >> great to be here with you again, thank you. maria: you just heard ambassador scott brown. at this point from the u.s. in light of what we know took place in new zealand overnight? >> well, obviously as we find out more, it's going to be important that we help in any way and i know that we wil intelligence gathering to make sure any assistance they need, technical and otherwise is there. i would also say, i think that -- all of us have the same reaction. there's just too much hate in the world, too much hurt. you know, it starts with social media. we feel that we can speak to each other a certain way. it starts with politics and the way that we behave and people deal with each other and it's just extended into these horrible hateful acts that p happen. some day i hope that we really truly realize we all have the same blood flowing in our veins, that we are all human beings, and that we should love each other a little bit more. this is a bad day. maria: i'm so glad you said that, congressman. you've been among those who are very much wanting to work with the other side, will