>> jonathan said something that i absolutely agree with. that is the media reflects what the public wants. in my view, the media, in general, feed a voracious appetite for vengeance by an informed public. often influenced by fear, prejudice, and ignorance. i think one of the reasons criminal defense lawyers argued so poorly is people do not understand the source of crime. they want simple, quick responses to a complicated long- term solutions. you cannot fight crime by doing what the governor is doing, cutting social services and building new prisons. [applause] you do not have to be a rocket scientist to understand. all of us who have been involved in the criminal-justice system know where people who commit crimes come from. they are poor people, people of color, victims of abuse, the mentally ill, people with substance abuse problems. there are the people that fall through the cracks of society. but that is the public read what the public wants and the public is understandably afraid because this is a real problem. then there are these pe

fih+-- jonathan spoke to it as. we have to make the á discussioa broader discussion, so that people understand how it affects their daily lives, how it affects the way government works. is there going to be money, our state parks going to be open, money for education? what does this say about the state of california, where i believe the largest union is not the teachers' association, but the correctional officers association? what does that say about a society? when people find out about that, they are stunned. but that is the reality. that is what is playing on people's minds, fear, prejudice, ignorance. >> this also points to the fact of what we have to do in each individual case. that is what you're up against. and when you are in trial, the priority is your client, which is different from broadcast journalism, television drum up. -- drama. >> but you cannot turn a blind eye to it. >> that question is deeply troubling when you look at certain cases. there are certain cases where it is a no-win situation. the robe

if jonathan blum is there with the latest. jonathan. >> they have just hoisted up an egyptian flag and any winds where people are starting to gather. the protests was originally scheduled to to protest the egyptian government. now what the news that the president has stepped down, to recast it as a celebration. as people get off work there slowly filtering and and gathering in the corner congratulating each other. so far it's a mellow affair, at one. the law more media and police officers here that actual selling for a stiff as people get on board the train to gather. we saw few signs with mubarak's based on it. it is slowly becoming an organized affair that is supposed to turn into a demonstration with hundreds of people within the next hour lot in san francisco, jonathan blum kron 4 news. >> with kron 4 for continuing coverage of the egypt revolution. at 5:15 p.m., you will hear from egypt expert about what today's decision from the bart means. >> friday night at the weekend is upon us. the weather is looking nicer for tomor

jonathan blum is in there. >> jonathan? >> pamela, i am on first street. it is five blocks away. it might as well be 5 mi.. traffic is moving and perhaps only one blog per 30 minutes. and it started on the bay bridge-1 blog--every five30 minutes, and it literally took me about 15 minutes to get from the end of the bus stop. at the market to the crosswalk. in fact, there was a miniature cooper who gave up! you can see those brake lights. they're hoping to try to get a list of of a bit of an advantage. it is not happening. nobody is moving in the most boring part is that the same the brake lights all the way from here to the bridge. do not worry. you're not alone. many people are sitting. nobody is going and your, fast. live, jonathan blum. >> reggie kumar is also monitoring traffic. and faulfull tub-- >> yes, i was stuck in this huge mess! of fulton--and bryant it is virtually a parking lot. one man said it took him a one hour to go just a few blocks. and it is causing major problems for pedestrians. they cannot even walk across the street the cars are blocking the cross street. t

jonathan blum >>pam: joins us exactly where that was and where the bodies were found. jonathan? >>reporter: a lot of rot away. and it is not meant for swimming or rafting. a lot--their bodies were found 8 mi. away. this is where they went into the creek. they met here, according to law enforcement behind this school in a parking lot. they put this raft into the waterway and it actually runs underneath the roads. it is actively under meet the roads. and then it leaves walnut creek towards concord it empties out into a bonafide creek. 4 mi. long is where this route was recovered. it is sobering sight. it was right near this waterfall. with a 10 ft. drop. and apparently, the boys did not stay in the raft at that point. after this point, it got hung up in the water to the voice floated another 4.75 mi.. the boys--floated. gavin was found here. and the other body was found of matthew miller all the way up here near how we no. 4. jonathan blum. >>pam: this is not the first tragedy in the walnut creek canal. last april, a family in a car crashed inside the canal. this is dramatic video

i'm jonathan, i'm gonna be kickin' stuff!cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you -- really you will be -- >> who wants me to kick stuff tonight? [ cheers and applause ] everybody wants me to kick stuff. that lady wants me to kick some stuff. >> jimmy: what will you be kicking tonight jonathan? >> well tonight, i'll be kicking this 1984 general electric's toaster. now, it run about 125 watts, so it's got a lot of power to it. >> jimmy: yeah. >> it's got three settings guys, listen up. you've got your mild, you got your dark and your medium. >> jimmy: do we care -- >> we should care cause i'm gonna kick it. it kicks real good, too. >> jimmy: it kicks real good? >> kick real good. >> jimmy: that kicks real good. >> and stuff's going to explode everywhere. >> jimmy: all right, so i just -- do i stand back? >> you need to stand back -- step right over there, jimmy. you know the drill. you guys watch out, this -- i don't know what's gonna happen. and like always, guys, i'm going to count to 11. i want everybody to count with me. 11 ste

jonathan. >> reporter: pam, residents and fire fights can only draw the same conclusion that these fires must be connected. behind me, you're looking at the wreckage from the facade of a century old apartment building. neighbors are shaken up, worried this could happen again. passers by couldn't help but notice the charred wreckage piled in the street from the second of three early morning fires that could have been intentionally set. >> i used to live there. >> in all, 17 people were displaced by the second fire, which apparently started outside near the front door of this victorian apartment building around 5:00 a.m. this is cell phone video as firefighters tried to knock down the flames. the owner of a nearby shop says he spoke to some of them. >> i was like, what happened? they try to go back in there to get some stuff. >> they can't go back in there? >> that second fire was a block away from the first fire that started an hour earlier. firefighters put this one out quickly, but the next two were much bigger. the third one started 15 minutes after the second one. this building was un

jonathan bloom has been checking out marin county tonight. jonathan. >> reporter: pam, it has been a wet evening here in san rafael. after weeks and weeks of dry, sunny, unseasonally mild weather, finally the north bay got dumped on with rain that will last the rest of the night. people didn't always have their raincoats handy. some didn't have working umbrellas. the streets are drenched with rainwater and the wind has been blowing. the afternoon commute, that was spared from the rain, the afternoon commute did see a lot of wind. here's how it started out. >> before the rain came, there was the wind. high wind advisories warned drivers to watch out. and at the toll plaza leaving richmond, flapping flags showed it wasn't a joke. the wind was noticeable, but not too problematic driving across the bridge. at the other end, it picked up. you can see trees and brush whipping around and gusts so strong, even the camera was shaking as white caps chopped their way over the bay. the rain drenched the pavement and sidewalk in downtown san rafael. it cl

we have a report from jonathan rugman of independent television news. a warning-- some of the images are disturbing. >> reporter: it's dusk in bahrain's capital, and volleys of gunfire are heard near the city's pearl roundabout. government forces have been shooting at anti-government demonstrators. eyewitnesses and a doctor telling us that one man was shot in the head. >> not >> reporter: the regime here now acting as if it's fighting for its very survival, calls by its allies for restraint falling on deaf ears. earlier, bahrainis in their thousands came to bury their dead from yesterday's early morning attack by government forces. it was part funeral and part protest. bahrain's shia majority calling for the sunni king to be thrown out. >> we are a peaceful people. and like egypt, bahrain is locked in a showdown with its own people. age-old tensions in danger of spilling over into what bahrain's foreign minister h called a "sectarian abyss". wrapped in the national flag is the body of ali almoumen, just 22, shot dead in the early hours of yesterday. we

live on the bridge, jonathan blum kron 4 news. >>catherine: the fbi and postal inspectors tonight are investigating a suspicious letter. this is happening all at 31 grand avenue in palo we'll tell. if you're being told the letter may have a clerk sick at the business office. he conceded there on the mat. of the clark reportedly felt something gritty when he opened the envelope this morning. he went to the hospital as a precaution and was told he did get sick, other workers on the same floor were evacuated. if the business office is in a separate building from the hospital said no patients are being affected. >>pam: new details in the state budget battle today. governor jerry brown issued a hiring freeze across all state government. that applies to most vacant, seasonal and full and part apartheid positions except for public safety is at risk. contractors to compensate for the hiring freeze. it's part of governor brown is to cut three and $60 million in operational costs over the next fiscal year. president roh,, defended his propo

jonathan? >> both. there's a serious budget problem in wisconsin. but at the same time, governor waer tipped his hand in carving out the public safety unions from his collective bargaining gambit and also not taking yes for an answer when the public service union said yes, we'll do the five and 12, x yes, we'll pay into our pensions and health care, and he said, i'd love to negotiate but there's no one to negotiate with. >> you've got to stop -- they call it collective bargaining. it's collusive bargaining. what you've got is a union put enormousages of money in, they get together and cut a deal, give this. a sweet hart contract and give it to the taxpayers. what this governor walker is saying, those days are over. we've got somebody representing the people now, and this will be an adversary position you folks -- [everyone talking at once] >> since when does scott walker represent the people? >> he's elected! >> he's representing the money interests. >> let her finish. >> including lots of money from the coke brothers. the unions have capitulated, t

kron 4's jonathan bloom has the response from pg&e. >> reporter: it's been five months since the flames erupted and since that day in september, regulators have been trying to get to the bottom of how pg&e's gas line was allowed to explode. now a new report shows pg&e delayed pipeline inspections for two years. the audit shows that pg&e opted on multiple occasions to inspect pipelines from the outside, instead of using the procedures of sending robots inside to look for cracks. it appeared they were not devoting enough company resources. they are concerned about the find things and wants to find out why pg&e put off the inspections and used a less thorough method of examing the pipes. it went against their safety guide lines and two years ago they didn't have property procedures to make sure its staff was following key guide lines. pg&e responded that it welcomes the probe by regulators because it helps the company find out where they are falling short and say they are moving on multiple fronts. safety is always pg&e's number one priority. jonathan bloom, kron 4 news. >>> another phase

jonathan bloom, kron 4 news. >>> highway 92 in san mateo is back open after a crash today. happened just least of skylawn memorial park cemetery. police are investigating a string of car break ins. there have been 60 burglaries since november. they have occurred in public lots downtown. and devastation in new zealand as crews continue to search for hundreds still missing in one building alone. more after the break. >>> earthquake after math in christchurch new zealand the recovery continues. 120 bodies may be inside the building that collapsed. the official death toll is night and expected to climb. >>> in libya, moammar gadhafi's grip on power is slipping. rebels are in control of much of the eastern part of libya. as many as 1,000 people have been killed. the u.s. is considering way -- ways to pressure libya. hic micis heading to junear r neva for talks and today president obama called the violence unreasonable. the u.s. does not directly import oil from libya but french, aitalian and spanish are all shutting down their operations. libya has the biggest oil reserves in af

thank you, and please welcome jonathan soffer and ed koch. [applause] >> thank you, sam. that was a beautiful introtux. introduction. i wanted to start the discussion tonight by just reading a few photographs from my introduction and -- paragraphs from my i introduction and, hopefully, this will tempt you to read more. by the end of his first term, koch was able to balance the city's budget, a feat that vastly exceeded expectations when he started in 1977. and by the end of his second term, he could launch a locally-financed $5.1 billion ten-year program to rebuild huge rares of the city including the south bronx and make them economically viable for the long term. the restoration of credit and the renewed economic growth enabled the city to borrow again and restore it to elected officials, the power to choose key projects rather than leaving the decision to unelected power brokers like felix -- [inaudible] the partner who headed the municipal assistance corporation. by the time koch left office in 1990, the 307lation of the -- population of the city had increased more th

kron 4's jonathan bloom was in san jose today as the board gave the riders a chance to sound aoff. >> this is killing us. >> reporter: officials say a $30 million budget deficit leaves them no choice. they proposed cutting train service and closing seven station. >> at the first in a series of meetings, riders voiced their outrage. >> my wife wanted me to speak. >> if you make the cuts, i think it would be devastating to users. >> nondrivers might lose their connection to their employment. >> what will your response be when these stations are vandalized. >> reporter: they would be stuck. >> many people work beyond 6:30 p.m. >> if the mid-day and late night trains are cut they will not be able to go to their jobs. >> not having the option, if you miss that last train and you are stranded 55 miles from home, it would hurt. >> most are willing to pay higher fairs. >> i think 25 cents is low. >> people say charge more. we would be doubling what we charge people now and the cost becomes a hardship. >> this is just the start of the process. they will have three more meetings in other parts

jonathan bloom, kron 4 news. >>> schools are facing major budget problems. the mount debob low school district announced the closure of two schools. the community has been charged with raising the money to try and restore music and keep sports going. this weekend they got help from the city of cond cord's auto dealers. >> reporter: she was in the morning for a new truck but wasn't in the market till she found out they were donating a percentage of their sales to support sports and music programs at mount diablo school directs. >> i think it's amazing. and to support the kids. >> reporter: the idea of having dealers donate was the city's idea but car dealers jumped at the chance. >> there is no room for it in the budget so this is an opportunity for us to give back. >> reporter: right now it cut fourth and fifth grade music and no longer support athletic at high schools. so it's up to the community to restore the programs. >> $300,000 we are behind from last year. >> pat is the head of the united athletic foundation. when she heard they were willing to chip i