christian kaplan spoke about the recent shootings in his live. >> reporter: is severely taxed the limited resources. >> reporter: the pilot weekend got off to a violent morning when police shot a man following up with a freeway shooting and then a robbery homicide and has been a challenging weekend for oakland police. >> i had been with the department 12 years and is probably one of our busiest weekends. >> be rash of violence comes less than a week after the oakland police department laid off 80 officers and spare homicide in major investigators but the support officers who used to work with those investigators are in control cars instead meaning that investigation will likely take longer. >> anytime you have the instance that that happens other investigations are going to suffer. >> some natives say this weekend at: of violence as a symptom of a much bigger problem in the city. >> i feel like and outlet here sometime. >> reporter: others say the violence is random and isolated. >> i want to keep a positive spin as much as possible and it's not all of oakland just a few people going thro

us so many people, in the african-american community -- >> all of the candidates including rebecca kaplan, who was unavailable today, told us redevelopment plan, yes. city money, absolutely not. >> in the current financial situation it's irresponsible for the city to talk about committing funds. >> councilwoman kwan knows the city is still bleeding $10 million a year to pay off the existing law. >> the as expressed possible interestdowntown oakland stadium. but mayor was against it. he wanted to lure new residents into the downtown area with new condos and apartments and indeed that area has been redeveloped. political editor randy shandobil, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the installation of security cameras that will take snapshots of everywhere driving in and out of tiburon is close to completion. the cameras will capture images of license plates in two spots. tiburon between bay vista and the 5000 block of paradise drive. those locations are the only route in and out of town. christien kafton is live with more. >> reporter: we were on hand watching crews hard at work on tiburon boulevard. t

for more we're joined in a "today" show exclusive by renee, ralph and ben kaplan. morning. >> hi. >> good morning. >> betyou hear a horn and get i your car, what happened when you reached the car with the blaring horn and what you saw? >> i can. i had already been awake and my story is what led up to that. i can say at that point it had been 90 minutes, after 45 minutes i decided i was wide awake i'll go investigate and grabbed my flashlight and my keys and my cell phone and slowly drove because intermittent honking, two to three beeps every two to five minutes and i was just on an investigation to solve my mystery. >> and the car was moving, right, when you saw it in. >> no, i can't say that it was. >> were you shaking? >> i had to locate where it was so when i called the deputies i could tell them where it was at. i drove halfway up the driveway, heard the honking and then i turned to the right and saw the tail lights flashing. that's when i knew that i had verified where the sound was coming from, but at that point, i didn't go to the car. i called the sheriff's

committee members include director kaplan, fred clark, director of cultural affairs, one of our arts commissioners, who is a practicing artist and professor at the san francisco art institute, and bleak summers, who runs the art program at the san francisco international airport -- blake summers. we have convened the steering committee to look at the preliminary concept, to give their sign off of the preliminary concept, to give feedback to the artist, to raise issues of concern, and there have probably been three or four meetings when the committee was convened and the proposal was reviewed as part of the bidding process. we have also had the opportunity -- through a conference call or meetings in person, to meet with contractors and the various subcontractors, to talk about architectural and engineering coordination issues, and i want to assure you that we have also -- we are very conscious of future maintenance and operational concerns, and we have engaged in a conservation firm, and they have begun to already evaluate a preliminary proposal, pending your review and approval today

committee members include director kaplan, fred clark, director of cultural affairs, one of our arts commissioners, who is a practicing artist and professor at the san francisco art institute, and bleak summers, who runs the art program at the san francisco international airport -- blake international airport -- blake summers.

city councilwoman rebecca kaplan tells me that williams has contacted her personally to express his interest and his support for the plan. she said that he suffers from ms and is an open medical marijuana user. reporting live in oakland, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> while they mull that over in oakland, $48 million of pot was destroyed in sonoma county today. the theories of garden raids raided nearly 25,000 plants. several growing operations were found on the northwest slope of mt. st. helena. the area has become a hot spot for growers for the past several years because it's so remote and hard to get to. agents are catching on and now they canvas that area in helicopters. no one was arrested during the raids. >>> protesters who took over the second floor of a vacant san francisco building were forcibly removed by police today. five people were arrested fortress passing overnight in the building at corner of 20th and the mission streets. the protest was organized by a group called direct action to stop the cuts. that's a housing and human rights advocacy group. it began with a march

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