this is the search for oakland's sandra koch. >> we are also going to use dogs. they do have specially trained dogs that can search lakes. >> the lake is adjacent to 6 flags discovery kingdom and last night police requested the sheriff's office assistance in combing a three mile raid isaround this body of watered and that continues this afternoon. >> investigators received enough information that identified this area as being an area of interest. we want to be able to factually verify whether or whether or not we have identifiable evidence here or if we would have a recovery here. >> the 50-year-old koch was reported missing sunday night. police say 56-year-old randy alana a convicted rapist and kidnapper is considered a person of interest in her disappearance. he was arrested on an unknown parole violation and was last seen the night she disappeared. >> i can't share with you where they were seen together. >> police say they will stay out here as long as it takes, and that includes other agencies called to find her. >> if something is find or something indicated

and so each of them wants to have the koch brothers connection remember, the koch brothers are primaryf campaigns. >> so very exclusive, very secluded. how does joe average on the street read this in. >> well, technically, they were supposed to give addresses or remarks. you don't go for these things in the speeches. it is the wheeling and dealing it is behind closed doors, sitting around the pool, having your massages. what we have to take away from this is before these guys went home to meet with their constituents and have town hall meetings in august, they race down to be with the koch brothers to talk about political strategy and agenda. i don't know how else the average citizen can see it. >> and there was an interesting develop many in paul ryan's district as late as the statement made. >> this is fascinating. paul ryan was down in new mexico with two of the wealthiest campaign donors in manager. in the largest city in his district, kenosha, wisconsin, the city council voted officially to ask the congress of the united states to overturn the citizens united ruling and to get big

if what happens is the koch brothers buy the l.a., mayor bloomberg buys the "new york times," because the su sulsberger have run through their money. and this leads to competition, and gets away from the -- >> david: is it competition when you have cities where most cities are not two newspaper towns or three newspaper towns like they used to be. most cities they are consolidated. it's a monopoly situation. >> that's what went wrong with monopolies. we used to have a saying if it didn't appear in the l.a. times it didn't happen regarding news in southern california. but these guys have different interests. major bloomberg does not have the same world new as the koch brothers. and they are going to appoint editors who have different points of view. that's the hope. what can go wrong is we end up with newspapers that have libertarian editors at the top, who hate government, who believe the worst possible thing is tax, and we end up then without the tools we need to monitor -- i'm sorry monitor politics and government and other big inst

david koch ran as a vice presidential candidate for the libertarian party so i think they absolutely have libertarian roots but still even though the cato institute you could argue have done some things there that are you know in the vein of civil liberties and and good on some foreign policy issues i mean you can argue that they've they're there you can find a buyer at the l.a. times chicago tribune i mean these are things that are you think that's good for billionaire brother venture capitalists to be buying up media everywhere and you know the from my viewpoint the koch brothers really are all about free markets all about free markets they're all about civil liberties they're they're all about they're by all. thank. you i do believe i do believe that well let's talk about the free market i mean would you support legislation like reinstating legislation like glass steagall and if not how do you prevent monopolies from forming or do you think that's no i'm not i do think about those things and i think glass steagall would be something you know looking at it. it seems like a common s

david koch ran as a vice presidential candidate for the libertarian party so i think they absolutely have libertarian roots but still even though the cato institute you could argue have done some things there that are you know in the vein of civil liberties and and good on some foreign policy issues i mean you can argue that they've they're they're even vying to buy at the l a times chicago tribune i mean these are things that are do you think that's good for billionaire brother venture capitalist to be buying up media everywhere and. be from my viewpoint the koch brothers really are all about free markets all about free markets they're all about civil liberties they're they're all about they're but all of them driven. by the you know i do believe i do believe that well let's talk about the free market i mean would you support legislation like reinstating legislation like glass steagall and if not how do you prevent monopolies from. or do you think that that's not about i do think about those things and i think glass steagall would be something you know looking at it. it seems like a

we reached out to sandra koch's family about alana's comment. they shared a written statement with me saying, why would we or anyone else believe what he has to say. live in dublin, eric rasmussen. >>> a few thousand people marched through downtown oakland tonight in support of a hunger strike taking place inside of california prisons. >> jerry brown. >> jerry brown. >> the protesters marched to 27th and telegraph where they held a brief demonstration. inmates have been refusing food calling for an end. >>> a gang crack down is what officers held today. deborah villalon is live in the studio telling us about a gang known as the money gang. >> reporter: it's reach goes much farther. a million air tech investor in an exclusive peninsula neighborhood is bound, gagged and suffocated. the killers who invade his mansion make out with coins, jewelry and cash. both homicide suspects are alleged members of oakland street gangs. one austin associated with the so called money team. >> their day job is really committing robberies. >> reporter: the community

we reached out to sandra koch's family about alana's comment. they shared a written statement with me saying, why would we or anyone else believe what he has to say. live in dublin, eric rasmussen. >>> a few thousand people marched through downtown oakland tonight in support of a hunger strike taking place inside of california prisons. >> jerry brown. >> jerry brown. >> the protesters marched to 27th and telegraph where they held a brief demonstration. inmates have been refusing food calling for an end. >>> a gang crack down is what officers held today. deborah villalon is live in the studio telling us about a gang known as the money gang. >> reporter: it's reach goes much farther. a million air tech investor in an exclusive peninsula neighborhood is bound, gagged and suffocated. the killers who invade his mansion make out with coins, jewelry and cash. both homicide suspects are alleged members of oakland street gangs. one austin associated with the so called money team. >> their day job is really committing robberies. >> reporter: the community

a search under way right now trying to find sandra koch. at this hour, investigators not their search on those fairground it is. nbc bay area's christie smith is live at the command post this morning. christie, a person of interestg& linked to sandra koch is in custody but so far, he is not being named as a suspect in her disappearance. good morning. >> good morning. that's exactly right. you know, and sheriff deputies have been out here on this lake behind six flags for over an hour. they have had a boat out w1rñhe and this is part of a massive search that's been going on all morning, actually started yesterday, to find any sign of sandra koch. meantime, investigators are also telling us that they had a chance to speak with that person of interest, a high-risk sex i,a offender, but did not say exactly how that conversation went. solano county sheriff deputies are checking the waters of lake shab bow this is right behind six flags, and they are also looking on the ground today, basically, a three-mile radius that stretches from interstate 8

very complicated but bill koch was very patient with me understanding how that worked, but there was an extraordinary level of agreement this many years later and i thought that was profound. >> one of the -- >> you heard from roy blanton. either the speakers or bill leach, did anyone hear from him? >> i can tell you i did not with an exception. vanderbilt did an archive in the library and is here but papers as governor, nobody would bother. they found all kinds of things. one thing they found was an envelope addressed to me with ray blanton's return address and it was the key to the governor's office. he had mailed it to me. later on that night i went back to my office and we had code phones with blinking blue lights and i pushed the button and it was the governor's highway patrolman. i can't remember his name. this is so and so, the governor wants you to call. it was a very poignant moment. talking about resistance. one person that did resist was the governor's council who was walking out of his office with the computations and louie stopped him. >> tells that story. >> eddie fiske

. >> kelly: how about if the koch brothers had bought the "washington post"?> huffing huffington post was saying thank god it's not the koch brothers. real clear politics. everywhere i looked everyone had something nice to say. there was a quote saying relinquish the newspaper they love in order to protect it. they wanted to talk to us about their family. it's very different had the person came in to buy this publicly cakes not been ideologically consistent with the "washington post" already. this is guy that has donated to a lot of democratic candidates. i think there was security in that. "washington post" will remain the "washington post" and the media is comfortable with that. >> kelly: rich, how does this matter to people outside of the beltway. certainly you are wait outside of beltway. what does this really mean to them? >> i think like the "washington post" and "l.a. times", all newspapers are losing readers. one of the reasons is conservatives have decided they don't have a fair shot with so many of these reporters. polittico reporters are saying if t

brothers and a company like amazon amazon is more tech oriented the koch brothers they're they're a little bit is there a difference i think you know there were when the koch brothers were trying to buy the tribune and everything there was concerns that they would use editorial decisions to push their political agenda i think it's been pretty clear that they have a zone has a somewhat libertarian economic political agenda. spent millions of dollars trying to avoid taxes have tax havens all over the world. knows what might be coming across the editorial pages at the washington post when it comes to tax policy here well another factor in all of this is that they might have to i was talking about this yesterday they're going to have to scale down on their love being so if they buy this newspaper yes they have a voice but then they lose some of their political voice is through direct lobbying right well i mean i guess which is which is more powerful i mean direct lobbying their lobbying itself isn't as important anymore in the citizens united area here you don't have to have money to in

. >> police searching for sandra koch are searching for a killer. the investigation led them to a wooded area in vacville and a woman's body. that body has not been officially identified yet, but detectives tell dalin, they are no longer looking for sandra. >> that is correct. things are not looking very good for the family at this time. investigators cleared the scene about an hour and a half ago. the body was located in solano county. it was the coroner who came to retrieve the body. oakland detectives have ended the search for sandra koch and begun the homicide investigation. crime scene investigators spent hours gathering evidence here. after a contra costa search and rescue team found a woman's body around 2:00. >> we are awaiting official confirmation on the identity of the body. >> all indications are pointing to a tragic end in the search for 50-year-old, sandra cook, who vanished from her oakland home sunday. oakland investigators developed information late this morning that led them to lagoon valley park, just south of vacville. investigat

he is a person of interest in the death of federal investigator, sandra koch. tonight, he says, they shared much more than a relationship. spoke to him face to face and live outside the jail. juliette. >> reporter: elizabeth, they met in this jail, this very jail 21 years ago. he told me tonight that sandra was here doing an interview on a death penalty case and that's when they met and started this long-term relationship. he has been in and out of jail on very similar, or very serious criminal charges. he says she has been there every step of the way. and he told me tonight, they have a daughter together. behind bars, 56-year-old, randy told me, i loved sandra more than life itself. when i asked him how she was killed, he told me, i would never lay a hand on her. alana is behind bars on a parole violation, but he is a person of interest. he and sandra talked about getting married numerous times. he says she wanted to move to montgomery, alabama. she told me if i changed my environment, i would change my bad habits. alana told me she went against her family and

koch industries says it is no longer interested in buying any tribune newspapers. the multi- billion dollar company is run by conservative republican brothers charles and david koch. the pair is reportedly still interested in acquiring media outlets but after a review of eight different tribune properties, the koch brothers have decided to take a pass on those. the government's plan to stop the merger between american airlines and us airways-- is getting push back. reuters reports-- political and business leaders in florida, texas and north carolina want the deal to go through, they say its better for their local economies. also american and u.s. air are said to be pushing for a fast trial.they are asking the judge to hear the antitrust case november 12th.the government is suing to halt the airline merger because it creates the world's largest airline and could hurt consumers. would you pay extra for an airline ticket that guaranteed you wouldn't have to sit next to a small child? an increasing number of airlines think you would. for fees ranging from $4 to $25 sev

the koch brothers? when news broke today that the libertarian-ish maybe billionaire founder of amazon.com had added a little something called "the washington post" to his portfolio of investments alongside the 10,000-year clock in that mountain in west, texas, and also a company that makes little tiny mobile air bags that are supposed to deploy when they sense that you might be dropping your cell phone. and also pets.com and cosmo.com both of which went out of business when he invested in them, when news broke today that the venerable "washington post" was being bought by jeff bezos for $250 million cash, which is less than 1% of what he is worth, does what that means and what you think about that depend more on what you think about the "washington post" as an institution or what you think of jeff bezos as a guy? how much does ownership of news outlets make a difference in the worth of what those news outlets produce? that is becoming a less and less abstract question all the time in our country now bec

koch is an investigator for the federal defender's office in sacramento.he was last seen sunday night when family members say she was going to walgreens but never returned. now, they had previously said she was going to meet someone who found her dog that had been missing for months. both the kochs cell phones were found in different parts of the east bay. officers are now investigating her cell phone records. >>> a transient under arrest this morning after a church was vandalized in the south bail. church volunteer telling our photographer on scene somebody broke into st. john the baptist catholic church in milpitas yesterday morning, located a few blocks away from the great mall. they say he broke benches, statues and ornamental items, costing about $20,000 in damage. most to that have damage has since been cleaned up. police arresting 30-year-old michael vick roy for ing a church, which is a felony. >>> despite outcry from some city leaders, the gold club in downtown saab jose will open without any new restrictions. the city council met yesterday to tal

koch investigated death penalty cases with the federal defender in sacramento. she vanished and her body was found on august 9 near vacaville. koch's younger sister sharply disputed alana's claim writing to the tribune that he was the last person seen with my sister but says he has nothing to do with her killing and disappearance. why should we believe anything he has to say. >>> a man falling 100 feet in a cliff in half-moon bay. coside fire officials say the 25-year-old man was walking down a trail near the ritz carlton hotel. he was flown to sanford medical center. officials are warning that even if coastal cliffs appear stable they can sometimes crumble quickly under pressure. >>> italy's luna rosa challenge evened the score in today's louis vutton cup race. luna rosa beat team new zealand which had a problem be its boat hydraulics. we'll have more on today's race race coming up later in sports rise. >>> a street race turns into a historic celebration as the mayor makes an announcement. >>> and the incident that sparked the litigation and it's connection to

carbon, owned by the koch brothers. started piling up all of this pet coke on banks of the detroit river before preparing to ship it off to other countries to be used as fuel. in addition to be a hideous eye sore, the pile also posed a potential health risk. we've got some video shot last month. look at this. look at that along the banks of the detroit river showing the black dust from the pet coke pile being kicked up in a storm that hit the area and just spreading everywhere. that black dust started blowing into nearby homes in detroit coming right through the windows. one local resident telling the "detroit free press" her apartment, "is a dusty place but it had never been that thick or dark." last month she wiped up a new coating of the dust with a sponge and provided it to the "detroit free press." subsequent testing ultimately confirmed the dust, indeed, contained pet coke. that same building in detroit also happens to house the office of a local state legislator named rashida tlaib. she told the "press," i've see

koch never returned. she is a death penalty appeals investigator for the office of the federal defender in sacramento. family members will be passing out flyers this afternoon in hopes of finding answers. >>> san jose's city council considering new regulation today for adult-themed gentleman's clubs. the new rules proposed after a bikini bar called the gold club announced it would open in downtown san jose. councilman sam lack cardiowauck establishments to pay a public safety fee and proposing a no touching trule, brighter lights inside and earlier closing time, the gold club is scheduled to open up tomorrow. >>> into our newsroom, santa clara county is reporting the first confirmed human case of the west nile virus for this year. the woman was taken to the hospital last month and she is now recovering at home. west nile virus is transmitted through mosquito bites, the last human case of the virus in santa clara county was fatal. that was two years ago. >>> coming up, we will tell you about a funky and sm

>> they are saying thank god it is not the koch brothers. think it is interesting to see the media react positively to this. real clear politics and politico. everyone has something nice to say. a lot of glorification of the grand family. a quote that said that they relinquish the newspaper they love in order to protect it. they wanted to talk to bus their families. i think it would have been very different had the person that came in to buy the publication not been ideologically consistent with "the washington post" already. this is a guy that donated to a lot of democrat candidates. i think that there was -- security in had a. "washington post" will remain "the washington post" and media is comfortable with that. >> how does this matter to people wrought side of the beltway and -- certainly way outside of the beltway. what does this mean to them? >> like "the washington post" or "l.a. times," all newspapers are really beginning to lose readers. and one of the reasons why they are losing readers is because conservatives have decided they do

have this unionized employer largest unionized employer and they're not they don't want to buy the koch brothers products anymore no more gasoline no we can't have this and so in two thousand and six the post a postal reform bill came out of the house looked quite reasonable when off the senate came back and christmas eve people in power has passed this thing and it was buried this little time bomb in two thousand and six and two thousand and six which said that the retirement health benefits of postal workers seventy five years from two thousand and six had to be pre-funded and fully paid for within a ten year period people who were not yet even born and in fact people. children you know it and and this was five billion dollars a year for ten years it totally kneecap the post office all of a sudden they weren't talking about doing their vehicles anymore all of a sudden you know everything and now you know there's there's two bills out to fix this one senator sanders got twenty six sponsors it's a really good bill it's not it's not getting out of the senate and the other one is this car

the koch brothers i mean the this philosophy works really really well for a billion years and not only gives a moral. rationalization but also helps add to their billions more and gets you know all that in my misspent youth as a neoconservative back in the eighty's at one point eight one of these photo shows that funded neocon sort of descent we need more law polls of polls and so on the very start of a state like we need to celebrate that we production with it. fortunately the neo cons are very good at opposites they're terrible at fiction and drama so we don't like that boy but at having the koch brothers promote heneage i mean you know the charles koch foundation became a cato institute it's not iran entirely it's the libertarianism but you know but i don't you know i'm rand was the libertarian movement was a flourish a subculture even before the koch's refuse money into it then they built it up because it does appeal to a certain element of the population and certain ideals we may disagree with it was eclipsed. in retrospect briefly from about the one nine hundred fifty s. until th

sandra koch was last seen leaving her oakland home in her minmy cooper sunday night. >> she told her daughter she was going to meet somebody who she thought had information about the dog. >> reporter: she has been looking for her dog since may. that's when someone broke into her home, stole ginni and tried to get her to pay for the dog's return. >> said they had information about the dog and was trying to extort money from her. >> reporter: but she is still missing. and her 15-year-old daughter called a family friend sunday night when her mother didn't return to their home. family members say police have found her cash on 32nd street in oakland. one of her cell phones on the oakland/emeryville border. >> all we know is my sister is missing. we suspect foul play because this is entirely unlike her. >> reporter: she is a death penalty appeals investigator for the office of the federal defender in sacramento. family members say no word from the devoted mother and dedicated employee, something is horribly wrong. >> she goes to work and takes care of her daughter. she is a home body. and

. >>> also tonight in oakland, the family and friends of saven dra koch are in increasingly desperaterch for her. sandra was last seen in her north oakland home sunday night before leaving to talk to someone who may have had information on her stolen dog. now, her car was found abandoned monday night in an apartment complex. >> truly a painful, painful thing to have somebody who you love and who has family members who depend on her just disappear. it is just unthinkable. >> koch is an investigate for the federal defender's office, which represents death row inmates, but her coworkers do not think her line of work had anything to do with a disappearance. >>> the amber alert for a missing 16-year-old girl has just been widened after two possible sightings of the suspect's car, one in way northern california and another in southern oregon. james dimaggio is accused of snatching hannah anderson three nights ago and killing her brother ethan along with the children's mother. two bodies were found inside this burning house in san diego county. hannah's friends say dimaggio may have had a cr

the third koch brother now singer was involved in vulture attacks on argentina he was a one of people that brought greece to its knees because he refused to participate in a in the bailout plan of the i.m.f. . singer was also involved in the destruction of the republic of congo i was hunting him down in the congo i was up to going up the congo river to find out what he was up to for b.b.c. television and his latest caper is banging the government of argentina if you remember years ago argentina financially collapsed around in the year two thousand. that a an agreement was worked out in which argentina would pay actually people say argentina defaulted never paid now argentina cut a deal that it would pay when its economy recovered and several banks j.p. morgan city bank and others have made a killing because in effect they got stock in the economy of argentina i r g to base the banks a percentage of their growth in their g.d.p. so they've literally got banks of stock in argentina three percent of those bonds just three percent fell into the hands of paul the vulture singer cinder now n

so i sent louis donaldson and bill koch to secure the state capitol. somebody said louis donaldson's been waiting his entire life for someone to ask him to do that. [laughter] so they went over there, and keel's book has a whole range of interesting stories about governor blanton's call, wanting to take his papers out and about other things that were going on that night in the capitol when many people wondered can you really do this? there's a time in that -- you saw the little clip from channel 5, chris clark may be here tonight, but he told me that channel 5 at that time had one of the two with or three remote broadcasts in the country. that sounds ridiculous today, where you could actually be somewhere. so they were the only ones covering this, and they just happened to be there with their remote broadcast. and they even interrupted the cronkite show which was an unheard of thing to do. and at one gap in that, in that tape that you saw, chris turns to his cohort on the set and someone says, i didn't know you could do that. [laughter] and the other g

the conservative koch brothers are on the hunt to buy up newspapers as well. question is a pressing one. will the new money have the same guts and drive as the old money or will the papers they buy become political mouthpieces in some cases to the far right. anyway, eugene robinson is an expert, an msnbc political analyst. and brad stone is a columnist with "business week" and the author of the upcoming book "the everything store: jeff bezos and the age of amazon." right to you, brad. will bezos maintain the independent of the newspaper and be like the old money, grahams and willing to say i'm willing to bleed economically so this paper will live? >> absolutely. i don't see him as having an overt political agenda. i think his idealism will be a business idealism about disrupting the newspaper's old revenue models, building new ones. experimenting digitally. you know, does he have an agenda? i think it's no accident that he's buying "the washington post" at a time when amazon increasingly has regulatory and legislative issues. but i don't see him wielding that