and he has been involved in public safety for a number of years and doing very momably serving the l.a. city attorney as well as his current position. actually, for me this has been a journey, it's not like a light switch went on yesterday. i have been involved in public safety for about 30 years. i have seen the war on drugs from the ground up. i have seen it as a police officer, young police officer walking, foot beat in south central and east l.a. i saw the revolving door, the impact that that revolving door was having in many communities and as i rose through the ranks, i began to take a different look at the way we dealt with crime and the way we dealt with public safety and as i evolved throughout the years, i came to the conclusion that what we had been doing with the war on drugs was leading us in the wrong direction. the impact that it had and not only in communities -- quite frankly in our entire community was creating a situation which doesn't necessarily make us any safer and frankly, i think we have criminalized an area i think should be really looked upon as a health issue more

i'm going to smoke a turkey, maybe a zebra if i get my hands on one but this is interesting, the l.a. cityil encourage l.a. residents to have meatless mondays, they want us to be vegetarians one day a week monday, that's like asking me to be gay once a week. i could do it, i'd rather not. i was at the farmers market this weekend, i bought a free-range chicken, a chicken that got to spend its life running around a farm instead of being cooped up in a coop, i guess and i was very proud of buying the free-range chicken, but they had a great life, unlike the cooped up chickens, these chickens didn't want to die, so i paid eight bucks extra to kill a happy chicken. [ laughter ] what we should be eating are the unhappy chickens, the chickens that hate being in the coop so much, they flour themselves and dive in the deep fryer. i want suicidal chickens. unless they come with a littles noose, i won't buy them. if you're look for a christmas gift for someone you don't like, a company in japan is producing an iphone case you can eat. this is not the joke. i think. unless it's a joke on us. the case

according to tmz, the l.a. citylanning to file documents asking the judge to revoke lindsay lohan's probation and put her behind bars. prosecutors are now out for blood and they want her probation revoked because of criminal charges filed against her in santa monica stemming from her car accident. city attorneys don't need to do much. the judge can act on her authority alone. she's set to be arraigned today on three misdemeanor accounts including lying to the cops, obstruction. she could be locked up by the judge later today. no one shedding a tear. i can imagine. but hey, she did it to herself. can't sweat it. >> poor thing might do her some good. >>> so george w. bush, former president, now going to have a new title. grand daddy. his daughter jenna bush is expecting her first child. she's 31. her husband, henry, who is 34. they've been married four years. they live in manhattman hat. -- manhattan. last month, she described herself as a home sick texan living in new york. so he's very excited. and also, rumors that

freedom of speech and freedom to assemble those are rights that the city of los angeles not just the city of l.a. but city all across the country everywhere there is an occupying decided that our right to free speech no longer exists and that the state on a local level and on a national level used up all of the force and its power to take away that constitutional right for many thousands of people who are exercising their right to protest for very legitimate reason because of the jobs crisis because of the student debt crisis and many other issues and so we're fighting on this front to make sure that the protest activities of every single person in this country are protected as they should be and that's really the reason we're fighting this lawsuit and michael if you were there can you set the scene for us what was the raid like really and i mean can you also describe as one of the things that also came up in the lawsuit is how you were treated while you were in detention can you tell us what that was like. sure well first of all one of the first main points in the lawsuit is the fact that the e

and in l.a., city officials moved up the date of their annual buy back program following the newtownooting. handguns and rifles are good for $100 grocery gift cards. automatic weapons get $200. but even those turning guns in didn't think it would make a big change. >> they think might is right so that's just how it's always been. so something i don't think you can unlearn in a short time. >> l.a. police say they have taken back more than 8,000 weapons over the last three years. critics say most of those weapons, however, turned in at these events are either old or broken and wouldn't be used in a crime anyway. >>> meanwhile the connecticut town that was the site of that recent mass shooting is asking people to stop sending gifts for the time being. officials in newtown say they have more items than they can handle including flowers, teddy bears and a lot of signs there. they say they have warehouses full of gifts that they need to process now. united way fund to help the town now has reached $3.5 million. a lot of givers out there. >>> it is 5:50 now. preventing bullying. the simple

if i use less power as i might do the department of water and power goes to l.a. city council to get a 10% increase in what they are paid. this is the game that's being played in the state of california. i know one thing. i know something now, lawrence, that i never knew in my life. i tweeted it over the weekend. i know what i'm going to make next year. i'm going to make 249,900 dollars. >> so you don't have to pay -- that's funny. >> i never knew it before. i always guessed. now i know. >> married, filing jointly. $249,999. i know how much i'll make next year. thanks to obama and the voters. $249,000. live small. michael, judy and i lived in california for a while. it has so much potential. it doesn't have to be this way. they could fix it with better policies. >> absolutely. >> many thanks no michael reagan. on a more somber note over the weekend a great man and a dear friend of mine, saul steinberg passed away. he was a brilliant financier, a devoted family man and an ardent supporter of free market capitalism. i want to personally express my deepest condolences to

l.a. there the city started its gun buyback program much earlier than usual.n blackstone reports. >> they're hunting rivals. >> reporter: angela atkins came to the los angeles gun buyback two hunting rifles and thoughts of the children who died in newtown, connecticut. >> it was emotional, i cried, and i just felt like those were everybody's children. >> reporter: so you're getting rid of your only guns. >> getting rid of my only guns, yeah. i couldn't send them a sympathy card or anything, so i thought that's the best thing i can do. >> reporter: it was because of newtown that mayor villaraigosa moved up the annual gun buyback usually held on mother's day. the city offers gift certificates up to $200 depending on the kind of gun. the nra might say you're taking guns out of the good guys. >> well, the nra says a lot of things that doesn't pass the smell test for most of us. they said what we need are more good guys with guns. well, there are a lot of good guys with guns. we have a lot of good guys with guns, more than anyplace in the world, and we also have a

successful as the city collected nearly two thousand guns in just one day gun buyback program was started in two thousand and nine and has taken more than eight thousand guns off the streets of l.a. other cities follow allays lead with their own gun buyback programs the bad christopher found found is a blogger who is upset with a new york newspaper. the journal news for publishing the names and addresses of local gun owners in westchester and rockland county new york so in retaliation fountain took to his blog and published the names and addresses of the newspaper's publisher editor and staff who worked on the story he told c.n.n. yesterday he was offended by the newspaper's decision to call out local gun owners any quote wondered how they'd like it if their addresses were published too and quote whatever your opinion what the journal news did is something weird about violating the privacy of journalists who are just doing their jobs and at the very least found should have remembered what we all learned in first grade two wrongs don't make a right and the very very ugly the state of kentucky the animal legal defense fund is out with the seventh annual report ranking the worst st

. >> london, france, new jersey, kansas city, l.a., go to and have a live meeting with me. >> you don'tover the hill tv host looking to start his rap career? >> that boat sailed. >> i can do something. >> i heard you got obama rap. >> i got political rap. i could bring back dr. jeckyll. >> you could bring back public enemy. >> another opportunity you've taken up is the radio. >> yes, i have a radio show on 98.7. >> champagne and bubbles sunday with andre harrell, 98.7, kiss fm. >> what makes you sit every sunday to do a radio show? >> all the information i'm able to give my artists to get them to stand up strong and walk and run, i felt like i should be telling the whole city this or the whole nation this. i play the classic 90s music and all the new stuff. >> 98.7 kiss fm, that was 112 with only you. >> in the midst of all your success you suddenly had a major health crisis. what happened? >> i had an infection in my blood that got to my heart. so when i went to the hospital, i went to my -- they performed surgery. it was scary but i wasn't in pain. i started texting my friends, textin

the l.a. cityay san francisco's muni has a big birthday. it's turning 100 and to celebrate they are providing free rides to everyone. the free passes started this morning and will continue until 5:00 tomorrow morning. that includes all the buses, the light rail lines, streetcars and cable cars. it's free until 5 a.m. tomorrow. got your traffic and weather for the big holiday weekend after the break. look at you guys with your fancy-schmancy u-verse high speed internet. you know, in my day you couldn't just start streaming six ways to sunday. you'd get knocked off. and sometimes, it took a minute to download a song. that's sixty seconds, for crying out loud. we know how long a minute is! sitting, waiting for an album to download. i still have back problems. you're only 14 and a half. he doesn't have back problems. you kids have got it too good if you ask me. [ male announcer ] now u-verse high speed internet has more speed options, reliability and ways to connect. rethink possible. >>>a motorcycle c

city. legendary lawman bill bratton will become a consultant for the oakland police department. he helped reduce violent crime when headed up the new york and l.a. pds but some residents aren't sure a new consultant is a good solution to the city of oakland. the oakland city council by the way votes next month on the plan to hire bratton. it's going to cost $250,000 to use him as a consultant. >>> a milestone today for san francisco's muni. the public transit system is turning 100 years old and there's a celebration designed to benefit everyone. cbs 5 reporter cate caugiran is in san francisco to give us some history. >> reporter: 100 years ago the first muni line started running from geary to 33rd avenue. today, muni railway serves about 200 million passengers a year. it has a network of 63 bus routes a historic light rail

and like i said, in the city of l.a., the proof is in the pudding. >> reporter: the line of cars stretchedix blocks as people waited up to three hours to turn in their guns. >> me turning my rifles in now is my sympathy card to connecticut. >> reporter: so many people are bringing their guns in here that l.a.p.d. officials say this is likely to be their most successful buyback ever. they expect to collect more than 2,500 guns before it's over. >> axelrod: john blackstone in los angeles, thank you. a sad sight here in new york today in a place that's seen its share of trouble lately. an endangered finback whale washed up alive on the beach oh the breezy point section of queens. several volunteer firefighters hosed down the 60-foot whale. they're from one of the departments that fought the fire that destroyed more than 100 homes the night sandy hit. marine biologists say the whale is injured and may not survive. something found after that fire in breezy point brought this woman to tears. but the story did not end there. the next chapter when we come back. yo, give it up, dude! up high! ok. d

on a yalerly basis from new york to the bay down to a city called l.a.r to dallas and new orleans is it true. up to aspen and boulder too. i see many, many children every year, you see. i always can't wait back to my home by the bay. yes, i think our parks are number one, by the way. i'm here to talk about the holidays, is it true. once again it is the time of year for the elves to arrive in union square two. i will be there, yes, sir, siree. i hope to see all of your smiling faces, you see. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment? being none, general public comment is closed. we are on item five, the consent calendar. is there anyone who would like to make public comment on the consent calendar. richard, please come forward. >>> good morning again. i was looking over at the betty republican radiation center. i took liberty of going out there, looking around, seeing location. i talked to a facilitator there. they seem to have a little problem with the setup, where they are going to be going into program develop

on a yalerly basis from new york to the bay down to a city called l.a.r to dallas and new orleans is it true. up to aspen and boulder too. i see many, many children every year, you see.

addition to being a mother and real estate agent, she also earned $600 an hour in las vegas, l.a., chicago and other citiesays the prostitution was, quote, a huge mistake and acknowledges that depression was one of the reasons for doing it. >>> flashback to last january. green bay packer fans earn extra bucks by clearing lambeau field. that same scene is expected to play out today as fans answer the call to clear half a foot of snow and get paid $10 an hour. not bad. >>> and in florida, a fifth grader is now starting for the local high school varsity basketball team. julian newman is 4'5" but he has great ball handling skills and one other advantage. his father coaches the team. that always helps. >>> now for another look at the weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. how is it looking out there? >> as bad as it is for travel, i'm sure there's a lot of kids that are excited, probably getting an early start to their christmas break. i'm sure a lot of schools this morning either delayed or canceled. northern indiana through ohio and even now kentucky is getting pretty

but the violence this morning comes one day after the city of oakland announced they are hiring former l.a. police chief and former new york city police chief bill bratton as a consultant to try and develop a plan here in oakland to reduce violence. >>> live this afternoon in oakland, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thanks. >>> a chp chase early this morning ended in a crash on the streets of oakland and an innocent victim is dead. the suspect's bmw broad slided a lincoln town car there not far from the zoo. a female passenger in the car was killed, three others injured, this startth at 11:20 after office, tried to stop the bmw for speeding. >> the driver of that vehicle initially yielded to the officers and then as the officers exited their vehicle to approach the vehicle that driver did a u-turn and sped away from the officers. >> now after the crash the driver identified as 34-year- old cant dejuan moore of oakland and a passenger got out of the bmw and ran off, office, caught moore but the other suspect got away. >>> with new year's eve around the corner police are trying to get

they say were involved in a high-speed police chase that ended up killing an 11- year-old daly city boy. the l.a. county district attorney says the suspects a man and woman in their early 20s threw a loaded gun out of their car before slamming into a minivan in pasadena on christmas night. 11-year-old kendrick ing was killed along with his 25-year- old cousin. the family was down in l.a. for christmas and had just left an ice rink. >>> as 2012 closes oakland's murder rate hit 130. three people were killed just last night. a 21-year-old and a 19-year-old were shot to death. and in a separate attack, a man was stabbed. >>> along the coast 14-foot waves have prompted a high surf advisory from point reyes down to san mateo county. the surf is going to be up until late tomorrow night. >>> and there used to be a certain code on the streets. vandals wouldn't touch a mural. but now graffiti vandals have hit murals all over san francisco from north beach to davisidero to the mission. one artist involved with the mission's clarion alley mural project says 2012 has been the worst year since he started 15 y

city hall, the mayor and the police chief announce that they're bringing in outside help including well known former los angeles police chief bill bratton. he's been credited with reducing crime in l.atana tells me bratton has already started assessing oakland's problems. >> he will do whatever he needs to do to get a feel of oakland. obviously i will be meeting with him a lot. he will be meeting with community members. >> reporter: the oakland police department avoided taken over by the federal department earlier this month after a judge agreed to have a appointed director oversee the department. brad's position is separate from that. they plan to split the city into five districts each to be run by a captain. >> i was surprised to find a window broken. >> reporter: this salon owner told me someone broke her window yesterday. >> if this happens again, i need to move from here. >> reporter: at allen temple baptist church tonight a youth director tells us the community still has to do its part. >> we can use all the help that we can, it's sometimes good to be able to focus within. >> reporter: the price tag for the consultant's help, $350,000. community members say it's worth a try.

city hall, the mayor and the police chief announce that they're bringing in outside help including well known former los angeles police chief bill bratton. he's been credited with reducing crime in l.aew york city. diana santana tells me bratton has already started assessing oakland's problems. >> he will do whatever he needs to do to get a feel of oakland. obviously i will be meeting with him a lot. he will be meeting with community members. >> reporter: the oakland police department avoided taken over by the federal department earlier this month after a judge agreed to have a appointed director oversee the department. brad's position is separate from that. they plan to split the city into five districts each to be run by a captain. >> i was surprised to find a window broken. >> reporter: this salon owner told me someone broke her window yesterday. >> if this happens again, i need to move from here. >> reporter: at allen temple baptist church tonight a youth director tells us the community still has to do its part. >> we can use all the help that we can, it's sometimes good to be able to focus within. >> reporter: the price tag for the consultant's help, $350,000. community members

in new york city and l.a. i-phone thefts have spiked more than 30%. in washington d.c. they make up nearly 40% of all robberies. san francisco list say they have received some 1700 reports of stolen cell phones this year. >>> a sledding exhibition goes horribly wrong in the san gabriel mountains. the drama on a frozen upon in san bernardino county. it was caught on video. almost turned into a christmas day disaster when a man fell through the ice, setting off a chain reaction. one person after another tried to save him, only to fall in themselves >> we saw this guy coming across the ice really fast and it went from cheering to all of a sudden just an unbelievable amount of panic and chaos. >> give me the rope. >> wow, i'll say. a crowd gathered on shore frantically screaming for help. at one point twelve people were in the water. eventually everyone was hauled to shore and no one was hurt. >>> preparations are underway for the 124th annual tournament of roses parade, now just two days away. they are getting the floats ready, putting on the flowers and doing the painting

this is a-frame in west l.a., one of the city's loudest.oy choy likes it that way. >> i want you to feel like you almost stumbled into a hub. we wrapped ourselves around you. >> reporter: but it makes conversation a challenge. >> for me, not quite normal. i feel like i'm raising my voice. >> you're not at all? >> reporter: yes, i was. it's loud here. the sound meter said it's about 90 decibels. think lawn mower, or boeing 737 taking off 100 yards away. given those comparative sound levels, diners are complaining about noise more than anything else. they're listing noise levels a mini crisis to bon apetit's andrew nolton. >> it's infuriating sitting literally two feet from somebody and not being able to hear them. >> reporter: restaurant architects acknowledging the move to industrial chic design and rooms that feel alive, are working not to eliminate noise, but to manipulate it. >> making the collection of sounds that appear in the room to be more of a kol laj that's pleasing rather than a jumble that's not. >> reporter: that's what john di

l.a. and new york city. now he will be developing strategies to reduce the violence in oakland. earlier this month the city agreed to have a court appointed director oversee the police department to avoid a federal takeover. >> he will do whatever he needs to do to get a feel of oakland. obviously i will be meeting with him a lot. he will be meeting with community members. >> he is being paid $350,000 for his services. the city also plans to split oakland into five districts that will each be run by a captain. >>> a victim of a hit and run crash says he has firsthand knowledge of the crime crisis in oakland. he's been stranded on 83rd street since 7:00 last night. the man says he drove more than 50-miles to visit his father in okay land-- in oakland. when he got here a truck slammed into his parked car. he spent the entire night asking oakland police for help. >> they said they had no eta. no officers available. highway patrol officer came and said it's not his location. he left me here abandoned on this street which is not a good neighborhood. >> both the fire department and aa

tavis: big city politics in this country national news. it can be new york, chicago, l.a. the political scene changed dramatically in 20 years? >> i think so. i like to write about the politics of the police department. the department has always had an idea or knowledge that their image is out there. there was a time, 20 years ago, when they did not care what the image was, and now they do. the idea of politics, what we are presenting to the world, is in this book and other books i have written. as far as the big picture of politics, i can't act like i am any expert on it, but politics our politics. tavis: let me get personal with you. i mentioned that this is your 20th anniversary. we are about to start our 10th anniversary of the show. you have been in this program a number of times. what do you make of the fact that you have been able to sustain not just your work, but his character, for two decades now? >> i do not know what to make of it. to me, there is something mystical about it. once a year, i have a blank screen and need 100,000 words. i have to figure out which

in new york city and l.a. i-phone thefts have spiked more than 30%. in washington d.c.y make up nearly 40% of all robberies. san francisco police say they have received some 1700 reports of stolen cell phones this year. >>> a sledding exhibition goings hooshably wrong in the mountains. this is in san bernardino county and caught on video. it almost turned into a christmas day disaster when a man fell through the ice, setting off a chain reaction. one person of a another tried to save him, only to fall in themselves. >> we saw this guy coming across the ice really fast and it went from cheering to all of a sudden an unbelievable amount of panic and chaos. >> give me the rope. >> wow, i'll say. a crowd gathered on shore frantically screaming for help. at one point twelve people were in the water. it ended after nine minutes when everyone was finally hauled out to shore. remarkably no one was hurt. >>> preparations are underway for the 124th annual tournament of roses parade, now just two days away. volunteers are getting the impressive floats parade ready before showtime

the city of oakland is hiring bill bratton to be a consultant for the police department. bratton helped reduce violent crime when he headed the new york and l.a. police departments. we talked to oaklanders who are skeptical after hearing city leaders talk about different plans to stop the violence. they're unhappy. they re miserable because they haveo hope and they have no, no money." ouncil votes >> it might tamp some of it down just like putting armed guards on every street corner might tamp some of it down, but it won't make people's lives better. i live over in the rolling 20s in the neighborhood and are in a lot of miserable people there. they're miserable because they have no hope and they have no money. >> oakland city council votes next month on the plan to hire bratton at a rate of $250,000. nothing compared to ch >>> as bad as oakland has struggled, it's nothing compared to chicago which just hit an almost unbelievable milestone, 500 murders this year alone. hours after police announced they were one homicide away from the 500 mark a man was shot in the head outside a convenience store in the city, but this is not the first time chi

against two people they say were involved in a high- speed chase that killed an 11- year-old daly city boy. the l.a. county district attorney says suspects in their early 20s threw a loaded gun out of their car before slamming into this minivan in pasadena christmas night. 11-year-old kendrick eng and his 25-year-old cuss written killed. the family was down in l.a. for christmas and had just left an ice skating rink. >>> a speeding car smashed into a home causing a gas leak in south sacramento early this morning. the car sheared off the gas meter. no one was seriously hurt. police arrested the driver for dui. >>> no matter how many local news stories, no matter how many public awareness campaigns, people still drink and drive. cbs 5 reporter elissa harrington tells us there is a new plan to stop that in california and it has really worked in other states. >> reporter: it's called an ignition interlock device wired to a person's car and will prevent the car from starting if the driver has been drinking. in some states it's lowered the dui reoffender rate by 75%. >> with the upcoming new year's holid

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opening les mez, in four cities in new york, l.a., montreal. why is that?ple are dying to see it. >> it's an international release for us, and international markets it plays strong. that's the reason we went to the expense of converting it n. if the u.s., we wanted exposure. we have an agreement with warner brothers because of their investment in hobbit and marketing of it that there's a certain period of time we have to play it for so we counterfeit it in here. i heard great things and looking forward to seeing it. liz: great season, coming up, and a great 2013 with star trek and superman, looking forward to it, rich, thank you so much. >> thank you, liz, see you at the movies. liz: you bet. presales better than expected for with the the hobbit," and we are gaining ground here. we'll be right back. ♪ e in hong ko. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 after that, it's on toermany. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 then tonight, i'm trading 9500 miles away in japan. tdd#: 1-80345-2550 with the new global account from schwab, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 i hunt down opportunities around the worl

know when the mayor had initially shown his support for them and the city has renewed and passed a resolution supporting occupy l.a. thank you so much for that report r.t. correspondent on the lead now in los angeles. moving on now twas the night before christmas and all through the land plates shoppers fill carts with presents at hand the stockings were hung by the chimney with care and norad said santa would soon be there but before you go looking under that christmas tree check out the special report by r t turns out that high tech toys could be spying on you now so watch this story by our teens christine. it's a bird. it's a plane. no it's actually a drone the a r drone plotter copter two point zero which also happens to be one of the hottest toys of the season. and it doesn't just look like a drone it also acts like one snapping still photos and even recording video people really love the camera the fact that you can interact with anybody as well so aside from according to law suppose he's videos on you tube facebook is well you can obviously see the kind of interaction that you're having brookstone a toy sto

cities. >>> plus, caught on camera. dramatic river rescue in l.a . a man clings to bushes for hours fighting that strong current. that is coming up at 6:00. >> one more week at the holiday week weather. >> reporter: it is amazing between this dance last december 20/09 comes -- this december and last december. five times as much snow this year compared to last year. early christmas present for the skiers. >> yeah. >> thanks for watching. >> glor: ton >> glor: tonight, firefighters ,mbushed. four volunteers targeted by a rs targe >> we're being shot at. multiple firemen down. >> glor: two are dead after responding to a house fire. fire.elrod has more. holiday storms potentially disrupting travel plans for l planss. snow moving from west to east, forecasters say tornados could out the south. down to the wire in the pivotal christmas shopping season. in john blacstone says many retailers will not be ohnebrating. celebratins to santa. >> "dear santa, are you getting ready and fattening up?" >> "how are things at the north pole?" >> glor: and the helpers w

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city just set an all-time record for the fewest murders in its history. shootings are down almost 9%. why is chicago so violent? its gun laws are similar to those of l.a. w york, but police say illegal guns are flooding the inner city. mayor rahm emanuel blames illegal guns too. he also blames blight, poverty, and gaps in policing. but the truth is, 80% of the homicides in chicago are black-on-black crimes. groups like cease-fire say we need to change the way young people talk to each other. >> why you keep looking at me crazy? if you come on this block again and look at me crazy, you know what i'm going to do you, man. a simple argument like that could turn deadly. in order to stop a homicide, you have to have the ability to intercept a whisper. >> joining me now, jesse jackson, the founder and president of the rainbow push coalition. reverend jackson, welcome to the show. >> thank you, sir. >> sir, you appeared on "the ed show" two years ago to talk about the violence in chicago. it's only gotten worse. what needs to change now to make certain that we have a different result next year than we had in making a grim history this year? >> chris, in great

but the major criticism of the buybacks, wherever they happen, l.a., chicago, any other city, is thatzens turning in guns that have been watched and cared for or you have parashooters weapons that typically aren't the ones involved in crimes, that the police will see again. >> that's true. as i said before, there are some who would say this is just a drop in the bucket. however, when you're here and you see the police pulling in some of the assault weapons, they're very happy to have that. and now over the course of let's say four years, by the time they get done today that will be 10,000 guns collected by the lapd under this program. and they would argue that 10,000 guns does indeed have a ripple effect and, in fact, violent crime dove tailing in the same period over four years is down 33% in los angeles. so they feel like this is a big victory and a good start to this. they would like to see other parts of the country join in with the buyback programs. >> paul vercammen in los angeles for us. thank you, paul. >>> this was prompted and moved up a few months because of the tragedy in

. >> reporter: state law requires that cities inform people that they've overpaid so they can collect their money, something san francisco and l.ado. but it appears oakland never has. >> we found no evidence that they have ever refunded the citizens in the past. >> i am more than concerned about corruption of city officials. >> reporter: city officials would not go on camera tonight to talk about this. in a statement, they say they've made some changes. but the bottom line is they don't have the money or man power to pay people back. >> they seem to be in a big hurry to take your money. but if there's any error on their part, they've never been in a hurry to give any of that money back. >> reporter: the city says going back to try to refund years of overpayments is not feasible, that they've agreed to apply overpayments as credit to a driver's other unpaid tickets and to start posting public notices for unclaimed money, something they should have been doing all along. in oakland, christin ayers, cbs 5. >>> republican members of congress hung house speaker john boehner out to dry tonight. he could not round up the votes he needed

open data and transparency is which are significant and when you talk to other large cities and i work with new york and l.a. and boston and we talk about what we're working on and san francisco is one of the leaders they look up to and how to do it and we are doing things on a national scale people are taking notice of and doing that and i heard a lot of talk, and i come from the private sector so when i first got here one of the questions i got "how

so the city of l.a.ul reporting live from los angeles this morning. let's talk more about it in los angeles with the mayor there, antonio villaraigosa. welcome, mr. mayor. >> hi, carol. how are you? good morning. happy holidays. >> happy holidays to you. thank you so much for being with us on the day after christmas. we know that's tough for you but we appreciate it. usually the gun buyback program is held in may. why did you decide to move it up? >> people want to do something particularly after the newtown tragedy and now this latest tragedy where two firefighters were shot and killed. they want to act. they're tired of waiting on the congress and on our legislatures to do something. they feel like there's too much talk and not enough action. and this is an opportunity for people to act to get rid of guns that they don't use, that they don't need, that too often are stolen, often used in an accident. in fact, more often used in an accident than defending themselves against an intruder. so this is an op

l.a. and new york city and is going to be developing strategies in oakland.rlier this month the city agreed to have a court appointed director oversee the police department to avoid a take over. his role will be separate from the new directors role. >> he will do whatever he needs to do to get a feel of oakland. i will be meeting with him a lot. he will be meeting with community members. >> he is being paid $350,000 for his services. >> san francisco riders won't have to pay to get a ride today. the agency is offering free rides to celebrate it's 100th year in service. they initially plan to charge 5 cents. the price which riders paid a century ago but officials later decided against that idea. the free rides will last through 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. and preparations are underway for one of the oldest new years day traditions on the west coast. volunteers are building and painting the floats for the 124th annual tournament of roses parade. later today they started doing the most difficult jobs which is covering every inch of every float with seeds, leaves, stocks