at uc berkeley, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >>> a packed charter bus crashed in san bernardino county today killing one person and injuring 21 others. it happened at noon in kramer east of bakersfield. the bus crossed the center

leslie brinkley is live in oakland with that story. leslie? >> reporter: kristen and dan, homeless advocates say an oasis of goodness that they built was torn down today but that village was built on public park land and had no permits. >> shame, shame, shame. those are homes. those are homes. >> reporter: two weeks ago, west oakland neighbors and activists took pallets and plywood and built this park. they set up a wash station. >> the city won't come here and check it out but they are tearing it down when it's helping people. how shameful is that? >> i never felt so much love for people when i was inside this park. they helped me. >> reporter: but today, 12 residents were back out on the street after crews dismantled the so-called village. the city found 18 health and safety violations and say they've gotten a lot of complaints. >> we actually have a lease with cal trans to use this facility and operate it as a park and so we're in violation of our agreement with cal trans. nothing had permits. >> yeah. what we see here is an exhibit of muni

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live outside the adoption agency's office in concord tonight with the story. leslie. >> reporter: and i'm here at the independent adoption center's headquarters, their national headquarters in concord, where they locked the doors for good today because they declared chapter 11 -- chapter 7 bankruptcy, and plunging 919 clients into what you'd call adoption limbo. >> her name is riley rose. >> reporter: this couple brought riley home two months ago from her birth mother in texas but they've only completed one of six required post-placement visits for the adoption to be legal. >> your adoption's not final yet. you need your paperwork. you need your info. >> we do. >> you don't have access to it -- >> we have nothing. we have nothing. >> you spent how much money? >> close to probably $23,000. >> and you want to keep this baby girl. >> absolutely. yeah. we don't want anything to jeopardize our adoption. >> reporter: but their agency, the independent adoption center, abruptly closed pape handmade sign posted on their office door, "after 34 years facilitat

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live outside the adoption agency's office in concord tonight with the story. leslie. >> reporter: and i'm here at the independent adoption center's headquarters, their national headquarters in concord, where they locked the doors for good today because they declared chapter 11 -- chapter 7 bankruptcy, and plunging 919 clients into what you'd call adoption limbo. >> her name is riley rose. >> reporter: this couple brought riley home two months ago from her birth mother in texas but they've only completed one of six required post-placement visits for the adoption to be legal. >> your adoption's not final yet. you need your paperwork. you need your info. >> we do. >> you don't have access to it -- >> we have nothing. we have nothing. >> you spent how much money? >> close to probably $23,000. >> and you want to keep this baby girl. >> absolutely. yeah. we don't want anything to jeopardize our adoption. >> reporter: but their agency, the independent adoption center, abruptly closed pape handmade sign posted on their office door, "after 34 years facilitat

in the east bay, i'm leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >>> such a sad story. okay. other news now. a homeless man claims that he tried to warn oakland police about a man killed in a standoff with officers and now he's considering suing the city. patrick has hired prominent sil rights attorney john burress. he says he was sleeping in his car three days before police car three days before police shot and called jesse he also says officers detained him instead of njaian and took him to police headquarters. >> they didn't make no contact with him and they brought me back to the person that just attempted murder on my life. when they brought me back to my car, he's looking out the window at me. >> then last friday, naij short toward plifrss. oakland police they are conducting an investigation. >>> governor brown is holding a news conference to announce additional action to bolster dam safety. the governor's office says mr. brown is also looking to improve flood protection and the state's crumbling transportation and water infrastructure. governor brown visited lake oroville dam for the

east bay, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> if you complain about bart service now, could get worse. considering raising fares and cutting service. number of the riders is more than 5% below projections. raising base fare, cutting 4:00 a.m. service -- all options on the table. >>> coming up next on abc7 news at 11:00? >> wayne freedman on interstate area, the lyft driver who had heart attack and how passenger in the back seat saved his life. >> and show of solidarity from large crowd. >>> crackdown on marijuana? flint the white house they may be going after pot. >> look at what is on tonight on "jimmy kimmel live." >> the water is rising martha, can you feel it? you and i are drowning, slowly. >>> new at 11:00, what should have been a sleepy ride home in a lyft car turned into a life or death emergency. >> but as abc7 news reporter wayne freedman explains, right person happened to be in the back seat of the car. >> never a dull night, a busy mom runs homework and music practice and dinner. >> everything is crisis as parent. >> patients call her dr. new waunddo, tuss night solved a cr

leslie brinkley is live from uc berkeley with more on the story. leslie, fascinating. >> reporter: dan, uc berkeley's seismology will be completed a study crunching ten years worth of gps data finding a correlation between the wet and dry seasons in california and earthquake activity. >> we get more sies misty in the summer months when there's an unloading of the crust. >> reporter: uc berkeley seismologists say it's not necessarily heavy rainfall but our seasonal fluctuations that they're finding are linked to increased earthquake activity. >> we don't think that there's an impact for the bigger faults. what we've been focusing on is smaller earthquakes, magnitude 2s and 3s. things of that nature. >> all the water and the snow in the sierra nevada crunches down on the crust of the earth. the crust rises by 5 to 10 millimeters over northern california triggering quakes near the surface. scientists at the usgs say the runoff from the heavy rainfall can take months to years to get to the san andreas. >> it's relatively easy for water to percolate in t

leslie brinkley is live from uc berkeley with more on the story. leslie, fascinating. >> reporter: dan, uc berkeley's seismology will be completed a study crunching ten years worth of gps data finding a correlation between the wet and dry seasons in california and earthquake activity. >> we get more sies misty in the summer months when there's an unloading of the crust. >> reporter: uc berkeley seismologists say it's not necessarily heavy rainfall but our seasonal fluctuations that they're finding are linked to increased earthquake activity. >> we don't think that there's an impact for the bigger faults. what we've been focusing on is smaller earthquakes, magnitude 2s and 3s. things of that nature. >> all the water and the snow in the sierra nevada crunches down on the crust of the earth. the crust rises by 5 to 10 millimeters over northern california triggering quakes near the surface. scientists at the usgs say the runoff from the heavy rainfall can take months to years to get to the san andreas. >> it's relatively easy for water to percolate in t

leslie brinkley has a look at what happened today. leslie? >> reporter: advocates are absolutely angry saying that they tried to build something for the homeless only to have it attorney down but the city says the makeshift village had to go. they had to restore a public park. >> shame, shame, shame. those are homes. those are homes. >> reporter: two weeks ago, west oakland neighbors and activists took palettes and plywood and built a homeless village wedged under the 580 and 980 freeways. they set up a wash station and toilet and donated food and clothes. >> the city complains they don't have the money but we came together as a community to do this. people put their time, sweat, energy. >> i never felt so much love for people when i'm beside these parks. they came to me and helped me. they was calling me mama nancy. >> reporter: but today, 12 residents, like mama nancy, were back out on the street. oakland police officers watched as public works crews dismantled the so-called village because the city was leasing the land from cal trans to cr

at uc berkeley, i'm leslie brinkley. >>> a petition drive to split 56 schools from the mt. diablo school district took the next step towards success. how big an area the unified school district covers. parents say the district is too big to serve the needs of their children. the district is firmly opposed to the secession. the signatures still have to be verified. with the approval, it would go to the state this spring and could end up on the ballot in 2018. >>> well, it is a mayimazing wh forgiving late fees could do. nearly 700,000 books were turned into the san francisco public library during its six-week amnesty period. nearly 700,000. most books had been reshelved but abc 7 news caught a glimpse made a display of the stories they could tell to one book was returned 100 years past due, another 80 years over due. several more were 30, maybe 40 years late. >> we have a c.s. lewis book, children's book, history books, i think a few books that adults checked out when they were students in high school. >> this book atlus shrugged was turned in worth over $5,000. san francisc

east bay, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> if you complain about bart service now, could get worse. considering raising fares and cutting service. number of the riders is more than 5% below projections. raising base fare, cutting 4:00 a.m. service -- all options on the table. >>> coming up next on abc7 news at 11:00? >> wayne freedman on interstate area, the lyft driver who had heart attack and how passenger in the back seat saved his life. >> and show of solidarity from large crowd. >>> crackdown on marijuana? flint the white house they may be going after pot. >> look at what is on tonight on "jimmy kimmel live." >> the water is rising martha, can you feel it? you and i are drowning, sl honey nut cheerios gets their delicious taste from honest ingredients. like real delicious honey and real oats. okay that's still honey. huh, there we go. we're back to honey again. who's directing this? that guy. figures. try new very berry cheerios. the taste of real fruit in every bite. so berry good. [ alarm weather.eping ] ♪ [ laughter ] cartoons. wait for it. [ cat screech ] [ laughter ] ♪ [ s

east bay, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> if you complain about bart service now, could get worse. considering raising fares and cutting service. number of the riders is more than 5% below projections. raising base fare, cutting 4:00 a.m. service -- all options on the table. >>> coming up next on abc7 news at 11:00? >> wayne freedman on interstate area, the lyft driver who had heart attack and how passenger in the back seat saved his life. >> and show of solidarity from large crowd. >>> crackdown on marijuana? flint the white house they may be going after pot. >> look at what is on tonight on "jimmy kimmel live." >> the water is rising martha, can you feel it? you and i are >>> new at 11:00, what should have been a sleepy ride home in a lyft car turned into a life or death emergency. >> but as abc7 news reporter wayne freedman explains, right person happened to be in the back seat of the car. >> never a dull night, a busy mom runs homework and music practice and dinner. >> everything is crisis as parent. >> patients call her dr. new waunddo, tuss night solved a crisis that may seal

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley spoke to some of these frustrated families who claim this closure is leaving them in limbo. >> her name is riley rose. >> reporter: this couple brought riley home two months ago from her birth mother in texas but they've only completed one of six required post-placement visits for the adoption to be legal. your adoption's not final yet. you need your paperwork. you need your info. >> we do. >> reporter: we you don't have access to it. >> we have nothing. we absolutely have nothing. >> reporter: and you spent how much money? >> close to $23,000 zblr and you want to keep this baby girl. >> absolutely. we don't want anything to jeopardize our adoption. >> reporter: but the agency abruptly closed. a handmade sign posted on the office door after 34 years facilitating 4,000 open adoptions. executives declined to go on camera, but said in an e-mail, it is with deep sadness we write to inform you that the iac is declaring chapter 7 bankruptcy and will be closing permanently effective immediately. >> i tried to call them, trield to e-mail them, no response s

i talked to a group who knew him well, his widow carol blue hitchens, martin amis, douglas brinkley and leslieuld have something to say every time he wrote a column or came on tv and, sadly, we have to try to infer what he might have said and really only he could say it. but there you go. >> hockenberry: we look ahead to the academy awards airing sunday. a.o. scott of the "new york times" talked to film critics david edelstein, josh horowitz and aisha harris. >> whether this is a watershed moment, is this a begin og offa new norma i

i talked to a group who knew him well, his widow carol blue hitchens, martin amis, douglas brinkley and leslie cockburn. >> yeah, i think he probably would have something to say every time he wrote a column or came on tv and, sadly, we have to try to infer what he might have said and really only he could say it. but there you go. >> hockenberry: we look ahead to the academy awards airing sunday. a.o. scott of the "new york times" talked to film critics david edelstein, josh horowitz and aisha harris. >> whether this is a watershed moment, is this a begin og offa new normal, it's honestly too soon to say. yes. is this progress? yes. is this the solution? no. happens there is great films led by african-american actors, people of color, and that's great. in some ways, i'm almost looking beyond the academy. i'm looking at the blockbusters that are coming. that's more indicative of where the industry is headed. >> we con crude with jared cohen, president of jigsaw. >> the notice of toxicity of people being mean to each other is not new. throughout history and every corner of the globe we're experie

i talked to a group who knew him well, his widow carol blue hitchens, martin amis, douglas brinkley and leslien. >> yeah, i think he probably would have something to say every time he wrote a column or came on tv and, sadly, we have to try to infer what he might have said and really only he could say it. but there you go. >> hockenberry: we look ahead to the academy awards airing sunday. a.o. scott of the "new york times" talked to film critics david edelstein, josh horowitz and aisha harris. >> whether this is a watershed moment, is this a begin og offa new norm

. >> douglas brinkley, carol blue, leslie, and martin, what would hitch say? think we have an inkling. thank you so much for that. ♪ ♪ jeffrey: good evening. i am jeffrey toobin filling in for charlie rose. democratic state attorneys general have emerged as powerful forces fighting president trump's agenda. leading among them is new york state attorney general eric schneiderman. his office is fighting the immigration ban as well as president trump personally in the now settled trump university lawsuit and continuing investigation of the trump foundation. i am pleased to have eric schneiderman at charlie's famous table. good to see you. eric: thank you. jeffrey: ok, so dhs this week said we have new orders in terms of how we are going to deal with deportation of undocumented immigrants. short version, there is going to be more enforcement. you are going to try to alleviate that, fight it how? eric: we anticipated this attack, particularly where it regards so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. it is important to understand there is no legal definition as to what a

brinkley is in austin, texas. and here in the studio are the novelists martin amose and journalist and author lesli coburn.of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> carol, let me begin with you. you, memorably told me, right up until his last moments, he was engaged in the news. so we can absolutely predict that he would have had something to say about what's going on right now. >> yeah, i think he probably would have something to say every time he wrote a column or every time he came on tv. and, sadly, we have to try to infer what he might have said and really only he could say it. but there you go. >> intellectual forensics -- that's what we'll call it. doug brinkley, he always hadab historical reference that nobody else had that could create a coined of parallel. what do you think he would find as the most important or significant historical reference that would describe this time of donald trump? >> well, he probably would have turned back to george orwell, who he loved so much, and the very fact of the matter is, orwell's books are back in circulation. and the one consistency of this contrarian, christop