. >> a parole board panel is recommending the release of former charles manson follower leslie van houten. >> leslie van houten, a name on the list forever linked with one of the most famous crimes and criminals of the 20th century, charles manson. >> you don't understand me. that's your trouble, not my fault because you don't understand me. i don't understand you either! >> the story of charles manson, his family and all the horror they wrought is buried in archives, memorialized in media long obsolete, and yet somehow it feels present. that hot summer night that caught the world utterly unprepared, when los angeles became suddenly a very scary place. it was august 9th, 1969, around 8:00 a.m. officer jerry derosa was a young cop with the lapd, working the day shift. >> the first call i got was to go out to ciela drive coming out as a drunk in a car. >> he cruised up ben detectiedin and found cielo drive. a neighbor flagged him down. suddenly the drunk in a car call became something else. >> he had told me that the maid came running back out, yelling blood and bodies. >> derosa, all alone

>>charles manson follower leslie van houten she could be released from prison. this would be after serving nearly 5 decades behind bars, a panel has recommended that she get parole after a 120 day review process her case will rest with governor newsome this is come up for the governor could say no, although that could lead to a court challenge newsome has blocked her once before his predecessor jerry brown did so twice, 70 year-old van houten is serving a life sentence for helping charles manson and others kill a los angeles grocer and his wife that was in august of 1969. >>i did i aced the test i guarantee you that joe biden could not answer those questions, okay. you and i answered all 35 questions correctly. >>president trump continues to talk about his brain as he defends his cognitive abilities will explain the details behind the latest test results sees been touting in recent interviews. >>and thousands of bay area restaurants have shut their doors during the pandemic how many will stay closed for good. >>and i'll have your friday microclimate fore >>and t

. >>> the patrol board has recommended that leslie van houten be released on patrol.he governor could still block this recommendation. she is serving a life sentence for helping manson kill l.a. grosser and his wife in 1969. she was 19 years old at the time. >>> coming up, oakland city council responding to calls for police reform. the measure they are putting ballot. >>> and t-mobile is phasing out old tech. >>> let's check in with mike nicco. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to friday. let's start with some neighborhood temperatures. inland to the east bay, it will partly cloudy to clear out there. and a temperature 55 in la fayette, to about 63 in antioch. elsewhere, we have 60 degree temperatures along the east bay shore. most of us in the mid to upper 50s, but that lack of cloud cover in the north bay, look at novato and santa rosa, 50 and 52 degrees. in south beach, it is 55 degrees. breezy on the breezes today. choppy at times north of the bay bridge through the delta. and it will be cool to comfy if you are taking mass transit today. let's go back to the no

you see leslie van houten in the picture, she has a master's degree, she has a teeny, tiny disciplinary file. they will repeatedly come up with the disciplinary write-ups that you have from, you know, 20, 30, 40 years ago and discuss them again and again and again. they'll talk to her about having a quarter in a jacket that she borrowed from a friend or smoke marijuana in the early '80s. sometimes they completely mix up the facts. so, you know, completely turning things out. the factually -- [inaudible] repeat themselves from year after year, so very, very, very difficult. now, when we talk about rehabilitation programs, we're really hitting the nail on its head. because the issue is the california prisons don't really have rehabilitative programs. not anymore. the prison that has more of them is san quentin, but that's because it's closer to the san francisco bay area. prisons that are -- [inaudible] they don't really that option. so the board, and this is one of the shocker things that i found out, is that the board regularly recommends or requires, i should say, the -- [inaudible] ye