los angeles city council voted to end the red light camera program which had been in place for 11 yearshe long nightmare of red light camera tickets in the city of l.a. will be over july 31st. >> reporter: the cameras were set up at 32 los angeles intersections and were supposed to reduce traffic accidents. what they did was make drivers angry. >> i believe you have a right to face your accuser. >> reporter: a kcbs tv investigation in 2009 found an increase in rear end collisions after the cameras were activated. the los angeles police department said that's true for 11 of the intersections but the department is glad to see them go. >> we'll still enforce the laws on the street. >> reporter: a city audit found l.a. was losing up to $1.5 million per year running the cameras. that's because the city only gets about one-third of the almost $500 tickets and many of the tickets don't even get paid because no one's enforcing them. in houston, residents voted to pull the plug on their cameras at intersections but a judge overruled them and while some northern california cities are turning them

. >>> the los angeles city council to into but i'm financially the football stadium in downtown l.a. they will pick up on was that he represented the costs and demolish and construct a new venue. they had previously said it wanted to ask is too big for the entire $270 million bond. the city council is set to vote on a plan in coming weeks. >>> the maker of the vibrate smartphone announced it is coming to dozen jobs. the layoffs amount to about 10% and a part of a plan to cut costs. their tablet computers were not popular. they will give other layoff notices sometimes this week. >>> people are gathering right now the committee meeting in the sunset heights neighborhood could we caught up with the candidates earlier today. they made their best pitcher. >> my experiences is dealing with client problems. >> i have a very broad perspective peinado into law enforcement perspective of a broader perspective of community and add the group. >> handmade community and -- i am a community and keeping children safe a priority. >> reason i did reason i did say i got say i got a report in a determin

. >> the los angeles city leaders patted themselves so the back while admitting they made a mistake. their original suspect is in the clear. two new suspects, luis sanchez and marvin norwood, are now charged with bryan stow's savage beating. >> what this investigation speaks to is we do the right thing. even when it is the hard thing. even when it is difficult. >> police came to this neighborhood and arrested sanchez. a few doors down they found sanchez's sister, doreen and marvin norwood. >> they got luis, and i feel it is the second time they are wrong. >> but investigators insist not this time, they believe luis sanchez who has tattoo on his neck and norwood beat stowe outside dodger stadium. they both have extensive criminal pasts that include prior arrests for violence. the police also think doreen sanchez drove the get away car. she is out on bail. button rekay -- but enrique ramirez was never charged. still he remains in custody for a parole violation. >> i am hoping it is the correct people. it is playing on a lot of people's emotions. we want that relief they are caught. >>

the los angeles city council in its recent history has passed a resolution criticizing secure communities and asking for many of the reforms included in the trust act. the oakland city council has done the same. so have said the clara and alameda county board of supervisors. supervisor mirkarimi: we just heard the sonoma county is also asking to opt out as well. >> there are certainly a lot of concerns in counties throughout california. realignment is a program that i know is something that governor brown highly values. that is something that he sees is going to be a new state to our criminal justice system, which we know is broken. unfortunately, secure communities is a program that when he was attorney general a lot -- also brought us into, and it is sad that it undercuts laudable goals. i also recommend that the board take the concerns regarding communities into consideration. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, commissioner very much. once we open up, we will have reverend amos brown and a number of others that i have cards for. i will read them off. >> thank you so much for holding this

the los angeles city council just approved a new law that will make it illegal for drivers to verbally or physically harass bicyclists. the law would also allow that cyclist to file a civil lawsuit without waiting for the city to press criminal charges. advocates say the law is groundbreaking and the only one of its kind in the nation. >>> south bay drivers may be dodging a traffic bullet. a four-day shutdown of highway 101 in san jose is not expected to trigger a silicon valley version of carmageddon. roadwork takes place starting tonight over the next four nights. 101 will be closed from midnight until 5:30 a.m. for construction on tully road. the work is expected to finish by next year. >>> not a doubt commuting to work can be stressful and expensive but kiet do shows us you may soon be able to get your boss to at least pay for some of it. >> reporter: millions of californians could soon hate their commute a little less. >> the bay area is leading the charge to cleaning up the air, not only for our region but for the entire state. >> reporter: legislature passed leland yee's bill co

we'll have more in a live report from washington coming your way at the top of the hour. >>> the los angeles citysly to week to halt the red light camera program in the city, and that starts tomorrow. since it began in 2004, the program has ticketed more than 180,000 motorists. los angeles is just the latest of over 30 cities around this country that have turned off their red light cameras saying they have not been effective in proving safety and too costly to run. joining me now is justin high, justin, good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> i'm curious why the cities are rejecting this red light program. we just talked about the number, 180,000 or more motorists in l.a. since 2004, that's going to bring in revenue when you have to pay those tickets. >> correct. i think when they first came out there was a fairly strong public safety argument made about how they could reduce crashes in intersections. but since then a number of cities and corporations turned what should be a public safety device into basically a slot machine for city revenues. as a result, these are very unpopular across the coun

. >>> the city of los angeles has decided to end its red light camera program. could the same thing happen here in the bay area? >>> sunol grade, traffic looks good heading to the south bay. we'll be back with more traffic and weather. >>> ktvu brought to you by -- ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] because you never stop improving your recipe... we never stop improving ours. we've added a touch of philly cream cheese to kraft natural shredded cheese, which adds a touch of creamy to any dish. kraft touch of philly shredded cheese. we're not just making great cheese. we're taking it further. ♪ >>> time now 6:25, the stop signs have been put up by if los angeles city council. l.a. police say it's too hard to collect the fines and too hard to enforce. l.a.'s program will end july 31st. here in the bay area police say those cameras actually keep people safe. they want the program to continue. >>> well the host of a popular tv game show is set to undergo surgery tomorrow after putting his own safety in jeopardy. alex trebeck showed up on crutches to host an event at google's

los angeles and temperatures in the south bay, very comfortable with a few 80s. el in los gatos. here is what we have the morning fog, the afternoon sun, very mild from redwood citylo alto. few peeks of sun, ocean beach, 63 downtown. that is cooler than average but pretty pleasant, petaluma 76. 73 in fremont and maybe not too many complaints as it continues to be somewhat cool afternoon. i think they will likes the heat out there too. as we look at inland valleys. today at our coast, fog and sunshine in the afternoons. overall, the workweek begins cool and stays that way mid-week and then we'll get into warmer weather, more typical summer like weather the end of the week. >> up and down at this point in the summer. thanks a lot. >> and giants will be sending ryan to the mound against the brewers trying to even the series which could be a playoff preview. last night the brewers beat the giants 4-2. here is larry beil. >> good morning. the first place giants, welcomed another first place team, milwaukee to town. the challenge for the giants, scratch out some runs against shawn marcum. jeff keppinger and to matt cain and cody ross throws a optimistically home. -- mi

governor brown signed the california dream act into law at los angeles city college yesterday.it allows private organizations to provide financial aid to students who entered this country illegally. brown added that he is inclined to support a future measure that would allow those students to receive public funds. >>> all right, our time is 5:39. sal you ready to talk traffic? you have everything under control. >> so far, we're doing very well on bay area roads. let's talk about some things that we've outlined for you. south bay commute, looks pretty good. if you're driving to the peninsula, we are doing very well on southbound to northbound 101. across the bay on interstate 880, the traffic is actually going to be doing pretty well here in front of the oakland. and no problems by the way, not only in oakland but most of alameda and contra costa county. for example if you drive on highway 4, 680 or 24 so far so good for you this morning. let's move along and take a look at the san mateo bridge. this bridge looks good and so does the dun barton. if you're driving across any bay

governor brown signed the california dream act into law today at los angeles city college. it allows private organizations to provide financial aid to students who enter this country illegally. brown said he is inclined now to support a future measure that would allow those students to receive public fund. >>> the contributions of gay leaders leaders such as harvey milk could be pushed out of classrooms. the bill ensuring that the contribution of lgbt people are included in educational materials. governor brown signed it into law earlier this month. >>> the nfl season is back on. represent atives for the players agreed to a deal. >> reporter: the gates to the 49ers camp in santa clara will reopen tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. for players and this year's football coaches. players and representatives approved a new 10 year collective bargaining agreement after working out issues such as the length of the contract, sharing revenue and a salary system for rookies. >> first order of business is you know start seeing our players. get knee to knee and eyeball to eyeball with them. that's

governor brown signed the california dream act into law today at los angeles city college. it allows private organizations to provide financial aid to students who enter this country illegally. brown said he is inclined now to support a future measure that would allow those students to receive public fund. >>> the contributions of gay leaders leaders such as harvey milk could be pushed out of classrooms. the bill ensuring that the contribution of lgbt people are included in educational materials. governor brown signed it into law earlier this month. >>> the nfl season is back on. represent atives for the players agreed to a deal. >> reporter: the gates to the 49ers camp in santa clara will reopen tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. for players and this year's football coaches. players and representatives approved a new 10 year collective bargaining agreement after working out issues such as the length of the contract, sharing revenue and a salary system for rookies. >> first order of business is you know start seeing our players. get knee to knee and eyeball to eyeball with them. that's

the los ange council voted today to get rid of the red light came >>> a program to catch red light runners one california city is going away. the los angelesity council voted today to get rid of the red light camera program. the decision puts los angeles at the center of a national debate over the cameras. the reason for phasing it out? trouble collecting fines. >> this is vindication day. >> it's a win for the people of los angeles. >> who told you not to pay the ticket? >> my inner voice. [ laughter ] >> she is one of 64,000 drivers who never paid the $550 fine. city officials say the problem is partly because of the way the law was written. fines were essentially voluntary and there are no consequences for those who don't pay. many other southern california cities have banned the cameras. >>> san francisco police are looking for a repeat robber. they say that a woman held up the same credit union twice in 10 days. investigators say that in both cases, she walked into the sf fire credit union with a gun and demanded money. no one has been hurt. it's not clear how much money she took. both robberies happened in the early afternoon. >>> an

. >> los angeles city leaders patted themselves on the back while admitting they made a mistake. their original suspect, geovany ramirez, is in the clear. tie new suspects, loury and marvin, are now charged with brian stow's savage beating. >> what the investigation speaks to is we do right thing, even when it's the hard thing, even when it's difficult. >> police came to this neighborhood and arrested sanchez. a few doors down they found sanchez's sister, doreen and marvin norwood. >> now they got lou and i i feel like it's the second time they are wrong. >> investigators insist not this time. they believe louie sanchez, who has tattoos on his neck, and norwood, beat stow outside dodger stadium in mark. -- in march. both men have sentence of criminal pasts, which include prior arrests for violence. but enrique ramirez was never charged with the attack but yet he remains in custody for a parole violation. >> i'm hoping it is the correct people. it's playing an lot of people's emotions. we want to have that released, that they are caught. storms's friends and family remain cautious

. >> los angeles city leaders patted themselves on the back while admitting they made a mistake. their original suspect, geovany ramirez, is in the clear. two new suspects, of are now charged with brian stow's savaged beating. >> what the investigation speaks to is we do right thing, even when it's the hard thing, even when it's difficult. >> police came to this neighborhood and arrested sanchez. a few doors down they found sanchez's sister, doreen and marvin norwood. >> i feel it's the second time they are wrong. >> investigators insist not this time. they believe louie sanchez, who has tattoos on his neck, and norwood, beat stow outside dodger stadium in mark. both men have extensive criminal past which include prior arrests for violence. but enrique ramirez was never charged with the attack but yet he remains in custody for a parole violation. >> i'm hoping it is the correct people. it's playing an lot of people's emotions. we want to have that released, that they are caught. >> they remain caution you shallly optimistic about the arrest and instead choose to focus on the 42-y

as a result, the city of los angeles, in order to protect future flooding in the city, they decided to take the los angeles river and make it a flood control channel. they concreted the walls of the river in order for water to get to ocean much faster. narrator: cities throughout southern california converted natural rivers to these concrete channels, part of their storm drain systems. this allowed expanding development without the need for large flood plains. kharaghani: the los angeles river is approximately 51 miles. concrete reduces the size of the river that you need to carry the water because it speeds up the flow of water. if you'd like to remove all the concrete and to have natural system to carry the water to protect you from flooding, you need to have almost one mile on each side of the river set aside for transport of rain. so in order for the city to have use of those lands around the river, concrete made it possible to have minimum land so the water can be rried to the ocean in the fastest possible way. but, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeeping

democrat january us hon los angeles city councilwoman has just won the race to fill an empty see in congresshern california. she fought a hotly contested race against a republican opponent. the vacant seat was previously held by democratic congresswoman jane harmon who resigned earlier this year to head up a washington think tank. ya misran and lost against gavin newsom in the race for lieutenant governor last november. >>> a southern california man has been a victim of a disturbing case of domestic violence. we want to warn you the details are graphic. she's accused of drugging and mutilating her husband. they say when they arrived at the couple's condo yesterday afternoon they found becker's husband tied to the bed. >> from what the detectives were able to learn is that the wife did prepare the meal, the husband thought it tasted funny which caused him to go back and lie down on the bed where presumably he passed out. >> that's when becker is accused of cutting off her husband's genitals putting them in the garbage disposal. police say becker was the one who called 911 telling them that he

los angeles for will and kate's big hollywood moment. >> announcer: from abc news, this is a special edition of "good morning america," now, live from the belasco theater in los angeles, california, and new york city, weekend anchors bianna golodryga and dan harris. >> good morning, america, you're looking at a live shot from the historic belasco theater where they are still cleaning up from the biggest royal carpet event in decades. dan, you missed quite a party last night. >> i did. i'm dan harris in new york. i understand there were a ton of celebrities with you, bianna. >> a ton of hollywood elite. tom hanks, nicole kidman, jennifer lopez, barbra streisand were all in this room. you see how huge the room was. all of the upstairs was closed off. it was an intimate dinner for 280 people. dan, these celebrities, these celebrities were told to, quote, be cool of around william and kate, not to flood them. they were the stars of the show. dan, i know you and everyone else in america wants to know what kate was wearing. this beautiful alexander mcqueen lavender dress. we'll talk about her clothing sometime coming up. it was quite a successful night for the royal couple here. >> that's quite a number

this program did not work as was anticipated. >> reporter: so on wednesday the los angeles city councilly voted to turn off the red light cameras. >> we want safe intersections but there's not any data that proves this was making these intersections safer. >> reporter: 32 cities nationwide turned on red light cameras only to switch them back off because of court orders, collection issues or showing they don't show safety. >> it won't show l.a. is safer. >> reporter: adding is this week's revelation paying the camera fine has always essentially been voluntary because the city couldn't figure out if they were legally enforceable. abigail stone wants her money back. >> who do i have to call to get my money back? >> reporter: the program officially ends on sunday. ben tracy cbs news, los angeles. >> joining us now, jack ford. i hope abigail is watching. we'll get an important answer in a second. first you look at this in l.a., legality, whether or not they could legally enforce it. what kind of criteria do they need? >> we've seen some courts around the country who have thrown these out, th

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think it was possible that we would have a day off from the hectic now nature of driving in the city of los angelesand it worked. people stepped up to the plate and hit a home run. >> does this success say something to you, something more than the fact that the strategy worked to keep people out of their cars? we are so reliant on the single passenger vehicle. is there a larger message for us? >> this is about completing and a jovial rain that will take you from orange county into the -- completing an hov lane that will take you from orange county's. it is about creating transit and getting people out of a single passenger automobile. >> did it work as well as you thought it was going to work, or were you surprised? >> it worked better than anyone could have expected, but i am never surprised by the people of this town. i believe in this town. it is a city of dream makers and a city where anything is possible. >> we discussed a number of things, but since you are now the president of the u.s. conference of mayors, around the country, this issue of immigration is taking a stronger hold. there is a r

governor jerry brown signed the california dream act into law at los angeles city college yesterday.tions to provide financial aid to students who came into this country illegal. despite any possible pop o-- opposition, the governor is likely to provide measures that provide funds to those students. >>> gay marriage has been legal in new york for a few days but it's already facing a big legal challenge. >>> it's a catch for the record books. now, this is what you call a monster shark. we'll show you how it measures out. >>> welcome back. some florida fishermen are showing off a monster shark. it measures 13.5 feet long and weighs more than 600 pounds. it's the eighth largest shark on record and took more than two and a half hours to reel in. the largest shark ever caught meshes 22 feet long. it was captured off the coast of hawaii. >>> new york's gay marriage law now faces its first legal marriage just days after the first same marriages. opponents have filed a lawsuit saying proper procedures were not followed -- filed. they didn't go through the proper chan the -- channels. >>> 8:5

. >> reporter: the royal couple arrived in los angeles today, a city not normally star-struck made athis is catherine's first time in the u.s., but she seems right at home hobnobbing with the rich and famous. long-time royal watcher victoria mather finds l.a. an odd first stop. >> this is either the stupidest choice in the world or it's incredibly enchanting and naive. "i want to go to california, i want to speak to movie stars." if you could possibly do anything that was more counterpoint to being royal and respectful, you go to hollywood. >> reporter: yet the duke and duchess know the value of celebrity. more cameras, and more money. >> california is a very glitzy place. the world media reflects on them perhaps more than it would in kansas, but i think you will see they will go to more places in the states, i'm sure of it. >> reporter: but for now, the ritz continues. the royal couple will chopper the 80 miles back to los angeles for an a-list event there tonight with the likes of tom hanks and steven spielberg. tomorrow they will visit an inner-city arts program on l.a.'s skid row

in the city of los angeles, it turns out that would be just fine.is essentially voluntary. angering those who shelled out hundreds. >> do i get a refund for the ones i already paid. >> reporter: they were shocked to learn there is no real enforcement. the court find these cases difficult to province the person receiving the ticket is often not the one driving. >> if you paid the fine you've paid the fine. if you didn't pay the fineor the most part you're able to get away with it. >> reporter: about 40% of ticketed drivers got away with not paying those hefty fines. that's why l.a. is dumping their red light cameras altogether. >> get rid of them. if you can't collect any revenues for them what good are they doing for thehe city? >> reporter: the city will save around $1 million a year without those cameras. still, proponents of scrapping the cameras say most of the tickets are for rolling right turns. >> if they were interested in safety, then they would have made sure that they enforced the tickets. >> reporter: as for anyone thinking about refund

over in los angeles much the city concluded the u.s. still with a window but they would back him sell a galaxy joe hart instrumental in the shootout victory the city gilkey was stopping an aged villa garza shot here and then scoring his sides blaming penalty the match south of to get seven six for their third win in america before heading to ireland this week he was also notable for mario balotelli attempting a back heel in front of gold however the city man was unable to repeat what i want to do that week ago against lebanon causing a lot of frustration for team mates and manager munchie means them well until i was substituted short. now russia's synchronized swimmers are back home after taking a clean sweep of gold medals at the world championships founds gathered to meet the school that most goes should have made earlier today the russian ladies claimed all seven goals in the synchronised swimming in shanghai with atlanta making history by reaching the top of the podium six times and becoming a sixteen time world champion overall rec

. >>> ten miles of a major freeway in los angeles are shut down this weekend for construction work. city officials warned people in los angeles to avoid the area. there were concerns that l.a.'s notorious gridlock with pale in comparison to this weekend. but as nbc's jinah kim reports, apparently people listened to the warnings. >> this is where the 405 freeway meets the 10. >> reporter: day one is carmageddon is so mar like karma heaven. traffic that normally clog x the highways even on weekends was sparse. and the main alternates to the closed 405 freeway looked like this. >> it was great. it was the best. >> no traffic. >> no traffic, none. it took me ten minutes to get here. >> the roads are empty. it's like a ghost town. there's no carmageddon. >> reporter: and that's exactly what officials in los angeles were hoping for. >> we'll be on top of this all over southern california. avoid the area or stay home. >> reporter: for the past few weeks, alerts blared as far as away as san francisco, warning drivers that a ten-mile section of one of the nation's busiest highways, the 405, would

this is skid row, about 50 blocks in inner city los angeles where an estimated 4,000 homeless people wn as the nation's homeless capital. william and kate will drive right through here on sunday on their way to inner city arts, an oasis that offers kids from the neighborhood art classes and a chance to shine. dancers have spent the past couple of weeks at grueling six-hour rehearsals getting ready to perform for the royal couple. what do you hope they walk away with? >> hope. hope and inspiration. to feel and know that the arts does change people's lives. >> reporter: the royal couple now headed back to los angeles to the balasco theater for the black tie event honoring british actors. >> kate snow, thanks. >>> when "nbc nightly news" continues on this saturday, a decorated and disabled veteran of iraq, the victim of a tragedy here at home. >>>; áu'folding scandal at london. tonight "the news of the world" is history. >>> a tragic story to tell you about tonight from upstate new york, where a young man, a veteran of iraq, who had already given so much in the field of battle, lost his

for example, the city of los angeles no longer provides any scheduled maintenance of street trees. san jose limited the whole street tree crews over five years ago, and the city of davis has eliminated its tree maintenance contract for residential streets. we are all around trying to find the most creative ways. our current situation is not satisfactory. our recreation and park department finds itself in a similar situation. all of our urban forest benefits benefit everyone in san francisco, and i look forward to finding those solutions with you and the rest of the board. thank you. supervisor chiu: our final question today will be provided by our colleague from district 10, supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: thank you. good afternoon. mr. mirkarimi -- mr. mayor, will you provide us an update of improvements that cities have been working towards? specifically, what has been accomplished around a facade improvements and employment opportunities for community members? furthermore, what is the status of the redevelopment agency and

cities that use them. turning off the cameras here in los angeles may be less about safety and more about the city's inabilityfines. the courts weren't enforcing the tickets so paying them was essentially voluntary. the city says it was losing up to $1.5 million a year on the program because only 60% of drivers ever paid their fines. abigail stone wishes she knew that before she mailed her check. >> if i had known that everybody's been ignoring it, then i would haven't paid it. >> reporter: on sunday, l.a. turns off the cameras for good. ben tracy, cbs news, los angel angeles. >> schieffer: and that's the news. for scott and all of us at cbs news, i'm bob schieffer. good night specific suspects, it targets. one of the guys punche >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> the specialized training for bay area police and the specific suspects it targets. >>> one of the guys punched the captain in the eye here on his face. >> fists fly on a flight headed to san francisco. then the fbi is steps in. passengers tell how it got ugly. >>> it is home to some of the most stunning scenery in the world. a

los angeles. >>> 180,000 red light runners ticked since 2004 but come sunday the program ends in los angeles. it's because the city has trouble collecting fines. tickets are mailed to drivers and authorities are unable to force violaters to pay them. city officials say it's partly because of the way the law was written. fines were essentially voluntary and they are virtually no consequences for those who refuse to pay. >>> they are sick of the blight and filth so they are doing something about it, the neighbors tired of looking at homes run down because they are in foreclosure. len ramirez in san jose on the deposit the group made at a major bank. >> reporter: a group came to the wells fargo bank to make a large deposit but they weren't carrying money. they were bags filled with trash collected at a blighted bank-owned property connected to wells fargo. >> make the banks pay! >> reporter: protestors ended up leaving the bags inside the bank lobby while bank managers called police. the group eventually left the bank and no one was arrested. >> we don't need that garbage in our neighborhood dirtying up our neighborh

and it has host city los angeles in the throes of royal fever. >> i haven't really heard of royalty coming to america, especially to l.a. i think it's really cool that they're coming here. exciting. >> definitely. i mean, you can't walk down hollywood or go to certain places and say, oh, hey, there's william and kate. i mean, it's a special occasion. >> reporter: their first stop is the beverly hilton in beverly hills, home to one of hollywood's most glamorous events, the golden globe awards. they'll attend a venture capital and new media summit to promote british trade and investment. ♪ >> reporter: promoting british interests and international relations is what they've been doing for the past nine days in canada. the prince and princess wrapped up their tour at the calgary stampede where they dressed like the locals and mingled with vip right up until their flight for usa. southern california is the couple's only stop during the three-day u.s. visit. their close friends, elton john and the beckhams have homes here, they'll stay in l.a.'s historic hancock park. tomorrow, prince william pl

road they're going to start practicing a little more leniency on their own kind out in los angeles the beautiful city of angels crime cocaine spoiled starlets traffic jams and statism or i guess i could describe the scene the police are catching a break from their higher ups a new strategy called conditional official reprimand will see cases of misconduct met with lighter slaps on the wrists in many cases the l.a. times reporting that basically officers caught driving under the influence or using excessive force or falsely imprisoned people may get a strongly worded scolding and a warning not to do it again instead of the traditional firing or pay suspension quote we have to leave as if we're going to progress past just punishing people and expecting that to get anything done according to deputy chief mark perot's so this makes the question can we start seeing any of this leniency for the pleads made an illegal u. turn in the dark three hundred dollars fine driving drunk while a cop don't do that again also better check your parking meter that traffic cop is known to tase people all ticketing and he'

i'm humbled to be the first los angeles city councilmember elected to congress since ed roybal-allard almost 50 years ago. -- ed roybal almost 50 years ago. my father, kenny, represented los angeles for more than 50 years. my brother is now superior court judge. my dad taught us serving others is a calling. it requires honesty, hard work and most importantly, the courage to do the right thing. in 1961 a young and controversial civil rights leader named martin luther king jr. came to los angeles for his very first visit. and not a single elected official wanted to greet or welcome him. except for one, my father. and that's where i got my political courage. and we know that americans are counting on us now more than ever to solve their problems and working together with courage and in good faith i believe we can and we will. this past week i experienced a wonderful victory but also a profound loss. my dear, sweet mother passed away unexpectedly the day before the election. she was the driving force behind our family, and this is the first accomplishment i've ever had and not been able t

los angeles jail. they're all related and all maybes from the southern california city of realto. we have new information. kimberly terry spoke with stow's family. but we begin with george kiriyama with the arrest and what else we learned about the investigation. george? >> reporter: raj, we're learn thing evening a little bit more about the suspects charged with beating up brian stow. this right here is the felony complaint we received tonight. in it counts four and five say suspect louis sanchez has been charged with attacking two other fans, a man and woman, at dodger stadium on the same day. and court records show sanchez and the other suspect in the case have a violent past. lapd chief charlie beck and the los angeles mayor are convinced this time they made the right arrest. >> every single one of us wanted to do everything we can to bring these people to justice, and i believe that that's why we're here today, to say the process worked. >> reporter: three people have been arrested, two have been charged in the beating of giants fan brian stow. 30-year-old marvin norwood and

he has ties to daly city, los angeles and north hollywood. and authorities believe he may be hiding in one of those places. his mother, 85-year-old doris goldberg, is considered endangered because she has alzheimer's disease and dementia and can't care for herself. he's believed to be driving a gold 1996 oldsmobile four door sedan with a license plate on the screen. >>> san francisco will unveil how it plans to deal with transfer of state inmates to local jail. the realignment is part of the state's plan to save money by releasing thousands of nonviolent and low level offenders. san francisco is set to get about 700 new inmates. the city will receive money from the state to help pay for the cost of housing of those inmates. realignment set to begin in september. >>> profootball fans across the country will be watching closely a meeting in atlanta today. nfl owners and executives are holding a special meeting on the 4 month old lockout. there are growing signs they could reach an agreement with the players by the end of the day. a new contract

city says drivers can ignore those tickets. >>> bill mar >>> red light runners caught on camera in los angeles are being told to throw out theirkets. even though the same cameras are used in one bay area city, residents there still have to pay up. >> reporter: with a flash an a click of the camera, south san francisco will collect $460. the red light cameras work here says chief mahoney. >> i think they improve savety over safety in the city. >> reporter: los angeles uses the same company and officials are now telling red light runners to ignore the ticket s if they receive one. that's because judges in l.a. don't enforce the fines. but south san francisco police review evidence from the cameras and turn it over to the courts. >> the fines go directly to the courts. the courts handle all the fines and we're reimbursed, we get a portion of every citation written through the courts. >> reporter: the clusters of red light cameras keep a steady eye. drivers have strong opinions about the cameras. >> the last issue was they were giving people their money back who had already paid them because there was a glitch in the system so i d

i'm humbled to be the first los angeles city councilmember elected to congress since ed roybal-allard almost 50 years ago. -- ed roybal almost 50 years ago. my father, kenny, represented los angeles for more than 50 years. my brother is now superior court judge. my dad taught us serving others is a calling. it requires honesty, hard work and most importantly, the courage to do the right thing. in 1961 a young and controversial civil rights leader named martin luther king jr. came to los angeles for his very first visit. and not a single elected official wanted to greet or welcome him. except for one, my father. and that's where i got my political courage. and we know that americans are counting on us now more than ever to solve their problems and working together with courage and in good faith i believe we can and we will. this past week i experienced a wonderful victory but also a profound loss. my dear, sweet mother passed away unexpectedly the day before the election. she was the driving force behind our family, and this is the first accomplishment i've ever had and not been able t

. >> los angeles is a really fun city or chicago. >> i would go to london because i've never been therea lot of my camp counselors are from there. i'd love to go visit them. >> i know where i'd like to go. wherever shia labouf is. for "teen kids news," i'm sam. >>> this season we were invited to do some behind the scenes reporting on the new york yankees. here's this week's segment. >> tyler here with the field report. today we're getting a tour of yankee stadium with tony morante. let's go check it out. >> how's it going? tyler. >> good morning, tyler. how you doing? >> good, nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you! we're going to visit some sites, like the museum, monument park, and talk a lot about yankee history, and !ç whatever else comes along. >> great. >> right now we're in the museum. this is where we have some of the artifacts and memorabilia. you'll see the trophies. trophies didn't come about until 1967, and the tiffiny people introduced them. we're very proud of the fact that we do have seven in all. great ball players, icons, legends that have contributed to them. i started