i have done extensive work with law enforcement, with the lapd and the los angeles county sheriff's. i am here to tell you that crime has been driven down in los angeles because of their efforts, but not only because of their efforts. so what does the collaboration look like. i want you to keep some ideas in mind. there is no first among equals. what we learned in los angeles was that oppression alone was not the answer. it did not work. there were record highs in gang violence in 2005. i want to tell you what has happened between 2005 and 2012. number one, the grass roots -- the disorganize, fragmented, passionate grass roots must be part of this. the community members who go to county supervisors meetings, the members who pass out fliers, the youths who have been in the juvenile justice system that are now part of the coalition -- those individuals must have a seat at the table. no. 2. community-based organizations. that operate on a shoestring and often without any kind of coverage anywhere. they must be legitimized and made part of the conversation. i have witnessed this with home

los angeles county is a land of sprawling development. with development comes hundreds of square miles of concrete, leaving no way for water to naturally soak into the ground. in areas of such widespread urbanization, flooding can be devastating. man: back in early 1930s, there was a flooding that took a lot of lives and property. 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 wa

the los angeles county sheriff's department says the man was not arrested and went in voluntarily for questioning. he has a prior conviction on bank fraud charges. authorities are looking into his role in producing the video may have violated terms of his probation. four americans died in attack on u.s. consulate in libya shortly after the video was posted, including ambassador chris stevens. >>> eight people were arrested and six officers injured in protests against the antimuslim film in sydney, australia. witnesses say up to 500 people marched in the streets before getting into a confrontation with police in front of the u.s. consulate. police used pepper spray and tear gas to break up protests. >>> two people died and at least 40 people were hurt when protesters stormed the u.s. embassy in tunisia. the embassy was not staffed at the time of the attack. >>> antiamerican protests have now spread to about 20 countries, from the middle east and north africa all the way to australia. you are looking at a map right now of where the demonstrations have taken place. the state department s

>> new koula was taken away from his home in serrado's in the wee hours of the morning by a los angeles county sheriff's he has not returned folks in this community have questions. early this morning under the cover of darkness wearing a scarf over his face in the koula the sea lee etna koula left his family and a community with questions >>> we don't want trouble in our community >>> p. d. robinson is concern that the man's film which has sparked protests in the middle east may have brought unwanted attention to her community >>> it does not show respect for someone who's supposed to be a profit i can see what people are upset >>> his home answer rios it's quiet cars parked haphazardly industry groceries boil inside and no one answers. the lack of activity did not stop the activity from talking to neighbors and neighbors expressing their views and wondering where he is >>> no one has been arrested no one detained no one in custody >>> he was questioned by federal officers for 30 minutes and then released he's under probation for a bank fraud conviction part of that release means not accessing

nd the anti-is a movlam >> he was interviewed in los angeles county. he is linked to the movie. the question is whether he has violated his five-year probation. >> hallie jackson, thank you. >> a deadly fire in northwest baltimore on woodland avenue. kim dacey is live with the latest on the search for a cause. >> good morning. the two firefighters that were injured suffered non-life- threatening injuries. one was burnedy his ear. the other was shocked by a downed power line. firefighters found heavy smoke when they got to the 2900 block of woodland avenue in northwest baltimore just after 5:00 on sunday morning. three people were able to escape the burning home. but one man did not. they think he was overcome with the heavy smoke. his body was found on the first floor. his family is trying to deal with the loss. >> it is just a hurting thing right now. yeah. we were supposed to met him over at the ravens game. we take turns at each other's house, having the ravens game. he won't be there. >> investigators will be back out this morning trying to determine what caused the fire and

we begin with developing news in southern california fast-moving wildfire in los angeles county started this afternoon has scorched 3,600 a. the williams fire sparked at 230 in the angeles national forest, campgrounds that typically host 12,000 visitors have also been cleared, the fire 5% contained. a round-the-clock work on dumbarton bridge pays off if it could reopen earlier than the scheduled 5:00 a.m. tuesday time reporter don knapp has more. >>> no surprises so far everything going according to plan, what they have done has cut off the concrete ramp from the steel bridge above it left a big coal now they put it back together and tried to get it completed by tuesday morning. near-perfect weather helps workers move at with seismic work on dumbarton to complete work that was done memorial day weekend. crews are also doing other work such as painting and electrical fixtures and selling pot holes. >>> we have done reconfiguration on the carpool lane now will be open for fast track before only open during car pool hours now open the entire day for fast track use >>> the main reason the c

pair of the planes are in los angeles just m time for fire season. >> no metropolitan fire department in the world has the fire fighting aircraft capability that los angeles countys. >>reporter: at news conference in van nice today la county officials announced the arrival of the planes which are on lease to the county from the canadian government. the county also leases an erickson sky crane helicopter capable of dropping 1800 gallon of water. here from september to december at cost of 5 million dollars. >> we hope for the best but we are prepared for the worst. having these firefighting aircraft here gives us the confidence that we can attack just about any fire. >>reporter: when it kilometers to fire on state land the california budget has taken a toll. this can dump 12,000 gallon of retardant. cal fire has to cut 80 million dollars over the past two years. so this year it is having to share the dc 10 with u.s. forest service which means it might be used elsewhere even as a fire burns locally but even with cuts at the state level, cal fire still has the largest fleet of firefightersing aircraft in the nation. county e prepared for whether could be a dangerous

. >> every gang in los angeles county ends up coming here.nd we just don't have enough places to segregate everybody and keep them from assaulting each other. and if you get one group that has superior numbers over the other and something sparks off a fight, it's going to be on. >> officials at the los angeles county jail told us racially segregated gangs are responsible for most of the violence including riots, like this one captured on surveillance tape. but we met one inmate who blames the problem on the system. >> i never wanted to get involved in racial problems. when i went to prison, i didn't hate blacks. i didn't hate mexicans. i didn't hate indians. i didn't hate anybody like that. but when you go to these prisons and by the time you do ten years like me, if you're even halfway sane, it's a miracle. >> vanjlis garafolo was awaiting trial for the attempted murder of five police officers while on parole for an earlier conviction of voluntary manslaughter. >> the date i met vanjlis garafolo it was like meeting hannibal lecter with shack

referees take the field we begin with developing news in southern california all wild fire in los angeles county has scorched 3,600 a. the williams fire sparked around in the angeles national forest 1500 people evacuated campgrounds that post up to 12,000 visitors have been cleared. the fire 5% contained. the round-the-clock work on dumbarton bridge is paying off a cut opened earlier than the scheduled 5:00 a.m. tuesday time reporter don knapp has more. >>> it is the weather, the bay bridge crews are used to the cold windy foggy weather this week and it is calm and mild i think that as it helped to get the bridge work done. near-perfect weather helps workers move ahead with seismic work on the dumbarton like last time crews take advantage of the close bridge to do other work such as painting a logical fixtures and patching potholes absorbing and do crash absorbent cushion >>> it is going to be open for fast track before that was open only door and car pool hours now will be open for fast track use >>> they are replacing a seismic joint the weekend began vacaville joins out >>> we're preparing fo

. >> reporter: 35-year-old ronald fuller was convicted of murdering a cab driver in los angeles county in july of 1982. the cab driver was found in the trunk of his cab, shot once execution style in the left temple. but according to his attorney, ron fuller had been in and out of ten mental hospitals in his life and does not belong on death row. his case is on appeal. with executions being on the news, the nights have gotten a lot scarier. >> i listen to men talk in their sleep. i listen to men after executions pray. i can hear them pray to god. forgive me, forgive me. you know i didn't mean this, i didn't mean that. god you know my heart, you know what happened, you know what happened to me. now don't let them execute me. i wake up in the middle of the night in cold sweat. >> reporter: fuller has tried twice to take his life. >> i slashed my wrist. five days after my arrival to death row i attempted suicide with a 125 pills. someone asked me what was the difference between putting you in the gas chamber and you taking your own life at that time. the difference is first degree premedit

los angeles county police caught up, an 80-minute 40-mile chase in south los angeles.rsuit, two bailed and then were quickly fault. the remaining two decided to get the neighborhood involved, win over the people. win the battle for public opinion by throwing money out the window. first just a few bills tossed. eventually the crooks were throwing handfuls of cash into the streets, making it rain from a v mog vehicle. as the suv sped into the narrow residential neighborhoods of south l.a., the suspects became almost strategic, they waited until crowds gathered on the curbs before throwing a another wad of crash, sending police swerving. in the end, traffic got the best of them as it always will in l.a. they pulled the men from the car and arrested them. onlookers swarmed the scene with the crowd swelling to hundreds in minutes some locals hailed the robbers as robin hoods. captain mike parker did not agree. he told an nbc affiliate, i can't imagine they did this for the good of the community. good call. >>> you remember the big bear hug president obama received from flor

and last night, about midnight, los angeles county sheriff's deputies took him to a -- a federal facility, apparently, to go see his probation officer, and it sounds like there was more than one probation officer there. they wanted to chat with him and see if there was anything he has done in the last months or years to go over the bounds of his probation. the one part that seems to stick out is that he is not supposed to be on line in any way or use any devices that can get on line without a prior approval from his probation officer. so now, we wait and see if that meeting last night turns into a full-on probation hearing, which they could either then revoke his probation or change it somehow, fred. >> yes, and have they revealed in any way what that potential penalty could be if they were to revoke the probation, or to change it? >> it depends on the seriousness. they -- really, it is a very fast process from what i can tell. and it depends, the judge who actually ordered him in prison and then probation to begin with would actually hear the case, if possible. and then they could do any

this is video shot outside what is believed to be the los angeles county home of the 55- year-old. he is a coptic christian with a criminal past. they are now looking into if he violated the terms of his five- year probation. >>> today white house press secretary wide in on all the violence in the middle east and the movie that the administration said caused it. >> this is not a film that the united states government had anything to do with. we reject its message and content. we find it disgusting. >> reporter: he went onto say there is no justification for responding to the movie with violence. you will find continuing coverage of this story on air and online. go to the website. then click on the attack tab near the top of the page. >> a judge sentenced a man to 30 years jail for plotting to blow up the capitol building. he pled guilty in june to trying to use a weapon of mass destruction against federal property. he was arrested in february at a garage he was carrying a vest he thought had explosives. an undercover agent has provide that fake vest. investigator was tipped off abo

. >>> you could say that traffic was bear on the 210 freeway in los angeles county yesterday thanks toear that was out for a stroll. the black bear wandered out of the national forest forcing them to shut down that freeway. residents were also put on alert after the bear was seen hanging out near a nail sa long. game agents eventually trang wi liezed the bear and return it to the forest. . >>> our meet rols is here and we've been talking about cool mornings. . >>> it's nice and warm even a little hot in some areas today. some of us topped out about 90 degrees, some of those inland areas like antioch, livermore. the delta breeze finally blowing this morning. westerly wind in fairfield 18 miles an hour, west northwest at about 60 miles per hour and in san jose it is 12. we are looking at an on shore breeze that will stay with us for tomorrow. a week system could bring temperatures down just slightly tomorrow in some cases then bounce back up with a warm up. 78 in livermore right now, 68 around the bay, oakland as well as san francisco, a nice evening settling into napa, 71 for you. 81 st

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the 55-year-old was questioned over the weekend by the los angeles county sheriff's department. he says he's in fear of his life. the filmmaker telling the sheriff's office he's not going home. >>> we move on tonight here to that alleged home grown terror plot. an 18-year-old accused of trying to detonate a car bomb in the middle of chicago. police say he actually pulled the trigger, but he'd been setup. here's abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: the target, the heart of downtown chicago. the mission? to blow up a bar full of customers at one of the busiest times. during happy hour. the fbi says adel daoud had been praying to kill as many people as possible before he parked a jeep cherokee that he thought was full of explosives, just after 7:00 p.m. friday. they said he got out of the car, walked a block away from the bar and began squeezing on a trigger that he thought would detonate a car bomb. but the bomb was a fake. it was a sting and the fbi put him in handcuffs. daoud lived only a short distance away in this suburban neighborhood. his ne

the proposition 36 is by the district resistivities go, santa clara county and los angeles county near implementing this policy for over a dozen years the crime is down in most counties. so it's been tested and it works. it is reasonable and the smallest on affect the people who been committed nonviolent crimes. >>> we'll have the no on proposition 36 campaign talk about this and next half-hour. >>> the surface could giants are flying high loss night. >>> a pink flag for the oakland athletics. we have sports coming up next in our half hounext. >>> we hope it never happens when getting on a throw right. it broke down on wednesday. two people were tinkling 300 ft. in the air. all six rights immunize kids in canada have been ordered shut down. the rights mfg. will figure out what is causing that to stop and make people hang. in wednesday's break down was the second and last month. >>> with a moment of celebration for the giants and the fans and players are head >>> give the champions of the national league west. and here's more in sports. >>> and last night a certain special as two weeks

that fire started monday in the los angeles county area.o structures have burned but a number of popular campgrounds were evacuated to keep roads open for fire crews. officials say it'll take crews at least a week to fully contain the 3,600-acre fire. >>> mark is here now. what more can you say? 49ers, packers this sunday. >> yeah it's going to be a huge bay area weekend. the dodgers and giants, raiders open on monday and the 49ers going to green bay to start things. and it's exciting but man lambeau field if you're going to play there it's nice to play in september and not with the frozen tundra. but they have not had great suck setsz. this is 2010 video when they lost to aaron rogers and the pack -- not had great success. this is 2010 video when they lost to aaron rogers and the packers. looking for a good hook up. >> playing on national tv, we're playing at home. to me that always bridges added juice to it. i feel strongly both teams will be highly motivated i know we will be. but i don't believe in building up one game bigger than the n

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los angeles county deputies came in last night late, i think because of the media out front, becauses that may have been made against him, and ot r others regarding the film. went there late last night. it was a coordinated effort with probation officers. there was more than one person that he went to. he left his home, got in the squad car and went to go talk to these officers. what next, is the big question? whether or not this guy will have a full-on probation hearing is something we'll have to see in the days ahead. >> can you tell me a little more about the viewers -- this guy, the charges, the time he spent in prison? >> yeah, he, in 2008 and 2009, the charges were brought, he was indicted in 2009. but it sounds like several years before that, this is a guy who developed a series of different aliases, names, he had documents. he had -- we count 17 different aliases he used. he had birth certificates, passports. it was unbelievable the identities he would steal, opening up accounts and using convenience checks, deposit them in an account, and take the money out with an atm to th

. >>> los angeles county sheriff deputies took 55-year-old nacula into custody this afternoon. federal authorities say he violated the terms of his probation on check fraud charges. the terms ban him from using computers or the internet without permission from his probation officer. >>> and one of the actresses in that film innocence of muslims is now suing the producer of the film. cindy lee garcia filed a lawsuit yesterday in los angeles. she claims nacula violated copyright law over her performance in the film. garcia says she was led to believe the movie was a historical adventure film called desert warrior. >>> an exclusive new ktvu poll says the majority of californias are in favor of allowing illegal immigrants to reach citizenship. 14% said illegal immigrants should be able to work in the united states but only for a limited time. and 14% said all illegal immigrants should be deported. >>> it got pretty warm inland today. temperatures went down a couple of degrees. a marine layer pinched up a couple of degrees. guess what the marine layer came up a couple of degrees so

. >>> los angeles county sheriff deputies took 55-year-old nacula into custody this afternoon. federal authorities say he violated the terms of his probation on check fraud charges. the terms ban him from using computers or the internet without permission from his probation officer. >>> and one of the actresses in that film innocence of muslims is now suing the producer of the film. cindy lee garcia filed a lawsuit yesterday in los angeles. she claims nacula violated copyright law over her performance in the film. garcia says she was led to believe the movie was a historical adventure film called desert warrior. >>> an exclusive new ktvu poll says the majority of californias are in favor of allowing illegal immigrants to reach citizenship. 14% said illegal immigrants should be able to work in the united states but only for a limited time. and 14% said all illegal immigrants should be deported. >>> it got pretty warm inland today. temperatures went down a couple of degrees. a marine layer pinched up a couple of degrees. guess what the marine layer came up a couple of degrees so

created the cover for a deadly attack on us diplomats in libya, now appear to be in the hands of los angeles countyd they are not talking. associated press thursday that authorities believe that a 55-year-old coptic christian, a us citizen named nakoula basseley a convicted felon, mr. nakoula has changed his version of events numerous various news outlets he came into the police apartment, voluntarily. >> the death of the u.s. embassy member paying tribute to chris stevens. >> president barack obama is paying tribute to bay area native ambassador chris stevens and three others killed in the assault on the u.s. compound in libya, calling them patriots who served america's ideals -- and laid down their lives for others. ambassador chris stevens, 52, had close ties to the bay area. he graduated from piedmont high school in the east bay, cal-berkeley and the u.c. hastings law school in san francisco. >> today we tookobama took part in a transfer of remains ceremony in a hangar at andrews air force base, joined by vice president joe biden and secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. after meeting with

. >>> also overnight in los angeles county, the man behind the film that sparked these protests were escorted from his home by police for questioning. >>> the protests in australia and the questioning the filmmaker come in the wake of violent clashes like yemen and sedan. police sent to three places. we are covering all ang ales of the story from in the middle east to here at home. and cnn intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly is in washington. in egypt, more than 140 protesters have been arrested as egyptian security forces crack down around the u.s. embassy, so, let's bring in ian lee for us this morning, he is in cairo. have the protests let up at all there in the capital? >> earlier this morning police and security forces cracked down heavily on protesters, pushing them away from the u.s. embassy. the protesters fell back to tahrir square and the security forces pushed them out from there. right now it seems to be over. the protesters seemed to have dispersed into the city. we are not seeing them coming back. in tahrir square, we have hundreds of security forces, riot police,

his attorney says he voluntarily went with the los angeles county sheriff's deputies and he was questioned. investigators are looking into his activities since he was convicted of financial crimes. his film was partially shot in newhall, north of downtown l.a. his company, media for christ, is locked up. >>> the bodies of the four americans who died in the violence sparked by that movie are back on american soil this morning. ambassador chris stevens of piedmont are among those killed at the attack on the embassy in benghazi, libya. ♪ >> a military procession escorted their coffins to ceremonies in maryland. president obama called 52-year-old stevens everything america could want as an ambassador. secretary of state hillary clinton new him personally. >> during the revolution in libya he risked his life to help protect the libyan people from a tyrant, and he gave his life helping them build a better country. >> after yesterday's ceremonies, the bodies were sent to a military mortuary in delaware. plans for christopher stevens' funeral are pending. >>> this morning our media partner, the me

>> well, soledad, the latest is the los angeles county sheriff's department says it has interviewed 70tudents at la puente high school, and as you mentioned, four of them were taken into custody and when the sheriff's department says is they were cited and released pending a further investigation. also, one member of the school's faculty has been put on administrative leave while this investigation is ongoing. now, the sheriff's department says that there is evidence that hazing in the soccer program at la puente high school has been going on for years, and they say it may have risen to the level of criminal conduct. an attorney representing three of the boys who were allegedly victimized by this hazing says it was sort of a rite of passage for boys who made the varsity soccer team. >> they told me if i wanted to do it the easy way or the hard way, and at that moment my heart was like pounding, and like i just like kind of like blacked out, and i said -- i told them, i just remember telling them i want it the easy way. but they got me back. >> we do not and will not turn a blind eye to

we just spoke be with the los angeles county probation department. i'll quote them.id on may 17th, probation report states johnny lewis suffers from some form of chemical dependency, mental health issue and lack of permanent housing. given this, lewis will continue to be a threat to any community in which he may reside? do you agree with that? >> at the time, no and now, no. it may have turned out that way, but what was known in may about johnny was that he had two fairly minor offenses, which were fortunately not serious. and he did have a diagnosis eventually of chemically induced psycosis is not what the situation was when we talked about it with the district attorneys and judges. this was the reaction of what he did at this point was well beyond whatever was expected. so now, i don't agree with the report even though at this point in time, it may appear to be accurate. >> okay, so do you know what sorts of drugs he would use? i'm specifically referring to what appears to be doing this horrific incident that happened earlier this week, that he had tried to flee an

may have to wait on that evidence for a bit and that's because i just got off the phone with los angeles countyer's and they tell me they've completed the autopsy reports on lewis and davis. they'll have to wait about six weeks for the toxicology reports, but we do now know the cause of death for catherine davis. we're being told blunt head trauma as well as strangulation. it's been officially ruled a homicide, but one thing investigators say they're looking into is whether or not drugs may have played a part here because of the business sequence of events. you have an extremely gruesome crime scene. someone who's accused of killing his 81-year-old landlord, her cat, turning on his neighbor and a painter, then climbing the building and falling to his death and one report is whether or not lewis may have been on the so-called designer drug, it's called smiles and at a news conference today, they were asked about this. let's listen to what they had to say. >> there are several new drugs coming out after bath salts. new drugs come out all the time and young people try new drugs all the time. that'

crimes he committed at the los angeles county jail while awaiting trial on an outside murder/robbery charge that he was convinced would send him to prison for life. but when he went on trial for that original murder charge, something completely unexpected happened. >> they find me not guilty, and it righteously blew my mind. i had to laugh. the irony of it it was classic. >> knighten should have walked away as a free man, instead, he remained incarcerated until he was tried for his jailhouse murder. this time, he was found guilty and given 79 years in prison. but that murder was no random killing or crime of passion. assuming he was headed toward a life in prison anyway, he killed out of ambition. to join an organization he'd admired since childhood, the mexican mafia. >> so when you're a kid, you want to shoot for the stars. i want to be that. i want to be that guy. out on the streets, someone may want to be a ceo or own their own company, to be their own boss. you're back here, regardless, it's still power. and because of the power behind them, that being the mob, mexican mafia. >>