. >> so when we visited the los angeles county jail, it was no surprise that our cameras captured one of the many drills that test the readiness of those charged with maintaining order. >> okay, good job, guys. excellent. had a lockdown in a minute 30 seconds. >> the state of readiness when doing that drill was intense. there was tension in the air. a couple weeks pry or, someone was put in a coma from a pretty bad beating. no one was killed. >> jail is completely different than what it was 30 years ago. for one thing we have much more violence-prone inmates in our system. in the past, that was never a problem. we did not have major riots, disturbances. we did not have the races fighting against one another in the jail system. >> l.a. county jail officials told us most of that violence stems from one source. ♪ >> almost half of our jail population is street gang members and they are probably responsible for 70 to 80% of the crime that occurs in our jail. and nearly all of our murders have been gang related in one way or another. >> the gang bangers get younger every year. >> you are i

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

in court of the building wouldn't change, however, it triggers the remit that the commission los angeles county the separation of towers my ground level and bulk limitations. the revisions need to have the dwelling empower looked at. i'll be happy to discuss the variance in further daily but in conclusion the staff recommends this. the goals and objectives to concentrate dense urban context with the walking area. it's consistent with the overall transit center plan. we've received no communications or objections to this entitlement. that concludes my presentation and i'm available for questions >> thank you. project sponsor please. good evening good afternoon, commissioners i'm bob and i'm veil we're here on behalf of the reality. and we've got an architect here and our attorney >> i need to speak into this one. thank you in your packets there are things in your packets that i'll briefly review. sometimes it's good with the end in mind. this gives an image of 3 hundred and 50 feet and the nylon u underground parking shown and the red is our locations and the yellowish i am sorry are the new hou

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presenting later to the accessible parking what they can tell us about blue placards in los angeles city, los angeles county, san diego city, county, sacramento city, county. we can ask for that too. >> thank you. >> i did hear the stats for sacramento county once and it was similarly mind boggling. a lot of other cities have been struggling with this in california. >> i just want to let you know that the vice chair of california commission on disability access and he has let me know that he's interested in what the commission's recommendations are going to be. that's a state body that is also taking a look at reck men recommendations that this advisory is putting forward. >> they gave us positive oral comments about our program. >> does anybody know what he thought of this program -- >> he likes it. >> let's open it up to public comment? any members of the public that would like to make any comments on item six? seeing none, public comment is closed. i'd just like to weigh in. i do like this. i like the fact -- one thing is -- about having to pay for the meter space, that's only fair because it is the turn

there have been other counties in los angeles county and other counties who are considering it. >> why have they not adopted the law. what is it about forced treatment and the consequences for an allowing refusing treatment. we have a panel who have a knowledge of this subject in some cases because of their professional endeavors and in some cases because of personal experiences and in some cases, both. let me introduce them. karen chen is an attorney manager for the san francisco public defenders office, kathy, whose son battled mental illness, can is a subject treatment expert for the medical center. danny is the associate director for the serial neeb breet program for the city of san diego. and san francisco chief of police. gary is a psychiatrist and laura's law advocate and eduardo vega of the mental health association of san francisco. let me start by opposing a question to karen chen from the public defenders office. karen, can you -- how about if you start by giving us an overview of how the city handles this conflict between treatment and civil liberties. >> an involuntary hol

introduced at the los angeles county museum of art this weekend. by leonardo decaprio. it will be out on warn are home videos for the holidays. burning like the heart after rebel. on the hot list. >> james dean is the interessential romantic movie idol. >> romance is often born out of bore dom. >> romantic movies and their literary counter parts on the break down. >> do you want to dance with me? >> sure. >> "the notebook" is one of the best selling books by nicholas sporks. here are movies we bet you didn't know came from novels. >> you look nice. >> thank you. >> i wasn't flirting with you. >> didn't think you were. >> ""silver linings playbook"" but then the film based on his debut novel. >> she is my friend with an f. >> capital f. >> next, "princess bride." >> marriage brought windsor together today. >> william goldman wrote the book in 197 p. >> oh, no, is this a kissing book? >> 14 years before men everywhere said -- >> keith led >> heath ledger and ladies and gentlemen of the jury jill jake -- and jake gyllenhaal had everybody going on "broke back mountain." >>

i'm from los angeles county and let me tell you bail schedules are very high out there. but we work with the families, co-workers, and employers that want that person out of jail where they can continue to flourish in their society. the issue of -- well the pretrial is there is a misconception about which is fair and which isn't fair. i have to say for the sake of public safety, we offer a little bit of the bjs study that our statistics is true because we incorporate other people with a part of the skim in the game, if you will, the family and members and we do a better job of seeing people return to court. we don't judge, we just return them to court and make their appearances. >> there are a lot of organizations throughout the state that, you know, kind of pull their resources together to be able to engaged in some lobbying, i think it true for some associations and there is some lobbying for the california's association. do you know how much your organization spends on lobbying? >> we don't even have a paid lobbyist. but the sure ityty company there is a guess. i have

a los angeles county judge order him gaoled without bail until jan.e helped to found pink berry but is no longer involved with the company. >> the monthly jobs report came out friday. it turned out to be an october surprise for economists. they have been specting weaker numbers because of the shutdown. patricia has more on what the number tells us. >> reporter: the 16-day shutdown was expected to dent a job markets. u.s. businesses stuck to hiring plans, adding 204,000 jobs in october - blowing away estimates. the unemployment rate edged up slightly to 7.3%. more worrying the percentage of working age people participating in the labour force fell to 62.8%, signalling discouragement against the long-term unemployed. >> the best remedy to address labour force participation is to grow the economy. that's why the president is talking about investing in road infrastructure, passing immigration reform. as we create the jobs coming from those investments you'll get more people back in the workforce. >> the job market is still suffering - a lack of higher pay

los angeles, from mobile sources -- automobile. schoumacher: but how was the epa supposed to elimate smog from a city where the car is king? countyvisor kenneth hahn had been wrestling with the problem for years. well, people in los angeles loved cars. uh, you grew up liking cars. you'd go over to a high school, you'll see more cars in the parking lot than you do bicycles. los angeles county has got five million trucks, buses, automobiles, motorcycles, and motor vehicles polluting the air. we're in a big garage. no wonder here, on certain days, the people will say the smog is harmful to their health. it is. a neighboring community turned around and sued los angeles, saying, "you're dumping on us." what was that all about? yeah, it was riverside. it is just north of los angeles, where -- this was back in the early '70s -- the parents of the children who couldn't play football in the afternoon because the smog levels were so high that they were ordered indoors finally got agitated enough that they sued the city, they sued the federal government. i was ordered by a court out there to impose, as the clean air act told me to, a transp

and all of the agencies that came in, whether it's from los angeles county sheriff's department, lapd's on campus with us every day and works hand in hand, hawthorne, the sheriffs, everybody came in to help us get through this particular incident. and we appreciate their help. >> chief, how far -- >> the tsa agent, why are you not addressing that? why are you not -- you must have that information. >> no, that's -- >> he's putting an official on it. >> that's not true. one, i don't know that information at all. we have obviously trying to develop information on the suspect. that's the fbi's responsibility as well as help from the los angeles police department and their follow-up to the investigation and is that will be determined. but if you're asking me whether or not that information is clear right at this point, i'm telling you it's not. that's the official word. that's the truth. >> i'm sorry? >> do you believe it might be a tsa employee? >> no. >> how far into the terminal did the shooter get? >> very far back into a terminal. there's a burger king quite aways away from the screenin

. >> pelley: today in a first the >> pelley: late today, the los angeles county coroner released its dings in the death of gerardo hernandez, a t.s.a. officer shot in that attack on los angeles international airport. the l.a. police had started an investigation into whether hernandez had been allowed to bleed to death in the 30 minutes before he was evacuated but tonight the coroner's report found that hernandez died within two to five minutes of being shot. we'll be right back. and that relief could be in your hand. for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn symptoms from acid reflux disease. find out how you can save at purplepill.com. there is risk of bone fracture and low magnesium levels. side effects may include headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. if you have persistent diarrhea, contact your doctor right away. other serious stomach conditions may exist. avoid if you take clopidogrel. for many, relief is at hand. ask your doctor about nexium. imany cold medicines may raisee your blood pressure. that's why there's coricidin hbp it relieves cold symptoms without raising blood pr

continually thank our partners that came yesterday - obviously from the los angeles police department, california highway patrol, los angeles county sheriff's department. hawthorn police department. el sacondo all the agencies that came quickly to help us out. again today, in our enhanced deployment for los angeles world airport and in addition to our airport police officers here every day, los angeles police department committed additional resources. this morning i met with federal airmarshals. they are providing resources for us and every agency has offered resources to us if they are needed. and i'm very, very grateful for that. our whole posture for security is high profile. we have a security strategy that we employ every day. obviously today and for the foreseeable future we'll our high profile at the curbs, and anywhere in those ticketing areas, and anywhere on our campuses. as i talked about a little yesterday, or i said yesterday about how proud i am of the airport police officers who responded to this incident, this did not hesitate for one moment, and confronted an armed and dangerous individual. some people have asked

shopping center ended an hour ago with a suspected robber taking his own life according to the los angeles countyafternoon. witnesses say that the man had robbed a pharmacy, then barricaded himself in a verizon store. no one was inside the store, but the shoppers were evacuated from the shopping center, no one else hurt. >>> 140 million people are predicted to shop this weekend. the national retail federation thinks holiday sales will go up nearly 4% this year to $602 billion. last year sales were up 3.5%. online sales are projected to go up even more this black friday. ibm digital benchmark predicts a 9.7% increase from last year, 21% of that coming from people shopping on their smartphones. others want to spend their cash at local businesses. we have the story from jacqueline square with a different kind of shopping center. >> reporter: oaklanders call it plaid friday to represent the diversity of all the independent shops here. shoppers are encouraged to spend on local businesses. forget the flat screens and fistfights of black friday. this is oakland's own version of the day after thanksgivin

and there are few places that need that kind of risk assessment more than the los angeles county jail system. terry mcdonald is the assistant sheriff of l.a. county, and until recently the head of risk assessment for the state of california. >> the state of california uses the california static risk assessment tool. >> what is that? >> that tool is an actuarial tool that takes information from an offender's rap sheet. their arrest history. and it downloads that information into a data base system. from that it pops out a score for the offender that predicts their risk of reconviction, rearrest. >> california has a much more sophisticated risk assessment program than the l.a. jail system, has granted early release to over 26,000 inmates so far this year because of extreme overcrowding. usually, these inmates, who qualify, for instance, those not in for violent crimes, get released after serving only 40% of their sentence. some after serving only 10%. >> if the system has to release early, it should be based on risk. you know, we do it based on percentage of time served. and it's becaus

this comes after a landlord decided against supporting the man's move to northern los angeles county. hubbart was committed to a state mental hospital nearly two decades ago. known as the pillow case rapist, he's admitted tohis attacks took place in l-a county from 1971 to 19-72. and in the south bay from 19-80 to 19-82. and an attack outside a san jose middle ll still be released, but not before a state contractor searches for a different location. >> the family of 13-year-old andy lopez plans to file a civil rights lawsuit monday against sonoma county. lopez is the 13-year-old shot and killed by a deputy.who spotted him carrying an assault rifle, which turned out to be a replica. the family claims that deputy erick gelhaus shot lopez without cause. and says the department did not properly train deputies in such situations. the county has not commented. we'll continue to follow the case. the family's attorney has scheduled a news conference for monday. you can get updates on our facebook and twitter pages, on kron four-dot-com, and on our new mobile app. >> parking area. germany and

a man with a gun has barricaded himself inside of a verizon wireless store in los angeles county. it's happening the community of la crescenta north of glendale. no one else believed to be inside but l.a. county sheriff has evacuated all nearby businesses in the strip mall. all of this started around 4:00 this afternoon. >> break news involving a twist in the bait battle between bart and unions. we broke on twitter we've learned unions about to sue bart for voting to approve the contract without a disputed clause. we are live at the daily city bart station. >> reporter: there is a high powered attorney brought ton owe and handle the suit. they have support of the central labor council on this move. it's not about getting the clause put back in, it's about protecting collective bargain proing -- process going forward. >> a lawsuit is not the way to resolve this. no one wins but lawyers >> reporter: after months of negotiations and two worker deaths on the tracks, it appeared bart and unioned union. section 4.8 giving up to six weeks paid family leave. bart voted in november to prov