. >> reporter: if it seems political mudslinging is getting worse, a point in case could be this mailer sent thursday to homes in santa clara county district 4. it likens candidate oliverio to harvey weinstein and roy moore. >> the mailers were below the belt tactics to derail the campaign. >> reporter: friday afternoon, about three dozen supporters, mostly women, gathered at a willow glen home to defend the former councilman and decry the current state of politics. >> we talk about the politics in washington, d.c. being terrible. they are here in our own backyard. >> our national discourse is just get if the mud and wallow. -- just get in the mud and walled low. >> reporter: opponents say it's justified following a sexual harassment suit in 2014. although san jose settled for $10,000 and the plaintiff dropped oliverio from the suit, his former chief of staff claimed he sexually harassed her multiple times. some of his alleged statements? my mother was hoping that all hope was not lost for you and i to have a baby together. >> we can't put him in office and wait for the other shoe to dr

. >> reporter: if it seems political mudslinging is getting worse, a point in case could be this mailer sent thursday to homes in santa clara county district 4. it likens candidate oliverio to harvey weinstein and roy moore. >> the mailers were below the belt tactics to derail the campaign. >> reporter: friday afternoon, about three dozen supporters, mostly women, gathered at a willow glen home to defend the former councilman and decry the current state of politics. >> we talk about the politics in washington, d.c. being terrible. they are here in our own backyard. >> our national discourse is just get if the mud and wallow. >> reporter: owe.-- in the mud and wallow. >> reporter: opponents say it's justified following a sexual harassment suit in 2014. although san jose settled for $10,000 and the plaintiff dropped oliverio from the suit, his former chief of staff claimed he sexually harassed her multiple times. some of his alleged statements? my mother was hoping that all hope was not lost for you and i to have a baby together. >> we can't put him in office and wait for the other shoe t

a point in case could be this mailer sent thursday to homes in santa clara county district four.likens candidates to harvey weinstein and roy moore. >> the recent mailers were below the belt tactics to try to derail the campaign. >> friday afternoon, about three dozen oliverio supporters , the vast majority women, gathered at a willow glen home to defend the former councilman, and decried the current state of politics. >> we talk about the politics in washington dc being terrible. they are here in our own backyard. our national discourse is just to get in the mud and wallah. >> opponents say the political fire is justified, following a sexual harassment suit in 2014. although san jose settled for $10,000, and the plaintiff dropped oliverio from the suit, his former chief of staff claimed he sexually harassed her multiple times. of his alleged statements, my mother was hoping that all hope was not lost for you and i to have a baby together. >> we cannot put him in office and wait for the other shoe to drop. it makes him unfit for public office. >> representatives of thousands of v

how many judges want to come home one day and find this political mailer addressed to their wife?and this mailer accuses the judge of failing to protect his community. >> the sentencing of stamford swimmer brock turner for six months for raping a firestorm of criticism that led to the recall effort. he said he was surprised at the amount of backlash. he also said that it was his first instinct to remain silent in the face of criticism. he said judges should zip it and take the heat. he said he is only speaking out now because he is afraid such a recall effort will hurt the judicial process in california in the long run. he says the last recall effort or the last successful recall of a sitting judge in california happened 86 years ago, so this would be a first in a very long time. reporting live, len ramirez. back to you. >>> san francisco 49ers linebacker ruben foster just pleaded not guilty to felony domestic violence charges. he was back in a san jose courtroom this morning, in a case related to his february arrest for allegedly beating up his former girlfriend. a woman has sinc

the campaigns for and against pierre oliverio are taking place with aggressive mailers at the core. women supporter also gathered today to publicly condemn what they called a disgusting mailer to disgraced harvey weinstein and congressional candidate moore. he emphasized there were no accusations of physical contact and denied allegations of verbal harassment. he was removed from a harassment lawsuit after a settlement with the city and a so-called non-disparaging agreement. >> i intend to honor that agreement. therefore, i can say no more about the lawsuit or the plaintiff. >> i think the unions will do anything they need to do to try to eliminate an independent person from running for the county board of supervisors. >> reporter: but his detractors argue the comparison to other harassers is appropriate for evaluating a potential supervisor. they claim among other things he said a staffer was, quote, unpredictable like a woman. >> the words are creepy and repugnant. no woman should go to work and be subjected to being called names. >> reporter: opponents point out a recent ad by th

. >> if it seems political mud slinging is getting worse, a point could be this mailer, sent thursdayfour. to harvey weinstein and alabama politician roy moore. >> the recent mailers were just below the belt tactic to try to derail campaigns. >> friday afternoon, about three dozen oliverio supporters, the vast majority of women gathered at a willow glen home to defend the candidate. >> we talk about the politics in washington, d.c. being terrible. they are here in our own backyard. >> our national discourse is just to get in the mud and wallow. >> oliverio's opponent says the political flyer is justified. although san jose settled for $10,000, and the plaintiff dropped oliverio from the suit, his former chief of staff claimed he sexually harassed her multiple times. some of the alleged statements, my mother was hoping all hope was not lost for you and i have to have a baby together. >> we can't put him in the office and wait for the other shoe to drop. >> make him unfit for public office. >> reporter: unions representing thousands of voters have called on oliverio to bow out of the ra

. >> how many judges want to come home one day and find this political mailer addressed to their wife the judge of failing to protect his community. >> reporter: persky did not talk about the specifics of the turner case because it is still under appeal but he did cite the california commission on judicial performance finding that the ruling was within the law and his discretion. he said organizations that looked into his judicial record found no patterns of bias. at first he said he tried to weather the storm and not answer his critics but now with the recall judicial independence is now on the line. >> the recall, if successful, threatens the integrity of our justice system. >> reporter: persky said the judicial recall should only be reserved for cases of incompetence or misconduct, not lawful decisions that happen to be unpopular. if it is successful he would be the first judge recalled in california in 86 years. in palo alto, kpix 5 news. >> judge persky's critics were request i can to respond. oregoners of the recall say -- oregoners of -- organizers of recall say the words will

. >> how many judges want to come home one day and find this political mailer addressed to their wife? >> reporter: persky said the commission evaluated his decision in the brock turner case and rejected claims of bias. now he's hoping voters will reject efforts to remove him from the bench. nbc bay area news. >>> thousands more workers join day two of the uc medical workers drive. the service workers want a 10% pay raise over the next five years and they say they want to feel dignified. >> it is not about money. we just feel like we're left behind. we're fighting for equality. that's what it is. >> for the people needing medical care, the strike has delayed 12,000 appointments. it is on a case by case basis. >>> pg & e is preparing for a disaster. the utility company opened a response center at its headquarters in san francisco. seven months after the north bay wildfires, they said it will be the nerve center for responding to wildfires anywhere in the service area. >> this is where key decisions will be made. >> someone to turn off power to a community to prevent wind blown wires fr

we have one district where a republican is so worried about a , he is a sending mailers in the democratic primary trying to get a no name opponent. he clearly is worried. the different prognosticators only account for so much. we havehe best things going is a group of republican who aredered candidates overconfident and flat-footed. i think that is how you win elections. you surprised people and outwork them. host: let's take some calls. we are speaking with david pepper until my :00 this morning -- until 9:00 this morning. jane from newark, ohio, go ahead. >> good morning. ticket straight democrat in 2016. donaldave gotten is trump wanting money. i get that in the mail all the time. how come? i voted democrat. while i getting republican? -- why am i getting republican? david: the caller should know that she is referring to, and ohio, a hugen battle is taking place between the john kasich wing and the trump wing. it's playing out in the statehouse, congressional elections, and the governor's office. i cannot explain to you but it sounds like they are wasting money sending you mail. don't

you might have seen the ads or the mailers. those supporting the measure raised and spent $3 million. the first ban on flavored tobacco and vaping products last year. >>> still to come, they are calling him a real life spider man who scaled a building in seconds to save a child dangling from a balcony. the unbelievable video next. res. this is cell phone video of a man dubbed "spiderman." >>> dramatic new video of that heroic rescue in paris. look. this is cell phone video of a man that's now dubbed spiderman. it happened over the weekend. this man climbed five stories to save a 4-year-old boy dangling from that balcony. you can see the child there. the man moved to france from mali back in september. he is an undocumented immigrant. today you can see he het with the president of france, macron, who offered him full french citizenship, and a job as a firefighter. incredible, he leaped those stories there to save that child. >>> watched this video over and over all day. it is amazing. i'm so glad the boy is okay to. but oh, my g

he is angry that the mailers guarantee housing to veterans and senior measure b would transform 204 erics for up to 910 residential units and preempt the existing general plan developed with public input that preserves open space. process the councilmember representing the area doesn't believe veterans will benefit. >> not even one home will go to any veterans. this initiative is misleading. misguided and just plain wrong. >> a campaign organizer for yes on measure b disagrees. >> there are services and facilities built into this program into this development to help veterans. and my question is why would we do that if we're not going to house veterans. >> the language of the initiative talks about 20% of the housing will be available at below market rates for seniors. but only the veterans will get a preference for affordable housing. >> our veterans deserve the truth. not to be exploited, not to be misled, but to be told the truth. >> when voters go to the polls next month they will see measure b is labeled a senior housing initiative but it's unclear whether or not the developers would

norman mailer who had to rusted out hips and he was going around on crutches and john, i kinda made funof him he was pushing 60 which really isn't all that old and so i had the perfect title, my three stooges. a stooge on stage is someone who sets up the lines for the comedian. i said this is all they've done. they've set up lines for the comedian, but a lot of people never forgive that. they also happen to think it was brilliantly funny but people thought i made a terrible gaffe by saying what i really meant. this is not true of many, but when a politician says what he really means, that's aghast. they say he should've known better than that. the reason i have a long distance love of joe biden is that there was a big outbreak of some disease in mexico, very contagious. the camera thect exact disease and he was asked by a reporter, if you had a daughter that went there, would you advise your daughter to go toe mexico tomorrow and he said hell no. the denunciations of him telling the simple truth were unbelievable. you have to honor the politicians like that. officially, this program is

are looking for alternatives to third party reports because there was some discussion about doing a mailer which would be a report issued by this body to the public, but they decided that would be onerous administratively and in budget, so now looking at sticking and codifying it to the website. as you know shaista has done good post analysis and i'm glad they are adding additional idea at the board. i think that was all i wanted to tell you. there are a couple of other things but we will talk about it again. are you going to vote on this today? i would urge your support for this measure. >> speaker 1: thank you. any further public comment. do we have a motion? >>speaker: i will make a motion that we adopt the recommendations of the staff that we approve the ordinance as it appears in attachment one. >> second. >> speaker 1: all in favor? opposed? approved unanimously. >> clerk: item 10. [. [reading] ing agenda item 10] >>speaker: thank you chair chiu and commissioner. as you know it's been about six weeks since you got one of these so the numbers reflect that period of time and they also

men obsess with them sefshlgs and if you pay attention from huckelberry finn to norman mailer and some of our most popular novelists now you'll realize it's an exercise in understanding masculineity. i wasn't a feminist. that's so funny. i have an alarm going off. hold on for a second. i love this guy. okay. sorry about that. i was a tomboy. in fact in the ninth grade i played on the boys soccer team and one of the first in southern california to do that. i scored a goal, an assist and a yellow card, just that bad ass. i was obsessed with the spaces women weren't allowed into, and i ended up writing a dissertation on war novels which was a strange thing to do but i was obsessed with it because a war novel is like a locker room conversation. they assumed that the women aren't there listening to what they have got to say, and it's the truest most honest place to go looking for what it is that they think life means and why it is they were put on this earth, so i pursued pretty heavily a study in weapons and weapons technology and how they influenced war tactics and what it is that an amer

. >> the dick cavett show, you could get people like norman mailer and woody allen. >> my only new year'stion this year, i think i'm going to try to sleep through the nixon administration. >> you would have authors on. you would have heavyweight boxers. there were conversations. >> when you mentioned the national anthem and talk about playing it in any unorthodox way, you immediately get a guaranteed percentage of hate mail from people who say how dare -- >> that is not unorthodox? >> it isn't unorthodox? >> no, no, i thought it was beautiful. there you go. >> i just thought anything that is interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young, pretty actresses who use the word "excited" in every sentence. you're not frequently seen on television. is that by choice? >> well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all. it's the medium that will either save america or send it down into demise, there's no question about it. >> i'm getting out of it myself. >> really? >> we'll be back after this. >> what you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of bus

areas in particular, one area, and we have that option open to all in san francisco, so we are doing mailers, letting them know in the bill, and through the ad campaigns that they have the opportunity for free pick-up, it's part of their garbage rate twice a year. because you are right, they think well, somebody is going to take it away, and yes, somebody does, but in the interim, you have an eye sore and a hazard on the sidewalk. >> ok. i appreciate that, and glad to know you don't like it either. all right. any other questions? thank you. let's keep moving. department building of inspection. then we'll hear from the retirement board. >> good afternoon, supervisors, here on behalf of director tom heely and on behalf of the director, thank the budget analyst, and the budget accepts the recommendations. >> supervisor cohen: can't let you go that easily. we have to ask you something. let's see here -- 1.6 budget increase in year 1, and 1.6 reduction in year two. you have 25.2 f.t.e. increase in year one, but year one, stable. budget changes are driven by tall building peer review. maybe you ca

this is one of the mailers blasting john cox as a chicago liberal aligned with nancy pelosi, look closely at who paid for this, families and teachers, cox's campaign has also filed a complaint with the fair practices commission. with only 11 days to go, the fair political practices commission might not have time to will on either complaint. >>> new at six pm, bay area home prices have hit a historical high, does the story sounds familiar? realtors say that now could be a good time to try and buy a home if you can, kpix 5's, maria medina is live in san jose with new numbers, maria? >> reporter: the bay area housing market is so hot that it makes headlines every single month, this month there is positive news with the supply. >> reporter: welcome to your new home in san jose. >> we are asking $1.1 million for this home. >> reporter: a modest veteran that just sold -- a modest home that sold for $200,000 over the asking price. according to logic, the median price for home sales for april hit a record high of $850,000, that is up more than 2% from march and up 13% compared to last april. what

there's been a lot of air play and radio ads and tv ads and a lot of mailers. how are you leaning on regional measure three. we'll be back with that part of the story at 6:30. at the dumbarton bridge, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> thanks for keeping us informed and now that you're informed, it's time to prepare to vote. if you plan to vote in june on the primary, you better act fast. today is the last day to register to vote. you can register online or even fill out the paper card available in the city hall post office. there are big issues on the ballot including the governor's race. we hosted an exclusive governor's debate earlier this month in san jose. all of the top candidates took part in this. and you can see highlights from the debate and they talk about a lot of questions you probably talk about a lot of issues you're dealing with and go to nbcbayarea.com. >> we have intense video to show you, just how chaotic things got the night of the deadly north bay wildfires. >> it's huge. it's one of the biggest i've ever seen. >> please, it's not worth i

the republican so he isd about a democrat, sending mailers trying to get a no name of opponent of thisson elected. he is clearly worried. the different prognosticators only count for so much. we have a group of republican congress people who have not had to fight for an election in a wild. most are overconfident and flat-footed now. that is how you win elections. host: let's chat with a few callers, especially callers from ohio. democrats, republicans, jane is in newark, ohio. caller: good morning. i have a question. ticket straight democrat in 2016. -- i have gotten is money donald trump money. i get those in the mail all the time. junk,olds and all that which i throw away. how come? i voted democrat why my getting republicans? guest: good question. first of all, the caller should know she is referring partly -- in ohio you have a huge battle taking place between the john kasich wing which is getting small, and the trump warning. that is playing out at the statehouse. it is playing out at the governors office. they are wasting money. it soundly they are wasting money sending you mail.