. >> reporter: in oakland, people flocked to lake merrick to enjoy the sun and heat. >> it's nice to enjoy the weather especially since we've had all that rain. >> reporter: but the state isn't in the clear. we're still in a drought. and the rain is necessary for the air quality as well. this is another spare the air weekend. >> it's like a dome over the area. it's capping all the air in our region. so we don't get the normal breezes that blow out the pollution. >> reporter: that means anyone caught burning wood will be fined. patrols will be out all weekend looking for violators. answer 7 news. >>> many people may be enjoying the weather, but the lack of rain is hurting california farmers. the water source is quickly running out. experts say 2014 was bad, but 2015 is looking even worse. 17,000 farm workers lost their jobs last year. >> less money for them for this time of the year. we had no choice. we have to do it to cover the costs for the electric. >> this is the driest california's been in january in five years. and the foreseeable future doesn't look too promising for a lot of

. >> officer merrick was with you when you found it? >> absolutely. >> do you know mr. james dean? >> just met him when i got on the pod. >> do you have any issues with him? >> absolutely not. >> see him have issues with anybody? >> no, i've been in the kitchen every time they come here, i don't need to make a shank or participate in anybody who makes one. i understand that the rules -- like i'm being penalized for doing the right thing. >> we want to get everything squared away. okay, i'll be in touch. >> thank you. >> i know somebody had it there for a reason. what that reason is, i don't know. and who put it there, i don't know. >> one investigation continues, another is about to begin. >> received this letter in the mail from an unknown person actually. inmate that is referring to inmate ronald wells and what the letter talks about is that he's maybe planning an escape. this inmate is in here at this point in time for a robbery. the robbery took place over at the horseshoe casino. >> the individual who wrote claims that they are ronald's family and they are scared to death of h

, from the president and ceo of merrick companies and i'm asked those be made part of the record. without objection. and there has also been considerable commentary about attorney general holder in a hearing at which he does not have the opportunity to defend himself and it is my view that a significant amount of that commentary would not with stand his ability to defend himself if he were here. so let me say, in response to that there are legal arguments and policies that fall out side a particular political ideology that does not make them outside of the mainstream and it does not politicize a department to make those arguments or pursue those policies. i would argue it is the effort to constrain the department within that ideology that would be politicizing. i would further note as a former united states attorney that the department that attorney general holder inherited was in a very grave state of disarray and that is not just a matter of opinion. the office of legal counsel wrote opinions that were so bad, so ill-informed and so ill-cited to the case law that when they posed

, from the president and ceo of merrick companies and i'm asked those be made part of the record. without objection. and there has also been considerable commentary about attorney general holder in a hearing at which he does not have the opportunity to defend himself and it is my view that a significant amount of that commentary would not with stand his ability to defend himself if he were here. so let me say, in response to that there are legal arguments and policies that fall out side a particular political ideology that does not make them outside of the mainstream and it does not politicize a department to make those arguments or pursue those policies. i would argue it is the effort to constrain the department within that ideology that would be politicizing. i would further note as a former united states attorney that the department that attorney general holder inherited was in a very grave state of disarray and that is not just a matter of opinion. the office of legal counsel wrote opinions that were so bad, so ill-informed and so ill-cited to the case law that when they posed

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>> peter sharpman, merrick corporation. the doctrine distinguished between intelligence gathering which we tried to prevent, but not deter, and outright attack, which we visibly and vocally deterred. in the realm of cyber, how should we think about drawing the line between intelligence gathering and actual attack? >> thank you, peter, for that question. very thoughtful. in terms of you know, where do you draw this line between -- because you have so many things going on in this cyber arena of exploitation to destruction of property, in terms of things, and this piece goes even higher than that, i think in terms of where do we have the international rules of the road if you were to say that really help define that piece for us in a clear and concise and verifiable way. and while there's some work going on in that, in terms of policies and what have you i think we have a way to go in the national associative agreement in that regard. i think as you look at cyber -- you call it intelligence, the piece that i would say we have