saying michael meehan lacks a police chief gene. they are meeting to talk about it. is all stems from a controversy thursday after midnight when meehan decided to send an officer to a reporters home. doug oakley a reporter for the oakland tribune wrote a story about a heated community meeting earlier that night. meehan had apologized for the slow response in connection to the february killing of berkeley's resident by an intruder at his house. meehan bris led at the -- meehan bristled about the report. the police officer mary cussmiss knocked on his door while the family slept. she told oakley she is mortified to be at his home but was asked by the chief to ask him to change the story. he did make minor changes but when the chief was not satisfied that's when oakley spoke up. meehan apologized for oakley. oakley does not plan to sue and he will report to work today. coming up find out if meehan has the police department's rank and file behind him. live from berkeley i'm tara moriarty. >>> time is 5:33. a bay area marine hasn't been seen in ten days and the search is o

berkeley police chief michael meehan says that he sent an officer to bay area reporter doug oakley's at 12:45 a.m. late friday. the officer said meehan demanded corrections to an article. oakley wrote an article about a heated town hall meeting on thursday and meehan said oakland's article was wrong. not only did the officer go to his home awakening the writer and his family but sent e-mails demanding more changes. meehan admitted his actions were wrong. he told cbs 5 he apologized to oakley. oakley isn't going to file charges but is concerned that if meehan did this once, he might do it again. this morning we'll see if meehan's apology will hold up with the rest of his staff saying, we stand with our community and share in the concerns about the appearance and correctness of the chief's orders. live in berkeley this morning. >> 6:58. look who joins the party. >> catching him in his chair. hanging out. >> studying my computer models, the brackets. [ laughter ] >> we have big changes coming our way the next couple of days. outside today, not going to be too bad. clouds in the north ba

the police chief michael meehan has apologized and said what he did was an error in judgment. he was questioning a news story about a community meeting thursday night entitle an online article for the tribune the reporter wrote about how the chief apologized to the crowd. the chief disputed the reporter's account and sent his spokes earn to the reporter's home 12:45 in the morning to ask him to change the story. >> i didn't know what to think. i couldn't sleep the entire night i was shaking, i was so shocked. >> i hope it never happens again. and i hope that people are rearthurred this was a unique isolate -- people are reassured this was a unique isolated incident. >> reporter: a city councilmember has called meehan's action a little extreme. oakley did make a change to the story then meehan called and e-mailed oakley asking for more changes which he refused to do. oakley has said he accepts the chief's apology. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> 5:05. a 13-year-old girl is one of three people recovering from injuries this morning following two late night shootings in oakland. th

the police chief michael meehan apologized to that crowd. he says he apologized about how the department informed the public about its response to cukor's call for help in an online article in the tribune be a reporter said he apologize for how police responded. the chief sent a spokesperson to the reporter's home at 12:45 in the morning and asked that the story be changed. >> i didn't know what to think. i couldn't sleep the entire night i was shaking, i was so shocked! >> reporter: the chief has apologized. called eight over zealous attempt to get the right -- called it an over zealous attempt to get the right information out. a city councilmember wants to meet with the city manager about the situation. she called the chief's acts a little extreme. now the police union is saying it is gravely concerned about what the chief did. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> 6:05. a 13-year-old girl is one of three people recovering from injuries this morning following two late night shootings in oakland. the first around 11 last night at an apartment buil

they are upset about michael meehan. he sent his public information officer to a reporter home to investigate' story. meehan apologized for an error in judgment. we'll have a live report coming up at 5:30. >>> this morning jury selection continues for the ross mirkarimi domestic violence trial. but it is not clear when the trial will actually begin because there are still more pretrial motions to consider. ross mirkarimi's is trying to get a video in the meantime showing a bruise on his wife's arm kept or the of the trial completely. similar moves by his wife's lawyer were rejected. >>> 5:04. santa rosa is the site of an "occupy" protest this morning. demonstrators plan to gather at the sonoma county recorders office to protest what they call a broken system that's led to the recent surge in foreclosures. they hope similar demonstrations will take place at recorders' offices in counties throughout the state of california. >>> 5:04. it's been dry over the weekend. >> we had the perfect weekend. but it's going to rain for

michael meehan sent sergeant mary cussmass to the house of oakley.knocked on oakleys door while he and his family slept. she said she was mortified to wake him up but was under orders. the article said meehan apologized for the departments slow response to berkeley's homicide. but meehan said that wasn't true and only apologized for the departments inability to get information out about the killings sooner. peter cukor was killed by an intruder. oakley made minor changes in the morning. but when the chief wasn't satisfied that's when he spoke up. meehan said sorry to oakley. oakley will report to work today anywhen while the berkeley police association says they are gravely concerned about meehan's actions. >>> and how do you think berkeley's city council should respond to the incident? that's the questions we're asking our viewers on facebook this morning. frank wrote if berkeley doesn't want an out of control police department, they will at least suspend him. math lin wrote the council should suspend the chief. and we want to know what you think. f

now, the story which appeared online was about a community meeting held by michael meehan on thursday night. the subject of the meeting was the beating death of peter cooker in the berkeley hills on february 18th. oakley's story stated an apology, but the chief later clarified that he apologized for taking e ining so long to expla. at 12:45 a.m. friday, doug oakley was awakened by a knock at his door. it was a police sergeant who conveyed the chief's criticism. oakley says he was startled and intimidated by the experience. i talked on the phone with the police chief who issued a may area ko pa. >> it was late and that is my responsibility and i should have just taken a deep breath and waited for the morning. i did send an e-mail, this is my fault, my error, i apologize for that. >> reporter: i also talked to doug oakley, the chief is calling the full ordeal a learning experience. >> thank you. >>> during a controversial visit that is to u krrk berkeley, louis fair con spoke about his relationship with the jewish community. he was the speaker at the black coalition conference. the 78-y

berkeley police chief michael meehan sent a sergeant to the house of a reporter in the middle of the night to request changes to a story. amy hollyfield joins us with more itch >> reporter: the -- the list of the chief's critics getting longer no one here at the police department or city hall is addressing it. the chief may be losing the confidence of his rank and file. the police union has released a statement: "we stand with our community and share in their concerns about the appear rapbts and correctness of the chief's orders and are gravely concerned about the impact his actions will have on our ability to maintain the vital trust of the community we serve." the chief didn't like the news conference of a thursday night meeting. in an online article the reporter wrote that meehan apologized for the police department's slow response to a call from the berkeley hills and that call ended in murder. the chief said he apologized about how he communicated with the public not about the police response. he sent his sergeant to the reporter's home at 12:45 in the morning and demanded the a

berkeley police chief michael meehan sent a sergeant to the house of a reporter in the middle of the night to request changes to a story. amy hollyfield joins us with more itch >> reporter: the -- the list of the chief's critics getting longer no one here at the police department or city hall is addressing it. the chief may be losing the confidence of his rank and file. the police union has released a statement: "we stand with our community and share in their concerns about the appear rapbts and correctness of the chief's orders and are gravely concerned about the impact his actions will have on our ability to maintain the vital trust of the community we serve." the chief didn't like the news conference of a thursday night meeting. in an online article the reporter wrote that meehan apologized for the police department's slow response to a call from the berkeley hills and that call ended in murder. the chief said he apologized about how he communicated with the public not about the police response. he sent his sergeant to the reporter's home at 12:45 in the morning and demanded the a

controversy all stems from an incident that happened thursday after midnight when berkeley police chief michael meehan decided to send an officers to a reporters home. doug oakley had written a story about a heated community meeting earlier that night. meehan had apologized for the departments slow response in connection with the february 18th killing of berkeley hill resident. meehan said he never apologized but instead said he was sorry for not releasing information about the homicide earlier. the police officer knocked on oakley's door while they slept. she told oakley she was mortified to be at oakley's home but was asked to give a direct order to ask him to change the story. he says he does not plan to sue and will report to work today. live from berkeley i'm tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. >>> jury selection continues in the trial of san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi. 144 potential jurors will be answering questions today. the someone will also consider a change of venue request. mirkarimi is charged with domestic violence and child endangerment. >>> a concord woman is facing dui and child

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on thursday night berkeley police chief michael meehan hosted a community immediating about the police response to last month's beating death much peter cukor and doug oakley riled a report online stating that meehan apologized for a delayed response to the crime scene. oakley told us by phone he went home and shortly before 1 a.m. he was awakened by a knock at his door. >> i never know what to think when the police come to the door in the middle of the night. i was afraid something had happened tragic to someone i knew. >> the sergeant was mary cusm suchlt s, the department administration officer that says he wanted them to achange the report saying the chief apologized for ab explanation but not for responding to the crime scene. oakley, who agreed to make the changes said he felt start he willed and intimidated. >> we were talking about this is what it must be like for people in other country that is don't get the protection we do, here, you know. >> it was a significant error in judgment and i put him in an awkward position and i shouldn't have done that. i am completely falling on

chief michael meehan sent a public information officer to the home of bay area news group reporter doug oakley after midnight on friday. why? well apparently, because the chief was not happy with oakley's story in the paper that night. oakley covered a rowdy community meeting on thursday night in which the chief tried to explain how the department responded to the beating death of a man in the berkeley hills earlier this month. he thought oakley misreported what he said during that meeting. so oakley says the sergeant showed up at 12:45 in the morning and he was shaken by the door bell at that hour, and first amendment activists say it's a clear case of attempted censorship by intimidation. the police has apologized saying he didn't mean to upset oakley or the family. he did change the words in two paragraphs of the story. >> louis farrakhan spoke out about his relationship with the jewish community. farrakhan was the key note speaker at cal's african black coalition conference today. he addressed an auditorium of students this morning. his visit to berkeley has drawn criticism from som

some officers are upset about police chief michael meehan. he sent his public information to a reporter's house early friday morning to complain about a story about meehan's appearance at a community meeting on thursday night. the "chronicle" reports that meehan has apologized for what he said was an error in judgment. >>> if you enjoyed the weekend, good, because the weather is about to change. it's going to rain, all kinds of interesting stuff to talk about this week. finally getting rain around the bay area. not today. i think this is a warm dry day around the bay area without having to worry about rainfall. temperatures 30s and 40s right now through the day. we are going to see a couple of clouds passing by but nothing too bad. it should be dry but then you have this low dropping in from the gulf of alaska that's going to camp out. this whole trough along the west coast this week, meaning we'll see storms through next weekend. temperatures for today 64 in san jose, 59 san francisco. how about this for a seven-day forecast. we have a chanc

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chief michael meehan went to the house, and told ktvu news it was a significant error on his part, saying it won't happen again. >>> missing for more than a week, the efforts made today along the san mateo coast to find a camper from san bruno. >>> and mission to mexico, what these bay area national guard members are able to do that could prove life saving for the stranded fishermen. >>> and white house hopefuls hitting the campaign trail. why rick santorum referred to mitt romney as a liar today. the news continues in 90 seconds 0 . >>> the san mateo sheriff's office is looking for a marine gone missing. it has been more than a week since he went missing. ktvu's jade henderson hernandez has more. >> reporter: that is right, today, from the people search food the man, he is 27 years old, his family has not seen him since march the 2nd. this command unit operated here, where search dogs fanned out. the 32-acre pacifica park is where joseph mchenry was going to rock climb and stay overnight. he has not been seen since friday, march 2. his vehicle was found near the golf course, and the smal

. >> alan: good evening inch tonight's heed lynns, berkeley employs chief michael meehan says he is exterioror what the calls a mistake in judgment. he sent a sergeant to speak with a reporter over a newspaper article. >> talk talk coe trucks are hiring security. >> a 92-year-old hayward woman pulled out of a fire by her son is fighting for her life. the house fire is under investigation as well as another fire that broke out a short distance away in a strip mall. >> it's now sunday in japan, and the one-year-for-of the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out the coastline and coasted a nuclear disaster at fukushima. people in japan held a moment of silence in tokyo, people laid a white rose at a memorial to the victims. bill weir rend a year later. >> considering the magnitude of the quake, the biggest in this nation, considering the power of the tsunami which took out coastal comiewps -- community, and considering the nuclear reactors that melted down, it's no surprise the community is still mourning and a long way from rebilling. 70,000 pine trees lining this coast, and now there's one, and

. >> berkeley police chief michael meehan apologized to neighbors but says the police response was right given what they knew. 76-year-old peter cukor was beaten to death. reports that officers were busy with occupy protestors that night are false. >> it's unfair to the family to make them believe that this wasn't going to happen. that is just not the case. >> police responded after cukor's wife called 911 to report her husband was being attacked. 23-year-old daniel dewit has been charged with murder. he suffers from paranoid sitz present yeah. >>> it has been 18 months since the pipeline blew upcoiling eight people and destroying 38 homes. 24 homes now are in the rebuilding process. >>> less than a half an hour from now the labor department will release unemployment numbers for the month of february. the unemployment rate is expected to remain unchanged at 8.3%. coming up at 5:15 how economists are interpreting the projected numbers. >>> at 8:30 this morning a workshop and job fair begins in san jose. that is focused on connecting wounded and disabled veterans with job opportunities in

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angry neighbors showed up to confront berkeley police chief michael meehan that apologized but he also said the police response was the right one given what they knew. 67-year-old peter cukor was beaten to death 16 minutes after calling a nonemergency line to report a trespasser. reports that officers were busy with occupy protestors that night are false. >> ultimately it is our responsibility to get out accurate information quickly as possible. we didn't do a good job. police responded after cukor's wife called 911 saying her husband was being attacked. >>> the president of virginia tech will take the witness stand today. 32 people died in that massacre. the student gunman later turned the gun on himself. the lawsuit claims that university officials were too slow to respond and later tried to cover up their mistakes. >>> our time is 6:16. the governments new jobs report came out a little while ago. it was a little better than expected. alison burns is in our washington, d.c. newsroom to tell us how many jobs were created last month and where. alison. >> reporter: the report shows more

police chief michael meehan took pointed questions by the audience about the way his department responded to an attack last month. the oakland tribune reporter filed his story online about 11:00 p.m. about the meeting. about two hours later sgt. mare kusmiss, the police department's spokesperson, showed up at his house. >> she said she was mortified that she had to be there but she was very apologetic but we will -- she had to come over there and tell me that the chief wanted me to immediately reextract some stuff from the article that i posted. >> 23 years his by line has showed up in print, he's never had such an unusual situation over a story. >> i didn't know what to sleep. -- to think. i couldn't sleep the entire night. i was just so shocked. >> so what's the problem the police had with the story? again, the thursday night story surrounded the case of peter sukor. he was beaten to death outside his home allegedly by daniel dewitt who has been since arrested. there were questions about how quickly the police responded to the attack. but the chief told the thursday night audience his d

chief michael meehan's troubles began with this raucous town hall meeting thursday night. [ yelling ] >> reporter: but the controversy would not end with the meeting. after it was over, "oakland tribune" reporter doug oakley filed a story that the police chief says is inaccurate. berkeley police say what happened next crossed a line. the police chief sent an officer to the journalist's home here in this neighborhood in the middle of the night to demand that the story be changed. >> i was shocked! >> reporter: attorney and ex- police officer harry stern says the tactic gives the perception of intimidation. >> becoming an editor, an armed editor, if you will, is really concerning. >> this could erode that trust that the berkeley police department has built over 100 years. >> reporter: it's reminiscent of a first amendment fight back in 2002, when berkeley mayor tom bates admitted to stealing and trashing 1000 copies of the daily californian after the paper endorsed his opponent. meehan says, i take full responsibility for error in july. by email, reporter doug okayly tolder, of the chie

today the berkeley police union asked the see it organize a formal investigation into chief michael meehan'sctions when he sent a sergeant to the home of an oakland reporter. he felt he was misquoted in a story about a beating death of a man in february. the union wants the interim city manager to name an independent investigator. the city released a statement acknowledging it has hired a law firm to further examine this issue. >>> let's turn our attention back to the weather and weekend that's soon upon us and what we can expect the next couple of hours, especially starting saturday morning. jeff ranieri joins us live in the weather center for us. >> yeah. we'll have a chance of thunderstorms saturday and sunday. the worst of the storm is hitting right now with heavier pockets of rainfall across san francisco, extending down the peninsula. we're going to do radar tracking to show you where it is the worst and what is on the way for a lot of the bay area. you see from san mateo up to downtown san francisco, that's where computers picking up on anywhere from a quarter to a half inch of rainfa

chief michael meehan admits that he was upset about a story that the reporter from the "oakland tribuneshortly before 1:00 in the morning on friday to demand changes to the story. reporter doug oakley said he was startled and felt intimidated, and he made the changes. the chief later admitted what he did was wrong. >> obviously it was a very significant error in judgment, and i put doug in an awkward position. i really shouldn't have done that. so what i'm doing is i'm completely falling on my sword because i am simply in the wrong. >> the story had to do with police response to last month's beating death of peter succor in the berkeley hills. the report in the paper said meehan apologized for the delayed response to the crime scene, but the chief said he only apologized for a delay in an explanation but not the delayed response to the crime scene. he later did apologize for sending a sergeant to the reporter's house. >>> in the deep south this week gop primaries will happen in alabama and mississippi on tuesday where romney and rick santorum are in a very close race. meantime, romney p

in a written statement chief michael meehan wrote, quote, i have apologized to the reporter personally and i take full responsibility for the error in judgment. i am planning for an independent review of the department's policies and practices regarding release of information to the media. the chief's mea cul a kua kula m an order he gave thursday to send an officer to doug oakley who later changed an article about the chief's remarks in an article. >>> the train for bart to san jose arrived today. it is the final financial hurdle for this part of the extension. we go live to san jose with what's next. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. there is the rail system already in place behind me. it's actually also right behind the various flea markets here in san jose. by 2016 those bart trains should be rolling right through here. a toast to a project that will finally make its way to san jose. >> we are well on our way to delivering the impossible. today we have secured all of the funding needed to deliver the b.a.r.t. silicon valley extension. >> reporter: that means b.a.r.t. trains

split chief michael meehan took pointed questions by the audience about the way his department responded to an attack last month. he filed his story about that might online at about 11:00 p.m. about two hours later sgt. mare where kusmiss, the police department's spokesperson, showed up at his house. >> she said she was mortified that she had to be there but she was very apologetic but we will to tell me that the chief wanted her to come there and tell me to immediately retract some stuff from my officer that posted. >> in 23 years he has been in print, he has never had such an unusual situation over a story. >> i didn't know what to sleep. i couldn't sleep the entire night. i was just so shocked. >> so what's the problem the police had with the story? again, the thursday night story surrounded the case of peter sukor. he was beaten to death outside his home allegedly by daniel dewitt who has been since arrested. there was questions about how quickly the police responded to the attack. but the chief told the thursday night audience his department responded appropriately. in the story fil

a berkeley city councilman will meet with the manager to discuss the behavior of police chief michael meehan of an oakland tribune journalist in the middle of the night. >>> jury selection is scheduled for tomorrow morning in the trial of sheriff mirkarimi. sheriff mirkarimi is charged with misdemeanor domestic violence battery charges and child endangerment. >>> people who live in pittsburgh may notice the smell of gas tomorrow. you shouldn't be too alarmed. pg&e will be verbatimming a gas pipeline in that area as part of a pressure test. there is no reason for concern because the gas is not harmful and should dispate quickly. >>> the city of oakland has spent nearly $3 million on police overtime related to the occupy protest. that is according to the oakland local website. city records show overtime costs have reached $2.9 million as of february 27th. the website also found the city spent $82 million over time. >>> they can weigh in on the final designs of turning a parking lot into a park. the area being converted at located at 17th and folsom streets. making this is a park will improve t