, how to downsize the newsroom. there were real economic whims blowing through the whole industry forcing us to do a lot of things we didn't like, and that included laying off people, eliminating jobs, and it got to the point you didn't want to do anything because you were afraid to stick your head up and somebody said, oh, you're going to switch somebody? do you need them? so you kind of got to the point where it was being really sick of cutting back and looking for an opportunity to do something about it. not a lot of people knew what to do, and that's when sam came along. >> okay, but what were the factors that prompted the company to essentially put itself up for sale. why? why did it need anybody to come in? stock price? what was going on with revenues? why was it not on the same course? >> the cash flow began being challenged we could say. i think part of it, too, was that the one of the happy chandlers came into play. the chandlers did not -- they were unhappy with the direction of the company under dennis fi

and online newsrooms and print news room and was very difficult. you have to make people realize that this is one news organization and each media has its own strength and journalists like to tell stories. so if you can kind of convince people that the important thing here was telling your story for the media that it's in and so i think my thought was a kind of explain that i made out for them here's what is happening in classified automobile at advertising. we lost $200,000 in print advertising last year and a gain of $50,000 in online and if we don't get the online going, then next year it is going to get worse so let's get with the program coming and there was a pretty successful message out there and people began taking it too hard and looking at it and it's just it absolutely started and it's still going on and i think the "l.a. times" has been pretty successful with its online operations because the kind of adopted that. but it's a very, very difficult proposition for all of journalists at that time. to appear on line before they appeared in

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. >> nbc bay area's marianne favro joins us from the newsroom. i suppose it's fear the beard in a different sort of way, right? >> reporter: you can look at it that way. pediatricians getting lots of calls for last-minute appointments. that's no surprise. in the san jose school district alone, 3,000 students still need to get their whooping cough booster shot. and school starts august 15. [ coughing ] >> reporter: whooping cough is highly contagious and not something you want to share with the rest of your family, which is why many students are rolling up their sleeves and getting vaccinated again. >> when a student last got their whooping cough was likely around their 5th birthday. and the immunities from that vaccination has warn off. >> reporter: a new state law requires students entering grades 7 through 12 get a whooping cough booster in order to attend school this fall. dozens of students in the san jose unified school district turned in their proof today. that's important since bay area kids are already getting infected. >> whooping cough

i'm amy hollyfield live in the newsroom. we have a massive ground turkey recall to tell you about this morning. it's being called one of the largest meat recalls in history. >> also this morning, a boat collision near brisbane leaves one man dead. police are asking for witnesses to come forward to determine what happened. >> there is a live look from downtown san francisco. notice the flag. yeah, the breezes are gusty this morning. bringing drizzle in our morning commute. cooler temperatures in your forecast. >> good morning, happy thursday. i'm sue hall in the abc7 traffic center. we have first report of an accident in san jose. overnight roadwork we'll help you to avoid coming up. >> a report this morning says 48 muni operators are still on the job, even though they don't have a commercial driver's license. muni says it's just weeks away from a plan to fire them. >>> thursday at 4:30. good morning. thank you for joining us. i'm kristen sze. >> i'm eric thomas. we begin with a recall of possibly contaminated meat that many

but first to our new york newsroom. >> reporter: forcasters are saying hurricane irene could strengthen a category 3 as early as tomorrow morning. it is already a category 2 pounding puerto rico and dominican republic. hurricane center in miami says irene might slam in the southeast coast of the u.s. by end of the week. south carolina, florida and georgia at risk. >> new york city prosecutors

live in newsroom, terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> thank you.k of weather and -- final check of weather and traffic. start with weather, right? >> here we go. the temperatures with a cool. we have temperatures in the mid-to-upper 50s. so far, no flight arrival delays at sfo. in the afternoon hours, the clouds are at the coast. more of them than yesterday. low to mid-60s for you. we have upper 70s to low 80s. low to mid-80s in north bay. the near normal temperatures hang around through friday and cooler over the weekend. >> a live shot, scene in san mateo. 92 westbound. the ramp to 101. you can see a big rig spill with the debris on 101 as well. the two right lanes are blocked. that ramp is shutdown. the alter mate route are -- alternate route is 92 to delaware. under the freeway to eastbound 92. loop around and take southbound 101 from there or take the dumbarton bridge this morning. sig-alert overturned big rig. live shot from san mateo. slowing southbound 101 approaching the scene heading to san mateo from san bruno. millbrae. there is a scene

many community newsrooms' still rely on volunteer labor, and broader economic issues. we want to encourage the members of our audience here at the public library to drive this discussion. this is your chance to ask these experts what is happening to the news that you depend on to make your day to day decisions. our conversation tonight will include five elements -- we will talk about the quality of reporting available to the public and move on to what is being done to create sustainable newsroom jobs. we will talk about creating a new system that enjoys constitutional freedom of the press, celebrates the diversity of our communities, and enjoys the economic independence needed to support ethical journalism. i would like to introduce my coast -- co-host of the evening, and she will be introducing our panelists. >> thank you, rose. it is a privilege to stand up here. we are not used to looking this good. we can go to radio in pajamas. i would like to introduce our panelists for today. we will start back from the left. executive producer of the "daily mandarin and cantone

i'm terry mcsweeney live in the newsroom. that's a minute away. >> protesters disrupt the ride home for thousands of bart passengers in downtown san francisco. the hackers, anonymous, leave roving demonstration for the bart shutdown. >>> a live look downtown san francisco. looks different than yesterday. we've got the clouds. they are back. it will be a minimal cooling trend. we have warm weather for the next few days before a bigger cooling trend this weekend. >>> good morning. i have a sig-alert for you in the south bay and stall on the bay bridge. yes, thick fog on the coast. that's coming up. >> violating the cell phone driving laws could soon cost you more. bill heading to the governor's desk could fine you for talking on the phone while driving and not using hands-free device. thank you for joining us. i'm eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. topping the news, the police chief for oakland schools is off the job and under investigation for making a series of racial slurs against one of his offersers. abc7's terry mcsweeney j

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we're continuing our breaking news coverage here in the "cnn newsroom." gloria, are people lobbying to become a member of it? do members want to be on it it? >> you raise an interesting question, wolf. of course, one could make the argument -- and let's hear what john has to say about this -- that it could be the end of your political career to be on this commission. that's why maybe they're going to appoint some folks who are about to retire, those who are in the gang of six like senator conrad. i think it could work both ways. the answer to your question, are they lobbying? it would be interesting to ask mitch mcconnell if he's getting any phone calls. >> a, does any senator want to be on the committee, and, b, is he being pressured to put one of the tea party members of jim demint who's been around longer to represent the tea party? have you read your e-mails? we're getting committee must do this, must rule out medicare cuts, tax care hikes. this is the next battleground in washington. it is a reminder, wolf, as we watch the signing, we'll wait for the

post world war two epic battle with the rest of the world is about to go down stay server down the newsroom talk to me hello max yes the dollar is in the news in fact it's in my very first headline here i am asked guard says u.s. dollar may lose privilege amid debt limit crisis so this is the new international monetary fund management managing director christine lagarde let's just cut to the clip here where she's interviewed on p.b.s. news hour the global economy is clearly highly dependent on the u.s. economy because the u.s. economy is the post in the world and it's a it's a major it's a major power in many respects so to have the lead economy. uncertain about its that is quite who are some and if you if you were to take it further clearly that would be that would be consequences in the rest of the world not just in the united states for example. the dollar has always enjoyed what she's called this time the former french president many years ago called the exorbitant privilege of the dollar because it was the currency the reserve currency that moves central banks hunt well clearly there w

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foxnews.com/"america's newsroom." that's our show page.are the debt, jobs, health care, taxes or other. right now more than 50% say debt. about 34% say jobs, and we've had, what, 2400 votes, 2500 votes now in about an hour's time. alisyn: interesting stuff, so get your votes in. >>> meanwhile, thousands of new yorkers stopping and staring up at the sky in midtown manhattan. a big league rescue in the big apple 70 stories up. bill: whoa. also a hunt for usama bin laden now set to be a movie. under fire from a prominent member of congress, he says it compromises national security. in a moment, the response from the film maker. >> we do not discuss classified information, and i would hope that as we face a continued threat from terrorism, the house committee on homeland security would have more important topics to discuss than a movie. ♪ and so the conversation turned ♪ ♪ until the sun went down ♪ oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats

he once said that it was important to keep a firm right hand on the pillar because the newsroom would naturally drift to the left. he believed there should be no needles in which reporters used their perm political opinions to go after anybody. he believed there should be no to quotes that were unattributed or made somebody look bad that was not fair. he was patriotic and weary of the counterculture and weary of conflicts of interests amongst his reporters. when he found out a woman he hired had an affair with a politician in philadelphia, he fired her and said, and i'll pay deference to the fact this is a catholic institution, i don't care if my reporters bleep the elephants, but if they don't, they can't cover the sir cues. -- circus. [laughter] let's move forward a little bit. it's 2003. tv comedians are having a field day. david letterman said you know the old slogan of the new york new york, well, there's a new one, they changed it. it's we make it up. in the summer of 2004, daniel, the paper's first public editor or reader's advocate, office created in response to the jason blar

be sure to tune into "america's newsroom" tomorrow.ng to the documentary's direct -- director who got president bush's first on camera remarks about the death of usama bin laden. i'd love to hear that. martha: i had a chance to look at this and it's stunning, and i encourage everybody to tune in tomorrow to listen while we talk to the director about this, because i can't wait to get his thoughts about sitting down with president bush and really having that amount of time to get all of his recollections about the whole day. it's really, truly, a piece of history, and we're very glad to have him with us tomorrow. i encourage all of you to tune in tomorrow for that interview coming up as we tune in tomorrow, on friday. >>> let's get you to this story for a moment, dash cam video from a speeding locomotive. watch this. an express train, barreling through a station and that young man decided it would be a good idea to jump in front of it, just to prove he could. thank god he survived. we're going to talk about that. gregg: are we seeing the

in the newsroom with the latest >> we are following some breaking news the to uc- berkeley graduate that are being held in iran on as being not discharges may be released very shortly. he feels that they will be released during ramadan the lawyer said averted can come as early as this week they were arrested in july 2009 hiking along the iraq or run border. they have been in custody for almost two years. >> we are following a developing story out of oakland. >> good news no injuries this is video we got it was a garage that was on fire they thought somebody was inside the garage. that person was not home at the time. the family car ran to safety they do not know what caused the fire. none of the surprising part buildings were damaged parts /officers called several because the the argument over this $60,000,000.3999 faa employees are a lot of work 200 construction profits have been halted 70,000 other private sector were sears have been affected the government is losing $30 million a day and that they have already lost $1.2 billion in lost revenue if it is not resolved okay, kids, we can

times newsroom in those days in 1967 or something, it was 98% men, and it was 98% white. now, all right, that's how it was, but that wasn't appropriate for the world as it changed, as it progressed. it just wasn't appropriate. i don't think anybody could seriously defend that now. the times had to embrace diversity. it had to embrace the idea that it needed to hire more women, more african-americans, la -- latinos, and so on. it had to do this. now, the young solburger emphasized this above any other value. maybe that was overemphasis or maybe too much of a zealot about it, maybe other values and standards should have got more attention from him. i don't know. on balance, he was certainly right no emphasize this, especially as i said before in this city as multihued as this city is and as diverse this city is. the times had to make this change. i can tell you, and many of you in this audience will remember the metropolitan section of the times back in the 1960ings and 70s didn't bother to cover the black and latino communities very much at all, and this had to change, and

we have a report from the newsroom, u.s. stocks had one of the worst trading days in history. bracing hopefully for not another round of this. >> reporter: people are hoping so much that it wasn't be the repeat of yesterday. we are looking for round 2 today. extremely rocky trading yesterday. as for the worldwide markets, sharp drop, lots of selling began in asia and hit europe. they dropped and climbed a little back up. the kospi closed 3.6% lower. the nikkei was down 1.7%. in hong kong, the hang seng dropped 5.7% with a late sell- off in the day. european stocks went up about 1% at the opening. but then suffered a sharp downturn. as for u.s. index futures, the trading seemed to indicate that wall street stocks would dip a bit. monday again the worst for the u.s. market in nearly three years. the dow falling 5.6%. the s&p 500 dropped 6.7%. now, we spoke with different folks in the area who are holding onto some hope. >> my sister told me, don't move my money. long-term investment, just wait. >> reporter: are you anxious, worried? >> very worried. but she said be optimistic. >

the brink of victory raid rita williams has been talking to a bay area expert and she is in the newsroom of the latest. >> reporter: the country family headed to oust its leader and today we are seeing the results. >> although it's going to back atop its was over he is the opportunity to reduce further bloodshed a woman pushing power to the people of libya. >> reporter: it has taken six months for rebel troops today consider -- to take control of the capital city. gadhafi is nowhere to be found. >> we are not scared of any capture or any rap for any powers. we are going to speak in strong. >> reporter: with that kind of defiance, he is not expected to surrender. >> is probably foolish to expect a velvet revolution nicknamed abu smoothly from u2 to modesty. >> i think libya will be more difficult than egypt. >> reporter: bed at the center for studies at uc berkeley says ads for what comes next, he predicts chaos, a difficult transition, and like some of the other kind is, libya has resources. estimated $150 billion in frozen assets abroad in about $40 billion in annual oil revenues for tr

paul several times in "america's newsroom". do you think that he is not getting a fair shake for the way that he's presenting in these polls? is he not being treated equally with these other candidates out there by the media? >> well, i mean, i think the candidates have -- i think that he's getting a fair shake, but i also think that it spells good news for ron paul, and these issues -- ron paul has been championing these issues in regard to our spending and our debt and the fed, and you know, the fact that these issues are mainstream conversations now that we're having at dinner tables across america, i think that's a good thing and think that ron paul should be credited for a lot of these things, and you know, it all goes back to our economy and i think that these polls that show all of our candidates within striking distance of the president all go back to the fact that americans are not happy with the direction that barack obama has taken this country. that's what this is telling americans across this country. martha: there

elizabeth wenger is in our newsroom with the d.a.'iticism of the system that let garrido roam free. she joins us with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. it's a detailed look of how badly bungled the case was. the d.a. said phillip garrido outsmarted a broken system and there is plenty of blame to go around. the district attorney, victims rights groups will be testifying at a hearing at the state capital to talk about how to prevent this from happening again. at a press conference yesterday, the man responsible for phillip garrido's 431-year prison sentence didn't mince words. the el dorado district attorney said the system as a whole failed. the d.a. released 162 pages of blistering documents many of them once confidential. in the report, new information shows the situation was worse than previously known. that report shows more than a dozen times over four years garrido submitted urine samples that had been watered down, even faking his drug test with mountain dew. even when he tested positive, no action was

he once said that it was important to keep a firm right hand on the pillar because the newsroom wouldrally drift to the left. he believed there should be no needles in which reporters used their perm political opinions to go after anybody. he believed there should be no to quotes that were unattributed or made somebody look bad that was not fair. he was patriotic and weary of the counterculture and weary of conflicts of interests amongst his reporters. when he found out a woman he hired had an affair with a politician in philadelphia, he fired her and said, and i'll pay deference to the fact this is a catholic institution, i don't care if my reporters bleep the elephants, but if they don't, they can't cover the sir cues. -- circus. [laughter] let's move forward a little bit. it's 2003. tv comedians are having a field day. david letterman said you know the old slogan of the new york new york, well, there's a new one, they changed it. it's we make it up. in the summer of 2004, daniel, the paper's first public editor or reader's advocate, office created in response to the jason blare sca

smith is live in the fox business newsroom. white house is on the phone with me right now. we have talked a lot about how the white house is doe fending itself attacking standard & poors. what's your reaction? >> the reaction is a two-pronged approachment trying to discredit what standard & poors is doing. southbounding np handled themselves poorly he said shows lack of knowledge about u.s. basic budgeting and math and s&p showed terrible judgment in all of this. second piece is to say the president in the budget deal asked for a much larger type of proposal to cut u.s. deficits siting a number of 12 trillion in ten years. democrats never put that size of a budget plan or budget proposal on the table. the president outlined in a speech after he put out his budget put out another budget in which he outlined some 2 and a half trillion dollars in savings over ten years according to independent an nail sis. democrats are never serious about curbing entitlements. you have heard republicans don't want to raise taxes on any one especially families earning $250,000 a year. that say

there are no major problems, boy the newsroom is buzzing. some sort of breaker rule and we will get it on the air as soon as possible. westbound heading out to the high-rise no major problems right now and if you are driving on northbound 280 any time soon it looks good through downtown san jose. steve, i have an exciting job i work in the middle of the newsroom. >> i know everybody is yelling about a breaker, we will tell you about it. temperatures will continue to start their trend downward and they began it yesterday and there is a bigger fog bank at the coast but the beach weather is not the greatest, what can you say. usually september we get that northeast wind and it's. >> with us and beautiful but 5 -- glorious and -- and its glorious and beautiful but usually by noon the fog does peel back but it has been a tough bad month. it looks cooler, sunny and breezy at times, high pressure continues in the middle of the country. 40 days, i think where parts of oklahoma and texas have been over 40 days. the cooling trend will start as the sys

jon scott in the newsroom.apartment down the sky, moving on up, flying away, only in new york! look closely there, judge, see what that is? yeah! bill: a little more information, sydney, australia, just waking up and joining us, there is an 18-year-old teenager who had apparently a bomb collar of some sort strapped to her. inside of her home. police responded and there was about a ten-hour ordeal and you can imagine how terrifying it was for her and apparently a note strapped to her as well and they are working through the information and this is first word we have got about a bomb collar. we wonder what the device could be. and, now they have confirmed that and they are working now to figure out, quote, we want to get or hands on who has done this. alisyn: and they think it was an extortion plot of some kind, she's from a very wealthy family in a very wealthy suburb, you are look at, the aerial view in sydney and her parents were outside during the ordeal, obviously, white knuckled of what might happen and it

. >> alan wang is in the newsroom with the story for us. alan? >> carolyn, democratic progressives are on a mission, gathering stories of struggling americans with the intent of drafting legislation to create jobs. today they headed to one of the hardest hit cities in the country. oakland. >> i was laid off in 2009 from my in home care job when arnold schwarzenegger was in office and i had to get on welfare. >> it was a chance to tell four members of congress of unemployment and hardship. >> i filed for bankruptcy and almost lost my house. without health insurance we rarely go to a doctor. when i need dental care, i go to tijuanna. >> oakland is the hardest hit city west of the mississippi. >> at cal state east bay in hayward where i teach we have 14% fewer faculty than we did two years ago. >> representatives nancy pelosi, barbara lee, mike honda and arizona congressman hosted the speakout for good jobs now tour. it is a traveling town hall sponsored by progressive congress .org. >> no, we don't want to cut taxes anymore. we want to make corpora

at&t. >>> breaking news coming into the newsroom. we just learned minutes ago a 4- year-old little boy kidnapped from a shelter in atascadero has just been found. let's go to janine de la vega live in atascadero. this is true janine? tell us about the little boy. >> reporter: just minutes ago police came to us and said they found him. this is very good news. we're going to get the scoop from the police chief himself. this is chief steve gisselle with atascadero police department. tell us what did you find out? >> reporter: we've been looking for little jeremy all day long today. we have over 100 volunteers and about 65, 70 law enforcement officers from across the country including the fbi: just minutes ago we received an update that apparently the suspect somehow garnered a cell phone and called police. apparently realizing that we were looking for her actively. and let us know where little jeremy was and he, he ended up being in an abandoned ford dealingship in town in atascadero. he was located there inside the building alone. he's

abc7's amy hollyfield is in the newsroom. on what you need to know with what you need to know to make sure the family doesn't eat the tainted meat. >> the turkey made its way to southern california. one death happened in sacramento. one illness has been reported in san francisco. the u.s. department of agriculture said investigators did find a leak between cargill ground turkey products and the illness outbreak. this is called one of the largest food recalls in u.s. history. common symptoms are diarrhea, cramp, and fever 72 hours of eating the tainted product. the vulnerable are the eld her i, young and pregnant women. the government says you can eat the contaminated turkey safely if you follow a few basic tips. >> wash your hands frequentenly, and cook it so it's well done. >> meat company cargill pulling all turkey processed at the arkansas plant between february and august. sold under brands including safeway, the cargill honeysuckle white, fit and active, riverside and kroger. the turkey was sold at safeway, kroger, food

live in the newsroom, nick smith, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> 6:04. the california attorney general office is targeting some law firms and call center operate no, sir wide ranging mortgage crackdown. they duped desperate homeowners in 17 states to paying thousands of dollars to get them out of foreclosure. attorney general kamala harris say 2,500 people were misled and cheated. >> after paying the money, the homeowners then, of course, believe they had the legal representation. would call their lawyer to ask how is my case come along. >> the calls went unreturned. >> authorities raided three law firms in southern california. all three have been shut down. their assets frozen. one of the firms has an office in san francisco mission district. no one responded when we went to the door yesterday. >> this morning, san francisco police are investigating a shooting that killed a teenager. it happened around 10:00 last night in the 200 block of ray in the visitation valley neighborhood. investigators say an 18-year-old was standing on the street when someone

we talk about this things in the newsroom all the time. hey did you here?e to tweet that, and saw no problem with doing that. because we talk about those things in the newsroom all the time and tweeting is just letting people know what we are talking about in the newsroom but getting a foothold and gating measure of credibility by his simply tweeting. rem you wrote about that. >> i think there was a blog post you mentioned i thought was nuts that basically said it is fine. it is like a conversation and he said in the newsroom so just send it out. twitter may be the new newsroom but to a lot of people it is a new source, and you have to be really careful. this was a distinguished british journalist posting this as if it were a fact. it was the latest, and you just don't add anything to the conversation. passing stuff along that may be true or may not. just because you know we hear a lot about the journalism thing the platform is different and this is a great example of it. until you know something is true, you have got no business sending it out there. you a

. >>> speaking of sports, let's check in with dan in our comcast sportsnet newsroom. >> the 49ers couldbringing a familiar face back to the bay area. and the giants lose a heart breaker in dallas. hear more from the giants closer on what happened in sports. go! go! completing an atm deposit in record time... that's a step forward. go! go! with deposit friendly atms, you can make ultra fast, secure deposits with no slips or envelopes. take a step forward and chase what matters. come on out, guys. the jury has reached its decision. now, you guys found the other airline guilty of charging a 150-dollar change fee. you bet! southwest would never do that. and that was after she changed her flight and paid the difference in airfare. that other airline treated her wrong. she was understandably upset. well, who can afford a 150-dollar change fee? he was surprised with the verdict. you got that right. [ male announcer ] don't pay a change fee on top of a fare difference. fly southwest, the only major airline that never charges change fees. >>> the nl west threw the wild card to the giants. it doe

in the newsroom, nbc bay area news. >> okay. thank you. >>> it's been a chilling 24 hours since the pit bull attack in pacifica. investigators are waiting for answers to what caused the dog to attack and his his pregnant owner. police shot and killed the dog when it lunged at them. there's one more pit bull on the property. that has neighbors on edge. we have more from pacifica. elise, there's a lot to spend here. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, tonight that husband is still devastated, more than 24 hours after his pregnant wife was mauled to death inside of their home here. you see that police tape is still up. a small vigil is growing here all while a necropsy is beento shed light on why that pit bull may have turned on its owner. >> they fired a couple shots, and -- >> reporter: charlene ryan heard the gunshots. police fired, killing a pit bull that just mauled darla napora to death. moments later, she saw darla's husband run outside of their home in pacifica. >> totally frustrated, stressed, freaked out -- like help. >

newsroom and incentives to hire veterans. and you can get more information at ktvu.com. >>> in overnight news -- it's 7:03. san francisco police are busy investigating a hit-and-run accident that critically injured a 9-year-old baseball fan from philadelphia. it happened at mission and new montgomery shortly after the little boy last last night's giants/phillies' game. kraig debro has more. >> reporter: good morning, this is mission and this is new montgomery crossing you right here. now according to the family members, they were crossing mission street going northbound. according to a cousin of the 9- year-old boy, whose name is ryan white, the family is visiting philadelphia. they just attended the game and the boy is a huge fan of the team. >> gee. >> yeah. [ no audio ] >> reporter: arrested him in hayward. >> from the time i jumped, he's hitting my cousin and knocking him into the car. >> reporter: the initial report came in around 10:30, the family who is crossing the street, ryan who is 9. mr. woody hootenned a the pare

our lilian kim is live in the newsroom with the latest on the story. lilian? >> dan, family members say the six-year-old boy can't stop talking about the shooting. they say he was in the car when his father was shot only a few feet away. jose esparza had just cashed his check and bought a few items at the grocery store when he was approached. according to witnesses, the two men tried to rob esparza, and he resisted. >> i guess he tried to fight back and they shot him. >> it happened on international boulevard and 103rd avenue in oaknd la. family members say esparza's six-year-old son was in the car and saw the whole thing. >> he was crying. he kept on repeating to his mom, why the my dad got shot right there. the guy came and pointed him, pow-pow." >> esparza died at the hospital a short time later. he just turned 39. he leaves behind a wife and two young sons ages six and 10. >> i feel really bad. he was a great person, a hard-working father. now he left two beautiful children, a wife, and who will look out for them, you feel me? i'm devastated. >> this is oa

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