. >> reporter: the office of civil rights in d.c., told us they respond to complaints. but no one is enforcing title ix regularly. a spokesman said they do conduct proactive investigation. but they haven't done any in the last four years. of the more than 200 e-mails we sent, a few did identify the title ix coordinator. but the majority did not respond or didn't know who it was. >> if you have a tip for jenna or anyone on our investigative unit, give us an e-mail or call. >>> a northern california surfer is recovering from emergency surgery tonight after another shark attack. it's the second in nearly a week along the california coast. the second one happened near eureka. you see the bites taken out of that surfboard. two of his friends, one happened to be an emt. both of them used their body weight to stop the victim's bleeding until the paramedics were able to arrive. >> he was gashed up in four or five serious gashes from the nipple down to his hip. he was bleeding out pretty good. >> the victim is reportedly in fair condition. a week ago, a 39-year-old surfer was ki

department of justice online or whoever is funding, whoever is the funding agency- they have an office of civil rights that you can find online for their agency for 504 enforcement. so you can go to them and file an administrative complaint and say, hey, why don't you take a look at them? because they're really not functioning the way they're supposed to be. very good. dr. clark, one of the things we didn't touch on, and i want to do that now, is on medication-assisted therapy- are they covered under the ada, as well? well, an individual on medication-assisted therapy is covered under the ada. they are in a therapeutic environment, and so it is illegal to discriminate against that person. now, that said, there are some regulations that militate against certain medications. for instance, if you are to dot on methadone, then you can't operate a truck or bus under the dot; you can't use their-the dot approval process. but that has less to do with being on medication-assisted treatment and more to do with their policies about certain kinds of medications, and even though there are challenges to that, that

differential impact and policies of kids and african-american kids, and i think that the office of civil rights has highlighted and said that we need -- the department needs to work with school systems to understand why that is happening and make progress that that actually isn't happening in a way that can happen because of the least adults that lead to a certain increased mr. tater and that is an issue and made ready for the department and should be. estimate just to make it clear cut devotees the sixth look at the history of the american public education. is enforcing civil rights as a critical aspect of the federal role in education. so to be cleared that is what governor romney's sees as an essential function of the department along with those i mentioned earlier. and we need to ensure access to the rigorous work. the other focus of the proportionality policies have been access to the course is comfortable, and so there are ways in which the states can incentivize that by incorporating access to the performance into the school report cards, but the user proportionality is a blunt tool to e

protest in february against israel's treatment of palestinians sparked hate speech against jews on campus. the u.s. education department civil rights office is investigating. >>> the new archbishop of san francisco will be installed in about 90 minutes from now. about 2,000 people will witness the ceremony for salvatore cordileone at st. mary's cathedral. protestors are expected outside. that's because the bishop has a reputation as a fierce defender of the church's opposition to same-sex marriage. and we'll have a live stream of the ceremony on cbssf.com when it begins. >>> early surveys show a lift for mitt romney after what many say was a strong debate performance. a positively undecided voters shows romney won last night by a 2-1 margin. cbs reporter tara mergener has the latest from the white house. >> reporter: mitt romney set the debate tone early. >> under the president's policy middle income americans have been buried. >> reporter: energetic and agrees ever, romney slammed the president's economic record and laid out his own plan. >> there will be no cut that adds to the deficit. >> reporter: but the president repeatedly insisted

of the officer, richard meritt, last saturday. the arresting officers used excessive force and committed civil rights violations. assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent, false impressment and false arrest. the head of the chapter of the naacp says there's a pattern of improper police behavior in the county. >> this year has been an increase in a number of cases where citizens are being handcuffed and brutalized or used in their arrest. >> the lawsuit seeks $3 million. derek. >> lesli, they want your vote, but will they say anything to get it? here at u.s.a. today, they are separating spin from truth during tonight's presidential debate. we'll be here all night long. >>> don't count on using a big portion of the gw parkway this weekend. the national park service says the northbound lanes will be closed between south run and chain bridge. work to stabilize rocks along the roadway will start around 7:15 friday night. but those lanes should reopen by 5:30 monday morning. >>> did you know that some of you may be driving over an endangered landscape every day on your way to work? acco

civil rights moment. civil rights crisis. civil rights leaders same to his office and talked to himbout what they expected of the kennedy presidency but also he found himselfbo in a difficult position in trying to manage what was unfolding in mississippi with the integration of the university of mississippi with james meredith. in this piece of tape we hear him talking to the then governor of mississippi ross barnett. >> ifill: governor barnett had an different idea about how to handle this crisis. >> that's a key moment. sometim you can tell more from the intonations than the words themselves and president kennedy is raising his voice a little and saying i'm in charge here and you're not and the governor backs down. y they're teach each trying to work with the other. they're trying to sve face a little bit and not let this thing get out of hand but j.f.k. takes control of the situation.e >> ifill: governor barnett wanted james meredith removed because he thought they was soue of the problem? >> yes and president kennedy thought if he were removed he might be vulnerable tohetheth ms around the jail and he didn't trust governor bar

because the carrier begins before the war of 1812 and extends right up until the opening of the civil war when he finally retires, but there are a few other officers but scott is the most important. they become very much their agenda very much is to build a proper professional the institution and to take expertise, usually european or french and bring it into the united states and another major figure and france basically to collect information about military education and he collects the numbers of books and materials and comes back to west point and with the support of people like space, he becomes a prominent general during the war of 1812. he is able to have though west point experience and how to move forward. >> when was west point found it? >> 1802. >> and it always -- i think historians still argue about what thomas jefferson was really after when the school was founded but no one disagrees that the schools were weak. it's unclear what the purpose of the institution is. there is not, there is widely divergent action and to this day it's still the father of west point because he puts it on much sounder and systematic institutional footing a

it's a result of a 12-year-old civil rights lawsuit involving four officer s who were known as the rioters. mayor quan said i am confident that by the end of the year we will be in compliance with the majority of the outstanding tasks. >>> the morgan hill mother accused of leaving her mother in a safeway parking lot after the pair shoplifted groceries was in court today. she is suspected of having her 10-year-old daughter shoplift groceries and beer from a morgan hill safeway last month. police say when her daughter was stopped outside the store, erico took off. she was later arrested in arizona. the 10-year-old girl is now in the custody of her grandmother. >>> santa rosa police say a man shot in the abdomen was apparently involved in a drug deal. this happened just before 9:00 at an apartment complex on piner road. police responded to reports of yelling and gunshots they found a 33-year-old man in a parking lot with nonlife threatening injuries. officers say a pound of marijuana was on the ground near by. witnesses told police that two men left the scene in a late model vehicle that was

of privacy. >> reporter: that's right, concerns over privacy sand civil rights. the sheriff's office is the one dringing this idea up, and it is very preliminary at this point. but here is a picture of a thrown that they tested just two months ago, that the office tested two months ago. a handful of law enforcement agencies in the country have gotten federal approval to use them. and if the sheriff's office does so, it would be the first in california. >> you'll be able to see what the drone is seeing as it's flying. >> reporter: at four pounds and four feet wide, this drone gets a bird's-eye view that officers on the ground are often blind to. >> it can save lives. >> reporter: in this demonstration in dub lick, it's a man standing in the shadows on a roof top with explosives in his reach. >> near priceless. it's valuable to any officer, as you're setting up your perimeters and knowing what the suspect may have in his hands, how the suspect is dressed, what are the avs of escape. >> reporter: the sheriff says his office would only use them during emergencies. >> pursuing a suspect o

department of education civil rights office confirms it's investigating the allegations now. >>> a communityprotest against the chevron refinery in richmond was held yesterday. that refinery sight caught fire in august. huge platforms of toxic smoke sent tens of thousands of people to the hospital. this was the scene yesterday. you can see it in the video. a lot of folks with signs, right there off the gates of the chevron refinery. they were demanding more community compensation from chevron, more worker safety. and say chevron needs to pay its fair share of taxes. >>> meanwhile, an east bay community still in shock after a middle school teacher accused of molesting a former student found dead in his car in an apparent suicide. the father of james izumazaki is too upset to talk to him but there will be a public memorial for the 28-year-old in coming saturday from 10:00 to noon in memorial park in albany. the father says it's very difficult for the family and wish people would respect their privacy. >>> police in antioch are investigating a series of attacks on drivers along highway 4. antio

this was the birthplace of nationwide boycotts, strikes, by the labor and civil rights leader from 1971 until his death in 1993. his office just as he left it is now a museum and the rose garden is chavez's final resting place. >> what do you think cesar would have said about this today? >> don't stop. we haven't finished. keep on going. work harder to accomplish more. >> the cause chavez fought for, warm worker rights and human dignity lives on. in keen, cbs 5. >>> meanwhile, mitt romney's performance in last week's debate has given him a big bounce right past the president in one new national poll. a research survey out this afternoon gives the republican nominee a 4 point edge among likely voters. president obama had an 8 point lead in that same poll three weeks ago. romney gained ground in a couple key demographics. the pew poll shows he pulled even with the president among women voters. erasing an 18 point obama lead going into the debate. and the republican nominee is also doing better with younger voters. his popularity with the under 30 crowd jumped 10 percentage points in the days following the debate. romney is

taze for merely insulting a police officer and many other cases involving egregious violations of rights and oppressive police brutality but jeff is no stranger to civil rights defense he represents other civil rights groups and washington and has worked at the bill of rights defense committee filing for your requests and litigating a case against two fusion centers in washington d.c. centers that collect personal information and make it available to local state and federal agencies with no transparency and little no oversight so for his brave efforts toward protecting our fast eroding constitutional rights for me to lawyer that standing up for what's right in the face of so much that's wrong for truly representing the people whose voices have long been suppressed jeffrey light is our hero of the day so he's the hero who's the villain of all this was kind of a no brainer i've ever heard of congressman scott taylor's are well it was recently revealed that this lesser known tennessee congressman cheated on his wife back in two thousand and one a two hundred page memorandum of court records a deja relays divorce proceeding included a transcript of a tele

politics question marks before i ran for office, and worked in san francisco as a criminal prosecutor and civil rights attorney. i got to understand how much of be in san francisco is to the rest of the world for social justice. i spent a number of years helping to grow a small business. i got to understand the innovative spirit in san francisco. at night, i volunteered as a neighborhood leader and as feature of an affordable housing organization. i learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and the special jewels that are the urban villages we live in. i ran for office because i wanted to serve the city and protect all that is so special about san francisco. >> what lessons did you learn after campaigning for supervisor? >> san franciscans are incredibly interested in their city government, local politics, and making sure that we remain the most amazing city in the world. i learned that san franciscans during campaign read everything they are sent in the mail. they love to meet the candidates and engage in conversations with them. i learned how important it is to build bridges between different communities, particularly co

office with me and carter administration. strong woman advocate and strong in the civil rights movement. one ofve met in my life. she taught me a life. she died. a lot of us who will miss her terribly, pass on to her daughter tracy and her granddaughter maya you had a wonderful mother and grandmother and couldn't ask for anybody better. sweet woman. i know she is in especially looking down on us now. i'll -- she is in heaven looking down on us. i'll miss her very much. >> kimberly: very sweet. >> eric: i want to let everyone know david axelrod, yes, he did text me and said -- guess what? it's fundraising. over the weekend, yesterday, drew brees broke unitas 52-year-old record. do we have it? hopefully. >> wide open. there it is. drew brees to henderson. >> eric: all right. so the most games in a row with a touchdown pass bay quarterback. 52 years. brady has 37 games in a row currently. he is on brees' heel. good guy, by the way. >> kimberly: right? nice guy. class act. >> bob: visions of 180-degrees and he can see that. is why he is good. he goes back to here. it's amazing. remarkable player. >

of another child reported him to police. >>> civil rights attorneys asking a judge to put oakland police department under federal receivership stemming from the infamous riders case which went to trial in 2002, four officers were accused of vigilante justice the settlement called for reforms. more than a decade later those reforms are still not complete. oakland city officials say they are working to meet full compliance. no police department in the nation has ever been under federal receivership. >>> oakland police launched new service to get more anonymous crime tips. you can text the oakland police department with information. the service is provided by a website that encrypts the sender's information so police can get in touch but everything stay as anonymous. more information on abc7news.com click on see it on tv. >>> any rain would be a well some sight in santa clara county where officials are stopping boating activities on two reservoirs. the low levels are results of minimal rainfall and water storage prestrict s last winter was the driest year. >>> city of cupertino flying at half-staff today to mark the first anniversary of steve jobs' death. the apple founder died of cancer at the age of 56. jo

all of the future civil war generals are officers who have experience with what we would call major combat operations with its still a much smaller scale and after that all they did was right on the frontier or the fortifications, so their expertise is actually in many ways also terribly deficient. but it's better than what everyone else has, which is nothing. so, there is a very small professional army, but the army the union of the confederacy produced cannot be i will describe it as a profession i would say and so probably leading until 1862 >> if you teach this to carry the naval academy, what do you want students to leave with? spaight you never want to be that professor who is sox=@= obviously trying to sell books. the civil war, the big picture theme especially for the midshipmen is that there is that sometimes a collision between the way that a country wants to fight a war matt and how it ends up actually having to do so. the case relates to my book in 1861 the believe in the united states and the union confederacy is that you don't really need a professional military expertise. that's how the army got so small that in times of crisis good citizen soldiers will ste

civil rights, and our experts here will elaborate. we also have a list of certified caps at work in san francisco for you. carla johnson with the mayor's office of disability has created a really good it died of out to interview your experts to make sure you are getting the best quality product for you. been next -- the money you pay for the inspection you can take as a tax deduction. any money that if you have taken can be applied as a tax deduction. this can be done on an annual basis. next, the opportunity, and a fund -- opportunity loan fund, providing for small businesses to pay for the inspection or to make improvements needed. to do it before you receive the lawsuit. and lastly, we of the bar association and their resources. they're providing their legal service for you. this last thing i am going to share with you in terms of what we have seen in our office is that with the individuals, that does not necessarily mean an individual will follow up with a lawsuit. what we've seen in our office is the individual's will send you a letter and say there were compile -- compliance issues. where people get in trouble is they ignore the letter.

office for school board, state senate and congress. i think that really says something about the strength of our belief in what this country offers. >> it feels to me like you also thought the civil rightsafrican-americans took the opportunity of the franchise to run for office. if you don't like those laws, you become a lawmaker. >> become part of the solution. i think that's -- i want to just say about president obama, he's one of the reasons that people are so mobilized by himment you can identify with him on multiple levels. i like to think of president obama as an immigrant. certainly a child of an immigrant. there are multiple levels at which you can identify with that and it gave people his election also mobilized a lot of different folks to feel that something was possible. >> certainly a cosmopolitan citizen having lived in schools, indonesia, a half sister who was indonesian. as well as american like. that idea of a cosmopolitan person is part what the immigrant story is. grace, i wish you great luck in your campaign. thank you, sayu, robert and chloe are back for me. next we're talking about affirmative action. jack, you're a little boring. boring. boring. [ jack ] after laur

the service of congress, he strengthened america with the focus on federal budget, civil rights, education, and the environment. in the white house, leon panetta was director of the office of management budget and chief of staff, fostering policies that led to a balanced budget in the 1990s making america stronger. at the central intelligence agency, he enabled a spirited response to international terrorism with notable results, disrupting and defeating terror networks. as the nation's 23rd sex tear of defense, leon panetta struck a balance as a force of the advocate for efficiencies also standing resolute in favor of an adequately funded military. bens is pleased to bestow the award recognizing those outstanding americans whose contributions to the country reflect security as the total product of our economic, intellectual, moral, and military strength. secretary panetta. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you very much. thank you so much for this wonderful evening and the chance to enjoy some terrific company and be able to express my deepest gratitude to this organization for all of the great things that it does on behalf of those that receiver in our military

office civil activists take offense at. the material girl's message on gay rights apparently. a leading european satellite provider takes iranian stations off the air as a result of the latest sanctions on tehran iran has said that in response it could take legal action against the organization for banning its broadcasts. plus one of the faces of the russian opposition. is brought in for questioning by an investigative committee pulled out so often his associates are facing charges of planning to organize mass unrest in the country. more news in fifteen minutes time for now though it's union and the sports. thanks for a grip. busy ten minutes ahead let's get right to it. by the skin of their teeth that russia make it four wins from four in world cup twenty four qualifying but azerbaijan pushed them all the way in moscow. compacting sweden stunned germany on the footballing world by reporting from four goals down to draw their group c. in contra berlin some of the big stadium. medals on their mind we can't help but first as prime candidates for success at the next winter olympic games in sochi. a victory is a victory but fabio capello won't be too unarmored with t

civil rights attorney asked a judge to put the oakland police department under federal severship. request comes after the infamous rider case that went to trial back in 2002. 4 oakland officers were accused of vigilante justice. settlement called for refor of the oakland police department. more than a decade later the reforms are still not complete. oakland city officials say full compliance is on the horizon. no police department in the nation has ever been put under federal severeship this is enormous event if it happens. >> everything he can to become an eagle scou scout. but troop leaders denying him the dhoonschieve his eams >> i cn't lievhe's in my ms right now. >> a lite girl and her dog with an emotional reunion. days after it was stolen from her. >> and 6-year-old cancer patient who is trying to bring halloween to his friends in the hospital. >> all that coming up. stay with us. later on "nightline". >> coming up next on "nightline". is there easy money sitting right in your garage? the simple tips that could add thousands of dollars to the selling price of your used car l. the new memoir about going ♪ ♪ [ man ] excuse me miss. [ gasps ] this fiber one 90 calorie brownie has all th

office to effect change in our country. some of the people who affected the civil rights movement, for example, never held elected office. who were advocates for women's suffrage or a women's right to vote, they were never elected to office. i think it's instilling that motivation in young people, look, this is your opportunity in your forum. you don't have to have a lot of money. you don't have to be famous to build a movement behind an issue you think is important. and waywire is that platform to allow them to do it. this election obviously will be impacted by the young people who show up or don't show up in an election. but i think what's important is you've got to get more people involved in the process and educated. and the other thing that waywire is a much more serious social video platform. it's not just funny youtube videos or clips. it's actually a serious discussion about issues of the day. >> then we definitely are not interested. brian? we like the funny video. >> a lot of focus obviously on the yankees, but i want to talk about a different sport, hockey. you guys build this beautiful arena in newark, it emp

civil rights attorney asked a judge to put the oakland police department under federal severship. request comes after the infamous rider case that went to trial back in 2002. 4 oakland officers were accused of vigilante justice. settlement called for refor of the oakland police department. more than a decade later the reforms are still not complete. oakland city officials say full compliance is on the horizon. no police department in the nation has ever been put under federal severeship this is enormous event if it happens. >> local teen done everything he can to become an eagle scou scout. but troop leaders denying him the dhoons achieve his dreams. >> i can't believe he's in my arms right now. >> a little girl and her dog with an emotional reunion. days after it was stolen from her. >> and 6-year-old cancer patient who is trying to bring halloween to his friends in the hospital. >> all that coming up. stay with us. later on "nightline". >> coming up next on "nightline". is there easy money sitting right in your garage? the simple tips that could add thousands of dollars to the selling price of your used car l. the new memoir about going 7 news reporter lillian explains why this scouts say

scene in the movie where during the civil rights movement and the integration of the university of alabama and my sister carrie is talking to my father, or is in his officeone with nick katzenbach in the middle of this crisis. you can see how integrated the children are in my parents' lives. one of the issues which is that my father was so busy during that time, there was so much going on, my mother was too, that they didn't want to choose between leaving the kids home, doing the work that they were doing and they had so many children because they loved children, right? so i think they wanted to bring them along, it was more fun for everybody and i think the kids really enjoyed being with the parents so it was a nice thing all around. >> and even though there was some arm twisting to get your mom to acquiesce to this film, she's still pretty sad about your dad's death in 1968. how difficult was that to broach the subject with her? was her response what you expected or were you hoping she was would open up? >> honestly, it was one of the major reasons why i didn't want to do this film because i know how hard it is for my mother to talk about some of these

civil rights attorney asked a judge to put the oakland police department under federal severship. request comes after the infamous rider case that went to trial back in 2002. 4 oakland officers were accused ofhe oakland police department. more than a decade later the reforms are still not complete. oakland city officials say full compliance is on the horizon. no police department in the nation has ever been put under federal severeship this is enormous event if it happens. >> local teen done everything he can to become an eagle scou scout. but troop leaders denying him the dhoons achieve his dreams. >> i can't believe he's in my arms right now. >> a little girl and her dog with an emotional reunion. days after it was stolen from her. >> and 6-year-old cancer patient who is trying to bring halloween to his friends in the hospital. >> all that coming up. stay with us. later on "nightline". >> coming up next on "nightline". is there easy money sitting right in your garage? the simple tips that could add thousands of dollars to the selling price of your used car l. the new memoir about going l. the[ female announcer ]ing pillsbury grands biscuits on their own are amazing, but press out some bis

former city councilman turned civil rights activist is a felon of tax evasion and he makes no bones about it. >> i have been strip offed my right to vote and hold public officeing to getel felonsget felonsand convicted felons in the lawsuit. he's asking the judge to rule on his argument that the felon disenfranchisement is unconstitutional in virginia. >> so what that means is that every person, even in prison will have their rights restored. >> cenk: so it's an interesting point. finally on the issue of civil rights here. a lot of people argue that our incarceration of african-americans is a new form of jim crow. is this a way of disenfranchising by another name. >> there is no question. i've written a book on this in some length. there is no question. even though african-americans and whites have about the same level of drug use and drug selling overwhelmingly it's african-americans who are prosecutorprosecutorred, who get these long sentences and then when they come out there is a connection between civil rights and felony disenfranchisement. how can we allow to get rid of jim crow laws, how can we allow so many african-americans be legally barred from vo

officer involved shootings. the federal monitor overseas the police department issued the report. it comes as a motion is set to be filed tomorrow to request a federal takeover of the department. the civil rights attorney who t >> i've done police shootings in many cities. but the problems with oakland are systemic, and unique. >> a hearing is set for december to discuss the motion. the city is expected to fight that request. >>> a federal judge declared a mistrial in the cocaine fraud case of a former san francisco police department crime lab technician. 62-year-old deborah madden was charged with obtaining cocaine by fraud or deception. jurors agreed she took cocaine from the laboratory in 2009. but disagree that she did so by deception. a hearing is set to discuss a pop retrial. >>> in antioch, police are looking for whoever is throwing rocks or objects from an overpass on highway 4. three vehicles have been hit so far, including an ambulance. >> reporter: on monday about 9:00 p.m., an amr ambulance was heading east on highway 4, passing under the g street overpass. an object came crashing into the windshield, shattering the glass in front of the driver. >> they didn't see anything on the r