vital information city employees need to disclose conflcits.. like an officialt of comapnies doing business with the city....is hard to come by. 12:29:09"we have had a very diffcult time and have be unable to this date to obtain a complete and accurate lsit of who does business with the clarity as to who is in fact required to fill out the form in the first place.12:29:27we have had diffuclty finding out from the mmyor's office findinggout who is suppsoed to filllout the forms"issues that don't suprise some city officials who have tried to too cumbersome12:30:22 say is "apparently we don't beliebve in transparecny"councilman carl stokes wanted to put all this information...online...nn get id of paper.a measure that failed to gain support at city hall.12:28:18:"we don't want to put online what we've already filled on a public form. i don't know why?"but streamling the process, and making the ethics code work says pierson, will take time. &p"it's a problem we inherited. it hhs been an ongoing problem" a process she says, the board intenns to fix.12:28:18 "we take

and of course, i join here as part of an official city family. thank you for being here.ervisors carmen chu, jane kim, and eric mar. our elected officials, jeff adachi, the public defender, the recorder assessor, hydra mendoza, and emily murase. we're also thankful for the chief of police, thank you. i would like to also acknowledges someone that has been a very special friend of mine, someone that has given me a lot of support and advice over the years. and also someone who has not missed one of these asian pacific heritage month associations, mayor willie brown. >> this evening, we are celebrating our communities from all over the world. i am so lucky to be the mayor of an international city. we talked a lot about diversity, but we also celebrates in so many ways. it is marvelous to hear the names of all these council generals from all around the world. we also have some invaluable participants that represent the city relations. from osaka, singapore, shanghai, taipei, and seoul, korea. they're working with our offices and communities to promote education, trade, allow

the policy of giving out tickets to city officials has been in effect since 1988. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> two demonstrators are behind bars after police say they caused a disturbance at city hall. police say two people entered city hall demanding a meeting with the mayor. there were told such a meeting was not possible and with then arrested. nobody was hurt. >> a strange turn of events and with a police officer shooting a man. this unfolded yesterday morning. the officer learned that tavon williams had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on a traffic charge. he told the officer that he needed to use the restroom and then he bolted from the building. >> he backed up and tried to run the officer over. the officer fired three rounds. >> williams was picked up and taken to hospital. he is now in serious but stable condition. the officer is on administrative duty this morning. fire officials are asking for some help to find two arson suspects. they entered the food lion in pasadena late last month and set off some kind of a firework. if you recognize the

to see an official, a city official, somebody who sits on the board, come to where we are and here are stories and comfort us, not for votes, but because he truly cared meant a lot to me. and do not have a right to vote? you people will not say specifically, but you push it out. people in their offices drinking white substance is everywhere, but they move to higher seat on panels, people that keep it a real and stayed with the people and try to make the communities grow and prosper, how come they get left out and pushed out? >> i have a 4-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old son and their daddy is in heaven. this gentleman cannot even lawfully be with his own life because of political smearing. it means to stop. we care about what happens in the communities. someone that has a strong hand in law enforcement because they care. god bless. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am a citizen and i have been teaching at san francisco state for 16 years. the first time i met ross he said to me, you are not very politically involved out, are you? and i said, not really. i like to teach my students ab

as an overall economic downturn and they are the third city to file for bankruptcy this year. >>> technically, it is an unincorporated area. officials who vote on whether to form a committee to study the benefits andrew backs of becoming an incident city. >>> a special report has uncovered that cal strand since source provided faulty information. they placed it under bay area freeways. the data is posted on the freeway signs and sent to smart phones as alerts with transit information and a transportation expert call it is a scandal but the cal trans engineer is standing by the data. >> i can tell you, these are very useful information that we put out for our travelers. >> we found problemmed spots from san rafael to north of santa rosa to the caldecott tunnel. there are no working sensors between interstate 880 and 280. >>> we are coming closer to the 4:00 -- 5:00 hour. >>> i just checked in with chp and they gave us the all clear. traffic is continues to look good if you are driving on interstate 880, no major problems here. at bay bridge plaza traffic is still light getting into san francisco. and this morning if you are driving o

. >>> it's official. the city of san bernardino has filed for bankruptcy. face a $45 million budget shortfall. officials say lost revenue from the housing crisis as well pass an overall economic downfall are to blame. >>> well, marin city lead course take a major step today in becoming a -- leaders could take a major step today in becoming a city. officials are gonna vote on whether to form a study to study the benefits and drawbacks of becoming an independent city. it would have to set up a city council, police and fire districts. >>> the council -- the councilmembers voted against restoring the plastic bags. they will implement a ban on stores of sales of $2 million and more. that's set to go into effect january 1st next year. >>> a special ktvu report reveals millions of taxpayer reports were spent on a faulty traffic sensors devices. the system cost between $60 million and $80 million. >> right now, we have a fairly high failure rate. we've looked at our system and we're identified as many as 50 to 1200 things that could go -- 50 to 100 things that coul

the system is called next door and it allows city officials to message entire neighborhoods about anything from planned road work. while city officials are able to send messages out they'll not be able to see the online neighborhood discussions unless they're resident of that particular neighborhood. thank you for watching ktvu. our coverage continue ws the 10:00 news tonight. we're live in san jose and of course we have a crew inside that heated town home meeting on the refinery fire in richmond. keep in mind we're always here for you at ktvu dot com. tmz is upright here on channel 36. have you ever roller-skied before? yes no when? you don't know everything that i have done. salesman: oh, well, it's wife: well really easy. tell me... [ting] ♪ child: ya, ya ya... [crash] child: mom! [ting] ♪

the official tonight will be from chevron, the county into the city. the audience will be allowed to ask questions directly to those officials with any question that they have. many people in this community are recovering from the fire last night and they are still shaken by what happened. thousands of people had shelter in place and hundreds going to the hospital. here is what they had to say about their experience. some >> yesterday i was in the kitchen cooking dinner for my grandson's. they told me the backyard was on fire. with this small bit of it was the backyard but i told them it was the refinery. >> we heard a loud explosion and then a second explosion. >> i had just gotten to the meeting. i was there only five minutes when the alarm went off. we knew right away that something was wrong. we went outside and saw the smoke. we have to get out of the area as quickly as possible. >> eyes wander around and looked like someone cuts the lights off. i heard a big bone and that someone is shot the lights off. >> i went to the window and many concede thi

the city attorneys have failed miserably in their attempt at making a case against him because there is nothing. the only misconduct is the mayor said officially exited city hall during a bomb threat. he let all of you sit in here. i hope all of you are getting the petition signatures. i am not alone. this is the voice of san francisco. we want our share of reinstated and we want him reinstated now. >> next speaker. >> i lived in san francisco in the mission district. i see all of these issues as related. the attack on sheriff mirkarimi, trying to remove him from an office that he was elected to, the attacks on the poor and working-class people that need to have the resources of city college so that they can build a viable future for themselves and their family. it is all related. it is basically a war against the poor. i want you to remember what it was like when you were young and struggling. where would you be without education? would you be able to get the degrees that allows you to have the profession that allows you to save up the money to run for office? every night, san francisco gets attacked by the police. recently, they had a solida

. >> reporter: the mayor's office also outlined exactly what official city misconduct means. >> these are things a sheriff just cannot do. there's no question that this type of conduct warrants removal. he committed a violent crime against his wife. he violated that trust. he is not suited to fulfill the trust of this office. >> reporter: mirkarimi's attorneys fired back the sheriff wasn't convicted of a felony, rather a misdemeanor for false imprisonment and it happened before he even took office. >> there is a provision in place, it's called the recall that can be used to remove a public official that the voters want to get rid of. and that's the democratic way to do it. >> reporter: all of this of course stems from a new year's eve argument between mirkarimi and his wife when he bruised her arm. coming up at 5:00, what the decision is. live in san francisco city hall, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a new security measure at napa state hospital is being blamed . he was choked last night. a personal security alarm was issued two days ago. as we reported monday workers had wa

free tickets handed out by the hundreds to city officials. >> free passes to shows at 1st mariner arena. kim dacey is live this morning with details. good morning. >> good morning. more than 300 pages of correspondence shows the mayor, members of her staff, and city council members attended a variety of shows here at the 1st mariner arena for free. the shows range from big-name concerts to sporting events to the circus. in some cases, the mayor attended with her family. on one occasion, the mayor's office asked for five vip tickets for her husband to attend an mma fight. other tickets went to city council members, including brandon scott. scott told us he gave the tickets he received to kids at city rec centers and schools. we asked if he sees a problem with politicians asking for and accepting free tickets for personal use. >> the tickets are given to the mayor, so that is not up for me to say who she takes and who she gives it to. it is a drop in the bucket when you talk about the amount of tickets to the 1st mariner that are given out. >> a spokesman for the mayor's office said the c

vital information city employees need to disclose conflcits.. liik an official comapnies doing business with the city....is hard to come by. 12:29:09"we have had a very diffcult time and have be unaale to this date to obtain a complete and accurate lsit of who does business with the city."and evenna lack of clarity as to who is in fact required to fill out the form in the first place.12:29:27we have had diffuclty finding out frommthe mayor's office finding out who is suppsoed to fill out the forms"issuessthat don't suprise some city officials who have tried to too cumbersome12:30:22 "apparently we don't beliebve in transparecny"councilman carl stokee wanted o put all this information...online...nn get rid of paper.a measure that failed to gain support at city hall.12:28:18:"we doo't wann to put online whht we've already filled n a public form. i don't know why?"but streamling the ppocess, and making the ethics code work says pierson, wwll take time. "it's aaproblem we inherited. it has been an ongoing problem" a process she says, the board intends to fix.12:28:1

city officials in other cities have rallied against the fast food chain. new hampshire is one of 13 states that will decide the 2012 election. both sides are campaigning hard with 11 weeks to go. union time.al-ti a full week before they were supposed to appear together at the republican convention in tampa. >> they thought they would split up but now they will be together out in new hampshire. >> both teams are battling it out in the granite state for their four electoral votes. mney'somney is route 90's ba back yard. >> whenever changes get made to medicare, they were not affect current seniors. >> a senior adviser said he would release the 2011 e turn by the deadline. martin o'malley suggested the disclosure of its offshore banking accounts may be the reason for the delay. >> it is tax avoidance of a time when we need everybody's help to accelerate our country's recovery. >> president obama will be in ohio tomorrow before heading to nevada on wednesday. reporting in washington for wbal-tv 11 news. >> some startling comments about rape and abortion by a m

city to shut down. howard county officials delivered some good news tonight. >> we were told that the city would get its downtown back this weekend at 7:00 tonight, officials tell us main street will reopen to traffic. a cleanup and investigation on st. are in their finishing stages. howard county executive has another announcement. >> there is free parking through sunday. please come down, do not feed the meter, parking is free. come down and support these great restaurants, shops, and businesses. >> crews have spent the day cleaning debris from underneath the bridge where the drama to happened. at some point, we are told, csx will resume its train schedule. that is the final test train coming through this area. as far as this investigation, we still do not know what caused the derailment. the ntsb says the unseen investigation will be completed by tomorrow. the initialamage estimates from the derailment is $2.2 million. >> haiti is bracing for impact tonight, while florida and the gulf coast remained on high alert. >> the host city for next six gop convention is not out of the woods yet. >> tampa may

was it consistent with how this mayor has treated other cases of alleged wrongdoing by city officials was it consistent with how other mayors have handled similar cases? i respectfully submit to you that it was not consistent with how this mayor has dealt with other cases of alleged wrongdoing and not consistent with how the city, how other mayors have dealt with cases of alleged wrongdoing by elected officials. this was only the third time in the history of san francisco that a sitting mayor has suspended an elected official for alleged official misconduct. the first time was in 1932. he suspended the public defender for murder. mr. begin went on to spend 25 years in federal prison. the second time was in 2007. the mayor suspended the supervisor for perjury and extortion, both felonies. he is in prison today. the third time is in the present case. merely suspended share of mirkarimi -- maylor lee suspended sheriff mirkarimi. he spent no time in jail. he was cited and released. you have three very serious felonies involving very serious prison time, and in this case a low-level misdem

are learning about a secret meeting last week between the raiders, national football league officials and city leaders about a new stadium for the team. nfl officials arrived on august 9th to hear the city's pitch for a transformed coliseum complex. the team wants a replacement for the 46-year-old stadium. the raiders also have said they prefer to stay in oakland, but sharing the 49ers' new stadium in santa clara or return to los angeles are options. >>> start of a big weekend forenew students entering uc berkeley and many other campuses move-in day. thousands will be moving into dorms, apartments and co-07s -- co-ops. 1300 international and out of state students begin orientation monday and classes next thursday. >> bringing back memories of your first day on the uc berkeley campus? >> and yours. >> to a degree. i think it was much later in my day. september. we started in october. >> they keep getting earlier. >> glad i got out when did. >> some districts have started. we'll check in with mike. [ talking over each other ] >>> doppler showing what is going on. cloud cover out there, organized

. >> just last month satwant sin kaleka had requested a meeting with city officials to talk about hate crimes against sikh owned businesses. she told her mother she hid in the kitchen while the gunman was shooting. >> all she said was there is a shoot og kurring. i'm okay and don't come here. she called me crying hysterically saying she saw my grandpa lying dead shot. >> police say there was only one gunman. >> the reports of multiple shootings were likely reports of the same shoot frere different perspectives, which is very common in an active shooter incident. >> reporter: authorities interviewed witnesses and survivors at a nearby bowling ally, they are still investigating a possible motive. inest ferre for cbs news. >> we are joined by paul piaskoski of wdjt-tv. i know you were speaking to people inside the temp el. what are they saying? >>. >> yeah, we spoke with a gentleman who was just led away from the facility about 20 minutes ago. we understand that he has gotten a description of the gunman from witnesses. and it's the first time we're hearing this he describes the gunman as

city officials so feared that parts of the city will be flooded. >>> so far only minor damage has been caused. >>> it looks like it could be very heavy. the rain is. >>> about 30 mi. south of new orleans canals are overflowing and strong winds knocked down trees. it's where commercial fishermen is letting out the storm. >>> i always also found a boat. high waters,. >>> all along the banks are setbacks have been set up as well as to levies. the city of your lens has a much more sophisticated line of defense against flooding. a 49-billion dollars levy system built by the u.s. army corps of engineers. >>> i haven't seen a lot of work here. i felt pretty confident about it. >>> the storm is stirring up the surf in mississippi. and soaking orange beach alabama. >>> if it were to demonstrate ask for but not took to win a laugh. >>> die of the storm is moving just west of new orleans. i sit is expected to bring some much- needed rain to arkansas. louisiana will have to need take the brunt of the storm like we through thursday. >>> since i have a storm is heading to the west is no surprise tha

but in the position of one of the lost law enforcement officials in the city, i wonder as a woman ifi said to my husband, if he were an abuser, i'm right to get out. and he said to me, the sheriff, they let him keep his job. do you think anyone will listen to you? you need to think about the position that the ads and the message that sends to our city. >> can i ask for a status update as to how many people out outside? eight more. can we bring everyone who is in line right now into the room?

city officials are pressed to find a solution. in july, they began enforcing a new regulation to limit water use. the main targets are businesses that use a lot of water. if they use more than a certain amount, they pay an extra charge. officials hope this will reduce the amount of land that gives way. however, a water resources expert points out that limiting the use of ground water may reduce one problem, but it increases another. >> translator: to achieve economic growth, we have to overcome our water shortage. but beijing and the neighboring province must abide by water usage restrictions. so it's very difficult to strike a balance between economic development and water conservation. >> reporter: water shortages are an urgent problem. chinese officials are now looking for answers. michitaka yamaka, nhk world, beijing. >>> japan and the united states are considering boosting the defense capabilities in east asia. top japanese and u.s. military officials are discussing installing a more powerful radar system in japan to strength

city officials are pressed to find a solution. in july, new regulations were enforced to lake water use. the main targets are businesses that use a lot of water. if they use more than a certain amount, they pay an extra charge. officials hope this will reduce the amount of land that gives w way. however, a water resources expert points out that limiting the use of ground water may reduce one problem, but it increases another. >> translator: to achieve economic growth, we have to overcome our water shortage. but beijing and the neighboring province must abide by water usage restrictions, so it's very difficult to strike a balance between economic development and water conservation. >> reporter: water shortages are an ancient proverb. chinese officials are now looking for answers. nhk world, beijing. >>> major supermarket chains in japan have begun selling fish dishes that are easy to cook. japanese consumers are eating less fish at home because they find it difficult to prepare. one supermarket chain is selling fish dishes it devel

in this incident, nor anything that transpired after words does not even come close to official misconduct. the citys done an excellent job of demonstrating no official misconduct has occurred. no matter how hard they tried, the city has not made the case. i work for unemployment insurance, and my job is to determine whether people qualified for an employer of based on their actions at work. there was no work-related misconduct in this. i implore you to remember that your duty is to ask the voters to be an impartial body that works for us, and of those who appointed you, and finally, i survived domestic violence two decades ago. i feel offended by the domestic violence exploiting a family crisis for their own agenda, which is nothing to do with protecting victims. the situation was not a criminal incident. please be independent and impartial when you make your recommendation that there was no official misconduct and removing him was wrong. thank you. >> my name is terrance faulkner. i have served on a couple of the commissions. i was a republican county chairman on occasion. i am speaking as an indi