it's very rare that they go to trial like i said in instances like the oscar grant shooting or in the being of kelly thomas this really didn't go to the courts until after a ton of public outcry and people are just taking to the streets but it's really difficult to take a police officer you know to court because many times it's tough to police the police from within a lot of police officers they're not going to want to have go after one of their own and we see the same issue in prosecutors' offices the other issue is that a lot of the times that the mainstream media just buries these things under the rug they don't ask questions the police department says that there was a gang member and that he was armed and in many cases we're we're here we're funny now weeks later that in many cases that these young men who are either shot or be in the by police are involved in gangs and are not carrying any weapons so there is a lot of. stronger necessity for the media to really question what law enforcement is reporting. really interesting thank you for weighing in on that and happy birthday to y

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coming up, a brand new movie about the shooting of oscar grant about to debut at a major film festival. we'll tell you which oscar winner is slated to star in that flick. [ male announcer ] this december, remember -- ♪ you can stay in and like something... ♪ [ car alarm deactivates ] ♪ ...or you can get out there with your family and actually like something. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our best values of the year. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> welcome back, everybody, on this thursday morning. right now a live look spanning over san jose before the sun comes up. it looks like it's going to be some calmer weather out there today before it gets rough again tomorrow. christina loren will be along to fill you in. it is 5:24. >>> the saga of the oscar grant shooting all set to play out on the big screen. that will be happening at the sundance film festival and it will screen fruitvale, that is a movie detailing grant's final hours before he was shot and killed by police officer johannes mehserle. octavia spencer will star and oscar grant is

. >>> a new movie about oscar grant is going to the sun dance festival. he was shot and killed in 2009. the movie stars oscar grants' mom and begins in utah. >>> it is very expensive and they are looking into a specialty coffee, it is made from a rare difficult to grow variety and this is available at only 46 locations in seattle. >>> there is a mess in oakland and let's go right over to tara. >>> they have decided to issue a sig alert and let's look from chopper 2 being you can see the tanker truck is right over the fruit veil exit and they are allowed to pass but you can see the gridlock is extending for miles. if you need get anywhere and take 880, i would advice taking 580 instead. let's go to steve. >>> very mild with a south wind fitting windy as well. the rain will make it a little tonight and there it is, it just may take awhile to get here. >>> a frantic search for an intruder, what happened hours ago to a woman inside her apartment. >>> and san jose campus, the reason students say the emergency phones are not making them feel safe. we will be ri

. >>> a film based on the shooting death of oscar grant will premiere at the sundance film festival the movie is selected to compete for best dramatic film in utah next week. it is expected to cover the shooting of the unarmed oakland man. grant was killed by a bart officer new year's day 2009. it stars octavia spencer. >>> historic bay area oyster farm is about to be history. interior secretary al czar just announced the government is shutting -- shutting down the drakes bay oyster company. ending a long environmental battle. salazar visited last week and concluded the landscape should be returned to wilderness. environmentalists say it threatened seals. senator feinstein fought to save the farm saying it was key to the area's economy. the lease expires tomorrow. >>> meteorologist lisa argen taking a look at that second storm on the way. >> wind gusts 35 miles an hour, light rain already reported around the bay ear. live look from our sutro camera clouds thickening and lowering, main rain is several hours off we are already feeling the affects look at mount tam, windy, rainy conditions

. >>> and we have more on how the movie about oscar grant gained recognition. >>> some people are still dealing with yesterday's rain, stay tuned for more news weather and traffic. . >>> they covered his final hours before he was shot and killed at the fruit station. the movie is starting academy award-winning actress who will be competing and it will be addressed in utah. >>> the new starting quarterback, coach jim harbaugh announced he will have a quarterback starting who will take over for alex smith who suffered a concussion. the new starter said there is no bad blood between he and alex smith. >> he helped me a lot with progressions and he has been a great help to get me to where i am right now. >> he has not been demoted and he insisted his choice for starting quarterback could change from week to week. >>> barry bonds is on the baseball hall of fame ballot. he spoke with one of the baseball writers who will vote him in or out. you just can't vote for players who are tainted by performance enhancing drugs, even if it is barry bonds but barry bonds said if you believe i am a bad pe

. >>> a film based on the shooting death of oscar grant will premiere at the sundance film festival the movie is selected to compete for best dramatic film in utah next week. it is expected to cover the shooting of the unarmed oakland man. grant was killed by a bart officer new year's day 2009. it stars octavia spencer. >>> historic bay area oyster farm is about to be history. interior secretary al czar just announced the government is shutting -- shutting down the drakes bay oyster company. ending a long environmental battle. salazar visited last week and concluded the landscape should be returned to wilderness. environmentalists say it threatened seals. senator feinstein fought to save the farm saying it was key to the area's economy. the lease expires tomorrow. >>> meteorologist lisa argen taking a look at that second storm on the way. >> wind gusts 35 miles an hour, light rain already reported around the bay ear. live look from our sutro camera clouds thickening and lowering, main rain is several hours off we are already feeling the affects look at mount tam, windy, rainy conditions

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we saw at the oscar grant video kelly thomas i would never know and we would never hold these people accountable even though of course. they didn't really get held accountable but i mean without video and without filming the cops we would never know what they're doing and of course the chilling effect is really the problem with the surveillance state and you contribute a lot to cop block what rights do people have i don't think a lot of people know that they don't have to allow cops in their home they don't have to allow cops to search their car i mean where can people find out what their rights are just explain all a bit more about what people can do to fight the police state well obviously you can't lock down org is a great resource lots of good information there the folks over lecture rights also do a good job of really laying out basic rights and you don't have an obligation to answer the door when the police are there obviously they show you that on their television shows cops for instance is always going to show people answering the door and talking to them you know hollywood m

. >>> the sun dance film festival chose a movie about the last hours of oscar grant's life. it covers his final hours before the officer shot and killed him. the movie stars spencer. the film festival begins january 17 in utah. >>> officials are not giving up on their sales tax hike to fund transportation needs. they asked for a recount on measure b-1. it would have increased the sales tax, raising a billion dollars over three years. that money would have funded improvements in transit, roads and freeways. >>> it turns out there is ice up there. the announcement from nasa. >> today the senate took a vote on bringing troops home from afghanistan but will it speed up the u.s. withdrawal. >> and the ktvu ipad app is ready to download, watch news, traffic, weather and video of breaking news anytime anywhere. with all these different kinds of coffee. actually, i just press this button. brew what you love, simply. keurig. i wish i had u-verse when i was your age. in my day, we didn't have these fancy wireless receivers. blah blah blah. if i had a sleepover, i couldn't just move th

. >> cephus johnson is the uncle of oscar grant who was killed by a police officer on new year's day 2009. >>> i'm back here in just a few minutes, we're going back to your bay area >>> the california highway patrol is investigating a chain reaction accident. news chopper 2 was overhead about 3:00 this afternoon this is one of two crash scenes involving a big rig and nine cars that blocked three lanes. only minor injuries resulted however the pile up led to huge back ups you see it there that lasted for nearly two hours. >>> the san mateo coroner's office is trying to identify a body spotted today in the surf. a tourist looking out his window made the discovery this morning. right afterward the tourist called for help. a sheriff's spokeswoman said the person was a white man in his mid-30s. deputies said they found no obvious signs of trauma. >>> a woman says she used an attack tactic on a shark that attacked her in maui. she said it was a reflex to throw a few punches at the shark and managed to land one on his nose. >> i would hear like noise, people yelling i think. it was like hol

. >> cephus johnson is the uncle of oscar grant who was killed by a police officer on new year's day2009. >>> i'm back here in just a few minutes, we're going back to your bay area weekend i'll show you which day will be the warmest, saturday or sunday. >>> and the record in russia this building just broke. >>> the california highway patrol is investigating a chain reaction accident. news chopper 2 was overhead about 3:00 this afternoon this is one of two crash scenes involving a big rig and nine cars that blocked three lanes. only minor injuries resulted however the pile up led to huge back ups you see it there that lasted for nearly two hours. >>> the san mateo coroner's office is trying to identify a body spotted today in the surf. a tourist looking out his window made the discovery this morning. right afterward the tourist called for help. a sheriff's spokeswoman said the person was a white man in his mid-30s. deputies said they found no obvious signs of trauma. >>> a woman says she used an attack tactic on a shark that attacked her in maui. she said it was a reflex to throw a fe

they site incidents including the oscar grant shooting. they say an african american is killed by lawen coursement in the united states every 36 hours. the event will be held at noon at oakland's plaz. >>> napa airing a documentary about a student shot and killed by vallejo police two years ago. officers said they fired on the man because he had a loaded gun. many of his friends and family don't believe that. the documentary made by his friend will be shown next wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in. >> a problem with an accelerator may have caused a teen drive teen driver to crash. the teen was going at least 80 miles an hour. her mercedes went 20 feet in to the house in to the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. >> she is screaming bloody murder. i kicked in the wind shield and saw her face and it was busted up. . >> the driver went to the house for a cat scan. her uncle blames it on the accelerator. the family was out to dinner. >> more pieces are turning up of a boat the that crashed near the golden gate bridge in october. remnants have been washing up

. >>> a movie about the death of oscar grant is heading to the sun dance film festival.al hours before he was shot and killed at the fruitvale bart station early new year's day 2009. the movie, the festival starts january 17th. >> is a new, era starting for the niners? what one is saying about being the starter line back again this coming sunday. >> the daily cost could add up for coffee drinkers. how much starbucks is charging for a rare type of coffee. d . >>> phoenix lake in marin is over flowing . it was at capacity before yesterday's rain and this coming storm will drive even more water into that spill way. it's one of seven used by the water district. >> collin is the 49ers new starting quarterback. he will start on sunday against the rams. he took over for alex smith who had a concussion but is now recovered. he said he has the hot hand right now and he is excited to take the reigns. >> it's a great chance to lead the team and show we are a great team. >> harbaugh says that alex smith hasn't been demoted. he suggested his close for starting quarterback could chang

grant of fats along the israei side. what are you hearing about that? how much public support would there be? >> the oscar de jerusalem and televisa may make it easier -- the outskirts of the jerusalem and tel of leave and make it easier. this is something that nobody in israel wants to see. a ground operation would help the support of the population at a particular leadership and we have seen these crisis before us as they stand together. i think the support would have their limits. these could quickly turn to the disadvantage of netanyahu. i also think he needs to think about his relationship to egypt which could be seriously damaged with these kind of operations. preparations are already being called up but options are on the table. >> . for the update from jerusalem. >> and german chancellor angela merkel has weighed in on the violence in gaza during her full support behind israel. >> she called on home loss to end their attacks -- called on hamas to end attacks. she also asked egypt use their influence to stop the violence. >> a strong statement of support from germany. there was this on the backgrou

one of them is a guy named oscar lopez ri varian ro who killed -- who killed my father, and he was grantedmency by the clintons and the deputy attorney general at the time. oscar tried to escape from prison twice. one time they had bombs, they had guns, they were ready to kill the guards. fine stein, one of her arguments is that these prisoners who are in prison now, these terrorists in the u.s., have never caused trouble, have never been an issue, and that's simply not true. they bring a huge danger to the american people, and there's no reason at in this point to let them, to let them out. james madison said in 1788 when they were ratifying the constitution in virginia, he warned about the encroachment of the executive branch over the rest of the, the rest of our congress. and now we're seeing more and more of that. the congress has said that we cannot do that, there's legislation written that says we cannot do this, however, it is still -- it's out there, and the way that it seems to work here is once an idea comes out, it's not let go of. we might not hear about it for a while, but the

saying grant's mother in the movie is academy award winner octavia spencer who started in the help. oscar gran is being played by michael b. jordan from friday night life and parenthood. >>> george lucas is bringing a piece of hollywood to the bay area. plans are in the works to build a small park in downtown san anselmo. the park would be home to two bronze statues of indiana jones a and yoda. he lives there and is donating the land. there is a building there now but the plan is to demolish it and open the park by next summer. it will be marked for the america's com. >>> it could be the biggest bake sale in history. we'll tell you how many company are interested in buying hostess and the twinkies that come with it. >>> coming up, talking turkey and eating it, too. the president and mitt romney sit down for lunch at the white house. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton reveals the blueprint for an aids-free generation. >> reporter: a supreme court decision may mean wedding bell for thousands of gay couples in california. i'm cheryl hurd. i'll explain. you know how much grandma wanted to

granted she is 50. he is 26. >> here we go again. >> his name is vito schnabel. >> schnabel. >> schnabel. if the name sounds familiar -- >> how possibly could it? [ laughter ] >> his dad is julian schnabel, oscardiving bell and the butterfly. >> oh, the schnabels. >> such a schnabely, schnabel family. but apparently they met, according to "page six," they met back in november in india at a birthday party for naomi campbell's billionaire boyfriend. they were all over each other. they have been secretly dating. according to "page six" for a couple months. an art dealer. he loves cougars. linked to liv tyler, 35, and elle macpherson, 23 years older than him. >> the dude has good taste. he likes -- likes them older but fine. can't blame him for that. hopefully, a nice rebound. that's what it is. >> schnabel doesn't discriminate. >> no, inneed. you go, you know, schnabel. you do what you do, baby. also, more "american idol" drama. first mariah carey, nicki minaj feud. then a feud nicki minaj & steven tyler. from aerosmith. apparently, he tweeted, these young kids they don't know what they're doing on the show. years ago would have kicked bob dylan off the show. nicki minaj tweets back, called tyler