. >> investigators for the polk county sheriff's office had little to go on. a few spent shell casings near the bodies. but no murder weapon or weapons believed to be .22 caliber pistols and no witnesses beyond the estate owner, bimla boyd. she told detectives that at about 3:45 that afternoon, she had looked out her window and seen smoke coming from the mobile home below. when she had driven down the hill, she said, she had put out a fire inside the trailer, a fire apparently set near the wood stove to consume the evidence of the killings. she found the bodies and at 3:57 p.m., she called 911. despite the lack of evidence, investigators soon discovered information they thought might help identify the killer. jason kinser, the kid with the smile who was loved by everyone, turned out to be a small-time drug dealer with, police said, plans of making it to the big time. he had two previous drug convictions and a new arrest just weeks before the murder. more importantly, kinser had been involved in a number of drug deals that went wrong, leading, police said, to t

we did sit down with middle polk, lower polk, and the merchants association. we came right -- we came up with some ideas to give the neighborhood some comfort. a list of licenses was actually from myself. i said an e-mail letter with my contact information and did not receive a single phone call. >> -- commissioner moore: -- commissioner borden: i love the job shop. is that still on the meeting? >> what would it was asked about problems. commissioner borden: it was a list of asking who are the problem liberalizes is. >> we went out to every liquor license, everyone we knew we could not obtain a license from -- safeway, and it like that -- anyone like that -- was eliminated. we sent a letter to every other business asking if they were interested in selling their license. we then went back to lower polk, the only group that reach out to us and was willing to have conversations about mitigation measures and give us a short list of licenses that were real problems. commissioner borden: sounds like you have been to one meeting. >> i have also been to the middle pol

polk would take it as it comes. he was an e aficionado of what was called manifest destiny, a term invented by a magazine journalist in the 1840s. basically described a doctor and that the united states of america was exceptional and it deserves to expand as far as it needed to expand. of course everybody had their eyes on the west because you couldn't go to the south or the north. it caught on -- polk didn't invent manifest destiny. some people suggested so but i think eisenhower, the president's on wrote a wonderful book called so far from god in the war of mexico. he described it this way. he said polk didn't invent manifest destiny but he was its ideal agent. i believe that is quite so. that sets the stage for what general kearney did. "kearny's march". the two things i think are significant about his march. i will get to that in a moment. the first is when general stephen watts kearney marched out of fort leavenworth, kansas on that june day in 1846, wherever he went became the united states of america. that is

our organization facilitates a new liquor licensing live entertainment permiting for nob hill and polk corner. we have had three meetings at the public library so far, none of which mr. king attended. i want to make it clear that although the folks who have been attending -- we have had 12 people attending regularly, along with the city attorney for our area. i want to make it clear that although some of those folks have chimed in with their support of this project, our organization's support is city- wide. we aspire to represent all city districts. our support is coming from our organization as a whole, and not the committee for the area. i want to make that clear. at the conclusion of our meeting, we requested one condition, that the exterior surveillance technology -- which they agreed to. that was the one condition we wanted to see. having said that, we support this project. vice chair joseph: thank you very much. is there any other public comment? i am glad to see you back in the room. did you have something to say earlier? >> linda chapman. vice chair joseph: never mind. >> linda

polk street, dewiggle and central market. our expectations are very high. we're very grateful to the nether land consulate and the folks who have come here, some of who you'll hear from this morning for bringing their time and expertise and lover and passion for cycling to us here in san francisco. we do have a great advocate for cycling here, although sometimes he says he needs a little bit of an electric motor to get up that hill by his house. he is 100% supportive of increasing the bicycle use in this city. been focused on the development of places like central market, which is one of the focus areas of this workshop. without further ado, i'm happy to welcome up to the mike our mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, ed. morning, everyone! welcome here to city hall in san francisco. delighted to join this wonderful opportunity here and council general, thank you very much for bringing a wonderful team from netherlands to help engage us even better and to excite not only us who work here at city hall but our traffic engineers, our bicycle coalition,

i'm so hope that polk street is in it as well. it's my daily commute. i hope that in the next two years that i have the honor to be here as well to get some profit off this workshop as well. the third one with wiggle i think is a quite interesting one. we don't have a wiggle in the netherlands. we don't need a wiggle in the netherlands. but i -- i thought what an interesting word that is, wiggle. where does it come from? is it a san francisco-invented word? so i looked it up yesterday in the oxford dictionary. to my surprise i found the origin of the word "wiggle" is in dutch. sorry about that. it's to wiggle. to move to left to right. that's something we do in the netherlands. in politics as well. and even i find out that the name beggler, somebody who wiggles, is a common name in the netherlands and in the dutch translation of harry potter, the lady who writes all the booklets for the school in the harry potter school is madam wiggli. i thought it might be good to contact her to get some additional support for this workshop and then i find there's no

paul is leading in polk county. four years ago huckabee won in polk county. it was his biggest margin in raw vote over mitt romney was in polk county there. and it's paul that's leading but i want to emphasize we're missing a ton of vote in polk county. we have places like dubuque county all the way on the mississippi river where we have yet to get any returns in but i can also tell you this. i told you about our modeling that the boiler room is doing first and third based on different models. there is a precinct model we do. there is a county model we do. based on those models, throwing out the entrance polls at this point, actually using the data that we have, 1.1% separates first and third. so unless something dramatic happens with some of this un -- this vote that we haven't seen come in, but in the way it's coming in it feels like it's a representative sample, we're going to be here a while, rachel. >> 1.1% between 1, 2, and 3. i will say in terms of those of us whose job it is to just make sense of what all of this means rather than just count it, i'm v

i open the floor to public comment on playland, 1351 polk street. thank you for being patient. it has been a long night. >> our organization was approached regarding this project, and subsequent to that, the project sponsors did contact us to schedule community outreach prior to that meeting -- outrage. prior to that meeting, we did extensive e-mail outrage -- out of reach. folks did time in. we did get two who complained about previous noise issues. but the project sponsors, i think we sat for well over an hour, discussing all points of the safety plan, as well as noise abatement issues. there was an individual who, during the meeting, was looking during the meeting, was looking at a live feed

i open the floor to public comment on playland, 1351 polk street. thank you for being patient. it has been a long night. >> our organization was approached regarding this project, and

polk said, i'll take it if it comes. he was an aficionado of what was called manifest destiny, a term that was invented by a a magazine journalist in the 1840's. basically it described a doctrine that the net assets of america was exceptional and it deserves to be able to expand as far as it needed to expand. of course true or had their eyes on the west is you could read these amendments to the south or north. and it caught on. polk did not admit manifest destiny. the eisenhower hello the president's son did a wonderful book. at the kid described it this way. , pau did not invest manifest destiny, but he was its ideal agent. i believe that is quite so. so that sets the stage for what general kearny did. two things i think are significant about his march to allow it to that in a moment. and the first is that when general stephen watts kearny marched out of fort leavenworth, kan. on that june day in 1846 your every word to became the united states of america. that is quite a mouthful. he went down the santa fe trail with a

, and polk street in general. also the port. the market street advisory group that i chair -- i want to compliment department staff. they have been doing yeoman work on this, a fairly large group of both consultants and advisers that are not the easiest to deal with, because we are dealing with some well- earned egos, i think, in this case. they have been involved in city designed for many years. they are doing an excellent job on that. spur had an interesting noontime forum yesterday. steve wertheimer represented the department. it was about regional growth and transportation. it was extremely informative. i was at a meeting of urban habitat with the assistant city manager for oakland as the keynote speaker. the president of the oakland planning commission and a member of the richmond planning commission both were among the graduates of this training class for people to be involved in commissions and boards in the bay area, particularly minorities. it was a very good. >> thank you. commissioners, if that conclude

he's winning where des moines is, in polk county. you look at the margins here, 98% of the vote, this gets important, wolf. polk county, it's the largest county in the state. this matters as you get close. if romney's going to catch up, he's got to get the rest of the votes in the places you have the people. another place out here, cedar rapids, a place romney carried last night, a big chunk of the state. 6% of the population. he's winning out here, but 95% of the in. same idea in the eastern part of the state, dubuque, a large by iowa standards population center, governor romney winning again. senator santorum, a modest number of votes cast this. we're still waiting for 26% of the vote. this is critical to governor romney as we go. in the western part of the state, woodbury county is where sioux city is. carried by governor romney four years ago, senator santorum carrying the day right now with about 60% of the precincts in. and up here as well, you have populations up here, sioux county. another conservative area with a decent-size

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our organization facilitates a entertait peitornong live hillan polk corner. we have had three meetings at the public library so far, none although the folkswho have been attending -- we have had 12 people attending regularly, along with the city attorney for our area. i want to make it clear that although someof thoseolks support of thi project, our organization's support is city- wide. we aspire to represent all city districts. ornitis ole, andnotngfrom the committee for the area. i want to make that clear. at the conclusion of our meeting, we requested one condition, that the exterior surveillance technology -- which theygreed to want to sewe having said that, we support this project. vice chair joseph: thank you very much. is there any other public comment? i am glad to see you back in the room. did you have something to say earlier? ice aijose never mind >> linda chapman, representing some individual members of the community. our objective, as david villalobos said, was nottoave a meeting on this board, but to stop what is happening on polk street. it is

he lost polk county four years ago. he doesn't want to lose it this time.he final push before tonight's caucuses. romney sat down on monday with my colleague and a very familiar face to this show, savannah guthrie, for a very wide-ranging interview. do we ever have narrow-ranging interviews? >> no. >> you know, you interviewed him as if he might be the nominee. >> yeah, we talked about this issue of experience because as you know he seems to be testing out these -- he is looking forward to the general election in terms of really hitting president obama at every turn as opposed to his opponents. so i asked him about this issue of experience that he's been raising on the trail. >> it seems to me that the primary argument you make against him is that he lacked experience when he took office. in terms of national security experience, what would you cite to say that you are prepared to be commander in chief? >> from a foreign policy stand point, i have worked in multiple countries. i have been in scores of countries -- >> what about national security experience.

did you get to polk her?t. >> we were on there and did you do it. >> that will do it. >> i have tho to thought you were better than that and that is my fault. >> would y would you think that? >> i bar tend forward a while. >> take back your impulse, an "a" for you. >> bill, you had said that tyler was born when washington was in office? >> correct. >> so was that jacket. [ laughter ] >> thank you. >> you are in position. >> i look at this debate. i look at the republican party like the golden girls and ron paul is betty white. >> which one is the slut? is that lou? i think we know who it is. good to see you again. >> all had you to do was hit it. >> yeah, ways too busy because thinking about the sexy dame. >> let's move on to the parade. i agree with you, michael, on your points here. the parade isn't a show of wars will so celebrate and went through hell. they deserve a day in the sun. >> i said that before. i totally agree. it was nice of you. >> pete, i don't agree with your take on this obviously. you sai

that was the case for gary of polk city. wanted to know from santorum whether or not he had what it takes to get the job done. >> hopefully you have got the finances and the support out there to carry your campaign forward. >> i would say this we have raised more money in the last few days than we have in the last few months. >> now, the mayor afterwards said he liked what he heard from santorum in classic undecided style said there is still a 2% or 3% chance that he could change his mind. shep? >> shepard: there is a 2%, or 3% chance everywhere. polk city where the christmas lights are still up on this january 2nd. steve brown, thanks. then there is newt gingrich who can apparently read the writing on the wall. is he down playing his iowa expectations after a plunge in the polls. just weeks ago the former speaker was the top candidate here in iowa. now he is polling around 4th and that may be generous. he blames the slide on attack ads. >> i don't think i'm going to win. i think if you look at the numbers, i think that volu

on polk street, there are many incidences of drug dealing and prostitution.n some of the entertainment quarters, we of shootings that happened. these are perennial issues that the police department needs to continually tackle. i am a big fan of the concept of community policing. that is the idea that our local police officers need to establish a better relationship with members of the community, residents, and merchants. through that community partnership, we have seen true successes in being able to combat crime. you have eyes and ears on the street cooperating with the men and women in blue. that helps to reduce crime. i have been pushing our police department to implement that. >> your district is a well-known nightlife destination. how do you balance the needs of the residents with the needs of the restaurants and bars? >> i moved into my neighborhood in part because we have such a wonderful vibrant nightlife. san francisco is famous for our restaurant scene, are seen, club scene. -- are sbar scene. we have had too much violence around these nighttime ven

>> i need an ambulance right now. 3089 polk drive. 3089 polk drive.>> what has happened? sir, don't hang up with me! what's happened? sir! sir? >> ken creamer would never kill his wife, said the defense. he adored the woman. and a parade of friends came to the witness stand to confirm it. music teacher. >> they seemed to get along well. >> the boy's fifth grade teacher. >> got along great, great hostesses. everything seemed very normal. >> and remember this man? creamer friend and jeweler, robert katz. >> a loving, caring family. >> and his wife, charlene. >> such a loving family. they were very, very close. >> as for that first crossbow incident, the one that injured anna, well, she herself said it was an accident, the teacher testified. >> she laughed about it. told me what happened and just -- that's about it. she was very lighthearted about the whole situation. >> as for those insurance policies, yes, they totaled over a million dollars, but he'd been an insurance agent, remember? those amounts were normal, said the defense. anna bought some of th

>> polk county is the biggest chunk of the electorate.re soledad is. >> do we know the percentage of the vote in? >> from polk county 27% of the vote. that's first place to look. davenport, cedar rapids, dubuque and sioux city. we'll watch this fill in. this is critical to romney. that could decide the state right there, the western part of the state. >> fascinating. all about geography. our coverage continues. counting of votes still going on as you just saw in clive. [ male announcer ] what if we told you that cadillac borrowed technology from ferrari to develop its suspension system? or what if we told you that ferrari borrowed technology from cadillac to develop its suspension system? magnetic ride control -- pioneered by cadillac, perfected in the 556-horsepower cts-v. we don't just make luxury cars. we make cadillacs. >>> almost a quarter of the official votes have now been counted. a three-man race very, very close between mitt romney, rick santorum and ron paul. let's go to clive right now. soledad o'brien. have they finished coun

. >>> last call on polk street where the liquor could stop flowing along the popular party route in the city. >>> check us out on facebook. check nbc bay area news. >>> welcome back. san francisco might put dog walkers on a tighter leash, coming up about a city committee considering new laws to force dog walkers to get permit was licenses. to qualify, dog quackers to have go through training on etiquette and management. the talk coming a week after an offleash dog got into the bison padd paddock and traced one into a tree or a fence. dogs are not allowed offlease in the area, and the dog walker cited. >>> a popular san francisco hangout, the goal, to prevent more polk street businesses from getting liquor licenses. they say the area is already saturated with too many bars and the night life it attracts is ruining their neighborhood. the meeting will be held at the san francisco public library at 4:00. >> looks like new toll lanes will not be coming to marin anytime soon. in just a few hours from now the county's transportation authorities will review a new study about adding high occupa

polk street merchants have been going to some of the meetings. trader joe's has been to every one of the meetings, has had a representative employee. cvs -- we have never seen an employee at any of the meetings. we have never heard from them. we have actually written, and all we have gotten our e-mails was just cannot in the last three or four days from the consultants on the project. cvs does not want to seem to do anything with this except for use a consultant. this is not part of our neighborhood. the polk street merchants does not have a problem with trader joe's, looks forward to having it. having cvs is a problem. we urge you to split this up as it should be. and consider each one of them. how many drug stores are there? how many grocery stores are there? these are two separate companies. they do not have any ownership altogether. i appreciate your time. >> afternoon, commissioners. i have lived in the neighborhood since 1997. my wife and i enjoy shopping at trader joe's. we think it is a very good store. we personally welcome their locatio

polk street. don't go to the mission. polk is the place. what happened is that the firemen had to take control. the police do not even try. the captain says there is nothing that he can do. he only has five officers. the sergeant says that there is nothing they can do. then they describe how somebody tried to get taken away because of the complaint from the bar owner. and all of their friends came and stopped the policemen from taking her away, and then the have to call and five more police. this time, the brief fire man stepped forward, without anybody even calling them, trying to take control of the street and cleared it. it is very dangerous. we had a meeting with the city attorney this week about shutting down these places as a public nuisance, about how people came out of the bars on another occasion, lit fire to cloth, then threw it at a car. propane tanks are used under the senior housing, under their windows. this situation is horrible. last weekend, i had to go to abc for a hearing to try to. -- to try to prevent the license from b

it is in polk city, iowa. we're keeping an eye on that. next hour, 2:15 eastern, ron paul campaigns with his son, rand paul, in des moines. and 12:50 eastern mitt romney holding a rally with supporters in debuick. we'll bring you the highlights live from the campaign trail. >>> and political insiders in iowa, they think mitt romney is going to come out on top in tomorrow's caucuses. now cnn surveyed 64 political pros from state local lawmakers, party officials, have right of other activists. what did they say, almost two-thirds think romney is going to win. 17% predict ron paul is going to be the winner. none of them, interesting enough, picked rick santorum despite his recent surge in the polls. >>> go out to iowa. candidates are making the final push for these votes. paul steinhauser in the middle of all of the action from des moines. paul, this is it. this is count joun time. you've got these guys crisscrossing the state counting the hours. what's the strategy here? >> reporter: this is it. suzanne, it's finally feeling like winter here

at is what scott once in the castro, when david wants on polk street, and in the other areas as well. i wanted to announce today, as part of another early your initiative, so that we compliment the support and work we are doing with the tech companies and also giving our support to the small businesses. they are the backbone of our city and we need these store fronts that are vacant eliminated. i know this program will work. it will work because it is done and led by those small businesses we have been asking to advise us, and in fact, there has not been a failed loan in this program for all this time. all of these loans have been successful. i think we have already been paid back to the tune of $250,000 with the success of these programs. so with that, jennifer, thank you. this is a good announcement, consistent with everything we are doing to activate and not be sitting back while our economy tries to make sure we get a full recovery. [applause] >> i would like to introduce board president david chu, followed by scott wiener, two of the strong supporters of small business on the boa

you're seeing the former pennsylvania senator there talking to a group of people in polk city, iowa, as he continues to canvas the state ahead of tomorrow's caucus, telling the crowd there he does have the infrastructure, does have the moment um to go all the way. some have doubted, though, whether whether or not he's fonlly able to do so, only spending tens of thousands on campaign advertising in the state as opposed to the millions of other candidates like that of mitt romney. >>> all signs point to a close contest come tuesday night, with so many iowans still waiting for a sign that tells them which conservative candidate is going to be the right one for them. msnbc's richard lui is here to talk about the voters still on the fence in the hawkeye state. richard, we've been talking about this, 41% still undecided. iowans don't like to be told what to do and they're keeping us guessing. >> they are. and that's a significant number. for the candidates right now, thomas, it is the battle for the undecid undecideds, none have broken the mid-20s in recent polls. with this number here, 41

that's the new ceo, michael polk, who took over in mid july of last year. i'm thinking this guy is the real deal, to tell you the truth. his conference call was great. polk has a vision to reduce exposure to unprofitable categories that face too much private label competition, a lot do, or too dependent on commodity inputs like resin costs, because so much are related to plastic resin. before taking the helm, polk spent eight years at unilever where as president of global foods, home and personal care, he was credited with transforming and making them a more competitive, faster organization. the guy is real good. he has street cred in the group. exactly the leader they need right now. we also know the company is set to borrow low enough that it can be beaten. only 10% of sales come from western europe. and when they reported on friday management factored in and was vehement about how bad europe is. you know what that does, it makes us less worried about europe because they dumped it out on top of us. newell rubbermaid has cleaned up its balance sheet and ev

that under your interim rules for patrols t special officers, once a patrol special or an assistant polk -- patrol officer has been punished for violations, such individuals shall not receive any other punishment for the same incident. however, prior sustained allegations of misconduct or imposition of disciplinary action may be considered in a subsequent disciplinary proceeding or proceedings for purposes of fixing penalty. if there is in the future another violation that is sustained, whatever the penalty is for that new and fraction can take into account whatever penalty you impose today. the fact that there has been prior specifications sustained against this officer. and so the concept of termination held at the band's full soleil in this context because you can always take into consideration the prior disciplinary history when you are imposing discipline in the subsequent case. >> i wanted to ask also because we do this with our officers if he has any prior sustained allegations. >> no. >> do you want to set the disposition given you have heard this matter at the hearing? >> among

. >> funeral plans are being made for william polk carey. a descendant of james polk died on monday at a florida hospital at the age of 81. he left baltimore nearly half a century ago but still maintained close ties to baltimore. he gave $30 million to the university of maryland law school and establish the carey school of business at johns hopkins university. >> you did not find a new tv under the tree this year. manufacturers are pulling out all the stops to get you into their stores. >> a bit of deja vu today in this morning's consumer alert. >> please help this video will help them track down a fire bombing suspect when we continue. >> ava marie live with reminders on how to winterize your car. we'll tell you about one thing you can do. >> expecting to be busier on the roads. a problem in halethorpe. some icy [ male announcer ] get ready for some deli-style delic-ious-ity: the subway big hot pastrami melt. take a moment to ponder tender cuts of pastrami, piled sky high atop your favorite freshly baked bread with spicy mustard, pickles an

polk county, iowa. steve brown.artha: mitt romney is at a campaign stop in eastern iowa, and here he is speaking about what he hopes to do if he can lead america. listen. >> are we going to remain america, the shining city on a hill with freedom and opportunity, or are we going to become something we couldn't recognize? and that's what i think this election is going to come down to. we can remember a time when things were better. these have been a tough three years. but these years have been a detour, not our destiny. we remember a time when you didn't have to worry about looking at the gas pump, and you didn't have to worry about looking at your retirement and account. and when you spent your week thinking about what movie you might take the kids to on the weekend as opposed to worrying whether you could put food on the table until the weekend. i know that those good times are still out there. and we can reclaim them. as long as we have a president who believes in the foundational principles of this nation. martha: