center, yes on proposition 19 campaign.he last segment with the chief talking about cartels but you say prohibition didn't work? >> we tried that and it created some of biggest drug cartels. we don't want to continue an a failed policy in california. rand report says $380 million in training police after changing the law. we believe that prohibition is not working with cannibis. it's causing the drug to be less available. you go on the school ground you can get cannibis, but you can't buy alcohol and the violence is going away just like alcohol. coors and budweiser don't shoot each other and cannibis will be treated just like alcohol. >> i want the chief to weigh in this. >> i think we're going to have open drug markets. this is just california. prohibition was about the united states. california is one of 50 states, there are people that are going to be selling marijuana from mexican cartels and the rest of the united states, so it's going to continue on. i agree that the drug war has not worked but any money that is raise

proposition battle, proposition 23 is losing 45% to 4%. it would suspend the california landmark global warming law until the unemployment drops to 5.5% for over a year. the jobless reality stands at over 4% according to our ktvu field poll. also proposition 25 which would change to pass the state budget from a two-thirds majority to a simple majority is ahead 46% to 30%. that lead though has dropped quite a bit since july when 65% of those surveyed supported it. >>> this evening the judge who ordered california to resume executions extended the deadline for an inmate to choose exactly how he will be put to death. convicted murderer and rapist albert brown will have until noon tomorrow to choose a cocktail of three drugs or a single shot of a sedative. earlier today the judge refused brown's request to consider imposing lethal injections. wednesday morning will be the first in san quentin's new death chamber and the first in california in almost five years. >>> police in oakland tonight are looking for a hit and run driver who struck and c

proposition 26 would amend the state constitution requiring a simple majority. this would enact this on those to cause pollution throughout. with the holes momiÑofjf%9'iin some of these companies do not want to pay for it. of course, this would trickle- down. i am extremely concerned. there is divided attention on the state ballotnuó, but if proposition 26 goes into effect, a guarantee that cities like san francisco and other cities who are really not noticing that those trying to recover costs are going to be completely flat footed in this, so i asked to pass our opposition to proposition 26. president chiu: any further discussion? colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] item number 47. secretary: this is urging the united states department of state to condemn the government of iran for sentencing sakineh mohammadi ashtiani to death by stoning. supervisor mirkarimi not: this e is high profile, and i think it would be negligent if i did not speak to it. let me explain why this case in sing

that proposition would suspend a new law that requires reduced green house gas emissions. >>> proposition5 which would change the vote required in sacramento to pass the state budget from a two thirds majority to a simple majority is a head. 46% to 30%. that has dropped since july when 65% of those surveyed supported it. >> a plea from a death row inmate scheduled to die next week hasn't swayed the judge who just allowed executions to resume in california. the convicted murder and rapist albert brown asked the judge to reconsider his decision saying the judge lacks information about california's lethel injection process. today the judge said no. the execution wednesday morning will be the first in the new death chamber. brown has a choice of a three drug mix or one dose for his execution. >>> pedestrian is in critical condition after being struck in a hit and run accident early this morning in oakland. the crash happened shortly after 2:30 a.m. in the 2100 block of international boulevard. investigators say they believe the pedestrian wasn't in the cross walk when it happened. the vehicle

it's called in this case the jobs initiatives, proposition -- >> right. saying, it isn't employment, though. >> it's called -- because they say we're going to lose jobs. it's going to cost us thousands of jobs. by the way, opponents have an argument here, too, saying that's not the case. that's a smokescreen. the fact is, we're going to have as many or more green jobs created to offset any job losses from ab 32. but look, this proposition, here's the bottom line here, it's drawing a lot of money. and guess what? especially from oil companies, most of which are out of the state. some of the big contributors to this 23 campaign so far include valero in san antonio, texas, over $4 million, koch, in texas, half a million. the adam smith foundation, an interesting foundation, half a million dollars. you know what? when all is said and done, you're going to see at least $25 million slammed down to get proposition 23. by the way, opponents on this line up pretty interestingly. governor schwarzenegger negativer, because ab 32 is his baby, he's against it. both je

proposition 23 is implementing the air control quality.n 25 that changed legislative recruit from two-thirds to a simple majority. whitman opposes it, brown supports it. and here is where meg whitman stands she supports proposition 20, to redistricting depression of districts in gaea's against 21, the card- license to keep a mission south supports compasses proposition 46with a two-thirds vote. and for the latest on all of the decision 2010. coverage. it just took to our website www.kron.com. and we have set up a special section. now, a live look at traffic and san jose. this is the san jose 101 guadeloupe overpass. and the tropic headlights for northbound the traffic lights are northbound b-a-c-c-a-l-a-u-r-e-a-t-e. baccalaureate. correct. [ audience groans ] since this competition has been continuing for 48 hours and we have yet to eliminate anyone, it is the decision of this board to declare all 20 contestants winners. you have all competed admirably. admirably. a-d-m-i-r-a-b-l-y. admirably. [ male announcer ] at&t is making high speed i

just last june, the voters approved proposition d, a pension reform charter amendment that was put in front of them by the board of supervisors. it was put together in collaboration with labor, the mayor, the board of supervisors, and other stakeholders. i think that was a significant step. on other benefit cost growth issues, the city of san francisco has been a leader in health costs. we put to the san francisco voters a measure that helps us begin to fund our liabilities for other post employment benefits. that was led by a number of individuals in this room, a especially supervisor elsbernd. that is an example of where we have gotten ahead of other cities and we have been proactive about addressing benefits. one of the things i like to point out, and this report, the person reading it might give the impression that our retirement system is not doing well. to the contrary, it is one of the better funded and the best managed retirement systems in the country. i just want to put that out there as context while we walk through these responses. while we do have some challenges ahead of

i still think that proposition d and b were an attempt to be aware to do the best that we can. i don't think this is -- it is not like we're not looking at this. the five-year plan the think was proposition a, it will also help look at some of the issues we're facing. we also need to understand that one of the reasons we are in this situation is because of greed, people stealing money and getting away with it, not because the city did something we should not have done. all over the country, pensions, the fact that we invested the way we did is what people do publicly. public funds do that. every public funds and municipalities lost money the same as we did. supervisor chu: just moving the conversation along, it says that they are protected by federal and state constitution provisions prohibiting impairment of contract. do any departments disagree with that. if we could go on to the next finding. it mentions the grand jury reports in the health benefit costs are expected to increase from the current fiscal year, the city cannot realistically afford it. the current pension rules

>> proposition b, that all city employees should contribute to their pensions. of today, 11,000 people do. under prop b, all city employees would pay 9% or 10%. but also require them to share more of the costs of health care. supervisor mar: thank you so much. >> thank you. supervisor mar: i only have one car from a speaker, but others come forward if you would like to speak. richard roth men? -- richard rothman? >> first, thank you for changing the day of the meeting. i appreciate that. i just want to say that i am paid for the grand jury report. they talk about the average city worker, and they did not want to report to presume the average city worker is making a large pension and works hard and gets an average pension. the average pension, i got these figures from the retirement board, the average pension including police, fire and miscellaneous per year is just over $33,000. the average pension for miscellaneous workers, excluding police and fire is $25,000. why didn't the penchant -- why didn't the grand jury talk about the average city worker? also talking

proposition 19 on the november ballot will legalize and tax marijuana. is it the answer to california's budget woes? and, recommendations from "the do list" about exhibitions and performances in the bay area this fall. those stories next. >> belva: good evening. welcome to "this week in northern california." i'm belva davis. joining me tonight on our panel are, carla marinucci, political reporter with the "san francisco chronicle" on the final push to win the hearts and minds of voters in california. josh richman, political and legal affairs reporter with the "oakland tribune" with the close look at proposition 19, and the impact of legalizing and taxing pot. and tom baker, consumer editor for ktvu channel 2 news. we'll begin with you, tom. tell us what you can about the explosion that shook all of us yesterday. >> it is a remarkable failure because it really shouldn't happen, given all of the protocols in place and all the things that happened to have such a fail-year you wonder. with such a catastrophic failure somebody punched a hole in one of these m

proposition 23 will suspend implementing the air control both of those opposed of that proposition.ive requirements to pass a boat from two-thirds to a simple majority. which man is opposition, brown is for it. - whitman opposes proposition 25. and also, she supports 20, that read distribution itdistributio, and 21 is the higher registration fee for cars, >> despite this proposition 23 her desire to pre-assembly 3241- year which is associated with that proposition for the creek. and she says will protect the economy, jobs for the downturn is simply not good enough. >> well, my reaction is good, better late than never. and secondly, she should now take the next step. and to delay proposition 32. she says she's going to delete it in one year and that makes no sense. if you want to create certainty and the cframework of confidence? and certainly that makes sense but not uncertainty. and that is really wor position is generati >> to make the oil companies have be washed usin encouraging green tech as this plantae toward, today. ♪ >> a live look aside, at the bay bridge toll plaza gorgeo

as far as proposition 23 goes, that is a no-brainer. specifically to what staff raised in the amendments, these are brand new. please e-mail me and other advocates right away so that we can look over the amendments and make sure that the environmental community and the advocate community is comfortable with them. to the specifics, there is a little rest their, the rating issue. let's just make sure that if we're going to make that change, that we have a point system within the new structure that strongly favors somebody that has the strongest financial status so that we have this project backed up and we don't read the same problem that we ran into before. dividing at customer service, do we need to do, but that raises concerns for me personally. as director campbell said, when you have two different firms handling to different parts of a project, there is a tendency for them to point fingers at each other. i would agree that we have to be careful about where we go with dividing things out, if the contractor that wins this bid goes on t

as far as proposition 23 goes, that is a no-brainer. specifically to what staff raised in the amendments, these are brand new. please e-mail me and other advocates right away so that we can look over the amendments and make sure that the environmental c

but she's not in favor of the proposition itself. is it a job killer?he numbers are all over the map on that. you know, both sides has its studies. the yes on 23 people are still using a study that's been mostly discredited. it came out of sacramento state, saying it would eliminate potentially 1.1 million jobs. the legislative analyst's office has looked into this, and what they have said is that yes, obviously some jobs would be at stake if you suddenly imposed, you know, fees for carbon on large industries and so forth but that in the long run -- first of all, it's difficult to say exactly what the job impact would be, and in the long run the impact would not be terribly significant given, you know, relative to the size of california's economy overall. >> what can you tell us about what are opinions about it on the grassroots level? what do polls show about what regular people think about this? and do they see it as an economic issue? >> well, they must. because that is the main talking point of the yes campaign. there was a poll that just came out t

are expended for the purposes described in the proposition. at the san francisco school board meeting on november 12, 2008, the school board voted on 811-12 fp 3, creation of an oversight committee. i've emailed the president of the school board a number of times asking for the names of the oversight committee. i've also looked at the school site and have not been able to find those. would you guys like to talk or would you like to listen? thank you. is there an oversight committee and if so war the names of committee? also contained, government code 50075.1 complain of the following. the members of the board, the superintendent of the district, the office of the district, are hereby requested and directed individually and collectively to provide accountability procedures pursuant to government code 50075.1 that include, but are not limited to, all of the following -- statements indicating the specific purpose of the qualified special tax, a requirement that the procedures be applied only to specific purposes identified pursuant to the subsect

. >> it takes cooperation and it takes stopping the oil addicting proposition 23. >> reporter: proposition would effectively overturn california's landmark greenhouse gas law designed to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels to 200. if passed, proposition 23 was suspended until state unemployment dipped below 5.5% for four consecutive quarters. brown took a swipe at his opponent meg whitman on the opposition. >> is she for 23 or against it. >> reporter: what brown didn't know is that this morning whitman stated her positions on all of the propositions on the november 2nd ballot and on proposition 23 she joined brown in opposing it. >> meg whitman believes you could be be both smart and green. she believes her plan is better than prop 23. >> reporter: brown's plan is to suspend the law for one year then decide if it should be suspended. >> 97% of the economy isn't something else. you have to make sure you don't destroy the 97%. >>> brown has called on whitman to renege on her pledge to suspend california's warming law. the whitman campaign says now that she has taken a stand on all the pro

. >>> proposition 25 would lower the vote threshold down to 2/three so lawmakers could pass measures with a simple majority. ken pritchett has the details. >> reporter: as of today the ad war is under way for proposition 25 which gives voters the chance to change how business is down here at the capital for better or worse. it was day 83 of the budget impasse. some say voters can solve future votes with prop 83. richard stapler is a spokesman for yes on 25 which today launched the first ad. prop 25 would replace the current 2/3 vote with a simple majority. raises taxes would still take a 2/3 vote. and te budgets would hit lawmakers in the wallet. >> legislators don't pass a budget they don't get paid and they don't get paid back at all everyone if they do pass a budget. >> if you look at the yes side, you would think this is a grass roots effort. this is a way to punish the legislature, it's not. >> reporter: john cupal says 25 is full of loopholes. he says lawmakers can simply pass a phony budget no governor would sign. >> as long as they pass it, they have to get paid. >> reporter:

. >> it takes cooperation and it takes stopping the oil addicting proposition 23. >> reporter: proposition3 would effectively overturn california's landmark greenhouse gas law designed to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels to 200. if passed, proposition 23 was suspended until state unemployment dipped below 5.5% for four consecutive quarters. brown took a swipe at his opponent meg whitman on the opposition. >> is she for 23 or against it. >> reporter: what brown didn't know is that this morning whitman stated her positions on all of the propositions on the november 2nd ballot and on proposition 23 she joined brown in opposing it. >> meg whitman believes you could be be both smart and green. she believes her plan is better than prop 23. >> reporter: brown's plan is to suspend the law for one year then decide if it should be suspended. >> 97% of the economy isn't something else. you have to make sure you don't destroy the 97%. >>> brown has called on whitman to renege on her pledge to suspend california's warming law. the whitman campaign says now that she has taken a stand on all the pr

i am just going to give a brief overview of what the proposition is.asically, it would suspend the global warming act of 2006 until california's unemployment rate drops below 5.5% for four consecutive quarters. it requires that the greenhouse gas levels get reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. this new proposition would basically suspend that for an amount of time. it is unknown how long it would be suspended for. it was put on the ballot by two texas oil cmopanies. -- compaines. -- companies. they say it hurts business on the brink of recovery while opponents argue that it is just an effort on larger oil companies to roll back environmental regulation. pg&e has come out against the proposition, and a little bit of information about the current unemployment rate, we're at 12.4%. according to the employment development department, there have only been three periods when unemployment was below 5.5% for 4 quarters. each of these have only lasted about two years. some of the implications, if this proposition should pass, it might reduce investment in renewable

opponents call proposition 25 a power grip. >>> and it happened at about 6:50 6:50 in the community ofl vizo. police say a 25-year-old man was riding a bike when he was struck a killed. investigators say they haven't located any witnesses. >>> a nonprofit that helps the needy say it's seen it's donations get smaller and smaller. >>> it's here at its cupertino headquarters where people with come for food, money and assistance. but now this nonprofit is in need itself, san jose has cut its funding. 2,000 empty grocery bags were placed in front of san jose city hall. they respect the people west valley says will not receive help because san jose has cut $155,000 of support to the agency. >> your have pasta and beans, rice, powdered milk and fresh food and vegetables. this is something our families get on a daily basis. >> we don't have that much money. >> reporter: so what happens if you don't have this bag of food? >> you know, i don't know what to do without that service. >> reporter: west valley community services serves 6,000 people a year. officials say san jose is the only city that

opponents call proposition 25 a power grip. >>> and it happened at about 6:50 6:50 in the community ofl vizo. police say a 25-year-old man was riding a bike when he was struck a killed. investigators say they haven't located any witnesses. >>> a nonprofit that helps the needy say it's seen it's donations get smaller and smaller. >>> it's here at its cupertino headquarters where people with come for food, money and assistance. but now this nonprofit is in need itself, san jose has cut its funding. 2,000 empty grocery bags were placed in front of san jose city hall. they respect the people west valley says will not receive help because san jose has cut $155,000 of support to the agency. >> your have pasta and beans, rice, powdered milk and fresh food and vegetables. this is something our families get on a daily basis. >> we don't have that much money. >> reporter: so what happens if you don't have this bag of food? >> you know, i don't know what to do without that service. >> reporter: west valley community services serves 6,000 people a year. officials say san jose is the only city that

meg whitman joined jerry brown in opposing proposition 23, but there is a catch. this morning attorney general jerry brown toured a newark company for a green themed campaign. brown says the renewable energy has faded lost ground that should be regained. >> it takes corroboration and it takes stopping the oil hungry proposition 23. >> reporter: it would reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. if passed, proposition 23 would suspend the greenhouse gas law until unemployment dipped below 5.5% for four years straight. but that's only happened three times in the past three decades. brown took a swipe at his opponent meg whit man on the question. >> is she for 23 or against it? >> reporter: to brown's surprise mrs. whitman had already stated her position on prop 23, she joined brown in opposition. >> meg whitman believes you can be both smart and green. she believes her plan is better than prop 23. >> reporter: whitman differs from brown significantly. her plan is to suspend the proposition for one year. >> when you're trying to go that 3% you have to make sure

this would go only into effect if the proposition passes. we will become the first city in the state of california for election day voter registrations. as i indicated, there is a very lengthy and paper heavy plan, in the thousands of documents, i was inspired as i said in a key in the morning. all of our offices received thousands of pages of documents. today, and introducing an ordinance to overcome -- said that any of these documents can be sent electronically. this will not prohibit copies from being produced in this allow for hard copy agenda is to be reduced from meetings who are subject to the brown act. this will also allow hard copy documents which are legally required. this is not the end of paper but this is the beginning and goes hand in hand. along with the supervisor, i am proposing a tax that did not advance. we'll continue to work with the treasurer's office to make sure that we will search high and low for what we believe is an untapped revenue that is not being blow-collected. we will generate additional revenue. it is our

but we can change this by voting yes on proposition 24. prop 24 repeals the billion dollar giveaway and protects our schools and communities. yes on prop 24. it's time to give us a break... not the big corporations. >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> singer duet with elmo and sesame street eliminated from upcoming show even before it aired. ♪ about she performs a kid friendly version of the hit song hot cold with somewhat flustered elmo. producers pulled it though after clip leaked on the web and parents wrote to pbs claiming the outfit is too reveal for a kid show. thousands of other parents however wrote on the station web site saying that the actions are unwarranteded and unnecessary. video has had more than 1 million hits on you tube. >> complete tape of world series game thought lost to history has been found. in of all places the late bing crosby hillsboro home. seventh gym of the 1960 world series featuring bill's walk off homer to beat the yankees 10-9. perfectly pre-servee

. >>> an effort to force california's top officials to defend proposition eight has failed.esterday a state court denied a motion to make officials appeal the overturn of prop eight. governor arnold schwarzenegger is neutral on the issue. jerry brown says same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. >>> jerry brown is stepping up his campaign with television ads starting next week and appearances over the holiday weekend. burton says the ads realize that meg whitman should not be our governor. >> you don't want somebody who hasn't done anything to try to come in and buy a governor's office. >> reporter: labor leaders hosted rallies this morning to support brown and other democratic candidates. meg whitman has spent $100 million. the republican candidate for governor has been released from jury duty. meg whitman was in the jury pool yesterday. she was reportedly dismissed after questions from the defense. when asked if her campaign would be distracting, whitman admitted it was a difficult time to give 100%. >>> california's serving overseas should soon receive their voting ball

proposition 25 is leading 46% to 30. however that's way down from the 45% lead it had in july. >> giants are off today, but key decisions may be made from management about the lineup. san francisco is a half game up in the nl west and six games left in the season. the final strooe-game series is against the padres. a cy young winner, tim lincecum is not in the rotation to play right now. he is slated to play earlier this week against the diamondbacks. the manager could decide to give him an extra day of rest and have him ready for the padres. stanford cardinal making a jump in the national rankings. they are now number nine in the nation. that's big considering they were 16th coming into the weekend. stanford had an impressive road victory against notre dame. check out that guy, number 82. he is placing himself on an elite list. check it out. he is say two-way player meaning he plays offense and defense and scored on offense and defense within 13 seconds of one another. he got a reception and he is on defense. makes a sc