this is "lockup san quentin: extended stay." >> san quentin is home to more than 3,000 inmates ranging from the most violent offenders in california. >> i'll rob you in a minute. don't get me wrong. >> i pulled a gun on this man and shot him six times in his chest. >> to the all too common parole violators flooding the system. >> i do drugs. that's my violation. >> the overpopulated san quentin serves as the reception center for 17 counties in california. >> there's 384 inmates in this gym. right now i have six staff members. >> it's forced to house a dangerous mix of high and low-risk inmates. >> you got the drugs, you got the inmates to manufacture alcohol, you got the gangs, the weapons. so it can be real dangerous at times. >> i've been a pretty successful robber. >> level 4 inmates, the worst in california, are housed at san quentin while awaiting permanent transfer to other facilities. >> i used to rob stores, you know, and that in itself is a rush that you can't explain. it's like whoa, i can -- i own the world. i can do whatever i want. i can -- better than any ceo in the world

san quentin state prison. our cameras spent months documenting life on the inside where gangs, drugs, and sheer boredom make up a violent mix. this is "lock up: san quentin: extended stay." >> they treat us like animals in here. >> don't let me catch you up in here. this ain't no regular penitentiary. it's the hole, man. >> basically, it's the same thing every day, you know? you sit in your cell. sleep in your cell. >> strip out right now. >> get down! >> yeah. >> as long as i keep busy, then i'll be all right. but the second i'm at a standstill, i don't know what to do and i'm looking for something to do, i'm going to get myself in a wreck. i'm going to get in trouble. >> pacing back and forth, two or three hours at a time. everyone here is like animals. back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. nothing happens. so it's like one day goes into another. and the next thing you know, weeks go by, months go by, years go by. >> a new day begins at san quentin. >> good morning, gentlemen. >> how are you doing?

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this is "lockup: san quentin, extended stay." san quentin state prison served as the reception center for 17 counties in the state of california. each week, the prison releases 150 prisoners. and welcomes 350 new inmates. san quentin was built to hold about 3,000 people. it currently houses more than 5,000. >> unfortunate for some of them, they think this is a step up. in the circles they travel in, unfortunately, it is. you know, i made it. i'm in state prison now. >> with repeat offenders clogging up the works, the officers struggle to keep the inmates under control. >> control, be advised we have an alarm in south block. >> i can only speculate and the only thing i can think of is we have a missing inmate. that's probably the number one thing. >> step on the tiers and conduct a count, submit it to patrol immediately. >> 5-west-45, hernandez. i don't know where he is. >> his name is skanvinsky hymes. my prison number is e-04448. i've had this prison number since i was 18 years old. i just turned 37 on february 15th. i'll be dis

i worked at san quentin at a period in my early years, and san quentin was a source of pride.eople loved working here. they were proud to work here. but over a period of the last few years, san quentin had developed a very unsavory reputation in the department. we need to focus on behavior. quit wasting your time trying to validate somebody as a this or a that and focus on what they're doing. if there's something that i can do that can help the people regain the sense of self-esteem that i had in my younger days, i would really want to do that. we all know what gang behavior is. they don't have a right to do that. and you have every -- you have a responsibility, not a right, a responsibility to challenge him and say, you're not doing that. not here. not on my watch. not in my unit. not on my yard. okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> we have to keep in mind, this is a small city. the inmates are the population of the small city, and correctional officers are the police force for that small city. >> a specialized group of officers is responsible for monitoring gang activity. this

but san quentin had one program designed to discourage troubled teens. from ever joining its ranks in the future. through the squires program, selected inmates shared their experiences with teenagers who had already had run-ins with the law. >> what we need you to understand, you are in san quentin this morning. you are in a place that no kid should ever want to be in. you should be out playing somewhere in the park. you are here because of something you did. >> what's your first name? >> angel. >> angel? >> yeah. >> how old are you? >> 13. >> i'm 16. >> jonathan, i'm 16, too. >> what you want to know, that this is your life, man. you have an opportunity to leave out of this place and never come back. >> let me introduce myself to you guys. my name's david. i'm about to be 25 years old in a few more months, but i have been in prison since i was 15-years-old for murder. >> david monroe is serving a 15-year-to-life sentence after having pled guilty to second degree murder. >> i banged before. i have been on the streets before. i'm from stockton. i done did

. >>> health alert at san quentin. the water has been shut off while tanks and bottles of water are brought in. the reason, legionnaires' disease. now to ktvu fox 2 news john sasaki live outside the prison. what is going on? >> reporter: yeah. legionnaires' disease is a water born illness. the water has been shut down. no showers and no toilets. officials confirm there was a single case of legionnaires' disease here yesterday. three people have been taken to the hospital. including one this afternoon. despite the fact more than 30 people are showing similar symptoms officials are not calling it an ut break -- out break. officials are confident they caught the disease early. although the incubation period is 10 days. how'd have had an infection -- legionnaires' disease is an infection spread through water. a severe case of pneumonia. we talked with the mother of an inmate who has a case of pneumonia. . >> everybody is at risk for serious illness. something needs to bedone. >> out of caution that we -- anyone who has sym

. >>> the water was shut off at san quentin because of a legionnaire's disease scare. chopper 5 showing the inmates lining up for bottles of water. one person has tested positive for that disease. 30 others are showing symptoms. kpix 5's joe vazquez at san quentin for us where prisoners are not allowed to take showers. joe. >> reporter: allen, because they have just had one confirmed case, they are not calling this an outbreak yet but there are 30 prisoners showing symptoms. this is very serious like a severe form of pneumonia. so they are taking this very seriously. from chopper 5, you can see the calm but chaotic scene on the san quentin prison yard. hundreds of inmates are lined up to get water. also about 200 porta-potties have been brought in for 3700 prisoners. officials say they have shut off the water to the prison as they deal with the possible outbreak of legionnaire's disease. it all started with one sick inmate yesterday. >> one of the patient tested positive for legionnaire's disease. there were a number of other patients with symptoms also. >> reporter: i

. >>> also happening now, problems at san quentin. a health threat, legionnaires' disease, forcing the prison to shut off its water supply. our nbc chopper overhead at this hour. you see all those people down below, those are the inmates in the prison yard. they're picking up water to take back to their cell. now it's a hot day, and this was a serious safety and security concern. let's bring in nbc bay area's jodi hernandez at the maximum security prison, and jodi, what's the plan here? >> reporter: raj, i'll tell you, it has been a highly unusual 24 hours here at san quentin. 30 inmates have come down with symptoms consistent with legionnaires' disease. one inmate has tested positive for the rare illness. tonight the prison here has been closed off to visitors and volunteers, and inmates are getting very limited access to running water. an ambulance took the latest san quentin inmate to the hospital late this afternoon for pneumonia-like symptoms. that could be a sign of a potentially deadly disease. >> we received confirmation from

we were shooting at san quentin in alpine section, and we were down on the ground floor. and, suddenly i felt something hit me on the top of my head. and i had the worst thought, oh, my god i had just been gassed. luckily it turned out to be a banana peel. >> when we visited the stateville correctional center in illinois, we encountered another bizarre practice involving human waste. >> feces, spreads it on everything. clean it off every day. every day he puts it right back on. >> this is unit "i," the segregation unit at stateville correctional center. basically this is where the bad people, being extra bad in the facility, come to be locked up. they urinate, bowel movement everywhere, i think they just kind of have gone crazy, prison life is probably getting to them. >> but we've never seen a more bizarre display of the gut churning activity than at california state prison corcoran. it happened during a routine shoot at the prison hospital. >> we were there for like ten minutes. did a couple interviews with a couple of doctors. initially it seemed like it was going to b

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a man that hardly suggests the convicted rapest he was or the convict that was part of the san quentin six. the man who slashed the throats of three guards in a dramatic escape attempt back in 1971. all these years later, hugo pinell ended a long spell of solitary confinement. today, in the exercise yard at new folsom prison, another con shanked him and he died. hugo was definitely the target. >> his family is devastated by this. >> reporter: hugo's attorney said he had concerns about his client's safety at the maximum security prison. >> there is clear undenial failure to protect him. there have been significant threats against him because of his reputation. >> reporter: that reputation included killing another prison guard five months before he tried to kill his way out of quentin. he was serving life at new folsom. his attorney says hugo had no record of violence in the last 30 years. >> many people focus on the 1971 incident at saint quentin. he's the only person left in prison that is directly associated with that incident. so, he has become, you know, the target. >> reporter: hug

at san quentin, we met one young inmate who compared it to a once popular tv show. >> it's just likehat little show "cheers" where everybody know your name. [ bleep ]. you see all your friends, you know what i mean? you feel like, well, i'm cool here. these are my boys, you know, what i mean? this is my home. >> but most inmates hold a much different opinion. >> prisons are hate factories. they can't produce anything but hate. all you have is hate, loneliness, greed, and just misery. >> when we met gerald mccullough at the river bend national security institution near nashville, tennessee, he was halfway through a 12-year sentence on a sexual offense charge. >> there's no way out. there's just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someone's life. >> despite his pessimism, mccullough had found a productive outlet to express his pain. ♪ they say it's raining in denver ♪ ♪ that it's really kind of cold but i'm just pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ how am i supposed to know ♪ >> in a prison in nashville the home of country music, we decided it would be great if we could find a countr

happening now at san quentin state prison, dozens of inmates are awaiting test results to find out if they have legionnaires' disease. one inmate has already been diagnosed with the virus. there are bottled water and portable toilets for now in marin county. it's the closed water system there. at this point, there's no risk to the rest of the county. abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman has the latest. >> 200 porta potties for 2,000 inmates. this at the san quentin prison after the california department of corrections turntd off all running water in response to a case of legionnaires' disease. >> what is the average wait for a restroom? >> i don't have that answer. it's pretty fluid. >> no running water for most of today. no access to showers, no outside visits through the weekend, no inmate transfers to or from california's 33 other state institutions. the 31 inmates reporting symptoms come from all parts of the prison. pneumonia-like symptoms, g.i. issues. flu. >> legionnaires' disease spreads through bacteria in water. today the prison hired an unnamed contractor to look for the sour

jodi hernandez is live at san quentin. i imagine that is also a security concern as well. >> reporter: so far more than 30 inmates have gotten sick consistent with legionaires disease and one has tested positive for the rare illness. tonight visitors and volunteers and lawyers have been locked out of the prison games as they deal with an unprecedented health emergency. >> it is uncomfortable not to have free access to running water and utilize a port-a-potty. >> that is what the past 24 hours have been for for inmates at san quentin after one tested positive for the disease yesterday afternoon and others started suffering symptoms. the latest taken to the hospital late this afternoon. >> it could be anything from gi issues, vomiting, headaches, fever. >> reporter: the rare diagnosis prompted the prison to take unprecedented steps to turn the water off to the housing unit, forcing nearly 4,000 inmates to skip showers. use port-o-potties and line up to get drinking water. >> we don't want other individuals to be impacted hea

. >>> 3 inmates at san quentin are hospitalized following an outbreak of legionnaire's disease. the prison is not accepting any new inmates as they try to figure out what caused the outbreak. kate kagel is there tonight where officials are still tracking the cause of the disease. >> reporter: the plumbing inside san quentin has been turned on, but staff and may notes are still using bottled waters and using drinking fountains. >> reporter: the inside is december late. today, inmates began using portable showers to faith, although the plumbing was turned pack on. the inmate that came down with legionnaire's disease is still in the hospital, but is expected to recover. 3 other inmates were hospitalized for pneumonia-like symptoms. 3 other inmates are under observation for respiratory illness. legionnaire's disease is a severe form of pneumonia. the health department is still trying to figure out where the contamination occurred. water is trucked into the prison from marin county and stored in a 3 million gallon tank ear. >> reporter: so far, no employees have gotten sick. i'm kate

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now, there's nearly 4,000 inmates in san quentin. the prison has not said whether the inmates who got sick were in low, medium or maximum security. so far, no employees have gotten sick. reporting from san quentin, i'm kate cagle, kron 4 news. >>> muni is adding buses to the fleet arriving in september. passengers can expect cleaner, larger buses, greater service frequency on routes and several redesigned routes to improve travel times. the capacity will increase from 54 to 80 people per bus. muni already has 116 new buses in service with continued shipments of new vehicles planned every week for the next 18 months. >>> a missing hiker is found alive after being lost for nine days up in the sierra nevada near fresno. search-and-rescue located the woman this morning near a reservoir. officials say she was hurt but the extent of her injuries remains unclear tonight. she was airlifted to a hospital for medical evaluation. officials say the woman had no food and only a water filter that allowed her to drink from a creek. >> when you're n

. >> reporter: san quentin is dealing with legionnaires' disease. one case is confirmed. 30 other people are showing symptoms. ktvu's john sasaki reports the prison shut off the water supply to try find the source and stop had spread. >> reporter: strawberry canyon san quentin on the waters of san francisco bay but now waters is blamed for legionnaires' disease. >> there are individuals that are in different stages. >> reporter: her son is an inmate with pneumonia. >> he is very ill with pneumonia. >> reporter: officials announced one inmate came down with a case thursday. three people have been taken to the hospital. >> out of caution that we -- anyone who has symptoms will be evaluated for legionnaires' disease. all the other cases that are potentially legionnaires' disease are much less sick than the individual that was first confirmed case. >> reporter: legionnaires' disease is spread through water sources. a form of pneumonia that could be fatal in 30% of cases although it is closer to 5%. officials are confident they caught the disease early.

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all cooking at san quentin has stopped. inmates are being fed boxed meals.ll running water has been halted. >>> contra costa county fire says a car fire sparked a vegetation blaze in martinez this morning. the fire broke out around 9:30 at franklin canyon road near alhambra road. here's what it looked like from our highway 4 camera pointed toward martinez. you can see the plume of gray smoke in the hills. about 7 acres of grassland burned. >>> highway 101 on the peninsula is set to shut down once again tonight so crews could replace damaged power lines that came down during a construction accident on friday. all lanes of highway 101 in burlingame were closed friday night after a crane hit a high- voltage pg&e tower near the broadway accident. the accident sent live wires onto the highway and cars. traffic was backed up for miles. tonight at 10:00, the highway patrol will close all lanes of 101 at broadway again so crews can finish the repairs. the freeway is scheduled to reopen at 4:00 tomorrow morning. >>> bart is planning its second and final closure of th

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. >>> the water was shut off at san quentin because of a legionnaire's disease scare.hopper 5 showing the inmates lining up for bottles of water. one person has tested positive for that disease. 30 others are showing symptoms. kpix 5's joe vazquez at san quentin for us where prisoners are not allowed to take showers.

. >>> visiting hours have been canceled at san quentin this weekend while the prison tries to contain a possible outbreak of legionnare's disease. legionnare's is a severe form of bacterial pneumonia. it spreads through moisture and steam and there has been one confirmed case at san quentin already. 45 are under observation tonight. the prison has brought in portable showers and drinking water as they try to isolate the source of the bacteria. >>> texas authorities have arrested the man they say shot and killed a sheriffs deputy in cold blood. he was ambushed while pumping gas and investigators don't know why. >> reporter: the arrest came less than 24 hours after the shooting. ron hickman says there was no clear motive. >> our assumption is he was a target because he wore a uniform. >> there is an officer down. gunshots in the vehicle. >> reporter: police say the atrocious attack happened friday night under the bright lights of this gas station in houston. sheriff deputy thomas gilland. >> the deputy was shot, fell to the ground. the suspect continued over to him and he shot the deput

joined by quentin hardy of "the new york times" and michelle quinn of "the mercury news." let me ask you the question everybody asks you. that's, why are you looking at wheat plants? they don't seem like they do anything interesting. >> one nice thing is they don't wander around. if you're looking for things to look at from space, that's a good start. one of the things we found surprising when we started this project is that no one has ever made a map of the entire planet, what the major crops are growing, where they are, and how healthy they are. as you can imagine, that's of great interest to everyone from a commodities trader to the countries growing those commodities. >> i've seen bits of this kind of thing before, and it's very exciting because the pitch is, if there are 7 billion people on the planet headed to 10 billion, how are you going to feed them if you don't turn the world basically into a big greenhouse where you try to manage for efficiency wherever possible. that sort of the same idea you're doing? >> absolutely. i mean, you know, you want to know where cro

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. >> at california's san quentin state prison, we saw how sophisticated some inmate weaponry can be. this homemade pistol is known as a zip gun. >> this portion is filled with groundup matchups. >> the two holes here, the inmate inserts a wick, inmate takeses a plunger, pokes shrapnel in the open end. pieces of metal, groundup zippers. when the target walks by the cell, may it be an officer, inmate, the inmate lights this. when it goes down, strikes the match heads, basically acts like a firecracker and shoots the shrapnel out. >> the majority of inmate-manufactured weapons or shanks, designed for slashing and stabbing. the ease and with lethal weapons are made is shocking. this san quentin inmate who goes by the name speedy, agreed to show correctional staff and "lockup" cameras just how simple it can be. he starts by using a roll of toilet paper as a crude forge to melt plastic coffee cup lids. >> i'm making a weapon right now. melting this plastic down into a shape. what i'm dying i'm trying to get a little wad of it to where i have something to work with, you know what i mean? ri

and the staff here call me birdman of san quentin. >> the first day i got here at san quentin, the birds to me for some reason. and i don't kn,ow they probably think i am the bird man of alcatraz. maybe they're mistaken because he had a shaved head, too. >> miller was serving an eight-year sentence for burglary when he proudly showed us his cell. a virtual shrine to his winged friends. >> ever since i have been here the birds come up to me like they know me. you know, i got them landing on my shoulders and my hands, you know, different kinds of birds. not just pigeons. but i got, you know different kind of black birds. like finch and the red wing landing on me. >> i think the birds is a good way of releasing a lot of tension and anger. before i got arrested my girlfriend used to chase the birds away. she didn't want me around them. and so now i'm in here, i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically that's about the only friends i got, is birds. i can't trugs anybody else. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of a

. >>> five more inmates at san quentin in california have been diagnosed with legionnaires disease. the source of the outbreak is not known. last week, nearly two dozen prisoners displayed symptoms. officials say 50 others are under observation. >>> thousands turned out to honor three firefighters killed in washington state. more than 80 vehicles took part in the procession on sunday. many held american flags and signs saying you are heroes. >>> cooler wet weather kept the fires from growing over the weekend. most of the fires far from contained. this fire is the largest in washington state history has burned more than 300,000 acres. >> amazing to see the pictures. >>> south florida, under a flood watch this morning. drenched by the remnants of tropical storm erika. let's get the latest from meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good morning, john. good morning, alison. let's show you what is happening across florida of what is left of erika. never made it here as a tropical storm, but plenty of rainfall over the region. showers and thunderstorms scattered and staying offshore. you get

san quentin. ever been there? no, thanks for asking. never done anything to get in there.t: i think that johnny cash way to show there. very famous risen. betty: the producer was just talking in my year. this will shut you up. matt: what did she say? betty: ashley madison, have you ever been there? [laughter] matt: no, no. but you would find out if i had. we are going to look into the dark side of the hacking world and adultery, coming up. ♪ betty: -- matt: welcome back to the "bloomberg market day." betty: times up. hackers have made good on their promise to post the ashley madison data online. the dump was posted to what's called the dark web. a lot of people have drag it up and put it on the regular internet. names, addresses, phone numbers and sexual preferences of cheating men. q the divorce lawyers. how did the hackers take advantage of the deep, dark web? tom, theow from d.c., first thing i want to ask is -- why are we only concerned about men? is there not a ton of information about the women actively cheating on ashley there is. well? tom: i'm not sure why they ha

. >> reporter: san quentin prison sits on the waters of san francisco bay. now water is to blame for spreading legionnaires' disease. >> no one is deemed to have severe symptoms. but there are individuals that are in different stages. >> reporter: her son is an inmate with pneumonia. >> he is very wil pneumonia. >> reporter: one inmate came down with a case on thursday. three people have been taken to the hospital with serious symptoms. >> out of caution that we -- anyone who has symptoms will be evaluated for possible legionnaires' disease. all of the other cases that are potentially legionnaires' disease are less sick than the individual that was the first confirmed case. >> legionnaires' disease is an infection spread through water forces. a form of pneumonia that could be fatal. officials are confident they caught the disease early. >> i think we are addressing it as it is prison wide. we will continue to operate -- to operate with the same protocols in place to ensure it doesn't spread further. >> reporter: because of the outbreak the prison shut down i

. >> eventually transferred to san quentin state prison, the man who is arguably california's most violent inmate completed his sentence and was released in 2007. >> you have people locked up in this, this type of environment and then you release them to the street. what do you expect? >> back up, mother -- ha ha ha! >>> next on "lockup: raw." >> they'll come across their enemy, slice them across the neck. >> the ingenious weapons inmates use to attack. and the lengths officers will go to in combating them. and i am a certified arborist for pg&e.ughes i oversee the patrolling of trees near power lines and roots near pipes and underground infrastructure. at pg&e wherever we work, we work hard to protect the environment. getting the job done safely so we can keep the lights on for everybody. because i live here i have a deeper connection to the community. and i want to see the community grow and thrive. every year we work with cities and schools to plant trees in our communities. the environment is there for my kids and future generations. together, we're building a better california. >>> ev

>> 1985 i was escorted to death row in san quentin prison. and it's like i went to hell.nyone. i hope people learn from this story that you have to stand up and fight this system, because it is rotten. it is rotten to the core. >> all of the potential inaccuracies, the potential miscarriages of justice, i can't correct. i can only tell you that personally, i was involved in this case from the very beginning. and personally, believe that >>> on this episode of death row stories, a triple murder, execution style. >> they shot them like they were nothing. >> and the crime is caught on tape. >> most significant piece of evidence i've ever seen in a case. >> the clear images of guilt. >> the evidence establishes that he committed the crime. >> there's your guy. it's a slam dunk for the prosecution. >> only deepens the mystery. >> you're going to kill somebody. it's not even a sure conviction. >> there's no doubt in my mind that he's innocent. >> there's a body on the water. >> he was butchered and murdered. >> many people proclaim their innocence. >> in

tonight at san quentin. >> i got rid of everything, i cleaned the cell, i'm getting ready of everything. the weapon is already gone, we knew at that time there was no fingerprints and the time they came in, all of the inmates from the fifth tier to first tier start throwing everything out of their cell. that's what happened, they would find, 20, 30 weapons and never know which one was actual murder weapon. the squad came through, security quad, or goon squad, they came through and cordoned off everything and they took the pictures and collected evidence and things like that. so they collected the evidence and find all these weapons. now, that night i'm up and i'm worried. about what's happening. but they don't know what happened. >> but a break in the case came from the confession of an inmate involved in the murder. >> saw an opportunity for himself, serving a life sentence. turned everybody in. because of my lack of knowledge and planning of the crime, and my age, the judge overturned my death penalty and sentenced me to life in prison without the chance of parole, i don't go to board

. >>> san quentin prison is taking measures to try to control an outbreak of legionaires disease.hat includes shutting off all of the water. john sasaki tells us there's one confirmed case but more than 30 other inmates are showing symptoms. >> san quentin prison -- >> he's very ill with pneumonia right now. >> reporter: health officials announced one inmate came down with a confirmed case of pneumonia on thursday. several inmates have been taken to the hospital. >> it's out of a abundance of caution. all of these other cases that are potential legion era are much less sick than the individual that was the first case. >> reporter: legionares disease is spread through water sources. it's a severe form of pneumonia that can be fatal and in 30% of confirmed cases but it's usually closer to 5%. count till officials are confidence they caught the decide early but the incubation period is as long as 10 days. >> i think we're addressing it as it is prison wide. we'll continue to operate with the same protocalls in place to ensure it doesn't spread further. >> reporter: because of the pos

man convicted of taking part in notorious escape at san quentin was killed yesterday.y of hugo pinell was found yesterday following the riots. about 100 inmates were involved in the riots. pepper sprays and warning shots were used. pinell was serving two life sentence z, convicted of rape in san francisco in '64. he also killed a prison guard in sole dad state prison. and he and five other inmates took part in an escape attempt at san quentin that ended in six people dying. >>> 22 i phones were stolen right from the flagship store. employees say four young people came into the store, grabbed the phones, which were all on display. >> the phone is tethered to a desk and the suspects physically ripped the phone off the tether and then made away with them. >> the stolen i phones have an estimated value of $16,000. police say there is surveillance video of the thieves but that it does not clearly show any identifying information for us to pass along to you. >>> time is 6:35. hundreds of people expected to head to livermore today, the outlet mall out there is expanding to in

. >> after serving time in san quentin, frank turned his life around 18 years ago and has not looked back. >> my past is my purpose. see, my past and the reason why i do today. >> frank found his purpose in helping others over come addictions and struggles. he's now the director of the senior exofenders program or s.e.o.p. a community-based pipeline of resources temporary housing, therapists, job counselors that help older offenders. >> what specific challenges do seniors face after incarceration? >> the shame that they get from society. you know, you that old? you need some help? that's on you. those are your consequences. >> what specifically does your program do? >> we do case management. we do alcohol and drug counseling, we bring mental health providers, we inspire them and motivate them to look at what their purpose is in life. >> they have helped 60 inmates to achieve self sufficiency so far. it does not work for everyone, but for some it gives them the confidence they never felt before. >> i finished the program about a month ago. they helped me. steered me to a clear slate.

the northern hispanics is our main gang here at san quentin. and it's because they're better organized. the white guys are over here on the parallel bars and on the picnic table. over in the corner you see where the asians are sitting. you can't just walk and sit on a table. i had to explain that. i almost got into a confrontation with that two or three times because, you know, i saw a table and i sat down, you know, it's not like that. you got to ask for permission to sit down there. >> even such a minor misstep can be taken as a sign of disrespect, and that can lead to widespread violence. though correctional staff is constantly on the lookout for weapons, it's well known that many on this yard are armed for battle. and none more so than the northern hispanics. >> they have a minister of defense. and his thing is he's to have ten weapons ready at any time down here on this yard. their weapons are all hid over there. and in the morning we'll come over and we'll search that area and try to find their weapons. but they're getting better and bett

. >>> visiting hours are canceled at san quentin while the prison tries to contain a possible outbreak of legionnaires disease, a severe form of bacteria pneumonia that spreads through moisture and steam. there is one confirmed case and three more inmates are hospitalized with symptoms and another 45 are under observation. there are portable showers and drinking water as they try to isolate the source of the bacteria. >>> the san jose airport is stepping up security with a lot of razor wire. >> the airport is getting a $3 million boost from the feds to help close security gaps and add wire to the property. a teen sparked the change after he hopped the fence and stowed away on a flight to hawaii. >> reporter: clearly the feds satisfy you there was a need at this particular airport to get this done. >> certainly our airport saw the need based upon incidents that happened here. it entails a three foot concrete base topped by seven feet of perimeter fencing and then topped by one foot of razor wire. there are a lot of components going on there, a lot of costs involved for the various mater

. >>> prison life is not known for comfort, but it's even less so at san quentin this morning. they are dealing with an outbreak of legionnaires' disease which means bottled water and porta-potties for the inmates. we have the story. >> from sky 7 humidity d you see the line of inmates wait to go use of porta-potties that were brought in for the emergency. most water has been shut down in the prison. >> when with he see cases of legionnaires' disease it's generally con find to one specific facility. often within those facilities it's one specific water source, like a heating tank. >> one was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed and two others are being tested and treated by health officials. the county's water has been tested and it's safe. >> legionnaires' is not tested from person to person. it's usually acquired by inhaling a water drop let that's been in the air, so a mist. >> e-mails have been sent out to neighbors describing the situation. >> i would worry about the people who work in there and live in there, that there's plenty of people that have the residential