officers arrested regina butler. >> she would always walk in front of him or way behind they would never walk together. he would open the door for her and she would come in.

regina butler turned down our request for an interview. live in san jose, robert handa.l 2 news. >>> emergency crews today retrieved a body from the bodies off a beach in san francisco. fire officials say the body was spotted about 12:45 this afternoon near baker beach. investigators at this point will only say that the body is male and at this hour there are no other details about his identity or the cause of death. >>> a san jose man pleaded not guilty today to charges he plotted to blow up a bank in oakland. matthew llaneza was arraigned in federal court. prosecutors say last month he took what he believed was a real bomb to a bank of america on hagenburger road. they say the bomb was fake and given to llaneza as part of an undercover investigation. >>> the driver charged in the death of a san francisco high school student also pleaded not guilty today. 28-year-old ke era n brewer faces charges of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence. chang was killed saturday night as she crossed san francisco's sloat boulevard. prosecutors say chang was celebrating

thank you, regina. for those of you looking to contact these organizations, you can find their contact information in the program you should have picked up when you sign in. for those of you who are prospective entrepreneurs, if we could limit the acronyms and talk more about what those acronyms mean. >> sounds good. thanks, mark, virginia, and leader pelosi for putting on this event, and for all that she has done -- thanks mark, regina , and later pelosi. we have been able to access resources through the sba and the cdfi fund which helps get money to small businesses in this time of need. opportunity fund is not a bank or a government agency. we are an independent nonprofit organization with a mission to provide capital to working people to help them earn, say, and invest in the future. we focus primarily on businesses that are not yet bankable. most of our clients are themselves low or moderate income people or working in low or moderate income neighborhoods. but not exclusively. we will look at any b

was last seen by his family on february 4th and now, more than a month later, police have arrested regina butler and charged her with murder. his granddaughter says the family has always suspected butler, who the family believed to be homeless. >> and latched on to a senior that had an apartment and some place for her to hide out in and, you know, he's -- you know, diminished capacity. >> reporter: police now say they believe jacobson's body had been in his unit at the hilltop manor senior apartment the entire time. it was discovered only yesterday. missing persons detectives even visited the apartment on february 22nd and did not find anything. >> i have actually seen the photos. they went in and actually did exactly what they were supposed to do, which is photograph a scene just in case it later becomes a crime scene. >> reporter: san jose police spokesman jason dwyer says the body was well concealed. >> not many people if any would have found this body. it was underneath a lot of clutter. >> reporter: the family had suspected that butler was stealing jacobson's social security checks a

we learned immediately police wanted to talk to his girlfriend, regina butler, for some answers.ding to one neighbor who did not want to be on camera, he saw butler at the scene in handcuffs with officers yesterday. friends say they just couldn't be more surprised. >> this is a shock. i mean, just total shock that this happened. >> i asked the question. i said you are the last person to see stanley. what happened to him? >> now, another question police are asking is when was stanley jacobson killed. he was reported missing three to four weeks ago and only found just yesterday. police have not confirmed to us that jacobson's girlfriend is in fact the suspect they have in custody. however, we can tell you one person has been raechted and police will continue interviewing that person today. live in san jose, marla tellez, "today in the bay." >>> thank you, marla. san jose police also releasing new details about the city's seventh homicide just two days ago. police say the deadly stabbing is not gang related. the victim believed to be a young man possibly in his teens. his body was f

at the scene of the crime one neighbor tells us they saw jacobson's girlfriend regina butler being led officers in handcuffs. >> the person we have in custody will be interviewed and give a statement on what led up to this. what were the people that were with him doing? trying to exploit him financially? trying to target him? >> reporter: jacobson went missing in february and police were looking for his girlfriend in the first place. this morning we're working to confirm regina butler is in fact the person san jose police currently have in custody. the other unanswered question this morning is when was jacobson killed? officials say the medical examiner's office will be able to answer that question and one final thing to think about is that we're in the ninth week of 2013. this is san jose's eighth homicide of the year. live in san jose, marla tellez, "today in the bay." >> thanks, marla. >>> 6:15 right now. time for a quick check of the day's top stories. firefighters say the popular chez panisse in berkeley will be closed for some time after a big-time fire breaks out at the building

good morning to you, regina.> thank you. >> we're going to start with some good news of the housing market. tell us about that. >> it is good news. i really like the underlying data here. home sales, fastest paced in three years. and it's not just distress sales. so institutions, the hedge funds of the world coming in and buying up properties. they've actually human beings who plan to live in the homes moving. and that's important. as foreclosures also work their way out of the market prices are up about 11%. and it's not just in pockets across the country, alex. now it's nationwide. so 88% of cities are seeing prices higher in real estate. that increase is enough to lift a lot of people above water. if you were under water on your mortgage, meaning you didn't have enough equity to get out. so now you can get out. the question becomes where do you go? because the overall inventories, the lowest since 1999. in part because building and construction, which came to a halt in 2009, isn't that easy to ramp up. you can

police were also looking for his girlfriend regina butler. is going to exploit him for financial reasons, or otherwise. friends of the senior citizens and that he was always friendly with a magician. and once jacobson started to sing regina butler he was not as social. >> he brought her here. and he never really did introduce her to any of us. but we do know that she was spending a lot of time here. and we were here with a property manager. he was not a round. that was kind of the weird part because we always would check with him on his cellphone, not on his door. we lived on the same floor and we were all curious. where is he? we heard you been? and he never answered his door. police say that this is an isolated incident and there is no immediate threat to the public. reporting live, alecia reed, kron 4. >> pam: tonight a shooting victim is hospitalized. and now the search is on for a gunman in san francisco. police say, two people were in the white car on your screen, when a suspect opened fire hitting the male, 30 year old passenger, in do

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. >> starla's mother regina night believes her son-in-law. >> even talked with his mother.were pretty much his parents and me was both in the dark with all this stuff that went on. it's like, you know, it's like something you'd see in a movie is the way i look at it. it just seems like it's not him in that video. >> [ bleep ], man. i would rather she didn't be found. >> the family liked him, thought he was a good man. but there are so many defendants who come before a court who have convinced everybody that they don't have an evil bone in their body. >> even so, patrick opts not to go to trial. >> he pled guilty for murder for hire. he got nine and a half years. we knew we had the defendant himself on camera talking about the murder of his wife. we knew we were bargaining from a position of strength. >> still patrick says they're not considering the subtleties of the story. in his version, his marriage falls apart when starla begins acting erratic, violent, and in his words a danger to herself and others. >> she's a disgrace. she's disgraced everything. herself, her family,

reports talking about algerian planes landing in the airport bringing arms and ammunition for the regina. that -- for the regime. human rights group amnesty international says it is that raged over the execution of a man in indonesia. he was shot by a firing squad on an island north of jakarta. he was found guilty of smuggling 1 kilogram of heroin into the country. later, he was found to be trafficking drugs from behind bars. it is indonesias first execution in four years. >> actively defending the indonesian migrant workers abroad from facing the death sentence. it is like a paradox of policy of the indonesian government. >> a small plane has crashed into a parking lot in florida. the aircraft was trying to make an emergency landing in fort lauderdale after reporting engine problems. the pilots could not back to the airport. firefighters said they cannot recognize the aircraft wreckage at first because of the intense smoke and flames. the former president of chile his post. he has been executive director. she announced her resignation at the commission. afghans infuriated by the presenc

son was last seen in february with this woman, regina butler. they found him at these apartments. why did it take so long? >> reporter: we have learned that police say the woman arrested in this case has confessed to the killing and that she will be charged with murder. they say the victim was stabbed multiple scenes and the crime scene was bad. >> reporter: she's been looking for her grandfather, and it turns out he was right under everybody's noses the whole time. you didn't smell anything? >> yes. it smelled like garbage. today you really smelled the dekay. >> reporter: he had been stabbed and his body stuffed under his mattress. she reported her grandfather missing, and nobody noticed the decomposing body in his apartment until the smell got really bad. >> at first it was a relief knowing he was there, and then i felt that i have been in here three times and didn't see him and that almost made me pass out. >> reporter: they says police have arrested this woman, 47-year-old butler. the granddaughter says she's a homeless alcoholic drug addicted pros you to who was stealing his

thank you so much regina.fore getting into the intersection between the affordable care act and the health care security ordinance, i wanted to give a brief, as brief as possible synopsis of the affordable care act and the provisions around health care expansion. so the affordable care act requires many, but not all individuals in the united states to actually have insurance, or pay a penalty. that is what you will hear referred to as the individual mand yet. mandate. there are other requirements, people who are incarcerated and people who have religious exempt ions, but for the most part individuals in the united states will get coverage as a result of the affordable care act . people who don't comply pay penalties you and the notion is that penalty will be the inducement to get coverage. there will be three ways in which people get coverage. they will get coverage through other medicaid, which is called medical in california. they will get coverage through an exchange, as an individual purchasing it and i wi

made me pass out. >> reporter: and late this afternoon, we learned that the suspect in this case reginal history here in santa clara county dating back to 1986. since that time, she has been involved in at least four felony trials. quite a rap sheet she has. >> yeah, mark. police say the victim stanley jacobson the elderly man had been dead for a while. i mean, how is it possible that people in the other apartments around nobody going by noticed anything, the stench of a decomposing body? >> reporter: that is the obvious question. if somebody's decomposing for a month, wouldn't somebody considering that the granddaughter was in there three times, police were in there once, the police say that this body was concealed under blankets, under pillows, under all sorts of stuff to where it not only did nobody see him but apparently it contained the stench of the decomposition. that is at least what they are saying at this point. concealed very well. whether that was intentional or not we don't know. >> thank you, mark sayre. >>> there's also an arrest in another san jose murder case. police bo

. >> jacobson's 47-year-old girlfriend regina butler was arrested yesterday after she returned to the home. the family thought she was stealing his social security checks. >>> it is moving day for dozens of homeless camping on public property down in the south bay. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec now in san jose where warnings went out several days ago but a lot of people don't want to move. >> reporter: some people are making movements though this morning in advance of the city coming in for a sweep after 72 hours' notice. this is on spring street. we have spoken with that gentleman here who has been here for months. he said that he is planning on heeding the city's warning. but he wanted to enjoy his last 72 hours here. the sweep is expected to begin today but it could be changed. plans could be changed because the ground is pretty muddy from a recent rain. between 100 and 160 people have been living in this homeless encampment near the guadalupe river one of about 60 camps throughout santa clara county but this has been more noticeable because it's in the flight path of the san jose i

. >> police arrested this woman, 47-year-old regina butler. the granddaughter says she is a homeless alcoholic drug addicted prostitute who was stealing the victim's social security checks for more than a year. christina knew she would be coming back to the apartment and had everyone on the lookout. >> my phone rang three times. the office rang three times. i was here within 8 minutes and i chased her down and kept her here until the place came. >> sam suffered from dementia and told everyone butler was his girlfriend. warned multiple times that the woman was not welcome. when she kept coming, stan got an eviction notices and they think that's when she killed him. >> he was a senior and he was used and abused. it's a sad situation. >> we asked the victim's granddaughter what she wants to happen to the suspect at the time. she said that she'll loaf that leave that up to the court. >> the granddaughter proved to be quite the investigator, it seems. >> yeah, she got a couple tips from social media. she followed up, found a suspect at a gas statio

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regina lewis joins us. >> good morning. >> do you think the economy is finally on the rebound?> naturally certainly it's a good number. it's 7.7%, which is the lowest since 2008. not all states are feeling that equally. new jersey, nevada, california still have unemployment rates north of 9%, but what people really like about it, alex, is that the overall gains were broad-based, meaning it wasn't just one sector lifting the number. construction in particular, but also hospitals, retail, restaurants, even hollywood got a bump because companies are feeling more opportunistic and they're making and producing more advertising. so, signs that are positive across the boards. the biggest headwind is going to be these federal cuts potentially, so federal, state and local cuts. and government jobs. the question moving forward is, can the private sector create jobs fast enough to offset those losses. >> yeah, that makes sense. what about u.s. household wealth or the network? that's looking as good as it did before the recession at this point, so is it celebration time or fool's gold? >>

. >> jacobson's 47-year-old girlfriend regina butler was arrested yesterday when she returned to the home. his family says they suspected she was stealing his social security checks. >>> fresno county investigators believe a lion escaped his feeding cage before killing a volunteer at an animal park. the coroner says diana hanson died instantly on wednesday when the lion broke her he neck at cat haven in dunlap. it appears the lion managed to lift the gate on the cage while she was cleaning the larger enclosure. she may have been distracted. she was on the phone at the time. her father says the coroner told him the lion was probably just trying to play with his daughter. >> you know, i have always had a premonition that someday i would get a call like this but i just thought it would be much further in the future than at 24. >> a sheriff's deputy shot and killed the lion in an effort to save her. >>> tears poured from thousands of eyes as mourners said good- bye to two fallen police officers yesterday. [ pause ] >> and a sea of uniformed officers stood in silence outside hp pavillion

a few weeks ago when jacobson was first reported missing, police were reportedly looking for regina butler. neighbors say butler was jacobson's girlfriend. one neighbor says he saw butler being led away by officers in handcuffs. police say jacobson's family found his body yesterday morning on the floor of his apartment but just how long his body was there still a question they are trying to answer. >> what were the people with him doing? were they trying to exploit him financial? trying to target him? the person in custody will be interviewed and give a statement on what led up to this. >> the killing is san jose's eighth homicide of the year. >>> san jose police are also releasing new details about the city's seventh homicide two days ago. police say the deadly stabbing is not gang related. the victim is believed to be a young man possibly in his teens. his body was found at the entrance of guadalupe oak grove park in an upscale neighborhood. investigators have not made any arrests or recovered any weapons. >>> we're learning a simple mistake may have led to a deadly lion attack at the ca

i will send it over to regina tomorrow. that is out there. and we have got to do our part to get information in the hands of our employees to try to bring these cost down. >> thank you >>>thank you, scott. any other commissioner comments? thank you everybody. thank you, tangerine, again. that was a very good presentation. thank you, scott. okay. would you like to go back to item no. 7? >> yes. commissioners, item no. 7 discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file no. 130018, planning code, deleting the sunset provision of the excelsior alcohol restricted use district. presentation by jeremy pollack, legislative aid to supervisor john avalos in your binder a briefing document and maps of the alcohol restricted use district and the planning department had it on two separate maps, and then you have the digest along with the legislation. and thank you, jeremy. >> good evening commissioners, i apologize for not being here when you first called the item. i was distracted by some con

back in mid-february, police were looking for a woman named regina butler.lae not saying whether she's the suspect. we did talk to his neighbor and friend just a short time ago. >> totally shocked. we've been looking everywhere for him for the last three to four weeks. and he wasn't at lunch because we always you know, meet together at lunch every day. and he does his little magician tricks or us, and that's how i first met him four months ago. >> here's a live look at the scene right now. officers came out to the hilltop apartments around 11:30 this morning. a homicide investigators have been out here for a few hours talking to people who live here as well as gathering evidence inside jacobson's apartment. that's the latest here. we're live in san jose, george kitayama, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, george. remember further dedication to the job and to the love they shared with their families is, sergeant loran "butch" baker and elizabeth butler where is honored by the people and respected most, their colleagues, their friends and their children.

. >> the police arrested 46-year- old regina butler. the last person seen with jacobson, the investigators have evidence that butler was trying to scam him. >> reporter: the man charged with killing a san francisco high school student pled not guilty today. prosecutors say the 28-year-old karen brewer was driving under the influence on saturday night when he hit and killed chang as she crossed the street. the high school junior was celebrating her 17th birthday. brewer is set back in court on september 7th. >>> we have more on what caused this fire and when the restaurant will reopen. >> reporter: as she surveyed the damage to her restaurant, alice waters had a message for long time fans of the restaurant. >> we are not going anywhere. [ laughter ] we are not going anywhere where. it is just a question of time. >> reporter: a fire broke out at the restaurant around 3:00 this morning. investigators say it started underneath the building. >> the location where the fire appeared to have originated they have -- this is electrical equipment.

this is a big country, so i just got to say to adam and to leslie and to regina and jane, the team, what a great job. our reputation in this is awesome. and it's a testament that in the fundraising and i'm just going put it out there; you know, they are coming to us now, which is great. i just want to say thank you to everybody. >> thank you very much. we have an amazing committee of small business advocates who really take this opportunity to as leslie once put it, come together and only talk about the positive things once a year, where we're not worrying about all of the challenges that surround small business. we can take a moment and acknowledge the amazing way it's transformed our city world-class. so thank you again, this is my 5th year working on this project. and i'm very appreciative of having the opportunity to continue to support it. >> director dick-endrizzi? >> yes, well, i wanted to say thank you, adam, again, for stewarding us through this. and as we continue to grow small business week and since leslie, you are here, i just wanted to thank you for, because leslie has been

what we don't know is if that person is regina butle butler. he called her his girlfriend and was in love with her but it's possible her intentions may not have been pure. >> there was speculation that she was involved in pros stawtion. there was speculation that she may have been trying to exploit him financially the rate now we didn't know. >> ramos butler last person to see jacobson and she was here at the apartments this morning when police found his body. >> before involved in drug no. drinking they drvrng too much. yrm whether happened. >> again we do not know if butler was the one arrested but eren't to stress that they believe it was an isolated incident and that they have the right person in custody so they want the residents here to know that they are safe. this is 7 in us? thank you amma. >> nearly 10,000 people came together today for an emotional ceremony honoring 2 fallen santa cruz police officers. memorial for sergeant lauren baker and detective butler took place at the pavilion in san jose in order to accommodate the large crow

. >> 47-year-old regina butler has confessed to the killing, police say. >>> a lion escaped his feedinge killing an intern at a fresno county animal park. 4-year-old diana hanson died instantly, the 24-year-old died when the lion broke her net at cat haven in dunlap. the lion lifted a gate on the cage while hanson was cleaning the la

what we don't know is if that person is regina butle butler. he called her his girlfriend and was in love with her but it's possible her intentions may not have been pure. >> there was speculation that she was involved in pros stawtion. there was speculation that she may have been trying to exploit him financially the rate now we didn't know. >> ramos butler last person to see jacobson and she was here at the apartments this morning when police found his body. >> before involved in drug no. drinking they drvrng too much. yrm whether happened. >> again we do not know if butler was the one arrested but police do weren't to stress that they believe it was an isolated incident and that they have the right person in custody so they want the residents here to know that they are safe. this is 7 in us? thank you amma. >> nearly 10,000 people came together today for an emotional ceremony honoring 2 fallen santa cruz police officers. memorial for sergeant lauren baker and detective butler took place at the pavilion in san jose in order to accommodate the