rob ross shows us this new proposal. >> oak land police officers are stretched thin, four years ago 801 officers on the street and today just 649. >> you want to just turn the place over to the crooks? i don't. i don't want to have to worry about walking down the street at night but now i do. >> according to city council shaft who was running for oakland mayor, some police officers are not on the street because of injuries and training. >> part of the problem is that the administration was unrealistic in its projections of new officers that would be produced by their training academy but by how many officers were retiring. >> jennifer lee says that there is a plan to ensure the police department will get the number of officers approved in this city budget and one proposal calls on the mayor to create a plan for attrition and to delay officer retirement. >> time has proven to us that even though we put money in the budget for a certain number of officers the administration has not been able to deliver those officers. >> police chief sean win will increase the number of officers to more t

rob ross spoke with another man who happened to be nearby when he spotted something so suspicious. >> i was just sitting having lunch. >> this man said he often spends his lunch break in his car parked in the shade overlooking -- he asked us not to reveal his name. he said yesterday he saw an suv pull up in front of a house. first one man got out and rang the doorbell. then 2 others got out. >> i heard a big bang and i looked up again and another bang and they had kicked the door in. >> this is what that door jam looks like now. >> all 3 of them went into the house and closed the door. so at a time i called 911. >> police arrived within minutes. by then a 4th man had gone the house. >> within 30 seconds one of the suspects came walking out of the front door of the residence holding a box full of julyry. >> police -- jewelry. >> police arrested all 4 men from the sacramento area. in their car they found a stolen laptop taken from a home earlier in the day. now police are looking to see if they are connected to more break ins. the couple whose house was broken into didn't want to appear

rob ross, ktvu channel 2 news >>> >> a hump whale that spent weeks tangled up in steel ropes is freenks to a group of marine biologists. officials say the whale was freed off the coast of santa barbara, first spotted last month, dragging heavy fishing gear that prevented the whale from diving. weather hampering efforts to free it when it was further spotted. but satellite helped crews find and free the animal. >> >> a cool down in your neighborhood, tonight, tomorrow and through the bay area weekend. right now, sunday will be the coolest day of the weekend. hard to see, right now, but it will drop south. as it does, it brings cooler air to the onshore flow. we are seeing clouds out there. most of them partly cloudy. mostly cloudy up around vallejo. we have fog around the coast. it's not going to show up in the satellite, but we have alot of fog around the great eye way, it's really dense all the way to 19th avenue. fog, clouds around and clouds will break off. i told you that earlier. currently in san jose, 62 degrees. san francisco, 59 >>> here's the low pressure center i'm tracking

ktvu rob ross was at oakland international airport as they return. >> i am anxious and nervous and everything. >> she made a sign for her daddy. >> i want to give him a big hug. >> then they arrived. >> the 90 soldiers from the guard unit based in vallejo returns home from afghanistan. >> i am excited and overwhelmed. the unit was spread all over afghanistan and their mission was to decide which military equipment should be shipped home and which should be destroyed. for these soldiers that job is done now and that 6-year-old girl finally got her daddy back. >> oh, it is the best feeling. i took about a year off from my life and now they're all here and it is amazing. >> this sergeant from pittsburgh got to meet his son. >> he was born two days before i left and i never got to chance to see him and this is my first time seeing him. >> oh, he's beautiful and wonderful. >> remember the woman who made the sign for her husband, she was busy the last time we checked. once they got home is to get reacquainted with family. >> it is really to unwhine and relax. i am not going to say alcohol is involv

rob ross, ktvu channel 2 news >>> >> a hump whale that spent weeks tangled up in steel ropes is freeto a group of marine biologists. officials say the whale was freed off the coast of santa barbara, first spotted last month, dragging heavy fishing gear that prevented the whale from diving. weather hampering efforts to free it when it was further spotted. but satellite helped crews find and free the animal. >> >> a cool down in your neighborhood, tonight, tomorrow and through the bay area weekend. right now, sunday will be the coolest day of the weekend. hard to see, right now, but it will drop south. as it does, it brings cooler air to the onshore flow. we are seeing clouds out there. most of them partly cloudy. mostly cloudy up around vallejo. we have fog around the coast. it's not going to show up in the satellite, but we have alot of fog around the great eye way, it's really dense all the way to 19th avenue. fog, clouds around and clouds will break off. i told you that earlier. currently in san jose, 62 degrees. san francisco, 59 >>> here's the low pressure center i'm tracking. it

ktvu rob ross was at oakland international airport as they return. >> i am anxious and nervous and everything. >> she made a sign for her daddy. >> i want to give him a big hug. >> then they arrived. >> the 90 soldiers from the guard unit based in vallejo returns home from afghanistan. >> i am excited and overwhelmed. the unit was spread all over afghanistan and their mission was to decide which military equipment should be shipped home and which should be destroyed. for these soldiers that job is done now and that 6-year-old girl finally got her daddy back. >> oh, it is the best feeling. i took about a year off from my life and now they're all here and it is amazing. >> this sergeant from pittsburgh got to meet his son. >> he was born two days before i left and i never got to chance to see him and this is my first time seeing him. >> oh, he's beautiful and wonderful. >> remember the woman who made the sign for her husband, she was busy the last time we checked. once they got home is to get reacquainted with family. >> it is really to unwhine and relax. i am not going to say alcohol is involv

police aren't saying much, but ktvu's rob ross reports from san jose. >> reporter: place arrested 22- year-old gabriel alejo for stabbing the mother of a baby and twin 9-year-old girls inside the woman's apartment tuesday. police aren't saying how he's related to the victim 28-year- old teresa maravilla, but he has the same last name as maravilla's husband and they are listed as friends on maravilla's facebook page. he lists himself as married and having served in the marines on facebook. neighbors say they're glad police made an arrest. >> she's not going to see their kids grow up, see their weddings or anything, but i'm glad they caught him. >> reporter: a next-door neighbor told police he saw the man leave the apartment about an hour before the body was discovered. that man left on a motorcycle. you saw him walk out? >> yeah. like nothing. >> reporter: police have not provided a motive for the kill. the neighbors say maravilla's husband came by this morning and today them this. >> that he's going -- and told them this. >> that he's going to move from here. >> he also tells them man