currently our lobbyist in sacramento is the firm shaw yoder antwee. communication with lead advocate paul yoder and provide input from other city department, city staff. while we do have single [speaker not understood] designated to be our key point of contact, we have multiple advocates from the firm working on myriad of issues. they cover every issue for us whether it be health care reform implementation, economic initiatives or environmental issues. our lobbyists will send us any news or information that they might have heard throughout their day in sacramento. and then i quickly field that information out to relevant departments. and then, of course, the situation happens where departments will receive news and information from their colleagues in sacramento and we ask departments to keep me, to keep the mayor's office in the loop so that we can direct our lobbyists most effectively. it's just information sharing. it's really key to ensuring we're all in the same message and advocating most effectively. that covers our state issues, but i also wor

sacramento? that's where he's going to? >> i understand that. know, i think they know now that i wasn't a marketing expert. what i did is i drove people to watch the game. i made the fans of sacramento so upset, because it was the toughest place to play. we want to bring that feel back. we want to bring that environment back. >> reporter: the kings' majority owner, silicon valley tycoon said he isn't worried about any past bad blood. >> we have this concept there's lots of money. what you want is smart money. for the journey we are undertaking, there isn't any smarter money than dr. shaquille o'neal. so now that he's stopped calling the team the queens, is it time for a new nickname. >> of course it is. are you ready? >> give it to me. >> welcome to schack-ramento, the capital of california. >> schack told me he had dinner with the governor of california the night before his big announcement. he did clear the new name, so hey, it's official. christine earlier this year derek jeter told me after he retires his goal is to own a baseball team. to w

after living in sacramento for many years, she had relocated to sacramento and although, the board of education and i personally want to express my sorrow to the hunt family, and i also want to say just for a minute, about the san francisco called zspace which is a theater in the mission, for those of you who have lived in san francisco a long time, it is used to be part of project arto on 17 and this harrison. and marsha was a member of the board of the zshape and also, of a wonderful performing troop there called word for word that performs plays which are the reading word for word of short stories. and i have actually been to two word for word performances and the most recent one was in honor of marsha and where her husband, jay, bought out the house and all of her friends came there and saw a wonderful play called infriendship and so, i just want to honor marsha as someone who made a huge difference in our school district and will be remembered and the last thing that i want to say about her and if you ever saw her, and you can see her on the website she was a very striking, stron

. >> air force base outside sacramento was closed but there is a problem. air force left behind radioactive waste and still has not been cleaned up. that has turned in a battle between state health officials and the federal government. media partner at center for investigative reporting have covered the latest on the environmental show down. >> sacramento fire department runs practice drills at the closed air force base. federal government washington pts to turn this listened over to the city but local leaders are worried about radioactive soil nearby. >> i only want what it that is we need for our training of our firefighters. surrounding land i know has problem. we don't need to take on the united states government problems and so all we want is what we need for training our firefighters. we don't want responsibility for anything else. >>reporter: the problem is the radioactive soil underneath these tarps. toxic waste comes from radioactive paint used during world war ii to make aircraft the dials glow in the

child advocates, parents advocates of sacramento, dependency associates of sacramento, bridges' stars program, and sacramento treatment providers. parents in the program not only receive treatment, but gain an understanding of the root causes of their disease in an effort to break the intergenerational cycle of trauma. we were failing our families. before dependency drug court, we only had 18 percent of families who actually were unified and had their children come home and their cases closed out, with parents who no longer had substance abuse problems. as i went through the stars program and realized that these people that are trying to teach me about my disease have gone through it themselves. it was a blessing because it wasn't somebody who's never experienced what i've experienced telling me what i needed to learn, somebody who had actually been there and was doing the deal, staying sober one day at a time. everyone agrees that we want parents to be safe, nurturing parents. everyone agrees that good quality treatment on demand is important, and everybody agrees accountability is n

and scott detrow, kqed's sacramento bureau chief. in sacramento, the legislative session wrapped up this week after a flurry of bills and some 11th hour wrangling. lawmakers reached a deal that broke an impasse over a federal court order on prison overcrowding. some other measures debates, increasing the minimum wage, regulating fracking, tightening restrictions on guns. scott, you spent some late nights there this week. what were some of the biggest winners. >> one of the biggest surprise was allowing undocumented immigrants to have driver's licenses. they thought that would stall but leaders got on board with that and it passed. a bill got passed regulating hydraulic fracturing that can cause a big oil boom here in california. another bill increased the minimum wage to ten bucks, it could be the highest in the country. and a compromise solving the problem, for now, on the prison overcrowding system. california is under court order to move 9,500 prisoners out of its prisons by the end of the year. >> and what does that measure do to

in downtown sacramento. they even found time to read and the western fan of the bay bridge after former san francisco mayor willie brown as we just reported. coming up on the kron4 morning news. colorado is rocked by pouring rain and that the flash flooding. the dramatic video ahead. and after years of setbacks to illegal immigrants could soon legally be on california roads. but first, crowding on bart trains becoming more apparent and we know now why there are fewer trains running. a story you'll only see of kron4 after the break. and we are back. kron4 has learned that a shortage of bart train its workers went to work overtime meet art is rife your cars. and that is leading to overcrowding. find almost no one is taking the extra cash to work. >> it seems to you that that there are fewer cars during commute hours this week. it during tuesday morning's commute 62 fewer cars than it needs to meet the demand. that means 19 trains or short street on wednesday morning part ran 34 cars. and on thursday bart ran 1

the sacramento food bank serves about 21,000 needy people a month.is not simply to change the kind of food they eat, it's also to help them live healthier lives. food is kind of the gate wait and then we introduce people to childcare, prenatal care. we provide clothing for job skills interviews, we provide technology training and then our goal is to walk hand in hand with them in a very dignified way to encourage them to take that next step. >> reporter: that is cynthia ryan chopping zucchini in her kitchen. she lives on a small government disability payment. barely enough for her to afford both food and rent. the food she gets for free from the food bank allows her not only to survive, but to thrive. >> as a matter of fact, i lost 70 pounds of unwanted because i am now eating healthy from the food bank. it would be almost impossible for me to buy the quality of food that i receive from the food bank. with my income. it would be almost impossible. >> reporter: creating possibilities and changing lives with the simple gifts of the good earth. rob reyn

man more than 20 feet on the edge of building in sacramento and p.m. up there for several hours.ppears to be the same guy who wouldn't get off light pole at the same intersection last friday as we reported. once he came down he was taken to the hospital for mental evaluation. >> oakland a's fans have to about go through metal detector starting this thursday and empty key are cell phone and other items from the pocket. major league baseball doesn't require this type of screening. a's make the call on their own. other fans already undergoing security check before games. >> it took 500 workers struggling for 19 hours but tonight the cruise ship is up right in italy. we can show you a live picture. ship capsize entered january 2012 killing 32 people off the coast of italy. 9 52 foot ship was considered dangerous to the delicate marine life in that area. live pictures. it's tuesday morning in italy. it will be search for 2 beds that never recovered. sal vam for parts ultimately but last 19 months the ship has been open the side. first time like that. past may toxic to the future. next

he was a victim of bullying in sacramento, california. these kinds of summits are interesting it me because i'm boots on the ground. i am in the trenches every single day and i live in sacramento so i'm at the capitol and we use the word bullying which softens the behavior. this is abuse. it is peer abuse. and our children are crying for help. and the adults who are charged with their well-being turn a blind and deaf ear to it and here's my comment. there are no consequences for failure to comply. nothing with teeth. and i have a dead child who broke under horrendous circumstances where in one of the best schools in sacramento, meraloma, breaks every record going. it is the best. and my son was perceived to be gay and the idea that you could scream out every horrendous word in front of god and everyone and no one did anything, and michael followed policy to a t tomorrow is his birthday. i should be celebrating his 21st birthday. instead, my husband and i, we mourn 4 years. we are no further along. none of our laws, they are not working. t

it's going to rejuvenate sacramento. stone's throw from the state capitol. and it will completely change the way that people look at this part of the country. so the economic activity alone will make up for that. last night, shaq and i had dinner with our governor, and he's been very, very supportive, as has the senate, the assembly over the last few months. we put a law in place, which has just been passed, which allows us to fast-track the development of this arena. so this has had wide support from all sides of the political spectrum. >> right. >> and there's a lot of momentum behind this effort right now. >> vivek, if you want to help the team, why not have the guy sitting next to you there suit up? >> well, he actually is going to suit up this afternoon, and he will spend time on the court with the players. and he likes to say that a lot of it is about conversations, and so, he's already started those conversations with the likes of demarcus cousins, and to have him as an owner in the clubhouse, to have him on the c

so just, in sum, we have sacramento's intention, ladies and gentlemen, we are waiting for the pope -- i mean the governor it -- to sign these bills. it's a very mechanical things but anything you can do to encourage the govern rr to sign the bills that deal with this issue. unfortunately they are a drop in the bucket, they don't bring seth back or your son or your daughter. we are quite aware of that and i think that's a thought that we always are going to hold in our minds because that will help influence further legislation. this is a good segue, probably, to mr. torres. we work very well with his department and he's extremely receptive and action-oriented. >> i think that's great that we have so much cooperation with departments in sacramento. that's great to her. go ahead, expand on that. >> thank you to the u.s. attorney for gathering us to the. we have come a long way but as the parents expressed so poignantly, we have so much farther to go. we can pass laws but how do they get enforced, how do they get actualized, how do we have the accountability? more than that, as tony smith

man more than 20 feet on the edge of building in sacramento and p.m. up there for several hours. appears to be the same guy who wouldn't get off light pole at the same intersection last friday as we reported. once he came down he was taken to the hospital for mental evaluation. >> oakland a's fans have to about go through metal detector starting this thursday and empty key are cell phone and other items from the pocket. major league baseball doesn't require this type of screening. a's make the call on their own. other fans already undergoing security check before games. >> it took 500 workers struggling for 19 hours but tot the cruise ship is up right in italy. we can show you a live picture. ship capsize entered january 2012 killing 32 people off the coast of italy. 9 52 foot ship was considered dangerous to the delicate marine life in that area. live pictures. it's tuesday morning in italy. it will be search for 2 beds that never recovered. sal vam for parts ultimately but last 19 months the ship has been open the side. first time like that. past may toxic to the future. next o

man more than 20 feet on the edge of building in sacramento and p.m. up there for several hours.who wouldn't get off light pole at the same intersection last friday as we reported. once he came down he was taken to the hospital for mental evaluation. >> oakland a's fans have to about go through metal detector starting this thursday and empty key are cell phone and other items from the pocket. major league baseball doesn't require this type of screening. a's make the call on their own. other fans already undergoing security check before games. >> it took 500 workers struggling for 19 hours but tonight the cruise ship is up right in italy. we can show you a live picture. ship capsize entered january 2012 killing 32 people off the coast of italy. 9 52 foot ship was considered dangerous to the delicate marine life in that area. live pictures. it's tuesday morning in italy. it will be search for 2 beds that never recovered. sal vam for parts ultimately but last 19 months the ship has been open the side. first time like that. past may toxic to the future. next on 7 news. dangerous that

are still fans out there saying, really, of all the teams, sacramento, that's where he's going to?understand that. and i think they know now that i was a marketing expert. what i did was i drove people to watch the game. i made the fans of sacramento so upset, because it was the toughest place to play, and we want to bring that feel back, bring that environment back. >> the kings' majority owner, silicon valley software typhoon says he isn't worried about any past bad blood. >> we have this concept in silicon valley that there's lots of money, but what you want is smart money. and for the journey we're undertaking right now, there isn't any smarter money than dr. shaquille o'neal. >> reporter: so now that he's stopped calling this the queens, is it time for a new nickname. >> of course, there is, you ready? >> give it to me. >> back to shackromento. >> reporter: and shaq told me he had dinner with the governor of california the night before his big announcement, and he did clear that new name, so, hey, it's official. and earlier this year, derek jeter told me that after he retires,

sacramento tonight lawmakers looking at way to change the state drug law. the goal keep lesser offenders from clogging up the courts and the prison. 7 news capitol correspondent annette has the story tonight from sacramento. >> he wouldn't give us his last name but done hard time in prison for drug possession. felony follow him for life. making it difficult to mav on now that he's clean. >> get a good job it's hard because they are not going to really accept you because of the record that you have under these drug possession and like that. >> after what is considered a routine vote the state legislature will likely send governor brown proposal that would allow local prosecutors to charge possession of small amount of cocaine or heroin as misdemeanor rather than a felony. the choice is theirs. instead of sentencing offender behind bars for three years the maximum sentence could be one year in county jail saving about 160 million dollars a year. today more than 4000 inmates serving prison time for simple drug possession. >> felony should be about violent crim

, the capital of california. >> skrrment king s sacramento says o'neal wants to help make one of these one of the best in the nba. >> i look forward to the challenge of donating over a billion dollar to revitalize and remove nate downtown sacramento. we look forward to having the best arena in the world. we look forward to make sacramento kings a household brand. >> it was nothing personal, he was just trying to market the game >>> big waves along the bay area coast. >> it's fun and scary at the same time. >> tonight, the advice to beach goers and voters. >> and a stroll along the new bay bridge. many walked it say not really. the problem we found on that new pedestrian path >>> first it's a healthier alternative to cigarettes, the push to regulate e cigarettes. ♪ at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive. >>> dozens of us states including california are demanding electronic cigarettes be regulated as tobacco states. 40 state attorneys general signed a letter arguing candy flavo

. >> continuamosmcojn nuestra cobertura especial en sacramento de lalegislación que otorga licenciasego q la ab60 avanza en ambas cámaras, algo q dejaria a los ciudadanos en la posibilida de obtener licencias. >> tenemos alhunos problemas con la transmisione n sacramento. >> durante una detención está en investigación la cara del tablero mostro como golpearon a cristina, la escucha gritar le causaron fracturas en la cara. >> ice lanza aplicación para capturar a violadores sexuales. >> podría ser la clave para tener exito >> el avance beneficia vidas y falta de pistas coibe reportar a abusadores, y desaparecen de radar, hay aplicación. >> el deseo es que ayude a identificar a los mounstruos. >> el número de niños que viven con depredadores es grande, la aplicación (hablan en inglés) está activa 7 días de la semana, sí quiere agente del mismo telefono, ven avance benefico. >> problemas con niños y se descuida y de repente pasan cosas. >> muchos criminales piden poner aplicación en el movil, toma casi lo mismo que poner una foto en red social. >> veo que hay depredadores y graban mujere

someone is going court to stop it. >> i'm nannette miranda in sacramento. domestic workers in california not eligible for overtime pay. governor brown must now decide whether she the should be included. >> latest news on the fire burning like this for hours. along the jersey shore. >> watch what happens here. a fire truck collides with a motorcycle in a san francisco intersection. tonight the i team has exclusive new information about a possible cover up in this case. good evening, everybody, i'm larry beil. >> i'm carolyn johnson. the firefighter behind the reel is accused of being under the influence at the time. the i team obtain that had video and uncovered new information about a corruption investigation at the san francisco fire department. dan noyes is here with the developments. >> the victim from that crash in june now has an attorney and they sent a claim to the city and county of san francisco. in addition to the dui case, i've learn there'd is another criminal investigation into a colleague who may have tried to cover for him. 43-year-old firefi

which is a very controversial issue in sacramento. and there's been resistance by the teachers' unions to using tests as a way to gauge teacher accountability. how does this new testing fit in with that? >> well, in many ways we're going through a shift in the testing system. right now as we go through that shift, i think it's important that we think about accountability in a different way. and the purpose of the assessments really the early purpose was to provide information back to parents and teachers. standard information on how kids are doing at the end of the year. and so one of the troubling changes that's happening, we're excited about the shift to the common core and these new assessments is that the results aren't going to be given back to three million students and you can't do any sort of accountability for parents and teachers and anyone else -- >> why do that? why take a test if you don't give the results back? >> well that's a good we. we've been -- question. we've been asking that question and we can't get a good answe

and so you, and you all are so bent on making the rops looking so good in sacramento and i will have to take a bus up there and testify, on those halls there so what goes on down here at city hall. you all? this is unacceptable and i have come up here in plenty of times and i ain't got time for errors no more, if you want to sit down and see how we can move forward and what we call the community reform so that you can report back to jerry, jerry been around twice so that he can report and say that you did it with the community. how in the hel are you going to move on and keep using fillmore or whatever and the way that the agency and the prior agency done to us? okay. bottom line, i am jumping and praying, immediately, that i could sit down and talk with the president and the executive director and the people who are in charge. to find out how we are going to move forward in a way that we can work collectively. because this is not going to continue no more. i am on this case. they are doing this 27 years, and i am not a lawyer, but i have got so much documents to say what you are all

. >>> and a sacramento bridge shut down for dinner -- the larger message behind the event. the 10:00 news continues in 90 seconds - goodnight. thanks, olivia. thank you. so you can make a payment from your cell to almost anyone's phone or email. (speaking french) so you can express your gratitude... in the moment. chase quickpay. so you can. >> and a brush fire took an hour to put out in the meadow fair park open space area south of the airport. no one was injured. >>> investigators are trying to determine if a swatter caused a fire last night on holly street. it started around 11:30 it is the first fire firefighters responded to at this house. >>> some frustrated business owners are demanding a better response from police. some are taking action on their own. >> they tried but couldn't break it. >> he showed us where someone tried to break in this morning and then the video -- it is the third break in at his bar on tell graph and 49th street in less than a week. >> yesterday they did and ran inside. >> on saturday burglars stole several bottles of liquor. >> we need police

. >> i'm nannette miranda in sacramento a controversial open house. the owner of a home where a land lady drugged and killed tenants for social security checks lets strangers tour the place. >> rehab after a week long wildfire. mother nature will be doing her share as well. >> we can see him, he raised, aimed and fired. >> like p.o.w., p.o.w., then, p.o.w., p.o.w.. so we just ran. >> dramatic descriptions from witnesses to the shootings today at navy yard in washington. 13 people were killed including the gunman. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> we're less than a minute from a live update on the shootings and here is what we know. the gunman has been identified as a 34-year-old from fort fort texas working for the navy. he'd had brush was the law and discharged for misconduct. the shootings took place where ships are bought, built and maintained. it's near the stadium where washington nationals play. the game is cancelled and about a mile and a half from capitol hill, the senate posts on two votes and recessed for the day. the white house cancelled a

get this, from a sacramento company, issued to a california man.worker on the metro found the check inside a wallet that appears to have been stolen. the worker turned it over to authorities. they haven't tracked down the payee. it is postdated to january 14th. authorities have a lot of questions for the check's recipient, including where that money came from. >> i've been missing a check. >> have you? >> yes. >> from january 14th for $2 million. >> wow. >> a lot of questions for you. >> 11:30, which means weekend. >> a million-dollar forecast. back it up saturday looks like the best day of the weekend. sunny skies. even beach weather at the san francisco coastline. >> looks nice. >> thanks for joining us tonight. >> see you tomorrow. bye-bye. unbelievable. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farm

specialties, a company headquartered in the tiny hamlet of rio vista, between san francisco and sacramento. the first thing the owner did was give us a lesson in pronunciation. >> so what we grow here at cvs is spelled e-n-d-i-v-e. however, it'pronounced quite differently, and the correct pronunciation is this--on-deev. >> obviously, uh, rio vista, where rich works, is about as far away from france as you can get, so we tend to call it en-dive. now, i know rich is cringing in his seat as i say this, as he has when he's come here for dinner, but, uh, that's kind of the ongoing-- the ongoing joke. >> on-deev. >> you can learn to say it pretty quickly, but this vegetable takes a long time to grow, almost 6 months. first step is to plant chicory seed. then months later, harvest the root. >> well, what we're after is a chicory root. this is a big one. this little bud here, along with the support of this root, will render an endive. you know, chicory roots through the centuries have been used for teas, coffees, medicinal purposes, and the legend is that about 8--in 1830, a farmer had some chicor

for more on how businesses are dealing with the affordable care act we're joined about from sacramento by michael weinberg, for the bay area council a group of 250 businesses including google and facebook and he's helping them navigate the changes ahead. first the facts. the health care law hits a major landmark in the coming months. open enrollment to buy insurance through exchanges or marketplaces, starts in october. then, in january, insurance companies will no longer be able to drop people or deny coverage for preexisting conditions, gender, annual limits or because they're in clinical trials. also in january, americans must have insurance, or face fines. >>> the following year in 2015 the focus turns to large companies. they'll face fines of $2,000 per employee if they don't offer insurance. >>> so michael weinberg, take us through this. people must have insurance next year. but businesses don't kick in until the year after. square those two. >> well, the individual mandate is a fundamental tenet of the law. people have to have health insurance if you're going to tell health insur

cámara de representante en torno a la reforma debe quedar definida en los próximos días, desde sacramentoa, en el aniversario del programa, acudieron a un taller informativo en el city college de la región donde recibieron respuesta y ayuda para llenar la solicitud >> no es seguro que se extienda, pero es importante aprovechar esta oportunidad >> la comisión se unio a varias agencias educativas para lograr la feria alternativa >> los exámenes estandarizados defines de los 90 pueden ser cosa del pasado,se pidio una reforma, para los exámenes que miden las habilidades de ciencias sociales, , porque se enfocan en la habilidad analitica >> los reos podran contraer nupcias , para legalizar las uniones gay en el estadio , los detenidos se pueden casar con personas que están en libertad >> determinar la causa puede estar por meses, pero es poco probable que las llamas se generen en un platio ilegal de marihuana en el parque nacional yosemite, es un lugar sin fuentes naturales de agua >> el presidente barack obama llevara una campaña área de 60 días en siria, dicen que falta para así que la misió