in san quentin.nd officers gather in the courtyard for a briefing regarding recent assaults they feel may be related. so they've organized an extensive cell search for hidden, makeshift weapons. >> this is how we're going to do it. we're going to do a search line right there in the rotunda. >> come on down. >> pat them all down. have them take off their shoes. they might be packing on the way in here. they'll be searched and fed. >> after breakfast, the inmates are moved to the yards where they will stay until officers can complete their search. >> we're looking for makeshift weapons. bed spreads, anything with razors. anything they can slash these guys with or even stab them with. >> the operation is broken up into several two-person teams. >> i guess i'll get the top, huh? >> you get the top. you're the tall guy. >> officers, david hamilton and meagan mcgee each have years of experience at second-guessing where inmates like to hide contraband. >> okay. i found two razors that were removed. the blad

a brand new correctional officer here at san quentin.king graveyard in a section called donner. >> this officer is a member of the investigative services unit, an elite team of c.o.s who track gang activity and other threats to the institution. >> one night my partner and i were working graveyard. i was sitting with my back to a file cabinet just like this. there was a row of padlocks on the top handle. my partner and i were talking, all of a sudden, the locks started rattling back and forth together, clacking. he looked at it. i looked at it. see, i'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. we both ran out of the office. we had no explanation as to what that was. we asked some other officers and they said that, you know, the unit is probably haunted. so never can tell. there was no explanation for it. there was no earthquake. the inmates weren't complaining in the unit about the ground moving. there were no wild animals in there. i didn't bump it. he didn't bump it. so no telling. >> there's been a history of other strange phenomena

the blacks are over here, the hispanics is our main gang here at san quentin. it's because they're better organized. the white guys over here an the parallel bars and the picnic table, over in the corner you see where the asians are sitting. >> you can't just walk and sit down at a table. i have to explain that. confrontation with that two or three times. i saw a table, i sat down. it's not like that. you got to ask for permission. >> 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 search that area and try to find their weapons, but they're getting better and better at the way they hide their weapons. you see this one guy keeps looking aroun

es el museo de san quentin.. de gas y por inyeccion letal. hay muestras de como el ingenio de los reos combinado con las largas horas de ocio tras las rejas dan lugar a la creacion de decenas de armas clandestinas tc: 11:46:33 inq: esta precisamente es la ultima que se utilizo para asesinar a un sgto. cg: abel cuevas/guardia de la prision de san quentin la exhibicion incluye los rifles y metralletas utilizadas por guardias para mantener el orden. pesadas esposas y cadenas con bolas de hierro para evitar los escapes. y es facil ver porque los presos lo intetnatan. tc: 11:55:51 inq: para que vea como se siente estar encerrado. esta es una replica de una celda. mide 4 por 9 pies apenas suficiente lugar para dos angostas camas literas, y un taza de bano . robert wells encarcelado en 1938, ayudo a construir la camara de gases. pero cuando salio bajo libertad condicional en 1941, assesino a su hermano a su cunada y un amigo que trataron de impedir una relacion amorosa con su media hermana. tc: 12:06:00 inq: despues de

es el museo de san quentin..estras de como el ingenio de los reos combinado con las largas horas de ocio tras las rejas dan lugar a la creacion de decenas de armas clandestinas tc: 11:46:33 inq: esta precisamente es la ultima que se utilizo para asesinar a un sgto. cg: abel cuevas/guardia de la prision de san quentin la exhibicion incluye los rifles y metralletas utilizadas por guardias para mantener el orden. pesadas esposas y cadenas con bolas de hierro para evitar los escapes. y es facil ver porque los presos lo intetnatan. tc: 11:55:51 inq: para que vea como se siente estar encerrado. esta es una replica de una celda. mide 4 por 9 pies apenas suficiente lugar para dos angostas camas literas, y un taza de bano . robert wells encarcelado en 1938 ayudo a construir la camara de gases. pero cuando salio bajo libertad condicional en 1941 assesino a su hermano a su cunada y un amigo que trataron de impedir una relacion amorosa con su media hermana. tc: 12:06:00 inq: despues de los asesinatos regreso a la prisin de s

few, though, made as lasting an impression on us as solon league of california's san quentin state prison. >> i'm a third timer. youngster is a first timer. he got 12 years. i only got 13 days now. so i'm really preparing him to what's ahead for him. keep our house clean. >> league gave both his cell mate and our producer a lesson on the finer points of laundry behind bars. >> i clean my t-shirt. grab my bar of soap. dip it in the toilet. i keep my toilet fresh and clean. scrub it out. use soap. when your toilet fills up, it's fresh water now. i can just rinse it. i fold my towels. put it here. right up under here is my clothesline. >> league went on to give us a cooking demonstration using toilet paper like a stove top burner. >> take this. you sit it on the edge of the toilet. because it's got to breathe. might sit it here. i might light it at the bottom. as you see, it's like a fire. you hold your can over it. and you cook. there are, your water gets hot. flush it down. you grab a damp towel. because you don't want it to be on the toilet. you don't want to burn your toilet up. i get my

point and also was going to share with you a clip from a report from an ongoing report called the san quentin ton report this is protruded by inmates at sean quinton telling the stories to the outside world this is a project which is so existing and which the society of professional journalist of northern california gave their award in the past year it was role amazing at the award ceremony troy williams was the founder the report been realized from san quip ton and he's going to continue to work in collaboration with our producers and reports was going to share a project called the spiritual evidently that is belief and belonging in the bras already this is getting innovate attention there's been 3 report from that project have been carried on a invading public programming a fourth will soon be carried on one the npr magazines in the coming week scombu just to give you a sense that people are listening to the work that c r a w and i want to share a poem we've broadcasted this april and last april called restraining order poets we partnered with americans scores bay area is a nonprofit that p

on the other side of the live doppler hd you can see as you head to san san quentin there is a lighter shower there and that will head right to the north of richmond and to san pablo. a better radar return shows 116 on the western side of rohnert park at stony point road and a few more areas of yell he and red near jenner, a brief downpour is possible as they race off to the east. you can see the wind blowing southwest to necessary and up to 14-15 miles per hour at our reporting stations. i looked at the golden gate bridge which we are seeing gusting to around 35 miles per hour. it is going to be a tough drive over our water. or on our bridges this morning. it will be bride and calmer dug the afternoon. we will flip the switch. limited fog tonight with dry air behind this system. building warmth will feel like spring by the end of the week and into to weekend. here is the low: lieu -- look how wrapped up it is. it will take another five or six hours to get out of here and take the showers. in the afternoon we will have partly sunny conditions with low-to-mid 60's and tonight look at th

. >> to san quentin. >> jimmy: so you work with kevin.acter. how does he know your character? >> he doesn't really know me. i'm in the park lot of his job. i wash cars. that's my business. and you know, he basically racially profiles me. >> jimmy: he basically profiles you. >> he profiles me and assumes that because of my color that i know this world. and i'm like, that's not true at all. and it's a back and forth thing. >> jimmy: but how hard is your character in the film? >> in the film? >> jimmy: yeah. >> the fake character that i create or the real character? my character isn't hard at all. >> no, not at all. >> the fake character is amazing. >> so scary. >> he's amazing. >> jimmy: yeah, the fake one. but in real life you're just a normal dude. >> the fake character's who i wish i could be in real life. i wish i had that level of tough. but i'm not that guy. but i got to create that guy -- >> believe me, he's than guy. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he's not tough. >> we were hang at the game. >> just stop. >> and he is a wuss. >> jimmy: no,

petaluma and novato in the high country and same on lucas valley road headed to lucas valley around san quentinnd scattered showers from sfo to the santa cruz mountains. and headed to san ramon and livermore reporting light rain the last 45 minutes. in san rafael dry and notice the lack of fog. 101 will be wet for the better part of commute. you can see the lower left-hand side the flags unfurled and blowing to the east and it is still breezy. by the afternoon hours, it will be dry and calmer for the commute and clearing and cooler tonight with just almosted fog because dry air is going to rush in behind the system and we will have willing warmth through the weekend and regard highs for valentine's day. do you do a fancy dinner? maybe a picnic. 7:00 this morning through 12:00 the best chance of radar return or wet weather in the north bay and by 3:00 it is gone with clearing after the sunset and it will be gorgeous and by tomorrow morning, we can see the lack of blood and cloud cover and just high clouds headed into the afternoon. today, the clouds will keep us in the low-to-mid 60's along the

he now waits transfer to california's notorious san quentin state prison just 40 miles west of santantil he leaves, he will be in the jail's most restrictive high security housing unit for an alleged act of violence that occurred two months earlier. this time the victim was another inmate, robert haynes. >> my face, i couldn't believe it. >> beautiful face. so sad, man. surprised, man. >> charged with pimping, pandering and human trafficking to which he has pled not guilty, haynes says he had a friendly relationship with white. >> he was cool though. i didn't really have no problems with him till that day the day he lost a bet. >> according to haynes, white lost a bet with him over a football game. the wager was two $1 containers of instant soup from the jail commissary. >> he didn't want to give it up. then he did. when he gave it up, he started mouthing. i started mouthing him back. come holler at me in the cell. >> hanes says when he stepped inside the cell, white lunged at him. >> sliced me in the face with a razor. i didn't even see the razor in his hand, he did it so fast. i gu

. >> tracking a shower at sir francis drake boulevard and smith ranch road and near san quentin. across 580 to the 101 connection, watch out it could be wet. most of us are in the mid-to-upper 50's so a mild morning in the north bay and the rest of us. the cool spot is lafayette at 55 and san ramon at 56, and san jose is 55 and cupertino is 53 and alameda and redwood city at 59. in san rafael, we have had showers but 101 is dry. this afternoon we are in the upper 60's to low 50's and when we get to 2:00 or 3:00 we will see the breaks with the showers over and the breezes will be slower than this morning and 101 and 880 looking dry in the south bay and the temperatures are the same tomorrow and offshore wind and 70 for some of us on wednesday and all of us on thursday. >> in walnut creek it is looking slow right now as you make the drive from pleasant hill to highway 24 and right at treat is where you will see the lights flashing. if you head in the northbound direction, traffic is moving lightly and still looking relatively dry. you could see moist spots as you continue through t

originally constructed to relieve overcrowding at san quentin state prison, folsom housed some of the most dangerous inmates of the time. today its history of a more violent time has not been forgotten. >> folsom, just the aura of this place hangs above us like a fog hangs over this place. >> daniel bell is a newcomer, only on the yard for four months. >> i mean you're like totally in awe of the fact that you're actually here, and so many men have died and lost their lives on this very yard right here, at the very spot we're standing, i mean, you know, men have got killed, so it's like you're terrified. >> this is my first time here. don't like it. i don't like it. >> a lot of people getting stabbed, you know. i've seen people's throats get sliced. my first night in this building behind me here, when i woke up in the morning to gunshots on the tier, you know. >> you always have a fear factor when you walk through those gates. anybody would be lying to you if they told you that they weren't scared when they were in here. >> there's not anyone who walks into folsom that looks at those g

." >>> the number of units here at san quentin has grown beyond the capacity of this prison and whatwas designed for. >> free us. free us. >> i took sociology in college. and you can stack a bunch of rats together.

knows kron 4 when also a factor you the sea the wind blowing the ran around and jackie shot to san quentinam of our this is less in higher elevations 60 mi. from our down trees and downed power line certainly a possibility in this is bay area wide. >>erica: 4 these cells on a second system set to arrive that is coming up in 15 minutes. >>george: will have a wind advisory in effect already for the bay bridge this morning and is very much needed here as there is a flag at the toll plaza loan from the good news is we're not guessing and incidents on the bridge the big problem is still interstate 580 but that is for the tracey ride here this is a less land backing of the ride castellanus backing of and i guess we're about senator less from sing the mineralize activated so much for friday's light for the cemetery ridge where track it pretty good ride so far been announcing any increase yet in the drive times of to just 11 minutes in your commute to the golden gate bridge 101 northbound southbound still looks good crews rep the with the line configuration here where in place what to lies north b