on there as well. >> the spike, when you look at the empirical data, the spike on the numbers, actually the caravelle homicides are only up -- don't mean to say they are only up 1. >> up 1 from last year but for me a trend is something a few years in the making. what was it in 2010 and what was it in 2009 i think we'll see a trend upward that i have been concerned about. but certainly these numbers in the ingleside, visitacion valley and bayview are very high and compared to other years. i know that's a big concern for the department and the ipo strategy has come from that. since we started ipo and summer was very hot, how have we seen the homicides in terms of the trajectory we were on earlier this year, has it stayed the same? >> they have gone down. violent crime overall is down 3 percent this year or our non-fatal shootings are down 15 percent. i have another slide. this is a snapshot in time. last year we had a total of 50 homicides. we're more than that this year but when you look at that one isolated ipbs department really skewed our statistics for this year. i want to say also n

. >> oil spiking here in the u.s. as missiles are flying in the holy land.e arab leaders, threatening to use oil as a weapon against the u.s. and the battle between israelis in gaza already spilling over here. absolutely, brenda, we've seen oil prices rise. and here is a difference between this and other middle east conflicts and this involves israel at this point and of course we are a little and firm ally of israel, it becomes not a fight against israel, it becomes a fight, if you extrapolate against israel and allies, what best way to fight if you're an arab leader to cut off or raise oil prices and that's the problem and that's why this is different and potentially devastating to our gas prices here. >> in fact, toby, we saw the iraq envoy say something to that effect. are you buying in? >> well, they did, and let's also bear in mind, that, both iraq, iran, and any of the people who are saying that we are going to use oil as a weapon are as desperately in need of every dollar into their economy, it may look good on their television, and say that we're go

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money for the october spike alone paying an extra $1 billion. >>> reporter: when surprises spiked at the gas station the 7 gas companies in california said it's not our fault. instead, they blamed accidents like the chevron refinery fire or unexpected maintenance problems. but the biggest price spikes were in may and october. that's months before and after the chevron fire in august. >> we have seen shifts in price of gasoline. >> reporter: it's one of the reason senator mark leno called a committee hearing today. they found that in may, gas prices shot up to 4.41 a gallon which is the equivalent of $48 million in profit a day for the gas companies. in october, they were hiked even higher to $4.71 a gallon. but because of supply, the profit slightly lower for companies but still $25 million a day. >> i feel certain if we do nothing, that which we have seen this year will only repeat itself in years to come and the spikes that we saw in october might look to be minor spikes compared to what we could have in the future. >> reporter: so he called on robert mccullough who has three decad

for the refinery industry says refineries are already highly regulated and insist the spikes in price were nothing more than a result of supply and demand following unplanned outages and that fire at the richmond chevron plant. >>> students upset with possible tuition increases blocked the streets around the u kc regents meeting today. the regents have asked the state for $276 million so that it won't have to raise tuition next year at uc campuses. a spokesperson for the regents say prop 30 funds will help stabilize the system, but they still lost $900 million in state funding over four years. >>> this made international headlines this week. the motor trend car of the year. it's a big deal. and where does that car come from? not germany, not detroit, how about freemont. our business and tech reporter skod bud man got the keys to the brand new tesla model s. did you get to keep the keys? >> no, that would have been nice. let's get the bad news out of the way. the model s starts at $50,000, that's after a federal rebate. the top of the line 300 miles on a charged version. it costs about

i kind of disagree, we have to have a full on, 70's, cutting things off for the price of the spike.se the fears of that, could send prices up, not double like you would have in countries like saudi arabia, but 20% increases on both the barrel of oil and prices at the pumps, just on fears with no disruption if people think it's leading to. so we may see some of that if this gets worse. >> toby, isn't that right though? basically it's fear, it's psychological which can often raise the price of oil. >> no question, in the short-term, in the market, right. but yet, in the united states, every gallon of storage we have for american oil, wti oil is full. we have excess oil that is being sold into our refineries, that's why as jonas says, we have a cushion we dn't have when israel went into lebanon in 2008. >> brenda: last word, gary b? >> well, if you combine what jonas says, the psychology, plus what susan implied, a potential cutting in supply, you really could see a dramatic rise in gas prices. >> brenda: thanks, that's got to be the last word. it's not just the mideast spilling over,

we did notice the june and july spike where we had 18 homicides between the two months. but when we implemented the ipo plan, you'll see that part of the reason in the month of august we had no homicides at all, zero, and we haven't had that, when you look to the slide immediately to the right, historically that's an 11 year run from 2002 to 2011. august we averaged somewhere around 6 homicides. so if you look at the trend there, the trend clearly went down. yes, we did have a spike in june and july but then you see it's leveling off and even reduced september and october -- august way down, september and october had leveled off, november we have had two. so i think it's working. it's going to take us a little more time just looking at that one snapshot. >> supervisor olague. thank you. >> how does that compare to shootings. i know frequently there's an emphasis on homicides but it doesn't really speak to the fact that the violence is still occurring. you know what i mean, the shootings don't, just because a person doesn't --. >> you read our mind also. >> okay. >> one o

there are questions about the spike in gas prices prices. the questions raised today coming up. >>> in san francisco, they worked for a third day on next year's budget with protesters outside. . >> occupy cal protesters are angry over proposed fee hikes, including one for grad students. they agreed to postpone at governor jerry brown's request. officials say the passage of prop 30 eliminated the need for a increase. >> no increase this year. there is nothing on the agenda today about any system wide increase for undergrads. the item with professional degree is put off to a later date. >> during the meeting a dozen protesters started shouting. >> investigators are looking into three suspicious fires set over night and all within a half mile of each other. authorities say they believe the same person may have set up to 30 fires over the past eight months. >> these fires have been kind of similar patterns in terms of vacant buildings, we have a task force investigating at this time. >> investigators do not have any suspect but they have a vague

on there as well. >> the spike, when you look at the empirical data, the spike on the numbers, actually the caravelle homicides are only up -- don't mean to say they are only up 1. >> up 1 from last year but for me a trend is something a few years in the making. what was it in 2010 and what was it in 2009 i think we'll see a trend upward that i have been concerned about. but certainly these numbers in the ingleside, visitacion valley and bayview are very high and compared to other years. i know that's a big concern for the department and the ipo strategy has come from that. since we started ipo and summer was very hot, how have we seen the homicides in terms of the trajectory we were on earlier this year, has it stayed the same? >> they have

but the biggest price spikes were in may and october. that's months before and after the chevron fire in august. >> we have seen shifts in price of gasoline. >> reporter: it's one of the reason senator mark leno called a committee hearing today. they found that in may, gas prices shot up to 4.41 a gallon which is the equivalent of $48 million in profit a day for the gas companies. in october, they were hiked even higher to $4.71 a gallon. but because of supply, the profit slightly lower for companies but still $25 million a day. >> i feel certain if we do nothing, that which we have seen this year will only repeat itself in years to come and the spikes that we saw in october might look to be minor spikes compared to what we could have in the future. >> reporter: so he called on robert mccullough who has three decades of experience in energy markets. he pored over thousands of documents and believes that the refineries were operating when they said me were offline. >> what we heard in may was a lot of announcements of closures. and that c

and that was responsibility for the gas spikes earlier. now a state senate hearing will be looking into whether drivers were paying more for gas than they should have been. lawmakers will be presented with a new report that was prepared by oregon based mccullough research. it combed through environmental documents and found california refineries were operating during supposed outages and maintenance shut downs in may and october of this year. researchers specifically mentioned the shell refinery in martinez, and the chevron refinery in richmond. they blame the shut downs for the fact that west coast drivers are pay $.50 more per gallon than the national average. but the chair of the committee said he wants to find out if oil companies intentionally misled the public. >> in fact, inventory levels in california increased during the may and october price spikes. so this is what contradicts what the industry is saying, so the question is whether this is market driven, or some form of manipulation. >> reporter: and we have reached out to both s

spiked up again. pulling back a little bit again. still over $86 a barrel. >> dennis, quick read on crude, 86 bucks. >> i think a pop from being oversold. i think you have to sell into it. term structure continues to be a definitive contango in wti. you sell strength, do not buy weakness. >> how about pete, what do you like in the energy patch? >> i continue to like the refining space. marathon or other names in this space, there are multiple names. i still look at psx as well. i think refining space still trades well. >> i like hk. >> is that right? >> that's a name i haven't talked about too much. >> oh, like 75 times yesterday. >>> coming up next, we're going to have much more as we look ahead to the president's news conference at 1:30. our special coverage at 1:00. we'll talk pops and drops. we'll welcome in bill nigren, telling us where the best bargains are in the market right now. ♪ [ female announcer ] today, it's not just about who lives in the white house, it's about who lives in the yellow house, the green, and the apartme

as prices spike to near record levels. not just once but twice. ridiculous. who can pay that much for a gallon of gas? >> i want to know why the gas constantly goes up. >> lawmakers want answers too. senator mark leno held an informational hearing this morning trying to get to the bottom of it. >> if we do nothing, that which we've seen this year will only repeat itself in years to come and the spikes that we saw in october might look to be minor spikes compared to what we could have in the future. >> gasoline -- >> researchers robert mccullough shared the findings of his recent study into the situation. while the industry was impacted by the richmond refinery fire and other issues, his data suggests gasoline inventories grew during the price spikes. mccullough says refineries aren't making all the facts public of the shutdowns. >> the startup and stutdown data needs to be public. we need to know why that is. we know more about artichokes than oil. >> there is a ton of information and there have been dozens and dozens of investigations with that question in c

prices were high enough food spikes you think it could be a problem in the u. i think it always comes down to sort of the necessities of life being squeezed out of you when you are when you start to see real social unrest and so a combination of oil and food could be an issue in two thousand and thirteen i think it's interesting just to get more philosophically into what you're talking about with the food banks it's an interesting thing because food banks don't have as much food on their shelves because of the government but not exactly the way that you would think it's kind of this byproduct that the government subsidizes farmers by buying food to take up the prices and then they give them food to food banks but since prices are higher because of the drought this year they haven't purchased as much food bought as much many commodities so that's why the food banks have less food on their shelves so how do you even untangle something like that because someone like you i imagine as a libertarian you'd be like get the government out of subsidizing farmers fine but

i am not worried about spiking gas prices. what will increase gas prices is turmoil in the middle east and demand from t u.s. consumer . we are not in recovery mde. and so we are certainly not going to see large spikes in gas prices. >> rick, we have to remember it was the president's energy czar said maybe higher gas prices would b good for the world. >> yeah, never going to let him forget that. have i er told you how smart emac is when her head is screwed on crosscourtly. she had it right. there is it a report out this week that shows initial gas will triple over the next couple of years. that is a big part of the future. the obama administration is supportive of it >> wait, i have to stop you. a lot of natural gas people say the epa has been hard on the natural gas industry and preventing it from growing much more than it has. >> i know environmentalist that would take serious exception to that. >> of course they would. >> we have been through it before. they clamped down on methane emissions that are bad for us to breathe?

he seemed undeterred by the fact these were golf spikes and that even after i mentioned to him that heiterally be cutting a rug if he wore those things, he bought them any way and unscrewed the spikes and danced up a storm. the floors needed refinishing any way. chris was one of the first people i knew in the prestarbucks era who bought coffee beans and ground them himself. he bought a coffeemaker and set it up. he insisted this was better than the rot gut than in the kitchen. i had to admit, he was right. it was another example of chris showing me how to live in the moment. i laughed when i read senator mccain's recent remarks recalling when chris insisted on personally brewing the senator a proper cup of cappuccino during their meetings in libya. the next topic of material goods would be his donkey, or lack thereof. i love the picture. it reminded me of a priceless letter he sent to me in law school when he was over there in the peace corps. chris wrote wonderful notes and told me when he went running in the village where he was staying, only to have locals come up beside him and say

now a hearing underway looking into the connection between california's oil refineries and sudden spikes prices. new research shows refineries continued to produce gasoline during periods we the public was told otherwise. the information comes from mccullough research which combed through found thousands of pages of documents. transportation reporter heather ishimaru will have a full report tonight. >>> breaking news on the bp oil spill an executive has been indicted on charges he lied to authorities about the amount of oil leaking from the spill. the oil giant has agreed to pay 4 1/2 billion dollars in a landmark settle for causing the biggest spill in united states history terms of that deal released this morning in addition, bp agreed to plead guilty to 11 fell misconduct charges for the deaths of the men who died. the settlement is said to be paid over five years. >>> still ahead, he admitted the affair. former cia director petraeus is denying another aspect of his sex scandal as big names rush to defend general john allen's reputation. >>> new fear of all-out war in the mideast. th

so severely this year. >> prices spiked and we said this equilibriums everything we learned -- contradicts everything we learned in school. >>> gas prices have dropped 10 cents a gallon in the past week. in san francisco $3.94 a gallon. oakland $3.82. and san jose $3.78 for a gallon. >>> at www.ktvu.com we can help you fill up for less. look under the business tap on www.ktvu.com to find the least expensive gas prices. >>> flame retardant compounds are linked to developmental delays in children. pbde is found in foam, furniture, carpets and carpets and other stuff. >>> whether to turn down the sound at a popular plaza. the plaza is a gathering spot for many musicians. now they are considering setting limits on night time sound. they will discuss the issue on monday. >>> a man has been looking for a sign and now he says he found that sign in a most unlikely place. ktvu's jade hernandez went to see that symbol for herself. >> reporter: holding it in his hands, see an image of a cross embended in the trunk of a -- embedded in the trunk of a tree. he had been looking for a sign from his brothe

. >>> and it could face new questions about recent spikes in gas prices. new research will be presented at this hearing, alex? >> reporter: as new information suggests drivers may have been paying more at a time when shell and chevron were supposedly shut down for maintenance and that's when gas prices spiked. there was a report prepared by oregon research. it will be at a state senate committee on bay area pans transportation. they found california refineries were out. those are the ones that deal chevron refinery in richmond and drivers were paying 50- cents more than the national average. we have calls put out to chevron and shell but we have not heard back thus far. that state senate committee meeting will get started in san francisco. all level savage -- alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> some good news this morning. this is great for people planning on driving to thanksgiving celebrations. the gas is down 80-cents in the last three months. they are still at the high hest prices and the auto club says they will continue to pay until thanksgi

now a hearing underway looking into the connection between california's oil refineries and sudden spikes prices. new research shows refineries continued to produce gasoline during periods we the public was told otherwise. the information comes from mccullough research which combed through found thousands of pages of documents. transportation reporter heather ishimaru will have a full report tonight. >>> breaking news on the bp oil spill an executive has been indicted on charges he lied to authorities about the amount of oil leaking from the spill. the oil giant has agreed to pay 4 1/2 billion dollars in a landmark settle for causing the biggest spill in united states history terms of that deal released this morning in addition, bp agreed to plead guilty to 11 fell misconduct charges for the deaths of the men who died. the settlement is said to be paid over five years. >>> still ahead, he admitted the affair. former cia director petraeus is denying another aspect of his sex scandal as big names rush to defend general john allen's reputation. >>> new fear of all-out war in the mideast. >>

. >> and it's played by spiking it and to make the rattle sound and also creates this. (applause). >> (speaking spanish) sorry. (speaking spanish). >> this is the kahita and it is created as the -- i don't know that word. how do you say that? the piggy bank. you know where the boxes and the churches collect money? yeah. this is the original he here. yeah. >> (speaking spanish) (laughing) (speaking spanish). >> this instrument is called c carete and with the right hand and the left hand and open and shuts in a rhythmic time. >> (speaking spanish). >> so this instrument is called sen sero but it's actually a cow bell. >> (moo). >> it was made out of material. >> (speaking spanish). >> but for the african and any instrument that create a rhythm or a sound will become an instrument. (speaking spanish) (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are the spanish influences. >> (speaking spanish). >> they adapted to the style of this type of music (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are just simple spoons, kitchen spoons. (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> and here

foreign corruption cases have spiked in recent years.arlier this year, wal-mart came under fire when the company was accused of corporate bribery in mexico. the cases are gaining attention due to the enormous fees companies pay as settlements. strikes by union workers in europe are gaining support. the latest walkouts in spain, portugal and greece caused flight delays, shut down manufacturing plants and slowed traffic at retailers. union employees are protesting government budget cuts to healthcare, education, and pensions, while taxes are going up and so is unemployment. the number of union workers participating in the largest walkout this year is reported at 80%. critics say it's not likely to have an effect on goverment officials who are making the cuts. the fda is seeking more power from congress. following a recent outbreak of meningitis, the fda is asking lawmakers for the power to inspect pharmacies that re-combine drugs to meet special needs of specific patients under a doctor's prescription. it's called "drug compounding" and is

>> if i write it i trust it, but what about spiking? >> they're spiking all right.y have a lot of muscle today. corning, gow is the number one top performer in the s&p 500, the 500 stocks, what do they make? well, they make glass for flat panel televisions and also, special gorilla glass used in smart phones and tablets and i mean, we could speculate and say iphone and such we won't go that far. let's say smart phones and tablets and approaching 1 billion dollars for sales for the full year and so they're raising their outhook and seems that americans are spending upon televisions, smart phones and tablets and they need the glass for it. >> again, i looked at the teleprompter and i saw corn, i saw cookware and why is cook wear spiking? the obvious answer, it's not cook wear they're selling, it's gorilla glass. >> they make a lot of other problems as well. stuart: i bet you most people do not know that corning is really big on the glass na goes on the front of these smart phones and the rest of it. i bet most people don't know. i didn't know. >> and a problem to say

in some hard hit areas, prices spiked more than ten cents a gallon. but now, the situation has drastically improved here and around the country. regular unleaded costs an average of $3.42 nationwide. that's 12 cents below where it was a month ago. but drivers are still paying about 12 cents more for gas today than a year ago. a big reason is escalating middle east tensions. >> anytime you have that kind of conflict in the middle east, whether it's the israelis or the egyptians, the syrians, it really the disruption of flow, you know. any time you get a problem in the gulf, it's really going to hinder oil prices. >> reporter: if the recent cease-fire between hamas and israel in the gaza strip holds, many think prices at the pump will drift lower. it also helps that u.s. refineries are producing ample supplies of gasoline. a.a.a. expects regular unleaded to end the year between $3.10 and $3.30 a gallon. but longer term, the price of gasoline depends on the strength of the global economy. >> my outlook right now for gasoline prices is, we are going to co

>>> a spike in breast cancer rates among women in the south bay. we'll tell you what's behind the surprising new study overnight and what every woman in the bay area needs to know. >>> right now another live look outside this time from the south bay. a live look over san jose before the sun comes up on this tuesday, november 27th. this is "today in the bay." >>> 4:30. very good morning. happy to have you along for the ride. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. lots to get to this morning. let's first check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. good tuesday morning to you. >> good tuesday morning to you. hold on to your hats, we've got some major wind blowing into the bay area later on today. the storm system right now driving clouds into the whole state of california. all of california north of los angeles going to get slammed as we head through the next few days so you want to keep that in mind. this morning we're on fog watch, but the fog is not quite as extensive or widespread as it was yesterday. it's not as thick out there. w

shows and wavering support for israel's operation blaming hamas for the spike in violence but maybe people on the streets of new york even washington who disagree. and upbeat with england and wales opposed to trees that own police commissioners for the first time to learn the layoffs and a growing workload could lead to offices of. international news live from moscow this is an see with me hala thanks for joining us israel has reportedly continued attacks on gaza despite pledging to hold its offensive during a brief visit there by egypt's prime minister who arrives to show support to palestinians hamas says two people were killed in this latest trikes following the deaths of nineteen palestinians including civilians since the start of the operation and let's now get a little from the storm bottom intel of a hello there tom so why did this cease fire during the gyptian premiers visit break down so quickly. here soon it seemed that that tends to silence i was reporting on before hardly had any time to last almost as soon as the announcement was made that egypt's prime minister was inside gaz

now from what we've seen eight days of heavy bombardment at the same time it brings with spikes to roughly a million israelis who live in the south of israel and who've been on the receiving end of constant and watches of rockets but i say if it holds because it is perceived as being rather fragile it certainly is a truce that came by surprise it followed a day of deadly violence in which some twenty eight israelis were injured in the first bus bombing in tel aviv since two thousand and six and there were massive israeli air strikes over gaza so the sense on the ground particularly in the hours leading up to the announcement of the cease fire was that israel was going to go ahead with a ground offensive and to know who has said that he is willing to give this truce a chance he says however he does hold open the possibility to reopen the conflict at a later stage he said and i'm quoting i know that there are citizens in israel that expected and more severe military action to be taken and perhaps we will need to do so there is criticism towards netanyahu particularly among people in the sout

the big spike near the end is where they rose to record highs. 7 news reporter heather has the story. >> california energy commission says 2012 has been a record year for the number and severity of gasoline price spike. today state senator leno went searching for answers why. to ask if the state can do more to protect consumers. it is certainly not the first hearing of its kind but first time we have heard this. >> we seem to have some information from the air quality district that in fact there was ongoing production at a time when they say they were shut down. >>reporter: oregon base consultant says his pain-staking analysis of environmental emission data suggest that in may shell martinez plant was making gasoline for at least one of the two weeks it claimed to have been shut down. chevron richmond refinery was to be shut down for would weeks in may but he says emission data show it never shut down. but even with those shut downs real or fabricated and the richmond fire in august, he says he can't explain the record setting october price spike. >> there was no evidence of disaster