through the doors and they went inside to city hall. we understand that police officers are responding to that situation. i am a different scene, i am at 24th and broadway right by the ymca. earlier about 6:00 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. about 100 to 200 occupy oakland protesters marched from frank ogawa plaza to the ymca. they decided to break into the gym, this is an active and gm this is not a vacant building. why they decided to break into here we do not know. the ymca does serve a lot of low income families. at this time we do not know why they wanted to breaking. police officers, quite a few were able to stop them and corner them next to the ymca. now, they're in the process of arresting these protesters and police officers say 100 if not more are being arrested in process at this point. >> their workers inside the building at the time and they lock the doors as they saw the protesters coming towards them and then the protesters broke in. we did call for mutual aid and there were some officers from berkeley, pleasanton pd that showed up. the

this is over 100 years old and it's pretty badly damaged. >> about damages to the city hall. they now total $200. it puts the figure at 5 million. >> yesterday was clearly our constant problem. that is not acceptable. >> they were invited in, the police blocked their way. they broke in. >> the peace officers got into their defense mode. >> the demonstrator andy wilkins had into it and it left no chance but to go into the end to the ymca. >> we go back the way we came and they wouldn't let us leave. they arrested everybody. >> earlier police rounded up protesters out of condo development. as police closed in, demonstrators pushed over the fence and made their way to the street. >> it became clear that the objections of this crowd was not to peacefully assemble at march but to seek an opportunity to further criminal acts, confront police and repeatedly attempted to illegally occupy buildings. >> apparently occupy oakland is also given some financial pinch. they've been asking online for help and raising bail for those who were jailed. >> we just cruised by the plaza down there b

the city city as a playground. i think oaklanders are getting tired. >> that's the charred remains of northwestern flag that some demon straighters pulled down and burn out here on at the front steps of city hall. thit this is youtube video of demonstrators waving the u.s. flag and then setting it ablaze and stomping it out. during the city hall break-in, dozens of people were being arrested following a different break-in at the downtown ymca. i talked with one san francisco resident who is one of about 70 people arrested at the y. >> there was no order to dispercent. i was never read my rights, never told what the charges were. they surrounded us and packed us in and then slowly arrested people. >> he didn't see any fellow demonstrators destroy fig but he heard before the the break in at city hall. >> what do you think about burning the flag? >> i think that's probably not the smartest gesture to gain popular approval. >> reporter: in oakland, abc-7 news. >> and as you just heard, many of saturday's protesters were not peaceful. today oakland police items they took from demonstrators. knives, scissors, switchblades, a large shield and smoke bombs. police say here's all weapons that caused the

the mayor and other city officials have begun affecting damage in city hall. occupy protesters have caused an estimated $2 million in vandalism since october. >>darya: will tran is live in oakland to see what happens when the workers come back to city hall. >>will: they have a big clean up on their hands. >>will: would you do not see our police officers. they probably feel that city hall is safe, here is a video of the damage. this is the first time during the movement that they actually forced their way into city hall. the police officers scrambled. by the time was over, dozens of people were arrested. they cause damage to several things including a replica of city hall that was right in front of the lobby. it is supposedly about 100 years old serious and >>darya: protesters gave notice for these marches and this action, have you heard of anything that is a costa happen today? >>caller: right now they are very in cobb me go and tight-lipped about the things they're doing. according to some reports, they did not know where they're going because no one knew for

a group of protestors broke into city hall and basically trashed the place. shed a display case containing an architect's model of city hall. they showed artwork on recycle that go was destroyed. documents were strewn around and glass door on a window was shattered. >>> nearly 300 protestors were arrested last night. the day begin when protestors marched on the closed convention they were met by police firing tear gas. demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at police. three officers were injured. protestors ran away and then regrouped at about 8:00 they swarmed a ymca where police had them surrounded. all of those demonstrators were taken into custody. it was a second group that broke into city hall and caused all that damage leaving oakland leaders outraged. >> occupy oakland has to stop using oakland as its playground. people in the community and people in the occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior. >> i think basically in my opinion, what amounts to kind of domestic terrorism when they start taking buildings and start costing the city

legal orders to get them to keep them away from the city of oakland so they don't keep coming back and causing problems. part of the problem was in city hallehind me which was broken into over the weekend. vandalized, not so much it can't open but certainly vandalized to the point it was frustrating for the city. as a result oakland is reconsidering security to figure out how to prevent them from getting in. it was saturday protesters crow barred their way in, started vandalizing the down part of the city hall. the mayor showing us the damage which included a broken window, damage to a children's art exhibit and historic model of city hall. also stole and burned an american flag. both sides blame each other for the violence. protesters say police were overly aggressive. officers argue they were responding to all of the objects being thrown at them. the clashes started when demonstrators tried to break in and occupy the empty convention center ty and eventually city hall. opd tells us that three officers and at least two protesters were hurt. all of the injuries minor. >> bob redell "today in the bay." >> a new political party forming on th

the city. >>ysabel: our coverage of the occupy protests continues. jeff pierce is outside city hall. at the ymca, more than two of the people were arrested. here at city hall, but it is pretty quiet right now. some group of law-enforcement officers are getting ready for what might come next. of all >> are some occupy protests planned for san jose, santa rosa, but nothing in oakland. >>da: yesterday, when i was here, they said they wanted folks to come back down. describe it as a festival that was going to occur. since i think police are getting ready, they did not occupy a building yesterday, a very mel that's just a very well might try to do it today. >>ysabel: we heard the mayor talking about and using the wrong tactics. we are curious to know how many of those people are oakland residence. i suspect that once arrest numbers come out, police will identify that. >> i am sure that they will be looking at those numbers. i would not be surprised if there were a number of outside groups that participated in some of the destruction yesterday. house >> all we want to do if go into a buildi

but locally here in the bay area we want to check in with allie rasmus who is outside city hall in oakland where protests lead to vandalism over the weekend. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, pam. oakland mayor jean quan said it cost the city about $2 million since october to clean up things like graffiti own vandalism here at frank ogawa plaza. october was when the occupy oakland movement really picked up steam. you can see some of the writing here. that is what the mayor is referring to. after saturday ice occupy oakland protest there was damage inside city hall. the short doors were chained front after occupy oakland protestors entered the building after a saturday afternoon demonstration. a 100-year-old model of city hall was toppled over and damaged. there was also interior windows broken, flags burned, and damage to the city's electricity system to the city hall -- electrical system. >> constant vandalism is almost every saturday. somebody has had graffiti. somebody has had their window broken. it's getting pretty tiring. >> it was all on saturday afternoon into the evening. w

that was well before the city hall clash. why the arrests going on? >> well, it was announced ahead of schedule by occupy oakland and they were intending to take over an unused building to turn into a social center with some workshops and lectures and making it a community center. and the city of oakland and the opd said this is a liability for the city. you're breaking the law if you do this. we will respond. we're not going to allow this to happen. they wanted to prevent a building occupation. and in past protests things often get heated an there are skirmishes on on the street from a small contingent of people in the march. >> that's what i want to ask you about, galvin. i know you've been considering considering covering occupy oakland for a while and it was more aggressive than i've seen at other occupies. am i right about that, and were they the guys who were burning the flag etc. and what does the rest of occupy oakland think of those guys. >> first of all i was talking to another jones josh hearkenson who has covered a lot of occupies includin

all these things are managed the quality service the price of service if they don't like the way the city hall is managing it they can throw the bums out because it's a democracy that they have some say in it but this legislation. laura would change all that it would take our commons to common the common areas are these things we own collectively and sell them off to the fat cats in the transnational corporations. now there's a lot of money to be made in the commons if these fat cats can just get this kind of out of the way and take over the public schools or the police stations or the fire station the public utilities there's a lot you know public education goes private your school budgets get gutted they break up the teachers' union they bring in a religious curriculum teach whatever they want private schools it gets very expensive so what happens the poor kids are forced to go to the last remaining public school. and that as a result of that the standards start falling and then they say then they say oh i see we told you it's as if it's a terrible terrible spiral this destructive both to th

the city put a stop to it saturday night arresting 400 people. the clean-up continues this morning. for example, crews have to go inside city hall the fire alarms because protestors cut the wires. here's what also proceeds did over the weekend. they burned an american flag outside city hall before raiding it. and once inside, they caused a lot of damage. mayor jean quan gave a tour of the damages the day after such as broken windows. an architect model of city hall was tipped all and there is debris everywhere, not a pretty sight. earlier on saturday, they tried to "occupy" the ymca at 24th and broadway. that's where most of the arrests occurred. protestors claim that the ymca invited them into the building but police said they were trespassing. they also tried to "occupy" an abandoned building. the kaiser convention center near lake merritt. they tore down the fencing surrounding it and attacked the cops with bottles, rocks, metal pipes. police fought back with smoke bombs, tear gas and bean bags. here's what some protestors said about the cops actions. >> everything was peaceful until the peace officers got into their defense

they also burned the american flag outside city hall before breaking into the building. then they destroyed almost everything in their path. mayor jean quan showed us the aftermath of the weekend: broken windows, architect model of historic city hall tipped over and damaged, graffiti on the walls as well as debris practically strewn everywhere inside city hall. prior to raiding city hall, a group tried to "occupy" the ymca at 24th and broadway. hundreds of them were arrested there. they claim that the ymca staff invited them into the building but police say they were breaking in. the movement began when demonstrators tried to take over the empty kaiser convention center near lake merritt. they began tearing down fences, surgeon rounding it. they threw rocks -- surrounding it. they threw rocks and bottles at cops. cops fought back with bean bags and smoke bombs. >> it became clear that the objective of this crowd was not to peacefully assemble and march but to seek an opportunity to further criminal acts, confront police and repeatedly attempt to illegally occupy becomes.

the city of oakland. the mayor says after saturday's occupy oakland protest there was damage inside city hall. she took our cameras in to show us. yesterday the building was chained shut after occupy protestors entered the building. inside the model of city hall was toppled over and damaged. some flags were taken and burned outside the building. the buildings electrical system may have been damaged. the major says occupy oakland demonstrations are taking a toll on the city's resources. there was protests and skirmishes. they entered a ymca building. >> what justifies taking over ymca? what justifies vandalizing a historic beloved building? nothing. i think. nothing. i think people are getting really angry. >> reporter: now the demonstration started around 3:00 in the afternoon on saturday. several hundreds of occupy oakland supporters and protestors took to the street for a day long demonstration. the group tried to take over part of a vacant convention center building. a group of about 500 people. that lead to clashes between protestors and police. 400 people were arrested and some of the peop

we are losing the area right behind city hall. we are right behind the hilton. eed to be proud of this city. this is one of the greatest cities in the world. and, supervisor kim, i commend you for your visit next door. that took a lot of heart. president chiu: thank you. if there are any more people for public comment, please line up. >> zechariah, i will overthrow the kingdoms and destroy the kingdoms of the heathen, and i will overthrow the chariots and those in them, and their horses and riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother. i have heard a lot of sermons, but i have not heard one point out that we are going to have a civil war before the end of the world before jesus christ returns, but that is what is happening in our families and in our nation right now. obama has the audacity to actually run for president again. everyone, it was agreed that want paul was slam dunking everyone. ron paul would make it in there so easy, but i know that god is in charge of everything. i kept going back the last few times i was here, to mention the terribl

we think this is the original architects model of city hall. >>reporter: city crews have already painted over graffiti walls, >> the irony of this term is, this is the room where we have our new homeowner program. >>reporter: >>justine: in all, police arrested about 400 protestors. will have continuing coverage of what happened in oakland with more on the arrests and town neighborhood businesses were affected. let's get an update on weather and traffic with erica. >>erica: right now, we are running on the mild side with temperatures sitting in the 50's and '40's. there are no complaints here in the weather center. partly cloudy conditions. we have wet weather activity well to the north. we have a lot of clouds streaming to the bay area. temperatures will be slightly cooler with a mixture of upper 50s and low 60s. overnight we will continue with mostly cloudy conditions that some temperatures go ahead close to freezing. here is a look at numbers right outside the door. 48 in napa, no vital and oakland. mild conditions along the peninsula. as we s

tonight at city hall and the ymca. here are the numbers. approximately 500 demonstrators gathered last night. there were 400 arrests. the city says that number of arrests is unprecedented. three officers were injured in the clashes between police and protesters. the oakland police chief spoke late this afternoon. >> it became clear that the objectives of this crowd was not to peacefully assemble and march, but to seek an opportunity to further criminal acts, confront police, and repeatedly attempt to illegally occupy buildings. >> chief jordan said officers were pelted with rocks, pipes, and explosives. during last night's demonstration, the police department received over 1700 calls. nearly 500 of them were emergencies. jordan announced the city would obtain stay-away orders to keep protesters away from the downtown area in the future. >>> the occupy movement seems to have settled to most everywhere else, except for oakland. why did a protest continue there? why are they so violent? why are they destructive? anne makov

they will do it they say, by blockading the oakland airport indefinitely, "occupy" city hall or the ports. they say to be heard means flexing the political muscle they know "occupy" has. >> the people want hope. something we can hope for, something we can believe in. >> christin ayers in oakland tonight. >>> no more sales at j.c. penney. the discount retailer's new name and strategy it claims will save you money. julie watts breaks it down coming up. >>> i'm juliette goodrich in vallejo where residents are taking matters into their own hands cracking down on prostitutes despite the city's cop cutbacks. and it's working. the story coming up. >>> and huge blocks of ice missing. that's after two cars fall through a frozen lake. >>> elite military training in a major u.s. city. why special ops cities are prepping for urban warfare above los angeles tonight at 6:00 on cbs 5. that fell through the ice earlier this wee >>> crewmembers here are walking very carefully so they don't end up like the two cars that fell through the ice this week. this happened north of st. paul, minnesota. no one know

>>pam: occupy protesters nearly breaking down the doors at city hall. feet tall is it is at city hall and is joining us live with the latest. >>gabe: the situation was very hostile earlier. protesters demanded to get into city hall and meet with the mayor. they were upset over the 12 arrests that were made wednesday evening. >> after a tug of war and back and forth, for the door was closed and the officers stood guard. several people were selected to go upstairs and speak with the mayor's assistant for several hours about the occupy demands. >> protesters say that they were happy with the meeting. they met with the mayor's assistant for about an hour and a half. the main focus was relations with the police department and improving them while the occupy movement continues on. for >> and brett leonard was walking his dog near this section of the bison pattern where the new buffalo are being kept. he sought to small dogs inside the pen. >> they were little dogs but they were off of their lease free they got the defense through this opening over here can the

the area. not one officer is parked next to city hall at this time. ms like for now the police department feels forget about the safety of city hall. >>darya: let's take a look at the weather. warm and clear. >>erica: we have dropped a couple of degrees now that the sun is out. santa rosa is now contending with upper thirties. we have dropped to 40 over in it fairfield. downtown san francisco has been holding steady in the '50s. into the afternoon, slightly cooler compared to what we saw yesterday. this weekend, we anticipate a lot of sunshine with temperatures in the mid- 60s. we can actually reach 70 degrees and santa rosa. over all, a very enjoyable forecast for the weekend. in my next report a look at the 7 day around the bay forecast and what we can expect for the rest of the workweek. >>george: a problem on city streets in oakland on and do little drive. the island where the oakland airport is located has been closed north of timber road. he should not have any impact if you're coming from the freeway. if you're coming down from harbor bay island

they're arrested a 400 protesters out of the broken to the city hall. >> just hours until the florida gop primary. thousands have already voted but many have not made up their mind for the choice for the republican nomination. the two men at the top of the polls are hitting the streets hard at several locations in the state. tomorrow night by this time, most of the boats will be in. rebecca cooper is live with more on the last minute campaigning. >> the stakes are high in florida. newt gingrich and mitt romney crisscrossing the state today trying to reach as many florida voters as possible. today, mitt romney continued his tougher take on newt gingrich. he thinks the voters will focus on gingrich's record. "speaker gingrich has painfully reveal themselves over these last few days. it's sad to watch. we are seeing is among the qualities that got him into so much trouble when he was speaker of the house. >> gingrich knows he's running out of time, said today he was hitting hard. >> i think they ought to get mitt romney out of the race. >> why? >> if they -- a person cannot tell the trut

the city of oakland still adding up all the damage caused by occupy protests over the weekend that left a mess at city hall, frank ogawa plaza and the ymca. allie rasmus is here to tell us what is next for the city and the protestors. >> reporter: a lot of cleanup has happened since this big demonstration on saturday. there were city crews out here power washing graffiti. but you can still see some of the writing on the concrete posts outside frank ogawa plaza. there is a really large chalk drawing out here in the middle of the plaza. it has cost the city of oakland $2 million since october to clean up graffiti and vandalism at frank ogawa plaza. when things are not chaotic, there was also damage inside oakland city hall. the front doors were chained shut this weekend after occupy protestors entered the building. a 100 model of city hall was damaged when it was topple over. flags were removed. and city administrators say the sprinkler system and electrical circuits were also damaged saturday night. the mayor says occupy oakland is taking a toll on the city's resources. >> constant vandalism almost every sa

city hall. it's my pleasure to welcome you to the third annual arab heritage month celebration here in our wonderfules. people are wondering what it is that is going on. the whole world is struggling to find out what the right thing to think and do and understand is. here in san francisco, we have a tradition, especially when it comes to immigrants -- comes to emigrants, who they are, where they come from, and what they want to do. that's the beauty of being here in san francisco. it happened to my heritage. it's happened to many, many generations of visitors who come to this city. now it's happening for your generations of arab americans. it's our pleasure, and as the mayor of our great city -- i know it is felt at the board of supervisors that we welcome and celebrate our diversity. we do our best to understand, to dialogue, and to create more understanding. we celebrate that. that is our strength in san francisco. that's why we have these wonderful celebrations. thank you to the ensemble for sharing your music here and creating a cultural connections. [applause] thank you. we have a wonderful cit

if the city tries to evict them, they will threaten retaliation. >> blockading the airport, occupying city hall indefinitely, shutting down the oakland port, calling on anonymous for solidarity action. >> oakland occupiers say they are taking over the building because the city has failed to provide services they need. >>> president obama took a state of the union message on the road to battleground election states. at this hour, the president is wrapping up a town hall meeting at an intel factory near phoenix arizona. the president stopped at cedar rapids, iowa and spoke at a manufacturing plant. the speech laid out a blueprint for the economy. >> it's built on the american manufacturing with more good jobs and products made right here in the united states of america. >> the president's road trip takes him next to nevada. >>> republican presidential candidate mitt romney took issue with the president's state of the union speech while on the campaign in florida today. >> ladies and gentlemen, mitt romney. >> a few hours ago, romney spoke to a group of cuban- americans in miami. earlier today, he

some of them used plyers to unhinge the city hall doors. protestors never met with the mayor but they were allowed a brief meeting with another city leader. >> we have two big demands. one is the immediate release of the political prisoners. second demand is an immediate end to police harassment of people exercising first amendment rights. >> the protestors were angry about the raid on frank ogawa plaza late wednesday night. they arrested about a dozen protestors that refused to take down a tepee outside of city hall. >>> after a year of a mass shooting in tucson, arizona. new details are coming out. the suspect jared loughner is accused of killing six people and wounding gabrielle giffords. back in 2009 congresswoman gifford's office received a suspicious letter that features a similar sentence structure typical of jared loughner's writing. officials also say he tried sending a letter to a tv reporter after he was arrested. explaning the congresswoman giffords was dead and his lawyers were lying to him. prisoner guards intercepted that lett

the city council makes a final decision at the end of the month. and the impact could be felt city-wide. >> we're talking about park maintenance, potholes, a senior centers, library hours, hours the city halls open for business. this is devastating for the city of oakland. >>pam: animal control officers served a search warrant has seized 93 cats and dogs back in october charging a woman with federally--felony animal cruelty. off the >> many of the caps that were seized suffer from parasites, mouth infections and severe diarrhea. >> at the point that we went in with a search warrant, it had done so severe that we're extremely concerned. >> 16 of them had to be put down because there were too ill to recover. >> they were severely sick and were suffering. there were so far gone, we have to euthanize them. >> the judge in the case against the woman said the cats are no longer needed as evidence. animal services needs people to give the felines a home. >> we are almost at 100 percent capacity. >> the shelter says they need help and are asking people interested in adopting it to come here. >> big changes in the weather department. rain in the north with snow started to approach these sierra furi

the city of oakland. some of whom broke into city hall, behind me, this happened over the weekend. ty hall will reopen because the vandalism wasn't significant enough to force a shutdown. the city is trying to figure out how do we prevent this from happening again as far as people breaking into city hall. protesters crow barred their way in, started vandalizing the mayor showed the damage. which included a broken window, damage to a children's art exhibit. protesters stole and burned an tern flag. both sides blame each other. they claim police were overaggressive in the use of batons, and tear gas. officers say they were responding to all of the objects thrown at them. these clashes started saturday when demonstrators tried to block into a convention center tymca and city hall. police tell us that three officers and at least two protesters were hurt. reporting live in oakland, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> a small group of people who say they support the occupy movement rallied against the violence. >> violence should not be in oakland. if we're going to be occupying a boundary

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the police station, city hall, even the cemetery for sale as american cities resort to the unthinkable. >>> and, the iron lady, an uproar over meryl streep's new movie. >> i ask the right honorable gentleman. >> hailed by critic and clouded by controversy. >> milk's gone up. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. there have been several major developments in the search and recovery operation aboard that capsized cruise ship off the coast of italy. since our broadcast last night, three people have been recovered alive from the partially sunken ship. but the death toll has also risen to five now with two americans now listed among 15 people still unaccounted for. the costa concordia ran aground near the tuscan island of gigli on friday night and the cruise ship company admitted the accident may have been the result of significant human error on the part of the ship's captain. the rescued were taken to the main land town of porto santo stefano where michelle kosinski is tonight to bring us the very latest. michelle? >> reporter: good evening, lester. what happened

the police station, city hall, the cemetery, all for sale. it's the sad state of a once-great american city that shares its name with a great automobile and they're resorting to the unthinkable to stay alive. >>> and the birds. a real-life scene straight out of hitchcock giving the folks in one small town a lot of sleepless nights. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. the next contest in the wild run for the nomination in the gop is in florida. there have been two televised debates there. tonight there is fresh evidence voters are making up their minds. the trend lines are moving away from newt gingrich, who won the last primary, and toward mitt romney. romney is now getting a lot of help from members of the republican party who think newt gingrich as the nominee going up against president obama in the fall is a bad idea. it's getting rough once again in florida tonight. it's where we begin on this friday evening with nbc's peter alexander from the campaign trail. peter, good evening. >> re

they're not only targeting our key place in the city, that would be the port, the opd and the opd building. they burned the flag last week. they burned the city hall flag too. they broke into it. i think enough is enough. i think the citizens of oakland are demanding now that we stop this. we will stop it. there's no way that we can continue spending -- >> how can you stop it without incurring more trouble, more violence and more lawsuits against the city? >> well, i believe there's going to be lawsuits against the city either way. i think that sometimes lawsuits come with the justification of us doing our job or not. i think that's what it's going to take for us and the judges and the people that are watching what's happening. realize that things are escalating to the point that it's a domestic terrorism. they're taking over buildings. you don't know what the people are doing taking over the buildings. equipment, pro pain tanks, you lose control over it. the feds are watching because we're talking about a potential federal takeover of the oakland pd. >> they're supposedly overreacting. what do you do about that? >> i think the whole perception, t

the chaos that derailed the special council meeting at the city hall. >> $25 million in gadget like budget cuts. >> even some of the unions here tonight agreed to the elimination of redevelopment because one group has been pitted against another. but as the council discussed it, occupy (shut down the meeting. demonstrators and to the balcony, shouting, no more budget cuts. the council president larry reid declared the 15 minute recess. the county had not even begun talking about an administrative proposal and would make further budget cuts. >>> police observed that did not act. >> we will automatically pay laid-off. >> during the first recess, council member rebecca kaplan adopting an speaking style try to pause them. the final plan has yet to be drawn up by city council. >> i think this will be an opportunity for the council to hear the proposal and ask questions, and the plan is that next week on the 30 first council will vote. >> if you watch the president briefed the audience during his state of the union address last night, he may have noticed to stop and speak briefly with defense se

at the city hall. at the palace. vice chair joseph: mr. chang, unfortunately, your application is not filled out. many of -- i am going to say this the only way i know how. if you do not understand what i am saying, stop me. the application, the paper you submitted, is not filled out. there are many areas that you did not answer. for instance, what are your door policies is blank. describe your plan to control lines. tell everybody to keep quiet? that is insignificant application. i find that this application does not meet our standards. it is just blank. your application is blank. i have a problem moving forward with this application. commissioner perez: you are required to do a neighborhood outreach and talk to your neighbors. you said you did not do any of return on your application. that is part of the requirement. you need to talk to your neighbors to ask about what you are going to do. tell them you are going to have entertainment. >> i posted a sign in front of the door more than 45 days. commissioner perez: that is not enough. you

our ktvu news cameras were there during the confrontation at the front door of city hall yesterday afternoon. police clashed with the demonstrators that demanded a meeting with the mayor. they used plyers to try to unhinge the city doors. >> we have two big demands. one is the immediate release of all the political prisoners. second demand is an immediate end to police harassment of people exercising first amendment rights. >> the protestors were angry about the raid late wednesday night. officers arrested about a dozen protestors that refused to take down a tepee outside city hall. >>> police in orange county say a serial killer is responsible for the murders of three homeless men. anaheim police released these surveillance images yesterday. police say it shows the killer approaching a sleepless homeless man -- sleeping homeless man. two other homeless men were found dead under similar circumstances. the killings began on december 20th. >>> 4:46 is the time right now. tonight the mount diablo peace and justice will hold a vigil for last years massacre. arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffor

the clean-up continues this morning. for example, repair crews will come into city hall and fix damaged fire sprinklers that protestors damaged over the weekend and also councilmembers will return to work this morning to assess all the destruction. it's safe to say that most city officials are probably fed up with the "occupy oakland" movement. now, here's something that you might find un-american. protestors burning the american flag. this was done in front of city hall just before they broke into the building. now, yesterday, mayor quan showed the damage. historic model in city hall damaged, public works staff worked vigorously yesterday to remove graffiti. demonstrators trashed city hall with debris everywhere and this was done saturday night. earlier in the day, a group tried to take over the ymca at 24th and broadway. police blocked their access. protestors claimed that ymca staff invited them in but police say they were breaking in. hundreds of protestors arrested there on the spot as you can see right there. the movement began saturday afternoon when they tried to occupy the abandoned kaiser convention center near lake

i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stan

the mayor and police chief say the city has respected the rights of occupy demonstrators, but after this weekend's damage to city hall city leaders say something must be done. don knapp is in oakland with the aftermath. reporter: the impression one gets after hearing from top city officials and police officials is they have reached some kind of a breaking point. they don't have a plan, but if they, do they aren't talking about what it. is all we hear is frustration. mayor jean quan walked news crews through oakland's vandalized city hall and the aftermath of saturday's occupy oakland blitz. >> this is the room where we have our new homeowner program. it's to help low income people get housing and we will have experts on monday in here checking to make sure that our fire alarm system still works because they cut the wires in the electrical box. here. reporter: the damage came around 8 p.m. after vandals forced open city hall doors quan says and ransacked what they could in a quit hit and run. >> this is probably the saddest damage we got to the museum. we think this is the original architect's model. so this is over 1

yesterday, poe and the rains ground crews celebrated adding a splash of purple to the city hall and federal hill. they spray painted the ravens logo to get charm city in the team spirit. by the way if you missed the ticket sales yesterday, we checked out stub hub. cheapest seats are around 270 dollars. that's going to put you in the upper deck but for two grand, yes, $2,000. you can get a seat in the club level. >>> mitt romney is the winner but what does it mean? a live expert out of iowa will let us know how this impacts the primaries and coming election day moving closer to november. >>> and a deep freeze in florida could have an impact on your orange juice prices where farm -- what farmers are doing to keep the oranges warm and technique may surprise you. >>> and your child's care center may spend too much time on school work and not enough time on play and exercise. how this could impact the child's development now new york for a look at the latest in business news. >> reporter: and good morning everyone. topping america's money. a grued start to the year. the markets started the year

previous legislative amendments that allowed for the art money to be used for the building of the city hall dome or the architectural design of the men. thank you for your consideration. thank you for your support. supervisor chiu: when they talked about the administrative expenses there was a 20% cap on cost and that was taken out of the draft and is referred to as reasonable expenses. do you expect that will be greater than 20%? >> we would try to keep our costs in line with what the city's 2% mandates. leelanwe would track our time bn hours and expenses. it would not be our policy to create all level of these structures. >> does it matter if we put that back in? >> i have no objection. i don't think the commission would. it is consistent with the art enrichment ordinance that is over 40 years old. >supervisor chiu: i would add that. >> the art director will say some -- some words. >> thank you. this is my first day as director of cultural affairs so i am catching up to speed with the legislation. i do know we work closely with the planning department and community partners to vet the am