what's enough for the da to prosecute is evidence. the burden of proof in court is a higher standard than the observation and the complaint that the police made. so, in the perfect world, somebody has called the police. the police are able to get there in time. remember they are extremely short staffed. the police are able to get there in time. there is evidence. there's an arrest. there are witnesses willing to testify. and the da gets the case. what happens then? the case will be brought to court. tried and a person will go to jail or prison for however long. how do we make this happen? in your office we have the neighborhood assistant district attorney program and we have assistant da's assign to the police districts there are 2-4 assigned to each district. within the assignments they break it up by neighborhoods so there are at least one assistant da assigned to work with the groups and the police in a particular neighborhood. the lower haight group has 2 people they are working with and others that have worked with them. what we h

we have a strong partnership with the da and the liaison with the da. there is a da liaison in every station. you need to get to know that community liaison from the da's office. they are an attorney at the da's office. we took this best practice from on hayes will valley. we have people in our neighborhood with their support, care and love are not coming through the door of light. and getting away from their criminal activity. when there's an arrest and there are repeat offenders. we have the officers tell us the arrest number when they arrest the person. then we hand over letters they are called stay away order letters. they are letters from the community, all of us. we are the ones that have to do all of this. that's an important message. we write letters to the judges saying that we would like this person this individual to be not be able to come back in our neighborhood. just because that disconnects them their community as far as the criminal cun

on friday we told you that the da said that they're going to ban synthetic marijuana products with names like tape two which mimic the effects of smoking pot and the product consists of dried herbs ostensibly sold as incense but have been sprayed it with synthetic cannabis know it if the da considers it an imminent public safety threat to ask such for the next year or so while the government studies whether these substances should be permanently banned they will be listed as schedule one substance is that is the most restrictive category that holds the highest penalties and sentences but it's ok to really deserve that label or is the d.a. overreacting perhaps doing more damage than they are good well joining me from dallas to discuss it is jacob sullum senior editor reason magazine and reason dot com jacob thanks so much for joining us now can you walk me through this because honestly you know until this story came out of the d.a. it was banning it last week i had never even heard of synthetic marijuana ever all the reading i've been doing it says hazardous not for human consumption on t

you think why are you sending officers to the bbq the da will have a festival at the african-american culture center on the 22nd. i'm sending officers to bashing bq and hand out hot dogs and be around. they will be the security but an invisible security and be participating with them. and we are sponsoring our of our station fund we are paying for that. that's our contribution to the event. our contribution is the security and the food. but it's to generally build up the confidence in the neighborhood and try to give something that will help break that cycle that exists that causes the gangs to develop. another specific point. supervisor mirkarimi and i took a walk around the housing projects. one big issue with plaza east was the community room is closed at 6 o'clock in the evening. the kids need to have the community room open until 10 or 10:30. we made noise about keep itting open. so i went back when the a lot of the young adults were there and talked to them and said. we have been making a video because we put the computers in there. i said, all right. i'd like to take a look at

it's a big challenge for the da. e may be an opportunity to step up and say they will testify against the others. they will look at that as an option. these seven face a long sentence. >> there were so many stunning aspects, but one was there were so many people who saw what happened and they didn't do anything. you were mentioning that's one of the things that people are looking at. it's not illegal to do nothing, but people are thinking we need to look at. >> you can't participate to any degree. they were egging this behavior on. that would be criminal, but merely watching and not doing anything did does not make you liable. a lot of people are upset particularly that it was a minor involved, a 15-year-old girl and no one helped her. the victim's identity has been protected and her identity not released. it's a criminal case. does she take the stand? you don't think she will. does that make it hard for the prosecution as well? >> it may make it easier because she won't have to testify twice. california law was chang

the hearing could last several days bah the da is expected to call many people to the stand including police, experts and witnesses. police have said several people watched the gang rape as it went on for a reported 2 1/2 hours in october. those people apparently did nothing. security and administrators on campus said they weren't aware this was going on especially since it was on a dark part of the school grounds. to try to prevent this from happening again, the school district spent $2.5 million on security upgrades. they improved the lighting and added fences and cut back trees and installed over 200 high def cameras. >> it seemed like last month. every time you pass by the school, you think about that and what was running through their mind when it happened. >> the school is much safer than it was before. you still have the conscious going on in your head. >> the victim who has since remained anonymous has left the school district and settled her case against it. live outside richmond high, today in the bay. >> such a disturbing case. thank you, bob. >>> new this morning, a defens

from the da's office. the president of our merchant's association of the lower haight. ron, a beat officer and antoine another beat officer. the city attorney was at our morning session this morning and had to leave. regina and i work with the city attorneys office and will talk about that today in the lower haight or modo is to build a safe and caring neighborhood and foster that. we believe to build a safe neighborhood you have to build a caring neighborhood. it goes hand and hand. one of the things that when we started our neighborhood group which was a couple of years ago. we got together, we did small neighborhood building events like community clean up. started a neighborhood google group and started to out reach to the community in the neighborhood that nay not participate in the events or have a computer. we went to the senior centers. we hand fly erred public housing in our neighborhood. also we went to our surrounding neighborhood organizations like hayes valley association that has been around for many years and a strong neighborhood association. and collabor

who are the buyers, the sellers, and why isn't the da prosecuting more dealers. coupling up in minutes. coming up in minutes. after people buying drugs. one drug in particular. hillbilly heroin. and even tho the federals are teaming up with local police for people going after drugs. they call it hillbilly heroine. even though police make arrests, very few dealers an users are even prosecuted. tonight, we go undercover. alan martin show us what people do to get their fix. >> we're just looking for information. >> reporter: we will call him joe, an undercover san francisco narcotics officer on a signment with tony. >> there's a lot of work to be done out here. >> reporter: they are part of a new task force attacking the problem of illegal prescription drug sales. they are talking about oxycontin. it's fast becoming the high of choice, mostly among young adults. >> they are smoking them, northing them, injecting them -- northing them. >> >> it's designation shopping right here at the corner of heaven worth and golden gate widely known as pill hill. >> a lot of people

last month the da sent the now 17-year-old scott directly into adult court. he is accused of beating and stabbing his neighbor 53-year- old pamela to death. 16-year-old darren is one of the youngest people to be charged as an adult in contra costa county. he is accused of gunning down an 18-year-old football star kelly last year on the streets of richmond. his attorney does not believe his client should be tried as an adult. >> he was 15 years and two months old at the time that this -- the homicide occurred. he was in the 9th grade. and he was a child. >> reporter: deputy public defender jonathan lava argues that sentencing juvenile offenders as adults does not recognize that they are immature and don't consider the risks and consequences of their actions. but richmond police say they believe charging teens as adults has helped reduce violent crime by juveniles. >> i see the way crimes used to be committed as juveniles were primarily precluded to do the dirty work to carry the drugs and the guns. with some of the sentencing and interventions now, that is no

who are the buyers, the sellers, and why isn't the da prosecuting dealers? coming up in minutes. ,, >>> tonight at 11:00. gaughan deke become one of the first to charge for paper >>> well san francisco was the first city in the country to ban plastic shopping bags. now it could become one of the first to charge for paper and reusable bags. los angeles county recently passed a 10-cent surcharge for paper bags. san jose is considering a similar measure. now san francisco board of supervisors has proposed a charge for each recyclable or reusable bag. the idea is to change the behavior of customers. if supervisors approve the plan it would take place in july, the charge would be 10 cents a bag. >>> we don't hear this very often, a man was stranded on a deserted island for five days, an island in suisun bay. his raft began leaking east of the better niche a martinez bridge on wednesday. he managed to reach row island but he didn't use his cell phone to call for help. he said he was embarrassed and he didn't want taxpayers to have to pay for the coast guard to come

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but now the da wants to ban it because they're scared of the unknown they want to classify as another dangerous controlled substance and allow people to go to jail for decades if they're caught with that without having information on the new drug to even know what the effects are because making rash power grabs you control the new substance is really going to solve all of our problems i think anybody with a brain out there knows that the concept of prohibiting a substance is going to keep people from using it and what's worse is this substance went from being legal available everywhere to being illegal i consider it an abuse of drug overnight without any research so hopefully the d.n.a. will come to their senses and realize ok too could not be deserving of a severe drug classification at least not until we know more about it we're going to have more on this story on monday for you with the reasons jacob sullum. now while many are waiting for the latest cables from whistle blowing website wiki leaks to drop some countries are still trying to get details from there last week in light of

. >> the da and the state attorney general are investigating of what they call the history of misconduct. >> has the police chief weighed in on this at all. >> they say they have to do it better, have to deal with them going into the clothing and the waste band. it's a tough problem. >> don, thank you very much. >> checking of the bay area head lines, a suspect in the week's bridge stand off is due in court. craig carlos vallen tinno surrounded after he called 911 and threatened to blow up the bridge. he was distraught over marital) problems. >>> they paid for the station number 2 project. it serves most of east san jose sxichlt facebook may unveil a new e-mail program next week, officially called project titan. the details have been kept secret and we could learn more as special events are held in san francisco. >>> a new hitch into the disastrous cruise to no worp. carnival splendor had no power and hot food and now that it's back in harbor. there are questions about how the crew has squirted tough regulations. >> reporter: the not so ship shaped splendor sits in the harbor. they would

she was ahead by 58,000 votes and the da concedes there is not enough votes to overcome her lead. >> reporter: this opens up new questions. ;-) district attorney leads, it usually follows with the mayor -- when the district attorney leaves, usually follows with the mayor. but that leaves questions. >> steve cooley has already called district attorney harris. he congratulated her on her victory. >> reporter: it was another curveball into the growing confusion over who will fill the city's top offices. the charter states that the mayor is responsible for appointing a successor but newsom is also leaving to become lieutenant governor. that means no same cannot appoint a new d.a. otherwise it will fall to the interim mayor in choosing a replacement will be difficult. >> individual members can each nominate one individual. we will then vote on the individuals who have been nominated. >> reporter: getting a majority by january may not be so simple. the board is said to change on january 8 with 4 new members and if newsom leads, the board president david chiu would become mayor and he says h

the das say agents cannot cross the line. the procedure is performed when the passengers opt out of going through full body scanners. the das say they will bring criminal charges against security agents who use the searches to commit sexual crimes. they say the charges will be determined on a case-by-case basis. >>> ucsf shuttle bus struck and killed a pedestrian in san francisco this afternoon. witnesses tell us the victim was in a crosswalk on geary street at leaven worth when the passenger van made a left turn. accounts's janna katsuyama reports. >> reporter: police say about 12:30 this afternoon the calls started coming in from witnesses who saw the woman on the ground. >> i hear the impact. people screaming. i immediately grabbed my cell phone. >> reporter: witnesses say a shuttle bus operated by uc san francisco hit the woman at the intersection of geary and leavenworth streets. >> hit her once. and then he backed up and then he hit her again. that's what happened. >> reporter: a nearby surveillance camera caught the im

the das say agents cannot cross the line. the procedure is performed when the passengers opt out of going through full body scanners. the das say they will bring criminal charges against security agents who use the searches to commit sexual crimes. they say the charges will be determined on a case-by-case basis. >>> ucsf shuttle bus struck and killed a pedestrian in san francisco this afternoon. witnesses tell us the victim was in a crosswalk on geary street at leaven worth when the passenger van made a left turn. accounts's janna katsuyama reports. >> reporter: police say about 12:30 this afternoon the calls started coming in from witnesses who saw the woman on the ground. >> i hear the impact. people screaming. i immediately grabbed my cell phone. >> reporter: witnesses say a shuttle bus operated by uc san francisco hit the woman at the intersection of geary and leavenworth streets. >> hit her once. and then he backed up and then he hit her again. that's what happened. >> reporter: a nearby surveillance camera caught the im

the neighborhood association got a lot of big hitters to our meeting including the da's office and mayor's office and the police always come and park station is our police station and they are great. they care about us and communicate with us a lot. so, those are some of the few tools. we do things we have low income housing projects in our neighborhood as well. we have done family pot lucks events. until i got involved you don't realize how easy it is to do something to just organ event. create a flyer and set a date tell people about it. it's not that tough. we are doing you are all invited if you have kids. i just started a kids dance party at palang lounge. we are fortunate to have the new top 10 clubs in the neighborhood. we know the owner and pitched the idea

during the day we'll have sunshine in the morning, clouding up late in the da highs near 50. big change coming in. thanksgiving, it's going to be cloudy. temperatures climbing into the s. there's a chance of rain. probably not until after sunset. and thursday night and friday through midday, chance of rain. after that should clear out and get chilly again over the weekend. sunny and chilly, saturday, sunday and monday >> tom, doing pretty well so far. clear, dry road surfaces. maryland interstates on the east side of the capital beltway, landover to the will son bridge, college park to silver spring, moving along nicely. increase in volume. virginia, overnight road work. in the process of being picked up. you can see the left side of the roadway still partially blocked there. buoy, a problem with a tree down, 301nd pointer ridge. if you're traveling on 301, both direction, headsp for them. >>> millions expected to hit the roads for the thanksgiving holiday. for most of you traffic is nothing new and now you have something to look at. d.c. area comes in right at the top at numb

victor boot system to practically close to extradition my version of the answer is that most probably the da the drug enforcement administration of the united states of america is the best nine years they have been doing work on terrorism because they got that deterred mandate of back in two thousand and one after nine eleven and the have not been very successful one of their biggest successes and their success that was trumpeted all over the world is the mansion in bangkok in two thousand and eight of the two groups the officials or former officials actually said on the record that spends about twelve million u.s. dollars on this issue to chase him to somebody has to do to justify. these expenses and the only person with whom these expenses can be justified is victor boot not just the good that's the true good behind boards. if europe single currency fails so would the union itself the warning comes from the e.u. president ahead of the euro zone's finance ministers meeting portugal has warned it could be forced to ditch the euro and all of this also been known to use bailout funds to preven

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. >> they are calling for high level meetings with oakland's mayor, police chief and the da and the state attorney general to investigate what it calls a history of oakland police misconduct. >> don, thank you very much. >>> an intensive manhunt across california for a man suspected in a double murder. a woman and her boyfriend were found shot early this morning at their fairfield apt on you'lly lane and both later died. ed macoh vick shows us who police are zeroing in on. >> we just heard gunshots, about four gunshots, and that's when i saw her laying on my front door. >> reporter: it was a woman shot and dying on this doorstep, her boyfriend was also shot and dying nearby. >> just heard somebody screaming, some lady screamed or something and i heard the shots and that was it. i didn't even look outside. >> reporter: it was just after 1:00 a.m. and the shooter, who police have identified as martineau carlos deleon, is on the run. >> he is a crazy guy, drugs, addict, crazy, that's all we know. >> reporter: they say she he was the ex-boyfriend of the woman killed. she had moved into her pa

. >> the da's office is working on toxicology reports but can't explain how the young man died or why he ended up some 800 miles from home. >>> two minutes after five right now. 911 was really busy last week when the tornado hit. some of you had no idea what was going on up against your house. others quickly called it a tornado. this morning, we are listening to some of the calls. >> what's the problem. >> tree fell down on the house with the wires and everything. >> we are on the way to investigate. is everybody safe. >> yes. i put everybody in the basement because the ceiling is coming apart and stuff. >> we have a three-story apartment building and we got wires down everywhere. looks like a tornado blew through here. >> there's more to hear on the tape. we hear from a woman that sound like thee was hit in the head. you can hear county dispatch talking with some the city sharing the stories over the damage. >>> tonight here on abc2 news, we continue the series on maryland's cold cases with the story of mary kelly. she disappeared from her bel air home in spring of 19 # 8. the young

. >> reporter: although sfpd made more than 300 arrests nhs the last 6 months the da's office has a revolvingey go in the system and come right back out. >> i understand the frustration. >> reporter: sharon woo heads up the criminal division. >> i'd like to tell them that we're not, we're prosecuting cases. >> reporter: but she says many of the suspects are elderly and disabled, possibly selling their pills to make ends meet. >> we don't think that maybe incarceration is the solution for these people. we're trying to give them services. >> reporter: but from a cop's perspective. >> i understand you give people chances and they make mistakes but do you give them chances 20, 30 times. >> reporter: what about the bigger fish. >> shadow dealers trafficking thousands of pills at a time. woo says those cases are high priority. >> we'll prosecute them to the full extent of the law. >> reporter: but so far she says those major players have beanie louisive. >> i don't know where the supply is coming from. all we can do is continue to investigate. >> reporter: that's one thing everyone agrees on. >> at

oakland police tell us they will review video and photographs and report back to the da. >> ranked choice voting and a flood of last minute provisional ballots has the race on hold. the registrar of voters put off announcing a winner because it is taking more time than expected to count the ballots. on the night of the election, don perotta was ahead of jooun quan, but perotta didn't have the majority needed to win so second and third choice were counted that put quan in the lead. there still more ballots to be counted. a strategy of anybody but perotta came into play. >> they voted for anybody and we have never seen that before. >> we may not know who will be oakland's mayor until the end of the week. it may not be the person that most people voted for. >> 4:39, folks. we will take a look at a couple of construction spots. point out the vicinity in eastbound 580. the off-ramp is closed until 6:00 as well as a couple of lanes approaching the airway. we have seen that for a month and a half over that area. 580 westbound is the commute direction. operating at the limit. out of the pass, i'm

. >> the da's office said they are working on toxicology reports. however they can't explain how he died or ended up 800 miles from home. his high school will plan some sort of a vigil on me memorial service down the road. >>> rosedale man convicted murdering his wife even though the body was not found will be sentenced. he was found guilty of murder last month. tracy had been missing since march 200 5. now the night she disappeared she planned ongoing a motley cru concert in washington but never made it. prosecutors scrgd dennis knew she was going to divorce him and seeing other men e refees fused to help -- refused to help for theer is n body following the disappearance. his lawyer says the conviction will be appealed. >>> from the first responders who helped rescue them to the american red cross workers who assisted them in the aftermath, families struggling to rebound from the tornado last week say they appreciate the community's response to the disaster. many were renters and they had no insurance, and lost many of the belongings they say they

but the da, the sheriff and some residents appealed. they argue among other things the proposed site violates county law because it's less than 1,000 feet from a school. >>> in news of the world tonight, in afghanistan, a border police officer shot and killed six american servicemen during a training mission today. it happened in a remote area near the pakistani border. the taliban claimed responsibility saying the gunman joined the border police specifically to kill foreigners. nato said the gunman was later killed in the shoot out. >>> in iran, two top nuclear scientists were attacked today as they drove to work in teheran. one of the scientists died the second badly wounded, their wives were also badly wounded. >>> and a man says he has a trunk full of art by picasso. the art comes from picasso's cubist period. picasso's heirs are claiming the art was stolen. the art could be worth as much as $90 million. >>> despite the usual complaints about airlines, frequent fliers do give credit to stand out carriers. virgin america scored the h

but the da, the sheriff and some residents appealed. they argue among other things the proposed site violates county law because it's less than 1,000 feet from a school. >>> in news of the world tonight, in afghanistan, a border police officer shot and killed six american servicemen during a training mission today. it happened in a remote area near the pakistani border. the taliban claimed responsibility saying the gunman joined the border police specifically to kill foreigners. nato said the gunman was later killed in the shoot out. >>> in iran, two top nuclear scientists were attacked today as they drove to work in teheran. one of the scientists died the second badly wounded, their wives were also badly wounded. >>> and a man says he has a trunk full of art by picasso. the art comes from picasso's cubist period. picasso's heirs are claiming the art was stolen. the art could be worth as much as $90 million. >>> despite the usual complaints about airlines, frequent fliers do give credit to stand out carriers. virgin america scored the h

stock soared over thirty percent without any corporate news stocks in the you were so lower this hour the da is down half a percent of the nasdaq is trading point four percent lower gold prices reached new highs as the dollar edged hire a we could dollar has been a boost for companies that rely on exports and overseas operations for increasing revenues. and in europe a strong batch of corporate earnings gave a lift to the stock markets the footsie closed point four percent higher on the dax finished half a percent that's despite concerns that arlen will have to be bailed out to stave all of the falls shares and rolls royce group are up slightly price comes up the company want a one point two billion dollars order from china eastern airlines to trent seven hundred engines seventeen air paseo. added other news the e.u. has fined eleven airlines a total of eight hundred million euro for fixing prices on international cargo shipments top international airlines including british airways singapore airlines air canada and air france were fined for coordinating their action on surcharges for fuel an

it is likely an appellate court would not overturn the judge's decision, but i think the da's office ll look at that issue. >> all right. thank you very much, steven. of course, we'll see you at 6:00 for more input on the sentencing. >> thank you. >>> now on to other news. san francisco police have released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a well known publicist. police say a man dressed as a utility worker was ringing buzzers at the russian hill apartment near the time of her killing last friday. investigators also released photos of a utility belt, hard hat and tool box similar to the ones he was wearing. police discovered his body early saturday morning after someone called requesting this check on her. >> we're reaching out to the community, saying listen, if you have any information in the area at the time the homicide occurred, if you have any information pertaining to the person of interest, please call us and let us know. >> investigators are hoping that sketch will jog someone's memory. again, anyone with information is asked to contact police. >>> alameda p

interesting to note and to underscore is that during this press conference the us attorney and the head of the da continued to paint a picture of victor boot one of the most dangerous men in the world a man who sides with violence who sides with the war who sides against the united states they were firsthand as the so-called merchant of death and then at the end of their press conference they want to remind everyone that victor boot remains innocent until proven guilty and assuring the press that he will receive a fair trial some were questioning how that could take place after he's already painted in the press and in the international media as a man who promotes violence and promotes war so a lot of wondering whether or not this trial will in fact be fair for mr victor boot. reporting there in a military defense lawyer major eric montalvo says bullets case could open a pandora's box for the u.s. . number of cases that the united states is unhappy with and what we're running into is this dangerous precedent where if if we're exercising this type of authority over individuals in other countries wh