if you're doing something that the original tagger, the vandal, let's say, did, and now you're using volunteers to paint it out, what -- has anybody considered the possibility if you don't have police accompaniment to the rehabilitation of that wall, that it's very possible that the person that tagged it is not going to want to see it painted out and might behave in an adversarial situation, perhaps danger? inclusive of the fact that on the other side of the coin is let's say you've got volunteers, you've got kids that work in on the wall. and a possibility of this hazardous material affecting them in some negative way so that later on down the road, those people who were doing a volunteer wonderful job are now going to be bringing you into court and saying, you organized this thing and you caused this cancer or whatever it might be. >> great question. and we look like we have a couple of people that would like to take an answer on that one. >> when we do our graffiti wipe outs, we have it arranged so it's the nonprofit organization that is applying to us for permission to do it. they

the chp says despite the stiff penalties, unfortunately, vandals will continue to wreak havoc on bay area freeways and elsewhere. in oakland, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> san francisco police are investigating the robbery of a wrapper known as 2 chainz. according to police, the robbery happened around 4:30 yesterday afternoon on mission street. 2 chains was with five members of his and tur raj when he was robbed of his -- entourage when he was robbed of his wallet at gunpoint. the rapper was on his way to a medical marijuana dispensary when the crime occurred, according to reports. >>> it was a close call for ten women after lair narrowly escaping a -- after narrowly escaping a limo fire. the group was on their way to a birthday party when the vehicle burst into flames. the driver immediately pulled over and helped get everyone out in time. >> after i got everyone out, that black, black smoke was just bill localing out of the -- more of the front -- first third of the car. >> seven women and their three care tickers were shaken up -- takers were shaken up. no within was hur

the random area is showing more graffiti vandalism than the hot spot neighborhood, but the intensity is pretty clear. if we're going to tackle a neighborhood we need to be looking here, we need to be looking in here. so it's been very beneficial in terms of where we should be looking in terms of our programming. this is another example of another neighborhood where it was the complete opposite, it was very clear that the random area isn't as much of an issue as the hot spot area in that neighborhood and there's hardly any tagging done in the random area in 2012. so the larger dot means more intensity of graffiti. the highest rating that you can get for location intensity rating is 45. in the old strat conan rating the highest intensity we found was 35, so a fairly intense rating and the lowest was 12 in west mount and that fits with the trends of what's happening in those neighborhoods. so taggers is a very important part of the graffiti audit. when we first started the audit mark went on his observe and he was new to graffiti so him and his assistant did their best to log the tags.

the beautiful park. >> reporter: but vandals are jeopardizing the plan. rec and parks said that in the last nine months, someone has destroyed 200 newley planted trees. the latest bunch, 40 trees near the great highway. gardners monitoring the progress, found the tops snapped. most will die or have to be pulled because the structure of the tree is compromised. >> it's horrible, and disgusting and puzzling and we don't get it. >> reporter: at $250 a tree to plant and maintain, they have caused about $50,000 in damage. there are signs warning to stay out of reforestation areas. >> it's a lack ochblg what they are doing. better education will fix that. >> reporter: whatever the reason, people in golden gate are trying to catch the vandals. -- >> reporter: take care of a park that is -- they are hoping that park goers will be able to snap a photo that can be used with evidence. thousands of california prisoners, the release of 10,000 inmates, because various investigations have found packed cells and led to poor health and mental care for prisoners. they mu t

park official say 200 young trees at the park have been destroyed in the past nine months. vandals are snapping the tops of the trees, making them vulnerable to disease and rot. >> it's disgusting and puzzling and, you know, we don't get it. >> at $250 a tree to plant and maintain, city leaders are hoping visitors at golden gate park will help catch the vandals before more damage is done. >>> a 4-year-old girl is recovering this morning after a terrifying fall from a second story window. police say the girl was knocked unconscious after tumbling out of the window at a home on 23rd avenue near the intersection of east 15th street in oakland yesterday. the little girl was unconscious when firefighters arrived but she came to just homes later around she was actually able to answer questions a bystander saw the fall and rushed over to help the girl that bystander, an aspiring firefighter called 911 and stabilized the child until first responders arrived. it is unclear where the girl's parents were at the time of the fall. parents say these types of falls can be more common during the s

they have a website and guys go out collecting cans reading about the poor vandals grew up on the mean streets, now they're artists because they have their own personal cans. we can't regulate what isn't personal constitution. if you can provide an economic impact, we as adults are looking at this and we don't want to deal with it, if you have any thought about this, contact randy campbell at no graffiti network. he's been battling against coca cola and their graffiti stuff for years and years and years. he can tell you what kind of battle that is legally. so, it's kind of the side effect of living in a free country. >> awesome, thank you. i believe you had a question here. did you have your hand up? mine was a pretty good question. let's see what other answers we have. >> i'm the general services manager for our public works department which means i have 36 [speaker not understood] of program responsibility. and graffiti is the 36th. so, i really appreciate, especially dr. spencer and some of the other panelists who kind of help bring home some of the key points about how graffiti rea

rome had, for a century, lost the west. vandals had overrun italy, occupy north africa. they had cut the empire into. the greek segment, the greek-speaking roman empire had collapsed around constantinople and areas of anatolia. they were sworn under frontiers, mostly by what we would call assassins of the persians. and this is before, right before the rise of islam, and it looks pretty bleak. the iconoclastic king justinian had a wild idea of 100 years after the fall of much of the western empire to retake it. and he entrusted this 20-something man named flavius belisarius. he sent in east, and he began to win. he defeated the persians. he went all the way to a iraq. the fortified border between byzantium and persia. he fortified what we call now the holy land, the middle east, and then most spectacular of all he sent an armada with only about 18,000 men. about 800 miles all the way to go where what we would call to uneasy and libya and parts of morocco which have been overrun by vandals for 100 years. some of you were fans of st. augusta. and being trapped with the vanda

reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge swings in the amount of graffiti vandalism by neighborhood. so the gardineau neighborhood in 2011 had a 77 percent decrease, we saw a 200 percent increase in the neighborhood. that is telling me these are the priority neighborhoods through this year where i have to find out what's going on in those neighborhoods in terms of what we can be doing to address the programming needs of those communities. 7 neighborhoods accounted for 59 percent of the graffiti, this is visually showing you how most of the graffiti continues for us to be concentrated in 7 specific neighborhoods. i'm going to have to turn the light off again. so this map is a sample of one of the maps that was created. so the original dots reflect where

graffiti vandalism by neighborhood. so the gardineau neighborhood in 2011 had a 77 percent decrease, we saw a 200 percent increase in the neighborhood. that is telling me these are the priority neighborhoods through this year where i have to find out what's going on in those neighborhoods in terms of what we can be doing to address the programming needs of those communities. 7 neighborhoods accounted for 59 percent of the graffiti, this is visually showing you how most of the graffiti continues for us to be concentrated in 7 specific neighborhoods. i'm going to have to turn the light off again. so this map is a sample of one of the maps that was created. so the original dots reflect where the graffiti was and the intensity of the graffiti that occurred in 2011. so the larger the dot, the more intensity the graffiti was at that particular location. the blue dots indicate how much graffiti or what the graffiti was at each location in terms of the incidents for 2012. so you can see from here, it's not -- i was hoping for a better

i think it's -- to me, it's almost like the vandals are laughing at us. >> larry, did you want to respond to that? >> yeah. so, we photograph all the tags and the inspectors go out and look at them. if the actual tack has been removed, then the graffiti is considered removed. the fact that the ghosting stays there, it becomes a very difficult thing at what level you're going to hold the property owner responsible. * tag for removing the ghosting. a lot of times that's not very easy to do and, so, are you still going to hold them accountable when they've made the effort, removed the initial tag? and they can't remove the ghost, i don't think so. as a city, i don't think that would be where i would want to be. if they showed they made the effort to remove it, unless it's extremely bad, i think they're doing their due diligence to try and remove the graffiti. >> all right, thank you. do you want to -- is that one red or is that -- because there was red and it was asked by the same person. >> it was red and then asked by the same person. >> you know what, i can see a bunch of hands up here. i

plant and maintain, city leaders are now hoping visitors at golden gate park will help them catch the vandals before more damage is done. >>> it is 4:40. coming up, wall street takes a tumble as investors worry about the future of the economy. we are watching your money next. >>> also, rescue crews combing through the rubble of a collapsed building in india. we'll tell you about the desperate search for survivors. >>> the incredible video of a toddler falling from a building in china. . >>> how happy are you that it's friday? >> beyond words. >> we give you a live look outside at the bay bridge. a little red hue to this shot here. a super moon outside. you have to take a look. it looks like a giant egg in the sky. it's 4:43. >>> always nights to be at the end of the week. brace yourselves it could be a freakyriday on wall street. no doubt about it this one has been a very rough one for the markets, thursday the worst day so far as investors continue to be anxious about the looming end of the fed's stimulus program. that begs the question, what does this all mean for your money. kayla taush sh

of the protests in the beginning they seem to be emboldened by that but the spirit of some of the vandalism they can see in the days before the protests were massively peaceful now that the main ones are out there wondering what's coming next because we fear that the right wing movements which are very violent in any country that they could be more violent for the next three days against public buildings looting and doing these kinds of things all right thanks for being with us versus severus see the brazilian journalist blogger thank you. well i'll teach you to channel score in focus some of the images of the brazilian protests we invite you to head the to see them right now to see the pictures from the cities in the grip of the unrest as. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images of the world on the streets of canada. for racial to rule the day. the e.u. is heading in the wrong direction that so more europeans apparently are failing according to recent polls and it's fronts the blocs founding member and traditional driving force where disenchantment with the u

if you're doing something that the original tagger, the vandal, let's say, did, and now you're using volunteers to paint it out, what -- has anybody considered the possibility if you don't have police accompaniment to the rehabilitation of that wall, that it's very possible that the person that tagged it is not going to want to see it painted out and might behave in an adversarial situation, perhaps danger?

the baby sleeps. it's cool. * farts guess who else uses facebook? all these vandals. i'm going to show you pictures and actual footage from the facebook to show you what they put on here. i'll go back to telling you guys how we got started. when i did get the graffiti, i told you, crap, this sucks. i have to do grace feet aloe, have to try to find out what these trigs are all about. when i was in s-r-o it was easier to deal with it in the school because that was my own little community. i can handle a little around the community of the school to help get the tigers. * when i started doing the graffiti, i felt like i was just pushing paper every day. how many of you guys actually investigate graffiti in here? do you feel that way sometimes? you're just pushing misdemeanor paperwork, here we go, here we go, here we go. well, i got this graffiti tracker program and i started putting that together and i'm like, how can we use this? * to get something bigger? i sat down with our county attorney then, rick romly. i said, this is what i want to do. i wanted to compile everyth

the vandalism is causing some confusion for drivers on interstate 880. >>> good morning, the commute is illuminated by lightning and i will have a wrap up of all the best reports here in the bay area. >>> we will take you live to the opening bell this morning and we will show you what happens after that big gain on friday. . >>> right on time the opening bell, s&p 500's outlook is stable and up from negative and that's after having a positive impact on numbers, s&p 500 and nasdaq are looking to gain and they will already opening higher and it looks like those futures are opening in just a bit and we will get you all of the business news in just a bit. >> we will smile and say good morning, it is monday june 10th, i am dave clark. >>> well, mother nature is putting on quite a show this morning and hundreds of lightning strikes have been spotted all over the bay area. fire agencies are definitely worried about this and katie joins us from menlo park. >> reporter: well the morning commute is definitely illuminated by some of those lightning strikes. my photographer says oh, there is is

not the vandals. ke a look at some of the damage the man in the upstate new york home says he put the kids in a closet until police arrived. after busting the boys at night, tearing apart the home with hammers, throwing paint all over the place, spraying graffiti, even breaking windows, breaking a toilet, other fixtures. the guy says he and his father-in-law had been remodeling the home and put countless amounts of time and money into it. the boys are two sets of brothers and cousins, eight and ten years old. police say one of the boys is -- had gotten upset when the man's wife told them to stay out of her yard. they charged that man with child endangerment, saying he threatened the kids and could face jail time. our legal analyst joins us. good thing it wasn't my home. i won't have put them in a closet. i would have done a whole lot worse to those kids. >> if you read about this case, the children's father, he is appalled because the guy, the opener of the house, the son-in-law, grabbed one of the kid

and in the last nine months, we have probably had about 200 instances of vandalism of trees in the parkthat's about a 20% rate. >> reporter: now, for the question you're probably asking, who would do this? >> we have some idea of who is doing this and we're working very closely with san francisco police department. but for those, you know, watching, if -- keep your eyes open in golden gate park. if you see someone abusing a tree, you know, call 311 or even 911 and let us know. >> reporter: yeah, allen. who would do it and why? that's probably the bigger question, why would somebody do this? the trees we found were snapped off. they were broken as they were growing. they found other trees that had been sawed by people. there's actually hand saw marks on the trees. these are particularly young trees, trees that will be the future for golden gate park, this treasure that we have in san francisco. and police say again, you know, if you see somebody and they look like they are doing something they shouldn't be doing in the park, call the police. live from golden gate park, i'm ken bastida. a

terrible things could happen. >> crews plan to inspect the sign to remove the graffiti. vandalismidered a felony. if caught the guilty could face three years in jail. >>> jason kidd is considering a head coaching position. he is looking into the load coaching position with the nets. he retired last week after 19 seasons in the nba. before that he played in alameda and played for the bears. >>> nasa's opportunity rover sent back evidence of drinkable water on the red planet. it sent back a photograph of a rock that was altered by non- acidic water. this is the most significant discovery so far. it is now on its way to a new location to study. nasa plans to keep it operating at that spot during the next winter. >>> another frightening limo fire, how the fire is impacting the limo industry around the bay area. >> and it lit up the night sky but the lightning over night caused several fires. hear how that unusual weather helped fight the fires. have a good night. here you go. you, too. i'm going to dream about that steak. i'm going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but,

vandals. so don't ignore the fact there's stuff out there for the graffiti vandal because that can be of huge use to you. meetings, we hold a monthly task force meeting and our task force meeting pretty much covers everything from santa barbara down to san diego is our main group we have a task force meeting with. we share ideas, it's evolved over the years, become more formal. now each time we have a meeting we try to do some new training or talk about the technology available, i will talk about the technology in my class this afternoon. it's really good because we document it because when you go to court, you can show training on a monthly basis. conferences, i can't tell you how excited i am these are happening. only in the last two or three years have these major conferences come about. the one up in canada, they were a great group of conferences and other people started to pick up on this. when i became an officer dealing with gravanis in 1991, there were no conferences and there was virtually no interest. as dr. spicer mentioned, every time it got good, i foupld myself out of a job. i w

still to come, a vicious act of vandalism that may have killed endangered fish. we will show you the surveillance video that might help authorities catch whoever >> a brazen act of vandalism caught on camera. a wildlife group is on the hunt for a person who derailed their research and may have killed endangered fish in the process. as jonathan bloom explains, although they don't know who did it did it, they have a pretty good idea why. >> this creek is one of the few places you can still find wild coho salmon. at least for now. >> we are down to the last couple hundred fish returning. at one time there were thousands of fish. >> they have given them endangered and given grants to conservation groups for projects like this one. >> they are funneled into this t,nto the pipe and into the trap box here. >> he is head of a group called "spawn" that are counting and weighing the young salmon downstream and releasing them, and see which ones come back three years later to lay eggs. or at least they were. >> they came in and smashed our net box into a million pieces. pulled the piping out of

vandals targeted the the -- targeted the park's trees, benches and the vandals returned in september two months ago and snapped off the tops of two young trees near fulton streets. police patrols have been increased. you are being asked to report any suspicious activity you may see. >>> caltrans will have to meet with wildlife agencies and bird groups about building work in petaluma if the governor approves a budget on his desk. there's a bill in the budget that has to do with nets put under bridges by caltrans that have killed hundred of federally protected bird. those nets were put up to keep the nets from nesting during the highway 1 widening project. after years of skyrocketing tuition, there may soon be relief after the governor signs a new budget. coming up at 8:25, the program that could help thousands of families pay for college here in california. >>> 8:05. a silver alert has been issued for a missing 57-year-old man. the chp says clarence edward reynolds disappeared last night in kern county. he's 5'7" with gray hair and green eyes with a bull forward. he was expected to dr

he called the ministers and vandals. gave loudupporters applause. on arime minister is cross-country tour. the majority supports him. he says the demonstrations are due to the work of a handful and nothing more. curse theirple that prime minister are not our people. using graffiti like this are not defending their rights. >> some were demanding his resignation. they were looking about turning turkey into an authoritarian state. >> this is our people react when they have been mistreated. i hope will improve. i want to believe it. people wantturkish their voices to be heard. he has downplayed demands. there was a reaction and the violent police crackdown. germany has opened its first diplomatic offices in afghanistan beyond the capital. they inaugurated the new general counsel it in the north of the country. civilian also a airport, partly funded by the government. they are pledging the support for the afghanistan transition to democracy looking at troop withdrawal in 2014. frenchleaders at the open. rafael nadal has played his way into the record book

there, he could get away with being a guy who safed the eastern front, the guy that got rid of the vandal in a matter of weeks. the man who retook sizely. -- sicily. the man on the way to the northern italian border. once the formula started to break down, he pulled away the the door died. there was a tension and suddenly became a threat to the em prior and recalled at the hype of the power. he was put in exile for ten years, he was brought out to save the capital a rogue attack. but he was always suspect because he was more popular and a magnanimous political figure in a age people were not. he was highly popular among them so to speak. >> host: do you think this is naturally the case that the savior general will always perhapses be more popular than the elected appointed leaders? >> guest: yes, absolutely. more popular for a moment. there was a key moment somewhere maybe in early 2008 where petraeus i think the most popular man in the united. surely more popular than his predecessors. much more popular than george bush. but that glory is fading because there is an untenable situation wh

the weekend it started to heat up. >> yeah. ever see groundhog day? >> deja vu all over again. thank you, lisa. still to come, a vicious act of vandalismt may have killed endangered fish. we will show you the surveillan >> a brazen act of vanned limb caught on camera. a wildlife group is on the hunt for a person who derailed their research and may have killed endangered fish in the process. as jonathan bloom explains, although they don't know what did it did it, they have a pretty good idea why. >> this creek is one of the few place us can still find wild coho salmon. at least for now. >> at one time there were thousands of fish. >> they have given them endangered and given grants to conservation groups for projects like this one. >> they are finish he would into this net, into the pipe and into into the box here. >> he is head of a group called spawn that are counting and weighing the young salmon downstream and releasing them and see which ones come back to lay eggs. or at least they were. >> they came in and smashed our net box into a million pieces. pulled the piping out of the way, and bent the rebar and literally stole the net. >

five neighborhoods accounted for 46 percent of the graffiti vandalism, compared to 60, 2011, 10 taggers responsible for 40 percent of the graffiti, 88 percent of the graffiti was small or extra small and 90 percent of it is text only. 71 percent was on private property. so that's basically the graffiti audit in a nutshell. but i always like to show this slide because nothing speaks better than a picture whether you are doing, how you are actually doing. and this is a tag that was created out of our logo. our logo is capital city clean up, wiping out graffiti. and the taggers are so angry with how we're doing, they've taken our logo and changed it to taking out creativity and they are stenciling it all over the city. i'm happy they know who we are and we are annoying them. this is just our sponsors, capital city clean up is fortunate to have a vast array of corporate sponsors, especially media partner. any questions? >> you said that 19 percent of the incidents were on post boxes. do you guys make them pay for that? >> make the --. >> canadian --. >> canada post clean it up? we have a sp

the second day, but yes. >> thanks, lisa. still to come, a vicious act of vandalism that may have killed some endangered fish. we are going to show you the surveillance video that just might help >> breaking news. this is a live picture of the massive fire burning out of control that we've been telling you about near los angeles. the firehouse fire exploded overnight to almost 25,000-acre. five structures have been destroyed. almost a thousand firefighters are on the line trying to contain it, but you can see there it is still out of control. >>> a marin county wildlife group is now on hunt for a person who may have derailed their research and may have killed endangered fish in the process. as jonathan bloom explains, although they don't know who did it did it, they have a pretty good idea why. >> this creek is one of the few places you can still find wild coho salmon. at least for now. >> we are down to the last couple hundred fish returning. at one time there were thousands of fish. >> the government has labeled them critically endangered and given grants to conser

we will show you where they targeted the golf course two years ago and they tell the chronicle vandals as they went back there and again two months ago, they snapped off the tops of 200 young trees near fulton streets. the public is being asked to report any suspicious activity you may see. >>> pittsburgh is become the next to adopt a social source ordinance. where teens are drinking, you could face $100 fine and if there is a second violation, the fine could be $1,000. they received tentative approval but if it passes, it will take affect august 14th. >>> back over to sal, they are checking in on the morning commute, here is sal. >>> i am surprised with how good it has been so far, let's look at 80 westbound and getting to the bay bridge toll plaza, no problems getting on to the upper deck of the bay bridge and it looks good in both directions as we look west on 580, we have more coming in but for the most part it gets better by dublin. let's go to steve. >>> this is it for spring and upper begins tonight and we have clear skies and i can't find much in the way of fog so we will just