. >> animal care control, it is such an important agency and is very understaffed, has very few resources. but we make animals don't have a home, that we get them a home and that we don't put the animals to sleep, that we're able to adopt them out. >> we have a huge number of volunteers who come in and they will walk our dogs, socialize our animals, play with cats, play with them, bring them to adoption events today. >> i volunteer with the animal control center and i do that every week. >> we're in an organization called friends of a.c.c. with that organization, you can donate money if you don't have time. if you do have time, you can come down to the shelter and volunteer to actually have one-on-one time with the animals. if you're like me and you don't have time to give to an animal, if you actually have one of your own, you can get your fix on the weekends, come in and pet them and love them and it's great. >> this has been pet pride 2011 brought to you by san francisco animal care and control. to find out more, visit them on the web at sfgov

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that makes four officers on leave, perhaps six, related to shooting, which is taxing for a understaffed apartment. >> shifts are working at minimum. >> reporter: over an hour ago i talked to a family member of the man who was shot, they said this was an argument rather than a fight between family man. this is the sixth officer involved shooting. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >> four of the officer involved shootings turned deadly. we have more information on the other three. last saturday officers killed a 17-year-old suspect following a chase. investigators say police shot him when the teen raised a gun at officers. in may two other mechwere shot by police. police -- men were shot by police. he pointed a gun at officers and he was shot and killed following a pursuit and he pulled out what officers thought was a weapon. >>> a body found floating this morning along the umsl is a man who -- along the embarcadero was a man that went missing. it was victor murillo. he was missing since june 25 following a giants-dodgers game. his cause of death hasn't been determined. victor murillo's

all of this is putting extra strain on an already understaffed oakland police department who thinks to the occupy movement and the election year is once again in the maximum spotlight. for bus driver joseph gordon who found himself stuck in traffic, the council was worth the wait >> just taking a break in seeing our beautiful president passed by >> in order to accommodate the president that oakland has had to contract out and get help from the sheriff's department in alameda county. also chp and park police. it is taking a lot of effort to try to get this to run smoothly. at 8:00 things can start getting iffy in oakland. >> we know the bay area is heavily democratic but given the mixed reception, do you think it will be a slam-dunk for the president, november >> i think he will carry this neck of the woods and no doubt but his problem is to the left and right. >> not everybody is happy to see the president. we have live pictures from mobile 5 in the oakland plaza where people are expecting to be protesting a range of issues. in addition to the medical marijuana advocates there have bee

we are very understaffed to deal with this and it will take as a few years to catch up. one of my concerns looking forward is that the supervisors recognize that we constantly have to fill these positions and it takes time. we have not had serious training in the department since 2006, which we are trying to do now, because of code enforcement updated. i really would recommend that when it comes to the staffing level, that you give us all the support that you have from the last couple of years. i will not take any more of your time, but thank you for giving me the opportunity to say these few words. supervisor chu: thank you very much. >> good afternoon. pamela lebron. i have a short presentation to give you. to set the stage, when we were here in 2009, we had just cut 25% of our staff because of the sharp decline in construction activity. it is now 2012 and construction activity has rebounded in terms of the number and complexity of permits. as you can see from the graft, our permits continued to grow. we also have been deputy director of permit services, who can answer

. >>> the oakland police crime lab is under funded and understaffed that's according to alameda report released last week. at one point last year police acknowledged that there were nearly 1,000 unsolved sexual assaults of homicide. they found the city is taking little action to address the backlog and staffing -- they recommend oakland consolidate the crime lab with almeda county. police across the south bay are looking for a wanted man. they're exclusive video of policeman hunt in east san jose late last night. officers are looking for a man wanted for a serious crime several miles north. investigators are not revealing the specifics of that crime, so far there's been no sign of the wanted man. >>> police in union city are looking for 3 men wanted for violent home invasion. it happened shortly after 10:00 last night inside a home on hanford street. ktvu alex tells one of the intruders shot a woman during the hold up. >> this was blocked off by crime scene tape throughout the morning as investigators collected evidence inside. union city police say the 62- year-old woman who lives her

[ticking] >> [speaking french] >> what began as a small, understaffed, ill-equipped clinic in 1985 today has 100 inpatient beds, an array of specialists, and three operating rooms. they have nearly 2 million patient visits a year. >> [speaking french] >> how many lives, do you think, partners in health has saved? >> in medicine we say t.n.t.c.: too numerous to count. too numerous to count. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm bob simon. in this edition, we meet the scientist whose work could change the world as we know it. and visit with a doctor who has revolutionized medicine. back in 1989, the scientific breakthrough that could solve our energy problems seemed at hand. it was the announcement of cold fusion nuclear energy that can work at room temperature on a tabletop. it promised to be cheap, limitless, and clean, and end our dependence on fossil fuels. then just as quickly as a find was reported, it was discredited. cold fusion became a catchphrase for junk science. yet, as scott pelley reported in april 2009, 20 years after being thoroughly debunked, for some scientists, cold fus

with the easy flow guns violent crime continues to spike police are understaffed and on average five officers a month are retiring. the scariest part is this is it your seven months into the year i believe that is at 61 or 62 homicides and there is no end in sight. but that she says no one is giving up. did wages have to get in front of it and not be reactive and the way to do that is to have dedicated officers available to be proactive and not reactive. the cheese does changes are coming he plans to close down please programs and services to free up more officers to the streets and his war on crime they're having a hard time fighting. an oakland cbs five. it's out they elementary school principal has been charged in the sexual assault case and the principle is not accused of being responsible for the assault instead as a serious fire reporter lynn mayor is shows us the charges stem from something investigators say that the principal failed to do. >>> for neighbor had parents still upset over the alleged molestation of five students adobe whaley elementary school by their teacher cra

. >> police chief howard jordan acknowledges the oakland police department is drastically understaffed. he wants at least 320 more officers to efficiently cover the city, but the chief adds showing the federales around would show the world that oakland has a premier department. >>> a big day for the california high-speed rail. this afternoon in san francisco governor jerry brown signing legislation which authorizes the initial construction for the $68 billion project. the bill approves nearly $6 billion to begin construction in the central valley. earlier today in l.a. the governor said the move would help put thousands of people back to work. >> people say, hey, we better stop. dig a hole and climb in because the sky is falling. well, the sky won't fall if we build the kind of infrastructure, the kind of public works and getting california to work again. >> the bill also set aside funding for the elect fiction of the caltrain twlien san francisco and san jose. >>> more proof today that the epicentering of job creation appears to be the silicon valley. a $7 million federal grant from a

we have our parks system is understaffed especially for gardeners and we eliminate a lot of directors and change our model. i put to $0.7 million to shore up some of our directors but there were laid off= ;ç in the subsequent year. we have muni operations that are stretched, stretched the lead to serve downtown. people from the far avenue of downtown in the sunset toward downtown. my district has limited transport infrastructure. j$(p(ital for muni and outrage -- operations that support our economy and assure that people who are -- have less access to where jobs are could have greater mobility to get to those jobs. more revenue would help to get their and i hope we can find a compromise or will get two additional revenue to help meet the needs. i do appreciate that we have both of our measures are progressive and a look at distinctions between our businesses here and san francisco. i hope that we can find a way to have one measure move forward. lastly, there has been discussion not just here in public comment but in the last wfqszcouple of weeks about havia cost of cpi to our registra

i believe for a host of reasons, they are overstaffed and understaffed and their under burden. they are flat out broke. these agencies when they do get their come in and initiate for a cleanup because what they're going to do is see the defendant any way for a cleanup. because it has gotten so big so fast, they cannot even get in and clean up most of the sites we have. there is any or estimated between 15 to 30,000 superfund sites that exist today that we are not cleaning up. i am involved in cases where the epa is involved and they were a little too late. they showed up 30 years later. i came back from minnesota. on the number one superfund site. nobody in the community knew. i do not know where the ball has been dropped. it is insanity. it is inexcusable. it is an agency that is not doing their job. they have terrible networking. they do not talk with other agencies like the center for disease control or the agency for toxic disease registry. they cannot communicate effectively with the state and the number one thing that bothers me is, it is not their job, they say. you tell

side, you get a huge quality of life crimes, but you encompass both into a tactical operation, understaffed as it may be. it is a miracle. two years ago, when that kid got shot on turf and taylor, i was there when that happened. i rode around the corner. i was there. i saw that. but how many times does that happen? very few. you do a great job. you are a credit to the uniform you wear. also, and shot up to my home district. commander charlie is another great officer. you see him on the street, too. thanks for promoting him, whoever did. and thank you. >> next speaker. >> maybe next time we could have public comment at the beginning because people already left. i am the executive director of alliance for a better district 6, which is an organization down here. among other things, we deal with public safety. we have been around since 1999. district 6 -- and it encompasses also the tenderloin. first, i want to congratulate the tenderloin police station for saying no. 1 in a police district as far as the rest, meaning that we actually are doing stuff that is necessary, at least booking the crim

the system worked well, the department is understaffed. they work very hard. i think we should go back to the clipboard. i think it worked. i think if the department would like to work on perhaps making changes to the system once the q-matic is gone, i would be more than happy to assist in that. >> thank you. next comment. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is colin miller. there a work withi eotwork with. this is affecting all the way to the inspections as clients are canceling inspections, and i am hearing nothing but bad feedback from contractors that it is doubling their time and not able to get revision permits. this is caused tons of conversations on my end, and at the end of the day it is passed on to the homeowner, and that is not fair. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is patrick 0 bellino'de. you have heard that it is taking longer to process permits and productivity is slightly down and varies from department to department. you have heard from people on the other side of the counter, whether it is the homeowner that has to take a few hour

all this putting in extra strain on an already understaffed oakland police department.s to the occupied movement in the

issues started to erode the word stories started emerging about overcrowded overcrowded conditions understaffing under trained individuals running these places under financed facilities but what was happening is people were dying because of it this is a company that's been sued numerous times for just absolute abuse and neglect now the reason it's an important story the reason it comes back to romney is romney is still making money on this company see what people missed home is that it went when romney left bain he had an agreement where he could make as much is the average has been anywhere between four hundred and one point two million dollars a year just on spin off companies understand he has forty eight accounts still with the bain corporation but this company is important i mean this story is important because they've been sued so often they've been they've had so many regulatory hits in for romney to say i didn't know about that is absurd well and also i mean republicans are saying well you know he's just a businessman lawyer you're going up against capitalism quack quack quack but should

tenth circuit court of appeals in oklahoma say our courts are woefully understaffed yet rather than doing something about it mitch mcconnell is content on just being a jackass and the very very ugly another jackass rep steve king most of the nation finds dog fighting disgusting but steve think thinks it's ok and defending his efforts to weaken animal cruelty laws king expressed his support for animal abuse and dog fighting telling his constituents that quote it's wrong to rape animals above human beings and quote and said that if we allow humans to fight i can boxing and dogs and other animals should be able to fight too well last time i checked we don't allow humans to fight to the death but i suppose king would support that too right you know next up proposes america's very own version of the hunger games and that is very very ugly. coming up. coming up despite thousands of japanese citizens protesting the continued use of nuclear power in the nation government officials are restarting some of their nuclear power plants but the fukushima plant still in ruins and on the brink of further

that makes at least four vallejo officers on leave, which is taxing for an understaffed department. >all of our shifts are working at minimum, it's summertime, it's vacation time. >> reporter: i spoke it to a family member of the man who was shot. they believe this initial call was not about a fight between family members but rather an argument. it was the sixth officer involved shooting in vallejo. all of them happening since the start of may. ken pritchett, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> a body is found in san francisco bay. what we're learning about the body and the mystery still remaining. >> we've been watching the fog all evening, and now it is on the move. coming up, where the fog will be first thing tomorrow morning, and the temperature change you can expect for your thursday. >> fireworks overwhelm palo alto tonight. what police officers are doing on the ground to keep fireworks ♪[linkin park "burn it down"] ♪[rock] ♪ [narrator] can't wait for the honda civic tour featuring linkin park? neither can we. go to facebook.com/hondacivictour for details. >>> new video now of the firewor

. >>> grand jury, what they recommend for fixing the under funded and understaffed lab. >>> they areng for a mountain lion who attacked a marin county man -- marin county man. it the attack happened when he woke up and felt a paw on his head. the mountain lion pounced biting and clawing him through his sleeping bag. he fought back and the mountain lion backed off and ran to the woods. he was able to get himself to a hospital where he was treated and released. we have more from the sleeping bag posted on the website and you will find it on the video player on www.ktvu.com. >> it is incredible, that sleeping bag too, oh, scary. >> how is traffic sal? >>> it is actually doing well around the bay area, if you are driving around the bay area, this is 80 westbound and it is crowded as you can see, a lot of cars are there. oakland 580 and 13 and if you are driving -- all right, hayward and union city that traffic looks good across the bridge to the peninsular that traffic is moving well. looking at 237 where it is normally stop and go, we have a crowded freeway and 237 approaching zincker r

. >>> this morning in san jose, city officials will announce help is on the way for the city's understaffed fire department. katie marzullo is live in san jose with more on the story. >> reporter: it is a very large grant we are at the fire department's training center, you can see that large in the background where some of the structure fire training takes place. coming up there will be new firefighters to train that is thanks to a large federal grant and not a moment too soon. take a look at this video, a fire that happened in may that destroyed one home and damaged another in the berryessa neighborhood. the san jose fire department says firefighting effort there is were hampered because a second crew was not available, due to cost cuttg brownouts. this morning the city along side the fire department is going to announce an 8.6 million dollar safer grant and the department going to use that money to hire 27 new fire recruits. back in april, 19 recruits just graduated, they were also, they are also being paid with a federal grand. wasn't to mention the federal grants from people marks the

chief howard jordan acknowledges the police department is drastically understaffed, but poin poi point. >>> a promise of prevention, a syrian regime is -- >> nbc bay area's anchor janell wang is here with our international headlines tonight. >> today's explosion in damascus -- it took place inside the national security headquarters. as cabinet members were gathering to discuss the syrian conflict. two anti-assad groups have claimed responsibility with reports they received help from the inside. syrian officials says today's bombing shows no one is safe including assad himself. meanwhile a critical vote at the u.n. security council has been postponed on the request of special envoy kofi annan. he's trying to shore up a resolution to try to help end the conflict which killed an estimated 17,000 people. a barbaric terrorist attack. president obama using those words to condemn another bombing today which targeted a bus full of israeli tourists in bulgaria. the group had just arrived from israel and boarded the bus to head to a beach resort on the black sea. israel is blaming iran for this

that makes at least four vallejo officers on leave, which is taxing for an understaffed department. >all of our shifts are working at minimum, it's summertime, it's vacation time. >> reporter: i spoke it to a family member of the man who was shot. they believe this initial call was not about a fight between family members but rather an argument. it was the sixth officer involved shooting in vallejo. all of them happening since the start of may. ken pritchett, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> a body is found in san francisco bay. what we're learning about the body and the mystery still remaining. >> we've been watching the fog all evening, and now it is on the move. coming up, where the fog will be first thing tomorrow morning, and the temperature change you can expect for your thursday. >> fireworks overwhelm palo alto tonight. what police officers are doing on the ground to keep fireworks out of the sky. >> and news chopper 5 is looking for illegal fireworks and breaking news. the 10:00 news is returning in 90 seconds. and hot, hearty sub. your favorite soupd like the toasty big hot pastram

later this morning city officials will announce help is on the way for san jose's understaffed fire department. >> reporter: good morning. we are at the city's training center soon there will be more firefighters to train thanks to a federal grant and not a moment too soon. take a look at this video this is a fire that destroyed one home and damaged another in the berryessa neighborhood. the san jose fire department says the firefighting efforts were hampered because a second crew was not available because of cost-cutting brown-outs. this morning the city as well as the fire department going to announce an 8.6 million dollar grant the department is going to hire 27 new recruits. 19 just graduated in april. we have video that. their salaries being paid for with a grant. the money being put to good use here in san jose hiring additional 27 firefighters as of this morning. we expect that official announcement at 11. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> in l.a. authorities say at least 16 occupy protesters were arrested on various charges. last night in downtown l.a.. three police officers suffered mino

interesting to see whether the lewis free investigation also gets into the matter of why was this an understaffed investigation for the first year. why did it take so long by way of example to realize sandusky had written a oddly named book "touched." thank you. >>> up next, did chief justice roberts change his vote to uphold the health care reform law? we hear he flipped to the other side. that's ahead. this is "hardball," the place for politics. great! tyler here will show you everything. check out our new mobile app. now you can use your phone to scan your car's vin or take a picture of your license. it's an easy way to start a quote. watch this -- flo, can i see your license? no. well, all right. thanks. okay, here we go. whoa! no one said "cheese." progressive mobile -- insurance has never been easier. get a free quote today. on my feet and exactly where i needed more support. then, i got my number. my tired, achy feet affected my whole life. until i found my number. i tried the free dr. scholl's foot mapping center. in two minutes, i got my foot map and custom number. i'm a 440. that matche

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they pushed for the strike blaming government pushbacks have left lines dangerously understaffed. >>> one of london's most iconic landmarks is about to become basically a giant mood ring. the london eye, the city's big ferris wheel will change lights base. students from mit came up with this idea. every night there will be a 30-minute light show that will change in real time based on tweets. if people are feeling negative, the eye will glow purple, positive feelings will create a yellow shine and neutral will have it looking green. >>> remember, everyone. nbc 4 is your home for the 2012 london olympics. visit the london 2012 section of nbcwashington.com where right now you can meet some of the youngest and oldest members of team usa a. . >>> storm 4 meteorologist tom kierein is with us now to talk about what is going on out there today and yesterday we were really happy to get your photographs of what was going on before it actually happened, tom. >> that was quite a dramatic sky. but yesterday we had that storm passing right over washington, our city camera captured this wonderful vi

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despite being fully operational on our first visit in 2000, the facilities were understaffed and overburdenede were less than ten physicians to care for more than 3,500 inmates. >> the medical care here sucks. >> medical sucks. >> medical sucks. >> we need better medical. >> i've been here eight years and never had a physical. they won't give me a physical. they said because i'm young and i'm healthy, i don't need a physical. >> because of standards that are set by the community, there has been a significant increase in funding for the health care services for women and we have been able to add to our staff both in terms of physicians, nursing, mental health staff. is it still snerve no. do we have enough staff? no. do we have vacancy issues and problems we're working with? yes. but we are significantly better off in terms of our ability to deliver quality standard of care today than we were a year ago or five years ago. >> most of the difficulties stem from the inherent differences between male and female populations. above all, pregnancy. >> pregnancies in a prison provide a very unique pro

. >>> the oakland police crime lab is under fun -- understaffed.lved sexual assaults and. it evidence remained untested. the -- the grand jury oakland on com-- consome date the crime ran. it bel so far there has not been any sign of that wanted man. it is -- coming up on 8:05, jury tribb will deliberations in the william lynch trial are it testimony jurors heard closing argue had been yesterday -- the jury will continue deliberations in the william lynch trial. le it the testimony -- if convicted, he faces four years in prison. >>> andy griffith has died. he was a grammy award winning southern gospel sicker. in 2005, he was awarded the presidential medal freedom. there are reports that he died from natural causes. in 20000 he underwent a quadruple procedure. he's such a great character. >> even going up -- growing up for me watching the reruns. >> yes. >>> we're gonna go to to -- we're gonna go right now to sal, a large wildfire -- >> i'm not a wildfire. >> not yet. [ laughter ] >> thank you, mike. all right. good morning, everybody. let's take a l