they help us with homework. thank you. >> 30 parents will be here. they leave because we have children. we represent them. we have 98% signatures. they keep these teachers in school. we need to sit down and see where the changes have to be. believe me. after the meeting, you are going to see why we are saying this. thank you very much. >> [speaking in spanish] i'm a mother from brian elementary. i'm here today to remember the words ta were beautiful. he said use the tools one of the tools he taught us was don't ask, demand. we are really concerned because the most important thing if our life are our children. here i am to demand. the teachers are the second parents of our children. >> [speaking in spanish] . now we are exercising that right. >> thank you. >> good evening everybody. i'm a concerned parent at brian elementary. >> i was here two weeks ago. my son's school did a pretty good job. it is really far for me to learn that teachers will concern. we don't want to help them with these kids. do they have the support of the parents are they capable

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homework because of all of the papers. >> i don't like what they did. >> i think it's really cowardly. it's cowardly for us to -- for people to in general and with a school like ours, where we have the neediest children around. and whoever did this, they should be ashamed of themselves. >> reporter: now, we are back here live where you can see the windows of classroom after classroom that have to be boarded up. nearly half were impacted by the thieves. right now east oakland police don't have any idea who is responsible. they are trying to follow up on some leads. if you have any information, you are urged to call them right away. jodi hernandez, nbc, bay area news. >> hopefully they can recover some of that stolen equipment. >>> moving on now, can pg&e deliver? facing another potential nightmare, the gas company has until tomorrow to turn in paperwork about the safety of its gas pipelines. demanding the documents after last september's deadly san bruno explosion. pg&e has launched a massive search to confirm that the gas pipe pressure is safe. the california puc asked for paperwork after finding inaccuracies about that segment of pipe that blew

with my wife and youngest son. i just want to reiterate the impact that we would feel on this project. we use the back of the garden space a lot for reading and doing homework and doing business works sometimes. there is another part of our garden that is important to us that we would like to have during the week. that is the dining area of our own. we come and have dinner at when it's warm. the third part of the space would be the dining room windows, which are on the third floor of the building. we need them often for the times that it is really hot. our unit gets very, very hot. we open these units up to get the ventilation. there are these areas that have been created because when we moved in 20 years ago, like the people that came before me just now, we saw, in this entire open area, a place that seemed to secure and available for doing what we wanted to do individually in our own gardens, the overall space, which has been added to enhanced by the people on mission street. i just want to try to get you a good picture of that whole area. i want to go now to security. >> thank you. >> is that it? >> online name is tammie. i live at 251 bartlett. my unit

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us an overnight search for 14- year-old kenny stevenson turned up nothing. they say he was distraught when he left home about 10:00 last night after an argument with his mother about homeworknd grades. he was last seen in the vicinity of pioneer school. >> we still have officers out there, conducting searches in the parks, in the residential area. east bay regional is aware and they still units -- they still have units in the area. police say the teen was not wearing a lot clothing. and i'm just hearing, in fact, that he's been found. this is certainly good news. he has asperger's syndrome -- asberger's syndrome. we're just learning he has been found safe. as we get more information, we'll bring it to you. >> that's good news. >>> just about 30 minutes from now, the barry bonds's perjury trial will resume in a san francisco courtroom. prosecutors had moved the case a lot quicker than expected. they plan to call three more witnesses. bonds's orthopedic sur gyp, his personal shopper and a drug- testing expert. >> this is a case where the defense is fighting tooth and nail on every point, so pe thought the government to the test and made them put on these witnesses, which ten