has started to work with the vietnamese to clear up the da n ang hotspot. this is the start of the cleanup nang where they compiled the soil that was on the air base onto a gigantic oven that was several football fields wide. the electricn probes to heat the soil above 365 celsius to break down the dioxin in the soil. of the soil, contaminated soil in da nang has been decontaminated in that way. they have started the second process. million u.s.-funded project to decontaminate the soil in da nang. that soil will go back onto the .ir base to expand the runway it will be at the point of 150 parts per trillion, anyone who follows the environmental standards that the new epa standard is for industrial sites. it will be below that. the u.s. has invested since 2007, when the first funding came out of senator leahy's office at $3 million to address the agent orange dioxin issue in vietnam. it has increased over the years. i like to take a tiny bit of credit for that. overe point now that it is $140 million allocated by the u.s. government to address the dioxin con

they say they are happening at vietnamese cafes here in san jose.ack to you. >> thank you. >>> devastation this morning in central italy where searchers are combing the rubble for survivors and victims of a strong earthquake. at least 38 people are confirmed dead. that number will rise over the course of the day. it was 3:36 a.m. local time when the quake struck. [ non-english language ] >> this woman says, the whole ceiling fell. i just managed to put a pillow on my head so i wasn't hit. >> according to the u.s. geological survey the quake was a magnitude 6.2 with an epicenter southeast of norsia. the hardest hit town was amatrice. >>> two years ago to the day since napa was hit by a magnitude 6 earthquake. one person died, 200 others injured on august 4, 2014. napa, vallejo and other nearby cities had about $300 million in damage. this afternoon, st. john the baptist catholic school will hold a rededication ceremony for a building that has had major repairs over the last two years. >> can't believe it's been two years already. we were out there co

we do know that in some of our investigations there's a vietnamese street gang that associates with some of these clubs. >> reporter: the "mercury news" says the officer arrested this week in this investigation was put on leave. he is charged with several charges including unauthorized access of a computer an accessory. again, we hope to learn the details today when the police chief plans to hold a press conference at 3 p.m. at police headquarters. live at sjpd, maria medina, kpix 5. >>> today the san jose city council is expected to draft a proposal to help deal with police staffing shortages. we'll learn whether the city will declare a state of emergency to address the shortfall. the department only has 413 patrol officers. it needs a minimum of 500. >>> it is 6:04. let's check the roads with roqui. >> thank you. good morning, everyone. we have major problems once again coming out of tracy area. cars are driving all the way down to 9 miles per hour. and then as you head along through there, to the dublin interchange, you can see your commuter direction is stacking up altamont pass to 6

every vietnamese, rich or poor between the fact that the word. not every logout effect by the word. most of the bomb in effect to one third to one half of the population. the other half didn't seem to know very much about what went on and they were shocked when my husband and i drop back photographs of the bombing that we've witnessed in 1978. they were shocked. congress held constant hearings about the bombing as well. and then a series after that up and donate and 75. until we opened up the pow and mia issue and then the u.s. congress begins to take interest in onyx voted ordinance because after all he can't you can't go into these areas without winning a area first because you don't want your own personnel to be her. congress holds continually hearing on the bombing in this brave since may 1066 in vietnam. there is not much said about laos until 71. the first wave of refugees will come here from vietnam who sided with the u.s. and the award. they talk a lot about the war. they were followed by economic refugees. the refugees who came from laos, they were the cia guerrilla troops

we have sights and sounds and tastes that would be traditional for those communities, both vietnamese and chinese and other asian communities. we have lion dance and we have lantern making and we have some unique factors in our event that maybe something who is celebrating this traditionally with their family wouldn't have, like rocket making. >> rocket making? appropriately enough, taking place in the evening? >> absolutely. the museum becomes a magical place in the evening. children are creating lanterns and they are lit up and they get to take a parade around the park led by a lion dance. this is a great way for children of all backgrounds to come and to learn about traditions about the very diverse community that lives here in silicon valley. >> before we get into the new traditions, rocket making, let's talk about the old traditions. what are some of the traditions of this? >> the mid autumn festival is a children's festival. this time of year the children will make their own lantern and then they will parade with their friends in the neighborhood and then specially they can tast

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he criticizes the communists, south vietnamese, the vietnamese, the americans. the theme of the novelist sympathy for the sympathizer. the easiest thing to do is to sympathize only with our side. and the virtue and the flaw of my character is that he sympathizes with everybody which makes them a great spy and will lead to his downfall but is also what i learned. piece and reconciliation and things like that requires the expansion of sympathy beyond our own community to a much larger human community. >> a $64,000 question of this gathering. what is it that is so compelling about ward you think? makes it such a dominant part of our narrative, cinema, literature. >> i think it is a large question, but i will say a few things about it. as was said so eloquently, if you grow up in a family that has been touched deeply by war, you know, in my case on the jewish side of my family and the lithuanian catholic side, my mother's mother was swept up in stalin's purges when my mom was a years old. still instill in lithuania. sheldon account cart, tortured and lubyanka prison

we have covered numerous bus on vietnamese cafis for the past several years. as well as four homicides of asian men who police believe  had a connection to similar vietnamese businesses. we are all seeing at this is connected and we are hoping to find out more on this case. brian? >> thank you for that update. >>> we are also learning new information about a deadly truck accident in sonoma county. the mother was driving her two young daughters when their pickup went off of the road and into the russian river. the sheriff's department has no identified the girls as four- year-old hailey markus and her six-year-old sister caitlin. they share this photo with us -- kaitlyn. they share this photo with us. -- shared this photo with us. a few birdwatchers witnessed the accident and called police. >> when we got out there we spoke with witnesses who saw her driving maybe 25 or 30 miles per hour. it was just unusually slick . >> one woman that we talked with says there have been several cars and trucks that have dropped into that river. she says that this -- she hope

kpix 5. >>> federal investigators helped with the case including raiding homes, businesses and vietnamese cafes. >>> the san jose city council will review a plan later today dealing with police staffing shortages. currently the department only has 413 patrol officers and needs a minimum of 500. one of the options under consideration is declaring a state of emergency to address the shortage. >>> daly city police are looking for the person who shot and injured a man overnight. the victim, in his early 20s, was shot around 12:30 on vendome avenue. he is in stable condition. police have not released information on the shooter. >>> new at noon, a social networking site aimed at bringing neighbors closer together getting backlash from people who say it's a magnet for racial profiling. kpix 5's anne makovec is live with the new changes to reduce alleged discrimination. anne. >> reporter: basically, if you see somebody you think is suspicious and you want to post a warning for your neighbors on nextdoor.com, you better have more specifics than just race. nextdoor is a private social network for i

. >>> san jose police say they've busted up a violent vietnamese street gang. it also brought down a police officer. damian join us now from police headquarters where the fbi and police, they just wrapped up a news conference there. >> that's rig. just a new minutes ago, they laid out the evidence they had against this vietnamese gang in san jose and also the police officer. they say this was a widespread oping ration from southern california even to louisiana. a shipment of marijuana was headed to louisiana from san jose. police made pictures of testimony soft o evidence. the sting was called operation dpang of thrones and targeted several vietnamese cafes in san jose. in march of last year, police held similar raids in what was dubbed operation army. they confiscated 100 gaming machines. this time, police say the operation also took down one of their own. nine-year veteran, derek antonio, was accused of releasing confidence police information to the gapg. he was also arrested and faces several felonies. the chief says going after their own officer was painful

. >>> what we told you about last night on nbc 7 news at 11:00 taking down a san dgo vietnamese gang, police say they arrested also one of their own. damian trujillo was the first to post the story and only reporter in court today. tell us what the latest is. >> reporter: well, you know, peggy, police and federal agents just wrapped up their news conference at police headquarters a couple hours ago. they dubbed this operation gang thrones. as among those arrested, a san jose police officer. today police laid out pictures of some of the evidence they took from what they call a violent san jose vietnamese gang. >> on charges ranging from extortion, public corruption, narcotic trafficking, assault. >> reporter: they also took 69 gaming machines like these. this is video from a similar raid in march of last year, that one known as operation omni was focused on gambling and violence at vietnamese cafes. he represented one of the suspect, jonathan tran. >> his

taking down a san dgo vietnamese gang, police say they arrested also one of their own. damian trujillo was the first to post the story and only reporter in court today. tell us what the latest is. >> reporter: well, you know, peggy, police and federal agents just wrapped up their news conference at police headquarters a couple hours ago. they dubbed this operation gang thrones. as among those arrested, a san jose police officer. today police laid out pictures of some of the evidence they took from what they call a violent san jose vietnamese gang. >> on charges ranging from extortion, public corruption, narcotic trafficking, assault. >> reporter: they also took 69 gaming machines like these. this is video from a similar raid in march of last year, that one known as operation omni was focused on gambling and violence at vietnamese cafes. he represented one of the suspect, jonathan tran. >> his reaction, the way that you thought it would be, shock. >> reporter: police also arrested this man, san jose police officer derek antonio accused of providing the gang confidential

the department has been watching illegal vietnamese gangs now. we covered the businesses as well as the shooting men believed to be tied to the vietnamese cafes. we're expecting to hear more about this case from the police chief. he is holding a news conference at 3:00 this afternoon as well as the fbi and the drug enforcement administration is also expected to be there to talk. reporting from san jose, ktvu fox news. >>> hillary clinton continues her bay area fundraising swing today with two scheduled events in silicon valley. at a home in piedmont clinton got a rock star welcome from supporters gathered outside. clinton crossed the street and greeted those supporters. many of them young girl whose chanted her name and waved signs. he took a couple of selfies with the crowd. we asked her what she thought of all of the young people who waited hours hoping just to see her. >> thank you. >> and they waited hours. what can you say to them. >> i'm so grateful and i'm so happy i had a chance to see them and thank them. >> reporter: last night's fund r

so that's the argument that's used to bring in hundreds of thousands of vietnamese. we have to protect those who are u.s. allies in that fight. but it changes, it begins to change how we imagine, americans imagine the significance and the foreign policy stakes of refugees. the 1980 refugee act seeks to kind of bring forward -- i'm skipping ahead kind of quickly here, but that's what i'll fill in. it cements that image i described to you in the first set of slides of u.s. refugees as human rights survivors, and there's a new litmus test, in effect, passed by a woman named liz holtzman, who stipulates -- and this is in the reading -- that in effect, if you're going to be a refugee, not only do you have to be pro-american and perhaps anti-communist, but you should also renounce any former political persecution. you should renounce torture. you should renounce having persecuted anybody or violated any of their essential human rights. so the nation is reimagined in the late '70s as a human rights nation under jimmy carter, under several other actors. and that's really wha

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law enforcement executed 33 search warrants of homes, businesses, and vietnamese cafe where's the gang based some of their operations. police have accused this gang of numerous crimes including assault, drugs, and illegal gambling. reporting live here outside san jose police headquarter, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> bob, thank you very much. >>> to the police shortage in san jose. city leaders have come up with an emergency proposal to put more police officers into patrol cars. that plan would actually give the police chief emergency powers that would allow the department to find a way around state law to make staffing changes. that would put shift supervisors and detectives in patrol units and out on the streets. >> this is critical so we can get more officers out there out on the street in the neighborhoods in the short term to hold us over until november. hopefully we will get voter approval of measure f at that time. >> mayor talking about measure f to undo the retirement and benefit cuts for police officers brought on by measure b approved by voters in 2012. the city council

if you don't go and help us and don't stop trading those who do with the north vietnamese of our enemieso cut foreign aid and ask you pay for what you got in the past because the average man -- [ applause ] the average man in our country does not understand that paying his money continuously to nations who not omnivonly want help us but trade in the north vietname vietnamese. mr. de gaulle in europe wants us to devalue our dollars. we know what happens to the pound over england. money that brought no return to the english people and we better get our house in order or we are going to face the same problem here in the united states. we ought to tell mr. de gaulle, you are not going to be comparing our dollars of the efforts that you are making and taking zboing gold out of our c. we are going to put back on the boots of some of those billions of dollars that you owe us after world war i and ii that we are going to ask you to pay it back. that's a common sense approved. [ applause ] ♪ thank you very much. >> wallace' victorious california campaign was unique. >> and because it had never be

. >> reporter: 21 people have been arrested in an association of the vietnamese street gang. a san jose police officer is also in the middle of all of this. he has been are arrested for helping the street gang to by providing confidential lot information from police reports and there are still six outstanding suspects. alecia reid, kron4 news >> reporter: reading letters from the rape victim of x stanford swimmer brought turner. -- brock turner >> reporter: bringing in a formal complaint to remove the brett--to remove the dust from the bench that has given a minimum sentence. --a formal complaint to remove the judge from the bench. >> steve: we will be back with the weather! america thought our pancakes were pretty special. but we knew we could do better. so we did. we made denny's new pancakes 50% fluffier with fresh buttermilk and hint of vanilla. if you disagree, the cakes are free. that's the denny's love'em or they're free guarantee. creamy swirls of pure indulgence. silky sifts of total transcendence. tempting accents of sheer pleasure. introducing "unicorn whispers." t

as you guys raise your hand to her here tonight from our vietnamese community? thank you. thank you. and our iranian friends. ] heers , we willsomeday celebrate next to the statue in the square in tehran. that was where she was murdered by iranian thugs. i thank you all. i thank my wife and my children. campaigns are hard on the families and the candidates. we have been through a few. this one has a ways to go and it will not get any easier. i could not have done

that's the argument that's used to bring in hundreds of thousands of vietnamese. we have to protect those who are u.s. allies in that fight. it changes -- it begins to change how we imagine -- americans imagine the significance and the foreign policy stakes of refugees. the 1980 refugee act seeks to kind of bring forward -- i'm skipping ahead kind of quickly here, but i'll fill in. it cements that image already described to you in the first set of slides of u.s. refugees as human rights survivors, and there's a new litmus test in effect passed by a woman named liz holtzman that stipulate lates if you are going to be a refugee, not only do you have to be pro-american and perhaps anti-communist, but you should also renounce any former political persecution. you should be renounce torture. you should have renounce violating any of their essential human rights. the nation is re-imaged in the late 1970s as a human rights nation under jimmy carter, under several other actors. that's really what you see enacted in the 1980 law. and that changes profound, but when it sees

of his money continuously to nations who not only won't help us, but even trade with the north vietnameseded europe twice. mr. de galle and europe today wants to devalue our dollar by taking gold out of the country which would impair the monetary system of the world because it's pegged on the dollar. it would have been devalued enough. we know what happened to the pound over in england. they call it socialistic overspending, money that brought no return to the english people. we better get our house in order, we're going to face the same problem here in these united states. we ought to tell mr. de galle, you're not going to impair the dollar by the concerted effort you're making. by taking gold out of our country. if you continue to impair the dollar when you don't have to, we're going to put back on the books some of those billions of dollars that you owe us after world war i and world war ii and we're going to ask you to pay it back. because they owe us billions of dollars. i think that's a common-sense approach. [ applause ] ♪ >> thank you very much. >> wallace's victorious california

us and if you don't go and help us and you don't stop trading those of you who do with the north vietnamese going to cut foreign aid off and ask you to pay back that which you've gotten in the past because the average man -- [ applause ] the average man in our country doesn't understand the paying of his money continuously to nations who not only won't help us but even trade with the north vietnamese. and we have defended europe twice. and mr. de gaulle in europe wants to devalue our dollar by taking gold out which would impair the monetary system of the free world, because it is paid on the dollar, and devalued enough because of inflationary processes in our country and we know what happened to the pound over in england. because of socialistic overspending. money that brought no return to the english people. and we've got to get our house in order or we're going to face that same problem here in these united states. and we ought to tell mr. de gaulle you're not going to impair the dollar concerted by a concerted effort you're making by taking gold out of our country and if you continue to

five-month investigation into a local vietnamese street gang conducted by fbi and dea. officer antonio faces five felony counts of unauthorized computer access and one felony count of accessory after the fact for providing sensitive police intelligence to gang members. they placed officer antonio on administrative leave two weeks ago while the department conducted an internal investigation. he was arrested yesterday along with the other people. operation gang of thrones also resulted in 33 search warrants of homes, businesses, and vietnamese cafe where's they based some of their operations. police have accused this gang of numerous crimes including assault, drugs, and illegal gambling. chief eddie garcia will join agents at 3:00 this afternoon at a news conference to further discuss results of this investigation that netted one of his own. reporting live here outside an jose police headquarter, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> bob, thank you. >>> we have new details now on a cab ride gone wrong. a man accused of gouging a has been driver's eye is now behind bars. san

i'm wondering if in order to say that taiwan must be protected, do you think that the vietnamese feel the same way about the chinese because of their historic animosity and that may be vietnam -- i'm sorry, i'm addressing this question to all you gentlemen -- that vietnam would feel just as strongly about a defensive pact potentially with the united states, despite the fact that it's also a communist government, that it possibly has the same thing to fear from china as taiwan does? >> no state in aisa has a longer -- asia has a longer record of animosity and yet ongoing practical relations with china than vietnam does. mr. giarra: and i think you're ordering the real politic implications of better relations, better u.s.-vietnam relations, and i think that the vietnamese are as interested in that relationship as we will let them be. and so far, because of human right issues, we haven't let that relationship develop. there has been talks and visits, , but some think that continued chinese bad behavior will make the improvement of u.s.-vietnamese relations a walkover and that it will bec

he'll be with staffers who can help with the registration process - including vietnamese and cambodian. in lieu of a permanent address - those who wish to register can use a homeless shelter or other "home base." in kansas - if you registered to vote at a motor vehicle office - you probably didn't have to show a birth certificate or naturalizaiton papers. that's because of the so called federal motor voter law. now -- the state says that's not ok -- and it is asking the federal appeals court to keep people from voting judge said kansas could not disenfranchise voters who registered at motor vehicle offices without that paperwork. but the state wants that overturned. they say - it doesn't make sense to hold people to different standards based only on where they register. but the american civil liberities union says kansas should not block thousands of legal citizens from voting because they can't produce a birth certificate, passport or denver sheriff patrick firman has ordered an audit of his own department -- after several deputies released inmates too early - or too late. four deputi

we have kind of a special relationship with our vietnamese-american community.ould you guys raise your hand who are here tonight from our vietnamese community? thank you. thank you. and our iranian friends. [applause] [crowd chanting] sen. mccain: someday we will celebrate next to the statue of tehrann the square in where she was murdered by iranian thugs. so i thank you all. i think my wife cindy and our .hildren campaigns can be as hard on the candidates' families as they are on the candidates. we have an true a few of them together. this one has a ways to go yet. it is not going to get any easier but i could never have gotten this far without their patience, love, and support. i cannot go any further without it. thank you, cindy. you to everyk arizonan who voted in the primary, those who supported me and those who supported one of my opponents. to the former, your support is a privilege. i promise to work as hard as i .an to deserve to the letter i promise to work as hard as i can for you to enter fight for policies and principles that i believe are essential

he constantly said the only people who can dishonor america are not the north vietnamese, but the peopletesting at home, who are calling the country's cause into doubt. that language of being opposed -- iotesting and dissent would characterize it as having a very authoritarian flair to it. it seems to be suggesting that those who are protesting a war they disagree with our necessarily dishonoring the country. that is not the way the protester saw it, but clearly nixon's saw it could work to his advantage. college students and protesters and these things called hippies were something that fell outside of the silent majority for richard nixon. host: as far as who the candidates were directly idealing to, who was the voter that nixon was after? how does that compare to who is donald trump -- who donald trump is after? guest: this goes back to this problem that nixon had in 68, it was a two word problem and that was george wallace. george wallace who had been a southern governor and very much opposed to the civil rights onement and very opposed what we can only characterized as racist ground

-- the it minis -- vietnamese cafis.e have comers -- covered numerous raids involving illegal gambling, and shooting deaths. police say that the game was committing numerous crimes including assault, extortion, narcotics, public corruption, and illegal gambling. they say they frequently operated out of the cafis and extorted the owners. the mercury news is identifying the officer arrested as derek antonio and says that he allegedly leaked information to the gang members. he was arrested under unauthorized computer access. the police chief here will do a news conference at 3 pm releasing more details and we know that other people were arrested other than this san jose police officer who is a nine-year veteran. >> thank you. >>> it is 5:33 am. let's talk about your mother. josh weather -- weather. >> i saw dave, and he saw us walking together. always so shipper. >> yes. wednesday morning, low clouds near the coast and right along here. as you can see, towards the oakland area, and the main headline is not a major one but i

investigators tried to catch members of a vietnamese street gang managed to snare one of their own. >> it's a punch in the gut. at the same time, it's like no one despises someone that tarnishes the badge more than officers that honor it. >> reporter: authorities believe antonio -- it was called operation gang of thrones but investigators trying to catch members of a vietnamese street game managed to snare one of their own as well. >> it's a punch in the gut and at the same time, it's like no one despises someone that tarnishes the badge more than officers that honor it. >> reporter: authorities believe he was feeding information to gang members. he's facing 6 felony counts. sources say antonio had been under surveillance for months during which substantial evidence was collected. investigators floated a bogus cover story. >> when you get confidential information out, people's safety is compromised. >> reporter: a series of search warrants were executed on august 23rd netting handguns, illegal gambling machines and a vehicle with a hidden compartment with cash. >> 4 boats of ecstasy i

[ speaking vietnamese ] >> thank you very much. >> tonight's parlor game at golden pearl under scores the degree to which san francisco's long-time sellers of sex are reinventing themselves. creating new toys to avoid regulation and keep the black market cash flowing. >> i'm going to get dressed. can you leave the room for a moment, please? >> a few weeks after the last round of inspections, san francisco's human trafficking task force reconvenes for another night on the town. at the top of the list, familiar trouble spot for investigators, the a and y health center in the city's district. >> there was a complaint that there were men going in and out and girls around. >> after hours, they suspect there is some kind of prostitution going on and a lot of males going inside. >> a check of the internet tells sergeant flores what is on the menu at a and y this evening. >> 35 an hour oil massage by young beautiful girl. >> a lot of girls there, eight in there probably. >> inspector walsh is all too familiar with a and y. our cameras followed him there during a previous inspection in 2012. >

speaking of checking it out, we're checking a brand new, fairly brand new vietnamese restaurant. it's thin anne kitchen and tofu, vietnamese cuisine. this stuff is so good. they're so lovely here. they're open for breakfast, i've never been to a place wher. they're crushing the soybeans and making their own tofu. there's a little market on this, too, where they sell fresh pastries and breads and to-go orders. smoothies and just the freshest of indegreed -- ingredients and you know the guy that owns the place. did you know that? >>russell: no. >>charley: he was your accupuncturist once. you got some accupuncture from thomas. >>russell: that's where he is. >>charley: well, he does both. he opened this as well. so we'll show you what they're doing inside here and have a "good day" this monday. >>russell: i'm due. my elbow, it hurts. tell him hello. >>charley: i will. >>laura: it is 6:48. we have a news alert out of st. petersburg this morning. police are investigating a in a wheelchair and a tow truck t. happened just before 6:00 this morning at fifth avenue north and 34th street. t

story from the perspective that most americans have never heard of before which is how the south vietnamese experienced this and my narrators are also giving us the communist perspective and when he arrives in the comic he is telling the viewpoint of how they see american culture which isn't necessarily in a positive light so it is a very satirical novel as well as i get people to think about what it looks like. but i think the topic has been hard to exhaust which is why i had to write another nonfiction about it. it is in the much larger context of the warfare that's been waged since 1898 when the united states took the philippines and hawaii and the korean war andd vietnam and now iraq and afghanistan as an extension of the century long campaign.am and i couldn't see those kind of things in the novel. >> go back to that for one second. one of the questions i had foror you is in your experience to reform the sins o sense of the n anyo way? >> i wrote the novel to criticize. the theme of the novel is sympathy and what i took away from that is the easiest thingar to do is to sympathize with

viet cong, he cautioned, will do all in their powers to disrupt the democratic process but the vietnameses, he promised, will provide security for the voters. free elections and a self determined government was one of the basic requirements essential for security in southeast asia and a point determined a month earlier in the president's speech. captain bill carpenter, recommended for the medal of honor and hero of vietnam, accompanied general westmoreland during the weekend briefing session with the president. carpenter's record added to the record of over 290,000 other fighting men in vietnam confirmed the president's conviction that the united states had a superb force in vietnam. ♪ president johnson: general westmoreland, i want you to take back with you my personal message to all of our men in vietnam. and that message is this, you are our best. you make every american proud. >> when the president is home, the ranch often becomes a major crossroad, a stopping point for prime ministers, generals and sometimes just interesting people who want to see the chief executive. the austin aqua

a san jose police officer is out on bail tonight after being accused of collaborating with a vietnamese street gang. his arrest was part of a five- month investigation called operation gang of thrones. ktvu's azenith smith is at the main jail in santa clara county tonight with the crackdown that ended up netting nearly two dozen arrests. azenith? >> reporter: frank that officer posted a $135,000 bail, many of the other suspects are still behind bars. making their first court appearance today. i spoke to one defense attorney who maintains his client is in docent. you're taking a look at 23 suspected gang members or associates arrested as part of operation gang of thrones. charges include extortion, public corruption, drug trafficking and assault. among the evidence police seed five handguns, 69 illegal gambling machines and alligator and a car with a component hiding 100,000 in cash. authorities also recovered 4000 ecstasy pills, 300 xanax, and 600 pounds of marijuana heading from san jose to louisiana. the investigation also turning up something they didn't want. >> sadly, our investiga

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in the gang of thrones investigation a gambling extortion and drug trafficking ring run out of vietnamese cafis. police say the probe yielded loads of drugs, a baby alligator and the arrest of a nine year sj pd veteran. samet police searching for 2 men wanted in an armed robbery. these of the sketches of the suspects. it happened friday at a money transfer service. not clear how much money was taken but witnesses say they got away in a red sedan or a mid-2000 camry with tinted windows. if you have information you are asked to call police. >>> flights delayed and a verdict. what caused chaos at lax this morning?>>> mark zucker berg and the pope have, face-to- face, what they discussed and the gift the social media ceo brought with them. >>> thunderstorms and dry lightning is a strong possibility. we will talk about where and when when the news continues right here on kpix5. ,,,,,,,,,, narrator: it wasn't that long ago. years of devastating cutbacks to our schools. 30,000 teachers laid off. class sizes increased. art and music programs cut. we can't ever go back. ryan ruelas: so vote yes on

san jose police officer is out on bail this morning after being accused of collaborating with a vietnamese street gang. it was part of a five month investigation. two dozen suspects with alleged gang ties were taken into custody on charges that include public corruption, drug trafficking, and assault. police seized machines and made a disturbing discovery. >> our investigation revealed that san jose police officer derek antonio was providing confidential law enforcement information to members of this gang. >> the nine-year veteran is facing six felony counts. he has been on administrative leave since june. >>> police in pittsburgh say an officer was injured while rescuing a blind man trapped in a fire. the fire was reported 7:30 last night on west 11th street near railroad avenue. contra costa firefighters tweeted out this video. two police officers found the blind man lying on the floor unconscious. they were arable to carry him outside and he was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, and one of the officers suffered a cut to the arm while forcing his way into the house. no word on h

the san jose police department was targeting a vietnamese criminal gang, operation gang of lens, andtigator say the gang is believed to be involved in numerous crimes including assault, drugs gam billioning and public corruption much search warrants were served in homes and businesses. he is a 9 1/2-year veteran of lived. the officer is identified as derrick antonio accuses of sharing sensitive information with gang members. he was backed into the santa clara jail on five felony couples of unauthorized computer access and aingly any of accessory after the fact. we checked the jail records and it shows that antonio is now out of custody. >> thank you, matt. new this morning, police in daly city are investigating an overnight shooting that left a man critically hurt. it happened at 12:30 this morning near hillcrest drive. the victim was in his 20. he was shot in the stomach and taken to san francisco general where he underwent surgery. police are investigating what could is already up to the shooting. >> people living in the tight night community of general are reeling from the death o

while san jose police say they put a major dent in organized crime in san jose, the vietnamese cafes continue to be magnets for crime like extortion and prostitution. he faces five counts of illegally accessing information and also one count of an accessory after the fact. tonight he is free on bail. we are live in downtown san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. >>> well, the giants have mccovey cove. the a's could someday have conseco cove. the team is looking seriously at its own waterfront location at the port of oakland. kpix 5's john ramos says the idea could be a winner for two east bay teams. >> reporter: at oakland city hall today the mayor didn't want to get people's hopes up about the future of the a's but couldn't help herself. >> i don't want to get everyone too excited, um, the exciting thing is the a's are definitely staying in oakland. >> reporter: it's possible this will be their new home. tomorrow morning a's owner john fisher is supposed to meet with members of the city staff to tour the charles p howard terminal at the port of oakland right next to jack london square. mayor sc

. >>> a san jose police officer is now out on bail after being accused of collaborating with a vietnamese street gang. >> his arrest was part of a five-month investigation dubbed operation "gang of thrones." arizona muth smith reports, it netted two dozen other arrests. >> reporter: this is 23 suspected gang members or associates arrested as part of operation "gang of thrones." their charges include extortion, public corruption, drug trafficking and assault. among the evidence police seized five handguns, 69 illegal gambling machines, an alligator, and a car with a compartment hiding $100,000 in cash. also 4,000 ecstasy pills, 300 xanax pills and 600 pounds of marijuana head interesting san jose to louisiana. their investigation turning up something they didn't want. >> sadly, our investigation revealed that san jose police officer derrick antonio was providing confidential law enforcement information to members of this gang. >> reporter: the nine-year veteran facing six felony accounts for unauthorized computer counts. he has been on administrative leave since june. >> his acts were depl

the vietnamese government forced them to live back in civilization. that story was widely covered. >> that's it. i knew i had heard this somewhere before. >> but when i say this man knew nothing, he didn't even know what a female was. he never saw a car. he only saw other people from a distance. they saw planes flying over. his father did tell him that there were people in those planes, but that's all he saw. never knew there was such a artificial light. anything. they lived in the jungle, subsisted off what they could catch. that's how he survived. it's remarkable. >> how old was he when his dad took him up there, do we know? >> barely a year old. >> he knew nothing. >> he had no point of reference. this is the real life tarzan. >> this is a video of him return. what i would find so fascinating is the very first minute he goes to kind of chaos and smells and sounds. >> here is how he responds to some of those questions. >> it's so interesting to see him because he really does have the demeanor of a child. >> really is a sweet and sad story. this whol

he had a 46-year military career and after he -- he worked with south vietnamese leader to reunite separated families and account for missing americans. he was 94-year old. >>> weather and traffic every 10 minutes on the fours. chris, we have big changes. >> and we have a fabulous moon shot. it yesterday morning, but full there. being given to us courtesy of our fabulous photographer eddie castro. we're cooler this morning. if you haven't stepped outside, you'll feel it. 50s across the metropolitan area. 40s in the foothills. lewisville, hanging tough at 60. you'll stay cool today. western slope, you did not feel this front. you're going to have the same weather you've been having. it's crisp and cool. weather watcher jonathan greens. here in denver, more clouds than sunshine today. a second surge of cool air heading our way from wyoming and montana. as it arrives this afternoon, it will kick up shower and storms. nothing wide spread to break the drought that has gripped our area, but at least advertise moisture. >> we'll take any little bit we can get. normally i would say it's friday so we

so that's the argument that's used to bring in hundreds of thousands of vietnamese. we have to protect those who are u.s. allies in that fight. but it changes, it begins to change how we imagine, americans imagine the significance and the foreign policy stakes of refugees. the 1980 refugee act seeks to kind of bring forward -- i'm skipping ahead kind of quickly here, but that's what i'll fill in. it smencements that image i described to you in the first set of slides of u.s. refugees as human rights survivors, and there's a new litmus test, in effect, passed by a woman named liz holtzman, who stipulates -- and this is in the reading -- that in effect, if you're going to be a refugee, not only do you have to be pro-american and perhaps anti-communist, but you should also renounce any former political persecution. you should renounce torture. you should renounce having persecuted anybody or violated any of their essential human rights. so the nation is reimagined in the late '70s as a human rights nation under jimmy carter, under several other actors. and that's really