chief william scott says it is working.ey say all crime in the area is down nearly 85%. >> making people feel it's ok to come to union square and shop. it's ok to come to the city and shop is important. we have seen a significant drop in crime overall, from theft to cars being broken into to burglaries. reggie: the current patrol plans and restrictions will stay in place through the shopping season and possibly longer. stores on rodeo drive have beefed up security because of organized retail theft. businesses have increased security cameras, bulletproof glass, and doubled patrol protect the area. organized retail crime is costing businesses up to $1 billion a year. funeral services for the late kansas senator bob dole will be held at the washington national cathedral today. kumasi: president biden and family numbers are respected to attend and offer the eulogy. keyser never does a world war ii hero, presidential nominee and for his great sense of humor. he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer earlier this year. he passed

. >> joining me now, san francisco police chief william scott. chief scott, thank you so much.ate you joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> the mayor is declaring a state of emergency in the tenderloin area of your city and saying there will be less tolerance for what she calls the b.s. destroying your city. is this the right move? >> yes, it's absolutely the right move. we have a lot of challenges in our city. it's a great city, but we do have challenges. and for police officers and people in the profession of protecting and serving the public, you know, we want to be able to do our jobs and not that we couldn't do it before, but you need support. you need funding. and you need an infrastructure to actually do the job the way the public here is demanding us to do it. i think this is a huge step toward making things a little bit easier for officers to get out and do the enforcement that they've been asked to do and not so much have to worry about the social side or the social work side of this because we are really enhancing that part of it so our officers have options to

. >> joining me now san francisco police chief william scott. chief scott, thank you so much. thank you for having me. >> the mayor is declaring a state of emergency in the tender loin area of your city and saying there will be less tolerance for the b.s. is this the right move? >> yes, absolutely the right move. we have a lot of challenges in the city,i it's a great city bu we have challenges. for people protecting and serving the public, we want to be able to do our job and not that we couldn't do it before but you need support and understafunding and need an infrastructure to do the job the way the public is demanding us to do it. this is a huge step toward making things a little easier for officers to get out and do the enforcement they've been asked to do and not so much have to worry about the social side of this because we are really enhancing that part of it so our officers have options to get people help and those people that just are insisting on using drugs in the street and some of the things we see in the city, those folks will be arrested. they will be cited and

. >> reporter: sf pd chief william scott says restoring safety matters. >> making people feel like it is okay to come to union square to shop, our city to shop, is really important. that's one of our objectives. reducing the fear of crime is just as important as reducing crime itself. >> reporter: police presence helps. >> sing a lot of cop cars, you feel safer in this big city. >> i know this is huge. i want to acknowledge that. people feeling safe is important, but i am sure there are others who feel it is a band-aid. how long can you keep the police if the in this one part of town. have they said? >> reporter: we spoke with chief scott today. he said as it stands, the numbers of police officers roaming union square isn't sustainable. it will stay at this level through the new year, at which point it will be reevaluated. they say they have planned to keep a larger presence there, but not as large as they have right now. >> it is a big city. thank you. >>> a private security guard who died while protecting a tv news crew in oakland was laid to rest today. kpix 5's kiet do attended th

ryan: chief william scott said it has lead to crime being significantly reduced.ays all crime in that area is down nearly 85%. >> we have seen a significant drop in crime overall, from saft to cars being broken into -- theft, to cars being broken into, to burglaries. ryan: it is putting a strain on the department. many officers are working overtime and he says that is costing a lot of money. >> 8000 plus hours of

san francisco chief of police william scott was in the meeting and said he supports the declaration from the police department perspective this this emergency order. >> really helps get to a much better place and how we deal with. >> what's going on on the streets in terms of the the open air drug consumption and that that has led to in my opinion. and a large way. a lot of what has been discussed here with the overdose crisis that we're having supervisors. listen to public comment from dozens of community members. many with different opinions. but most saying something needs to be done. i have never seen the conditions of the tenderloin like they are today. amanda hari kron 4 news. >> now. the county sheriff's deputies say they have found a body that appears to be that of crystal mccarthy who has been missing for more than a week. police say a sheriff's deputy spotted a woman's body in the river near the 3rd street bridge in downtown napa today. an autopsy is set for next week. according to mccarthy's boyfriend who reported her missing. she was last seen near the river about 10 days ago

. >> william scott says crime in the union square area is down 85% in the short time they have increaseder of officers and patrol. police are trying to make the area safer following a november 19 mass retail theft. >> 3 million 16-year-old and 17-year-olds are eligible for covid booster shots. doses were administered, minutes after receiving approval from the cdc and fda. >> funeral services will be held for bob dole at the washington national cathedral. abc news will air a special report when president biden delivers the eulogy. mike: the second atmospheric river system of the season is coming in. i think we will have urban and road flooding for sure. we will keep an eye on the debris flow. we may have to up this as we get closer to monday. >> we are following your friday morning commute. look at the bay bridge toll plaza. traffic is very light read very few to no major stalls or accidents happening at this hour. >> we now know who purchased the winning powerball ticket, worth nearly $700 million. scott godfrey bought the ticket for the october 4 drawing. he wants to put some of that mo

the city's police chief is here tonight, william scott, spoke with the owners by phone today.or having me on. first and foremost, they apologized for what happened, and you know, said that it was a mistake. >> how did your officers handle this? >> well, our officers are professional, and look, this is upsetting. this is definitely was a disappointment when this happened. it was a disappointment to all of us who wear a uniform, i believe, but they were professional. and that's the type of department that we are and that we want to be. we understand that not everybody agrees with us sometimes, and not everybody likes us. but we maintain our professionalism. and we have been working very hard to protect and serve our city, and we have been working very hard on improving our department, and i think our officers who have put in all of that work, they need support. >> yeah, it's a tough -- tough time to be in law enforcement. may i say, in your particular city, based on what i read in the newspaper, based on what i see in terms of the apparent attitude of the district attorney in yo

san francisco police chief william scott is also weighing in. quote, the san francisco police department stands for safety with respect, even when it means respecting wishes that are officers and i find discouraging and personally disappointing. i believe the majority of san franciscans welcome there police officers, who deserved to know they are appreciated for the difficult job we ask them to do in their uniforms to keep our neighborhoods and businesses safe. moving on now, new developments with the omicron variant. it has been detected in at least 16 states. researchers in massachusetts say the variant may be more transmissible because it shares the same genetic code as the common cold. the united kingdom is requiring all travelers coming into the country who are 12 years and older to show proof of a negative covid test two days prior to departure. it is really a sign of the times. a flower shop says it is so desperate to get new employees that they will hire anyone who wants to work. now there was also a new variant to deal with. tim johns s

ryan: chief william scott said it has lead to crime being significantly reduced. he says all crime in that area is down nearly 85%. >> we have seen a significant drop in crime overall, from saft to cars being broken into -- theft, to cars being broken into, to burglaries. ryan: it is putting a strain on the department. many officers are working overtime and he says that is costing a lot of money. >> 8000 plus hours of overtime has been used on this operation. ryan: the current patrol plans and traffic restrictions will stay in place through the shopping season and possibly longer. his department has nearly 500 more officers than normal. he says the best way to continue a patrol of this magnitude is to hire more officers. >> if we had the proper amount of officers, it would be much easier to redeploy resources. you can do that when you have the right amount of officers. when you are close to 500 officers short and that number continues to increase, you cannot do it. ryan: he says it is an issue he is working with the city to fix. ryan curry, abc 7 news. larry: hote

san francisco chief of police william scott was in the meeting and said he supports the declaration from the police department perspective this this emergency order. >> really helps get to a much better place and how we deal with. >> what's going on on the streets in terms of the the open air drug consumption and that that has led to in my opinion. and a large way. a lot of what has been dis%ussed here with the overdose crisis that we're having supervisors. listen to public comment from dozens of community members. many with different opinions. but most saying something needs to be done. i have never seen the conditions of the tenderloin like they are today. amanda hari kron 4 news. >> still to come next. minnesota police officer kim potter smiling broadly in this just released mug shot after she was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of dante wright. how much time she could be facing behind bars. and what was the last time you watered your christmas tree firefighters say if you wait too long, it could become a fire hazard. >> what you need to know ahead of the holidays. plus a la

and chief williams scott says the goal of his officers won't necessarily be to make arrests, but treatment and services. we will let you know when supervisors take a vote on this clearly hot button issue. i'm cornell bernard abc 7 news and cornell stay with us while we bring in abc 7 news insider film at tier to talk about this phil your thoughts on what was discussed today? well, what was discussed today and is going on right now is the debate about carrot and stick. let's be honest about it. we have the carrots out there which are the health components saying let's try to get more help professionals out there and then there's a question of the stick which is enforcement but you know in between that is the fact of what the people are living with down there? you talked about it a little earlier these information from the police recording the 337 arrests for narcotic sales in the tenderloin in the first nine months of this year now 65 in this group were repeat offenders 16 had been more arrested more than twice and four had been arrested more than four times. this is within nine months. so

[rollcall] you have a quorumand also here we have chief william scott and director paul henderson . >> president: looks like we are ready to rock 'n roll. ladies and gentlemen if you could join in the pledge of allegiance, place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all . and again sorryabout that . i want to correct the time. i was 10 minutestoo fast. sergeant, what do we have on the agenda first ? >> line item 1. >> he's all that. >> findings for the police commission to continue the meetings by a teleconferencing technology for 361, discussion andpossible action . >> president: anydiscussion on this item ? seeing none, let's go ahead and take public comment on the ite . >> clerk: members of thepublic that would like to make comment on white and one please press star 3 now . >> president: isthere a motion ? motion made by commissioner hamasaki . isthere a second ? is there a second? commissioner elias se

[rollcall] you have a quorumand also here we have chief william scott and director paul henderson . >> president: looks like we are ready to rock 'n roll. ladies and gentlemen if you could join in the pledge of allegiance, place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all . and again sorryabout that . i want to correct the time. i was 10 minutestoo fast. sergeant, what do we have on the agenda first ? >> line item 1. >> he's all that. >> findings for the police commission to continue the meetings by a teleconferencing technology for 361, discussion andpossible action . >> president: anydiscussion on this item ? seeing none, let's go ahead and take public comment on the ite . >> clerk: members of thepublic that would like to make comment on white and one please press star 3 now . >> president: isthere a motion ? motion made by commissioner hamasaki . isthere a second ? is there a second? commissioner elias se

[rollcall] you have a quorumand also here we have chief william scott and director paul henderson . >ks like we are ready to rock 'n roll. ladies and gentlemen if you could join in the pledge of allegiance, place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all . and again sorryabout that . i want to correct the time. i was 10 minutestoo fast. sergeant, what do we have on the agenda first ? >> line item 1. >> he's all that. >> findings for the police commission to continue the meetings by a teleconferencing technology for 361, discussion andpossible action . >> president: anydiscussion on this item ? seeing none, let's go ahead and take public comment on the ite . >> clerk: members of thepublic that would like to make comment on white and one please press star 3 now . >> president: isthere a motion ? motion made by commissioner hamasaki . isthere a second ? is there a second? commissioner elias second made bycomm

other things where he took an interest in in fact, the trials most famously for georgie scott had included william shatner before he flew into space. [laughter] and he was actually one of the federal prosecutors in fact, prosecutor not in the george see scott but in the tv versions of that something i think that a lot of people don't realize and he was very interested in history and in the book and interested in the civil war and came would be his civil war movie and is very disappointed that it turned out to not be and of course i think it would be more disappointed that is not only civil war channels from the western channel all of the time. [laughter] >> i really didn't think he would think much of that pretty hundred. >> john what are you working on pretty. >> sketched out more of seven chapters, wartime to try to get an idea of how thorough the research is in what holes still remain so that is front and center and on the back burner, the project in 2013, have been writing three - 17 years to work. and took a while, 17 years and all the needed maybe this would be a good subject for research. w

scott had a version of it that included william shatner before he flew into space. [ laughter ] he was actually one of the federal prosecutors, in fact, i think the chief federal prosecutor, not in the george c. scott version, but in a different tv version. that's something that i think a lot of people don't realize. he was interested in history, very interested in books, very interested in the civil war and he really wanted major dundee to be his civil war movie and he was disappointed that it turned out to not be. it's not on a civil war channel, it's on the western channel all the time. >> i really didn't think he was going to have an answer for that. [ laughter ] >> you should have known better. >> john, what are you working on? >> you know what i'm working on front burner with hunter davidson, sketched out four of seven chapters, more trying to kind of get an idea of how thorough the research is and what holes still remain. that's front burner. i put on the back burner a project that i begun in 2013. i've been riding my bike across bell isle for the past 17 years to go to work. an

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flynn's lawsuit comes just as congressman scott perry says he will not meet with the panel. joining us now is pete williamsapur. do you consider this a serious issue or a delay tactic? >> this is an attempt to delay this until after the midterms. they say it is too broad, it covers his political views and manners that could touch on a separate investigation. but it is a stall. it's not clear that he could do this for a couple reasons. first he says the committee has no authority to issue these subpoenas because the house did not follow the rules in setting it up, but the courts don't take up preenforcement challenges like this. a witness usually as to wait until the committee takes some legal action. second there is no legislative perks. so i think he might have more luck getting it far rowed down. it might be part of the law. are they working on the committee? >> they thises is a fully frivolous lawsuit. the valid legislative purpose question has been recognized by the justice department, by the courts, and one source said the house created these in the past, an they did not really have doubts about the l

williams in our washington news room, thank you. >>> in just 60 seconds, inside america's homicide surge. just why are so many cities seeing record numbers of murders. >>> and the resentencing of scott peterson >>> we turn our focus to crime in this country and cities this year that have already broken their all-time records for murder take a look at some of the cities coast to coast grappling with this troubling trend gabe gutierrez is in philadelphia tonight with more. >> reporter: for many cities big and small this has been the deadliest year ever. philadelphia alone 523 homicide breaking a record that stood for over 30 years. and too many agonizing moments to count what will you miss most about her >> samir always smiles samir, like he makes me happy he cheers me up. >> reporter: she still speaks about her 14-year-old son as if he's still here. but as the high school freshman waited for a bus last week he was killed police say two people got out of a car, chased him across the street and then fired about 35 shots these are some of the bullet holes still on the side of this pharmacy samir was hit 18 times. >> the people that killed samir ain't killers. they monsters. like they sh

scott. we appreciate it. >> thanks, trey. happy new year. >> also with us here, former u.s. ambassador to the ukraine, william taylor and now vice president of strategic stability and security at the u.s. institute of peace. you know the whole idea here is that you have russia and you have the ukraine border here. we talked about the 90,000 troops. you know more about this chess board than anybody. what do you think vladimir putin's play is here? >> trace, i think he's -- he's trying to keep his options open. i really don't think he's decided if he wants to go in to invade ukraine. he know what's will happen to him. he believes that the sanctions that are lined up with our allies in europe are serious. he understands that the ukrainian army is much stronger than it was when he invaded last time. he understands that the ukrainian people are defending their own land. they will fight hard. the military as well as civilians will fight against invading russia. so mr. putin understands the risks. on the other hand, he has this obsession with ukraine. he doesn't want ukraine to go to europe. so he -- putin would lov

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scott in pennsylvania was to announce jeffrey clark as a member of the administration. he said he would not cooperate and he called the committee illegitimate. joining me is justice correspondent pete williamsfrom capitol hill. pete -- first of all, sahil, what does the committee want to learn from congressman perry? >> people believe he was involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, particularly, as you note, he was trying to get installed acting attorney general jeff clark. clark was trying to sign off on a letter making fabricating claims of widespread irregularities in the election all to get states like georgia not to certify joe biden's win. they have evidence from witnesses that he was texting white house officials, including then chief of staff mark meadows. they were making conspiracy theories about voting machines and which lacks evidence. so they have asked him to voluntarily provide documents and to speak to the committee. congressman perry has refused, and that's where they are right now. they're trying to figure out what happens next. >> is it tricky to subpoena someone of your own body, someone from the house, when you're a house committee? has that ever

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william juÁrez. so we're honored to accept this award and i thank the commission. >> clerk: let's give this team a round of applause. thank you, dr. scott>> president bernal: thank you, dr. scott, and thanks to who both presented and nominated these extraordinary teams for this recognition today. it's really a highlight of every commission meeting for all of us. so thank you, not only for the work that you do, but for being with us today. >> clerk: all right, so item 3 is a resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california government code section 54953 [e], this is the same resolution that is passed each month for you to continue to have remote meetings. the resolution is put before you. >> president bernal: thank you, secretary morewitz. we are required to adopt this to continue meeting virtually. and so you do have the resolution before you. do we have a motion to approve? >> i make a motion to approve this resolution. >> second. >> president bernal: secretary morewitz, any picture comment on this item? >> clerk: folks on the line, if you would like to make comment on item 3, please press star 3, so we can

scott richardson, greg lily, mark hernandez, jenny wright, adam barker, allen edwards, katie magnus, sean o'keefe, brad patu, jason potter, brad slattery, katie sutton, eric cater, adam tool, t.c. williams robert winkler andy caputo. from my staff, i had luke holland, dan hillen gillibrand gillibrand -- hillen hillengillibrandester solders, alexandra slokerm, dixon yonin, a lacey burke, what would we do without her and we have the floor staff. nobody mentions them and we couldn't operate without them and they were really busy on this bill and that's robert dunkon, chris tuck, tony han began, --hanagan, max ford, and i'm grateful for all of their services. this is only half the battle. we have to go through and after we made the priorities that we made, the appropriators will get busy to do what they have done to be a part of this effort that was the most significant effort that we're having. so today i encourage all of my colleagues to suffer this national defense authorization act, i know they will, and extend our 60-year track record of getting this bill done. let's tell the troops that we love them and support them. with that, i'll yield to chairman jack reed. mr. reed: mr. president