tomorrow, others are advising workers to work from home. our coverage begins with jana katsuyama, she s live in downtown oakland with the story, jana. some business have already boarded up their windows. i want you to take a look across the street, we want to show you some artists that are painting a mural in oscar s honor. the sounds of hammers and boards going up is all about prevention. last time it was ugly. very ugly. our neighbor next door got the windows busted and everything. so hopefully it s not going to happen, but we re still worried. in downtown oakland, memories are still fresh from the july 8th mehserle verdict. trouble makers broke off from a peaceful protest and began setting fires, smashing windows and stealing from stores. tomorrow business owners are planning to board up and stay home. others are going to allow their employees to work from home. officers have had additional training since last july and will monitor the crowds from a distance. if th
we have team coverage of the preparations under way in anticipation of the judge s decision. ktvu s tara moriarty is downtown where police are getting ready in los angeles. but we begin with the update on what is happening there. good morning, claudine. reporter: good morning. yes, it appears there will likely be four members of the family of officer grant speaking at the hearing this morning. it also appears that yohanes mes leer yohanes messerly himself will be making a statement. he could get up to 14 years in jail. really, anything in between. now, in the past week, ktvu han grant about the sentencing. and here s what the grant family said about what they will say to the judge. i will tell him how i have to watch my sister cry. how i have to watch her health deteriorate. you know, how, when i have to explain to somebody about my nephew being shot, you know, the lies that people say that about it. i have to explain to them, well, this is not how it happened. this i
for the shooting death of oscar grant. store owners post notices saying they will be closed tomorrow, others are advising workers to work from home. our coverage begins with jana katsuyama, she s live in downtown oakland with the story, jana. some business have already boarded up their windows. i want you to take a look across the street, we want to show you some artists that are painting a mural in oscar s honor. the sounds of hammers and boards going up is all about prevention. last time it was ugly. very ugly. our neighbor next door got the windows busted and everything. so hopefully it s not going to happen, but we re still worried. in downtown oakland, memories are still fresh from the july 8th mehserle verdict. trouble makers broke off from a peaceful protest and began setting fires, smashing windows and stealing from stores. tomorrow business owners are planning to board up and stay home. others are going to allow their employees to work from home. officers have
that s exactly what happened. 75 voters ballots which are 375 actual ballot cards were found in bag floating here at the palace of fine arts. they were taken from a crocker amazon neighborhood polling place. they are now soaking wet and the voter registrar says there were not enough ballots taken to alter any outcomes but there are some problems with these ballots they probably won t be counted for legal reasons. the chain of custody has been broken, and so since they have been taken away from our possession, and even though they are in our possession now and they are all wet, i don t know if the ink if it s legible, since the chain of custody has been broken, it s unclear if we can even consider including those cards in the count for this election. reporter: police arrested carl nicholas yesterday. he is the inspector who police say left early with the ballots. an electronic data reporter is still missing. they say there weren t enough ballots taken to alter local outco
today s pitcher is carl nicholas, a manager in customer sales and service. his job search began 14 months ago when his employer went bankrupt. he s also struggling to help family members back in his native haiti. they actually lost everything in the earthquake. oh, carl. double whammy for you. you re actually single and helping your sister and her kids, right? correct. yes. tell me what you re doing? did she reach out and say we re desperate? yes, of course. yes, what happened to me, i had been sick. i had surgery and when i got healed and ready to go back to work the company went bankrupt, so i ve been looking since then. it s been tough and everyday hunting, but nothing concrete yet. and you have, you re multilingual, correct? correct. how many languages? i speak english, i speak french, i speak creole and a