It takes hard work and sacrifice. Hopelessness is not the only choice for americans. Varney and company is about to begin. Charles ferguson woke up 2 miles of destruction. Bo dietl is here with us. Obviously, there is real anger in the community. Some Media Outlets are critical of the police. Some are standing back. I watched it last night also. They were very restrained, as far as i am concerned. I remember the riots in the 60s. I was in the blackout riots in 1977 here in new york. The officers made arrests and they cracked heads open. Pretty much let them do what they wanted to do. They were robbing the stores. They were setting things on fire. We cannot let that continue. They are destroying stores that they shop. Beard they are destroying mcdonalds. Charles i did sneak out. I went to a couple of stores. There were not a lot of arrest. Statue of limitations. To not make arrests. Whenever the looters come out, just give them a little teaching. Times have changed. You have to work har
Right now we just watched team usa dominate the ice dancing competition. We are live in the bay area with kristi yamaguchi, what she thinks about the games, athletes and sochi. Gunfire in front of the Westfield Shopping Center and down the street from union square. We investigate a second set of books designed to hide millions in taxpayers money. Good evening, im terry mcsweeney. Im dyan dwyer. Thank you for joining us. As you just saw, the americans couldnt be beat on the ice skating rink in sochi tonight. One person who was there watching with a unique perspective was the bay areas own kristi yamaguchi. She won gold in 1992 and she has interesting thoughts on tomorrows finals in ice dancing as well as the figure skating competition coming up later this week. Nbc bay area joins us live from sochi with kristi yamaguchi. Hello. How is everyone doing . Reporter everybody is great here, terry and diane. It is cooling off in sochi but the ice is heating up. Were talking about americans in
On crime by freeing officers from hours of report taking we hope it allows the sworn officers to become more available for emergency calls for service, proactive work that will help reduce crime in the city. Reporter some are not convinced. Its not going to make is anyone safer, be it Police Officers or citizens. No ones safer by this move. We need officers, those that know how to use force when necessary. Reporter this manuel comes the extra team. Any time that theres trained individuals for the small issues, hopefully it will be taken care of quicker. Reporter in 2008, the department had more than 1400 officers. Now there are only about 900 that are street ready. The Community Service officers will work full time with a starting salary around 53,000. Men and women in light blue, wielding pens and hoping to make the streets of san jose safer. As you know, san jose has had a difficult time recruiting new officers. So the hope is that these community offics will eventually want to becom