how to rebuild those homes. that s where john is live tonight with more on the story. john? just so happens that the san bruno city council voted to go ahead with 10 million dollars in upgrade to sewer lines and water lines in the blast zone what i said out last year. all of that money will come from pg&e. the vote happened to come on the same day that utility decided to take full responsibility for the catastrophe that killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes. pg&e angered a lot of residents when it filed court papers indicating one line of defense might be that residents themselves were neglect. pg&e quickly backed off and poll jaysed now the utility is claiming it will take full responsibility for compensating victims. but tonight an attorney representing 75 residents says that is jaws smoke screen to avoid paying higher damage and some resident who lost their homes say the pg&e announcement should have come long before today. 15 months and 4 days. past the incident and
reporter: what you are watching is the new video obtained by 7 news showing a confrontation at the oakland occupy demonstration two weeks ago. man being hit by a police officer is a hotel war veteran who ended up in the hospital. good evening. now we see him ignoring police officers. certainly. but we also sea an officer bricking rank and clu clubbing him repeat he hadly. we have a closer look at the videotape and the are beings to it. this is the video police lawyers and anyone with an active or passing interest will scawt nice. moments before he said oakland police ruptured his spleen during the protest. we were hoping would he talk today. would you mind talking to us for a couple minutes. no. reporter: instead he was polite but firm though he did say he has seen the video that shows him revving orders to move by oakland police. stand off led to one officer bricking rank and going after him with a baton not once or twice but repeatedly. photographer who shot this vide
repeated violence and this week a murder. we had to break the camp to an end before more people were hurt. in all 33 people were arrested this morning. only 9 from oakland. good evening. so far tonight there are no arrests and no tent set up in the plaza. only few dozen protestors remain. thomas is live at frank ogawa plaza where there is a noticeable police presence as well. thomas? reporter: there ace large police presence but there are no tent and there are fewer than 20 protestors now left in the plaza. now earlier tonight oakland police told us that protestors had put up tent in the plaza they would have waited until the early morning hours to take them out to the avoid any huge confrontation. but at least one city official is furious that so many resources have been waebingted on occupy oakland. hundreds of occupy oakland supporters streamed into frank ogawa plaza yelling and chanting as they filled the plaza occupy oakland got back that the business of setti
alameda county coroner office. lillian kim is leif at the hayward police department. lillian we expected the i.d. process to take a little longer process to take a little longer. reporter: dan it would have taken longer if the coroner rae layed on dna testing but it appears it didn t have to come to that. hayward police haven t said how the coroner office identified the skeletal maynes but likely they made the match through dental records. since dna test typically take weeks. volunteer search team discovered the bed is the interpleasanton. now that it has been identified as that of missing nursing stunt michelle lae the next step is to figure out how she died. part of what they will did is detail analysis of the corpse and body to see if there s a head trauma, skull fracture to explain how did the death occur. reporter: tonight development come on the same daily accused killer appeared in court. east at the been didn t enter a plea but was appointed an attorney. the 27-ye
7 news in may she openly hates lee. emotions that likely stem from a lover try angle. east at the been attorney talked about how her client was holding up. she s coping. reporter: michelle lee family relessed a statement soon after the identification of the body was announced. it says we ask for privilege situion and respect during this difficult time as we are grieving and preparing a memorial service for her proper goodbye. that is the latest from hayward, abc 7 news. lillian thank you. san francisco police chief defended the actions of officer tonight who opened fire this weekend in north beach mistakenly struck 2 bystanders. the chief responded to concerns that community meeting in north beach. allen wong leif for us in the neighborhood at broadway and kearnyy where this all happened. allen. yes. this is exactly where it happened. police say they witnessed a drug deal out her. they chased the suspect to this point. the officer says he fired from about 15 feet awa