A war of words over a device more common in war zones. The debate over using drones in the east bay. Good afternoon, im tori campbell. A debate over drones is heating up in Alameda County. New at noon, allie rasmus joins us live in oakland to explain what the sheriffs want to do with the drones and why the aclu opposes the plan. Reporter well, today, the Alameda County supervisors were supposed to consider whether to allow the Sheriffs Office to buy a drone or as the sheriff says, he prefers to call it, an unmanned aerial device. But the item was taken off the supervisors agenda, just as a couple of Civil Liberties groups had a press conference expressing concerns. The Alameda County Sheriffs Office unveiled what they might purchase, this device. In the past month, Alameda County received around 31,000 in state grant money to buy an unmanned aerial system known to some as a drone. The devices have live hd quality video and infrared capability. And thats raising the concerns of Civil Li
Your realtime captioner is mrs. Linda Marie Macdonald. Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, january 15. Good to have you with us. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now 6 01. A San Francisco community rocked by an explosion last night. Police detonated a bomb found in the sunset district after getting reports about a suspicious device. Reporter im cate caugiran live in the newsroom. Only on kpix 5 exclusive never beforeseen video of the aftermath of the asiana plane crash at San Francisco airport. Taking a look now at this video, it shows how a teenaged survivor got run over by a fire truck. Reporter im anne makovec live in antioch near the delta where there was a very big fire burning on a tiny island. Coming up, we will show you the devastation and the some of the challenges for firefighters. Reporter fire danger running high around the bay area again today. We are seeing a very strong ridge of High Pressure and some offshore winds. The winds particularly gusty over the m
Hello. Islamist militants who have overrun large areas of Northern Iraq are urging supporters to march on the capital baghdad. On tuesday they took control of mosel but there are conflicting reports about who holds the birthplace of saddam husain. There is a video which calls for the insurgents not to give up an inch of land they have liberated, as he put it. He urges them to advance to the capital describing it as the baghdad of the group. There is a score to settle. Hes speaking on behalf of the leader of isis. Who is he . The 42yearold is believed to have been born north of baghdad in samara. Nicknamed the invisible sheikh for wearing a mask when he addresses al qaeda. There are only a few photos of him and he doesnt appear in video messages. Reports suggest he was radicalized during years but hasnt sworn allegiance to the al qaeda murk. The u. S. Offered a 10 million reward for information leading to his capture or death. As Richard Lister explains. Reporter the sunni militants swe
Energy needs and friendlier towards their environment. So why are we doing this . We have got to make the tough decisions. The tough decision has to be made in conjunction with our colleagues on the Senate Finance committee and all the members. I happen to serve on both committees that we need to have the revenues necessary to support a longterm surface transportation reauthorization. We have to recognize the realities of the current revenue flow into the Transportation Trust fund is inadequate as its based on the gasoline tax in the we have been very effective at bringing down the volume in regards to the use of gasoline and or efficient engines alternative ways so we need to look at ways we can have an adequate source so i hope he would be open to things such as carbon fees or other ways to get the revenues necessary but i know transportation is a bipartisan issue and senator inhofe has been one of the great leaders moving forward on infrastructure. Senator vitter also strongly suppo
Allow their employees to be able to help out as poll workers on election day and then to have sufficient training. Your report also talked about importance of access the information in languages other than english, including outlets in other languages, outreach to nonenglish media outlets, bilingual poll workers. I know weve made some effort in minnesota with voters with asian and Pacific Islander groups, and why our efforts so important . Want to stress, that the broader theme that the commission struck, and i think its well within its charge, is improving the Voter Experience for language minority voters to go to the polls and to find that theres nobody there to help them who can speak the language successfully. It is simply not consistent with our been the kind of experience to all of our voters, that all of our voters deserve. And as we pointed out, there is support by federal law, this congress has tendered to these voters and the statutes that provide for this protection are not