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Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News At 9 On KOFY 20111104



concrete thrown at the police overnight as occupy oakland protestors turn ugly. police make more than 100 arrest. >> i remain wanting to speak to the occupy oakland people. needing to speak with them. and hoping that they will speak with us. >>reporter: and tonight oakland mayor says she wants to meet face-to-face with the occupy protestors. good evening. >> last night there was an eruption in the streets of oakland. 3 protestors open licensed. several police suffered minor injuries. tonight signs of backlash against the protestors from those who say they have just gone too far. neal begins the coverage. >> about a rabling of fresh graffiti. this woman. >> i don't see any positive message. overnight a violent run in between protestors and police 100 arrest and frustration that the movement is being hijacked by a destructive minority. >> i don't like the fire or graffiti. most are not doing those things. >> so is this movement aimed at corporate greed and corruption which gained so much popular traction so quickly in danger of snuving itself out. >> very, very small segment of what has happened small amount of violence enough ultimately to stop a movement. >> and tonight the oakland city council is holding a special meeting on the occupy movement. the questions and concerns are now plentiful. lillian at the council meeting tonight with what is happening there. lillian. >> overwhelming i. >> occupy movement. speaker after speaker addresses city council urging them to adopt a rest logs to come out in in support of occupy oakland. people representing the business community offered a different point of view. many people said yesterday general strike was inspiration and oakland should be proud of the thousands of people who participated. occupy suppor supporters say the violence that took place afterward by small group of anarchist shouldn't detract from the positive movement. police used tear gas and grenade to dispwawrs crowd that hit window and sprayed graffiti any do you want oakland. the people ended up being arrested. >> what happened late last night should not be should not over shadow what beautiful thing happened yesterday and this morning -- we made up for that. we came together as a community. people came out. they cleaned graffiti. they fixed things. they said they were sorry. they went to business owners and how can we help. >> occupy oakland is bigger much bigger than oakland and we have an opportunity to lead in this city. >> we have had several conversations with businesses that are saying they will consider not renewing their leases. unless something is done and done medley. damage to the property is unacceptabl unacceptable. the violence is uncalled for. >> last we checked council members had yet to speak. so far they just been listening to each speaker. they could take action tonight such as adopting resolution support and accommodate the occupy movement or they could come out against it and order the camp removed or could use nothing. that is latest from oakland. lil i don't know abc 7 news. >> we'll see what the decision is. thank you very much. >> one downtown oakland real estate developer held a loaded gun during the chaos to keep protestors from breaking in one building near frank ogawa plaz plaza. he helped lead 50th million dollar project to rae develop the building on 16th street. he watched the crowd take over the traveler aid building right across the street. >> we were armed and that was the deterrent from keeping them from coming in the building and we basically just had a stand off you could say until the mr mr. is came to move the rioter rioters. the anarchist. >> he says that occupy protestors expression their first amendment rights are infringing on the rights of the others who live work own property in downtown oakland. >> oakland police still compiling estimates of the damage done by vandal last nature around frank gases plaz plaza. windows smashed walls smeared with graffiti. who is to blame for all this. as mark explains, business owners are split. >> early this morning the steam cleaning crew were already hard at work. and there was lots of work. window knocked out at the wells fargo bank and the same at small coffee shop that has been supportive of the occupy movement from the beginning. >> i totally blame this on the city. the way things have been handled is totally out of control. >> owner of this coffee shop says the mayor should take more responsibility. the president of the oakland chamber of commerce says the same. >> go over and talk to the restaurants in the plaza. they are about to close. we have tenant in some of the buildings there that are saying gee do i want to renew my lease. down the block from the city hall at the cafe dishes of food awaited customers that didn't show. at lunch time the place was practically empty. he tells me her business is down 50%. >> yesterday was is so much overload over loyshtiond she closed the cafe yesterday for fear of what was happening all around the business. she's tended for nearly 20 years. >> we can't be like that. just nervous. at the end of the day we don't have, trouble with window don't sleep at night. >>reporter: right across the street from theen kahn campment the owner of the rising loafer cafe says the occupy protest has helped. >> city saw increase in sales. >>reporter: about how much. >> 24 cents more or less. >>reporter: occupy oakland camp held a meeting this afternoon and voted to good to the businesses and explain that vandalism was not their doing. some took to scrubbing the graffiti. >> this was not part of the movement. i think it was largely perpetrated by people that just kind of want to get in the lime light. >>reporter: smrirnt group known as black block its being blamed. >> people coming in. want to cause trouble. >>reporter: ryan was running the occupy meeting that voted to offer help to the victims of last night rampage. >> people throughout right now go to the businesses and the people and asking them if what we can do to help. >>reporter: so i asked ryan what he would say to business owner whose would tell him the best way to help, go away. he told me the movement is bigger than anybody's individual business and those disgruntled business owners are free to express themselves at the movement next general assembly. on 14 street, abc 7 news. >> all right moving on now to some other news. california watch reports tonight that heads are rolling at san jose base solar company after dreadful earnings report that is found to intensify criticism of solar subsidy. sun power lost tlel 70 million dollars last quarter barely a month after the u.s. energy department granted the company a 1.2 billion dollar loan. sun power says it will reduce the work force and the chief financial officer is rae signing. another big silicon valley company announce new round ofly offs today. advance micro device sunnyvale chip maker will cut 10% of the work force, 1400 jobs, because computer sales are weak. a.m. d hopes the global cut will help save 200 million dollars in operating expenses next year. l san francisco public defender releasing new piece of videotape tonight. video he claims shows yet another case of police misconduct. vick lee tonight with the story and that tape. >> if i was detained and no particular reason by several police officers. >>reporter: store owner charles tran says a police officer arrested him in august while he was simply reporting a fight that happened between his employee and a truck driver. public defender says the officer falsely accused tran of taking a fighting stance. >> dishonesty of this kind can not be tolerated. we are calling today for a sear tolerance policy. >> this security tape show what is happens and undercover cop leaves while tran talks to yawn formed officer. he says the officer pushed him away for no reason cuffed him. then pinned against a wall he says the officer used aexcessive force by kicking tran leg out causing him to fall. >> i don't think that there's a smoking gun here. that mr. tran would suggest. >>reporter: police chief says he saw tran make a fist while his hand was at his side. >> that speaks to him clinching a fist. shows it in the video. he does posture which would appear to be offensive. then in the report it speaks to fighting stance. >>reporter: he also says the officer was trying to help tran sit down when he kicked the le legs out. >> maybe it would have been better if the officer actually would have had hands on the upper body but i think if you view the video nothing appears to be over the top. >>reporter: he's a candidate for mayor. interim mayor ed lee also running question the timing of the video release. >> i'm hoping that he isn't using this time frame to unveil video that he may have had in his hand because again that's kind of sfm smoke campaigning if you will. >>reporter: he says his investigation ended just this week. and that he did consider holding the video until after the election. but he says he deferred to the victim and his family. >> after meeting with the individuals they expressed they wanted to go forward. >>reporter: well he also spoke of 5 cases where he says mission station officers stole property and cash during searches all of these cases and the video have been turned over to the fbi. the chief gave the video to internal affairs. this is 7 news. >> other big story we follow for you is in southern california. trial of dr. conrad murray. tonight 2 years, 4 months and 9 days after michael jackson death the case is in the hands of the jury now. the the diana on today's closing arguments. >>reporter: prosecutors wasted no time in getting writ to the point. >> the evidence in this case is aabundantly clear that conrad murray actd with criminal negligence. that conrad murray caused the death of michael jackson. >>reporter: next came point by point outline of the way they say murray neglected his responsibilities as physician. that he intentionally misled hospital staff and investigators. that he cared more for the money than for his client. >> he hit the lottery. pechls going to get 150,000 dollars a month. >>reporter: defense attorney counter by claiming jackson was so desperately addicted to propofol he gave himself the fatal dose. >> they want you to convict dr. murray l for the actions of michael jackson. it doesn't matter whether you leave the room and you go outside and play basketball or you leave the house or you make phone calls. it doesn't matter. dr. murray did not kill the michael jackson. >>reporter: 2 different stories. one jury. one decision on murray's fate. all in the hands of the jury now. the judge dismissed them for the nature. they will be back tomorrow morning to begin deliberating just one charge involuntary manslaughter. the this is abc news, los angeles. much more ahead for you this november 3rd coming up local school district puts up solar panel that neighbors consider an eye sore. >> i feel in like our whole neighborhood has been violated. >> abc 7 news i team look noose how the district got away with it. >> i'm in the accu-weather forecast center. chill in the air along with some moisture. how long will this last. the answer in my accu-weather forecast coming up. >> also ahead. political rival team up to make allegations of illegal money laundering in the san francisco mayor's race pl. >> what might be the picture of san francisco mayor's race pl. >> what might be the picture of the day. i'll explain as the >> muni straelt car hit a pedestrians tonight in san francisco. happened before 5:30 at 19 avenue and randall street. she was taken to the hospital. is expected to be okay. muni is talking with the operator to find out exactly how this happened. san francisco mayor election is just 5 days away and tonight there is a renewed call for investigations into possible wrongdoing by suppor supporters of incumbent mayor ed lee. the mayor is not under scawt any but as carolyn reports, his rival certainly say he is still to blame. >> early voting is well under way in san francisco. now some mayor candidate say the integrity of the election process is in question. because of the tactic of some mayor ed lee supported. >> interim may is not pongs us pilot. can't take the tough issues 10 just walk away and wash your hands and pretend it hasing in to do with you. >> some of the other conditioned dads are perhaps maybe lack of a better word a little desperate. >> at the heart of the latest controversy an e-mail obtained by abc 7 news. in it a man named andrew hawkins cohen tells associates to kilometer to fundraiser. bring the checkbook and write a check for 500 for ed lee donation. you will be reimbursed right away. that appears to be a form of money laundering that is against state law. lee says just lake his rival he is calling on the district attorney and the state to investigate. >> we have answered all those allegations and actually turned over our documents to the da for them to look at and investigate. so not much to comment on that other than we are running clean xaichbility 100 percent compliance. >>reporter: new alleges come on the heel of an event in china town mr. lee support remembers accused of manipulating the balance of some voters. also being investigated. as well as campaign contributions by an airport shuttle company. >> to me 3 criminal investigation in one election cycle is pretty dramatic. >> with the election just 5 days away the candidate say it is imperative that the da conclude the investigations and announce the results but an expert on mayor politic at sf state doesn't believe the controversy will have an impact on the election. >> for people strongly supported people strongly against them will add fall to that as well. so at the end of the day it's not going to matter that much total voters. >>reporter: approximately 45,000 absentee ballot have already been cast. in san francisco, carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. >> let's switch gear and talk about the weather here and elsewhere. she you this picture live from lake tahoe. snow furious. leif picture from the heavenly ski resort tonight. wind is blowing up there as well. >> yes. >> lacks like winter up there to be sure. starting to feel like it around here. spencer is here with a forecast. >> much cooler. temperatures today dropped off about 20 to 25 degrees below yesterday. sharp drop in 24 hours. few rain drop around but of course no snow yet. we don't expect snow here anyhow but they didn't expect it in tahoe either. live view from the high definition roof top camera looking along the embarcadero ferry building there. bay bridge in the background. at the moment in this part of the bay area things are quiet right now. no rainfall. there is a spot precipitation to the south down in the santa cruz mountains around pest ka dare a.batch of moisture moved on shore. most of the rainfall we have seen around the area this evening, today and this evening is quite late. many locations reporting no measurable rainfall at all and other location just a trace. concord 1/100ths of an inch. livermore 4/100ths of an inch. is 9/100ths at half moon bay. lack at our current temperature readings. 77 in santa rosa. 48 napa. 49 fair field and concord 48 in los gatos and low 50s in most other locations. these are our highlights. we'll see a few more showers overnight. valley frost tomorrow night into saturday morning so it gets even colder than it is now more showers likely late saturday. satellite radar composite image shows the cold front that brought us showers we have had today and tonight pushing through the area. cold air follow it which is why we have the expectation of frost tomorrow nature. start the forecast animation 11:00 o'clock tonight at which point we see few light showers around the bay area that may continue overnight into the early morning hours and then beginning rush hour few wet spots and taper off by moderate morning. looking at dray conditions around most of the bay area. in the sierra however winter weather advisory in effect until 5:00 o'clock tomorrow morning. 3 to 6 inches of snow above 7000 feet two to 4 inches above 4000 fee feet. chain control are possible. back to the bay area tonight low in the 30's. clover dale santa rosa and napa so once again the north bay will be our coldest region. 40's in most other spots then tomorrow under partly cloudy conditions we see high pressure only in the upper 50's to right around 60. that is as warm eights gets tomorrow. cool day come our way and monteray bay upper 50's near the bay. upper 50's to 60's inland. here's the 7 day forecast we are not going to see much of an increase in temperature until maybe midweek next week and even then a few degrees above what we see tomorrow very, very chilly froyingt tomorrow night. showers. don't for connecticut to set the clock back saturday night. fall back to standard time. dray next week but chance of showers on wednesday and high pressure not much above 62 or 64 degrees. >> changes. >> yes. >> spencer thanks is that check thought picture. wild one. this next story could be rhino l hair. they were dangled from chord tied to the ankle and carried far away from the south african hills and far away from poachers. conservationist used a military helicopter to carry the herd of rhino to the new home. weird picture. endangered animal put to sleep and hoisted one at a time for 15 mile flight. the roads were inaccessible and animal too heavy to transport any other way. remarkable. >> as we continue the world economy teeter as high stake game of political brink manship plays out in greece. coming. china says it could lend plays out in greece. coming. china says it could lend billions but there is a catch >> also ahead. new lending library for kendall users >> also ahead. new lending . >> asian stock market up sharply in friday trading after greece prime minister abandoned a referendum on the country bailout and the area pine central bank cut interest rates in a surprise move. the whole thing is playing out at the g 20 meeting going on in france. david explains how the chinese with all of the cash are hovering in the wings. >> after hearing the anger here at the summit firsthand greece prime minister abandoned the plan to allow the greek people to vote on the bailout themselves and instead offered a 40 minute plea today. training to convince them that this european rest caw deal is the only way to save greece and the global economy. president obama huddled with french president and german chancello chancellor. white house saying today that this european bailout plan would built in protection is needed to prevent collapse. >> most important aspect of our task is to resolve the financial crisis here in europe. >>reporter: where stock have taken a beating back home because of worries over greece. not lost in the group photo today, china. the president quietly standing there. chinese have said don't look to us. telling area pine leaders they are confident that europe has all the wisdom and capability to fix the problem. beijing said could it lend billions but if and only if there's proof the bailout will work. china of course is already largest holder of u.s. debt. abc news. >> now greece vote of confidence will be taken tomorrow but wall street seems satisfied today. dow jones gained more than 200 points. nasdaq rose almost 60 and the s&p 500 added 23. remember asian market are already up on friday. see what happens on wall street tomorrow. oracle one of the biggest beneficiary of today upturn. oracle stock rose 2 and a half percent today making more than 900 million dollars richer today. well, other business news. starting today kindle users will have access to amazon new e book lending library. selection of book only about 5000 that's because none of the top publisher are participatin participating. they are worried the library could hurt 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