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KTVU KTVU News December 24, 2012

Good evening. With a special presentation with the channel 2 newsroom. In this program well present series of recent special report thats have affected change here in the bay area and impact your daily life. We begin where the port of oakland a 7 billion operation. In one case, the spending happened at a private room karaoke bar that some people suggest its a front for prostitution. Reporter for several nightings we recorded a parade of women many dropped off going into this downstairs bar on 14th street in midtown oakland. Its a familiar scene neighbors say theyve been concerned about for years. The first thing i thought, theres just too many of them to be waitresses in this place. Reporter the business build itself as a private room karaoke bar. Is where port of oakland spent 550 last career. The receipt shows his credit card was charged 1 44 in the morning. They were like whats going on down there. Is this like some kind of weird prostitution thing going on . Reporter when we visited bart, bar, a regular there told us you can get girls here. In an online review, a customer said he was shown 6 women and asked which one do you want. Can you tell us what business you run here . We found the bar manager out front. What about all the girls come in here. You seeing girls . This night club, karaoke. Its like guy and female and not connection here. Recover reporter you have a Love Connection here . Anybody playing to be with these girls . No. Thats what i know. I dont really know. Reporter we discovered the receipt at cafe juliet. Much like quan, we found Lawrence Duncan was reimbursed for thousands of dollars public money spent at exclusive hotels overseas suchs such as in china. Duncan made repeat visits to the International Club a restaurant and massage parlor in china. Shouldnt the port already known about these expenses . Its a mixture of shock and dismay. Reporter the now sights an ongoing investigation. Were going to get to the bottom. Reporter that is the answer the port spokesman gave to almost every one of our questions. Why would the port approve of these expenses . This is all part of the investigation. Were going to get to the bottom of the matter. Theyre doing this because they can get away with it. Reporter marvin brown is a professor of Business Ethics and author of a book called corporate integrity. He says changing the culture goes beyond putting an executive on paid leave. What these events tell us is the kind of world thats being created by the people managing the port of oakland. Report as for Lawrence Duncan mr. Duncan that is Eric Rasmussen. We tried to reach him directly for his explanation. Were still waiting for a response. We are outraged. The media has exposed what weve known all along. What we uncovered set off a series of protest of oakland workers. Workers were furious. Our report put the report top officials and its board on defensive and launch a series of external and internal investigations. The Port Commission placed director on administrative leave. As our investigation continued, we discovered it was more than oakland port officials visiting that same private room karaoke bar. Some Oakland Police made repeated visits to that same place. Here again Eric Rasmussen raising question about what Police Officers are dynamic on the clock. Reporter we catched the same scene play out at cafe juliet in midtown oakland. Our camera recorded women in skimpy clothing figure into the downtown business. A minivan dropped off as many as 7 him at a women at a time. Others say the scene we observed has been going on for years. She told us its not just the women and mostly male clientele that have her concerned. Weve seen a Police Officer go in and out sometimes at night. Sometimes police car parked out here for a couple hours. Reporter on our first night outside the bar, a marked Police Cruiser parked in front of us. Moments later we watched sergeant go inside. Next night youngs cruiser was back again. It was another officer in another patrol car who parked and went inside. As soon as he left just before midnight Sergeant Young returned on his third pass of the night, young drove through the parking lot next to cafe juliet. Just quick question for you, cafe juliet on 14th street. Why are you there night after night . Because my friend works there. Reporter Sergeant Young spoke to us. Are you doing this as a favor to your friend . No. My friend works there. Not owner, not anything else. Reporter is that the reason youre giving this seems to be a lot of your time . I will go down there when im off and i stay there. Reporter don offered a different explanation when we told him about our video visiting a bar in uniform during his shift. I do Security Check there. What happens, can we talk off camera for a second . Reporter he said he couldnt elaborate because of an investigation. Young insist theres nothing illegal happening inside of cafe juliet. I had a regular tell me flat out you can get girls here. Thats completely untrue. I cant say for a fact because i dont follow the people home. Reporter can you tell us what kind of business is being run here . We found the bars manager john out front. What about all the girls we see come in here every night . You see any girl come in here now . Any Police Officer should know as you and i should know whats going on in there. Reporter we showed our video to former Alameda County charles plumper. I would start immediate investigation, absolutely. Right now. Reporter plumber with more than 50 years in Law Enforcement doesnt believe we stumbled into an ongoing investigation. If they were checking on this place, it wasnt be uniform doing it. Report oakland mayor jean quan she expected police chief Howard Jordan will investigate. If he has this information, he will investigate it. I have confidence if theres any misconduct that he will do the right thing. Reporter so far, chief jordan has not responded to our repeated request to interview him, or officer kuo. Howard jordan issued a written response. Chief jordan said, i take these allegations very seriously and the Department Open investigations as soon as the circumstances were brought to my attention. Because these are open investigations, i am limited in what can be discussed. Now to what the state called pay. Taxpayers might think of it as an unwarranted way to rake in extra money for simply going ones job. Debra villalon shows us millions of our tax dollars are handed out. Reporter we asked state workers about pay. Extra pay for the risk. Or a Hazardous Material team. Why would administrators at state headquarters reek in more than a Million Dollars in pay. The emergency was the recession pushing stop staff to put in long hours. I dont know what the rules there. There are different categories. They basically creating their own emergencies by creating a fiscal crisis. Then to handle that crisis, theyre benefiting from it. Reporter credits point to pay record showing supervisors who cant get overtime. The fact theyre doing the ones doing the abuse is shocking to me. They should be representing us. Reporter Employment Development is one of dozens agencies. Boosting managers pay by as much as 1200 a month. Payouts total almost 5 million over 4 years during a time most state employees were being forced into unpaid furloughs. It has to be evaluated by management of our department. Reporter the finance department racked up a Million Dollars in pay. Preparing annual state budget. Its not uncommon to have late nights early mornings in order to meet those constitutional deadlines. Why are they getting paid extra dollars for ding doing their job. Reporter the premium was never meanttor desk jobs. Stuck on days on end at wildfires. Critics look now to Governor Brown who famously took away stay issue cars and cell phones. When we return how keeping something too close to your heart can kill you. Breast cancer strikes more than 200,000 women annually. Killing 1 in 5, 40,000 of them every year. John reveals how young women maybe putting themselves in harms way. Reporter its convenience say many young women. Its probably the most convenient place to put it. Especially when you go out. Its really easy to feel the vibration. If im wearing a dress ever, i slip it in the strap or down in the center. Reporter maybe they should talk to tiffany france. We never took it seriously after she was diagnosed. Reporter tiffany got Breast Cancer at 21. Her tumors where her cell phone were against her skin. Reporter no genetic or other risk factors surgeons removed tiffanys left breast. Reporter donna james also got Breast Cancer at 39. The dots here are where her tumors developed. Her doctor said it was unusual distribution exactly matching her cell phone. This image shows tumors were just under the surface of her skin. All in this area here which is where i tuck my cell phone. Reporter jane said she did that for 10 years. I thought cell phones were safe. I was under the impression that they were. Reporter breast surgeon lisa bailey tell me cell phone related Breast Cancer maybe common. But doctors rarely ask about phones. I looked at this random case. Would this be in a place where cell phone would have been carried . Very likely. I would never wear a cell phone immediately next to my body. I would advise all women not to do that. Reporter nevertheless bras like these are now on the markets with pockets for cell phones. Doctors say it may be the heat of the battery or the radio frequency radiation that make these risky especially for younger women. These young breasts are in the early evolution, are more sensitive to changes. Reporter Breast Cancer specialist john west are now sounding a warning. They say men are also getting Breast Cancer under cell phones in shirt pocket. The Wireless Industry denies theres a problem citing lack of scientific evidence. There is no evidence, thats because we havent studied it. Until further data disproves it. I would keep cell phones away from the body. Reporter you should read the manufacturers fine print. The iphone manual says keep the phone less than 10 meters away from body party. It might save a life. It might chemotherapy. I am convinced that her cell phones has caused her Breast Cancer. Reporter if there is a risk and we dont find out 5 or 10 years from now, we will see a whole cluster of young people with Breast Cancer. Doctors say better save than sorry. We have a lot of are reaction from this story from both men and women. Paula wrote, please ladies do not carry your cell phone in your bra. Radiation sitting right on your chest ask a recipe you dont want to take a chance with. Charles wrote, i dont believe this 100 . Just phones do have radiation but cause cancer . Why isnt there a case with someone having brain cancer . We have a lot more information for you on ktvu. Com. Its a painful debilitating medical condition. It seems to be inflicting more and more young people. Reporter 24yearold Nursing Student told us it started as a painful wrist patch. When i got shingles, i was out of work for 2 weeks. Reporter pain spread to several spots. She blamed stress. I was unaware i was stressed. To me, i thought i i was busy. Reporter 25yearold brian got shingles. Former cardinals angel tony larussa forced him to retire. The pain can go on usually for a couple or 3 weeks and on occasion can be permanent. Reporter david wits says shingles was once thought a problem for the elderly. Study show 75 of us have the chickenpox virus. When around kids with chickenpox, adults get sort of immune boost and rarely get shingles. Doctors say this vaccine can cut your chance of shingles in half. You can think of it like a chickenpox booster. Give it when youre old enough to protect you when youre 80 and young enough to have the low risk of shingles. Reporter just a bigger dose, the shingle vaccine is approved for age 50 and older. It can be really painful. I hear it keeps people from doing quite a bit. I hope i can avoid it. Reporter doctors say one way, reduce stress. Reporter paula says shes controlling her stress, one bottle of shingles was enough. When we return, our investigation to help parolees including sex offenders are using court order to cut off their court order from going back to prison. When sex offenders go on parole gps tracking devices are a condition of that parole. Of almost 1200 at large offenders violating the tracker mandate almost a thousand are sex offenders and could be in or close to your neighborhood. Reporter this department of corrections website may come as you a surprise. Updated daily it shows at large parolees bailed on the gps monitoring system. It includes many sex offenders from bay area county such as ronnie cook guilty of Sexual Battery and darrell from Alameda County guilty of wild molestation. If youre a sex offender and youre on the loop, youre looked for. Reporter ktvu obtained this whistleblower letter. You take your ankle monitor off, that suppose the great tool to take care of the really bad guys. They take area ankle monitor off, bye. No problem. Reporter Assembly Bill 109 was realignment bill that change the way the california prison system operate and removed the ability of the state to return sex offender to prison. If youre a sex offender and youre on the run, thats not a low level violation folks. Thats big serious. Reporter weve learned that one big problem is cutting off the gps tracking device is not a felony. If an offender does it, he is not isnt back to prison. This kind of misdemeanor will nod land a person back in county jail for long. Depending on what county youre in. If youre in Fresno County, theyre not taking parole violators because of overcrowding. Reporter sex offenders in Fresno County who parole are not caught because over crowding. After pouring through hundreds of pages, we found Maurice Ortiz was arrested for failing are register as a sex offender. He is now back behind bars but for less than 5 months. After we aired our story, state senator ted leu we plans on introducing legislation very soon making it a felony for any parolee to disable their gps device. Well, well, well. Growing up, we didnt have uverse. We couldnt record four shows at the same time. In my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. And if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george, thats all we watched. And we liked it todays kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv with a total home dvr included free for life. Only 29 a month for six months. Rethink possible. Whether its the Salvation Army bell, the person to person touch works best at the door bay area stores, malls and street corners. Rita william launched a 4 month investigation and she learned how one charity was padding its pocket instead of helping the helpless. Reporter giver beware. You give but where does your money go . How do you know . Do you feel bad youre collecting under false pretenses . If youre legitimate, why are you running away . We taped this woman who called herself dee, collecting money in san jose for rose lee house. Rose house. Its in santa clara county. Shes a con artist. People thinking theyre giving money. Reporter thats why this shopper contact us. We watched dee arrive before dawn to get a spot in front of a target store and stay until well after dark. We saw people give her money lots of it. In return she gave them a sucker. How much have you given to rose a. Lee . 10 or 15. Reporter we dug down and found the story was much bigger. I know its a scam. Reporter navy veteran dean harvey said a year in a half ago he was homeless in san jose and recruited by the same folks. On the collections, its a 60 40. You get 60 and they get 40. Reporter with zero left with the charities he says nonexistence. I was hungry and broke. Reporter we visited the real rosea lee house in San Francisco. Folks there say they have great need. Im meteorologist mark tamayo. Still, some heavy rain to report in the santa cruz mountains. In fact, a Flash Flood Warning remains in place for the river around felton. River levels will be cresting shortly. Well continue to move the maps around to show you the activities. The heaviest rain to south and east of san jose. We have a Flash Flood Warning posted here about another 45 minutes to an hour or so. That could be changing for the National Weather service. This area has experienced decrease in the rain rate and San Francisco creek out toward palo alto. Up in the north, activity really backing off. Santa rosa reporting partly cloudy skies. Napa river currently just above flood stage and still going up until 8 00 this morning forecasting to crest at 17. 2 feet. Napa river napa will continuing to up as well. Thats the latest information from the river forecast center. Russian river at hillsburg, not even approaching flood stage but guerneville just approaching flood stage. About a foot below flood stage. Well continue to keep eye on the warnings and watches. We will have more updates throughout the evening hours and the complete forecast wrap on the 10 00 news tonight. He said he will call me back with an tax i. D. Number and an attorney will call me. 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