Shops. About a half dozen downtown businesses got hit last night, including the metro pcs store. They took all of our phones, they took the cash, they took the safe, everything. The display case, everything. Reporter take a look at this cell phone video a witness took of the looters cleaning the store out. Were right down the street from the Police Department. Like, its not right. Reporter across the street at smart and final, more of the same. Cell phone video shows the crowd breaking in and then helping themselves to the merchandise. I am so upset about what happened in oakland last night. It is unacceptable that people are trashing our businesses. It make me feel bad, because this is not proving anything. And innocent people getting hurt. Their property getting tore up. And it doesnt make any sense. Reporter the vandalism is drawing outrage from across the city. What the started as a peaceful protest quickly grew to a crowd of 2,000. Three officers were injured, including one who wa
Should buy the morning after pill. When an officer takes over the texting posing as the alleged victim he writes in comments jumbled and auto corrected, you shot not have had sex with me after i was knocked out. Mcdonald replied, i didnt do anything wrong, lake you told me before you started coming on to me. At that point the officer posing as the alleged victim answers, how can i come on to youfy was drunk and woozy . Mcdonald seems apprehensive and says, okay so now it seems like youre trying to set me up. I thought we had a connection and we liked each other. Mcdonald told police he had Video Surveillance of the encounter. Legal analyst steven clark says it could take more. What is going to be key is what did the witnesses see . Its not going to just be hack donald against the accuser. Aldon smith was with ray mcdonald the next day and perhaps that night. Is he going to come forward in court . Reporter clark also points out that if smith violated his dui probation by drinking, he ma
That was robert handa reporting for us. Coming up at 6 00, more about that video and why witnesses including 49er aldon smith could be crucial to the outcome. The man convicted of setting more than a dozen fires in san jose back in january learned his fate today. As part of a plea deal Patrick Brennan will plead guilty to over a dozen charges. He will be sentenced to 40 years to life in prison. The Deputy District Attorney says that deal requires brennan to serve these 38 years before eligible for parole. He will likely never be released. Sen 10ing is set for february. The high tides are turning bay area roads into ponds. Theyre the socalled king tides. They arrived this weekend. While theyre only a minor inconvenience today, they come with a serious longterm warning. Mark matthews joins us live from marin county which was part of that area flooded by the king tides today. Reporter the king tide reached its highest point a few minutes before 11 00 this morning. It flooded the highway 1
Vehicle. The suspect then took off. Pursuit followed. During the chase, one officer fired a shot that hit the suspects car. The suspect tried to run after he crashed but was caught. The injured officer is expected to recover. Its not clear exactly how he was hurt. But he may have been hit by the suspects vehicle. Oakland teen declared brain dead is on a ventilator this morning after getting an 11th hour reprieve. A judge stepped in and stopped Childrens Hospital oakland from taking jahi mcmath off the ventilator. Kpix 5s andria borba reports her family wasnt given a lot of time. Im not trying to hold on to a corpse. That is a live girl in there. Reporter at 4 00, with an hour to spare before jahi mcmaths vent was to be turned off inside ventilator was to be churned off inside the hospital, an Alameda County judge stopped it giving the family a reprieve until january 7. Today was a real hard day for me. Like i said, i just felt like my daughter was on death row and no mother should feel
His command. The world is watching. The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. Pelley so why did the president say it today . David martin hat the pentagon has been talking to his sources. Reporter this is a commercial satellite photo of a Syrian Chemical Weapons base. U. S. Monitoring of roughly two dozen bases like this indicates the assad regime has begun preparing its chemical weapons for use. Orders have been issued to bring together chemical ingredients which are normally stored separately for safety, but when combined form a deadly nerve agent sarin. Throughout months of heavy fighting, intelligence analysts said assad remained confident he would defeat the uprising. Now the fighting has crept so close to damascus that airliners are refusing to land and syria experts say the regime may have pushed the panic button. Although the Syrian For