While the ropes and now this fake body are being investigated some people here in oakland have taken it upon themselves to patrol the lake to get more eyes on whats going on just my stomach turned and i couldnt believe what i was seen a fake body hanging from a noose on a tree near Lake Merritt Police say the person who reported the hate crime took it down and when officers arrived they found this material stuffed in the shape of the human body with a rope tied around the torso and neck laying on the ground next to a tree with an American Flag flying next to it. Any symbol of hate any symbol of violence does not have a place in Oakland Oakland police say they notified the fbi and both agencies are working to identify who was responsible for this and the nooses found hanging in the trees around the lake on tuesday both incidents are being classified as hate crimes in vigorous us. To escalate our patrols to watch more to be better a Community Safety organization is asking the community t
Golden gate, we take you to the sunshine state. A florida man is proof that not all heroes wear capes. Some maybe wear bunny suits. Take a look at this. This happened on Easter Sunday in orlando. Antoine mcdonald was wearing a bunny costume and said he saw an altercation between a man and woman. He started wailing at this unidentified man. This fight ended when finally an Orlando Police officer arrived and told everyone hey, go your separate ways. No one was arrested in this instance and there were no injuries reported but the stranger in the bunny suit obviously feeling like he needed to step in and break up that argument between the man and the woman there. I dont know if thats a good decision. I think the bunny suit maybe softened some of the blows. I was thinking it probably hindered his movement. You see someone in distress, of course you go and help them. Not something you see every day. Someone in a bunny costume swinging away. Speaking of swinging, the oakland as had a nice win
the interstate transport of marijuana. in october, 2016 two men were killed and one woman shot in the face in sebastopol after a crew from philadelphia allegedly killed them over pot. the suspects in that case, robert randolph and maria lebron from philly, still have murder warrants out for their arrest. it s cases like these leaving sonoma county in a legal lurch. we are investing any marijuana robbery, any home invasion type stuff that occurs in sonoma county. we ll follow where it takes us, but we re not routinely worried about interstate commerce because that s more of a federal issue. reporter: at least until there s a standard federal law or similar state laws in place nationwide about marijuana. it s up for each state to decide, but you got to think that if marijuana was legal in every state, it would drive the prices down. the commodity would be up and it wouldn t be such a valuable commodity for the black market. reporter: in sonoma county, andria borba, k
claimed this stretch of lexington avenue near grand central because there is a lot of traffic and a security camera nearby. and she says she feels safer here than in a shelter. i have issues. i work in midtown so it s pretty bad. reporter: most new yorkers we interviewed today told us they see more homeless on the streets. i m not used to seeing so many homeless people. i tend to give money. reporter: some give money or food. others call 311. but today city officials are pushing back after reports that the number of 311 calls about the homeless jumped from 12,700 last year to more than 20,000 calls for the same time period this year. mayor de blasio spokeswoman says since the city has been publicizing their new 311 app, 311 calls about all subjects are up. and that the percentage of calls about the homeless is still relatively small, and unchanged. city officials insist, street homelessness is actually down 5% since last year and they say that perception of homele
intercept information and leave the backpack plugged in somewhere, that s so much low risk than trying to rob a bank. watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. four former chiefs of star, two from the u.s. joint chiefs and two of the joint staff of japan s defense ministry participated in a panel discussion friday on the importance and future of the u.s./japan military alliance. this is almost two hours. good afternoon. i m glad to see our audience survived the flash flood warning. i m michael green, senior vice president for asia and japan here at csis and professor at georgetown. and as the csis host i want to do our usual safety announcement. we survived the flash flood. if for any reason we need to evacuate, it s my responsibility to give you instructions. and the general rule is we ll go out the way you came in and we ll make our way to either national geographic, which is around the corner, or we ll go straight down rhode island to st. matthews.