Insight. Good evening. Now the new police chief is trying something new, 12 officers working in teams of 2 dedicated to writing the trains with a focus on nights and weekends. We have details live from oaklands lake merritt station. Reporter this new train patrol started this evening, bart says it is not systemwide but is done Crime Statistics and calls for service. It is likely a crime will be committed. Reporter bart describes the high visibility deployment of 12 new officers dedicated to walking platforms and writing trains is a shift in strategy. The officers will be responding to all levels of crime. Any quality of life crimes like somebody does not have proof of payment or they may be causing a disturbance reporter 10 of the 12 new officers are veterans of other Law Enforcement agencies. They will ride trains with a focus on downtown open and San Francisco. Looking for anybody who needs help or suspicious persons. Their ships start at 2 pm in and at midnight seven days a week wit
Window. The intersection at mission boulevard taken over sunday night. A video posted on youtube shows cars spinning in circles performing doughnuts and burnouts as passengers hang out of windows dangerously close to spectators. If that was not enough, at one point a Christmas Tree is set on fire. We are not sure if they let the tree on fire and left it in the middle of the roadway as a distraction for us or if they did it just to be destructive. Reporter when officers arrived, they were met by a hostile crowd. They saw a large amount of vehicles leaving the area and somebody threw a bottle at one of the patrol vehicles. Reporter police in fremont were busy as well responding to similar activity in north fremont from 6 pm through 10 pm. A sideshow backed up traffic on interstate 580. Police say sideshows are now a common in union city. We are mystified as to what the location was selected. It happens all the time. Reporter residents say it happens more often than they would like, perha
He steered him towards a career in retail and lined up an internship for j. C. Junior and he started understanding retail from those experiences. Thats where he cut his teeth. He had agricultural projects but his plan was to work his way up the store. Is father died from t. B. And j. C. Was at risk of that. His initial move was to come out west to denver of all places and started as a sales clerk in what was called a department store, one of the Main Department stores that has been taken over by dillards. He had the opportunity to use his savings and buy his own butcher shop north of denver. He wasnt happy in a big city and moved. And he had deep religious values that forbade him from drinking. His dad had a big influence. He didnt realize that his greatest clients were the local hotel and chef that was there but the chef expected a bolt of whiskey with every order of meat. J. C. Provided the bolt of whiskey and felt guilty and decided im not going to do it anymore and lost the busines
The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take booktv and American History tv on the road. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we travel to laramie, wyoming. In about ten minutes, hear about the influence that the Energy Industry has in the state of wyoming, and then after that, a visit to ivanson mansion to learn about the early days of the city. Then, in about 45 minutes, hear how the sport of rodeo became a symbol of the american west. We begin our special feature with a conversation about retail pioneer jcpenney. Like most people in wyoming at the turn of the century, he was a transplant. He was born and raised in missouri, but i think j. C. Penney was a country boy at heart. I think we see that in terms of the life that he lived. Even though he was in wyoming for roughly ten years and spent the balance of his life in new york city, he never lost that essence of who he really was as this country boy who liked small towns. And so when you lo