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Gascones. A panel of lawyers spent a year looking into the inner workings. The preliminary findings that the Department Lacks transparency and accountability and some are engaging in stop and frisk searches and interest is a potential for bias and use of force, the panel said, needs revision. There is no transparency in the process. The panel had mixed responses. Several officers of color said without a doubt there is a culture of bias. And certain officer another nail in the coffin for sfpd. The District Attorney launched a panel after several officers were caught sending racist text messages. He picked the three judge panel to dig into the texting scandal at the same time, a panel of lawyers reviewed the departments policies. And the police union was critical of the report. Doesnt surprise us. This was a witch hunt from the beginning. We knew its for political posturing. He hand picked this, produced and written and costarring george gascone. Three judges will review the findings and come up with a final report. Vic lee, abc7 news. The Police Department has a list of guidelines tonight following a federal review. And. They have to do with how to review critical instances. Whether there is a Community Voice there. The recommendations from the department of justice included establishing a review board that includes community members, and commended police for developing use of force policies with community input. Happening now, protestors are marching abc7 News Reporter joins us live outside city hall with whats happening now. Melanie . A Smaller Group gathered here, weve seen 100 today. This entrance is closed all day. You can see enhances have been opened and guarded by Sheriff Deputies as well as officers. Chief suhr put out a statement and we have not seen anyone come out to speak to the people gathered here. A full day for supporters this morning they circled city hall. One in every day that the Hunger Strikers did not have food in their bodies. We promised them that if theyd start eating, wed continue their action in various creative manners. Were asking for people to walk out of work and school. And join us here at city hall. Im in strong support of the frisco five. Friday, Sheriff Deputies arrested 33 supporters inside city hall. And a deputy struck her on the head with a bought on. I have a couldnt yugs and bruises along my arms. A Sheriffs Office says anyone injured should report it so an internal Affairs Investigation can be completed. We want the chief of police fired and would like the mayor to go, too. In an email statement the chief says he respects the commitment to reform writing we want to Work Together to have the Police Department ready. Pro testers say there will be more activities this week, they wont say what is planned. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Be the first to know if protests disrupt the city where you live by down loading the abc7 news app. New at 6 00 weve received video of a San Francisco muni driver using a racial slur during a dispute over a parking space. Watch. What . Im not black. Your mentality is. Okay. You can see the muni employee was driving a private vehicle. Muni is responding and saying its identified the driver and will take immediate and corrective action. Today marks the key step in the president ial race here in california. Voting kicked off this morning giving people a chance to turn in ballots ahead of the june 7th primary. Experts say its crucial to take extra care when casting an absentee ballot to make sure it gets counted. The reasons are they arrive too late. Hopefully well see a reduction this year. And two, the voter forgets to sign the envelope. And this is a big problem if you dont sign, they cant open it. They wont look at it. They just put it in the rejection pile. The deadline to register is may 23. Have you until may 31 to request a vote by mail ballot. Hillary Clintons Campaign just opened the first office in San Francisco. The Democratic Front runner made stops in the bay area and southern california. Her campaign has two other offices in california, one in oakland. Where she appeared last week and one in l. A. Tonight, clintons rival is headed to california, holding a rally in sacramento. Abc7 news is in the newsroom with a look ahead. Kristin . Reporter sanders speaks at 8 00 tonight but there is a large crowd that is feeling the burn. This is a live picture you can see from the air, just a big turn out here, thousands of supporters grabbing spots near the stage. You can see down there and and in the bleachers. Sanders trailed Hillary Clinton in total delegates for the nomination by a lot, actually. But earlier today, i told a new jersey crowd he would press on to next months primary. Were going to fight for the last vote we can find. There is we spoke to one voter who chose to share his Bigger Picture on the race. At the end of the day, the government for the people not for the politicians. And this is gridlock and makes millions of americans continue to suffer. Tomorrow, democrats and republicans will compete. Nebraska holds a primary for republicans. Nebraska democrats held a caucus back in march. The widow of a hiker murdered last october was in a marin county courtroom. She faced two accused killer. She left the courtroom without talking to the media. She testified about the last time she texted her husband, keith carter before he was found dead near a hiking trail. She took the stand during a preliminary hearing for 23yearold and a third aid to against the other two. If i can get anything for her that means she has hope. The trio is also accused of killing a canadian tourist in golden gate park. Both returned to court in september. Tonight, daily city could agree to create a designated safe space for people to conduct exchanges. A Security Camera would be added to record cars and people, and adding the camera and signs would be 12,000. One bay area family has waited more than 30 years foreclosure, today, it gets a chance to see the man accused of killing their child. At 6 30, hear what happened inside of the Solano County courtroom. Start protecting the bay from harmful pollution, trash. Is that worth one a month for 20 years . Its a question voters will have to answer by election day. Im spencer christian. A warmer weather pattern is coming but will be a brief visit. Ill have the accuweather forecast coming up. You can save hundreds of dollars in the market for leather furniture but what are you getting . That is ahead in this special music plays from one way or another im gonna find y im gonna Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha one way or another im gonna win ya im gonna Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha one way or another im gonna see ya inhales cigarette Alameda County supervisors are asking for a official to step down after using money to pay for trips. Alameda county supervisor wilma chan is poised to act against the embattled executive director of the Asian Community Health Mental services agency. Wed like to see the executive director resign. We feel there have been too many questions raised. The morale of the agency is suffering and we think services are suffering. An audit reveals high staff turnover, and questionable expenses by the executive director. One, the concern is that the board was using funds inappropriately, possibly for his own use. According to the audit, he atened architecture conferences in canada, germany and china the board approved 3,000 for his license and professional development. We could not reach sun at his home or telephone. And none of the agencies returned our emails asking for comment. Employees voiced concerns over the firing last week of four managers including this woman. She declined an interview and told us she believes the dismissal was retaliation for speaking out. Asian Community Mental Health Services is headquarters in chinatown, serving 1300 people, 75 of the 6 million budget comes through Alameda County. Laura anthony, abc7 news. New here at 6 00 a new step forward to make hyper loop a reality. A Company Called hyper loop Transportation Technologies licensed the technology called passive magnetic levitation. The Company Claims this is a cheaper, safer form of magnetic levitation, powering hyper loop pods at speeds of up to 760 Miles Per Hour inside an airless tube. The companys ceo sthez is about improving public transit. The Technologies Company is one of several taking up a challenge to build between l. A. And San Francisco. A working hyper hoop to transport people in just 30 minutes. Next month, voters will get a chance to decide if they want to tax themselves 12 a year to protect San Francisco bay. Its measure aa on the june 7th ballot. Supporters say there is benefit. Measure aa will generate 25 million to clean up trash, remove toxins and address flooding. Many of the Silicon Valley Tech Companies are located next to the bay and are vulnerable to rising waters. The parcel tax will be administered by a joint Powers Authority created by lawmakers. That is a bored of elected official rz from across the region. There will be projects for each county that are touching the way and a portioned depending on, at least in the near term pro, jekts that are ready in the pipeline with funds granted to the activities. Mike rep sents the Silicon Valley leadership group. One of dozens of groups supporting measure aa. They say local taxpayers need to show their commitment. The tax has a 20year life. The region has seen what flooding and rising waters can do after king tide events. Despite pledges, the president of the Taxpayers Association believes north and east bay taxpayers will be helping the south bay instead. Based on what weve been able to calculate, those counties that will be paying a much higher portion of the actual revenue. Two thirds of the votes from all nine counties is needed for passage. David louie, abc7 news. A cloudy weekend gave way to blue skies today. Spencer christian has been tracking weather for the we have clouds around the bay area now. Mainly near the coast and low clouds skies appear clear. And 54 in half moon bay. Here is a view at the golden gate. Its 66 in novato. 71 in fairfield. 69. Here is the view from above low clouds from mount tam. Morning trend develops over the next few days and will have a cooler pattern by the end of the week. Taking a look at fog forecast well see them expanding a bit by morning. Low clouds and fog giving us sunny skies over inland peninsula, 75 in palo alto. And low 60s on the coast. Downtown a high of 67 tomorrow. And north bay valleys upper from santa rosa. Rising temperatures through thursday, temperatures leveling off to around average for this time of the year. Here is the accuweather forecast. Very, we get clouds moving in over the weekend but does not appear to be getting rainfall out of clouds of the its possible to see morning drizzle from low clouds but rain is not in the forecast. Nice to see rain this weekend. Yes. Thank you. Yes. The warriors play game four. Warriors take the court in a little over an hour, but everyone focusing on steph curry. Yes. Mike shumann is in portland live tonight. Shu, will steph play . We have good news here today. Steph curry going to be named mvp again, this season, back to back. Only the third to be named back to back mvp. And just about ten minutes ago, the announcement was mated on whether steph will play or not. If all goes well with this warm up, hell play tonight. So hes out there, just went out on the floor. And im anticipating it will go well. So hell be active and hell play. All right. His warm up was unbelievable. He was hitting shots like he normally does. Kerr would not commit to whether steph is going to start. Well have to watch conditioning. And it will be back on the court for steph curry. Reporting live in portland, abc7 news. Thank you, shu. Happening now, the sharks could close out their western conference semi final series playing game six now against the predators and if they lose, game seven will be thursday. Fun times, yes. You can save hundreds on leather furniture, but some question the quality of the bonded leather. Tonight, abc7 ace Michael Finney takes a look at what youre buying in a special investigation. Plus. So at this point he can say live without the possibility of parole, or death. More than 30 years after a boy was kidnapped and murdered what happened in court when his family had their first chance to see his suspected killer. And why danny glover joined i am sircanalot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. Wake up those eggs with glorious spam see what spam can do. At spam. Com hey i think the internet just went down. Huh, why dont you give it a sec, itll come back. Something just happened in the world and we have no idea what it was. Get high Speed Internet from at t with 99. 9 reliability for just 30 a month. Keep calm, your internets on. For the first time, this man faced a judge for a crime hes accused of committing more than 30 years ago. The crime is murder. The victim was a 3yearold fairfield boy. Leslie brinkley was in court as the family faced the suspected killer. A 3yearold dad, sister and uncle came to see his accused killer for the first time. The whole family to move on and say goodbye. We are were never able to say goodbye. This is the man charged with kidnapping the 3yearold. Vanished from a bedroom of his home in august, 1984, never seen again. April 26, 2016, a cold Case Investigation by the fbi and Fairfield Police along with new technology, led to the arrest of a man already in prison for other, unrelated child molestations. Hes now charged with murder. Special circumstances of murder in commission of a kidnapping and kidnapping. So at this point, he can face life without parole or death. We want justice and pay for what he did to our son and family. He is being held with no bail. The arraignment is now set for next week and the family vows to be here every step of the way. In fairfield, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. The two brothers accused of killing their mother and father might not face trial together. Abc7 news was in san joses hall of justice as the attorneys for hasib golarabbi. Were going to ask on wednesday if mr. Golamrabbis attorney is ready to continue and were going to be ready to go. The brothers have pled not guilty to murdering their parents. Both were shot to death. Many hoped super bowl 50 would inject millions into San Franciscos city coffers. The controller found the city only made 792,000 after expenses. Several accused corporate sponsors of not paying their fair share. Four students in San Francisco State University are on a Hunger Strike, demanding more resources for the college of ethnic studies. A few politicians and one actor joined the cause. From lawmakers to those who defend the law show support for students on a Hunger Strike since may two. Danny glover was here in 1968 during the five month lock long strike the one that stands out is a request for more funding. Ethnic studies has a budget of 3. 6 million but received funding to add more classes and professors. We expect these to begin monday, and conclude by wednesday, may 11th or our taxes will escalate. The state president says hint that had raising the budget is nearly impossible. Were trying to indicate why that is difficult. Its not clear when both sides will sit down. And before students are asking others to join them. In San Francisco, North Carolinas governor today, the department of justice banned people from using public bathrooms that dont correspond with the gender on their birth certificates. Not so long ago that states, including North Carolina had other signs above rest rooms and water fountains. The department of justice asking all parties to set aside constitutional duty and refuse to follow or enforce our state law. Governor mccory says transgender status isnt protected under the federal civil rights act. 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