This guy was amazing. He should still be with us today. Reporter friends and coworkers plan to meet with city leaders soon to go over safer streets trying to keep brians battle alive even after his death. Live in San Francisco, brian webb, kpix 5. The Transportation Authority tells us that it installed a new camera at market and octavia last week. For the first 30 days they will issue only warnings to violators. We have new video tonight of the disgraced form Santa Clara County supervisor George Shirakawa being led out of a courtroom. He was sentenced late this afternoon to a year in jail for stealing public funds. Shirakawa was also placed on three years probation. He blamed his crimes on depression and a gambling addiction. The prosecution says this case sets an example. The public is able to see with their own eyes that someone who stole from the public and lied to the public and was a very powerful and important person was held accountable as everyone else would be under the law and sent to jail. As part of the plea deal when shirakawa is released, he cannot hold Public Office ever again in california. Tonight the parents of that 18yearold who was intentionally lit on fire on a bus are speaking out. We heard from them a bit on our 5 p. M. Newscast. Now at 6 00, our own da lin on their reaction to the suspect being charged with a hate crime. Da. Reporter being charged as an adult with hate crime. During my interview with the victims mother and father, the family came across as very peaceful, a very forgiving family. In fact, the victims father says he is trying to reserve judgment on the suspect. He says he is doing so because he doesnt know why the suspect targeted his son. Without really knowing what happened, i cant not mind of another person. I cant know the motivation or intentions. Reporter Carl Fleischman has a lot of questions for the teen accused of setting his son on fire. He says those Unanswered Questions prevent him from talking about how he feels towards the suspect. In my heart, i i i believe in the goodness of of humanity. Reporter 16yearold Richard Thomas was arrested for the crime and appeared in court yesterday. His family says he is remorseful and family members want to meet with fleischman to personally apologize. Fleischman says for now, he wants to focus on helping sasha get better. Its for sasha. Reporter sashas parents spent the morning tying colorful ribbons on the 57 bus routes the bus that sasha took when he was attacked. Its tie a ribbon for sasha. Its support for allowing people to dress differently if they want to dress differently. Reporter Oakland Police believe it was the skirt that 18yearold Sasha Fleischman wore on monday that made him a target aboard a bus. Sasha identifies himself as neither male nor female. Police say the suspect used a lighter to set sashas skirt on fire causing second and third degree burns to his legs. Sashas being really well taken care of and in stable condition. Reporter he remains at the st. Francis burn center. He had one surgery and will need more. His father is thankful for all the support. They say its this kind of support that has turned a tragedy into something positive. Grateful for all the love and care and support that people have shown us. Reporter the family tied rainbow flags to the bus stop and is encouraging others to tie flags or ribbons to bus stops on macarthur boulevard. Live in oakland, da lin, kpix 5. Sashas classmates at berkeleys Maybeck High School declared today wear a skirt for sasha day. Many of the schools roughly 100 students and teachers participated. Whether you knew sasha or not, its really just important for the whole school, i think thats what makes it unique that the whole school came together in support. During the lunch break those who wore skirts had their pictures taken so it could be sent to sasha. Communities in california damaged by the rim fire this year are not getting any help from the feds. Fema the federal Emergency ManagementAgency Denied governor browns request for money to help pay for some of the damage. Fema said californias Third Largest wildfire in history was not severe enough to qualify as a federal disaster. The state has 30 days to appeal. Veterinarians at ucdavis getting their feathers ruffled over a tiny pest threatening one of the states most majestic predators. Kpix 5 reporter don ford tells us that they are spending months rehabilitating sick golden eagles. Reporter this is a golden eagle that was found near brushy peak in the east bay. The California Department of fish and wildlife said it was so infested with blood sucking mites that most of its feathers on its legs, its belly and its face were gone. So severe they brought it here to the ucdavis veterinary schools Raptor Center to save its life. Little tiny vampires. This bird would not have made it had it not been brought to rehab and its been here three months. Its probably going to need to be here a few more months before its going to grow its feathers back out and be able to return to the world. Reporter the patient is kept in this special area away from the other birds. After three months of treatment, the bird looks a lot better. Feathers are growing back. And its attention to suroundings is returning. This is the first adult golden eagle to ever get these mites. Researchers have a lot of questions. Do you know how they got on the bird . No. We dont. Reporter any idea . We dont at this point. You know . I mean, we have speculated about several things. Reporter sure. You know . But we really dont know. Reporter this is a different eagle and shows what they should look like. Thick brown feathers, legs completely covered, huge talons that will rip your arm apart if not protected. And biologists believe there may be more injured eagles in the east bay. If they were to see a bird that looked like it was missing feathers on its head on legs, to contact their local department of fish and wildlife office. Reporter although the california Raptor Center is part of the ucdavis school of veterinary medicine, its entire operating budget is funded by donations. In davis, don ford, kpix 5. Researchers say the mites dont pose a danger to humans. Coming up, how police say a crook tried to trick a bay area family and wound up stealing their pomeranian at gunpoint. Plus, a bay area cemetery where the final tribute to Fallen Soldiers is now an exact science. 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Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. A south bay couple trying to find a new home for their dog instead ended up staring down the barrel of a gun. Their doggone with the suspect who tried to carjack them. Kpix 5s len ramirez explains how the whole thing began with an ad on ebay. Reporter this happened on october 8 but police were just now able to make an identification of the suspect. Apparently it started out as a routine ebay transaction with the two parties agreeing to meet in the parking lot of this taco bell. The suspect told the sellers that he wanted to buy this pet for his daughter but he didnt want to pay the price they were asking. They began haggling and then the suspect got angry. Thats when the sellers say he became a monster. The nineweekold female pomeranian pup named kisses had been advertised on ebay for 700. The sellers agreed to meet 38 yearold juan chavez on 700 block of story road at 11 30 p. M. When net the couple agreed to let the suspect hold the dog when they met up. He allegedly held them up and stole the dog. They are thinking they are going to settle puppy and again to sell the puppy and again that was the whole idea in the meet. Then youre kind of presented with a prospective buyer who presents a gun, takes the pet that you are intending to sell and then in turn tries to go ahead and steal your vehicle as well at gunpoint. Fortunate for the victims, nobody was injured. They were able to get away safely. But unfortunately, the suspect got away as well. Reporter kisses hasnt been seen since. Police are looking for potential witnesses and going over surveillance video. They identified the suspect as a known felon with an extensive criminal past. Merchants say the area is usually busy, clean, not much crime but say this points out the dangers of online transactions. It shows that, you know, even though the way it looks in the end environment that were in, it can shock you. So yeah, we need to take more protection, more precaution of things. Reporter police say their investigation has hit a roadblock so they are reaching out to the public. Anyone with information about this suspect or this crime is asked to call san jose police. Live in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. There is a cash reward for any information leading to an arrest. Monday we officially honor americas veterans. Of course, thats really a year round job and thats certainly the case at San Franciscos National Cemetery. The presidio. Its the resting place for 30,000 American Veterans and their families. As allen martin shows us, its getting a hightech upgrade. Reporter as the morning fog burns off over San FranciscoNational Cemetery construction resumes. Theres people buried back here, spanish american war, world war i, world war ii, korea, indian wars, Buffalo Soldiers here. Reporter if you have ever walked through a cemetery like this, you cant help but be struck by how pristine everything is, how straight and how aligned the headstones are. Well, up until now, individual attention had to be paid to each and every headstone. But now the va has come up with a system that will make sure these headstones sit perfectly for years to come. It all starts with removing the individually planted headstones and the construction of a Massive Concrete foundation. Row by row, you can see the process taking place where they pour in a concrete footing, put in a box for each headstone and when they drop the headstone in, then they pound in this decomposed granite to the point where you cant even move it. And thats where the attention to detail gets incredibly precise. The gps equipment is used to set up a grid of strings so that every, single stone is set in a perfect line at the perfect angle at the perfect height even along the slopes of the hillsides. Youre looking at the finished product and as you can see, the headstone alignment is close to perfect as possible in all directions. Reporter even the hand tools they are using are custom made for the job because everyone working here understands the gravity of the task. The respect of the soldiers and what they have done is first and utmost. Reporter every one of these stones tells an individual story of service and sacrifice. Together, they will a much larger story one thats being preserved in perfect order do to an 8th of an inch. More pride than you can imagine. Its an honor to be here. This is sacred ground. It gives goosebumps when you walk through this place. Reporter in the presidio, allen martin, kpix 5. There are more than 26,000 headstones that are being reset there. A number of members of my family. And while the exact cost isnt being released, one source tells us, its approaching 10 million. Such a beautiful place. And spectacular view of the bridge and especially when you see the fog coming in. It just makes it even more majestic. Today had a thin marine layer where you could city all of the beautiful buildings and skyscrapers above the fog where we had that blanket right there. I expect a repeat tomorrow morning, folks out early tomorrow near the water, you will have some fog to start with. Whats in it when it comes to cloud cover for the next couple of days. Sunny weekend for you. This is november. This is bonus weekend time. When you can be in the upper 60s, low 70s without rainfall youre going to get that on saturday and sunday but a lot of folks have friday evening on their mind and spilling into the city. They go fast and get close to the bay bridge and slowing down significantly. From oakland looking toward downtown oakland from the airport, oakland your high today 72. Sonoma 77 degrees. Gilroy hit 76. Concord 75. San jose 4 degrees cooler than yesterday with a high of 70. The city 2 degrees cooler but nice. 69 degrees in San Francisco. Kpix 5 hidef doppler it is working. I check it every day just to make sure its sending out a million watts of energy, looking about 300 miles of radius around mount vaca searching for rainfall. Man has it had a tough time finding any for seven weeks. Well hit seven weeks without rainfall coming up tomorrow. Heres why. Rarely does a weather pattern stick around for three or four days. This has been around for nearly two months. The ridge of High Pressure off to our west. Winds always flow clockwise around High Pressure. Thats key because anything that gets close to this clock if you will has to ride up and over the ridge and then down towards denver and Salt Lake City and oklahoma, kansas and texas. Every storm is hitting the wall going north and back down across the united states. But nothing for us, zero for us. That will continue this weekend. Well have a light storm system move by keeping rainfall well to the north and even next week this is a change, next week when we were talking about this rain for monday and tuesday, take it out for monday and then on tuesday that ridge will stay Strong Enough with the rainno rain line will be right over the bay area. Some of you may not see rain next monday or tuesday. Certainly not tomorrow. Saturday going to be a great day for you to get outside. Oakland 68 degrees. San jose 70 tomorrow. Close to 70 every including fremont at 67. 65 in the city and napa 71 degrees in wine country with sunshine. Sunday, trending sunnier, monday trending drier. Even tuesday, just a few showers. Even a sprinkle or two, consider yourself lucky highs in the 60s. Guess what happens next week . The ridge builds back in. It does not want to leave. And its going to be sunny and mild once again. This is very were now in the extremely rare category. This happens once a generation that we have a ridge that sits for a couple of months. Needs a little talking to. Not happening yet. Still ahead, the offensive tweet that has home depot doing damage control. Why some california parents are bugged about the new head lice rules at school. ,, [son] all right,she has no idea. [man] no one told her,right . [son]hi [mom screams] you got to love the weekend. Its like everyone came to, if its good, lets save it for the weekend. So heres to the kfc ten buck weekend bucket. Ten pieces, ten bucks. Any recipe. Just ten bucks every saturday and sunday. Today tastes so good. These are the hands a pediatrician. These are pioneering advances in heart surgery. 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Reporter the tweet read which of these is not like the others . While showing someone in a monkey suit in between two black drummers. The point was to promote college gamedday but triggered outrage. Thats a white guy inside of the monkey suit . Is it . Who knows. The point is that its all about the juxtaposition. Its racist. I think to jump to the conclusion to say that its racist is silly. Anyone working for a corporation is potentially an asset or disaster in waiting. Reporter after the so called miss step the company took the right steps. Home depot took it down right away, by apologizing and firing those responsible. The companies that go wrong with the ones that dont act quickly that dont apologize and who drag their feet. Reporter the companys current twitter feed is full of smothers, even an apology to the naacp. Alex walker may have taken offense but didnt stop him from going into the store with his girlfriend after our interview. It wont stop me from shopping there. Reporter thats what the home depot is counting on. Ryan takeo, kpix 5. Home depot hasnt named the ad Agency Responsible<