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and make could vick -- makovec. >> reporter: today the lack of gunshots makes the news. >> we have been lucky. >> reporter: the city's 2010 homicide rate has gone down by about 50% over last year. >> i am glad that it's dropping. i'm being invited to funerals every other year is not fun. >> reporter: in 2009, 47 murders record. this year 52 with one month left to go. >> officers are staying in the beats. >> reporter: police say it seems as if people that live in the neighborhoods where crimes are being committed are more willing to step forward and help police solve the crime. >> tha...

mayor in the history of oakland. it is still an amazing victory for grassroots organizing in the city. >> reporter: perata's campaign said, it wanted to wait until the very end to comment on the election results because, quote, we're anxious not to make a soap opera out of the democratic process. of course, the reason we're nearly a week after election day and still counting is because oakland used the rank choice voting system for the first time. here's how rank choice voting works. voters pick their first, second and third choices for mayor. if someone gets 50% of the first choice ...

even live long enough to see him get out. that was my fear walking into that courtroom. >> reporter: but instead they heard the judge vocalize what he says they have known from the start. judge robert perry said the evidence is overwhelming the shooting was an accident, and he believed oscar grant was in fact resisting before mehserle mistakenly shot him with a gun. >> the first thing he said and he emphasized this was it was never a race issue, never. and that he believed johans. it's highly emotional because be felt besieged and to hear what judge perry had to say was certainly goo...

top political spot in san francisco soon to be vacant, who will become the new mayor? one very familiar face right there. everyone wants better cell phone reception, right? but how many people want a tower in their backyard? the battle in one east bay city. and more than a minor feat. a man who spent a summer in that mine in chile came up just in time for a major accomplishment. the news starts right now. >> good evening. i'm diane dwyer. not in my backyard, or yours, for that matter. that's the message of some people in the east bay who say it's time to rethink cell towers in ne...

rob nelson. this morning, there have been plenty of pop-in ceremony to begin the president's third day in independent yash, along with an important news conference. >> but a tornado has threatened to derail the next stop in the trip. abc's karen travers have the details. >> reporter: good morning mike and vinita. earlier this morning, for president obama and indian prime minister singh, the emphasis was on cooperation. the day started outdoors with pomp and circumstance. but much of the president's state visit here today has been spent behind closed doors. mr. obama continued to push...