in pleasant hill, joe vazquez, cbs5. >>> and joe tells us he tried to contact butler's attorney as well as the district attorney's office but they have not returned his phone calls. >>> another video shows what looks like san francisco police officers abusing their authority. here it is. under cover officers going after a bystander who sticks his head in a drug suspect's room while the officers researches it. they put him in a chokehold, take him down. meanwhile the suspect says he never gave permission for police to enter his room in the jefferson residential hotel. that contradicts the police report. after the public defend,'s office released the video police announced an internal investigation. >> so the internal affairs division has begun an investigation and instructed them to give this case the highest priority to determine if there is any merit or not to these allegations. >> also in the video the officers take a duffle bag from santana's room. that bag was never booked as evidence and santana says he never got the bag back which contained an ipod, a bottle of tequila and some cl

in pleasant hill, joe vazquez, cbs 5. >> joe tried to contact butler's attorney as well as the district attorney's office. they didn't call back. >>> we may not be able to see the photo proof that osama bin laden bin laden is dead but we can hear about it. >> there are 15 pictures. the first 12 were taken in the compound obviously right after the incident took place. so they are pretty grueling. the other three were taken on the ship and they included the burial at sea. >> the cia showed the death photos to a select group of lawmakers yesterday. meantime, u.s. intelligence officials say notes in osama bin laden's diary and computer files prove he played a role in every recent terror plot. bin laden reportedly wrote about targeting l.a. and new york along with smaller cities and urged followers to attack planes and trains. >>> a birth control breakthrough. why take the pill could make or break your relationship. >>> donald trump answers what we have all been wondering: what is the secret to that famous hair? ,, never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles co

we have known about the drugs but tonight joe vazquez uncovers details about a woman the cop arrested for prostitution who then allegedly went to work for him. watch joe's story closely and he shows how the scandal comes full circle. >> reporter: as commander of c- net, the contra costa narcotics task force. two duties. rid the streets of drug and go after prostitutes and johns. now he admitted to selling the drugs confiscated by the officers in his command and he is facing new accusations he was running a brothel in this pleasant hill strip until. not just running the brothel but running off the competition. chris butler who rented this office space said norman wielsch used his powers as the task force commander to shut down other houses of prostitution to bolster business at his own brothel. two years ago norman wielsch arrested this woman and charged her with running a house of prostitution in walnut creek. court records show that charge was later reduced to disturbing the peace. jodie sims ended up working here two months later. jordie sims claimed she was helping butler open up a

joe vazquez, cbs5. >>> the official death toll in joplin, missouri, stands at 126. and hundreds of people are still missing and police say many of those unaccounted for could still be alive. but ben tracy reports more families are getting an unwelcome reason to stop searching for their loved ones. >> reporter: for more than three days michele has been searching for something she cannot replace. her 16-year-old son lance tossed in his car during a tornado. >> his backpack was still inside of it. >> reporter: when we talked to her this morning michele was still positive. >> do you still have hope? >> obviously i have to. >> reporter: but just minutes after our interview, a police officer arrived. >> what happened? >> i have gotten visits from the joplin police department notifying me that my son has been identified. >> he is dead? >> yes, he is dead. but it is in some way a comfort to at least know that he is in a better place and that we don't have to wonder if he is out there needing us. >> reporter: many families are still looking for an answer. even with in list o

joe vazquez is at the hall of justice, where there was a major announcement just 45 minutes ago. joe. >> reporter: elizabeth, it took them nine months but san francisco police just announced at a news conference they have arrested seven people in the murder at union square last august. now, mechthild schroer was here with her husband and they were celebrating her 50th birthday and their anniversary looking for a place for dinner when two groups of teenagers fired on each other and the husband and wife were caught in the crossfire. the police chief said they served search and arrest warrants today in fremont, oakland and san francisco and that they arrested five adults and two juveniles. remember, police initially arrested five people just after the shooting in august but then had to let them all go because they said they didn't have enough evidence. some of those people are among those rearrested today. >> the i spoke with stefan this morning when we made the arrest. he was extremely emotional and very, very grateful to the men and women of this police department to the citizens

joe vazquez has the story you will only see on 5. >>> reporter: it's an empty space now. but over a period of nine months in 2009 and 2010, neighbors at this office park in the 600 block of gregory called police repeatedly because of the women they observed working here. >> they were scantily dressed, you know, they were provocatively dressed, you know, always totally, uhm, you know, made up. >> reporter: when you talked to police, you told them what? what did you think it was? >> well, i thought it was prostitution for sure. i mean, what else was it going to be? and i told them that. >> reporter: cbs 5 has learned the state department of justice is now investigating a claim that this was a brothel. the claim was made recently in a written investigation by private investigator chris butler. butler reports that he and his friend, norm wielsch, the former head of the police task force were running this brothel. wielsch and butler as we have been reporting were arrested for stealing drugs confiscated by police and reselling them on the streets among other crimes. according t

joe vazquez on how the thieves stole the car and how a citizen worked to help police find it. [ pause ] >> reporter: you know hippie hill in golden gate gate market. usually there's a drum circle here. but today it's a sitar. yesterday around 4:00 two officers in an unmarked car were patrolling the park when they got a call on the radio another officer needed help with an arrest at hippie hill. the suspect was in a fight. the officer helped but left the crown vic running with the keys inside. >> my name is lucifer. >> reporter: i'm sorry? >> lucifer. >> reporter: a guy jumped in the cop car and took off. >> it was instantaneously right after they get up to the guy, the car was on its way out to the park it was like gone. >> reporter: police spokesman troy dangerfield says no officers are going to get in trouble because they were trying too help their colleagues. >> normally the procedure would be to take the. >> he is absolutely. take the keys, lock the care and make sure it's secure. but again this was an emergency. they are getting the officer to ask for emergency help. their number

vazquez, cbs 5. >> wielsch's attorney told joe that accusations his client was involved in a brothel in any way, shape or form are completely false but the attorney does say that wielsch does admit to stealing and selling the drugs. >>> a march in oakland to take back the streets. jean quan planning to demonstrate against prostitution. several others are also expected. the march starts at 17th and east 15th. >>> massive cuts to public safety is the focus of a special budget meeting at 9 a.m. this morning in san jose. it's all part of a series of meetings to deal with an estimated $115 million deficit. and among the major cuts, those planned for police and fire departments are the most controversial. under the city manager's proposed budget, 195 police positions would be cut including 122 layoffs, 64 firefighter positions would be cut. five of them would be through layoffs. the city council will vote on a budget plan next month. >>> the man arrested for trying to storm the cockpit of an sfo plane will be back in court this morning. rageh al-murisi has a detention hearing to determine

it doesn't take much sometimes. >> absolutely the case. >> joe vazquez. thank you, joe. >>> the commandser in chief today said no. the white house will not release the pictures of osama bin laden taken after he was killed. the president explained his reasons today in an interview with 60 minutes. >> we are absolutely certain this was him. we have done d.n.a. sampling and testing. and so there is no doubt that we kill osama bin laden. it is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an insightment to additional violence as a propaganda tool. that's not who we are. >> some members of congress are objecting to the president's decision saying that after years of fighting because of bin laden that we deserve to see his body. we are, however, seeing other pictures that those navy s.e.a.l.s took and you might find them disturbing. the pictures show the courier who unwitnessingly led u.s. intelligence to the hideout as well as one of bin laden's sons. the s.e.a.l.s themselves are back in

live in the newsroom, joe vazquez, cbs 5. >>> thank you, joe. california must drastically reduce its prison population. that's the order from the u.s. supreme court today. and in a 5-4 decision, justices ruled california's overcrowded prisons subject inmates to cruel and unusual punishment. a federal court order now says the state must shed about a quarter of its prisoners. governor brown has proposed sending many low level offenders to county jail. >>> meanwhile, at least 200 inmates rioted at san quentin last night. it broke out in the dining hall. it's not clear what started the melee but at least four convicts were stabbed or slashed. none of the injuries is life- threatening. guards gained control of the crowd with nonlethal bullets and pepper spray. they later found at least 10 weapons made by inmates. no guards were hurt. >>> total devastation. crews in missouri continue the heartbreaking task of combing through the rubble for signs of life after last night's monstrous tornado. cries could be heard from people trapped under the wreckage.

joe vazquez, thanks. >>> turns out there was a plan in place if osama bin laden was taken alive. cia director leon panetta talked to katie couric about those contingencies. >> yesterday white house counter-terrorism advisor john brennan said the navy seals were prepared for a capture or kill mission. if in fact they had taken osama bin laden alive, what were the plans? >> i think we always assumed from the beginning that the likelihood was that he was going to be killed. perchance he were to be captured, i think the approach was to take him quickly to bagram, transfer him to an offshore ship and have the principals at the white house decide the next steps. >> you can catch the full interview on the cbs evening news right after this newscast. >>> and stay with cbs 5 and cbssf.com for continuing coverage of the death of bin laden. >>> coming up, pg&e feeling some heat over its smartmeters. the defect that could end up overcharging customers. >>> doctors taking a cue from airlines and tacking on fees. why struggling doctors say they have little choice but to get creative with specia

joe vazquez is live now at city hall with this video. joe? >> reporter: dana, those are strong words accusing the police officers of stealing but the public defender stands by those words and he says the evidence is in the surveillance video. the public defender says these men are san francisco police officers even though they are not wearing uniforms from the mission station walking into a hotel on february 25th with nothing in their hands but as they leave watch the surveillance video closely. the last two cops are carrying bags. >> just because you're a police officer you don't have the right to go into somebody's room and remove personal property and keep it without having any indication of it in the reports. extremely, extremely disturbing. >> reporter: jessie reus says he never gave the officers consent to look his apartment and he says he even asked if they had a search warrant but the cops never replied. they then found meth amphetamine and they arrested him. the charge was then dropped. one believes has a laptop and the other one wit

joe vazquez has the story you'll see only on cbs5. joe? >> reporter: allen, the allegations come from allegations come from chris butler. he told state investigators that norman wielsch was helping him run this place as a brothel and run off others nearby. it is an empty office space now but months ago this was the brothel private investigator chris butler claims he ran with his cop friend norman wielsch. now cbs5 has learned investigators are checking into allegations that norman wielsch was also shutting down other area brothels to eliminate the competition. a narcotics task force in contra costa county which also acted as a vice squad for the county conducting numerous undercover operations to shut down houses of prostitution. first it was drugs. butler and. norman wielsch already faced dozens of counts each after admitting to stealing and selling the drugs. now allegations of prostitution. >> that's disgusting. >> reporter: pleasant hills police chief saying when neighbors complained about the business on gregory lane the protocol was

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joe joe vazquez on how that happened. >> reporter: you know hippy hill. usually there is a drum circle here but today there is a sittar. yesterday around 4 p.m. two officers in an unmarked car were patrolling the park when they got a call on the radio another officer needed help with an arrest at hippy hill. the suspect was putting up a fight. so the officers left their crown victoria vehicle running with the keys inside. >> my name is lucifer. >> i'm sorry? >> reporter: lucifer says a guy jumped into the cop car and took off. >> instantaneously. right after they get up to the guy, the car was on its way out of the park. it was like gone. >> reporter: police spokesman troy dangerfield says no officers are going to get in trouble because they were trying to help their colleague. >> normally the procedure would be to take the keys? >> absolutely. take the keys, lock the car, make sure it is secure but again, this is an emergency where they are getting an officer asking for emergency help. their number 1 priority somebody getting help to that officer. >> rep

joe vazquez explains how it works. >> reporter: the st. mary's student lost his laptop last semester just before finals he was crushed but then he remembered he had software on it that enabled him to catch the crook. it took several weeks but when the thief finally turned it on, the laptop's camera immediately took a photo of the suspect. and also pinpointed his exact address in richmond. >> i was really angry but then i was really thankful i had installed gadget track. i got the information. the chances of me recovering the laptop were really good. >> reporter: it transmitted the information to michael's e- mail. police were eventually able to zero in, make an arrest, and recover his laptop. >> get the location from the wi- fi networks. >> reporter: ceo of gadget track says the older technology a few years ago would only get police to an ip address which then required weeks or even months of digging and eventually getting a judge to sign off on a subpoena. >> this method gets us about 10 to 20-meters of accuracy where that device is. anot

joe vazquez brings us up to speed. >> reporter: dana, the story, of course, there has been a new development on this every day. especially after we were able to confirm this week the accusations about a brothel allegedly being run by a police commander. this is lewis lombardi. today he went before a judge in martinez. prosecutors say he was helping his boss commandser norman wielsch sell confiscated drugs back on the street. investigators are also looking into how much he knew about the house of prostitution. who ran the brothel in this pleasant hills store front and who made the money? depends who you ask. >> norman wielsch was very involved. >> reporter: the attorney says it was a joint venture between his client, private investigator chris buttler and norman wielsch of cnet. butler says he leased the space in his own name, bought the furniture, hired the prostitutes and collected the money they earned. but he says it was norman wielsch's idea in the first place. that it was norman wielsch that eventually got all the cash and that the commandser busted other houses of prostitution masking

in pleasant hill, joe vazquez, cbs 5. >> joe tried to contact butler's attorney as well as the district attorney's office. they haven't returned our calls. >>> all right. 6:33. we are going to show you live pictures now of the national hispanic prayer breakfast in washington, d.c. as you can see, president obama is at the podium speaking. senate majority leader harry reid and house speaker john boehner have also been invited to speak. >>> officers hope new surveillance cameras will cut down on prostitution in vallejo. two cameras will be installed along the sonoma boulevard corridor this morning. the prostitution zone. they may help officers investigating car thefts and robberies in the area. police paid for the new cameras with department funds as well as money from an anonymous donor. >>> well, they are the first shooting deaths ever at san jose state and in just a few hours, we are expected to get new details of the apparently double murder-suicide. kiet do has been following the story since it first broke and he is in san jose this morning. kiet? >> reporter: good morning. we are li

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joe vazquez in pleasant hill, thanks. >>> a tanker truck accident has caused monumental gridlock all afternoon on the east bay freeway. this is live look interstate 880 in oakland. and this is a fallout from a tanker truck that overturned just before 1 p.m. 1,000 gallons of fuel was spilled in this rollover accident that happened right about 23rd avenue. for a time, three of the northbound lanes were closed so they could get the clean-up going. right now, only the far left lane is closed. but again, another look at how bad things are. our traffic map shows slow going all the way back to 238. no word on the driver's injuries. >>> we are getting our first look at the suspected gunman in a murder-suicide at san jose state university. police say 54-year-old napoleon caliguiran shot and killed his wife and another person. the two people were killed in the woman's car at a university parking garage. caliguiran then turned the gun on himself. the victim, 25-year-old cindy caliguiran, and 26-year-old kyle williams are both business students and weeks away from graduating. >> we tell folks to

joe vazquez with new details on what went on inside the brothel. >> reporter: who ran the brothel in this pleasant hill storefront and who made the money depends who you ask. >> mr. wielsch was very involved. >> reporter: attorney william gagan says it was a joint venture between his client, private investigator chris butler, and commander norm wielsch of the contra costa county narcotics task force. in a written confession, butler says he leased the space in his name, bought the furniture, hired the prostitutes and collected the money they earned but he says it was wielsch's idea in the first place, in a it was wielsch who eventually got all the cash that and demander wielsch busted other housessed of prostitution masking as massage parlors. >> and there were other activities along those lines that i really at this point don't want to get into. >> reporter: is he part owner? >> they didn't have a formal partnership agreement. but he was the beneficiary of the cash received. >> reporter: wielsch was? >> yes. >> reporter: who collects the money and who gets it? >> the money is collect

. >> all right, joe vazquez, thank you. >>> hundreds of dangerous criminals released who should have stayed in prison. the prison system inspector- general says california improperly released about 1500 convicts last year without any parole. 450 of them carried a high risk for violence. it was part of a program to reduce prison crowding by letting out less serious offenders. the report says a faulty computer program wrongly assessed nearly a quarter of the offenders that were released. the department of corrections disputes the findings. >>> the monstrous storm system ripping apart the midwest isn't letting up. tonight we have dramatic video of a tornado roaring through oklahoma. >> oh, my god! back up, oh, no! >> oh, no, what it destroyed... >> this video was caught by a storm chaser in chickasha yesterday. now on this video, focus on the white semi truck that's right in the tornado's path in shawnee, oklahoma. you see the twister slamming into the semi, just ripped it into shreds. this is what was left. the driver very fortunate, though, was able to make it out on time. but here is

we do have reporter joe vazquez on this story. we'll bring you more details as we get them. >>> a new mother went against doctors' advice, beat the odds and had what's being called a miracle baby. dr. kim explains this unusual pregnancy that, if gone wrong, could have cost the lives of both mother and baby. >> reporter: the baby weighed 2 pounds 4 ounces when he was born on monday. that he is even alive is a miracle to his parents. when she was five months pregnant something was wrong. the baby wasn't growing in the normal spot in the uterus according to the ultrasound. >> it was really scary. >> reporter: doctors told the parents they should consider abortion because of the risk to the mother. they gave it brief thought because they have a 7-year-old at home. >> that was the only thing to make me think should i risk my life for this life? >> reporter: she did and at 32 weeks, doctors prepared for a dangerous delivery. >> the room must have had something in the neighborhood of 22 people in there. >> reporter: but it was a smooth d

joe vazquez is live in san jose where all week long there will be hockey. let's see. music. hopefully some money rolling in, right, joe? >> reporter: well that's what these businesses are hoping. that's san pedro square right there transforming into san jose sharks. i'm told bars and restaurants right now as the sharks game is underway that those folks are standing room only as the big weekend begins. . >> reporter: used to a big crowd. but not this big. >> one of the biggest weekends i experienced. i thought the ncaa march madness was huge but nothing comparing to this. >> reporter: sharks playing tonight and sunday. a few games away from the stanley cup. and it is not just sin city. put on your dark shades. this city is going to be bright with stars for several days. prince played thursday and added another day for saturday night. the cast of "glee" is playing next week. and big wow comicfest is also coming to san jose. >> it is great all this stuff is happening in san jose. kind of boost the business and the fun. >> reporter: dressing head to toe in sharks gear. her colle

joe vazquez with how that technology has some bay area roots. joe. >> reporter: dana, they have been studying facial recognition technology since palo alto in the late 60s. now a days every major bank is using it and being used on the battlefield as well. after they shot osama bin laden to death, the navy s.e.a.l.s shot a photo of him and quickly transmitted it back to washington. even with a bullet in the eye with special facial recognition software the u.s. government was able to identify him as america's number 1 enemy. >> they took the picture in the battlefield. they have an image of osama bin laden. >> reporter: facial recognition technology focuses on the top half of the faith from the cheeks up an area unique to each person. you may have seen the technology on networking sites. perhaps its biggest use these days is with security. >> facial recognition technology is now used in banks and retail stores around the world to prevent fraud and to catch thieves. >> it is a mathematical representation of the face. >> reporter: that mathematical

witnesses are going to try to identify him and as joe vazquez tells us we can now compare that sketch with the suspect's actual photo in. >> right. in fact in the last few minutes we got the go ahead from l.a.p.d. let's show you the picture now. just moments ago we were told we could go ahead and show the picture. that is a past mugshot of ramirez on the left-hand side of the screen. you can see the likeness to the sketch that was given by witnesses to police on the day of bryan stow's beating and l.a.p.d. spokesperson tells cbs5 that that live lineup is expected to be underway right now and as such we can put that mugshot on t.v. now, ramirez has a lawyer and he is telling our los angeles reporter davey lopes that he sincerely believes his client is innocent and is willing to take a lie detector test to prove it. >> reporter: the 31-year-old who police say resembles this sketch will stand in front of witnesses at the beating of bryan stow. if they positively identify him charges could be forthcoming. >> i believe we have the right guy. >> reporter: as sure as the police chief was fol

joe vazquez, thanks. >>> it was one of the last decisions he made as governor and tonight arnold schwarzenegger is still getting heat for it. now in the form of a lawsuit. just before he left office arnold schwarzenegger commuted the prison sentence for the son of former california assembly speaker nunez. he pleaded guilty for the 2008 stabbing death of a san diego college student. arnold schwarzenegger reduced the prison sentence from 16 to 7 years and today the san diego county district attorney, a republican, filed a lawsuit saying that the governor violated victims' rights. >> we believe a governor who is considering a commutation has a constitutional duty under marcy's law to encode the voices of victims. in this case this clearly didn't happen. as a result of the governor's failure to do that, the victims' constitutional rights were violated. >> the lawsuit seeks to reinstate the 16-year prison sentence. it is believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind in the nation. >>> if you pay extra to use an express lane you probably expect it to be faster. new figures reveal just how much time dr