a candlelight vigil will be held for barry bingham tonight at his oakland neighborhood. the 64-year-old was the community coordinator for the service employee international union or seiu. he was the first african-american elected to the alameda county school board as well. he was found dead at his home last month making him the city's 12th homicide in january. family members are expected to speak at the vigil. this is the first time we'll hear from then since the night bingham died. >>> some big neighbor celebrities demanding iran release those jailed hikers. actor sean penn and bishop desmond tutu are asking for the release of sean bower and josh fattal. they remain in iranian custody accused of spying while sarah shourd is back in the u.s. she was freed on bail last september but no word if she'll actually return for the trial. >>> all right. if we are worried about fog in the bay area, this must be serious fog. let's check in with christina. >>> it is for the east bay, in particular. the peninsula is not so bad right now. the south bay is okay, but the show is for you

a vigil is planned tonight for a man known as the community dad in west oakland. 64-year-old berry bingham was found dead in his home last week. he was a union leader and had been the first african-american member of the alameda school board. >> tonight's candlelight vigil will be in front of bingham's home at 526 henry street scheduled to start at 6:00. union officials and community activists are scheduled to speak. >>> san francisco police trying to find two tourists who may have information about a double homicide at fisherman's wharf. a man and woman were shot to death sunday night inside of a souvenir shop where they worked. the suspect is the owner of a neighboring store. police believe it was all over a dispute about the sale of similar merchandise. the tourists that the police want to talk with left the area before they finished giving their eyewitness accounts to detectives. >>> a new effort in oakland to license large-scale pot farms, this time by linking them to medical marijuana dispensaries. previous attempts have run into legal problems but now, councilwoman desley brooks has

tonight bingham's friend and community reflect on his service to both the young and the old. >> he was a family man. all around, he was a father to everyone's children. >> yes. >> he knew no bounds. >> bingham was a director for fbiu aáepb and was one of the first black school board members. >>> a controversy is brewing in san francisco city hall. one of the newly supervisors is refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance. >> reporter: the stars and stripes were flying today. >> supervisor kim. >> here. >> reporter: district six supervisor stood with others for the pledge of allegiance, but didn't recite. >> i reserve my right to disagree or to even protest when i think our government isn't representing the best of our ideals and principals. >> reporter: kim says she has not recited the pledge of a allegiance since high school. instead she decides to let her actions speak louder than those 30 words. >> you're an elected official. you're a part of the american democracy, you probably shouldn't have a problem pledging allegiance to the united states. >> i think most san franciscans are

tonight's delight vigil will be in front of bingham's home at 526 henry street starting at 6:00. union official, clergy and community activists are all scheduled to speak. >>> tonight, the oakland city council will vote again on licensing large-scale pot farms. this time by linking them to medical marijuana dispensaries. previous attempts have run into a lot of legal problems but now, councilwoman desley brooks has a plan to allow five new dispensaries in oakland with their own farms off site as well as farms for the four dispensaries that already exist. the proposal would cap the size of each farm at 50,000 square feet. >>> time now 5:40. lunch breaks, how often do you take them? the warning doctors have if you don't. plus... >> anything that's going to whiten your teeth and be easy, why not? >> dozens of whitening products are out there. we'll tell you the best one for your money. ,, [ female announcer ] bedtime is not for sleeping. the monster was furious! rarrr! it's for laughing... [ laughs ] [ female announcer ] ...pretending... and the mouse went, "wha-wha-wha, why?" [ gig

tonight bingham's friend and community reflect on his service to both the young and the old. >> he was a family man. all around, he was a father to everyone's children. >> yes. >> he knew no bounds. >> bingham was a director for fbiu aáepb and was one of the first black school board members. >>> a controversy is brewing in san francisco city hall. one of the newly supervisors is refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance. >> reporter: the stars and stripes were flying today. >> supervisor kim. >> here. >> reporter: district six supervisor stood with others for the pledge of allegiance, but didn't recite. >> i reserve my right to disagree or to even protest when i think our government isn't representing the best of our ideals and principals. >> reporter: kim says she has not recited the pledge of a allegiance since high school. instead she decides to let her actions speak louder than those 30 words. >> you're an elected official. you're a part of the american democracy, you probably shouldn't have a problem pledging allegiance to the united states. >> i think most san franciscans are

what i have learned is, i have written biographies, bingham family of louisville. we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her father. my grandfather working away in san antonio then adored this daughter, book dedicated to him. she was then gone up to new york and going to school at columbia. he wrote her a furious letter. >> your grandfather? >> yes. you have broken your promise and haven't been putting yourself full time, although the book would you say in the front of "new york times". he pulled the carpet on her. that kind of thing. you could leap on that and say, well that says it all, doesn't it? one of the things i learned about writing about family is there aren't answers to so many questions. it is a mistake in a family to think every question has an answer. one of the questions i had going into the book was, do we pass sibling relationships down? was the fact that my father had such a difficult relationship with his older sister, was that the thing? going into writing this book i would say there it

including a nationally publicized acquittals of actor robert blake and civil rights lawyer stephen bingham. to his left is a career public defender from washington state. she is a blunder and has her own -- blogger and has her own blog. so'. does the media contributes to a negative misconception of public defenders, and more broadly, criminal defense attorneys? >> no, thank you. [laughter] >> absolutely yes. i think for the most part, there is the lack of understanding on the part of the american public on more critical role of the public defender. it is laid down in our sixth amendment. we do not teach it properly in primary school education. the public learned of it through the news media and come to some extent, through the entertainment media. most of my colleagues, and it with a bias that is predisposed against the criminal defendant and criminal defense attorney there for. i do not think there are aware of this bias for the most part, but i'm speaking from my own anecdotal experience. my reason to get into the business is to counter that bias. i came from a car rear as a criminal def

friends say that elderly bingham was known as the community dad. please are not saying how he died, but they're treating the death as a homicide. >>> after more than a week of protest, egypt's president says he will step down in september after he serves out the remainder of his term. >> to restore the salt of this cont -- stability of this country, in order to ensure a peaceful transfer of power. >> the announcement that he would not seek reelection angered many who filled cairo's liberation square today. they wanted him out now. today, president obama seemed to echo that. >> what is clear, and what i indicated tonight to president mubarak, is that i believe an ordinarily transformation must be orderly, peaceful, and must begin now. >> reporter: he sent the former u.s.ambassador to egypt, to cairo to ask that mubarak not run for reelection. president obama also had a message for egypt, he said we hear your voices. >> reporter: they're hoping to rewrite egyptian history. revolutionaries like the three mcgee sisters. why is today different? >> now o

including a nationally publicized acquittals of actor robert blake and civil rights lawyer stephen bingham. to his left is a career public defender from washington state. she is a blunder and has her own -- blogger and has her own blog. so'. does the media contributes to a negative misconception of public defenders, and more broadly, criminal defense attorneys? >> no, thank you. [laughter] >> absolutely yes. i think for the most part, there is the lack of understanding on the part of the american public on more critical role of the public defender. it is laid down in our sixth amendment. we do not teach it properly in primary school education. the public learned of it through the news media and come to some extent, through the entertainment media. most of my colleagues, and it with a bias that is predisposed against the criminal

including a nationally publicized acquittals of actor robert blake and civil rights lawyer stephen bingham. to his left is a career public defender from washington state. she is a blunder and has her own -- blogger and has her own blog. so'. does the media contributes to a negative misconception of public defenders, and more broadly, criminal defense attorneys? >> no, thank you. [laughter] >> absolutely yes. i think for the most part, there is the lack of understanding on the part of the american public on more critical role of the public defender. it is laid down in our sixth amendment. we do not teach it properly in pry

elder baris informed bingham's body was found in his home one week ago. police didn't say how he died but they are treating it as a murder. >>> the worst-kept secret was announced today. assistant chief chris moore was officially named the police chief. he had been serving as acting chief. oakland chief anthony batts was also a finalist for the job but they considered that moore, a career cop, was the best man for the job. >>> union employees are going to have to start paying to park at work. the agency's bee board of directors approved a $55 penalty for those who work at facilities without a parking permit. those permits cost 80 bucks a month. some union contracts exempt employees from paying for parking so they will be able to park for free. >>> well it sounds like the plot of an odd-ball sitcom but, tonight, a bay area crew launched a rescue operation to save a sheep named peter pan and a dog named sparkles. they got stuck on a cliff in richmond near canal boulevard. grace lee on how those animals wound up there in the first place. >> reporter: it's a

bingham was found dead at his home last month making him the city's 12th homicide in january. >>> some big named celebrities are joining the call on iran to release two berkeley hikers. sean penn who lives in marine county and the bishop desmond tutu are among those asking iran to release shane bauer and josh fatal. sarah shourd is back in the united states already. they sold shourd back to the country to face espionage charges. no word on the she'll return to iran for that trial. >>> 5:37 right now. clear in some spots, foggy in others. some folks want to know when the fog will lift. we'll go to christina. >>> good morning to you. our temperatures are all over the place this morning as well. 39 degrees in napa. meanwhile, 51 in hayward. 47 in gilroy. watch out for dense patches of fog wherever you are headed this morning. we have a lot of fog drifting in from the san joaquin kind of pushing off to the west from the east. and right now you are socked in in concord, napa, santa rosa, and a lot of fog is drifting along the peninsula as well. take it easy and plan on a slower than normal

. >>> 64-year-old barry bingham was the political director for sciu-2022. his coworkers became concerned when he didn't show up for work. investigators are not releasing how he was killed. the vigil they are log did -- the vigil starts this evening at 6:00 on henry street. >>> the city plans to open a disaster recovery center by the end of the month. the facility would be san mateo avenue in downtown san bruno. it would be for services for those reef covering from the september 9th disaster. the money is comes from -- is coming from the city, nonprofit organizations and church group. >>> a bay area based super math chain is adding more stores as it competes with other markets. safeway is opening -- is opening up new stores. safeway is also work on brand- new stores in oakland and pleasanton. each of the new stores could create 200 new jobs. safeway is fixes up some of its older stars in los gatos and burlingame. >>> we want to check in with sal. there's a problem on 0 -- 88 october. 880 oakland. look at the. it's almost as a -- at a stand still. the damage

helen fisher, who worked with the institute of studies at bingham university. she's here to give us the first look at the findings. this is the first time we've had a comprehensive study like this. >> i did a literature search over the last 25 years. and there are studies whether singles are just as healthy. whether they live just as long, et cetera. but there's no comprehensive study. this is based on the national census bureau. so, it's -- you know, we have the right number of people from each region. the right number of men. the right number of women. and age groups from 21 to 65-plus. >> so, you think it's a very good sample. and you've been studying this for a long time. but what popped out? what surprised you? >> a lot of things did. but one of them was, you know, we've known for a long time that we're seeing growing economic equality between the sexes. but it was surprising to me that men are adopting some of the attitudes that we've long attributed to women. and women are adopting some of the attitudes we long thought were those of men. >> which ones pa