investigators believe deangelo is the man behind roughly one hundredhome burglaries in visalia - between april 19-74 and december 19-75. they also say he's the man who shot and killed college professorclaude snelling during a home invasion in 1975. snelling had discovered a man trying to kidnap his 16-year-old daughter...and was shot as he rushed over to save her. deangelo worked as a police officer in nearby exeter at the time. authorities say they have enough information from witnesses and details from the crime scenes to make the connection to the visalia ransacker case.. the 72-year-old has previously been charged with 12 killings throughout the state and is suspected of dozens of rapes in the 1970's across the bay area and california. (pam) in the east bay. an oakland police officer, responding to a call, is in the hospital tonight... after being involved in a traffic accident. and that officer remains in critical condition. kron4's haaziq madyun has the story. sot

officers say the man on your screen, brandon freeman was impersonating a cop in visalia in the san joaquin valley. an off-duty sergeant was driving his personal car and that's when freeman allegedly tried to pull him over with a red light attached to his car. the sergeant then stopped his car, interviewed freeman and arrested him and a passenger in his car. they have both been booked into jail and face multiple chargers. (pam) t-s-a security screeners were very busy during the holiday season. the agency says, it screened more than 42-million passengers going through airports across the country.. a record mark for the t-s-a. security workers also screened nearly 31-million bags during the same period, which goes from december 15-th to january second. the agency also saw a record number of passengers during the thanksgiving holiday... and despite the high traffic... officials say, they still managed to keep the wait time below 20-minutes ... for 97-percent of passengers. (pam) in sports -- gary and his lovely wife alicia join us to read fan emails for the first time in 2018(steve) plus -- ra

w bush foundations, revealed that american patriotism runs deep. natlast month a softball crowd in visalia spontaneously sang the national anthem at the start of a game.the new study found six out of ten americans say living in a democracy is highly important to them.a majority also agreed that it is more important that the majority does not trample on the rights of individuals and small groups.thirty nine percent chose the alternative: it is more important that the will of the majority prevails. the report also uncovered deep concerns about how our democracy is functioning,68 percent say it;s getting weaker, 55 percent say it is weak right nowand fully half the respondents agreed that america is in real danger of losing its democratic government altogether,the big problems threatening democracy: 28 percent said it 's big money influencing elections. slightly fewer then came government paralysis and the news media's lack of reliability, (ken) the poll asked people how to reverse the trend.fully 80 percent supported stronger protections against racialbias in policing and criminal sentencing

police in the bay area say there were alerted by law enforcement in visalia...who had gone to the 58 year old's home late last month after his family reported him missing. visilia officers say his guns were missing from his home.and court records reveal they found a note... threatening to kill the doctors who had treated him...because he thought they were evil. an all points bulletin was put out... to be on the lookout for chen...abnd the chp spotted him on 101 in san jose. lt. james reifschneider, palo alto pd:"they went out to take initial missing persons case had not recognize pretty early on that just was much more than that then i think there would've been bloodshed here. those guns were loaded with high-capacity magazines one was loaded with more than 30 and then rounds the other was loaded with 16 handgun rounds so we believe having trouble three hours from his home to the bay area with those guns within hands reach." (grant)the 3 doctors who chen was allegedly gunning for work at u-c-s-f and stanforda police avidavit included this letter that chen had with him. reads why do i

the stabbing happened this afternoon near visalia. a man on the bus says the suspect stabbed a woman who was holding her child. police say the suspect was restrained by the bus driver and another passenger. there is not yet word on how severe injuries were. the suspect was arrested. (steve) now to aldon smith...and it's yet another troubling brush with the law for the once star 49ers player. (vicki) this time...smith is accused of domestic abuse...and today...the raiders cut ties with him. grant lodes has is here with the message police have for smith tonight. (grant) message is clear...turn youself in...there's a warrant out for his arrest. san francisco police says they're in talks with his attorney about how a surrender may happen. smith...once a 49ers rising star with a bright smile and bright future...was released today by his current team, the raiders. the latest allegations: smith drank two bottles of tequila, then physically abused and bit his fiance in her apartment on bush street near union square. after the fiance called 91