For only 29. 95 a month for three months. Call or go online today. Video showing an incident at a protest involving the San Francisco Sheriffs Office has sparked a new criminal investigation. Coming up, wihat the San Francisco District Attorney has to say about it. A Bay Area Police chief drawing criticism tonight for comments he made about shooting guns during a protest. Without your help we will not survive. The desperate plea from a longtime Silicon Valley trade school at risk of closing because of covid19. It was a hot day again across the bay area, but cooler weather is about to move in. Well have the details in the accuweather forecast. Abc 7 news starts right now. Defund opd happening now, hundreds of people marched to oakland mayor libby schaafs house chanting the names of men and women killed by police. Theyre calling on the mayor to defund the Oakland Police department and reinvest the money in education. Abc 7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is live in oakland. J. R. . Reporter ye
They let their voice be heard. And you can see that tonight in the signs. The many signs that they left outside of the mayors house. That one there saying defund the police. Now, i do want to go to some of the video because it was pretty incredible seeing the amount of people who came out to march from one walgreens in oakland and up to the mayors house. I can tell you their message, a clear one, in defunding the Police Department. Now, what does that mean, you ask, they made the point they would like to see a lot of that money that goes to the Police Department rerouted into other areas like education and services as well. This was a youthled rally tonight. So a lot of young people out here. We spoke with some of those young people who at times had lit candles in memor of thwhdit e hands of officers. This is what they had to say. Being a resident from oakland and having a mayor like libby schaaf, who is complicit and completely complacent with the violence of opd on their brown and bl
We checked in with multiple bay area governments today to see exactly where they stand, heres what Alameda County had to say, they said they are reviewing the governors announcement with regional partners and they are going to review the updated state guidance when it becomes available from the governor can we expect that on thursday. They say the plan on sticking to their tracking progress at five key indicators to determine when they are ready to move onto the next phase of this coronavirus plan. Today was the start of certain businesses getting back to work. We go live in downtown pleasanton with more on what that looks like today. Reporter a lot of the shops that line main street has been closed for six weeks and its pushing owners near the financial breaking point, that means i friday, the hope of reopening is something that is welcome to their ears. Towncenter books has been an institution for more than 20 years. Im not young, so this is my sheltering place and our livermore stor
The 130 recruit Academy Class 21 week training program. In preparation to take on one of the most challenging and rewarding professions in the world. To become a firefighter in the San Francisco Fire Department. [whistle] i oknow there is going to be a lot of shoveling and it will not come easy. I know it will not be given to me. Am i going to be able to keep up and do all the physical a pects of what the academy will request of me . On the hand you have been given a opportunity you worked so hard to get to, but on the other hand you dont have the job yet and have so much work you have to do to get in the field so it is double edge sword. I need it but this is just the beginning. [music] we are entrusted with people. Our job is indiscernible we want people to be firefighters. The chief picked the people. Our job is train them. We make sure that we are challenging them, but at the same time supporting them and that is a fine line, because we want to see how these people react. It is imp
Every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San Francisco Ferry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the Ferry Building seem outdated and unwanted. Soon the grand interior converted to drab cuneals cubicles an