Federal grand jury decided pg e is guilty. The Utility Company has to pay a fine of 3 million in connection to a deadly pipeline explosion that happened in san bruno. Today well hear what city leaders have to say about the verdict. Heres kpix 5s andria borba. Reporter six convictions for pacific gas electric. One result. So at the end of the day, pg e now is a criminal. Reporter a federal jury convicted pg e on one felony count of obstruction of justice for interfering with the ntsb investigation into the san bruno pipeline explosion. The other five felony convictions were knowingly failing to inspect and test its gas pipeline for additional danger. It means that they misled the ntsb in terms of what they were doing with respect to pressurizing the pipelines and we think thats a big deal. Reporter with a maximum fine of 500,000 per count of, the fine can only be 3 million. That number was reduced by federal prosecutors last week from 562 million. Its criticized as a drop in the bucket
Strong military town and tonights preseason game is military Appreciation Night. Although many in the military have taken to social media to support kaepernicks right to protest, police brutality, others like this veteran question kaepernicks motives. Its no longer just showing your respect or taking away and trying to stand up for what you believe in. I believe that now youre spitting in the faces of the men and women that actually fought for the right to let you do what youre doing. Reporter early in the evening, game time is still game time kickoff is around 7 p. M. And so theres still quite a bit of time. No fans are in the stadium at this point. Colin kaepernick and the other players here warming up in san diego getting ready for tonights game. There is going to be a lot of pressure on kaepernick because this is a very Strong Military town, military Appreciation Night they are having a lot of color guards and flags and things like that. A lot of people here support the military. W
Theres finally a code on employee time sheets to bill work to the stadium. Are you confident that santa clara will be made whole at the end of this . Im absolutely confident now. Now that we have the auditors in place, were taking a very proactive step to make sure we are complying with the law. Reporter former Police Union President pat niccolai is running for the chief position. He asked the Council Members that were here to lift a blanket order to prevent Police Officers from speaking to the public. I have a sense that you have seen some wrongdoing but cant tell me about it. Thats correct. I have had officers come to me with their concern and they have laid out what they think are possible violations of measure j. I want the audit to be very factual and to be thorough and i think the only way you can do that is to really be able to investigate internally first and get the officers involvement. Once the audit is complete then we can have discussions with the media and citizens and ev
Officers took advantage of her. For sex. Then covered it up. Tonight shes threatening to s s. This teenager claims several Bay Area Police officers took advantage of her for sex and then covered it up. Tonight she is threatening to sue for 66 million. The new criminal charges tonight. Reporter the a county da has filed criminal charges against two officers charges against five other officers are expected soon. And tonight the civil side of the case also got going. In a claim the woman at the center of the Bay Area Police sex scandal referred to in this document as j. A. Is asking for 66 million plus punitive damages from the city of oakland. The claim alleges no fewer than 11 fed rand and 6 state vie lays. Judge Ladoris Cordell says the claim is step one in a legal battle about to play out. Requesting that there be a finding by the jury that the city and the Police Department are liable, that they basically endorsed this action by failure to enforce policies an guidelines. Reporter pag
So when were talking about Affordable Housing needs, were talking about all of us. Only 10 or 15 are exempt from the need of Affordable Housing, meaning below market rate housing. Fights over rent control cropped up around the bay area. Several cities have measures on the November Ballot including oakland which has seen a lot of demand for rent recently, a lot of it spillover from San Francisco. Theres a rally at 8 a. M. At San Franciscos lower haight and at noon in oakland. Live in the newsroom, anne makovec, kpix 5. What are the arguments against rent control . Reporter you can imagine there are plenty of arguments against it coming from landlords and from economists saying it makes the situation worse by restricting supply resulting in rundown apartments and driving market prices higher. Then landlords bully protected tenants to try to get them out of their apartments. Thank you. Concord police are investigating a double shooting after a man and woman were attacked in their home las