Public universities and Government Agencies stopped considering race in their hiring and admissions decisions. Today the assembly approved a proposal to repeal that ban. The bills author says recent police traiks tragedies are showing that race and gender still matter. The bill could be ratified later on this month and be up for a vote in november. Happening now, calls to disband Oakland Unified School Districts Police force. Kpix 5 is live in oakland with the plan and how backers say they would keep students safe. Reporter well, ken, backers say that there is a plan in place that they want to implement to keep students safe even without a Police Department. They say they are the only School District in Alameda County that has that Police Department and those millions could be better served serving the students. The idea of defunding the police is not a new one for the black organizing project. The idea was first introduced nine years ago with the proposal to reallocate 2. 3 million fr
Overcast skies and, yes, it looks like we have the potential for some heavier downpours later tonight, including localized flooding. Current wind speed, one of the issues right now. Notice the southwesterly flow. Even though its calm right now, thats telling me were bringing lots of moisture up towards our area. Of course, that means that the atmosphere, once again, its very moist and looks likely those rain showers are due here soon enough. Scattered throughout the day and not very consistent, but by this evening, it does look like we have those pockets of heavier downpours. This is what i see as your fourth of july planner. Lots of clouds to start the day at 11 00 a. M. Notice these temperatures are pretty mild. Mid to upper 70s by 5 00 p. M. I do have the threat of light showers. Later tonight, im going to go ahead with some heavier downpours, especially likely after 8 00 p. M. Keep in mind, it looks like we may get a couple rounds of thunderstorms. Futurecast starting this at 4 30
Thanks for joining us. Well have full neighborhood forecasts in just a few minutes. First lets bring you up to speed on the wow wow welcome america festives under way this evening. Andrea kline thomas is live at independence mall. You find all the good spots. Reporter we did find a good spot. This is where naturally i would be, by the food trucks. It seems as though soul food trucks, ice cream, seem to be big hits out here. Thousands of people are here right now. If you listen closely you may hear the bass of the music. Lets go ahead and take you to the stage. Since 1 00 this afternoon, bands have been entertaining the large crowds. We see people are dancing and enjoying the soulful music. Others are also using the time to visit the museums in the area. This block party is really a familyfriendly event. Thats attracted both locals and out of town visitors. This is our first time to this event on the square. Its really nice. Everybody having fun. Enjoying each others company. Weve been
making for a messy commute. hollie we started early on the air at 4 a. M. , to show you how this has been purged progressing, we had 13 ialert is and now we have so many rolling across our screen right now. we have been tracking the storm since yesterday, it is tracking from the south to the north, john and lynna have been telling you this is a heavy, wet snow because temperatures are hovering right around freezing. so many large districts are closed today. as we zoom in you can see a lot of this is showing in that purple color. that indicates moderate to heavy snowfall. akron schools are closed today, Summit County, north canton, canton local, Garfield Heights, willoughby eastlake, dover, new philadelphia, ashtabula, maple hudson, solon, streetsboro all close today along with canton, worcester, cuyahoga falls, and that is just to name a few. east side of cleveland seeing snowfall. although Cuyahoga County is not specifically under this Winter Weather advisory. the snow was coming down
Hear from here where iavi is and where her partners and prospective from leading pdp in this area. Format well have 30 minutes for dr. Fauci to give us sort after presentation, plenary talk and well move to Mitchell Warren of avac of eight other ten minutes of comments. Margie mcglynn as well eight or ten minutes of comments. Then well open up the pan fell for you to give questions and i will moderate that. A good chance for to you engage with them on discussions where we are with hiv Vaccine Research and where it is coming. So, dr. Faw economy, over fauci, over to you, and thank you for coming. [applause] so i can advance my own slides . There you go. Thank you very much, todd, a real pleasure to be with you here today. Im going to talk a bit about the issue of the role of an hiv vaccine. I want to start off by putting into perspective the concept why we really do need an hiv vaccine despite the spectacular successes and really historic successes well had over the last several years i