Forces dislodging Islamic State militants from the city that fell seven months ago. And the french Prime Minister pushes ahead with controversial plans to boost the government Emergency Powers and to strip french citizenship from convicted terrorists with dual nationality. My name is christopher. Thanks for joining us. Amnesty International Says russian airstrikes in syria have killed hundreds of civilians and could amount to a war crime. The Human Rights Group says it has evidence russia has been using cluster munitions and unguided bombs on civilian areas. Moscow has strongly rejected the accusations. Reporter a cluster bomb attack on the plains of Northern Syria in november. Each shell contains thousands of small bombs inside it, causing huge damage. Amnesty international accuses russia of violating rules of war. Amnesty says its program confirms such attacks have confirmed have occurred. Russias attacks may amount to war crimes. More investigation is needed, but what we have seen i
Insertion and extraction missions. That means bringing teams in by helicopter, lowering them into small boats trying to get them into target areas. Thats the latest live in navarro beach, florida. Just in from ferguson, missouri. The citys Police Department announcing the chief has resigned. After that Justice Department investigation found widespread racial bias in his department, chief Thomas Jackson submitted his Resignation Letter this afternoon. Hes expected to speak any minute. These are live pictures. Jackson says it was a mutual decision between him and the City Administration and he told nbc news, quote im confident the city will pull through these trying times. The people are committed to ferguson. The chief will receive a severance payment and Health Insurance for one year. Tonight we have not heard much from the d. C. Fire department about two firefighters accused of breaking the law. Mark segraves broke the story just a short time ago. Hes in the newsroom with more. Jim, o
Than 65. And officials are urging people to get flu shots. It is available in our clinics. It is available widely and from health care, we encourage people to do it. Be sure that you are washing your hands, clean hands, extremely important. And children in san jose are being reminded to take precautions and wash their hands. Health officials are reminding people to keep Sick Children at home. One of the Largest Health providers is laying off workers t affects workers in oakland and berkley. Union employees say it is a peculiar time to be reducing staff. When it is booming they are odd indeed. We are running short of nurses every night, the morale is bad right now. Regardless of the protests, Sutter Health said to right itself will eliminate the full and part time positions. A spokesperson i do not know how many people will leave. Were working through retraining to fill vacancies. And it will close the Skilled Nursing facility. Nurses are angry. Less staff means to say nothing of the fa
48 homicides, 73 had video evidence. Of that 73 , 66 resulted in arrests. Thats huge for us. How do juries react to this . They like it. They get to see firsthand in which nowadays the color the actual incident unfold. I think all these things have had an impact. Obviously, our arrest rates are up. When the word spreads cops are arresting people, there is fear they will get caught so they think twice about committing crimes can. Now, the flip side is that prosecutors and jurors are become more and more sort of demanding and reliant on videos. As a matter of fact, some of the times thed the tells the cops to go back and try to find video because they dont trust the witnesses. W whatever seems to be working appears to be working at least here on the streets of San Francisco. Phil matier, cbs 5. If you want to check out the video San Francisco police have on file, go to sfpolice. Org. San francisco isnt the only city with reduced murder rate. San jose, oakland and richmond have all seen a
This morning on the kron 4 morning news. Record cold is causing problems across the country. Schools closed, businesses disrupted. And big delays at airports including flights into and out of the bay area. Plus a east bay woman for being alert. And helping get an abducted little girl home safe. And the niners take on the panthers sunday. How you can get in on all the action and the road to the super bowl. Will darya kron4s will tran is live at sfo with an update on delays and cancellations. Will some people cant even get to places like canada because theyve bounced all across the country. whats your name server henry. There was no way out. We got a three day delay to chicago. And so we decided to go west all the way across the country and try to get out. its all good. We will get out of here today. The how much did you have to pay to get bounced around with the hotels and flight 1,500. you cant be mad. we just take it and go yep. 1,500. I would have given them my couch. Darya thanks a