Often, they dont even call to report it anymore. Usually its fairly late at night. Were in bed. And its just oh, okay someone is shooting another gun. I would hope they would not get rid of it. The neighborhood really needs it. Oakland really needs it. Reporter heres an example that people not everybody calls in. Last month shotspotter recorded 258 reports of gunfire in west and east oakland alone. That same period, only 197 reports were called in by folks who live in oakland. So theres about 60 reports that were not called in by folks who live here. Live in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. The department has to come up with the money to keep shotspotter by this summer when the contract is up. New at 6 00, volunteers are going to Start Testing the waters off the west coast for traces of radiation from the fukushima disaster. Scientists expect to start seeing low levels of radiation next month. They have crowd sourced volunteers to take water samples from alaska to california. This comes thr
Having Seth Rosenfeld here whos an alum of the Journalism School as well as the daily cal and went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco chronicle. And all that time and i stayed in touch with seth all those years, ive known him for at least 30 year, going on 40 years and for all that time almost seth was involved in his own personal quest for the question of what was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s when all those events were taking place. And the result is this book, subversives the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. Its an extraordinary book, and when i read it finally and, by the way, i was waiting for years to read it and hearing about it its an extraordinary book because its written primarily from the perspective of the fbi, a voice that we rarely hear in public and one that when we hear it, were not sure what to think until we see their documents. And this book is based, as i understand it, on 250,000 do
This comes in response to public records request from the abc 7 news im team. Ear fear confusion residents felt as they woke up to fine the homes and businesses badly damaged in some cases. Dan is here with the story tonight. Dan. After i asked for the 911 calls police took 3 we can to go over the recordings and delete personal information of the callers. So now we can finally hear the firsthand account. People trapped. Needing help with the injuries. Others in serious danger. 911 what is the emergency. Flood of calls started immediately after the 6 point 0jolt. My house is shack. We had earthquake any injury or daniel to report. I dont know. My signs here my grandmother elderly. Have you determine you have injury or damage. I dont know. When you figure it out call me back. Dispatcher prioritize the call. Separate people who are just reacting to the shaking. From those with injuries who are in imminent danger. Is there a rupture or jaws smell. Theres just a smell but i think it was rup
I believe shes trapped in the house. Caller on the line though. I captain get out. Nerves. Shaken as buildings rattle and crumble. Tonight dramatic 911 call placed just moments after devastating napa earthquake. Good evening. You can hear the terror in their voices and while the damage was significant, there is help on the way. This evening the president declared the quake a major disaster and ordered federal aid for napa and solana county y federal Emergency Management agency fema still surveying the damage and may recommend even more resources. Late today napa police reless recordings of 911 calls that came in in the 30 minutes or so after the earthquake hit last month. This comes in response to public records request from the abc 7 news im team. Hear fear confusion residents felt as they woke up to fine the homes and businesses badly damaged in some cases. Dan is here with the story tonight. Dan. After i asked for the 911 calls police took 3 we can to go over the recordings and dele
Burn up right now. Some 21 structures destroyed and hundreds of of people are told to leave their homes tonight because of two out of control wildfires. Good evening. There are 11 active wildfires burning across california tonight. Right now there are evacuations in El Dorado County just outside sacramento and Madera County in the communities of bass lake and oak hurst just outside yosemite. About a thousand people have been forced from 400 homes in bass lake and oak hurst as the courtney fire rages out of control. We are basically watch it burn up right now. It is sad because thats where we grew up. It is completely thats an entire subdivision right there. 320 acres have bunched and the flames damaged or destroyed at least 21 structures. Hundreds of firefighters are doing their best in the steep terrain. In pollack pines in El Dorado County fire crews are on the ground and in the air trying to contain the king fire. 130 homes have been evacuated. People in another 400 homes are being