Want to thank you for being here today and i think everyone in attendance is required to by some healthy food out from blue market. Thank you so much for being here. [applause] commissioner president loftus id like to call roll is commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman commissioner marshall commissioner mazzuco commissioner dejesus commissioner wong commissioner melara ask excused commissioner president loftus we have quorum also with us the intern chief of Police Toney Chaplin and joyce hicks. Okay. Good evening and welcome to the wednesday, november 2, 2016, Police Commission meeting im going to make changes to the agenda given the length of the agenda a long closed session handling discipline matters one and 2 to our meeting next week and go ahead and start with general Public Comment. So Public Comment will be two minutes given the length of the agenda and the anticipated number of speeches. Item 3 the public is welcome to address the commission on items n
The past. Now, any and all fines will be paid by stakeholders and not pg e customers. Well have more at 6 00. Im live from the Federal Building in San Francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Thanks very much. And more information on the story. The explosion happened six years ago on september 9th, 2010. Two years later in 2012, they agreed to pay the city 70 million in restitution. In 2014 the criminal case began when the utility was indicted for the charges related to todays ruling that weve been discussing. That same year the state puc proposed a 1. 4 billion penalty for that blast. That penalty eventually became 1. 6 billion. That is a record fine for a utility. The abc 7 i team has learn of arrested connected to highway shootings in the east bay. Sources tell the team the fbi safe Streets Task Force arrested more than 20 suspected gang members in an operation last week and some of them may be responsible for the highway shootings along with other crim crimes, including guns, drugs
From whether we deployed the sheriff for apprehension with k9. He was an rehenned and taken into custody and by ambulance going in for treatment. What can you tell me about his condition or statement . We provided the medical treatment necessary with the ambulance personnel, and he was sweating from fusely, and sink storms of possible intoxication and possibility of being mentally unstable so we superintendent him to the hospital. You are investigating what early on in the slow somebody pursuit he made an attempt at an officer or a car. Can you talk about that . What is confirmed is an attempted assault on an officer with the car he tried to back into them but the officer was not struck. The vehicle was not struck. And the car behind me, obviously, it is in bad condition. Do we know in it is stolen . Car belongs to him we will clean up here and get the car back to tow yard. Thank you, sergeant. Again, if you come back out here i will show you the car and the condition of the car you ca
Over here on the trivalley we have much better news. The lanes have reopened as vasco both directions. Now, this is just by the landfill but they may have to close things later on in the morning because of power lines down in the area. For now you can access 580 out of brentwood and Discovery Bay with no problems there. Back to you. New this morning at 5 01, newly planted trees targeted once again in the south bay. Just cut down. City leaders are trying to track down the mystery vandal in willow glen. Today in the bays bob redell is live there now. This is the second time, bob, in just a matter of weeks. Unfortunately you are correct. Someone has been cutting down these trees here in willow glen. People who live here want to know why someone is cutting down their newly planted trees. Could be politically motivated. Someone either wednesday night, early thursday morning, as you can see, they took an electric saw and cut through not one, not two, but 23 of these newly planted trees along
Tunnel. We got word that he is on city streets right new on surface streets. This is video from earlier you can see the car driving along on the highway, and if you watch, the video we have, you can see that police are keeping a very far distance from the black fourdoor sedan. They are being cautious. The chase started in the peninsula in menlo park and they have not said why they are following this person. Look at this other video we have you can see the driver holding something outside of his car and it looks to be a metal object. We watched as he got off the freeway at one point in oakland earlier and caused one accident as i mentioned, and he got back on to the freeway headed now through the east bay and we are watching this closely in the newsroom with a crew on way to the scene in the area and will bring you updates as they happen. Now, over to alexis. How is it affecting things this morning . Police are holding track back obviously foreigns safety and going very slow if you happ