New questions about his own departments use of force during the protest, particularly those rubber bullets. It comes as the city braces for another night of protests. Nbcs bay area Damian Trujillo is live at city hall where a couple thousand protesters we hear are now gathered and you were in the thick of it last friday when the rubber bullets were used. How is it looking tonight. Reporter ive never seen so many people at the plaza at city hall, not since the womens march here a couple of years ago and im going to say there is about three or 4,000 people here at the plaza, theres women and children and all nationalities here and not one Police Officer, and not one is here because this is a peaceful protest this. As the country and the city and the state demand police reform. San jose police say they had to use tear gas and rubber foam projectiles to defend themselves from a fog that was peppering them with debris last friday. But they also stress these were not Peaceful Protesters. Met
Handing out fines to rule breakers. I dont think giving somebody a fine is going to do much good, except for stress them out even more. In oakland, melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. With all of the rules and all of the restriction, the goal here is to avoid another outbreak. Santa cruz county is investigating several different clusters of covid19 cases, involving family gatherings. One of the clusters popped up after a large mothers day celebration, including people who traveled from out of state. Santa cruz county has seen a 20 increase in new cases in the past week. The weather will play a big role in what we do this week. Hot, hotter and maybe hottest. Jeff ranieri joins us now with the time line. What are you seeing . Well get back to jeff when we bring him in. Janelle, over to you. President trump, he is ordering states to consider all places of worship, raj, as essential businesses, and allow them to reopen immediately. Less than two hours later, californias governor responded
Now, here is sal, who will help me out here. Yes. Highway 24, we are going there and it looks pretty good so far if you are waiting to get on the roads. The commute on 80 and the Early Morning commute, there are a couple of delays. Traffic is moving pretty well. 4 31 and lets go back to the desk. Students at Mcclymonds High School are going to three different schools in oakland this morning. The Oakland Unified School district close to the campus after a toxic chemical was found in the groundwater and the district is warning parents it could remain closed for two weeks. The closure has many Mcclymonds High School students concerned because they are missing valuable time in the classroom. We have school work. We will be way behind on stuff we should have been learning. We have them doing assignments at home and we hope not to have lost too much in the education process. Students will not be punished for late assignments and ninth graders will attend classes at the Ralph Bunchie Academy
78 degrees. Get out and enjoy it. What else will you do . Sal has an update on traffic. Traffic is doing okay if you are driving on most bay area roads but except for the approach to the Altamont Pass, 205 and 580, no major issues but it is getting slower. Driving through livermore and Castro Valley, it looks okay and no problems on interstate 880 and the commute looks good driving past the Oakland Coliseum to the bay bridge. Its 5 01 on lets go back to the desk. The San Francisco police are in the early stages of investigating two separate incidents involving the same suv. It started when police said a driver hit a homeless person and then hit a patrol car. Sara zendehnam is live in San Francisco with more on that. Good morning. Reporter good morning. There are two different scenes in this situation and the first one was on haight street and ash barry with the markings along this sidewalk stretching all the way down the sidewalk. This is the route of the car and you can see damage. Th
Stretch continues and we are up to 28 days with highs continuing to be very warm, in the 70s. Enjoy it while you can because it will change but today, very warm. Sal is here now. What was the issue earlier . I missed it, but ive been ridiculously involved doing damage control. We have a crash weve been talking about, the two right lanes blocked with an injury accident and a minor crash and hacienda. Traffic is backed up well into livermore and if you are driving in livermore, it will be a day where it might take you by surprise unless you know it will be an extra 20 or 20 minutes to get through that. If you drive on 880, it is normal with no problems going north to past the coliseum and into a crowded bay bridge toll plaza. 6 01 and back to the desk. San Francisco Police are investigating two separate crashes involving the same suv. Sara zendehnam from ktvo joins us in San Francisco. One rashid a police car and the other hit two people . Reporter good morning. The sfpd cleared the scen