In the center of lot of 70s rather and the Santa Clara Valley got that and were also check the tropics quite busy including down around texas with a new Tropical Storm. All right dave thanks a lot. We begin in the east bay this morning more accountability for the Oakland Police department thats the change. The City Councils putting. In the hands of the voters. The City Council Unanimously approved a ballot measure to make the Citizens Police commission more independent in its decisionmaking kron fours dan thorn reports. In an effort to strengthen oaklands citizen Police Commission City Council Members vote to eliminate what oversight advocates called a poison pill now that weve excluded wording of exigent circumstances. Well give the Police Commission more authority and more independents exigent circumstance would have allowed the open police chief to change policies without the commissions consent in relation to Public Safety mariano contrasts with the coalition and Police Accountabil
List the white house puts us on what we need to do is what we know we need to do all along which is individually we need to take responsibility. So Wearing Masks socially distancing. Thats san jose mayor sam liccardo responding to the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator doctor deborah birx she called out san jose is one of 12 cities in the country that she says are quote lagging behind the need to do a better job of slowing the spread. Take a look at this map from Santa Clara Countys Health Department it shows a higher rate of coronavirus cases in san jose compared to some other cities in the county. Some city leaders say that its tough to argue with the data while others say theres nothing to worry about. And we sure sips here in the city and county and the state and we are all watching the numbers so im im not concerned about. About that i dont speak the doctor birx is speculating i think that if hes making that list. Hes coming off of data theres no arguing with that i ca
And im len keise. Well go to a live News Conference with bart officials underway right now. Good afternoon. Im here with the business and Consumer Service and Housing Agency to give you an update on the states effort around testing our renewed Testing Task Force with two new cochairs and our focus on some exciting news around new testing guidelines and an effort to make sure that were doing all we can in the state so the tool of testing is one we continue to rely on. How the spread will continue to move in our communities and we began doing that care within our hospitals and clinical delivery system. Then moving into phase two where the governor wanted to increase our testing capacity. We went from 2,000 tests a day to the early parts of april and late march to identifying the Testing Task Force as a key solution about galvanizing our testing and tocus on supply chain issues and organizing our Testing Systems across the state to identify our instruments and i haves and we all know that
Reducing the Oakland Police departments budget by 50 . A first of its kind for stress in the workplace for e. R. Doctors. What it says about bay area physicians and beyond. Confrontation over mask wearing at a walmart that has gone viral. Ill show you the changes that well follow in time for the weekend. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Document a marathon evening of Decision Making in oakland including plans to slash the Police Departments budget in half. It comes on the sail day the mayors home was vandalized. What role enforcement plays in our community is our focus on building a better bay area. Live from the newsroom, Tonights City Council meeting is still going on right now in. Thats right, ama and dan. It started at 1 30 this afternoon and its still going on right now. Now some of the big headlines, move the handling of special events to the administrators office. And creating a task force that they said would reimagine public safety. Councilmember taylor said there would be
Office. And creating a task force that they said would reimagine public safety. Councilmember taylor said there would be a 15member Task Force Made of nominees that come from each district of oakland. Theyre also open to having youth members be a part of the team. Next week they will vote on this task force. Before these items were decided, Public Comments stretched on for nearly three hours. Defund the opd by an additional 1. 4 million this year and form a task force which must be led by the most impacted Community Members . I was really appalled. Defund opd was the main message from speakers. Those exact words were graffitied on mayor schaafs house overnight. Police are calling it an act of vandalism. This statement, this attack designed to intimidate the mayor and strike fear into her family will not stop her from advocating for the policies she believes are in the best longterm interests of her beloved home town. We will keep you updated on the other items that were discussed at th