Spent the past five days patiently waiting for giants baseball and the quest for a third title in five years. Bob redell is live on the field itself. Bob, were six hours from the game. Dont do anything to jinx it. Reporter dont step on the grass, is that what youre saying . Good morning to you. Were just a few hours from game time, 5 07 california time here at kauffman stadium. The field is almost ready. Were just waiting for the world series paint to dry. Its fresh. We do think the sun will take care of it. Its also getting pretty hot out here on this kansas city afternoon. Out front of the stadium we bumped into giants fan michael knapp. He flew in last night, made the road trip to kc with nothing but a wad of Ben Franklins trying to get tickets to game one and two tonight and tomorrow. Hes willing to drop 1,000 a game. He did strike out at the box office this morning. Thinks he and his buddy will be able to get in for 500 a ticket. Doesnt seem like were the underdogs this time aroun
And other cases, were not allowed to look at race and gender, which we all know and the the Fire Department has done well when it comes to gender and i want to applaud the chief and the management time. Were interested to has happen to go firefighters of color. Theres a both a reality and perception of issues and i want to look at the date that were talking about and chief officer rank, when you have 48 percent of the work force thats caucasian and you have 77 percent that are caucasian and in the paramedic, 76 caucasian. Just pointing out the numbers. But let me just make a comment about perception which is i have had many conversations with firefighters of color who feels theres challenges they face within the department and im going to articulate this because the firefighters dont feel comfortable raising this within the command of the Fire Department and this is why breed and cohand and myself feel we need to raise these issues because they dont feel comfortable in a situation wher
Into the department this should have a reduction in our overtime and ill explain whats happening with the new construction you see in the mission bay. As a result of the net increasing with the staffing were lower than the Previous Fiscal Year the amount of overtime is directly related to the Police Department to the number of personnel we have on staff. In addition, we have worked closely with the department of hearsay and the local 798 to have a hard cap of 11 hundred hours this was fully implemented this past fiscal year we see a performance if our fire prosecution due to do on and on construction supervisor wiener. Its staffing positions its similar where the staffing wise for a number of years it caused a slight overtime which part of that was intentional strategy but i know weve shipped this where were increased staff where do you see the trend over the next 3 to 5 years with the Staffing Levels what that is going to mean in terms of overall furnishing of the department and overt
Cant knees and spanish and thats the largest population and those stations needs those folks that have the ability to communicate with that population. Thats a natural need in the city. We can certainly include a statement to the effect that we encourage people various Language Skills to apply rather than identifying particular languages which would be a concern. Thank you. Im hearing a number of things from what youre saying from your presentation. You started off by saying because of prop 209 and other cases, were not allowed to look at race and gender, which we all know and the the Fire Department has done well when it comes to gender and i want to applaud the chief and the management time. Were interested to has happen to go firefighters of color. Theres a both a reality and perception of issues and i want to look at the date that were talking about and chief officer rank, when you have 48 percent of the work force thats caucasian and you have 77 percent that are caucasian and in t
Shootout is at sf general with life threatening injuries. During the altercation Officials Say an officer fired at one of the suspects holding a gun, but did not injure him. The suspect ran off but the cop caught up to him and took him into custody. Its frightening. Thi bad. Its screwed up. They need to clean it up and get the dealers outta here. It makes the block terrifying. Ive spoken to police about why they cant do more and they say theyve made over 90 arrests on this corner in the last year. Reporter police recovered 2 guns from the scene. While this shooting remains under investigation, police have not determined if it was gang related. Alecia read, kron 4 the search continues tonight for the suspects who shot a 30yearold East Palo Alto man to death yesterday afternoon. Kron fours Philippe Djegal reports. Its the citys sixth homicide of the year. Reporter friends of the victim, call him luke. His name etched out on the sidewalk, where police say he was shot to death. While sitti