Created a new City Department to take over the duties. Our coverage, dan thorn live for us tonight in berkeley he joins us now with more on this idea. Dan. Well they can grant this proposal centers around the idea of essentially re imagining Public Safety. The mayor and City Council Members are proposing that Police Officers focus solely on solving crimes as opposed to handling traffic situations and they believe this could save the city. A lot of money as well as limiting the number of negative interactions between Police Officers and people of color. A new progressive proposal in berkeley could ban police from enforcing traffic stops the move being considered by City Government would instead create an unarmed civilian division to handle the job, you know the calvary trying to cut co sponsor of the proposal Council Member ben bartlett would like to see changes to Public Safety in his city. Bartlett believes a new department of transportation would be better suited then police to take care of broken tail lights fender benders and the like its not going to Fire Department of lot of mass. Its not necessary. Some transportation advocates have been taking a more serious tone what were trying to do is prevent an escalation of minor Traffic Violation in 2 that meeting number being or nelly gauche with walk bike berkeley says a new department made up of traffic experts would go beyond what armed Police Officers can do. Especially when the driver is a person of color if youre getting pulled over for a broken taillight and thats the only thing youre getting pulled over for and it doesnt get released the rain. The search are our picks some berkeley residents did express some issues with how this might work. Im perhaps someone whos not armed like make a traffic stop encounter some of the gun white encounter, someone who is drunk or on drugs he acts of violently, however, others are fully on board with this new idea hopefully it will cost your occupation. Then again on the people of color Councilmember Bartlett says the move would not only be socially but fiscally smart for the city and the ball needs to get rolling this to happen now. Because matter who you are you deserve to feel safe in your community. Well, theres still a lot of things to figure out in terms of this such as where the moneys going to come from one of the suggestions thats been thrown around is taking funding from the Police Department budget theres about that happening next week that will not decide whether or not this will or will not happen rather in will address whether or not this conversation will continue here in the city of berkeley, reporting live in berkeley dan thorn kron 4 news. Thank you get to stay in berkeley where the mayor there is also going public today with his frustration about restaurant rules after the decision was made to for bid Outdoor Dining in Alameda County. Kron fours gayle ong reports now the mayor thinks he should his city should be able to make its own decisions about health orders. The mayor strongly feels the city should have authority over Public Health orders because berkeley has its own Public Health department and the case count is far lower than the rest of the county. I respectfully disagree. But the states decision i think its going to really burden or Small Businesses and neighbors alternate places their jobs. I think its going backwards. Berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguin speaking out at a virtual town Hall Saturday against the states guidance banning Outdoor Dining in Alameda County or fiction raise under like some of our other neighboring jurisdictions and so i think you know we should have the ability to be able to make our own decisions about orders city manager Dee Williams Ridley says berkeley will be reaching out to state officials to try to obtain its own variance to allow Outdoor Dining but in the meantime we are going to have to comply with that order we are hoping that this will be a very short temporary challenge to our Outdoor Dining in the city of berkeley City Health Officer doctor Lisa Hernandez says as of saturday there are more than 7400 cases in Alameda County. 254 cases in berkeley doctor hernandez says the city has added get Testing Capacity and blames the small number of cases in berkeley. On social gatherings the social has not been compliant within a jurisdiction throughout recheck the mayor says many of those gatherings or College Party see increase in infections are more. Its its not due to the fact that there is there has been more testing but because of because it you know certain activities occurred like students living in combat living situations, having parties. People not sheltering in place following border city Officials Say 80 of berkeley residents wear masks, but the 20 who dont. Well have a huge impact on the increased covid19 cases, reporting in berkeley gayle ong kron 4 news. Although Alameda County has banned Outdoor Dining the city of oakland says that this new orders confusing and contradicts the previous order allowing Outdoor Dining. The city says it is in contact with both the state and the county to try and reserve a rip is all rather this issue and also says that it will not be changing the citys enforcement with the new county order. In a statement, the city says in part given the lack of clarity regarding Outdoor Dining were temporarily putting oaklands flex streets for Restaurant Operations on hold. Until further clarification is received from the county and the state and the city of hayward also responding to Alameda Countys order today, the city released a statement saying in part that it would support local restaurants that choose to continue to allow Outdoor Dining tonight in accordance with the countys june. 18 order. Happens every time its warm especially if it is the weekend the weather today, some people flocking outside to dolores park hard to what kron fours Jonathan Mccall saw though may not bode well for limiting the spread of the virus. And the summer heat wave takes over the bay Area Temperatures arent the only things on the rise. So are the number of coronavirus cases across california and as those case numbers continue to climb. Theres one group in particular being hit hard they think it in a sense of mortality him. I hope works out i cant stop talking on doors to bask in the summer sun too much vitamin d not the only potential risk these days. Coronavirus cases are climbing across california with folks in the 18 to 49 age group seeing the biggest surge. Saturday at dolores park in San Francisco. Most people could be seen social distancing, but a large number of people could be seen moving around in about. Now theyre faced companies. The side that would make Health Officials which has stressed the need for face coverings to limit the spread of the virus. James beach says its a dangerous risk that hes taking you also trying to enjoy this saturday, california recorded more than 8,000 new coronavirus cases in nearly 100 new deaths in a 24 hour period. Californians from 18 to 49 now make up the majority of confirmed cases with nearly 185,000 but get this if you add up the number of cases in every other age group. Its just 127,000 nearly 50,000 fewer. Store and thats how i take care of myself a disinfectant into my house and thats where we have more people should be were numb i wish they were at dolores park Jonathan Mccall kron 4 news today, President Trump wore a mask when he visited Walter Reed Medical Center for months now he has refuted refused to cover his face in public, but the president says that a trip to the hospital does warrant the move, especially since he was visiting Wounded Service members. I think when youre in the hospitals, especially in that particular setting where youre talking to a lot of soldiers the people that in some cases just got off the operating tables. I think its a great thing to wear a mask, ive never been against mass. I do believe at a recently some americans have argued that mask requirements are an attack on civil liberties, but the cdc recommends them in public settings where social distancing is not possible for the second time this week now the u. S. Has set a record for the number of new covid cases in a single day. According to Johns Hopkins university, which tracks the numbers there are more than 66,000 new cases yesterday and that brings the total number of cases in the u. S. To more than 3. 2 million. More than a 134,000 people have died from the virus in the u. S. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller is defending his prosecution of roger stone. The Washington Post posted an op ed from mueller on its website tonight, the editorial comes a day after President Trump commuted stone sentence. Their longtime friends and stone worked with the president s Campaign Mueller notes that stones conviction on 7 counts remains. He has been found guilty of tampering with a witness and obstruction hes also convicted of lying to congress which prosecutors say he did in part to protect the president. The commutation of his sentence just means that he wont have to go to prison for his crimes. Coming up well take a look at new technology firefighters are using to contain wildfires this year. And disney world in florida is back open how the park says its keeping its guests safe despite rising case numbers across the country and tracking one more day of our many heat wave in the bay area bringing mild temperatures along the coast. Theres the world in florida officially open to the public today, welcoming guests back for the First Time Since it closed in march when much of the country closed because of the pandemic but almost 4 months later. The numbers are worse now than when the park closed so is it really a good idea to be the theme park with the country hitting record. High cases of the virus whitney wild has more. Its the happiest place on earth now its trying to be the cleanest place on earth. But is that really possible in the middle of a Global Pandemic the New York Times estimates the park is limiting capacity to less than 50 making face masks mandatory and forcing social distancing and using temperature checks before you even get on the tram to the entrance and constantly cleaning we feel safer at theme parks than we do. And any other normal store restaurant, it feel safer at the theme parks because theyre putting in that extra effort thats saying a lot considering the state in which those theme parks are located florida. Is seeing a record breaking number of coronavirus cases and deaths this is really were dire position right now the Governor Ron Desantis insists the higher numbers are due to increased testing you did test 200,000 people at a 3 rate and get more cases that if the test. A 100,000 people have that. Echoing and inaccurate claim from President Trump everybody says we have so many cases. Thats because we test so many people but medical experts say hes wrong. But what we see is that the percentage of tests that are coming back positive is increasing the virus is basically outpace those efforts and now we have more people infected now than we ever have. In washington, im whitney wild. The roof and a historic Southern California church you see here was badly damaged in a fire this morning, San Gabriel Mission opens its stores in 1771 caught fire overnight about 50 firefighters showed up battled the blaze. They put it out just before noon after about a 7 hour fight, no one was injured. Fortunately, authorities have yet to determine the cause of the fire. Firefighters in oregon are now equipped with technology that lets them spot, small fires even at night. The idea is to find and extinguish the blazes before they become huge wildfires. The shea wesley reports that state officials got the idea from the u. S. Military. Last week residents in the Columbia River gorge got their first warning of the season. Gusty winds mix with dry conditions a reminder of what can happen. We are gearing up for an average season, hell law goal is with the Oregon Department of forestry. He tells me this year fire crews have a new technology. That can spot fires in the dark of night and through a thick cloud of smoke. The best way to describe it is looking through black and white tv now at night. The goggles on ot of aircraft has been fully outfitted with cameras. And other night Vision Systems to help crews across the state battle wildfires this season. The new system now. It will look at those fares a school are there just to eat teacher and a single tree. Really clear camera youre getting off a little weaker realized that they were making those it through maybe goals. The system generates images that are crucial in detecting fires. Valuable information incident commanders. Like joe hustle can communicate crews battling fires sometimes blindly on the ground theres a a lot of Mapping Software that is on board. Theres a visible camera systems on board. And all of that technology is like together to work can be really you know isnt a hugely real fun to somebody on the ground. In 2017 the eagle creek fire spread rapidly at one point it was considered the number one fire concern in the country. The military stepped in to assist with this system to help firefighters on the ground see where the fire was moving had they not. Pick up those fired with that infrared camera on board. You know kids have a lot larger fires on hand and we did we were able to get to them quickly. With one exception cattermole and what we call initially that organ firefighters are concerned by recent fires in the west like fires and the Redding California area they have burned through towns and consumed thousands of acres. They believe having this technology at their disposal will help prevent future devastation. There was a lush a wesley reporting for us tonight, the price tag for the equipment is about 650,000 officials think it could save about a Million Dollars by making it easier to prevent large wildfires. And we know fire season is already here seems to start earlier and earlier so hot in the inland areas today as we take a live look above downtown San Francisco on this saturday night our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez here to run it down for us, hows the weather guy there grant and vicki yen. The one thing that we are really lucky to have this weekend lack of wind speeds because a very warm and dry air mass is in place for at least one more day until we finally start to cool down for inland valleys, starting monday, but temperatures out there right now still warm, especially in the tri valley is widespread low to mid 80s after being in the triple digits earlier today but cooler along the coast. Thanks to that cool sea breeze half of a 54 degrees 30 degrees cooler than conquered right now at 84 degrees with widespread 60s and 70s for everyone else in the bay area and current wind speeds out there right now the only common breezy sustained winds at 21 Miles Per Hour for downtown San Francisco and still tracking a very dry air mass, especially for those of you in parts of the north bay Santa Rosa Sonoma and youngsville still in the 30th percentile as far as relative humidity goes, but we are noticing better recovery for most of our inland areas and even along the coast, thanks to the cooler temperatures and we are going to notice overall great recovery as far as moisture content goes, but yacht bill waking up sunday morning with relative humidity at 39 and you could easily be in the single digits. By sunday afternoon tracking a warmer and drier air mass but wind speeds around 20 Miles Per Hour or less so thats the great news right there, but still high fire danger concerns so just keep that in mind. Todays daytime highs 5 to 15 degrees above average the warmest temperatures in the tri valleys livermore in concord reaching that century mark today, no records broken today believe it or not. Well after this very warm to