2 key pieces of evidence citi says it is now talking with the fbi to possibly take over the criminal investigation. This after this a lot of County District attorney and the California AttorneyGenerals Office recused themselves. Lawyers for the month was the family tonight tell me that this latest move shows why theres a lack of trust among many in the community with the department. Certainly it appears that something criminal has happened we were very concerned we learned about yesterday. Its interfered with criminal prosecution its interfere with our federal civil rights case, its. Prejudiced our case in the ability to prosecute this officer and so not only is it appropriate to. That s the fire the person who did this. It is also appropriate to figure out how this could have happened how was one person making a decision about. Evidence collection why wasnt that taking into was entire truck taken into evidence immediately. Lots of questions being raised tonight. The city says that one worker now on administrative leave while an outside investigation is being conducted to figure out exactly why that evidence was destroyed in exactly what happened to it. Last night we told you about a recent study commissioned by the city to actually take a look at some of the findings within the Department One finding in that report found that less than 5 workers for Vallejo Police are responsible for cataloging and maintaining more than 700,000 pieces of evidence for the department will continue to stay on top of the story and bring you new developments as they become available. Live tonight in the studio Jonathan Mccall kron 4 news. And looking at how we build rebuild our Police Department in a way you know is racially just and we are making sure that our police are focused on what the treated which is respond to serious about. Berkeley city council has approved a plan to remove police from traffic stops. Now this makes berkeley the first city in the nation to make this kind of a change our kron fours gayle ong shes live for us in berkeley with the mayors plans on you just how to implement this scale. The key this would be a new Transportation Department made up of an armed civilians, the launch would take months or up to a year. The vote came early wednesday morning berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguin omni bus measure calls for a Public Committee to hash out details of a Police Department that will remove Traffic EnforcementMental Health and social service calls. This one only free up money inner city budget 44 of our general fund funds are Police Departments so its unsustainable longterm. But also this will enable Police Officers to focus on what theyre trained to do which is addressed serious and violent crimes. The new plan believed to be a first of its kind in the nation is aimed to curtail racial profiling citing the names of people who died at a routine traffic stop across the country. The plan comes as cities around the United States are looking at ways to scale back on police in the wake of the killing of george floyd we and listen to the community and a call for change. And the national to demands for transforming policing and i really think now is the time to innovate and that we must meet this moment terror to gain says berkeley is not proposing to abolish the police we have to have police to address serious and violent crime. But is it doesnt make sense for Police Officers to be responding to somebody whos in a Mental Health crisis merkley Police Department responded to the mayors plan in a statement saying quote. As we move forward members of the berkeley Police Department will collaborate with our community and city staff to determine how we can best evolve to accomplish our mission of safeguarding our community we look forward to engaging with their community and working together towards the best possible approaches to safety in our neighborhoods and across our city. In that statement berkeley pd also says moving forward theyre going to evaluate calls for service. Perhaps so other a city surfaces can handle those calls instead in a safe manner. Were live in berkeley gayle ong kron 4 news. Just last hour kron 4 hosted a town hall about policing in the bay area with trust issues in George Floyds death. Still top of mind for so many we invited several local Police Chiefs here to join the conversation but a path forward well hear from the chiefs in Fremont Oakland and san jose tonight. It was important that we listen it was important that we allow that anger to be expressed because people are angry and ill share with you that were angry to you know what happened with george floyd is absolutely unacceptable. Its criminal. And weve all stood with many of the people in our communities expressing that same outrage we were all pretty horrified. I what we saw on national tv with george floyd and since then i think theres outrage and a really a focus on the city of oakland theres really not. Been a focus that hasnt been on policing for quite a while 17 years of oversight has led to a lot of amazing reforms in this department we will recognize really the issues in the call for justice equality accountability weve seen incidents around the country and around the world. Were individuals and india calls are actively causing violence and hurting individuals and officers need to use force to stop an individual from hurting or killing. Others that are officers have the ability to do that short of that there is prohibited to shoot at a moving vehicle but in order to save lives or officers can do that. By the way are Jonathan Mccall was telling us about the issues at the lay opd tonight as it relates to that Sean Monterrosa shooting. Well the Vallejo Police chief Jody Williams was set to join us tonight but once that news broke. He backed out of the town hall at the last minute our invitation to him. Stands lot of good stuff in the conversation by the way you can watch that entire police chief town hall on the kron on app you can download for free from your favorite app store. Developing tonight an internal investigation into the hatch twitter accounts of highprofile celebrities, billionaires and politicians today revealed that the social Media Companys own tools were used to carry it out a twitter support account describes it as a quote coordinated social engineering attack that announcement came after the accounts of joe biden former president Barack Obama Mike bloomberg and. Others posted similar tweets this afternoon soliciting donations as part of a bitcoin scam kron fours Jonathan Mccall is back she talked with a tech expert about the bigger redflex. Twitter trouble for the rich and famous and its like the perfect or percent approval on wednesday hackers targeted the twitter accounts for some of the worlds biggest names as part of an apparent bitcoin skim among the victims president barack obama Tesla Ceo Elon musk amazon founder jeff bezos and rapper kanye west. The fig tweets offering to send 2000 for every 1000 sent to an anonymous bitcoin address one of the things that you want to do with phishing schemes to get access. To a prominent they count whether to email or social media account twitter responded initially to the incident saying they were aware of the security incident. And were taking steps to fix it. Miley wednesday evening, the company said that the attack appeared to be a coordinated social engineering attack. My people who successfully targeted some of our workers with access to internal systems and tools for hours the hacked left some users unable to tweet in verified users without their blue check marks all of it now raising some red flags says tech expert burden kelso were not sure if any of the peoples accounts that were. Actor or expose the people may have actually been portrayed the quarter system in were able to send this out the word warns users to be cautious about the personal information now tied to their twitter accounts information that could now be in the hands of hackers now its not people not able to change passwords or. With them removing official twitter account to check mark that yeah its starting to point to something that may be an internal at in San FranciscoJonathan Mccall kron 4 news the young man was shot and killed this afternoon in san jose had happened shortly after 12 noon on center road. In the rock spring neighborhood in just a few blocks from the dmv drivers license processing center. When officers arrived they found a young man who had been shot and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Theres no word on a motive and no suspects have been identified it is san joses 19 homicide of the year. We first told you about the shooting with a push alert so be sure to download the kron 4 mobile app to get all. The latest breaking news sent right to your smart device as it unfolds. A store clerk has been arrested on suspicion of homicide. After they shot and killed a homeless person who allegedly tried to steal from the circle k gas station in alameda, this is late saturday night police say 26 year old when young plane was the clerk who opened fire after somebody had reported a theft. Police also say the level of force used by playing but shes not justifiable and they say clay needed to step back and called Police Rather than intervene in risk getting hurt or possibly face higher criminal liability as in this case playing is now in the santa rita jail in dublin. The u. S. There are now more than 3. 4 million cases of the coronavirus and more than a 137,000 people have died from covid thats according to Johns Hopkins universitys tally, yeah in california on the list of states that are seeing surges in cases statewide. There were 11,126 new cases today. And 140 deaths which is the second highest oneday total. Health Officials Say that the States Coronavirus at the center is Los Angeles County in today. 2,758 new cases and 44 deaths were confirmed the countys overall death total is just under 4,000 meanwhile in the San Francisco, there is a total of 4,696 cases and 50 deaths. Californias attorney general Javier Becerra announced that the state is now suing the department of education and its leader, betsy device for the 10th time. This time officials claim the department is trying to overturn student borrower protections. The obama era. Borrower defense rule provided a pathway, the debt relief to students who enrolled or took out loans because of false claims made by a college or lender sarah says under the u. S. Department of educations new regulations there is not a meaningful process and that only about 4 of students could get financial relief. They rigged the system. Again students. Flattened. In a statement the department of education says this is another grandstanding politically driven lawsuit meant to grab headlines, maintaining the new rules protect students from fraud. And it holds schools accountable. Sara feels city schools will begin the school year with Online Learning guidelines include starting the year august 20th with Remote Learning and a phased in return to campus the district is also holding weekly meetings to plot details. Task forces will prevent present their recommendations to the board of education on july 28th and also at a town hall meeting on july 30th, a final decision on a plan will be made on august 3rd. Another condemned inmate at san quentin has died from coronavirus complications, 64 yearold Jeffrey Hawkins died at a hospital today. Hawkins is a convicted killer who was on death row. Now 11 inmates at the prison have died from covid19. Another beloved bay area businesses on the brink of closing in oakland childrens fairyland ran out of its Paycheck Protection Program or pp. P loan last weekend was forced to furlough most of its employees again fairyland was hoping to reopen this month. But now with cases rising the parks future is unknown. Our kron 4 s Taylor Bisacky has details. After serving hoechlin in the bay area for 70 years the cloud now cast over the future of childrens fairyland the opening hour were going to have to look at a different situation executive director Kimberly Miller says the Amusement Park which also serves as a petting zoo green space in educational place for families was supposed to open this month that was before all the rollbacks from the governor after coronavirus cases skyrocketed. We love our staff early in the process so much 16th in men where benefiting from ppp some had a couple months where we just worked really hard to separate statute siegel dive mind in our area and for a safe reopening. And uber to ride in the pt into a safe reopening a joint team. And thats when the coronavirus catapulted. Miller says the last of the Paycheck Protection Program or ppp loan which is largely used to keep employees on the payroll ran out last week and they were forced to furlough a majority of their staff yet again. Originally the ppp loans were to be used by june 30th. However, the government recently approved an extension, but unfortunately many businesses like fairyland already used up their funds unaware than an extension was coming with probably just like this one is different from the beginning. And just been able to do more protection of the organization well be protected staff as well so far the parks lost over a Million Dollars due to the coronavirus closure. Summers are big this season, were normally open 7 days a week from teen forward until the kids go back to school in august. To july less than 20 million. Nothing like the zoo, definitely for skilled huge for us now that Alameda Countys allowed to reopen the oakland zoo. Theres hopeful for their park but says she hasnt heard any updates yet. In the meantime theyve launched a ferry leanne fund in oakland killer be sackey kron 4 news. Tonight the state of california has given Alameda County the go ahead to resume Outdoor Dining that is after pulling the plug on that activity friday night kron fours dan kerman reports. This buys a calmer german restaurant in alameda, theyre setting up again for Outdoor Dining im so thankful that they. You know the Health Department and the board supervisors and the state got it turned around so quickly Outdoor Dining began in Alameda County on june 19th only to be suspended by the state last friday because the state said the county had not received a waiver to proceed that okay came wednesday morning meaning restaurants do not have to resort to pick up and delivery only which wont even pay the bills. And on how to make it was like why didnt i am still stopping it. And able to pay my bills and pay my staff. We employ people. You know, im not saying were making profit. But at the end as long as were all make a break and a check. It thats thats humongous concerns over laying off staff and not being able to pay the bills for some restaurants like dimitris to verna to stay open over the last few days. Still getting the states. Ok means a lot, especially to new restaurants like azul back any to tell you how to be a way our shoulders. My wife and i were just. Or or overwhelmingly happy that this does happen, but the on again off again nature of the states directives and the rapid spread of covid19 means its no time for restaurants to breathe easy. Its still day to may next obstacle for us unless Something Else comes along wintertime. Rain and all that stuff and now were going to deal with that. In addition to Outdoor Dining the state waiver also allows the oakland zoo to reopen for Outdoor Activities still offlimits indoor malls and indoor worship services. In Alameda Dan Kerman Kron 4 news, a new health order in San Mateo County allows family members to visit their loved ones in longterm care facilities. It will allow family and friends to have outdoor meetings with people in Nursing Homes and longterm care facilities as long as the facility obeys Certain Health restrictions. The new order will also allow what theyre calling indoor Compassionate Care visits hats were family members can take care of Urgent Health and legal issues which include end of life visit the new order goes into effect at midnight tonight. Tonight, the city of San Fran