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To transfer. The patient to the hospital, the situation becomes worse and the number of available ambulances gets reduced. This isnt a new thing. This has happened periodically over the years and its not unique to contra costa. Since september, the number of ambulances has increased from 54 to 72 per day, but Officials Say theyve received 240 calls for an ambulance this year alone. More than two thirds of them needed serious advanced medical attention, and paramedics are hard to hire and keep. We are putting up to a dozen firefighter emts through Paramedic School and then our subcontractor, amr, is also putting many of their emts who want to become paramedics through this Paramedic School, hospitals are overburdened and understaffed with hospital wait times for ambulances up to an hour at places like contra costa regional and john muir, walnut creek. We have seen some success with sutter delta in antioch, who has reduced their ambulance patient offload time in the last 12 months by a full 50, fire chief louis brochard says this is a system wide issue happening across the state. But in contra costa county, hes working on implementing a program called Nurse Navigation, where 911 callers who dont need an emergency transport can set up a doctors appointment. The whole point is to try and take demand down so that not everything is a 911 emergency. Not everything requires a paramedic transport to the hospital. Not everything, even requires transport to the hospital. And the Nurse Navigation program would cost about 600,000 a year. But it could alleviate the problem. And supervisor burgess says if you do have a serious crisis emergency, please call 911. Someone will arrive to help you. Im live in concord. Crystal bailey, ktvu, fox two news in oakland. Police are investigating a shooting right near city hall that left one man dead. This happened around 2 00 this morning. Police say the victim was taken to a hospital where he later died. Video from the scene here shows a vehicle that had crashed into a construction site at the corner of 14th and jefferson. Bullet holes can be seen in the front windshield. Anyone with information about the case is asked to Contact Oakland police. A shooting suspect is in Critical Condition after San Jose Police opened fire on the man. He is accused of shooting at random in a busy neighborhood. Ktvu south bay reporter jesse gary has the latest on the investigation. San jose Police Investigators say the man seen in this Security Camera video getting out of a minivan and shooting is a felon armed with a gun that hasnt yet been traced. Around 4 00 sunday afternoon, police say 41 year old san jose resident Ricardo Villarreal drove to the k and k apartments in East San Jose for reasons still unknown and fired indiscriminately. Thats a frequent occurrence. We often find felons in possession of firearms. That was the situation 17 days ago, and so thats part of what we were trying to figure out. Its part of what were trying to convene a group of people together to figure out why in san jose, we are seeing this uptick in violence directed, gun violence directed at our police officers. Ive been doing this a very long time. Ive never seen us San Jose Police officers take so much gunfire in such a short period of time. Apartment complex residents called 911, which brought a swarm of police officers. Neighbor jorge chavez used his cell phone to show officers converging on the van after the initial shooting. We hear a gunshot and we at first we thought it was like a firecracker, but we didnt think much of it. And later we hear like two more gunshots and then thats when i looked out to the kitchen window and i saw there was like a van with broken windows. Villarreal was eventually cornered by three officers, all three on the force. Three and a half years, four years and four and a half years fired, hitting and dropping the suspect. This apartment complex was filled with people enjoying a warm sunday evening. Families, friends and children were safe one minute and the next in grave danger. What they did next was the one thing they knew would stop this nightmare and make their family safe again. They called San Jose Police officers for help. We cannot allow attempts of killing of our officers to become normalized. Expected or tolerated. Detectives say they recovered a loaded, unregistered gun at the scene. Officials say this is the third time this year San Jose Police have been targeted with gunfire. That happened only twice all of last year. We need to continue pushing to fully staff our Police Department because in dangerous situations, minutes matter. Clearly we need to do better. Ensure that people who are prohibited from owning guns cant access them by working harder to get unregistered and ghost guns off of our streets. The department is now working with the atf to try to trace a gun that they say so far has been untraceable. While at San Jose Police headquarters, jesse gary, ktvu, fox two news, San Leandro Police have arrested a 13 year old in the stabbing death of a young man inside a safeway. The attack happened last month at the safeway on bancroft avenue. Police say an 18 year old man was stabbed during a confrontation with the suspect. Investigators say interviews with witnesses and Surveillance Footage led them to their suspect. They also say a search of his home resulted in additional evidence linking the teen to the crime. He was taken into custody at his school on thursday. Home depot has been fined more than 1. 3 million as part of an arson investigation into a massive fire. Dillon gregg was charged with arson for setting the home depot in san jose on fire in april of 2022. His case is still pending. The Santa Clara County District Attorneys Office now says, though the store had several fire Code Violations that prevented firefighters ability to save the building on that day, including a water Sprinkler System that was not working. Firefighters were also blocked from the fire lane by improperly stacked pallets. New at six tonight, the two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms, where Mass Shootings took place last year, are now being ordered to pay thousands of dollars in back wages and damages. A u. S. Department of labor investigation has recovered more than 450,000 for 62 workers at concord farms and california terra gardens. The Labor Department also assessed penalties after investigators found the farms underpaid workers and provided unsafe housing conditions. The wage recovery and fines are part o settlements reached for multiple violations of the migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection act and the fair labor standards act. The controversy over campus protests continued at the university of San Francisco today. The school began removing tents and belongings from a propalestine encampment. And as ktvu henry lee explains tonight, student organizers say they were not given any notice. We frustrated her upset. Just thrown off like shes just giving her orders. They got people. University of San Francisco student susu stasha says the campus gave no notice before they started removing tents at a propalestinian encampment on monday morning. The students were already planning to leave, but she says that doesnt make it right. They once they came in, they just started breaking stuff down. No warning, no, no consent, no. Like, hey, wheres this . They just took everything down. They shoved the tent. They shoved everybodys personal belongings. The campus says most students had already left the camp, and that the majority of the 50 tents had been abandoned. The tents have been on campus since the end of april. Protesters in line with the campus tagline, have been hoping to spearhead change, drawing attention to the plight of palestinians half a world away. And at usf, first year law student Hannah Beauchamp pope says the administrations actions is an affront to the private jesuit university. State admission. And i literally woke up from that tent this morning. All of my belongings are in there, my computers in there, all my blankets are in there. My keys to my house are in there. I just feel like it was an escalation that was unnecessary. Nor almuhtasib is an assistant professor whos been monitoring the students safety and welfare. The fact that we told them we want to make sure everyone gets their belongings and that we dont let things go to waste, and we actually want to donate a lot of it to our on house comrades. Those at the camp say protesters have been working with the university to find some kind of middle ground. What happened monday, they say, calls all that into question. Any kind of bridge that they were building before they harmed it. Now in a statement, the University Said in part usf is grateful to all who have participated in charting a peaceful path forward and prioritizing safety and respect for all members of the community. The university did have its graduation ceremonies last week, and some of the protesters did interrupt the law school graduation, but for now, they are moving on to their next phase of their protest in San Francisco. Henry lee ktvu, fox two news. 2000 graduate student workers at uc santa cruz walked off the job today and went on strike. Theyre protesting the uc systems recent crackdown on propalestinian demonstrations on College Campuses here in california. The walkout involves teaching assistants, researchers and other academic workers. No word on how long this will last. Uc administrators say the students are in violation of a no strike clause in their contract. The International Criminal Court Issues Arrest warrants for israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some hamas leaders, prompting a wide range of reaction from around the world. And theres more fallout over the death of irans president in a Helicopter Crash. Bay area political analysts weigh in on why a power shakeup in iran will and wont make a difference. And were getting into our tuesday now. Well line up the forecast for this week and well take a peek at the weekend as well. Also ahead, state regulators planning to update fuel standards, with critics concerned about how much its going to cost drivers at the gas station. And heres a quick check of the monday evening commute. This is a look at the east shore freeway as seen from our emeryville camera. It looks to be okay out there at this hour. Youre watching ktvu news six. Well a slow network is no network for business. Thats why more choose comcast business. And now, were introducing ultimate speed for business our fastest plans yet. Were up to 12 times faster than verizon, at t, and tmobile. And existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds. At no additional cost. Its ultimate speed for ultimate business. Dont miss out on our fastest speed plans yet switch to comcast business and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today the Fire Department, telling ktvu the fire started around 5 00 tonight. Sky fox does show some of the firefighters there on the rooftop around the building. At this point. No reports of any injuries. We are hoping to get an update to this Current Situation from fremont fire at some point during the newscast. Prosecutors have rested their case in the criminal hush money trial against donald trump after the former president s former attorney testified for a fourth day. The defense then called its first witness to the stand a lawyer who once advised michael cohen. Fox news Michelle Ross was inside the courtroom for todays proceedings. Former trump Attorney Michael Cohen testifying today during crossexamination by Trump Defense lawyer todd blanch that he stole 30,000 from the Trump Organization to make up for his lower than normal annual bonus. Blanch, saying you were shorted on 100,000 on your bonus that year. Cohen responded, thats correct. Cohen kept 30,000 for himself after what was supposed to be a 50,000 reimbursement to tech company redfinch, cohen explained how trump did not like where he was placed on a cnbc poll ranking top business leaders, so they hired redfinch to rig the poll. But when final results came out, landing trump much higher up at number nine, cohen testified that trump was still dissatisfied and did not want to pay the 50,000 payment, was put in the same Reimbursement Agreement as stormy daniels. Cohen says he went to td bank over the course of a few days to withdraw 20,000 cash in a brown paper bag, blanch. So the 50,000 that you got back from redfinch, you only paid the redfinch owner 20,000, right . Cohen yes, sir. Blanch. So you stole from the Trump Organization . Cohen. Yes, sir. And redirect. Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger tried to restore cohens credibility outside the courthouse. A raucous environment with at least 14 of Trump Supporters who were in the courtroom. Counterprotesters can be heard behind them. I wanted this country to understand that prosecutors around the country are calling this sham trial exactly what it is a sham trial. Prosecutors accused donald trump of falsifying Business Records to cover up a hush money payment to stormy daniels. But trump says his books are in order. Its not marked down as construction. Its not marked down as sheetrock and cinderblock. Its marked down as legal expense. You have a lawyer, you pay him a legal expense. Again, that was Michelle Ross reporting. It remains to be seen whether mr. Trump himself will testify in his own defense before the trial began. The former president said he planned to do so, but his attorney told the judge last week it was no longer certain. Hunter biden is pressing for a delay in his federal gun case. He is asking an Appeals Court to pause the delaware trial, scheduled to begin next month. Attorneys for the president s son argue there is no urgent need to start the trial on june 3rd, shortly before the scheduled start of another federal trial on tax charges in california, hunter biden is accused of lying about his drug use in order to buy a gun in 2018. He has pleaded not guilty. Representative anna eshoo hosted a reception today to honor this years u. S. Service academy appointees. That event took place this afternoon at Moffett Field in mountain view. Every member of congress has the opportunity to nominate students living in their districts to the five Service Academies west point naval, air force and coast guard, and the merchant marine academies. This year, representative eshoo had a record 15 students receive appointments to the academies. I have a lot of hope for the future of the country through the eyes of these kids, these young people, their outstanding representative, eshoo says. Each applicant has gone through a rigorous Selection Process and was selected because they excelled academically and athletically and demonstrated strong leadership skills. A bay area lawmaker says tribes should be involved more involved in the Decision Making process when building offshore wind farms along the west coast. North bay congressman Jared Huffman sent a letter to federal regulators requesting that they place a senior official in the state to specifically respond to tribal needs. The Biden Administration has approved eight offshore wind farm projects, including two right off the coast of humboldt county. But Tribal Community have expressed frustration with what they describe as a lack of consultation on proposals that impact culturally significant waters and land. State regulators are pushing back over allegations that gas prices will significantly rise over a new climate plan. The California Air Resources Board is planning on updating fuel standards this year. The updated rules are expected to require the oil industry to develop ways to reduce emissions, which could be costly, and those costs may be passed on to consumers or customers. Rather, in a study of the issue last year, a staff report from the air Resources Board suggested prices could increase 0. 47 a gallon in 2025 and 0. 52 a gallon by 2026. Staff later on in december, then said the actual Cost Increases were unclear and the analysis was incomplete. The research we put out recently says, i actually dont think the amendments theyre proposing right now are likely to increase the credit price very much at all. So you wil