In town who would prefer that that money go to social programs across town at a port of Oakland Press conference at oakland airport, the mayor fired back. Im furious and frustrated that, you know, city staff had missed a deadline. But to assume room and put out false information that somehow we didnt want to apply for it, thats thats utter bs. It is absolutely not true at all. The mayor insisted they are putting in parameters. So Something Like this never happens again, calling it a personnel issue. There will be consequences that will be taken. The buck stops with the mayor. Shes over oakland. Shes the mayor of oakland. She needs to be held responsible for this. The mayor redirected the conversation to proactive steps shes taking to address escalating crime with technology, saying the city will soon be getting 300 surveilled cameras provided by the governors office. That will tag team with similar cameras in neighboring piedmont and san leandro. She also says they will soon be launching large drone cars to track down suspects and are awaiting faa approval. In oakland. Im leslie brinkley. Abc7 news. And now we want to get you to those new developments in oakland over the police chief there as the Oakland PoliceCommission Votes to extend the tenure of interim police chief darren allison. A new report is out on the firing of former chief laurent armstrong. Abc seven News Reporter stephanie sierra is live with the response to this report. Stephanie yes, kristen and julian, this investigation has been ongoing for months now and the attorney representing the former chief made it clear the report found that chief laurent armstrong was completely vindicated of any wrongdoing. Overwhelmingly taking his side so much so, the city is being asked to reconsider hiring him. A sigh of relief from former Oakland Police chief leronne armstrong. I think today is something that i envisioned happening a long time ago. Armstrong was placed on leave in february after the citys federal monitor suggests that he mishandled two incidents of misconduct within the department. But this 55 page report exonerated armstrong of those accusations. That report concludes that, number one, the chief never should have been disciplined. There is no factual basis for the discipline that was issued as recommended that that discipline be reversed and removed from his file. Number two, the criticisms of him in the federal monitors outside law firm reports were unfounded and the determination that his he was lacking in credibility during that investigation does not have a factual basis. And according to armstrongs attorney, will edelman. The report found the initial findings from the federal monitor did not draw the appropriate conclusions. The conclusion that he violated any department rules also lacks a Factual Foundation and is simply not accurate. This sounds like what i told you months ago. Its unfortunate that weve had to come to this point. The report concluded the former chiefs termination was illegal retaliation in violation of his First Amendment rights and a statement oakland mayor shan tao wrote, while the law prevents me from publicly discussing the details of the report, neither my administration nor the federal court agreed with mr. Armstrong that the findings could be written off as mistakes. Oakland needs leaders, including at opd, who will stand up and make tough decisions in the name of accountability and Community Trust by immediately and prematurely standing up for himself personally. Mr. Armstrong failed to stand up for accountability at opd, according to initial reports. The former chief said he was wrongly fired under labor code and whistleblower statute. But this report says the city did not violate labor code. Now, this, you know, concludes the fact that i didnt do anything wrong. In august, armstrong filed a legal claim of wrongful termination against the city, which could open up the possibility for a lawsuit. But interestingly, in this report, it clearly indicates its in the best interest of both parties for the city to not only settle with laurent armstrong, but to also consider rehiring the former chief and julian and kristen, i want to point out weve also been told that that will certainly be the more affordable option than hiring a Search Agency to find the next chief, given the city is already facing a multimillion dollar budget deficit. Tough option. Stef, we heard you ask the former chief if he had any reason to believe those working on behalf of the federal monitor had a personal vendetta against him. What do you say to that . Well, armstrong said he was not aware of that, if that was the case. But he did point out and make it clear that he wished those who were pursuing this, specifically the federal monitor, would take it seriously. Those were his words, adding that he actually sent a report that contradicted what the city said. And he felt that they ignored it. So it will be interesting to see how this follows for sure. Stephanie sierra, thank you so much. And now we want to bring in abc7 news insider phil matier to talk about whats happening in oakland. Two big issues. Lets start with whats happening with the chief there. In a statement today, the mayor said that there is no recommendation that she reverse her decision on to move the department forward. Meaning theres nothing saying that she has to bring armstrong back on. Theres nothing that says she has to do it. Its recommended that she sit down and possibly bring him back on. But bringing the chief back is a political decision as well as a policy decision and a policing decision. When the mayor put her name and her influence on the line when she fired him, she fired him because of this report in part that was commissioned by the city at the suggestion of the federal monitor, whos overseeing it. It was a look at the his handling of some cases involving police and what the monitors basically what this the judge said was that, okay, youve made these conclusions that he he mishandled it. But i dont see any proof. If you dont present any proof that he actually did. Its all this investigate was opinion and youre operating on opinion rather than fact. And based on that, you dont have a case here. But what do you do after the genies out of the bottle after you fired the chief . Its it really puts the mayor in a difficult position. It certainly does. But i got to just say, phil, this is so unreal. I mean, didnt he replace anne kirkpatrick, who was also fired and then later to have found to be what, wrongfully terminated and the city paid a million and a half on that one. Okay. This would be fuel for the chief to go to court. He would be able to present that to the jury. He could blow it up on a powerpoint and say, and this is what the independent found. Heres another twist in there. The mayor does says shes not going to hire him back, but but if you recall that when he was under the gun and possibly being fired, the Oakland Police commission, which oversees the department, they wanted him to stay. They did not recommend firing him. They and the mayor moved around them and went and fired him. They are now charged with finding the new chief and they have a couple until the october. They said they will be submitting the mayor three names of possible candidates so his name could be on it. Thank you. His name could be one of the three. And this could be back in the mayors lap again. Okay. Lets get to the really interesting comments from the naacp today, essentially saying that there are some folks within the City Government that dont want Additional Police funding to come to the city of oakland. So perhaps they didnt accidentally miss the deadline they did it intentionally. Is there any there there . Well, okay, the there there is there are people in oakland City Politics who believe in defunding the police and moving it into other programs. Okay. Thats service. Okay. That is it. And they are on the city council. But the idea that oakland did this deliberately, it appears to be farfetched and it appears to be, believe it or not, that oakland got all the information from the Police Department it needed and everything for this grant, which could have been upwards of 15 million for cameras and squad cars and other equipment. And then when they submitted it, there were holes in it. It wasnt all there. And the state came back and said, you got to fix it. And then they fixed it. Supposedly and then when the day came to send it, they couldnt figure out how to send it. This Department Says that they had a glitch in the system. And so youre sitting there going, people are sitting there going, you should have had it in days, weeks before your given the severity of the problem in oakland. So this is really a it could come down to whats worse, a conspiracy or just a great big dropping of the ball. Let this be either case, it lands in the mayors lap because now shes got a police chief that she fired, that theres questions raised about that. Shes got a question about not getting the grant money. Oakland got nothing. And shes got a crime problem thats continuing to rise. Its a lot for a mayor in her first year. Phil, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Want to tell you about the latest in berkeley right now. Berkeley Police Department investigating reports of a shooting not far from the university. Sky seven spotted patrol cars outside of a building at hillegass avenue between dwight way and parker street, close to peoples park and the south side of the cal campus. The news website, the berkeley scanner reports that a tenant shot a Maintenance Worker thinking it was a burglar. Weve reached out to the berkeley Police Department for more details. Well bring it to you when we have it. The Opioid Crisis on the streets of San Francisco appears to be worsening. City Health Officials say 84 people died from accidental overdose in august. Thats up from 74 in july. Today, the officials announced theyre launching an informational dashboard on the nsf. Gov website. The dashboard will highlight overdose and treatment trends in San Francisco. Itll give the total number of unintentional Overdose Deaths each month and track the amount of the overdose treatment drug naloxone. Thats being distributed. Legislation that aims to prevent Youth Fentanyl overdoses in california is now headed to the governors desk. Today, south bay leaders celebrated the passage of a bipartisan bill called melanies law. The measure from south bay senator dave cortez would give educators the tools necessary to save a child who overdoses on campus. The bill mandates it mandates that our Current School safety plans incorporate strategies to prevent opioid overdoses. And by doing so, were taking a significant stride toward safeguarding the lives of our youth. The mother of the bills namesake attended todays event and urged the governor to sign melanies law. 15 year old Melanie Ramos died of an overdose in a bathroom at a high school in hollywood last september. We have more news ahead. Here at four is israel Prime Minister met with protest on a whirlwind bay area visit today. What demonstrate leaders are demanding and youre probably remember the shortage of clorox products during the pandemic. Its happening again. Well tell you why its so tough to find those supplies this time. And a new era of science in the bay area. Well give you a glimpse into the future of tech. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. It was a sunny and warmer start to the workweek. Ill let you know if this is going to continue for the rest of the week when abc7 news at we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. Attacked at the attack in its it systems last month and that the breach has been contained. However the incident forced clorox to reduce operations and that means fewer products on store shelves. Clorox is not sure how long it will take to resume full production. The Company Released a statement saying in part, quote, while we cannot yet quantify the financial impact, we now believe this will be material on First Quarter financial results. A new era of science is kicking off right here in the bay area. Its thanks to the worlds most powerful x ray laser. Abc7 news south bay reporter zach fuentes got a firsthand look at the lasers and has more on the advancements it could bring. The Brilliant Minds working for menlo park slack National Accelerator laboratory are finally unveiling the worlds most powerful x ray laser. Really . Its a discovery machine. We can we can look at processes that are unknown, that we havent yet discovered. That discovery machine is called lcls two. Its been under development for more than a decade. It builds on the original lcls or linac, coherent Light Sources and xray free electron laser. Imagine lcls is a giant microscope and now with lcls two, we have about 10,000 times the light. Essentially to look at things, right . So that enables you to see things that we havent seen before. Those behind it say its going to transform the ability of scientists to explore atomic scale, ultrafast phenomena through those explorations. Huge strides can be made in things Like Clean Energy technology in medicine. In 2009, the original lcls machine made the us a leader in this type of technology and it was such a groundbreaking machine that six machines around the world immediately started construction. Project director greg hayes tells us. Though the us was not to be outdone, they also had to begin construction in 2013. And we have just completed, as of last week, our final milestone for the project. The Us Department of Energy Invested more than 1 billion and five other laboratories collaborated in its creation. The buzz over the machine has some of the brightest minds from around the world lining up to be able to take advantage of the Incredible Technology pg we bring in the international community, its global effort to drive science forward in the coming months, the first researchers will begin using lcls two. And though slack experts are eager and excited to begin facilitating that work, this beginning is just that. Theres still a lot of work to be done to make it work really well and to extract every little bit out of a machine that you can in menlo park. Zach fuentes, abc seven news, lots of you. It was a home built out of driftwood, but its just a pile of sticks. Now what weve learned about this miralax works naturally with the water in your body to help you go. Free your gut. And your mood will follow. For 8 grams of fiber, try new mirafiber gummies. And railing the beach town was badly damaged in a storm earlier this year. Construction is expected to last through next summer. Were learning more about the cliffside villa. You want to take this one made of driftwood . Yeah. Spotted perched on the devils slide near pacifica. Although officials have been aware of the structure for about ten years now, according to the San Francisco chronicle. Most of us were surprised to see it when 2022 video of it went viral. Last week, sky seven flew over the cliffside today and saw most of that structure. You can see here has been destroyed. It probably came down during last years storms. According to the chronicles reporting, the ramshackle house is believed to be built by a lone hermit. But theres no sign that anyone lives there anymore. Oh, what a view it once was, though. I know. Now its just there. All right. How does our weather look . It was really nice over the weekend, i thought. Not too hot. Not too cold. Yeah, very around here. Checking back in now with meteorologist sandhya patel to get a look at that forecast on a monday. Hey, sandhya. Yeah, hi there. And julian and kristen, it is looking really lovely for the rest of this workweek. Lets take a look at those temperatures just about everyone running warmer today compared to yesterday. Six degrees warmer there in concord and up three degrees in santa rosa. Livermore, two degrees warmer there in san jose. So it is really quiet here on live doppler seven, but active weather with thunderstorms firing up in the sierra. They even have a flooded advisory up to the north as they are seeing some heavy rain. So as long as theres rain, we are good because obviously we dont want to see dry lightning causing any new fires. Area of low pressure off the coastline, providing just enough of the lift there to the moisture. But this is the same low that kept us from clearing out very quickly this weekend. And kept our temperatures below average just like today. It is going to eventually move out. And ill show you whats going to replace it in just a moment. Live view from our Golden Gate Bridge camera. And it is just a sunny view with a gentle breeze. 67 in the city, low 70, oakland mountain view, Beautiful Day in san jose, 78 degrees, 75 in palo alto. And heres a view from san jose as we look at the shark tank. Upper 70s from santa rosa to napa, novato livermore 82 degrees in fairfield and concord. Youre at 79. Sunny skies over downtown San Francisco from our sutro tower camera. Low clouds fill in overnight minor fluctuations are expected in the temperatures this week and gusty offshore winds are going to develop in the hills Late Wednesday night going into thursday. But its expected to be a short lived event. Hopefully at this point, we dont have any fire weather warnings, but stay tuned just in case. So first thing tomorrow morning, low cloud