Was fired by mayor shengtao in february of last year, armstrong was accused of failing to properly handle some Police Misconduct within his ranks, but was since cleared of wrongdoing. So now, after more than a year of a void atop the department, abc seven News Reporter suzanne phan takes a look at Floyd Mitchells first order of business reducing crime in the town. Im truly honored to be given this opportunity to serve as oaklands police chief. Chief Floyd Mitchell takes the reins of Oakland Police department on monday. Mayor shang tao appointed mitchell as police chief back in march. Hes smart. Hes a smart crime fighter who delivers results, and it is what i demand. Mitchell served as police chief in lubbock, texas, and before that he was chief in temple, texas, and before that, a Patrol Officer in kansas city. He now takes on a department at a time when oakland finds itself with many concerns over Public Safety and especially many crimes are targeting our Small Businesses. The Oakland
Church. The damage this morning while crews spent the night cleaning up and evacuate. Now thats the message from the Israeli Military preparing for a potential ground offensive. While the u. S. Is investigating whether israel violated international law. Plus, Northern Lights from california to the new images coming in overnight of the rare, powerful solar storm. And good morning to you. Its saturday, may 11th. Im zach fuentes. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Some of those images are so beautiful. Yeah theres been a lot of them not close to the coast here because we were socked in and as a result, our dense fog advisory. But if you look at the big picture, high pressure, our dominant weather feature still with us for a wide range of summerlike temperatures today, weve got the low clouds and fog that really have been quite dense in spots. So thats why this advisory lasts for another hour. But you know, the fog has been everywhere from the north
Tax plan say its a common sense way to give them the help they need. Tax relief could soon be coming to thousands of businesses around San Francisco. On monday, two Business Leaders submitted a proposed measure that would overhaul the citys tax system. Lori thomas, the executive director of the golden gate restaurant association, was one of those people we know that any relief we can give, even if its a couple thousand dollars a year to our Small Businesses, is a nod in the right direction. If passed by voters in november, the proposal would simplify the citys notoriously complex tax system. It would also allow Small Businesses with revenue under 5 million to be exempt from business taxes, up from the current level of 2 million. Its a move that proponents say would allow for more Business Expansion and hiring. Almost 90 of our restaurants, 60 of our Retail Businesses would be completely exempt from our gross receipts tax at the palette tea house in ghirardelli square, owner dennis long
Narrow that you couldnt say, sergeant, take the hill. Yes, i had to say follow me because you could only get one guy on the hill. But later, as vietnam unfolded, mccloskey turned against the war. Its in San Mateo County that the candidates will meet to fight out an election for an empty congress seat. Elected to congress as a republican in 1967, he eventually ran for president , trying to unseat Richard Nixon and participated in antiwar demonstrations. Means there are two ways to end this war. One is to persuade the president of the United States to stop the bombing forthwith, and to withdraw our troops from vietnam immediately. The other is to persuade 218 members of the house of representatives, or 51 senators, to vote to cut the money off for this war. When mccloskey came out against the war in vietnam as a marine war hero, it was it was a big deal activist and filmmaker Robert Coughlin was a lifelong friend. In his film leading from the front, coughlin documents mccloskeys sometime
Rain has gone for now. But what is today looking like . Lisa yeah, its definitely cool out there. Stephanie. We do have a few showers in the south bay off the coast though, so the atmosphere is still a bit unstable. And were looking at live doppler seven right now. That shows the cloud cover that has cleared the bay area as we go in closer to the south bay and the monterey peninsula. There you can see just a few showers down by big sur, but for the bay area, partly cloudy, cool. 48 in fremont and san jose. Right now, danville do you check that out . 4342 in napa with 40 in santa rosa. So compared to 24 hours ago, were anywhere from 4 to 10 and 12 degrees colder this morning. And that in that post frontal air mass. So the winds are gusty and novato breezy. San francisco will have the breezy onshore winds with a sunny afternoon, but notice high temperatures still in the 50s by noontime and by the afternoon just low 60s. Bayside mid 60s for some places inland and keeping it cool at the co