Local news station. And breaking news, a protest erupting in san jose over the death of an unarmed black man in minnesota george floyd youre looking at video of a demonstration that to got a rough at one point shutting down highway one oh one in san jose. This protest apparently began peacefully with a march through downtown san jose. But protesters made their way onto the freeway and we can i can tell you that there have been some scenes of violence. Hello everyone, thank you for joining us, im Catherine Heenan joining us on the phone a Santa Clara County supervisor dave court has a and dave, i know youre probably really plugged in what are you hearing tonight whats happening. O all there, we know that are going to come Sheriffs Department has jurisdiction, you know, im no longer quite yourself able to try to provide youre in. There in the back to pick the people have been cooperate me and part time. Right from the beginning when the chp was the ball i want to one was bought in. From what ive been observing is the park to tell the Police Department some its a situation where there. Everyone up to a in florida in terms of violence has become a tremendous our job trying to de escalate you know i think theres on. A huge cool or 2 people that are sophisticated nonviolent protests that are trying to keep it that way. But unfortunately not everybody is doing so and its its tragic because violence begets violence and you know its really we have a long history, a legacy here. Well back to cesar chavez who or the 60s and honoring the work of doctor Martin Country do that. Is being partly to do with here by some of the folks who do understand other gates and about what is it. A supervisor just wanted to say that one of the things weve been looking at is video showing i guess its a San Jose Police officer, but a Law Enforcement officer, some kind on the ground apparently injured and being a kind of dragged off by colleagues to you know anything about that or how that person is doing. No i i dont know and as you will all start getting. Casualties and to communicate or any time youre also on the move he operations a chinese she cooperated people informed him. My prayers go out to to any officer that gauged in the violent situation right now on any human being other people involved to its right now because as you saw the bigger political we dont want any he walks of life all good. His supervisor and just again so you know what were watching were saying someone smashing windows on a car were in hearing a police car was damaged we also though this protest blocked a chunk of one oh one for time. Do you know what the status is on that. You know my understanding is want to want to be clear all information that i the 2 are Google Office or protests started off. Peacefully enough there are 2 people were struck waterway in in a big way. But it seems so its a crowd of move down into several get around city hall to see what on 56th street. Despite the fact that the Police Department too. It appears too. Initially too to keep this tense to de escalate to use tactics that theyre very disappointed it creates pizza vs that didnt happen entirely out and see if you can see some of that in some of the pictures and video of whats been happening down there. Theres been some more than pushing and shoving things in soma fortunately. It doesnt look like we have any protesters and armed, but certainly of this the punches thrown. You know my heart to get the Police Officer that was so much like gun truck into a car. Yeah, it does it will begin their full were looking at video that person youre right it does seem to be by a car partly under a car and other officers are taking a more. A supervisor we were hearing among other san jose. State the people are being told students are being told stay inside until further notice. Do know whats happening. There are other. Fallout like that where people are being told just obviously stay away from this area. Well john you know, its an interesting situation overall because were in the middle of the pandemic longer still orders with criminal penalties for people who supposed to shelter in place or the protests and rallies are allowed to come to the states orders theyre supposed to be very very mid alongs and jennifer county i think the year if youre not supposed to be can be the will of the people at all and so since the state student should be sheltering in any way and they certainly should be venturing out to him. You know into into a situation where unfortunaty i think a few protesters here. You know arent overly trickiest with situation. Supervisor county city leaders strategize on tonight on what could be next to you know if there are any plans us how to deal with this if it continues. Well see you join a long list of parliament which has pretty robust growth it forced people to be able to leave the recall the beatles a a over the last 5 years, but you can starting about 5 years ago. Well, about 500 Police Officers not to turn if youre a Police Officer or a resident of the community because and they can only facilitate so much back to people there are there any other manpower it and theyre trying to people from all over the city right now i can guarantee that beating them. This particular area so its really important that the chopper now that roll in insurance department. A huge bully and continue to show the clip situation. In part its important that our could be a a Larger Community was done so in the past keeping large immigration rally in march and the and other events on by the people get them at such a dont go out there right file and a dip in the encourage you percent in a burst it home. All right i just want to thank you Santa Clara County supervisor dave cortese youre busy youve got a lot to do so we appreciate that you stop to take the time and talk to a much. Isor. Thank you very i dont think you get the word out we appreciate it. Chad thank supervisor. In oakland tonight protests are at least a protest planned tonight officials theyre getting ready. They have been boarding up buildings in the downtown area of oakland, a group is expected to gather they figure probably about 8 oclock tonight of course will be covering that on the 8 oclock 9 oclock 10 oclock news. One of the Police Officers involved in the death of george floyd in minneapolis charged today with thirddegree murder. The former Police Officer seen on video pinning george ford and basically kneeling on his neck. Hes been arrested facing that 3rd degree murder charge happening as the minnesota governors pleading with people to end the chaos that has gripped the streets of minneapolis this week we have a reminder that some of the images are disturbing. Former minneapolis Police Officer derek job and has been charged by the head of the county Attorneys Office with murder. And with manslaughter. It is the video that has appalled and infuriated people across the country. A minneapolis Police OfficerDerek Shaaban using his need to pin down an unarmed george floyd by the next. The run. This is by far the fastest weve ever charged Police Officer. Derek shaaban was one of 4 officers fired after floyd died this week while in police custody, new video has surfaced also appearing to show floyd repeatedly telling police he cant brief. This follows thursday nights unrest and riots that included protesters setting fire to a Police Station in minneapolis the National Guard was deployed to help restore order. The minnesota governor saying he understands why others, no trust of Law Enforcement in many communities. But hes pleading for an end to the nights of unrest. When i patronize you as a white man without living those those lived experiences about very difficult that is but im asking you to help us help us use humane way to get the streets to a place where we can restore the justice so that those that are expressing rage and anger and demanding justice are hurt. Many of the protesters say the unrest will continue insisting the 3rd degree murder charge is not good enough, and the situation demands a firstdegree murder charge. Protests friday included one outside the former officers home in florida. We have Team Coverage tonight, oakland city leaders again theyre bracing for a protest which is expected to happen about 8 oclock outside city hall. The interim police chief talked about strategy in trying to keep things safe kron fours Haaziq Madyun has more. Already protesters in oakland planng on creating seeds like the recent riots in minneapolis interim Oakland Police chief Susan Manheimer has a message for you. Opd will have to take enforcement action. Yes, in fact there is damage to property or to thats safe and peaceful demonstration Oakland Police are preparing for a demonstration that its the killing of george floyd who died after a minneapolis Police Officer press does need to his neck while he was being restrained. Oaklands interim chief thoughts about the challenge facing her officers trying to keep the peace while emotions are running high following the incident we understand there have been chased russians. All eyes of police historically instantly and our role is a very delicate balance of not being the target and not being an obstructionist to voicing safely those demonstrations that. Over the years oakland has been ground 0 for protests that started as peaceful but in with Property Damage and alter cases with police oakland mayor libby shaft talks about her expectations for fridays event. Listen oakland has a long history of free speech and demonstration we had very peaceful protest last night we expect to have today some local business and Community Leaders have a message of their own for anyone planning good using the protests as an excuse to destroy the city to a peaceful, you know those are set on small businesses. We can afford broken windows of businesses trash if you burn down the resources that you have did you have no other resource and so dont destroy what we have because already been destroyed by the pandemic except when i asked the interim chief if other bay area Law Enforcement will provide mutual aid during the protests. She told me. They will have the backup that they need. Has it made you kron 4 news. President trump tweeted about the unrest in minneapolis today, writing that when the looting start to the shooting starts the tweet flagged by twitter the president accused of glorifying violence. He later tried to clarify his meeting buddy, a tweeted these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd i wont let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz some told of the military is with him all the way and the difficulty will assume control but when the looting start to the shooting starts the tweets are now only visible is clicked president ial candidate and former Vice President joe biden was sharing his thoughts on the floyd case today. Once again. We had the words heard the words and they are. I can breeze. An act of brutality didnt war the deny one more black men in america. His civil rights as human rights of is very humanity and tonight life. Depriving george florida is a. As as a deprived eric garner. One of the things every human being must be able to do bree. A biden talked to George Floyds family today. He says he was impressed with their courage and grace during this painful time. Coming up Sonoma County sheriff does an abrupt a u turn or does say its all pretty confusing what shes planning to do about county health orders. And the San Mateo County city where you can now park at the beach again. And when we come back why gilroy officials want the county feel like getting back out there . Nissan is ready to help you with a bold, awardwinning lineup. And great offers. Kick off summer. With no payments for 3 months. Plus, well cover your payments for up to 2 more months. Or get 0 financing on 13 models for up to 84 months. Midnight a new health order is taking effect that requires everybody in San Francisco to wear Face Coverings in most situations when theyre outside the home. This afternoon, the county help officers explained that move and the citys extended timeline for reopening kron fours dan kerman is live in San Francisco with details dan. Well catherine you know its the Health Officers actually the one who is putting out all of these health orders, the shelter in place and Everything Else hes talking today to the mayor during an online conversation talking about why these Face Coverings are going to become a way of life between now and the time we have a vaccine. Can you talk a little bit about the decisions that youre making me i believe that to conservatives. You believe that theyre probably a little bit faster than what you would like them to be during an online conversation with San Francisco mayor london breed. County Health Officer doctor tomas are a gun explained the timeline for reopening is all about safety. We face some very vulnerabilities and other cities dont face. Where the second as a city in the country. We have wind commuters come in we have a lot of folks and so while we have made incredible progress. We want to lock in those games. You want to lock in those games and we want to move forward in a way thats going to be safe for everybody were really committed to not moving backwards. Oregon also said Face Coverings are becoming mandatory in San Francisco. Because the science shows that 80 were them consistently. An outbreak can be avoided. The countries that are being successful in keeping their economies open are the countries that have universal Face Coverings and so we have to have we have to for the next year until we get a vaccine. This is only temporary its not going to be forever until we get to the place where we have a vaccine and we can safely have most you. This is the bridge thats going to get us there are a gun also said the Face Coverings will provide an added benefit connecting with family members who live outside the home. Hopefully over the next week were going to be coming out with recommendations for the region and how families just the way youre describing him really can become come together. We want them to really think through and make sure that they do it safely sargon also clarified those outside alone with no one around dont need a mask, but hikers and runners and even its people should have won. When youre moving around walking down a crowded street, maybe youre hiking on a path. And then all of a sudden people come upon you and theyre not wearing a Face Covering youre not wearing a Face Covering every was embarrassed because youre almost on top of each other, and no ones wearing a Face Covering the 30 feet is really about being mindful as you approach people as youre approaching within 10 yards go ahead and put your Face Covering on. Margot was also asked if the numbers go down substantially more than we are expecting is there any way to speed up that timeline he says theyre going to be looking at the numbers as they move forward through the different phases they say it can be done safely. They will live in San Francisco outside Public Health dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you very much. Dan. Well to go right now city officials there have been calling on the county to relax shelter in place restrictions. Its happening amid growing economic hardship, which of course could mean layoffs businesses being forced to close kron fours rob fladeboe has that story. Still hurting economically in the wake of last summer shooting at the garlic festival in gilroy was just getting back on his feet when covid19 arrived in inflicted still more pain says mayor roland velasco. Theres theres a lot of businesses there are a lot of stress right now employees or lot under a lot of stress a lot of depression is happening with the gilroy outlets and most other commerce shut down in gilroy sales tax revenues are flat amid worries some merchants may call it quits and jobs will be lost says the mayor were looking at 7 million deficit weve started down work on potential layoffs of City Employees in a letter to the county this week the Gilroy City Council called for an easing of shelter restrictions. The letter cites gilroys comparative low density and just 2 new cases of covid19 in the past 37 days were not saying that we shouldnt follow best practices you know we will continue washing our hands and making sure that we separate yourselves at least 6, 6 p making sure we wear masks when appropriate new shelter modifications may be announced next week but until then the existing order remains in effect as reiterated publicly earlier this week by Health Officer doctor sara cody. Were going to go slow and were going to be saved. Somewhat geographically distant from Silicon Valley gilroy is also losing business to nearby San Benito County where most commerce has resumed amid relaxed restrictions, adopting the model gilroy strong as it recovered from the garlic festival tragedy would gilroy needs now says the mayor are signs that say open for business and the business community. Im not just see homeowners but the employees and everybody thats involved in the supply chain deserve a fighting chance to survive you roy rob fladeboe kron 4 news. We have video on the news from a short time ago showing an explosion followed by a sonic boom. This was a failed test of the space x rocket happened today in texas space. The rocket had a private lunch site exploded, no injuries were reported. The fire burned about 40 minutes tomorrow space xs at last word anyway planning a manned launch from. Cape canaveral florida. It would be the first launch of a manned craft from us soil in more than a decade. Time to check in on the forecast, lets go to bruce or rodriguez, so we know some rain headed our of greece uh. Yeah thats right but first lets take a look at that space x launch forecast because it is going to be some pretty interesting whether there is a slight chan of isolated thunderstorms very warm and muggy conditions remnants of Tropical Storm bertha impacting that launch site out there right now in florida. So fiftyfifty chance on saturday very similar on sunday as well so i wouldnt be surprised if both launches are scrubbed for this weekend. But i am tracking. Drier better clearing by next week the first week of june believe it or not katherine so keeping our fingers crossed that this weekend but it looks to be a better outlook for florida for next week if they do have to reschedule that space x launch lets take a look at our local bay area forecast Storm Tracker 4 tracking that high cloud cover out there right now dry conditions but that storm off the coast lightning detected just a few hours ago, just off the coast of Half Moon Bay as well and it is going to be an overnight storm continuing through saturday afternoon bring about a quarter of an inch of rain or less for most of the bay area higher amounts for those of you in the north bay with a slight chance of popup thunderstorms tonight through early saturday morning. So lets take a look at our future cast outlook and you can see dry weather this evening but overnight very light scattered showers but really the bulk of the wet weather wont arrive until shortly before sunrise, miami impacting those of you in the north bay and the showers are going to hang tight even through saturday mid morning on again off again scattered showers by saturday afternoon with some parts of the bay area getting little to no rain until we start to dry out by saturday nights lets take a look at future rain totals and you can see it is looking pretty impressive for those of you in the north bay but elsewhere, not really much rain expected. But we are going to notice cooler temperatures inland and also above average highs along the coast tomorrow. My microphone that forecast coming up in a few minutes catherine back to you thank you bruce and talk to you later. Still ahead a minneapolis Police Officer has been arrested charged now with murder in the death of george floyd well have a full report and when we come back by the Sonoma County sheriff is reversing himself on what hes going to do or is the reversing hi feel like getting back out there . Nissan is ready to help you with a bold, awardwinning lineup. And great offers. Kick off summer. With no payments for 3 months. Plus, well cover your payments for up to 2 more months. Or get 0 financing on 13 models for up to 84 months. County sheriff has been causing a lot of confusion over whether his department well continue to enforce county Public Health orders yesterday he had made an announcement that he would stop enforcing them, but now that its not clear that its true hard freeze for some more in kelly has the latest. It said the statement took us by surprise. But the chair, the Sonoma County board of supervisors susan gorin says she and other officials received a copy of the statement. From sheriff mark essick just minutes before it showed up on the sheriff departments Facebook Page thursday. He wrote that hed been hearing from the public that the Public Health order was far more restrictive, then the state order despite having a low infection rate compared to other counties. He also said there was a lack of transparency from the Public Health department as to why Sonoma County was not opening up faster and in good conscience, he could no longer enforce the Public Health order. The county recently done soft openings of parks and Outdoor Dining but a recent uptick of cases has the Health Director ordering a pause while they evaluate the situation. Supervisor goren told me during a zoom call at noon that after a meeting with the sheriff to help officer in various elected officials. Sick walked back his position he has a firm to his commitment. To resume enforcements to the best of their ability. To protect the public accounts, but later the sheriffs Facebook Post was updated to say. There was no reversal at the Health Departments afternoon press briefing which essick did not attend. It seemed less clear as to the sheriffs level of commitment. Were aligned and i think if you have questions for him specifically in terms of what hes where he is i highly encourage you to reach out to him directly and as i said weve had some great today and im again a very positive and strong direction and we are aligned late this afternoon. A new statement was released it reads sheriff essick understands that during these challenging times a flexible response is necessary. The Sheriffs Office will continue to educate the community while evaluating newly available data from our Public Health partners. To determine enforcement priorities and protocols just before 05 00pm friday. I talked to a Department Representative who said every call for service regarding a help or a violation is going to be evaluated by the responding deputy on a case by case basis. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. Coming up at 6. 30 why the prest