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On kron. 4 news at 5 oclock. Im grant lotus and im vicki liviakis. Police say both students are teenagers. They were each stabbed at least once they were both rushed to the hospital the violence was just before noon today. This is James Lick High School in East San Jose prompted a lockdown kron. 4 Justin Campbell is live at the scene now with the latest. Good evening, justin. And good evening, grant and vicki and i can tell you tonight that there is still a Police Presence that is here. This school went into lockdown shortly after 11, 30 after 2 students, staff San Jose Police telling us one of them life threatening injuries but has since been stabilized. The other non lifethreatening injuries. Now, look at the video. You can see that we shot earlier when we arrived on the police here has strong presence surrounding the school. You can see combs also making sure that nobody inters inside of the school, but they also tell us that the suspect or suspects right now, theyre not exactly sure how many fled the school after the stabbing. Now that school went into lockdown in just right down the street. You have alum rock youth center. We went over there. They also went into lockdown. So this whole area or all of the schools went into lockdown just to make sure while police tried to catch this suspect or suspect for this stabbing. As of right now, weve reached back out to police and we have not heard any update. We also reached out to the School District. The School District tells us that they are cooperating with this investigation. And as you can see back out here it is still on lockdown here at this school. Now, another issue that were working with is there is some video floating around social showing that there was a fight before hand. But we dont have that verified. But that is some video that we have been seeing. This school, as you can see, school done for the day police are still here. Its their get that lockdown has lifted. But there is still a heavy Police Presence here. Why try to figure out exactly what happened, how 2 juveniles got staff just 2 weeks into the school year. Were live here in san jose. Justin campell kron. 4 news just in that will school be open tomorrow. Mention anything about that. In the press release sent out by the district. They did not refer to anything that school would be closed tomorrow. So i would assume that it will be open as cooperate during this investigation. Its just as if we dont know if if the people who did the stabbing went to the high school, if it if it was in fact, a big fight still trying to sort that out. Is that right . And you know, if there are a metal detectors at that school. Thats one thing that we are trying to figure out that get clarity from police on exactly. Didnt go to the school or did they not go to the school . We dont know at this point. Thats something that will come later throughout this investigation. And as far you know, metal detectors, he doesnt appear that there are metal detectors at this school. But thats something that the district will have pass that question along to them. Fair enough. Lets figure out here, Justin Campbell live at the scene for us tonight. Thank you, justin. Thank you. Justin. Meantime, the San Jose Police officer who was shot while responding to a family disturbance is still in the hospital tonight. We are also learning that the partner of the female officer was shot. Hes the brother of south bay Assemblymember Evan low. Chris chester, Justine Waldman joins us now live from the newsroom with more on this story. Just kind of a key. We still do not know that officers name only that she remains in critical but stable condition tonight at Santa Clara Valley medical center. And this all began yesterday morning when she and her partner were approaching the home on ausar ias avenue or when that suspect allegedly opened fire. Authorities say when she was hit, her partner pulled her out from the line of fire and the suspect was then apprehended after a 4 hour standoff. No other injuries have been reported and that officer is the first female officer ever to be shot while on duty with the San Jose Police department. And while the officer we have learned that the officers partner. As a relative of south bay Assemblymember Evan low low talk to us about his brother and he says hes doing okay. Is trying to compress decompress and make sense of everything, frankly, its so much it happened. I know that hes trying to do a play by play in his own mind. But its something that i know take a bit of time to heal. But the Community Come out in strong support is very meaningful to him. And i know that is meaningful to them for all of the entire force at the police department. So the suspect, as we said, apprehended 44 yearold gabriel kerr heiress was arrested after that standoff with police. His First Court Appearance is set for tomorrow at noon for now. Live in the newsroom. Im Justine Waldman, kron 4 news. Thank you, justine. Now to a slew arrests of Police Officers who work in the east bay indicted on numerous federal crimes stemming from allegedly destroying evidence to intentionally hurt the people of antioch and pittsburgh. The same people they swore to serve and protect. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson joins us. Shes live at the Federal Building in San Francisco where the fbi and u. S. Attorney just held a briefing about these bombshell arrests and charges. Good evening, sarah. Grant. Thats right. We just got the 4 indictments. My hand right now, some of the details of those Text Messages to disturbing Text Messages between 3 officers. We also have more details on the charges they put up this board here where you can see some of the details. Were talking about 10 officers, 9 sworn officers and one community officer, 6 of which with Antioch Police and 4 with Pittsburgh Police 3 currently working with the department. But theyre on administrative leave. U. S. District attorney Ismael Ramsey announced 9 of the 10 officers arrested in california, texas and hawaii. The fbi, you surveillance and Tactical Forces just like any arrest. It took 100 fbi agents to make a successful arrest of those 9 people. And this is 2 years of investigation. They said there are 4 indictments. As i mentioned, College Fraud indictment. That was thats alleging that 6 officers claimed credit of College Credits alleging that they hired people to attend those classes for them. Another one of the charges, steroids, distribution that involves allegedly 2 officers and then obstruction indictment alleging one officer interfered with a wiretap and then civil rights indictment that has to do with the Text Messages that we have been talking about for months between 3 officers bragging about injuring and using a k 9 on a suspect or multiple suspects describing violence against them alleging are going as far as threatening mayor lamar thorpe who is black civil rights Attorney John Burris has talked with us about this. We have been covering this for months and today were finally getting all of the details. Again, we heard from fp the fbi and we hear from u. S. District attorney ramsey both saying that now they must be able to prove their case against these people explaining why these indictments were of such high priority. The defendants also allegedly shared photos of their victims injuries. And even collected as mementos spent ammunition from their attacks on the people of antioch. Collectively, these 4 indictments described group of officers who acted as though they were above the law. The operations today make clear that no one is above the law. The fbi and our partners absolutely committed. To protecting the civil rights of members of our communities. And in a Statement Released today by the mayor of antioch, he said, quote, today is a dark day in our citys history as people trusted to uphold the law allegedly breached that trust and were arrested by the fbi as our city observes this tragic news, we must come together as one. Todays actions are the beginning of the end of a long, arduous process. Now, also told that, well, 9 people have been arrested. 8 have made their initial Court Appearance is, as i mentioned, some of these people were arrested in other cities in other states that that were talking hawaii, texas and other parts of california and a few of them have to then be making their initial parents there and then get transferred over here. Moving forward. All of the Court Proceedings will happen in oakland. You know, weve been covering this, as i said for months, weve talked about 45 officers involved in Text Messages. We asked the fbi if were going to see more charges, more indictments and they said this investigation is very much still ongoing. Im sara stinson reporting live. The San Francisco Federal Building. Back to you. Thank you, sarah. That safety concerns with those driverless waymo and cruise vehicles. Well, theyve San Francisco City Attorney asking the California Public Utilities Commission to now pause the expansion of those companies. Yeah, this comes as the cpu see, gave its ok for unlimited expansion just last week. Kron fours dan kerman reports. One day after the cpc gave cruise and waymo the green light to expand operations. This was the scene in north beach last friday when more than a handful of driverless cruise vehicles came to a stop causing a big traffic backup. Now, San Francisco City Attorney has filed a motion asking the California Public Utilities Commission to put the brakes on that expansion. Weve seen too many reports of safety issues of incidents where the operations of First Responders have been impacts on traffic flow and public challenges around street construction. In the filing, the city of San Francisco wants to pause the unlimited expansion to give the city time to file a motion seeking a new hearing. So the cpu see can address safety issues. The city thinks were overlooked to a very much like them. To stage their expansion and tie it to safety metrics we also think the cqc should have considered environmental impacts under state law. The addition of thousands of Autonomous Vehicles on the streets of San Francisco. What that means in the filing, the San Francisco Fire Department cites 59 instances. Were Autonomous Vehicles have interfered with firefighters since april of last year. Among the incidents failing to yield to fire vehicles, blocking fire vehicles driving over fire hoses and entering active emergency scenes and getting in the way of firefighters granting an unlimited expansion at this stage. Probably a little bit premature. Sam abuelsamid is a transportation analyst with guidehouse insights. I really dont think the technology is really quite mature enough. 2 start putting hundreds or tppotentially thousands of thes vehicles on the streets of San Francisco or any other city for that matter. Both waymo and cruise support. The cpu sees expansion. But in a statement, waymo says we will follow this development closely. And in the meantime, continue providing safe and accessible mobility to san franciscans. Cruz says its unfortunate to see the city use Public Resources to bypass that decision and Restricted Technology with an excellent Safety Record used by 10s of thousands of San Francisco residents. The cpsc says its full panel will address the citys request to pas expansion as soon as practicable. Dan kerman kron, 4 news. Still to come. A joint exercise with pg and e and the San Francisco Fire Department preparing for the next big quake. How they plan to save lives. Plus. Hes bay police make an arrest in the gang related driveby shooting. But first, oakland mayor sheng thao is speaking with us, responding to criticism that it is. Taking too long to find a new police chief crime surges new police chief crime surges in her city. visit your local volvo retailer, to explore mild hybrid suvs during the summer safely savings event. And the oakland Police Officers association are among the groups calling on the city. To work urgently to appoint a new Permanent Police critics blame oakland skyrocketing crime rate on a lack of stability. And leadership there. And today mayor sheng thao discuss this pressing issue live on kron. 4 news at noon and are fully chagall shares where she says the process stands right now. My goal is i could get a new police chief, you know, immediately, however, there is a process mayor sheng thao say she is bound by the city charter which requires the Oakland Police commission to carry out the process of consultation and Community Outreach before presenting her with a list of recommended candidates for the job which the commission started in july. Continuing through this month, i understand there was some delays from the Police Commission at the very but the work is underway. The Commission Says it expects to complete its process by november. And mayor thao says she anticipated the 6 to 12 month period of time to find a new permanent when she fired former chief Leronne Armstrong a february. Adding that she disagrees with branch of the naacp, which blames armstrongs firing for the rapid rise in crime to say that one person. Gets the credit for that work of everyone in department. That that is bogus. How says although violent and property crimes are surging, homicides are down and believes an interim chief darren now sons experience in managing the department. Lets not forget that we interim police chief who has been on opd force. For many, many years and has been the acting police chief at multiple points in time. And so, you i know that we are looking for them. It new police chief that we want to be very cognizant. But the number of officers that we have today, 713, we havent had that many for the last few years. And so im working closely with interim police chief darren allison, to really that step our race. And thats exactly what we have but that is not enough for oakland, naacp president cynthia adams, who says former chief the communitys respect and support would do it again. And had been a long time as well. But wouldnt it wouldnt it maybe would Community Knows change knows what the case was about. Know the name but a there. They it to, you know, not to do cry. The oakland Police Officers association publicly agrees with the naacp. That is not a coincidence. That surge in crime has coincided with the 7 month delay in appointing a new permanent chief. Philippe djegal. All kron 4 nays. Police are investigating the death of a woman in oakland last night around 7. 30, officers responded to the scene on keller avenue in the Oakland Hills just saw 5. 80, when they got there. The woman was found unresponsive later pronounced dead. Her death is currently being investigated as a homicide. She has not been identified. Arrest has been made in connection to a gangrelated driveby shooting. This happened on 23rd street near Richmond High School this past monday, according to the San Pablo Police department, a group of people was walking on the sidewalk when a car drives past the makes a uturn and opens fire. Luckily nobody was hurt. The suspects was taken into custody where police say he admitted to being a gang and thought he was shooting at members of a rival gang. Hes been booked on attempted murder charges. Tropical storm hillary is now being upgraded to hurricane hilary. Its located off the west coast of mexico right now. Meteorologists say that its going to be strengthening over the next few days to a likely category 4 hurricane. Hillary is expected to move north towards baja, california, where its going make landfall just south of the u. S. Mexico border as a result, Southern California expected to get heavy rainfall next week. Some residents are being told to prepare for possible flooding. The pacific certainly gets hurricanes, but this ones really get big, get strong and then make landfall right near Southern California. Yeah, that is where the impact is aimed at. And you dont really expect to hear about places like san diego and los angeles getting all that rain. In fact, they usually dont get a lot of rain in the month of august. So here it is. You could see this welldefined system, even a welldefined eye there right off the coast of mexico. So it is about 445 miles south from cabo san lucas. You can already see those tropical warnings and advisories in place over there. And heres the track, the projected track so far. So it is a category 3 right now expected to strengthen to a 4. And as it gets closer to the california coast where as we know our Ocean Temperatures are colder, thats going to weaken it. But it will produce a lot of rain if thats the case. So this is the system here. Its between the slow in this high. And if it makes even if it goes east, its going to head towards las vegas. So a lot of concern there with a lot of rain expected. This is just areas where people week areas will be getting a lot of rain in a matter of days. And its so people pay over that. Theres already flood watches in los angeles. So this is our weather pattern here. Ill have more details in my full forecast on what how this will impact the bay area. Back to you. All right. Gail agencies like pg and e and the Francisco Fire Department are taking steps. To make sure that theyre ready when the next earthquake strikes. Our first Tiffany Justice shows us how. We practicing what we preach. Be prepared. It is critical that we practice these kind of exercises. Are you prepared for when a disaster strikes pg e along with the San Francisco Fire Department teaming up thursday to simulate a live action earthquake today. Were simulating a 7. 3 earthquake in the bay area. Its part of larger today exercise at p g to simulate responding to a big earthquake. And these practices are all too relevant. It was just on monday. We had a 3. 0 magnitude earthquake that hit the east bay at 07 44am, in the morning. According to United States Geological Survey that earthquake hitting 2 miles away from alamo near walnut creek. Hopefully we will know. We will never use this muscle, but we know we need to be ready. Crews gathering on Treasure Island for a joint safety exercise to simulate a court date response, a damaged gas infrastructure. With realistic role players as bystanders and victims. You should be prepared right captain Jonathan Baxter with the San Francisco Fire Department says preparedness is key in the case of a natural disaster. How being a plan is the first step. But then practicing is very important. The captain says you should also have a go back at the ready. Inside, it should have at least 72 hours of essential needs, including a change of clothing medication to last at least 3 days, some food and water, some hard cash along with the radio ago about needs to your home in your car and at your and be, jeanne says this is their 45th. The drill was local Fire Departments all over the bay area reporting Tiffany Justice kron. 4 news. Still ahead, a Southwest Airlines plane catching fire after taking off prompting the pilot to make an emergency landing. The dramatic new video showing flames shooting out of the engine and the town of paradise installing a new Emergency Response tool. How leaders hope it will help save lives. The town of paradise in butte county testing sirens that would warn people in the event of a wildfire. This, of course, comes after that camp fire killed. 85 people. In paradise in 2018 town leaders say the 21 sirens well, amid loud warning sounds for one minute followed by evacuation instructions, reliable Warning Systems are becoming more critical in common during wildfires and preparing for them, especially as power lines and cell towers can fail, knocking out other Communication Systems like text alerts. I take a look at this terrifying new video shows a Southwest Airlines jet with the flames just shooting out of its engines. There. This says cell phone video was shot inside the cabin by a passenger leave some very nervous passengers. Their flight 307, heading for cancun. It had just taken off from houstons hobby airport. Airline says the aircraft had a mechanical issue. The jet was in the air less than half an hour before having to return to the airport. Passengers were put on another flight. Southwest says the jet is now out of service and tell it to is determine what caused that engine to catch fire. Up next, tensions are rising over the response to those intense wildfires that cause so much death and destruction in maui. Plus, trump supporter arrested after police say threats have been made related to the former president s legal issues. Were in washington with the latest on the online vitriol and with the governor in california doing with the chp after a new viral video involving bear spray. During a wild retail theft