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Alecia a big shakeup at zero p d right now merely the shaft was the fix this problem new man in charge in hes not the highestranking member of the Police Department reporting to city administrators who the mayor is put in charge of overseeing the Police Department. There was appointed interim chief than 1¢ net 10 years ago use to the title. He first accepted the position and decided he no longer want it because life would be in the spotlight. Reports are surfing for the dislike of his style of management. Hes a standup guy. Steve as alicia said. The oakland Police Department has several mike gant. A former homicide investigator. It turns out. He has played a key role in three of the recent kron 4s Haaziq Madyun explains gants connection. Reporter Sergeant Mike gantt is at the center of a swirling scandal that has consumned the oakland Police Department. Gant has played a key role in several incidents. Including. Accusations that gants girlfriend was allegedly writing and posting sensitive police documents to social media and now we are now we are learning about a racist text messaging scandal. Heres how we understand it all unfolded. Back on june 11th. Oakland police got a 911 call regarding a man holding a woman against her will it happened here at an apartment on 9th street in downtown oakland. My sources tell men that when opd arrived they found a woman and a man who had been arguing. Kron4 has learned that man was Oakland Police Sergeant Mike gant. Our sources say the opd sgt. Did not come out right away. I am told there were some tense moments because the responding officers did not know exactly what they were dealing with here. My sources also tell me the woman who phoned in the 911 call is sergeants wife, who learned of her husbands whereabouts with another woman and made the emergency call to police. Sources say gants girlfriend on the other hand, was not too happy to learn learning that she was involved in a love triangle. She revealed that she helped write classified police report. And and posted some of those documents on social media. When all of this went down my sources tell me sgt. Mike gant was already on admin leave in connection to a Domestic Violence investigation in Alameda County involving his wife that occurred earlier this year. He is now the subject of an Oakland Police criminal wrong doing investigation surrounding his handling of the classified homicide documents. And in an added twist he was the homicide investigator lookign into the reported suicide of wife of officer brenand obrien. A key figure int he sex scandal. In oakland Haaziq Madyun kron4news you can learn more on the kron 4 investigation into the Oakland Police scandal online at kron 4 dot com. Grant we have expanded coverage including a timeline of the events, a link to some of the documents as well as how some other bay area Police Departments are connected. Its all at kron 4 dot com. Dozens of people. Forced from their homes over the weekend after a fast moving Fire Destroys six buildings along Mission Street in San Francisco. Grant few weeks later our sources say he was forced out his handling the sex scandal. And he says there was information she learned just last monday about alicia affair he had the support next several years ago while working non investigator without meeting County District Attorneys Office sources tell us that the former captain is being investigated for his involvement in the scandal. The young woman at the center of all she says shes had sex with met several personal some admire now 18 years old pot. A revenue pd dispatcher at the richmond Police Department last week in red hat being questioned her alleged involvement with the officers there. While oakland Police Department appears to be most linked. Pam grant learn more about the investigation into the scandal on. Kron4newsdotcom the timeline of events to bring it down even further. Kaelin to sell the documents and specifically how their with apartments are connected. Grant biggest fire the city has seen in years. And tonight. The city is still fire. Reporter as a result of this devastating fire in the mission on saturday 50 people displaced. Six buildings damaged astride and to restaurants of our Hardware Store shutdown. Unclear at this point, the people theyve lost their jobs as a result of this fire. Monday the cleanup efforts continued along the 3300 block of Mission Street and 29th street. Now the mayor did release a statement to this weekends fire in the housing in the service agency. Kron4newsdotcom steve samaritans presidency read ordnance to help. And they can more easily find temporary housing. The man reporter has said that trying to get the temporary lot documented a fourth as a shortage that has people. And im with was a lock outahead at eight. Reporter shes giving them clear to address social get paychecks and get back to work. Today the Human Service offices closed at 430 causing panic. Stephanie live within called an f r o after living on the streets for three years chile had a place to call her around for 35 days before the fire had reporter we were talking and Services Employee realize the predicament on lock the office and started her paperwork. Few men its extra time she will be will it pay check and keep her job. Also reporter the and all the people that donated especially close the door and out only the clothes on their backs thats what she was wearing today. Employees reporter it is calling for the victim to come forward. Finn of california battling a number of wild fires that continue to grow as temperatures continue to climb. Pam and its calling for the victim vicki to six months for raping an unconscious student. Defends brock turner and slams the accuser. This is it on Facebook Brock Turner Family support page. On it posts referring to turner as the quote real victim. With an the accuser that refuses to come forward. Calling it a conspiracy to keep the ex swimmer from realizingand this post blaming the victim assault if you arent looking just today turners lawyer says the family is not behind but as you can imagine people have come unhinged over this. Theyve even created a Counter Group calling on facebook to delete the brock Turner Family support page. And on the flip side get ready for this giant billboard going up soon. A Womens Organization calling for the removal of santa clara judge aaron persky, who some say let turner off with too light a sentence. Pam, steve . The city of San Francisco is 25 thousand car breakins. Just last year. Steve the grandy issued report after its nine month review. And as kron fours Spencer Blake reports, the findings also comes with suggestions. Reporter those burglaries from 2015 alone amounted to 19 Million Dollars worth of damage to cars in San Francisco. But the civil grand jury does have certain steps that it hopes will help lower those numbers. If its ever happened to you, your stomach probably dropped when you discovered your car windowsmashed to bits. We see it all the time. That means places like auto glass now have plenty of business. But its business that represents a chronic problem in San Francisco. Today weve touched 15 cars that have just been door glasses. And broken back glasses, vent glasses, etcetera. No windshields. And we specialize in windshields the civil grand jury identifed a problem and they say impacts the quality of life in the city. Its really gotten out of hand, and something needed to be done, so we took it on and took a hard look at the problem. Reporter with Police Identifying serial criminals as the driving force behind car burglaries, jurors note that the problem is not isolated to any one district. So they recommend dealing the criminal gangs citywide. They also suggest using Data Analysis to help Police Identify and predict future crime trends. Jurors pointed out that san franciscans arent the only victims. We found that a lot of tourists and visitors to the city are targeted. Which leads them to another plea to the mayor and board of supervisors come up with a Public Safety strategy to protect those outoftowners who contribute so much to the citys economy. Only time will tell if the proposals will clean up the citywhile repair shops continue cleaning up after the burglars. In San Francisco, Spencer Blake, kron four news. Pam calfire continues to battle a wildfire burning near the u. S. Mexican border in Southern California. Fire crews say, the fire has burned nearly 19hundred acres. An Evacuation Order remains in place for the community of potrero. Cal fire says, 250 firefighters are working to hold back the wildfire. But it is only about five percent contained. The fire began early sunday morning. So far, it has destroyed four out buildings and caused three injuries. Meanwhile. Steve a rapidly growing brush fire in Southern California continues to burn. The Angeles National forest. Officials say, the flames broke out this morning. After a car went over the side of the road. The fire burned through 15 acres in less than an hour. Shortly afterward, the blaze grew to forty acres. Britteny level aquarists a token high cloud along a coast dealing with the onshore flow and then also comfortable conditions closer to the coast inland temperatures warmer and they will stay warm into the next couple days. And really dramatic temperature spread between the coasts and inland locations. Then the temperature is right now and nap by 7582 fairfield 81 concord and then we drop down to about 66 in oakland and 60 in San Francisco. Record breaking temperatures in phoenix today of santa assess triple digits for the most part. High pressure in control what were seeing. As a going to the next couple days your house from the region tomorrow livermore 96 in fairfield 88but at 88 degrees in nevada 3 day forecast showing we start to drop all little bit between wednesday thursday four for the first time two tracking the seven day forecast all the details of that coming up in 15 minutes Carlos Santana warmed the hearts steve grant \ pam because of what is being called a freak accident. Steve Stanley Roberts who discovered Marcus Malone has more. Stanley how you doing man fine this is Marcus Malone he is one of the founding members of the original santana blues band well something tragic happened to the man affectionately known as rock and roll and marcus the magnificent malone. I get a call on saturday 6 18 on saturday about him being involved in some freak accident a tire flew off of a moving car he was walking to get inside of his truck next thing me know hes on the ground knocked completely out ahh he fell backwards you know splitting the back of his head this is carl jacobs Marcus Malones nephew and manager the freak accident happened here on 81 ave in east oakland at this point they say the head trauma is so severe that that the only thing that can really help him put right now is time he need time stanley according to eyewitnesses the tire wasnt actually attached to the car from what i heard it was on top of the car oncoming traffic he was going to get insie of his truck it was just like some final destination stuff where bizarre its just un explain explainable stanley so right now Marcus Malone is in intensive care at hightland hospital and a grim prognosis the doctors are saying it dosent look good you know umm if he does come around hell never be able to play music again which is his passion probably wont be able to talk or anything probaly be in a Skilled Nursing facility for the rest of his days should he pull out of this hemo say hippy Kia Ya Marcus had a surprise visitor; Carlos Santana came to Highland Hospital to check on his former band mate. Im thinking it was because maybe he wanted this to be more personal as opposed to having the press there so i appreaceate it his outreach i went to visit marcus and whispered in his ear people are praying for him to make a full recovery, miracles can happen i know first hand 4 news that is truly a sad story. But there is a way you can help there is a go fund me page set up for Marcus Malone. Just log onto our website kron four dotcom for a link. Happening tomorrow. Our mission at clover is to create the best tasting, highest Quality Dairy products. Clover has relationships with 27 different family farms. The environment is who clover is. Without it, were nothing. Pg es been a great partner. Theyre the energy experts, were the milk guys. Pg e worked with clover on a number of Energy Efficiency projects to save energy every month. If youre part of the fabric of the community, youve got to ensure that you do things right, environment included. Learn how you can save at pge. Com save together, were building a better california. Hey guys lunch is here its on me fellas. With the chase mobile app, Stephen Curry can send money to more people in less time. Thanks, steph no problem. Even to friends in a growing number of other banks. Yall ready to go . Come on fellas lets go easy to use Chase Technology for whatever youre trying to master. Reporter just grant as learned of another investigator with the Alameda County District Attorneys Office now out on administrative leave that is to ignore the Police Department. The name of the investigator legibly and bald and resources tell us that person involved then allegedly involved. In his family and connection with that same case and will continue to work with sources as soon as we learn more. Revenue detailed timeline of a tragic event. All we know now about the three hour standoff. 911 dispatcher heard from the gunman then called and said that in the name of god the merciful than official. Vicki the Team Continues near crazy career is the as well ps you cross paul said. You now lan did the. If the shelling he to talk the prices the time for the minutes is a audio to pay victims. And describe town. Tonight we have a new, detailed the pulse nightclub. Negotiation delay in her breasts. During that three hours i want to make sure everyone is clear on that, there was no gunfire. Vicki orlandos police chief says rescuing patrons from other vehicle knocked a hole in the wall. And a swat team killed the gunman. Force. Vice in the past week, its logged more than 500 interviews, processed more than 600 pieces of evidence, and taken in thousands of tips. Officials say the investigation grant a new poll Shows Majority of americans support tougher gun measures rose by ninepercent. The 2013 shooting in newtown, of democrats favor tougher gun laws. In comparrison to the 29 of my dad tell the families of those still in hospital fighting for their lives. Grant senator nelson democrat from florida talking about orlando tragedy pam empresses go private celebration expect to see it a Police Presence in orlando. The city officials met this morning and the emergency plans. The draw as many as 1 Million People for the first time there will be security screening at the center celebration. Theyre a be screenings at all the entry place this year and no bags over 18 in. By 18 in. Will be permitted. The expect that this could create delays in getting in the celebration and ask people plan accordingly please be patient. Participants pam can sign up for and all the details place of that information on our web site kron4newsdotcom britteny it will stay warm for us even warmer into tomorrow as we pushed into wednesday thursday. Have the jurors dropped a little bit but then we want things right back up into the end of the workweek and into a week and a current look at some temperature is right now. Britteny see to San Francisco a lot of areas are much more than that. Its part of a larger system affecting loss angeles to las vegas. Phoenix had recordbreaking temperatures are now 75 and at the cluster of fairfield 81 concord 79 degrees livermore where the low 70s for san jose right now when speeds you can see a stronger onshore flow near San Francisco sustain it 21 mi. An hour and 29 fairfield inns be direct rounds 20 as well, conditions livermore but you can see a fewclouds living in tracking of a patchy fog into the rest of tonight. Britteny 60 is for the bay mid50s along the coast 50. Six closer toward inland locations clearing skies and the overnight hours but we are still going to track for some spots especially read along the coast a little bit of patchy fog expected. Anheuser on the region. And dropping back down to the 80s. Like a steve charge of the act of violence unrestricted grounds and a rally in Las Vegas Police say he drove from california to go as they as gun range of the data for to learn to shoot. He later went to the rally at the Treasure Island casino where he was arrested after grabbing that handle an officers gun an attempt to remove it. Pam trump accused her of making up the story and she was totally delusional. The adviser said falling poll numbers and pressure from many is what prompted todays decision to let plan does he go. Callously steve gave birth to her second child saturday morning herder husband mark named their newborn son aden clinton mizzen ski hillary has been pleading about the grandson all over and at the big sister was born september 2014 hillarys publican her love about being a grandmother charlotte has yet to make an appearance on the campaign trail. Pam the talk about what happened in game seven nba finals and cavaliers made a stop loss this to celebrate their first championship although the and sports with the stricter loss this to celebrate their first championship although the and sports with the stricter coming up. Reporter around everyone is always looking down at their devices especially the young crowd this is not the best position for the human spine. He said reporter as dalys theater patients in pain from overusing gadgets. The obvious cutting down devices, says that theres a great civil stretch ever kids do today could keep them from coming to see him. Gary since the finality in 1998 the drawing cards and Golden State Warriors they just came up a little bit short. Of august 4th while and then the man to. Go is backed said to a tough and for curry and thompson. Gary the big story besides the place on the court is the city of Cleveland James had not won a major sports championship since the great jim brown. Back in 1964. Grant is not a day for me to be still a great as upon everyone. Hes devi a top five of time player but too soon gary they left the bay area this stopped off at club access. The encore hotel in las vegas. And there were there for 10 hours bid on the plane in return home. Gary had his badge the party at club access. Bond market to everyone out to do that. That gary with what the police strain. And that was it. Did not come back and play. And there you go gave up only one run over eight innings. In doubles off there is the 18 game win streak. Steve mean the creator of star wars was a monopoly when fire all for wearing a mask getting her own action figure much more after that coming up. Sfx turbines revving up, getting louder and louder you hear that . Thats the sound of our summer sale firing up its engines with fares as low as 69 dollars oneway. So get ready to take off. Because sale prices as low as these dont happen every day book your low fare now at southwest. Com low fares. Nothing to hide. Thats transfarency. Sfx clap, clap, ding she met george lucas threw a pitch at a baseball game this of honor at the cn t now she has her on star wars action figure. Theyre talking to you with 13 expressions from that now infamous video. Narrator in the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In new york city, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the special victims unit. These are their stories. Are you sure you wont come up . Ive got an early session tomorrow. And after last night, id better get some rest. Good night. Good night. gasping