Strength of 1109 officers. When you factor in disabilities and military leave, the department is roughly 200 officers below that, and its expecting to lose well over 100 sworn officers this year from resignations and retirements. It means less officers on the street, more overtime for officers, higher response times, higher crime rates. Reporter the outlook of catching up is not good. A new Police Academy class starting tomorrow has a capacity of 60. The city made 29 job offers but five took jobs elsewhere and one was a noshow. That will mean the class will have 23 recruits, plus one who was previously hired. Residents of West San Jose tell us they dont see many officers on patrol, and they already know the consequences of short staffing. We are having breakins, you know, a good amount this past summer. Which never happened. I have been living there for 16 years and i hear if you were to call 911 and ask for police, it would take 20, 30 minutes for them to get out. Reporter the issue o
Concerned about their risk of getting that virus. We new details. Potentially lifesaving help for the nurse being treated for ebola in this dallas hospital. Given a blood transfusion from dr. Kent brantley who survived the virus, his blood packed hoped ibodies that are to help her. Patient could not get a transfusion fusion from brantley because his blood was not a match. Today Health Officials are still trying to figure out how she was infected by him after wearing the protective gear. And now the c. D. C. Are looking into the protocols. We have not received the facetoface training we have requested. The virus spreading world wilede. A worker infected from liberia died overnight and there could be 10,000 new cases per week within two months but the white house warning the risk of it spreading in the u. S. Is low. And with resources being sent to dallas others say theres no threat that anyone else here has been infected. Also closely mon pered the Health Care Workers and a dog and one
Provide water for one in ten people in the county. It could theoretically generate enough water for 180,000 people. Its becoming finally i think an issue that goes beyond the drought and really comes down to the sustainability of growth in the state and whether or not we want that growth. Reporter cortese says he will once again order the county to study desalinization an idea which may gain traction while rain is short. The supervisor says the greatest obstacle is the will to move forward with the plan. He said if people could get on board and legal challenges could be cleared he thinks a plant could be available in a few years. In fremont, devin fehely, kpix 5. Even after tapping into new sources, california will have to do a better job saving water. Part of that plan could include neighbors ratting out neighbors. Reporter ron jones with details. Reporter this is our lowest level of savings for a single month since we started collecting the data last july. Reporter a grim Water Conse
At 5 00 and in the westbound lanes of the san mateo bridge. More coming up. Its a saddened to the search for a u. S. Marine helicopter in nepal. Anne makovec joins us from the newsroom with the latest developments. Reporter nepals defense secretary says the wreckage has been found along with three bodies. There is no word on the fate of the others on board. Six u. S. Marines and two Nepalese Army soldiers were on that helicopter on a mission to deliver aid to earthquake survivors. That chopper disappeared nearly three days ago. It had been delivering aid to victims in remote villages. The pilot had reported a fuel problem before it went down. That was among more than a dozen u. S. Military aircraft helping nepal recover from the two major earthquakes. And there is a nepal native in the bay area who has been watching the developments very closely. At the same time, becoming a u. S. Citizen. After ascending Mount Everest a half dozen climbs, this man who now lives in richmond reached a h
U. S. Citizenship. He is now a plumber in richmond. The naturalization milestone for him comes six years after he immigrated to the u. S. To join relatives and escape nepals tense political landscape. But he left a lot of family behind. He is still waiting to hear from his mother and brothers. I called them so many times. They havent called me yet. Reporter now that he is a u. S. Citizen, he will be able to travel more easily and finally reunite with his wife, who still lives in nepal. He says the Career Change from sherpa himalaya guide to plumber has been worth it to get american citizenship. Anne makevoc, kpix 5. Thursday was a day of wild weather in parts of the bay area. Thunder and lightning accompanied heavy rain and even hail in the south and east bays. An unusual spring weather system moved in yesterday afternoon but only in certain areas. Multiple lightning strikes were reported at Stanford University and in clayton near mount diablo. Road conditions were a little rough for d