Robberies assaults and burglaries kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from san leandro what the police union is saying about these alarming numbers stand. Well ken and pam this warning from the police union comes up in the city of san leandro voted in june to slash the budget of the Police Department by more than a Million Dollars is also having the union come out and say that because of the spikes in crimes theyre going to need all the funding that they could gain but advocates for defunding. The Police Department say. That they should addressing the its not its not money thats the problem here. Its how these crimes are addressed. The San Leandro Police Officers Association is warning people over a significant jump in Violent Crimes, new numbers from the citys Police Department show from june to july there was a 500 increase in armed robberies, a 125 increase in assaults with a Deadly Weapon a 100 jump in shoplifting and a 75 increase in home burglaries is very concerning for us th
And its tightening border controls after detaining suspected russian mercenaries accused of attempting to disrupt next months election. Also more trouble for the Airline Industry the worlds biggest plane maker a net loss of 2200000000. 00 in the 1st half of this year. And yet again just go with the sports world number one ashley party pulls out of the u. S. Open saying the risk of catching coronavirus right. Into the program we begin the news are in whole call opposition politicians have been disqualified from running in septembers legislative election leading prodemocracy activists joshua warmed is one of those disqualified he says it shows a total disregard for the people of hong kong authorities said asked the candidates about their views on. Beijings National Security law and u. S. Sanctions now the move has been denounced by the opposition as a political witch hunt and for the 1st time in Hong Kong Police also use the National Security law to crackdown on prodemocracy activists on
Prodemocracy candidates disqualified from hong kongs local elections and students arrested for online posts in the beijings new security. Suspected russian mercenaries are detained in bel air routes to queues of trying to disrupt an upcoming film. And on a mission to search for signs of life in space because mars rover blast off from florida heading for the red planet. Im going to guess rosco with the sport Saudi Arabian investors pull out of a bid to buy new cars so united up to months of premier league scrutiny. So theres more proof of the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic with the United States. Being its worst economic slump since the 940 s. Its economy has shrunk at the fastest pace on record that is down 9. 5 percent between april and june and in the past week another 1400000 people have applied for jobless benefits the same time europes biggest economy thats germany has plunged into recession shrinking by a record 10 percent of the pandemics wiped out nearly a decad
Alarm fire started at the rear of that mans building. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Tonight, new information about what may have happened. Ktvu has learned fryer crews were called out to extinguish a mattress fire at the rear of the big building on 14th street between south bend as an fulsome. The mattress fire was out 11 30 last night. The big fire broke out around 6 30 this morning. Live coverage now from ktvus amber lee. Our cruise still pouring water onto that fire . Reporter this is a very active seen behind me. We can see firefighters using huge trucks to put out hot spots. The fire did apartment tells me 160 firefighters were here at the peak in 20 remain here tonight. At this point, the fire is still not contained. Ive never seen a city fire spread this fast before. It was amazing. Reporter huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky as flames burned six buildings in San Francisco zenner mission district. One who had to evacuate said it
Getting better and better a future cast for map showing us the fog will continue to roll out said through midday and then well see it just sticks to summer coastal spots. There were the remainder of the day but really look at that the east bay south bay and north a nice and clear with a lot of sunshine and the temperatures like i was saying getting into low 90s once again. Let you know exactly where coming up in just a bit back to you daria thanks a lot of 2, 9, oh one and breaking news weve been following overnight the controversial statue of sir Francis Drake and marin county is gone. But it might just be temporarily lets go to kron fours reyna harvey shes been live monitoring the story all morning long reyna. Darya good morning and the reason why we think its for just a limited amount of time is because of that sign behind me thats where the statue used to stand right here and now theres a letter from the city and the city say they removed it. Temporarily because demonstrators said