A big story that we began reporting on monday, San Jose Police chief eddie garcia calling it quits. The chief has announced his retirement thats after nearly 30 years on the force in san jose kron fours rob fladeboe has more he is live from san jose rob. And thats right catherine achieve garcias decision to step down i am announcing his decision to step down caught a lot of people by surprise. I sat down with the chief here at the Police Headquarters this afternoon to talk about that decision his future and about what lay ahead for his successor as chief of the San Jose Police department theres more. And you know these plans. My plans were months ago, San Jose Police chief eddie garcia says he decided to retire back in june but held off announcing it until now such a critical time were in the midst of protests were occurring. Were in the middle shelter in place and it feels right garcia has been the chief of police since 2016 he plans to retire in december when he turns 50 he will have
Numbers. I would again were hearing this news that the state might be undercounting cases, serious tech problems affecting the counts kron 4 Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains the brighter outlook governor gavin, newsome gave monday on californias data included a 21 drop in positive cases. And a 6. 1 Positivity Rate but those numbers are now being questioned state officials confirmed the electronic reporting system for Infectious Diseases also known as cal ready has serious issues multiple counties and the state as of tuesday had notices up on their dashboards the statewide data dashboard alerted visitors these data represent an underreporting of actual positive cases in a single day over the last 2 days, california has reported its lowest singleday case count since early july health and Human Services secretary doctor mark galli addressed the issue in a virtual briefing tuesday saying the glitch absolutely affects these numbers what someone working around the clock were no
Introduced the new mask ordinance tuesday, calling it a common sense solution for spine is a 100. A second finds 200. 3rd vine is 500 of the ordinance also implements new fines for businesses who dont comply starting at 250 all the way up to 3,000 the reason were doing this is to save lives. No different then when a Police Officer science someone. For a seat belt we have seen an increase in regards to people or 14 others, not wearing mask the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office says theyll focus on Education First but the mandate gives them another tool to encourage people to follow the order first well start where you know talking to a person educating them and most of her time in the cases that weve seen and what we talked to share its just some simple that they forgot to put it on. And in cases where they absolutely refuse we do have options of getting citation serious about this. And hopefully i will get people to to comply. Along with Law Enforcement health and building inspectors ca
Mission street as well and san pedro street at west mission street. So right now we know that they had those areas closed off still no word if theyve been able to open so were just going to soon that they are still closed this morning because they just were able to apprehend this suspect now again the agency said they were hoping for a peaceful outcome. And now theyre saying it exactly what happened but theres still many questions that we have one we want to know how that man was able to get free from being arrested again how he was able to acquire that weapon and shoot it all officers or deputies here at the jail and again theyre going to be sitting out more information in the next few minutes so well be able to update you even for now reporting here in downtown san jose. We know harvey kron 4 news rain. Were so glad that it ended peacefully but as you mentioned there are so many top of the list, how was he able to break free and get a weapon and im sure you be checking into that. Tha
The vaccine protected monkeys with a single dose , most need two doses given two weeks apart. Of early human trials go well, Johnson Johnson plans to start to late stage trials on as many as 30,000 people in september. A leaders at a church in berkeley are speaking out after the say their house of worship was targeted because of a blacklivesmatter banner. The pastor at the way church on University Says members hung the banner tuesday afternoon, less than 12 hours later about 12 30 am on wednesday, someone deliberately set a fire behind the church the neighbor says he saw someone and called 911. Church leaders say they hope the case will be taken seriously. We are not as far from the 1960s and 70s of racial tear. Its our duty as people ra voices about the history of racial violence that has been facing black people for centuries. Berkeley police are investigating this is arson. Theyve not determined whether or not it was a hate crime. Leaders at the way church are holding a News Confere