Leaders making the announcement late this evening. They say the decision was a unanimous one between the mayor and the members of the Police Commission was made during a closed door session kron fours gayle ong was there when that announcement was made she joins us live from oakland with more gayle. And this all went down about 2 hours ago here at city hall and mayor libby schaaf said she called and kirkpatrick after the vote. Thursday night, the city of oaklands top cop is out of the job the oakland Police Commission voted unanimously to join air shaft. In terminating the chief of police about cost the announcement the citys Police Commission chair Regina Jackson lasted about 2 minutes after meeting with mayor libby shaft and other commissioners at city hall for hours details on what led to Ann Kirkpatrick firing were not disclosed other than this was a no cause termination a Personnel Matter there wasnt enough. Leadership. And so that we needed new leadership can i do not regret choo
To lead the department. Of facebook. We are in the middle of flu just out of executive session, season but medical experts say the head of oaklands Police Despite what seems like a high commission, regina jackson, said number of cases, the flu vaccine she made the motion to dismiss is working. The police chief. The cdc says the flu shot this the Oakland Police Commission Year has been 45 effective. That means its cut flurelated voted unanimously to join mayor doctor visits almost in half. There have been about 26 million schaaf in terminating the chief of police without cause. Reported cases of flu in the u. S. So far more than 14,000 people reporter during the news have died of the regular flu. Conference following the announcement, mayor libby schaaf this isnt quite affordable said she supported the decision housing. While also praising the progress this is housing if youve made made by oaklands first female it big. According to Bloomberg News for police chief. Under her leadership,
They were either showing symptoms or on the first leg of the trip. Three people from that leg tested positive for the coronavirus, one of them has died. We talk ed ed to a passenger on board the grand princess about how everyone is feeling is and holding up. Were all worrying about the worst case scenario, that this becomes another ship that is stuck for two weeks before we can get off. People are nervous about the futur future. The grand princess announced this is the last trip for now. They canceled the next cruise to hawaii that was set to leave for tomorrow. Theres no word on where this ship will go or when. It depends on the test results. Thats when official also make decisions about the ships next step. We hope to get those test results back this morning. Reporting live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. As San Francisco waits to hear when the cruise ship might dock, the city is already dealing with two cases of coronavirus. A man in his 90s is in serious con
Outside in palo alto, few clouds overhead and more clouds throughout the day. The temperature trend doesnt go straight up like previously. Kind of flat through the day with a slow warmup headed our way. Highs in the 60s today which is seasonable for march. So well talk about this. Mike, youre hear being a crash in san jose. North 101 at tully. We dont see slowing for the last 10 minutes but there is a crash reported in this direction. It sounds like everything is moving off to the shoulder and no major injuries. Looking at a smooth flow of traffic there. Along the peninsula, the east bay is great. Slowing like southbound highway 13. There are road crews there and reports with someone with a flat tire mid span from the richmondsan rafael bridge. And light rain. But if it is mid span, it is narrow and dark through the area. So well bring you the follow up but no problems comes into the north bay. Back to you. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus. Test kits passengers on the cruise
Late night hours tonight, this is at 04 45am some really Early Morning tomorrow by this point you are starting to see some showers pushing into San Francisco now for early risers this does mean some wet roadways between the hours of 04 00am through 06 00am all the way through that up he commute time even though it is saturday here, i know a lot of you still getting on the roads so do watch out for that rainfall thats going to be pushing and what you also are going to be seeing up in the Sierra Nevada is some heavy rainfall in the foot hills and then snowfall really pushing on into those upper elevations. This is the time we move into the afternoon on saturday right here 02 30pm and conditions having pretty dried out by by this point for the bay. Snow will linger on into sunday morning up in the sierras so an active weekend ahead in this is just the first of multiple systems around the corner that will impact us eventually on into next week. How much rain are we going to see here was yo