Tony montoya says his officers are worried. I would say the biggest concern of all is people are honestly concerned about layoffs. That is what i have consistently had the past few days. I am doing all i can within my power to make sure that doesnt occur. If positions are left vacant that would leave about 121 positions unfilled. In a twitter thread, chief William Scott said while the cuts are significant they are cuts we cant absorb and it will not diminish the ability to provide essential services. It is important we not view this funding redirection as a zero fund game. Much like the 2008 recession, the recession is real. We are not exempt from it in San Francisco. It is not just Police Officers but a lot of City Employees are being asked to go forgo raises pics we make every City Employee in all of the unions are being asked to forgo their raises for the next two years. That would backfill about 270 million in the budget. If the raises do not go through whether or not that happens
Police depara story coming up. And now, people are not letting the pandemic get in their way of celebrating the two years of pride. Thank you for joining us, im juliet good wish goodrich. We will take alive look at alcatraz, where the wind is really picking up. You can see it shaking the camera even. And it walnut creek, gusty wind could be to blame for that knocking down this tree branch on locust street. Meteorologist aaron peck is there with more. . What we are experiencing where we all live and its been a very windy day for your part of the day wherever you are. But there is a second phase to this that starts later tonight in the mountains, and the two are very different. First off, take a look outside from the cameron site top of the Salesforce Tower here you can see the choppy lower water and the hazy air. If you look at the gust so far, San Francisco has already hit gusty or 40. Concorde, it is been going all for. Livermores got a 21 mile an hour gust, is guessing in the mid 40s
Change directions. It is going to become much drier and it is going to start to pick up speed. This is why there is a red flag warning. Look at the time on this. It is not in starting until 10 00 tonight. The real focus of this is going to be in the overnight hours and in the Early Morning for the northbay mountains, 1000 feet. Particularly, the mountains in and around napa and sonoma. Are very familiar story here. The mountains are included in this, but technically you are particular concern is the ut wind country. This is about as strong as the wind has been. I will be back with more on the red flag warning and what happens after all of this went. Thanks so much. It is not just the wind that is a concern, it is all of this illegal fireworks that have been going off lately. Firefighters say this is exactly what sparked this three along firm fire. No buildings were damaged, but it took 56 firefighters to put it out. Despite the danger, pg e says that they have no plans to shut off any
Nearly 28,000 cases and 568 people have died. The governor order to close bars and seven different counties and it takes effect immediately. The counties included la, fresno, san joaquin, kings, kern, imperial, and tulare. Governor somoza recommended bars and eight other counties to close including contra costa and santa clara. Greg liggins is here now with that part of the story. Reporter california was ahead of the curve when it comes to flattening the curve and now we are starting to see those numbers go up. Just as things were starting to move forward as more and more g about, more businesses reopening, now we are starting to see efforts to put on the brakes. Barringtons bar in Pleasant Hill would normally be bustling on a sunday but makes the cocktail of the coronavirus and few sports to display on flat screens and you will understand why the bar is still closed. According to contra costa countys roadmap bars are on the list to reopen july 1 but with climbing covid cases, the gove
Today. More than 600 inmates are infected. Here are the latest numbers. 560 inmates have been infected in the last 14 days. State prison officials floated the idea of transferring dozens of inmates from san quentin outside of bakersfield. According to the chronicle, the plan is on hold. Inmates spoke out during a virtual town hall today. I really honestly feel like the way out of this is to reduce the population drastically. It also means stopping transfers too. We should not be spreading the infection around the state. Concerned families of loved ones have delivered a letter to the warden demanding action. Covid19 cases half past the 2. 5 million mark. Florida reported 10,000 new cases, another single day record. The mayor of miamidade is shutting all county beaches there until the fourth of july weekend and maybe longer. In texas, Small Business owners face new concerns after the governor ordered bars shot and restrict restaurant capacity. We were hoping it would turn around by may,