Says the referendum is illegal. Good afternoon everyone. Russian president putin signed a decree today recognizing crimea as a sovreign and independent country as president obama announced new sanctions against russia. Kpix5 reporter mark kelly is live in our news room with the president s beefed up promises. Mark . Reporter michelle president obama unveiled sanctions against seven russian officials including Russias Deputy Prime Minister. The u. S. And its european friends have stepped up sanctions on economic and trade sanctions against russia following a historic vote sunday to the brings crimea and russia even closer together. Pro russian crimeans celebrated sunday. The government said a large majority of voting crimeans cast a ballot to join russia. Many believing a split from ukraine today will mean more opportunity in the future. Prime minister said dear friends, we are going home to russia. The government said 83 of voters went to the ballot box, from the white house this morni
Often, they dont even call to report it anymore. Usually its fairly late at night. Were in bed. And its just oh, okay someone is shooting another gun. I would hope they would not get rid of it. The neighborhood really needs it. Oakland really needs it. Reporter heres an example that people not everybody calls in. Last month shotspotter recorded 258 reports of gunfire in west and east oakland alone. That same period, only 197 reports were called in by folks who live in oakland. So theres about 60 reports that were not called in by folks who live here. Live in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. The department has to come up with the money to keep shotspotter by this summer when the contract is up. New at 6 00, volunteers are going to Start Testing the waters off the west coast for traces of radiation from the fukushima disaster. Scientists expect to start seeing low levels of radiation next month. They have crowd sourced volunteers to take water samples from alaska to california. This comes thr