New at 5 00, a judge has harsh words for oakland city leaders about how they handled the investigation. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live at the federal courthouse in San Francisco. She has more now on what the judge had to say. Laura . Reporter this hearing just wrapped up this afternoon here in San Francisco. All the Major Players inside the courtroom. Federal judge Felton Henderson told the city of oakland and its Police Department that its long history of federal oversight is far from over. He told city leaders and attorneys for all sides, the sex abuse scandal shows were still not finished after 14 years of reforming this department. The hearing comes after an independent report found then Oakland Police chief sean wentz and top city officials including mayor schaaf were inept in their handling of a sex scab dndal involving a teenage girl. As you all know, the judge has not made a ruling, but he will make a ruling in a couple of days. And from there, we will have a clear d
San felipe road. A small car and that is where the fire started from the car fire. Right now cal fire as we mentioned is doing its best. They are working their way up the steep terrain. Where the fire started there is a lot of dense brush and oak trees. They are trying to make it up a steep hill to prevent the fire from coming up here and into neighborhoods. Once again, to update you, the fire has now grown to 40 acres. About an hour ago it was less than 20 acres. So growing quite fast and there are brisk winds out here. Reporting live from san jose. We sped up the video here, you can see how fast the smoke started to spread. You can see it from the east bay and from the south bay. Lets bring in jeff. We also wanted to show you the smoke plume. And this was about an hour ago and you can see how high the smoke was billowing up. The current view of the downtown camera is showing the smoke is more compressed to down to be the surface. An indication that they are getting a better handle of
The Libertarian Party of California is the latest emerging party organization to join a statewide coalition pushing to see the Golden State embrace a series of significant voting reforms. More specifically, the coalition seeks to adopt proportional representation in the California State Legislature. In a press release on Thursday afternoon,…
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