We begin tonight with the firefight to try to save a buddhist temple in the south bay. San jose firefighters were able to put out the flames and gain control, but the damage is already done. Good evening. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. This fire jumped quickly in size with crews fighting the flames for a number of hours. They say theyre going to stay on the scene tonight to flare ups. Onitor any potenti firefighters were first called to the vietnamese temple near the 680 freeway exit at alum rock avenue. Thats jt a mile from Regional Medical center. Abc seven news south bay reporter Lauren Martinez has more on the Lasting Impact for those who live inside. As flames tore through the roof of this temple, for People Living in a unit above the garage managed to get out safely, fire Officials Say the incident off foss avenue was reported around 545 monday evening, and it quickly grew to a three alarm fire. We need to make sure that things are completely out. The last th
Could San Francisco be facing more budget cuts . What new data is revealing . And there is a lot of talk about ai lately, locally and internationally. Whats being done to safeguard the technology . Good morning. Welcome tuesday, may 14th. Lets check on your forecast. Yeah. So well take you outside the sun. It is up here. You wouldnt know it though because you got a lot of cloud cover out there. Heres a live look from the tam cam showing you that sun is above the horizon. But we are dealing with a lot of cloud cover out there. This morning, and you will find temperatures to begin. Or basically in the 40s and in the mid 50s out there right now. So lets break it down region by region. Right now you will find along the coast were pretty cloudy throughout the day. The afternoon maybe between about 11 and four, may get a little poke of sunshine breaking through, but temperatures mainly staying in the mid 50s for our daytime highs now around the bay shoreline, were bookended by clouds. That m
Different things going on within the Oakland Police department and within this community. There is much concern over Public Safety. While recent data shows crime is falling, robberies are on the rise, Small Businesses are leaving oakland and many public calls to 911 remain unanswered. There is a federal oversight monitor to answer to. Its a lot to address for a 35 Year Police Veteran who was until recently, the chief of police in lubbock, texas. 12 new officers graduated from the Oakland Police academy last friday, bringing the total number of sworn officers to 716. His big challenge is going to be community or our public perception. Ken houston is director of the Beautification Council and a community advocate. Dont go in for the big wins. Go in for the small ones. Parking on the sidewalk, parking in a handicap spot, tinted windows all the way around. Driving around without license plates. Do what the great gavin newsom did. He sent in highway patrol, right . Theyre going after the sm
You why the sergeant in 2004 was fired. Live in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. Chopper 5 over a protest outside opd headquarters. Demonstrators upset over the other big Police Scandal allegations that several officers had sex with an unaged girl and lied about it. Demonstrators formed two circles outside police headquarters. A photo from the ground level shows two men hoisting a banner up a flagpole. They are accusing officers of Human Trafficking and statutory rape. Other signs say, we have a right to know their names. And, jail predator police. And because of the latest scandals, a courtappointed monitor will now expand his role and look at Police Hiring and recruitment. A judge gave extended authority to a compliance director who is overseeing reforms at the opd. Its a big setback for the department. Oakland was getting closer to regaining local control of its police department. The warriors back in the bay after a rough night in cleveland. Their flight landed in oakland this afternoon
Continuing resolution referred to as krom any bus strategy which keeps the government operating until mid february. The reason, obviously because republicans will have control of the house and senate next year . There is talk of that. So it is varying degreeses. The basic premise of that is that many of the republicans and some of the republicans in congress, realizing they will control both chambers starting on january 3rd. Are wondering why democratic majority leaders soon to be minority leader harry reid and other democrats would have such a say on a bill spending them until last so that notion is that lets do another temporary one and then the new republican dominated senate and house could come up with a spending bill after that. But Republican Leaders kind of want to wipe the slate clean and are preferring a measure that could be done now that could get congress through the whole entire next fiscal year without having to readdress it in the spring. But whether they could win over