The council wants the new chief to focus on one issue in his district. And last year we had 26 homicides. We had not had 26 homicides in a while. The new chief is my eighth chief just as president alone. Reporter barry donelin is the president of the police union. Do you think this needs reform or transformation . I think she is inheriting the hardest working Police Officers in america. If that requires reform, i dont know. I think what they need to do is continue to fight crime. I am ready. Oakland, i hope youre ready because were moving ahead. Reporter the Oakland Department was close to emerging from 14 years of federal oversight before last summers sex scandal. In oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. An Oakland Police sergeant suing the city and Police Command staff is back on the force. Last november abc 7 news reported Sergeant Mike gant was put on leave for a domestic issue. However, gantt filed a lawsuit saying he was retaliated against as a whistleblower. When the wife of an of
His body. Breaking news. Nearly a week after this murder victim disappeared, San Jose Police found his body. Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators made the discovery off Jamison Creek road in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of big basin. Kpix 5s mark sayre is at the motorcycle shop where the victim was last seen alive and he talked to family about an hour ago. Tonight dozens of friends of kyle showed up here for the candlelight vigil and at the motorcycle shop where myrick and the suspect both worked. All here tonight with very heavy hearts. Reporter the news that the body of 28yearold kyle myrick was found spread quickly through the group of friends and family. John sperry is kyles stepfather. In some ways its a relief because weve been looking for him. Hes in a good space. So were happy. Reporter he was reported missing friday from gp sports on Camden Avenue where he worked. A Police Investigation revealed signs of a struggle including blood on the walls and a severed ear
His body. Breaking news. Nearly a week after this murder victim disappeared, San Jose Police found his body. Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators made the discovery off Jamison Creek road in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of big basin. Kpix 5s mark sayre is at the motorcycle shop where the victim was last seen alive and he talked to family about an hour ago. Tonight dozens of friends of kyle showed up here for the candlelight vigil and at the motorcycle shop where myrick and the suspect both worked. All here tonight with very heavy hearts. Reporter the news that the body of 28yearold kyle myrick was found spread quickly through the group of friends and family. John sperry is kyles stepfather. In some ways its a relief because weve been looking for him. Hes in a good space. So were happy. Reporter he was reported missing friday from gp sports on Camden Avenue where he worked. A Police Investigation revealed signs of a struggle including blood on the walls and a severed ear
Sunshine. Keeping the numbers cool, though. We are talk about a modern warmup in the days ahead. We continue to follow the wildfire burning near yosemite. The fire has burned nearly 130,000 acres. Its just 7 contained. More than 5500 homes are threatened. 11 were destroyed. Officials worry the number could rise. John alston has the latest on the fire from tuolumne county. One weapon against the fire is a business central that shoots an in the beginning area before the fire can. Large fires flared into largers ones in an instant. Winds shifted every few seconds. I have lived here near eighth grade. Some residents were allowed to key their properties for the first time in weeks. This couple, both originally from the bay area, lost two homes that had been in their family for years. The main house survived. We feel lucky to have this guy still standing, which was my family home in high school. Yeah, super close call for this house. There are custom houses that are cute to make this place l
This is abc7 news. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, august 25th. Im Carolyn Tyler. Lets start with a quick first look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning to you, carolyn. An interesting shot from the east bay hills camera. Normally we would see mt. Diablo in the distance, but with less of the low clouds ehave operating and we are looking at mild temperatures this morning. 67 in concord, livermore and napa. You have started out warmer due to the blanket of low and midlevel clouds. Now we are looking to burnoff and mostly sunny skies for just about everyone today except right along the coast and in the north bay you will see the partly cloudy skies. 80s, yeah, there will be a few of them in our inland east bay. But whether or not the 90s march closer to us in the final days of august, ill let you know about that in a few minutes. Carolyn. Thank you, lisa. We continue to follow the wildfire burning near yosemite. The fire has burned