Been following all week here in the bay area are calls to defund the Oakland Police department and joining us to talk about the latest on that as well as the citys continuing fight against the coronavirus is oakland mayor libby shaft good morning there. Good morning marty good to see you lets begin by talking about the new Community Task force that is centering on reconstructing the Oakland Police department this is a big task force 17 people i can you tell us to give some insight on how its going to work. Well its a big job and oakland is doing it right we didnt respond to immediate requests by cutting 14 Million Dollars out of our Police Department but we believe that any further cuts need to be done with full analysis and full Community Participation and transparency and so the 17 Member Task Force will over the next 6 months really analyze what a 50 cut would look like how it would Impact Services how we could replace those services and also during that time oakland will be startin
In berkeley investigating an officerinvolved shooting overnight. It happened at a cvs store on shattuck avenue the officer was injured during that confrontation. The officer was patrolling the area when they noticed a theft in progress involving multiple people. The officer tried to detain those people and there was a confrontation. Then the officer opened fire still not clear what caused the officer to use their gun. The officer suffered an injury to their foot and was taken to the hospital. No word yet on the condition of the officer, but that officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation. And some breaking news from overnight. One person had to be rescued from a fire in San Francisco. Youre taking a look at video this morning from the citizen app that was posted by the San Francisco fire department. The fire started about 2 oclock this morning on powell street in the citys north beach neighborhood. Firefighters also had to rescue a dog and the person who
Heres the plan, more than half of the money would be directed to Mental Health and programs to help black homeless people. Another 35 would be used for education, youth services, and job programs and 5 used to figure out how to redirect police calls from noncriminal activity like helping the homeless and mentally ill and stead. Ed by social rkers e d adit and en line itoit back london for her signature no latter than october 1. Im live at the news desk, back to you. Thank you. We brought you the budget update on cbsn and other digital platforms. Oakland mayor libby shaft said theyre responding to many 911 calls and this morning i asked her how a new will work . Onmake informed decisions. Mayor said she and and city budget and on another topic, shaft expressed concern about a nighttime vandalism that sometimes follows daytime protests. Many leaders are saying this is distracting from the movement of the message. I encourage people to consider only attending demonstrations that are in da
Restrained appraisal of the covid crisis. Good evening, reported. The Fremont Fire Department im julie haener. Is deploying a strike team to the gold fire. Its burning to the north of and im frank somerville. President trump revived his the hog fire. The gold fire is 8500 acres and coronavirus briefings today and suggested the crisis is going only 5 contained. It is to get worse before it gets burning through rugged forest better. Northeast of redding. Many are calling this a real change in the president s tone. At lake tahoe a person had reporter ya, tone and to be rescued from a burning policy. Boat yesterday afternoon near the president urged americans tahoe city. The coast guard says one man to wear a mask. Was on board when it burst into is returned to the podium, a flames. They say he was rescued by a political reality as his poll Good Samaritan and uninjured. Numbers plummet. Fire crews put out the fire coronavirus is a vicious and dangerous illness. Before the boat sunk and 21
I want black boys growing up today to thrive because we chose to change how this city and how this country treats are young black men. The city of San Francisco plans to redirect over a 120 Million Dollars from the Law Enforcement budget and then invest those funds into the black community. Thanks for joining us. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis kron fours dan kerman standing by live for us tonight to tell us exactly how that money will be spent dan. Yeah thats right this is all in the mayors Budget Proposal a lot more difficult this time around because coronavirus in the Economic Impacts of that is broad but some changes in the Police Funding thats part of it also the mayor wants to defer some raises for City Employees. We have a lot of plans. What we didnt have plans for was the coronavirus but it certainly have plans for us. So here we are today in a very different San Francisco friday, San Francisco mayor london breed unveiled a very different to your Budget Proposal than she originall