This weekend marks 50 years of pride in San Francisco, but coronavirus will change the way we celebrate them. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a saturday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher we do want to start the hour with a check of weather before we get to the headlines and so lets say good morning to john trouble find out how foggy it is out there it was pretty dense when was late yeah i definitely does the wipers myself to that might have made all 3 of us very much so a foggy start to the morning, one of your worst visibility mornings at the so do watch your travel on bridges right now your view from alcatraz not showing you much, but that gray that is hanging out all across the bay area currently so as we make our way through the morning youre going to notice that fog will begin to lift right on top of that they did to bridge visibility is about to be improving. But as for the east bay hills and the coastline, its going
Area Lgbtq Community this as a San Francisco landmark gets ready to shine bright. Plus covid19 nightmare, the United States setting a record for most infections over a 24 hour period. How states hit the hardest are reacting this weekend. Good evening, im ken wayne and i pale more thank you for joining us for kron 4 news tonight at 8 our top story tonight accused of making racist remarks San Jose Police officers under investigation tonight, the mayor of san jose not now calling for them to be fired. The Investigation Centers around racist posts made on a closed Facebook Page for active officers have been placed on administrative leave kron fours dan thorn is getting reaction from the mayor tonight, he joins us now live from san jose with the latest well can alleged posts ended coming from former and current Police Officers. The mayor has been calling comments disturbing hes asking for a full investigation. Well the police chief is asking for help from the feds. A handful of San Jose Pol
Investigation into the comments expressed in a closed facebook page. The page has apparently made up of former and Current Police officers, the comments were anti muslim at all so called black lives matter activists quote domestic enemies can help those officers on art. On the force and they need to be fired immediately. And we need a full investigation understand who else was involved for how long and officers knew the San Jose Police Officers Association echoed the mayors comments calling the group in online ring of hate there is no place. In our Police Department or or union for racists. Theyre bigots. A president paul kelly says the union will not protect any of the officers involved. We will not represent you. You do not represent us. Well the Police Department here is seeking help from federal investigators the fbi is right now helping out the long beach Police Department because 3 former officers there have also made violent social media threats against black activist shaun king
It is the unofficial start to summer but this memorial day weekend will look a little bit different and officials want it that way there are new restrictions at beaches and restaurants that are in place with the hopes of preventing the additional spread of coronavirus as nadia romero explains local and federal leaders want all americans to follow the rules. With the unofficial start to summer underway across the country. Its also the start of potential new era and the fight against the coronavirus millions of americans are expected to celebrate memorial day weekend holiday by taking advantage of some open beaches and restaurants as all 50 states have lifted some level of restrictions local officials are laying out specific requirements for beachgoers what we want everyone to do is to help stop the spread but making sure theyre maintaining the executive orders for 6 feet apart and then more than 10 and the crowd. Also on friday President Donald Trump deeming all places of worship as ess
Randy will be giving most of the presentation. Ill be here for questions and answers. Just a little background about myself. I volunteered after i got my b. A. In history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010. I began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at riverside. And then in i got my masters degrees in library and information science. At that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014 i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician. And then in 2016 i moved back to california and in my current role as an archive specialist at the National Archives at riverside. So im going to turn it over to randy here and you could give you his bio. Well, thank you, james. Welcome, everybody. I want to thank mr. Garza for his wonderful introduction and thank the friends of the North Hollywood library and the friends of the sherman oaks for inviting us to come ou