It here, so were starting here, and were moving quickly. Reporter and the School District says they dont know how long the levels have been on campus or where the origin is for that matter. Until they get definitive results, they want to be perfectly safe and clear that there will be no school. If it extends further into next week and beyond, the 350 students will likely have to attend school in other areas for their studies. Juliette goodrich in the east bay, thank you. Kpix 5s betty yu continues our coverage now from just down the street at Taylor Memorial Methodist Church where a Community Meeting on this issue is just getting underway. Betty . Reporter thats right, ken. It just started a few minutes ago, and community members, parents, very upset and concerned are just trickling in right now, hoping to get more information about this toxic substance known as tce. We know that it is a compound thats generally used as an industrial solvent. Its colorless, nonflammable, and has a slig
Crying. He said mom, its really, really bad. He said theyre saying that i killed a cop and then the phone just went dead. Whoa. It was really awful. I dont think ethan and i could stand for quite a long time after that. We both sat here on the floor in this room and just cried and cried and cried. How did this happen, they wondered . The parents were involved in both their childrens lives as they grew up in this San Francisco neighborhood a few blocks from the pacific ocean. We took family walks. We have sunday family dinners. We were very involved in sports, you know, pta at his middle school. Ethan coached soccer, helped to coach baseball. So we have been and are still very close. Their son fin went to rome on Summer Vacation after wrapping up his first year at san diego mesa college. He met with his old friend, gabriel natale. Gabe tried to buy cocaine but a pusher gave him italian tylenol instead. Offduty cops broke up the transaction. The Young Americans ran away, fin grabbing the
Now. Reporter it was in this space on the myrtle street campus where tce was found in the groundwater when they were removing a petroleum tank. Reporter we are concerned it is vaporizing, seeping through the ground, exiting the ground and getting into the air in the buildings. Reporter this is a chemical that the cdc says is widely used for degreasing manufactured metal parts, making pvc plastic, some pesticides, and was used as a pet food additive before being banned in 1977. It is linked to causing heart deformation in fetuses. The Exposure Time is within the womans first three weeks of pregnancy. Reporter it is not clear how long it has been sitting in the groundwater beneath mcclymonds. The source is not the school, but a land nearby that housed a business called lane metal finishers. The state is cleaning up tce on that land. I am concerned and alarmed. Reporter this is a parent of a High School Student that joins her roughly 350 classmates waiting for word on when and where schoo
After the Police Commission voted unanimously tonight to fire the chief. Good evening everyone. The mayor said they decided to terminate chief Anne Kirkpatrick without cause, but clearly they found her performance lacking. We get the breaking news now from reporter henry lee who has the latest on this startling development. Reporter it is startling, rumors have been flying all day, and a little after 8 00 the announcement was official, chief Anne Kirkpatrick is out of a job, fired without cause, Officials Saying its time for new leadership. The oakland Police Commission voted unanimously to fire police chief Anne Kirkpatrick with oakland mayor libby schaaf giving her blessing. The trust between the Police Commission and police chief has become irrevocably broken. The mayor said the voter approved measure gave her and the commission the ability to fire the chief without cause. She thanked kirkpatrick for her service but said a new leader needed to move the department forward. I do not r
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