Of first degree murder, Second Degree murder, not guilty of manslaughter. Guilty only of one charge, possession of a firearm. Team coverage in and outside the krors. Lyanne melendez has covered the trial from the beginning. Reporter it took six days for the jury to reach this verdict. I would calculate about 28 hours or so of deliberations. Many people were surprised by the verdict, again not guilty of murder, not guilty of assault with semiautomatic weapon and as you mentioned, guilty of possession of a gun. Now that one really surprised me and made little sense to me. This is the explanation given by the public defender jeff adachy. They heard the evidence, they deliberated as a group, they heard read back testimony, looked at physical evidence and rendered a verdict to best of their abilities in accordance to the law. Verdict we werent hoping for. Both sides fought very hard but again the jury is the one, the jurors are the ones to make the determination on the case and we will resp
Determination on the case and we will respect that decision. Reporter and that was Matt Gonzalez, defense attorney and spokesperson for the District Attorneys office. Hear from jeff and his explanation as to why Garcia Zarate was found guilty of possession of a firearm. If we could have that please. They heard the evidence, they deliberated as a group, they heard read back testimony, they looked at physical evidence, and they rendered a verdict to the best of their abilities in accordance with the law. It was a verdict we were not hoping for. I know that both sides fought very hard, but again the jury reporter we will hear eventually from jeff adachy. Apologies. After the verdict was read, defendant jose inez Garcia Zarate did not react but later got up and hugged Matt Gonzalez, hi attorney. And gonzalez maintained all along his client found the stolen gun at the pier wrapped in piece of cloth, if you remember, picked it up and accidentally fired. I want to also mention that that posse
Famous getty museum. Im dan ashley, ama daetz is off. Five active fires burn right now. No deaths thankfully. Comes right up to houses, freeways and world famous landmarks. Biggest is thomas in Ventura County, jumped to 90,000 acres. 150 homes burned but fire officials expect that number to rise. Skirball fire scorched about 500 acres near the wealthy community of belair. So far four homes burned there. Marci gonzalez with more. Reporter raging flames threatening commuters along the busy 405 freeway and charring multimilliondollar homes in elite belair neighborhood. Really frightening. Lot of homes here. Reporter one of four major fires burning out of control. Of course im worried. Reporter nearly 200,000 people ordered to evacuate, including this nursing home. Number expected to climb as flames spread. More than 80,000 acres scorched so far, fuelled by strong santa ana winds. Kicking up to 70 miles an hour. Thats Hurricane Force winds. Reporter neighbors pitching in to save each other
Crude is rebounding a little bit after a couple of days of a selloff. The euro is weakening against the dollar because the u. S. Dollar has been strengthening so much over the past few days. That yield curve spread is actually widening for a change. Its up a little bit. I have been watching this. The greek has come down. It has gone down about 4. 5 . David that is remarkable. It is jobs day. We are going to get those u. S. Jobs numbers for november. Spacex will be launching a falcon 9 rocket to deliver cargo to the International Space station. When bitcoin day it comes to wall street. Futures contracts on the cryptocurrencies, the banks are figuring out how theyre going to respond to all of this. Its time to our first take. We discussed the top three stories of the morning. Up first is the deal on brexit. Theresa may got the goahead it. The second story, the rise in the u. S. Stock market pointing to more gains through the end of the year. , u. S. G news coming out jobs numbers for nov
Girl disappeared while babysitting. Tonig y a break in the [music playing] breaking news, nearly 40 years after this bay area girl disappeared while baby sitting tonight there is finally a break in the case. Good evening. Police say they have arrested this man, 63yearold Mitchell Bacom for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a 14yearold girl in antioch 37 years ago. They took him into custody just after 5 00 tonight. She was baby sitting the night she disappeared. A fisherman discovered her body in the river days later. Obtaining this positive identify case for her killer became a reality. After decades with few leads, investigators reopened the case in 2015. They matched bacom to the crime using dna evidence thanks to his lengthy criminal record. This arrest closes the oldest opened unsolved murder with the Antioch Police department. A breakthrough in oakland tonight. City workers going back to work tomorrow. Their 7 day strike virtually shutdown the city. The good news is the strike i