Storytelling for all. Invited to a very special celebration. 100 years in the making. Building a better bay area moving forward, finding solutions. This is abc7 news. President ial plans. President biden will begin a trip to israel tomorrow. Good evening. Im ammodytes. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. Tomorrow it will be ten days since hamas launched an attack on israel. Israeli Authorities Say at least 1400 people have died and 3400 others have been injured in israel, according to the Gaza Ministry of health, nearly 2800 people have been killed in retaliatory strikes from israel, with roughly 10,000 more injured. In gaza, the blockade of supplies into gaza continues, according to a spokeswoman for the United Nations relief and works agency. The pentagon has placed about 2000 american troops on a heightened state of readiness to possibly deploy to the middle east. Their purpose would be to serve as a deterrent and as we mentioned, President Biden will travel to israel. Hell le
Requires the vpd to comply with all 45 recommendations, as well as additional reforms related to bias, use of force searches, seizures and arrests. It also adds accountable equity components, including an oversight and reform evaluator who will assess if vpd is complying with the agreement. Interim police chief jason to addressed concerns regarding staffing shortages. Its going to be a challenge and explain why. Vpd missed the mark in the prior agreement. What we learned in hindsight was a lot of these reforms had to be completed. At the same time, initially when we started our our efforts, we were working at chronologically the previous mou was entered into days after Vallejo Police officer shot and killed Sean Monterrosa from the back seat of an Unmarked Police vehicle. His sister michelle says shes pleased with the announcement because there was a time when we didnt hear anything from anyone. Monterrosas sisters have been advocating on his behalf for the past three years. All our pl
News conference where he announces major action in reforming the Vallejo Police department. The attorney general and vallejo leaders are still talking right now. His office announcing agreement with the Police Department that covers use of force and officerinvolved shootings. He says the department has made progress in 20 of the 45 reforms, but it all still needs a lot of work. The new agreement implements additional forms related to bias as well as searches. It establishes an oversight and reform evaluator as well. This work isnt easy, and its fairly straightforward. Id like to thank the Vallejo Police department for their cooperation, their collaboration, their partnership and their commitments. But they need to reflect on their shortcomings and commitment to take real action to improve. The reforms are needed and they are necessary. We need to make vallejo policing more effective, more efficient, more fair, and more just. Californians are hurting. Trust has been broken. It wont be r
Mulberry. This woman is the creator and the one who went around that mulberry bush and tagged it. It would be fair to call her a web pioneer. Shes probably best known as the creator of flickr, sold to yahoo f35 million dollars. I want to talk about findery for a second, but i want to talk about hunch. It was acquired by ebay. What is that like. You create this little baby and you sell it far lot of money. Congratulations. And then you kind of check online and somebody threw it in the trash. Thats one way to think about it. Flickr was acquired by yahoo and still is to this day known as flickr. For some companies, thats the right thing to do. The right thing to keep the name and the right thing to continue it as flickr. Its a community site. Its very difficult to rebrand it as a yahoo site. So thats a very important thing to think about when youre doing a when youre doing an integration into a larger company. And yes, it is a sad day when no longer you go to hunch. Com and it redirects t
Incentives to remodel older buildings, considering using city moving or waiving permit fees to retrofit. Private Building Owners to pay off the cost of a retrofit or solar installation over the course of many years on their property taxes. Reporter there are 27,000 People Living in socalled soft story buildings in san jose. Thats according to a 2003 survey by the Santa Clara County Emergency Preparedness council. Its a safety hazard. Not just for the people who live in the homes, for anyone walking by. Reporter which is why tenants are hoping his Building Owner will update the property. The landlords i believe need to take responsibility. Reporter the rules Committee Approved the proposal this afternoon. Now it will move on to city council. It could take months before any of this will go into effect. This is obviously a bay areawide issue. San franciscos dealing with vulnerable buildings in a very public way. Weve shown you the earthquake warning signs that are being posted on resident