See this protest is on the move. We are in downtown martinez, and we have 700 people, perhaps more than 1000 gathered in the downtown streets. This is the black lives matter rally. You can see from topper five it is a significant crowd marching to this town of 30,000 people. Why are they here . Many of the protesters said they were compelled to come to martinez after a video went viral. It shows a white couple painting over a black lives matter street sign. The couple has since been charged with three misdemeanors, including a hate crime charge. This is not happening in my town. She was going on about kerrtown. This is our town. There are minorities in it and the town needs to start taking some sort of stance one way or the other to make it very clear where its values lie. Orr t w,what is going on is they have gathered at the courthouse. They are moving down to the waterfront of martinez. This is a peaceful protest, as it has been all along. As a matter of fact, demonstrators have been
Organizations that are against black lives matter. I will be down here as a scare tactic. We are not afraid. We refuse to be afraid. We are going to come down and march. We are going to make sure our voices are heard. Reporter folks are in fact, quite excited to be here. This has been, as i mentioned peaceful, but also in the air was a warning from the police chief from yesterday, as he was told that on social media there would be people coming here that might try to defend the police. As far as we could tell, that did not develop. We have not seen any counterdemonstrators in this crowd. Right now, the biggest danger is the heat. It is in the high 90s in martinez as this peaceful demonstration continues. In martinez, thank you. To San Francisco where one person is dead and another injured in a house fire that happened after 11 00 on sacramento street. Authorities say the victim was injured in the fire and is expected to be okay. No word tonight on the cause. The other big story we are
This is the 10 00 news on ktvu fox 2. Backtoschool, but not exactly. Oakland Unified School District outlines its plans for the new school year one month from today. We are starting the school year august 10th in entirely distancelearning for all students. How and when to reopen schools has become a national debate. Good evening, im christina run down. And im andre senior. Oakland unified taking a phased approach and its not alone. We have live coverage from ktvus greg lee. We are starting to see districts all over announcing plans to anxious parents, teachers and students. Tonight in oakland, Officials Say safety is at the center of their decisionmaking. We are starting with all students in Distance Learning. Reporter no students will be in classrooms when oakland unified starts the new school year august 10th. The district announced for up to four weeks all students will stay at home and learn remotely. Than some will be phased back into the classroom. Those with the highest needs re
Three, by London Bridge. Two, one and lift off but that three, two, one and lift off but that the rise of starliner, a new era in human space flight. And could this capsule one day take paying passengers into space . And coming up on bbc news, after a week of speculation about mikel arteta, well have the latest on the managerial situation at arsenal. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Mps vote this afternoon on the Prime Ministers plan for the uk to leave the European Union at the end of january. Borisjohnson urged the commons to back his Withdrawal Agreement bill, and said it was time to discard the old labels of leave and remain. But his critics are angry that previous safeguards on the environment, workers rights and child refugees have been watered down or removed from the bill. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. Suddenly it seems so simple. Time after time, this Prime Minister and the last have come to parliament to get mps to back their brexit dea
pair of strikes as president. biden speaks out for the first time on the situation. cnn s or lieberman is at the pentagon for us tonight or in what s the latest on casualties among us personnel there. john. we re looking at four attacks in a number of different locations against u. s personnel in syria over the course of the past 36 hours ago or so the first of those attacks was a one way drone attack a suicide drone attack in northeast syria that left one u. s contractor dead and six u. s personnel injured. five of those are u s service members. they re in stable condition at this point. then later on in the evening, there were 10 rockets fired at a green village site in central or eastern syria, right about that part that led to note. injuries but when the u. s retaliated, we saw two more attacks over the course of the past several hours a rocket attack at nearby kanako field again in central or eastern syria. that left one u. s service member injured in stable condition an