For some time. Now there are questions about staffing and what role that plays for officers on the street kron fours dan kerman is live at Police Headquarters tonight with our top story. Dan. Well the police union is coming forward saying despite the fact that the Police Department has a 122 funding positions they have never fill those positions all at once not placed in the last 10 years and they say that is requiring officers to work overtime and that is putting citizens lives at risk. And understaffed police force is a threat to those that live in vallejo. So says the Vallejo Police union which says citizens are endangered by the citys failure to hire police specifically they say there are not enough cops to cover all beats on a regular basis. The says for 10 years the city has had open positions and because the forces consistently shorthanded there are generally no more than 6 officers on the street at any given time in a city of over 120,000. The says that puts filet o well below
Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now 90 us passes another major milestone in the coronavirus pandemic more than 6 million cases have been reported in this country. But the number of cases appears to be slowing down here in the bay area experts warn were still not out of the woods, thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 9, im ken wayne and i pale more in just 2 weeks, the average number of covid19 cases in california has dropped by some 20 . Heres a look at the latest covid19 numbers across the state and the bay area experts call the news promising. But they still warn people not to let their guard down. Well for Jonathan Mccall is live in our newsroom tonight, he has the latest details jonathan ken pam, heres something to think about just over just under 4200 new cases reported in california in the last 24 hours. Its a significant drop from where we were just 2 weeks ago in the last 7 days every bay area county has seen at least a 20 drop in the number of covid19 cases. Its also a trend th
Details on that coming up in just bit all right well, it certainly has a lot of fog out there on your way if youre driving yeah the month change skies, but the weather has not were keeping the fog and the haze around you can see the low lying cloud cover above timber on good news about the fog as of right now is thats lifted over most of the bay area itself so aside from some spotty visibility issues, especially in hilly hillsides. We are actually seeing you driving under the fog on our bridges just looking up that the gray that has been persistently overhead through the morning. Temperatures right now are in the 50s and 60s we actually have a much more comfortable afternoon ahead of us than what we had yesterday with slightly cooler temperatures. But of course as we are still talking pockets of haze in this forecast want to moderate your time outside as much as possible. Daytime highs will be in the 60s and 70s near the bay and the coast with the 80s and 90s remaining for inland areas
Giving thanks for joining us this is r. T. International where are we start this hour with news of tuesdays shooting in new jersey that left 6 people dead because it is now being investigated as a potential act of domestic terrorism motivated by anti semitism and hatred towards police those killed included a Police Officer 3 bystanders and the 2 suspected attackers themselves 2 assailants targeted a Kosher Grocery store on tuesday in jersey city the gun battle that ensued lasted around 4 hours Police Stated that they recovered numerous firearms a pipe bomb and manifesto style note from the scene it was reported that one of the suspects had connections to a known hate group and published anti semitic post online. And escalating diplomatic row has stepped up another level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats that came in response to a similar move by berlin all amid a spat over a murder probe arties double quarter picks up the story. Russian foreign minister has given the diplomats and
Theyre great to have you with is this. An escalating diplomatic route has stepped up another level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats comes a response to a similar move by berlin all that amid a spot over a murder probe aunties dont call it a pix of the story the Russian Foreign minister has given the diplomats in question 7 days to leave the country in a tit for tat response to the German Governments decision when they themselves decided to expel 2 Russian Diplomats the german in boston has received a note of protest over the ground was decision to expel 2 Russian Diplomats from berlin as a mere response to german diplomats must leave russia within the next 7 days now it was just last week that the German Government made this decision to expel 2 Russian Diplomats for the cut from the country and the official report said that russia was not being active enough in cooperating within best again. Into the murder of a Georgian National named zelin can congress feeley now the german pro