From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Now a knight tense time says firefighters in oakland have been busy late this afternoon and tonight feverish lee working to get control of this brush fire. That burned dangerously close to homes and drivers along 5. 80. Thankfully, nobody was injured tonight and the damage appears to be minor good evening, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis took more than 50 firefighters to answer the call and although the fire is contained tonight, its still a very active scene for us taylor sackey joins us now shes. Live in oakland where crews are still working to make sure hot spots still flare up. Taylor this was really scary. Earlier today, gran, yes again lot of these neighbors, a large scale scare because the fire was getting close. But thankfully, we know now that that fire is contained and you can actually see behind me that many of these firefighters are packing up in this intersectio
President trump also made news in this impromptu get together which we werent exactly expecting on a monday morning, saying the coronavirus briefings are making a comeback starting tomorrow from the Briefing Room at 5 00 p. M. Start our coverage with chad pergram who covers capitol hill. Chad, that meet meeting in the oval office set the table for next few weeks negotiations. What are we looking for . Reporter a lot of negotiations will be with republicans, make no mistake on that. Republicans are all over the map on this by there is major disagreements how to do another bill. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said they will be about kids and jobs. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said he will take control to write the bill in his office. There is lot of questions whether he can finish a bill at all. Mitch mcconnell is confident they can. Listen. Begin the process of socializing what weve been discussing with the administration over last two weeks with our members. Were looking fo
Reopen as a mosque for friday prayers after more than 80 years as a museum. And play richardson welcome to the show anger and on rest are growing in the United States following President Trumps announcement that he will send federal troops and to several democratic controlled cities he says theyre needed to deal with a surge in Violent Crime but the trump deployment of federal forces already operating in Portland Oregon has been targeting protesters demanding Racial Justice when the mayor himself caught in the crossfire. There and i am a student and its hard to bring the mayor of portland tear gassed by federal offices in the middle of his own city. A. 10. Willow was in a group of protesters outside a federal courthouse he said he saw nothing which provoked this response but. The irony is portland protesters are angered that the democratic man had backed his own city police using tear gas until a federal judge ordered it should only be used when there was a safety issue. For the 55th n
Increase of crowds at lakeshore app we just have to look outside of our windows. And see the large crowds without wearing mask stands. And not social distancing. Oakland city officials and staff held a press Conference Friday with this reminder must avoid gatherings in groups. Simply keeping to our own households. Were small stable social bubbles will make a difference transmission of the coronavirus is low outdoors but Health Officials say when people gather outside and take off their masks that increases the likelihood of more infections. Alameda county has at least 10,000 covid19 cases Health Officials say almost half of those cases are in oakland before heading in the wrong direction at the same time that people seem be letting down their guard friday afternoon we sell fewer people by the lake not wearing mask neighbors say it gets more crowded in the evenings and weekends. Another complaint is illegal parking on lakeshore af cars parked on the middle lane we saw this vehicle getti
School year should not bring a return to the classroom. The experience i had with my daughter, she did not do good with distancelearning provides funded okay, but my daughter needs to be in the classroom with the teachers. But if its not safe. So many questions for parents, teachers and students. How should these decisions be made . Piece by piece, district by district, we are going to fail. We are providing the flexibility based upon local conditions. The governor is sticking with his mantra of local control and that means the local district is trying to figure this all out right now. I think it is pretty obvious thheir ol winot lo the same when itts backinto session. Marcus walton is with west contra costa unified, he says one central element of their planning is being ready to ditch plan a. The Health Experts are telling us there will be a second wave and we have to expect that if the second wave, when and if the second wave hits that everyone will be again doing remote learning. Th