County couldnt get enough votes. The countys Fire Protection districts funding measure, measure q, failed to pass the november ballot. Now four stations are on the chopping block. The decision to close a fire station is not easy. There is no perfect modem. We dont go to school to learn how to close fire stations. Reporter the Fire Protection district covers 300 square miles serving 600,000 neighbors. Leaders say industry standards require at least 600 firefighters on staff based off the area they cover. But right now they are operating at 250. This organization throughout not only in Emergency Response and Fire Prevention and support services is bare bones. Its one of the most thinly staffed metropolitan fire districts in california. Reporter the closures would take effect in january including walnut creek, martinez, lafayette and clayton. The citys only fire station. He says all cities went district would be impacted. Once we start taking any of those stations out of service, then hav
Youre watching cbs 5 Eyewitness News in High Definition. Breaking news in oakland four people have been shot all within a couple blocks of one another. Cbs 5 reporter Christin Ayers is there. Chris christin. Thats correct we have a massive scene out here along sixth street. A long scene. You can see multiple cruisers. This area encompassing about six blocks where were being told shootings happened and multiple people involved in the shootings. Multiple victims from what were hearing right now. Four people shot. One person according to authorities is in Critical Condition at this moment. We dont know the conditions of the other four currently. And information just coming in at this moment. I talked to a couple neighbors in this area that heard the gunfire a short time ago before we arrived on scene. They described hearing maybe a dozen shots and coming out and seeing people laying in the street. Were hearing four victim so far in this east oakland neighborhoods. A very large presence in
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Right. Thats a lot. One registrar official told me especially at 7,500 a day. And thats not in the budget. Absolutely not. Okay, mike sugerman, thank you. Crafts. s attorney general is announcing a major shift in the way the state handles Illegal Immigrants. Kamala harris is telling local Police Agencies dont have to follow federal rules when holding them. Cbs 5 political reporter grace lee on why the ag has a problem with the feds. Grace. Reporter she says the intent was good but the execution is overly brought meaning i. C. E. Is deporting too many people. According to her research, about a third of the 28,000 people deported were not even criminals and 82,000 people deported were not even criminals and she issued the policy change today. Thats been some confusion and we have been approached by Law Enforcement up and down the state asking for clarity. Reporter she issued a bulletin to all Law Enforcement agencies in california. If i. C. E. Asks someone to detail someone they dont hav
A war of words over a device more common in war zones. The debate over using drones in the east bay. Good afternoon, im tori campbell. A debate over drones is heating up in Alameda County. New at noon, allie rasmus joins us live in oakland to explain what the sheriffs want to do with the drones and why the aclu opposes the plan. Reporter well, today, the Alameda County supervisors were supposed to consider whether to allow the Sheriffs Office to buy a drone or as the sheriff says, he prefers to call it, an unmanned aerial device. But the item was taken off the supervisors agenda, just as a couple of Civil Liberties groups had a press conference expressing concerns. The Alameda County Sheriffs Office unveiled what they might purchase, this device. In the past month, Alameda County received around 31,000 in state grant money to buy an unmanned aerial system known to some as a drone. The devices have live hd quality video and infrared capability. And thats raising the concerns of Civil Li