Man who spent almost half his life with the fire department. Oakland firefighters saluting one of their own wednesday may. To sean lafons flag draped casket left senate medical center. Dozens of Police Motorcycles and fire engines hopping escort his body. The procession passing city hall and several fire stations, ending in a chapel of the chimes, funeral home and oakland am aware an American Flag was hoisted by trucks. Laughing, just 42 years old. They died as if it was cardiac arrest. I was hopeful in getting the news five hours later that he passed away when the cardiologist came back to speak to the family and myself, it was pretty knee buckling. We are struggling, coping, grieving. Reporter intern fire chief Melinda Drayton new sean lafons entire 20 year career with oakland fire. He turned to me early in his career when he made the decision to promote. Reporter a decision made out of love and passion for the fire service and oakland. Last year he was promoted to interim assistant
Meteorologist Rosemary Orozco to wrap up the weekend and to look at the work week. Good morning, happy sunday starting out with more sunshine so that is some good news for folks that enjoyed the blue skies. We are off to a cooler start because of the cloud free skies. For the afternoon, good morning as we are looking at temperatures similar to yesterday, seasonal, a little cool for some, at the coast 60 is the low, low 70s for inland cities and today will be the coolest day and then we warm up by tomorrow. Details on the rest of today and the week ahead coming up. San jose police are investigating a deadly crash involving three cars, the crash just after midnight at the intersection of allmond and expres that a Nissan Murano during a red light, the impact caused the hyundai to collide with a tesla at the intersection, the driver of the hyundai died, the driver of the tesla was not injured and the driver of the nissan was booked into the Santa Clara County jail for vehicular manslaughte
Announcement was met with some confusion and also some disappointment but we got a clarification tonight from the states Parks Department saying that not all of the states parks parking lots are closed. Its about 3 dozen of them and most of them are in the bay area in an effort to flatten the curve a California State Parks governor Gavin Newsome says its time for soft closures he announced monday Effective Immediately that 36 of the states 280 parks will be closed to vehicular traffic. It breaks my heart but i understand the reasons. We know a guy ive been wondering how long it would last that were still able to access the stuff, rock climber adam sandler says for the most part hes seen people on the trails of Mount Diablo State Park practicing social distancing right now the East Bay Park does not fall under this closure ambler says thats a good thing because the outdoors have been helpful for leaving his anxiety over the pandemic it today in a church is always good for the soul and t
Reach an agreement on a nearly trillion coronavirus response. Bill what we have a basic philosophical conflict, democrats blocked republican proposal oregon senator jeff merkley calls it a slush fund for big corporations like the Airline Industry so theyve invested 50 billion in profits during the good times and buying their own stock. And giving huge bonuses to to their their management. A bad time they want to see what the public bail us now republican senators say bipartisan negotiations were going well until House Speaker nancy pelosi showed up back in washington and got involved and angry senator john thune of south dakota said the bill included many provisions democrats walk like direct checks for americans increased Unemployment Insurance and money for Small Businesses to pay their employees that right there is billion. Going to workers. Soon says there is 500 billion worth of money for big corporations but stresses that money will be given out as loans and they all higher milli
Guidelines within the next couple of weeks, this is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down as for the economic stimulus plan for the coronavirus the Senate Republican bill put corporations first democratic and Republican Leaders are locked in a partisan battle, this is not a juicy political opportunity is a National Emergency im John Lawrence reporting. Well a major Sticking Point in the relief bill continues to be how money gets into the pockets of out of work americans are washington dc correspondent Trevor Shirley has more now on the idea to send a check to people impacted by the pandemic. It would be a fast way to get money into most americans hands. We all recognize giving money to people who are. Not receiving a paycheck is important texas republican senator john cornyn supports the idea well i think we all feel the need to act quickly to get money to the people who through no fault of their own out of a job and a paycheck as does Ohio Democratic