Reporter in a scathing report of the Alameda County grand jury accuses the Oakland Unified School district of having a broken culture. Concluding the district is not doing justice or a 36,000 students and 87 public schools. Ray souza is on the grand jury. It is not you can point to one thing and say they did this wrong. It is pervasive. The board, the leadership, the management, the people that work there. Reporter the report cites a range of problems including mismanagement, favoritism, disregard for authority among midlevel management and a lack of accountability. Financial instability was also highlighted. The grand jury finding oakland unified wasted millions of dollars, pointing to lack competitive Business Practices and poor contract management. One example, nine building projects halted because of overspending including the most egregious of construction project at Fremont High School that was 51 million over budget. These kids deserve an education and there is money there to do
Bay. Looks like they are washing out a little. The low will continue to work south. Its a cold one out there. 36 in livermore. Brentwood 39. Wasnt for the cloud cover it would be colder into nevado. Kelseyville is 37. Low 40s for here. Napa at 41. Get out so you can see that. Once it heads down south. Late morning, early afternoon we will be on the dryer side and will start to see improvement. Will be a cool day. Scattered showers closer to the coast. After this system goes through we will see the improving conditions. Mainly dry but for some showers. 50s on the temperatures. Still cool here. All right. Its 4 01. Good morning. Good morning. We have traffic thats out there. Its a little wet and we have a couple things going on. For the most part right now its off to a good start. When it comes to the tracy drive already a bit of slow traffic on the pass as you drive through. You can see it right here. Westbound on 580 as you come over the hill. A little patch of slow traffic. Once you g
We took here earlier. It happened at 3 40 in the morning. Car was traveling in the westbound lanes and the driver said that suddenly a man jumped in front of his car, was trying to cross the street. We are told that pedestrian was not in the crosswalk. The driver ended up hitting that man and it was pretty bad because he did his shoes did come off. His clothes laying here wal mart retold that emergency crews rushed him to the hospital with life threatening injuries. We are waiting to get the update on his condition. We will asked police about the driver. Does he seem impaired they say that he doesnt. Here is what they had to say. It looks like he does in fact drive for uber. He has a sticker on his car. Its still under investigation if he was in the process of driving to pick someone up. Those questions will be answered shortly. Reporter we are being told that the road is going to be closed for several hours. Just because the Investigation Team needs to come out here. There was a witne
In the mix and its not there yet attempt will be later. Good morning. Current conditions 43. I recorded for the month of january. 11 inches of rain in vallejo. Need drying. We will get it. Just most of itll be today. There is still some. Watch how this line is moving south. Back toward inverness. Maybe some toward, nvado. You can see that line now stretching backn. Sunset district includeztitleing to move over. Its not a lot but enough there and the line looks to be about san mateo coast. Its favoring areas off the coast. There was a cell for two moving in on suspecta cruz. Looks to be backing off for now. Though is the key from the valley. You can see some of that is turning to snow. Elevation around 2700 feet. We arent done yet with that system sending in clouds and low snow levels on saint helena. Northern napa. Its cold enough. 30s and 40s. There are many 30s. There is the low. Circulation around that. By tonight itll be far enough south. Until it gets there we are in line for anot
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