Protestors say they wont damage any storefronts and say they are against cops not business owners. And there are a lot of Police Officers in riot gear surrounding this area right now. They are not right next to the protestors so to speak. They are kind of staying back to make sure they dont provoke the protestors. Cops are not popular here. They are being depicted a pigs. At 7 00 there will be an anti police march and rally marching to City Police Headquarters and back. So that will be centering. Well see what happens in an hour. One other side note to talk about. In the last year or so, Police Officers here in oakland arrested about 700 occupy protestors but only 109 have been charged out of more than 700 protestors arrested. There was also talk about an antioccupy protests people carrying bats against the occupiers. Have you seen that. Reporter no. I was not. Pilot talkedpeople talked about byob, bring your own bats against the occupiers. They say they are tired of people vandalizing
With russia . Very directly. The governments of the United States decide to sanction russian companies, that will create problems for the business deals and investments that they have here. At the same time, putin and his friends have asset. There is russian money in American Bank accounts. Some of it are russian government officials. So we have levers available today to put pressure on russia that we didnt 30 or 40 years ago. Getting russias volatile president to think clearly, hour, may be a challenge. He says president putin wants to see ukraine in what he calls the russians sphere of influence. The west, including the Obama Administration want ukraine to be independent and free. All i can do is hope that more pragmatic minds in moscow will prevail. That remains to be seen. But it duds underscore that the world has changed. The cold war has thawed capitalist in and out of the soviet union. A good deal of it coming here to california. A couple years ago, sicsc pledged to russia. So t
Grief counselors for students and teachers. Gray skies. Another round of rain moving in just in time for our evening commute. Chief meteorologist paul deanno tells us there will be a few chances of rain coming this week. Reporter how about it. Looks like were in a different season. Look at this. Just in time for the evening commute. The heaviest rainfall we have seen all they long is now being picked up by kpix5 high def doppler. The yellow that you see is the soaking rainfall. The green is the light stuff. That soaking rainfall now invading oakland and emeryville. Working its way south. Almost to san mateo. Leaving the city will be a soggy mess. Light rain continues in the north bit. Vallejo, petaluma bay. Vallejo, petaluma. All this rain is beginning to add up. The water year, one month and two days ago we were 16 of normal. As of today, 44 of normal. One, we have come a long way. Two, we still have a long way to go. But so much better than we were. Here is the reason were seeing rai
To fill in now and the fast track lanes as well. This is the bay bridge toll plaza where conditions are pretty slick. Making visibility a problem this morning coming into San Francisco. Solar the delays have so already the delays have begun. And if youre traveling westbound 24 right now things look great out of it. This is a live look near oakland near telegraph. Everything moves well. Out into the macarthur maze. B. A. R. T. System wide reporting no delays. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Another check of our drizzly forecast. Heres lawrence. Yeah very wet outside right now. Even though the main front has moved on through the heavier rainfall is done, still seeing a lot of scattered sprinkles and drizzle outside this morning and roadways are very slick. It looks like the clouds going to break up into the afternoon hour just a little bit. High pressure beginning to sneak in here. That should help to drive things out. The hidef Doppler Radar this morning is showing you not much on the s
There s a lot of empty room at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and somewhere in all that open land is a weather balloon that crashed just a couple of weeks ago.\n\n