Hand side center of your screen. Police have blocked off streets in the area at oak and 12th. If they cant find the owner of the backpack or if its determined to be a threat it may have to be detonated as a precaution. We have now learned that the mayors body will lie in state in the rotunda at San Francisco city hall on friday. And then a public celebration of life will be held at city hall on sunday. The acting mayor, london breed, is stepping in to assume the duties of the office. Christien kafton has more from city hall on how San Francisco is beginning the process of getting back to its feet. Reporter the memorial continues to grow. Some of them dropping off photographs or candles. And meanwhile, two stories up. The business of the city of San Francisco continues. The board of supervisors met yesterday and approved one of mayor ed lees final requests to declare a citywide emergency on homelessness and fast track shelters for homelessness. She acknowledged the shoes she must fill.
But six, seven hours from now, it will start to warm up and we have lots of sunshine. It is dry. 60s on the temps. The off shore breeze is not as pronounced as it has been. It is there but not as pronounced. It is called a rex block pattern named after a guy who named it back in 1950. They are tough to break down. Maybe middle of next week. There is the circulation to the low to the south and the High Pressure to the north. Everything goes up and over. We cant get anything in this kind of a pattern. Berkeley lab, showing a east or northeast breeze at 20 to 25. At the surface, it is not that strong. And it is allows 20s and 30s for many. This is one of the coldest mornings we have had yet. Other than that, sunshine and warm temps. Something has to break eventually but it wont be this week. 60s on your highs today. These are all above average for this time of year. 7 01. And sal tells us that things are what. Things are just a little better than normal. Okay. Good. Although we have slow
Courthouse and you learned there was a previous incident this morning. It made for a very unnerving morning. I was inside for the ghost ship preliminary hearing when we heard the promotion the commotion that the bomb squad was called to the building for the second time today. The streets were blocked off by Oakland Police after a man left a backpack outside the building at about 10 30 this morning. That man then went inside the courthouse and was confronted by sheriffs deputies who asked why he left the backpack there. Authorities say he got into a struggle with deputies and attacked them. He was detained and will be placed on a psychiatric hold. As for his backpack the Sheriffs Office did not want to take any chances. Skybox was overhead at the bomb squad suited up to examine the backpack. It turned out to be explosive and the all clear was given at about 12 back 30. The man does not appeared 12 30. The man does not appear to be connected to two firebombing incidents at the courthouse
Russians created bogus internet postings, posed online as americans. They used Fraudulent Bank accounts and false identification documents. The departments posed as politically and socially active americans, advocating for and against particular candidates. They established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. Reporter todays charges were brought by the office of special counsel robert mueller. And the indictment points out theres no allegation that the russian meddling altered the outcome of the president ial election. Theres new information about the suspected gunman in the Deadly Florida high School Shooting. The fbi is acknowledging it had received a specific report last month that nikolas cruz could be plotting an attack, and agents failed to investigate the tip. A person close to cruz called the tip line and was concerned that he could attack a school. The caller provided information about his guns and his erratic behavior and his social media po
It is slow getting to the airport. If youre driving on northbound 101, the bayshore freeway, you will see that traffic is backing up northbound approaching the San Francisco international airport. Use 280 instead. Theyre clearing an overturned vehicle accident with minor injuries. It is slow where the traffic was. Silicon valley, northbound 101, slow traffic approaching sunnyvale into san jose. Cupertino is beginning to slow down. Also southbound 680 in walnut creek, brandnew crash southbound. Traffic will start slowing down from highway 24. At the bay bridge, it is about a 15minute wait before you make it on to the bring from oakland to San Francisco. President trump just tweeted confirming that he is leaving for florida to meet with victims of the high School Shooting. Authorities have told us the names of the 17 victims that were killed and gave us more information about the 19year old charged in the shooting. Nikolas cruz has reportedly confessed to the shooting. The sheriff says h