Reducing the Oakland Police departments budget by 50 . A first of its kind for stress in the workplace for e. R. Doctors. What it says about bay area physicians and beyond. Confrontation over mask wearing at a walmart that has gone viral. Ill show you the changes that well follow in time for the weekend. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Document a marathon evening of Decision Making in oakland including plans to slash the Police Departments budget in half. It comes on the sail day the mayors home was vandalized. What role enforcement plays in our community is our focus on building a better bay area. Live from the newsroom, Tonights City Council meeting is still going on right now in. Thats right, ama and dan. It started at 1 30 this afternoon and its still going on right now. Now some of the big headlines, move the handling of special events to the administrators office. And creating a task force that they said would reimagine public safety. Councilmember taylor said there would be
Oon, b the breezes will win out keeping us below average, 61 at the coast, 76 around the bay, 82 inland. And enjoy a comfortable evening mainly in the 50s and 60s. A look at the weekend coming up. The battle over whether california schools should physically reopen could be headed to court. Education just one of the things were focused here on abc 7. The governor decided that schools have to remain closed if the county has been on the states watch list for two consecutive weeks or more. Amy hollyfield is live with this new lawsuit who says it shouldnt be up to the state. Amy. Reporter yeah, they want to see it go through the courts. The lawsuit says that the governor is playing politics with this decision and that children belong in school. According to this lawsuit, the plaintiffs believe that this order to stay at home will disproportionately hurt children of low income families, students of color and students wheith disabilities but says that all children will suffer from Distance Le
Mid50s to low 60s. So at least that is constant temperature more sunshine this afternoon than yesterday afternoon, the mid and high level clouds will be around. 60 at the coast where the low clouds will be stubborn. 76 to 82 at 4 00 and then near 70 at 7 00. The battle over whether california schools should open for inperson learning could be headed to court. Education is just once of the things were focusing on as we try to build a better bay area. The government decided schools must remain closed if the county has been on the states watch list for two weeks or more. Amy hollyfield is live with this new lawsuit. Reporter it is a group of parents that have filed suit, they call themselves the center for american liberty. They think kids should be filling these hallways, they should not be Home Learning on the computer doing Distance Learning. They will be taking this issue to court. Governor newsom has said that it is not safe to have kids and teachers return to the classroom in counti
John john jeffries. I was born in salt lake city, utah on august 7, 1929. Was raised by a mother who was single mother. Had five children. We had the bare essentials, barely. I got a chance to work on my mothers Brothers Farms and sisters farms as i was growing up. I had a great childhood. But was educated in salt lake. Went to the elementary, high school, and the university of utah. Graduated as a teacher. That was my desire, to be a coach and a teacher. My mother sent me to the bakery for bread but did not provide me with any money. I would try to get the men working in the bakery to give me a loaf of bread. I did that quite often and i tried to get a little work there. My father was an alcoholic and was not available. She was raising five of us on her own. Because she could not afford the liquor, she divorced so she could take care of us kids. The depression was as a young person i thought everybody was in the same boat. I did not realize they were people having three meals a day ex
Due to excessive coronavirus hospitalizations and intensive care admissions. We have to minimize our mixing, we have to minimize the transmission of this disease. We have to minimize that by practicing physical distancing, wearing the face coverings, and doing the kinds of things that i think are well described and obviously now need to be more vigilantly followed. Reporter california is now averaging 124,000 tests a day with positive cases over the last two weeks flattening at 7. 4 . But still more than the 5 benchmark. Hospitalizations continue to increase by 16 , but far better than the previous twoweek averages of 28 and 50 . Icu administrations increased by 12 , but better than the previous two weeks averages of 20 and 39 . But we want to see a decline, not a reduction in the rate of growth. Reporter deaths averaged 91 a day, a slight improvement over 102 a day the previous week. Thats why we want everybody to double down on everything we have been doing, so that we can get back t