His client feared for his life and defended himself. The law doesnt require officers even in todays age to have their brains bashed out with a lethal instrument. Which a baseball bat is. Drop the bat, man. Reporter officers tased taylor but it didnt work. Officer fletcher then fired a shot that proved to be deadly. Omalley has charged fletcher with voluntary manslaughter. Fletcher seen here in this archive individual from 2013 had been with the department for more than 15 years. Family members say taylor may have been having a mental episode but believe he could have been talked down. Friends of the family say that while they would have liked murder charges, at least this is something. At the end of the day a lot of times we have to settle. Reporter at the time of the shooting, taylor was homeless. I did reach out to his mother and grandmother who deferred all comments to their lawyer. A lawyer who says they are encouraged by the d. A. s decision. In alameda county, j. R. Stone, abc 7
It is at least seconddegree murder. Developing tonight, a stylist at the center of the uproar involving nancy pelosi is giving his side of the story. Who he accuses of lying. Some bay area schools are getting the green light to allow students back in the classroom. The rules they will have to follow. The wireless carriers are expanding 5g networks, but how safe is the technology . Good evening, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area. New developments in the past couple of hours on Nancy Pelosis controversial trip to a San Francisco hair salon. Tonight the house speakers hairstylist is backing her claimant says the salon owner said the whole thing up. Through his lawyer he says that the salon owner approved the appointment. During a conversation over the phone dinardo says that he made several comments criticizing the house speaker. Surveillance video surfaced of pelosi getting her hair washed and blowdried indoors at a time when salons were not allowed to reopen. The salon was saying
Bay right here not all that foggy although theres certainly cloud cover overhead. Half moon bay visibility in spots is falling below a mile as novato in santa rosa. But most cloud cover is sitting right above us this morning, see your work commute for most areas is holding up just fine a couple of pockets of poor air yet again dust the spare the air alert that robin was addressing you can see portions of marine county through the car came as all the way on to the Central Valley and then also portions of the Santa Cruz Mountains still affected by some poor air. Moderate air quality for really most of the rest of the bay area this morning. Temperatures right now were in the 50s and 60s with san matteo at 59 alameda right there with you. Well oakland to concord and areas a little further south like hayward on the low 60s to kick off this morning later today, were keeping the same temperatures as we had yesterday around no 90s in this forecast just 6070s 80s today and tomorrow after that t
San jose, 60 to 61. Overcast, breezy to windy for some. Hazy for some, smoke dances around, depending on wind direction and speed. Low clouds, but for our concerns , morning overcast, sunny, hazy, still below average, but they are getting ready to go above. It will be 60s, 70s, and 80s. Over to sal now, and he will tell us hopefully things are quiet in the morning hour. Good morning. Good morning, sir. Lets go right to the bay bridge, if people want to know what it looks like. It does not look too slow. Right now it looks nice and clear for you at the bay bridge toll plaza, and we dont have anything going on yet. Nice and quiet for this thursday morning. It is looking good on the east bay commute, so hopefully things will stay nice and quiet for a while at least. 4 01 point lets go back to the headlines point all right, sal, we have an update on the czu fire. 925 homes have been destroyed. A cal fire firefighter is among those who lost every thing. Hes rental home in Boulder Creek burn
Public health is critical to building a better bay area and the latest numbers on Coronavirus Infections in california are encouraging. There are nearly 145 new reports of people dying, which unfortunately is above average. But the number of new cases is down, below average. The number of coronavirus patients in the hospital continues to drop, it has been decreasing steadily for weeks now. The testing Positivity Rate is down to 5. 1 over a 14 day average and it hasnt been that low in quite a while. Developing news, in san leandro, a Police Officer there has been charged with felony manslaughter in the deadly shooting of a black man inside a walmart. Family and friends of the victims say this is the first , the officers attorney is criticizing the d. A. s decision. Drop the bat. Drop the bat. Reporter this is video from back in april showing the moments before officer Jason Fletcher shot and killed Steven Taylor inside a san leandro walmart. The District Attorney Nancy Omalley says that