For some time. Now there are questions about staffing and what role that plays for officers on the street kron fours dan kerman is live at Police Headquarters tonight with our top story. Dan. Well the police union is coming forward saying despite the fact that the Police Department has a 122 funding positions they have never fill those positions all at once not placed in the last 10 years and they say that is requiring officers to work overtime and that is putting citizens lives at risk. And understaffed police force is a threat to those that live in vallejo. So says the Vallejo Police union which says citizens are endangered by the citys failure to hire police specifically they say there are not enough cops to cover all beats on a regular basis. The says for 10 years the city has had open positions and because the forces consistently shorthanded there are generally no more than 6 officers on the street at any given time in a city of over 120,000. The says that puts filet o well below
Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now 90 us passes another major milestone in the coronavirus pandemic more than 6 million cases have been reported in this country. But the number of cases appears to be slowing down here in the bay area experts warn were still not out of the woods, thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 9, im ken wayne and i pale more in just 2 weeks, the average number of covid19 cases in california has dropped by some 20 . Heres a look at the latest covid19 numbers across the state and the bay area experts call the news promising. But they still warn people not to let their guard down. Well for Jonathan Mccall is live in our newsroom tonight, he has the latest details jonathan ken pam, heres something to think about just over just under 4200 new cases reported in california in the last 24 hours. Its a significant drop from where we were just 2 weeks ago in the last 7 days every bay area county has seen at least a 20 drop in the number of covid19 cases. Its also a trend th
In santa rosa, some pockets around these areas actually seeing visibility below a mile look what happens especially after 10 00am fog starts to really burn off and then we have sunshine hazy sunshine will be up for the rest of the day. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with san mateo and alameda each at 58 degrees right now conquered in pittsburgh at 5759. I mean San Francisco youre the 57 currently later today, daytime highs in the 90s for just a few spots 70s for bayside cities and 80s for areas like conquered livermore and san jose. Thats your forecast time for traffic with robin. Thank you john what a difference just one 15 or 20 minutes makes of the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. Its pretty heavy now we went from slowing that spilled out to west grand to now a backup. Thats all the way through the bottom of the maze in fact its spilling over to the 5. 80 west connector. That brings you over to 80 west and up to the bay bridge toll plaza so it is packed not only here.
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