Explaining a troubling trend as covid19 cases spiked to new levels how california is trying to maintain a balancing act of reopening the economy safely. Plus protesters pounding the pavement calling for change an antioch after controversial comments from the president. The police union there. Good evening, everybody im pam moore and im ken wayne thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 oclock the oakland board of educators will vote tonight on whether or not the citys School District will eliminate its Police Department, a Virtual Meeting is being held right now kron fours gayle ong joins us live with whats been discussed so far gayle. Ken and pam i just listened and right before the show and it looks like theres some of both going on about amendments to the resolution were about to hear about and this package, but earlier in the meeting a lot of parents and teachers called in for Public Comment calling for the process to be sped up. This is a historic moment, letting go of the issue
Us year go ahead with your story. Can board of voted to dismantle its Police Department tonight, a long way for the group who initiated this resolution. Wednesday night a celebration moments after the Oakland Unified School District Voted to eliminate its Police Department this has been a i or humanity. A fight to value black and brown students just a black is when black organizing project the organization has been calling to remove police from oakland schools for the last decade, this is very historic for members and for the people of oat bran. And we are really hoping that we can set a or what. Remove Police Free Schools looks like throughout the country wednesday night board of educators approved the george floyd resolution calling to eliminate the districts Police Department in the wake of George Floyds death districts are looking to join the Police Free Schools Movement District proposed a resolution earlier this month. The resolution calls for redirecting money spent on police in
Easily into the 90s again today but again that will change come this weekend, not only the extended, but well take a look at your 4 zone forecast coming up in a bit robin, how this bay area bridges looking good moving well, no hot spots, no trouble spots around the bay area will check traffic coming up a little bit later. Well to the east bay, the Oakland City Council estate funding its Police Department a portion of the million annual budget will be redirected and invested in alternative Public Safety resources and programs. The revised budget was the work of the City Councils equity caucus led by finance committee chair. Look at Lynette Gibson mcelhaney now shes giving police more time to respond to Violent Crime and thats the aim of the new budget. What we want to do is to get some better policing on the serious and significant fines murder, trafficking kidnapping. Rate. And relieve the department of any of the things that are better suited for social workers that are better suited
61 for the late show with 50s in the north bay 58 san jose. So as we go forward with this we see little bit of an onshore wind left over were going to see that repeat tonight or afternoon complement, suddenly heating and a low up towards our north about the fog progress as you can see its about 8 oclock it really starts moving once we get the sun up to help out here. However it does return tonight probably in earnest as we approach the Witching Hour and then after midnight into tomorrow morning as you can see. We still have with us that a heat advisory Solano County in this but temperatures are quite lofty in many parts of Contra Costa County in the east bay and even up in other pockets in the north bay, the plan on more 90s kosta numbers in some cases maybe lower 70s, but heat exhaustion, and heat stroke possible, 72 by 10 00am by 1 oclock were say about 87 robin. All right, thank you for the update dave. Well our top story that were following for you this morning, the Oakland Unified
Bay by comparison. We still have heat advisory in place tells a formality of Solano County but were going to see some of those effects in Contra Costa County and probably napa counties as well into this afternoon expecting more round of temperatures in the 90s today, well try about 87 by 1 oclock by 4 to 89 but reaching 90s for highs well look at some of those locations for you coming up in a bit marty. All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get right to our top story this morning, the Oakland Unified School district has voted to eliminate its Police Department at the schools. The vote happened last night kron fours reyna harvey live in oakland. She has all the details on this rain. Marty good morning that decision by the board unanimous the board citing that there are other ways to go about implementing disciplined for their students on their various campuses were going to show you the moment that the decision actually came down. You can see Community Members reacting to the boards decisio