Steps taken to make sure theres never another tragedy like it. Reporter its been almost one year since 36 people were killed in oaklands deadliest fire. Over the course of 11 months, city Officials Say they have collaborated to form longterm sustainable solutions. Oakland is safer today than it was a year ago. Reporter december 2nd, 2016, its a date that none of these city officials will ever forget. Since that fatal night, oakland leaders have focused on six key areas. Bring buildings into compliance. Increase inspection capacity and enhanced protocols, improve interdepartmental communications, strengthen tenant protections, streamline special event permitting and identifying housing resources. They are working to get information on an online database when some records were kept on paper. How do fire inspectors collect data, firefighters when theyre doing inspections, and how does that relate to the inspections that are done by the Building Department . The use of mobile devices and t
Sergio quintana joins us live from the courthouse with more. There is a Standing Court order that is posted on the front door of the courthouse that says there is no pictures or video allowed inside the courthouse. The woman who shot that video said shes a journalist helping two men research their court cases. She saw something happen and jumped into action. Please stop recording. Reporter in the video you can hear the sheriffs deputy to tell her to stop recording. He tells her four times. Then it looks like he grabbed her phone. She said she started recording because deputies surrounded one of the men she was with and told him to stop taking pictures of documents. I was in the file room doing research and i saw an incident happened that i believe was police misconduct. I believed it was newsworthy and i turned on my recorder. Reporter a Sheriffs Department spokesperson declined to speak on camera but said the deputies were enforcing a rule about videotaping courthouse. She said it was
No updates on the car fire, but by now, they got that out in the Center Divide area. A lane blocked through westbound 580. You see Altamont Pass road. Closer to the dublin interchange, no problems. We have slowing because of that, up to north flynn. Past that, things speed up again. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Breaking in concord, a bizarre investigation is under way after a person is found dead inside a best western room. Today in the bays, pete suratos joining us live off the hotels on clayton road with what investigators are revealing about the suspicious death. Good morning, pete. Reporter good morning to you. I had a chance to speak to police on the ground. They are keeping tight lipped as far as the investigation goes. They say it is ongoing. They plan to release information Via Press Release later this morning. At the best western, one patrol unit is here. It is a more active scene behind me. We have video that came in this morning. You can see quite a number of patrol cars here
Spirit here to the Asian Pacific american studio. Well, having a daughter, olivia, who was in a ballet school, i saw my share of nutcracker performances, community and professional productions. And even those not familiar with ballet, there is a feeling of holiday spirit that the audiences all share. And when you see it at its highest level, its inspiring. The traditional San Francisco ballet production provides one of those experiences. It starts its holiday run at the War Memorial Opera House december 13. We are proud and happy to have a soloist from the show with us today. Wang wei was born in anshan, china, and trained at the beijing Dance Academy before attending the San Francisco ballet school, joining San Francisco ballet in 2013, then elevated to soloist in 2016. Welcome to the show, and congratulations, i should say, thats a very fast ascension there. Now, give us an idea here in terms of, first of all, for people who arent familiar with it, the San Francisco ballet, the holid
Championships coming to san jose. Also, well talk about the development of local talented skaters with San Francisco ice theatre, as well as see a live performance. But first, we will start with the great ice rink which is hosting our show today. And to tell us more about whats going around this Holiday Season, heres the general manager of the holiday ice rink, robert keith. Robert, thank you very much for being here. Robert keith thank you, robert, for being here. Isnt this great . Robert oh, its fantastic. Robert keith our 10year anniversary birthday party. I mean, it just doesnt get any better than to be right here in the heart of San Francisco amongst all of this shopping, dining, the hotels. The environment here is just splendid for such an event, and this is our tenth year, and were so happy to be here. Robert hey, howd you celebrate your birthday . Robert keith well, last week, we had our big birthday celebration, and skating was free for everybody all day. We were sold out, nat