Countys District Attorney says the number of Domestic Violence cases has increased 142 over the past five years. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im julie julie haener. Advocates worry budget cuts could create more limitations on the county and ultimately make it more difficult for Domestic Violence survivors. Ktvu Lamonica Peters reports. Since 2019, the number of Domestic Violence cases in Santa Clara County increased from 76 cases to 184 cases per prosecutor. At the same time, the county is facing a 250 million deficit and the District Attorneys office may face 6 million in budget cuts and some of the staff positions needed to prosecute the cases may be eliminated. Rosaria henderson is the executive director of next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence. So our shelter is full. It is constantly full. Our Sister Agency shelters are full and because of that, our hotel bill has gone up three fold. The Santa Clara County das Office Released a statement saying in part, the rise in
Totally been cleared but certainly making headway so we will have more coming up, and we are looking quiet over here as well. Weather is very tranquil, mild at on set, little breezy too but day all and all is looking very quiet and we are currently at 43 degrees outside whitefield Elementary School. Wind flow out of the west but i will note that is stiff breeze as we go to the north and west and it is also more of a north westerly wind flow for most of us. Looking at storm scan three all quiet say for cloudy build ing from a system to the south but that will stay to the south so we will see sunshine through the day and at the moment temperatures are off to a mild start. Thirtytwo ill give thaw not mild but for standard of the 20th of december it is not too harsh, upper 40s, and low 50 s in dover. Dont expect that will last necessarily. We will drop off a few more degrees here and then we will just level off upper 40s expect in the city to more seasonal afternoon, technically 47 ace abo
Richmond, Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Back to you. All right, annie, thank you. Now to a developing story. And a personal tragedy for bill cosby one of his three daughters ensa has died. The 44yearold woman died from renal disease on friday. No other details were given n a statement cosbys attorney asked for prayers for the family ton give them peace at this time. Bill cosby lost his son ennis to gun violence in 1997. Ensa just seen in the photo with her other sisters erica and even was a staunch supporter of her father during his recent legal battles. There she is. A Pretrial Hearing is scheduled for next monday in norristown for cosbys upcoming retrial. Cosby is not required to be there, though. A ninth grader at Fels High School is facing gun charges tonight after officials allegedly found a loaded. 40 caliber gun in his backpack this morning. It was discovered while the 15yearold was walking through the metal detectors. The school was immediately locked down while police
Were expecting bright sunshine over the horizon today and well stick with that all day long. We are cold to start out though. We flip to 32 degrees in trenton, 27 degrees allentown, 28 reading, 36 in philadelphia, 35 in wilmington and just 34 degrees in millville. Not much wind out there, so we wont bother you with wind chills and temperatures improve quickly today. By 8 oclock, were at 38. But how about a jump all the way to 47 by 10 00. 52 by 12 00 and im expecting a high of 57 right around 3 oclock today. Sunshine all the way. Even for the evening commute. Still fairly mild. 50 degrees. Even milder tomorrow with a few more clouds, karen. Then weve got that late week rain. Ill have the latest from accuweather. All right dave. We have breaking news. Looking live at a new accident that just popped up. Look at the number of emergency workers with this accident scene. Were hearing its involving a tractortrailer and another vehicle and someone may be trapped in the wreckage of this accide
Backed up. Reporter jenkins says the karr was running with brake lights on inside. The bodies of twin 26yearold brothers marquise and Maurice Harper. The brothers seen here in a photo given to us by neighbors. Police say they were shot to death hours before they were found. I got the call 8 00 oclock this morning. Okay. And shot straight down here. Andre, says the harper twins are his nephews. They were good men who helped others. Friends say the brothers grew up on the block and stayed close gathering together neighborhood kids for basketball games as a way to stay out of trouble. I told them stay out the streets. Especially at that time of morning any way. They my nephews. They live the street life. Whatever the case because they was good people. Take their shirt off their back and give it to anybody. They didnt deserve to dike not like that. Reporter police have no motive and no arrests. Now Court Records indicate both twins have a history of arrests including at least one Court App