Employees will be on the picket line. Librarians, parking enforcement, nearly every public worker in oakland. 911 dispatchers not allowed to strike. 1021 continues to complain how city departments are understaffed and rely on temporary workers. We rely on a city running on half the force being parttime. Unsustainable way to run a government. Reporter and concerned about health and safety issues they claim the city is unwilling to address. One of the employees. A bunch of needles, feces, plus its just i dont know. Kind of like a mental kind of thing. Youre taking peoples belongings. Reporter union had hoped to bring in former San Francisco mayor willie brown to help as mediator. Idea was rejected. In oakland, abc7 news. Strong winds are being blamed for Power Outages around the bay area. Powerful gusts believed to be responsible for tossing this eucalyptus tree on power lines around 11 00 this morning. Knocked out power to a handful of residents. Winds are blowing pretty strong in that
Picd for that as well. But saturday afternoon and evening, strengthens to a cat 1 hurricane. It then moves into the gulf states where there are Tropical Storm warnings and watches in effect as well as some hurricane watches and warnings in effect. It weakens to a tropical system and then takes aim for our area. The timing here on your monday, as early as the morning hours. So, nates impacts here, much needed rain on monday, we could see an inch or less. We could see some wind. It could be a weather alert day. Ill have more on the timing for the rain, also rain potentially on sunday as well, pat. All right, amelia. Now to a disturbing developing story in gaithersburg. A woman waiting for the bus on watkins mill road at travis lane is pulled into the woods and sexually assaulted. People who live nearby say they are scared. News 4s chris gordon has been following the story since it happened this morning. He joins us live now. Chris, what have you learned about this so afraid. We a whats h
Season, temperatures down in rural spots, 4 to minus six. But it is all change tomorrow. In some areas, temperatures could be 10 degrees up on that. One of the reasons for that isa on that. One of the reasons for that is a change of wind direction and a weather front pushing in from the north west. It is bringing cloud and rain as we speak, but further east, we cling onto the sunshine. I suspect the rest of the afternoon, if we draw a line up towards the isle of wight, east of that we will keep crisp and clear blue skies, and sunshine. Chilly with it. Cloud with light rain along west facing coastline, with strong wind and heavy rain arriving into the northwest. That brings milder air, but underneath those guys, temperatures will struggle, down on where they should be for the time of year. Where they should be for the time of yea r. Frost where they should be for the time of year. Frost is likely if we keep clear skies in the south east, but elsewhere, thick cloud, a breeze through the
Stripping crews of their cell phones to stop them from pausing to take pictures. They want to accommodate a mostly young workforces desire to share what they are seeing and their safety. The bay area is getting a blast of summer heat this weekend. Many people will head to local beaches for a little relief. Lifeguards warn there are dangers in the ocean waters off the northern and Central California coastlines. More rip currents, sneaker waves are expected again today. Lifeguards in santa cruz rescued dozens of people over the labor day weekend. The since its dangerous roberta will get a bucket of water and throw it on frank yeah. Except were in a drought. We cant do that [ laughter ] i actually wrote a blog yesterday and i was talking about it, if your lawn is not gone as of yet it will be by friday. No kidding. We have been fortunate, the summer is season with the drought we have only had a couple of days over 100 and then we cool off and then a couple of degrees over 100 for a couple