Exploded. Veronica says the box about a foot long. Victims here dont know why family was targeted but labeled as if from local jewelry store. Most suspicious is jewelry sore box. Often in us are ordered Something Like this and would pique someones interest. Would want to open it. Reporter addressed father or brother, the men share a name. U. S. Postal inspector has evidence from two cases. There at Crime Laboratory outside of washington, d. C. , and evidence will be transported also to the laboratory. Package exploded last friday, woman suffered nonlife threatening injuries. Home owned by Alameda Police officer. City of alameda employee. Not releasing names, occupation or address. Reporter investigators wont say if theyre connected. Too early to speculate. Asking people to call for help if you receive a suspicious package. Abc7 news. Outrage in the east bay where students and teachers urged School Officials to scrap proposed budget cuts. We say fight back. Abc7 news in oakland for meet
On where to start, faced with a sudden budget crisis. The Oakland School board is forced to make millions of dollars in cuts in the middle of the school year. Thanks for joining us. Im kristen sze in for alma dates. Im dan ashley. A special Board Meeting is starting right now. The Education Center in oakland, the story. A lot of people there, lauren. They certainly are. You can probably hear them behind me. These folks just all filed in here. They are chanting, we will not stop, chop from the top. Now they changed that chant. Well let you listen to them just a second. No cuts to schools. No cuts to schools. Reporter now, this is going to be a special meeting of the Oakland Unified School district board. They are going to discuss potential cuts, 15 million this Current School year. You can see these are parents and teachers. They are quite upset about these proposed cuts. They could impact students in the classrooms as well as many as 300 nonteacher positions could be cut. You can see t
This happened in the st. Marys area around 10 am. More on why some neighbors are upset with pg e. Reporter it happened just before 10 am. Pg e were not able to turn out the gas before 10 am. Neighbors said neighbors said that they heard the blast and it blew out the garage door of one home and shattered the windows on a house nextdoor. Likely, Authorities Say that no one was her. They went doortodoor evacuating homes. Pg e doug holes into the street to find the source of the ghastly. They did find the source and they shut off the gas. One neighbor said that she heard a pop and felt a thought. I was getting ready to go to work. I was standing by my door and i heard a noise. Reporter the chief says that it looks like a garage filled up with gas then caught the pilot light, and then it caused the explosion. The mission ymca has opened up as a temporary Evacuation Center for those who have been displaced. They are the lone survivors of a crash that killed four people. The sacramental man w
There when really there were 11 . Court staff was sufficiently staffed during the incident. There was definitely more delays than there was 10 years ago. Reporter public defender gary goodman who has worked inside the palo alto courthouse for years says there are signs of deputy staffing issues, delays on a weekly basis to get inmates up to the courtroom. Then you can hear over the radio that it appears theyre scrambling to get enough security to bring the defendant up to the courthouse. So theres a cascading effect to that. Reporter johnson admits it does take longer to get inmates to the courtroom in palo alto because there is not an elevator but insists the courthouse is sufficiently staffed. The sheriff did not go on camera today but did say this after the escape. I believe that the court is very, very happy with the level of service that we provide. Reporter now i also want to note the public defender we spoke to is the attorney for one of the escapees. I want to make it clear. He
Another package explosion, another injury. Investigators are now piecing together two homes targeted by explosive deliveries on separate sides of the bay. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze in for ama daetz. U. S. Postal service says both delivered through the mail. One at Police Officers home in alameda. And we learned about another home in east palo alto. Alto. A. Kat katie utehs with details. Fidgeted with it and held at distance, then it exploded. Father suffered burn injuries to hand what suspicious package exploded. Veronica says the box about a foot long. Victims here dont know why family was targeted but labeled as if from local jewelry store. Most suspicious is jewelry sore box. Often in us are ordered Something Like this and and andd pique someones interest. Would want to open it. Reporter addressed father or brother, the men share a name. U. S. Postal inspector has evidence from two cases. There at Crime Laboratory outside of washington, d. C. , and evidence will be transported a