Help prehavenvent times. Hes pushing a November Ballot measure to improve pay and benefits for officers. The police union agrees. Insisting the Staffing Shortage is contributing to officer fatigue. When you dial 9911 in san jose, likely youre going to get an officer whos here on his day off, or completed their tenhour shift and being held over for three, four, five, six hours. Reporter police cant explain why theres an increase in homicides this year. The Department Admits theyre doing what they can with the limited tools they have. The department wants to emphasize, again, most of the homicides this year are Domestic Violence case. They say you can have 2,000 officers on the streets and really cant prevent a lot of the Domestic Violence homicides. That said, the next Academy Graduates in august with eight cadets cadets, in december, another Academy Graduates with 18. Live in san jose, damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. Want to show you numbers now. Wile whooeve seen increase in homic
Businesses. Reporter the man who runs the neighboring Hardware Store agrees. A couple of weekends this summer were absolute gridlock in town. Nothing moved. If thats the down side how much worse could this be . Reporter town leaders say their studies show 2,000 vehicles use the short cut on a normal saturday and as many as 7,000 on a holiday saturday. They say the closure will provide data for future changes. Traffic counting and seeing where they are heading from and going to. The data are showing if your destination is the beach, the fastest way to get there is highway 17. Thats what the freeway was built to accommodate. One homeowner says he hopes the holiday closure leads to permanent changes. Right now im a captive in my house on saturdays. If i leave anytime after 10 00 in the morning. So it could take me an hour to get back here. Reporter now the town tried an unannounced closure last weekend and people said it was a disaster on the first day. A lot of anger. They are hoping the
Explain how. Kevin . Kevin they tell the intersection is prone to crashes. The problems is the cars turning in and out oaf the neighborhood are sideswiped by the cross traffic. While the crash is still under investigation, it appears that is exactly what happened here last night. According to eyewitnesses i talked to today a mother and her 9yearold daughter were turning left on to the less busy Canberra Drive when a second car hit them. Paramedics took both drivers to the hospital. The young girl was pronounced dead. She is identified as dashelle brown. Two hours ago, her mother visited the crash site sobbing and said her daughter was a sweet girl who loved dancing and singing and playing the violin. That is my only child. I love my only little baby. I wouldnt wish that on no one. Miss my baby. I just miss her. I wish i could have her back. She is completely silent. No movement. They got her out, no movement. Heart breaking. This afternoon, spilled oil and broken glass and scatter aid
Be able to see behind me at the end of the block was erected by firefighters earlier today for the crowd of mourners here thick with Police Officers and military personnel honoring the 16year nypd veteran who logged three overseas military tours. Tonight he is mourned. The bell at st. Anthony of padua began chiming with the arrival of the heros remains. He was respected. Reporter Tech Sergeant joseph lemm blessed at the church entrance. Onlookers wait to say thank you for his sacrifice. It was something to be grateful for that we can feel safe while theres. You felt you had to come. Absolutely. Reporter he was killed last week in afghanistan. A new york city on leave to guard killed by a suicide bomber outside bagram airbase. Mourners fellow cops and airmen. Were all family. It could have been anyone. Policemen from everywhere. They are showing their respects. This touches i nerve. Reporter its painful the way the family reels under the loss especially the 4yearold child who we met yes
And im Monica Jackson welcome to fox5 news this morning. First Cassandra Jones joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Good morning im Cassandra Jones with fox5. We will start close to freezing with 33 degrees to start tuesday with hard freeze warnings for southern nye western clark counties for temps dropping into the teens. North breezes 1015 mph are expected today with a high of only 46 degrees mostly clear skies. Well be even cooler on wednesday morning with a low of 31 degrees, then a mostly clear high of 49. We will then warm up to the midupper 50s thursday through saturday with 62 expected sunday 61 degrees monday. Average high is 60, 61 by the weekend. Here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps here are your photos for the day back to the news desk. The iowa caucus has come to an end for republican president ial hopefuls. Ted