2020 last week. Police chief Shawny Williams says that 16 of those deaths were African Americans kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from the late show with more on how the city plans to stop the shootings. Dan obviously easier said than done. Thats right vicki in grand the police chief and other city leaders are looking into making Community Connections out here theyre calling it operation peace because the chief believes that they cannot enforce their way out of this problem meanwhile, the Vallejo Police Officers Association has made it clear that by hiring more Police Officers they will be able to curb crime in the city. In an effort to hold Violent Crime in valais how the Police Department launches a new initiative operation peace aims to stop a significant spike in shootings unfortunately when we look at gun violence in our city the last. This last august we had up to 209 shootings in our city. Weve had 21 murders. Thats a 300 increase from last year police chief Shawny William
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Francisco skyline encased in gray and the freeway almost invisible through the haze. This is sfo. You can see the smoke blanketing the state in this satellite image. Children and people with respiratory issues are told to avoid all physical activities outdoors and doctors say inhaling wildfire throat can cause smoke and throat irritation, coughing and more. Longterm exposure increases your risk of cardiac disease, stroke, and also it actually reduces your life except aens, so you have increased mortality. The bad air forced San Franciscos nine9 11 ceremony t move indoors. This is the 25th save the air alert in a row. These comparisons show the transformation from the pumpkin orange that was so eerie to the smokey gray skies we got today. Because the smoke was trapped above the fog and now is reaching ground level some residents can say they feel the change. It is bothering my eyes and making it harder to breathe. I find myself wearing my mask inside and out. The picture on the left is
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Cal fire says thousands more homes are in the path of that fire. That fire broke out just about 4 days ago and residents in the clear lake area searching for answers at a Community Meeting set up by emergency officials responding to this blaze. Noel walker joins us. Reporter were near highway 53. What im looking back at this did not look like that a couple of hours ago. We had to go quite a bit up further highway 27 to see the smoke and flames. They are visible from our position. 20 minutes ago someone from caltrans told me they are getting ready to close highway 53 because the fire is so close. They have been doing water drops in this area nonstop trying to get a handle on this fire. The rocky fire has done nothing since it started wednesday afternoon but grow, not just a little, overnight the flames chewed through more than 20,000 acres doubling its size to more than 47,000 acres in just a five hour period. Unprecedented in cal fires experience. The fire has extreme amount of energy