Crime and their message to improve Public Safety includes a state of Emergency Declaration and today target blamed retail theft for a decision to close three bay area stores, including one in oakland. Ktvu is Christina Doan live now in oakland with more on all of this. Christina well, julie, more than 200 businesses took part in this one day strike. Merchants saying that they really feel that city officials arent doing anything to address the crime as these criminals repeatedly target their businesses. Dozens of Business Owners gathered tuesday to strike against crime in oakland and the citys response to Public Safety. Their stories all similar from car breakins to robberies and assaults for about 4 or 5 years. We call them. Nobody showed up for 15 minutes for 911 calls and if we could do the regular calls, its good luck to you. They say just make a police report. I had a group from a group from miami get robbed at gunpoint on a saturday afternoon. All their jewelry taken. Me being bor
His two day trip. Theres a real aura in the air. The president s in town. Were super excited. President biden now in San Francisco after attending a private fundraiser at a home in atherton. Good evening. Im julie julie haener. And im mike mibach. The president also preparing to meet with science and Technology Advisors in the city. Ktvu is Jana Katsuyama joining us live tonight from San Francisco goes nob hill. Jenna thats right, mike and julie, the president is staying at the Fairmont Hotel up here, a very common choice for his trips to the bay area and securing is very tight. They are checking in peoples ids as guests enter into the hotel. President biden arrived at the Fairmont Hotel about 745 tonight. And you can take another look at the motorcade as it arrived up here. It drew a lot of attention and excitement as he arrived after an evening of campaigning on the peninsula for just being upstairs to the top of the mark for a drink. The people everywhere are excited. Everyones out
Businesses in Oakland organized a one-day strike on Tuesday to protest rising crime levels and the city's inadequate response to public safety concerns. About the strike: Many business owners closed their establishments to demand increased support from local, state and federal leaders in addressing the crime wave that has plagued Oakland.