Bridge here, west 80 from anchorage to San Francisco anchorage and then lets look at your bay bridge toll plaza a little bit of backup in the passing lane. Westbound taking about 20 minutes. Power restored to 12,000 homes and businesses after a major outage last night. Affecting areas between oakland and Castle Valley starting before 8 00 p. M. The power was knocked out causing delays on the Transit System as well, a separate outage affected about 1500 customers. Power has been restored. The first day of School Starts for kids in oakland but hundreds of students are expected to be turned away. We explain why they will be going to the Doctors Office instead of school. Solomon is ready for his first day of kindergarten. Because his mom made sure he would be. We have learned vaccinations can really help. Solomon is up to date at the you Oakland Unified School district they say hundreds of other kids may not be on the first day of school. There could be a few hundred kids that are not. We
It would in effect allow teachers to be fired arbitrarily, subjectively, without due process. Reporter the plaintiffs a group called students matter said, every student deserves a great public education. Yet californias education laws make this impossible. Today the courts failed to safeguard students constitutional rights. State superintendent of schools Tom Torlakson also issued a statement saying today applauds the ruling and says that teachers are part of what makes california schools great and not the problem in california. Live in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Because there is an appeal, so basically for right now nothing changes while that appeal is happening . Reporter this is just the latest look at it like a long boxing match. The union won this round. The plaintiffs won the earlier round. And so this is going to have to go down to the judges after these rounds are over. And thats going to be the california supreme court. You bet. All right, len ramirez with the latest, than
Through a chaotic situation . You have to be clear in your orders. The initial 50 people did not want owe come to us. They were fearful and in the back hallway area. That heightened my concern and my fear that potentially, the suspects were in that hallway, holding them hostage and waiting for us to enter into the hallway. We had to tell them several times, come to us, come to us. And ultimately they did. And once that first person took the motions forward, it opened flood gates and everybody wanted to get away from that as quickly as possible. So we cant panic in those situations. These people have dealt with enough. The last thing they need to see are their Police Officers panicking. Did you hear silence or screams . Tell us about what youre taking in . Extremely loud. Fire alarms were going off. There were people who were obviously injured and obviously in great amounts of pain. That was evident in the moans and wails we were hearing in the room. It was very loud in the room. We had
Microphone. You now you to be honest, you guys, its surreal. It was, you know, you train for it and you know your job is dealing with reality, but it seemed a little surreal but yet, i did the job i was supposed to do. My job is to go in there and people dont call the police because theyre having a great day. They call because theres tragedy going on. This was tragedy that i never experienced in my career. I dont think most officers do. We had to deal with it and help bring them to safety and try to bring some kind of calm to the chaos going on. Just knowing though, yeah, we resolved that situation quickly. But there is so much tragedy left behind. There are so many families in these Holiday Season that will have to deal with the tragedy left behind by this act of violence. Thats tough to deal with. What do you say to them . You know, you have to be clear in your orders. The initial 50 people did not want to come to us. They were fearful. They were in the back hallway area. That actual
Side. Mid 80s for the warmest and areas. Later on tonight expect more clouds and the forecast and cooler conditions. Full details coming up in my next report. We are no longer tracking any hot spots or major problems out there. Traffic headed into San Francisco is crowded. Metering lights are on an traffic is backed up swards the 880 over crossing and stretching into the oakland as. For those of you work your way out of pinole, richmond, berkeley added into the maze you have a stop and go right. Berkeley and University Avenue hot spot is now cleared. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza you have a little bit of a delay but no major problems getting into downtown San Francisco. A full traffic set coming up in just a bit. 7 01 a. M. And following a developing story at a san mateo where fire crews battled a three alarm fire this morning. The fire happened at an apartment complex on the 2200 block of bridge. Parkway around one this morning. So far, there are no reports of any injuries