Graders. But could a spike in covid cases disrupt the start of the new school year . Im justine waldman. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at a time can wane. Here we go. Families enrolled at hoover elementary. Were excited to see some of the upgrades on the campus. The school had a fresh coat of paint. Theres a new playground. And the school year also started in antioch today, several east Bay School Districts and San Francisco start School Next Week as more bay area children get ready to head back to school. Medical experts say the return of indoor classes. Coupled with the recent uptick in covid cases nationwide might result in more children getting the virus for us to assist reports and how experts say, although we are in a lot better shape than in years past covid19 is still a virus to take seriously. The American Academy of pediatrics says 15. 6 million children have contracted covid19 since the beginning of the pandemic 2020. Now as students go back to school, medical exper
Calling this a pattern of discriminatory policing. The discovery that members of the Antioch Police force for sending racist Text Messages to each other. Not only created a scandal led to investigations by the Contra Costa County district attorneys office, the fbi and californias attorney general, not just in to the tax but additional allegations. Individuals have complained to about the use of excessive force. Arrests. Asking on the screens taking confessions that they had not given taking them money when they should. And that recorded taken even a drugs. Now, bay area, civil rights attorney john burris, who filed 2 federal civil rights lawsuit against the department for discriminatory policing has sent this letter to the u. S. Department of justice asking that its Civil Rights Division also launch an investigation. We want the government to come in and say, look, we look at this this department and we see ongoing pattern discriminatory Law Enforcement based upon race, homophobic. And
Not warm it is compared to yesterday, john, because this hour we were already in the 90s for some spots. Yesterday. I was looking at the temperatures climbing already at this time of day. It was oh, it was. Really getting hot really quickly. Today is not been so much that way. Were looking outside at some great conditions over San Francisco, but also a little sunshine making its way down to kuwait hour right now. Just a little bit of lingering marine layer over at 7 at the coastline releasing that low grade burning off elsewhere and temperatures whole lot cooler than we were at this point yesterday. Nobody even close to 90 degrees at this point. As james mentioned, wrightwood vacaville livermore. Youre barely making the 70s right now. And i dont think too many of you are mine. Did that change of pace too terribly much coastal areas getting a little bit of sunshine now, 2 and Half Moon Bay and will only be 60 70s to 80s today, right on par with seasonal averages. Im giving you all the u
Amanda hari spoke to the Council Member about the next steps that he wants to take. Amanda . Antioch city Councilmember Mike barber annika says hes been working and monitoring number of staffing level within the Police Department for the past 4 to 5 months. And now the number of officers has gotten so low. He feels the council needs to intervene. A sideshow in any marina parking lot just about a block from the Police Department left one car in the river. Another damaged a water main and a 3rd crashed into a fire hydrant. City Council Member mike says theres a void in the Police Department. Resulting in incidents like this one im told right now we have approximately e 31 officers including supervisors to cover 7 beat on a 24 7. 365 day year operation. And it is my opinion that that is not enough officers for proper coverage danica used to be a Police Lieutenant who handled scheduling for his department. He says 31 officers is not enough. He says the Department Needs outside help. My fou
On the corner of east 19th street and park avenue in oakland. It was painted with the help of clouds, friends. Cloud died at his oakland home last thursday. No word on the cause of death at this time. But on a facebook post, his mother says, quote, we may find out that overdosed x a deadly and tragically, but it was abundantly clear he did not intend to check out of this world, unquote. In National News tonight, the last former Minneapolis Police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of george floyd was sentenced almost 5 years in prison to was found guilty in may of aiding and abetting seconddegree manslaughter. Thao argued he was essentially a human traffic cone who held back bystanders in 2020 as officer Derek Chauvin knelt on floyds neck. Todays sentence will run concurrently with a 3 and a half year sentence he received for a federal civil rights conviction. Interest rates are now the highest that theyve been in. 22 years, the Federal Reserve bumped the rate