Are we ready . You guys ready . Are you excited . All right. Who is going to help us out . A round of applause. applause . Top of the morning to you. Lets hear it from you. Top of the morning. Good morning, everybody. It looks great to see all of our not old friends but long time friends that have been with us since the early days of San Francisco and also, of course, with our sister city that is 36 years old today. [applause] now we are blessed to have so many Irish Americans that have made San Francisco what it is. We have one that is very special to us, and that is our in house Irish American. That is shawn, the chief of staff to the mayor, and we have something that is going to help you because you need help, right . A shot of whiskey . No, no shot of whiskey yet. There is an old tradition of an irish stick, thush shillelag. It was something that a welldressed man had as a walking stick. Then it became sort of a weapon because we only have weapons of love and not of fighting in San
Was shot by police. That department had body cameras, but the footage was not released. Gomezs common law partner has made it her mission to demand transparency. Ive got to learn how to push forward and bring all these negative emotions and bring something positive thats the only way i can keep his memory alive. Reporter the program will cost 4. 4 million over the next five years. Profess jor jeff guise sees the cameras as a valuable training tool. Cadetks look at these recordings and see what was done right or wrong. I think thats good thing. Reporter the majority of the Police Department should be outfitted by the end of the year. Officer also be required to activate the cameras in almost every police call. Chris nguyen, abc7 news. Police officers from San Francisco, richmond, and concord traveled to dallas today to pay their respects to the five officers shot and killed by a sniper last week. They were among the crowd of Law Enforcement from across the country attending funerals for
New at 6 00, a local Department Takes a step forward on a national issue. Good evening. Today, the San Jose Police department began issuing body cameras to all of its Police Officers. Chris nguyen is live now with the story. Chris . Reporter its a milestone more than two years in the making. The chief called it a significant step, one that he hopes will improve relationships in the community. Tonight, San Jose Police will send out a first wave of Police Officers equipped with body cameras. When individuals make contact with the police, and their perception of what occurred differs from what the Police Department says that occurs, were going to know what actually is the truth. Reporter these officers will be the first to use the new technology after going through a fourour training this afternoon. Jason reyes lost his cousin in an officer involved shooting last weekend in east san jose. It keeps the Police Officers accountable. Reporter but some question if body cameras will make much o
This morning. Not a bad weekend forecast. Cooler than we saw yesterday we are starting off socked in along the coast this morning. You can see the golden gate bridge, low visibility across the bridge and along the coast today, temperatures in the 50s and 60s to start off your saturday morning your weather headlines for this weekend, were starting off with drizzle, breezy but cooler today. And then a little more seasonal for your sunday, warmer for folks inland. If youre heading out to the 24 annual bike for breath event, 52 5 72 for the event. Warmer 77 degrees is the high today for the art and wine festival. The full forecast coming up. This morning, in dallas, federal investigators are working with investigators in texas as they try to piece together what lead up to thursdays deadly attack on Police Officers. Authorities say that the gunman identifieded as 25yearold Micah Johnson killed five officers. Angry over the recent Police Shootings of two policemen this week. They killed the
Which we have in common and to do practical things and so derek is going to mention his recent experience being part of facilitating a gathering for disaster preparation, preparedness. So we will mention that, and my name is chris likeert, i work in the archdiocese of San Francisco in department of communications doing radio production, we have the archbishops radio show every friday on immaculate heart radio and the archbishop shares scripture reflections and we have guests. Our website is sf archdiocese. Org. So pope francis trip to the holy land a powerful event, you may have seen images and or full length liturgies and masses but very powerful in the images alone, you may have seen things from when he was making the spontaneous visit to the wall in bethlehem and all of these other images you may have seen and they are continuing to show up in the news each and every day. He is truly a reconciler and it is a very serious matter, its not something that is a very light hearted matter.