Says the referendum is illegal. Good afternoon everyone. Russian president putin signed a decree today recognizing crimea as a sovreign and independent country as president obama announced new sanctions against russia. Kpix5 reporter mark kelly is live in our news room with the president s beefed up promises. Mark . Reporter michelle president obama unveiled sanctions against seven russian officials including Russias Deputy Prime Minister. The u. S. And its european friends have stepped up sanctions on economic and trade sanctions against russia following a historic vote sunday to the brings crimea and russia even closer together. Pro russian crimeans celebrated sunday. The government said a large majority of voting crimeans cast a ballot to join russia. Many believing a split from ukraine today will mean more opportunity in the future. Prime minister said dear friends, we are going home to russia. The government said 83 of voters went to the ballot box, from the white house this morni
Often, they dont even call to report it anymore. Usually its fairly late at night. Were in bed. And its just oh, okay someone is shooting another gun. I would hope they would not get rid of it. The neighborhood really needs it. Oakland really needs it. Reporter heres an example that people not everybody calls in. Last month shotspotter recorded 258 reports of gunfire in west and east oakland alone. That same period, only 197 reports were called in by folks who live in oakland. So theres about 60 reports that were not called in by folks who live here. Live in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. The department has to come up with the money to keep shotspotter by this summer when the contract is up. New at 6 00, volunteers are going to Start Testing the waters off the west coast for traces of radiation from the fukushima disaster. Scientists expect to start seeing low levels of radiation next month. They have crowd sourced volunteers to take water samples from alaska to california. This comes thr
Rassoules. Hi, guys. Good morning. So today its my honor to welcome this great group of people. I want to get right to the conversation slowed to a lightning introduction of old in. Just about right is Christina Lewis halpern was the founder of a allstar code, nonprofit dedicated to closing opportunity gap between young men of color and the tech sector. Next we have taofeek rabiu, the senior technical manager at aol. He does products and key developer. Taofeek has been coding since he was 14. Last but not least we have nikolas rassoules who is a sophomore at pathways to Technology Early College High School in brooklyn. He is actually bit on the Robotics Team at his high school as a Software Developer and you just went to nationals this year, right . Awesome, cool. Thanks for being here. I would love to start with christina. Tell us of a bit the allstar code and what the program does and why you want to focus on young men . Sure. So allstar code is a prep program for the Tech Industry,
Big story on action news tonight is another roll of snake eyes for atlantic city. It appears the show boat casino hotel is closing and that is the word from local 54 of hotel and restaurant my hes union which says theyve been notified by the Parent Company ceasars that the showboat will make announcement tomorrow. Word is 2500 employees will get federally mandated notices tomorrow warning them that casino is closing and of course, revel casino announced last week it will close unless it finds a new buyer by august 18 and 3200 workers would lose their jobs there and Atlantic Club closed last january. These are tough times for the Casino Industry in atlantic city. Six people including two children hurt in a that they crash in newcastle tonight. It happened 9 00 basin road Near University avenue. Police say a Ford Explorer struck a motorcycle and toy oat axe the children, ages 5 and 10 were critically hurt and motorcyclist and three other people are treated for nonlifethreatening injuries
Tonight is another roll of snake eyes for atlantic city. It appears the show boat casino hotel is closing and that is the word from local 54 of hotel and restaurant my hes union which says theyve been notified by the Parent Company ceasars that the showboat will make announcement tomorrow. Word is 2500 employees will get federally mandated notices tomorrow warning them that casino is closing and of course, revel casino announced last week it will close unless it finds a new buyer by august 18 and 3200 workers would lose their jobs there and Atlantic Club closed last january. These are tough times for the Casino Industry in atlantic city. Six people including two children hurt in a that they crash in newcastle tonight. It happened 9 00 basin road Near University avenue. Police say a Ford Explorer struck a motorcycle and toy oat axe the children, ages 5 and 10 were critically hurt and motorcyclist and three other people are treated for nonlifethreatening injuries. Somebody tossed firewor