Your phone and social media. Starting tomorrow you will be able to dm the police on two social media platforms if you see someone breaking into a car. It is an unconventional tactic. Fearful drivers say they are open to anything. Reporter auto burglaries in oakland continue to be an ongoing problem for residents. This year alone we had 11,300 locked auto burglaries in the city. The department is tapping social media to tackle there issue. If you send that information to us immediately we will have staff monitoring the platforms and be able to relay the intelligence or the information to our surveillance teams. Starting on friday, opd will launch a Pilot Program where people can report an auto burglary via dm on instagram and x formally known as twitter. At the handle of oakland autoberg. Neighbors say this is welcomed news. I think it is is amazing. While helping her friend, she spends a lot of time in this adams point neighborhood and says she and other neighbors are constantly dealin
Getting paid. Could impact everything from food safety, to research. Funding the government is among the basic responsibilities of congress. Its time for republicans to start doing the job america elected them to do. President joe biden calling on republicans to live up to the budget deal from earlier this year. The contentious negotiations. Meanwhile, several democrats are commenting on the Corruption Allegations against senator menendez. Also ahead an update on the auto workers strike. As the union is expected to get a highprofile supporter on the picket lines this week. Good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early other on this monday. Were now less than one week away from a potential Government Shutdown, republicans in the house still appear to be a long ways from passing a spending bill, a push to work through a weekend ended in embarrassment last week after a farright holdouts tanked an effort to bring bills to the floor. All this as the Biden Administration took initial steps to prepa
These decisions should not be between a person who needs health care and the government and politicians. It should be between a woman and her doctor, that is the ultimate goal right there. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs yesterday highlighting her Executive Orders to prevent abortionrelated prosecutions as her state is now at the center of the fight for reproductive care. Well have the latest on efforts to repeal that states controversial abortion ban in just a moment. Also ahead, Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial is still on track to start on monday, and now were learning who may take the witness stand. And well look back on the life of o. J. Simpson, one of the most divisive figures in modern american history. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, april 12th. Im jonathan lemire. We made it to friday. Thanks for starting your day with us. We will begin here with this headline. The first criminal trial of a former american president is set to get under way on monday. This
Rain well offshore. We have several hours until the rain moves in. As we look at the time line, there is a possibility well have light rain in the santa cruz mountains. The push of heavier rain, potentially thunderstorms moving in this afternoon. Look at the time line there, at about 2 00 this afternoon. Ill be talking more about when this becomes more widespread in a few minutes. We are out there on the roads with an early look at traffic. We have off to a good start this wednesday morning. It is all green. No major slowing or accidents to report at this time. Chp hasnt reported anything major. If we look at the bay bridge, we can see it is looking beautiful, but, if you notice the cars out there, well, we are starting to see slowing. I havent seen them turn on metering lights, its early for that. Im going investigate what that is all about. They might have one of the metering lights on to slow down traffic a bit. Ill give you an update on that in a bit. Back to you. Thank you. Now, a
Werent expecting to see themselves arrive at the this press conference. They were hand in hand. Apparently theyre still having a relationship together and they didnt answer any questions from reporters but they stood behind their attorneys and were present while the attorneys made their case. Going back to the beginning of this denise was reported kidnapped on march 23rd. She claimed she and her boyfriend had been tied up and drugged in the middle of the night and the kidnapper drove her to her parents home in southern california. A couple days after that investigation began, police came out and said that they thought hut kens had made the whole thing up. That all changed. That was the last we had heard of all of this until this morning. We didnt hear anything about the case until this morning when the fbi sacramento unsale and affidavit for a man named matthew mueller. How did they find him . They say last month he was sod in a robbery. The couple wasnt hurt. And mueller got away befo