What were the kite orders and site seeing boats doing. Cheryl hurd in San Francisco. Reporter thats right, the warning is clear. If you dont stay away from the whales here in San Francisco bay, you could be breaking the law. Two whales swimming near the golden gate bridge. A kite border got real close, a little too close, a San Franciscos whale tourer. What we try to do here is to interact passively with whales. He takes two boats out to do whale watching daily. When he does, he follows a strict set of rules. They tell us not to approach them at a quick rate of speed. We can run parallel with them if they start changing course a lot then that means we are bothering them. Hump back whales are protected under the endangered species act. If a person or vessel comes within a 100 yards o f the whale or altering its behavior. You can be fine of 10,000 or facing criminal prosecution with a fine up to 100,000 or spend time in jail. He blames el nino or climate change. The whales, theyre here e
Notify the d. A. Whenever theres a reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct. We just want to say how much we value and respect the publics right to know what is going on with this investigation, as well as how our officers conduct themselves both on and off duty. We, as oaklanders, can expect to hold officers to the highest standards of conduct. We will not tolerate criminal misconduct on the part of our Police Officers. We will hold them accountable. We owe that to the residents of oakland and the hard working men and women of the opd. Reporter the chief also talked about the suicide of officer obrien, why he says that a thorough investigation was done to rule out homicide. He says he stands by that investigation. But also welcomes the d. A. s review of the case. Theres no word on how long this investigation is going to take. Reporting live in oakland, im jodi hernandez. Nbc bay area news. Jodi, thank you. Friday evening commute, b. A. R. T. Trains are running on schedule right now. T
Runners took to the 12 kilometer course that starts at embarcadero and ends at ocean beach. Its less of a race and more of a party. There for all the festivity, chuck, how was the crowd this year . Reporter always fun. This year was no exception. You can see behind me great highways back open as well as some 30 odd streets closed today all back open at this point. We saw a lot of tutus, a lot of mini minions, mean girls and star wars cruiser and man carrying a basketball hoop people kept trying to dunk, some of the spectacle we saw. A large crowd ran this year, around 40,000, some put it at 50,000, at least 10,000 than last year with 200,000 specta r spectators cheering them on. As for president ial candidates, we saw a lot of donald accomp y accompanied by a brick wall and a bunch of bernies and more than a handful of hillarys. This year was a lot warmer than last year. True to past years runners did not come short of political causes. One dressed as a honey bee. Bees are important an
Delta to make an emergency landing. Several passengers said they started to fill ill. The pilot landed the plane in oklahoma. Emergency crews say the 12 passengers were treated for a possible Carbon Monoxide poisoning. During the layover there was frustration over a lack of answers. So everyone is just sittingly the quarantined and theyre not telling us anything and its getting to a point where the tensions are running high. The maintenance crews are searching for a Carbon Monoxide leak on board and the plane has been taken out of service. Returning to our coverage of the road to rio no local athletes made the womens Gymnastics Team tonight but local stars are representing other countries. Toney ann williams will be the first to compete in gymnastics at the olympic for jamaica as well. Definitely i have moments during the day where im realizing that a whole country is looking to me for this sport. Its a lot of pressure. Still have a familiar face to help her. Justin howell is her head
We sat down with the man in charge of californias Highway Patrol to get some answers, we want to warn you, that some of the pictures in this story can be hard to watch. These photos show the aftermath on a traffic stop west of the truckee, 58yearold truck driver unconscious, his hands still cuffed behind his back during a traffic stop. After he stopped breathing, he had to be flown to a Level One Trauma Center because he refused to sign an invalid traffic ticket. Even two years after the near fatal incident, the berkeley resident could not talk about it. The public records clearly speak to what happened. After four years of litigation, the state recently settled out of court, costing taxpayers more than 2. 1 million. 1. 7 million of that going to his family. Thats not all, we reviewed state records for similar lawsuits alleging mistreatment at the hands of Highway Patrol officers. In the last ten years, 45 cases costing taxpayers more than 25 million. Some included no by the state of c