Violent crime came down. Reporter your numbers are still higher than the state and the national average. They are. And were working on that. The the difficulty is, when we went through the economic downturn, you know, we were down to 82 Police Officers. Reporter and thats progress, which when it comes to the folks who live here, is exactly what they hope these cameras will help continue to do. All we want, you know . We want to work with the police and with the city council. We want to work with all of our Business Owners down here. And, um, make it a better place. Reporter in addition to the security cameras, Antioch City Council also vote to buy more license plate readers which they hope will also help them fight crime. Emily turner, kpix 5. The latest police chief in oakland kept a low profile on his first full day on the job. Acting interim police chief Paul Figueroa says he is focusing on positive change for the department as it tries to overcome a sex scandal involving several of
At the roadways in a moment. Steve is here not until thursday. Someone said, you said it was going to rain. In a couple days. Windy in cooler. Temperatures continue to take the plunge. As i told Sal Castaneda earlier, gusts of 50 miles an hour in the altamont pass. Its going to be a breezy, blustery and windy day under mostly sunny skies. Look at this system. For june this is remarkable to be getting this pattern. Its not just staying in the pacific northwest, it is moving into northern california. Gusts are almost 30 at the oakland airport. Out of the west at napa and santa rosa. Sfo, gusts at 20. Its going to be a day of windy conditions. Low 50s for some and mid50s for others. There have been if you 40s. If it feels full cool to you, it is. Hillsborough at 52. Pacifica, 51. This energy will rotate around and that will brush us on thursday. That will be the best opportunity for precipitation. I think the north bay will get it but further south it could be iffy. Below average temperat
Back. Special needs students losing buses. The livermore district is using cabs. Not Riding School buses. They did not bid on that and so a new mode of transportation. The yellow durham buses will no longer be seen at livermore schools. One bus driver asked not to be identified transports 22 special needs students each day to and from school and underwent intensive training to work and care for students on these trips. 265 special needs students take a bus to school. Livermore says they will not be using this bus service but instead using cabs but they say parents dont need to worry and things not in the back seated of the cab to get to school. They provide cab as much as and a majority of transportation and other means and the majority will be provided through van access. The cab company in pleasanton ordered 32 vans to service the livermore schools. They will communicate with us. We have some children that have to be air conditioned at a certain temperature. And if it gets too warm t
They are working out a strategy on what to do about this fire. Ktvu fox 2 news Christien Kafton, you are at an Evacuation Center. You have the latest from cal fire, and what they expect today. Good morning. Reporter yeah, good morning guys. We had a chance to catch up with a cal fire spokesperson a couple minutes ago, and he gave the latest containment numbers, standing at 20 contained up over 10 containment. They are hoping for more continued good news today. The fire started late yesterday morning, 10 miles east of cloverdale. That fire has burned about 1500 acres. Now, the latest update we have, again, is that the fire is about 20 contained and about 3 dozen homes still in danger. Mandatory evacuation orders are in place for geysers road from Pine Mountain road to geysers Mountain Resort road. Fire crews say they are making progress battling the flames and now crews are preparing for a long hot day on the fire lines. Its challenging with the terrain in that area, but we are hoping b
This time it was anything other than a tragic accident. It was a chaotic scene at the hoboken train terminal in new jersey after a speeding commuter train slammed right into the station during the middle of the morning commute. One woman who was standing on the platform was hit by flying debris and killed. 108 other people were hurt. This man was on board the train. It was a loud bang, yeah. It seemed like it didnt stop. And then, the lights went out. And then the roof just came down on it. So. The roof of hoboken crashed into the actual train. Reporter this train was coming into the station extremely fast when it struck a bumper block which sent the front car flying into the air. It flew about 40 feet before hitting a wall in the waiting room. First responderring raced to pull people from the wreckage. They pulled the windows out. They were helping to assist folks getting out of the windows. They were getting folks that could move off the train out of the train and getting them out of