Walnut creek as you said for much of the afternoon things are pretty peaceful. The message out here was positive. Lots of Police Officers were also here but as we got into the night things got a little dicey out here police tell us there was some vandalism to buildings in the downtown area, several arrests were also made and some officers and protesters were also in some scott killing thousands of people were involved in this protest it started at civic park across from city hall and eventually marched through the streets people were Holding Signs and chanting calling for justice for george floyd and others who have been killed by police in most spots around downtown protesters were met with lots of Police Officers north main from target down through Broadway Plaza had been guarded by police sent it closed on sunday night because of looters who ransacked several stores protesters tell us however they are against that kind of behavior because it overshadows what day are trying to like t
The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Now 9 were following that late breaking news in walnut creek where police have fired tear gas to break up a group of protesters good evening, everybody thanks for being with us at 9 oclock, im grant lodes and im Vicki Liviakis thousands of people showed up for mostly. Peaceful the large group eventually making its way as you can see there on to i 6 ad. Police ended up using tear gas to disperse them. Our kron fours dan thorn hes been live in waller creek all day long and joins us now with the latest it will begin grant for much of the day today, the protesting was civil people were being positive thousands of people gathering here in downtown walnut creek fighting for racial injustices and fighting what has happened to george unfortunately once the curfew came tonight turn south Pretty Police say there was vandalism to buildings downtown several arrests were some officers and protesters were also out injured lots of people though thous
Nasdaq was up 62 and s p 11. Last Economic Impact of the virus as more businesses look to reopen a new report revealed it could take ten years for the u. S. Economy to recover from the pandemic, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria Global Markets this morning are moving higher, cac quarante in paris is up 86 and dax index in germany 406 points, 3 and a half percent higher, dax in germany rallied after being closed for the holiday yesterday. In uk Small Businesses hit with coronavirus, borrowed 26 billion through month of may. Check asian green across the board, take a look, kospi better than 1 , best performer was in japan up 1. 9 . Now some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. Chaos despite curfews, americas largest cities still talc victim to looters even as police and the National Guard ramp up presence across the country, protestors forcing into macys Flagship Store in new york city overnight. It had been boarded up. 3 people have been arrested so far. Loot
Bay area take a look at your screen there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 steps you can see those numbers broken down for your county by county check out Santa Clara County staffs at 73 and more than 1800 cases you can also see that these numbers are on our website kron 4 dot com. So if you want to look at your specific county just check it out on our website. Now lets get to our top stories this saturday morning as people are now required to wear a mask of some form or a facial covering in most bay area counties. 6 counties are now requiring everyone wear a covering of some sort when theyre outside they are San Francisco, san Mateo Alameda contra costa marin and sonoma counties. Santa clara county also urging residents to wear a mask, but at this point thats not an order. Now heres why its so important to wear a face mask in public take a look at this laser light experiment shows how droplets from coughing sneezing and talking can spread the virus on the left you see the droplets
Incident was caught on camera. Cell phone video shows a man brandishing a back moments before he was shot dead by San Leandro Police during the detention. Officers the boy tasered. A taser was in effect. The same officer then fired one shot at the suspect striking him in the torso. At the same time simultaneously the second officer for their taste. The incident happened just before 3. 15 saturday afternoon inside the walmart on his spear in boulevard we spoke to a customer off camera who was inside the store and i heard. People ran towards. The back from the front of the store saying there was someone with a gun and then there was someone shooting. This video shows the chaos inside then more people started to come towards them. And thats when everybody kind of started getting in panic mode and everybody kind of just wanted to find an exit and everybody was scared everybody huddled together San Leandro Police initially responded to a robbery but that was not the case when they arrived p