We will fight. Reporter teachers and parents are rallying together to protest millions of dollars in mid year budget cuts in a financially strapped Oakland Unified School district. Among the items set to be eliminated, money for school supplies. Our children absolutely do not deserve, our families do not deserve any dollars to come from their school sites where they are already struggling to make ends meet. Schools simply dont get enough money to support our students, to support our staff. Reporter Oakland School Officials Say they need to make 5. 6 million in cuts immediately. 15. 1 million in all this year, and another 11 million next year. To head off potential state intervention and makeup for the miss steps of a previous administration. It depends on who you ask. Depends on what youre talking about. But there have been areas certainly thaw that you could argue there was overspending in the past and thats what were trying to rectify. Reporter while the district claims twothirds cut
On where to start, faced with a sudden budget crisis. The Oakland School board is forced to make millions of dollars in cuts in the middle of the school year. Thanks for joining us. Im kristen sze in for alma dates. Im dan ashley. A special Board Meeting is starting right now. The Education Center in oakland, the story. A lot of people there, lauren. They certainly are. You can probably hear them behind me. These folks just all filed in here. They are chanting, we will not stop, chop from the top. Now they changed that chant. Well let you listen to them just a second. No cuts to schools. No cuts to schools. Reporter now, this is going to be a special meeting of the Oakland Unified School district board. They are going to discuss potential cuts, 15 million this Current School year. You can see these are parents and teachers. They are quite upset about these proposed cuts. They could impact students in the classrooms as well as many as 300 nonteacher positions could be cut. You can see t
Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. We look at the medal count presented by samsung, do what you cant. Another strong day for norway. Golden slope style, silver in the giant. Goeppers medal gets the United States to 10 medals, the same number as austria. As for the men who won two alpine golds for the u. S. Over the last two games. One of the great olympic skiing careers appears to have come to a close tying with Mikaela Shiffrin for the most golds among alpine skiers. In the second week Mikaela Shiffrin will have a chance to add to that and lindsey vonn will look to add to that together. Thanks for being with us tonight. If you missed any portion of it, you can catch it again. An encore presentation coming up right now. Local news and then all of primetime after that. Thanks for watching and continuing on as we roll through the Pyeongchang Games here on nbc. My name is jamir dixon and im a locate and Mark Fieldman for pg e. Most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg e. My
Plus starbucks is making a big difference with couples out children. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye openinger. Your world in 90 seconds. Literally looks like a destructive buzz saw. This is the real deal for the u. S. And Virgin Islands. Its a powerful category 5 hurricane. The u. S. Preps for Hurricane Irma. States of emergency are in effect in puerto rico and florida. Flooding rain, damaging winds and seas. I think we can actually get this done in the next six months. Southern general Jeff Sessions is expected to announce the end of a program protecting the immigrants brought to the United States illegally. Its a tragic moment. The world is responding to north Koreas Nuclear tests, and its claimed possess a Hydrogen Bomb. His abusive use of missiles show he is begging for law. An extraordinarily long to do list. They also have to pass hurricane hash Harvey Relief. Firefighters battling wildfires across the west. Revel people were hurt after a car plowed into a bl
Off ramp will have to be closed for a few minutes because of that car fire. No reports of a crash. I hope its not a fuel spril because that can get more complicated for a number of reasons. On the other side of the bay a smooth flow. Typical slowing towards hayward. New this morning the San Francisco 49ers are teaming up with Law Enforcement to call for a ban of bump stocks on guns. They are also calling for better relations between police and community. Today in the bays bob redell is live outside of levi stadium. This is something you dont hear about too often. What prompted the 49ers to reach out to Law Enforcement . Reporter correct. Good morning, marcus and laura. Were still waiting to hear from the 49ers but keep in mind this pledge comes in the wake of the controversy surrounding nfl players taking a knee during the national anthem. Thats a movement that started here at levi stadium by former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, a movement that critics see not only as disrespectful to