Ask. Shop. Discover at your local xfinity store today. A massive Security Breach on social media. As barack obama, elon musk and others are targeted in an unprecedented twitter hack. San francisco will put up black lives matter signs inside every police station, and the Police Officers association is not happy about it. Smokey skies today. Ill let you know how long this will continue coming up. Massinduced acne. Its a problem many of us are living with. Coming up, how to prevent it and treat it. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area wsr a safe and sere fur this resolutn is merely a small gesture to show that the this commission and our department stands in solidarity for the support of black lives. Tonight, a message of support for the movement in San Francisco. Police stations around the city will soon display large black lives matter posters. Issues of race and social justice are something we are particularly focused on here at abc 7 adds part of our effort to build
Commissioners. The letter talked about political this being political speech, which is absolute horse [ bleep ], if you excuse my french. Reporter that from Vice President of the San Francisco Police Commissioner demali taylor, in reaction to a San Francisco Police Officers Association Letter that objects to putting black lives matter signs in each of the citys police stations. The leadership of the poa just simply does not get it. Reporter the measure, which was passed unanimously, will put a 32 by 24inch black lives matter poster or sign in each station. This strictly came from the black community and members in the community. Again, i think this is a step in the right direction. But we definitely need to step up and do more and nows the time to do it. Reporter San Franciscos Police Officers association represents more than 2,100 officers. In a letter to the city, they stated that stations are places for citizens of San Francisco to seek help and assistance. Going on to say, they are
Is christine pelosi, a san fransicoan, California Democratic womans chair and daughter of House Speaker nancy pelosi. Did i miss anything, christine . Good to see you. Nice to see you and good to be with everybody. Thank you. I like the backdrop there. Hey, as an italian woman living up with that statue, what is your reaction today . Well, i think eighth sign of the times and the growing grass roots pressure. There has been all over the country. For years to say, let have a reckoning with our past and lets also dedicate public spaces to people who were about healing, truth and reconciliation rather than division and i think the murder of george floyd, by the minneapolis pd for those eight minutes that we all saw really just galvanized and gave fresh energy to what was really happening in the Indigenous Peoples movement and the black lives movement for black and brown lives. Frankly as a cochair, the veterans and military council, i have been active on the effort to remove the confedera
Studios, this is kpix 5 news. As we look east the beautiful bay bridge on this friday morning. Good morning everyone, its friday, june 12th. I am michelle griego. And i am len kiese. We have a check of our forecast. Good morning to you. Good morning, we made it to friday, we did it. We are looking at cooler and breezy conditions as we had through our day. Here is a live look and our temperatures as we start off our friday. We are looking at those temperatures that are going to be the the afternoon a little bit cooler. Daytime highs as we had to afternoon in the 50s and 60s this morning as we go through mid60s to San Francisco, 73 and 74 for concord. Below normal for this time of year. Lets check in for a look at traffic, good morning. We start off with a trouble spot at the bay bridge on scene investigating an unfortunate incident. A fatal crash, half a mile past the toll plaza. Three lanes are blocked as where those lanes when we open, we dont have a lot of details on this trouble spo
Talk about portsmouth virginia. Were a confederate statue is being removed from the city center. You can see it wrapped right now, they are ready to cart it away, this controversy over the monument escalated on wednesday after the president and Vice President were arrested during a peaceful protest where they were trying to protest the existence of the statue there in the middle of the town square. They have been removing it from its base and getting rid of it. And this is one of several confederate monuments and statues of people who were important during the confederacy that are being taken down we are keeping e on the opening of service into san jose including an inaugural train ride with politicians. At the station were a Ribbon Cutting is set for a few hours from now. Good morning, we are stirring to see the station, live as employees are coming to work prepping the site here for the big festivities in celebration later on today. All of the safety checks are done last minute finis