7 news. New details tonight in that Fatal Police Shooting in oakland. Autopsy release late this afternoon shed new light on what happened. Good evening. Im amma. Robbery suspect was shot and killed on Martin Luther king jr. Way and 27th street yesterday. Laura is live in Oakland Police headquarters with the very latest on the investigation. Hi tan. Oakland police yet to release any surveillance or body camera video but they did release new information today. Counterclaim by some protestors that yesterday shooting was not justified. I dont know what people expect officers to do. Oakland Police Officers Association President done lon told abc 7 news the officers who shot and killed a gun wielding man wednesday afternoon had no choice. This gentleman went on a rampage. He robbed citizens. Tried to carjack people. Running around armed. On a mainly thoroughfare in oakland. What are we to could here. Contrary to claims the suspect was running away Oakland Police say preliminary autopsy revea
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Lanes. Thats kicking up gravel as cars drive over it. Just watch out for cracked windshields. As i move over to westbound traffic, looks a little bit heavier. Still, moving along. Lets take another look at this drive. This is the macarthur it is light and clear. 680 starting to build a bit breaking news in oakland. 1520 people are displaced following a building fire near 8th avenue and international boulevard. It broke out around 2 30 this morning and spread to a nearby neighboring fuel plex. Crews knocked down the flames wp an hour. Several departments and businesses including a beauty salon you saw on this video were destroyed. Red cross is on the scene helping the victim. Union city police have a warning for people to take better notice of their surroundings after a recent string of robberies where people had jewelry snatched right off their necks. Abc 7 News Reporters, matt keller, is live at Union City Police headquarters. Matt . This is obviously a disturbing crime trend making p
The cause is under investigation but the fire is not considered to be suspicious. Its hard to imagine but here comes the rain. A lot of it. Our chances of getting slammed by an el nino winter is 90 . That new prediction released today. If you remember back in 1997, that was a wild winter around here. We show you the 1997, 1998 el nino. Thats the red and white part. On the right side is this years weather pattern. This shows we could be hit with the strongest el nino on record. Some homeowners, many are getting ready for these heavy rains but we begin in our studio here with our chief meteorologist. I do not think it is a slam dunk for heavy rainfall for the bay area just yet. What we track are the warmer waters in the equator yall pacific. You can see here on the map, that bright banding there of orange and also red colors. That is the warming waters that we track with el nino. That is very significant which brings our sea surface anomalies to higher temperatures. That peak would see s
Five. This month ive scheduled i think about seven scheduled already this month. More than usual . Way more than usual. Reporter but even with a lot of rain, experts say our drought wont go away right away. Will this be the drought buster we need . Reporter thats the question we asked Santa Clara University professor and Civil Engineer ed mahrer, who says our warm weather is bad news even if we get very wet. More likely than not to be a warmer year than weve experienced in the past. What that means is theres less snowpack. Snowpack is our Los Angelesst natural reservoir we rely on for our water supply. Reporter even with a very rainy forecast experts say we should still conserve water. Because the drought is likely to stay around for a while. The National Weather service says the el nino is not likely to be short but could last into the spring. Reporting live in san jose, scott budman. We remember 1997, a lot of floods and mudslides around here. What will happen this time around . Jeff