This noon hour with the latest news out of oakland. Former police chief laurent armstrong is running for city council. He was fired by the mayor shortly after she took office early last year. Now hes working to win the at large Citywide Council seat in the november election. Ktvu tom vacar live in the newsroom with this mornings filing, tom. Well, oakland politics just became a lot more intense as two warring parties, the mayor and his former police chief will clash even harder if the very popular former chief becomes member of city council. Former Oakland Police chief Leronne Armstrong walked into the City Clerks Office and filed papers wednesday morning to run for the councilman at large seat currently held by Rebecca Kaplan , who has not yet decided to re seek the seat. Armstrong was fired as chief of police 15 months ago by mayor sheng tao, who cited an outside investigation that concluded arms truong had mishandled two Police Misconduct cases, but he was later cleared of those all
Flames pouring out of a home in San Francisco, where a couple was pulled to safety. Tonight, the family is shaken up, but grateful to be alive. Im glad that me and my wife are safe. And the dogs . Two. I was just close to losing my mom and my dad. Tonight, seven adults now displays following that devastating fire right near San Franciscos alamo square. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im julie julie haener. One of those adults is a San Francisco dog walker who has been the target of racist incidents over the past few weeks. New at ten tonight, ktvu is amber lee joins us now. Shes live in San Francisco. And amber, an emotional and challenging time for this family. No doubt. Julie. Now terry williams, the dog walker, tells me his parents are okay. But take a look behind me. You can see that the home which the family has owned for more than five decades was destroyed and red tagged by the city. The family plans to rebuild. Citizen video shows a fire break out at this three story
Build six new Pickleball Courts. In addition to the two already in the park. Community members had the opportunity to express their support and their concern. I have a bigger a network of friends in danville since i started playing pickleball than i ever have before. The noise from a hard plastic ball hitting a hardened paddle nonstop for 6 to 10 hours a day is something i am sure none of you would like to live with. Council members say they made the decision out of respect for the various noise complaints. The expansion plans will be postpone as the town determines a better location. For now, Council Members say a sound barrier will be placed around the two courts currently at osage memorial garden. Residents in other parts of the bay area are no stranger to the pickleball controversy. Many Pickleball Court projects have taken over much of San Francisco. A new pickleball hub was unveiled a few months ago in. Some residents say they are frustrated because a tennis court and a Basketbal
Its act together here. 40s and 50s on the temps, some low class, especially on the san mateo coast down to santa cruz. Again, they are that socked in city here. Let me zoom in a little bit for you. There you go. But overall, we are looking for another nice day inland. Although it does look like a little bit more in the way of some low clouds. Will start to make an appearance here. 60, 70s and 80s. All right. Sals here. I didnt see anything except cones and cones and cones. Yeah, if you drove near the carquinez bridge, steve, there were definitely cones. There was also a car fire near there in the eastbound direction. So we have a little slow traffic as they clear that eastbound 80 at highway four is where the car fire was. Thats where the construction began on westbound 80. Looks pretty good. Lets take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. That looks very nice. There have been no major issues in the commute direction right now. As we look at interstate 880. So it is wide open for you ju
Reporter you can hear his mom there with a loss for words. This photo was taken on her sons eightyearold birthday. He is expected to survive the shooting but he may never fully recover. Yesterday he was playing in the front yard when a fight broke out between two men. He alleges gun man and his brother. The two men are not related to the little boy but were family friends. Family members say the suspect james jared was aiming at his brother when he opened fire. The bullet went through his pant leg and ricocheted off the ground hitting the eightyear old boy in the neck. The boy is still at the hospital in oakland tonight and his mom has a message for james gerard. My baby is sitting in the hospital with a bullet in his neck because of your. I told you over 100 times before you pulled the trigger my kids are out here and you still took it upon yourself to put a bullet in my childs neck. You need to turn yourself in and just get it over with. Reporter james gerard was already on parole fo