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Theres eight. Two teams have been funded in the mayors budget. Thank you, supervisor mandelman. Four are in the mayors budget and were working with dph to add two additional ones. And so, first question about these additional teams. Do the firefighters have the ability to 5150 someone if they believe it is necessary . At this time, we do not. However, simon p arang, in chare of community paramedicine, is here, and hes done outreach with dph and thinking about this and talking about this for a long time. So simon, can you please chief pang, can you please speak to that . Hi. How do you feel about us expanding ems six by six . Well, ive very grateful, but also, you know, anxious because i want to make sure that we dont oversell what we can possibly do. Although, its full steam ahead for us and we want to help the city in nr any way we can. If we wer would to get extra mo, it would start with hiring and training and we would get that done right away. I want to make sure i dont make any un
Robberies assaults and burglaries kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from san leandro what the police union is saying about these alarming numbers stand. Well ken and pam this warning from the police union comes up in the city of san leandro voted in june to slash the budget of the Police Department by more than a Million Dollars is also having the union come out and say that because of the spikes in crimes theyre going to need all the funding that they could gain but advocates for defunding. The Police Department say. That they should addressing the its not its not money thats the problem here. Its how these crimes are addressed. The San Leandro Police Officers Association is warning people over a significant jump in Violent Crimes, new numbers from the citys Police Department show from june to july there was a 500 increase in armed robberies, a 125 increase in assaults with a Deadly Weapon a 100 jump in shoplifting and a 75 increase in home burglaries is very concerning for us th
Usually it is conned by 9 30 p. M. Today, big fog bank but there are holes in it. It is not as robust as yesterday. At sfo, 50 degrees on the temperatures. San jose, 11 degrees spread. Temperatures will bump up a little. You can see clearing to the north. That will take us to near average temperatures. Santa rosa, San Francisco, hello for livermore and san jose. Lets get over to sal, it is 6 00 in the morning, is it all right out there sal . Is all right out there. We see it is getting more crowded on the short freeway, as you head out towards macarthur maze. It is not too slow. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza it will be okay. You can see the macarthur maze. You can see the toll plaza, it is not a big crowd. Normally we had a crowd this morning, but it is not there just yet. Lets go back to the headlines. We follow a developing story and oakland where police overnight shot and killed a man who had an assault weapon. This happened at 11 00 and San Leandro Police started chasin
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im carl kint nia and jim cramer still over 1 million for the 20th straight week ahead of the jobs number. Leader mcconnell will join us on the stimulus talks that continue on the hill followed by Speaker Pelosi later this hour, jim, as we continue to get reports that the two sides are trillions of dollars apart. Yeah. This is a day where we have to find out in our interviews whether theres any hope for compromise because if there isnt, youre going to see a full open business that will make the unemployment numbers very rearview mirror. A lot of people recognize that theyre trying to figure out, is washington playing partisan politics do they genuinely want to deal maybe they dont we will find out during this show. You think well find out . Well talk to mcconnell first, jim. Yeah, i do. A billing part of that is sort of the fragility of the republican caucus. As mcconnell has said this week, jim, he has 20 senators who feels we hav