Walnut creek as you said for much of the afternoon things are pretty peaceful. The message out here was positive. Lots of Police Officers were also here but as we got into the night things got a little dicey out here police tell us there was some vandalism to buildings in the downtown area, several arrests were also made and some officers and protesters were also in some scott killing thousands of people were involved in this protest it started at civic park across from city hall and eventually marched through the streets people were Holding Signs and chanting calling for justice for george floyd and others who have been killed by police in most spots around downtown protesters were met with lots of Police Officers north main from target down through Broadway Plaza had been guarded by police sent it closed on sunday night because of looters who ransacked several stores protesters tell us however they are against that kind of behavior because it overshadows what day are trying to like t
A dozen seriously injured. The first named storm of the season set to hit the east coast today. Were tracking its path. Early today starts right now good morning, we are just one week away from memorial day. Much of america is charging ahead with plans to reopen this week despite fears of another wave of coronavirus. More than 90,000 lives have been lost to covid19 in the u. S. As we approach 1. 5 million confirmed cases. At least 270,000 patients have recovered. During an interview with 60 minutes, the Federal Reserve chairman say the economy may not fully bounce back without a vaccine. Assuming theres not a second is wave of the coronavirus, i think youll see the economy recover steadily through the succeed half of this year. We cant fully recover until people feel confident. Industries Like Airlines and sporting events will face big challenges, but he also says he doesnt see economy entering another depression texas reported its single the day spike in confirmed cases on saturday ad
Turned violent. Mayor sam liccardo was among those helping clean up the damage stewart said. Santa clara has now joined san jose imposing a curfew from 08 30pm to 05 00am until further notice. Police are on high alert as some protesters are expected to defy the curfew back at the smoke shop which was already hit hard by the pandemic she suspects the people who did this. Were not thinking about george floyd man is assessed or what happened to george. George floyd its its really sad. But you know all the all the peaceful protests that theyre not in support of this. This is this is not for this. So you know this is something that someone else is just taking advantage of the san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Well to the east by the city of san leandro was one of the spots hit hard by looting and fire the bay fair mall was the scene of a lot of chaos kron fours Maureen Kelly shows us that destruction. The fire you see burning is from inside the davis street walmart in san leandro one of 2
Another day. They wanted to hear from mayor San Francisco mayor london breed also in attendance at that location on the steps of city hall was actor and activist jamie foxx who addressed the crowd as well, i mean there their anger is still there about what happened with george floyd but now they were as says widespread as what we saw from say saturday and sunday monday was a little bit better and what we saw over the weekend we still have not heard of any new numbers in the overnight hours and were still working on that for San Francisco, lets go across the bay to open with thousands of people gathered at around 4 oclock in the afternoon at oakland tech. And this gathered momentum on social media and it was widespread i even saw on social media, they said show up protests dont create any destruction and for the most part that was pretty much what happened from oakland tech they marched down to the Oakland Police department through the streets and they were followed by Police Officers.
Big of violence and anger when the curfew change from 8 oclock at night to 6 oclock at so you can see there are lots of people chanting was signs all rooting for justice for george floyd and then things went south a little later in the afternoon, the curfew change as i said from 8 oclock to 6 oclock it was announced on twitter 02 33pm the protests started around 3 so. Some were unaware of the change they were angry when they found out about an earlier curfew as they were you know amped up protesting police say a group of protesters marched onto highway 6. 80 blocked all lanes of northbound traffic vandalizing some cars. We dont know if the cars were vandalized from rubber bullets from the police or if it was from the protesters chp officers responded with other agencies deploying gas to disperse the crowd and several people were arrested you can see in the video it was quite chaotic on 6. 81 officer got minor injuries. Police say another group refused to leave North Broadway and civic