Strength of 1109 officers. When you factor in disabilities and military leave, the department is roughly 200 officers below that, and its expecting to lose well over 100 sworn officers this year from resignations and retirements. It means less officers on the street, more overtime for officers, higher response times, higher crime rates. Reporter the outlook of catching up is not good. A new Police Academy class starting tomorrow has a capacity of 60. The city made 29 job offers but five took jobs elsewhere and one was a noshow. That will mean the class will have 23 recruits, plus one who was previously hired. Residents of West San Jose tell us they dont see many officers on patrol, and they already know the consequences of short staffing. We are having breakins, you know, a good amount this past summer. Which never happened. I have been living there for 16 years and i hear if you were to call 911 and ask for police, it would take 20, 30 minutes for them to get out. Reporter the issue o
Judge hyde come back to california however right now that cannot happen because the court is ruled shoes braindead by law she cant be flown back to california. Team Coverage continues and how we got to this point back on december 9th last year 2013 dry had tonsils surgery all the procedures to treat sleep apnea Childrens Hospital in oakland. She reportedly awakes after surgery but goes into cardiac arrest and is placed on a ventilator to days later she is declared legally brain dead but kept on a ventilator as the family requests. On december 20th at the Alameda County judge ruled that the hospital to keep the high on the ventilator until Court Approved a doctor determines if she has any hope of recovering. December 24th Christmas Eve Court Approved doctor testified to a height is in fact that bring dead. Give wary fifth after negotiations with hospital the family moves were out of the Oakland Hospital to an un dont care facility. Developing story that new information on the spread of
Outside again this morning, but also snow is falling, not the manmade stuff that you see here in the live picture of the pocono mountains. We also have snow falling from the sky, as well. Light snow coming down for many of you. Good morning this is nbc 10 news on this friday im chris cato. Lets begin with bill henley and his first alert forecast. Not as cold as it was yesterday morning, right sph. Temperatures are 10 to 15 degrees warmer than yesterday. Still cold enough for snow and some manmade snow falling in that scene from the pocono mountains. You can see it is light snowfall that may see two inches at some of the Higher Elevations in the pocono mountains and much of the rest of area will wind up with a dusting or less. 24 in philadelphia and 19 degrees in allentown and a cold start. We are watching that slow moving light snowfall moving into areas to the west and to the north. That light snow will be here this morning, but gone this afternoon. The wind that will be a factor as t
The plane returned to the airport making an Emergency Landing after part of a cabin wall came apart in flight. The airline says it was caused by a blown air duct but the cabin never lost pressure. Oxygen masks were not deployed. Nobody hurt. Passengers took another flight to dallas. Check out these amazing images sent back by the hubble telescope. This is called a butterfly nebula. It may look pretty but this star is actually in deaths throws. The gray clouds of superheated gas thats expelling into space making a strange and sad light show marking its own end. Thats a cool picture. Im kind of a space geek. Is that right . I love anything space related. We come back to earth. Halloween. A lot of pumpkins around. I love pumpkins. They were part of a science lesson yesterday at one high school in fargo, north dakota. Teams built their own catapult and used it to launch pumpkins weighing 8 to 10 pounds. They also measured how far the pumpkin flew. Really it was all about watching pumpkins
Coming up a bitter forecast for new years eve. And bitter news for families when chair Childrens School shut down for good during christmas break. And the hit and run in maryland, new call for charges against the bishop who was behind the wheel. And the big story is the devastating developments in the search for air asia flight 8501, debris found is believed to be that of the plane. Bodies and debris is being pulled from the sea. We go live now to new york. Reporter hello sara, darkness has fallen the devastation on the faces of these families is aapparent. Everybody is hoping for the best knowing the worst has come. For the 162 souls on this flight it has been relaysed by these images debris from the plane. The worst feeling that someone can have, we need to stay strong for the families out there. Before the waves became too intense halting rescue efforts, some bodies were pulled from the sea. Investigators tried to piece together what went so terribly wrong. What we know, during a ro