Activists have a demonstration the president and first lady. Scheduled in downtown oakland. The theme of that demonstration, the third hour of today in the our lives matter, stop killing bay continues right now. Black women and girls. Reporting live here in downtown joining us im laura garcia. San jose, bob redell, today in im marcus washington. The bay. From the south bay over to mike keeping an eye on that commute and, first, lets start out with meteorologist kari hall the east bay in oakland last night. Several hundred people gathered with a look at that forecast for at lake merritt. Us on this friday eve and, kari, protesters eventually blocked how is it looking for us today . Still really nice. Traffic along highway 24 and another demonstration is planned lets head over towards the east in the city for later today. Bay where were enjoying some cooler weather compared to and in San Francisco, whats headed our way for the weekend. So, in Pleasant Hill as you head out the door, were
The Police Escorted and protected the white nationalists versus how they harassed and prevented us from getting on bridge. Reporter in an email statement, a spokesperson with the Golden Gate Bridge district writes reporter but some people documented instances of not being able to walk across the bridge, even though they say they were not with the counterprotest. You let them go, but why not me . I believe you have underlying motives. Thats wrong. It was clearly racism in play. Reporter a bay area nurse at the bridge to promote covid19 best practices tells abc7 news she saw it, as well. Its just like racialized medicine, i witnessed racialized Law Enforcement at the bridge yesterday. Reporter izzy says the e. And therefore didnt need a permit. But the Golden Gate Bridge district says there is an exception that applied here. Only one expressive activity is allowed in the same physical space at the same time, citing reporter several people appear to be arrested by chp. Abc7 news reached o
Contained. 80,000 acres of burned there so far. Cal fire is expected to give an update on the ccu fire any moment now. We are monitoring the briefing and will update you with any new information a bit later in the newscast. In the meantime, progress made by cal fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains may allow for people to return to their homes by early next week. More on that from ktvus jesse gary. Backfiring like they call it is under very specific conditions. We dont just use it for whatever. It is not just a random action. It is a very planned event that we use for the fuel. We bring that fire line to a safe area. Reporter late wednesday, cal fire cruise intentionally lit fires in the missive and make a brush fire, burning portions of santa cruz and san mateo counties. Firefighters are testing the viability, doing multiple controlled burns in the area bounded by l soil road to the south and how low road to the north. We want to contain the fuels between the control line and the main fire
Corporations over employees they want more oversight of the money going to Industries Like the Airline Industry and cruz is to make sure that they dont use the money for executive bonuses or buy back stock later but republicans argue theyve already given the democrats enough. And it is time to get this bill passed right there is billion. Going to workers and they all higher. Millions of employees in this country. So yes, we probably need to do something to be invested 50 billion in profits during the good times and buying their own stock. And giving huge bonuses to to their their management. That time they want to see what the public bail us out. And you probably want to know when will a check in the mail. The latest version of this bill did include direct checks. 2 americans. Increased Unemployment Insurance and money for Small Businesses to pay employees. Ill let you know as soon as i get word that something passes. Meantime in the south bay, several Silicon Valley companies are taki
Thank you so much. Thank you it is for that beautiful introduction and for your great leadership. Thank you. All right, thank you very very much. And then also i want to thank todd, beautiful job. Thank you for your work and all you do for working people. Thank you for that. Molly has been with me since the st. Patricks day parade. Where are you molly . There she is, very good and i also know rob is here. Thank you. Rob is way ahead of his time on Climate Change and you should all be really proud of the work that he has done and then also where are you . Right over here. Thank you. Its great to have her nationally. Janice winer where are you janice . A new member of the iowa city council. Thank you and janice supports me so much and i also want to mention our great organizers ray keira mohammad and claire thank you very much for all you are doing. [applause] all right, so we are in middle of what someone has called the surgeon we keep going up. A friend of mine sent a text and it had a