Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Forced out, San Franciscos top cop has resigned tonight after police shot and killed an unarmed black woman. Kpix5s joe vazquez is at city hall tonight. Joe, a stunning turn of events today. Just yesterday the mayor said that he had the chiefs back. What happened . Reporter yeah, ken. It was very stunning, very emotional at city hall today. You can actually hear it in the mayors voice as he announces he decided its time for a new chief. Mayor ed lee made the announcement in his office just before 5 00 hours after an officer fired into a stolen vehicle in the bayview killing a 27yearold African American woman, the latest in a series of Police Shootings prompting reforms from the mayor and chief. The progress that weve made has been meaningful, but it hasnt been fast enough. Thats why ive asked chief suhr for his resignation. Reporter the mayor named Toney Chaplin as acting police chief. Up until now the mayor had stood by sur even a
Gearing up for a florida fight. We have live night Team Coverage. Huge dome of High Pressure is dominating our weather. Keeping us warm and windy but at the same time its providing for some rough conditions for you beach goers and boaters. Two teenagers coming under the gun as they walk to work and police are stillll looking for some of those who pulled the bold crime off. And when the cameras stopped rolling, the trouble began. Real life rescue near movie set in south florida. Just one station has it. The. Hello welcome everyone. All this and more right now first at 10 00. Now at 10 00. More voters voicing their choice. As the race for the white house gets set to move to the sunshine state. And for one candidate at the time fight for florida is personal. Coverage othe trail. Hello again everyrye. Michigan voters have spoken and donald trump winning that state president ial primary. Here is how the candidates firnd. Trump took 38 percent of the vote. Ohio governor kasich came in second
Goose chase. Do you have enough officers online to stop them from going on the freeway . Thats the first question. If youre short of personnel you have a problem. Reporter as for just moving in and breaking things up at the first sign of trouble . You dont want your officers running in an uncontrolled way that you have to have a crime control strategy separate from the crowd control strategy. Reporter they got to be willing to go in and make the arrests. Absolutely. Absolutely. You have a responsibility to Business Owners. The Business Owners are paying a large chunk of your salary. A couple of officers sent in, into a very large hostile violent crowd. Reporter then come the lawsuits. When oakland drew the line with occupy demonstrators a few years back it wound up paying out 4. 5 million to demonstrator scott olsen hit in the head with a beanbag fired by an officer. Somebody can always sue you but if your officers are acting properly, then you let the chips fall where they may. Report
Now its our buddy, its our pal, its our friend. It is steering every storm toward us, not only the one moving through right now, but the one that will give us a bigger drenching coming up over the weekend. The first storm, the latest computer model information says we will get more rain. Some may get an inch or more of rain fall from this and this is the smaller of the two storms. So wait until you see how much rain we have in the forecast and how much of a dent this will put in our drought. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Looks good, paul. Now to andrea, she is live in pleasantton with the latest. Andrea. Reporter ken, can you see . There is rain falling right now. Good news for this town because it is under an extreme drought right now. So much so in fact that the pleasantton city Council Voted to institute a call to ask its residents for a 20 cut in their water usage. Now, as you look at video of downtown pleasantton, you can see theres a sheen of water on the roads. There is wate
You know, maybe inside somebody elses body, but that was the heart that fell in love with me. Captioning sponsored by cbs ca this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Just as president obama is trying to win congressional support for a strike against the syrian dictatorshi is a new complication. A video has surfaced, and we caution you it is graphic, and you will not want Young Children to watch it. The video was obtained by the New York Times. The paper says these are Syrian Rebels back in april about to execute Syrian Government soldiers. We will not show you the shooting, but as the video goes to black, you will hear the sound. gunfire there are many rebel groups battling the syrian dictatorship, some the u. S. Calls freedom fighters, others it labels terrorists. Secretary of state john kerry says the bad guys, as he calls them, make up only 15 to 25 . It is difficult and dangerous to get correspondents inside syria, but we have both Elizabeth Palmer and C