Commanders and the federal Court Monitor recommended that five officers be fired and she xonl rated them. Reporter graduates of the 183rd class were sworn in this morning. Young faces full of optimism joining the departent with the dubious history. Seven Police Chiefs in 11 years. The latest casualty, chief ann kirkpatrick, the citys first female chief hired three years ago and fired last night. My decision yesterday was extremely personally difficult for me. I made it because i believe it was in the best interests of oakland. Mayor libby shaf addressing the class. She and the picks holding a special meeting deciding to terminate kirkpatrick. Leaders will could that will and go. Im on my way out in a little more than two years myself. The mission of this department, the commitment to serve the people of oakland have never waivered. They lost three chiefs in year. Kirkpatrick oaklands first female chief was brought in to help deal with the fallout. It was clear that kirkpatrick and the civilian Police Commission didnt see eye to eye on things lying disciplining officers or overseeing the cleanup of the department. However, kirkpatrick was very popular with rank and identify officers and had supporters and city government. One of them, noe of the. The typiiming was wrong. I think the way we did it was under called for of the. Reporter he said he thought kirkpatrick was doing a good job and he had initiatives planned in the area he covers. There will be a nationwide search for a brand new police chief. I was talking to one rank and file officer and he said the 25 years hes been on the job, he thought kirkpatrick was the best police chief he had ever worked for. Oakland has gone through seven Police Chiefs in the last ten years. Jobina fortson goes through the history. Opd has often been a department in turmoil in the last decade. Well look back. Anthony batts lasted two years following controversy over Police Department reforms. Plus a strained relationship with the former mayor. Howard jordan was next. He lasted two years until resigning in 2013 for health reasons. Then came interim chief anthony toribio. He last just two days before voluntarily stepping down. Next, sean whent. Ted interim job before getting the full time gig. He lasted three sea but left as several officers were involved in a Sexual Misconduct scandal. That started a turbulent week for the department as they went through three chiefs in just nine days. Ben fairow served six days. The mayor received information that questioned his ability to assume the post. We later heard that he admitted to an extramarital affair. Then the enter inchief paul figueroa. He only lasted two days. Anne kirkpatrick came in and lasted three years before getting fired last night. Back to you. The ouster shows the unrivaled power. What this likely means going forward. This is probably the most powerful Police Commissioner in the country. It is feel its legs. This is first one. Not only do they have the power to fire. They are going to launch the search for a replacement and they will give a certain amount of names to the mayor to select. But they are going to be picking the new police chief. So whoever comes in to interview for the job faces them and knows what happened with kirkpatrick. He says people are angry about this. You can read his column every wednesday and sunday in the chronicle. New fallout for wes fargo. Four years after we learned copy will belowees opened millions of unauthorized Bank Accounts to meet sales goals, they will be shelling out 3 million. That money is going to the treasury and investors, not to customers. The settlement with the department of justice covers wells fargo as a company. Individuals who violated bank laws could still face more punishment and it doesnt do away with the problems. It is still under proceed participation and faces other considerations. Highway 37 in the north bay has been problematic over the years. Flooding has forced its closure. Now a north bay lawmaker has a bold proposal to make highway 37 a toll road to help ease congestion and protect it from Sea Level Rise. Cornell live with the story. Reporter 40,000 cars and trucks travel highway 37 between marin and soleano counties every day. Check out the slow and go commute. It has been like this the last two hours. A proposed toll could ease congestion and protect a big stretch from Sea Level Rise. I feel badly for the poor folks sitting there on 37. It needs some changes. Reporter it seems like everybody has horror story. It gets jammed pretty well. 37 eastbound is stopped. Reporter a stretch of commuter weary highway thats not getting any better. Commuters deserve better. Reporter easing congestion on 37 could cost billions. But north bay state senator bill has a solution how to pay for it. A toll road between sears point and the island in vallejo. And ultimately providing with us a new roadway that will have sustainability and greater capacity. Reporter money from the tows could kick start fixes which has flooded several times in recent years prompting full closures. By the end of the century, this roadway system will be underwater. Reporter he says a uc davis study indicates most of highway 37 will vanish due to Sea Level Rise. Weve been incredibly impacted by fires in this county. But we also have to recognize that Sea Level Rise will present even greater challenges and even greater costs in the long term. A redesign of highway 37 could restore acres of wildlife habitat. Many say it is time to invest in the future. I think it is our responsibility as humans to do something about that. It is not working as it is. And evidence obviously points to it being underwater very soon. Reporter were back live on a congested highway 37. Youd Better Believe not everybody likes the idea of a toll road. Senator dodds bill would create authority to raise money for repairs and could help leverage funds for a highway that could be elevated like a causeway. Live on a very slow highway 37. Back to you. It looks very slow. How much would this toll road cost . Reporter we asked senator dodd. Details have yet to be worked out. He suggested somewhere between 5 and 6 could be collected through a transponder like fast track. There will be Public Meetings in the future and it will be settled then. Hell be in that truck for a while. Drivers across the golden gate and pedestrians also pay a toll. The assemblyman wants to make sure they dont have to. He says it would urge commuters to ditch their cars. Every 84 we have thousands of pedestrian whos walk across the bridge. We have people who commute across the bridge from marin. They bike into San Francisco west dont want to do anything to encourage them to get off their bike into a car. A current law prohibits tows on the bridge but that law expires at the end of this year. Would it extend ban for another decade and make it apply to all the other toll spans like the bay bridge. A Beautiful Day for a walk or bicycling. A live look from our east bay hills. And the mt. Tam tower cameras. Dry is the operative word. What do we have for the weekend . It will remain mostly dry. There is some light precipitation. Heres the forecast animation starting at 11 30 tonight. Notice all the clouds surging from our south. Not much in the way of precipitation. Monterey may see a patch or two of light rain. You see the Early Morning hours. It doesnt look line it will make its way into the main portion of the bay area. And ill look for precipitation totals. Measurable rainfall looks like zero. Ill show you what to expect next week. Lets long at what sky 7 spotted in the bay this afternoon. It appeared to be a gray whale swimming in Raccoon Strait between tiburon and the island. Everything seemed okay. It is important to note that last year a calf turned up dead shortly after being spotted swimming in the same area. We dont know the condition of this whale. Typically march is the scenic for gray whales. How about a bear of a day . The unbearably tense warning for homeowners and a bear walking flaunl southern california. Plus, getting personal. A new twist on tomtrump on the economy. Ald his people over profits plan makes a living wage a right. Creates thousands of good paying green jobs in california. And provides a 10 tax cut for everyone making under 250,000. Toms plan also makes health care a right, by adding a public option to obamacare. Protects union negotiated plans. And ensures californians can make their own health care choices. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. I wanted my hepatitis c gone. I put off treating mine. Epclusa treats all main types of chronic hep c. Whatever your type, epclusa could be your kind of cure. 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I normally come a little later so i have to use the back parking lot. Now that will be fulfill ill have to figure out a new way to get there. The problem starts with this parking lot. Tonight it will be closed. In order to make way for the new milbrae transit center. It will include 400 apartments. 100 of which will be for low low income tenants. 300 parking spots will be gone. I dont support it. You can see how crowded the parking space becomes. Daniel understands the need for more housing. But not at the expense of taking away parking at a b. A. R. T. Station where parking is already in high demand and with few options to park elsewhere. I did commute around 11 00 a. M. It gets pretty crowded. It doesnt meet the demand. Parking is already loimtd a loading zone. But some commuters stay bay area needs more housing. He likes the idea of a Transit Village designed to reduce the number of people on the road. It will have more housing availability for a lot of people who do need it. It is very expensive on the peninsula. Overall, it will be positive. Reporter not just this parking lot. During construction, other lots will be closed temporarily until the project is completed which could take three years. Abc7 news. We want to hear your ideas out building a better bay area. Starting next week, we are dedicating our building a better bay Area Coverage to b. A. R. T. See what has changed. Coverage begins on monday. It has been a bear of a day for residents in a los angeles suburb. Pun intended. News crews were following every move of a large black bear wandering around the streets in monrov monrovia. Look at those dogs holding their ground. Of course, they are behind the big gate there. And then bear is strolling up. All right. Everybody is getting along. The bear seemed under fazed by the residents. Look at the news crews who are dangerously close. If he gets angry, they are lunch. Animal control officers finally contained him in the back of a home and they tranquillized him and hes doing okay. Goodness. I home it is okay. The Rancho San Antonio pre serve opened this morning. A Mountain Lion was found and euthanized. Warning signs have been put up throughout the park. Heidi the dog proved she israel m really is mans best friend. She treaded water 11 hours after her owners boat sank off the coast of australia shelf eventually caught the attention of a fisherman prompting a full scale search for her owner. Thankfully he was found drifting and reunited. She treaded water for 11 hours. She must have been owned by Michael Phelps. Im not sure Michael Phelps could tread water 11 hours. Thats a long time. Go try it for a minute or two. Well, no water will be falling around here. I feel like all this week has been a tease. We talk about this slight chance. It is even slighter now as the system that might have run it is approaching us. Heres a long at lye doppler 7. Some little patches of moisture. It is certainly not hitting the ground in the bay area. This is a view of dry but pleasant conditions looking over San Francisco. It is 69 degrees in the city right now. Very mild, pleasant. 79 degrees at oakland. 66 in san jose and gilroy. 63 at half moon bay. Were looking southward from mt. Tam. You can see the increasing clouds in the sornl sky. That system that weve been talking about all week is coming from our south. Well see increasingly cloudy skies especially in the south bay. 74 right now. Petalu petaluma, 69. Concord, 71, 68 in livermore. You see the clouds getting a little thicker in the southern sky. These are our forecast features. There could be isolated sprinkles early tomorrow morning. Mainly south bay and then farther south toward monterey bay. Even toward san benito county. Breezy and cooler. On sunday. And then sunny, mild and dry virtually all of next week. You know how dry its been. The last soaking rain was january 16th. The last measurable rain was around the 28th or so. 21 days into the month and it has been dry, dry, dry. No rainfall at all. It doesnt look like well get much from this system. Increasing clouds. If you see any paxes of green popping up, that is where we expect rain to fall. You can see a patch of rain around 9 30 this morning but thats as the system is weakening which means little to no chance of rainfall falling in the immediate San Francisco bay area. So the projection for rainfall totals tomorrow afternoon, zero in the immediate bay area. Mid to upper 40s, tomorrows highs will change from upper 50s at the coast. Breezy, low 60s mainly around the bayshore. As we look ahead to sunday, even cooler in some spots. Then monday, temperatures bounce back vigorously. By tuesday, well be looking at some upper 70s to near 80 in our inland areas. Heres the sevenday forecast. So we can skip the weekend. Dry and very mild springlike week coming our way with high temperatures well into the 70s inland and around the bay tuesday, wednesday, thursday. And then timering o eringtimeri, on freeway. Mainly a miss. Not a hit. It will be nice. Nice and dry. All right. Thank you. Online shopping is more popular than ever. What can retailers do to get you back in stores . The new outside the big box ideas. Im michael finney. The coronavirus is having a big effect on the while the middleclass continues to struggle. Thats what happens when billionaires are able to control the political system. Our campaign is funded by the working people of this country, and those are the people that i will represent. No more tax breaks for billionaires. We are going to guarantee health care to all people and create up to 20 million good paying jobs to save this planet. Im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message because we need an economy that works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors. 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