In the center of lot of 70s rather and the Santa Clara Valley got that and were also check the tropics quite busy including down around texas with a new Tropical Storm. All right dave thanks a lot. We begin in the east bay this morning more accountability for the Oakland Police department thats the change. The City Councils putting. In the hands of the voters. The City Council Unanimously approved a ballot measure to make the Citizens Police commission more independent in its decisionmaking kron fours dan thorn reports. In an effort to strengthen oaklands citizen Police CommissionCity Council Members vote to eliminate what oversight advocates called a poison pill now that weve excluded wording of exigent circumstances. Well give the Police Commission more authority and more independents exigent circumstance would have allowed the open police chief to change policies without the commissions consent in relation to Public Safety mariano contrasts with the coalition and Police Accountability says this language would have been dangerous for the citys residents. We believe that the city council so there is a danger and thats why they voted against to eliminate that from the ballot measure. The Oakland Police commission was established by voters in 2016 under measure l l earlier this year, the commission made headlines when they were involved in the firing of former Oakland Police chief Anne Kirkpatrick lead author of the Measure Council member Rebecca Kaplan says this will protect the publics civil rights and help increase Police Accountability and oversight the importance is on the oversight being independent the residents of open borders, the bulk and tired of this and we want to make sure than we have someone in their neck in make sure that these reforms are made. If the measure passes in november, a civilian Inspector Generals Office will be established within the Police Commission, the office among other things would research and advise the commission on the Police Departments effectiveness at following policies. Reporting in oakland dan thorn kron 4 news. Well also the east bay changes are coming and martinez in response to protests following the george floyd the death of george floyd now earlier this month people marched in the streets of martinez demanding Racial Justice and equality. Vice mayor mark ross and the city Council Agreed to form a citizen run committee that will help guide him through civil rights gender and lgbtq issues. Now this week they decided to form a Task Force Made up of martinez residents plus they will Commission Art work on a downtown building to include black lives matters a black lives matter in place of what was removed. You know we all have blind spots. And city martinez wants to know. Were the blind spot start with her to with respect to our policies. Our procedures and how we attack them and deliver services and more teams, including the police and the honor Code Enforcement and our general Government Works what were looking for is that separate up to give us insight and honest truth about how we are delivering those services. There will be another meeting next wednesday to finalize the Citizen Task Force plan and they hope to have an application ready for martinez residents in about 3 weeks it will be on the citys website. It has been extremely busy week in the city of oakland a lot has been going on this week and that includes the vandalism at the home of oakland mayor libby shaft the mayor joins us this morning to talk about that and so much air shaft good morning. Good morning mike. First of all first and foremost how are you and your family doing following that act of vandalism earlier this week at your home. Oh well thank you for your concern weve just been overwhelmed by so many acts of kindness notes flowers at her tour and i never knew that there were so many power washers in our neighborhood neighbors just coming by to help us friends stopping they really is kind, but let me be clear these tactics are not free speech we celebrate free speech and demonstrations and protests here in oakland. But its its not okay to make a family feel like their homes being shot up in the middle of the this will not change in any way my positions might dedication to the city, but i just want to express our gratitude for everyones kindness and support during this time. Lets talk about the police issue in in oakland, because that has been in the news so much lately and then this week. The council vote in which you have the deciding vote. Tell us why you voted the way you did. You know we just cut more than 14 Million Dollars from the Police Department and i believe the budget that the Council Adopted was both responsible and responsive to this moment. Yes people want us to re imagine Public Safety quickly and we took a very dramatic action and the council is establishing a task force to really engage people in the analysis to see what would it look like for us to cut half of the Police Budget thats a 150 Million Dollars that we cant take away a response system without creating its replacement, so i believe that the council is proceeding in a very responsible way that is really answering calls on both sides on one hand oakland has the lowest officer per crimes staff, the of any department in america on the other hand people are calling for defunding the police i believe the council is proceeding in a way that is trying to answer most of those calls it is really a fine line that you and the council are walking in trying to keep Public Safety but at same time. And serena public calls for defunding the Police Department the council was very much split on this how important do you think it is to have a cohesive city council when dealing with both the pandemic and also these calls for social justice. Well let me be clear the council was split on a very modest proposal to cut about 2 Million Dollars more the council was not split on a more radical proposal to cut 25 Million Dollars and that that proposal received votes only from its authors so i think that were actually closer together than you may think Everyone Wants to respond to the public and and meet this moment and oakland was made for this moment, but most Council Members believe we need to have a public process the public needs to know what the impact of these cuts are and we need to co create this new re imagines Public Safety. Well part of that is also what the Council Voted on it and that is to approve a ballot measure that would strengthen the independence of the civilian Police Commission, how would that work if it were passed. You know this is kind of a cleanup its not going to change some of the basic powers of the Police Commission for example their role in hiring and firing the chief. But it will give them more control over their own staffs and that is something that we have all supported for them. It should have been put in the first measure i fully support the new measure that will be going on the ballot this fall and oakland ers can be proud that we have the most independent Police Commission in the country i urge all cities to stand up their own Police Commissions because it is so important that community has a voice and power in this new moment for policing. Mayor lets turn our attention to covid19 in Alameda County and houses affected oakland as well Alameda County closing in on 10,000 cases now what is the latest on the situation there and how youre trying to help people in oakland. Well theres going to be a big call today at lake merritt to stop engaging in gatherings. What were seen particularly from our Community Health partners like the fabulous roots Community Health center which really stood up the very first walk up testing site in east oakland, its the first walk up site in the state. You know some research came out just last night showing that oakland actually have some of the most equitable access to testing in the state. But were seen the case is coming from family and friends gather eats so please your picnic can wait and wear your mask even at studies are showing that masks cloth coverings of your face are really making a difference in keeping you and your loved ones healthy and alive. In so many cases the answers are so simple wearamask wash your hands stay apart from people from mayor lets talk for a second about what the city is doing to try and get cant continue to help those who are possibly losing their jobs yet again can open their businesses. People are going back and forth here or we opener reclosed is its really a difficult situation. We have to follow Doctors Orders and when the coronavirus changes sometimes our economy has to change with it i want to commend Alameda County we have been one of the most responsible counties in the whole country and so we havent seen huge changes in the reopen we are allowing Outdoor Dining. But but this is i continued sacrifice we all have to make but know that the Oakland City Council recently extended the Eviction Moratorium so again it doesnt take away your obligation to pay rent, but you cannot be evicted for right now were doing everything we can to support our workers and our residents weve got to get through this crisis together. Lets turn our attention now to schools schools are going to be opening in the next couple of weeks and Distance Learning has so many challenges not only for students but their parents for schools for teachers, everyone involved. What can the city do to make Technology Accessible to make Internet Access accessible to more people. Well i am so proud that we have been part of the oakland and divided we raised 13 Million Dollars and special gratitude to jack dorsey, 10 of those 13 million were his personal dollars and because of that weve got 25,000 laptops that are on their way right now to oakland household, theyll also be getting hot spots or Internet Connections and Technical Support courtesy of Tech Exchange a great nonprofit clinch that i encourage everyone to learn more about so help us on the way and its just not just tools for Distance Learning which obviously our children are going to need when School Reopens but its really a resource for the whole family to have that Digital Literacy to be connected with information and resources with this shelter in place that kind of connection and access to information is more important than ever. Well, mayor, definitely hats off to jack dorsey for a opened his checkbook and helping out in such a big way and thank you to you for spending some time with us this morning and once again were were glad you and your family are safe and doing well, thanks for joining us. Thank you, welcome back everyone the time 8. 15 weve been patiently waiting for the fog to clear. Lets head over to the Weather Center now get an update on that friday forecast with dave spahr heyday, robin patience is a virtue i morning good morning, everybody live shot from sfo here and almost like a storm coming up over the hills here but we have no delays going on even though the fog clouds are kind of hanging around a little bit. Temperatures are starting to move though in those inland valleys already we have 67 for antioch 61 conquered 64 livermore along the east bay shoreline where upper 50s territory. 60 san jose and 50s meanwhile, up there the north base we clear out the fog and then the afternoon the showers and the thundershowers will fire up very localized up there in the hills. Well see it again. Tomorrow afternoon were looking for a little bit of a minor warming as we get into the weekend and then next week kind of persistence like forecast thats all kind of levels out we got the morning fog in the clouds at the coast that may be a little problematic to kind of clear out a little bit highs not as ambitious today as yesterday so could little cooler for everybody. Then this weekend, well nudge up those temperatures a little bit put topping it off in the lower 90s in the far east bay then much the same as we get into next week it looks like. When you give a lot of this complements to that on shore when the keeps us insulated. Meanwhile, the jumping down to the gulf of mexico, quite active in the tropics. This time of year anyway, and we have this new tropical depression. Now Tropical Storm hanna max winds of 45. So its a teetering on a somewhat weak Tropical Storm but its going to do some heavy rains for southern texas which already has that. Tropical storm warning thats in place expecting a strike sometime very late tonight into Early Saturday Morning with rainfall amounts of south of corpus christies say between 6. 10 inches of rain with all of that know whats left over is going to get pushed off here to northern mexico in the mountains as part of the monsoon season here 63 San Francisco, 68 oakland 77 for san jose across the wider bay though look at the color is a shunt who got the greens covering almost the entire. Bay, some yellows down there in the south bay with 77 san jose far east bay into the 80s and up to the north bay, a lot of 70s with 82 a rose or take a closer look at all of that in your 4 zone forecast coming up in a little bit right now robin has your traffic update robin. New trouble spot in this time around its the richmond sandra fell bridge. Look at all this heavy traffic here leading up to the tolls this is all because of a stalled out truck 5. 80 westbound admit span its stuck in the right lane bridge crews are on scene helping out looks like it just has a flat tire. But traffic is squeezing by in the left side and its backing you up through the tolls beyond castro and now its beyond return parkway so major delays getting to the north bay. Thats why we had a whopping 32 minutes, a little problem leading to a big backup there westbound well take a look at more bridges coming up a little bit later marty all right robin thanks well here in the bay area currently there are over 43,000 cases and over 7. 120 coronavirus related deaths. Were seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 9600 infections. But the virus has been deadliest in Santa Clara County where 181 people have died from the virus for a full breakdown of the cases we have it by county and by city you can check us out at kron 4 dot com. And happening today the Ferry Building in San Francisco is open again after being forced to close just earlier this week. Kron fours reyna harvey live in San Francisco. She has all the details on the big reopening, neither rain. Hey marty you know people that live in the area are ecstatic that the fabled it is going to be opening up, especially miss laura allen behind me we talked earlier. And i told the viewers at home a little bit about your story youre excited. It was open up and she just finished her activities and now shes going to tell us her thoughts on just the reopening. Im very pleased about the reopening i got my Morning Coffee ill be back at luncheon will be picking up some lunch to bring home and also some groceries to cook in the evening. So were very very happy about this. Were telling you your husband, you guys go here off and you guys are very close in you living directly in this community. For many reasons first of all we like to support the local merchants and thats number one help them keep in business during these trying times number 2 the food variety is great they have different types of groceries and some of the meat markets, etcetera and then some specialty food, so we like the var