Encampments on city streets. Well break down the numbers and why the city is crediting its outreach efforts and intervention as the reason behind the change. Plus, after more than a year without a Permanent Police chief, oaklands newly appointed leader of the department officially has a start date. Well talk live with oakland mayor shengtao about the citys new police chief, floyd mitchell. Live from jack london square. This is mornings on two. The nine. Good morning and welcome to the nine. Its a mild day, but we are in for a jump in temperatures by my rules, as long as the ac is working on friday, i think ill be okay. Ill ignore every other red light on that dashboard. And are you one of those people who acts immediately when you see, like the check engine light . Go on. Or are you like the rest of us and just let it kind of simmer for a while . The average american says they ignore their check engine light for four months before they address it. 1 in 5 say theyll go even longer between six months, up to a year and a half. This, according to the latest survey from pep boys, nearly half of respondents said they put off getting their car serviced. Of course, because of the cost. This morning were asking how long do you typically wait to address your car repairs . Andres been nodding, so i think hes in. Yeah, i think hes in the six months or longer group, but lets see how many of you. Oh, 37. You say youll check it right away. Six, six months or longer. Thats about another good group of you, just more than a third. The Smallest Group here, just about a quarter of you say, yeah, ill go six months, maybe even longer. Let us know how you react to those red lights on your dash. Scan the qr code at the top right of your screen or head to ketv. Com vote. I typically wait until i have like more than 1 or 2. So to me, like right now to check. Yeah, like just different lights. Not the check engine light, but like the little i think my airbag light has been on. Sometimes the tire pressure light goes on. Once i get 2 or 3 of those, then ill either turn it over to my husband or go into the shop. Sounds like you wait a minute. Right. Well, so, you know, you know, when i did, you know, didnt make much. And i had these old cars. Yeah. Id wait. I mean, just even thinking about taking it to the mechanic and theyre like, oh, its going to be 1000 or 500, right . Yeah. And im just like, well, if the car is running right now, let me just keep keep running it until i actually have to face the face, the music and have to figure out how to pay for this thing. I used to be one kind of guy, and now im a different kind of guy. Yeah, now i do it. Yeah. So now i deal with it somewhat immediately because theres no excuse for being late to this job. Yeah. You cant say, oh, my car broke down. Well, i mean, frequently or those kids have got to get picked up from school right . Right. And frequently like, whatever would cost you, lets say 500. Now, if you wait six months, maybe its 750, maybe the other thing gets even worse. So its a compounding. Yeah, maybe ill win the lottery in six months and i can buy a brand new car. These are what goes through. These are things that go through my mind, right . Less likely. Yeah. So we have to pivot to this. This kind of has to do with driving and cars. But unfortunately its a pretty serious sounding accident at the area of center road and east kendall expressway in san jose. Its a major injury vehicle collision. As you know, if you live in the area, thats a pretty busy intersection with gas stations and Convenience Stores and just a lot of lanes coming into that area. Those commute traffic lanes will be affected for a while. Please avoid the area. Use alternate routes. This is not affecting highway 101 nearby, which by the way is still slow. You can use 101 and get up to the next exit and avoid east capital expressway. Maybe you might want to use tully road instead. And happening today, its the start of the state trial against david depape, the man accused of breaking into the San Francisco home of former House Speaker nancy pelosi and attacking her husband, paul in 2022. The trial is expected to go through the end of next month. Depape has already been convicted of two federal charges related to the attack. Sentencing in the federal case is set for may 17th. For murder, suspects have agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges after it was revealed they were arrested by Antioch Police officers involved in the departments racist text scandal. They were all charged in the killing in march 2021. However, attorneys say all 12 officers involved in the case were also part of a racist, homophobic and threatening text message chain. The District Attorneys Office admitted racial bias was involved in the case. The suspects face a possible sentence of 20 years to life in prison. They will now spend anywhere from 13 to 20 years behind bars and will be sentenced later this week. A suspect wanted in connection with a homicide in stockton was arrested in antioch following an hours long search, police told people in the area of gentry town yesterday, gentry child drive yesterday to lock their doors and windows as officers look for the suspect. He was taken into custody just before 6 00 last night. No other details have been released. After more than a year without a Permanent Police chief in the east bays largest city, a new leader starts this saturday to lead oaklands police force. With us now to talk more about whats happening in oakland is mayor shengtao. Mayor, thank you so much for joining us. This morning. Absolutely. Its always my joy. All right. So the police chief, floyd mitchell, hes getting ready to start. Tell us a bit about that. Its happening soon. Absolutely. Its going to be happening may 11th is hes already in town, but hell be starting officially on may 11th. So its a saturday. Why is saturday . You know, thats just how payroll works. Oh, okay. I got you, h. R, and its all these, like, funny little things. I was wondering then im like, thats a strange. And theres a swearing in an official swearing in ceremony, but thats still being planned, from my understanding. Yes so well have to wait for a date on when thats going to happen. Yes. Youll have to wait for a date for when that will happen. But we will have a public swearing in. All right. Whats his first order of business here when he does start . Because theres so many different facets of this job that hes got to start with. But what did you all talk about . No, absolutely. So first and foremost, hes kind of already on the job. Right. So hes hes been working closely with chief ellison, interim chief ellison and assistant chief tony jones. Really learning the ropes of the Different Things that were doing here, the different strategies. Of course, ceasefire is the strategy that were operating off of. We know it works. You know, we have homicides that are down by 17. We want to continue that roadmap. And so with that being said, hes already being trained up in all of these different strategies. The first order is Crime Reduction. Yeah. Yeah. So lets talk about Crime Reduction because the city came out with a report recently that shows. And if we can show the stats on the screen here, pretty dramatic drop here, reduction in crime, 33 overall compared to last year. Homicides is down 17, assaults down 7, rape down 21, burglaries 50. But robberies still up by 11. So lets talk about what you attributed to the Crime Reduction here overall. Well, its a comprehensive approach that we are taking. Of course, the first year coming in, we really opened up the hood to really try to figure out what was happening, what wasnt happening. We also went back to ceasefire right. I built back up the ceasefire program, which is targeting the small groups of people who are committing the crimes that we also know, who are also committing property crimes and pulling the trigger. But at the same time, of course, we worked closely with chp. Were working closely with our sheriffs partnership and this comprehensive approach really brings in probation. The District Attorneys Office. So all of government, all the arms have to work in order for this strategy. So separate from ceasefire, what im hearing is you had these other arms that were also working in tandem at the same time with the probation, that type of thing that you would credit overall with, with the reduction in crime. Absolutely. All right. The robbery i know you you know, the robberies are still up 11, you know, thats something of course youre looking at anything specific that youll try to focus on that you can tell residents about. Oh, absolutely. Right now, for the last month or so, were hyper focused on robberies. Of course we are. You know, were still up by 6 in robberies, but that is that has flattened since february. So february we were double that number. So we are seeing the trend coming down. Were going to continue to focus on that. And again you know we know that overall crime is down and but the next step that im working towards is the sense of feeling safe. Right. The perception of crime is still continues to be an issue here because we talk to some people. Last week when those numbers came out and someones like, yeah, ive noticed a difference. Others say, no, everything still seems the same to me. I dont know why theres a difference or if youre in a certain section of town. Im not really sure, but what is your sense . What could you focus on to get that perception to diminish that perception of, of, of a violent area . For some people of oakland . Well, we got to continue this track of making sure that crime is coming down, that especially homicides are coming down. But at the same time, the perception thats done a lot on the Different Social Media platforms or what have you. And so we are pushing out positive, news stories that we are working on. Right. But at the same time, its about bringing people out of their homes and, you know, having them go out to shop and drink and eat, and thats the same sense of safety. But also so the patrolling part as well. And so this is why we brought back the foot patrols. When people see our officers on the street and they communicate, that is a sense of a feeling of safety. Of course, thats not generalizing that. Thats the case across the city. But its really also, you know, the city going out and cleaning up the streets. Yeah. I want to talk to you. You have something called oakland fresh that you started and that kind of, you know, fits into this because youre talking about cleaning up abandoned vehicles. Youre talking about, you know, Blighted Properties around around oakland and the perception of crime also has to do with that. If you see all those things, youre of course going to think its a dangerous area. So tell us about oakland fresh and what its doing. And has it started . Is it off the ground . Yes, it is off the ground. I got some stats here for you. It was the first two months weve had 140 piles of illegal debris that was picked up, 174 abandoned cars towed, 34 graffiti sites painted. And were going to continue because to that point, the perception of safety is also cleanliness. Yes, we want our kids and our elders to be able to walk the streets freely. Is there a specific area that youre focused on . So in east oakland, we these are the areas that weve already worked on. We worked in east oakland international, 66 avenue to 85th center in oakland. Its east 12th to foothill, sixth avenue to, to 11th. And in west oakland we have san pablo to 27th to 35th and 34th. Peralta to west. How many people are in this are part of this oakland pressure, or is it youre using the departments that are there to push this program . Oh, yes, were using the department that are there. Essentially what it is, is myself and the city administrator will go out with our whole team, all the director heads of all departments, and so that were going to take care of the curb, the streets, the garbage, everything all at once, so that its not being piecemealed out so people can feel the instant impact. And of course, were calling on the community to also take responsibility and join us in this cleanup and then continue the cleanup. Gotcha. All right. Lets step back real quick to the city auditors report last week about the grant money, which weve talked about many times here. Youve accepted responsibility for missing out on that 15 million. And, the report though did cite a lack of leadership, lack of project management as a reason. Anything in that report surprised you when you when you read it . No, nothing surprised me. You know, again, in my state of the city last year, i did take full responsibility for that coming in. I already knew at that point in the council knew as well too, that we had this potential possibility that we could miss out on grants. And so what happened was, in the budget cycle, we funded and centralized grant person, and that was prior to this grant even being missed. Or and so we were talking about hiring the central person. Okay. So were already setting that up. That central person is here. And so we have so youve hired so this is a this is a grant writing coordinator. Is that that particular. And so that person is hired. Now that person is hired. All right. And when did they start. So they start actually in a week. And so with that being said this is going to be able to coordinate better between the different offices. Were seeing more and more nowadays that, you know, the funding, the funding thats coming down from the state or the feds that they require multi departmental efforts to work to ensure that we have the best application. All right. Lets talk a little bit about cities now and businesses Small Business month in oakland. Tell us a bit about that and what youre hoping to see. Well i always say that every day is a Small Business day and that we should always shop local. So for folks out there, please go out and shop local and buy local. You know, this is really a boost to our economy as the Small Businesses are our backbone here in the city of oakland. But at the same time, these are mom and pops. And so we encourage everyone to go out and shop local. There are certain different discounts at different stores. Yeah. Is there something published by the by the city that people can look at to shop at these mom and pop stores . Yes, it is on our website. On the website. All right. Thank you so much for joining us today. Youre going to have a busy week ahead of you with the chief. And you know, a lot going to be surrounding that. All the fun things, all the fun things that you get to do. All right. Mayor thank you so much for coming in again. We appreciate your time. All right. Coming up on mornings on two and nine, its one of the most common cancers among women nationwide. And now there are new recommendations to ensure everyone is an advocate for their own health. Well talk live with a doctor about the importance of Early Detection for Breast Cancer patients. Also ahead, a first for the bay area. The im rtance fine lines . Make an appointment with this. Hyaluronic plumping water cream by loreal. With micro hyaluronic acid. 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Talk to your eye doctor about ga and learn more at gawontwait. Com at paypal park in san jose. Its the first time the two teams will officially play each other in a competitive match. Ktvu james torres is in san jose with a look at the matchup and what to expect. This is all part of the u. S. Open cup. Thats a nationwide soccer tournament that puts Major League Soccer teams and has them square off against Lower Division teams amatures, semipro or even smaller professional teams like the oakland roots. It started with 96 teams, and were down to the final 32. The two teams have only played once before. That was a preseason game three years ago. The roots took a two nil lead until the quakes took over and scored three straight to win. Today, the stakes are much higher. You could call it a case of david versus goliath. Both teams coming in with not so great starts to the season, but some good momentum off the weekend and some great signings. Lets start with the visitors. The oakland roots sit 10th in the western conference of the usl. They mostly rested their starters over the weekend and came up big with a draw against san antonio, one of the best teams in their league. Last week, they dropped their head coach, but they just added a big name and dom dwyer, hes a former u. S. International striker and mls star. He is clear to play today and very well could make his debut tonight. The cup is a very special competition, has a lot of history, you know, and its a great opportunity for the club. You know its a local rivalry and youre playing against a bigger club in a higher league. And its exciting. You know its an opportunity for the guys. So theyre looking forward to it. The earthquakes excited about a major signing of their own hernan lopez, a young 23 year old midfielder from argentina, has some roots in royalty. His great uncle is the late, great diego maradona. He broke the quakes record for the most expensive transfer signing, and the team hopes he can be the key to turning their season around as they sit at the bottom of the mls western conference table with just two wins under their belt. I expect to see some young guys come in, show that they they deserve to be there, but also they want to be making that first team lineup more often. So its going to be an interesting game. But mentally youve got to be prepared because oakland is going to come a