Transcripts For KTVU The Ten OClock News On KTVU Fox 2 20170

Transcripts For KTVU The Ten OClock News On KTVU Fox 2 20170413

A small crowd is gathered in San Franciscos Mission district tonight. Today, the District Attorney announced those officers would not face criminal charges, citing evidence, and interviews. We get the developing news now from ktvus debora villalon. Reporter about a dozen protesters are still out here, undeterred by the drizzle, they are blocking valencia street at 17th street as police look on. This group holds weekly vigils for Amilcar Perezlopez. What do we do . We fight back. Reporter protesters say they wont give up or go away. Outraged the shooting of a young guatemalan immigrant has been justified. It is a shock, and it has opened up some very deep wounds in the community. Reporter the District Attorney describes his decision as transparent and painstaking. In total, more than three dozen civilians provide us statements regarding the shooting. Reporter saying Amilcar Perezlopez chased a man down the street. Experts created an animated reenactment of the shots. We note that the officers did order him to drop the knife. He did not drop the knife, and then the shots were fired. Reporter gascon says two officers identified themselves, but then lopez had slashing actions. Justice for Amilcar Perez lopez. Reporter but the knife has been a point of contention during two years of protests. Witnesses differ. Some say perezlopez had dropped the knife before he was shot. Gascon says its location doesnt support that. The knife was found in the street, well into the lane of traffic, several feet from perezlopezs hand. Reporter also questioned why five of the six bullets hit perezlopez in the back, if he was advancing. Based on the time, perez lopez would have been able to turn 90, to 180 degrees by the time the first bullet hit him. Reporter a. M. Car perezlopez is one of just several fatal officer involved shootings that District Attorney gascon is still reviewing. Clearly, these activist groups will be watching as he moves forward on the other ones. Julie, the perezlopez family has hired an attorney, and they are pursuing a civil case against the city. Debora, theyre clearly blocking the street out there, any word as to you how long theyll stay out there tonight . Reporter i think its up to them. Police are not intervening at all. As you can see, the officers are right here, just guiding traffic past them. Its light traffic anyway. It seems they will let this group dispurse on its own. Debora, thank you. A San Francisco sheriffs deputy pleaded not guilty today to Insurance Fraud charges. April myres were arrested claiming her service gun and other items were stolen. She filed a 67,000 insurance claim. Myres allegedly gave the gun to her boyfriend, antoine fowler, a convicted felon, who she meat while she was in jail. Wet weather moves into the bay area. There is more rain on the way. And windy tonight. Chief meteorologist bill martin is watching the storm for us. And says thesome will impact your commute. Just checking out the giants game, theyre in the 7th inning, and it is raining hard over there. Its windy as well. A rough night the ballpark. The stands looked like they were half empty. The rain is coming down pretty hard right now as we thought it would. Here is the system. You can kind of see it sliding through here. Theres wave number two. Coming in close. The showers are not seeing heavy rain, but a real heavy mist, and coming down to the tune of some areas a tenth of an inch of an hour, that kind of thing. Not what were used to. But it is on a ballgame, it is on the roadway its out there. San mateo showers out there. The winds have been blowing as julie pointed out. 22 mileanhour south wind. Thats sustained at oakland, sfo. This is as inclement weather comes in, you get the winds. 30 mileanhour gust. As we head into tomorrow, as you look at this live camera shot out at the ballpark, theyre still playing ball right now. Mark ibanez will let you know how that goes. The rain showers continue tonight, and stick around through the morning hours. So that morning commute could be a bit compromised. Ill see you back here in just a bit. A reminder you can track approaching storms anytime with the ktvu weather app. Uber is facing charges for failure to suspend drivers. It reviewed 154 complaints about uber drivers suspected of driving while intoxicated. The puc found in all but three of those cases, the Company Either failed to investigate or suspend the drivers. Uber will have a chance to present evidence, or contest the penalty. B. A. R. T. s board of directors meets tomorrow. On the table, lesson fare discounts for the elderly, and the disabled. One plan is for b. A. R. T. To Begin Service daily at 5 00 a. M. , rather 4 00 a. M. There is also offering a 50 cent per charge surcharge for riders who dont use clipper cards. The Oakland Unified School district begins to grapple with a 10 million budget short fall. As ktvus Paul Chambers reports, the proposed budget cuts dont sit well with parents or teachers. Dozens of upset parents, teachers, and students are protesting proposed budget cuts to Oakland Unified School district. Our schools cannot take cuts. We cannot have cuts period. The district says it it needs to reduce spending by 10 million. All the while, protecting the state minimum reserve of 2 . The district is looking at hiring freezes, and no travel. Im creating a go fund me for my class to go on a field trip, and im paying into a gofundme for my daughters class to go on her field trip. Reporter the group took their concerns to the Board Members inside city hall, where they held a meeting. Also looking at where it can have Additional Savings within Early Childhood education, and special education. Although the district didnt give specific details on what it will cut, organizers say the cuts could mean a reduced number of teachers in schools, and increasing the number of combinations. Thats when more than one grade level is taught in a single classroom. When people in the school dribbing and people on the school board are not taking care of our budget, and are making mistakes like this, theres absolutely no reason why they should charge our children for their mistakes. Reporter the possible cancelation of bus services to three oakland schools. The tune of 3 million a year. The Transit Agency says that is nearly a third of its operational cost for supplemental services. If the bus lines are cut it would affect hundreds of students at monterey middle, sigh line high, and Community Day schools. It will moo longer pay the 2. 25 numbered in reimbursement. Over, they say the funding no longer exists and the funds it gets now for public education, goes to special education students to get to and from school. They have numerous private schools that get service, but were the only district that actually paid any money for it. Where is the equity in that. Reporter the School District owes 700,000 in back payment for those supplemental bus lines, but also say as of right now, and through the end of the school year, there will be no cuts cuts to that service. The bay area widow of the gunman in the florida nightclub massacre pleaded not guilty to charges today. Shes charged with aiding and abetting her husband, omar mateen, as well as obstruction of justice. Solomons attorney entered a not guilty plea for her. 49 people were killed. Now to washington, and some strong words from the Trump Administration on russia and syrian president Basher Al Assad today. Reporter frank and julie, the Trump Administration shifted its rhetoric toward russia today. Forget president Trumps Campaign trail praises of vladimir putin. Instead the tension was evident today on differences in syria. President trump took a very different tone toward russia. Right now, were not getting along with russia at all. We may be at an alltime low in terms of relationship with russia. This is built for a long period of time. But were going to see what happens. Reporter the world is watching. The two former cold war enemies have joined in the fight against isis, but russias backing of syrian president basher alassad has wrangled the u. S. Nikki haley blames syrian president assad for the attack. Secretary tillersons two hour meeting did not appear to bridge that divide. There is a low level of trust between our two countries. The worlds foremost Nuclear Powers cannot have that kind of relationship. Reporter russia continues to dispute the attack on civilians that led to President Trump to order a strike on the site. I think people need to understand that. This is what were facing. Reporter a lecturer in middle Eastern Studies in berkely. He says the conflict is complicated by regional factions and syrian president assads tactics. Starvation tactics against town. Vast displacement, barrel bombs. Reporter they agree to continue fighting isis, but bartu says its unclear how the u. S. And russia will move forward. Whats really important here is that they finally agree how this is going to end. What are the rules of the game for prosecuting the rest of the conflict, and what pressure they can bring to bear on the different stakeholders and parties to agree and go along with whatever they say. Putin did agree today to reestablish a military communication line between the two countries to keep diagnose open. Bartu says the conflict could drag on. Russia is scheduled to meet with officials from both syria and iran later this week. Jana, thank you. Dozens of affordable, new apartments in a tight housing market. See the project giving hope to people feeling priced out. Tracking some showers right now. Its raining throughout much of the bay area. Well let you know how that impacts the drive. In two minutes. 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And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. The ceo of United Airlines did more damage control from that incident earlier this week. In addition to the strongest apology yet, united is also offering refunds to everyone who was on the plane. Uniteds ceo also made another promise. Everyone is talking about the video. A paying customer ripped from his seat so united could make room for its own employees. Oh, my god. Look at what you did to him other passengers watched in horror, and millions have watched online, a pr disaster for united. On good morning america, a complete flip flop by the companys ceo who initially blamed the passenger, dr. David dow. Do you think hes at fault in any way . No, he cant be. He was a paying passenger seating on our seat in our aircraft, and no one should be treated that way. Period. Reporter a mess for united has become an opportunity for new Jersey Governor Chris Christie to take action. Asking transportation secretary elaine chao to suspend the ability they keep those guys off the plane to make money. Reporter to be fair, all Airline Customers overbook, banking on when there are more travelers than seats, airlines pay some to take a later flight, or just remove them. I understand their position, because it is a business. I think what happened the other day with united went beyond the pail. Reporter uniteds ceo may have gotten the message. Were not going to put on an officer to remove a booked seated, paying passenger. We cant do that. Reporter united as refunded the tickets of everybody that was on last sundays flight. As the investigation into what happened continues, two more aviation officers have been placed on leave. We can also tell you that the doctorate the center of all of this, david dow has hired an attorney. We could see a lawsuit coming against united. A very healthy company. In the last two years they have made almost 1 billion in profits. Berkely Police Released three more photos today of people wanted for a melee. Officers say the community helped identify those people and police made arrests. The demonstration on march 4 drew supporters of President Trump, and antitrump protesters. It took only a matter of minutes for things to get physical. Several people carried sticks. Others brought pepper spray. In the south bay, prosecutors are launching a new data driven approach to fight crime. The District Attorneys office says it wants to change the way the county gathers and analyzes crime data, so that Law Enforcement can react more quickly and efficiently. Santa clara county saw an increase in Violent Crime last year. Prosecutors say theyll be focusing their new efforts on Crimes Involving guns. What we decided is to be smarter about how we use our evidence in solving gun crimes. By processing them through technology that can track, basically like a fingerprint, unique data about guns and their cartridges. Prosecutors say they also plan to crackdown on burglaries. State Health Officials said today that kindergarten vaccination rates have hit a new high. The California Department of Public Health published its knew assessment. Figures show 95 of students attending kindergarten in the Current School year have gotten their shots. On wall street, trading was slow today. Industrial Companies Led a general decline. The dow slipped 59 points. Nasdaq dropped 30, and the s p lost 8. Were tracking those raindrops out there now. Scattered showers throughout the area. This system has quite a bit of coverage right now. You see two waves. A main system going through right now. Showers relatively moderate to light. I havent seen anything heavy yet. But we are seeing the heaviest rain around San Francisco off on the sunset and richmond districts. These showers are going to linger into the late night hours. Then tomorrow morning, i think the roads are wet for your commute, and i think theres a little of this in the morning. Just a little bit of rain. Not like were seeing now, but some light scattered showers. So the morning commute, i dont think its going to be one of those awful wet morning commutes, but its going to have some wet on it. Just a little bit. Not like tonight. Overnight lows are in the upper 40s, lower 50s. The temperatures tomorrow will be cooler, because this is a cold front going through. There is the morning, but look at the clearing. Youve got some sun. Youve got some clouds, youve got some sprinkles. Showers likely for the early part of the commute. The afternoon, maybe a few widely scattered showers as well. San francisco, oakland, redwood city. At the end the day, it looks like that. We just kind of keep the scattered sprinkles in all day tomorrow, but there will be plenty of sunshine as well. See you back here with the long range forecast and more rain chances for the holiday weekend. Caltran showing what the new Pfeiffer Canyon bridge near big sur will look like. The structure started to collapse after rains in february caused a landslide that solicited the bridges support columns. Highway 1 had been shut down since then, leaving residents stranded, and businesses without customers. The new bridge is designed to span the canyon without support. Cam trains hopes to have it open in september. A pet project of apple founder steve jobs may be closer to reality. The secretive Clinical Trials that are reportedly underway for a monitor for diabetes. And sharks were battling the oilers in the first game of the playoffs. Mark will tell you how they did. In two minutes, a family that pell into homelessness with a new place to live. To take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. A new report by the Community Organization working partnerships u. S. A. Shows that no cause evictions in san jose have increased more than 270 in the last six years, affecting about 2200 households. The study also shows Large Companies own about 3 4 of the rental units in san jose. As city officials get ready to take up the issue of evictions, many landlords say the city shouldnt infringe on their right to profit from their company. The project is beginning hope to thousands who are otherwise priced out of the market. Reporter erica lost her job when the cay say she worked in closed. Then they lost her home. We ended up be

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