Sixteen members of Absegami High School’s Interact Club joined hundreds of other community members at Stockton University s 20th annual MLK Day of Service on Monday.
in effect from central virginia up the i-95 corridor into connecticut. andrea is still a day away from impacting long island, but this is the first big storm to hit the area since superstorm sandy and many residents are taking precautions. i m going to batten down the hatches, put stuff up off the floor in the basement just in case. reporter: yvonne santana lives on arizona street in long beach, new york. here, construction is an everyday reminder of the storm that took so much from them last year. santana says the idea of more severe weather worries her. we heard about more bad weather, more storms, and we re like, oh, no, what s going to happen? reporter: but her neighbor lisa augustine laughs off the threat of andrea. rain. it s just rain, no storm. reporter: augustine just moved back into her home a week and a half ago and she says she wouldn t live anywhere else. susan mcginnis, cbs news, long beach, new york. andrea isn t not expected to reach hurricane st
reporter: at the cal fire headquarters in morgan hill, officials are planning to do their first phase of hiring well ahead of schedule. typically, we don t start the process until first, second week in may. so we re looking at doing that a couple weeks earlier this year, just because of the dryer conditions. reporter: cal fire will begin its second phase of hiring with another phase to fire. coming up at 6, more on cal fire s overall plan for the season and how other agencies plan to accelerate their own schedules. live in los gatos, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. firefighters battling a wildfire into the los angeles foothills are running into a new problem. bears. authorities say there have been at least seven reported encounters with bears. the fire is burning across 125 acres northeast of los angeles near the city of monrovia. smoke from the fire is apparently sending bears from their habitat in the san gabriel mountains. animal control officers have been calle
a police chief for five years here, five years there. this was his home, and still is his home. his daughter is still in high school. so for him to make this decision, i think is demonstrates a very tie hawaii degree of frustration. reporter: the chief was diplomatic in announcing his retirement, each if his emotions did get the best of him at one point. i came here to be a san jose police officer. i mean, i could have gone a lot of places. and i just couldn t be happier, pardon me. wow. couldn t be happier that it was here and that i was able to be the chief here. reporter: now we asked the chief if the timing of his announcement has anything to do with the fact that the city council is taking up the safety plan tomorrow, or if the timing has to do with a change in the sick leave payout policy. he says no. and reiterated again it s just the right time for him and for his family. in san jose, kris sanchez, nbc bay area news. thanks, kris. chief moore came to the san
punching bag. you be five minutes to quiet down. the board unable to control the board canceled the meeting. the outrage comes from a deadly officer involved shooting sunday. officers fired more than 30 shots into a car. one of the men tried to get out of the car and reach for a gun. a gun that turned out to be a pellet gun. i will repeat it for the record, my son never left his car alive. just heart breaking that what they did. i feel like they just shot that just just they didn t have to shot that car 31 times. the crowd vows to be back on tuesday when there is a city counsel meeting. kate thompson, kron 4 news. a neighborhood organization is encouraging residents of san francisco to stand by suspended san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi and demand that he get his job back. ross mirkarimi pleaded guilty after bruising his wife s arm. kron 4 s reggie kumar tells us ross mirkarimi talked about the public scrutiny they have endured. reporter: after 9 month