A confrontation. The officer was patrolling the area when they noticed a theft in progress involving multiple people. The officer tried to detain those suspects there was a confrontation and the officer opened fire. Still not clear this morning what caused the officer to use their gun. The officer sustained a foot injury and was taken to the hospital has also been placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation. We have breaking news from overnight. One person had to be rescued from a fire in San Francisco. Youre taking a look at video from the citizen app that was posted by the San Francisco Fire Department that fire started about 2 oclock this morning on powell street in the citys north beach neighborhood. Firefighters also had to rescue a dog. The person who was rescued was rushed to the hospital no word on that persons condition this morning. Also in the south bay clusters of covid19 positive costco workers are being treated for the virus across Santa Clara
Been following all week here in the bay area are calls to defund the Oakland Police department and joining us to talk about the latest on that as well as the citys continuing fight against the coronavirus is oakland mayor libby shaft good morning there. Good morning marty good to see you lets begin by talking about the new Community Task force that is centering on reconstructing the Oakland Police department this is a big task force 17 people i can you tell us to give some insight on how its going to work. Well its a big job and oakland is doing it right we didnt respond to immediate requests by cutting 14 Million Dollars out of our Police Department but we believe that any further cuts need to be done with full analysis and full Community Participation and transparency and so the 17 Member Task Force will over the next 6 months really analyze what a 50 cut would look like how it would Impact Services how we could replace those services and also during that time oakland will be startin
Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
Part of the city with the ability to do about 500 tests each day we can slow the spread of covid19. We have occur before. And we must do it again. Lives are at stake. The citys Public Health director grant colfax says its getting harder for people to book appointments and the turnaround times for test results continue to vary anywhere from 3 to 10 days in San Francisco, their goal is to conduct at least 1800 tests per day in the past week theyve exceeded that by averaging more than 3200 a day the new test sites in appointment slots will increase the amount of tests the city is currently averaging by about 45 but mayor breed says shes still upset by the amount of people in the city not taking this seriously im really disappointed because what youre doing when you gather with when youre not wearing your mask, youre making our recovery longer. Youre making it more difficult for people to send their kids back to school in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news here in the bay area we
9. 45 or as we approach about 10 oclock. Temperatures thus far we have mostly the 50s up to the north bay 60s all over the east bay except fremont 59, 60 san jose. We have those 50s lined up along the peninsula for comparison 24 hours ago where little cooler over most of the real estate, a touch warmer to the south lining in a free today again the Morning Clouds and fog by midmorning those starting to mix out nicely for a nice afternoon again looking at 72. By about 11 oclock well take a closer inspection your forecast in just a bit robin sounds good. Thank you dave. Now to a big story that were following for you this morning, according to Court Documents a researcher wanted by the fbi. Its said to be hiding out at the chinese consulate in San Francisco, this investigation stems from a move by the Trump Administration this summer to go after researchers who are here in the United States on student visas but have proven ties to the chinese military. Now the woman named john tang was a r