violent crime came down. reporter: your numbers are still higher than the state and the national average. they are. and we re working on that. the the difficulty is, when we went through the economic downturn, you know, we were down to 82 police officers. reporter: and that s progress, which when it comes to the folks who live here, is exactly what they hope these cameras will help continue to do. all we want, you know? we want to work with the police and with the city council. we want to work with all of our business owners down here. and, um, make it a better place. reporter: in addition to the security cameras, antioch city council also vote to buy more license plate readers which they hope will also help them fight crime. emily turner, kpix 5. the latest police chief in oakland kept a low profile on his first full day on the job. acting interim police chief paul figueroa says he is focusing on positive change for the department as it tries to overcome a sex
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because of all the wet weather could have not given way at a better time. we were glad it happened on a saturday because there s an elementary school and that s where a lot of parents pick up and drop off their kids. it was an empty vehicle, saturday afternoon, nobody was out there. we re just thankful that no one was hurt. reporter: they re trying to restore power for 50 homes. until then, a couple blocks of road nearby will stay shut down, but a little bit more irony here, that truck, the family was about to trade it in for a new one tomorrow. live in northwest. finally, today a few hours of sunshine and plenty of people took advantage of the skies and warm temperatures along the georgetown waterfront this afternoon. before those showers hit again. so what is on for tonight and sunday morning? let s get over to first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. debra, we have a little sunshine now but we re not done with the showers just yet. what we had earlier is now tow
she hopes young girls today can learn from her story. there s nothing that s not possible with hard work. your attitude and hard work will get you wherever you want to go and a lot of young people don t have that confidence, especially if they have that background. reporter: she s had a tumultuous relationship with many of her officers and while the chairman of the d.c. police union thanked her for that service, the treasurer blasted her on social media today saying in a statement, lanier should be ashamed that she s leaving the department in such disarray. 994 officers have fled in just 2 1/2 years and morale has never been worse . you can t be the boss and do a job of 5,000 employees and think that there is going to be somebody that is not happy. i have a bunch of people that say thank you and a bunch of people that say why are you doing this? reporter: we ve been headquarters and people walking by and people are asking if she s going to coach the redskins and, no,
the next big event coming to the city of brotherly love. nbc 10 news starts now. streets turned into rivers. that s the situation in florida tonight. and that same system is heading our way. impacting our labor day weekend. good evening. i m jacquelyn london. and i m jim rosen. call her mean hermine. take a look at what she is doing across the tampa bay area. this car stalled out and was carried into a ditch. several streets had to be closed down. residents at this apartment complex were evacuated after a pond near the complex spilled over and ran right into several apartments oh, my gosh, this is the first time i ve ever been through anything like this. i am petrified. i ve heard that my apartment s under water and i ve come home to get my animals. in near by pasco, they spent the day handing out sandbags. meteorologist sheena parveen is tracking what we could see in our area. here s the latest on tropical storm hermine. it has increased in intensity from this af