San Francisco Police chief bill scott says a special sideshow unit has been for 15 new surveillance cameras will also be installed to help investigators catch sideshow drivers and participants for this to work effectively. Is we have to be able to put the driver behind the wheel. Then we can do something with that case increasing the penalties for participating in the illegal stunt driving events comes after labor day is deadly shooting in the citys excelsior district. Its dangerous for the participants is dangerous for the spectators is dangerous for all the folks who are within range of this particular event in San Francisco Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. Back to our continuing wildfire coverage now as catastrophic fires continue to burn across california today Governor Newsom announced that 25 people have been killed by wildfires so far this year, the flames have burned more than 3. 4 million acres destroying more than 4,000 structures, roughly 38,000 people still can not return to thei
They dont seem sure about where to begin. The Police Officers Association Says its officers are looking for a new chapter for the city and the department we see it as an opportunity move the department forward in a new direction, Philip Hoffman is a Union Representative says officers are on board with modern policing policies that would improve the department they position us as somehow an impediment to change and reform and to the contrary. We have reached out on numerous occasions to get the ball rolling on these reforms offices of recommendations from 2 City Commission studies are on the table. But so far none of them have been implemented. He says as crime rises across the city, the biggest need right now more officers on the streets. The department though has been plagued with several scandals in controversial shootings in recent years in just the last 6 months the department has faced the shooting death of Sean Monterrosa an investigation that was launched after evidence in that
And the improved air quality had customers for one business lining up around the corner. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news tonight, a day we begin with that Health Update in the east because of the pandemic. If we want. People of the safety part of the solution not part of the problem. Contra costa county Health Officials are discouraging the traditional halloween celebrations, we all know and love but they told kron fours michelle kingston that doesnt mean you cant celebrate at all. Tracy nelsons family loves halloween. These are just some of their costumes from the past few years but with restrictions in place this year because of coronavirus she decided to get creative will be a little bit more work but it will still give them the opportunity to trick or treat instead of trick or treating in her neighborhood looking like this shes encouraging her neighbors to do a driveby celebration and put a table in the front yard with candy tha
The aim is to deliver a potential 100 million doses by january of 2021. Take a look at this. This is a map showing the trend of new cases in our country over the last 14 days. Were going to leave it up for just a moment so you can take it all in. As you can see there, several states deep red where the number of cases speaking the most, states like nevada, texas, florida. Texas facing another challenge, testing. The state of texas lags behind 42 other states in per capita testing. Nbcs Priscilla Thompson is in houston once again for us at a testing site. Priscilla, there have been these reports of long lines across your state. For some people, when they do get a test, taking ten days to get the results back. What the heck is happening in texas . Reporter craig, thats a lot of what im hearing from people. The big question that a number of them are asking, were here in North Houston at a testing site. It opened up about an hour ago. You can see this line is slowly moving. When we got here
Dealing with the virus and not ignoring it say, well, too many tests and i dont believe in tests and all the rest of that. So we have a real challenge. Forgetting politics, forgetting politics, this is patriotism for our country. Were up to 4 Million People in a matter of just over two weeks from the 3 million mark. We have to act, and what theyre proposing fall short. With that ill yield to distinguished leader in the senate who has been hell describe what hes been up to. I salute him and the Senate Democrats for the work theyve done to make thur the first four covid bills were all bipartisan. Hopefully this bill will be, too. Mr. Leader. Thank you, Speaker Pelosi, and thank you for all the great work youve done on so many things and most notably the heroes bill which our Senate Democratic caucus is in favor of. The greatest Public Health challenge in a sent, democrats have waited for months for our Senate Colleagues to get our Senate Republican colleagues to get serious about helping