Former Vice President Walter Mondale. His touching message before his death. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. This is early start, im christine romans. Im laura jarrett. Its tuesday, april 20th, 5 00 a. M. Here in new york and the most high profile Criminal Trial in a generation now in the hands of 12 people. The jury continues deliberations today in the case against Derek Chauvin for killing george floyd after roughly four hours of deliberations yesterday and for the first time during this trial the defendant sat unmasked at length yesterday during his lawyers Closing Arguments. The jury finally able to see his expressions, his reactions and the prosecution and defense offering their final words to the jury as the nation prepares for a verdict. You can believe your own eyes. This case is exactly what you thought when you saw it first, when you saw that video. It is exactly that. You can believe your eyes. Its exactly what you believed, its exactly what
And then two weeks later you are fired. How do you explain that . I am saddened. Im embarrassed. Im humiliated by it. But i will embrace that. I will move on. Reporter Oakland Police Officers Association has publicly voiced his disappointment over the firing. Kirkpatrick said in her 38 years of law in Law Enforcement she has never come close to being terminated. What do you do now . You are fired. Do you fight back . There still needs to be a voice that is willing to speak truth. I plan and i have will be asking the department of justice to come in and open an inquiry into this whole process. Because something is wrong. Reporter she says she stands by all of her calls and judgment. Specifically when she refused the fire for Oakland Police officers for the shooting death of joshua my integrity is not up for sale. I make my calls. Whether it is in a shooting or not. Reporter she believes in a Citizens Oversight Committee and supports it. The questions were the checks and balances are. Th
And if you are going out, a quick look shows low clouds clearing out into the day today because we are warming up with plenty of sunshine for everyone today. At the coast, 60 degrees and mid60s around the bay and low 70s into the inland communities. That is just the beginning of the warm up and i will talk about that in a bit. For now, we will see how the traffic is doing. We do have slow traffic at the bay bridge, not unusual. Its coming up on 6 00. 6 01 to be exact with slow traffic, as you might expect. Interstate 880, looking good into downtown oakland with some other commutes waking up. 680 out of pleasanton is slow heading south. 6 01 and back to the desk. The Oakland Unified School district officials will hold two meetings for parents and neighbors to update them on the temporary closure of Mcclymonds High School after a cancercausing chemical was detected under the school. Allie rasmus is live in oakland where district officials are waiting for test results. Reporter these two
We begin with our Team Coverage in contra kosta county where pg e says theyve restored power to 85 of their customers there. Reporter yes, frank, the lights went on here just before 8 00 oclock tonight. County Officials Say there are still more than 4600 people here in then county who do not have power n. The dark, robert shaw had flashlight, battery and newly chopped pile of wood for his wood stove awaiting game for he and thousands of others. Avi a gas stove so i had my neighbor over. She brought the meat and i had the heat. Who do yo you you think is going to pay these bills . Reporter contra kosta county Officials Say some 50,000 residents lost power. The food truck especially secretary became the hot spot. A lot of people coming because they have no choice. Supermarkets are closed and fast food. Reporter the red flag warnings prompted the massive power shut down. Steve hill says there were 12 fires in the county with the hot windy dry conditions. When i got out the fire was burnin
Approximate. We are on high fire danger. Extreme fire danger with the strong, dry gusting offshore winds. If you are waking up this morning you might be wondering it is not that windy this morning. There is winds out of the northwest from downtown San Francisco. 16 at sfo and 15 at halfmoon bay and 7 Miles Per Hour wind in concord and 13 in fairfield and antioch 14 Miles Per Hour. This is a twoday wind event. The timing of the strongest winds, the peak winds will be late tonight overnight into tomorrow morning. Thats when we will see the winds ramp up for us. The thing about this wind event temperatures will be cooler. If you dont have power at least the temperatures will be oat cooler side with below average temperatures for this time ofexpt for coast and the immediate San Francisco bay shoreline p. Gianna. Looking at the roadways, not a lot going on. The freeways are looking good. Highway one there was a possible enclosure that may affect some of the tunnels. We are getting words tha