From the bay areas local news station. The news at 6. Now at 6 a peaceful protest in oakland as hundreds march on the peninsula demonstrators take their message to the bay area streets and stand in solidarity with a nationwide outcry over the death of george floyd floyds death on memorial day was caught on video and it sent shockwaves across the country and a call to action that has now followed that has been answered by millions of americans. In minneapolis today, an emotional gathering as friends and family mourn the life of the man known as the gentle giant. Friends gathered in minneapolis today to honor the life of george floyd you can see his family that arrived at the Memorial Service floyds death has prompted a global movement. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman now George Floyds family and friends and those inspired by him remember his life today darryl forges is in minneapolis but the very latest. Song and prayer in memory of george fl
At the hands of police back in the bay area, a number of curfews have now been lifted take a look San Franciscos curfew ended this morning at 5 oclock. Alameda and contra costa counties have also list of their curfew orders. However, some cities such as walnut creek remain under curfew orders even though the county order has been lifted. We have a complete list on all of the curfews in the bay area you can find it at kron 4 dot com Peaceful Protesters continue to take a stand in oakland, several groups gathering outside of city hall and eventually making their way onto city streets for a march kron fours dan thorn was at that protest joins us now live in the studio with more dan. Ok, the Peaceful Protesters want to show solidarity by coming together and letting it be known that Police Brutality and racism will not be accepted they want to spread a message of diversity and positivity not anger and violence. Protesters march down telegraph avenue in oakland. The group is rallying for jus
End of the day right now even though you dont see visible flames they still have their hands full. You can see up on the hillside, this was a new development that took place about a minute ago we saw them come over the ridge line and look at that theyre coming down so looks like a change. Ive shifts so more firefighters are being thrown at this. This is called the call wein fire because its on colleen drive and blossom avenue and then well zoom off in the distance look at the hillside now that the sun is up you can clearly see the damage from this fire look at that has charred on the side about 90 acres burned. We should get new containment numbers very shortly as they usually update at around 7 oclock in the morning. Let me show you video this fire happened late last night this is a very populated area and it quickly spread through the very dry terrain we havent seen rain in a long time so it didnt take very long for this fire to spread. Why they think this was arson so quickly theyre
They seem to have largely taken on a peaceful tenor this evening. Thousands of protesters in the cities from minneapolis to washington, d. C. , from new york city to los angeles. We will continue to bring you updates on what we are seeing in those protests. Msnbc correspondent Gadi Schwartz is in los angeles where hes been following protests for the last few days. Gadi, whats it like there. Reporter chris, were starting to see a significant amount of arrests being made. Its hard to make out here, but this is the back end of a protest group that was split off from a larger group. Theyve got about 30, 40 people. In fact, we cant go any further over here. Hey, is it okay if we just post up right here . Can we just post up right here . Thats fine. Reporter okay. So were up a little bit on a stoop, and you can see what looks like this entire block of cars, the ones that are in the road. They were filled with people. All those people have been taken out. They were put on the ground, and now
Archbishop Pérez issued the following pastoral letter Racial Healing: “We Are One Body” on the occasion of The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ Corpus Christi.