Be opening for a business day. I understand about the sales and everything. But at least give the people some sleep. You know . Let people have time to be with their families for at least a whole day. Reporter 21yearold herbert isnt the only one beating that drum, with stores like target, old navy and walmart opening on thanksgiving day, some have consumers pushes back. Protesters marched inside walmart in oakland today. They say the retail giant is forcing employees to work the holiday. And they want it back. An online petition asking target to close on thanksgiving, has more than 300,000 signatures. Shoppers snapping up preblack friday discounts seem to agree. Its ridiculous. Reporter some workers will see family. But wont be getting much sleep. Ill be going to work at 1 00 a. M. Reporter like it or not, shopping is a thanksgiving tradition. Theres about 150 people many line here. Best buy is prepared for this line to expand before the midnight opening. A developing story out of oakl
Just around the corner from where we are at tully and lanai. Were told he was grazed by a bullet and that police are looking for one suspect and possibly more. Now youre taking look down tully road right now. You can see thats the highway 101 overpass. You can see there are lots of Police Officers around here. They have blocked the road while they search for the suspect. There are lots of stores here and gas stations and restaurants, and they are all empty. Police have cleared everyone out. Theyve set up crime tape and they are, there is just a heavy presence here. Nobody here is talking. Theyre not telling us whats going on but we know they are looking for a suspect and one officer is being treated for a grazed wound. He was shot by a suspect and grazed and police right now are looking for suspect in this area. The perimeter is very wide. Im not sure how wide but theyve got the tully offramp. Once you get off the highway, they wont let you down tully. Theyre sending you down to capita
Rock quarry near the safeway. The firefighters were called here this evening. We are on the backside of that address. A man called authorities and said that his roommate had been missing for about an hour. He said his roommate went out into the back deck of their condo looking for his cat. The Fire Department went into the back of the deck and saw his flashlight but did not see a man. They thought he may have fell into a hole but its they discovered he had fallen off the cliff in the back of their condo and that fall could be between 75 to 100 feet into the water. We got on scene, there was no hole to be found but the quarry was just below. Our presumption is that he fell into the water. We have been searching the water, poking the depth of the water as far as we can looking for him. But we found nothing at this time. Reporter the Fire Department is not releasing the mans name, not sure of his age but we are told he could be between 40 and 60 years of age. The baa italian chief told me
Illegal wiring in the basement caused the fire. They found other items suggested illegal activity boarded up in the basement. Your money being misused. The Investigative Unit first uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of questionable accounting transactions at samtrans. But now Community Groups are calling for a close lyric at the financial records. Vicky nguyen has this report. Reporter a small group of demonstrators from the group stop Workplace Bullying rallied in support of district whistle blowers tonight. They have problems with their wrong doing and develop path ways for whistle blowers to report it safely. Reporter the san carlos vice mayor says that the concerns warrant an independent investigation into the districts finances. I would like to see it investigated and taken up by the district attorneys office. They provide more than 100,000 rides a day. The protest comes after two former employees came forward to nbc, instructed to inflate expenses and hide spending
The big issue for San Francisco is the wind direction. For that, lets bring in jeff raineri. This is what youve been talking about, fire danger and wind. And that wind direction is going to stay locked into place as we head through the next 12 to 18 hour. Its coming out of the northnorthwenorth northnortheast. Its to carry that fire from a smoke thats 200 to 500 acres. These winds are the worstcase scenario for firefighters. Humidity down to about 10 and 20 . And thats why were also seeing the smoke travel as far as 47 miles off fortowards the south, impacting San Francisco. Theres smoke there now. And we expect the smoke to continue through tomorrow morning, as long as the fire is burning. Some of the worst fire threat continuing here across the north bay. A quick look at the overall winds. They are 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Gusting even higher. If the fire is not put out by tomorrow morning, a lot more smoke will continue across San Francisco and areas to the south. Thank you very muc