it s about 30 miles from the oakland courthouse that s always handled arraignments for crimes occurring in oakland and berkeley. the majority of the county s criminal incidents. the court says it will save time and money. the county s main jail is right next to the new facility. no more busing prisoners to oakland for arraignments but defense attorneys say it s a burden for families of defendants. a lot of my clients obviously are indigent and their families are indigent and that s a tremendous hardship. reporter: there are also opening day blues. yesterday with a public defender calls total confusion. clients just aren t being seen. their case could be in contention next day. they re not being arraigned timely. it is just a massive failure on multiple ends. reporter: tyra had to come here again today from hayward. her fiance s arraignment was put over yesterday because his files weren t ready. like a lot of miscommunication even with the staff and the d.a.s, they s
with confusion and delays. many members of the public say they ve had a tough time getting there. vic lee is live at the new county hall of justice to explain what s wrong. vic? reporter: dan and ama, first of all, there appears to be delayed in the normal functioning of the courts. things like the transfer of paperwork, the filing of motions, court appearances. that sort of thing. on top of the fact that there appears to be heavier than normal case loads. now the public defender told me that yesterday afternoon, there were about 100, 100 arraignments scheduled on the afternoon calendar and that s a lot of arraignments. on top of all of that, he says there appears to be a lack of access among many to this new courthouse. it took lela madison over an hour on the freeway to get here from richmond this morning. her niece had to take mad scisoo her son s arraignment. the oakland courthouse is more convenient. a.c. transit bus and tgo int oakland, it would be easier for me t
personnel he says he saw the fire come through the hill in front of his home and ready to go if the flames move closer. we could be ready to go at any time. reporter: they say more than 10,000 people are without power and at least 100 power polls have been damaged by the fire. deputies from nearby counties were called in to help get people out safely as the blaze continues to get larger by the hour. many do service yosemite national park. they say several people are here to assist with this emergency. however, it s still too dangerous as far as the cause of the fire, that s still under investigation. i m natalie granda, abc 7 news. keeping tabs on the weather conditions. we get a satellite first because the plume of smoke is so thick and wide you can see it from space. there it is all blowing from the north and east under a southwest wind. it can pick up on the smoke particles and that s what you re seeing right now. we you can see that smoke just about 10,000 feet i
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