Commanders and the federal Court Monitor recommended that five officers be fired and she xonl rated them. Reporter graduates of the 183rd class were sworn in this morning. Young faces full of optimism joining the departent with the dubious history. Seven Police Chiefs in 11 years. The latest casualty, chief ann kirkpatrick, the citys first female chief hired three years ago and fired last night. My decision yesterday was extremely personally difficult for me. I made it because i believe it was in the best interests of oakland. Mayor libby shaf addressing the class. She and the picks holding a special meeting deciding to terminate kirkpatrick. Leaders will could that will and go. Im on my way out in a little more than two years myself. The mission of this department, the commitment to serve the people of oakland have never waivered. They lost three chiefs in year. Kirkpatrick oaklands first female chief was brought in to help deal with the fallout. It was clear that kirkpatrick and the
Created at the bank over many years. Authorities stay bank will pay 3 billion in penalties. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Todays announcement comes four years after we first learned of the banks Marketing Strategy which attorneys say wells fargo claims is based on products they actually needed. In truth, however, the cross strategy and pressure from leadership of the Community Bank to meet aggressive sales goals led to widespread abuses, unethical conduct, and illegal activity that resulted in millions of accounts being fraudulently opened for customers. The settlement covers wells fargo as a company. Individuals who violated bank laws could still face more punishment. Thats right. And it doesnt do away with all the companys problems. It is still under probation with the Federal Reserve and faces other investigations. In a statement, wells fargos current ceo said in part, the conduct at the core of todays settlements and the past culture that gave rise to it reprehensible. The m
help. $1,000. that s one guy talking about how much he s spent on fixing his car after it was broken into in san francisco. now the dna wants $1.5 million for window replacement. that would pay for roughly 5,000 windows. consider there were about 25,000 break-ins in 2019. bottom line, it s not a lot. thanks for joining us. this could be part of the solution, although it does have its critics. it is one way to build a better bay area. let s to go lauren martinez with the story. lauren? reporter: a fun of $1.5 million will go toward san francisco residents only. it will help cover the staff that will be in charge of managing these funds, conducting repairs. 70% of the cars serviced at in and out auto glass in san francisco are from car break-ins. every day. reporter: to help victims of this crime, san francisco s district attorney s office is asking the city to fund a budget of $1.5 million that will rei will burst victims of car break-ins. right now we have p
of the it spilled into the nearby creek. maybe 40 to 50,000 gallons. at this point they notified, of course, the authorities. fish and wildlife came out as well. i spoke to them and they say that right now, they are here today watching the creek and the river. we evaluated the creek. it doesn t appear that there is a whole lot of product remaining, which is good news. with the heavy rains and heavy flow that kind of diluted a lot of the wine and they were able to remove a lot of it as well. so we re just monitoring for any additional impact and potential clean-up. reporter: so part of that process was pumping the water out. rodney strong did that and they hired a third party contractor to help with that as well and today there are a lot of people investigating making sure the environment is okay. fish and game is concerned about the animals living around the river. they haven t noticed animal deaths and they have seen signs of life today. particularly frogs and inverte
this evening. beijing has gathered large gatherings on the eve of the new year. the most important holiday on the chinese calendar. 830 people are infected and 25 have died. five people are being test in the europe. roughly 25 million people are quarantined. that s about two-thirds of the population of california. the economic impact of the outbreak is starting to be felt in the bay area. especially people with travel plans that would take them from sfo to asia. one says people with paid trims will be losing thousands of dollars. the david? reporter: you know, no doubt that researchers are intending to scramble as fast as they can to learn whatever they can about the transmission of the new coronavirus. that means those traveling to china or have plans to do so in a quaunldory. they don t want to be the next to get the virus. some have pre paid as much as $10,000, even more. china has extended it. the uncertainty of the how far it will spread and how long it will last c