For some time. Now there are questions about staffing and what role that plays for officers on the street kron fours dan kerman is live at Police Headquarters tonight with our top story. Dan. Well the police union is coming forward saying despite the fact that the Police Department has a 122 funding positions they have never fill those positions all at once not placed in the last 10 years and they say that is requiring officers to work overtime and that is putting citizens lives at risk. And understaffed police force is a threat to those that live in vallejo. So says the Vallejo Police union which says citizens are endangered by the citys failure to hire police specifically they say there are not enough cops to cover all beats on a regular basis. The says for 10 years the city has had open positions and because the forces consistently shorthanded there are generally no more than 6 officers on the street at any given time in a city of over 120,000. The says that puts filet o well below
Yellow. Each category will take into account only two things, the number of daily new case and the positivity rate. Those two things wills determine when and how businesses and schools can reopen. Reporter until today the state took into account several factors to determine if and how a business can reopen in a county. Such as the hospitalization rates. The number of available beds, the number of people in the icu and etc. But now the number of cases and test positivity will serve as more crucial metrics. Here is what we are looking at. Where he looking at these four tiers, color coded. For folks, purple, red, orange and yellow. Reporter if your county is most nonessential business can red means more in door businesses like museums and movie theaters can reopen with restrictions. Orange means places like wineries and bowling alleys can open. The yellow level, all indoor businesses can reopen with modifications. Reporter by modifications, the state means physical distancing is still req
Our hoist machine is located overhead, and this is a traction machine, so it is an evolution beyond the winding from elevator. This is the drive ship. This is the gear box, and this is original from 1913. It is a heavyduty design that we really do not see any more today. That is probably part of the reason why this elevator has already lasted close to 100 years. This is the break for the voice machine teh brake. We have the original controller here. Fortunately, the power is turned off. This room was built in 1913, but the National Elevator cut actually was not introduced until 1921. Tell us about this antique controller. What makes it different from a modern controller . The elevator is running on the original d. C. Power. Really simple in operation. Does not include a lot of the features we would have in an elevator today, Automatic Door operation, dispatching, push button operation. None of those features are present, but this is the original from 1913. On this side, we have all the
Nearly 340,000 acres. And is 10 contained 5 structures have been destroyed 20,000 others are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in Santa Clara County tonight where the su lightning complex continues to spread. In the area around Mount Hamilton, so dan what have you learned tonight. And in this fire is primarily burning right now in the deep rural areas near Mount Hamilton as you head up the lick observatory. Still very smoky and very dangerous for people that are in those areas and thats fire crews out here been asking people to evacuate and not be allowed to head back into these areas if you look at some of the video that we have from earlier today this is a grant ranch park where you can see charred hillsides there. Along with that you can see some flame retardant that was dropped off to prevent this fire from spreading over the last couple of days, nearby homes have been threatened as you can see a lot of dry brush out
Cherry glen road. Now yesterday 24 hours ago there was no problem on the freeway but in the afternoon chp officers had to shut down both directions because of the fire and now that the sun is up. We can see why. I was here at around 6 oclock in the morning that landscape right in front of you that was fine the fire was along the ridge line but it kept moving. It charged the hillside, usually roads or i natural firebreak but because the fire was so intense, it actually jumped the freeway went on to the other side you can see its still smoldering and that ridge line that hill over there caught on fire. So for a while thousands of drivers were going down or through an fire and thats why they had to shut it down for everyone safety i did see in the overnight hours some fire trucks parked along the base of the hills just to keep a close eye on the situation right now as you can clearly see. Yes there are some trees that remain, but the dry vegetation has all. Been incinerated so theres noth