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city charter does not require a public form to select the oakland police chief hosting a public forum is detrimental to attracting the best candidates. i will not participate in the forum for these reasons. chief election help. >> that we had the right. i'm from we don't have a public. there was a public from civil rights attorney. john burris is closely watching the process. mayor's position on this, although there's some legitimacy to i just don't know that overrides the public interest to know where these people are before they selected. i think that's the overriding consideration. former san francisco police

chief tony rivera says the current list lacks any internal candidates. he says oakland could benefit from someone who knows the department and the community problems are always going to come up with your teeth. >> look at a problem in in a specific community and it's nice to to know a couple of leaders in that community, but you can call up on a personal basis and saying i have a problem here. what do you think? and it really gives you some firsthand knowledge of that. i think it's very advantageous. former oakland police chief anne kirkpatrick says she's also disappointed there's no internal candidate and she says whoever is chosen, they must be someone who can make peace among all the factions fractures between the commission. >> and the mayor's office of pressure between the mayor and the city council fracture between the community. >> and all the politics that place is fractured. and yet you have a great police department that just really

hungry for the right person who could be a peacemaker. i'd say between all of these different factions. >> how this all plays out remains to be seen. but civil rights attorney jim chanin says the mayor and the police commission need to stop the infighting. >> they have to get themselves together. whether we have a public hearing or not, it is not to be by not what people want, but but bucks best for the people of oakland. and that's clearly not happening. >> now, this public forum is set to take place tomorrow thursday at 06:30pm, at the oakland city council chamber. we'll also be online grant. all right. >> appreciate that. dan kerman, we now want to go to berkeley where police are investigating a crash. our confof

businesses in this area so don't know if this one worked for one of these businesses here happened to be in the

area just, you know, either running, jogging, walking there have been other reports out there about how this has been a problem spot here. this intersection in the south west berkeley area when it comes to people that are maybe not paying attention or not being careful enough when crossing through this specific intersection. again, this is himes avenue and 7th police do about this victim and also what led up to this crash happening in the first place. vicki and grant. >> all right. real quick is,

is is that just a crosswalk in the middle of the street stop signs involved? we know how fast the driver was going as well. but, you know, we'll get to that when when we learn all right. thank you, reporting live for us from berkeley.

>> students and staff at west lake middle school in oakland held a walkout today in support of a cease-fire in gaza. and against what they're calling censorship from the oakland school district. the group claims that over the weekend the district attempted to stop in organizing meeting of more than 20 unions that area to discuss the ongoing war in palestine. the union says that the night before the event, the district canceled the meeting due to staffing shortages. today union members are calling the move politically motivated. >> we will not be silenced. we will not be intimidated. history is not rally and with palestine, we can also not be >> well, that same group also said that they plan to hold a rally outside usd school board meeting that is happening right now. and meeting is being held to hear recommendations on making budget cuts to make the district more efficient save

money. the district says that this is part of their annual budget development process and multi-year planning. they say the staff has continued to provide the board with recommendations to address the district's financial realities. the board scheduled to vote on the recommendations in 2 weeks. uc berkeley leadership is addressing a protest gone wrong on campus this week. the university chancellor >> says protesters got violent and they broke into a campus building. they were trying to stop an event that was set to feature an israeli speaker kron four's rob nesbitt. he's live in the studio with some reaction from members of the jewish community tonight. rob grant, the front coming our way

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learning the name of the woman strangled to death on a santa cruz beach last week. authorities have identified her as 21 year-old. >> the and sewer a uc santa

cruz student. police say their boyfriend told them he killed her. authorities say man sewer was found dead at the seabright state beach early friday morning with her boyfriend, 20 year-old samuel stone right next to her body. police say that stone was a former uc santa cruz student. he made his first court appearance yesterday. did not enter a plea. stone was denied bail and will go back to court in march for an arraignment. all right. if you ingest cannabis gummies, joints, whatever. listen up. a new study is out revealing. >> just how dangerous regular smoking of marijuana might be when it comes to risk of heart attack and stroke. the findings from one of the largest ever studies examining the relationship between cannabis and cardiovascular events is in for more on what was found to come for theresa is with us live in the studio. theresa, grant health experts are calling the study a big wake-up call, saying that it

sheds. >> and important light on the subject, especially as you use of cannabis is on the rise among all age brackets is especially young americans. >> very interesting study and a timely a study given the fact that more and more people using cannabis doctor joseph wu is a director of stanford university cardio vascular institute. >> addressing a new study on cannabis and cardio vascular health. the findings frequent usage resulted in a 42% increase in strokes. 25% increase in heart attacks published in the journal of american heart backed by national institutes of health. the study drew its results from nearly a half-million cannabis users. >> so when the smoky get to those one is the particular matter cause and damage the lawn and that he is seeing causing damage to system. >> the study drill down on how toxins released into the body when cannabis is burned is

similar to tobacco smoking. but the doctor says that the active ingredient of thc and cannabis causes even more of a heart risk. in addition, he says eating cannabis products also not heart healthy. >> when you take the edible, there's no particular meta involved. it's just goes to that. got upstate edible. kids see gets released and that he is he causes a basket damage. so the notion both completely say this also not medicinal use of cannabis is now legal and more than half of the country with recreational use allowed in 24 states. >> most part most people in the public think because it's legal, it is safe. but there are a lot of products the goal safe one example is tobacco smoking legal, but it can kill you lung cancer and heart disease said the public should be aware that smoking marijuana is actually not in

the form of smoking. on the format that, we just discuss with the use of cannabis on the rise and soaring heart disease rates, medical experts say that the study >> is an important public health issue to address. and i hope public especially degrees. also in the study, will help the public be aware that marijuana is not safe at yeah. >> now, although the study focused on frequent users even weekly usage was also linked with high rates of stroke and heart attacks compared to those who do not use marijuana at all to the paper are going to be surprised they would maybe would assume if you're smoking, it absolutely be detrimental. but even gummies even got me. so i think was certainly enlightening for people to understand that there are ris. associated with government or edibles less bad than smoking. >> just because, you know, with smoking you're going to, of course, be burning, right? you know, doing that. and what's considered frequent user for the study frequent

daily daily as opposed to in even though the weekly to have an increase as well. so across the board, not great. >> i'm going not name names, but i had a discussion with someone who with saying will it in terms of your way out the the the detrimental effects, the hazards of it. if you can't sleep and some people take, you know, sleeping pills,

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>> our top story this half-hour or more cops and faster response times. that is% what merchants in north oakland are telling council member dan kalb will help reduce crime along the retail corridors are quite forcefully. off followed kalb who is running for state senate as he and police officers walk the streets, soliciting solutions to combat rising crime >> hitting the streets alongside oakland police officers, city council member dan kalb spent wednesday morning stopping by businesses in north oakland a whole bunch of seconds into this conversation with mama's royal

cafe manager martine quite lot. it was clear safety is an issue for his employees and customers. a break in a bank one year. the outside. >> windows car windows. >> that somebody patrons say more cops on the streets could help reduce and solve crimes. i just got window broken out and my truck yesterday. >> down the street and safe like you might want to replace. that's this is called sports walk with police since he says crime started to steadily rise 2 years last year, a resolution he authored passed in the council addressing public safety. he says the city is currently implementing the actions, including hiring and retaining more dispatchers to improve response times and adding tech cameras at busy make sure that we have walking beat officers as we've have time to time. let's make let's make that a permanent plan. >> and really howe