facing oakland city leaders today. >> we begin with the war of words between the naacp and mayor chantelle over the city. missing the deadline for state grant to fight escalating retail crime. abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley is in oakland with reaction from both sides. >> oakland got nothing. i'm going to say it again. oakland got nothing. >> members of the naacp met with community leaders at the acts full gospel church in oakland to discuss why the city of oakland failed to meet a deadline to get money from the state to fight crime. the naacp alleged the city may not have negligently just missed the deadline, implying it might have been intentional. a decision not to seek the funds. >> why would they not seek the funds? because the money was going to the crime prevention through oakland police department and there are people

in town who would prefer that that money go to social programs across town at a port of oakland press conference at oakland airport, the mayor fired back. >> i'm furious and frustrated that, you know, city staff had missed a deadline. but to assume room and put out false information that somehow we didn't want to apply for it, that's that's utter bs. it is absolutely not true at all. >> the mayor insisted they are putting in parameters. so something like this never happens again, calling it a personnel issue. >> there will be consequences that will be taken. >> the buck stops with the mayor. she's over oakland. she's the mayor of oakland. she needs to be held responsible for this. the mayor redirected the conversation to proactive steps she's taking to address escalating crime with technology, saying the city will soon be getting 300 surveilled cameras provided by the governor's office. >> that will tag team with similar cameras in neighboring

piedmont and san leandro. she also says they will soon be launching large drone cars to track down suspects and are awaiting faa approval. in oakland. i'm leslie brinkley. abc7 news. >> and now we want to get you to those new developments in oakland over the police chief there as the oakland police commission votes to extend the tenure of interim police chief darren allison. a new report is out on the firing of former chief laurent armstrong. >> abc seven news reporter stephanie sierra is live with the response to this report. stephanie >> yes, kristen and julian, this investigation has been ongoing for months now and the attorney representing the former chief made it clear the report found that chief laurent armstrong was completely vindicated of any wrongdoing. overwhelmingly taking his side so much so, the city is being asked to reconsider hiring him. a sigh of relief from former oakland police chief leronne armstrong. >> i think today is something

that i envisioned happening a long time ago. >> armstrong was placed on leave in february after the city's federal monitor suggests that he mishandled two incidents of misconduct within the department. but this 55 page report exonerated armstrong of those accusations. >> that report concludes that, number one, the chief never should have been disciplined. there is no factual basis for the discipline that was issued as recommended that that discipline be reversed and removed from his file. number two, the criticisms of him in the federal monitors outside law firm reports were unfounded and the determination that his he was lacking in credibility during that investigation does not have a factual basis. and according to armstrong's attorney, will edelman. >> the report found the initial findings from the federal monitor did not draw the appropriate conclusions. >> the conclusion that he violated any department rules also lacks a factual foundation and is simply not accurate. >> this sounds like what i told

you months ago. it's unfortunate that we've had to come to this point. >> the report concluded the former chief's termination was illegal retaliation in violation of his first amendment rights and a statement oakland mayor shan tao wrote, while the law prevents me from publicly discussing the details of the report, neither my administration nor the federal court agreed with mr. armstrong that the findings could be written off as mistakes. oakland needs leaders, including at opd, who will stand up and make tough decisions in the name of accountability and community trust by immediately and prematurely standing up for himself personally. mr. armstrong failed to stand up for accountability at opd, according to initial reports. the former chief said he was wrongly fired under labor code and whistleblower statute. but this report says the city did not violate labor code. >> now, this, you know, concludes the fact that i didn't do anything wrong. >> in august, armstrong filed a legal claim of wrongful termination against the city, which could open up the

possibility for a lawsuit. but interestingly, in this report, it clearly indicates it's in the best interest of both parties for the city to not only settle with laurent armstrong, but to also consider rehiring the former chief and julian and kristen, i want to point out we've also been told that that will certainly be the more affordable option than hiring a search agency to find the next chief, given the city is already facing a multi-million dollar budget deficit. >> tough option. stef, we heard you ask the former chief if he had any reason to believe those working on behalf of the federal monitor had a personal vendetta against him. what do you say to that? >> well, armstrong said he was not aware of that, if that was the case. >> but he did point out and make it clear that he wished those who were pursuing this, specifically the federal monitor, would take it seriously. those were his words, adding that he actually sent a report that contradicted what

the city said. and he felt that they ignored it. so it will be interesting to see how this follows for sure. >> stephanie sierra, thank you so much. >> and now we want to bring in abc7 news insider phil matier to talk about what's happening in oakland. two big issues. let's start with what's happening with the chief there. in a statement today, the mayor said that there is no recommendation that she reverse her decision on to move the department forward. meaning there's nothing saying that she has to bring armstrong back on. >> there's nothing that says she has to do it. it's recommended that she sit down and possibly bring him back on. but bringing the chief back is a political decision as well as a policy decision and a policing decision . when the mayor put her name and her influence on the line when she fired him, she fired him because of this report in part that was commissioned by the city at the suggestion of the federal monitor, who's overseeing it. it was a look at the his handling of some cases involving police and what the monitors basically what this the judge said was that, okay,

you've made these conclusions that he he mishandled it. but i don't see any proof. if you don't present any proof that he actually did. it's all this investigate was opinion and you're operating on opinion rather than fact. and based on that, you don't have a case here. but what do you do after the genie's out of the bottle after you fired the chief? it's it really puts the mayor in a difficult position. >> it certainly does. but i got to just say, phil, this is so unreal. i mean, didn't he replace anne kirkpatrick, who was also fired and then later to have found to be what, wrongfully terminated and the city paid a million and a half on that one. >> okay. this would be fuel for the chief to go to court. he would be able to present that to the jury. he could blow it up on a powerpoint and say, and this is what the independent found. here's another twist in there. the mayor does says she's not going to hire him back, but but if you recall that when he was under the gun and possibly being fired, the oakland police commission, which oversees the department, they wanted him to

stay. they did not recommend firing him. they and the mayor moved around them and went and fired him. they are now charged with finding the new chief and they have a couple until the october. they said they will be submitting the mayor three names of possible candidates so his name could be on it. thank you. his name could be one of the three. and this could be back in the mayor's lap again. >> okay. let's get to the really interesting comments from the naacp today, essentially saying that there are some folks within the city government that don't want additional police funding to come to the city of oakland. so perhaps they didn't accidentally miss the deadline they did it intentionally. is there any there there? well, okay, the there there is there are people in oakland city politics who believe in defunding the police and moving it into other programs. >> okay. that's service. okay. that is it. and they are on the city council. but the idea that oakland did this deliberately, it appears to be farfetched and it appears to be, believe it or not, that oakland got all the

information from the police department it needed and everything for this grant, which could have been upwards of $15 million for cameras and squad cars and other equipment. and then when they submitted it, there were holes in it. it wasn't all there. and the state came back and said, you got to fix it. and then they fixed it. supposedly and then when the day came to send it, they couldn't figure out how to send it. this department says that they had a glitch in the system. and so you're sitting there going, people are sitting there going, you should have had it in days, weeks before your given the severity of the problem in oakland. so this is really a it could come down to what's worse, a conspiracy or just a great big dropping of the ball. let this be either case, it lands in the mayor's lap because now she's got a police chief that she fired, that there's questions raised about that. she's got a question about not getting the grant money. oakland got nothing. and she's got a crime problem that's continuing to rise. >> it's a lot for a mayor in her

first year. phil, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> want to tell you about the latest in berkeley right now. berkeley police department investigating reports of a shooting not far from the university. sky seven spotted patrol cars outside of a building at hillegass avenue between dwight way and parker street, close to people's park and the south side of the cal campus. the news website, the berkeley scanner reports that a tenant shot a maintenance worker thinking it was a burglar. we've reached out to the berkeley police department for more details. we'll bring it to you when we have it. >> the opioid crisis on the streets of san francisco appears to be worsening. city health officials say 84 people died from accidental overdose in august. that's up from 74 in july. today, the officials announced they're launching an informational dashboard on the nsf.gov website. the dashboard will highlight overdose and treatment trends in san francisco. it'll give the total number of unintentional overdose deaths each month and track the amount of the overdose treatment drug naloxone. that's being distributed. legislation that

aims to prevent youth fentanyl overdoses in california is now headed to the governor's desk. today, south bay leaders celebrated the passage of a bipartisan bill called melanie's law. the measure from south bay senator dave cortez would give educators the tools necessary to save a child who overdoses on campus. the bill mandates it mandates that our current school safety plans incorporate strategies to prevent opioid overdoses. >> and by doing so, we're taking a significant stride toward safeguarding the lives of our youth. the mother of the bill's namesake attended today's event and urged the governor to sign melanie's law. >> 15 year old melanie ramos died of an overdose in a bathroom at a high school in hollywood last september. >> we have more news ahead. here at four is israel prime minister met with protest on a whirlwind bay area visit today. what demonstrate leaders are demanding and you're probably remember the shortage of clorox products during the pandemic.

it's happening again. we'll tell you why it's so tough to find those supplies this time. and a new era of science in the bay area. we'll give you a glimpse into the future of tech. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. it was a sunny and warmer start to the workweek. i'll let you know if this is going to continue for the rest of the week when abc7 news at

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attacked at the attack in its it systems last month and that the breach has been contained. however the incident forced clorox to reduce operations and that means fewer products on store shelves. clorox is not sure how long it will take to resume full production. the company released a statement saying in part, quote, while we cannot yet quantify the financial impact, we now believe this will be material on first quarter financial results. >> a new era of science is kicking off right here in the bay area. it's thanks to the world's most powerful x ray laser. >> abc7 news south bay reporter zach fuentes got a firsthand look at the lasers and has more on the advancements it could bring. >> the brilliant minds working for menlo park slack national accelerator laboratory are finally unveiling the world's most powerful x ray laser. >> really? it's a discovery machine. we can we can look at processes that are unknown, that we haven't yet discovered. >> that discovery machine is

called lcls two. it's been under development for more than a decade. it builds on the original lcls or linac, coherent light sources and x-ray free electron laser. >> imagine lcls is a giant microscope and now with lcls two, we have about 10,000 times the light. essentially to look at things, right? so that enables you to see things that we haven't seen before. >> those behind it say it's going to transform the ability of scientists to explore atomic scale, ultrafast phenomena through those explorations. huge strides can be made in things like clean energy technology in medicine. in 2009, the original lcls machine made the us a leader in this type of technology and it was such a groundbreaking machine that six machines around the world immediately started construction. project director greg hayes tells us. though the us was not to be outdone, they also had to begin construction in 2013. >> and we have just completed, as of last week, our final milestone for the project. >> the us department of energy invested more than $1 billion and five other laboratories collaborated in its creation.

the buzz over the machine has some of the brightest minds from around the world lining up to be able to take advantage of the incredible technology pg we bring in the international community, it's global effort to drive science forward in the coming months, the first researchers will begin using lcls two. and though slack experts are eager and excited to begin facilitating that work, this beginning is just that. >> there's still a lot of work to be done to make it work really well and to extract every little bit out of a machine that you can in menlo park. >> zach fuentes, abc seven news, lots of you. >> it was a home built out of driftwood, but it's just a pile of sticks. now what we've learned about this

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and railing the beach town was badly damaged in a storm earlier this year. construction is expected to last through next summer. we're learning more about the cliffside villa. you want to take this one made of driftwood? >> yeah. spotted perched on the devil's slide near pacifica. although officials have been aware of the structure for about ten years now, according to the san francisco chronicle. most of us were surprised to see it when 2022 video of it went viral. last week, sky seven flew over the cliffside today and saw most of that structure. you can see here has been destroyed. it

probably came down during last year's storms. according to the chronicle's reporting, the ramshackle house is believed to be built by a lone hermit. but there's no sign that anyone lives there anymore. oh, what a view it once was, though. >> i know. now it's just there. all right. how does our weather look? it was really nice over the weekend, i thought. not too hot. not too cold. >> yeah, very around here. checking back in now with meteorologist sandhya patel to get a look at that forecast on a monday. hey, sandhya. >> yeah, hi there. and julian and kristen, it is looking really lovely for the rest of this workweek. let's take a look at those temperatures just about everyone running warmer today compared to yesterday. six degrees warmer there in concord and up three degrees in santa rosa. livermore, two degrees warmer there in san jose. so it is really quiet here on live doppler seven, but active weather with thunderstorms firing up in the sierra. they even have a flooded advisory up to the north as they are seeing some heavy rain. so as long as there's rain, we are good because obviously we don't want to see dry lightning causing any

new fires. area of low pressure off the coastline, providing just enough of the lift there to the moisture. but this is the same low that kept us from clearing out very quickly this weekend. and kept our temperatures below average just like today. it is going to eventually move out. and i'll show you what's going to replace it in just a moment. live view from our golden gate bridge camera. and it is just a sunny view with a gentle breeze. 67 in the city, low 70, oakland mountain view, beautiful day in san jose, 78 degrees, 75 in palo alto. and here's a view from san jose as we look at the shark tank. upper 70s from santa rosa to napa, novato livermore 82 degrees in fairfield and concord. you're at 79. sunny skies over downtown san francisco from our sutro tower camera. low clouds fill in overnight minor fluctuations are expected in the temperatures this week and gusty offshore winds are going to develop in the hills late wednesday night going into thursday. but it's expected to be a short lived event. hopefully at this point, we don't have any fire weather

warnings, but stay tuned just in case. so first thing tomorrow morning, low clouds will be pretty widespread. we'll have some patchy drizzle during the commute and then the clouds will pull back. most areas will see the sun. there will be a few spots along the coastline that will still hang on to the cloud. cover your morning temperatures will be in the 50s, 60s soquel's. we'll do this pattern over again for a couple of days. tomorrow afternoon. mild day, inland highs in the low 80s along the coastline in the low 60s and breezy just like today. now i do want to show you what's ahead so as we take a look at that low that's just spinning off our coast, it's going to get absorbed and moved eastward by midweek. an area of low pressure is going to develop to our north. and as it does, the winds are going to come out of the north over the hills. is where we're expecting it to get gusty late wednesday night into thursday. but the good news is, because we've had onshore winds and really a deep marine layer, our humidity levels are expected to remain high enough to lessen the fire danger. but just in case, stay tuned that trough

will bring some showers to the sierra and high elevation snow is certainly possible, really high elevation. but stay tuned to accuweather seven day forecast. a mild pattern the next couple of days still below average cooler on thursday and breezy as that trough passes. and then just in time for fall to arrive, we're going to warm it up and it's going to be warmer right through the weekend. kristen and julian, i know people think it's weird, but it's not that atypical in september. >> no, i mean, we get days like this and it's really pleasant around this time. >> sounded good. >> yeah. thanks, andy. thanks >> feeling that kennedy from the giants and later on the special streaming edition of abc7 news at four. >> forget mickey mouse, the new animal that is stirring up excitement today at the magic kingdom

news at nine. wheel of fortune is at ten, followed by jeopardy! then it's abc seven news at 11. >> you'll be seeing even more on monday night football games here on abc seven. due to the ongoing hollywood writers and actress strikes, ten games will be on both espn and abc. that's a total of 18 games airing this season on abc. >> well, the hype over the barbie movie continues to live on, and now it's found its way in the giants clubhouse. check out these photos of the team posted on social media. they show rookie players dressed up as ken's. the caption reads, can you feelhe energy with the

dancing man emoji rookies dressing up in costumes is appantlyn mlb tradition for an away game toward the end of the season. >> all right. that's it for abc7 news at four monday night. football's next right here on the abc seven. abc seven news at four continues on abc seven news.com and wherever you stream we'll see you there

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