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

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley shares the sights and sounds of those memorials. >> the phrase 911 evokes memories of a moment in our history when the world as we knew it changed forever. >> at fire station number 11in clayton, 343 flags marked each firefighter who lost a life due to the attack on 911. more flags were lately added for the law enforcement officers who died. this memorial started in 2002. now it includes a detailed biography of each firefighter personal anecdotes and how they perished, like this man who died when the south tower collapsed. >> it's a very moving experience to walk through the lawn. and essentially it's a garden of flags. and each one of them wall , the flags are the same. each of the pictures and each of the stories is different. >> the event is now something the community has come to treasure year after year. >> as a matter of fact, if they're a little late in getting the flags out, people are calling the station house. are you going to be putting the flags out again, this year? >> san francisco's mayor also reflected many of us can still remember wh

i'm leslie brinkley, abc seven news.fter 38 years in business, popular oakland vietnamese restaurant le cheval is closing its doors. >> it's located on clay street in the downtown area. the owner tells abc seven news that rising crime is the reason they decided to shut down. he says his family is looking to relocate the business but has not yet found a new location in neighboring berkeley. >> the police are investigating reports of a shooting not far from the university. sky seven spotted patrol cars outside a building at hillegass avenue late this morning 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 someone perhaps mistaking them for a burglar. we've reached out to the berkeley police department for more details, but not have not have yet heard back . >> the opioid crisis in san francisco appears to be getting worse. today, city health leaders announced 84 people died from accidental overdoses in august

abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley has a look at what the declaration means for the county. >> i have never, ever, leslie, seen it like this in my life. i'm born and raised third generation here. >> community advocate ken houston is out on the streets of oakland every day. this was on 73rd in east oakland today, not only is it inhumane for individuals to live like this, it's not right for the citizens of oakland or throughout alameda county to have to endure these situations means there is also the garbage and the dumping. they just dropped this boat in the middle of the street, a 9:00 just dropped it and cut. today, the alameda county board of supervisors zeroed in on a drastic new step, declaring a county wide state of emergency on homeless ness. the resolution directs the office of homeless care and coordination to come up with a response plan in 60 days with specific steps to be taken to address the escalating homeless crisis. the county has spent hundreds of millions of dollars and what has it gotten? >> it's gotten worse. we need a state of an emergency so we can get federa

abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley talked to some of the people who are making those pitches. >> see those dangling power lines there are 25,000 miles of above ground power lines in northern california. p-g-and-e's wants to bury 10,000 miles of them in the next decade with the focus on fire threat areas. but it's a notoriously slow and expensive process. so p-g-and-e's heard pitches today from nine companies with inventions that could speed it up. it's the utility's first pitch fest on the heels of a summer innovation summit 600 contenders were whittled down to this week's 54 finalists. >> so the big advantages to having the lines underground is making the system more reliable. so you're less potential to have weather related events. so less outages. it's safer in the fact that you would have reduced wildfire risk. so we're not subjected to having lightning strikes on our lines or having trees fall into the lines. >> the biggest challenge in the bay area is finding space to put the lines underground. >> there's ground penetrating radar that can go and look under the ground at obs

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley shares the sights and sounds of those memorials. >> the phrase nine divided by 11 evoke memories of a moment in our history when the world as we knew it changed forever. >> at fire station number 11in clayton. 343 flags marked each firefighter who lost a life due to the attack on nine divided by 11. more flags were lately added for the law enforcement officers who died. this memorial started in 2002. now it includes a detailed biography of each firefighter personal anecdotes and how they perished. like this man who died when the south tower collapsed. >> it's a very moving experience to walk through the lawn and essentially it's a garden of flags and each one of them was all the flags are the same. each of the pictures and each of the stories is different. >> the event is now something the community has come to treasure year after year. >> as a matter of fact, if they're a little late in getting the flags out, people are calling the station house. are you going to be putting the flags out again, this year? >> san francisco's mayor also reflected. >> m

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley talked to some people who were making pitches. see those dangling power lines? >> there are 25,000 miles of above ground power lines in northern california. the pga wants to bury 10,000 miles of them in the next decade with the focus on fire threat areas. but it's a notorious, slow and expensive process. so pga heard pitches today from nine companies with inventions that could speed it up. it's the utility's first pitch fest on the heels of a summer innovation summit, 600 contenders were whittled down to this week's 54 finalists. so the big advantages to having the lines underground and is making the system more reliable so you're less potential to have weather related events. >> so less outages. it's safer in the fact that you would have reduced wildfire risk. so we're not subjected to having lightning strikes on our lines or having trees fall into the lines. >> the biggest challenge in the bay area is finding space to put the lines underground. >> there's ground penetrating radar right, that can go and look under the ground at o

but as abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley explains, it caused quite a scare for students and parents at 1130 this morning, students near the theater on the skyline campus said they heard what they thought at first were fireworks . >> as soon as like there was some gunshots and i was walking to the bathroom and then i just see people running down and i'm like, whoa, what's going on? i knew it was real because i heard the shots. >> police were called and the campus of 1500 students went into lockdown mode with students hunkering down in classrooms. oakland police responded along with the alameda county sheriff's department and chp armed officers could be seen walking up to the campus. >> as i was a little worried at first. i mean, my heart was beating a little bit, but because this is like this is like the serious thing like that we ever had at like skyline. >> the oakland school district said they sent out alerts, some parents said they didn't get them. many first heard about the shooting in text messages from their panicked children. >> at this point, we're just nervous, just ready f

abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley is in oakland with reaction from both sides. >> oakland got nothingakland 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

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley talked to experts about that looking west from the oakland hills. >> the smoke still obscures views of the bridges in the city. looking east mount diablo still shrouded in dense smoky air. >> there's just a big plume of smoke and it's, you know, kind of, you know, dropping to ground level where unfortunately we're all likely to sort of encounter it as we breathe. and aqi above 150 affects everyone, even healthy individuals, according to the director of the uc davis center for health and the environment, the difficulty and the problem that exists, whether you can smell the smoke or not, is the presence of those particles that are easily being taken into your lungs with each breath that you take. >> the wildfire smoke may be from distant fires, but the particulates in the smoke are still very damaging once they lodge in your lungs and produce inflammation and damage to cells , the transport of these particles from wildfires, as you've mentioned, can occur over hundreds of miles of distance and in the transport of those particles, they can also undergo

abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley talked to some of the people who are making pitches say those dangling power lines. >> there are 25,000 miles of above ground power lines in northern california. p-g-and-e's wants to bury 10,000 miles of them in the next decade with the focus on fire threat areas. but it's a notoriously slow and expensive process. so p-g-and-e's heard pitches today from nine companies with inventions that could speed it up. it's the utility's first pitch fest on the heels of a summer innovation summit 600 contenders were whittled down to this week's 54 finalists. >> so the big advantages to having the lines underground and is making the system more reliable so you're less potential to have weather related events. so less outages . it's safer in the fact that you would have reduced wildfire risk. so we're not subjected to having lightning strikes on our lines or having trees fall into the lines. >> the biggest challenge in the bay area is finding space to put the lines underground. >> there's ground penetrating radar that can go and look under the ground at obsta

. >> abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley now with a look at what that declaration will actually mean for the county. >> i have never ever leslie seen it like this in my life. i'm born and raised third generation here. >> community advocate ken houston is out on the streets of oakland every day. this was on 73rd in east oakland today. >> not only is it inhumane for individuals to live like this, it's not right for the citizens of oakland or throughout alameda county to have to endure these situations. >> there is also the garbage and the dumping. they just dropped this boat in the middle of the street. 830, 9:00 just dropped it and cut today, the alameda county board of supervisors zeroed in on a drastic new step, declaring a countywide state of emergency on homelessness as the resolution directs the office of homeless care and coordination to come up with a response plan in 60 days with specific steps to be taken to address the escalating homeless crisis. >> the county has spent hundreds of millions of dollars and what has it gotten? it's gotten worse . we need a state of an emergency so

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley spoke with some of those business owners tomorrow we will be closed until noon. >> restaurant tour. ryan dixon gets emotional about the crime happening in oakland. >> now and how it's threatening the small business ecosystem that makes oakland. oakland >> we are all dying literally and figuratively. um, so the business community has just gotten to the breaking point where every day somebody else is having to choose to close their doors because they can no longer stay in business. whether they're getting broken into repeat plea, whether their staff is being held up or assaulted shootings in front of our businesses, just people are afraid to come to downtown oakland right now. >> so 200 small businesses, including restaurants, convenience stores, clothing stores and doctor's offices are staging a strike on tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon to draw attention to their desperation. they say they've gotten no response to a list of actionable items they presented to the city. things like safe parking lots with attendants to deter car break ins. >> you don't need

abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley looks into what some of those numbers mean and why. it's about more than just smelling the smoke, looking west from the oakland hills, the smoke still obscures views of the bridges in the city. >> looking east mount diablo still shrouded in dense, smoky air. >> there's just a big plume of smoke and it's, you know, kind of, you know, dropping to ground level where unfortunately, we're all likely to sort of encounter it as we breathe an aqi above 150 affects everyone, even healthy individuals, according to the director of the uc davis center for health and the environment, the difficulty and the problem that exists, whether you can smell the smoke or not, is the presence of those particles that are easily being taken into your lungs with each breath that you take. >> the wildfire smoke may be from distant fires, but the particulates in the smoke are still very damaging. once they lodge in your lungs and produce inflammation and damage to cells, the transport of these particles from wildfires, as you've mentioned, can occur over hundreds

. >> i'm leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> there are a lot more cool events happening in oakland,clus weekend. oakland pride takes place this sunday. you'll want to join abc7 news reporter zach fuentes and answer hassan as they bring you the parade live. all starting at 11 a.m. this sunday. >> and we've got a warm-up coming. yeah >> just in time for folks to get out and enjoy that parade this weekend. checking back in with spencer now. absolutely. >> julia and larry. i'm glad it started warming up today. at least some part of the three day weekend. felt like summer. so tonight, look for clouds expanding low clouds along the coastline and across the bay. locally inland. but they will quickly burn back to the coastline tomorrow, giving us another sunny day, perhaps even a degree or two warmer than today. overnight low temperatures will be mainly in the mid to upper 50s. highs tomorrow will range from low and mid 60s at the coast to mid 70s around the bay shoreline to mid maybe a couple of upper 80s in our inland areas. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast. you can see this gradual warm

i'm leslie brinkley, abc seven news.new developments in the effort to find a peacock named wingo star for a new home. >> remember this guy? he may have found that and a new love wingo star is an adult domesticated peacock and he was found running around a school parking lot in east palo alto. abc seven shared his story this week, and it was seen by a couple from pittsburgh who already had peacock as pets. they say their mail had just died, leaving the peahen heartbroken. the couple drove over two hours to the peninsula. humane society to adopt wingo. >> wingo is really happy right now. he slept up in the roosting area last night right next to the female right next to the female. she's been preening him today. they've been sitting together. gosh, they just love each other already. >> well, we're happy to see this homecoming for wingo. the couple says that wingo spent the day exploring his new home and environment. still to come on abc seven mornings, it's day three and the united auto workers strike and negotiations seem

ever pitch fest in san ramon included a company featured on shark tank, abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley talked to some of the people who were making those pitches. >> see those dangling power lines there are 25,000 miles of above ground power lines in northern california. p-g-and-e's wants to bury 10,000 miles of them in the next decade with the focus on fire threat areas. but it's a notoriously slow and expensive process. so pg and heard pitches today from nine companies with inventions that could speed it up. it's the utility's first pitch fest on the heels of a summer innovation summit, 600 contenders were whittled down to this week's 54 finalists. so the big advantages to having the lines underground and is making the system more reliable so you're less potential to have weather related events. >> so less outages. it's safer in the fact that you would have reduced wildfire risk. so we're not subjected to having lightning strikes on our lines or having trees fall into the lines. >> the biggest challenge in the bay area is finding space to put the lines underground. >> there's ground