finally at 8:00 saturday morning, chunliam saechao surrendered.lives in the neighborhood and could not figure out why the street had suddenly become reopened . >> it was weird to me. i do not understand. i thought maybe he escaped the house or something. but, no. he was in the house. >> reporter: a friend was helping him move out when the suspect was in the house. >> my concern is, if the guy is there and no police presence he could come out and run and become a fugitive , right and in danger someone else's life. to me that is endangering the public. >> reporter: as for shears, he he thinks the fact that chunliam saechao was a former cop played a major role in how the situation was handled. >> i think if he was a black eye he would be dead by now, for sure. it sounds racist but that is the way it is. >> reporter: do you understand the perception of a lot of people in the bay area will look at this and say, the police just walked away from an armed suspect who was a former police officer. >> i understand that. i made those decisions for the reasons

team and left chunliam nai saechao in order to de-escalate the situation and to avoid a shootout with suspect. the chief tell it is us even though the tactical unit left the police department was was still, quote, using a lot of resources to monitor and keep the public safe. it wasn't until 15 hours later that police returned and blocked off the neighborhood for a second time. police shared photos of a damaged armored vehicle when saechao shot through their front window for them before surrendering friday morning. >> would you handle this any differently, chief? >> no, in the tactic of time, we figured we had the serious situation that time was the tactic to end peacefully and it worked. >> he was literally rolling the dice at the public's safety. as chief of the police and law enforcement officer you do not have the right to risk the safety of the public. the right thing to do were to have evacuate the neighborhood. >> he's only after the cops? he'sal read a little off. >> saechao will face nine count of attempt to murder peace officers, possession of a firearm and attempted murder o

former pittsburg police detect ive chuliam saechao shot and killed his wife. police returned to his residence igniting another standoff. about two hours ago after 5:00 this morning, a tweet from police they attempted to speak with saechao throughout the night and he fired shots at their armored vehicle. far as we know he has not been taken into custody. >>> as mentioned, it all started thursday after saechao reportedly shot and injured his wife in pleasant hill. after a six-hour standoff with police, around 1:30 yesterday morning, authorities left. saying saechao was no longary threat to the public, but when the shelter in place issued again yesterday afternoon. refusing to come out of his home he was posting pictures then video on social media tweeting in an open dialogue with police. a retired san jose police officer who serves as a security consultant told us it makes no sense. >> he's armed. he's fired a shotgun at his own wife. all he needs to do step out of that house with a firearm and it will be disastrous. >> people in the area have replied to saechao

police were sent back in friday evening after they say saechao made new threats on social media, thenassault weapon. >> chow surrendered early saturday morning and is now facing several assault charges. no one was hurt in the standoff, but some neighbors questioned the department's actions and say saechao was still a threat to their safety when officers left him alone after the first standoff, police tacticians say pulling officers back to where they can't be seen can help de-escalate the tension of a situation. pleasant hills mayor weighs in, saying in part, quote, while events like this are understandably frightening for neighbors and certainly disruptive to the larger community, i support the tactics employed by the police department. our time now is 745. >> special counsel jack smith wants the us supreme court to speed up making a decision about former president trump. smith wants the supreme court to decide if the former president is immune from prosecution for alleged crimes committed during the january 6th insurrection, even while he was president. a district court judge has al

. >> reporter: the police chief says he believed saechao had a grudge against police, and by leaving they'd deescalate the situation. >> but in fact he did the opposite, and his social media posts elevated. >> reporter: some officers remained in the neighborhood in unmarked vehicles watching the house, but at 5:30 p.m. friday night, 18 hours later, the swat team returned after the angry posts continued, and he ended up firing some 30 rounds at their armored vehicle. finally at 8:00 saturday morning, is suspect surrendered. peter shears lives in the neighborhood, and couldn't figure out why the street was suddenly reopened. >> that was weird to me too. i didn't understand it. i thought maybe he escaped the house or something. but no, he was still in the house i hear. >> reporter: ed george was helping a friend move out of a home next door while the suspect was still in the house. >> my concern is well, if the guy is still there and no police are around, he could come out, run, become a fugitive, and endanger someone else's life. >> reporter: as for shear, he thinks the fact that the m

. >> chunliam saechao is scheduled to be arraigned today on attempted murder and assault charges.wife in a pleasant hill home leading to a long standoff and lockdown. chunliam saechao eventually gave himself up on saturday. >>> and then governor gavin newsom in the spotlight with seth meyers. >> i'm suing cities. i have threatened to sue my old city, san francisco. in fact, we did a big audit and now they are conforming to state law for the first time and finally addressing the housing crisis, the original sin in california, affordability. >> newsom, again, insisting he's not running for president. >>> today the warriors take on the clippers in their first game without draymond green. yesterday the league suspended him in indefinitely for his latest flagrant foul on tuesday night. today draymond green will sit down with the warriors' management, and the team is being vague with what he will have to do before he's reinstated. >>> it's a cool start. >> we have a nice day ahead, and lots of sunshine. we will see high clouds moving in, and we are tracking rain starting on sunday. >>>

they're trying to talk saechao, who is a retired pittsburgh police detective out of his house.s accused of locking his wife out of their home thursday night, shooting her with a shotgun for hours. police tried negotiating with negotiating with him thursday night into friday morning. they never actually made contact with him. they then left the scene with saechao saying that he wasn't a threat to the public, but he was still inside his house. he was posting on social media a number of thoughts, possibly some threats as well, some audio clips. police worried that he may have been suicidal as well. they offered some crisis negotiators to speak with him, but again, never truly making contact. even the pleasant hill police department social media pages reaching out to him through tweets, trying to see if that was an avenue to try to actually have a conversation with police and pleasant hill. they came back here last night deeming him a threat to the public and issuing a felony warrant for his arrest. and we know as of this morning, he is still inside that home. police say earlier to

peace officers after a multi-day armed standoff pleasant hill last week. 40-year-old chunliam nai saechao is being held without bail. officers say he barricaded himself in his home thursday after shooting and wounding his wife. she is expected to be okay. he surrendered saturday morning. police say he shot at officers during the stand off that no one else was hurt. >>> tesla recalling nearly all 2 million of its vehicles right here in the u.s. but it is to address an autopilot defect. the automaker says it needs to update the software in all models between october , 2012 and december 7th of this year. this comes after a two-year federal investigation into a series of crashes that happened while the driver assistance system was in use. some of which were deadly. we spoke with an autonomous vehicle expert from carnegie mellon, who feels that tesla isn't going far enough. >> the other companies as they look, if you are not supposed to use it on the road, it won't turn on. we don't see tesla doing that, we see tesla saying we are going to try a little harder. we don't know how much harder tha

. >> chunliam saechao will be arraigned today on attempted murder and assault charges.eir pleasant hill home leading to a long police standoff and lackdown. by friday, police left the scene and that led to a second police standoff and lockdown 15 hours later. chunliam saechao eventually gave himself up on saturday. >>> the warriors take on the clippers tonight in the first game without draymond green. he was suspended indefinitely. draymond, meanwhile, will sit down today with the warriors's management on what he needs to do to be reinstated. >>> nice temperatures headed to the upper 60s in the north bay, and we are going to continue to see sunshine for the next couple of days, but eventually rain back in the forecast starting early on sunday morning. widespread rain will be coming in, and we will see off and on showers throughout the day on monday as well as into tuesday. overall a change in the weather pattern will bring in wet weather for the start of next week. at least we have a few more days to clean up maybe some of the leaves and make sure the decorations out fr

now, officers were first called to the home of former pittsburgh police officer julian saechao on cleopatrave thursday night. his wife said he locked her out of the house and then shot and injured her when she tried to get back inside, police surrounded the house and say chao used social media to post online threats. that's when police who did not believe the public was in any serious danger, were pulled out of the immediate neighborhood. >> and our adversary that night had military combat training. he was an ex law enforcement officer that was his ultimate goal, was to kill law enforcement and die by law enforcement. we really believed if we would have done anything else other than use time, there would have been loss of life. and we were at the end of it. we were able to avoid that. >> but police were sent back in friday morning after chao made new threats on social media. he fired 30 rounds from an assault weapon, including an at an armored police vehicle. say chao surrendered early saturday morning and now faces several assault charges. no one was hurt in the standoff, but neighbors say