Lauren Hernández (she/her) is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. ![]() ![]() broadcast and suspended him when a shortened version appeared in a script, sources had told The Chronicle then. Somerville has kept his relationship with Donna mostly private, however, in an interview with the National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, he opened. The couple has two daughters - one of which, Callie, who was adopted in 2005 when she was a baby. Producers had nixed the tag ahead of a 5 p.m. The longtime KTVU news anchor is married to his wife, Donna Wright, a television producer. Last fall, Somerville tried to illuminate the contrast in how news organizations cover missing persons cases involving Black and white people in the United States during a 46-second verbal “tag” to the end of an update about Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito’s homicide case. Beloved Bay Area journalists and veteran news anchor for KTVU Fox News, Frank Somerville, was suspended indefinitely after an off-air disagreement with. KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville has again been removed from the air, as first reported by the Mercury News and confirmed by a source at KTVU who spoke to SFGATE. He anchors the five-oclock, six-oclock, ten-oclock, and eleven-oclock news hours. The announcement comes weeks after Somerville, a longtime KTVU news anchor, was charged by Alameda County prosecutors with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a blood level alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more after crashing his vehicle into another car in a downtown Oakland intersection in December. Frank William Somerville (born March 19, 1958) is an American journalist. at KTVU, such as one for best on-camera news anchor. Bay Area news anchor Frank Somerville has been arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence following a crash Thursday night, the Oakland Police Department said. “It’s an absolute honor to be trusted to deliver stories in a way that continues the legacy of journalistic excellence for which KTVU has always been known.” Frank Somerville is an American journalist currently working for KTVU-TV in Oakland. "And I really appreciated that.“KTVU has been a part of my life for nearly five decades from growing up in the Bay Area as a viewer, and for the last 17 years as a reporter and anchor,” Mibach said in a statement. "What was great is that they let me in to see their world. They didn’t treat me like an outsider," Frank said. The Alameda sheriff's SWAT team won the competition during the exercise. "I was also struck by how much the team members all care about each other. One of them told me: 'We would take a bullet for each other.' He wasn’t saying that for effect. That’s how they really feel. But what impressed me the most was watching them go into a situation. All they cared about were two things: Neutralize the shooters. And save the hostages. And I think that’s pretty impressive. When I was firing at the officer I was just trying to hit him.I didn’t care where.You hesitate. When you go around a corner you have a split second to make a decision about whether to fire.And when you shoot there is no time to aim for an arm or a leg.That's literally impossible. ![]() This was nothing like the movies because everything happens really fast. "I think we're programmed to believe that everything happens like it does in the moview. I'm just showing people what it's really like for them." "You can agree or disagree (and) I'm not trying to convince anyone. "I was there to show people what SWAT officers dod when faced with a situation where innocent lives are at stake," he said. The big lesson for Frank was being able to see up close how SWAT teams operate and how they run toward danger while making quick decisions on how to respond.ĭuring the drill, protesters greeted participating law enforcement officers and one woman messaged Frank to express her disgust with his participation. "It was the first time I've ever shot a real gun," Frank said. In one of the scenarios, he used real ammunition with a Sig Sauer MPX 9 mm assault rifle. When SWAT officers entered the room, Frank was able to squeeze off six rounds but was "shot" himself three times: in the heard, head and thumb - "the one that hurt the most," he said. Simunition, a non-lethal form of ammunition, which stings on contact, was used. In the scenario, an officer has been shot and a hostage is being held. During his three decades at KTVU in Oakland, California, Somerville. One of the drills involved a situation in an abandoned East Bay building where Frank was a bad guy being sought by police. Frank Somerville (born March 19, 1958) is an American television journalist. It was the first time a news reporter was ever allowed to take part in Urban Shield training. ![]() Frank, who wore a GoPro camera, was embedded with the Alameda County Sheriff's Department SWAT team.
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