Right now on kpix 55 30 pm. Da test site in alameda. Have they gotten things straightened out . We show you what we found out today. The original series project home, teachers forced to leave the bay area because they cannot afford housing and how to a startup is helping them afford a down payment. Voting by mail you can the Postal Service keep up . Good evening. We are about 100 days until the election and concerns are growing over wary whether the u. S. Postal service can handle an influx of mail in ballots. Reporter the march primary about 100,000 mail in ballots were rejected in california and the most common reason was they were not postmarked in time and the postmark date is absolutely critical and now the country is facing a nationwide election, voting by mail amid a pandemic will be critbut what if the Postal Service cannot handle that . We are very concerned and want the public to be aware and this is already starting to affect mail and packages. That is the head of the United Postal Workers Union sounding the alarm of a budget price crisis and increased delivery time and standoff with white house. The president has rejected the idea of a Postal Service bailout and Something Else he is opposed to. The president on record against vote by mail. The worry that a Postal Service and crisis will not be able to handle an election that will rely largely on the mail. Its not good access to vote by mail and tens of thousands of people will be denied their right to vote california voters have a lot of experience with voting by mail and in the march primary over 70 of the voters cast votes by mail. The confusing thing for some folks is we call it a vote by mail ballot but its really about how it is arriving to you and not have to return it. If you want to avoid the worry of a ballot stuck in the mail just avoid the risk altogether and any ballot drop off site will work with no postmark needed. If you send it through the mail send it one week in advance. A really important question, where can you find the ballot drop off sites . Reporter the when i showed you is outside the registrar of Voters Office in San Mateo County and theyre usually set up in any number places as well as spots like libraries. There is no shortage and you can drop it off at any of them no matter where you are and it will make it to your county registrar of voters and it does not need a stamp and back to the 100,000 that were thrown out in march, thats a perfectly normal number anyone anywhere from 1 to 2 get thrown out but some states where they are not as practiced with this it could be as high as 5 or 7 so this is possibly a much bigger catastrophe another part of the country with all the problems that we have an california, voting by mail is something we do pretty well. Thank here is a look at some of the top stories. Within the last half hour, we learned a Police Officer was placed on administrative leave after an arrest that was caught on camera. The officer is seen apparently kicking then dragon this woman across the mcdos pa lot and it happened wednesday. San jose mayor is calling on police to release body cam video. The chinese researcher wanted by the fbi is in custody in sacramento. U. S. Officials arrested her over visa fraud allegations yesterday. The 38yearold is accused of lying about her involvement in the china military. And Armenian School in San Francisco targeted by vandals and they spraypainted messages of hate across the campus and the school says some of the hatred reflects tensions and hstilities that go back decades. The east bay coronavirus testing site pears working out its issues and was open today but only for scheduled appointments and over the last two days there has been frustration and confusion of the urgent care testing site. Droves of people were turned away yesterday when it suddenly shut down over an insurance issue. The city health ceo said they are working with the Property Owner to clear things up and possibly as soon as today. There is a surge in demand and we are doing everything we can to meet the demand and there is a lot of variables in getting expansion and we are looking to open additional sites to meet the demand and working through some of the issues. City health ceo says they test blocks of 500 People Per Day and if youre looking for an appointment, get on the website regularly and if you dont find a spot, keep checking back. When local startup is seen the pandemic as an opportunity to help teachers afford to buy a house. Sky high cost of housing is the number 1 reason so many teachers are leaving. In the original series, project cofounder whhas help hundreds of teachers stay here. It was very daunting. And he decided to buy a home with his partner last year in San Francisco, he was outbid every single time. Some of which we were outbid by hundreds of thousands of dollars and we were close to giving up on San Francisco. Then he found a startup that matches down payments for teachers. One of the biggest barrier is the down payment with a large sum of cash to get into a home. The cofounder, the company helped 400 teachers by home so far and it works as a coinvestment for giving you half of your down payment, you share 25 of the investment gain or loss and there is no cap on how expensive the home is or how much or little you make. The pandemic is providing an opportunity to avoid over bidding. The economy is slowing down a bit and there is a better opportunity for educators and people in middleclass jobs to have them to be able to buy a home. Most teachers site housing is the number 1 reason they lethbay areaavwithin the first e years. There is a racial component to this. 12 of people buying homes in the bay area are black or latino but 44 of the clients are. Predominantly black neighborhoods also have the highest teacher turnover rate, 47 of teachers at the school in the bayview neighborhood leave by year three which is more than double the district average. Hopefully tools like this are addressing not just the general need that the specific need to continue to maintain and have vibrant, diverse, thriving community. The match means staying in the community where he works and with the added benefit of offering his two daughters the opportunity to shelter in place with dad. Our daughters needed extra space which they have now and we have a beautiful home which is wonderful. He just closed another fundraising round bringing the total number of funds raised to just over 22 million and because the homes are set up as a coinvestment, there is no cap on the number of teachers they can help in a given year. We invite you to keep sending your stories and ideas to project home we invite you to keep sending your stories and ideas to project home cbs. Com. See all of the reporting on the website. One town trying to crack down on all the weekend getaways. When airline is offering passengers who get infected with the coronavirus on their trip. Coming up, one of the greatest Success Stories and officials in truckee and north lake tahoe are asking folks to stay away on weekends at least until august 17. The mayor said the influx in the area is creating issues with overcrowding and the city cannot risk the surge of covid 19 cases. Similar concerns at another popular spot in plaster county. Starting today, all parking at yankee gyms will be closed until further notice and that is located near colfax and forest hill. The sheriff there said hundreds of cars led to traffic and safety concerns last weekend where there is only space for 12 vehicles. Another Hollywood Star added to the covid19 recovery list. Mel gibson tested positive back in april but has since recovered. His representative said he was hospitalized for one week and thankfully is now doing great. Emirates airlines trying a new tactic to fill the plains. The company is the worlds First Airline to offer to cover medical expenses should they contract covid19 at any point during their trip. Its valid for 31 days from od tioctober. A promise is a promise. Two friends just one big and how they are making good on the lottery agreement that they made years ago. Before we go to break, a look at some fan photos that you sent in showing a little dear california, we know these are challenging times. And with summer here, energy bills are rising. Together, we can save energy and money. By taking steps to stay cool while using less. Keep safe and keep it golden. Two San Francisco supervisors are supporting a movement to remove Mark Zuckerbergs name from sf general hospital. Supervisor introduced a resolution coauthored by the supervisor, matt haney. They condemned the naming of the zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital. Doctors and nurses have also been campaigning for the hospital to drop the name. The institution was formally renamed back in 2015. After the couple donated 75 million to the hospitals foundation. South San Francisco looking into an alternative for Public Transportation where people could shuttle to work in a pod. The city Council Agreed to pay 30,000 toward a study for glides ways, and ondemand pod system and it would fit a couple travelers and could be called lichen uber in the system would be a way to connect the train station to the bayfront job hub. The Railway History is getting new life. The geneva car barn powerhouse is part of a 14 million project. We spoke with the Park Department for details. The powerhouse will be the future home of the performing arts workshop where it will serve kids in the omi and lakeview and excelsior areas. And the performing arts. The space is extraordinary. It is now earthquake safe and they hope to add a Recording Studio and a student cafe in the future. Art, dance and theater workshops happening online anyway. Check out the full interview on cbsn bay area streaming on kpix. Com and other digital platforms. A promise between friends and they say they never thought they would have to keep this problem. Within 20 years ago the longtime friends made a bet that if one of them won the jackpot they would split the winnings with each other. Guess what . And happened. Tom 122 milliondollar jackpot and the two opted for a cash payout will walk away with 5. 7 million each. Good friends. A task force the la county Fire Department is headed to help respond to hurricane douglas in the Hawaiian Islands. The storm is expected to be at or near hurricane intensity as it approaches violence on sunday. Paul heggen has been tracking the storm. Our weekend looks a whole lot better than the Hawaiian Islands this is still a major hurricane and it is the last three hours of the satellite imagery for hurricane douglas and lost a Little Organization earlier today but it is Getting Better organized. Very symmetrical i and thats one of the things would look at with dark red colors around the middle means clouds reaching way up into the atmosphere. There are the Hawaiian Islands and it is headed directly for hawaii itself. 150 mileperhour sustained winds and that is a major hurricane. Good news is it will not hold onto the intensity and it will get into an area of cooler water temperatures which will help to weaken the storm a little bit stronger when scheer tearing this storm apart as well. Still a category 1 as its approaching Hawaiian Islands and the path is changed a little bit. Yesterday it looked like it will be aiming directly for the big island but it will tracked directly over honolulu and the cohen here could go anywhere so little south or north and all the forecast models are trying to push it further north and any little bit would definitely help and it looks like it will weaken to a Tropical Storm track indirectly over oahu still it will be a problem for the Hawaiian Islands. Plenty of sunshine in lynn and the fog and low cloud cover very stubborn from the west side of the bay and along the coast with temperatures cool and 63 degrees for the high and half moon bay. 61 degrees downtown. Upper 70s for santa rosa and san jose and low to mid 80s for livermore and concord the temperature slightly below average but we warm up for the weekend. 64 at sfo and 58 degrees downtown. 66 degrees at the Oakland Airport and temperatures are still in the low 80s in concord and fairfield. Mostly 70s for inland portions of the bay area. Futurecast shows the fog staying in place in even trying to spread back inland as we have early tomorrow but unlike to may watch it retreat toward the coast and even off the coast with clearing along the shore and we start the morning on sunday with some fog and low cloud cover not spreading as far inland which means it will not take as long to back up as we go through sunday afternoon with more sunshine for everybody the second half of the weekend temperatures back to normal as we head through the weekend. We start off in the 50s area wide mostly in the middle portion of the 50s Early Saturday Morning then we warm up. Not much in San Francisco but 5 66 degrees by early afternoon. San jose normal temperatures and low to mid 80s and concord will be warmer with temperatures today in the mid 80s and close to 90 degrees tomorrow but just short of actually hitting 90. Santa rosa will be a bit warmer as well about 5 degrees warmer which puts temperatures up to the north bay and the low to mid 80s. The temperatures, low to mid 60s along the coast, mid to upper 60s and low 70s along the bay with upper 70s on the south bay. The warmer spot the farther inland in east to go. The temperature is backing off a couple degrees on sunday and slightly stronger onshore breeze to kick in as we head through the second half of the weekend and slightly below average temperatures for the first half of next week and 92 next friday in the beginning of a heat wave that will carry us into august. We will look at the doug buchan forecast at 6 00. A dramatic reversal from the cdc and a push to reopen schools and how the new guidelines could impact the future of education here in the bay area. Plus San Francisco beefing up the mask mandate and the new rules in effect and what you need to do if you have a medical exemption. Some driversinfor urs to party at lake barrett and officials blaming the large block parties and gatherings for a spike in cases a bay area student found herself in a whirlwind in the pandemic hit an quickly came back from studying overseas and found new challenges, the coronavirus and protests over racial injustice. How she is working to make her mark. It was really lifechanging. She is still reeling after her recent trip home from south africa. Her Study Abroad Program abruptly cut short by covid19 and the news delivered by email. What did you think when you got that message . I was so upset. The 22yearold took a government Repatriation Flight back to the u. S. As her host country went into lockdown and online classes followed with instructors half a world away. Then a new reality of social upheaval gripped her community. People are fed up and want to see some sort of justice and change. Quite a bit for anyone to unpack let alone a College Student its obvious when you meet her that she is wise bond her years in her brief few months in south africa clearly making a lifetime of impact. It reminded me that racism is an issue and its an issue everywhere. Our experiences with slavery and the apartheid in south africa are very similar. Now she is focusing on social justice here. Writing, singing and producing her own album in the world we have a lot of things we need to work on leaving that black lives matter. I have been writing a lot about that because it has been overwhelming. The title is a fouryear affair reflecting her own journey through challenging times. Writing about it has helped me to understand how im feeling and the message i want to give to the world. Her message is simple and powerful. I want black lives matter to continue and i want to continue to educate myself. Im going to continue making music centered around my experience and around black experiences. To learn more about students rising above and its scholars head to kpix. Com sra. And that will do it for the news at 5 00. Kpix news at 6 clock begins right now. A covid out break in east oakland traced back to parties. Now neighbors are saying its past time to crack down. A pandemic success story. How the virus is being kept out of one of the bay areas most densely populated neighborhoods. But firsstory on kpix 5, bay area teachers and parents reacting to new cdc guidelines that push toward reopening schools. Good evening. The new federal guidelines doing little to end the debate over putting students back in classrooms. Kenny choi is live with more on that story. Reporter 81 schools in Santa Clara County have asked about the waiver process application for opening schools in person for in person learning. The new cdc guidelines issued is reigniting the debate about whether schools should reopen. In a dramatic reversal the cdc says it is critically important for Public Health to open schools. Im so tired of hearing about children not being heavy transmitters. Compromising their immune system is far higher than keeping kids out of school or having them wear masks