Today the contra costa Water District will consider mandatory water cutbacks of 25 . Right now they are asking for a voluntary cut back of 15 . The board will also take a look at possible rate hikes and consider a ban on watering your lawn more than twice a week. As for the rate hikes, the board will have a public hearing in june. Fremont residents will be seeing an 8 water rate hike. The alameda Water District approved the increase last night. The lack of water isnt the only concern in fremont though. Its an aging infrastructure that needs repair. The district says it must charge its customers more to pay for those repairs. With this rate increase, the more water you conserve, the higher your bill will increase percentagewise. A spokesman from the Water District says a decrease in use means less money for them. In santa cruz, mandatory water rationing begins may 1. City council declaring a stage 3 water emergency there. Everyone will be required to cut water use by 25 . Yesterday, eas
Coast to try to determine what killed a sperm whale. A necropsy is under way on this 50foot sperm whale which washed up on this pacifica beach yesterday. It was found starving and bleeding from its head. Never seen a whale wash up here before. We come running out here all the time, and, uhm, its unusual and sad. Reporter its an adult male. Experts at the Marine Mammal center and the academy of sciences will try to figure out how it died. I just am more concerned they will be able to pull it out. Worried about the smell. Reporter this is the second whale to wash up on bay area beaches this year. A rare pygmy sperm whale washed ashore at Point Reyes National seashore in january later found dead once biologists arrived. Its not necropsy. Its part of life and nature. Its sad to see a large beautiful animal like that dead. Reporter biologists havent decided yet if they will then leave the decomposing whale onshore or tow it out to sea. Four months after a mystery goo spilled in the bay, the
The panole Valley Shopping Center where the chp is in the process of making a felony stop. That person is no longer on the freeway. 4 30. Lets go back to the desk. After a lengthy debate, the city Council Towards leaning to closing the last park. Saying he wants to close it down and develop the property. Ktvu reporter is live with more on what happened at last nights city council meeting. Ths buena visit ta mobile home is the last remaining Mobile Home Park in palo alto. They argue that it is not enough, last night city hall was packed with people wearing shirts save our home. They listened and the residents debated whether the relocation packages was fair, sayingschools are not being taken into consideration. The residents want to be compensated for that but the attorney for the owner of the Mobile Home Park argues they are not required to include schools in determining the value. Being a single person, im safe. I know my neighbors. I dont drive, i depend on the bus, the 22 is right i
Morning. You know im wimpy. When i get in the car and turn on the heat. Its saturday, april 18th. What i also noticed about that is the sun and the yellow and im just saying, were all fired up and ready to go. All excited. 5 1 2 hours away. I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy. But this is what theyre putting on the seats. I just wanted to throw that out. The sun is shining and hopefully, it will shine on oracle. We have excited times. Couldnt help but feel like we were on cloud nine. Were going to give you another shot over mount diablo. Take a look. The clouds and fog spreading farther inland. As a result, we have a bit of cooling coming our way. Our inland communities are not going to feel it so much. By along the coast and the bayside communities will feel it. Inside the bay, portions of the east bay and the north bay. And you can see in the south bay as well. As we get into the second half of the morning, its going to burn away. Its going to hug close to the coast once aga
Syrian army, not shia militias tied to the asad government. Did nbc knowingly cover up the truth . Well speak to Asad Abu Khalil who openly questioned nbcls nbcs claim back in 2012. Then to the house the herman built. What you see before you is a model built to scale of Herman Wallace is cell. He spent years in solitary confinement for a crime he could not have possibly committed in louisiana. 27 of those years were spent in the cell. Amy we will speak to artist Jackie Summell about hermans house, her collaboration with former prisoner and black panther, Herman Wallace. And we will get an update on the case of glenn ford freed from death row after 30 years. He is now dying of cancer in hospice care. While exonerated, he has not been compensated. But first, in an act of mass civil disobedience, tens of thousands of new york parents rebelled this week against years of standardized testing from the politicians in albany. We will speak to a parent and school superintendent. All that and mo