School are removing the plants and animals from the school. It may well go past this week due to the chemicals discovered in the ground water. We are exercising extreme caution here because some testing that we did on an unrelated matter that turned up what is called tce. It is a chemical used for metal processing. It was discovered last friday while tests were being conducted near football field on an unrelated matter. The concern is that it is vaporizing and creating a health hard for students and staff inside the school. According to local and state officials, there are several sites that could be the source of the tce. The most likely is an old plant, lane metal finishers. A few hundred feet away. Thats a major concern. Her daughter is a senior there. This is quite disruptive for all the students. It is just the latest scare for the community in and around the school. Over the years, testing has found high levels of lead around the school. It was found in the water from dated metal
Crying. He said mom, its really, really bad. He said theyre saying that i killed a cop and then the phone just went dead. Whoa. It was really awful. I dont think ethan and i could stand for quite a long time after that. We both sat here on the floor in this room and just cried and cried and cried. How did this happen, they wondered . The parents were involved in both their childrens lives as they grew up in this San Francisco neighborhood a few blocks from the pacific ocean. We took family walks. We have sunday family dinners. We were very involved in sports, you know, pta at his middle school. Ethan coached soccer, helped to coach baseball. So we have been and are still very close. Their son fin went to rome on Summer Vacation after wrapping up his first year at san diego mesa college. He met with his old friend, gabriel natale. Gabe tried to buy cocaine but a pusher gave him italian tylenol instead. Offduty cops broke up the transaction. The Young Americans ran away, fin grabbing the
This week, berkeleys City Council Unanimously approved the first step of opting in to a new state law, which gives people the ability to buy an adu or accessory dwelling unit known as a backyard cottage. Sometimes theyre as small as 500ft■ s. They can be as big as 1000ft■ s in the city of berkel, but any size of a backyard cottage is typically smaller than a Single Family home here, so we expect the sale price to be lower as well. According to zillow, the average price of a home in berkeley now sits at around 1. 5 million. Thats why rashi kesarwani, a Berkeley City Council member, spearheaded bringing this proposal to the city council. A lot of times its, you know, existing homeowners who had an opportunity to buy a home when they werent as expensive, you know, so we want to give that opportunity to the next generation. East bay realtor shaniqua badger says it opens the door for more essential workers who cant afford to live where they work. Teachers should be able to buy where the
Million. What about 2 million . Thats a bit high. Wow. Im a little shocked that its at that level. Thats right. Santa clara county association of realtors data found the median Single Family home price hit 2 million for the first time in april. Were talking the midpoint between the highest home sales price and the lowest. T data shows the top three median prices were in Los Altos Hills at 5. 8 million, monte sereno 4. 5, and saratoga at 4. 2. Only five cities in the south bay are under the median san jose at 1. 7 million, along with san martin, milpitas, morgan hill and gilroy. Scc president Michelle Perry says there are only about 700 homes for sale, and low inventory drives prices up. It has been a problem for many years and now its just out of control. The demand will not go away because the inventory is just too low. So, there needs to be significant amount of homes built in a short period of time, and we just dont see that happening. Real estate expert brad gill says its not just
Surprised that this happened. Now you could see the tall flames from ignacio valley road. 7 engines arrived and police were escorting people out of the condo. The crews needed to knockdown the fire fast since many were sleeping at this hour. Neighbors say there has been multiple problems at this condo and the police have been called on several occasions. One woman who says shes on a Neighborhood Association board but didnt want to be identified said the family in the upstairs unit was evicted. Last night she was supposed to leave. She was supposed to move, and it was the day she was supposed to be out so i find it very interesting that the house is on fire. Now, the cause of the fire is still under investigation. We did talk to Walnut Creek Police who say they are not investigating this fire. We have three phone calls in Contra Costa Office and the fire marshals office, but we havent heard anything back. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time. We do know that the red cross is he