Open trench on santa clara. You have a big pit in the middle of a thriving downtown core. Weve seen how it works in [ technical difficulties ] if about. If we about more time, we should do it. Reporter the b. A. R. T. Board will decide. The timeline is in 2019. Kpix5s melissa caen joins us now live from oakland. Cook r things at home oa reporter were here in front of the purple heart medical cannabis dispensary. What they call equity applicants. [sotgreg minor, assistant to c of oakland] an equity oakland residents will get priority who live in a neighborhood with a large number of cannabis related arrests or have a cannabis restriction on their record. The next time i invite you over to the house for a potluck, it may mean not just cooking, but doing other things at home. Reporter oakland city councilman knoll guyo said when noel guyo said when the city started looking into cannabis licenses, they found something. We wanted to grow it to 16 and found out in the process we had over 250
Northbound 880 at 23rd, speeds below 45 miles per hour. You will be at reduced speeds during that stretch. Travel times at 16 minutes from 238 to the maze. So really not causing too much of an impact on your morning commute so far. Back to you guys. The federal government will shut down at midnight if congress cant reach a deal on a funding bill before then. Yesterday in the senate, lawmakers reached a bipartisan budget deal to fund the government for six more weeks. It would also add hundreds of billions of dollars in additional military and domestic spending. But House Minority leader nancy pelosi is threatening to oppose that deal in the house unless republicans allow a vote on daca. As joe vazquez shows us, the San Francisco democrat went on a filibuster yesterday talking for eight solid hours. I am voicing some of the concerns today largely through the voices and the stories of our dreamers. Reporter in her marathon speech, nancy pelosi read aloud letters from dreamers. She gradua
Days. Today will be 15 degrees above average. Well drop off 10 degrees by the weekend. For those of you around town, across the south bay, east bay looking okay. Livermore visibility down to 5. Sfo down to 8. Theres a little fog at the coast. Fog in the valleys. Winds are calm. Northeast winds coming through three to seven Miles Per Hour right now through hayward. And thats whats pushing fog into hayward. For the north bay, its calm and thats not helping as far as the fog is concerned. Ill talk more about your afternoon highs coming up. Today is the day congress has to agree on a new budget plan or face another Government Shutdown while the senate seems set on a plan to move forward two separate groups in the house saying not so fast. Reporter the senate is expected to vote on and pass a budget compromise today hammered out by leadership from both sides of the aisle. No one would suggest it is perfect. But we worked hard to find common ground. It is required concessions. Sometimes pain
We begin with an issue thats been a real drain on our states resources, water or lack thereof. You see, california farmers had had to cut back, and the impact is huge. More than half of the countrys fruits vegetables, and nuts are grown right here. With fierce competition over a finite resource fingers are being pointed. Enter the one crop thats taken the brunt of the blame the california almond. Sam for california farmers, you can say that life has been well, kind of nuts these days. Plants in fields are thirsty without much water to go around. So it makes sense for critics to start searching for a scapegoat. But is americas numberone snack nut shown here in video provided by the almond board of california really as bad as its cracked up to be . Lets look at a recent report from the bay areabased Pacific Institute that draws on years of numbers from the department of water resources. It shows almonds and pistachios are actually tied for fourth in water intensity, the best gauge of wat
Finally donald trump theyre bringing drugs theyre bringing crime. Sam a tragic shooting in San Francisco and the arrest of an undocumented immigrant. A unique event, or really a link between immigration and crime . We uncover the truth in this edition of reality check. Sam and good evening, and welcome to reality check. Im sam brock. For the next 30 minutes, well take a closer look at topics making headlines, and claims coming from highprofile leaders, to separate the truth from the bunk. We begin with an issue thats been a real drain on our states resources, water or lack thereof. You see, california farmers had had to cut back, and the impact is huge. More than half of the countrys fruits vegetables, and nuts are grown right here. With fierce competition over a finite resource fingers are being pointed. Enter the one crop thats taken the brunt of the blame the california almond. Sam for california farmers, you can say that life has been well, kind of nuts these days. Plants in fields