Day one. San francisco leaders need to get Homeless People off the streets but residents dont want a new shelter in their embarcadero neighborhood. Good evening. Im julie haener. Im frank somerville. The port of San Francisco owns the land and the board of supervisors have already approved the project. The mayor wants to have the Navigation Center up and running by december. It would be located in a parkting lot but opponents arent giving up. Today they filed a lawsuit. Live coverage tonight from ktvus amber lee at the embarcadero with the effort to derail the project. Many people who live here along the waterfront area tell me they oppose the Navigation Center. Now theyve taken legal action. Reporter this fenced in vacant lot along San Franciscos waterfront is the battleground in a fight between city leaders and area residents. The Port Commission oness the property and plans to lease it to the city for two to four years so it could put up a Navigation Center to provide shelter and ot
Not turned up his son. Loved ones are camped at the boat ramp, taking visual day and night until hes found. We just tell stories and report and tell stories and laugh. Yeah, going to mourning together as a family. Reporter a break from that deep dive robot sent to the bottom of the lake. The sonar showed us an object on the lake floor that we want to explore further. An object for the 100. At the base of the dam. Visibility is too poor for the camera to see, but this challenging dive was possible only because water flows from the dam were cut less than a sense of normal to calm the water. Several engines he signed off, enough to shut the damaged outcomes of specialized divers from the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department can investigate the object. Our request r short period o i requested a couple hours. 90 chance that its in their. Reporter for the family, closure and delaying vincent to rest, mandate described as a hardworking, loyal. They are grateful authorities are doing so much, but t
Center for the homeless on cityowned land on dakota road. An online petition with 7,000 signatures. We want to do the right thing. We want to do the right thing to help and not, you know, getting neighborhoods against neighborhoods. Reporter he and hundreds of neighborhoods packed Council Chambers and overflow rooms. They want the Center Located at a parking lot behind city al, away from homes, away from schools. Have you ever talked to a homeless person . Have you ever heard their journey . We didnt think it would be that difficult, but its become a difficult process. City officials admit the process has not gone well. The two sites chosen based on criteria near Public Transportation and food services. The goal to house up to 45 people for half a year and put them in permanent housing. Fremonts Homeless Population has jumped 27 in two years. The vice mayor says many concerns driven by fear. Both groups are now unhappy. Originally it was the dakota neighbors, but fou im getting petitio
Their back with oxygen, the air they are breathing, they need to be mobile. Reporter the many homes lost by my count, maybe a dozen or so, just on the stretch of road. The sun had just come up when i ran into this crews of San Francisco firefighters. 149 of them start getting tested for toxin exposure about three weeks after those wine country fires. We wanted to see what type of levels of various chemicals that were in the blood and urine from this fire. Reporter the early results elevated levels of mercury and other toxins associated with everything from firefighting gear to consumer products. Even though it is impossible to know where those toxins came from these firefighters were in proximity to thousands of burning structures. It is important to study them and also imported to do more studies on the Community Members that actually live in these locations being decimated by these urban interface fires. . Do you have implications beyond the immediate fire zones, think of the smoke t
Get stuck or slam shut, hitting her legs. It comes down fast. And it comes down hard. And so its like a hard hit. And sometimes it bruises. Reporter when she saw the new prototype fare gate monday at the Richmond Bart station, she was too scared to go through. Bart is testing out the doublewing gates as a Pilot Program to stop fare cheats from jumping over. She worries that wheelchair users, children or short riders, the wings might shut at head level. Im terrified about getting stuck here. Sometimes its a threesecond window. If i dont get through in three seconds, i get hit on the head. Reporter a bart spokesperson told us the top barriers come down with less force than the bottom and are collected by a pole so they would not close on a head. One rider says the upper wings hit her wheelchair rest monday. They came down on my headrest, the upper gate. A bart spokesman said thisprototo concerns, we have positioned bart staff at the fare gates to show people how it works and hoanswer que