Two stories tall. There have been several fires in encampments underneath bart tracks before and last year a man who live in a wooden shed in west oakland died in a fire. Still, advocates say the citys plan to destroy these streak tou streak tours is not the solution. A lot of residents put sweat equity in them. Some have concrete and tile flooring and decorations and roof. Everything. Its a big blow to lose the structures. Reporter the oeast oakland collective is raising money to buy tents that will go right where the structures are now, underneath the bart tracks. Cesar said the city may tear down his home but he plans to stay right in this spot. Thats all i got. Reporter this is all you have . Uhhuh. Reporter what if they take it away . I have to sleep in outside. In the street. Reporter now city officials here acknowledge putting those tents in the same spot directly underneath the bart tracks is not an ideal solution. They are saying they will take a little bit of time hopefully to find a better location, a longer term solution. In oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Thank you. In San Francisco city officials are considering a different kind of shortterm housing fix. Yeah, converting a parking lot near the balboa park bart station into a safe overnight parking place for people who currently live in the cars or rvs. Abc 7 News Reporter is live from the parking lot with details of this proposal. Reporter dan and kristen, this is the parking lot considered for this pilot program. The city picked it one, because they own the land and two, since its already a parking lot, it will require very few modifications and plan to put up security screens making space for 33 spots for safe and secure parking. Each day Jocelyn Hernandez gomez walks home from the bart station. She sees this rv parked on the street. Just trying to look for a place to sleep. Reporter the city knows that, as well. This supervisor has one solution, to convert this parking lot near the bart station into a parking area for homeless residents. Those who currently live in their vehicle. The idea is youre less likely to get someone that owns a vehicle to give that vehicle up to move on. So this is a way to have a space where they can be safe. Reporter according to a new report, there are more than 8,000 Homeless People in San Francisco. Thats up 17 since 2017. About 7 of them live in their car or rv. People need to understand that those that are living in their vehicles arent the hard, hard core homeless that people think about drug addicted Mental Health issues. Reporter if approved, 33 spots would be made available for people to park for up to 90 days. But only for residents who have been vetted and recommended by the Citys Department of homelessness. He says the parking lot will be monitored 24 hours a day by security cameras and security guards. The city will also provide bathrooms and social Services Like employment training. Some local residents think its a good shortterm fix. If your phfamily and youre t on drugs and lost everything. Where will you park and think its safe for your kids. The Planning Commission tomorrow. If it goes before the board for a vote, if it passes there, this parking lot could open as soon as november. Reporting live in San Francisco. Well see soon. Thank you. We want to hear your ideas. Share them at bay better group. Breaking news, a wildfire has spread to at least three buildings in eastern contra costa county. Firefighters may be dealing with downed power lines they have not said yet buildings are damaged homes. The man accused of attacking a woman outside a san frncisco condo building will be back in court tomorrow. A judge will decide if Austin James Vincent should remain in jail. Hes accused of attacking a woman outside her Apartment Building near the embarcadero in San Francisco. Residents are holding a Community Meeting right now in opposition of a Navigation Center thats being built close to the Apartment Building where this attack occurred. I think that its wrong to put 200 people, many of whom are mentally ill and active drug users into a residential area where there are 10,000 people. The meeting will provide time for public continue and its expected to last well into the evening. Today Police Arrested a third person involved in an i San Francisco. [ gunshots ]. One person suffered a nonlife threatening injury in the shooting. The third suspect, a 13yearold boy was arrested in oakland today. Two adults were arrested earlier this week, one of them 18yearold simpson pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge today. Hes being held without bail and will be back in court tomorrow. Travis air force base went on lockdown today. After there were reports of shots being fired but that report turned out to be false. Sky 7 flew above the bases main gate after military Police Stopped all traffic. The air force tells us this mornings false alarm took place during a planned training emergency exercise for airmen stationed at travis. Also in fairfield, a swat team used tear gas to drive six people from a home that had been sure rounded by federal agents. Sky 7 flew above the home on the court. Thats when secret service and u. S. Marshals attempted to capture a man outside the house but he refused to come out. Officers tried negotiating before firing tear gas. Nobody was hurt. Secret Service Tells Us the man was wanted in a fraud case. In the south bay, a huge milestone in the on going effort to protect Santa Clara County from flooding as officials broke ground on a multi Million Dollar project. Its been a long time getting. Getting to this point is no easy task. Chris nguyen explains. Reporter for residents in this community. Flood relief cant come soon enough. Whenever it rains, were always worried that its, you know, that it might get in the house. Reporter linda has lived here for nearly 25 years and seen the worst of it. We cant get our cars through f weree cant get back and if we are home, we cant even leave. Because its that deep. It would go about to the middle of the cars. Reporter by next week, construction will finally begin on a fouryear flood protection project for the creek. Nearly seven decades in the making. Were never going to give up on the people of south county. The people whose property and lives will be protected by this project. Reporter at a cost of 180 million, the nearly 14mile long project will include creek channel widening and deepening, a high water flow by pass and has be habitat improvements. It will provide flood protection for 1100 homes, 1300 acres offingof agricultural land. They came together for the ground breaking. Were pleased that though these people are here to champion the effort that the entire community has been waiting for. Reporter county, state and federal funds are making it possible. Once the project is certified, Officials Say it could save residents and businesses thousands of dollars on Flood Insurance each year. Everyone is taking ownership and addressing the problem and were looking forward to clearing it up. Reporter protection many neighbors say is long over due. Chris nguyen, abc 7 news. Pg e launched a new online tool that can help you find out if an emergency power shutoff could affect where you live and work. The site describes what factors play a role in determining when power can be shut off. Pg e shared a video showing how it looks at the weather conditions that can lead to emergency power outages. The potential of power being turned off follows the transmission lines. One of the bay areas most scene roads got a makeover. They brought it to a tenmile stetch along the city. The work included a new pe pedestrian bridge. The project was paid for with an increase in the gas tax approved back in 2017. The mayor of pacificia is glad to see the potholes finally hen the highway is smooth and black and has beautiful white lines going down the middle, it makes a difference. You feel better about where you are. This is just the beginning or landscaping, signage and Traffic Signals that adjust with road conditions. Coming up at 6 00 a twist for the homeowners in that leaning tow near San Francisco. The construction and legal fixes that could be on the way. Im spencer christian. Cloudier and breezier and cooler now that we arrived at midweek. What will Labor Day Weekend bring us . Spencer, thanks. Livestock running a muck. The effort underway now to return them to their homes. Stay w alright, so this is how you are gonna say wn. Youll get the best deal of the year on xfinity tv and internet and you even get this. 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It includes 100 Million Dollars to stabilize the foundation. They will be drilled 250 feet down into bedrock. Thats three times deeper than the piles currently used on the building. The developer and joint Powers Authority agreed to compensate the homeowners for the loss in value of their homes. The homeowners claim the construction of the Sales Force Tower and Transit Center next door caused the building to shift. After the developer started, the details of the payment to homeowners will not be close did until approved by a judge. Mission Street Development said the deal will release all claims of the condition includingowns construction of the chance bay Transit Center and Sales Force Tower end of statement. Diagnosing a concussion may be as simple as a quick inexpensive drug test. That could change everything. Doctors hope it could one day replace extensive ct scans and mris. Eric thomas has more. Reporter this is cell phone video of sean sanford who writes about skateboarding for a magazine and loved the sport since he was 13. But two years ago, doing a trick he had done dozens of times before, his great love nearly killed him. I hit my head on the corner of the ledge on my way down and was knocked out. Reporter friends rushed him to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a Skull Fracture and taken straight into the operating room. This is the first piece of diagnostic equipment many people suspected of having a concussion will see, a ct scanner. Problem is it doesnt always tell the doctor very much. A negative head ct and by negative, we mean we dont see any blood or acute injury. Reporter neurosurgeon is showing sample head imaging. The ct scan that shows nothing then a more sensitive mri of the same patient showing tiny black dots indicative of bleeding caused by traumatic brain injury. An mri takes an hour and thousands of dollars. In the future a quick inexpensive blood test may be the same thing. The excitement of this study, we have a protein only expressed in the brain when you have injuries, even more subtle than injuries on a head ct that one can pick them up on this test. Reporter manly coauthored a study in the latest edition of a british medical journal. He says such a test can take the stress off crowded Emergency Rooms and diagnose concussions on the football field within minutes of contact. Because i think were definitely missing people by only using a heat ct. Reporter the test is still in the experimental stages. Eric thomas. In the south bay, livestock on the loose. Animal Service Crews are in south san jose tonight trying to get to the bottom of this big problem. Yeah, that residents there have been complaining about actually for two months. Abc 7 news kris reyes tried to get answers for us. Kris . Reporter good evening kristen and dan. Two words, cow poop. Right there. Im saying it so i dont actually have to show you. Trust me, they are all over this neighborhood and residents say they video after video taken by residents of this neighborhood in south san jose of their daily visitors. These videos get passed around through a neighborhood text chain, a kind of cow watch to help warn residents. Were tired of it. They shouldnt be here. They are trespassing. Reporter they come to hang out at night and by morning, all thats left behind is a big mess. You can tell where they have torn up the grass. There is little parts up and they left their waste. Reporter were k llooking a cow poop all over the lawn. This is your everyday reality. Its everyday reality and i dont know what to do with this. I was not expecting this kind of fertilizer. Reporter its been happening for two months and residents have had it. They repeatedly called the city with no response so we went to san jose animal care for answers. Why has it taken this long . Im only aware of it for this week. Reporter he says his team has been busy with other calls this summer but he now has units patrolling airport ya follthe a we suspect we know who the owner is so weve been in communication with the owner and the owner is volunteering to remove some of the animals. Reporter residents say this situation is an urgent matter because its starting to get dangerous. I was going to the airport to pick up my husband and went up the street and a cow ran out in front of me. Reporter the cow ran and i had to apply brakes and i was scared not to hit the cow. Reporter all right. So weve spent all day in the neighborhood trying to find these cows. Apparently, they come out mostly at night but here is more evidence of their visits. Divots on the lawn. Animal services is asking re residents to report cow sightings to the office. The phone number is on our website. In san jose, kris reyes. An interesting problem. Kris, thanks so much. Onto the weather forecast, cooler out there. Definitely. Also a little humid, too. It is. Help me get over my amusement. Here is a live look. Weather has taken a turn for the cooler, breezier side and cloudy. Low clouds and fog at the coast beginning to push out over the bay now. Its also quite breezy out there. Surface wind from 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour generally with stronger gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour at fairfield right now. I mentioned that it has turned cooler this shows the 24hour temperature change 14 degrees cooler in concord now than this time yesterday and virtually all locations are a bit cooler. This is a view from mount tam down into the bay. You can see makings of a little marine layer pushing out. Its 64 here in San Francisco. Oakland 70. 80 redwood city. 83 gilroy. 64 at Half Moon Bay. And at the golden gate we see partly cloudy skies and temperature readings up in the north bay over the inland east bay are narrower. 72 petaluma. Upper 70s, napa, concord, livermore and fairfield and from the rooftop camera, these are our forecast features. Fog and patchy drizzle overnight near the coast and bay. Below average temperatures will be with us for the next few days but warming up for Labor Day Weekend and warming up over the weekend. Here is the forecast animation showing at 5 00 tomorrow morning as the commute gets underway, lots of low clouds and fog at the coast and bay and in some inland areas and offshore there will be some areas of showers. We may get spotty drizzle. Well see low clouds pulling back to the coastline giving us a mainly Sunny Afternoon. Lets take a look at our overnight conditions. Lots of low clouds and fog once again chance of spotty drizzle but it will be mild once again overnight lows in the upper 50s and low 60s. It wont drop much lower than upper 50s. Here is the 12hour planner. Well start the day with lots of lingering clouds and there will be slow clearing going into the midday hours by mid to late afternoon, mostly sunny finally and mild to slightly warm. Highs will range from 64 at Half Moon Bay to 68 in San Francisco tomorrow. Low to mid 70s for the most part around the bay shoreline up in the north bay, mainly upper 70s to low 80s. 81 santa rosa and inland east bay, mid 80s or low to mid 80s and the south bay, low to mid 80s, as well. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. You can see that thursday and friday will certainly be cooler than average with highs inland only in the mid or mid to upper 80s. Starts to warm up a bit over the weekend. Not a lot but just up into a zone that looks more like summer. I see 90, 92 inland saturday, sunday and monday. Up to 80 around the bay and mid 60s on the coast and that pattern will hold to the middle of next week. I love when we get lovely days in september. Looks like a great labor day. Great september. 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