Street. Department s in oakland decline to be interviewed. Issuing a statement. The city does not support intentional obstruction. They have gotten no formal complaints about these logs. They said that they are un inundated with Public Service requests and trying to address illegal dumping. They have no plans right now for removal. This is a Public Safety issue. You could drive down here, no reflectors, you can drive down here and you could run into it. What they should do is have them removed and place it where rvs cannot park here overnight. You solve both problems. Reporter oakland started to open up parcels of land for rv parking. Homeless advocates say its not enough, not fast enough. For now, the logjam on poplar avenue remains. In stresss clinton park neighborhood a couple months ago, boulders were meant to block tents and more. Public works removed the rocks at the request of residents on the street who originally paid for em. Neighbors say they were getting threats online by people who disagreed with their idea. San francisco has problems that go beyond housing. Lets just call them hygiene problems that show up on the sidewalk. We are talking about human and animal waste. If you are squeamish, be warned. One supervisor was asking city to have 24hour bath rooms. They have a plan aimed at keeping the streets and sidewalks cleaner. We look at that idea and whether it will help build a better bay area. Reporter the tende eerloin l have cleaners. People in the tenderloin deserve safe, clean and healthy streets and sidewalks just like anyone else in San Francisco. Reporter nowhere is the feces problem so visible as in the tenderloin. They call it code brown. Our Clean Team Members are out every day. They come across code brown, animal waste on the sidewalk. They had to address it. Reporter instead of steam cleaning once a month, crews will be out once a week disinfebldisi disinfecting. It will come from Property Owners who agreed to pay an extra tax. Some hotels paid more than their share. See how much is being done. When you see the groups here today that are helping and then you still know theres more work to be done, its something we always think about. Reporter in addition, those carts used by public works will have a portable pressure washer to quickly spray and wash the offensive material 24 7. The mayor recently extended the Pilot Program for the 24hour bathrooms. Isnt that a better option than a sidewalk . Theres only one of these all day bathrooms serving the entire tenderloin. The city knows theres a need for these 24hour bathrooms. Because they actually record the number of flushes per day. One quarter of all the flushes occur at night. Public works says providing clean streets is critical but so is changing a persons behavior and bad habits. Joining us is long time San Francisco columnist phil mentier. He is here to talk about the quality of life in the bay area. I have stepped in the hygiene problem in San Francisco. Think of the tourists here. Thats what they see. Thats right. Its made an impression not only here, a bad impression, but around the world. We have seen two examples of the private sector sort of getting involved. Doing it, lending a hand. One with the blessing of the city. The other with sort of the distance, dont ask dont tell attitude. Look at the blessing in San Francisco. Yes, what we have here is a city that is spending millions of dollars trying to keep the streets clean. They are sending every morning the cleanup crews start in the tenderloin, they hose the area down, they move out from there so it gets swept and cleaned every day. Not deeply cleaned. So the locals, residents there and merchants are ponying upwards of a Million Dollars to increase it. They are spending that money on their own to get out there and hire crews to deep clean it to try to take care of the problem. The city is embracing that. The supervisor is chipping in 250,000 from his Office Account to try to help do it. You have Public Private partnership that used to be handled by the cleanup crews. They cant do it anymore. Cant keep up. To the point in the package about changing behavior as well, i have never seen we have never seen this level of frustration. Everyone i talked to from the department of public works, even to the mayor to the people doing this, its a behavior issue. They are trying to engineer or clean up after the fact on a behavior issue. I have seen homeless folks walk by and not to pick on them, but walk by a trash can and throw stuff on the opposite side. Throw it on the ground. Thats why they are pushing for the overnight toilets. They have three that they tried. They kept them open 24 hours. It doesnt come cheap. It costs 100,000 to keep those open. That came to about 28 a flush for the overnight. This is not cheap. Again, you are trying to engineer your way out of a behavior problem. Look over at oakland and what they had over there in terms of engineering. Putting logs out on the street in order to block rvs from going in there and setting up camp. Oakland department put out a statement today, you read it. It basically said, we dont support this. I talked to them. They said, look, phil, technically, its against the law. We have other things to take care of. This is not on the top of the list. Theres a political equation here, too. Theres a lot of places they could clean up that would make people happy. Removing those logs is going to upset those businesses out there. It shows the amount of frustration. People just they have had enough. They are taking it into their own hands. One way or the other. Because we cant seem to find a solution on the front of getting people off the streets or getting the bad behavior to stop. If you cant change the behavior, you are going to have to work to change the situation around it and clean it up. Its going to cost. A lot of money. Its a longterm problem. It is. Whats the alternative . To keep letting it go . We cant. What we have done for years. Thank you. Thanks very much. Read phils column in the San Francisco chronicle every wednesday and sunday. We want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. Join our group on facebook. We are on storm watch today. A lot of us did see a break in the rain. A live look from San Francisco. Spencer christian is tracking the storm. The break didnt last as long as many would like. Here with more rain. In the north bay, we have a line of showers moving steadily from the sea to the shore. Lasts a couple hours. Parts of marin county and Sonoma County are getting showers. Thats going to fizzle soon. The storm thats developing to the south that will be with us tonight and tomorrow, ranks of light intensity. Less than fourtenths of an inch of rain. Here is what will happen. The north bay rain will fizzle out. Overnight hours, we will see rain surging up from the south. Thats the larger body of the storm thats developing. We will see wet spots for the Early Morning commute between 5 30 a. M. To about maybe 10 30 or 11 00. After that, we will see clouds lingering over the bay area. Not more rain will fall after the morning hours. However, a bigger storm will follow that. I will give you a look at the bigger storm and the sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Thanks. Track the storm with abc 7 news app. We have live depp looppler 7 on app. Enable push alerts to get advisories on your phone or tablet. A shakeup at alphabet, googles parent company. The two men who founded the tech giant are leaving their post. They announced today they are stepping down from their roles at alphabet. Both will remain on alphabets board of directors. Its a surprise on the one hand because they started this company. They are relatively young. Most people say well involved in the companies they create on a daytoday basis. On the other hand, they have taken an obvious step back. That has been going on for several years. The current ceo will stay in his role and become alphabets chief executive. Alphabet has been positioning him for this new role making him the Top Executive voice on earnings calls and as a spokesman at congressin ing ion hearings. Another candidate for the president drops out today. Why Kamala Harris decided to suspend her campaign. This is a test. A San Francisco staple is about to be silent. The citys world war ii era emergency sirens are due for an upgrade. A smash and grab bush lary in the south bay caught on camera. 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It is with deep regret but also with deep gratitude that i am suspend eing our Campaign Today she launched at the beginning of the year in oakland. She rose quickly to the top and had a memorable moment when she took on joe biden in a debate. Harris could not keep the momentum going and is now out of the race two months before the iowa caucuses. We spoke with one of the members of her finance committee this afternoon. She was stoic. She was very strong. As she always is. But, you know, she was very honest. I appreciated that honesty. Because she said, listen, i cant compete with selffunded billionaires. Her message, she pledged to keep fighting. Her senate term ends in 2022. The field is still crowded with 15 candidates remaining in the race. The next debate is december 19. At least six candidates have qualified. Biden, warren, sanders, buttigieg, klobuchar and steyer. On wall street, stocks closed lower after President Trump indicated he was in no hurry to make a trade deal with china. The dow fell 280 points closing at 27,502. The nasdaq dropped 47. The s p 500 is down 20 points. We learned today how democrats in washington are building their case for impeachment. The House Intelligence Committee released its report today. This as ukraine after a missile blowers investigation. This report chronicles a scheme by the president of the United States to coerce an ally, ukraine, into doing the president s political dirty work. The president calls the accusations a hoax. Tomorrow Pamela Carlin will testify during the first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry. Live coverage of tomorrows hearing at 7 00 a. M. After abc 7 mornings. In San Francisco you know when its noon on tuesday. Thats when the city test its emergency sirens which date back to world war ii. After next week, it will be two years before you hear that sound again. One of the sirens is located along this area. Reporter the plan is for the city to send notifications to your phone and for you to alert Anyone Around you who may not have a cellphone. It covers every corner of San Francisco every tuesday at noon. Its a staple of San Francisco. Reporter it dates back to world war ii, installed in 1942. We know the air raid will work when theres someone invades us. Reporter 2019, everyone has an opinion about it and on yelp it has four stars. The siren is great. I think the mans voice saying, this is a test or whatever he says has been completely unnecessary. I wont miss that at all. We will call dave. He is the official voice of the San Francisco outdoor warning system. Lets give him the news. Put him on speaker. Its bittersweet. It was a great gig while it lasted. Reporter a week from today, all 119 sirens are going offline for security and reliability upgrades. We want to make sure that the operating system, the hardware is not only reliable but secure. Reporter an upgrade that can take up to two years. All the alerts will go gdigital text your zip code to or 8777. Reporter one more day to sound off. The voice has a message for you, San Francisco. My message is, its only a test. Dont panic. Carry on. Reporter the last time there was an upgrade in 2005. Going back to the voice of the sir siren, he says he is available to be the voice once again once the upgrade is up. Thank you. Lets turn our attention to the weather. More rain is coming. Its here, spencer. You are right. Some is falling right now up in the north bay. Theres going to be more surging up from the south as we get later into the evening. You can see lots of activity offshore right now. Some of it has been making its way onshore. Last couple of hours. We have pockets of showers and isolated downpours along the coastline of the north bay, just beginning to push into western Sonoma County. This is the view from emoriville looking under what appears to be dry conditions. Perhaps not for long. 60 in San Francisco. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s at oakland, redwood city and san jose. 59 at half moon bay. We have an unobstructed view of San Francisco. But clouds will surge up from the south shortly. Its 54 in santa rosa. Napa, 57. 60 in concord. One more live view in san jose where rain is approaching right now. These are our forecast futures. Scattered showers tonight through tomorrow, certainly through the early part of the day tomorrow. A stronger storm friday. That one will bring rain that will be heavy at times along with gusty winds. The current storm ranks one on the storm impact scale. For tonight and tomorrow, early tomorrow, light to moderate showers, less than fourtenths of an inch of rainfall in most areas. It could be wetter south bay locations. Breezy in spots. 7 00 this evening, notice tonight, we will see the north bay rain disappear as the stronger surge comes up from the south. We see showers during the overnight and Early Morning hours. Some wet spots for morning compute commuters. Then we will see the storm begin to break up by midday and into the afternoon hours. We will see clouds, perhaps a few widely scattered showers but not much more in the way of precipitation expected after the morning hours. Lows in the upper 40s to low 50s. Tomorrows highs will be in a fairly narrow range, mainly upper 50s just about everywhere. Perhaps 61 in san jose. Most locations, coast to bay to inland, will see 58, 59 degrees. Here is the sevenday forecast. We get a little bit of a dry break on thursday. Clouds will linger. Then that stronger storm ranking two on the storm impact scale comes in friday. It will bring rainy, windy conditions. Strong gusts. It will continue to linger into the weekend. It will weaken to a level one on the storm impact scale. Then another break early next week. Dry weather monday and tuesday. Thanks. Thanks. Ca ayou make ta lihat list a phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Visit right now or call during business hours. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. And accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state Program Visit right now or call during business hours. Cyber monday lived up to its name. For the first time, purchases made by smartphones topped 3 billion. Total sales are estimated at 9. 4 billion, topping last years number of 7. 9 billion. Spending 24 billion since thursday, thats enough to pay for the construction of the chase center 15 times. People in San Francisco turned giving tuesday into teddy tuesday. Sales force, build a bear and ymca teamed up for bear building stations. They were given to children served by the ymca. We are doing this in our San Francisco headquarters. We are doing one in our new york office as well. We are on both coasts supporting the ymca. There will be over 2,000 bears that will go to kids in need this holiday season. This is part of giving tuesday. Its a Global Generosity Movement that started in 2012. A local product to root for. A bay area man will compete on jeopar jeopardy tonight. Catch the episode right here on abc 7 at 7 00 tonight right after abc 7 news