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My wife is she cries about it because its our home. And my son, hes just worried, are we ever going to move back in here. Hes 11 years old. Reporter days prior to the storm, he said the San Francisco San Francisco Public Utility Commission sent someone to check the drain after an incident. Its fine, the whatter is flowing. Its not the issue if water is flowing. Thats not the issue. Its the capacity. Reporter we talked about drain capacity with the boards president norman yee. Sunny side is in his district. I think its worth us researching what it would cost into a tenyear increase the size. As we are replacing, we could go into a bigger system, but it koftsds more. Reporter we also contacted the puc. The city just replied to us. This is what theyre doing. In a statement they said they received the ticket numbers from this household and added in part based on the initial information provided, it appears the area may need more maintenance than a simple clearing of the storm drain which is not unusual. I hope they follow through because its not just flushing out the system. Reporter and the puc did not give specifics on when this inspection will take place. In San Francisco, luz pena, abc7 news. Has anyone else in the neighborhood experienced anything similar . Reporter as a matter of fact, yes. His next door neighbor, we spoke to her and she did tell us that every single time that it rains, she has to cover heron tire basement with plastic bags. And there was even one time where she lost all her family photos. Back to you. All right. Thank you so much, luz. Another water problem for San Francisco neighborhood, a 6 inch water main break today flooded fill bert street in pacific heights. Sky map 7 shows you the exact location between lion and baker streets. Crews had to shut off Water Service in that area. At this point it is unclear what caused that water main break. The storm system ranks 1 on the abc7 news storm impact scale. Abc7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian is tracking more rain. Spencer. Thats right, dan, its raining in parts of the bay area, mainly in the north bay. Heres a live look of live doppler 7. A batch ever showers are moving on shore now. A closer look at Sonoma County we have showers around sonoma, pen grove, this has been the pattern over the last three hours developing offshore and now moving on shore. Its likely that locations like San Francisco and other points south of the golden gate will get some rain tonight. The storm ranks 1 on the storm i am fact scale. Storm of light intensity. Light rain and showers overnight and tomorrow. A closer look at how long it will last in a few minutes. Ama . All right, spencer, thank you. New at 6 00, they will increase the use of recycled water. Valley water will spend 16 million to recycle water that gets processed at the Regional Water Quality Control plant in palo alto. Officials tell us recycling waste water will provide a drought resistant source of water for irrigation and other uses. Valley water is working with the cities of Mountain View and palo alto on improving the quality of recycled water. A Major Overhaul of the Mental Health system won approval with the supervisors. The mayor along with supervisors Hillary Ronan and matt haney put forward this plan called Mental Health s. F. And is intended to focus first serving people who are homeless with serious Mental Illness or Substance Use disorders, getting them the services they need and off the streets. The city says roughly 100 million is needed every year to implement this program. And new at 6 00, our first look at a man involved in a shooting with police over brandishing what turned out to be an umbrella. 24yearold joshua faces charges including criminal threats and assault. On saturday afternoon Santa Rosa Police say an officer responded to an area near guerneville road in and fulton road after seefrming multiple reports of a person pointing a gun at people and cars. The officer says the suspect raised the object at him. So he fired. On closer inspection the object turned out to be an umbrella. Part of building a better bay area is making it more affordable to do business here. High costs have now driven out one of San Franciscos biggest conventions. Oracle usually holds its open world conference at the moscone center. It is moving to las vegas. According to cnbc, oracle blames skyrocketing prices and street conditions for that decision. Chronicle insider contributor to our building a better bay Area Initiative explains why this is such bad news. San francisco is incredibly expensive. If youre spending money here, you want something for your dollar and thats not necessarily stepping on something in the middle of the street you dont want to see. Open worlds departure will cost San Francisco an estimated 64 million a year. Thats according to the citys tourism bureau. So its a big hit. Well, from big business to small, mayor london breed is calling for San Francisco residents to support local shops during the holidays. Staying in business continues to be a challenge for many of them as you know. We asked abc7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez to find out whats driving them out of business and what the city is doing to try to help them. She is live on polk street with that story tonight. Lyanne. Reporter well, heres what local Business People are telling me. San francisco is too dirty, too many car breakins and also too expensive. But really the quote of the day came from a Small Business owner who told me, San Francisco has lost its mojo. This is San Franciscos union street. In just half a block we counted one, two, three, four, five, six stores that had closed or were closing. The owner of this store barely survived a rent increase of 85 last year. As if that were not enough, then came another hike. They gave me only a year and they said its going to be another 200 increase if i stay longer. Reporter after 42 years, shes closing her shop. I asked her if given the chance to talk to mayor london breed, what would she tell her . We should have some sort of a restriction on the rent control for commercial space as well. Sneer heres the mayors response. While we cant control what a landlord charges, we do have some controls over how we eliminate some of the fees and provide rebates and support and grant opportunities to Small Businesses. Reporter the reality is that San Francisco imposes a lot of fees on Small Businesses. Fees sometimes already charged by the state. One of the members of the Small Business commission confirmed it. So youre saying that we in San Francisco have more fees for Small Businesses than probably anywhere else . Oh, yeah. Reporter those fees paid to agencies like the Health Department and public works to name a few add up to more than 2,000 a year. What can be done . Do the hard work of identifying which ones arent relevant any more, which ones can we get red of. Reporter San Francisco now has the legacy business program. Landlords may qualify to receive up to 22,500 from the city to help supplement the price of the rent. But a business must be at least 30 years and agree to sign a tenyear lease. Thats why some Small Business owners say selling online is a better option. Being online allows us to get the word out so people can see it. Reporter today the mayor opened city hall to a handful of Small Businesses trying to gain visibility and stay in business. A lot can and should be done. Thats what city hall is saying. But Small Business owners told me or wondering how long that will take. Im live in San Francisco. Lyanne melendez, abc7 news. Lyanne, thank you. Happening no the official release of the latest vision zero data for San Francisco and the discussion at the citys Pedestrian Safety advisory committee, vision zero is the name of the initiative to bring traffic deaths down to zero. Abc7 news got a sneak peek at the data yesterday. Today some context from the vision zero epidemiologist with the Citys Department of public health. The overall severe number of severe injuries for pedestrians was about the same as it has been over the last few years. We saw that critical injuries went up a little bit to pre2014 levels, which is something we want to watch. 2014 was the year that vision zero debuted in San Francisco, and so its an important piece of data as we move forward. Listen to this. She tells us speed is the leading predictor of whether someone survives a crash. There have been 27 traffic deaths in San Francisco this year. Well, we are trying to build a better bay area when it comes to the challenge presented by the homeless. They feel like theyre trapped in their own homes. Theyre worried about retribution from the homeless if they confront them. This is what they said to me. If i confront them, im scared. Next, a live discussion on what people are dealing with, and what can be done about it. 5 million, thats how many wouldbe renters have been scammed nationwide. Im Michael Finney. What to watch out for ahead on 7 on your side. And join michael tomorrow beginning at 4 00 p. M. For a 7 on your side Health Insurance hot line. Enrollment specialists will be on hand to take your questions by phone or via social media about covered california. The deadline to ensure coverage january 1st is so that early retirement we planned. Its going ok . Great. Now im spending more time with the kids. Im introducing them to crab. Crab . They love it. So, you mentioned that that money we set aside. Yeah. The kids and i want to build our own crab shack. Ahhh, youre finally building that outdoor kitchen. Yup with room for the whole gang. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. San franciscos semiannual gun buy back will be held this saturday. Over the years its recovered more than a thousand guns. Abc7 News Reporter vic lee looks at what a difference even one gun makes. Reporter the walls in the united players Conference Room is covered with photographs of young men who died. Reminders they were all shot to death. The youngest, this 12yearold killed by a stray bullet. One gun that is not taken off the streets will kill somebody and can destroy everybody. So lets save as many lives as we can. Reporter since 2014, rudy, a victim of gun violence himself, has been doing that. This is his ninth gun buy back. Since then, his group, united players, has removed more than 1600 firearms off the streets. He displayed some of them at a News Conference today. One of those guns on the floor not been taken in a gun buy back, it might very well be an instrument that might have taken someones life this year. Reporter mayor london breed promised anonymity. Come out and bring your guns. No questions asked. Reporter youll get 100 bucks for a hand gun, 200 for an assault weapon. Mattie scott was here. Shes an activist against gun violence. Her son was shot to death 23 years ago. Scott had to tell her grandson on his birthday that his father ded. The scream i heard on that phone, i dont want anybody to ever have to hear the scream that i heard on that phone. Reporter Sheila Burton was here. Her son was killed 14 years ago. Time has not eased the pain. As a mother having to deal with christmastime, hes not there. His birthday, hes not there. Reporter and, by the way, the Santa Clara County Gun Buy Back Program will also be this saturday at the gilroy corporation yard. Vic lee, abc7 news. What is the future of pg e . Its a question weve grappled with this year during bankruptcy hearings, wildfires, and those power shut offs. New at 6 00, some insight about what californians want. In a poll by u. C. Berkeleys institute of governmental studies, when people were offered five choices for future alternatives, the most popular response was, i dont know. It is complicated so thats understandable. About a third of voters support the idea of tasking pg e to come up with solutions to its own problems subject to approval from the state. A nearly equal number like the idea of having the government take over pg e at either a state or local level. In the bay area, the government take over idea has even more support. The survey also asked about those Power Outages that pg e has done repeatedly during times of high fire danger. The majority of voters want decisions about turning off the power to be made jointly business the state and pg e. 70 of those surveyed in the bay area say they were not affected by wildfire evacuations or Public Safety power shut offs. Now to our efforts to build a better bay area. Its not your imagination. You really are seeing more homeless in the bay area. Alameda county alone, the number has nearly doubled in the past four years, from about 4,000 to more than 8,000. About half of them can be found in oakland. Abc7 News Reporter Leslie Brinkley joins us live with the story of one oakland man whose feelings of empathy for the homeless have been outpaced by frustration. Leslie. Reporter oh, thats frustration that led him one year ago to put up red concrete kay rails outside his business on a deadend street to keep rvs and homeless encampments from parking there. And it worked so far for him. Its the same kind vigilanteeism, someone put logs on a street to keep homeless rvs from parking there. Thats how bad the problem of homelessness has gotten. Were less empathetic. The people are getting tired of it. Theyre seeing it. They have to live with it. They see it every day. They have to suffer through i have seeniers calling me up saying, ken, im fearful. Im scared. I have grown men calling and saying, im scared to make a report because they know where i live and i dont know where theyre going to go. So the public is being less empathetic right now because of the condition thats got out of control. Reporter so you put up kay rails because you needed to get homeless rvs out from your business. Yes. And im probably going to get hit for this, all right. I got fed up. I got desperate. I did it. I know theyre going to call me and seri move it. But whats going to happen after that when i do remove it . Is it going to come back and get out of control again . Reporter time will tell, ama. Neighborhoods, entire neighborhoods are starting to rebel against homelessness. Leslie, beside the idea that people are so desperate to block homeless rv parking that theyre putting logs and kay rails and roads to block they have, were there any tangible ideas to get at the problem . Reporter certainly suggestions floated around. One of them houston posed was just simply for the city to not allow rv parking on the streets, to enforce that, and at the same time provide safe parking lots for those rvs. Finding a way to provide utilities. Basically finding the land. This land is vacant. Its only used for raiders games, overflow lot. This is owned by the cities, thats owned by the county and city. This can be used as a rv parking for homeless encampments to get that off the street so the public is safe. Reporter that particular lot is off of hagenberger just south of the oakland coliseum. Now, the city does, they told me today, theyve got two operating rv lots right now. One in east oakland, one in west oakland, with a total of 63 rv sites. And, ama, thats just simply not enough. Reporting live in oakland, im Leslie Brinkley, abc7 news. It is quite the problem. Thank you, leslie. We do want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. You can share them by joining our better Bay Area Group on facebook. We are about to have a wetter bay area. Spencer christian is here with the forecast. Spencer. It is getting wetter by the moment. Take a look at live doppler 7. You see a large batch of showers moving on shore. Just a few minutes ago, only Sonoma County was getting this rainfall, this light rain and showers. Now we see it sliding down into marin county. So its getting quite wet. It looks like a few isolated downpours there as well. This is the view from the rooftop camera at abc7 where it is mainly dry. 55 degrees now in San Francisco with mid to upper 50s also at oakland, redwood city, san jose, 51 at gilroy, 54 at half moon bay. And here is the view at the golden gate where the pavement looks a little damp right now. Not quite sure at the moment, but it looks like lights reflecting off water. 51 degrees at santa rosa right now. 54 petaluma, napa, 52, 55 concord, 51 at livermore. Emeryville, these are the forecast features. Scattered showers will continue overnig