Its part of the comprehensive plan to deal with the homeless crisis, and says she has received positive feedbacks from players in the cruise ship industry. They could provide rooms for a thousand people very quickly, and the magnitude of our homele homelessness crisis requires a broader response than what we have seen before. Before they Start Talking about putting a bunch of homeless folks on a boat in the middle of the bay they should enforce whats already been passed. Reporter homeless advocate nita bee says kaplans heart is in the right place but the city Council Passed a measure to use city land to build tiny housing, and that has not happened, maybe they should concentrate on that. Back here outside oakland city hall, we reached out to the port of oakland for their reaction to this idea, and it would be an under statement to say theyre not that crazy about it and there are several reasons for it. One of them being they dont have the facilities for it. Well expand on that on our story and abc 7 news at 5 00. At oakland city hall, eric thomas. Thank you. From cruise ships to another opportunity, this is for people who live in their cars. San francisco is opening a parking lot just for that. Its off geneva avenue near the balboa b. A. R. T. Station. Abc 7 report explains how that would work. Reporter the latest count in San Francisco shows there are over 700 occupied vehicles parked on city streets, way up from the tally the year before when there were vehicles. This parking lot on san jose avenue will start tonight, providing a new home, Water Services all on site with security 24 7 provided by urban alchemy. I want to make it clear this is not an open invitation to people in other counties to come to San Francisco because the fact is we have a long waiting list of people who we have identified. People like Sandra Hughes who grew up on the streets of bay view and found shes no longer welcome these days as she lives in her van. Community members yell at me, not to park there, to move away. They treat me as if im less than human. San francisco officials visited this safe parking lot in oak near the coliseum after it opened in june, according to the Oakland CommunityHousing Services manager. She says they shared their Program Model and rules. The lot recently expanded from 28 to 46 spots, so theyre putting names on a waiting list. The San Francisco lot is calling itself a Vehicle Triage Center with the goal of getting folks into permanent housing. This is only people that are screened and referred by the department of homeless and Supportive Housing will be allowed to come in here. They can stay up to 90 days. The search is on to create more safe parking sites in San Francisco because 70 of the increase in homelessness is due to people sleeping in their vehicles. I im leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. If you take a look here, whats the technical word for this, split pea soup is that the technical word . Is that what they teach in Meteorology School . I dont know. Its just pea soup. Revealing by way of radar the image that you saw by way of camera. We saw areas of heavier rain developing offshore. Right now were not getting much in the way of rainfall reports from our local stations, local reporting stations and you can see this has been the pattern the last couple of hours or so. Earlier today we had more widespread showers over a wider portion of the area. This storm still ranks one on the storm impact scales for tonight and tomorrow. This storm of light intensity will continue producing periods of showers or light rain, highest totals will be in the north bay. Heres forecast animation for you starting at 6 00 p. M. Notice, again, going into the evening hours, most of the rain that falls will be in the north by midnight or so and during the overnight hours, more widespread. Once again, mainly light, rain, light showers, but there will be wet pavement for the morning commute. Bear that in mind. Complete sevenday forecast in a few minutes. Kristen. We have been warned. Thanks, spencer. Breaking news in San Francisco, right now police are trying to coax a man off a building. He has been climbing on the outside of it for hours. This is near the intersection of market and goth. The man has even been jumping from roof to roof of buildings. Look at him there. Officers have closed down traffic in the area as they try to take that man into custody. Sfmta says service of the f market streetcar line is being impacted. They recommend people use Subway Service between the embarcadero. Oracle is moving the open world conference out of San Francisco to las vegas but the company is today signaling it would be willing to return if conditions are right. Oracle spokesperson Deborah Helen j helenger issued in exclusive statement, if things change we would love to come back to San Francisco. Our goal at every event is to deliver a superior experience for 430,000 customers. She declined to specify what things needed to change to bring the conference back to San Francisco once the threeyear commitment in vegas comes to an end. A report says those things are San Franciscos high costs including hotel rooms and street conditions. A new poll shows bay area residents are driving up a push to break up pg e amid the many problems the utility faces. Uc berkeley pollsters discovered 90 of bay area residents surveyed are ready for changes at pg e and 12 believe they should chart their future while the Company Emerges from bankruptcy. Liable for Deadly Wildfires and turning off power to prevent similar disaster. I think its somewhat ridiculous that big portions of the bay have to go without power for up to a week at a time. As consumers we should have options and then we should pick which is the best one. San jose mayor, sam is one of the leading voices for transforming pg e as a publicly owned coop. A new development in the saga of a stolen van filled with dogs. One of the lost pets is on her way home. Thats one of the top stories people are following at abc7news. Com. Fable is one of at least two dogs that went missing after a dog transportation van was stolen monday morning in fremont. Police found the van a few hours later in oakland with 24 dogs inside. The owner of a second missing dog is pleading for his return. Were worried that hes lonely and or scared and getting fed properly, and, you know, we just really want him back. No questions asked. Police think the man who stole the van tried to sell the dogs. Two people were detained in connection with the crime. New details in the Harvey Weinstein case. Up next, the deal he has reportedly worked out with neurosurge nearly 30 of his accusers. And san jose announcing the unleash your geek contest, the citys invitation to civic minded tech workers, next. Time is running out, the sign up for covered california so were going to make it easy for you, the covered california hot line is open right now, phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Call or visit and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state program call or visit two major developments today involving disgraced movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein, the New York Times is reporting weinstein has reached a tentative 25 million settlement with his accusers that would resolve most of the civil litigation against him. It would not make him admit wrong doing. A judge in the criminal case granted a prosecution request to increase the 67yearolds bail from a million to 5 million. He violated his pretrial conditions by mishandling or disabling his electronic ankle monitor dozens of times. He goes on trial next month on rape and Sexual Assault charges. A new law goes into effect that enables child Sexual Assault victims to file civil lawsuits against their perpetrators no matter how much time has passed. Many victims are coming forward for the first time in decades. Abc 7 news iteam reporter has a preview of the story that will air at six. In anticipation of the new law going into effect on january 1st, George Howell filed a lawsuit against the diocese of oakland, Christian Brothers congregation of holy cross and Monroe Catholic high school. Howell says the abuse happened while he was a student at the catholic high school. Hes breaking his silence in part because of the new law expanding the time victims can file civil lawsuits against that the perpetrators. A 3year window opens at start of the year that will enable victims to bring a lawsuit no matter how much time has passed. At the end of the three year window it allows child Sexual Assault victims to File Lawsuits until their 40th birthday, previously it was until they were 26 years old. It allows people like myself to put it on record that this happened to them. The lawsuit asks for damages for physical and mental pain and suffering and past and future medical expenses. Ill have his story, including the response if the congregation of holy cross, and the high school. A new report says immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested fewer undocumented people last year. Newly released data shows i. C. E. Arrested 143,000 People Living in the u. S. Illegally during the 2019 fiscal year. That is a 10 drop from the year before. Immigration officials attribute that drop to sanctuary city policies as well as their decision to shift resources to the southern border to help handle the surge of migrants coming in from mexico. In the south bay, the bay areas largest city is calling on the community to help solve civic challenges, during an annual competition called unleash your geek. Abc news reporter, chris nguyen has the story from san jose. Reporter calling dreamers, thinkers and invoe n, providing solutions to some of the urgent challenges the city faces. The unleash your geek competition will provide 100,000 in seed funding to help accelerate the development of ideas. We have five key challenges were reaching out to the community with and hope to see those results in six months. New this year, san jose is working with the bay Area Organization called city f innovate founded around the belief that government can be a force for good. They have to prove themselves, drop their tools, get evaluated and at the end of the day, if everything works out, they get a contract and they can take that solution and help cities across the u. S. As part of the challenge, city officials are calling for drones that can help firefighters with emergency response. Another request involves the citys office of immigrant affairs which is asking for someone to create realtime interpretation tools to help make Community Meetings more inclusive for limited and nonenglish speaking residents. Do you remember the massive coyote creek flood, one of the solutions that came from last years challenge is flood detection sensors like these still in use throughout the city. Engineer Raul Gonzalez was on a team of students from sju and santa clara university, that helped create the technology. I feel great that i was a part of something thats making a difference and helping Community Members in a community im now a part of as well. Applications for the challenge are due in late january. In san jose, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. You have until sunday to enroll in covered california if you want hurnealth insurance to begin in the new year. Lets check in with 7 on your sides Michael Finney getting you started with the Health Insurance hot loine. We have signed up thousands of people and hoping today were going to sign up thousands of more. 4159547621. The 7 on your side office is crawling with experts. We can get you signed up. Feel free to call in any language that youre comfortable in talking in. If we cant handle it tonight, well make sure we call you back. This is peter lee, he heads up the office, three major things this year, correct . Big news, this is the biggest changes since we launched in 2014. Number one, california put in place a penalty. It went away last year. If you dont get insurance and you can afford it, youre going to be stuck with a penalty. Family of four, 2,000 or more. Okay, thats a lot. Wow. So youve got to have insurance. Thats the bad news, but theres very good news. The state of california said were going to put more money on the table to help more californians, a million californians will be eligible for new financial help and for the first time, middle class californians, so here in the bay area, youre a couple making 101,000, youre going to be eligible for financial help. Your family of four, 175,000, eligible for financial help. You got to go online and find out, call here, how it works is youll get financial help but you pick the private plan thats right for you. Great benefits and i got to tell you, the channel 7 put together a great crew of people here, they speak farsi, russian, they all speak in insurance. Now is the time to call in and get help. Reporter were going to continue to talk to peter on facebook live. If you want to continue with this conversation with us, go to facebook live. Well keep talking. Were going to be here until 8 00 tonight taking your questions, talking about your concerns. Reporting live from the 7 on your side offices, im Michael Finney. This is a great endeavor that michael takes on every year because theres so much confusion. Now a different kind of covered california because we need to be covered given the rain. That was ask finny, now ask christian. The endeavor im taking on is finding sunshine. We need this rain. Its good, the time of the year we better get it now or we might be in trouble but it still complicates things. Heres live doppler 7. Light rain and showers moving into the north bay, areas of heavier rain, or at least appears to be developing offshore, so we can expect more showers going into the evening hours. This is the view from our rooftop camera looking out over the embarcadero, currently 55 degrees in the city. 60 at oakland. 59 at gilroy, 57 at halfmoon bay, and heres sort of a dream ri vi dreary view from emeryville. The current temperature readings in other locations right now are right in the mid50s. 54 degrees at virtually all of these locations, santa rosa, pat li pat lieu ma. You can see how low the clouds are, and how dreary, showers overnight, it will be a welt morning commute, commute, continuing into monday. I should mention theres a High Surf Advisory in effect until 6 00 this evening. The wave heights are slightly elevated. Theres a possibility of high breakers and dangerous rip currents so bear that in mind. Lets get back to our current storm. It ranked one on the storm impact scale, a storm of light intensity but it can complicate traffic conditions. So for the evening commute, its likely to be a bit wet and slow. We expect periods of showers, mainly of light intensity, highest rainfall totals from this storm will be in the north bay. Heres our forecast animation starting at 6 00 this evening. Notice the rain will become a bit more widespread going into the late night hours, especially a after midnight and going into the morning commute. More widespread showers, more wet pavement to complicate the morning commute. Bear that in mind. Later in the day tomorrow, well see the storm really weakening, giving way to maybe even Little Pockets of partial clearing as we get into the late evening hours tomorrow night, this storm will be just about over. On we go to rainfall totals, we project that by 11 30 tomorrow night, well see totals generally under a quarter inch. Some locations along the peninsula, down to the south bay, well see a couple hundredths of an inch of accumulation from the storm, measurable rain. Overnight lows will generally be in the low to mid50s and tomorrows highs will generally be in the low to mid60s. And here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. We expect more periods of light rain on friday, and even a chance of some showers on saturday, although saturday will certainly bring some partial clearing. It will be sunnier, dryer and cooler on sunday and monday, and then tuesday and wednesday, the wet pattern starts all over again. Get a nice little weekend break there, though. Looking forward to that. Thank you, spencer. Up next, the new test launch of a rocket that could one day take us into spac for adults with moderately to severely active crohns disease, stelara® works differently. Studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. Stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. Some serious infections require hospitalization. Before treatment, get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or flulike symptoms or sores, have had cancer, or develop new skin growths, or if anyone in your house needs or recently had a vaccine. 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