That would require those who run these cell towers to keep them powered for at least three days during a power outage. We have no power. Reporter during last falls Public Safety shutoffs many here in the bay area quickly learned even with a charge, a cell phone is no good without a signal. This has been the reality for tens of thousands of people. Reporter thats why bay area state senators are sponsoring legislation that would require Companies Like at t and verizon to provide battery backup to their hundreds of cell towers during pg e shut off for other emergency. Like an earthquake or major fire. Hundreds of cell towers across Northern California or across the state did not have sufficient back up power which means the tower went dark during october power shut offs. According to a disaster report, thousands of towers went down on october 28th. Marin county suffered the most, losing power to 160 cell sites. 57 of the countys towers. Sonoma lost 118 sites or 27 . Santa cruz 22 . Napa 19. And contra costa county, 11. 6 . Im very much in favor of it. Walnut creek resident told us she supports sb 41 sfaelsh after being among those evacuated during a fire in lafayette last october. Then youre getting evacuation signals on your cell phone and the cell phone goes out, we really realized how dependent we are on cell phone towers. Now, spokesperson for an Industry Group told me there is no one size fits all solution to keeping these cell towers powered during an emergency. Thats all the systems are different from place to place. But they are working on the issue. Verizon, one of the Largest Companies told me this afternoon they want people to know that in marin county, for instance, when more than half of those cell towers were out on october 28th that only 8 of the verizon towers were out during that same time period. In lafayette, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Laura, thank you. Within the next 30 minutes the city council is going to resume a meeting that went until 1 00 in the morning. Debating what to do with the old concorde naval redevelopment. Turn into a site for thousands of homes, shops and business business. Building what we need to make life better. Abc 7 News Reporter eric thomas joins us live to look at those options. We were told last night, ama, 100 people crammed inside and another 100 outside hoping to get in because of the great interest over the future of the Concord Naval station and development there. Now, were told that 25 of those homes youre talking about would be Affordable Housing. Thats just one reason interest here is so high. The city of concord is banking on this ultra modern mixed use development with thousands of single and multifamily homes to replace the mounds and ammo bunkers that make up the naval weapon station. People turned out in droves last night as the city council held a hearing on its future. We have over 100 People Public comment and six hours of public testimony. Reporter plans are currently at an impasse because of a dispute between lennar and the trade council over how much local labors should be used. Agreed to higher union labor and then walking it back. That lennars financial models always assume for the vertical construction. Reporter but lennar and fivepoint construction say they cant make money using that and they know that. They find another developer who may be less concerned about the project economics. Reporter concord mayor said the purpose of the City Council Meeting is to determine whether lennar is following through with terms that it agreed to when it accepted the project, including the number of union workers. The goal is to have a robust conversation. Reporter the city says if everything goes right, it will be worth the wait. In the plan right now, you can see we have 25 Affordable Housing paying for this, which is significant and very few projects in the entire bay area have that kind of Affordable Housing commitment. Reporter if Lennar Corporation is found to be in compliance with the terms it agreed to earlier, then hopefully things will continue and work will begin at some point. If is not found to be in compliance, well, that is a bit stickier. That could mean the search for a new master developer or even the city of concord takes it over itself and officials here say really the city just doesnt have the money to do that. Live outside the Concord City Council chambers, eric thomas. All right, eric, thanks very much. A pressing need in building a better bay area, of course, addressing the homeless crisis which has gotten so bad. Governor newsom signed an executive order to make surplus state land available for temporary shelters. Local officials welcome this initiative, some say it still could run into some opposition from neighbors. Heres david louie with details on the plan. Reporter the governor last summer asked state agencies to find surplus land for potential sites and a map of about 100 locations has been created. Two are in santa clara county. The State Office Building on Second Street in downtown san jose and the gilroy armory which is used in winter to shelter families in cold weather. I think the governor and the mayors of all our cities and the county board of supervisors are working on this issue and we need to do more and do it faster. Reporter the governors executive order calls for Mental Health and drug treatment services. Funds may be budgeted for Preventive Care for the homeless however phil says newsom doesnt go far enough. What we dont have is any bold initiatives to say redo californias Mental Health laws, questions about whether people should be under state guardianship. If you are offered housing and you dont take it, what is the next step . Reporter the executive order also makes 100 stateowned trailers available for temporary homeless shelters. Oakland mayor libby shaft supports the initiative. No issue that californians agree on more than the need to end homelessness. Reporter a potential hurdle could be opposition by residents living nearby and happened in many cities. I think we all in our Community Want to make sure these are wellrun facilities and doing our very best to make sure were protecting the interest of the neighborhood, as well as the new neighbors. And i think that it is possible to do that. Reporter Governor Newsom is setting up a system to monitor how cities and counties are helping with the Homeless Population getting them off the streets and finding them some form of housing. In san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. From housing to transportation. Another area in which were working to build a better bay area. A spike in the number of injuries among scooter riders. Not really surprising because there is a rise in the number of scooters on the streets. Here in california, lobbyists for the Scooter Companies fought hard against helmet laws that would have protected people. Lean is live. What have you found . I found if youre 18 or older you dont need a helmet to ride a bike or escototer. That is law in california. The person behind this law is not from San Francisco bay area or los angeles. This is from a small city in the Central Valley and they dont even have rentable scooters. From 2014 to 2018, the number of scooterrelated injuries and hospital admissions in the u. S. Grew by 222 . The number across the board was 39,000 injuries. Dr. Benjamin brier of ucfs health compiled the Data Collected by hospitals across the country. The thing i thought that was the most striking is that one in three people that came to the emergency room had a head injury. Reporter thats twice the rate of head injuries for bicyclists. Many resist the idea of wearing a helmet. If i had to bring my own helmet, thats not likely. If they had them on the scooter, id use them. But they dont. The group that got injured the most were 18 to 34 year olds. Reporter the push to allow people over 18 to ride without helmets came from a city in the Central Valley. Assemblyman heath flora required only those under 18 years of age to wear a helmet. The argument was, adult riders arent told to wear a helmet, they wouldnt. Signed by jerry brown in september 2018. One of the eScooter Companies gave us the isstatement. We provide them to riders for free and to date we have given away more than 65,000 helmets. This man wasnt wearing a helmet when he was involved in an accident. He does now. Just to protect myself. When i go in traffic, if i fell, the part that is going to get hurt the most is the head. So a helmet is a good idea. Reporter so, its not a coincidence ucsf says that theyve seen an increase in the number of injuries, especially last year. Thats when the law went into effect. Im live in San Francisco, leann mille. All of San Franciscos citywide leaders began their fouryear term in office today. Agree with two of San Franciscos two biggest problems. Dirty streets and homelessness. We will continue to expand our services, our shelters, our housing so that there is a place for everyone who is in need. This is london bries first full term as mayor she won in a landslide after capturing a special election in june 2018 to complete former mayor ed lees term who died unexpectedly. Happening now new District Attorney will be sworn into office. Huden won a tight race in november beating interim susie after several rounds of votes were counted. And hes pledged to transform the d. A. s office and Found Solutions other than putting criminals in jail. I present to you and californias attorney general besara swore the new sheriff into office. The first Asian American to be elected as a county sheriff in california. Hes also just the second person to be elected San Franciscos sheriff after rising through the agencys ranks. No one is immune from rising rents in the bay area. One Bay Area Group is going from an office near the water to one on the water. Abc 7 news contributor phil broke the story. Hes joining us on the set to talk about doing business on the boat. A wet morning commute tomorrow. Tomorrow. Ill give you a look dennys is making 2020 a super duper new year with a new super duper deal now you get bacon, sausage, eggs, hash browns, and all you can eat pancakes for only 7. 99. The new super duper slam happy new year, from dennys. The new super duper slam case in point, if you savget xfinity internetple. And mobile together, big savings on your wireless bill. Write this down, this is important. 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This is the bay area council, it represents 300 of the bay areas biggest employers. An Advocacy Group and lobbying group in a way and the facebook, google and all the things that are driving up the rent in San Francisco and now this organization finds it can no longer afford its office space in San Francisco so theyre going to take this former ferry that used to be a ferry on the bay. Its now in stockton. Theyre going to bring it down to San Francisco and going to put it into an office space on the pier here in San Francisco. Right outside. Yeah. I mean, i dont hate the idea. Right. You dont hate the idea. But, listen, the office space in San Francisco has just gone off the charts. The recent review, 86 per square foot. Thats 48 compared to los angeles which is 48 the 48 the . So our rent is pricing out and even the Advocacy Groups for the businesses in town. You get this and put a boat on one of these attractive piers and youre going to have great visuals. Youre not going to have parking and you didnt have parking in the other place either. I dont know when theyre going to bring in cars or planes or trains or anything but you have to get creative if youre going to make a better bay area. Do you think well see other people following suit . You have the long piers in San Francisco and sitting there and thats empty space and thats something a 48square mile city cant afford. Interesting day to do it. One person that will have some time without worrying about rent is maryland. She is not moving out any time soon. She was sworn in for the second term today. As i hold congratulations. She is in it now. A new term. Shes got a lot to handle, like all these businesses. You have to keep them from leaving San Francisco. But what about homelessness, too, and keeping the streets clean. Housing and homelessness. Two biggest issues and theyre going to define her may orality. Whether she likes it or not. Whether bringing the warriors to San Francisco and bringing conventions in, business businebusinesses. Those two are the issue. If there is a take away from the may mayor, this quote from her speech. To be clear, with these efforts will come a measure of what my grandmother used to call tough love. Shes talking about all that plans and programs shes putting into effect. Were no longer accepting that compassion means anything goes on our streets. Yes, many people are sick and we will up offer them help, but if they dont want or cant accept services, then we will bring them into treatment. This is the take away because the isis a contrast to what the city has been doing up until now. Up until now largely been these are the services, we would like you to take them. Her plan Going Forward is, these are the services, you have to take them. Its going to be very interesting and its going to find her mayorality and the bay area if we can deal with this problem of what do you do if somebody offered services and they dont take it. That is the real test of her administration and administrations all around the bay area. If you spend the governors money and you build, will they come . If they dont come, what do we do with them . That is the take away to watch for in the coming year. We will be watching and you can read phils column every wednesday and sunday. Thank you, both. Lets turn our attention now to the Weather Forecast as we hit midweek. Spencer christian is here. Spencer, rain coming . Hitting midweek and rain is about to hit us. Nothing much happening at the moment. Heres a view from emoriville looking back towards San Francisco where it is 52 degrees and temperature readings in the 50s at oakland, redwood, san jose. Dry at the Golden Gate Bridge right now. That may not last more than a few more hours. Current temperature readings in the low 50s and high 40s. Concord and livermore at 50 degrees. View from the east bay hills camera looking back at San Francisco. Well see rain after midnight and a wet morning commute. Partial clearing tomorrow afternoon and this pattern will continue into next week. The approaching storm ranks one of the storm impact scale. The rain will begin after midnight for most of the bay area and light to moderate with up to 0. 4 in some locations. Heres the forecast animation. Notice how quickly the rain surges into the north bay after midnight and just before the morning commute gets under way, well see widespread rain not just in the north bay, but in other regions, as well. Lots of wet spots on the roadways tomorrow morning. But the rain quickly moves out after about 8 00 or 9 00 a. M. We can expect not only partial clearing but mostly sunny skies by afternoon. Over in the sierra a winter advisory in effect. Back here in the bay area, overnight lows mainly in the mid40s and highs tomorrow in our narrow range mid to upper 50s from coast to inland. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Get a little break and again on friday, a cold morning. But mainly sunny and dry afternoon. More rain or more showers will come in on saturday. Chance of latenight showers on sunday. Showers likely again on monday and tuesday. And the pattern remains wet and unsettled on wednesday. I guess the best break well get is on friday. Okay. Thanks, a former army medic, made of the we maflexibility to handle members like kate. Whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. So when her car got hit, she didnt worry. She simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said. I got this. Usaa insurance is made the way kate needs it easy. She can e