School are removing the plants and animals from the school. It may well go past this week due to the chemicals discovered in the ground water. We are exercising extreme caution here because some testing that we did on an unrelated matter that turned up what is called tce. It is a chemical used for metal processing. It was discovered last friday while tests were being conducted near football field on an unrelated matter. The concern is that it is vaporizing and creating a health hard for students and staff inside the school. According to local and state officials, there are several sites that could be the source of the tce. The most likely is an old plant, lane metal finishers. A few hundred feet away. Thats a major concern. Her daughter is a senior there. This is quite disruptive for all the students. It is just the latest scare for the community in and around the school. Over the years, testing has found high levels of lead around the school. It was found in the water from dated metal fixtures. Things in the past here. Weve had very high profile cases on the campus. Another football player. Darrell aiken whos died from leukemia in 2017. This is darrells mother. What is your reaction . Very sad. It has your mind wondering. It could be a possibility. It has something to do with his diagnosis. Reporter at this point it will be closed at least into next week. District thats the are trying to figure out if they can hold mac classes forth 350 students on another the campus. Least in the short term. They are also reaching out for help to the state department of toxic substance control the identify and clean up the source of the tce. There is a meeting for the community for parents and Community Members tonight. Starting at 6 00. That is at the nearby Taylor MemorialUnited Methodist church. Live in west oakland. Abc7 news. Thank you. The housing crisis is a major part of our efforts to build a better bay area. Eric thomas is live in berkeley with the story. Reporter you see that twostory Apartment Building behind me . Thats a tenant owned building with an assist from a local nonprofit and the city of berkeley. But a lot of factors had to fall in place. The money had to be there. The mortgage had to be there for the tenants to buy this property. Now the mayor of berkeley is talking about not letting that fall to luck but making it the law. It is about reporter when this Apartment Building went up for sale late last year, tenants decide not just to sell it with you to buy it. We need to do more to keep it affordable. Reporter the Northern California land trust and city of berkeley combined forces to help the tenants make the purchase. Now the mayor wants to make it law. I rely on having roommates to be able to afford to live in the city of berkeley. Reporter it would give tenants the first offer to have the first offer and write a first refusal if the landlord put the building up for sale. If you look around and think this is a black thing, a white thing, a chicano thing, no, its a money thing. Reporter the impact on blacks has been devastating. Cynic 1970, berkeley has lost more than half the africanamerican population. So there is an emphasis on helping minorities. And help is what drew Dominique Walker here. You may remember her as one of the mols for housing who took over a vacant home in a court battle. It is so special to organize. When we organize, we win. Reporter meanwhile, Nancy Skinner in berkeley mayor is targeting vacant homes for Affordable Housing shelf mentioned it in this tweet. She mentioned, proud to introduce today the boil the reduce the number of vacant homes in california and give ten tanlts first right. Reporter so it applies to vacant homes. If theyre vacant for a long enough period of time, then cities or counties would couldnt vert them into Affordable Housing. If theyre vacant for an extended period of time, it could face fines for not finding some other purpose for those homes. By the way, berkeley isnt the only local city considering a right of first refusal law. The city of oakland is considering one as well. Live in berkeley. Eric thomas. Abc7 news. One of the issues that affects all of us in the bay area is the housing crisis. We dedicated a week to the topic. You can find it all online. You can share your ideas by joining our building a better bay area on facebook. San Francisco Police are looking into three reports of attempted carjackings early this morning. The first on ninth street between harrison and fulsom. A uber driver say three people tried to take his car. He said one pointed a gun in his face. He kept trying on open my door. He tried to open it and i kept fighting him the whole time. Finally i got back into the car. He almost had me out. I jumped back in. I started to make the turn and i realized there was a person stealing my car and i said get out. A second attempted car happened five minutes later. Then a halfhour later, a third incident at mission and dubois. Police said it is likely the same suspects are responsible. Request news for incoming freshmen of the who will get to attend for free . Chasing california continues. We go oneonone with Pete Buttigieg to talk about his strategy in the golden state. And it is 2202020. Why one couple decided today was a good day to tie the knot. Im spencer, talking about the possibility of rain. Coming up. Ladies, if you have coiled, kinky or afrotextured air, there is now a one of the biggest local stories from last summer is in the headlines. Next week a College Student from San Francisco admits stabbing an Italian Police officer to death says it was selfdefense. Now the parents are breaking the silence. Our reporter has covered this extensively if itly and back in the bay area. You can see the full story in an abc original documentary. It is called 32 seconds, a deadly night in rome. Its been seven long months. It is the terrible headlines from rome. A 35yearold Police Officer mario stabbed to death, two College Students from the bay area arrested for the killing. Police records show after a drug deal went wrong, fin grabbed the backpack of someone who ripped them off. They grabbed the money to return it but the backpack owner called police. They couldnt front the americans but fin stabbed the officer to death saying he was being choked, and that he didnt know that he was a Police Officer. Can you in any way explain to me what it is like as a parent going through Something Like this . The pain is relentless. The pain that i feel. Knowing that someones life was lost. The agony that i feel, knowing that finns life is irrevocably altered. It is constant. When we go to sleep, when we wake up, when we sit together, when were happy, when were sad. It is always there. On abc7 news at 6 00, tonight the elders discuss a video chat in which Italian Police broke the bombshell news that their son was under arrest and so much more they talk about. It is the documentary reproduced about the case airs this sunday at 7 00 people. It is called 32 seconds. A deadly night in rome. You can also watch it this evening on amazon fire tv. He thats all coming up tonight. This is such a difficult story. A loselose story. The parents doenlts know what will happen to their son. The officer, hes lost forever. I mean, its heart breaking, actually. A loselose. There is so much to the story. Our documentary is an hour that airs this sunday and there is so much to it. I spent so many months going through documents, the videos, the cell phones, the Text Messages from the kids. Theres so much to learn and ive been able to piece it together. A very clear picture of what happened. Ive only seen one segment. It is compelling and i would urge everyone to watch it on whatever platform you check it out on. Thank you. All right. Abc7 news is highlighting various stories impacting black life in the bay area. The San Francisco supervisor announced last month, he wants the city to come up with a plan to provide recommend ragss to black People Living in San Francisco. Heres jobina fortson. He is here joining us to talk about black history month, continuing our series this week, and something that you are doing making history in the city. In january you announced the plan. Can you explain what it would look like . What were doing, people sometimes think about reparations in reference to 40 acres and a mule or passing out money to all black people who arent descendants of slavery. Were interested in bringing the entire black community, our allies, we have support from all of my colleagues on the board of supervisors. Well have a conversation about all the injustices down black people. Not only in this country but in San Francisco. Well look at black employment, black businesses, education, over criminalization, red lining, redevelopment agencies in terms of pushing out black people in San Francisco. Then well legislate a working group that will be designed for folks who are experts in the area. And theyre going to come up with what we prioritize in terms of reparations. Have you received any pushback on your plan . I havent received a lot of pushback. I think a lot of our communities understand the plight of black folks here in San Francisco. What we did in terms of free labor in this country for hundreds of years. Obviously in recent years, seen loads of black businesses leave the area. The population of black people in the city declining as well. So is your hope with this that maybe some of this will will be resurged . Definitely want to make sure we get some type of resurgence in the community. As we about black businesses in terms of shifts and changes. You can see reparations planned in terms of grants for black businesses so they can be successful and thrive. Weve already had preference registration for folks had a live in some of our Public Housing communities. It is making sure it can be sustained but also to make sure we bring black folks back to San Francisco and real ties true diversity of the city we love so much. Thank you so much. Supervisor walton says in the next four to six months, we should see legislation for a working group before 15 people that will be part of creating those reparations. There is a new business launching in San Francisco that calls itself a place where black and brown women can take care of all of their protect 87 styling needs. Dion tells us more. Reporter there is a lot to cheer about inside this former laundromat in the Mission District had has been transformed. We specialize. Theres no cutting, no color, just protective styling. And a call back to black hair history where guests gather, linger and feel like they belong. We are reimagining the end to end experience. Ive beener chagd because of the texture of my hair. So it is great to have a place where i can go, im taken care of. No questions asked. She is one of only a handsful of black women founders to receive an investment of a million dollars. One of those he investors, the red it cofounder and husband to serena williams. She is a very special founder. Tackling an industry. Frankly, it has been overlooked for far too long. Naza couldnt have come at a more on that or tune time when discussions about womens hair is happening he have where. Most recently at the oscars. And the crown act, banning discrimination against black women wearing their hair styles. Swahili oh and were back. Yeah. Its very cool. There is a place like. That i was talking to dion earlier and i was telling her, every time i go somewhere new, i have to find a person who has textured hair like me and say where do you go to get your hear done . It is usually going to a traditional salon and finding the person who says they have experience with curly hair and hoping they dont fry my hair off. It seeps to be working. Its nice that you have this beautiful hair. Thank you. I appreciate it. Turning to the forecast, i asked you yesterday, when ws the last time we went an entire month of february without any meaningful rain. Your answer was astounding. 1864. The last, the driest february on record in San Francisco. There was no measurable rain the entire month. We dont want that. Rain is coming our way right now. It may produce 100th or so on in the bay area but not in the city of february. So this february could tie the one in 1864. At least for the 60 of San Francisco. You can see the current upper 60s, redwood city, san jose. Looking toward the golden gate from emeryville. We see clear skies as well. A little haze and high clouds. A live view at the golden gate where we see a mix of high clouds and blue skies. Hazy sunshine will be with us again tomorrow. With brilliant warm this time of year. Afternoon showers are possible. Friday night into early saturday morning. And this dry mild pattern will resume next week. Overnotice, high clouds passing through bay area as i lose my voice. Overnight lows in the mid to upper 40s. Then tomorrow, look for a very mild day with temperatures in the upper 60s. Low 70s. Low to mid 70s along the bay shoreline. And some mid to upper 70s inland. Lets look at our forecast animation. No precipitation coming tomorrow. Late tomorrow, well see light rain mainly developing south of monterey. It will push northward. By 4 00 saturday morning, there could be some light rain moving into the hills. Then 9 00 saturday morning, it could hit the santa cruz mountains. Then by late saturday, into sunday, it will be all out of here and it will be gone. The europe model shows maybe. 01 of an inch. Were at only 51 of average. Very, very low. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Slight, slight chance of Early Morning showers on saturday. It will cool down but then the warmth bounces back for monday and virtually all of next being, we can expect high temperatures under mainly sunny skies, about 70 degrees inland. 70 around the bay shoreline. Upper 60s at the coast. We could go through with no recordable rain. We might just barely beat 1864. I remember it well. Walking to school. Up hill in the snow both ways. No rain. Managingaudreys on it. S . Eating right. And staying active . On it audrey thinks shes doing all she can to manage her type 2 diabetes and heart disease, but is her treatment doing enough to lower her heart risk . Maybe not. Jardiance can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who also have known heart disease. 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