Valuables. Held at gunpoint nearly 40 minutes. My mom was trying to rush them out of the house saying, my soninlaw is going to be home from work soon. So hurry and get what you need. She offered them cash and said heres cash, but just take it. Criminals got away with 10,000 cash and jewelry. The family has had three other attempted home invasions. With each one they take a new security precaution. The dog, a german shepherd, now 11 years old. He didnt stop the criminals. Felix, you have to do your job, pal. Oakland police saying they are part of an ongoing investigation. Privately, sources tell me they are upset about these crimes continuing and they want the story told. An internal advisory says opd has series of approximately 50 212. 5 robberies targeting homes in the Oakland Hills area. I have seen internal police memos detailing the incidents investigators say are committed by the same group of criminals. This cinematographer had his front door pushed in two weeks ago before 4 in the morning. Like an explosion. We thought something crazy happened on the street but it was inside the house. One of the robbers chased him up the stairs with a knife. He barricaded the door while his wife called 911. Screaming at the top of our lungs. Police arrived within minutes. Criminals got away with 40,000 of camera gear. I told him about the police alert of criminals targeting homes owned by asian families. With asian hate crimes, it was already hard. Now it sounds even harder. I spoke with other victims on the opd list of recent home invasions. They declined to be interviewed but want the intervention information to get out if someone knows who these people are and calls the police. An update to another story dan covered, child sexual abuse in the catholic church. Today the San Francisco archdiocese is quote very likely to file chapter 11 bankruptcy, because of hundreds of lawsuits alleging abuse going back decades. The archdiocese has paid 68 Million Dollars to settle 100 claims, but there are more than 500 outstanding claims. In may, the Oakland Diocese filed for bankruptcy, two months after the Santa Rosa Catholic diocese filed for bankruptcy as well. Each based hundreds of lawsuits. The discovery of two bodies in san jose is officially a homicide investigation. Police conducted a welfare check at an apartment on parkmoor avenue and discovered the buildings the victims. You can see a large number of police cars in this video from sky 7. Police are asking the public to avoid this avenue, it is not far from ready in avenue. The remarkable escape for a Bay Area Church group from the west African Company of niger during a military of a church in antioch are now safe in paris. Our reporter talked to the Church School principal about their ordeal. Logan was overwhelmed with emotion when i talk to him this morning. He got choked up. He was utterly exhausted. Relieved to know that 15 Church Members, including his wife, daughter and fatherinlaw are safe. Overwhelmed. I just heard the news they are coming home. Title wave of emotions. Logan, the principle of Cornerstone Christian school in antioch says his prayers have been answered. The last six days has been no sleep. Lots of prayers. They have all been answered today. s wife, father and daughterinlaw escaped by plane from niger this friday morning. Here is a photo at the airport before the dramatic events unfolded. They got to the airport at 2 00 a. M. Our time, and they were sitting there waiting. All this happening in the middle of a coup. The 15 Church Members include four from florida, 11 from Cornerstone Christian center in antioch. They arrived july 20. They were doing vacation bible schools. It was awesome, 250 kids there. All kinds of different opportunities. A coup broke out six days ago. Other countries were pulling out their people. They found out their plane had no fuel. Two lawmakers and the state department jumped into action and changed that. I cant thank those two individuals enough. 3 40 away from charles de gaulle. In paris, everyone on board is beyond grateful. My heart was in my throat. So many sad tears, but today was happy tears. Church members from antioch are all now in paris. No word on exactly when they will return to the bay area. This afternoon, the congressman issued a statement that he is relieved the Community Members are safe and on their way home. Thank goodness. Part Police Investigating a report of rape this morning at concord station parking structure. Officers detained a juvenile suspect. Bartz as an active investigation is underway and no further details are being released. Investigators will review surveillance video. A freeway shooting in july left an eightyearold boy paralyzed from the neck down with medical bills that could top 1 million. A gofundme has been set up to help eightyearold asa and his family. He was struck on 580 in oakland. A Youth Organization community are stepping in to get asa the support he needs. The initial wave of interest and support in a case like young asa, is a great thing. It has wrapped the Community Around this family. Leads a mechanical respirator, feeding tubes and 24 7 nursing care. You can find a link to his gofundme on our website. Firefighters battled flames close to cal state this afternoon. The threeacre fire in hayward started by a homeless encampment just after 1 30 p. M. Crews will be monitoring the hotspots, but they have stopped the fire from spreading. As part of our effort to build a better bay area, were tracking San Franciscos recovery from the pandemic. Lusitania is live with encouraging news from the San Francisco controllers office. San franciscos recovery will take time, but data pointing to job growth and tourism coming back. According to the latest San Francisco controllers report, the city added 8400 jobs in june. Tech is driving that growth, also leisure and hospitality jobs. The president of the san urism is helping the sectors recover. Hotel revenue is steady at 75 of 2019 levels. Some weekends among hitting occupancy rates at 90 . During the grateful dead concert, city hotels were packed. The restaurants were packed, too. Every hundred dollars spent in a hotel, 200 dollars are spent everywhere else. The report found that there was no Significant Movement in office attendance. Office vacancies rose a fifth straight quarter to 28. 3 . This wont change overnight. This is the hardest hit area when it comes to Vacant Office space is. I sat down last week with cbre who does a lot of downtown leasing. They are seeing more activity in the first two quarters of 2023 then they saw the previous years. Black and foot traffic continues to impact public transit. Muni ridership is 55 of 2019. Barts recovery continues to lag. Our ridership literally matches Office Occupancy in downtown San Francisco. Thats how closely were tied to the downtown economic recovery. Right now, ridership is that 40 and Office Occupancy is at 40 . Park cant keep waiting for downtown to recover. Now we have remote work. What we need to do is offer Better Service on nights and weekends to bring people to the city to have fun. Come september 11, were doubling night service. Weekend service is also improving. What are solutions to bring downtown back . In june the city announced they are looking for underutilized Office Buildings to turn into housing. That is one strategy supervisor perskin believes will work, in addition to convincing industries to move to the area. Encouraging signs. 7 on your side with a new alert about scammers using zelle. How they are able to evade new fraud warnings. Turning up the heat this weekend . We will look at ekend temperatures if you have Heart Failure, entrust your heart to entresto. Entresto helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor if entresto is right for you. A San Francisco supervisor calling for millions of dollars to treat drug users in jail. As the city increases efforts to shutter the open air drug market. Tara campbell is here with the story tonight. In a letter to the mayor, supervisor dorsey is asking her to redirect 19 million set aside for a handful of Resource Centers into jailbased treatment programs. It would mark a major shift in the citys approach to the Drug Overdose crisis. I want to make sure were making criminal justice interventions lifesaving. Supervisor matt dorsey is referring to San Franciscos multiagency effort to get drug dealers and users off the streets. When we are expanding arrests for people using drugs on the street, this is where we have a population that is in particularly acute need for interventions. Sending this letter to mayor breed monday night, urging her to redirect 19 million set aside for wellness hubs into jailbased treatment programs. The mayor outlined plans for three wellness hubs. The Resource Centers expected to include everything from a place to shower, to medical services and connections to treatment and services, including privately funded safe consumption sites. Im going to support safe consumption sites when we can move forward legally. It remains to be seen when and how thats going to happen. Nothing ive seen in the last 68 months is giving me optimism that any of this will happen soon. Until there can be coordinated rollout of wellness hubs, the money will be better spent in jail. The San Francisco sheriff paul mia moto agrees. Years ago we did have treatment on demand in the jails. We still have that ongoing now just on a smaller scale. He says is more drug users are arrested, more supports are needed. This money and support from the city, if it is directed to our current system, it will help with this increase in the population. H gary says investing more in jails wont compel more people into treatment. Zero people are accessing these programs through jail health services. Why would we put more money into that . Meanwhile, there is answer to this complex crisis. Never going to be solved by any single panacea. When we are making more arrests of people using drugs on the street, i want to make sure we have the best possible intervention in jail. Thats what im advocating. I reach out to the mayor about this proposal, her office says it is still under review. We have to stay tuned for more details from the mayor on whether she will move those funds. San franciscos District Attorney is discharging most current cases against three dozen adults arrested during the dolores hill bomb last month. Police arrested 127 people at the skateboarding event. The da says the evidence is likely not enough for the charges to stick. But they will continue to investigate, especially more serious charges for property crimes during the event. Weekend is upon us. The temperature is going up. Sandhya 20 feel like it this weekend. It was a warmer day today, dan and ama. Lets go to santa cruz, why not. Its summertime, the kids and adults enjoying the ride to the boardwalk. Rights there is plenty of sun at the beach. If you want to get to the coast to get away from the heat, it will be a good place to find relief as were expecting mild weather at beaches. Highpressure exerting itself as it is marching westward. It has started that warming process. On live doppler 7 we have fog near the coast line. A compressed marine layer compared to a few days ago, which means it will not go far, and it will pull back out quickly tomorrow afternoon. Temperature changes range from a couple degrees warmer in places like san jose, to 19 degrees warmer in concord compared to 24 hours ago. Were seeing our typical fog over San Francisco from our tower camera. 61 in the city, 65 oakland, 73 san jose currently 72 in palo alto. Lovely view from our emeryville camera. 82 in santa rosa. 70 in napa. Livermore, you are at 82 degrees. Our warmest spots making it up to the low 90s. One picture from our Golden Gate Bridge camera. Warming trend continues this weekend. Hottest day inland sunday with triple digits. Were expecting mild weather at the coast with lingering fog. Fire danger will be in the moderate to high category where the humidity drops and temperatures rise, which is tomorrow afternoon and evening, and knowing into sunday. Keep that in mind. Also, if you see any haze in the upper parts of the atmosphere, its a possibility that smoke from the flat fire in Southern Oregon may drift in from time to time this weekend creating that hazy condition around the region. Still warm in land. Along the coast, you will need a check it 9 00 p. M. But inland is just fine. Tomorrow morning, some fog and drizzle to start the day. By 3 00 p. M. , youre seeing 90s in our hardehottes tomorrow afternoon, the south bay, 84 in san jose. 76 san mateo. 63 half moon bay. San francisco 69 degrees. 92 in santa rosa, also 92 in sonoma. 88 san raphael. The east bay valley. Inland areas will get hot. 95 concord, 96 fairfield and 94 livermore. Its not hot enough for you, sunday gets even hotter. Triple digits inland. Low 60s coast. Then the heat packs off on monday. We will bring you back closer to average. Tuesday and wednesday wont be as hot. 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