Reporter the man behind the coal plan, a prominent local developer. Were not building a coal distribution turn. Were building a multibody terminal. Reporter it will have coal coming through it. Thats not been determined. Reporter but his Company California capital and Investment Group still needs to build the new terminal, still needs cash and the coal deal would bring in 53 million. We have environmentalists coming through saying west oakland is already exposed to high rates of pollution. West oakland children have high rates of asthma. They dont want coal to be coming through here next and having them exposed to that. What do you say to that . I say we have a squa document. We went through a very long process. Reporter thats the California Environmental quality act this requires state and local authorities to identify significant environmental impacts. The document clearly articulates 660 mitigations that have to be met to support the bulk multi commodity terminal. Thats what we have entitled. Thats what were going to build. Reporter jeff with the sierra club says thats not enough. When the process or Environmental Review was done for this project, it was originally finalized in 2002 and coal was never mentioned as a commodity. So theres been no study of how that would impact the community. As a city, we have to sometimes take a moral stand. Reporter in her first interview on the issue mayor libby schaaf told us she supports a public hearing planned for september. Its my preference to work this out amicably in a way that makes sense for everybody as opposed to relying on the strictures of the law. Im really hoping we can find a resolution without having to go into direct conflict. Reporter those protesters plan to speak out at Tonights City Council meeting, but the big public hearing will come september 21st. Thats when city council will discuss some of the very real Health Impacts that could be a result of a coal facility here. Reporting live in oakland christin ayers, kpix5. The father of kate steinle, the woman killed on a San Francisco pier, made an emotional plea on capital hill today. Hes pushing for a law that would give jail time to convicted felons if they try to come back to the United States illegally after theyve been deported. It would be called kates law, something that may have saved his lawyers life. Kate steinle was shot allegedly by an undocumented immigrant with past convictions. Suddenly a shot rang out. Kate fell. She looked at me and said help me, dad. Those are the last words i will ever hear from my daughter. A simple phone call would have been enough, but that did not happen. Reporter senator Dianne Feinstein says better cooperation between local, state and federal Law Enforcement is needed to make sure these types of criminals dont slip through loopholes in the law. Kpix5s cate cauguiran with how one San Francisco supervisor is trying to prevent the next tragedy. Reporter all eyes are on the Sheriffs Department which is at the center of a new city plan to prevent situations like this, one supervisor calling the sheriffs actions a complete Public Safety failure that needs to be fixed fast. Supervisor mark ferrell says if the sheriff wants legislative clarification, here it is. Its not about immigration. This is about Public Safety in San Francisco making sure our Law Enforcement personnel prioritize that, make sure that Public Safety of San Francisco and all of our residents is the no. 1 priority. Reporter the supervisor outlined a new Public Safety reform plan. In part it would require the Sheriffs Office to talk to the District Attorneys office. Its simple common sense that before you bring someone back into our city you check with our District Attorney to see whether the d. A. Will prosecute that individual. If not, then we let that person stay in the other jurisdiction. Reporter but ferrells first demand, the sheriff rescind a march memo ferrell calls a gag order. Not only did the Sheriffs Office fail to do so in this situation, but also went a step beyond and issued essentially a gag order making sure that they would never be able to communicate in a situation like this. Reporter despite that point mark meko with the Sheriffs Office says he welcomes the boards suggestion. To the extent we can come up with a plan that would allow for the sheriff to make sure that hes within state law, federal law and local law, i think thats what hes asking for. Reporter so far supervisor ferrells plan is just a proposal. He will formally submit new legislation early in september. Reporting live in San Francisco cate cauguiran, kpix5. Traffic snarled for hours because of several brushfires by a freeway today. Those flames erupted on the side of 880 near hayward near west tennyson road. This happened about 11 00 this morning. Flames were seen burning up trees as thick smoke poured over the highway. A sound wall protected dozens of homes on the other side. Two southbound lanes, though, had to be shut down causing a major traffic backup for miles. It took an hour to put out those flames. No cars or homes were damaged. A blind Pastors Church targeted by thieves and they didnt just steal, they tore the place apart. New at 6 00 kpix5s don ford with why its an especially painful blow for the pastor and the congregation. Whoever did this act has to have a heartless person, but i believe god can change anybody. Reporter burglars smashed their way into the reverend albert maclins new Sweet Home Church ransacking the audiovisual room stealing computers and the bible study room ripping a big screen tv right off the wall and kicking in this door to the Financial Office stealing the churchs savings, money saved to repair and remodel the kitchen. Now those dreams are gone. I dont even know who to even think would do Something Like that. Reporter reverend maclin is also blind. He depends on the neighborhood to help keep him safe. Ripping off a blind reverend isnt sitting well here. Thats very bad. Its very bad news. Its very sad. Im so sorry of all that. Reporter at the moment no leads or suspects, but you know, its kind of hard to say what the motive is behind this. So were definitely looking into this matter. Its something that definitely concerns us. You come break into a church it doesnt say very much for you. This is gods house and it is respected and our church is respected all over this community. Reporter and through it all the sightless reverend maintains his faith in both the lord and the law. I will pray for them and speak salvation into their life and pray that they receive jesus christ, but after that the law has to take care of what the law does. Reporter the community is on high alert to catch these thieves. In East Palo Alto don ford, kpix5. The church just wants its stuff back. Its working on a big 75th anniversary celebration set for next month. Well, a former Security Guard for Oakland High School is now facing years in prison for this beating caught on surveillance tape last year. A jury today convicted 24year old Marcel Mitchell of felony assault. The person in the wheelchair, a student with Cerebral Palsy who had been handcuffed after some sort of altercation, mitchell testified that he was justified in using force because he says the student was resisting him and threatened to kill him. Governor jerry brown is with mayors from the bay area and around the world at the vatican tonight. The pope invited them to a two Day Conference on Climate Change. Allen martin tells us whats going on at the vatican. Well, ken, the mayors are declaring that Climate Change is real and it must be stopped. Theyre announcing new measures to fight it and theyre working with the ecologically friendly pope francis to help get that message across. Several of those mayors today announced strict mans for reducing plans for reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions in their cities. The pope praised the mayors for their actions and i said that the world may have and he said that. World play have faced a Tipping Point and may face extinction if Climate Change is not reversed and he also faced the critics. We have fierce opposition and blind inertia and that opposition is well financed, hundreds of millions of dollars going into propaganda, into falsifying scientific records, bamboozling people of every country. Brown also promoted his plan for california that many are calling the most progressive carbon reduction benchmark in north america. Afterwards liccardo and the other mayors signed a final declaration stating that human induced Climate Change is a scientific real and its control is a moral impair active for imperative for humanity. This is interesting it comes from california. And where its happening in the vatican. Vice President Joe Biden is set to visit the bay area this thursday. Hes going to tour the suranos facility in newark. The company has developed a blood test to detect diseases. Still ahead a fight over garbage in a city reaching for zero waste, what has the cost going to go green skyrocketing. Did it wake you, some shaking this morning around the bay area, what you can do in your home to help scientists predict a future earthquake. But this app claims to help fight future traffic tickets. Why others say it may be a little too easy. Well show you how it works. Its back. The onshore flow is in. The humidity is out. Were back to normal in the bay area which in berkeley means a lot of clouds firing at you at the golden gate. Heres a live look of oakland. Cant see much of the city. Weve got the something stinks in the city of oakland. People living and working there say its the citys new garbage contract. They say fees are higher than anyone expected, even the council who negotiated this deal. New at 6 00 kpix5s john ramos sorts out the mess and whats being done about it. Reporter oakland created its zero Waste Program to reduce garbage going to the landfill, but the contract that just went into effect with the Collection Company has a lot of businesses feeling down in the dumps. They raised fees double, even triple for a lot of businesses and restaurants are really feeling the burden of it because were huge composters. Reporter Gail Williams restaurant in downtown generates a large amount of raw food waste and paper. On july 1st her bill for collecting compostables nearly doubled, nearly 3,000 more because of the new deal that Waste Management struck with the city. In fact, it now costs more to compost food scraps than it would to throw it in the trash. So its a clear deterrent for people to compost. It goes completely opposite of the intention of the contract. Reporter a lot of people are mad at Waste Management over this, but the company says the high cost is due to the requirements the city wrote into the proposal such as union labor rates and brandnew natural gas powered trucks and a mandate that every business in town be eligible for Pickup Service meant the city had to grant exclusive rights to Waste Management, eliminating any competing companies. The requirements that ended up being in the final contract were all things that really served the people of oakland. Reporter but the cost of all that service is discouraging people from composting at all and at a meeting yesterday City Council Members expressed outrage over provisions of the very contract they voted for. And yet that was agreed to in the negotiation of the contract . Thats correct. Reporter why did they do that . Was that an oversight . You have to speak to the city council. Reporter a lot of Business People are doing just that. Now the council is working to get Waste Management to readjust its rate structure which it probably is not legally required to do and their customers are about to find out that zero waste may mean a few extra zeros on their collection bills. In oakland john ramos, kpix5. Next july every business in Alameda County will be required to have compost pickup to be able to guarantee that service the city says it had to award exclusive rights to a suckle company. President s and exec single company. President s and executives had a hike approved today, but critics say the faculty really needs the raise. Faculty salaries are currently being negotiated. Well, you may have felt the 4. 0 earthquake that rattled the bay this morning on the hayward fault line in fremont near union city. This home happens to be the closest to the epicenter which was located 5 miles below ground. There was no damage, but people across the bay area say that they if the it. They they felt it. It was a violent shake, not much of a roller, a good shake. It jolted me straight out of bed. Reporter a dozen aftershocks hit in the same area. New at 6 00 well go to the epicenter with a look at a project monitoring quakes potentially in your homes and in your land. Reporter thats right, veronica. You might call it citizen science. A group of universities are spearheading a project to put seismic monitors in moments throughout california. Stanford professor Jesse Lawrence demonstrates the motion sensor which is small and in expensive and has the usb connection at the other end. So inside of here theres a micromacro mechanical system. Reporter there are already 1,000 of these around california in homes and schools providing researchers realtime earthquake data. It is called the quake catcher network. The quake catcher is a consortium of researchers, scientists who are trying to create the largest earthquake Global Monitoring system with community support. Reporter while only professional size mow graphic stations seismographic stations can give so much information, in some cases this can provide an even earlier warning. The earlier that you can detect that earthquake and by detecting an earthquake earlier, eventually you can provide earthquake early warning. Reporter heres what the fremont tumbler looked like on one nearby home sensor. Professor lawrence says more data points for earthquakes also makes studying them a more precise science. So an earthquake is like a ripple in the pond. If we can detect the earthquake with a sensor thats really close to where you drop that first pebble on the pond, you detect it faster. Reporter now just month overall responsibility for this program transferred from stanford to cal tech in pasadena, but this is a universitywide effort with many universities involved and researchers at all universities hope the Program Continues to expand and grow to help us all understand the science of earthquakes just a little bit better. Reporting live in fremont im mark sayre, kpix5. I did not feel that one, not a bit. Woke me up big time, yeah, shook my house good. I slept right through that. Takes a lot more than a 4. 0 to wake me up, man, tsunami. That may or may not get me up. All right. Whether you slept last night or not two nights ago it was the humidity, last night it was the earthquake. Im loathe to ask whats going to happen tonight. Hopefully you get a restful nights rest because the humidity is gone and temperatures back to normal. Were cloudy over San Francisco bay where San Francisco the city only had a high of 64 today, fremont 72, san jose 76, napa your high 79 and we did see some 80s today away from the water, livermore 87, san rafael 82. Tonight is the big story. Its not going to be warm like it has been the past few nights. Oakland 61 degrees, redwood city 59, exactly back to average. Remember a couple nights ago we had lows in the 70s and that was strange, warmest night in eight years but not again tonight. The humidity is now gone. Its a big blob of tropical moisture. Something big had to come along and shove it out of the way which is a big area of low pressure over the pacific northwest, vancouver, British Columbia blowing all that stuff off to the east. We still center thunderstorms in the sierras, the second straight day with widespread thunderstorms. Please watch out for that. Tomorrow things should be more calm in the sierra and also throughout california as this firm onshore flow gets established. Ocean temperatures reporting 60. 4 degrees which is warmer than average but still a cooling influence because the deserts to our east are in the 90s. So if you want a cooldown, you want the flow from the ocean. Pretty strong flow, very cloudy and also rather chilly. Inland highs will stay in the 70s. By friday this ridge begins to win shoving that low out of here which will minimize that onshore flow. How about tomorrow, hump day, vallejo 76, fremont 76, very comfortable in the south bay, san jose 78, livermore not a