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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM June 22, 2024

Its own. What hes being referred to here is the city is concerned about muni and other transit. They didnt bring it up until after you brought up issues about the event center. Politics. Reporter whatever the case, uc is voicing support for the arena but with conditions. Our top concerns are traffic. Our top concerns are when you have 60,000 people coming here that our patients will be delayed. Reporter specifically the school wants a cap on concerts and other events on nights when the giants are in town. The combination they say could bring upwards of 60,000 people to the neighborhood. The concern is the mother coming down 16th street about to give birth and gets caught in traffic. Reporter for their part, the warriors are just happy to get the hospital onboard. This is great news. This is the beginning of the new era of peaceful coexistence. Are you guys going to give a binding agreement . Were willing to keep working with ucsf and the city to address their issues. Are you willing to give them a binding agreement phil, were going to try everything we can to make sure we peacefully coexist. Thats exactly what theyre going to do, but the question is will it work out . Because those concerts and extra events are really whos going to help pay for this billiondollar arena to go up. By the way the opponents say uc or uc not theyre still going to be fighting this in the courtrooms and on the ballot if they need to so this is far from a done deal. Back to you guys. Hundreds of people are combing santa cruz in the frantic search for a missing 8yearold girl. She disappeared close to her apartment complex. Kpix 5 devin fehely is live with what maddys mom is saying about the search tonight. The Police Department held a press conference a short time ago which only served to highlight either how little theyve learned or are willing to share with the public since their press conference this morning which is not the news that madysons mother wanted to hear. I cant explain how difficult this is. Nobody should have to go through this. Reporter madyson middletons mother laura says her life has been a nightmare ever since her daughter disappeared 24 hours ago. Officers have gone door to door every loft. Weve looked at cameras. Reporter police have launched a massive search with dogs on the ground, helicopters in the air and search and rescue teams in the water. Investigators say search dogs appeared to have picked up maddys scent, tracking her from her apartment complex to the boardwalk about 2 miles away but from there the trail went cold. Were still early on in our investigation. Were looking for a lost child. Reporter officially police are still calling maddys disappearance a missing persons case but theyve also brought in the fbi to help, suggesting they may also be looking in to the possibility that she was kidnapped. Maddys mom says she just wants her daughter back and her fear grows with each minute shes not found. I already fell apart. Now im just in survival mode. The Police Department says they are checking with known sex offenders, registered sex offenders in this area to see if they might have any connection to madysons disappearance. Just to give you a sense of how tightlipped the police are being, they wont say whether or not they found maddys scooter the toy they were playing with when she went missing yesterday. In santa cruz, devin fehely, kpix fiveg. Kpix 5. An alert is out for cal water customers. Len ramirez shows us what the hot weather expected this week, the boil alert couldnt come at a worse time. Reporter in the summer when the creeks have already run dry theres not a drop to drink from the water fountain in los altos. It was sealed off due to e. Coli contamination in the system leaving a day camp with 30 kids scrambling for Drinking Water on a warm day. Really annoying. I wish i brought my own water bottle now. Are you thirsty . Yeah, a little. Today just constantly reminding the kids that the water fountain is off limits. Everybody the city of los altos dropped off cases of water for those without. Were stocking up on Water Bottles right now. Reporter California Water service, which serves los altos said the problem started with a water main break on friday. After repairs the agency tested the system for contaminants. The system showing e. Coli contamination was taken from the fire hydrant on saturday. The California Water said it did not get confirmation back from the lab until sunday afternoon. Cal water said it went door to door and phone messaged over 800 customers sunday night. Were saying you need to boil your water before drinking until we can get samples and find out whats actually going on in our system. Reporter cal water says the warning will stay in effect until at least tuesday afternoon. It will only be lift Fire Department new tests come back from the lab showing the all clear. Its scary because its kind of its hard to not be able to use the water. Reporter until los altos wont be a place for happy campers, at least when it comes to drinking the water. Len ramirez, kpix 5. Cal water is offering to pay for its customers bottle water costs. Firefighters saved dozens of homes from a fast moving grass fire in pittsburgh. In pittsburg. It broke out around 2 30 this afternoon san marcos boulevard and west bleland road. The fire was in a difficult place to access. Crews worked from the ground and air to get a handle on it. Firefighters say it may have started when workers tried to jump start an off road vehicle and it caught fire. Its warm today but tripledigit heat is still on the way. Chief meteorologist paul deanno with what we can expect. Pittsburg tomorrow, 102. 100 in livermore sonoma. 92 for palo alto. Warm today. But that was setting the stage. Area of High Pressure builds in from the west. Two ridges will cut off the ocean influence. The ocean is going nowhere but our wind will not come from the ocean so we are going to get hot starting tomorrow. For the first time all summer long, which is rare we go this deep in the summer without a spare the air day, its coming tomorrow. The air quality especially in the santa clara valley, the south bay youll see unhealthy air quality. So hot and hes weather begins tomorrow. Well talk about how long it sticks around and theres a different h to talk about. Humidity. Its returning too. Well have that coming up in about 10 minutes. Firefighters are working to protect thousands of homes being threatened by a fire in the sierra foothills. It broke out over the weekend in nevada county. Its burned 1700 acres near alta. Crews have been fighting this from land and air all day. Their main concern is if the fire jumps across bear river canyon and moved up toward populated communities. Nearly 2,000 homes stand in the path right now. Its 20 contained. Firefighters are making Good Progress on the wragg fire burning near lake berryessa. Its now 70 contained tonight. An area thats not containicide a very remote area. The fire started last weekend and burned 6600 acres. A vallejo man was dead after he was shot in his car then it crashed. One of his best friends heard the whole thing. The call came in just before 10 00 last night reporting a shooting on redwood parkway. Moments later there was a crash. The victims car hit three other vehicles and then wrecked landing on Jonathan Browns front lawn. I was sitting in the living room watching tv. Just got finished feeding my son. I was burping him. And i hear gunshots out the back window. He was like slumped over in the car. So i couldnt tell who it actually was. The victim is elliot patterson. Were told he just started working at a hospital. The shooter still hasnt been caught tonight. Smart phone kill switches are designed to make phones useless if theyre stolen. But have thieves found a way around it . New at 6 00, julie watts found how your phone could still be a target. While cell phone robberies are down here in the city, new numbers show the cell phone kill switch is not as much of a deterrent everywhere. We discovered even bricked iphones inoperable are still a hot commodity on the hot market. He said hes jeremy calling from the apple store. Reporter molly was thrilled when they said theyd recovered his stolen phone. In order to get it back to me they needed my apple i. D. Password to verify its my phone. Reporter as you might have guessed, jeremy was actually a crook. Since she never activated her phones socalled kill switch, she couldnt remotely wipe, lock, and render the phone useless once it was stolen. I dont know where it is or how i can find it. Reporter until now the technology has been buried deep inside the phone settings so many like molly hadnt turned on. As a result, thieves havent necessarily been deterred by the technology. While cell phone robberies dropped here in San Francisco following the introduction of kill switches in 2013, thefts actually rose in cities like seattle by 32 . Experts speculate it may be because we have more tech savvy crooks and more phones likely to have active kill switches. Phones have value in two years. If theyre stolen you can resell the phone or take the phone to somebody who destroys it and uses its for parts. Its much more lucrative to sell a phone that works. Reporter jessica says now the california new kill switch law requires the Technology Come enabled by default there will be fewer lucrative phones to sell because people will activate the kill switch. We discovered even with the kill switch activated the inoperable phones often known as bricked phones are still a hot commodity on the black market. Bricked phones sell for far less than those like mollys that are unlocked wiped clean and ready to fetch top dollar. Both apple and google confirm that all their new software complies with the New California law and apple says it will never ask you to verify your password over the phone. Meanwhile, while some phone thefts are up, car breakins are actually up so it may be that thieves have moved back to an old easier target. Still ahead scenery taking over what used to be your parking spot. Whats the cost of safety . If you live in San Francisco its Parking Spaces. How the quest to have safer roads is affecting our drivers. And it may be the biggest smart phone flaw ever discovered. The text message that could give hackers complete control. You may want to skip the omelets for a while. Why some stores are charging you 6 for a dozen eggs. A new season brings a new look. A chance to try something different. This summer, challenge your preconceptions and experience a cadillac for yourself. Take advantage of our summer offers. Lease select cts models in stock the longest for around 399 per month. Berkeley police are trying to track down a guy who used a gun to rob a laundromat. Tactical teams joined police in blocking off the neighborhood near dwight way and sacramento street. It was shut down for several hours today. Witnesses say a woman inside the business was shoved to the ground and robbed. I was here waiting for the bus and she came over screaming hes got a gun hes got a gun please call the cops. Police say the guy ran away after stealing the cash but never caught him. Certainly no mystery finding a parking spot in San Francisco can be a lesson in patience. Now the city taking away more spaces for a beautification project. New at 6 00 kpix 5s cate cauguiran shows us why a lot of people want those spots over the scenery. If theres anything coveted here in San Francisco it is a great parking spot. But as the city makes way for these new safety projects like the one you see behind me, those are the first things to go. When youre looking for a parking spot, an empty parking spot can be a beautiful spot. Reporter even more beautiful when youve been driving around for half an hour, which is what brian is afraid will happen to his outer sunset neighborhood. They just put in these decorative things on each corner for a couple of blocks which is taking away at least 20 spots on our block and probably the next block too. Reporter these new decorative things are part of the street scape project a city beautification project designed to improve pedestrian safety. There have been about 46 parking spots in that area. Were able to take out just about two or three Parking Spaces all together. Its really a small fraction of the Parking Spaces that have been removed. Reporter Rachel Gordon with public works says project designers reconfigured the area to have perpendicular parking in order to make sure only a few spots were taken away. Theres going to be some give and take but we have to make safety our number 1 priority. Reporter brian says even two or three spots here can make a difference especially when spots are being cut all throughout San Francisco. Right now the city has 280,000 onstreet spots. If you add garages and lots, that number is 435,000, which sounds like a lot, but considering 500,000 cars travel in the city each day its going to be congested. Reporter especially on a day like today where San Francisco weather turned in to san diego and everyone in the city wants to go to the beach. Where do you think now is going to happen to this area after this complete . Just less parking. The city, thats the last thing San Francisco needs fewer parking spots. What youre looking at is one of those replacing the parking spots. A neighbor walked by and asked us what were doing. We said were covering the parking shortage here. They said if were covering the parking shortage in the outer sunset you know its a big deal. 6 for a dozen eggs. Thats the price right now at some bay area stores. New at 6 00 john ramos it tells us whats behind the spike and why its not going anywhere for a while. Reporter the price of eggs at the supermarket has skyrocketed lately and its for the same reason i had to meet with petaluma egg farmer in the back of the restaurant instead of at his ranch. If you get Avian Influenza in to our flock of chickens, youll experience 95 mortality over a sixday timeline. Thats how devastating it is. Reporter the Avian Influenza virus in midwest has forced the killing of more than 45 million hens, driving up the price of eggs here to nearly 6 a dozen and turning local egg farms in to high security intensive care units. This quarantine youve got about nobody coming on your property its a biosecurity lockdown. And thats not forced on you. Thats selfpreservation. Reporter workers at sunrise farm wear biohazard suits and trucks and equipment are not shared with other ranches to prevent cross contamination. He believes the flu that hit in january may drive some big egg producers in to bankruptcy. While that means hes getting a good price for his eggs now he knows its only temporary. Farmers are good at doing one thing. They can over produce just like that. So for all these chickens that are going to be gone, theyre all going to be back, believe me. Theyre all coming home. Theyll come home to roost. Reporter he says if the outbreak ends, in about a year the price of eggs will plummet as the midwest ranches presume production, flooding the market and once again leaving california farmers scrambling to make a profit. John ramos kpix 5. Sunrise farms is spending nearly 2 million to increase biosecurity to protect its chickens. Get a new degree. We had the beer aficionado at 5 00. Going to get kind of toasty around here. Wake up, not any fog anywhere throughout the bay area. We got warm as soon as you come off that tap of Pacific Ocean air we got warm. Its going to take shape tomorrow. 96 today already in heelsburg and pittsburg. Today sunshine and san pablo 77. San francisco, kind of chilly today. Even you will be in the 70s tomorrow. Your high today, 65 degrees. Whats going on . We have a big ocean off to our west. I call it the Worlds Largest refrigerator. The water relatively speaking off our coastline is chilly. Kind of like leaving the refrigerator door open in your kitchen. If that door is open, its going to get cooler. 99 days out of 100 that happens. There are a few instances when the wind changes and we do not get the ocean influence. For a couple days tomorrow and wednesday even though the temperature of the ocean and air above it isnt changing. Were going to see a north to northeast wind which is going to eliminate the ocean influence and well get warm to hot. That sun angle is very high in late july. High pressure two very hot days. Ill throw in thursday as well. Still well above average. On friday the wind direction changes. It will come up out of the south as the two ridges merge in to one. That will bring up tropical moisture. Well go from hot to humid. Kind of strange but its whats going to be happening. Concord tomorrow 100. Livermore, 100. Fairfield, 101. Fremont near 90. Its going to be a hot day tomorrow. Away from the water even hotter on wednesday, 104. Youll begin to cool off a bit by the bay wednesday evening. Thursday, a noticeable drop in temperature. On friday, a noticeable increase in humidity that will drag some cloud cover as well. Even though it says the 80s over the weekend, not going to feel that comfortable and overnight when you have sticky air the low will be about 70 degrees. Its kind of strange heat, humidity, all in one week. Still ahead no more bumps in the road. How bay area crews are fixing some streets at a fraction of the cost. You take the carpool lane to save time. Why drivers one bay area city is trying to give drivers a smoother ride. Instead of ripping up roads theyre putting something on top of them. Don ford explains how this quick fix is saving walnut creek not only time and aggravation but lots of money. Reporter its a gooey stinky sticky mess. So hot it will burn you. This isnt your daddys truck its called slurry. They take a portion of old tired. They recycle the rubber. They plend it blend it in with some oil add it on the ground and add rock on top of it. Reporter the whole operation is done with a Specialized Team in a process of lightning fast compared to a full repaving. I pulled out took off to go to the store and by the time i got back, the street was done. Weve only been here about an hour and already theyve completed this street. They say when the conditions are just right, they can do it in a day. Reporter its not only faster but a ton cheaper than repaving. Engineers say it

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