Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Sun Morn Edition 20240622 :

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Sun Morn Edition 20240622

Second bart tube across the bay. That would be nice but probably expensive. We will look at how much these other projects could cost. Plus prostitution as a constitutional right. That sounds kind of crazy, doesnt it . There is a Court Hearing to discuss that. We will look at the case and basically the theory that morality is not a good enough reason to ban paying for sex. Bicyclists are questioning what rules of the road should apply to them. We will have protests and traffic tie ups expected as a local group tries to make a point. Our political insiders will weigh in on the strength of the bike lobby. There is lots coming up. Lets take a quick check of your weather forecast. We are starting with cloudy skies in San Francisco, a live look at the trans america tower. Temperatures are pretty warm with 64 almost everywhere, a couple 62s in the city and in santa rosa. Your headlines for today, cloudy start, patchy fog and sunshine for most. Its going to be similar to the weather we saw yesterday and a cool to mild week ahead. Your extended forecast is coming up. First here is mark. Work on the trans bay bart track is so far right on schedule. Of course the closure of the trans bay tube meant back ups on the bay bridge almost all day yesterday. Crews there are replacing crossover tracks near the west open station. Bart has been using public buses all weekend to shuttle people across the bridge. Many riders got the message to just avoid the crossing all together. Ridership yesterday according to bart was about half of what it normally is on a saturday. A woman is dead after being hit by a train in hayward. It happened around 4 30 yesterday afternoon where the tracks cross end raleigh parkway. The woman died at the scene. Investigators are looking into how it happened. Flames from the rockie fire are spreading into three counties, lake, yolo, calusa. More than 42 square miles are ablaze, about the size of San Francisco. It is still just 5 contained. 50 buildings have gone up in flames, half of them homes. Another 6000 are threatened and fire crews say this has not been an easy fight. Go ahead and tattle because its for a good cause. California ans are urged to speak up about water wasting. The state Just Launched a website called save our water. People can report all kinds of drought violations even anonymously. A local Government Agency will then take it from there. Night out turned into a nightmare after a limo collided with two other cars in southern california. Witnesses say the limo crashed while attempting to exit the 126 freeway in valencia north of magic mountain. 11 people were injured. At least five of them are in critical condition. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Pilots at new yorks jfk airport are reporting drones are invading their air space. A jetblue pilot radioed the tower friday afternoon saying a drone flew just under the planes nose at 800 feet as the plane was on its final approach. Three hours later a delta pilot reported seeing a drone off his right wing while coming in for a landing. Both planes landed safely. Thats a look at your top stories on this sunday morning. Here is a story that has safety concerns verses your backyard. Peninsula homeowners are told they may have to chop down trees and rip up landscaping. Pg e are trying to clear pushes, shrubs, trees away from natural gas pipelines. It is part of an agreement after the pipeline explosion of 2010. The number of trees chopped could reach 1300. Its not just trees. In letters sent to homeowners land scaping like Backyard Pools could be ripped out too. Its how you do it. Its not necessarily that can do it. They could do it. They have right aways but in some cities or towns would you want to remove 500 trees . I dont think the community would put up with that. In a statement pg e said we are working to keep the pipes safe and having access for First Responders is the number one issue. This is part of an 850 million effort by pg e that was ordered by the Utilities Commission after the san bruno pipe explosion. Part punishment, part lets make this work better than last time. They expect only about 30 to 40 of the trees might have to be moved. Theyll punxsutawney them in some other part of your yard. Everybody wants safety, but thats the chief of the local Fire Department saying this might be going a little bit far. Well see. In oak land. Developers pay for public art in order to build in several bay area cities. There is a powerful group suing to stop the practice. Its park and art in oakland thats created part of the huging Housing Development downtown. Last year the city voted to require developers to include public art in any new plans near or contribute to a public fund. The price tag is about 1 of the value of the development. The Building Industry Association says Developers Already struggling to meet city requirements like parking and Green Building standards. Those are all public amenities or needs that are in part created by the new development and public art simply isnt. The association has filed a federal lawsuit contesting the ordinance citing rulings saying fees must be tied to the direct impact of the development. The lawsuit is asking that the public art fee be eliminated and if it is it could force other cities with similar ordinances to do the same. I can see both sides of the story. The problem for most is the specific price tag, set 1 . A lot of art doesnt need to cost that much. To, but its a set aside that we have started with buildings. If you do a big project, its to make it look good. This is a pet project of the new oakland mayor when she was in the city council. Well have to see how she deals with this. Traffic navigation apps and gps have become invaluable but what happens when everybodys new route goes past your house . Loss gados beach goers heading south bound are being rerouted when traffic is bumper to bumper. The google owned gps app tells drivers to exit camden to cut through loss gados before getting on the highway. Its an often used shortcut that locals say the roads cant handle. It can go from taking ten minutes to go to work to 20 or more. Normally i can be there in three minutes or less but its taken me 20 or 30 minutes. The city is testing four of the signs this weekend near the highway exits that tells drivers downtown traffic only, beach traffic, use 17. The city reached to google to ask about making a change to the app but it has not heard back yet. Its interesting. Remember this app had a similar problem with police. They were putting up when there was Police Activity to avoid that if you were driving around at Los Angeles Police force wasnt happy about that saying criminals could use that as a device. This is an app that tells you when there are traffic back ups. Its real time data. Why doesnt it tell you that loss gados is backed up . Well its less backed up than 17. Its pretty bril i cant believe. You type it in and no looking at maps. A Group Unhappy with the cyclists who run stop signs is protesting the law by obeying it in Critical Mass style. That might seem counter intuitive but they want to demonstrate what it would look like if every cyclist made a full complete stop. Its called stopin. They want to repeat it soon again. Last week cyclists rode a popular street in single file stopping at every stop sign creating a traffic jam for bikers and drivers alike. For them to actually pick cyclists and go after us, its absurd. We cannot turn a blind eye to those committing violations and expect us not to enforce it. The group is challenging San Francisco park Police Districts proposal to increase enforcement by ticketing cyclists who dont come to complete stops. The coalition has launched a petition to stop the park station from moving forward with that crack down. We have talked about this before. The biken shoesists are a powerful lobbying group. Thats right. Its interesting, one of the reasons why the captain instituted this warning or crack down, whatever you call it, was because pedestrians werent feeling safe. In the overall political environmental transportation food chain, pedestrians still trump bicyclists. I can see why. Bicyclists would leak something after a law in idaho. A rolling stop. Use it as a yield rather than a stop sign. There are probably more bicyclists on that corner than there are in idaho. You are probably right. Is prostitution a constitutional right . There is a hearing in San Francisco friday to determine that. A federal judge will hear a lawsuit that claims californias 1961 antiprostitution law violates the Constitutional Rights of sex workers. The defendants are californias attorney general and four bay area district attorneys. The suit is brought by Erotic Service providers Legal Education and research project. It says criminalizing prostitution violates the first and fourth amendment, free speech and equal protection. They say its only illegal for reasons of morality. They also say it would be better for police to focus on more violent crimes, ones with more obvious victims. But this is where we come into a catch 22. San francisco has criminalized prostitution because they didnt want to victimize the health workers. We have a huge issue about human trafficking. Are people being brought in to work in the places against their will. They are. Which will it be . Is it a victimless crime if the person is being forced to do it . Its unfortunately more complicated than that. Plus its an under ground industry that breeds more crime. There is something to be said when it comes to legalizing marijuana. Lets make this legit so this is not funding crime rings. Another debate. Hillary clinton will be back in the bay area. Shes slated to attend an evening reception at a home on wednesday. The host is a former chief privacy officer at facebook. The next morning she will be at a Breakfast Fund raiser at the San Francisco home of the state assembly woman. The price to attend both is 2700 a person. Clintons competition Bernie Sanders announced his run for president. There were more than 80 parties in the bay area to celebrate it. Sanders is the darling of progressives. His campaign is in the National Scene painting him as the straight talking anticandidate. The campaign is a war chest thats about 30 million behind clintons but political analyst Paul Henderson says that can change. The latest cnn poll has sanders trailing Clinton Holding only 18 of the democratic vote to her 57. Of course we have the republican debates coming up thursday. We are going to be talking with our insiders willy brown and carla maranuci about how they would handle it. Stories of joe biden being urged to jump in. I dont know why he wouldnt. Hes got nothing to lose. Its going to be an interesting shape up on the democratic front. Well keep following it. It is more difficult to get around the bay area this weekend using mass transit since the tube is closed. Well have one of the directors live in studio about crews are repairing a critical section of bart tracks this weekend. Theyre replacing aging cross over tracks in west oakland. Thats causing people to find alternate routes to get across the bay. They appear to be doing that. Joining us is one of barts board of directors joel keller. This is a rare moment. We get to say good job. Thanks. Its a credit to bart employees and the staff and our riders who have heard the message and are actually staying away, not making discretionary trips. Wither about 50 down in ridership, 80,000 trips, which is what we needed this weekend to make it a success. Lets get to the issue people are watching. Is it going to be done on time and are we going to be up and running monday for the commute . There is every reason to believe. I checked a few moments before coming on air that we will be back operational at 4 00 am tomorrow morning. Was this really necessary . Was there a way around closing this down . There are ways around it. We could have delayed service on a regular basis, but doing it in a concentrated way means we get the work done. It will be done over two weekends and we will repair an aging part of the system. As you know phil the system is aging all over and we have to pick those opportunities where we can do the most work and get the best benefit. Not only are we doing work thats described, we are taking the opportunity to do other maintainance that would take a much longer period of time if you had to do it over a few hours a night. With the concentrated tappet we are getting a lot done. One of the questions about bart was when it was originally designed its a small system. Its tight. Those tunnels are tight. Theres no wiggle room in them. If anything goes wrong or work needs to be done you have to shut the system down. Especially trans bay which is why it is so important that tenance we do on a regular basis avoids that potential. Our crews out there are doing a terrific job. The men and women of bart have stepped up and making sure the work gets done on time and is responsive to the publics need to have access to the trans bay tube. Speaking of the trans bay tube some in San Francisco are starting to be concerned about gridlock, the whyed that we are just impacted, that there is not enough late night service. There is not overnight service. Are there plans to expand barts service around the bay area . We have as our priorities, the big three. Rail cars, train control, and hayward maintenance facility. If we can accomplish increasing the fleet, increasing headway, we will get more capacity. Can we extend hours . The overnight service is not likely to be possible with rail, but we do have a pilot project, a rubber tire overnight service from San Francisco. Buses . Buses. Why is an overnight isnt overnight service possible on bart . Because of the maintenance needs. We have to have access to crews into the various parts of the system. If you dont provide the access the maintenance will deteriorate causing service to go down. Its a balance. We want to provide the maximum service we can for riders and we want to be sure that crews can get in there and maintain trouble spots when theyre identified by employees. We only have a couple seconds left. The question that keeps coming up when you close down this trans bay tube, what are the odds of a second tube . I think there is growing momentum in the bay area for a second trans bay tube. A number of officials have stated their support for it. Its going to be a huge undertaking, a lot of money, planning, timing. We have to start looking at that as an option. First i think we have to reinvest in the system and make sure what we have works as well as it did when we opened 40 years ago. The clock is ticking. Monday is just around the corner. Lets see if it happens. Thank you for joining us. Now we will look to weather and see if you are not going on bart what you are looking at. Speaking of traffic here is our shot from the bay bridge toll plaza. Oh we have a friend out there too. Didnt realize that was there. A cloudy start, drizzle to start your sunday. Traffic is moving just fine over that bridge. What to expect, low clouds and drizzle to start and sunshine for most of us later today. It will be cool to mild in these next few days ahead. Well explain that in your seven day. First, your highs for today are a lot like what we saw yesterday with at or slightly below average. In south bay santa clara, 80, same in mountain view, 76 in fremont, 69 in hayward. Far east bay, 85 brentwood, 81 in danville and san ramon. Concord and Pleasant Hill will get to 83. It is cooler around the central bay in the high 60s and low 70s, 68 berkeley, 67 San Francisco. Mill valley is 76 for a high. The next days well see a cooling trend. Temperatures will bottom outcome tuesday before they rebound for the second part of our work week. Still with all the wildfires we do not have any rain in sight. Donald trump poised to make some waves at the first republican president ial debate. We asked why his run for president seems to yoplait greek 100. 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That gives him credibility that no one else seems to have. Second, the other 16 people on stage with him are trying to be on stage with him represent yesterday. They represent what we all are disgusted with in the world of politics. Trump sounds like a fresh voice although its a very old fresh voice. This time around donald trump has mined public discussion with politicians, scripts, money, donors. He says going into the debate i am what i am and i dont need anybodys money. That is resonating with voters. He also says i dont really have the answers. He admits it. I do not have the answers. Let me tell you what i am going to do. I am going to make america better than its been. Everybody says thats not a bad idea. Politicians have long sold sunshine. That is what you sell when you are running for office. You are going to make it better. You dont necessarily say how . Does he have anything s

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