And seeing there was a tremendous amount of Revenue Opportunities that they were not taking advantage of. Reporter that was the idea that turned demand into a moneymaker for the city but 250,000 is a house in a normal Real Estate Market so the city needed a lender to issue medallion loans and they found one two blocks away from city hall. San francisco federal credit union is doing the financing and the thousand dollars a month i have 1500 left over and that seemed like a good deal so i went for it. The city made millions of dollars in transfer fees and the credit union was collecting interest on those loans. Something else was happening at the very same moment. Lips or mustache or all of these dashes just as they finalized the medallion program, ride sharing was disrupting and on its way to crippling the industry. Now across San Francisco they have turned into Something Like a troubled mortgage. It will be enough that maybe i can keep up with my loan payments and hold onto the medallion until they can sell it. Last time the city sold a medallion . April 2016. What its worth its really questionable. If theres not a line of people willing to pay 250,000 for a medallion, does the system work . Clearly not. Theres an even larger problem tonight. The Credit Unions medallion portfolio. I have heard anecdotally that some people who have bought them are literally walking away from their loan. Kpix5 has learned that the San Francisco federal credit union has no foreclosed on 70 medallion loans. They have also filed a legal claim against San Francisco as stakeholders increasingly blame the city for a medallion market that fell apart with tens of thousands of nonmedallion to cards cars allowed to hit city streets. The city should give us our money back. The taxi drivers told us it was that time so why are you not enforcing laws against illegal participants . Do you feel that the city undercuts you . Yes it feels like they stabbed me in the back. This is a second complaint filed against the city, this one from the Medallion Buyers Alliance complete with six pages of claimant names. Back to the credit union, they are sitting on 125 million worth of quote impaired loans that would represent about 10 of their total assets. Wow. Its a modernday buggy whip story. You dont need them anymore. Why is the city not making this right . The city is trying to figure out how to sort this out. They have hired a consultant to look into this, the Mayors Office declined to comment since it is now a legal matter but in the complaints you can hear the case against the city. Smt a sold medallions and were responsible for enforcing tax taxi regulations and failed to stop a threat to the economy. It is an expensive mess that touches on politics and possibly a legal review of San Franciscos relationship with Ridesharing Companies that upended the taxi industry. And that administration is over with. We have a new mayor. Its amazing to think thats several years after the ridesharing thing happened. Are we going to go back and take another look at how this unfolded and who is responsible for the debt that was left behind . Those are expensive. Thank you so much. The berkeleyapolice department is in trouble. The city says there arent enough officers to get the jobs done. The bike patrol is gone as well as the task force. And more cuts are coming. Right phil . Thats right. Berkeley has never had an image of being a pro cop town but the question is not the cops are coming, its like where is my cop . Heres the story. Reporter there has there is no shortage of homelessness or traffic or civil unrest. What it does have is a serious shortage of cops. Ive never seen it this low. The chief has been 35 years here. We have come down from 200 officers during one point in my career and we are at 176. Of those only 160 are on the streets. The department has had to stop its popular bike patrols and eliminate special units. It will soon packets traffic patrol as well. The shift to make sure we are ensuring basic safety levels and into the Detective Division to make sure we are getting fundamental baseline of follow up investigations. The last of the bike patrol has been especially hardhit for stores downtown. The Image Matters a lot. We depend on having the cops around to improve the sense of security. If you have someone camping outside of your store or causing problems, it can be an hour or two hours before we get a response. Its a frustration for the cop as well. Often it is not the person they had to help all the rest, will often be back on the streets a day or two. The same cycle over and over. Even the starting pay of 95,000 other departments are paying more, and then theres the cost of living. Some have to live quite a ways away, even if its far beyond sacramentoaeven as far as Sacramento Stockton and san jose. None of this is being lost. We are working to try to not only retain but attract new officers. Its not going to be easy, just to be qualified you have to have extensive background checks, you have to pass rigorous testing, you have to go to the academy, its a difficult process and its not just the pay, its a question of opportunities. If you shrink and other departments are expanding you might go elsewhere, but the we athe real kicker is that once cops are trained and on the streets after a couple years, they are looking really good to the departments that are a lot closer to stockton and sacramento and where they live and they want a shorter commute so a lot of them are just opting out. Kpix5, back to you. A Northern California sheriff is kicking the feds out of his jail as part of the ongoing debate over immigration. Ice agents have had a regular workspace at the Monterey County jail but next month a state law kicks and that prohibits local Law Enforcement from working with federal authorities on immigration enforcement. Ice will no longer have access to a desk inside of our jail. Im sure we will hear something but i dont know what it is. We received federal funds for grants and things and we will see what happens. The administration has threatened to cut off funding over the sanctuary issue and the state law allows ice inmates to question inmates if they have a warrant. Wildfires have claimed yet another victim, this one a cleanup worker. Ezekiel jackson summoner was killedasumner was killed when he was hit by his own truck. We are outside of the landfill with more on what happened. Susie . Reporter he went has jade to family and friends and we learned that he was an experienced truck driver but had just started working on debris removal in santa rosa. The company that he was working for as a subcontractor has been under scrutiny in the past for safety concerns so this mans death is raising a lot of questions. We all feel really bad. Cynthia rogers heard the news this morning. A 60yearold man from paradise in butte county ended up pinned under his truck at the Republic Services landfill. He was dropping off debris from the wildfires when he found himself trapped under his truck and unable to escape. He was pronounced dead at the scene. On top of a disaster and working so many hours, we feel so bad for his family and he was just out here trying to help. The truck had been backed up to reattach to a trailer and the driver was found under the truck. The Highway Patrol army corps of engineers are all conducting individual investigations into exactly what happened. Debris removal came to a stop and workers were required to attend four hours of safety training. We have a lot of these trucks so we want as comprehensive of an investigation as we can perform. He was a subcontractor and one of 2 companies doing debris removal since the fire started. It is a floridabased company that has been accused of unsafe practices in previous disasters. As we reported, Santa Rosa City officials are concerned that they are not taking safety concerns seriously. Most drivers believe what happened to him was not his fault. I think there may have been a malfunction. Reporter drivers tell us they were so deeply impacted by this that they are getting together to try to raise some money for this mans widow during this difficult time. We reached out to see if they would comment and we actually reached out to them two weeks ago when we first started reporting about safety concerns, and reached out again today and have still not heard back. We are live in Sonoma County. Kpix5. The San Francisco medical examiner has concerned that mayor edley that the mayor died after collapsing outside of a safeway supermarket. He became the mayor in 2011 and one election to the office twice. Yesterday thousands paid tribute at a public memorial. The bidding wars for bay area homes get even crazier. Several homes sell for 1 million over asking. What is fueling the frenzy on the peninsula. A breakin. Some scary driveby shootings in the east bay, the teenagers in big trouble for firing a flare gun at some homes. A prominent judge stepping down with Sexual Harassment allegations ending his career. Air quality is improving a little bit, we will go cloudy tomorrow but there is rain in the forecast. How much rain to expect and which night may start a pattern of overnight freezes coming up. [baby crib musical mobile] millions are still exposed to the dangers of secondhand smoke. And some of them cant do anything about it. But you can. Protect your family. Visit tobaccofreeca. Com. Another sign that the bay areas Housing Market is red hot. We are used to hearing about homes going for well over asking price but some homes on the peninsula just took the trend to a wild new level. If you thought it could not get any wackier consider this home listed for 2. 9 million but sold point for 3. 9 million, 1 million over the asking price. This home listed for 2. 8 million but sold for 4. 5. 1. 67 million over asking price. Finally theres this home that listed for 7. 9 million but sold for 1. 8 million over asking. In 2017 a total of 10 homes in the area sold for 1 million or more over asking. Six listings belonged to de leon realty. What is going on . Their ceo says its a common tactic known as auctioning. Spending three or 4 million for a 200 ft. 2 house seems crazy but when you know you are one of 12 bidding on it you dont feel inflated. This home sold for just over 5 million and says a home that is intentionally underpriced will attract dozens of bidders and says if its done right the final price will end up higher than nearby comps. They get caught up and say they are going to stop at a certain point but when you have 12 people doing that it makes a difference. Do i like it, i dont. She has been a realtor for 30 years and says her philosophy is to simply price homes what they are worth. Auctioning attracts they are attack attracts lower end buyers who think they are in the running but are disappointed. You disappoint so many people. She says auctioning is completely legal and transparent. Its a an approach thats fair and open because we want to make sure everyone has an opportunity. Bay area home prices shot up again and prices last month jumped 12. 5 from one year ago. A landmark is about to sell for a quarter of 1 billion, another site of a thriving downtown. The Fairmont Hotel in san jose is owner is selling for 250 million next year. The buyer is Eagle Canyon Capital a san ramon based firm. They say they are looking forward to what the owners will bring. Police have arrested a group of teenager for a drive by shooting rampage and the weapons that they used were flare guns. Police tracked down 4 teenagers between 15 and 16 years old and they see the flare guns were stolen from a nearby walmart. They captured the teens firing at home. Some had broken glass and burn marks. A couple of parked cars also got targeted. Its really terrible. Somebody got hit in the face or i, its a fire used for emergencies and burns for a high intensity heat. Police say they cut the teenagers with the combination of Surveillance Video and a citizens view Camera Registry Program that helped land teenagers and juvenile hall. Selling items accused of animals from endangered species was sentenced to three years on probation. The reader Clothing Store and collected more than 150 items made from animals. She insisted she was not approach her, she said she didnt realize it. It will be closed for swimming until wednesday after 2 swimmers were bitten last week. One bite was described as severe. Warning signs have been posted but when we stopped by swimmers were already back in the water. On a monday night we had temperatures once again above average, 5650 degrees this time of year and the top spot campbell 65, you stopped at exactly 60 this afternoon. East palo alto at 59 degrees. We are now approaching record setting territory for the month of december. 2 times weve had zero rainfall, 1989 and 1876. A couple of years ago we only had one seventh of an inch. This december, 2 100s of an inch. This would be the third driest december ever and have almost 170 years of weather history in San Francisco. Heres the ridge of High Pressure, its not in the same spot so we have an opportunity wednesday morning and rather than columbia or alaska, the storm track is something temporarily spotting south. The production for San Francisco is eight 100s of an inch and add that to what we already have . We would stay as the third driest december ever and im here to tell you theres not much if any rainfall in the forecast after that perhaps through christmas and to the end of this calendar year. We go cloudy 64 san jose vallejo 61, San Francisco 60, San Francisco 59 and napa 61 degrees. We are cloudy tomorrow night and early wednesday, a couple of showers. By wednesday the sun is back and i was hoping for a pattern change after that . We are going to be dry. Highs are cooler in the 60s. A secret grove of dry it giant california read words and their location is hidden. How social media is putting their health at risk. Did a piece of paper decide a readers fate . Guess who might want to get back into the nfl, the team that he has his sights set on coming up. Interested in buying the Carolina Panthers, who are being richardson the for me former 49er is interested in buying the Carolina Panthers who are being sold by Jerry Richardson following allegations of workplace misconduct. Espn is reporting that the possibility of is being explored and that hes going to respect Terry Richardsons wish to not discuss the sale of the panthers until the season was over. He was inducted in 2016 and his team has won five super bowls under his ownership. How about that . Raiders left tackle is out for the season and will undergo foot surgery causing him to miss the regularseason game for the first time in 11 seasons. An index card may have ended the playoff hopes who remains upset with a controversial measurement that awarded the cowboys a first down lane in the fourth that quarter. Im sure there will be some kind of explanation but whatever it is im going to disagree with it. I know what i saw from the sideline and i also saw plenty of examples on twitter. The guy ran out there with a camera and put the camera on it to see what it was. How you can look at that and get up with a smirk is hard to take. It makes no sense. You heard paul talking about the math about doing whether look at this. They need to win the final few games and get a lot of help leaving them with the most slim of chances sneaking into the playoffs. Not like one out of 100 . More than like one out of 1 million. So youre telling me theres a chance. They have no chance and that might be good news for the contenders. San francisco has won three straight and what else can you say about jimmy jimmy g . What is he like the most . A strict savage. He was out in his career as a starter and the only quarterback to win his first three starts. Theres one teammate trying to slow down the bandwagon. Ready to get all hyped up, he has won three games in a row, not that big of a deal. Hes really fun to be out there playing with him. The titans quarterback was not impressed with garofalo saying quote it was nothing special, he just threw to open guys. One thing is for certain, he has 49er fans finally excited about going to the stadium. Hes a new 49ers player, really cute and handsome, a lot of people say he is. But come on. How oldest what happened to the whining about the sunshine . All of a sudden it doesnt bother people . s people people say if you win Football Games they will forget about the elements. To me gq fixes a lot of things. Jimmy fixes a lot of things. The train wreck that killed three people in washington state. The new questions. President. Trump unveiled a National Security strategy and puts rival countries on notice. A powerful judge ending his career over Sexual Harassment claims. 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