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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM February 10, 2018

The interstate transport of marijuana. In october, 2016 two men were killed and one woman shot in the face in sebastopol after a crew from philadelphia allegedly killed them over pot. The suspects in that case, Robert Randolph and maria lebron from philly, still have murder warrants out for their arrest. Its cases like these leaving Sonoma County in a legal lurch. We are investing any marijuana robbery, any Home Invasion type stuff that occurs in Sonoma County. Well follow where it takes us, but were not routinely worried about interstate commerce because thats more of a federal issue. Reporter at least until theres a standard federal law or similar state laws in place nationwide about marijuana. Its up for each state to decide, but you got to think that if marijuana was legal in every state, it would drive the prices down. The commodity would be up and it wouldnt be such a valuable commodity for the black market. Reporter in Sonoma County, andria borba, kpix5. Again. They are still looking for the last suspect. Ambe authorities have identified the victim killed yesterday in the crime spree as 54yearold Jose Luis Torres and they are still looking for that last suspect, amber hembry considered armed and dangerous. For months since the start of the wine country wildfires and this evening some people are finding themselves victimized not once but twice. Kpix5s emily turner has a story you will only see on 5. And you stuck me in a. He lived in coddinto that one is performed with the medical. Reporter buried under piles of fema paperwork robert percy is half blind and at his witts end, but still he says he cant get what he needs. Ive wits end, but still he says he cant get what he needs. Ive been asking for assistance and you stuck me in a hotel and forgot me. Reporter he lived in a Mobile Home Park that partially caught fire. It didnt totally burn down thanks in mart to roberts efforts. He woke up to fight the fire with his garden hose. There was one across the street that the flames just got into and if that one would have caught on fire, then this whole park would have gone because it would have just continued right around in circles. So i stayed and i put that out. Reporter at some point in that firefight he got something in his eye and he lost it. He paid his own medical bills, but he cant go back to his smoke contaminated house until his surgeries are complete and his eye is healed. Otherwise he risks losing the other one. I got a delivery of clean rock. So thats what im doing. Reporter the days before his last surgery fema kicked him out of his motel and rejected his claim to help clean his trailer. Thats when legal aid sonoma stepped in and even disaster attorney Kendall Jarvis has had a hard time. There isnt a Party Available to hold responsible and get answers to these questions. Who is it . Who do we need to call to get an answer . I dont know who that person is. I havent been able to find them. Reporter robert isnt her only client. We asked and fema said only 3,356 applicants have been approved for aid out of the 16,660 who applied in Sonoma County. At least two dozen of those rejected fire survivors have turned to legal aid and even more plan to attend their fema seminars. It feels like a crushing bulldozer taking your feelings and just pushing it aside. You dont matter at this point. Reporter lorna rockman mcintyres daughter has Cerebral Palsy and her therapy horse crystal prescribed to her by a doctor died in the fire of since then medical bills are stacking up and she has regressed. Fema rejected her claim for aid as well. I definitely feel there is a black hole. Reporter legal aid accuses fema of rejecting aid without a clear reason, repeatedly losing clients documents and a lack of clarity when it comes to their policy. The issues are so widespread legal aid worries the process systemically infringes on peoples rights. If you are denied by the government those benefit, then the government should be able to tell you why youre denied. Otherwise how do you prove up the government is or isnt adhering to their own regulations . So there is no due process in that because you havent had a clear process that tells you why you are or are not eligible. Reporter we reached out to fema specifically about these allegations. In a written statement they say, we are committed to helping the people affected by the wildfires and want to insure those who are eligible receive the maximum level of assistance. Programs are often limited. Sometimes a specific need may not fit within our program. Everybody promises you and you get your mind set on it as a goal to look forward to and then they send you to somebody else. Reporter legal aid has its next fema seminar tomorrow morning at their santa rosa office. They have several more coming up after that. For that information you can go to legal aids facebook page. Emily turner, kpix5. Plans to house the sonoma wildfire victims in shipping containers has been blasted. Burners without borders blames the santa rosa permitting process and lack of funding. The converted containers would have provided shelter to 75 displaced people loaned by a group that runs the burning man festival. The group said it was trying to serve those who werent eligible for governmentfunded relief. If you drive across the Richmond San Rafael bridge, you may see some new electronic signs that have to do with the third lane crews hope to open in a few months. Kpix5s da lin has more on what drivers can expect. Da . Reporter allen, slow going now in the eastbound direction of 580 leaving marin county to go to contra costa county, but bridge workers think adding that third lane will help drivers a little bit. They just have to wait two more months. They just have to wait two more months. gopro footage of traffic on bridge afternoon commute reporter in the eastbound direction of the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Crawling 5 miles an hour. Pretty bad. Reporter this is typically the sight, a sea of brake lights. Better go to the bathroom way beforehand. Youll be sitting there a while. Reporter thousands of cars funnel down to two lanes. It got to the point where i time my commutes across the bridge and im very worried that im going to get stuck. So im getting ready to. Reporter the Bay Area Toll Authority believes drivers will see relief once they turn the shoulder lane into a third lane on the lower deck in april. Theyre going to bike lane. Drivers can only use that third lane between 2 p. M. And 7 p. M. Every day. Depending on traffic, bridge workers can also extend the hours. There are roughly 20 signs above the road letting people know when they can use it. Green arrow means lane is open. A red x means closed. Workers are testing the signs this month. I think that it will be intuitive, but it is a different approach to traffic management, to have a lane that is available only for peak period use. Reporter in the next few weeks crews will reconfigure and restripe the three lanes from the sir Francis Drake boulevard on ramp to the Point Richmond exits. Given traffic on the bridge has gone up 13 in the last five years, thats according to the mtc, not everyone is convinced 1 extra lane will ease the problem one extra lane will ease the problem. Once youre on the bridge it will shave a few minutes off the traffic there, but it wont help the choke point at sir Francis Drake. Reporter many people tell me they do think that third lane is going to help again set to open sometime in april. By the way, upper deck going to san rafael, that shoulder lane will be turned into a bike lane and that bike lane is set to open in 2019. Live in san rafael, im da lin, kpix5. One of berkeleys worst traffic trouble spots is getting a fix. The area around the gillman street exit of i80 near golden gate field has two dangerous intersections. Cars are frequently colliding because they are coming in at all directions. There is a right handing of the solution, a rendering of the solution, two roundabouts, one for the intersection 80 on and off ramp and the other a short distance away where gillman crosses the east more freeway and this is what east bay freeway and this is what it looks like now. Public hearings are slated for next week on the project. Construction is expected to begin next year and could take three years to complete. The judg the lawsuit between waymo and uber has come to a screeching halt. In a surprise courtroom the judge announced boat sides reached a deal over allegations of stolen trade secrets. Waymo was suing uber for 1 billion claiming a former waymo engineer gave uber its self driving car technology. Didnt get 1 billion, but in the settlement announced today waymo will get uber stock worth roughly 245 million and uber agrees not to use waymo technology. Unced. The testimony was really interesting, but there never was a smoking gun. We heard all about ubers, you know, Corporate Culture and misdeeds, but we didnt hear that they had actually gotten the files. After the settlement was announced ubers ceo continued to deny theyd stolen waymos technology. Coming up Closing Signs and liquidation sales, whats behind a storefront selloff in San Francisco. The outburst that took stage at san joses state of the city address. This california lawmaker was a me too pioneer and now she is accused of sexual misconduct. Tomorrow is National Umbrella day. Do you even know where your umbrella is . Its been 15 days since its rained here in the bay area. Tomorrow will be day no. 16, but there is a significant weather change coming tomorrow. Well talk about that next. Squeezing out small businesses. And you can tell. By all the empty storefronts. Kpix 5s Susie Steimle spoke to sky high rents in San Francisco are squeezing out small businesses. You can tell by all those empty storefronts. Kpix5s Susie Steimle spoke with a lawmaker who said the city needs to start cracking down on commercial landlords. Right, susie . Reporter thats right, veronica. Walking up and down haight street today i saw about a dozen empty storefronts just like this one and lawmakers are saying theyre partially to blame. Theyre calling it a passive city hall and greedy commercial landlords are at fault here and they want to make some changes now. Become one coo r another meg im just watching the city become like one cookie cutter shop after another. Reporter Megan Johnson is a San Francisco native. Shes owned the Animal House Pet supply store in lower haight over a decade, but in this neighborhood longstanding local businesses like hers are getting fewer and farther between. Revolver has gone out of business recently. Costumes on haight is going out of business which breaks my heart. I have seen store fronts vacant for almost two decades. Reporter the San Francisco supervisor says the city hasnt been tough enough on commercial landlords. Under current San Francisco law landlords have 270 days or nine months to fill their vacant spaces before being fined. Sandra says thats too long of a leash. If they dont want to rent out their commercial space, they should get out of the business. I believe this room is going for 7,500 or 8,000 a month. Reporter this owner said he never could afford the rent for his tshirt and comic book shop on haight street. Theres no way. Reporter it was on a week to week lease paying 1 4 of the rent. When his landlord finds someone willing to pay full price, hes kicked out. He said its a Good Opportunity and a symbiotic example between landlord and tenant in pricey San Francisco. Theres so many vacant store fronts everywhere that if landlords were required to have them be used, there would be cheaper rent and more cool stuff going on. Reporter the supervisor also told me today she thinks two specific things need to change, one being that the city needs a better system for how it counts these vacant store fronts. Right now it doesnt have any idea how many vacant store fronts there are in San Francisco. She also wants the fee to increase. Right now if youre caught with a vacant storefront too long, youll get fined 711. She wants that number to go up. In San Francisco, Susie Steimle, kpix5. Sky high home prices are turning us into a nation of renters. Theres no surprise in the bay area, but the trend is nationwide. 1 4 of the 100 largest cities in the u. S. Show renting is the new norm. Here in the bay area 59 of people in oakland rent. Thats up 12 in 10 years. 56 rent in San Francisco. Thats up 4 . Then 42 rent in san jose, up 16 . Ast night new at 6 00 a tactic we dont see that often in san jose, protesters disrupting the mayors state of the city address last night. Kpix5s devin fehely on what has him so fired up. Be able to live in san jose. Liz gonzalez is a member of serve the people sa Group Opposed t reporter the protests were loud and disruptive by design. People are fearing that they wont be able to live in san jose. Reporter liz gonzalez is a member of serve the people san jose, a grassroots Group Opposed to googles plans to build a mega campus in downtown. We have to be in their face because were fighting for our right to stay in the city that we grew up with, that we love, where our family and friends are. Reporter the group interrupted mayor sam liccardos state of the city address four times. I just think shouting at each other is not the right way to have a dialogue. Reporter city downwoman deb davis worries their message about the woeful lack of Affordable Housing will be overshadowed by their in your face methods. We have a process set up. It will be public. There will be plenty of time for everyones voices to be heard. The lack of Affordable Housing afflicts our community at all levels of income. Reporter the mayor said the citys housing crisis predates google. He unveiled his own ambitious plan to build 25,000 new homes, 10,000 affordable, in the next five years and believes the public needs to temper its expectations of the tech giant. Google is not responsible for san joses problems. Thats ridiculous. Theyre part of this community. They have to be responsible for the social problems in this community. From my conversations with google executives, they want to be part of our community. Reporter a community with a growing vocal opposition to their presence. The suspect shot in a confrontation with Antioch Police died. 40yearold lloyd harris was a dangerous Fugitive Police say wanted in connection with a recent felony assault. He was also a person of interest in a previous homicide investigation. Him into custody he Police Spotted harris near the 76 gas station in antioch. They say when they tried to take him into custody, he resisted. Thats when one officer opened fire. Harris was taken to the hospital where he later died. Just saw on twitter that the current wind chill in great falls, montana, is 25 degrees below 0 making san jose today 105 degrees warmer than great falls, montana. It hit 80 in san jose today. All of these are record highs, livermore 80, san rafael 79, napa and San Francisco 76 and at the airport in oakland it hit 72, all record highs, zero record highs tomorrow and i dont think well see any record highs the next two weeks. The temperature pattern is certainly changing by tomorrow. Looking at the radar which is dry, looking at a satellite review and im circling something for you. Its the beginning of the end of that heat. Our ridge of High Pressure is pulling away to the west allowing things to go up and over the ridge, the first of which will be a dry cold front which will change our wind direction tomorrow. It will be up to 14 degrees cooler tomorrow, still above average, but it wont feel that way with the breeze and the fact weve been in the 70s and 80s and tomorrow well be in the mid to upper 60s. So a breezy day, windy in the hills, but the dry part is not changing. Today is 15 straight dry days, 16 and 17 over the weekend, likely all the way to 22 straight dry days in my seven day forecast. Highs tomorrow, still warm, but the big heat is gone. Oakland tomorrow 67, napa 68, san jose 70, San Francisco 66 degrees. Your extended forecast keeps us in the 60s across the board, a little cloudier next week, but the one thing still absent from the forecast is rainfall. I dont see any organized rain the next seven days. Thats your forecast. R this invasiv thank you, paul. Coming up a west coast invasion. Were talking about these guys, the freakout over this invasive giant rodent. Paid. Sports settling in and what a busy day giants at at t park today. Why . And jimmy g. Got paid. Jimmy g. s happy. He had a bit of a faux pas at todays press conference, though. Parent of youngsters. Get em out and teach em how to throw a football. And maybe one day, hell be nfl up top and the 49ers, parents of youngsters, get them out and teach them how to throw a football and maybe one day hell be the highest paid player in nfl history. Worked out for quarterback jimmy garoppolo. If you havent heard the numbers, hold onto something, five years, 137. 5 million. General manager john lynch gave a shout out to jed york. Its easy spending other peoples money, but, jed, i want to thank you. Thats the owner, jed york, to the right of garoppolo at a presser today. Jimmy g. Unbeaten as the 49ers cashed in. Imagine what drew brees will get . Celebratory plans . I just got here yesterday, me and my family. We had a nice little dinner in san fran. San fran .

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