Biggest problems . Wait until you hear the star wars and fired plan from rapper kanye west. A lastditch lawsuit to try to stop a new homeless shelter in San Francisco. We are live near the location. Along San Franciscos embarcadero. Reporter the lawsuit is seeking to get a temporary restraining order or stay against construction on his Navigation Center. That never even started. Behind the fencing and green charts, since the site of San Franciscos next homeless Navigation Center. There are already construction trailer sitting on the former parking lot. Tonight, this lot, the source of so much contention is home to a lawsuit, trying to block construction. The lawsuit was a last resort. We did not want to file a lawsuit because it is expensive and acrimonious. We are backed into a corner because the city was not engaging with us. Reporter the lawsuit claims that the city of San Francisco acted outside of the public trust because the lots are covered by the state land use commission. It said the city has cut a sweetheart deal for itself with port only charging 400,000 a year for land that is valued at over 100 million. The city has obligations. As a trustee of the property. To get fair market value if they use for a nontrust use. Reporter it claims the city ignored environmental regulations. Members of safe embarcadero for all say they want to help the homeless, just not in the middle of residential areas. Its not reasonable to put a Navigation Center in a densely populated residential area. The way the city runs them, its undeniable that they have negative impacts on the surrounding community. Those negative impact should not be put where there are 10,000 residents. Reporter in a statement the state for cisco Attorneys Office said environmental and landuse laws were followed and went on to say, the city is trying to put rooms over peoples heads and get them endorsed. Others are filing baseless lawsuits to keep people out in the cold. Rather than trying to shift the problem to someone elses backyard, Everyone Needs to do their part. The group save embarcadero for alls say they intend to fight this, as long as they have to. Developing tonight. A new clue in the search for the car burglars accused of running down a tourist with their car in San Francisco. Police released these photos of the suspects car. This silver bmw was spotted at around 4 00 yesterday afternoon at the legion of honor on 34th avenue. Police say the victim thought his car had been burglarized and tried to take photos of the suspect. The suspect ran into him and ran away from the parking lot. The victim is in the hospital with life threatening injuries. If you recognize the vehicle, police want to hear from you. It heated up in court today. The ghost ship trial, master tennant Derick Almena getting testy at times. In a tense crossexamination with the prosecutors. His attorney is accusing the prosecution of character assassination. Reporter you can tell the tension is certainly building inside the courtroom. It is the third day. The crossexamination. You can tell he is getting agitated. He has not slept in three days. He is fighting for his life. Reporter prosecutors trying anything to chip away at defendant trenton ability. It involved his child finding a used condoms after a 2015 new years eve party. A party he did not throw and called police to report it. We have heard of mice and rats and cats. Now we have to hear about condoms. You know. Are they that week or that insensitive . Reporter at times defended Derick Almena as, costs provided. Specifically about documents he signed about the warehouse codes. His attorney believes it may be the prosecution strategy to wear him down. It was ugly. And it shows they are desperate. Reporter some victims family members say he cannot give a straight answer. He wants to put the blame on everybody else. He will not take the credibility for anything. He signed a leas rr when the a was asked if he thinks the jury has made their minds up already , he was quick to answer. Yes. Reporter his reasoning. We always look, are they looking out us . If they are not looking out us, its terrible. If they are looking out us, may be there with us. They are smiling at us. When they walk by. They are smiling at us. I dont see them smiling at the da. Reporter there is still more testimony. Derick almena will be back tomorrow for more cross examination. As the trial nears the close, there are only three possible outcomes. Guilty, not guilty and a hung jury. Earthquake victims one answers tonight. After the two powerful events days ago. About 2000 people in the town of natrona are pretty frustrated. They still dont have water to cook with or fill their swamp coolers to keep their homes cool. It is hot. They packed the town hall meeting earlier today. It is 93 degrees inside my house. Its not that im going thursday. It is the cleanup and the dishes. Doing things like that. In the bay area tonight, they are showing off the shake alert Sensor Network which alerts firefighters when an earthquake is coming. It automatically opens apparatus doors, turns on lights and turns off gas appliances. Fema officials were in the bay area today giving people tips on what to do if the big one hits here. The places you do not want to be. Reporter when the shaking begins, Alameda County said the most dangerous place to be is right here in the kitchen. It makes sense. You have cups and glasses on the shelves. You have dishes inside the cupboards. If they are not secure, they can come flying out and become projectiles. We have some tips for you to take your earthquake readiness to the next level. This is what Emergency Managers call, nonstructural earthquake damage. Not the building itself, but everything inside. Bookshelves, tvs, dishes and bottles. Today in Alameda County, fema held a Community Training session to get the word out. Bolt it or strap it down. There is a lot of simple things that the individual homeowner, the individual Business Owner can do. Secure bookshelves to the wall at the top and bottom. If needed, to each other. If it is not anchored to a stud, use multiple wall anchors. These bookshelves had a single anchor and it was not enough. As for expensive computer equipment, that down. Towers and lcd monitors that are topheavy can topple over easily and the cost to replace can run into the thousands of dollars. As the shelving, consider putting a lip on the shelf or some kind of barrier to keep items from sliding off. Femas goal is to reduce the amount of time and money it takes to get you back to normal. We have earthquake information on. Including what you should have in your emergency earthquake kit. Tonight at peninsula city want to cut down on a major contributor to its landfills. Tearing down Old Buildings to make new ones. Reporter its called the construction. Think of it like the process of building a house but only in reverse. And the goal is pretty straightforward. To reuse or to recycle as much of those Building Materials as possible. It does come with a price. The new City Ordinance would make teardowns a thing of the past in palo alto. Requiring builders to carefully disassemble homes and buildings he piece, rather than simply demolishing them and building something new. The construction process and the precursor, demolition. Those things added together were over 40 of our total. Reporter even the city admits the construction will take time. And cost two or three times more money. The payoff supporters say, is the potential to dramatically cut down on waste and pollution. Shortterm it will be expensive. At the same time, we want to send this to the landfill . Reporter the citys ban on demolition will take effect in july 2020. Up next. A judge ordering pg e to respond. The danger the agency is accused of knowing about four years and failing to fix. It was heartbreaking. It was terrible. The heartwrenching and the california couple who says they are going through a living held. You might be getting ready to make dinner over a flame on your stovetop. We will tell you why the may be banned in some buildings in the city. We know what happens when a pipeline blows up. We will be warm inland. There are changes in the forecast. As we look live outside, a beautiful finish to wednesday. It will be a warm start to the weekend. The forecast, when we come back. New buildings in the city of berkeley could soon be all electric. On the move to ban natural gas. Reporter if this ordinance passes, which is six is expected to next tuesday, all small residential New Buildings will have to be built without natural gas, starting in 2020. Larger buildings should be ready. This is the direction california is going. At the free house restaurant in berkeley, cooking with gas is not just a turn of phrase. Its better. Reporter a new ordinance will require New Buildings to be all electric. Natural gas stove tops and gas powered heat would be phased out. City councilmember and sponsor of the audience says in addition to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, there is a safety risk that would be reduced as well. Natural gas is dangerous. We know the san bruno explosion and the fires in ridgecrest. Reporter according to the epa residential and commercial Greenhouse Gas emissions account for nearly 12 of all Greenhouse Gas emissions in the united states. In berkeley, it accounts for 27 citywide. She points out this ordinance runs parallel to statewide efforts to reduce carbon use in buildings. State law said in 2030, 50 of the building stock should be electric. They have to adapt sooner or later. Reporter she is one of four city councilmember sponsoring this ordinance. It only needs one more vote to pass. It is up for a reading next tuesday night. Tonight, another new bombshell report against pg e. The wall street journal claims the utility knew for years that is power lines could spark wildfires and did nothing to fix them. The journal said pg e was aware the power lines could fail, but delayed repairs. It goes on to say, the utility rank the upgrades as low priority compared to other work like substation upgrades. The report also says dozens of steel towers needed to be replaced because they were being used past their life expectancy. In its report, the wall street journal cited a 2017 internal the investigation comes months after the camp fire destroyed the town of paradise. And killed 85 people. Fire Officials Say it was sparked by one of the utilities electrical transmission lines. In a statement to kpix5, pg e says, it does not support the generals conclusions. As we have disclosed publicly, we are taking significant actions to inspect, identify and fix these issues with our electric system as part of our expanded community, wildfires safety program. A federal judges ordering pg e to respond to the report and own up to the true extent of the article. As we make our way into fire season, there is one part of the bay area where the risk may be greater than ever. We are talking about the east bay hills. Specifically oakland. Which was ravaged by a big fire in 1991. My estimate is doubling or tripling of the fuel load in this canyon. We dont even have a 30 foot break. Nearly 30 years after the Oakland Hills fire storm, neighbors say the danger has only grown. They say, with more fuel and no evacuation plan the stage is set for another disaster. I lost my home in 1991. You cannot wait for the calvary or the city or the Fire Department to save you. That is why some neighbors are taking matters into their own hands. We will show you one of the disaster bunkers they have assembled for themselves and their neighbors. You can see the original report tomorrow night right here on kpix5 news at 7 00. I cover that fire in 1991. Everything was burned to the ground. 30 years later or however many years, you have 44 trees again. On the good side, everything rejuvenates. On the bad side, we are back to the same problem. It seems like no matter how much rain we get, we are year long fire season. There has never been a year where it fire officials said, there is no fire season. Its not just oakland. Anybody who lives with trees around. You have to be vigilant. This weekend, the weather will be mild on the shoreline but warming up as we get to the tri valley areas. We look at the fog making its way in to the shoreline. It will be more limited tomorrow. Blue skies and a southbay. The highs today, concord 87. Napa, 83. San jose, 77. High pressure is expanding from the desert southwest. It will move into california as a result the High Pressure comes up and the temperatures follow suit. Tomorrow is a transition day. While numbers increase today, we flatten out tomorrow. Near average. We will get warming on friday. And saturday and sunday will be in the 90s inland. The coast and based a mild. The offshore wind would boost the coastal temperatures. We look for 90s inland but relief at the shoreline with numbers in the 60s. Pollen has backed up. The allergens are down. It does not look bad into the weekend. Overnight lows tonight, we have starry skies inland. Saturn is gleaming overhead at midnight. The lows will be in the mid50s. High temperatures for thursday, San Francisco 66. 66, 88 in concord. San jose, 83. Oakland, 72. Southbay tomorrow, plenty of sunshine. A few low clouds and the numbers recovered to 82 at palo alto. In campbell, 83. In the east bay its warm around antioch and brentwood. At the 680 corridor not too bad. Members in the 80s. We will be around 90 in lakeport. We have clouds in the morning. Sunshine in the afternoon. And a warming trend on the way for the weekend. Then we will cool it off. Next week. Sounds like a plan. Up next, kanye west is a solution for californias homeless crisis. Here is a hint, it involves star wars. The heartbreak and tears today from the california couple whose embryos were given to the wrong mother. Its horrific and wrong. The heated response over a sweetheart deal. One nancy is the u. S. Labor secretary. A storm swamps new orleans. This is just the beginning. The hurricane fears tonight. Coming up at 11 00. Bart testing out new ways to stop their t. Tonight, the gates making some passengers a little nervous. Here is what you missed if youre just getting home. A statewide emergency tonight. A hurricane watch in louisiana. A potential Tropical Storm is gaining strength and flooding streets. Check out this video from new orleans. A man is swimming in the street. Impossible for drivers to get around. One man captured a giant waterspout over a lake outside new orleans. The storms caused Severe Damage to homes as well. A tornado tore through the roof of his home. Tornado warnings are in effect tonight. There are growing calls for labor secretary alex acosta to resign. As he defends a sweetheart deal given to accused billionaire to file, jeffrey epstein. Today acosta held a press conference saying, he intervened as a u. S. Prosecutor in florida to make sure epstein spent at least sometime in jail back in 2008. Its very obvious that the victims feel that this was not a sufficient outcome. Its horrific. Its wrong. Whoever did it, aided, abetted, enabled needs to be accountable. Southern california couple is suing a Fertility Center after an ivf mix up. They say the clinic implanted their embryo into a stranger. A woman in new york without their consent. They did not meet their son until he was six weeks old. Tonight the family says the clinic still has not explained what happened. This has been terrible. Our family has suffered mentally. My wife is also have suffered physically. It was heartbreaking. It was terrible. Tonight rapper conway west is trying to solve californias housing crisis and is apparently looking for money in the bay area. He told forbes he is working with a ttoedy star wars. That are sunk into the ground. It would serve as low income housing. He has reportedly met with investors in San Francisco. No word on how that meeting went. He is considered one of the worlds most iconic tattoo artists. We will take a look at his new exhibit. Oh thaphenomenal , thats unfair. Thats so unfair. Cmon jaybo. Lets go. Lets go. Woahh try my 4. 99 bbq bacon double cheeseburger combo. Only at jack in the box. This is how driving should feel. The techadvanced nissan leaf. The best selling electric vehicle of all time. This is nissan intelligent mobility. Honey, this gis ridiculously fast. 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