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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM July 14, 2024

Even considering changing building heights downtown. Reporter carla brown is one of five city councilmembers and the vice mayor. She says a lot of residents are concerned about the downtown specific plan which would allow for three and four story buildings downtown and open the door for high density housing on main street. The community would change forever, so theres a lot of concerns and as i said we had 250 letters thing they are not supporting dramatic changes like that downtown. We are new to pleasanton and the reasons we moved was because of the downtown area. Reporter carol moved to pleasanton three years ago with her family and says she understands the need for more housing but questions whether downtown is the right area to develop. I think theres a lot of areas that it can be done in and i dont think it should disrupt the quaint area that should be preserved. Reporter a sentiment echoed by many people who were out and about on main street today. It changes the atmosphere, its less like main street and more like new orleans or new york city. We need more Affordable Housing but im not sure high rises are the answer to it in downtown pleasanton. Reporter others say the need for housing is just too great to hold back any potential development. Housing is a big issue probably for a lot of my friends and people my age are having a harder and harder time finding housing. Reporter task force is actually been working on the plan for downtown since january of 2017, the council is going to be taking up the issue at their meeting on tuesday night, they are encouraging anyone who feel strongly about the issue to attend the meeting and comment during the Public Comment section and the meeting starts at 7 oclock on tuesday. He kept saying i have to open the door for him so he can hurt and kill our concierge because she is a robot. You have likely seen the video by now, a woman attacked outside her San Francisco condo in the weeks since it has fueled an intense fight over how to solve the citys homeless problems. It has steppedup scrutiny over a proposed Navigation Center along the embarcadero. We have a look at how the video is changing the conversation. Reporter this Navigation Center is part of the mayors promise to build 1000 new shelter beds by 2020 and it has been controversial since it was first introduced and now neighbors are hoping this video will change some politicians minds about the project. I am now getting more involved because of the attack. Reporter it was one week ago that this woman was attacked trying to get inside her condo building nos joing the fight asking politicians to reconsider building a homeless Navigation Center along the embarcadero. Its simply that we just dont feel safe and we have really good reason. The city can no longer deny our concerns about safety. Reporter the fight over this Navigation Center has been politically charged since it was first proposed this spring. Residents shouted down the mayor at a press conference back in april. Either you let me speak or you leave. Reporter in a statement today, the mayor said we know the data shows there is no link between the creation of a Navigation Center and an increase in crime in the surrounding area, allowing people to suffer on the street without providing resources will only make the challenges we face more severe. The Navigation Center isnt there yet so saying that the Navigation Center caused this attack is magical thinking and i think thats me putting it nicely. Reporter this woman helped cofound San Franciscos the she says blocking the Navigation Center wont help solve this problem. I hate this, everybody hates it but the path is not to shut down social service. The path is to have more social services. I think Navigation Centers are an important part of the solution to homelessness. But a residential area is not the right place to put it. They are putting us at risk. Until they can figure out what a solid plan is, they need to stop this. Reporter as we purported last week, the woman was critical of the judge who released her assailant so quickly but the judge said she only did so because she had not seen the video. After seeing the video she amended the decision and ordered Austin Vincent to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet at all times. There is a compliance hearing to make sure he is doing that, but he does not have tohesan fr Navigation Center opposed for the bay view. City leaders are working with caltrans to secure one of its parking lots off evans avenue. The shelter would have up to 200 beds along with laundry facilities in metro medical in and medical services. Kids go back to class in vallejo tomorrow but teachers at one school were hard at work today leaning up the damage that vandals did to their classrooms. These photos show the extent of the damage on the campus, shelves broken, posters ripped off the walls and countless books and School Supplies flung about. The vandals also scrawled a few nasty messages on the whiteboard. The district superintendent says they caught at least three suspects on security cameras, here is a look at two of them. A lot of hard work went into this cleanup today, the classrooms at the k8 school are now back in order, just in time to welcome students back tomorrow. There are new questions over how to keep big barry area city is it from descending into chaos if and when pg e pulls the plug. You the utility says its working on a plan to isolate preemptive blackouts just to fire prone areas but are reporter melissa kane says thats a lot easier said than done. Reporter state senator jerry hill says the people and businesses in the bay area need to be ready to survive without power for several days. There is the potential that power could be out for three, four, five days in San Francisco, san jose, and any other area. There could be pockets of power being out for number of days. Reporter even fire condition somewhere else could cause a blackout in the bay area. Pg e says it might shut down large transmission lines that supply electricity to huge areas. For example the company wrote in a recent filing, quote, San Francisco could possibly be deenergized if multiple east bay transmission lines were to be deenergized due to extreme conditions. The challenge is now they will be turning off transmission lines which serve entire areas of the bay area and San Francisco, san jose. One wire is coming from across the state and that wire is turned off, that extension cord is pulled, there was a problem. Reporter pg e is wise Vice President in charge of wildfire safety recently told a state Senate Committee hearing that the company is working to section off areas but he did not provide a timeline. The most important factor is how quickly can power be turned back on . The power, before they can turn the power back on, they have to inspect every wire. Reporter estate expert recently testified at that Senate Committee hearing about the process of turning the power back on. Thr is safe. Lea full ment the weather event during Daylight Hours and reenergize the line. This could lead to multihour outages as well as multiday outages. Reporter center hill says pg e must put protections in place to prevent random and prolonged power outages. Meanwhile in the wake of that accidental outage that cut power to thousands in marin last week, pg e is reminding customers about its medical baseline program, people who rely on equipment like reading devices and dialysis machines and motorized wheelchairs might be eligible for lower electricity rates and extra notifications in advance of a planned outage. The jury in the ghost ship warehouse trial will enter its third full week of deliberations tomorrow. Jurors are struggling to decide if these two men are guilty of involuntary manslaughter. They face one count for each of the 36 people who died in the 2016 inferno. Last week jurors asked to review testimony from a woman who used to live in the warehouse including details on the conditions inside and a lack of a sprinkler system. As soon as we hear of a verdict we will bring it to life. Heads up for bart riders, starting tomorrow you will be able to buy up paper ticket at the embarcadero station, thats the latest addition to switch to clipper cards only. This is part of a Pilot Program to encourage riders to use them. Customers will still be able to use and reload tickets there for now. Part hopes to complete a systemwide transition by next year. Bart staff will be handing out free clipper cards at the embarcadero through wednesday, they are normally three dollars. We were in gilroy where today was a day for young people to show what it means to be gilroy strong. I will have that story coming up. Bernie sanders brings his campaign back to the bay area this week. The specific topic he wants to talk about with voters. Its a place where Science Fiction becomes reality, we will take you out to Silicon Valley for the closing day of comic con. If you got outside at all, you know this weekend has been fantastic. It was a muchneeded cooldown. Now the question is, how long does it last . There is a warmup showing for the middle of this week and potentially one after that. The heat could be coming back, i will show you that coming up. Right now on san jose, thousands are getting their geek on at Silicon Valley comic con. The 3d celebration is the brainchild of apple cofounder steve wozniak. There are also panels with real life astronauts, scientists, and superheroes. I work on making Science Fiction fact. It made sense to talk about science and technology and how popculture and those two influence each other. Organizers estimate roughly 70,000 people attended over three days. The comic con ends today. Hawaii is not exactly in the continental southwest but southwest will be in hawaii, more than ever now. They are planning an expansion of their southwest service between san jose and the hawaiian islands. Starting in january southwest will launch nonstop service to quiet and kona on the big island. Bernie sanders will bring his 2020 president ial campaign back to the bay area this week. This is video from his big rally at fort mason in march. This time he will be hosting a t market in van nuys. Last day of summer break for students in San Francisco, his back to class tomorrow and city leaders have a message for drivers, slow down. The mayor is making another push for greater pedestrian safety. She cited a series of fatal crashes on city streets mostly caused by reckless driving. The big you of course is the community can help fix. We need the Community Support and your support to get the message out to slow down, Pay Attention and be careful, because our kids mean so much to us. Nearly 200 City Crossing guards will be out in full force starting tomorrow and there will also be assistance to make sure students get to school safely. Hundreds of lowincome kids in and around berkeley will start the school year off with full backpacks. Community volunteers spent the day backpacking bags with basic School Supplies like notebooks, pine binders, pencils and erasers. The annual event is hosted by the nonprofit supply bank. Org. This certainly doesnt solve anything but it does make the first day of school a lot brighter for a lot of kids and it reminds them that school is a place they belong and the place they can build the future. More than 3000 School Supply kids were assembled for kids in need. Our special back to School Coverage continues tomorrow morning with a makeover of historic alameda high school. Jackie wards give us a tour starting at 4 30. How are you going to address the little tykes as they head back tomorrow . Tomorrow morning its going to be gray and cool as they get ready first goal, the marine layer comes back in a big way. It was only 85 in concorde. It was a big improvement, it happened fast and we are keeping it for the next few days and then we are going to warm right back up again as we get into the middle and late part of the week. That is how we did it, that is a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge and you can see all those low, gray clouds that have started streaming in and have really help things out, not only for the people driving on the bridge, but for the entire bay area today. It doesnt look this way everywhere. If you look across at the other bridge, its sunny over much of the bay until you get to the hills and then we got a nice layer of clouds developed out there. San jose we are still looking at clear skies. If we go to the camera that sits on top of the Sales Force Tower and take a look west, you can see there is a good crop of clouds, the marine layer, all starting to surge on the shore. Numbers right now, a little bit off the highs, we pretty much stayed in the low to mid 70s for much of the bay today and we only got into the low to mid 80s for most inland locations, it 64 in San Francisco right now and you could see whats going on in the coastline. Plenty of clouds surging in trying to get over the peninsula. If we come in for a close up look we can see what the Golden Gate Bridge had its clouds. In the north bay, i want to focus on the clouds that are coming inland here, because if we switch from the live satellite and put this into the future cast we are going to see you all this stream into the petaluma gap overnight and that means by the time we wake up tomorrow morning, this is what we are talking about, just a moment ago and i said plan on the kids stepping out the door under low marine layer type clouds and in fact we might even get some light drizzle out of this down along the peninsula. The clouds dont last long here in the north bay. They will for the morning commute tomorrow but by the time we get to 11 am we are back into the sunshine so it could be tshirt and short weather by the time we get into the afternoon, as far as the rest of the bay area goes, same story, the clouds move in about a week at 7 am we are looking at gray skies. Look here down toward Half Moon Bay and its not like its going to drizzle exactly on Half Moon Bay at exactly 7 am, but that tells us the marine layer is so deep tomorrow that we will be able to wring a few light showers out of it. It is all gone by the time we get to the late morning and early afternoon, but in those morning hours, if we look at the possibility for light rain, zero,. 01,. 02 showing we can maybe 100 or 207 inch of rain. The rain is not the story, its the fact that weve got a really good looking marine layer for at least another day meaning the daytime highs are staying down tomorrow, only 83 inland just like today so another wonderful day as far as the temperatures go but then we are going to start the warmup and by the time we get into wednesday and thursday we are right back up into the mid90s again with tempngut eeabove average, it will feel hot but it wont feel as hot as last wednesday and thursday did. Those numbers were about 10 degrees higher. We were about 105, so std. We will have more on this coming up in the next half hour. Never in history have the giants and as big completed a fourgame sweep at the same time. They have a chance today and rater star receiver once again is a wall. The raiders are set up, reaction is next. Just three days ago the American League west were doing well but today theyre looking for a threegame sweep. Now could they stretch their lead in the al west . Top of the 1st, houston 2 on, alex bregman finds a hole on the outside. Jose altuve they will challenge and thats a bad idea. The game remained scoreless. The as have a 10 lead. Brad anderson was one pitch away from getting out of the inning, alex bregman hid it 368 feet, the a is down 31. Just inside the leftfield line, Carlos Correa scores to make it 41 and anderson would lead the next atbat. Greinke acquired at the trade deadline from arizona, cruised after that homerun, allowing just one run in seven innings picking up his 200 victory and the astros when the game 41. The giants also going for the 4 game sweep in arizona, the odds were high that rooms would come out with medicine bumgarner on the right amount. Rookie logan webb had a nice spot in the dugout after his Big League Win last night, in the first inning, baumgardner nearly out of a jam, adam jones with a line drive. 2 outs, arizona has an early lead, it is a game of inches. 30 and the 5th inning. Bumgarner struck out 9 that he gave up four runs in six innings. They had the chance, brandon crawford, this is a nice play by the defense, the bases were loaded. Dying to make up for that missing catch in the 1st, going stumbling down to take it away, the diamondbacks kept tacking runs on the bullpen, arizona wins 61 but the giants still take 3 out of 4 and three back on the wild card with a huge series to the cubs starting tomorrow. The waiter raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown was expected to practice today, he did not, once again because of issues with his helmet and based on the statement from the general manager, the team has lost all their patients with the allpro. Hes upset about the helmet issue, we have supported that, we appreciate that but at this point, weve pretty much exhausted all avenues of relief , so from our perspective, it is time for him to be all in or all out. So we are hoping hes back soon, weve got 89 guys busting their tails, we are really excited about where this fran

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