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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 530PM July 13, 2024

More than half is from a source you might not expect. Almost half the particles were these tiny black rubber particles. We have analyzed a few of them with a special technique to show the arts higher tread. Reporter tired us. You might be polluting the bay every time you go to the store. Pick up the kids go to work. Think about tyrus. When your tires get bald where does the tiredness go . Reporter it doesnt just disappear. Reporter there are of course other stuff too. Tiny pieces of everything plastic you can imagine. What can you do . We do singleuse plastic and plastic packaging. Everywhere you look there are plastics. Reporter the Study Results is being shared with an invitation only audience of scientists. Policymakers and researchers. Theyre hoping the craft ideas to address the problem of micro plastics. Folks on the street have their opinion. Im not a scientist. Im not sure. They should be able to figure that out. The more plastic the less fish. The less wild animals. In the bay. You can get choked. And get to a place that is ugly. Reporter more research might be needed. The governor signed two dozen laws aimed at preventing and fighting wildfires. 22 bills cover a wide range of actions. Some encourage communities to adopt standards for making homes more fire resistant. Others increase state oversight of pg e and address is precautionary power shut off spec the bills follow up on recommendations from a june report by task force. The government that the bills will also help california meet its clean energy goals. The top stories at 5 30 pm. Santa clara county workers on the picket lines protesters fighting for higher wages. The county has offered 16 raises over five years. Instead one of its concerns about sweetening the deal involves the slowing economy. Bernie sanders canceled his Campaign Events after doctors put 2 heart stents in a blocked artery. The senator was taken to the hospital after feeling chest pain on the trail. His Campaign Said he is in good spirits and do for some rest. Gilroy High School Varsity Football Game has been called off this weekend. After the team forfeited its game. It comes in the wake of a Sexual Battery investigation. Four members were issued juvenile citations. Now only nine players are left. On the team after others quit in protest. Sfo where today airport staff rallied for better pay and working conditions. Baggage handlers custodians and others picketed in front of Sfo International Terminal to support unions and fight for a better contract. They say they sometimes have to work multiple jobs and still struggle to make ends meet. We deserve affordable healthcare. We deserve to take our children to the hospital or to the doctor when they get sick. We deserve to have affordable living situations. Not having to work two or three jobs. The airport workers also want break rooms for a bit of peace. And to be treated with respect to their supervisors. Senator Kamala Harris kicked off a similar rally at Los Angeles International airport. More than 1500 people marched through the streets to stress support for unions in a new state law that makes it harder to classify workers as independent contractors. The world safety summit on Autonomous Technology kicked off at levi stadium today. We were there shows us what the future holds for new hightech cars. Reporter we are here at the world safety summit at levi stadium in santa clara. Trying to get a sense of when the self driving cars will hit the road in a massive way to the public. Ive gotten some disappointing. The Aviation Industry is learning the path to the future will be taken with baby steps. The street sweeper is the first of its kind in the world. There only 200 of them operating in china right now. Check out the self driving agricultural sprayer. There are only a dozen of them in the u. S. Progress has been slow steady and a lot more complicated than anyone thought. Google has been testing self driving cars for 10 years. Back in 2015 the head of googles program said during a ted talk his team was determined to get self driving cars on the road by 2019or 2020. During test drives in santa clara we got a reality check. Who makes software for self driving cars said it will happen first in warmer southern cities where there is no snow and will likely be a taxi service in five years. I think there was a huge amount of optimism. People learned going fast is challenging. Reporter the chief Technology Officer based in san jose said in the early days the industry was overconfident. That has been tempered by reality. People realize if you are driving very fast have to make challenging decisions quickly. You are now seeing people start with more modest expectations. Reporter this is karens first time. It is exactly how she imagined it. Most of the ride was fine. There was one moment when the car just stopped abruptly on the test drive. The glitch did not shake her confidence in what is still very much new and developing technology. It is happening. Finally. Muni is working to be more environmentally friendly with nine new green zones out the city. Within them bus drivers switch off their combustible engine and go all electric. That temporarily eliminates diesel admissions. 68 muni buses or about 8 of the fleet canal switch to Battery Power when they cross into a green zone. Officials told the chronicle the goal is to reduce emissions in neighborhoods with high concentrations of low income households and people of color. Police officer is now fighting for his own life. Veteran Pleasanton Police officer kyle henriksen. His fellow officers are taking the day to rally behind him. Reporter these officers and deputies are not in training right now. They are supporting one of their own. Kyle henriksen a tenure Pleasanton Police officer is battling stage iv pancreatic cancer. These First Responders want to help the Battle Alongside with him. It is a lovely saturday. In november it is both to be 85. Reporter you would not know he was fighting for his life by this video he did with his daughter. It was to keep her spirits up and his as well. Thank you so much for all the love and support. The messages. Reporter it is moments like this with his wife jennifer you understand the depth of what he and his family of six are going through. Love all you guys so much. I want to say thank you as well. We appreciate it. Reporter one year later fight continues. More treatments and was days in the hospital any brotherhood of support by his side. Kyle was the type of person that would give you the shirt off his back. The last dollar in his wallet. Cannot ask for anything in return. This is an opportunity for the community and his fellow brothers and sisters in blue to help him and his family. Reporter these offices taking time to take part in a fitness challenge. To raise money for henriksens treatment and more importantly to lift his spirits. Our community of Law Enforcement is a tightknit group. We support each other. We consider each other family. We have each others back whether it is at work or outside of work. Reporter they know when you signed up for the job there is a lot you prepare for in terms of danger and threats. It comes to cancer can leave us all vulnerable. Kyles friends and families that they know kyle will keep fighting and do his best to stay on a positive note. The official fundraiser for kyle will be october 12 in the parking lot of the fitness club in livermore. Netflix Series Making a murderer is now raising questions whether the man featured was actually framed. How the university of california system might be on the verge of changing the College Admissions process as we know it. Turned away. A stunning revelation that one s. Bay university only helped six homeless students. Students who struggle to find. Share their stories. [white rabbit by jefferson airplane] one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you smaller and the ones that mother gives you dont do anything at all remember what the dormouse said welcome aboard. Feed your head after weeks of threats from President Trump the epa has indeed sent the city of San Francisco a notice saying it is in violation of the clean water act. The epa claims homeless are a risk to the water supply. And that waste and debris going into the storm drains. San francisco said that is simply not true. The water supply comes from the high sierra. And his sewer system captures and treats street litter that will flow into the ocean and bay. The mayor is saying the epa is being used as a political weapon. Mayor London Woodberry fired back saying the epa has been systematically dismantled and politicized under this current administration. President trumps sudden concern for californias environment is a bit ironic she said. Considering he is undercutting the states vehicle emission standards and Climate Change plans. The state department is calling on north korea to refrain from publications. This is in response to north korea firing a Ballistic Missile hours after agreeing to resume stalled Nuclear Talks with the united states. South korean officials confirmed the missiles launched from the coast of. East of pyongyang. Reportedly landed in the sea of japan about 280 miles away. It is the first north Korean Missile to land that closnovemb no word on how this will affect saturdays negotiations. Lawyers for a wisconsin man whose story was featured in the Netflix Documentary making a murder are asking the states governor to pardon or commute his sentence. He was 16 years old when he confessed the police he helped his uncle Stephen Avery and murder photographer teresa how brett in 2005. They are serving life sentences for the client. Not a single piece of evidence tied him to this crime. No dna. No blood. No hair. No fingerprints. Nothing. Lawyers say he is borderline intellectually disabled and vulnerable. They contend police asked him 1500 questions during for interrogations over 48 hours without a lawyer present. They also say the police manipulated and coerced him to confess to a crime he did not commit. Wisconsin prosecutors claim his confession was voluntary. He does for the university of california system are weighing whether to drop requirements for standardized tests like the sat and act. Critics call them unfair barriers for students who dont test well. They also point to research that shows scores are strongly influenced by Family Income and race. 1000 universities nationwide already make tests like the sat optional. Uc regents are not expected to make a decision until next year. We are in the standardized fall weather. As we head to the weekend making any decision to do something outside. Nothing and whether is a guarantee. I will be the first to tell you that. It is looking good for the upcoming weekend. Chances than not you will have pleasant weather for saturday and sunday. Today was nice. Wednesdays highs 79 concorde. 78 santa rosa. 77 san jose. Fremont you hit 74. Warmer today in San Francisco. 69 degrees. We will take a step back tomorrow. I will explain why. Tonight because of the front moving through the lows will not be as chilly. Below average. Fremont 50. Concorde 48. Keeping a look at the pollen count. I hear the sneezes. This is the reason why. We have ragweed as the predominant pollens. It is low below a five. It is still there. We will likely get rainfall at some point in october helping things out. We are not to that point yet. We have a front moving through that will keep things stirred up in the atmosphere overnight. It is also the reason why we get a reinforcing push of cooler canadian air. Will be in tomorrow. Temperatures take a step back tomorrow. This ridge which has been waiting all week to move in will get closer towards the weekend. It is not going to be hot. Not 95 or 100. Will be in the 80s inland. Warmer weather coming. We take a step back tomorrow. Clouds over my shoulder building. 5 am that is the front. The front without jet stream support simply washes out. We dont get cloud cover. An increase in the breeze tomorrow. Not much cloud cover and certainly no rain. Through friday plan on more sunshine. Mainly clear skies tonight. Freezing a couple degrees cooler thursday. The warmup against friday and rose through the weekend. Tomorrow still 9 degrees below average in concorde. 73. Several degrees below average in San Francisco and san jose and oakland. Santa clara 72 tomorrow. Cupertino 72. Breezy and Half Moon Bay 63. Thursdays high dublin 72. Pleasant hill 74. Further inland and the yacht baypoint looking at the upper 70s. Upper 60s for berkeley and san leandro. Low 70s cooler for napa and sonoma. Canfield 71. Stinson beach 63. Cloverdale 75. Ukiah low 70s with a breezy afternoon. We will be warmer. Saturday low 70s and the bay. Will we will cool down back to average by the middle of next week. Not hot and not cold. And not raining yet. This weeks jefferson award winner is the hero of his local Community Center. How one man is serving others in west marin. Announcer Time Magazine reports the new american addiction. How juul hooked kids and ignited a Public Health crisis. Other news outlets report juul took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Markets ecigarettes with kid friendly flavors and uses nicotine to addict them. 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Juul is following big tobaccos playbook. And now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn ecigarette protections. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. As the demand on Public Services continues to rise. Community sensors are providing more and more to the residence they serve. This weeks jefferson award winner decided decades ago he could help others by helping his local Community Center succeed. Dave loves lending a helping hands of the community of west moran. The core of him is to give back and help. He is in the perfect setting. Reporter for three decades he has been the executive director of the Community Center. Which is now in its 50th year. When dave took over the center in 1991 it had one staff member and an annual budget of about 35,000. It has now grown to 20 staffers and operates on one. 3 Million Dollars annually. Spent every day i love coming to work. I love working with our staff. And being able to deliver these programs. Reporter afterschool care. Fitness classes. A food bank and are offor free reduced cost. Volunteers like pat mcgraw said dave is the heart of this operation. He provides a quiet study leadership quality that i appreciate. He is always there. Listening and he never judges anyone. Reporter he honed his people skills early in his career. Working in the Juvenile Justice Center and then Early Childhood education before seeing an ad for the centers executive director position. His wife encourage him to apply. The main three skills you have to have is be good with people. Own a truck. And be able to lift over 100 pounds. Reporter he took the job and stayed in west marin to raise his family. Intertwining himself with the community and the center which now serves 15,000 people every year. I would not go anyplace else. We are like a family. I always felt there was this huge magnet that was pulling my wife and i into this community. I have talked to hundreds of other people who live here. They all have the same since. s reporter for serving the community of west marin to the programs this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to dave court. He wants everybody to know the center is cycle braiding is golden anniversary this saturday. Mountain bike ride unity hike music and a lot more. Nominate your nerve local hero for a jefferson award. Kpix. Com hero. Tim cook taking a rare public stance against the trump administration. Outrage on one s. University campus after the revelation it only housed six homeless students last year. Pg e insist a pipeline is safe. A group of Contra Costa County residents say follow the emails but it is all straightahead on the news at 6 pm. Wit looks like jill heading offe on an adventure. Jill has entresto, a Heart Failure medicine that helps her heart so she can keep on doing what she loves. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. It helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto, for Heart Failure. Where to next . Entrust your heart to entresto. You want to be there. How would you like to see the warriors in action for just five dollars . You can watch them practice at the chase answer for that price. Tickets on sale through ticketmaster. All proceeds benefit the Community Foundation which supports education and youth development. The tickets doubles as a free muni ride. You can sit in on a q and eight with the warriors president. The first open practice next monday, october 7 at 6 30 pm. That is it for the news at 5 pm. The news at 6 pm begins right now. Students who struggle with housing sha

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