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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 7pm July 13, 2024

S not goinwater. Some neighborhoods still without power. Why it is taking so long. A lot of protocols we have to call off. Timeconsuming. The Business Impact of the epic blackout. Some Business Owners are counting the thousands of dollars in losses tonight. A minimum of 2000. Google has submitted its application to build a mega campus in downtown san jose. Coming up i will tell you why some are celebrating but others have concerns about its impact on the Affordable Housing crisis. We are on fire watch. Wildfire is ripping through the hills and homes north of d ening. Os angeles. Intense arduous effo e flam a wildfire raginin northern lo angeles. The grnd and air. Riche officials devoted 100,000 people to evacuate the area. Cruise from Alameda County are just arriving to help in the Southern California fire zone. Which is in the hills between Santa Clarita and the san fernando valley. On the front lines of the fire for us all day. Reporter fire crews are attacking this wildfire that is tearing to the foothills northwest of downtown los angeles. Hoping to get the flames away from homes. The fire is moving at a rate of 800 acres per hour. Coupled more than 100,000 people were told to leave the area. Many flits horrible feeling. I did not want to leave last night but i was forced to noes downreporter the teur t gele crews worked frantically to keep the flames from spreading. But strong santa ana windsent embers flying across the area igniting more fires. Was terrible. The embers were blowing. You just wanted to duck and run. Reporter rubble and ash all that is left of this home is one of the dozens consumed by the fastmoving subtle rich fire. Firein tersndtatee 5oksmcalifo major nortcahsouth core door. The closure choked the morning n n rnafoocommtheir vehicles. Southeast of los angeles a wildfire destroyed the calimesa Mobile Home Park thursday. A trash truck dumping garbage into dry grass ignited that fire. At least one person died. Just Southern California remains under a red flag warning. You dont know what is going to happen. Mother nature has plans she is not going to share with you. Reporter the danger may not be over until sunday. Moments ago we got new outage numbers from pg e. Power has now be restored to 96 of the bay area. In the north bay 93 of customers have their power back. Statewide fewer than 84,000 are still in the dark. Pg e ceo likesaly idprevented fires from sparking. The winds we experience like the winds happening in Southern California were such speed that it blew branches and trees and our power lines. Bringing about this risk of ignition. Those lines had been energized. We have the potential for ance but thankfully those lines were not energized. We caught up with residents in the north bait with the power is still off in some locations. We spoke with two pg e contractors who were having to lines. O power can be eyebl. Re we hedave storto. Have ice on it. There is a lot of protocols we have to follow. It is timeconsuming. We work as fast as we can to get the lights back on. It is hard to plan anything. We did not know when stuff is going to go on. Go online you couldnt find anything. You couldnt get through. We have no water. Even though the power is back on a lafayette parents were still clearly frustrated this morning. When the lights were still ou nd hapsleepy hollow lombardi lane. Just one little clique. We played uno for a while. We are losing our minds. It is awful there are at home without anything to do. It is crazy. The small Business Owners across the bay area estimate collectively have lost millions of dollars from this pg e blackout. The outage forced them to close their doors in some cases for a couple days. Reports busisswere ng for reimbursement from the utility Business Owners are very upset. Small businesses have a small profit margin. They say the blackout delivered a big financial blow. We lost about 8000 in sales yesterday. A minimum of 2000. This was how it looked at a Moraga Shopping Center yesterday. Essentially a ghost town. Even after the powers suddenly turned back on just before seven. Very quiet. Reporter everybody took a hit. For his moraga restaurant not only did he lose out on customers they throughout spoiled seafood. Meat and produce worth thousands of dollars. It is painful for a Small Business to take such a hit. We lost no cheese yesterday. 50ous cheese a bottles of wine to another store before the blackout. He did everything he could to keep his Farmstead Cheese is a wine store open and the open hills. Even brought in a generator. Wne Health Department shut hi ecse bit feels like a kick in the teeth. Reporter it wont reimburse individuals and businesses for their losses. The Insurance Companies also wont pay out citing pg es advance warnings. You have Business Interruption insurance. This isnt considered a Business Interruption. I said what the blank do you mean reporter you can file a claim form on its website. They made it clear if it is related to the blackouts they are not going to pay out. Google has submitted his application to build a brand new mega campus in downtown san jose. City leaders are celebrating and concerns. Googles application outlines his vision for its new mega campus a city within a city and downtown san jose. Six and half million square feet of office space thousands of homes and a brandnew hotel. Business leaders describe nothing short of transformation. Acd wh ty at of uses. That includes homes offices shops. The new campus nickname Downtown West will be san joses Largest Development in decades. The rewards are selfevident. Hightech highpaying and highly sought jobs. So too are the wrist. Mainly a deepening of the areas affordability crisis. I have grave misgivings about google or any Large Company coming in to a city like this. I think just changing the counter of it. It is already really expensive anyway. With google coming down here it is going to be more expensive. These are hardworking people that live in this area. Reporter the project will be anchored by the train station a future home to bart. The application doesnt spell out how many of the new homes would be affordable. And critics say that is a problem. There is a correlation in Silicon Valley between the ascent of major corporations like google and the cost of housing. It is not a mistake that so many people are house list here. Reporter there is what no one development that is going to stop this costof living from rising in n silico eyquick process. Google and the city estimate is likely to take a year to study and evaluate every aspect of what is being proposed. That would likely push revolt by the Planning Commission until the end of next year. Playing tackle football kids is is smoking. You got to see more of this interesting new ad campaign. My favorite part is seeing the blue angels flyby. No shortage of excitement in the air for fleet week. We are their life. The big premiere of gemini man. Betty talks to will smith about groundbreaking new technology. That makes him look years younger. It was such a crazy thing when i first saw those initial images. It is not just fleet week in our skies. There is a mix of some smoke from wildfires. Throughout california making it look hazy. Of will spotlight some her plays ou t for this weekend coming up. You might have seen or heard this earlier. It was the blue angels soaring and roaring of the San Francisco bay. Andrea had a front row seat. So the fleet week festivities so far. It is fun every year. Nobody gets tired of this. Reporter nobody really does get tired. Especially not me. Especially after winters of rain and the wind where you guys are inside and i miserable out here. Im having the fun today with s get your lenses up. The military spectacle that is fleet week started with the parade of ships this morning. An expected 1 million visitors streamed into San Francisco to take in the show. And enjoy the pictureperfect weather. I like everything the outdoors the water. Reporter spots were snagged early for the air show. This is our spot. We really enjoyed the show. We get to have a great view of golden gate. As well as all the planes that are flying by. It is a great day. Reporter there were smaller planes filling the blue skies above the San Francisco bay. The crowds and all of the cameras were waiting fo one thing. The blue angels. Itas been a Family Tradition we have done for a long time. Report something bigger than ourselves. I love for the airplanes to fly over your head a can feel it in your chest. Inside your body. It is so powerful. Reporter a big shout out to photojournalist forgetting that incredible video. It is not an easy thing to do when the planes are moving so incredibly fast. If youre planning to come down here saturday or sunday get down here early and take transit. It took us quite some time to get through the station down near the embarcadero out to where we are near the yacht club. We were stuck in traffic for quite some time. Plan ahead. That is the only not fun part. Kudos to greg. He is a great photojournalist. He can probably fly one of those f18s if you wanted to. If you cant make it to any of the airshows this weekend we feel bad for you. Check out kpix. Com. We have a pretty cool exclusive Sales Force Tower camera. It will be streaming live. So you can watch the views of all of this precision flying. The only shame of it is the weather is going to be so crappy. It is going to be foggy and miserable. With sarcasm. Dont believe any of it. This weekend is like they plan of the e styear. Weatr it is begoing to work out just like that. It is always perfect this time of year. Have you ever noticed . It will be fun. Putting a little dent l smo lingering around. Not a lot for us. I want to show you what is going on in Southern California as an example. Take a look at the satellite. A lot of clouds. You probably already spotted it. That is the plume of smoke coming off of todays wildfire in Southern California. Spotlight noonly how much smoke was coming off the fire. You can see it from space on the satellite. You can also clearly tell that is an impressive offshore flow. Strong winds blowing to the passes. Out to sea taking the plume of smoke past the channel islands. And way out into the fic. A very common view we get into fire season. The fires in northern california. We have had our share. We had grass fires. There is a controlled burn south of tahoe. None of them are major at least not compared to what is going on in Southern California. There is juster ouise gh to thisth mix smoke that is getting pulled our way. That is what we are seeing when you look out there. Patterndoesnt change as ine y enough to blow thit out of here until sunday. By then the humidity comes back in the pattern will change. You will feel better outside. Todays daytime highs. 81 was a really popular number. What is interesting about this it is not just that there are so many of them. We did 81 degrees in concorde. We did 81 degrees in oakland. Typically you get is bread. Oakland has that influence from the bay. Not today. Were getting the offshore flow. We have the same temperatures on the bay. San francisco and 78. Tomorrow we start bringing the numbers down. We will only go to 72 for the city. If youre near the coast you will notice we cool down 5 degrees tomorrow. If you are not near the coast you dont notice a change. Tomorrow will feel like today. So will the next seven days. Temperature wise. We are not really going to budge a lot. Maybe up if you may be down a few. Nothing too drastic until the end of next week. Those long range models are hinting may be possibly there could be the thoughts of a hint of rain. Dont count on much. It is the only thing to point to. That is it. No more major wind events coming our way at least for the next seven days. Lets get through october and november. Lets get some rain on the hills. I like the sunshine. A new will smith movie is coming out tonight. It uses groundbreaking technology to turn the actor into a younger digital version of himself. Betty sat down with him one onone to check it out. Reporter and his new action film will smith plays two characters. A lead assassin who goes to war with himself. A much younger assassin. What was it like for you to face the 23yearold will smith with as you said a ck . It was such a crazy thing when i first saw those initial images. It is just magical what we can do with technology. These two cameras would capture my facial expressions. I would have the tracking thats on. Reporter that technology is 3d filmmaking. It transformed the 51yearold actor into his 23yearold self. Thanks to the work of 500 visual engineers at what a digital. A new zealand company. The work was intense. The movie took two years to make. The director analyze hours of footage of the younger will smith. A used in ultra High Resolution camera and in ultra high frame rate to nail his expressions. Down to his skin structure and create a fully animooks reistic th th the fit 100 atederaton digital human. The process before was the in s ag iing. No t if you have seen life of pi. Reporter the first 3d pell film was life of pi. Known for his stunning visual effects. This type of technology could set a trend in hollywood. I think it is a useful thing. It is a new tool and a new toy. I would like to see more how he used this. When i first saw the first shot. Reporter smith took e stagrebe safon francisco. To discuss the groundbreaking film. If the audience emotionally goals with this it is endless what lythe re possibilities are. Coming up next a new antitackle football add. T has a g toni new gun control laws go into effect after they were just signed by governor newsom. Why the transformation to Market Street in San Francisco is one step closer to reality tonight. 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. But you dont feel good. Pv, symptoms can change so slowly over time you might not notice. But new or changing symptoms can mean your pv is changing. Lets change the way we see pv. You track and discuss blood counts with your doctor. But its just as vital to discuss changing symptoms as well. Take notice and take action. Discuss counts and symptoms with your doctor. Visit takeactionpv. Com here is what you missed if you just now getting home. We have been monitoring the sandal settle ridge fire in northern los angeles south of ntsaare destroyed. With 7500 acres have burned. 100,000 people have evacuated the area. The mayor signed an emergency declarcathn anaturllceeds. D on start the governor signed a couple of gun bills today. One will limit the purchase of semi automatic rifles to one per month. Another will make california the first state to allow employers coworkers and teachers to ask the judge to take away someones firearmsif they bere toltod beevthlie biedll t the new laws take effect in january. California has outperformed the rest of the nation because of our gun safety laws and reducing the gun murder rate. Substantially. Compared to the odtion. A new Concussion Legacy Foundation is tonight to ents avoid youth tackle football. By comparing it to smoking cigarettes. Tackle football is like smoking. The younger i start the longer im exposed to danger. The campaign is called tackle and wait. The goal is to get kids to play flag football until they are at least 14 years old. In order to lessen the risk of cte that can come from tackling. San francisco public works would like to hear ban most car from Market Street. From stewart streets octavia the ning collision commissionSan Francisco. Coming up next and elite team from the coast guard that we rarely get to see. How they are quietly monitoring fleet week to keep you safe. Ancisco bay to keep fleet week safe. Todays parade of ships the elite Maritime Security Response Team showed us one of the ways they can board ships and emergencies. We are built to operate in a vast amount of environments. Darkdarkness. Raining high wind the team behind me is ready to go. Immediately if a threat develops on the waterfront. The coast guard the team helps to stay on the sidelines durings fleet week. 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