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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 11PM July 13, 2024

33 cal 9600 and napa. 6400 and san mateo county. We have Team Coverage beginning with and san mateo county. Reporter pg e will possibly shut the power off later this week. Possibly. But no final decision has been made. We are hoping the weather a dont have to do this. Reporter wildfire conditions are headed back to northern california. So the Power Company is laying the groundwork for another preemptive power shut off. In the bay area customers in sonoma and napa counties are being notified their power could shut off as soon as wednesday. San mateo county it could be lights out early thursday morning. The public will be notified of the decision wiread governor said this last power shutdown was unacceptable. If im hearing you right you sit there were problems but it is going to go on. You even said in that meeting if this is going to go on for another decade. Pg e is being arrogant about that. Can you address that . I think we are being realistic. What i was intending to convey. We have a 10 year period in front of us where we would limit these every year to make them narrower in scope. And eventually get to the point where we didnt need them. This hodgepodge way of dealing with things really doesnt solve the problem. Reporter the supervisor said the last shutdown was a mess. He said county officials did not get timely information from pg e. The warnings wetoo broad. N pgi the grid to the website to communication. About this time pg e identified specific communities that could be affected at the possible power outage. Those communities will be posted on the website which the Power Company insists will be working. It is dij vu all over again from a week and a half ago. No one should be surprised by this. This is our time of year to get offshore wind events. The one coming our way for wednesday night into thursday is really nothing extraordinary. It is a runofthemill strong offshore wind event. The National Weather service is but a fire weather watch in place. Look at the timeframe wednesday afternoon through thursday afternoon. Once again the area of greatest concern is going to be up here in the north bay. When i checked back in the complete forecast i will show you why we will take a look at how much stronger the wind gust will be in the mountains. Compared to anywhere else. In the bay area. As well as a pretty big warmup for the rest of us the next few days. Our morning team for the latest on this developing story that starts at 4 30 am tomorrow. You can find the latest information on our website. Kpix. Com. Fire danger ramping up fire crews are working overtime. We just received word Contra Costa County crews have contained this 150 acre blaze. It sparked off near brentwood. In Southern California whipping winds are making for a challenging firefight in san bernardino. 17 acre fire damaging at least three homes and threatening 40 more tonight. It is a different story in the la hills were residents are breathing a sigh of relief tonight. Fire crews managed to stop this explosive fire and just a nick of time. The 30 acre blaze threatened to consume multimilliondollar homes. The wind was in their favor. Fire crews are dousing it. Governor newsom said our skyhigh gasoline prices just dont add up. He is calling on the attorney general to investigate. The governor is asking him to find out if gas and Oil Suppliers are involved in fixing prices or other unfair practices. Our gasoline prices are sometimes a dollar more than other states. Agreed to provide checkout clerks across california. Part of the new legal settlement. A lawsuit from a Santa Clara County said it violated Welfare Commission rules. Now according to the chronicle safeway will pay 12 million and provide seats for about 2000 workers. We shall to safeway for a comment. We have yet to hear back. Change of heart from a bay area couple charge in the College Admissions cases. Former Hedge Fund Manager manwell enriquez and his wife elizabeth switch their pleased today to guilty. Each parent is facing charges of fraud and money laundering. For paying to boost their two Daughters College Entrance Exam scores. There also accused of bribing a coach in georgetown to get one daughter into the fake tennis recruiter. They will be sentenced separately in february and march. Facebook ceo heads the capitol hill lawmakers will likely press him on the companys efforts to stop foreign intervention on their platform. The social media giant said it shutdown accounts from russia to interfere with the 2020 elections. Betty is outside headquarters with what the social media giant is doing to prevent this from happening. Reporter facebook said it took down 50 instagram accounts and one facebook account that originated in russia. It shares some examples of the content. Some links to the same operation that meddled in the 2016 election. The people behind the fake accounts posted on both sides of political issues. It was Say Something to the left is upping to the right. Talk about a topic which has confused everybody. It is not a russian propaganda. It is recycling. An expert in cybersecurity. And a professor at stanford and san jose state. This time the coordinated group of russian accounts is choosing to use instagram over facebook. The favorite media for the hackers. It is easier. Reporter today facebook announced it is stepping up its safety and transparency efforts. Among its initiatives his special security tool for elected officials in canada that monitors their accounts for a hacking attempts. Candidates. Facebook will add prominent label supposed ous aims. Enat says hides false photos and videos. What is your level of confidence the 2020 election will be free of this kind of meddling . That is a difficult question. The election is a year from now. Facebook is a good start. Tonight Mark Zuckerberg is fighting back against new criticism that he has too much sway in washington. Facebook executive confirmed today he recommended some potential job applicants to president ial candidate pete buttigieg. But assures it shouldnt be taken as an endorsement. Uc Berkeley Students pack an auditorium to hear from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. She started her 27th year on the hicot. Andrea was there. Reporter roughly 1600 people came here tonight to hear Justice Ginsburg speak on a wide range of topics from her health so what still needs to be done and the Supreme Court. A huge round of applause and 86year old ginsburg was introduced. In august she beat cancer for the fourth time. Her health was one of the first topics to be addressed. Compared to how i was six months ago very well. Reporter cancer did not keep her out of the gym. Her workouts have been televised on national tv. Her trainer has even written a book about her routine. If you have survived cancer. You have a zest for she wanted to pursue a career in law. The Harvard Business schools did not admit women in the 1950s. Reporter and even shared her mothers advice to a successful marriage to sometimes. Not only in a marriage for 56 years. But also to this day in dealing with my colleagues. Reporter while she made the crowd laugh she also inspired. She was able to break down some of the barriers as a woman. As the first in so many ways. Shes very inspiring. She is is an and an example for us. Reporter state senator for the ninth district Nancy Skinner was on hand for the lecture. As an advo for nder and income inequality she has closely foll everything. Everything. Coming up our original series project home. Elder say they are ready to Start Construction on Affordable Housing projects in the bay area. So why are communities fighting it every step of the way . The best places for families might surprise you. One of the top 10 rig project home. With our the bay area earned a new title. This is the most expensive place in the world to build. In fact some Developers Say they are afraid to build here. Susie shows us the barriers to building here in the bay area. Reporter this is the beautiful and exciting demolition. A rare glimpse at a dying dinosaur. The mall in cupertino. This cements cliff we are sending the edge of those once the entrance to the malls anchor store macys. It was dying a slow death. The face of retail his change. Reporter Property Company developer as part of the 4 billion plan to bring this place back to life. Sand hill has been fighting an uphill battle trying to redevelop this 51 acre site in Silicon Valley into muchneeded Affordable Housing and office space to offset the cost of the build. We have the opportunity to build 2 million square feet of office. 400,000 square feet of tail. 2400 into Housing Units with 50 affordable. Ive been here for 42 years. I remember the good old days. Reporter immunity activist who volunteers with friends of a better cupertino has been fighting this project every step of the way. What would you say to somebody who would call you . For cupertino to be labeled that is very incorrect. Reporter he and his wife raise their daughter here and watched as a apple took over their once quiet community. Everybody is in a hurry with all the Office Building here. There are so many people that cant afford to live here. That are driving in in some cases great distances. Reporter most young adults who grew up in cupertino can no longer afford to stay. Tech Company Employees have contributed to rising rent. And price them out. He said he sees the project is just another way to add jo thgh we donant re. Thmpounds thhousing problem. 2400 units is not a small amount. We are Building Office to help to subsidize the housing. To subsidize the retail the Community Wants to see. It has to be compromise. Reporter sand hill expected a fight. They gave cupertino to options more than two years ago. Approved their plan or they would a new state law. The forces communities to build Affordable Housing. The city and friends of a better cupertino. Fought the project. Since then estate has threatened to sue cupertino trends of a better cupertino is doing suing sand hill. Sand hill has filed suit against the city. A perfect example of using every tool out there to kill a housing project. Reporter she has been through this before. The ceo apollo also housing a nonprofit Affordable Housing development agency. She tried and failed to bring to build Senior Housing there. The rise. Back then behind the scenes nobody knew how nasty it got. Reporter the project wouldve created 60 affordable units for seniors in palo alto. And 12 market rate homes to offset the cost of that affordable project. Neighbors fought it tooth and nail. It got personal. Me and the Staff Members we got death threats. Tires slashed. Harassed. For trying to build low income Senior Housing. A lot of times people think if you are building low income. The forprofit developers. Instead of 60 affordable units for seniors and 12 market rate homes 16 6 million homes stand in its place. The bay area earned new title this year. This is officially the most expensive place in the world to build. Construction cost hit 417 per square foot compared to 368 per square foot and secondplace new york city. Because the cost of living is so high wages for workers are also up. As are the cost of materials. Developers have to budget in Community Fights too. To get the units built. Reporter a study by ucla Anderson School of management found the bay area is the only place where Developers Say they are afraid to build. They say it is too expensive and worry rent control will make it more difficult to recoup the cost. 50 of developers surveyed say they wont build in the next 12 months. Ucla predicts the hog ortage. Hbfeen advantage of. Watching the life they invested in. He worries these projects threaten the middleclass. The middleclass which im a member of a lab of our net worth is in homes. Where we live. If you take the homes away than everybody in the middleclass. All that money goes to the top 10 or top 1 . I dont want that. Reporter both sides say they want or housing. The cant agree on how to build it. The backandforth only makes it more expensive for everyone. The lawsuit from friends of a better cupertino alleges sand hill is out of compliance. A way to streamline Affordable Housing and it is supposed to help developers circumvent the Community Fight like this. The lawsuit alleges because office space is part of the project and it would make up than half of the Square Footage at the site. They say this is not an Affordable Housing development. That is their argument. What is the status of the lawsuit . A judge will make a decision november 1. The project is moving full steam ahead. They think they will have the judge side with him. Interesting to hear the Developers Say they were afraid to build here. Send your stories and ideas to project home. Send them to kpix. Com. See all of susies reporting on our website. Affordable homes and easy commute. On the top of your wish list if youre looking to start a family. One bay area city managed to make it into the top 10 best places for families to live. U. S. News world report list ranks san jose as number seven in the nation. The city was held for the quality of its schools. The report also looked at quality of life. The job market and access to top notch healthcare. Taking number one spot des moines iowa. Followed by minneapolisst. Paul. And in fayetteville arkansas. Even though the winds are going to be the main story in this forecast. Im starting with something else. I dont want this. To get lost in the story. At the daytime highs for San Francisco. Over the next five days. Look at thursday. It does say 87 degrees. For late october that is not out of the question. It is going to be well above average. 69 would be the average for us. We wont be breaking records when we do that. It is going to be warm. Near the coast San Francisco as my example. I will show you the seven day forecast with the inland locations in a second. We are not that much warmer. It will be 91 in concorde thursday. This will be a level Playing Field for the warmup. What makes it uniqin the coast. The falls in line with offshore winds. That is why we have the fire with her concerns. Why did we warmup so much . We were in the middle 70s today. You dont see it on the satellite. I mean in the city. Now you see it when you look at the way the wind is moving. Center of High Pressure off the coast. I the time gets a thursday it has moved over here. Not that different. In other ways drastically different. If you look at the center of the high thursday weve got an area of low pressure over here. We are sandwiched in between the two. Look at what the winds are doing. Now we got our northeast winds. It does not take much for us to find ourselves with a strong offshore wind this time of year. It is a common thing. What is going to happen on wednesday and thursday. Even though it is a big deal now. In light of recent years. There are your strongest in the mountains. Wednesday night into thursday. Having said that we talked about the fire weather watch at the top of the newscast. We are taking that seriously. I dont want to lose perspective. This happens a lot this time of year. We shouldnt think what is happening with the winds thursday and friday is an extraordinary event. It is a typical fall offshore wind event. It is probably not the last one we are going to have the next few weeks. 92 for the daytime highs inland. 87 in the city. Why you dont upset john gruden. Weve got top five plays. Raiders traded away a starter. San mateos own and patriots Quarterback Tom Brady was on display. In prime time. Send a message. Hang on im 70 and chairman of the so that early retirement we planned. Its going ok . Great. Now im spending more time with the kids. Im introducing them to crab. Crab . They love it. So, you mentioned that that money we set aside. Yeah. The kids and i want to build our own crab shack. Ahhh, youre finally building that outdoor kitchen. Yup with room for the whole gang. See w ininp yo sit your local chase branch. The raiders. Make mistakes at the packers. Aaron rodgers will make you pay. A day after a six touchdown performance. The raiders traded away is starting co the team next opponent. If firstround pick of 2017 was treated for a future third round draft choice. He had four interceptions and 23 games. Next man up his rookie trey von mullen. Gruden is putting his stamp on his team. Conley is the third firstround pick he has traded in 14 months. The other two amari cooper and khalil mack. In the nfl weve got 4 unbeaten starting quarterbacks. Two undefeated teams. 49ers and patriots. Best to defenses in football. Patriots pick the jets apart. You bet he was but sam. Devin mccourty. Later it was harmon. And at the pick 3rd quarter pressure off the edge. Stephan gilmore. Terrence went up and got this one. Four interceptions and a fusam new england 70 for the third time in franchise history. The holidays begin here at the disneyland resort. The top five appears. Number f

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