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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 11PM July 13, 2024

Frustrations tonight. Its the very best and this is not okay. Demonstrators disrupt the Oakland School Board Meeting tonight as the district was going to announce millions of dollars in cuts. And our original series project home, a solution to the bay area housing crisis thats actually working. We have breaking news now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area. Committee members back to work tomorrow morning to debate and vote on articles of impeachment against president. Lets get you right to natalie brand on capitol hill with what comes next. Reporter those members will be back first thing tomorrow morning after a late night here and tonight did take on a solemn tone, but republicans and democrats on the committee appear divided as ever as they head closer to a historic vote. The House Judiciary Committee worked late into the night with democrats and republicans clashing over the two articles of impeachment against President Trump. If we do not respond to President Trumps abuses of power, the abuses will continue. The only abuse of power here is the majority racing the fastest theyve ever had the clock and the calendar determining what impeachment looks like. Reporter the first article of impeachment alleges President Trump openly and corruptly urged ukraine to publicly announce investigations into his political opponent, former Vice President joe biden. The second article of impeachment accuses the president of directing the unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the house investigation. The Judiciary Committee will continue its work tomorrow and members will be able to propose various amendments, but with democrats controlling the committee, passage is all but certain setting the stage for a full house vote. Its not just because they dont like the president. They dont like us. They dont like the 63 Million People who voted for this president. All of us in flyover country. The hard working people in dublin, california, and hayward, california, in my district or a mom in michigan or a former in wisconsin arent following this and dont care despite how unquestionable the facts are in support of impeachment, but i have faith in the American People and i know that they know right from wrong. Reporter with the Democratic House expected to take a final vote on impeachment next week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said a possible trial will be their first order of business at the start of the year. Now bay area democratic congresswoman zoeloftgren who is on the committee noted shes worked on the past two president ial impeachment proceedings. She said this third time brings her no joy but said no one is love the law. As we heard tonight, republicans on the committee remain united in defending the president , so tomorrow we are likely to see a lot of procedural maneuvering, but the committee seems headed for a party line vote. The Committee Reconvenes tomorrow at 6 a. M. Well have the latest starting at 4 30. Some light rain coming down over parts of the bay tonight. Meteorologist darren peck is tracking that and what you can expect for your morning commute. Things have quieted down. I want to focus on the commute to work tomorrow. You see the rain thats moved to our east. Maybe some of thats hitting the ground. Most likely its not if were seeing any light rain now, its in the east bay. Lets advance this to 5 a. M. Tomorrow. Now were into the morning commute and nothing has changed. There is still the possibility for a few light showers. They should not be Strong Enough to have a major impact on your drive, but on some areas that will likely get some slick roads in the morning, theres 5 a. M. In the east bay, the 6 00 hour going across the city down into the peninsula. None of this lasts long. Were not done, got another chance for rain taking us into saturday. Ill see you with that in a few minutes. Andrea is in the west portal neighborhood where they got hit with flooding over the weekend with an update there. Reporter this was the intersection that was under roughly 2 1 2 feet of water to give you an idea of how deep that is. The water came up almost to the second line and then it spilled into the garages of about a dozen homes. Frustrated residents feel that the city didnt respond quickly enough and those residents had their chance to air their frustrations tonight. I think its a little disappointing for us as a neighborhood you didnt think maybe i should check on west portal. Reporter San Francisco board of supervisor norman yee walked the streets of 15th avenue tonight have thing homes affected by flooding. Just getting a chance for them to vent a little bit or air out some stuff and for them to give suggestions was worthwhile. Reporter this flood prone area of west port port recall portal was hit once again saturday according to residents for the third time. I ran downstairs to try to open the garage door and get a rake to try to rake the leaves out on the drains. The wart was already coming in the garage. Reporter the residents main gripe was why it took the city so long to respond to the emergency. Many also have questions about what could be done differently the next time around. Wiwona street is slated for a massive project to improve storm drainage, but its not expected to start until 2021. Homeowners fear this neighborhood cant wait years for a solution. The work may be starting in 21. It may not be done till 23 and that is just not acceptable. That means another couple of winters of maybe repeat performances. Reporter the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Says even after the Capital Improvement project is in place this area may still face Flooding Issues just because of its location. In San Francisco, andrea nakano, kpix5. That woman accused of running over an antioch barber is behind bars tonight. Ruby delgado is booked into the contra costa jail accused of running over 63yearold brian martin with her car after getting upset about her sons haircut. Martin is currently recovering after suffering a broken leg. A gofundme page set up for him has raised nearly 7,000. Tonight angry parents used a holiday classic to shut down an Oakland School Board Meeting. Kpix5s joe vazquez was there when things took an unexpected turn. Reporter protesters took over the Oakland School district Board Meeting tonight in a very unusual demonstration. Their rights and teaching their students to choose. Reporter parents, some teachers and even students stood at the front of the meeting and began reading stories they had written in the style of dr. Seuss. And the grinch said oh, but i hate all that noise, the noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise. Reporter after the Oakland Unified School board called a recess children took over their seats. Protesters also sang modified Christmas Carols with lyrics about budget cuts. These kids deserve the very best and this is not okay reporter the activist group called oakland is not for sale has been protesting School Closings for months. It got ugly when Police Clashed with protesters at a meeting in october. This woman is suing the School District for a severe knee injury she got during the class and is now running a campaign to try to unseat jody london. Somebody who believes a 6. 5 Million Police force is more important than keeping schools open should never be on our board, not for one more minute. This is the democratic process under our state laws. People are unhappy with the performance of an elected official, they have the opportunity to papers for a recall. Reporter after the short break some bad news was announced. Heading into next year our staff is anticipating we will need to cut 15 million from our budget from 2021. Something is not adding up. Theres a lot of disinformation. Weve been lied to and thats very clear now. The Oakland School board will begin voting on the new cuts for next years budget in february. A months long fentanyl investigation led Santa Rosa Police to a large heroin bust. In november a Narcotics Team located a Drug Trafficking organization that involved several residents of Sonoma County and today the team arrested four suspects and seized 11 pounds of heroin worth about 200,000. This investigation is ongoing. Tonight were getting a look at the man accused of stabbing his coworker in palo alto. Police say 21yearold lionel munoz got into a fight with the victim, stabbed him from behind. Both men were outside contractors working in the mail room at rubric on page mill road. An unsuspecting person was almost the bulls eye of an attempted crossbow attack in gilroy today. The victim was on a second floor balcony at a best western when this crossbow bolt narrowly missed his head. The bolt came from a handheld crossbow similar to this one. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact police. Coming up next project home, the unique plan thats combating rent hikes and evictions and winning. A forever home after a dognapping drama, the happy ending for some hopeful pet owners. It could be the future of firefighting, coming up the worlds first all electric fire engine comes to silicon valley. Dont forget, we are streaming now on cbsn bay area. You can find us on www. Kpix. Com, the cbs news app or your kerrygold has a taste so rich it can take you to irelands lush, green pastures. Where grassfed cows produce rich, creamy milk for a truly delicious taste. Kerrygold. The taste that takes you there. Now our original series project home, the San Francisco success story. We look at a unique plan to combat rent hikes and evictions. Susie steimle with a solution to the housing crisis that is actually working. It feels like we won and thats a really, really good feeling. Reporter at home in her Inner Richmond apartment with her husband mike and their new baby alonzo Chloe Jackman butrago is all smiles, but earlier this year life as they know it was in jeopardy. It all started when her landlord put the building up for sale, then strangers started asking to tour her place. I just felt very defensive. These people are coming through, its very invasive to have somebody come into your space to look around at it so they could figure out a way to get rid of you. Reporter next came this notice. Then there was a note that said this is a not rent controlled building with an asterisk next to it. Thats when we freaked out. Reporter chloe is a female minority native san franciscan new mother and Small Business owner. Shes a little bit of everything. San francisco is consistently at risk of losing by pricing people out. She works around the corner from her apartment as a photographer in her own studio. Alonzo often comes with. They was not about to give all of this up. So we started getting the neighbors together and saying this is what needs to happen. Reporter through a flyer in her mailbox chloe just happened to learn about the small sites program. This is an issue that affects every resident of San Francisco. Reporter Caroline Fang is the director of Community Real estate for the Mission Economic Development Agency or meda. Meda connected chloes building to the small sites program. Small sites uses public money to help buy sites off the public money so tenants like chloe can stay. We essentially pay what you would pay on the private market for these buildings. Were not paying less than another buyer would pay. Reporter meda owns the largest number of buildings associated with the small sites program. San francisco has provided 75 million to help meda purchase 26 buildings and help more than 400 tenants keep their Affordable Housing. All told the Mayors Office helped keep 35 buildings and more than 500 residents in place. The program started in 2014 with just 3 million. A lot of funding came from inclusionary housing fees that Luxury Developers pay towards the citys Affordable Housing fund. This november the program got a big boost. The city just passed a 600 million bond in november and with that well have another at least 30 million to add to the pot to be able to buy buildings off of the private market. Reporter caroline and her team are training other nonprofits to continue this work and looking for more permanent forms of funding. Shes warning tenants to look out for these signs. Be on alert for changes to your building, whether or not its your landlord starting that painting that theyve never done in that building after not paying attention to your building for over 10 years to having random investigators walk through your building. Reporter chloes building is now protected for the next 99 years, long enough for the next generation of san franciscans to call this place home. Hes so cute. In june the city enacted the Community Opportunity to purchase act or copa. That law now insures nonprofits get a five day heads up to purchase Eligible Properties before they go onto the market and this is a program that had the mayors full support. Shes touting it at a press event tomorrow with chloe. Win win. No one gets to sell the building and people get to stay in it. And its market rate, so thats good for them. Keep sending your stories and ideas to projecthome cbs. Com and see all of susies reporting on our website. Following a dognapping drama, we have some happy new pet owners. Justin rodriguez drove from washington to pick up ava, an italian mastiff. Fable is back in tracy smiths arms. These dogs went missing when a pet rescue transit van was stolen in fremont with more than two dozen dogs inside. Tonight the search does continue for papo. Police believe he was sold somewhere in oakland. Its the worlds first all electric fire engine and it could soon be coming to silicon valley. Kpix5s maria medina shows us the future of firefighting. Reporter this is what an all electric fire engine looks like. Its the first of its kind. It takes about four hours to charge and the menlo park Fire Protection district hopes to get one on its fleet by 2021. Youre used to seeing fire trucks look like this, but soon they could look like this. Electric vehicles are not new. Its only new to the fire service. Reporter tonight the menlo park Fire Protection district showed off the worlds first all electric fire engine, no need for fuel, the engines backup battery. You got eight hours to keep going. Reporter this isnt the first Bay Area Agency to try out an electric vehicle. Fremont police began using a tesla as a patrol car earlier this year, but a few months ago down to be six miles of battery on the tesla, so i may lose it here. Reporter the department forgot to charge it and the tesla nearly ran out of juice during a car chase. Im not concerned about that because we in the design phase will make sure we dont have a single point of failure. Reporter the fire chief says they plan to make changes to the engine to fit the departments needs. It will first be used and tested out as a rescue truck before an engine for fires. Bottom line he says the electric vehicle is better for the environment and potentially the future of firefighting. The emissions on diesel and carcinogens is not good for the environment or health and safety of our personnel and its not good for the public to breathe. Reporter and the all electric fire engine will be at fire station 6 tomorrow between 1 00 and 5 00 for the public to check out. Maria medina, kpix5. The chief says the electric vehicle, fire truck is, about 1. 2 million and is comparable in price to other ladder trucks. The Company Behind it will present its contract to the fire board tomorrow. Darren peck standing by with alook at the forecast. What are we in for tomorrow . Kind of a unique situation just like today where we could get a light mist for 24 hours and end up with about a 1 10 inch of rain in most places, more in some spots, but on average into the heart of the bay. Thats what hidef doppler looks like now and theres very little on it. Lets show you whats going on on the big expect to get an idea how you can have a persistent mist event because weve got one more day where well be doing it again. Good rain coming in to our north, but watch the long band of clouds stretching down towards the subtropics. Look at this a slightly different way. Thats the water vapor in the atmosphere. The brighter the color, the more there is and look what keeps getting pushed our way. Its not like weve got a very impressive storm coming in, but we have a constant, steady supply of higher amounts of water vapor to work with and in that case it doesnt take much to wring out a few sprinkles. Thats whats been happening. If we watch this on futurecast, im going to play this forward taking us from now into thursday and friday and look what happens as we get into friday. There is a

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