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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm July 12, 2024

Want to be concerned and watch it, but as long as we keep it here we dont have to go back to the degree of deep concern with unhealthy air that we were looking at last week. But it just takes a subtle shift in the wind. There are the fires, theres the creek fire, the northern complex in august complex. So as long as the fire still puts smoke in the air, we are vulnerable. We will go more into detail in a few minutes. People who live in rvs now have a new safe spot to leave their vehicles overnight in mountain view. The new site is located on terra bella avenue, its the third in the city. They also have safe parking sites on pioneer way and evelyn avenue as well as along the shoreline amphitheater. The new spot was an unused residential space that was transformed through a partnership between the city and alter housing. And fremont a fire at a homeless encampment briefly threatened for homes but didnt damage them. Firefighters had it under control in about 20 minutes. It burned about two acres. And a new push in Contra Costa County to help house Homeless People in serious risk of contracting coronavirus. County leaders are working to acquire the motel 6 in pittsburgh. Has 174 units in the county would oversee operations and provide support services at the site. Funds for the project are coming from a state program called project home key. It helps counties purchase Vacant Properties and convert them into longterm housing for the homeless. While we await an effective vaccine against the coronavirus, today hundreds lined up in san jose to protect themselves against the good Old Fashioned flu. Flu shots were given out at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds on tully road. The Public Health Officials Say it is it extraimportant to get a flu shot this year. Because of the flu and the coronavirus have similar symptoms and that makes a definitive diagnosis hard. I want to reduce my odds of getting sick by getting this flu shot as early as possible. If you get the flu this year you may have to get a covid19 test or you may have to stay at home from work, you may have to isolate away from your family. Its especially important this year more than ever to get that annual flu shot. Free flu shots will be available every saturday morning and afternoon through december 12 at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Some promising news out of stanford on possible coronavirus treatments. Researchers are testing a pair of lab made antibodies that attack the spike protein on the virus. One is being given to people that show up at the er with mild to moderate symptoms. Preliminarily top line results has been shown to reduce the number of hospitalizations and repeat emergency room visits. It may even reduce the viral load during the coronavirus illness. Stanford is also testing another lab made antibody in several different settings. They are studying whether inpatients with severe cases improve and outpatients with mild cases dont get worse researchers also plan to launch a household contact study to see if it can event transmission within families. Uc berkeley also starting a new Research Center on psychedelic drugs. The university Officials Say two of the biggest reasons to study psychedelics is to better understand how they affect the mind. And how they can be used to treat patients with mental illnesses. The center will also focus on educating the public. A selfhelp Housing Project in st. Helena is building homes for lower income families. In one of the most expensive communities in the bay area. John raymo shows us the work in progress. Reporter usually people build houses to give themselves a place to live. But if you do it right you might actually find out what life is all about. In downtown st. Helena this property could be about the persons Vacation Home instead it will be a shot at a new life for eight workingclass families. But make no mistake, this is no gift. I told them at the beginning, forget about vacations, no vacations. Larry, retired builder who works as a project manager says most of the selfhelp homebuilders had zero experience coming in. The families are working on all eight homes at the same time and the townhouses are identical. So when they learn a new building skill on one it can be applied to the next seven houses. When we started out we were pulling out as many males as we were putting in. At this point we are pretty good at feeling. The commitment is astounding, families must work at least 32 hours a week and have been doing so since july 2019. That is 69 straight weekends without a break. Since they all have full time jobs that means they are working there the job than coming here working two full days. Today many of the men were absent working their winery jobs. Their wives will be pulling double duty. Anna martinez is no stranger to hard work but even she wondered if this would be possible. At that maybe no, it is a lot of big dreams and a lot of work for the dream. Now what do you think . Well, i can do it. Now shes become a master at becoming cutting lumber and framing walls and minus the sweat equity everyone will be responsible for the remaining cost of the project, about 400,000 for each home. This is not a giveaway, these folks are on the hook to pay this money back. Its a mortgage. But they will be owning a home in st. Helena, something they could never imagine on their 40 60,000 emily incomes. With it will come a renewed sense of what is possible in life. I think for all of our families, that first home has been the step to making the next step up the ladder. That is really what we are trying to do here. For anna, even a covid19 facemask cant hide the look of pride in her face when she imagines the data home is finished. To say oh, this is my house. It completes my dreams. The project is organized by a nonprofit called our town st. Helena. Covid19 has severely reduced the number of volunteer laborers. If you would like to help out have posted a link on kpix. Com. A decent sized quake jolts Southern California and now everyone is wondering, what is next. Trump supporters make their horns and their voices heard in the east bay today. Replacing the irreplaceable. Why the heated battle to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburgs seat in the court may come down to the subject of math as much is Political Science. You can stay uptodate 24 hours a day with our new kpix 5 as if the wildfires and pandemic were not bad enough, in Southern California Mother Nature is throwing another curveball. Our reporter has some reaction from some addled residents who were woken up by an earthquake. Reporter it was quite a jolt on friday night as the ground started moving and things started swaying. As the fear of what could be made many jump. It was powerful, it went through my whole body. The earthquake was the talk of the morning at local doughnut shops. She just woke me up and said did you feel the earthquake. Terrible, terrible. I tried to get up and i cannot get up. The quake was centered near south money and hit friday night. It had a magnitude of 4. 5, that is not considered large enough by scientists to do significant damage physically but emotionally, that is a different story. Did it scare you . Oh yes, i was scared. Sometimes you know, when you know what has happened in northridge and other things in the past. The la basin hasnt had an earthquake this size in several years. This one was likely caused by the false system, the same one that erupted in 1987 but that one was much stronger, hitting a magnitude of 5. 9. Although this quake certainly shook security cameras and emotions, most things stayed in place and no stores in town reported any damage. Some toys and books fell off the shelf. Immediately after the earthquake the city of los angeles in to what is called earthquake mode. That means firefighters from 106 different neighborhoods hit the street driving around looking for damage and thankfully they didnt find any. This is a great reminder that this is earthquake country. Bigger ones will happen at some point. Dr. Lucy jones calmed fears immediately and points out that its a perfect time to make sure you know what to do. Stop, drop, and hold on. Some things went down. Which is why its important for us all to get used to it to make a plan. That is the best way to prepare for the next one. Joy benedict, cbs news. Onto the fire watch now, claims continued to burn all along the west coast. 3. 5 million acres have burned in california alone. Outside la the el dorado fire started by botched pyrotechnics at agenda reveal party left one firefighter dead. As the winds pickup residents continue to flee their homes. At least 35 people have died in oregon, washington and california. The search for those missing continues. Today and estimated 200 trucks made their way through the east bay for a rally for President Trump participants met in pleasanton and from there they cruised through dublin, san ramon and danville. Continuing on to livermore and they wrapped it up back in pleasanton. Alameda lien so far to the left and is so controlled by democrats. People need to hear that there are people with a different message, republican message. This is about everybody getting together, we are starting that red wave and showing all of california that our president is great and loves america. Attendees a plan to hold another truck rally for trump a week before the november election. Oquinn is trying to give it Small Businesses a boost by making it easier to shop and dine there. This he unveiled four new blocks of flex streets today. One of 10 and three downtown. The program is meant to give people more room to spread out on those city blocks and visit the shops and restaurants along them. Meanwhile pedestrians and cyclists are getting more space in San Franciscos golden gate park. Additional slow streets and road closures are in effect at standing street and john f. Kennedy drive. Its all too promote social distancing. Livermores wine trolleys will hit the street again in early october after a sixmonth shutdown. The company says there is a lot of space for social distancing and they will also follow strict cleaning guidelines to ensure guest safety. Now that we know that i guess it means it is time to find out what will happen with the weather. I always like asking this, do we have any hint of any significant rain coming . Glad you asked that. By the end of september. So in about a week and a half. Yesterday i showed on the evening news, and now its saying we make it some rain but its too far out. It is, but we can hope. Until we get widespread rain, its fire season and we will continue to be at the mercy of the wind. But we might get some breaks in the air, but all we need is the wind to shift and we are right back in it. Thats my the bay area air quality district put us back under the spare the air today. I will show you the two images that really helped drive this point home the most. Thats the view from the salesforce camera. Now im going to show you the satellite. There are four distinct plumes of smoke. I will label them. You can see the clouds moving from west to east. The smoke is moving north to south. And if we come in for a closer look. I will switch the view and we will look just across our little portion of Central California from the bay area toward the sierra. You can see the smoke coming off the creek fire. Unmistakably you can see it filling the canyons. So if we go to those smoke forecasts, the deeper the shades of red, the higher the concentration of smoke. We were just looking at it on the satellite. Lets look at all four of them now. We will widen the view and play this out over the next day and a half. And there is some good news here. Not as good as last week, the smoke will start drifting back to the bay area but our big concern, would be the august complex because that is the one directly north from us. Thats why we went back into moderate air quality today. And in san jose the air quality is still good, so a reversal of fortunes. Daytime himes tomorrow will be in the low 90s, so we will stay warm for the weekend. San jose does not look good, that is a live view. Its not perfectly clear, but it is healthy. So as far as the winds, upper level winds going this way. Thats why the clouds are all going that way. But if we come down, instead of looking at the upper levels, look at the part of the atmosphere where that smoke is, now you can see why it is traveling this way. Overnight we will see more of an easterly flow and that is not good news for the north complex fire. Those are the kind of winds that can fan flames and maybe even throw little more smoke our way. But it will be shortlived, its not a terribly strong wind event. Once we get into the rest of this week the wind will not be working against us. It wont do is any huge favors but it also wont be blowing a lot of smoke our way. So looking ahead, thats why the forecast was moderate on air quality. Morning lows go back down to around 60. Daytime highs low 90s inland and low 80s in the bay. So its kind of warm but not too terribly uncomfortable. Tomorrow is the peak temperature wise and the 7 day forecast. We will come back down to the mid to upper 80s inland and mid 70s in the bay. Straight ahead, the 49ers passed is about to catch up with them. How cruel can a golf course be . And the giants and as tee it up again in oakland. If you are looking for drama you will jackie, im looking at your mri. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Well, dr. Farrell, it feels really good. Thats good. And. Im sorry. Baby, dont touch that. I dont want you to play with that. singing twinkle, twinkle little star. How i wonder what you are. still singing up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky. Im so glad that your shoulder is feeling better. But, how are you doing . Im hanging in there. Schedule a video visit with your doctor. And get quality care with no copay. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Baseball up top, and around here the as and giants are still a thing. Saturdays matchup today, 7000 coliseum way, sean minaya, save that mic for the second career. Want to trade salaries . Jesus luzardo with his ninth major league dart and the runners going into the fourth inning, but at third, solana was thrown out. The as are up 10, and there is jake lamb crushing it again. A two run blast, hes laid five games and seven hits. Later in the inning, adventures in the outfield, thats a two run scar, next atbat marcus semien, and another run scored. And for the second straight day the as beat the giants 60. They are 50 vs. That giants this year. They can clinch the al west if the astros lose tonight. With training and will probably celebrate by playing video games in my apartment. But i think tomorrow, it is a better idea to go out and win tomorrow and not count on other peoples losses. I think it is big, either way. However we get it, if we clinch the al west, that was part of our goal when we started. You might wonder whats up with the giants. Well that loss left them a half game behind the cardinals for the less playoff spot in the National League with nine games left. So whos winning the u. S. Open . To new york, have you ever seen this happen before, in the third round, Patrick Cantley ricocheted right back at him and passed him at the 15th whole. He bogeyed the hole and its time to tie for the 50th. Lets go to patrick read, issues at the 11. He was eight over and hes tied for 11. The door of opportunity swung to the man in the richer. Matthew wolf, his shot at 18, just at his second major event. He shot a 5 under 65. Hes tied and hes tied with bryson dechambeau. And the native from clovis shot and even round of 70. So what does this all mean . Wolf leads by two shots, headed into the final round, only three players, three are under par on that course and with the lpga, melissa read on her birthday leads by 2 outside of portland. The nfl in the 49ers, they had another starter jump on the injury list. This time ford is out for the jets game because of lingering neck spasms. There is still a touchdown favorite to win. And they will run into the 49ers all time leading rusher, frank gore. He starts for the jets now. A 10 am game tomorrow. His career began for the niners in 2005. In current linebacker fred warner was nine years old. It will be an honor to go against him this week. He still got it. I just want a good win. The guys that run that hard very rarely can play to his age and what a dedicated Football Player he is. This nearly 2 billion las vegas house gets them friday night. No game on sunday but that doesnt mean that the running back gets any rest, not with a sixmonthold baby number two in the house. I asked about joining the three club as myself and john gruden remembers. You mean gruden hasnt given you the data go for three speech . No, he didnt give me that one. He gave me the no more and sees and baby speech. Hes only a couple of times in the baby room. He said okay no more and sees and babies. When i think of that i think of john gruden talking me into baby number three. I know its an hourlong show, do i have time to tell the story . Yes you do we want to hear. 2001 john gruden, named people magazines most beautiful people. So he comes out and we are talking offcamera and i sent we just had our second baby and i think my wife wants to go for another. And then, and the biggest like recruiting contorted face, excitable demeanor that he can be, he gave me a recruiting pitch on the great things about having a third child. Youve got a go for three. Youve got to go for three. Three brings the juice to the family. All the terminology. He had me so fired up. Im like okay coach. And we went out and got nikki. Ill second that. Weve got three and its fun. All right vern, thank you for that. But you didnt play on his team so it wasnt like he was going to lose a player. Will President Trump and Mitch Mcconnell try to get a nominee through . The answer is probably yes. The bigger oyster now is can they do it. 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