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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 5pm July 12, 2024

Capacity does not mean much when there are no customers around so 25 Office Capacity is welcomed news here. I was surprised to hear that people were mentioning going back to work and filling Office Spaces i feel like downtown has been kind of forgotten neighborhood of the city. The number of Small Businesses this is going to help is hard to even say. Reporter yellow also means good news for jim owners that go beyond private sessions owners, the real struggle will be demanding confidence. For those that are feeling comfortable and confident about it this is great for Small Businesses and local neighborhood businesses that took it in the teeth starting march. Reporter next moves are tied to the hospitalization numbers the city has today and as we have seen in other parts of the entry those numbers can change. Shift cases start to go up in a way that is alarming we will not hesitate to put a pause or reverse some of the reopening is. We do need to make subs to move forward and with City Health Officials and state Health Officials saying we can do this, it the only way to make progress. Workers can now start coming back to downtown highrises but what are the Big Tech Companies saying about whether they will actually start doing that . Some have decided to wait until next year, salesforce is looking at the end of the month or next month, there are different rules for different size companies not every company is the size of twitter there is an exception or groups that have smaller employee loads, everybody has a lot of figuring to do now what does 25 look like for your business, who wants to go back there are a lot of decisions to be made. Not as simple as just saying come on back just hours after the state cleared levis another stadiums to reopen Santa Clara County has thrown the challenge flag. We want to make it clear that super spreader events will not be allowed within the county of santa clara this is the worst thing in the world to be doing it a time when california is beginning to see some light. They are located in an orange tear county, they would have been able to fill 20 of the seats under the new rules, that amounts to about 14,000 fans. Tailgating would have been forbidden and fans would have required to order concessions directly to their seats and stay there. Its easier to do Contact Tracing and know where somebody was during a specific time or activity or event when you are relying on ticket sales with a specific seat number or section number. The new guidelines limit ticket sales to a 120 mile radius, to discourage trouble from out of state. No guidance yet on college sports, the state says they want to see what happens at the pro level ist but they already said they will not allow fans this season anyway. The state also released new guidelines for smaller theme parks to reopen, toes can do so with modifications if they are in a county he states orange tear. There will be limited capacity only Outdoor Attractions and only guests who live in that county can visit. As for the big theme parks they can first open on the counties in the yellow tiers of the six flags and Great American cannot reopen just yet. Same thing for disneyland and Universal Studios it might be a while before they can welcome back visitors. Its crushing news to the thousands of fark employees who were hoping to get back to work. We think that stores can reopen safely and members wants to go back to work. A prolonged closure puts a lot of instability in a lot of peoples eyes because they dont know when they can come back to work. Thousands of people already signed a petition asking the governor to rethink his position. The state cleared all personal Care Services to reopen indoors regardless of the county status. That now includes tattoo and massage studios with limited capacity and modifications. We are watching a red flag warning for the northbay mountains fire danger will be a concern for the rest of the week. It will be which is par for the course to some of the year, we are looking at the National Weather service fire whether you have which gives us a snapshot of how many locations have red flag dangerous fire weather conditions right now and of the 363 on this map zero of them have red flag conditions right now, few yellow dots indicating some places getting close but were not seeing that dangerous combination of low humidity and high wind. Northbay still red flag warning the wind gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour and humidity is going to be lower than 30 . The more dangerous timeframe is going to be tomorrow night into early thursday morning potentially continuing into friday morning and this is more of the bay area. The wind can because the humidity can be lower so thats another timeframe we have to watch carefully. The good news is temperatures will cool down later this week and details coming up in a few minutes. High fire danger has potentially 54,000 customers could be affected. Theres a look at the local areas infected, blackouts can happen as early as tomorrow, the shutoffs could impact more than 6500 customers in the bay area including more than 4300 in napa county and 960 in sonoma county. If pg e decides to turn off power it will be the second safety shut off in the week. Dangerous weather conditions its all hands on deck in the east bay, firefighters are bracing for the worst and have patrols on standby. We are currently responding to multiple vegetation fires per day in the cities and working with our neighboring counties. Residents who live in an area at risk of a wild fire breaking out should always have a bag packed in case they need to evacuate. And danville Authorities Say the driver of this vehicle ended up crashing into a tree after trying to flee from police. We flew over the valley boulevard this morning, chp says they tried to pull over the purple exes when the driver led them on a highspeed chase. The suspect ended up losing control, struck a vehicle and slammed into a tree. A pedestrian near the tree was hit by debris and suffered minor injuries. The driver was taken into custody. Google is doing a search for a good defense after the Justice Departments left the company with an antitrust lawsuit. Were live is google headquarters with the opening move in a highstakes game. This is the first major antitrust lawsuit in the two decades the last time they went after microsoft back in the 90s, this is the beginning of a years long legal battle for google and perhaps the rest of tech as well. Reporter the doj had been working on lawsuit for more than one year, and filing it this morning it accuses google assigning socalled preinstallation agreements with hardware manufacturers especially phones that were harmful, especially on android phones for example apps, browsers and divorce assistant all use you know what, and they partnered with apple to be the default Search Engine over yahoo and bing, absent a court order google will continue executing its anticompetitive strategy, can rippling the competitive process of reducing Consumer Choice and stifling innovation. Google currently in the mix of expanding its own mega campus in Mountain View responded in a blog post calling the lawsuits dubious people dont use google because they have to, they use is because they choose to. Thats what the doj is saying is bad that his people have a choice but you are being steered to choose google. Reporter the senior reporters as Public Perception about big tech has changed dramatically in recent years. Theres this reckoning going on with tech for a long time it was this great thing it was changing our lives everybody thought favorably. We are realizing the control that they have and if this is causing government bodies to look into it. Reporter 11 states have signed onto lawsuit however colorado Iowa Nebraska and new york all issued a joint statement saying they are investigating and also join the lawsuit at a later time. For apple facebook and amazon the lawsuit might signal the beginning of legal troubles that could last years. Those four companies have antitrust issues and they are all going to face cases. What exactly is the Justice Department demanding here . If you look back in history the way the feds handled the telecoms or microsoft or the railroads they can range anywhere from just tweaking that little section of googles business all the way to breaking up google, not asking for anything specific. They endorse yes on 25 to end money bail. Governor gavin newsom. Congresswoman karen bass. The western center on law and poverty. The Dolores Huerta foundation. Californians for safety and justice. And the California Democratic party. Yes on 25. Traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. Accused of rape. Accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail. Got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not. Forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. In san jose there is a new initiative on the environment, bay area Quality Management is proposing a new plan to keep some changes from the pandemic to help cut down on commuters, they Want Companies to continue have more employees work from home, saying it will end up helping our environment in the long run. We want people to work from home at least 25 of the time or more and if we can do that and reduce the amount of cars on our roads thats going to help us in the air pollution and Greenhouse Gas emission. Reporter City Council Sets to vote on the new initiative we will follow the results and keep you updated on the air and online. Right now talks are underway between the Trump Administration and the democrats over a coronavirus stimulus package. House speaker nancy policies is she should hopefully know by the end of the day today whether she and the white house will be able to pass a new deal before the election. Im optimistic because i think we have a shared value, not many but a shared value. Both sides agree the package should include another round of stimulus checks, money for schools and a reinstatement of federal and implement benefits, once they are at odds over safety in the workplace and funding for state and local governments. Today the senate took up a standalone bill of the Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses. Reopening the pvp off to be a nobrainer. There is bipartisan agreement to the American People still need help. Tomorrow they are expected to vote on a scaleddown package of less than 1 trillion which even President Donald Trump admits is not enough. Meanwhile start screwed as follows he signaled progress of negotiations, the dow closed 113 points higher, nasdaq gained 30 points, the s p of 16. And Houston Police officer killed in the line of duty today at an apartment complex south of downtown. You can see a swarm of officers and a s. W. A. T. Team surrounding the scene. Harold preston was one of two officers shot during a Domestic Violence call. Im not calling him a hero, the way he died today but he is a hero. Hes a guy in his 60s and hes leading from where we want our sergeants to lead, from the front. Reporter the officer killed was a 41 year veteran of the force, the suspect was shot and is now hospitalized. An update on the deadly diebold fire that killed 34 people in Southern California last year. Investigators say watchmen could have saved lives. They blame the lack of one or delaying the detection of that fire. They have not been able to determine exactly what caused the fire but witness accounts suggest it might have been sparked by charging batteries. A pilot safely ejected before a super hornet went down, the weather was hazy at the time but its unclear if it contributed to the crash. Taking a look at linda mar bijan pacifico which california is apparently doing an excellent job of protecting, the state got the only a grade in the foundations latest reports that ranks every state with a coastline on how they are managing issues like erosion and preparing for sea level rise. The report prays california efforts to move development and infrastructure inland rather than building seawalls and altering beaches. Is okay in the City Temperatures further inland would welcome the trees but its going to be another warm day tomorrow the picture in the atmosphere has not changed much so the warm dry weather is going to continue with that offshore went further up in the atmosphere and down your Brown Leather there has been enough onshore breeze to push far through but some of the upper level winds next lower which is why we have the concern for gusty conditions in the north bay tonight. Combine that with low humidity levels and thats where the fire danger prompted the morning. Humidity levels in the 25 to 35 range, those numbers dont improve much as we had through the rest of the night which is why we have the red flag warning continuing into early tomorrow morning. The relative humidity drops even more during the afternoon tomorrow, the wind is not going to be as big a problem so even the drive. Is not going to represent the biggest fire danger. Another red flag warning tomorrow evening and humidity still quite low tomorrow night and into early thursday morning. Wind gusts are not going to be strong at all by 11 00 this evening, early hours of tomorrow morning these are the communities you go up on the hilltops and the mountaintops and ridges that is where the wind gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour and if a spark is going it will rapidly spread. Wind will relax into the afternoon hours and shift directions to a more onshore components that will help us briefly before we head into tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. Looking towards the golden gate you can see that shallow marine layer that tops poking through and the shallow marine layer means the fog is not going to take long to dissipate and is not going to spread far inland. Downtown 66 degrees 79 degrees in oakland and everybody else in the 80s. 88 degrees in livermore and concorde. Like last night we are going to cool off nicely this is the difference from last week plenty of heat last week but overnight low temperatures did not drop very far we stayed in the 60s. Most tomorrow morning in the mid50s still 5 to 10 degrees above average around the water with 10 to 15 degree above average temperatures further inland. Right along the coast he will be in the low to mid 60s, low to mid 80s around the south bay mid to upper 80s in the Santa Clara Valley with 85 degrees in san jose, a bradys to around 90 degrees in the trivalley with the hottest spots in the range as usual into the low 90s. Most of the 70s expecting 74 degrees in San Francisco and 78 in oakland, low to mid 80s for the north bay and further north temperatures still warm but one more day in the 80s instead. We dropped several degrees thursday and the cooldown is going to continue into the weekend, low to mid 70s inland with midsixties around the bay, the only thing the forecast lacks is rain and i cannot do anything about that. I didnt choose this job because it was easy. But i cant say i expected this. To fight these fires, we need funding plain and simple. For this crisis, and for the next one. Prop 15 closes tax loopholes so rich corporations pay their fair share of taxes. So firefighters like me, have what we need to do the job, and to do it right. The big corporations want to keep their tax loopholes. Its what they do. Well, i do what i do. If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. Uber and lyft are like every big guy ive ever brought down. Prop 22 doesnt help their drivers it denies them benefits. 22 doesnt help women. It actually weakens Sexual Harassment laws, which are meant to protect them. Uber and lyft arent even required to investigate Sexual Harassment claims. I agree with the la times no on 22. Uber and lyft want all the power. So, show them the real power is you. Vote no on prop 22. The Largest School district in the country has so far been able to reopen or in Person Learning without a major up the coronavirus. The city has also launched a new Testing Program this month where 10 to 20 of student and staff populations at each school will randomly be tested once per month. The new york city mayor says out of the more than 16,000 random tests the city reported only 28 cases. A Positivity Rate of 0. 17 . There is an effort to test children for covid19 in San Mateo County and the cars lined up for drivethrough testing at the county event center. Kids ages five and older can self administer the test through a mouth swab, an appointment is required. The site is open weekdays from 1 pm until 8 pm. Coming up special election coverage at 5 30.

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