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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon October 24, 2017

New rental homes currently under construction. Leigh martinez joins us live from the newsroom with the steps being taken today to try to relax temporary housing rules and better protect fire victims from price gouging. Reporter the wildfires wiped out whole neighborhoods. More than 6000 structures were destroyed. The board of supervisors meeting is going on right now and one said her priority is to get housing so people do not need to leave the county. Its estimated the rebuilding process could take several years. County and city leaders will consider relaxing several housing rules such as allowing people to live on rv while their houses are being built. And allowing others to rent out their guest or pool houses to evacuees. The county supervisor say the housing crisis prior to the fires means they will need to be created to find places for fire victims. We already had a 0 vacancy rate. It was literally under 1 in Sonoma County. The cost of rental housing was skyrocketing. It was bad and its gotten worse. We are already seeing ridiculous prices from people seeking 20,000 a month. Reporter county supervisor say they are borrowing landlords from increasing rent unless they can justify an increase from before the fire disaster. The County District Attorneys Office said that landlords can raise rents if they have accrued costs during the wildfires. There are already state emergency laws to prevent price gouging but local leaders say they need to go further with relief and prosecute those taking advantage of fire the things. Its appalling. I have no words to describe people who are trying to profiteer from this crisis. There are kids without homes tonight who lost everything. Every last stuffed animal. As a mother that breaks my heart. To see people trying to take advantage of those families is appalling. I hope they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Reporter there is a proposed moratorium on issuing new permit for Vacation Rentals. I think at the same time we should put forward what it is we are talking about. Its 10 units. The Vacation Rental and have been its actually do play a role in the economy of the county. At the same time were not trying to let it go to hell in a hand basket there either. Reporter the supervisor later said the 45 day moratorium would not apply to existing Vacation Rentals are hotels and likely not have a negative impact on the tourism economy. Santa rosa city council is considering new emergency housing ordinances. If passed they would go into effect immediately. Officials have begun outlining plans for cleanup. After that phase starts this week. The focus is on disposing Hazardous Waste such as asbestos, pesticides, burned vehicles air conditioners and refrigerators. At the end of the day we can return to you a safe and environmentally clean site for your family to rebuild. Our goal that we are pushing hard on is to have that work completed by early 2018. Many people attended to see how the cleanup would be handled so they can begin the world rebuilding process. The red cross has opened a service center. At this this at the United Methodist church on randolph street in napa. This video was shot this morning after the center open. The red cross is expecting it to be busy later this afternoon. The center is similar to one that opened yesterday in santa rosa. Volunteers will help link people who lost their homes, vehicles and businesses to resources and help them get financial assistance. We will be here until they dont need us anymore. Dozens came to the center on the first day yesterday. We are expecting the same here and napa. It will be every day. We would get new people coming in as the word gets out. The new center will be open every day from 9 00 until 7 pm from now until this coming saturday. The four top Democratic Candidates running for governor of reform in San Francisco. The candidates are former Los Angeles Mayor antonio villaraigosa, Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom, former state superintendent of public instruction, delaine eastin, and former Los Angeles Mayor antonio villaraigosa. We are sharing video from a similar form and anaheim held last weekend. Today the candidates at the city club of San Francisco and are expected to discuss topics such as healthcare come immigration, housing, climate change. The primary is November November 2018. The top two finishers will move on to the final election. Trump has been sparring with republican senator bob corker on twitter this morning. This comes as the president heads to capitol hill to meet with republicans. Caroline shively has martha washington. Reporter the president heads to capitol hill for a working lunch where the stage is set for a potentially awkward meeting with senate republicans. A series of tweets this morning from President Trump, the latest indication that relationships are tense. One post personally criticized bob corker saying he cannot get elected dog catcher in his own state. The insult coming after the tennessee senator said this morning in an interview that the president should leave leave diplomacy to the profession as an tweeted the hashtag, alert the daycare staff. I think he has one or two people that dont want to see the ball move further down the field. Reporter also invited was senator john mccain. This senator has barred with the president on a number of issues, particularly healthcare. Over the summer he cast a deciding vote against the repeal in place. The president has promised to help defeat the other republican senator. The meeting is an opportunity for the president to unite with Senate Leaders on the fall agenda, particularly passing the 2018 budget and getting support on tax reform. There is no way the republicans can avoid raising taxes and a good number of middleclass families are going to cling to massive tax cuts for the rich and powerful and still make the numbers work. The president is looking ahead to next months trip to asia. Relationships are also tense there. The white house is Still Deciding on whether the president will make the customer a visit to the Demilitarized Zone that separates north and south korea. A resolution is expected to be introduced this afternoon in San Francisco and it will call for the impeachment of President Trump. These are live pictures we are bringing you. A group of city and Community Leaders undemanding the president s removal. Similar resolutions have been passed in 16 other u. S. Cities. That includes richmond, alameda, berkeley, oakland and santa cruz. Organizers of todays event say mr. Trump has met the standard for impeachment. San francisco resolution mentioned obstruction of justice related to his by a a former fbi director james comey during an active investigation and also collusion related to his campaigns ties to russian interests. A judge in San Francisco is expected to world today or tomorrow on a request by california and 18 other states to block the trump administrations a plan to cut off insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care act. The states want the judge to order the administration to make those payments while the case is heard. Yesterday the judge suggested he probably will not order an emergency injunction because the states have not proved that people were in imminent harm. The judge said that california and other states anticipated the subsidies would end and found a way to make sure consumers would not pay more. Lawmakers in sacramento are Holding Hearings this week at the capital to address a proposal that would provide universal Health Coverage in our state. Yesterday the discussions attracted hundreds of members of the california nurses association. Those pushing for the State Government run Healthcare Programs say its needed now more than ever because of the uncertainty over the Affordable Care act. They can have as many meetings as they want but it will not provide the healthcare we need. People are dying right now, deciding not to have medication because they can afford it. Deciding not to go to the emergency room because they cant afford it. The singlepayer healthcare proposal would replace californias private Health Insurance market with a single government run program with no premiums or deductibles for nearly 40 million californians. The kate steinle trial is underway. Testimony from a witness who said she was next to the suspect when the shot was fired. What she said he was doing before the gun shot. A new study is out on Police Body Cameras. Why researchers say the cameras may not be as effective as something. Rosemary orozco is tracking the bay area heat and will be here after the break. Do you want to do a monster check . Yes. No monsters. How about the drawer . No monsters. Nightly monster checks are how grant makes home his. And homegoods is what makes it all possible. Amazing finds. Always great prices. Make home yours. Today is day two of testimony in the trial of an undocumented immigrant charged in the killing of kate steinle. Her father was expected to return to the witness stand. Prosecutors decided not to crossexamine him. The jury is hearing from a tourist who was on pier 14 when kate steinle was killed in 2015. She said she was sitting next to jose ines garciazarate. She said he was watching people walk by and laughing to himself. She said he made her feel uncomfortable. Moments later she heard a bang and a screen. His attorney said he does have some psychological issues but that is not their defense. I think it would be wrong to pretend that there arent also mental state and Mental Health issues at play. Im trying to honestly present that without improperly taking advantage of that, or Something Like that. Im trying to tell the truth about him but also address the facts of the case. Garciazarate is charged with seconddegree murder and manslaughter. His attorney said the shooting was an accident. The trial is expected to last six weeks. Police in antioch are investigating a shooting that happened last night. This happened just after 10 30 pm on west 10th street near j street. When officers arrived they found the man on the ground with at least one bullet wound. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. There is no motive yet for the shooting and no arrests have been made. This killing comes hours after a man was shot on sunday and he died from his injuries. A man was shot in Lafayette Park early this morning after a struggle over a cell phone. Police say the victim was Walking Around the park in Pacific Heights when another man asked to use his phone. The men struggled over the phone. The suspect pulled a gun as the victim was running away. The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. Police have not made any arrests. Is the most extensive study to date on the effects of Police Body Cameras and the findings may surprise you. Researchers conducted an 18 month study of 2000 officers and found the cameras did little to affect their behavior. Monte francis explained the findings. Reporter one police in North Carolina shot and killed a black man named keith scott last year, Police Released body camera footage to support the argument that the shooting was justified. Officers had the cameras because of a nationwide outcry that followed a number of high profile killings of black men by police. Michael brown in ferguson, missouri in 2014. Freddie gray in baltimore the following year. And walter scott, who was shot in the back as he ran from the white police officer, in south carolina. 95 of Police Departments nationwide now use body cameras including most departments in the bay area. Frank zimring is a professor at uc berkeley and author of the book, when police killed. There are substantial indications that the presence or absence of a camera does make a difference. Reporter a new Study Suggests that difference may not be a change in an officers behavior. The study compared 1000 officers on the Washington Dc Police force with body cameras to 1000 officers without cameras. During an 18 month period there was little difference and behave behavior when it comes to use of force. Civilian complaints, or in the number of charging decisions made by prosecutors. But professor zimring said there is evidence to show a difference in prosecutions of officers when the shootings are deadly. Our indications there and none of the studies have directly addressed this are that it increases by a factor of 6 criminal prosecutions. Reporter vocal civil rights leaders see other benefits from body cameras. George holland senior, the president of the oakland chapter of the naacp says the cameras provide a needed sense of accountability. Any tool that we can use to level the field of justice. We need to do that. We need to use them. Reporter the police the professor said the dc force as well trained any Different Department could yield different results. What we dont know about is how it affects behavior at the deep end. And thats what has been motivating body cameras to go on police in the first place. Proponents of cameras cite other benefits such as more accurate investigations, better training. They can also be used to exonerate an officer who was wrongly accused of abuse. Another study on body cameras is due next month. Weather in the bay area is pretty intense for some of us. We could possibly break some records. Today will be the hottest day and it is baking in some areas. We have already broken a record in one area. Lets take a look outside. Here is the satellite view where we have a ridge of High Pressure over the west. That storm is well to the north. Areas of canada. Washington and oregon are in the clear as well as the entire state of california. Southern california reached into the triple digits yesterday. For us, a lot of 80s and 90s. Thats what we will do again today. Heres a look at the wind. Variable and light for areas over the north bay. We do have a gust in novato coming in from the southeast. The offshore breeze has been fairly strong in the east bay hills and the coastal range. Because of that, temperatures took off early this morning. Look at Half Moon Bay. 90 degrees. Half moon bay is the hottest spot on this graphic. Low 80s in San Francisco. Upper 80s in oakland. 88 at the airport. That is the wrecker. We will shatter that today. 81 in santa rosa. 83, san jose. 88, oakland. 90, Half Moon Bay. That offshore wind is driving temperatures up as a comes off the hills. Here is menlo park, 88. 85, san mateo. In the east bay, this is an anomaly. 84, antioch. 90 in Half Moon Bay. The 24 hour temperature change. Up by 13 in oakland. Up by 5 in livermore. Heres a look at the records expect did to get to or perhaps beat. Santa rosa, i dont think you will break that record of 92 but if the offshore wind picks up, the temperature could drive up a little more. Oakland airport, likely to break that record in the second half of the afternoon. Mid80s expected in sausalito. Low 90s over santa rosa. Upper 80s and low 90s for the east bay shore. Low 90s for inland communities. 92, san jose. 92, santa cruz. Upper 80s in redwood city. Upper 80s, San Francisco. Today will be the hottest day but notice the cool down. Its a gradual one. A little better tomorrow. A little better on thursday. As we get into the weekend it looks pretty good. Upper 60s and low 70s around the coast. Low 80s inland. Have you been outside lately . Its hot. And a lot of fire danger concerns. Especially with the wind we saw earlier today. The moisture is not as dry as it has been because of the rain on thursday. Had we not had that rain we would definitely have a red flag warning. Game 1 of the world series gets underway in los angeles this evening. It could set a record when the first pitch is shown. In excessive heat warning will be in place when the game starts. The temperature will be close to 100. That could make any fan uncomfortable. The Current Record High Temperature for a World Series Game is 94. That was set when the diamondbacks hosted the yankees during the 2001 world series. Along with the record breaking heat, ticket prices also may reach record levels. The average price for tonights game between the dodgers and astros will be around 3000 per ticket. If there is a game 7 in this series, those tickets are expected to soar to more than 5000 a piece. You can watch game 1 of the world series tonight right here on ktvu fox 2 at 4 00. You can watch local news here on ktvu. That will be followed immediately by pregame coverage of the world series. If youre looking for more local news, flip it over to ktvu plus at 4 30 pm. Bart has new cars ready for passengers. When you can write the new trained, after the break. Hes brought us to the brink of nuclear war. Obstructed justice at the fbi. And in direct violation of the constitution, hes taken money from foreign governments and threatened to shut down news organizations that report the truth. If that isnt a case for impeaching and removing a dang

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