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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 4pm November 18, 2017

Mayor had to say about this. Reporter the ghost ship fire revealed dangerous oversights by the city. It has been 11 months. The mayor said this internal memo is proof there has been progress. But a long way before the city delivers on the promises. With a table full of her Staff Administration department the mayor invited media this morning to her office. To clarify what oakland has accomplished since the fire. And what needs work. The city plans to do more than two double its inspectors staff at the end of 2018. None are on staff yet. The Fire Department is working to catch up on 1000 backlog mandated inspections. Oakland plans to implement a digital interdepartmental system to show information on Problem Properties is more easily shared. The families are asking why it took a fire to get the city to get things done. The improvements we are making our improvements we should have been making as a normal course of business. Taking advantage of new technological advances. New business practices. But obviously the tragedy gave us a focus and a sense of urgency. She said they are working to implement longterm solutions. The city is working to update ordinances to protect tenants. It isnt quite there yet. The mayors goal has been to bring on permits at buildings up to code while avoiding displacing people. Getting owners to come forward and work with them to make building safe. San Francisco Police have reason to feel somewhat under siege given a string of recent violent incidents including one today from sky fox. You can see Police Vehicles responding to the twin peaks off the observation area this morning. A police car saw a suspicious vehicle with a person or people who might have been casing vehicles parked on twin peaks. Officers were in the area conducting an investigation. We are not saying what led them to the suspect vehicle during that process. In this case the officer was not struck. It is not the first incident where an officer has been hurt on the job. The police have a lot more information. They cannot release at this time. They were up there looking for something when the incident occurred. Uc Berkeley Students should be alert at night. A series of street robberies targeting victims near the campus. Henry lee joins us live over uc berkeley. Police believe the same robbers might be involved. Based on the timing and location of the robberies they believe the same robbery crew might be responsible. They are warning students to take precautions. Reporter over the past week five College Age Students at uc berkeley have been robbed. They are hoping others dont fall victim if they are distracted by the stress of school or the devices in their hands. The victims were college age and walking alone. Some might have been distracted or walking with their phones visible. We saw the student in a dead stop transfixed as she tapped out a message on her cell phone. I told her someone could have snatched her device. Technology is distracting and can be dangerous. I see a lot of pedestrians lancing at their phones. Or other electronic devices. I worry that they are vulnerable to theft or getting attacked. Reporter of these five robberies or attempted robberies most of them happen on the north side one happened in the south side. I will tell you about the safety programs including how you can call a Student Community officer who can take you back to your home in the middle of the night. Significant storm brought rain to the area yesterday. That cleared out and brought gorgeous views today. Sky fox flew over the golden gate bridge. For more on all the great weather lets head over to rosemary. Anywhere from 1 three inches of rain. A beautiful view as we take a peek at levi stadium in the santa clara area where we have blue skies and dry conditions overhead. We will continue with this pattern for the weekend. A few sprinkles this morning. They have moved on. We have clear skies from the coast and inland. Winding down the system over areas of tahoe starting out with rain and snow this morning. Mostly dry at this point. Tahoe looking at dry conditions for the weekend as well. Always a good idea to keep the change in the trunk. Giving you a view of temperatures 15 degrees six 62 napa. Even though we had blue skies and temperatures are warmer than yesterday it still is a bit of a cool out there. 5 degrees hayward. Five in napa. As we get into the overnight with the dry weather in place and the clearing we can expect a cold start to the morning. Middle 30s to middle 40s tomorrow. 35 santa rosa. 46 San Francisco. Low 40s fremont. The possibility of areas getting near freezing through the Morning Hours enter northbay. In addition the lingering moisture in place will result in patchy fog. Valley locations might see dense fog in the morning. Something to consider. A look at the afternoon. Low 60s pacifica. San francisco a lot of low to middle 60s. 64 antioch. Northbay 65 san jose. Temperatures wont change a lot into the back end of the weekend. We will remain drive through sunday. Changes coming as early as sunday night with rain in the forecast by monday. A look at the extended forecast coming up. U. S. Senate getting ready to take over tax reform after the thanksgiving holiday. President trump called the democrats to get on board. It is not clear whether republicans can find the number of votes to get the bill over the finish line. It is a nice political play. The battle over tax reform making waves on capitol hill. Debate getting heated in the Senate Finance committee with the democrats for the size of the bill as a giveaway to big business and high income taxpayers. This tax cut is for the rich. Im telling you, this bull crap you throw out gets old after a while. Reporter trump is making a push ahead of the vote. He is asking the democratic lawmakers to join the effort. If democrats were not such obstructionist and understood the power of lowering taxes we would be able to get their ideas into bill. That is not likely to happen with the repeal of the obamacare individual mandate in the legislation. Senate republicans expressing reservations including ron johnson of wisconsin. The bill favors corporations. At the expense of small business. The white house argues cutting corporate taxes provide a kickstart to the economy and create new jobs. We bring factories and that increases the demand for workers in the u. S. Reporter the senate will take up the bill after thanksgiving with the goal of getting it to the president s desk by christmas. A a representative talk to us about the house tax bill and the demand for investigations into allegations of Sexual Misconduct in washington. Our plan is to make sure we kill this in the senate. When you look at what the senate is doing it is worse. They are trying to eliminate the individual mandate for the aca which means 13 million will lose Health Insurance. It means premiums will go up. Women are not going to tolerate this. The floodgates are open and we will see more women coming forward. We are going to say no more. Representatives say she favors having an outside independent commission investigate any allegations of Sexual Misconduct in washington. How the upgrade could make life easier for thousands of commuters. We continue our reporting of the future of Artificial Intelligence. We speak with an expert about where we are going as a society and how ai will play a role. All week we have been talking about a breakthrough with ai and how some believe it could change everything. Joining us to talk about this is a professor peter young. Thank you for joining us. Earlier this month Stephen Hawkings said ai could become humankinds undoing. Former president believes it will replace white and Blue Collar Workers overtime killing half of all jobs. Do you agree . I do not. First of all, Artificial Intelligence and the current form and we think in the future form cannot duplicate empathy. We will need to have humans at various stages of the workflow. Whatever that workflow might be. I think there is always going to be a place for human workers. Ai will make a lot of things simpler. Quicker and more efficient. But not complete. You dont think they will totally get rid of the whitecollar force . I think you will have a lot of backlash that robotic voice even if they improve that kind of programming. We will still really desire that human in a lot of cases. We have seen some forms of ai recently. What could we see in the near future . There is probably two specific areas. Im sure the list will be not even exhaustive in the next five years. The first is vehicles. That has been the plague in Silicon Valley for the last couple of years. I think that will be both on the road and in buildings as you are showing in your video right here. The second area i think that will be promising in the future near future and distant will be the medical area. The idea that Artificial Intelligence properly trains given the appropriate rules if you will, what to look for and what to filter out. We will be able to help a doctor and the Nurse Practitioner diagnose a patient quicker. And thus saving lives. I think the medical arena is right for this whole endeavor. Where do you think prominent Silicon Valley leaders are coming from when they say this could be disastrous or destroy humankind . Where do you think they are coming from with that . Im an optimist. That is where my foundation is. Let me address what they are saying. I think there is Artificial Intelligence is right for abuse. I think we need to build in stops or mechanisms that can halt a particular series of Artificial Intelligence induced activities. So that a human can inject him or herself into the decision process. If we take humans out of the loop completely, then that will be a recipe for major problems down the road. It is in fact going to be a balancing between all of this wonderful programming and the human nature. The human spirit. You are touching on the next question how would we police this . We need to make sure both our students and our workers are trained in what they will come up against. What they are going to see in the workplace in terms of Artificial Intelligence. We need to make sure management is trained into the idea of making decisions within this workflow at a quicker pace. And being able to start and stop and Artificial Intelligence process for the sake of a business product or service so that things are not disturbed. I do think it is going to be a benefit in some areas. To include Law Enforcement by the way. I think the humans need to be in key locations within the ai process for evermore. A lot of great information as we wrap up our discussion on Artificial Intelligence. We appreciate your perspective. Earlier today the new trains aimed at improving the right for hundreds of thousands of its passengers. Christian captain has more on what writers can expect and when the Transit Agency hopes to have more of the trains in the system. Reporter this new train running on the end judo line is just the beginning ready to usher in a new era of hightech rail service are out the city. San francisco Transportation Agency unveiled the train of tomorrow today. The light rail vehicles are quieter and have new seating layouts to accommodate more passengers and improve design to reduce delay. The trains themselves sound great. More consistency from the trains themselves. The timing. Reporter the first new train to roll out. At the end of next year if they hope to have 68 new trains in the system. More trains means faster and more reliable service. High on the wish list for passengers. On time for sure. Definitely clean. That would make me happy. Reporter the plan is ahead of schedule working hard to keep up with growth in San Francisco. The reason why this is exciting for us is because the demands on rail Service Continue to grow in San Francisco. If you look at the cranes in the sky and the projections of growth that will continue. We need a better more reliable higher capacity more enjoyable way for people to be able to get through the city. Reporter passengers are excited about clean new trains. The new high tech trains feature state of the art self diagnostics. Less time in the yard and more time out on the rails. Cal and stanford saturday night for the big game. What is on the line for both teams. A preview coming up next. I no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. Wondering, what if . 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The oakland as hope to build a new stadium near the Laney College and alliance of groups want that new ballpark elsewhere. They conducted a poll and a 2 want them to state where they are now at the coliseum and leave their neighborhood alone. Oakland rising and the executive director is here to talk about the pole. Reporter tell us why you think the Laney College site is a poor site for a baseball stadium. We are talking about one of the most affordable and assessable Public Education institutions in oakland. Secondly we also the site is around chinatown and eastlake neighborhoods that are historic neighborhoods that are largely comprised of immigrants and working pet workingclass people of color who deserve to stay in their neighborhoods and not be impacted by the stadium. You will have 82 games plus for the city of oakland. You think that will cause issues as well. The bart station is almost at capacity. How would they accommodate that number of people as well as parking on ramps and off ramps from the freeway. It would be a nightmare for traffic and transportation. You have this Grassroot Group of nine different groups. You have conducted a poll. Tell us how you did it and what was your sample size. We get the pole over the course of a couple weeks. We did phone banking and doorknocking in oakland. We had an amazing team of 14 people out either on the phones or on the doors six days a week. In the end we talked to over 2500 people. There was over 80 support for the as to stay at the Current Location in east oakland. The sample size was it in the neighborhood are all over the city . It was all over the city of oakland and most neighborhoods. With an emphasis it was different from the chamber of commerce poll which was done a few weeks before. They only talk to 500 people. We talked to over 2500. Are you surprised 82 said no not in our neighborhood. We want the as to stay in oakland. We want them to stay the right way in east oakland in a way benefiting east oakland with Equitable Development Community Stabilization and good quality jobs that are benefiting residents. Have you gotten a reaction from the mayor who would like it elsewhere as well . We released the results today. We are anticipating hearing from them some. I have a quote from the baseball commissioner. He says im aware of the commentary around the issues in that site. There is no Perfect Place to build a ballpark. What is your reaction . My reaction to that is we have a wonderful location where there is a ballpark and an entire bart station dedicated to that ballpark in east oakland. The as deserve a great new stadium and we think it should stay there. You give it to the mayor and to the a and get reaction. Good luck. One of the greatest rivalries in College Football. Recently it has been lopsided. This year there is a lot on the line is cal takes on stanford in their 120th big game. 35 years ago the most famous play in College Football history. So legendary it has been memorialized in legos. Sadly recent big games have not been so compelling. Stanford has dominated the decade. I know it is on the line. Stanford seven in a row from california. Im sure he has been reminded they have not one. I would love to bring it back to berkeley. We are focused on playing the game. Reporter the big game buildup typically spirited. From the battle of the bands to the big sale. On one campus the chopping rally. On the other, the burial. But the pregame narrative is atypical. Major ramifications for both teams. Cal sitting on five victories. 6 is the magic number. Reporter stanford incentive even bigger. Keep pack 12 title hopes alive. That combination could make this big game one for the ages. Everybody knows what kind of game this is going to be. It is an honor to be a part of this historic tradition. Im excited to get my first crack at it. And see what we can do. Coming up controversy over another big game. Big game hunting. Strong reaction to the white house decision t

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