Tom baker spent the day in santa rosas coffee bar talk into officials. Reporter with most of the lots now cleared, looks like illegal contractors and scam artists are trying to troll for victims. Victims who are doing everything desperately trying to get their building efforts started. The state contractors license board looked on craigslist for ads offering Contractor Services but adds it did not provide certain information such as the contractors license number or they gave licenses that had expired or been revoked. Last saturday, undercover agents , met them at the jobsite. There, the bogus contractors offered bids for framing, electrical and plumbing services. We caught a total of 13 people. Reporter bids for framing a 20 by 30 room ranged from 850 to 13,000. Plumbing bids ranged from 1500 to 4500. These are bids well over the 500 limit for you need to have a license. Reporter they will face charges for illegal advertising with those they gave bids face charges of illegally contracting in a declared disaster area. Spike the penalty is never because we are under a disaster declaration so it is a felony and punishable by three years in prison. Reporter add to that, 10,000 in fines. Is a call to residents to be vigil. Spike it is disappointing because overall it seemed the good in people and how people have pulled together the most amazing ways and i my little surprised and taken aback mother are still people taken advantage of the situation. Now that i know that it is happening i will keep my on my out. I have a truck went into the santa rosa pd. Reporter the stings are a warning to scammers. Do not do what they did or we will come after you. Reporter contractors mice put their license number in their ads, on vehicles and on business cards. They must carry the state issued plastic pocket card so you have the opportunity to check them out online before you make him mistake. That is true whether a disaster or any other type of contracting. Dozens of people held the rally outside the i. C. E. Office this morning protesting an action by immigration agents. I sprint i. C. E. Wants businesses to prove her coemployees are in the u. S. Legally. The agency notified them they have three days to turn over paperwork on workers. Federal investigators will inspect those businesses for compliance. Area lawmakers say there are protections for immigrant workers and they include a requirement for employers to let her coworkers know if the business receives the notice of an audit from i. C. E. We are here to say to our workers, our immigrant communities, do not be afraid, we stand with you. Donald trump is hopeful that workers are going to quit their jobs and we are here to say, do not quit your job. We are going to stand with you. Federal Officials Say the notices reflect steppedup enforcement of laws barring businesses from hiring undocumented workers and the audits are intended to protect american jobs. Steak stanhope a san jose parents are hearing news that that would never come. The district disclosing three schools work ann rubin is live outsides o mentor skull. One that is expected to shut down. Reporter the district said this decision is what is best for business but the families hearsay for them it is personal. For families the news is heartbreaking this year at glider elementary it will be their last. The school along with two others will be closed due to dwindling enrollment. We are devastated. It has been in a second family to us. Reporter at the School District made the announcement this week saying they have little choice but to shut the school. Is the number of students if the number of students shrinks, so does the funding. We have gotten to the point now where we are losing thousands of kids over the last 10 or so years and increasing cost, we needed to take action to right size our district. Reporter oak grove is not alone. Tom williams at the high cost of housing in Silicon Valley is taking its toll on most School Districts. Young family simply cannot afford to live here. Oak grove is one of the few school directories School Districts is one of the few that are admitting what is going on. Others are partly in denial or do not have the nerve to tell their public what is going on. Reporter oak grove was facing a 12. 5 million budget shortfall enclosing the three schools the district will save two men dollars in operating costs. It is a difficult decision but it was made in the best interest of all students. Reporter School District officials will work hard to handle the transition with care and compassion and they say at this point they are not expecting any future teacher layoffs. Parents and students and they cannot help but worry. Understand the position of the district about trying to save money and so forth but i do not think they put a lot of thought into this. I am sad our school is closing because i do not want to miss all of my friends. Reporter the district is working on the new School Boundary line in the hope to have final revisions made by early march. The remaining schools, are the parents concerned about the quality of education at those schools . Reporter what my understanding is, they are talking about reducing class sizes at the Consolidated School so the teachers from the closed schools will move over so they will have smaller class sizes and they are prepared to move in portables if they need more space. They think they have plans in place although some of the logistics still need to be worked out. This afternoon in 19 oh man remains behind bars accused of punching in fiveyearold boy the child who was with his father accidentally bumped into Richard Benson on a train and that is one benson reportedly punched the child. He was arrested at the berkeley station around 9 30 wednesday morning. Struck republicans released their controversial memo alleging abuse by the fbi purchased the violence of the former Trump Campaign advisor. President trump declassified the document. Carolyn shively tells us what is in the memo and has reaction from congress and the white house. Reporter democrats in the memo contains cherry picked facts that do not add up to President Trump that it shows the rush investigation is bias. It is terrible. Reporter President Trump called the revelations a disgrace. A lot of people should be ashamed and much worse than that. Reporter of the republican written memo asserts that the fbi abused government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian Investigation meddling. It focuses on a dossier that was used as part of the application to cervical Trump Campaign advisor carter page. The memo said surveillance application did not disclose or reference the role of the dnc or clinton campaign. What you see in here is that the fbi relied on it document paid by Hillary Clintons campaign which is an essential part. Reporter of the document alleges biased sing steal was desperate that donald trump not get arrested. James comey, the former fbi director blasted the memo on twitter asking, that is it insane the release wrecked the house until committee and destroy tossed destroy trust picked as part of the bigger strategy. The president hopes this misleading memo will help make the case against the fbi and the department of justice. It will ultimately undermine bob miller. Reporter is believed house will release the democrat memo which will provide more information. That would have to be okayed by the president. Reporter little progress reported by the cdc as the deadly flu outbreak continues to spread. We will have the latest stats. Steak some panic on wall street as the dow took up lunch. Plunge. Steak another day of record heat in the bay area. 60s and 70s. We have lots of clear skies. G. Does your bed do that . Right now, our queen c2 mattress is only 699, save 200. Ends soon. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Advil liquigels minis. Our first concentrated pill that rushes powerful relief. A small size. Thats fast, cause its liquid. Youll ask. What pain . Advil liquigels minis. Stocks tumbled on wall street. The dell plunged losing 665 points for its worst single session point drop since 2000 and. Traders are concerned about signs of inflation which could lead to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates. The dow lost 2. 5 and the nasdaq fell 144 points the s p down 59. Each drop by about 2 . The reason for the dow dive, here is our Financial Advisor giving us insight into what happened. We added 200,000 jobs or more than thats. 88 consecutive months of job growth. Then we have wages, employers are competitive which is seeing a real rise. Why the drop . Is like being in santa cruz at the big dipper. We have been at the top long time and took a plunge. Point whys it was a big number but percentagewise it was 2. 5 . I defined apel back as 5 in one day or 20 over the longer term. It is the fear factor because the market is based on greed and fear. When those happen you will see the volatility. Some stocks the to hit, tech stocks, apple, tell us how much they got hit today . Our superheroes, facebook, amazon, google and netflix did poorly except for amazon. Because they are so huge and their market share is large, when they go down, the market goes down. They will be back. I have a good feeling about that. Lets talk about the worry about inflation. When you have a good economy, defense talking about raising interest rates. Talk about that. The fomc, the federal open Market Committee met on wednesday. This was Janet Yellens last meeting and you have to read the notes. She said the economy will be rocky in 2018 and will perform well. The feds have increased their prediction for inflation. To look at it well over 2 . When the market here is that, the fear factor comes in. Prices go up in the causes the fed to take an action which could be good or bad. If it is bad it slows the economy down the market doesnt like that. It is all the balance on the rates. Yes, in the feds manage our monetary system. We said that janet yellen is done at the fed. President trump refused to continue her in her current role but she has been credited with the economy we have now. She has produced consistent job growth the only thing she has not done his raised inflation and bring the monetary rate up to her normal level. The feds like to charge banks about 2 to 3. 25 to lend money. Powell who comes on monday who has been with the Federal Reserve for four years, but the market does not know what he will do. If we start to see wages go up that will create the cost of goods to go up and that will create inflation in fed has to take action. Where the stimulus from the tax program which businesses are going to benefit. This will be one of those years when you have to watch business. We have no crystal ball on this. Thank you for joining us. There are potential record setting temperatures expected around the bay area and it feels a lot like spring in early february. Mark tamayo went up to the roof to take a look at the conditions. Day two of recordsetting temperatures. Yesterday we had a recordsetting day and today once again. A great day to be outside. We have the clear skies and great day to be on the water. Looks like every nice evening across the bay area. You will see scattered high clouds working into the area into tonight but no rain drops expected. We could use the rainfall but nothing showing up in the short term forecast. Today, recordsetting heat, could be a performance tomorrow. Take a look at the records for today, for Mountain View out toward san jose and sfo, temperatures in the 70s. 72 to 73, showing you the current temperatures right now, taking a look at the graphics, santa rosa 74, San Francisco 69 and 70s out toward walnut creek. The Bigger Picture on the satellite showing a few scattered high clouds. No rain drops expected, maybe the filtered sunshine effect as we head into the weekend but lots of sunshine expected. We have the warmup for today and we will do it again tomorrow. Look at the 70s, the first weekend in february, you might expect cold temperatures or heavy rain and low snow levels at the complete opposite. Lots of 70s out there. We have been locked in this dry weather pattern for over a weak since we have had rain clouds and this could be the beginning of every long dry stretch, very unusual this time of year and we will have more on that in a few minutes. The cdc has released new numbers on the nationwide flu outbreak and they show the highest hospitalization rates on record. It is serious among children with 16 teatro dest recorded this week. 16 pediatric deaths recorded this week. Reporter at the flu outbreak is getting worse according to new up date they said have seen increased activity of the last week with 48 states and puerto rico experiencing the widespread outbreak leading to the highest overall hospitalization rate ever recorded by the cdc. Hospitalizations are the highest we have seen come even higher than 2014 15. Some folks are having difficulty finding antiviral medicine. Reporter there has been an uptick in deadly cases including children with 16 pediatric deaths this week. More than 50 total for the season. The severity of the outbreak reports of shortages of the drug tamiflu which can reduce flu symptoms and shorten the time the virus stays in your body. There are enough medicine specially but there are some spot shortages. There are things everyone can do. It is important to stay home if you are sick. Reporter the cdc said it is not to late for flu shot which could offer protection. Officials claim there is no shortage of the vaccine but many pharmacists they they are running short with demand apparently outpacing supply so late in the season. Hearing about how the flu is worse this year, there are more people catching it, one of them to get the flu shot to prevent it as much as possible. Reporter Officials Say the plan to release more data on the effectiveness of the flu shot in the coming weeks. The latest sign of a bay area housing crisis, one county will provide mediators for renters and landlords to help end rental disputes. We will speak with the county official about the project after the break. County leaders launching the program to prevent renters from steep increases but the plan would affect 8000 renter households in marin which is the latest step taken by county leaders to people and families from being put on the streets since there is no shortage of affordable units. Where joined by debbie with the county. We are joined by debbie with the county. If the landlord wants to raise the rent by more than 5 that is where this comes in. Spaghetti landlord chooses to raise rent more than 5 , the tenant and landlord have an opportunity to enter into a mediation process to have a facilitated discussion but what that increase means for the landlord and the tenant. Is not mandatory mediation. It does not happen right away. Either the tenant or landlord need to apply for the program and request mediation. This is not a requirements in terms of either of them being required to do. Once either the landlord or tenant request mediation then both parties are required to participate in what we are calling good faith. They are required to show up work is the idea to get them to me together and come to in mutual increase or is it the landlord not raising the rent . The spirit behind the ordinance is to soften some of the high rent increases we are seeing but really the outcome of the mediation will vary by circumstance. This has been done in about three other cities. Has it worked well in those areas . While there are some while there are many Housing Trends common throughout the bay area each jurisdiction is unique. When we are doing our initial research, we did speak to staff and mediators from other jurisdictions. Almost all felt there was a lot of utility to the program and a lot of folks in a fitted from it. Tenets who were given a 60 day notice that may be needed 90 days to get out. They needed one more month to make sure their kids stayed in one place for the rest of the year before they found the new apartment. That was a positive thing for the community. Or you see landlords who want a 20 rent increase who were able to graduate that, with 5 or 7 . You get them talking about it which is the first step. They could work it out between themselves. If someone wants to take part in the program, what do they do . Contact the Consumer Protection unit. The phone number, 4154736495. They will fill out the request form. Within 10 days of the Consumer Protection unit receiving that initial request, they will get a response to let them know if they are eligible inning facetoface meeting will be eligible and a face toface meeting will be set up. They have to let their renters know about this new plan. Absolutely. Is important for tenants to understand they have rights to this program and conversation. Want to make sure everyone knows they have support in these conversations. Landlords are required to give notice to their tenants by february 10 and anytime they renew the lease or enter into a new lease they are required to give notice of this program. Hopefully helps a lot of people because we know prices around the area are not going down soon. Thank you for joining us. Coming up, final security arrangements are set as minneapolis holds the coldest super bar super bowl on record. At t has a network with thousands of bestinclass security experts. Which means. More of the eye balls you want watching the network. Less of the ones you dont. More experts preventing Security Issues less security threats impacting our customers. More of a highly secure network with more Security Products available for further protection less per month than comcast for business internet. 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