Transcripts For KTVU The Ten OClock News On KTVU Fox 2 20240

Transcripts For KTVU The Ten OClock News On KTVU Fox 2 20240714

Weekend. These are just the latest in the slew of restaurants closing here in the bay area as the industry is force today adjust to changing times. New at 10 00, Jana Katsuyama is at dosas in the city where customers were having one last meal. Jana . Reporter thats right, there were a lot of sad people who didnt want to see this leave, but they plan to keep the other locations open. They just couldnt make the numbers work here with the changing times in the mission district. The line was out the door at dosas if valencia. Patrons wanted to say goodbye. The owner says the price of doing business here was too high. Labor costs have increased for higher minimum wage, health care, and other benefits that also ate into his bottom line. The big thing is labor at 30 , 32 . Labor costs is an alltime high. And then we just got to the point where there were so many restaurants and so much competition that with all those compounding things, people are living in this industry. Reporter at jack london square, patrons got a shock finding that the longtime landmark abruptly shut its doors over the weekend. Weve probably been coming here for over 20 years. Reporter a sign in the door said permanently closed. If its because they couldnt survive, thats just too sad. They seemed very busy any time we were here. Reporter kincaids parent company, restaurants unlimited filed for bankruptcy in july and recently bought by landrys, which owns bubba gump and mccormick and schmidt. He said he sold his place in jack london square. He says oakland sees the same Cost Increases and struggles of San Francisco. We are 100 for, you know, minimum wage and the minimum wage increase, affecting our business. And we have such small margins, so we have to kind of manage, you know, the way we conduct a business and how we, you know, manage the cost. Reporter the popularity of Food Delivery Services have also cut into profits, taking 15 to 30 per order, and he hopes cities and the state will try to partner more to support small businesses. We would love to have like, you know, a way that we could kind of work with the city and the state on managing other costs such as workmans compensation and health insurance. Gordon anticipates more restaurants closing as the businesses adjust their Business Plans to other new dining needs. And it wont just be in the bay area she says. Other cities like new york and chicago could face the same kinds of pressures. Frank . Reporter jennifer, any word on what hes going to do next . Reporter well, he has one restaurant thats in the japantown area. Another what they call fast casualty restaurant in oakland. He says hes going to focus his efforts on those places and try to really adapt to some of these changes. But he says he could not make the numbers work here. Jana katsuyama in San Francisco tonight, thank you. A low priced fashion chain is also facing hard times. Forever 21 has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It plans to close 350 stores in nearly 40 countries. Half the closures will be here tunited states. Forever 21 was founded in l. A. And became popular with teens, but lost market shares. Pele moved from the mall onlinp governor Gavin Newsome has signed a bill into law allowing College Athletes a chance to sign endorsement deals. Announcing that move on the talk show, the shop uninterrupted. State senator had Nancy Skinner who cowrote the law says it is an effort to bring more fairness to College Athletics by giving players a share of the profit. She said women in particular could benefit sinctheir avenues for professional careers are more limited. If women as College Students are at the peak, eycouldnt market themselves, it can be a game changer for women athletics. The law applies to both public and private universities and to any sport. Today pro athletes spoke out including members of the warriors. Someone needs to force the dictatorship to change because thats exactly what it is. Reporter the ncaa asked them to veto the bill warning that it might bar california schools from ball games and tournaments. The new law doesnt take effect until 2023 and legal challenges are expected. A new poll shows governor newsome is getting good marks. Democrats gave him an 86 approval rate, but only 17 of republicans approve of the job hes doing. If the bay area, 70 of voters are giving him a positive rating. Those large boulders strategically placed were removed today. As ktvu rob roth reports someone kept pushing the boulders off the sidewalks onto the street. Reporter one by one San Francisco public hauls away each of the two dozen boulders along this one sidewalk. A residential side street near market and deloris streets. Weve had people push the rocks out onto the streets, which really has made it unsafe. Reporter earlier this month a group of residents so tired of asking the city to do something about the open air drug dealing and homeless encampments on the sidewalk took matters into their own hands. They banded together, paid about 200 each, and placed boulders there as a deterrent and it worked. Then some neighbors began getting threats. They were getting emails, some kind of bullying. Feeling a lot of pressure being put on them. Reporter many ended up in the streets pushed by those feeling the barrier is morally wrong. Proponents were too afraid including this man to have their face on camera. That could involve having larger boulders, involve some kind of landscape plan. And so i think for now, just to put things at rest. We are in possession of the rocks. And we are at the drawing board coming up with a new solution. Reporter many homeless advocates emphasize with the neighbors frustration, but they say boulders are no solution. Theres got to be a better answer than putting up these boulders to block people. Thats not how we do it in San Francisco. We are more accepting and we find a better answer here. The worry is how will it be over the next several days. It began at 8 00 this morning when the protesters used chains to block the entrances to the whole foods store on 24th street. The protesters say several farms that whole foods uses are cruel to animals and they want amazons ceo, jeff bezos who owns whole foods to put a stop to the alleged violations. The activists have been investigating amazon and whole foods farms for years now, and we found repeated evidence of criminal animal cruelty. But when we reported it to the authorities, they have prosecuted the whistle blowers and done nothing about the animal abuse. Whole foods rejects those claims and says his longtime commitment to Animal Welfare has helped make it a leader in the industry. Police move in had to break up the protests after a couple of hours. New information tonight about a brazen killing at a north Bay Shopping Center that has Police Seeking the public help. It happened over the weekend at the petaluma factory outlets. Whoever gunned down a teenager in his car is still on the loose. Ktvu Debora Villalon joins us now from those Outlet Stores with what weve learned so far. Deb . Reporter julie, this is startling for a city that has just one or two homicides a year. The victim here at the mall is a 19yearold man from santa rosa. He was shot on saturday night while at the mall was still open. And we did receive numerous calls from the north end of the city was much more and the vehicle was riddled with bullets and the driver was shot and unconscious behind the wheel. Police and paramedics could not save him. And that victim was declared dead on scene. Reporter police not disclosing the type of gun or how many times the 19yearold was hit. We are not really sure and what the motive was. The openair mall has about 40 stores and the shooting happened an hour before closing. With dozens of employees and shoppers still here. I wonder if there is any gang related or anything. And maybe pay more attention. And that is never a bad idea. I think people get very complacent and compounds in small communities and that is never a good idea. The mall will have a few security guards, but their attention is naturally on the stores more than in the parking lot. Petaluma police are looking for tips and there is a reward up to 2,500 for information leading to an arrest. Reporting live in petaluma, Debora Villalon, ktvu fox 2news. One death in our custody is not accepting. Reporter dozens of inmate deaths at one of the biggestjails. 2 investigates looks at one practice called cruel and unusual by critics. A first bay area man accused of spying for the chinese government. The accusations detailed today by federal prosecutors. And pretty mild to cool out there today as you go into this evening, itll be really cool. And we will look at that and the fiveday forecast. The juul record. They took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. Five million kids now using ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with Misleading Health claims. Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. Say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. To have money and information between two agents using a predetermined location. Investigators credit a double agent for helping to bring down pong and stop information from getting into the wrong hands. He now faces a 250,000 fine, up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Wonting had thats important to note here, Officials Say the information that was being passed to pong was cleared by intelligence officials. He just didnt know that. And President Trump is ratcheting up the rhetoric vowing to learn the identity of the whistle blower whose report helped trigger the impeachment inquiry led by house democrats. Ktvu andre senior tells us the president is also suggesting the congressman who is leading the inquiry be arrested for treason. Adam schiff, representative congressman, maid up what i said and took words and made it up. Reporter President Trump on the defense from the oval office on monday going after adam schiff, the california democrat, leading the House Intelligence Committee impeachment proceeds gz. Saying the statement of the july phone call to the president of ukraine are, illegal and fake. And asked whether schiff should be arrested for treason. I made a call. The call was perfect. Reporter schiffs supporter says he was reporting the details. In the meantime the president says he is looking for the whistle blower who reported the phone call. In exchange for military aid. But the attorney for the whistle blower shot back saying his clients identity is protected by law and that efforts to out them could put his or her life in jeopardy. He tweet there had are no exceptions for anyone. Also on monday the House Committee issued a few subpoena for Rudy Giuliani demanding his photos and communications on dealings with ukraine. Democrats asserting saying there were credible allegations that you acted as an agent to advance his political interest by abusing the power of the office of the president. I would really love to challenge the illegitimacy of the committee. Reporter also caught in the cross hairs, mike pompeo. Three set a friday deadline to comply with the subpoena and turn over information related to the ukraine call. Pond we learned pompeo was also on the phone call with the president. Saying he pressured Scott Morrison to work with attorney general william barr to discredit the mueller report, echoing the phone call with ukraines president. The implication that the president continues to use his power to investigate adversaries. How this affects the current impeachment process remains unclear. What is clear though is if the house is successful, the senate will have no choice, but to put President Trump on trial. Under the senate row we are required to take it up if the house does go down that path and we will follow the center rules. Andre senior, ktvu fox 2news. And now to wall street where the markets cut a boost today for news that chinas top negotiators will lead the next round of trade talks. Those talks are expected to begin in washington next week. The dow was up 96. Nasdaq gained 59, and the s p was up 14. They pulled the plug today on their troubled ipo. And hes a work space rental Company Based in new york and they revealed massive losses in their ipo filings. The companys cofounder also resigned as ceo last week. In a statement the company says they are going to focus now on their core business. Some light rain fell in parts of the bay area on the last day of september, the scene shortly after 8 00 this morning. For some drizzles to turn on their windshield wipers. By late morning we would see the sunny skies over most of the bay area. The late september snow would surprise drivers heading to the tahoe area this had weekend and light rain would turn to snow at the 5,000foot level on interstate 880 at blue canyon. Many drivers were caught off guard when they found out they needed chains. We checked with caltrans just a few moments ago, right now theres no chain requirements for either 80 or 50. Chief meteorologist bill martin here now with tomorrows forecast. And definitely a wild kind of weekend with big cooldowns. Now remember last week, the record heat . And the heat advisories, the red flag warnings, big difference this week, for the highs from today and then you can see it. That we would do 105 in fairfield and 72 hours ago where we are bakeries week. And temperatures, they have dropped substantially since then. You noticed it. We saw snow in the mountains and we saw that f1 tornado down in the davis area. Its all because of this system right here and kind of illustrated. The jet stream really and just the well area of the jet stream. But this is the cool portion of the jet stream. The troughing part of the jet stream as you can see that counterclockwise employee and that is the area thats over us and that is why were so cool and why you could see snow up in carolinas and the dakotas and then in idaho. That trough will stay on top of us for the next few days. So we are slowly going to warm. But the troughs will linger as you can see the effects, current temperatures right now. But look at all the blues, 27 degrees. Thats really chilly. Current temperatures, you can see where it lies. Now that blue area will shift east and tomorrow felt like today as we get through the rest of the week with the five day forecast when we see you next. Still to come here, a crazy scene capture haded on video. The runaway airport cart that came dangerously close to ramp workers and an airplane. But first the search for a bay area fugitive cased against him in court that would reach a verdict even as he went missing. Your business can do a lot in 10 minutes. Like make a big sale. Surprise and delight a customer. Or come up with the winning idea. And 10 minutes is all you need to finally give your business the Internet Technology it really needs. Well prove it. Give us 10 minutes. If we cant offer you faster speed or better savings than your current internet service, well give you 300 dollars for your time. 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We have a convicted child leon the list. Hes a fugitive. Reporter an urgent plea from authorities to be on the lookout for 55yearold Apollo Johnson. He was suppose to have appeared at san joses hall of justice after being convicted of sexually assaulting an innocent child with she was 616 years old. It took her a lot of courage to come to court and testified for four days about the awful, awful things that Apollo Johnson did to her. Reporter prosecutors say johnson repeatedly molested the victim for a decade. The crimes date back to 2005 when the trial began in may, two more women came forward alleging abuse. A woman who he had raped in texas 17 years ago also testified. He has never been convicted of that crime. This is the first time she has spoken publicly. Reporter the last time johnson appeared before a judge was early june. The trial stopped for three months after johnson was out of jail on a 1 million jail underwent heart surgery. He was suppose to show up on september 16, but he did not show. He didnt show up on the 17th. Finally on the 18th when the jury was suppose to be there, again he did not show. It was at that point that the judge essentially declared him a fugitive. We went to johnsons home in santa clara. A woman answered and asked us to leave. Johnson who went by the name Dennis Ray Johnson worked as an airconditioning repairman, and owned day and night furnace company. Many neighbors were unaware of his crimes. And he is set to be sentenced in this case, but we need him here. He needs to be put into prison where he belongs for these awful crimes that hes committed. Reporter and prosecutors say johnson has a violent past. In 1993 he was convicted of a robbery at a credit union in santa c

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