Reporter the group filed a Class Action Lawsuit against Santa Clara County on behalf of hundreds of inmates alleging their 14th amendment rights to due process and basic human needs are being violated. The county is isolating people without human interaction, environmental stimulation, fresh air, sunlight, 23 to 24 hours a day for months or years at a time. Reporter its one of a mounting number of lawsuits and investigations targeted at the jail in the aftermath of the killing of mentally ill inmate michael tyree, allegedly at the hands of three jail guards last august. We have already taken steps to improve operations in our custody facilities. Reporter a spokesman read a statement in the sheriff saying she appreciates the perspective of the Prison Law Office in ongoing efforts to improve practices and training. But families say thats little comfort for their loved ones behind bars now. Something needs to change. I cant believe this is happening here am i just lost all hope in the Justice System. There is no justice. Reporter nowsch the sheriff says the reforms began last june. A consultant has been hired to go through the jail and make recommendations on the changes. But veronica, the families and the Prison Law Group say that that is a too slow of a process and are hoping that the Justice System through the lawsuit filed today will prompt faster changes. Thank you, len. Tonight we are learning Santa Clara County inmates have filed more than 300 Excessive Force complaints against guards in the past five years. According to the San Jose Mercury news, just 14 of those complaints were formally investigated. Only five resulted in disciplinary action. A San Francisco woman has lost a contentious custody battle over her frozen embryos. Kpix 5s allen martin is in the newsroom with the judges decision and what happens next. Allen. Reporter really interesting case, ken, because todays ruling certainly a victory for the husband to wanted the them destroyed. While they were married they signed an agreement to destroy the embryos if they split up. The woman had cancer and cant have children and now she says they are her last chance to have children. A San Francisco judge ruled that by california law, the former couples preexisting agreement trumps the womans desire to keep the embryos. I think the court would have ruled this way even without there being an agreement. Its tough. Its a case that judges live for but also they dont want meaning its a case of first impression. Its a first time and youre looking around, how am i going to decide this . Its very difficult. This decision was a very thoughtful one, very reasoned one. In the end, the judge decided that lee cannot force her exhusband to become a father. But the embryos likely wont be destroyed right away. Lee can appeal this ruling. But no word yet on whether she plans to do that. In the newsroom, allen martin, kpix 5. Also tonight police say they have arrested the man who spraypainted an islamic symbol on a frenchamerican school in San Francisco. 44yearold transient Edward Vanwright has been charged with trespassing an vandalism for allegedly spraypainting a school wall but police say theres no evidence he has any ties to any terrorist groups. The star and number 7 found on the playground yesterday represents a group thats an offshoot of the nation of islam. But police say there is no evidence of any threat to the school or the students or staff. A Traffic Alert to tell you about. At least one person has died following a multivehicle crash on highway 37 in marin county. It happened in the eastbound direction which is headed toward vallejo near lakeville high school. The chp says two big rigs and at least five other cars all part of this mangled mess you see there. The lanes are blocked and you can see from chopper 5 that is backing up traffic for miles. Highway 37 is a primary route from the north bay to the east bay. The investigation and cleanup will take several more hours. Other bay area headlines tonight, Richmond Police say a 5yearold boy who was shot in a driveby shooting will survive. He and his father had just left a corner store about 7 45 last night when somebody drove up and started shooting. The boys father also hit by gunfire. Both are in serious but stable condition. Police do not have a motive. A close call at the Goodwill Store in dublin this afternoon. The Alameda CountyFire Department says the driver accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and plowed into the store. The car took out the store front window and scattered merchandise everywhere. No one was hurt in the crash. Super bowl planners in San Francisco have dropped plans to remove the overhead muni lines. The idea was to make room for super bowl city attractions on Market Street but it would have caused more disruption of the muni lines. There may finally be an end to the tree wars in San Francisco. Homeowners know that trees along city sidewalks are their problem. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman says that can lead to an expensive maintenance cost, right, mike . Reporter well, veronica, im going to go out on a limb and say, you would rather have the city pay for this tree and its upkeep than you have to. Well, you soon may have a chance to vote on that. Hey, San Francisco homeowner, you have a tree in front of your house . If you think the city is going to take care of it, youre barking up the wrong one. I have to take care of this one. Thats your responsibility. Reporter the city took care of 100,000 street trees until 2011 when it axed the program and branched out and told homeowners its all on you. Can i climb up that tree and start cutting . That sounds dangerous. Reporter the money needed to keep up these things is nothing to bark at. How much would that cost me . Um, it would cost anywhere from 300 to could be a couple of thousand if its a serious job. Reporter and more if it messes up the sidewalks. It cost 20 million to take care of city sidewalk trees total. The city did pay until four years ago. I think that was when our budget was bad. We didnt have a lot of general fund money. Reporter San Francisco has a lot of money now and more new money coming in every day. So Supervisor John Avalos wants the city to pay to take care of the trees again. So its about choices that we make. Reporter when the city budget started being sawed away trees are often the first to be felled. This is not something that public works wanted to do in the first place but we couldnt take care of them ourselves. Reporter avalos wants to tack electricity mostly on commercial properties to pay for it. He will have to circulate petitions to get it on the ballot next year. Hopefully get at the root of the problem. The city says its all fine with them if there is a reliable source of income because they will be the first to tell you money doesnt grow on trees. In San Francisco, Mike Sugerman, kpix 5. Still ahead, oakland sounding the alarm about those dangerous freeways. We cannot tolerate this type of lawlessness coming to oakland in sideshows. The distress call to put a stop to the mayhem. The ocean comes and takes what it wants. A threat to homes along the shoreline. The sea level on the rise. The county working now to protect them before its too late. Coming up, find out who hit 75 degrees today. How much warmer were going to get as we head into the final weekend before thanksgiving. And find out why all that heat is going far away. Very far away. A live look on a clear evening. Well talk cold as well coming up. Plus, their mission to get this little girl swinging on the monkey bars. Bay area engineers creating a special robotic hand. ,,,,,,,r during sleep tras thanksgifting sale save up to 300 on selected mattress sets, even tempurpedic get up to three years interestfree financing plus, choose a free gift but hurry, sleep trains thanksgifting sale wont last happened last weekend and sn out of control as police trd wild end being to another sideshow in oakland. This one happened last weekend. And it spun out of control as police tried to break it up. Then they found themselves in danger. Kpix 5s phil matier says the city is fed up and are asking for help. Reporter thats right. Because we have another weekend coming up as a possibility of another sideshow. And oakland just doesnt have the manpower to handle it it. Heres the story. It was tough. It is just insane we cannot tolerate this type of lawlessness coming to oakland. Reporter it was scenes like this has the story mayor libby schaaf to ask the governor and Highway Patrol to send in more cops. We saw last weekend we didnt have enough. Reporter sideshow participants came from as far away as fresno and los angeles turning the streets of oakland into absolute mayhem spinning donuts on the highways. Pelting the cops with bottles. Gunfire and destroying a police car. With no arrests. Were 50 plus officers. Reporter is that enough . No. It wasnt enough. You had over 700 cars. We need more help. We need to take a regional approach. Reporter sideshows have been an onagain, offagain problem for the city of oakafor more than 20 years. But never like this [ loud tire screeching ] folks have no respect for the city. Reporter he added that part of the problem was politics. Back then it was that you were going to be racially profiling young blacks and latinos. We need other tools to address this problem and create a deterrent. We are going to be looking at everything from using more cameras to videos, those who are there and we cantu their can tow their cars and impound them for 30 days. We are ready if things pop up again. Reporter ahead of the california Highway Patrol has the ahead of the california Highway Patrol has agreed to head up a task force to take a look at the problem before it spreads to other cities and it has a sympathetic ear of the governor. Governor brown was once mayor of oakland and in 2005 he faced the same problem. In oakland phil matier, kpix 5. Investigators with the Santa Clara CountySheriffs Office say they broke up a Human Trafficking operation in which six people were forced to work for next to nothing or nothing at all. The victims investigators say were forced to work at two south bay businesses. A restaurant and a salon in saratoga. Sheriff deputies arrested a husband and wife and their business manager. Investigators say the victims from spain were trapped in what amounted to modern day indentured slavery. They came here from spain. They were here on vacation. And then they were forced to work with either no pay, paying off a debt,or they were getting very minimum wages. At this point i still cant believe whats going on. I only wish the best for the owner obviously but he treated me and my family really great. The suspects face three counts of Human Trafficking and three counts of wage theft. The victims have been referred to an aid agency that works with victims of Human Trafficking. Californias independent legislative analyst is forecasting a rosie economic future. And now it looks like the state will end the fiscal year with 3. 6 billion in additional revenues. California could have nearly 12 billion in its rainy day accounts by the end of 2017. Today pg e faced through some questions, very tough ones from state lawmakers as to whether their power lines were responsible for deadly wildfires. That hearing comes after pg e said the butte fire may have started when a tree brushed against a power line. But senator hill wants to know if the Company Learned from their mistakes in 2007 when neglected power lines caused a rash of fires. A third or more are caused by power lines that either because of the wind they fall or the trees havent been trimmed. The brush is too close to it and they create a spark and it ignites the fire. The butte fire killed two people burned more than 9900 homes and other structures in the sierra foothills. Fire investigators have not announced their official findings. A lot of people in marin could soon own oceanfront property and wont have to move. Kpix 5s emily turner on a rapidly rising sea level and what the county is doing to keep the waters at bay. Reporter its a slow but certain threat to homes along marins coastline. And now the county knows just how highrising sea levels will get and folks like sean mullins are worried about what they could do. Theres no retaining wall or seawall. The ocean just comes and takes what it wants. Reporter sea levels by the end of 21 00 are expected to rise 80 inches which means high tide will climb to be this much further. The county is now meeting with homeowners to decide how to handle the rising waters. And the tide of incoming problems they will bring with it. Everything from berms to building moratoriums are on the table at this point hopefully to be settled by spring of next year when the county updates its coastal plan. Its going to create a challenge to figure out who is responsible for some of these things and to figure out how to respond. Reporter Stinson Beach portions of tomales bay and bolinas are all high risk areas. So far, 1400 homes are affected not to mention wildlife, recreation roads and sewers. And for those living in the areas, that as scary prospect. First nightmare is its just a complete submersion. You wake up and the street is gone or your car is like being washed down the street and it doesnt recover. Reporter the county is already meeting with neighborhoods individually to begin working on longterm solutions. They are listed on the website at marinslr. Org. In steny hoyer, emily turner, kpix 5. In Stinson Beach, emily turner, kpix 5. It looks sunny. Do we see a change down the road . We do. Wait until you see the forecast about this time next week its not going to be sunny or in the 70s. Not going to resemble this forecast at all. So if you like the sunny and warm weather, enjoy it throughout the next three or four days because a big time pattern change is coming up just in time for the holiday. If you could only see ken dancing four seats to my right if only [ laughter ] santa rosa 70. Concord 70. Morgan hill 69. Fremont 65. San jose 65. San francisco 65. The it will feel like the holidays San Francisco 6 of 5. It will feel like the holidays on the weekend. A Lighting Ceremony and carnal beginning at 4 00 on friday. Right by the ice rink, 59 degrees. Gorgeous weather friday evening as we say hello to the holidays in San Francisco. We are saying hello to this ridge of High Pressure which is going to keep all the rain and all the mess to our north. When i say mess, i mean 500,000 homes in Washington State without power because of the big windstorm. We dont want that but we want rain. Well talk about that coming up. The ring hangs out for the next four days. Well be sunny, mild with highs into the mid70s for much of the bay area especially toward friday. Anywhere away from the water will be a. M. Just all about the ridge for four more days. Ridgeway down to the west gulf of alaska here comes an area of low pressure. This time its not about the rain. I dont see as of now a tremendous amount of rain. But the air on the other side of this front wednesday, thursday, friday of next week highs low to mid50s. Snow level 3,000 feet. It is going to be super cold out there. Im smiling because ken is dancing again we need a camera on him while im doing this. 68le degrees in concord. Livermore 70. Santa rosa mid70s. San rafael 69 with sunshine. We are warm through the weekend cloudier on sunday and mild. Monday cooler, tuesday cooler, wednesday here comes scattered showers. By thanksgiving, we will likely not leave the mid50s which is very cold for us. Heres my bestcase scenario. Day after thanksgiving another reinforcing bit of moisture comes in, snow level about 3,000 feet. Oh. The day after thanksgiving we may have some light snow on mount hamilton. Perfect thanksgiving you sit down in front of the fire you have a warm drink, outside if you are in the mountains you have a little bit of snow coming down. It is perfect i spent 7 years in new york. Im so happy to have a little sunshine. Ill let you guys duke it out. [ laughter ] just the messenger. Thanks, paul. A big change to a holiday tradition in los gatos one in a normally leads to long lines of cars. Santa clara county parks is offering a predicting and reservation system for the annual fantasy of lights drive through. You can pick the time and day to see the event. Tickets can be purchased at the Administration Office during regular business hours. Its through the end of the year. Still ahead Life Changing Technology and it looks pretty cool. How bay area engineers are literally lending a hand to this little girl. ,,,,,,, at a Bargain Basement pric the mobile payment square goes public tomorrow at a Bargain Basement price. The mobile Payment Processing company has priced its ipo at 9 a share well below the 113,013 that was initially expected. Well below the 1 1 to 13 that was initially expected. Shares topped 80 in late trading for salesforce after better than expected earnings from the San Franciscobased Cl