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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM April 2, 2016

Thanks to low property tax percentages. How is there not an Emergency Fund for Something Like this to fix . Well, i mean, its a fairly affluent community the revenue we receive is not enough overall. Reporter so moraga has asked the governor to declare a state of emergency so that the state can pay for repairs. While the repair tab gets passed around, the sinkhole sits and waits. That means the businesses around there are, too. We are getting no new customers. Usually of this time springtime, we probably would be doing at least 30 or 40 more with the new clientele. All we have is regulars coming in because they know were here and no parking and no walkins. Reporter so the next steps at least for solving this sinkhole are as follows. First, they have to figure out what happened and why. They are doing a study to figure that out right now. Then once they know what the problem is, they have to figure out how to fix it. All of that information including the potential solutions and the price tag attached to those will be presented to city council and thats going to happen on april 27. Reporting live from moraga, emily turner, kpix 5. The cost is so high because the entire 125foot intersection will have to be ripped out to fix the faulty infrastructure underground. Repairs on another sinkhole, this one in union city, will finally wrap up later this month. The road collapsed back in october above a sewer line on alvarado boulevard. A pipe and a manhole were damaged. Theres still no word about the cause of that sinkhole. Burglars used an unusual method to break into a fremont restaurant early this morning. A slingshot. It happened about 3 45 at round table pizza on mission boulevard. Using a slingshot, two thieves shattered the restaurants wiow and then entered through the front door and pocketed cash from the safe. Surveillance video captured the whole thing, but so far there have been no arrests. One year after San Francisco opened its Homeless Navigation Center, the mayor claims its working. Mayor ed lee was there to mark the oneyear anniversary at the facility on mission street. He was joined by people who have already benefited from the resources and are on track to get into permanent housing. This was the biggest blessing. When i walked in, my shoulders relaxed. Um, there are angels here, unsung angels. No matter what caused them, their homelessness, we are trying to get them back on track, get them off drugs and into all the benefits they deserve and into jobs and the things that they would normally want to do themselves. In two months, San Francisco says it plans to start taking clients for a second Homeless Navigation Center on Market Street backed up with 200 housing units. New at 6 00 a lot of people probably have an Overdue Library book hanging around. The problem of unpaid fines is so big in san jose that they have created a library bucket list. But kpix 5s len ramirez says the crackdown has had some unintended consequences. Len . Reporter thats right, veronica. The library has been struggle with people who have not returned their Library Materials and overdue fines but they never intended to keep people out of the library but thats exactly what those policies did. Now the city is trying to figure out how to change it back. Alexis torres is returning overdue books and videos to the san jose library. He admitted some of his materials are way overdue and his fines are adding up but the biggest problem he says is that the library has blacklisted him and blocked his access. Its gotten pretty bad to the point where, um, i cant come back and get any more books or sometimes documentaries i do for my research, my high school. Reporter torres, a student at overfelt high, says he is trying to fix his account because the library is the only place he can freely access the internet. If you have a 50 fine youre not able to use the computer anymore which is kind of ridiculous. I would center to go some other i would have to go to some other resource. Some people dont have internet at their homes like me, for example. Reporter Overdue Library books and other materials have become a big problem in san jose, which has a backlog of 6. 8 million in unpaid fines. Six years ago, during the peak of the recession, the city imposed a stringent fee and penalty structure including sending unpaid fines to a collection agency. But a recent comparison with other cities found san joses policies had too many consequences for many well meaning Library Users because of the high cost of living, many people unable to afford to pay their mounting fees. Our Fee Structure is prohibitive and more and more people havent had access to the library within the last year. Reporter the head librarian asked the city council to revisit the issue. The library is a critical tool for us to be able to bridge that divide. Reporter mayor sam liccardo said they should work on ways to reduce or remove penalties because blocking people is not part of the librarys mission. While we like having our books back, we like having our kids back in the library more. Reporter the city says that in the vast majority of cases the people have already returned their Library Materials but that the fees and the penalties that they still have to pay are in some cases worth a lot more than the original book or the video was so they want to try and fix that. Reporting live in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Other bay area headlines right now, a tip led police in pittsburg to a largescale marijuana operation. They found more than 300 Marijuana Plants at a home on crestview drive. The plants have an estimated street value of more than 375,000. No word on any arrests. A private shuttle provider for several Tech Companies will have to find another place to pick up and drop off workers. Bauers Intelligent Transportation was denied a permit to use muni bus stops and other public curb space in San Francisco. The sfmta says bauers has repeatedly violated terms of the commuter shuttle pilot program. The shuttle provider will be given a threeweek grace period before the change. Check this out. Remember mondays grass fire in menlo park . Well, firefighters used drones to figure out what sparked it. They say the fire was unusual for this time of year. After examining this footage, investigators determined the fire started at a homeless encampment nearby. Firefighters say they plan to use drones more often. Californias drought picture much improved after the heavy march rains but the states farmers wont benefit equally. Those living in the northern Central Valley will receive their full Water Supplies requested this year. But many farms south of the San Joaquin River delta will receive just 5 . Leigh martinez on why two Central Valley Water Districts are getting nothing. Were getting busy. We got guys working. Reporter its almost that time of year when everything on the trees and underground starts to grow. And thats when farmers need to turn on the water. But the federal bureau of reclamation said this year there will be no water for farmers in the east stockton district and the central san joaquin conservation district. The bureau gave these reasons. Theres not enough water in a reservoir only at 42 of its average. And farmers with senior water rights get water first. Theres just not enough for everyone. No, we kind of figured we are going to get zero but we know its been years we have gotten a lot of zero water. Reporter surprisingly east stockton growers are not upset. So where are they getting water from . Thanks to el nino rains and last years conservation efforts, New Hogan Lake has more than doubled its water. Theres enough water this year to be able to meet the needs of both the agriculture in the district as well as the water for stockton. Reporter the stockton district says every farmer will get his first allotment taken from several rivers or creeks. The only possible issue is the Water Quality for household drinking water. The district says one is pure while new hogan has more sediment. They are going to have to use some of new hogan water and pump ground water to blend it to make it of better quality. Reporter the east stockton Water District says at least it will make it through another year of drought. Leigh martinez, kpix 5. New Research Shows california may be dealing with both hotter and wetter weather conditions in the coming decade. Stanford researchers studying trends in atmospheric circulation point to a persistent High Pressure ridge offshore. Sound familiar . They say that ridge deflects winter storms to our north and triggers higher temperatures on land. At the same time, conditions that trigger very wet weather may also be increasing. Well, theyre not increasing this weekend. More sunshine is on the way for the bay area. And something happens next week that hasnt happened for months. The forecast is coming up. Also ahead, designed to teach tolerance is now tearing a bay Area Middle School apart. The lesson plan parents say goes too far. Gross germs lurking in your cold cuts . The dirty truth about how often those deli meat slicers get cleaned. Combine golf with soccer, and you get footgolf. We check out a new club opening in the bay area. ,,,,,,,, kpix 5s da lin on why many parents are outraged about s tq acceptance a weak designed to bring a San Ramon Middle School together is doing the opposite. Kpix 5s da lin on why many parents are outraged about plans for an lgbtq acceptance week. Im sad that this is tearing our community apart because theres no winwin here. Its tearing the community apart because everyone feels like they have to choose a side. Reporter the acceptance week is supposed to teach the San Ramon Middle School students about respect and acceptance. But many parents arent ready to embrace it saying spending an entire week on gay and transgender issues is overkill. Were going to boycott school for the week. Well pull our children out of school for the whole week and well deal with it that way. Reporter more than 500 parents signed a petition. About 20 of them met with the superintendent today asking to reduce the curriculum to one day or drop it. I dont think its age appropriate. These issues should not be school issues. These are home issues. These should be taught in the homebased on your beliefs and value system. Reporter the district says student leaders at Windermere Ranch Middle School came up with the topic. The entire student body will have discussions on watch videos. Yeah, im gay. You still love me . I still love you, son. Reporter a few parents say its important to talk about gender identity issues since kids are growing up a lot faster these days. The things have changed a lot and this is the time that we have to learn about theres no way that it cannot be a secret anymore. Its that respect and tolerance that you need to have for each other. Thats what kind of makes a really good community. Reporter for now, the school plans to move forward with a weeklong curriculum. They say parents who dont like it can opt their kids out. In san ramon, im da lin, kpix 5. We now know two san jose residents were the People Killed in an unusual crash at a Central Valley naval base. The driver identified as 29 yearold Anthony Castillo and his passenger, melissa miller, both died when their suv slammed through the gate and into a fighter jet. It happened at the Naval Air Station lemoore. The two led chp officers on a freeway chase and eventually crashed Late Wednesday night. Its not clear why they ran in the first place. A bay area man faces up to 6 months in federal prison for choking a fellow passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight. The female passenger had rye climbed her seat on a flight reclined her seat on a flight. She was originally charged with felony assault. The pilot had to return to los angeles because of the commotion. However, the jury convicted wells of misdemeanor charges. He will be sentenced in june. Meanwhile, southwest will soon offer nonstop flights from oakland to long beach. It will run four roundtrip flights a day starting on june 5. Jetblue, american and delta are the only other carriers that fly to long beach. There is a new game in the bay area. Reporter don ford tried his hand and foot at footgolf. Reporter golf, lots of people play it but theres a new game in town and it doesnt require expensive clubs. Special skills or golf balls. Its called footgolf. Its a combination of the game of golf and soccer. Reporter footgolf courses are set mostly between fairways and kicking the ball through a special footgolf cup. Its different than a regular cup. Its 21 wide. Maintenance crews are finishing up the last of 18 megacups and they have to be tested. Golfers are fascinated. Soccer and golf mixed today. Its always cool when you put variations on golf. Reporter professional soccer players love the game. This one has some advice. Anytime you go to kick the ball, you bend your knees a little bit, a little. You want to have enough to have balance. Reporter nationwide, there are hundreds of golf facilities installing footgolf courses. And the number is growing. Footgolf. Who would have thought . Who knows where this could go . Perhaps someday we might see golfers playing on soccer fields. In san mateo, don ford, kpix 5. The cost of a round of footgolf is about 16 for a weekday, 19 on the weekend. Kids play for 10. And thats a lot cheaper than any municipal course in the bay area. Lets do it. I play tennis and Tennis Courts are empty. Not always but nevertheless, tennis is a good game to play, too. A lot of golf courses are closing. A lot of them are closing. They are expensive to operate. Not a lot of water due to the drought. So maybe this is an alternative. Good idea. A good weekend to do it, too. Theres plenty of sunshine of sunshine out there through next week. San jose looking toward the hills of the hayward fault and the numbers, highs from today, concord up to 71. Napa 70. San jose 66. Its a beautiful friday. And tomorrow is pretty much an encore performance. Numbers will pretty much be on par with where we are today as this big ridge of High Pressure continues over the west coast. Numbers will finally begin to slowly warm. Yes, the low will try to take a bite out of the high over the next couple of days. It wont succeed. It will go up to the Pacific Northwest and give them rain in seattle next week. Well get high clouds but thats it. Should be dry except for drizzle. Along the shoreline, thats the problem for all coastal locations, beach hazard statement including ocean beach where you can see what it actually looked like not mix swell of 3 to 6 feet and long period of 17 seconds. So if you are heading in that direction, have a care. One of those rip current risks we have seen lately from stuff churned up by big storms out in the pacific. For us, we get a mostly clear evening tonight. Low clouds late. And then a dry weekend near seasonal temperatures. Warmer temperatures next week. Well be near the 80s by wednesday next week. First time this season. And not a bad weekend for the ama supercross thats what they do at levis stadium when the 9ers have the season off. Saturday night mostly clear skies. And 68 degrees. And heres how it looks. Overnight lows will be down to the 40s for a good deal of the bay area. 44 in santa rosa. 45 in san rafael. 50 in San Francisco. 47 for san jose. Sunup tomorrow at 7 minutes before 7 00. And it will rise on a mostly clear bay area except for the low clouds that will fill in some of the valleys along the shoreline. Tomorrow, its going to be nice. 72 at fairfield. 72 for concord. Here in the city, a little chillier, 60 degrees. And in san jose tomorrow 73. Extended forecast we are going to be calling for temperatures in the mid70s tomorrow in the warmest locations. Cools a little bit on sunday. Look what happens on wednesday. The numbers climb into the 80s inland. Wont keep them there for long. Thursday, friday maybe where have we heard this before, probably from me maybe a chance of rain next thursday and friday. But meantime, sunshine and plenty of it. Thank you. A dog is having the adventure of a lifetime. How pinto is touching hearts with her bucket list. ,,,,,,, bay area dog with only a few months to live because of a brain tumor. But some strangers wanted to make sure she lived the rest of her life to the fullest. Maria medina is in pittsburg with pintos bucket list. Reporter you wouldnt know it by looking at her. Pinto is nearing the end of her life. She is happy. Shes happy. Reporter thats because for the last several months, shes gone on quite the adventure. A far cry from her life just a year ago. Somebody had decided they didnt want her anymore because she had a massive abscess on her head. Reporter someone abandoned pinto in the middle of the night in a night dropoff box at the contra costa animal shelter. A large untreated infection on her head. But that was nothing compared to what vets discovered next. We slowly found out when her head wasnt hearing there was probably something going on. Reporter vets found a tumor on her brain and gave her six months to live. So umbrella of hope didnt waste anytime creating a bucket list for the 8yearold chihuahua mix. She has seen the snow. She eats tons of burgers. Reporter those burgers her favorite. In the last few months she got married, gone a ridealong with firefighters, police, visited a farm, met santa claus, and baked holiday cookies, experienced the bright lights of the city, and the list goes on. She has impacted

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