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That is ultimately a possibility. Reporter the two Charter Schools facing allegations of fraud misuse of public funds and criminal wrongdoing include Livermore Valley prep and Livermore Valley Charter School founded in 2005. They are also accused of not paying teachers, illegally charging Foreign Exchange students tuition, and transferring students to their Charter School in stockton against their will. I know that kids next door they go to the Charter School and they are talking about pulling out also. Reporter what was their reasoning . Because a lot they have heard a lot of the teachers are leaving. Reporter one parent who pulled his child out of the school told kpix 5 off camera, quote, if its mainly bad stuff, its the truth. Its been devastating for parents that worked their butts off noor school. Its heartbreaking but we had to get out. Reporter according to its website, the Charter Schools ranked 366 out of more than 30,000 public high schools across the country in a recent newsweek survey. Now, the Livermore Valley Unified School District will be holding a Board Meeting tonight at 7 00. Its open to the public to discuss the Charter Schools, the violations, and what can be done to move forward and also the influx of 400 new students here within the School District. In livermore, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. New at 6 00 the battle to keep private beach private heats up the beach near santa cruz where a neighborhood put up a fence to keep the public out. Kpix 5s len ramirez on a compromise to end this beach standoff. How much is it to get down to the beach . 5 a day. Or 100 a year. Reporter normal sears from marin was first turned away at the gate to privates beach in santa cruz because he didnt want to pay to get in. So ill go further down. Reporter what do you think about that . I dont think its legal. I dont know reporter but once our interview got started the the gatekeeper set the fee aside. Not looking for a beef. Oh, can i go look at the beach . Yes. Okay. Let me go look at the beach. Reporter he is one of the few to challenge the opal cliffs recreation district over free access to the beach. In june the California Coastal commission ordered opal cliffs to take the gate down and threatened to fine the district 11,000 a day. But several meetings and letters later its still here and no fines have been levied. People have been coming up pretty concerned about this gate. Reporter opal cliffs has been operating the gate since 1940s. The fee pays for the gatekeepers, maintenance of a park and wood stairway to the beach but the Commission Says it goes against the California Coastal act, which seeks free Public Access to all beaches. No one from the Coastal Commission was available to talk on camera but a source inside the agency said a compromise was offered to opal cliffs that would allow them to lock the gates at night for security purposes but open during the day. That proposal hasnt been responded to and according to the source, the situation remains a standoff. Keeping it locked at night is a good thing. Keeping it open during the day, i dont have a problem with that. My problem is if you cut off the resources to fund the place its not going to be an access for anybody. Reporter and normal sears . Public land becomes available to the public hopefully. Reporter after a brief look he decided to move on. Len ramirez, kpix 5. New information on a taxi that went on a San Francisco sidewalk sending three people to the office at 3 p. M. This afternoon at the area where market means sansom and sutter. Chopper 5 over the scene. You can see the cab and the carnage on the sidewalk. Andria borba reports. Reporter at least one witness has told San Francisco Police Officers that the cab driver in this case was on a cell phone not on bluetooth but physically holding a cell phone when this crash happened this afternoon. Take a look at the scene behind me. They are still trying to figure out what happened. The yellow cab cooperative cab, a 2013 ford, was driving westbound on Market Street when it slammed into a city of San Francisco advertising kiosk, a light pole, shoe shine stand and newsstand. Power wasnt not affected but San Francisco fire isolated the scene for a possible electrical hazard. [ indiscernible ] people didnt know if it was a crash at first or a construction accident. Like a loud smack like, you know, someone dropped like a big slab of concrete from a few stories up. Reporter a dispatcher tried to get emergency crews out to this corner to help. [ pause ] taxi that hit a newspaper stand and two people are down. 20 cars. In the back lot it looks good. Nothing suspicious as far as driving through. Reporter now, three men were injured in the crash taken to San Francisco general hospital. Two are in fair condition at this point and one is in critical condition. They are identified as two shoe shiners out here in this area as well as a cab driver. The cab driver who is behind the wheel of the car we are trying to find out more information. Live in San Francisco, andria borba, kpix 5. New information on a north bay tragedy. Two kids drowned when the pickup truck they were riding in plunged into the Russian River. We are getting a first look at the girls ages 4 and 7. The crash happened just south of jenner on highway 1. Their mother was driving them to school when the truck went off the road and into the river. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores reports. Reporter we are in front of the school here in Monte Rio Union school. This is about 15 minutes from the crash site. We spoke to several parents on campus today. They say they are devastated by the news. Reporter the truck traveled down a 40foot embankment before crashing into the river. Chp says the driver broke out a window and tried to get her two young daughters trapped in the back seat but the truck sunk down rapidly and the mother resurfaced without her children. It happened in a matter of moments. Before i could recognize if it was a car or truck, it was down with bubbles coming up to the surface. A woman came up after that screaming, my babies. Hard to hear. Reporter divers at the Russian River reached the children after 30 minutes. Chp says the two girls just four and seven died in the crash. Investigators say the 32year old mother had been driving on highway 1 reportedly taking the girls to school. The roadway was foggy and slick. Chp say she may have lost control of the truck before it plunged into the water. Crews in jenner pulled the truck from the river. Law enforcement have not released the names of the children killed in the crash. Chp says that they do not believe that drugs or alcohol were involved. The mother apparently was uninjured. Reporting live, im Jessica Flores, fox back to you. New at 6 00 a third arrest in a brazen daytime robbery attempt that was caught on camera. Part of a mini crime wave in oakland. All the robberies happened within a span of a few hours on saturday. Police say that a group of men tried robbing people while they parked their cars on the upper diamond district. One family says they have been targeted before. Just last year, after parking their suv, two men threw a grandmother to the ground and stole her purse. One neighbor who installed the surveillance cameras recorded both attacks. A piece of World War Ii History right off our coast coming up, how scientists are getting an upclose look at a u. S. Aircraft carrier that sunk in the pacific. Plus, tomorrow marks two years since the napa quake. Why its been a rough road back for one business. And the popular tourist activity you may never able to do again in hawaii. You can always wear a light jacket in San Francisco in the summertime. It has been chilly all month. It was chilly again today. Mid60s. We are seeing a few low 80s in dublin. Well talk about how warm well get, there is a warmup, coming up. You might say teslas new the paloalto based electrir company says it can go fromo you might say teslas new model s is lightning fast. The palo altobased electric Car Company Says it can go from 0 to 60 in just 2. 5 seconds. That makes it the fastest accelerating car ever produced. Tesla tweeted out this sneak peek of the new car. The added speed is thanks in part to a new battery available for order beginning today. Teslas stock was up 2 on the announcement. That price it should go fast. The millbrae Transit Village is getting a boost from a National Hotel chain. Residencethey are going to be part of the 300 million project for the gateway at millbrae station. Thats in addition to more than 300 Housing Units and nearly 200,000 square feet of office and retail space. Tomorrow marks the twoyear anniversary of the earthquake that rattled napa. It destroyed homes, left parts of downtown in rubble. Today, kpix 5s john ramos checked in with some of the people impacted by the quake to see how they are doing now. Reporter two years after the quake, napa is once again a tourist destination. Sure, theres still work being done but it doesnt look like it did that sunday morning. We woke up and we looked at each other and said, San Franciscos gone. We were shocked to find out it was actually napa. Reporter the images broadcast to the world were also shocking. The front of the old courthouse partially fell off. Even now, that side of the building is closed for repair. The top floor above carpe diem restaurant caved in but now its better than ever with care to color the new bricks so it would blend in perfectly. Ed has been managing the repair of the Historic Center building. Thats the one that dumped ought bricks on to the much views car in the parking lot. Now he is carefully numbered every stone they can be properly replaced and when the buildings sidewall was uncovered, it turns out they had already installed steel bracing in 1904. Are you surprised how well napa came out of this considering the age of these buildings . Yes. Yes. Im also surprised that retrofitting didnt do any good. Reporter some of the worst damage was in the reinforced structures. The taste of the himalayas restaurant the oldest in napa with 3foot adobe walls. It had only a few cracks in the corners from the quake. So the old building held up quell. It did. Adobe thick walls really helped. Reporter heres the irony in that. One week after the anniversary of the quake the restaurant will close for two months because the state is requiring it to seismically retrofitted. Finally, even though leslie parkers running store is repaired, she like many others is still on edge. Every time theres any little bit of any kind of a tremor or no. No. Youre not going through it all over again. Reporter emotions like the faults themselves run deep. And they are not something easily repaired. In napa, john ramos, kpix 5. Well, one of the hawaiis most popular tourist activities could stop. Federal regulators are proposing a ban on swimming with the dolphins. Now, according to the National Marine fisheries service, dolphins are nocturnal creatures. They need to hunt for food at night and by keeping them up all day to swim with tourists, companies deplete them of the sleep they need. Animal Rights Groups are on board with the ban. The agency will hold public discussions before the ban goes into effect. Paul deanno has a look at the weather. Dolphins need their sleep, too. We all do. So do moms and dads. [ laughter ] yes. Join the club. And everybody else in between. Another chilly one out there. Its just one of those deals where were not going to get warm for a while in San Francisco. I know youre saying hey, its summer but at least sometimes you sneak in a warm day or two. We have not done that so far this month and we may go 0 for august. We have lost the city of San Francisco. Its hidden under that big blanket of fog. About a 1600foot marine layer is keeping things brisk and humid and cloudy and foggy and drizzly in San Francisco. Today 66 degrees. 76 in napa. 77 redwood city. 86 livermore. 2 degrees below average. San jose 81 your high. As playing tonight. Lets score some runs against the indians. Couldnt do it last night. We will tonight, though. First pitch at 7 00. Mostly clear and cool, 62 degrees. Weather headlines, which are, kind of a continuation of where we have been. Low cloud cover is back once again tonight. We are looking at weather a little bit warmer coming up on wednesday but really not by much. Temperatures overall are going to stay cooler than average. Talk about the overnight lows in the mid50s. We have some of the best sleeping weather in the summertime. Its not humid. When its sticky it stays really warm and uncomfortable at night. We dont have that problem around here. Oakland 56 degrees. Fremont 56. San francisco tonight 55 degrees. A little bit warmer by about 2 or 3 degrees. Thats it. We are looking at 80s again inland. But 60s near the water. Pacifica 60. Oakland 69 degrees with Morning Cloud cover afternoon sunshine. Down 680 and 880 we find fremont 76 degrees. San jose 78. Livermore 88. And napa 81 degrees. We are going to stay cooler than average near or below average for a very long time. Heres your extended forecast with 80s continuing inland. The coolest weather will be friday and saturday. Many of you will struggle to get to 82, 83, 84 degrees the warm spots are the mid80s. Near the bay no, we are not going to hit 70 until next monday and along the coastline where, boy, has it been chilly we are not going to hit 60 until saturday. So the overall pattern is pleasant, i dont want to call it cold because so many parts of the country would love our weather. Feel this cool. But it is kind of chilly. And it has been for the month. Put on a sweatshirt. Thank you. A bay area rapper giving back. How e40 is helping children going back to his old school. We first showed you this coyote with mange on the loose in the east bay. Where it was just spotted. , s ,,,,,, seen roaming through the sts lle. A coyote is on the loose in the east bay. Over the last week, he has been seen roaming through the streets of danville. Now police are telling people watch out for the sick animal with mange. Don ford shows us where he was last seen. Reporter this male coyote has been wandering around danville neighborhoods for weeks. He has a severe skin infection that seems to cover his whole body. Wildlife Emergency Services says it appears to be some sort of mange. While not lethal to the coyote, the appearance has neighbors worried for his health. Kind of walks had his head and tail down. So he is not very frisky. Reporter connie and jack buckleys home sits right up to open parkland. The neighbors have named him wiley. And wiley is seen regularly in the evenings traveling along this fence. The poor animal looks like he is having a hard time. He does, yeah. But you know, a lot of neighbors want somebody to come and get him and other neighbors say, you know, wildlife has been here before we were. We have to learn to live with them. So theres mixed emotions. Reporter a few hours ago he was spotted behind one of of these houses raiding a chicken coop and thats what coyotes do. The Police Responded and he dashed away here into san ramon creek. But time is running out for wiley. Being in a weakened state, he may be the next target himself for an even larger predator such as a mountain lion. Danville police are asking anyone who sees this coyote to please give them a call. The Danville Police Department Tells me they dont consider the coyote a Public Safety issue. More a public rescue mission. In danville, don ford, kpix 5. The cincinnati zoo is shutting down its twitter account in response to the mentions of the gorilla that was killed when a boy fell into his cage. They had posts with nothing to do with it. The zoo directors account was hacked over the weekend. Coming up in our next half hour, a tree limb falls paralyzing a bay area mother o the help the San Francisco mayor visited the mom in the hospital. Stanford university banning hard alcohol. The school sierras beer and wine are fine. Why the new policy could backfire. 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