Certainly no stranger to protests and demonstrations. Here he was part of a black lives matter freeway shutdown on interstate 880. And this photo posted on twitter was taken after mcbride splattered red paint at Oakland Police headquarters protesting police brutality. He was also arrested during the ferguson verdict protest. Keeping peace is simply to preserve the status quo, waging peace and making peace is around moving forward to ensure that we have justice for those who are most marginalized and those most vulnerable. Reporter so if he said his work is to rebuild relationships with police . He says its no conflict of interest. This idea that we have to be pro or antipolice, we Pro Community and we are pro justice. And we want to be encouraging our Law Enforcement officials to meet in us that area. Reporter now, the Mayors Office released a Statement Today about ben mcbride saying, his actions on his personal time have limited his ability to continue some of the work he previously did. He is no longer teaching some classes with opd. But he still works with the city through his empower initiative foundation. I also found it interesting that last night at the Richmond City council meeting, mcbride and the woman whose car was impounded went before city council to talk to the council members. And also police to improve relations moving forward. In oakland, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. A group of Bay Area Police officers is taking aim at the black lives Matter Movement releasing a new online video. We are drawing the line in the sand and this is going to stop now the san jose Police Officers association made the video. The group says its in response to growing violent against Police Officer by black lives matter. Today the association also set up this thanksgiving table with the photos of five officers killed nationwide recently in the line of duty. The troubling trend is blamed on black lives matter. Black lives matter have threatened the cops, have threatened violence, do talk about killing officers this we deserve it. The Silicon Valley naacp president is worried that the video will backfire. He says it could deepen the distrust and division separating police and communities of color. San francisco trying a new approach when it comes to fighting hate crimes. City hall announced plans to protect people from different backgrounds with undercover officers trying to catch those who commit a hate crime. We want to remain an open welcome city. Some people may not feel that unless we are enforcing the laws we put on the books that say if you wear a hijab youre going to be as protected as if you got a nose ring or that you look different. San francisco says the number of reported hate incidents has gone up about 28 since 2015. And the city of alameda trying a different approach. They just activated a hotline to report haterelated crimes. The service is available in six languages. New at 6 00 skyrocketing rent is now affecting one of the busiest shopping districts in the world. Union square. Kpix 5s phil matier on big name stores that could be priced out of the area. Reporter thats right, allen. Were here at the winter loft something that comes never year while they are building the central subway through here. Of the effort is to draw people down for shopping. But inviting as some of this retail is, some of these buildings are slated to empty out the stores for even more profitable enterprise. Heres the story. Reporter San Franciscos union square has long been known as the gold coast of shopping. But even 900 shoes and 25,000 handbags [chuckling] cant make the rent here anymore. Its gotten very extreme. Reporter in the past two years, arthur baron shoes saw its rent jump more than 40 to over a Million Dollars a year. Sad to say, the big corporating can afford these higher rents and independent familyowned sure cant. Reporter its not just the small stores. Karen flood of the Union Square Business district stilts that up to 20 Stores Including such big names as prada and saks mens have moved out or consolidated leaving a score of empty stores in the wake. We are seeing faster changes with businesses going out but also new businesses coming in. Reporter longtime local favorite may be making way for profitable office space. That shows demand. The reynolds would gorents may go down without the retail demand. Reporter even mens macys is too value to just sell clothes anymore. You could see more offices and residential especially on the upper floors. Property owners are looking for the highest rents they can get. Levi moved to market. Apple tore that down for the new apple store. At t took the space at powell and market for a flagship largest at t store in the country. Local retailing ended a long time ago. Reporter is union square being gentrified out . You know, i hope not. Thats always a challenge. You dont want to lose, you know, the character and the culture of union square the old time businesses. Reporter so think of it. In the next couple of years, the area could change. And those highrises you see behind us that are stores now could be hotel rooms with the subway right here brandnew just opening up. Buses and all this retail, it would be the premiere destination. Of course, you better bring your gold card because its going to cost. In San Francisco, phil matier, kpix 5. Deadly shooting along montereys historic cannery row happened on wave street around 1 00 a. M. Where police found a victim with several gunshot wounds. He died at the hospital. This type of crime very rare. Its the first homicide on cannery row which overlooks monterey bay since 1991. No arrests have been made. Police believe the 28yearold victim was targeted. Its been two weeks since the election and the ballot counting continues in santa clara county. Workers were busy tallying the last 50 ballots at the office in san jose today. Several races are still too close to call. So the process is far from over. An automatic manual recount will start on monday. It will be between 150 and 200 staff hand counting ballots for 7 to 8 days. After that, we will perform our final manual audit and certify the election by december 8. As of this morning, there were still nearly 1. 8 million unprocessed ballots in all of california. Thats more than the populations of San Francisco, oakland and stockton combined. New at 6 00 a late count of ballots shows california voters have approved prop 66. That means big changes to the Death Penalty process. Kpix 5s melissa caen on what that means for death row inmates at san quentin prison. Melissa. Reporter yeah, veronica. Now, some of the men here on californias death row were sentenced to die in the 1970s or 1980s. But they are more likely to die from illness or suicide than execution. And the numbers are in. It looks like a majority of californians have decided to change all that. California voters have hit the gas pedal on the Death Penalty. It was a close vote but now we know that proposition 56 will pass. That measure is supposed to speed up the Death Penalty process. Prop 66 green lights the Death Penalty, speeds appeals guards against wrongful convictions monitored by the supreme court. Reporter the vote will officially be certified on december 9. So what happens on december 10 . Will executions resume . If the court dont stop it, if we just went now we have this new law, clearly in 2017, execution dates should be set. Reporter steve wagstaffeis the district attorney. 20 have exhausted appeals on death row and two of those 20 have committed their crimes in san mateo. As soon as this law is certified, as soon as it is, you know, formally on the books, we will go into court and ask our trial courts to set execution dates. Reporter california hasnt executed anyone since 2006 because legal challenges against the method of execution having dragging out in courts. Now proposition 66 is supposed to resolve that issue but wagstaffe expects more lawsuits. Theres already been one lawsuit that was filed directly with the California Supreme Court trying to stop prop 66 even before the vote was finalized. And there will be many more. Reporter but theres more to prop 66 than a new method of execution. Theres also new rules to speed up the appeals and appoint lawyers more quickly. In order to carry out the mandate of the ballot measure we are going to need hundreds of lawyers, hundreds of new courtrooms that are open to do these cases. Reporter he represents San Francisco. He doubts that lawmakers will prioritize funding for more lawyers and judges. The voters have spoken and obviously folks will do what they can to comply with it but the budgetary pressures of adding hundreds of millions of dollars on top of a very expensive Death Penalty system is going to be extremely challenging. I agree with him. It is going to be difficult for our legislators to do that. The choice will be whether our legislature decides they want to uphold the will of the people or whether they want to impede the will of the people. Reporter assemblyman chiu says that this whole budgeting process could be made even more difficult if the Trump Administration withholds billions of dollars that the state gets from the federal government each year. The bottom line between legal challenges and budgeting limitations, dont expect an overhaul of the Death Penalty process to happen overnight. Live in marin, melissa caen, kpix 5. Before they sit down to feast, millions are stuffing the roads and the airports. We are in the thick of the holiday rush. How people are surviving the busiest thanksgiving travel day in nearly a decade. A bay area teacher put on leave for comparing president elect donald trump to hitler. Why he is quitting a 40year career. A picturesque bay area town with big dreams for a small dock. The plan that could turn this underused river into a center of activity. If you are counting down the hours until you can channel your inner clark w griswald, there is one Holiday Weekend day where youre not going to want to go outside and do that. Ill tell you which day it is next. , i like to know whats happening as soon as it happens. Who won the game, who won on the dancing show. I mean, if i watched that show. Same with my banking. With my bank of america mobile banking app, i can see my accounts all in one place. I can easily manage them and if something doesnt look right, im going to know. Plus, i can set up alerts to help detect unusual activity. So i feel secure. Wait, he won . Thats an average tango. At best. Turns out, a working smoke alarm alerted a woman who was inside new video of thick smoke pouring out of this home in san leandro. Turns out the working smoke alarm alerted a woman who was inside with her two grandchildren. Within minutes, firefighters got there and put out the flames. One person did suffer a minor injury. Firefighters say that the fire was started by a Remote Control car battery that was charging. Campbell police sent out a video of thieves with a quick tip lock your car doors to prevent theft. You can see one suspect shut the door of a locked truck and then the door of a sedan that was unlocked. He gets in and then starts going through the glove compartment. Lets check the holiday getaway commute. And looks like a parking lot there. This is highway 101 in marin county. Chopper 5 live over the corte madera area right now. A crash along with the holiday traveler, traffic snarling things tonight. Multiple lanes blocked right now. This is near the sir Francis Drake boulevard offramp. No word yet on when those lanes are going to reopen. This is a look at traffic across the bay area. The commute right now across the Golden Gate Bridge is pretty clear until you get to that tieup we just showed you. The bay bridge really smooth. Traffic is busy though along 880 in the east bay. Traffic was horrible this morning on 880. This is in hayward. A pedestrian was hit and killed there. Chopper 5 over the backups near west tennyson. A womans body found in the northbound lanes. All of this happening about 5 45. Chp trying to figure out why she was on the freeway. Bay area airports bracing for a Record Number of passengers this week. This is a live look outside at sfo right now. Nearly 6. 5 Million People expected to pass through the airport this holiday season. Long lines started forming early this morning at Mineta San Jose International airport. Kpix 5s maria medina shows us. Reporter we are expecting the busiest thanksgiving travel week in almost a decade and you can see behind me this is the southwest ticket counter and the lines have been like this all morning long. Im going to go ahead and take you for a walk up to the tsa line and, while i do that im going to throw some numbers at you. Here at mineta, they are expecting 400,000 travelers from last friday for next wednesday up 15 from last year and nationwide they are expecting 50 million americans to travel to hit the roads and four million of those americans are going to be hitting the skies and just in time as we go up the esclator here we are going to show you the tsa line here at mineta. You can see why they ask you to arrive early. There are three busy travel days this week. Today and sunday and monday are the most busy. Maria medina, kpix 5. The sierra looking like winter has set in great for the resorts opening for ski season and the roads right now looking good. We are giving you the view from several caltrans cameras heading to the summit. The highway is clear for most drivers. But the roads get wet up there. So some of the drivers delayed this morning. There were chain controls then. Installers want to remind everybody, an ounce of prevention does go a long way. Just be prepared. You know . Come up here with a full tank of gas because, you know, if there was an accident, traffic gets snarled theres going to be a lot of people on the road this weekend. And dont forget the return trip. Chain installers say make sure you are ready to come back over the pass from your holiday. Snow in the sierra . And we have rain in the forecast here. Right . We do. Yes, friday night were looking at rain returning the next couple of days are going to be dry but more rain for the Holiday Weekend forecast and one day saturday where you can do something inside. Well have some rain moving in for the weekend. Tomorrow will be fabulous. Union square, goodlooking shot right there by macys all the Beautiful Stores down there. We had phil matiers report on the changing face of union square but right now lots of shopping, nice christmas tree, things looking good in San Francisco this evening. San francisco your high today 60 degrees. Half moon bay 59. Everywhere in the bay area was in the low 60s including san rafael, fremont, concord and also san jose, san jose 62 degrees. Holiday ice rink at union square, rainfall saturday. Tomorrow friday and sunday should be rainfree but saturday is going to be soggy. Rain on saturday at downtown ice in downtown san jose. A storm system bringing rainfall to the pacific northwest. We are getting breaks between weather systems. They are getting pounded every day, rain, wind, you name it. Its going to take a while before this next salvo will make it into far Northern California and eventually the bay area but it will get here and when that happens well see up to an inch friday night into saturday. Overnight tonight patchy fog, chilly. Widespread mid30s in places like concord and walnut creek and dublin and livermore. Fairfield youll hit 35. Santa rosa 35 degrees. Even redwood city dropping to 39 degrees overnight tonight. Sunrise on thanksgiving day, 7 00. Well be dry tomorrow. Lots of sunshine. Not going to be the warmest thanksgiving we have ever seen. Not even hitting 60 in vallejo or san rafael. San francisco 58. San jose 61. Fremont 61. That said, talk to anybody back east they have no and ice and rain. Well have none of that and raindrops return to the north bay as soon as friday evening for the rest of us, we are looking at rain moving in saturday. So we talked about hanging those christmas lights, clark w. Griswald with 50,000 lights. Dont put them up saturday. Its going to rain. Monday and tuesday next week, sunny. Wednesday increasing clouds. One wet day, saturday. Okay . Movie day. Oh. Netflix on saturday. Popcorn. Christmas lights. Thank you. New at 6 00 a plan to transform the Petaluma River into a Recreation Area is moving forward. Organizers want to build a 300,000 small boat dock at steamer landing park. Kpix 5s don ford on the new grant that could make that dream into a reality. Reporter theres actually great paddling in petaluma which is sort of its extremely under used body of water. During the morning its beautiful. Reporter friends of the Petaluma River agree. They operate out of this historic barn and now with a 100,000 grant, from the Sonoma County agricultural and open space district, they are planning to replace this dilapidated rundown ramshackle dock with something the public can use. But 100 grand will only get you so far. This 100,000 grant will get us about a third of the way there. But its going to do a lot for this community. Reporter to completely rebuild a new floating dock system, its estimated to cost 300,000. The friends of the river know they still have a long ways to go before the new kayak dock becomes reality. But this is going to get us a substantial amount of the way to that final goal. Reporter and, of course, the beauty of the Petaluma River is in the eye of the bao holder. Its beholder. Its