Breaking news out of oakland. On the mondays deadly Apartment Fire new email show firefighters wanted the building shut in january. Ken bastida is following the paper trail. Ken. Reporter liz, fire crews at nearby station 15 sounded the alarm on what they saw as a dangerous situation. The fire captain fired off an email on january 8 saying, quote, i recommend that we consider shutting this building down immediately due to the danger to life safety. Crews were ordered to do another inspection, which they did the following day. A month later, another dire warning from station 15 according to the email chain on march 18th, the ent was still pressing for code inspectors to take a look. The according to the email chain, on march 18, the Fire Department was still pressing for code inspectors to come over and take a look. The inspection with the owner present steams have happened last week. Seems to have happened last week. But on monday the earlymorning fire killed four people displaced 80 others. So we are really increasing our capacity to ensure that unscrupulous landlords are not putting profits over safety, particularly at this time when tenants are afraid to speak out due to fear of displacement. Reporter the latest tragedy comes as the city is still dealing with the fallout from the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire. The mayor today announcing that she wants to hire six Additional Fire inspectors. She wants another fire staffer to work on Building Inspections in the meantime. And she wants to prioritize checks on problem properties. A candle started the Apartment Fire. A tenant had lit that candle because electricity had cut off. Outrage over an ad campaign for brandnew luxury apartments in San Francisco. They are located in the bayview west of 3rd street near highway 101. Kpix 5s Susie Steimle with the message one bay Area Supervisor calls disgusting. It hit me in the gut. Reporter that was supervisor malia cohens reaction to this advertisement for water bend apartments a luxury complex that recently opened in her district. I thought it was the manifestation of all the fears that i hear from all the long term baby view residents about how the new developments are coming in and pushing people out. Its about creating your culture. The apartments start at 2,800 a month. Cohen says she is not against complexes like this. She just wants to make sure the Community Feels welcome there. She says the women pictured are not representative of bayview and calling bayview the next mission only made things worse. The mission is ground zero for displacement and all of that angst. Its real and they successfully tapped into that and they played on it for their own capital gain and thats what was so disgusting about it. Reporter the supervisor says this ad is offensive not just for People Living in bayview but for people in the mission, as well. So how do people in the mission feel about it . It depends who you ask. Does it offend you at all . That theres a gym . [ laughter ] or that theres women and men and no. I mean, it doesnt offend me at all. I think they are using sexuality against people trying to sell it with sex. Looking for certain, you know a certain type of people . Yeah. Namely, white females with good bodies. Reporter in the end, cohen won. The company is taking the advertisements down and declined to comment on the controversy. In San Francisco, Susie Steimle, kpix 5. An educator with deep bay area ties is taking over San Francisco schools. Kpix 5s sharon chin was on hand today for his official introduction. Dr. Vincent matthews. [ applause ] reporter members of the San Francisco school board introduced their new superintendent. Its an honor, its a privilege to stand before you. Its an honor and a privilege to come home. Reporter they say dr. Vincent matthews has the experience and education to lead. We know we want somebody who is going to be dedicated to San Francisco and somebody who cares about our students here. Reporter an educator for 30 years he has been a teacher and principal. He served as state administrator in oakland and most recently inglewood. He was superintendent of schools in san jose and san diego. He was also principal at the controversial for profit Edison Charter academy in San Francisco in 2001. The board president says that was in the past. Yes, he was a Charter School principal but he learned a lot has been all over california and he continues to grow and is excited about running this district. Reporter although he has been criticized in the past for running the district like a corporation, some say that means he is no nonsense. When youre focus and out right things, the kids and their future, you can come off as rather corporate. The reality is that when youre focused on the kids you make the right decisions. Reporter matthews will inherit problems including improving a School Assignment system that has increased segregation, and retaining teachers who cant afford to live in the city. The biggest challenge in his mind is the opportunity gap. How do we deliver on the promise of a high quality education for all students . And a big part of that is focusing on instruction understanding that the number one the most important interaction in our system is that interaction between teacher and the student. Reporter he says he will spend his first 90 days listening to the community and learning what needs to be done. The board is expected to officially vote to hire him and finalize his contract next tuesday. Sharon chin, kpix 5. A brazen bay area jewel thief is on the loose and San Francisco police say the man smashed a storefront window on Waverly Place in chinatown a week ago. The surveillance picture of him walking away with a 100,000 worth of jewelry happened in broad daylight on march 24. Police asking for the publics help in identifying him. Starting tomorrow smokers in california will be burning more money when they light up. Reporter unser asan says the tax will double. Reporter this person has been smoking for 25 years. He is good health but he may quit if the 2 tax is too expensive. It probably will. Reporter how so . Moneywise. [ laughter ] reporter thats great news for his wife who has been trying to get him to stop. My husband smokes so hey when he realized he had to keep on paying for em, he will stop. Reporter the tax increase starts saturday with extra revenue earmarked for tobacco prevention and research or tobaccorelated diseases like cancer. Most of the money goes to fund medical. Its also design to get people to quit or not start. People make up their own minds. If they want to smoke they will regardless of the price. Reporter others think the tax punishes smokers who arent doing anything illegal. Its like charging criminals to stay on the streets or, you know, they charge the [ indiscernible ] or anything else like that, they make no sense. Its a lot of money. Reporter as a businessman, aj is concerned how the 2 tax will Impact Business. Tonight his stores will begin inventory of their Tobacco Products as they come into compliance with the new state rules. He expects business to take a dip but he thinks over time, smokers will be back. This has been happening for the past 35 years we have been doing this and started with 49 cents a pack and now its close to 8. Its going to Impact Business as far as tobacco is concerned. San francisco is launching a new program to help smokers quit. Starting on monday, residents can receive a free quit smoking kit by visiting sfquits. Org. The kits will also be available at zuckerberg San Francisco general and neighborhood clinics. An uncertain future for meals on wheels. Today a show of support in Contra Costa County for that program that hundreds of seniors rely on. In downtown walnut creek dozens of students and Community Members rallied to raise awareness about that organization as well as march for meals. Thats a National Campaign focused on ending issues such as hunger and isolation seniors face. Seniors need help now more than ever, according to organizers. Someone else recently from the white house about some potential cuts and for us on a local level we would be hit extremely hard. And we would have to either cut services or let some of our clients go. It would really be devastating to the local community for us. Event organizers tell us 27,000 seniors go hungry in Contra Costa County. Taking a stand. Local students fight back against bullies in their own school. How some east bay kids are hoping peaceful protests will get racism to stop. And bring out the boats. High water levels and fresh warnings how boating season will be different this year. And thrills and chills. The new hightech roller coaster opens up at Great America. We are going to give you a preview. ,,,,,,,,, with racist incidents in recent days. Kpix 5 reporter jackie ward is at the school. A rally for unity today at albany high. The campus has been grappling with racist incidents recently. Jackie ward reports. Reporter the students we spoke to today said whats been going on here at the school is wrong and they want to do something about it. They say the administration has been leaving them in the dark of details of whats going on. I felt like this could never happen at albany. Its awful. Reporter in a Youtube Video students are standing up against insulting racist actions that have happened on their campus. [ chanting ] reporter at a unity rally today, students are using the recent events as a way to educate each other. Its a point where its almost impossible to please everybody. I enjoy making people safe and happy. I hope that will start the process today. Reporter one student we spoke to is a senior here and says some of her friends are scared to come to school because they dont feel safe anymore. And she is frustrated with what she believes has been a lack of communication from the administration. We just found out about the events this year. Nobody told us. I think we missed an opportunity to educate people about this. Reporter but she is hoping yesterdays sitin combined with the unity rally today will be productive steps of healing. We like to think that were in a liberal bubble and we are protected from all this hateful way of thinking on, you know, all this [ indiscernible ] but in reality, like, were not. Reporter the superintendent wouldnt comment on the situation today but we spoke to her sunday and the district is investigating what happened. We want to send a strong message that we dont accept this. Reporter the board will be having a meeting on april 18 to go over some policies to make this school a safer and more welcoming place. In albany, jackie ward, kpix 5. California teachers chanted slogans like education, not deportation, during a march for immigrant rights in sacramento. It happened on the first day of their convention as well as what happens to be the holiday that honors labor leader cesar chavez. The teachers made a point to stop outside a local office of immigration and customs enforcement, or i. C. E. , to protest federal tactics. Sky drone 5 over a brand new tall ship that is poised for launch in sausalito. Tall wooden ships were common on the bay. But this is the first one to be built here in nearly a century. The multiyear project used parts that were custom made. Kpix 5s don ford with the look at the ship thats about to hit the water. Reporter slowly carefully after nearly 6 million and four years, the tall ship Matthew Turner is finally seeing sunshine. As you can see from sky drone 5, she is massive. She is heavy. This is a big move. I mean, theres a lot of unknowns. A lot of engineering. A lot of scratching of our heads. Um, a lot of weight, a lot of potential for mistakes. Reporter earlier this morning, workers and technicians checked and rechecked every nut and bolt before starting to move the 175 ton ship. One last safety meeting and the show starts. Inch by inch, tractors and a small army of technicians watched looking for trouble stopping for adjustments but heading to the bay. Its emotional for folks who spent so much time building the Matthew Turner. Theres been a lot of love put into this boat. 200,000 man hours. Reporter thats a lot. You know, 90 of that or 95 of that has been by the community volunteers. Reporter the Matthew Turner is being built from scratch all new construction using wood often milled directly interest trees. Its an educational platform to introduce folks to the Marine Environment focusing on youth programs. But first, she needs to get to the water and hundreds of folks came to watch the amazing sight. We have been watching this boat being built over the last few years and pretty inspiring. I know its one of the biggest to be built. I think they know what they are doing. Reporter this is about as far as it will go today but the real fireworks will be tomorrow when for the first time in nearly a century a tall ship will be launched into the bay. In sausalito, don ford, kpix 5. Who is Matthew Turner . He had a big shipyard in benicia in the late 1800s and was considered the grandfather of wooden shipbuilding on the west coast. Meteorologist paul deanno live at Todos Santos Plaza in concord. Paul, gorgeous day today. It is gorgeous out here high of 72 degrees. It was breezy earlier but the breeze is relaxing. Its a fine friday night. They put up this solid fence here at the plaza for good reason. They have a winter and spring brews festival coming up tomorrow from 12 to 4 p. M. So they are getting ready tonight for what should be an event where thousands of people will be standing where i am coming up tomorrow afternoon but the kids are still enjoying a beautiful friday night. The joyful noise of all the kids playing and enjoying great weather outside. Its in the upper 60s, wildly comfortable. Take a look at the highs from today. Hayward one of the warm spots at 75. San rafael 74. San jose 73. Fremont and San Francisco, wow, 71 gorgeous degrees. And concord buchanan field about a mile down the road here 72 degrees for a high today. As and giants at at t park again for a second exhibition game and then in oakland tomorrow night. 7 15 first pitch. 62 degrees. Clear skies. Yes, still breezy. But not that bad whatsoever. And likely warmer than all the home games they will have in july and august. Strong ridge of High Pressure is building closer. The transition from that low pressure area which gave us some showers yesterday morning, to this strong ridge, is why its been so windy in southern california. You saw the video earlier. Las vegas extremely windy. Arizona extremely windy. We were breezy to windy and now with that ridge winning out tomorrow, the breeze goes away. The ridge wins. And that means some very, very warm weather. Take a look at our 3d futurecast. In San Francisco, low 70s all afternoon long. It is going to be a great day to head out in the city. Warm weather, 10 to 15 degrees above average. Cooling trend next week 70s inland 60s another the bay low 60s upper 50s right along the coastline. Back out here live, we are enjoying the blue sky on a friday evening. Yes, youre sneezing allergens are just flying around everywhere, one. It rained so much all winter. Two, we have been dry recently so nothing has been falling out of the sky and it was windy so anything that was going to fall out of a tree did today. So aside from having to sneeze, put on the sunscreen and enjoy what will be the warmest weekend since october. Back to you. Thank you. The power of Mother Nature on full display in southern california. The waves whip a sailboat straight into a pier. The whole thing caught on camera. Coming up in sports, one final four team goes out into the wilderness to prepare for the big game and the warriors kevin durant may be close to returning something he didnt think would happen at all this season. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,, rockets tonight. With 7 games left. The dubs still have a lot to play for. Seeding. And momentum heading into the playoffs. The warriors host the rockets tonight with 7 games left in the season the dubs have a lotto play for. Of course kevin durant will not be in the lineup tonight. But he is getting close to returning from the mcl injury and bone bruce he had in february. Today he told bill simmons when the doctors gave him the diagnosis kd thought his season was over. First diagnosis we got was broke my legs factured my tibia and i cried and like man not again. I wrapped my behind around this long recovery and this between go the a call at like we checked the scans again, they told me it was a bruise there and sprained my mcl. That reaction in the car was second to none. We all just fist pumped and hugged and we are so excited because it was not as bad as we thought. To college hoops. The stanford women are trying to get into that championship game right now the mens final four will take center stage this weekend. To get ready for the first final four appearance, coach mark few led gonzaga on a two day team bonding camping trip. One called it Survival Training but others described it differently. I dont know i would call it camping. Id call it, like, ha, soft [ laughter ] um, going soft travel in the wilderness. What did you learn about your guys that how soft they were and, um, dana concerned me greatly at that time. I had no idea we would end up here based on my observations then. I would have put a lot of money it wouldnt have happened. Thats not a good sign for the team. Four time masters champion tiger woods will not play augusta next week as he re