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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM July 11, 2017

Enforcement but may be too late for semex, the neighbors are talking about getting a petition to ban trucks all together. You have main street one block aaway. I dont understand the thought process in allowing it to be a freeway for large trucks. Reporter the reason she is so concerned is because the park gets really busy if first fridays and the farmers market. The ticket for the violation is 100 but fines keep going up. Maria medina, kpix 5. A federal judge who oversees the Oakland Police department calls top city officials into court. Follows a report alleging the city has fallen short in handling of a police sex scandal. Kpix 5 reporter melissa caen joins us from the federal court ho s francisco. Reporter today here in federal court, there was a lot of frustration, had federal court has been overseeing the Oakland Police department for nearly 20 years, and yet, a recent report showed the Police Department did a terrible job and investigating its own officers related to the sex scandal last year. Today the oakland mayor and police chief were in court to answer for it. Reporter held accountable . Disciplined . The press conference was over, the main issue at the hearing today was whether the court should order the department to discipline the police who messed up the investigation. The Oakland Police chief didnt seem prepared to answer questions on whether she will hold anyone accountable. Employment law is a law, and governed by laws. No, that was not available to be during the investigation. Reporter gym shannon, attorney for the playoff, said it sends the wrong message. They must be investigated and held accountable, if people who were promoted are accountable for letting the statute return and letting the thing go uninvestigated, there should be consequences to their promotion. Reporter september 2015 an Oakland Policeman committed suicide with a note saying other officers were having sex with an underaged prostitute. Oakland police told the court about the suicide but not about the note. In march of 2016, the court found out about the note and the Police Departments weak attempt to investigate. The Court Ordered an investigation by an outside lawfirm, the result was a bomb shell, it said the oakland investigation was inadequate, defective, and no evidence city leaders acted to get to the bottom of it. The judge saw the report and immediately ordered the city to come to court, that is why we are here today. John burris is an attorney for the plaintiff and said he is hopeful but skeptical. I hope this isnt, as i said in the court, deja vu, meaning we had many hearings over 16 years where the Police Chiefs good faith intention would come before the court and tell them the good things they would do and nothing happened. Reporter one federal judge, judge henderson has been in charge but he is retiring soon. Today judge oric sat in. Reporter judge henderson said he will issue an order tomorrow or the next day, and the new judge said he will hold another hearing in three months, live in San Francisco, melissa caen, kpix 5. Questions over barts refusal to release video showing recent robberies on the trains, now we have taken a look at an internal memo explaining their decision. The eye opening reason why they dont want you to see the videos. Reporter one of the reasons is there are juveniles in the video, okay, understandable in some cases, another reason is the video becomes evidence and the public cant see it. Something that caught the attention of bart Board Members is the videos may create racial bias. Turns out recorded video from these cameras of the recent rash of teen mob robberies wont be released to the public, bart says it is for a number of reasons. But that led some elected officials, like bart board director, deborah allen, to question, doesnt the public have a right to see the video . Here is the response she got from bart assistant general manager, carrie hamill. To release the videos would create a high level of racially insensitive commentary. My question to you is what role does the color of ones skin play in divulgeing information . Do you hold back information . I think the statement speaks for itself, again, the information that we release depends on the circumstances of the investigation and whether releasing a video serves a good trying to solve a crime. Reporter kpix 5 obtain admemo to Board Members, where she explained bart wont put out a press release on a most recent theft because it was a petty crime. And talking about it would make bart look look crime ridden, leading to sweeping generalizations in media reports. As for how she sees the media my view it is the pursuit of ratings, they know that video of these events will drive clicks to the website and viewers to the programs because people are motivated by fear. I think it is an honest discussion, the assistant gm rote the memo, i thing it speaks for themselves, but what we can do with video, we have to abide by state law and have to go with the leadf the bart police investigators. Reporter bart says in an effort to be more transparent, it started a new crime log listing all reported crimes on this crimemapping. Com website. 6 23, june 30th, robbery, san leandro, first degree, strong arms, hands, fist. Reporter bart investigators tell me the new cameras, close to 700 on their bart train, four per car, have helped in solving recent crimes. And many times that video is used as evidence in court cases and cant be shared. They encourage viewers and riders to go on to the latest crime mapping web page to look at incidents that may be happening at a train near you. In oakland, kpix 5. Brush fire burning now in santa clara county, hills south of mt. Hamilton broke out in the last couple hours, fought on the ground and air. Cal fire aircraft dropping water and fire retardant on the flames. Live look from chopper 5 shows the conditions right now, some smoke still in the air, but clearly looks like crews getting the upper hand here. So far, about 40 acres have burned, for a while there was concern for structures in the area, but these pictures appear to be good news. The fires near the intersection of san phillippe and metcalf roads, there have been evacuations, we will bring you updates. Oakland man drown along the Russian River over the weekend, snoemy county Sheriffs Office Sonoma County Sheriffs Office says he was with family and friends 300 yards upstream of the beach, he disappeared under water trying to get back from shore to a sand bar. Crews found his body in 5 feet of water. They say alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the drowning. The digging and drilling to build muni central subway in San Francisco will keep going for many months, with the project now behind schedule. Eventually a new line will run from china town through union square, and then connect with bart and the rest of the muni metro system. Kpix 5s Wilson Walker shows us where the construction delays are happening. Reporter with this, it is blocking up all the streets, streets on washington cant go past. The traffic, the noise, everything. Reporter for anyone who lives and works in china town, it is more than Public Transit project. You can hear the noise. Reporter the central subway is already a way of life. Dealing with this every day. China town business, they hurt a lot. Really hurt the business. Reporter the china town dig is delivering the central subways first major setback, a dispute with the contractor over the construction schedule at this station. Right now we are looking at about, at least a 10month delay. Reporter we went underground for a tour of the Union Square Station back in february, and word then was that the project was on budget and considered to be on schedule. It looks like we will be finished from the south a little earlier, and begin the process of completing for umthe south moving north. Reporter now that the northern end is nearly a year behind schedule, there is the other concern. Does this affect the budget at all . There are no direct budget impacts to the project. What we are dealing with is timing delay. Making me think, wow, going to impact everybody here. A black eye for a project many questioned from the start, this is, after all, a 1. 7 mile rail line costing nearly 1. 6 billion, nearly 176,000 per foot. We understand a 10month delay isnt the best news, but at the end of the day we will get the project done and under budget. Reporter we reached out to the contractor, they said no comment, but both sides are now in talks to hopefully resolve the dispute and set a new construction schedule. If and when that happens, we might get a better idea of what kind of delay the central subway is headed for. In San Franciscos china town, Wilson Walker, kpix 5. Four bedrooms, great views, and, yeah, it is sitting on the edge of a landslide. Only in the bay area, the red tag home on the market for nearly 1 million. Could one arsonist be behind a string of construction fires . Why a bay area developer is convinced there is a pattern. A dirty debate about reusable Water Bottles, are they worse than dog bowls . The truth about the germs that you myth be gulping down. All sunshine over san jose right now, but temperatures are not as warm as the past couple of days. Coming up, when the entire bay area will see a cool down, and when tripledigit heat returns again. That is next. That you cant even live in. Se in lafayett new video tonight of a bay area home for sale that you cant even live in. This house in lafayette has been red tagged, as you see, there is a large landslide in the backyard, the asking price, 850,000. The listing is not for the faint of heart. Goes on to say the price reflects the cost of repairs and once the property is restored there will be great views of mt. Diablo. The growing task of determining what sparked the massive construction fire in oakland now under way, the more than 20 federal fire investigators looking into the cause. The fire broke out early friday morning on valdes forcing hundreds to leave their homes and businesses, susie stemiel live in oakland where one man is calling the fire a war on housing. Susie . Reporter atf investigators still havent been able to safely get into the building to determine the cause of the fire, but local developers, including the man you mentioned, say they believe it is a case of arson, and they are wasting no time protecting their own construction sites. 23rd and valdes streets remained blocked off by barricades today as atf investigators from the around the country try to figure what happened here friday, the 5th time atf has been tasked with finding out what caused a brand new apartment complex to be destroyed by fire during construction. I know what it feels like to have what happened, it is just, a gut punch. Reporter rick holiday own 3800 san pablo avenue, the apartment complex was burned to the ground twice by arsonist this past year, while atf is unsure, rick is convince td is the same story. I always believe it is an arsonist, someone i said there is a war on housing in my opinion. At the last fire. I think this is bearing out, it is very troubling. Reporter mayor libby hfked him to help other developers protect themselves. Ask me if i would be willing to join other developers to talk about how to fortify the city against having more fires and how to be organize ourselves to best try and catch the people doing it. Reporter no arrests have been made, ooshgs tf did release this video of a suspect seen in the area of the san pablo avenue fire back in may, atf is also offering a 110,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this three previous arsons. Fridays fire started at 4 30 in the morning and displaced more than 900 residents as hot flames scorched nearby businesses and forced firefighters to rip down a construction crane. The complex would have housed nearly 200 departments and a Shopping Mall on the bottom level. Terrorist group. I think it is pretty obvious, they are doing something that is unbelievably destructive and irrational. Reporter rick holiday told me he will meet with those other developers and the mayor this week, he will rebuild the san pablo for the second time. Anderson construction, the owners say they will rebuild as well. Susie stemiel, kpix 5. Wildfires are ripping through california, from san burn burn koundy to northern San Bernardino county to northern california, cal fire called for help, arm would flame retardant to put out the fires. The wall fire north of sacramento destroyed several homes, sweeping through the grassy foothills of the sierra, nevada, cease of oroville. It southeast of oroville. It has burned 5600 acres since started friday. Cal fire says saturday was the worst of the fire. The weather calmed down a bit allowing firefighters to get a handle thon flames. It is now 35 contained. Fires closing in on california central coast, the Whittier Fire started saturday, it burned 7800 acres and it is now 5 contained. Alamo fire started thursday near twitchal reservoir, it burned more than 28,000 acres and about 15 contained. We welcome paul deanno back, glad you are with us, boy, you came right in at fire season. Fire season is here, the rain is not going to help, what can really help the most is, us. 95 of all of these fires are started by people. We know the conditions will be rough, if a fire startatize will take off. Starts it will take off chlth so much dry brush, weather is not conducive. The best is not start them in the first place. Be smart in the wilderness. There is one spot that is tinder dry, so lush, so green, mt. Diablo, all winter and spring long. Now we go degree in the summer fiem and things turn gold summertime and things turn golden brown. Concord, 96. Morgan hill at 95. San jose and san rafael, in the 80s. It is all about the wind speed, all about the marine layer, all about positioning these areas of High Pressure and low pressure, and that position is moving. We have had a ridge overhead, which has compressed the marine layer, not allowing it to reach the east bay hills or north bay hills and move inland. That will change, with the lower pressure area moving towards the pacific northwest, the marine layer will expand, move inland, and you will not be as hot tomorrow. That is a significant change. The 90s are gone inland, at least for three days. Fog returning to the coastline tonight. We will see fog spilling into San Francisco bay, and temperatures that are pretty seasonal. Widely scattered afternoon highs, but overnight lows, within 5 degrees of each other. 54 in san rafael. 58 degrees in concord. 90s are gone, we are talking highs in the 80s. Seasonal for oakland, around 70. You get that tomorrow. Seasonal for napa, 80s, yes, seasonal for fairfield and livermore, mid 80s. Why not . 78 in Mountain View your high tomorrow. We warm up by the end of the week into the weekend but the next several days will be much more pleasant than we have in recently. 60s near the water, 80s to low 90s inland, but the heat comes back. Saturday and sunday, triple digits likely at the hottest inland spots. Thank you. You wont find jelly fish and sea horses, but you definitely will not find plastic, aquariums across the country taking a stand to stop ocean trash, the movement they hope will change your habit. Spotlight will get a little brighter for giants buster posy. I think i know why. Rafael needed a hug today. Ouch. See that . Numbers dont lie. Second worst record in the game. One of the worst offenses baseball up top, eve of all star game, giants news where the numbers dont lie. Second worst record in the game, one of the worst offenses in the game, which made National League manager, joe madden, starting line up decision a little eye brow raising. Got a chance to write his name in, mr. Buster posey. Posy, 5th all star game, batting clean up. Arrived in miami this morning after giants dropped 56 game after the marlins, most losses by all star break in franchise history, cue the manager. In your career, have you had any comparable to this year . I cant think of one. To be honest. Try to fix, you know, hole in the dam there, the dike, put your pinger in, another springs open. As alonso back in his miami home town, timing is right for the as lone star rep, defected from cuba to miami with his family when he was 8 years old. Addressing this now, 22 years later it still gets to him. Say a few things and started thinking about all these other things, start getting emotional and then, like, because so many things happen in the city for me. So, some good, some bad, made me who i am today. You know, i am definitely going to enjoy every minute of it. Tennis, after a day off, wimbledon back to business, venus, triple to the quarter finals on the line with spike lee in the white cap watching, williams near court served up anna, 18 years younger, williams, trade of ground strokes let anna make the mistakes, williams advanced, she is the oldest woman to reach the quarterers since mar tina in 1994. On the mens side, watch this, how is this for an entrance . Yeah, that is rafael nadal before his match with mular, 5th set, nadal back hand volley, with perfection. The acrobatic moves. 1413 in the 5th set before nadal on match point made a mistake, after four hours, 48 minutes, two hours and 15 minutes last set alone, mular makes he makes it, mubs on. Nadal remains stuck on two, wimbledon titles. Moving vans will let you know, training camp, napa is close, two weeks from friday. How much longer in the wine country . Dennis odonnell here, chatted with former raider defensive back, mike hanes and asked about the team moving to vagues. Feel sorry for raider fans in oakland, but for raider fans in, around the world, it is probably a good move, i mean, i dont know that people would want to come from europe to oakland or mexico to oakland, but i definitely know people want to go to vegas. All star home run derby, moving pitchers on the late show. Watch them leave the yard. Yeah. Thank you. Coming up in the next hahalf hour half hour, close call, runway mix up caught just in time. Hear the scramble before the near disaster. The president s son under fire for undiscloseed meeting with a russian lawyer, how the white house is defending campaign collusion. Thous

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