Operate a cab. To allow unlicensed, unregulated commercial practices by anyone who wants to pick up the public, that is whats happening now. Yeah whoo reporter this person came to defend the Ride Share Company he drives for but things got rough. Our efforts to get response from lift and sidecar were not successful but an uber representative emailed kpix 5 to say all Uber Partners and drivers are properly licensed and regulated by the Public Utilities commission. San Francisco Mayor ed lee also defended the firms. Companies like lift and uber and others are creating jobs in the city and new jobs and they are also fulfilling needs that customers didnt like them they wouldnt have to use them. Reporter thats not what cabbies wanted to hear from the mayor. We are the Real Community drivers, who are . We are. You are, we are. Who are . We are. Reporter the puc told us today they have operating agreements with lift, sidecar and uber. And they said by coincidence just today voted this on a new set of regulations, i should say proposed regulations, to regulate those companies and others like them. Those regulations will be voted on in final form in september. Reporting live in San Francisco, don knapp, kpix 5. One possible regulation would be ale Million Dollars in Liability Insurance for each of the ride share drivers. New tonight some internet cafes in San Francisco are handing out prizes like its las vegas they are exploiting a loophole in californias gambling laws. People are lining up to place their bets. So we asked, who is trying to stop it . Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman got a surprising answer. Reporter at the net stop internet cafe on mission street, you can send a fax, print a resume i just won 100 or play vegas style video slot machines. I won 100. Ha ha gambling . Out in the open in San Francisco . Isnt that illegal . No, its not yet. Reporter people who run it will tell you its not gambling. When you buy computer time, theyre also given points. The points you can play are promotional games and possibly win cash prizes. Reporter like i did hitting a king high straight flush in spades. It sure looks and feels like gambling. How do they get away with this . All the prizes are predetermined so the games are just there for your mental stimulation i guess. Hard to catch in the act. Reporter net stop in Supervisor John Avalos district as are at least four other such internet cafes. Didnt seem too hard for me to catch them in the act. We have been talking a lot with the police departments. We have heard a lot from residents who have been concerned about what they see as gambling going on there. And were trying to figure out ways to stop it. Reporter the state calls it gambling and illegal. It says the sweepstakes argument is a loophole and courts have generally upheld that when there have been busts. But its up to locals to take action and police already have a lot of other things to do. Its already in the books that gambling is illegal. So its more an enforcement thing. Reporter neighbors complain there have been 83 arrests nearby this shop just in the past several months. Petty thefts, intoxication, robberies. Cant really pin that all on net stop. Were not responsible for what they do outside net stop. Reporter counties around california are trying to deal with this new phenomenon. But it will be a long battle. Mike sugerman kpix 5. Now, mike tells us Alameda County is trying to tackle the problem. They recently filed suit to close five internet cafes linked to gambling. Talk about a comeback. Tonight Facebook Stock is just pennies from its ipo price. The company went public more than a year ago at 38 a share. It was below 18 in september and today shares jumped more than 6 closing at 37. 61. The worlds Biggest Online social network has been on a roll since a reported stronger thanexpected earnings last week. Investors are especially upbeat about its fast growing mobile advertising revenue. Facebook now gets 41 of its ad revenue from mobile advertising. Time is running out. A bart strike could be just around the corner. Only five more days until bay area commuters con stranded again. Kpix 5s ryan takeo in oakland. Negotiations just ended and im told no deal on the table . Reporter no deal today, allen. They will be back at it tomorrow. For the first time this time around, we are getting down to the numbers. Bart is offering an 8 raise and the unions want 20 . I wanted to start off with a really simple number. Reporter bart made a big move in revealing the numbers that are keeping both sides apart. Because i think its very reflective of how much weve moved. Reporter on one side the districts latest proposal offers an 8 raise over four years asking workers to pay 5 into pensions and 10 of their healthcare premium costs. Our very first proposal represented 140 million takeback from employees. And where were at today represents a 33 million give oh back. We are dismayed but not surprised by the inaccuracies coming back from the district. Reporter the unions want 13 over three years and 2 annual cost of living adjustment and argue what workers pay into healthcare and pensions will negate any raise. When in fact that 50 sent increase a year is a net zero or something less for our members. Reporter they say its a net loss for employees. Thats incorrect. Right now where this proposal stands and that includes all of the contributions were asking its a net increase of 1 per employee per year. Reporter what seems more upsetting to the unions is that bart is even talking about the numbers. We have been under gag order that they have continually violated. Really we wanted to let the public know were only days away from the deadline. We wanted them to know exactly where we stood. Reporter both sides continue the back and forth battle. No matter how you add it up, the numbers are still far apart apart. Bart talk was a surprise to the unions and to everyone except bart. They will be back to the negotiating table tomorrow. Ryan takeo, kpix 5. The mtc met are Regional Transit agencies talking about a backup plan for a strike. They can pick up 25 of barts daily ridership which is similar to the last strike. Former bart officer johanns mehserle will be heading to court again. A federal Appeals Court cleared the way for two civil rights lawsuits against mehserle. One was filed by oscar grant father. The other by five of his friends who were handcuffed and detained but never charged. Mehserle killed oscar grant four years ago during a new years eve incident at a bart station. Mehserle was convicted in a criminal trial and served prison time for involuntary manslaughter. A Memorial Service in oakland today paid tribute to the life of 8yearold alaysha carradine. Friends and family came together dressed in pink and wore necklaces that had a picture of the girl. She was at a sleepover in oakland when someone fired bullets through a door and killed her earlier this month. So far, no one has been arrested. Bay area headlines of a house fire in San Franciscos Visitacion Valley led cops to a pot growing operation. Firefighters called police when they spotted around 60 plants and growing equipment in the tucker avenue home. Investigators say the home was illegally wired to bypass the utility meter. There were no injuries or arrests. Santa clara county residents casting votes for a new supervisor. Former san jose vice mayor cindy chavez is facing teres alvarado to replace former supervisor george shirakawa, jr. Who resigned in march. Folks have until 8 p. M. To vote. A massive bay area radio tower topples to the ground. Coming up, why the feds think this is no accident. How remnants of the past are affecting the future of a huge new bay area sports stadium. The bay area under a blanket of smoke and haze today. Hazy sunshine due to forest fires burning in oregon but some of you never got to see the sunshine today including at the coast. Find out when this pesky and strong onshore flow will finally weaken coming up. It sucks a little bit in this neighborhood. Why a Bay Area Community is so fed up with the growing number of drivers trying to shave time off their commutes. ,,,,,,,, over in the east bay. And pe say this was no accident. You got to see this. A 200foot Communications Tower topples in the east bay. And police are saying it was no accident. Investigators believe vandals targeted that tower which is near the san Ramon Danville border. Ann notarangelo in san ramon with early clues police have. Reporter allen, the San Ramon Valley is behind me and tonight there are many, many people without Internet Service and thats because their carrier had microwaves on that tower that came crashing down. Whats now just a crumbled pile of metal was a 200foottall Communications Tower rocky ridge in the las trampas regional wilderness owned by American Tower company, space on it leased to local governments and private companies. Its a very remote area on a ridgetop thats passed three gates and a fenced area. Reporter to get to it even though there are fire roads and jeep trails, is quite an effort and a hike. Monday morning dispatch noticed rocky as its nicknamed wasnt working. East Bay Regional Park Police discovered guy wires holding up the tower had been deliberately cut. One person who surveyed the damage said nine of ten cables had been cut on one side, putting all the weight on the remaining two. He said whoever did this knew what they were doing because these cables are not easy to cut. Some people are considering it an act of vandalism. Were leaving everything open from vandalism to possible domestic terrorism. Reporter the fbi has joined local and state officials in this investigation. This tower is part of a group in the bay area to help transmit just about anything you can think of. Television and internet signals as well as emergency radio dispatch communications. However, park police dont believe Public Safety was compromised. Its just one of many that in the Public Safety world if one goes down, there are other towers that can come up so in this event, there was never a loss of Public Safety services. Reporter because so many people rely on this tower, there was a steady stream of workers from Government Agencies and private Companies Going up and down the hill to assess the damage and try to figure out how to reestablish their signals. They are waiting on a crane to arrive to begin the extensive project. Its either somebody that was out specifically to vandalize property or somebody with a very specific intent to cause harm to communications. Reporter this is a very costly criminal act. In fact, allen, they think it will cost about a Million Dollars to fix this tower. You got fed, state, local, all looking for whoever did it. If they catch him, what do they charge him with and who gets to charge him . Reporter its tough to say right now. At the very least this would be considered vandalism if it gets that kind of a charge, it would be felony vandalism. Then of course civil lawsuits to try to recoup from the losses. But if the feds get involved its considered domestic terrorism, its much more serious. Thank you. The mortgage crisis has hit many communities hard. But one bay area city has decided to use an unusual legal tool to help some people keep their homes. Kpix 5s john ramos explains. Reporter in the city of richmond, there are a lot of places that look like this. Houses where the owners just walked away. But that doesnt mean they wanted to. I bought a house for 428,000. The house is worth 160,000 now. Reporter a lot of people are in the same situation in this city with 46 of homeowners still under water owing more than their houses are worth but lenders having reluctant to modify loans and the city says the abandoned and foreclosed properties are causing blight in neighborhoods. So richmond is taking action. The city with its partners is stepping in to buy mortgages. The loans not the homes themselves. And then help homeowners refinance or modify so that they have mortgages that are in line with current home values. Reporter they sent this letter to mortgage holders of 624 properties asking them to sell the loans to the city for the current market value which will be significantly lower than what is owed. But if the banks refuse, things are going to get interesting because the city says it will seize the properties using the power of Eminent Domain. There is tremendous Legal Authority for richmond if necessary and only if necessary to do in the Public Interest to condemn under water loans through the use of Eminent Domain as long as richmond pays fair market value for the loans. Reporter but Eminent Domain is usually reserved for large public projects not individuals who cant make their house payments. Lenders expect a huge court battle and a Legal Advisor to the city says any ruling will probably hinge on the issue of Public Interest. The Public Interest will be a major factor in that, are these communities blighted . I think its pretty clear that in some pockets of many communities, they are blighted as a result of the mortgage crisis. Reporter but a man at todays announcement took issue with the plan saying, if its upheld, lenders will raise their rates or stop lending in richmond altogether. It would only benefit a small number of residents. However, if adverse action is taken by the Lending Community at large, its going to impact everyone in the community. Reporter other communities that have threatened Eminent Domain have all backed down from the legal challenge but this city says its willing to take that risk because they say doing nothing clearly isnt working. In richmond, john ramos, kpix 5. The stakes in this fight are high. The city says the 624 loans included in the program represent a Property Value loss of nearly 65 million. When it comes to putting a down payment on a home, San Franciscos First Responders could get help from the city. Mayor lee says the program would get the citys police officers, firefighters, sheriffs deputies, to live where they work. The loans would be for amounts up to 100,000 per household with the money being returned to the city once the house is sold. The mayor says its important to have those employees living within the city limits. We must have our First Responders living in the great city of San Francisco. Our police officers, our firefighters, our sheriffs, people that we look to, to depend on the first critical hours when an event hits our city. We want them here. Reporter now, the funding comes from 20 million set aside from the citys general fund for housing programs. San jose earthquake soccer fans wont be watching their team play from a new stadium as soon as they thought because of excavation issues at the construction site across the street from san joses international airport. The stadium wont be ready until the second half of the 2014 season. The teams first 8 home games will be played at Santa Clara Universitys buckshaw stadium and ticket prices will be adjusted. When you go to a giants game next season you might see a garden between the left and right field bleachers. We have drawings of the giants edible garden. The 3,000squarefoot garden will be used to supply food for the parks catering operations. We are told this will be the first type of garden at any professional sports venue in the United States. Eat local. From right field to table. In the garden. The ball goes in the cauliflower well never find it. The lefthanded hitter may be aiming for the tomatoes for an extra point [ laughter ] we got sunshine more than yesterday. When you look up, that sky is not blue, because of the haze and smoke. Usually fires in oregon arent a big deal for us but fires from Southern Oregon since we have north to south winds carrying the smoke to the bay area, our oakland cam, theres a bart train moving right to left, were looking at reduced visibility because of the smoke outside right now. You dont see the smoke at the coast because you have cloud cover between you and the haze and smoke and we were pretty chilly at the coast taste. Highs only in the low 60s. A few spots in the 80s. Livermore 86. Gilroy 84. Concord hit 78 today warmer than yesterday. Napa in the mid70s. Mid to upper 60s for oakland. San francisco did make it to 64. Got to update you on Tropical Storm flossie. Now just a remnant area of low pressure moving away from the beautiful state of hawaii. We did see some record daily rainfall but widespread damage did not occur. Thunderstorms still in the forecast tomorrow but things calming down in hawaii. For us, lets review the month because tomorrow is the final day of july. Interesting here. San jose and the Santa Clara Valley you have been two degrees cooler than normal for the month of july. But livermore you have been nearly 2 degrees above normal.