City college of San Franciscos evans center will graduate 48 construction students into the workforce this week. We see it growing rapidly. Reporter torrence is the schools dean. Many of his students plan to be entrepreneurs starting their own construction businesses. Definitely complete one of our programs in construction, your life is going to be different. I mean, your social economics will change. Reporter thats what bell is banking on. First in her family to go into this line of workers she is optimistic about her future. I mean, its booming. You see theres a lot of work out there. Reporter some of the students in that piece are part of an 18week program called, city build. They tell me it was really their open door to the whole construction industry. Ken, back to you. Good to see them out there. We need really good skilled people to do that kind of work, mark. Kpix 5s da lin continues our Team Coverage in san leandro tonight with a project aimed at revitalizing that city. Da. Reporter thats right, ken. You cant miss the big Kaiser Permanente building driving along 880 here in san leandro. Its located right next to the freeway at the corner of fairway street Fairway Drive and merced street. Now, this brandnew hospital is giving the west side of san leandro a big economic boost. Case in point, this once vacant Business Commercial lot here, once vacant, now it is prime real estate here in san leandro. Once home to large manufacturers and automobile factories, the west side of san leandro has seen a major transformation. The Kaiser PermanenteMedical Center is set to open next summer bringing 2500 highly paid medical workers along with patients and their visitors to san leandro. Thats a lot of people and money coming in. Were all very excited. Reporter already, some Outpatient Facilities have set up shop next to kaiser. More are on the way. This is actually the treatment area for the dialysis clinics. This is where all the patients will be. Reporter restaurants and Retail Companies are also looking for opportunities here. Right now, theres a dennys and Mexican Restaurant near the hospital. Not enough to serve the thousands of people who will need a place to eat. The city is changing its zoning code in this Industrial Area so restaurants and even hightech companies can open here. People are energized. Its how quick can we move . Thats kind of an exciting challenge for the city to see how we can get out of the way and make sure that we allow this energy to come to fruition. Reporter existing businesses welcome the new traffic. Don hill owns a printing company. More business, its good for manufacturing, more people you have, your needs have to be met by somebody. So it will be us. Reporter developers have also gotten permission from the city to either build a Shopping Center or a business complex right next to the kaiser building so these are great times for san leandro. As one person puts it kaiser has put san leandro on the map. Live in san leandro, im da lin, kpix 5. No movement in washington on the Government Shutdown but the Ripple Effect spreads in the bay area. Kpix 5 has learned, 6500 employees of the Lawrence Livermore lab could be furloughed on october 21. The lab stores some of the most powerful explosives in the world. Its the latest local victim of the stalemate in washington. Open the government now open the government now meanwhile, furloughed nasa ames employees showed up to work in Mountain View to protest, signs in hand. They made a case for getting back to work on unfinished aviation projects. Congress may think its okay to get paid and to do nothing. But we dont expect that. We have always expected to have to work for our living and to do good and to do right by the American People who pay for our salaries. More than 1100 nasa ames employees are off the job for now due to the shutdown. Until the crisis is resolved, San Franciscos iconic cliff house is closed again. The privately owned restaurant and bar is on federal land. It shut down for a few days last week, but the owners defiantly reopened it monday. And then the feds got wind and closed it down again on tuesday. Just below the cliff house you will find another casualty of the shutdown. This one, an educational tradition 30 years running. Until now. We put a lot of work into this and now its ruined. Reporter like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the 2013 Government Shutdown. I was really looking forward to it. Reporter and its not just fifth graders at chin elementary school. 24 schools were set to compete in the 30th anniversary sandcastle contest on ocean beach this saturday. It wasnt just like playing in the sand. Oh, yeah. Playing in the sand. Reporter no. This was something bigger. But this masterpiece will have to wait after a call from the park service saying the contest was off. It wasnt really about winning. It was just really about, like, doing what you worked on really hard. Reporter that includes the group that organizes this event. This is a nonprofit focused on filling a gap in education. We rely on the sandcastle contest to bring in around 50 of our annual budget. Reporter plan b, art turnedcivics lesson. I spent the day on the phone talking to teachers and a lot of them are using this as a learning opportunity for their children and teaching them to you to write to congress. They are arguing about one million something. Money. Health and money. Reporter of course, the kids are being polite. We find it mean, petty and disappointing. Reporter so the foundations of our government decay before our very eyes making a colossal wreck of works unbuilt as lone and level sands stretch far away. The only chance we could do the sandcastle contest. Im so dejected. Angry. Send lots of letters to congress. Ocean beach part of the Golden Gate National recreation area, if you go out there you can walk out on the sand. Chances are nobody will stop you. Another casualty of the Government Shutdown had what seemed to be the entire country enraged. Death benefits for families of soldiers were not being paid. Lieutenant Jennifer Moreno was killed sunday in afghanistan. She a former Nursing Student at usf and a member of the rotc program. She was honored by that group today on campus. Late word that a private group called the fisher house fun days would pay the death benefits came as welcome news. Thank god the fisher house has stepped up and has provided money for the families to be able to [ crying ] to receive the body and everything. But its kind of assinine. She was killed with three other soldiers sunday. Flags will be flown in half staff in her honor. Aldon smith is in hot water. Felony weapons charges were filed against him. Mark sayre with smiths troubled past and what this means for his future. Reporter the 49ers linebacker is charged with three felony counts of illegal possession of an saw. Of assault weapon. Weapons like this lend themselves to crime. They lend themselves to killing as many people as fast as possible. Reporter Santa Clara CountyDeputy District Attorney says the weapons charges stem from a party at smiths home in june of last year. Sheriffs deputies located five firearms of which prosecutors determined three were illegal assault weapons under California Law. Weapons like this are frequently stolen, theyre frequently used in crimes, and to possess them in california is a serious offense. Reporter last months, smith was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. He apologized before taking an indefinite leave from the team and going into rehabilitation. Right now. As Police Investigat reporter new information as well on that unrelated dui case from last month. Court documents filed today show that smiths blood alcohol content was 0. 15, which is is nearly twice the legal limit. Reporting live in san jose, im mark sayre, kpix 5. Several blocks of Mission Street in San Francisco are shut down as Police Investigate a deadly shooting. Trouble started at around 4 15 this afternoon. Shots rang out on mission and brazil avenue in the excelsior district. One victim was found laying near the street. Witnesses report a male suspect running from the scene. Traffic is tied up and muni rerouted buses through the area. [ chanting ] checking bay area headlines, tenants in San Franciscos soma neighborhood say they are frustrated. They claim between developers driving up rent and landlord abuse on the ellis eviction act, people are being forced out. The soma neighborhood is home to some of the highest rents in the city. And the alleged mastermind behind the black market drug site known as silk road is going to new york to face charges. 29yearold Ross Ulbricht faces three counts of conspiring to distribute illegal narcotics, Hack Computers and launder money. Ulbricht was arrested october 1 at the Glen Park Branch library in San Francisco. The one glaring omission is how a woman was missing for 17 days in San Francisco general hospital. Still a mystery. What happened to Lynne Spalding . And how did this woman die . Now were hearing from the hospital. If you have a tomb, you can go ahead and push that through like that and the magazine drops. Its a law to close a loophole on semiautomatic weapons in california. How gun supporters say they can shoot at both holes. The Weather Forecast tonight if you are heading out, a clear fairly mild evening in the bay area. A little bit of a warming trend on track. Well have the forecast for you after a break. Still no deal on a bart contract. No promise there wont be a strike. Tensions surrounding talks, shows some cracks in the union ranks. The coroner confirms its 5 year old lynne new details tonight about the body found in a stairwell at San Francisco general hospital. The coroner is confirming it is 57yearold Lynne Spalding, who went missing nearly 3 weeks ago. Kpix 5s ryan takeo says the answers offered today are not enough for spaldings friends. Reporter family and friends of Lynne Spalding want answers. How did the 57yearold woman and mother hospitalized for an infection disappear unnoticed from her hospital room and turn up dead in a stairwell weeks later . She was found outside a locked stair exit. It is alarmed, locked from the outside and exits into the hospital grounds at the very bottom of the stairwell. Reporter during the initial search, no one checked the stairwell. But hospital staff insist nurses followed protocol once they noticed spalding was missing. When she was not found, hospital staff notified the family and the Sheriffs Department on site. The sheriff searched the campus and did not find her. The one glaring omission is, how a woman was missing for 17 days in San Francisco general hospital. Were not going to take any questions today. Thank you all. Reporter the hospital chose not to answer any questions. The Sheriffs Department is in charge of Hospital Security and will be conducting an unterrible investigation. Ryan takeo, kpix 5. They will review the hospitals alarm and search procedure. Weather making news around the state. Flooding on a freeway in Southern California is causing a rush hour nightmare right now. It was bad enough to close all but one lane in the i5 north of burbank area. Rain throughout the region may have triggered a mud slide. Several vehicles stalled in the water. Its unclear when normal traffic will resume since chp has to clean it up. And there is snow in the high country. These are pictures from the sierra at tahoe. They got a dusting this morning. Its all part of the system thats also dropping snow in the mountains of Southern California. I got a call from a buddy at a pass thats closed. They got hit. The system that missed us went east and south. San diego is east of reno if you look at the longitude and latitude map. They got hit with it. They will get more tonight. Its mild in the bay area by comparison. 68 degrees in concord. Oakland 66. In the city 61 degrees. Not bad but still about 7 degrees cooler in some spots than last night at this time. You can see the system spinning into Southern California. As the low headed south it had a good deal of rain. They got about a quarter to. 75 and at this time of the year, thats all it takes in los angeles to clog the freeways because they have accumulated all of the leaves and everything and the gutters over the summer. It will clear out of the southland tonight and the low pressure will clear east. Then High Pressure comes in. Well warm up a little bit about three degrees. Be clear and cool tonight. Warming on thursday and well be near 80 inland again by the weekend. Warming saturday and sunday in the 70s inland. For tomorrow out to the Central Valley partly cloudy skies for fresno and 77 degrees in sacramento. 51 yosemite which took a dusting today. Lake tahoe. We are heading into the autumn chilly nights. 46 degrees at santa row 47 napa and 54 degrees tonight in the city. San jose will get down to 52. Then recover to 72 by tomorrow afternoon. Livermore is at 76 degrees. Its still cooler than wered to at this time of year but normal saturday and sunday. Fairfield tomorrow hits 77. And San Francisco at 67. Extended forecast we are going to be looking for a slight warming trend but look at sunday. Back to near 80 inland by then. Bay in the low 70s to start with. And finish in the mid70s and as we look ahead into the beginning of the workweek next week, we willly nice. Midoctober thats exactly where we should be and its one of the reasons why we have one of the best climates of the year in the bay area. Thank you. Women in california getting greater access to abortion. What the law signed today by the governor will allow for aborting a baby. The automatic weapons ban that will make crime worse. ,,,, female announcer female announcer through columbus day, at sleep trains inventory clearance sale, get three years interestfree financing on tempurpedic. Save 10, 20, even 35 on a huge selection of simmons and sealy clearance mattresses. Even get free delivery dont miss three years interestfree financing on tempurpedic through monday, columbus day. Guaranteed sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep at Kaiser Permanente weve reduced serious heart attacks by 62 , which makes days with grandpa jack 100 more possible. Join us at kp. Org and thrive. Governor brown has signed al into law allowing nurse practitioners, midwives and access to abortion in california is broader tonight. Governor brown signed a bill into law allowing nurse practitioners, midwives and physicians assistants to perform abortions during the first trimester in pregnancy. Critics argue it puts Womens Health at risk. Another bill on the governors desk could finally close what gun control advocates call a huge loophole in californias assault weapons ban. Allen martin brought it to the foretwo years ago and reports. Reporter our initial report on the bullet button, the massacres at a Movie Theater in colorado, Sandy Hook Elementary School in connecticut have help pushed another version through the legislature. Now that it could become law, gun rights advocates warn it will backfire. Reporter for years, jay jacobsons franklin armory specialized in manufacturingdra. Legal semiautomatic rifles because of this, a socalled bullet button. When you press on this device with you finger the magazine wont drop. If you have a tool, you can go ahead and the magazine drops. Reporter removable magazines in combination with other features are banned under California Law because they allow for faster reloading. But a bullet button doesnt work with your finger. So the magazine is considered fixed and therefore legal. The modification has allowed militarystyle rifles like this ar15 to proliferate in the state something lawmakers have said has to stop. We distinguish between the responsible and legal ownership of guns for sport, for hunting, for selfdefense. Thats fine. But rapid fire assault weapons are not needed for any of that. Reporter senator darrell steinbergs bill outlaws the manufacture and future sale of all semiautomatic center fire rifles that have the capacity to accept detachable magazines including bullet button guns. We are not making illegal the existing assault weapons that can be manipulated to allow for detachable magazines. Reporter because the bill allows current owners of rifles with detachable magazines to register them as legal assault weapons by july 2015. Jacobson predicts that will backfire. What i would do is register the firearm, receive proof of that registration, then remove the bullet button and put in a standard magazine release. Reporter making the gun even faster to reload and legalizing an estimated 1 million new rapid f