Leaving. The owner Matthew Rogers has had his car broken into three times. Its horrible. Theres tons of drugs. Theres tons of prostitution. We have only been in here since may essentially and we have already had two peoples cars broken into, one of our employees was held up at gunpoint and we had a drunk driver crash into two of our employees cars. Reporter some fedup Business Owners met with police asking for help. We are going to be spending a lot of time in these different areas because we do recognize the fact that these businesses provide a lot of jobs to our community. Reporter alive and radiant hopes the extra patrols will keep their workers safe. But for some neighboring businesses, its too late. I hope it gets better, you know, but we wont be around to see it get better because well be out of here as soon as we can. Reporter aside from relying on the police, these companies are teaming up. They are sharing crime information and reminding their workers to be vigilant. Live in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. The Oakland Police captain thats overseeing west oakland right now says once he has collected all the crime data from that neighborhood, he will center a better plan to reduce crime he will have a better plan to reduce crime in the area. Those looking for affordable rent got help today but even the mayor admits its not enough. Phil matier with how the city is struggling to keep up with demand. Reporter theres no shortage of highrises in San Francisco as you can see. But it takes big bucks to get there and the city is pretty good when it comes to building Affordable Housing for low income families. But what about the middle . that was the question we asked today. Heres the story. Apartment that are standing with me reporter a ribboncutting today for new low income apartments in San Francisco pretty much sums up the housing crisis in the bay area cities. In this case, we have a building that has 60 apartments but there are 2800 people trying to get in. 2800 applications for 60 units is incredible reflection of the need. Tens of thousands is what we need to get at. Reporter there are about 40,000 new houses and apartments in the pipeline in San Francisco. But much of that new building will be priced beyond the range of the average family. Now, with the governments help, about 5,000 of the new units like these shown today, will be set aside for low incomes with rents that range from 700 to 1,500 a month. For apartments that would usually go for 3,000 or more in the open market. But theres a catch. To qualify for one of these new apartments, a household cant make over 64,000 a year. The result . People find themselves caught between making too much money for subsidized housing like this and too little to buy or rent in the open market. Probably one reason why we are planning to move away from San Francisco. Its tough. I dont think i could find another place. We do well with housing, high income people. We do better than most places in terms of building lowIncome Housing. And thats great. Its very important. But the middle class gets squeezed out. Reporter is there an answer for that . There has to be. I mean, if we are going to keep the middle class, which i want to do, in San Francisco, we have to come up with solutions. We have to look at ways to make our processes more efficient to lower the cost of land to lower the other costs that developers can bring in and we have to look at potentially subsidizing middle Income Housing as well. Reporter whats been resistance to building it up until now . I think we have not been paying attention to it. I think everybody thought it was somebody elses responsibility to do it. We thought middle income people take care of themselves. Reporter well, that middle income people are now telling pollsters that they are not happy. As a matter of fact, 63 said that the biggest problem they are facing is affordability and the fear that they might get priced out. Mayor lee is going to be responding, he has an idea possibly using vacant city land, Community College land, even empty reservoirs filling them up and using them possibly as housing sites. We are going to hear more of that in the coming year. But for now, it is one of the biggest problems facing the city and the bay area. In San Francisco, phil matier, kpix 5. Doab expect the problem to go away anytime soon. San francisco could need as much as 100,000 new Housing Units in the next 25 years. Dont expect the problem to go away anytime soon. A lot of smiles there. That closing bell marked the close of a big, big day on wall street. Stocks jumped after the Federal Reserve announced its ready to start pulling back on the stimulus program. Dow, s p, both closed at new highs and the nasdaq also had substantial gains. Allen martin is here tonight to tell us what this big announcement means for the economy. Reporter investors have been pretty anxious about this for months now. Whether the economy was actually ready for it. The fed obviously thinks it is Strong Enough to sustain a pullback on the economic stimulus and for the fed chair it may be the right move at the right time. After two terms as Federal Reserve chairman, ben bernanke is on his way out. At the same time, the recovery clearly is far from complete. Reporter his finishing mark on the economy is what many see as the most important market shift in the last five years. Investors seemed to give it rave reviews by sending the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Seems like investors are looking at the long term picture of an improving economy and stronger job market which is good news all the way around. Reporter ben bernanke announced the fed will begin to taper off its economic stimulus by reducing its Bond Buying Program by 10 billion. It wont end it entirely, which was what some analysts feared. And the fed also decided not to touch Interest Rates. Its key shortterm rate will stay near zero until unemployment drops more. It. Now expect the Unemployment Rate to fall to a range of 6. 3 to 6. 6 in 2014, down from the 7 that we saw in november which was already a fiveyear low. Reporter ben bernanke made it clear the economy is improving slowly. So any change in stimulus should be equally deliberate. And if the pace continues, the feds plan for changes will remain the same. My expectation is for similar moderate steps Going Forward throughout most of 2014. So janet understands it. Reporter as for his successor janet yellen who will have to carry out future mon think policy, bernanke says she is on board. I have always conducted closely with janet even well before she was named by the president and i consulted closely with her on these decisions, as well. Reporter her nomination is expected to be approved by Congress Next month. A lot of people wondering well, we have been living in this really nice bubble of [overlapping speakers] 2, 3, 4 Interest Rate for mortgages. How about housing rates . They will be affected. Looks like Mortgage Rates because they have gone up 1 over the past year, the research firmzilla believes they will top 5 for the first time in four years. Might not stop there. We have seen it before. I paid 18 in 81. Then you refinanced. 5 . Thats still good. It is. Allen, thank you. New at 6 00 it was touted as a groundbreaking experiment with online education. Now san jose state is scaling back on its partnership. Governor brown announced the program in january but theres been disa. Ing results so the campus disappointing results so the campus will offer three instead of five courses next spring open only to cal state tuition. U dasty wont have direct involvement. Business schools across the country are giving their mba programs a makeover. Instead of traditional programs like finance, now its all about Students Learning to start a company. Two bay Area Business schools rank in the top 4 on bloombergs list for wannabe entrepreneurs. Stanford and ucberkeley haas. Take it away shows us how schools are catering to students startup dreams. Reporter off campus, in downtown berkeley, the top floor of this Office Building looks like a startup company. Right down to the fun and games in the workplace. Were at the skydeck accelerator. Its actually a group of about two dozen startups all founded by ucberkeley students. Just even on a personal level it feels great to be building something. Reporter traditional mba programs have had to change course because of students like mitch gordon. He left corporate life in new york city to come to the haas school of business. The students want to start companies. They are coming in with that idea, more so than i think has ever happened before. Reporter the dream is to follow the path of successful cal startups like the crowd funding site indiegogo or the test prep startup magoo. Andre marquis says the entrepreneur track is so popular its tough for the school to keep up. When were trying to train 100 startup teams, we have to turn people away. We dont have the capacity. That shows the demand. Reporter this is an accelerator. The white boards are covered in business plans, not lectures. Here engineers and researchers collaborate with the mba students. They get mentoring, office space, and some room to fail. I feel like people just always say, wow, that would be great to be the founder of a company. Its mostly really hard. It sucks a lot of the time. But worth it. Reporter gordon has learned some valuable lessons. His company, go overseas, is like the yelp of study abroad programs and its starting to see some success three years in. A lot of grinding. A lot of pivoting. Changing your business model, filing a way to make it work. Reporter startups need to start somewhere even if some of the books are used to prop up computers, there are plenty of lessons to be learned here. In berkeley, ryan takeo, kpix 5. Skydeck is one of half a dozen of cals startup accelerators. Well, the fix is in. The busted bolts on the eastern span of the bay bridge have been permanently repaired. Its over. Caltrans says it finished the work this morning putting steel saddles on 32 bolts that snapped. There still is some work to be done like touchups and a little paint here and there but the big part of the project is done. Caltrans says the bridge was safe before and remains safe in the event of a major earthquake. We achieved the seismic safety that we needed to open the bridge by putting in those shims, toes steel wedges to get the bridge open on Labor Day Weekend so now we have that seismic safety. Its now on a permanent basis as opposed to temporary basis. It cost about 25 million to fix the bolts. Caltrans is still testing other bolts on the span to make sure there are no more problems. The crews are finally cutting up the huge eucalyptus tree that was knocked down in oakland by those strong winds a few weeks back. The downtown 137yearold tree at lake merritt had turned into a jungle gym and Gathering Spot for weeks. People are taking pictures of it. Her family is fighting for time but her doctors say there is no hope. The medical dilemma over a girl whose tonsil surgery went wrong. It shows that, you know, she is fighting the battle and fighting the battle for herself and being a good citizen. Move over, batkid. Meet wonder girl. How she is bringing her superpowers to a bay area city that could really use a crime fighter. Good evening. Im meteorologist paul deanno from bay street in emeryville. Folks doing christmas shopping, the palm trees decked out with lights and the forecast is changing. Well have details on that coming up in about 7 minutes. A Million Dollars, everything i want to do. A bay area store owner goes from rags to riches with a single ticket. The clues he may have about the Mega Millions jackpot winner. ,,, get 3 years interestfree financing on brand name mattress sets. Plus, get free delivery and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. Sleep trains interestfree for 3 event ends sunday your ticket to a better nights sleep oakland hospital. A Prayer Service is going on right now for a 13yearold girl who is being kept on life support at oakland hospital. The teenager was declared brain dead last thursday but as brian webb tells us, her family is clinging to hope and help from the court system. Brian. Reporter liz, family and friends just stepped inside for their prayer vigil and asked that cameras stay out for privacy. The story has received National Attention not only for what happened to jahi,but for who has the legal right to decide when she dies. Reporter inside, oakland childrens hospital, 13year old jahi mcmath is still breathing by machine with questions swirling around here over the difference between life and death, medicine and morality. I let her know i will not let them take you to the coroners office. Reporter jahis tonsillectomy turned tragic when complications led to bleeding leaving her brain dead. Taking out tonsils is common for children. And it can be cause for concern. Its estimated one out of every 35,000 patients dies. Your heart has to go out to the mom and the family. Reporter nationally known medical ethics expert Arthur Kaplan says, despite whatever went wrong or what the family is feeling, braindead means dead and its time to move on. We dont treat the dead even when a mom says please, give me a chance. I want my daughter to somehow come back. Death is that end point for treatment. Reporter but still, where science intersects with faith, things can get complicated. And sometimes good questions come with bad answers. I just want them i feel like they owe her another chance. Reporter so as a family fights a hospital in a battle that will be decided by lawyers, a little girl and whats left of her life remain in limbo. She is a big part of my heart. I wont give up. Even my shirt says, i wont give up. I can just see her face saying, mom, dont give up on me. I will never give up on my daughter. [ crying ] she deserves to live. Reporter that was jahis mother speaking to the media just moments ago. The family says they are praying not only for the little girl, but praying for more compassion from hospital staff. Live in oakland, brian webb, kpix 5. The hospital says it cant discuss what happened to jahi because her family refuses to give them permission. Some terrifying moments for a gas station owner who came face to face with an armed robber this morning. Take a look at this. Surveillance video shows what happened at a vallejo chevron station about 7 30 this morning. You see the robber walk up grab the owner who is behind the counter. He takes us through what happened next. Said give me money. So he put me in handcuffs, say lie down on the floor and he took money from the cashiers drawer. And i told him dont do it because of the camera. The robber took off on foot. The owner wasnt hurt. Another brazen crime in vallejo. Police say a robber used the drivethrough window to get into a mcdonalds at 3 a. M. On tuesday. Once inside, he forced the employees to strip and put them all in the freezer he then cleaned out the cash registers. The freezer wasnt locked. So the employees got out about an hour later. No arrests have been made in either of these robberies. Well, with crimes like these, vallejo could really use a superhero right about now. Absolutely. Kpix 5s john ramos explains that help is on the way. Reporter the images of an Armed Robbery this morning in vallejo are frightening to see. And unfortunately, crimes like there are nothing new for vallejo. But stepping up to help is a young girl in a familiar outfit. He said wonder woman is a perfect superhero, you know, to compare me with because, you know, were both fighting for a cause. Reporter alejandras 10 yearold daughter monica has been battling cancer and taking a page from the batkids story, the city of vallejo will be honoring her tomorrow morning with a surprise tour of the city. Monica wrote an essay about making vallejo a safer place by battling the fear of crime that often causes people to give up. She will read the essay wearing a wonder woman tshirt at city hall and various schools in the district. Somebody who has the struggles that she is going through currently and what a messenger. We are just very excited to hear what she has to say. Reporter maria of a Community Action group called vallejo together set up the fun event where everyone is encouraged to dress up as a superhero but says monica will be using wonder woman as a symbol. Its girl power and arresting evil. Reporter she says monica has always wanted to be a teacher and will be delivering an Important Message to the city. Im sure theres a fear about her illness. But she continues to live and fight it and i think thats a message for vallejoans. We are in it together no matter what happens and not to be fearful and hopeless but hopeful. Reporter batkid was about a city helping a young child fulfill a dream. But when wonder girl speaks to vallejo, a child will be helping a city to maintain its hope. In vallejo, john ramos, kpix 5. Monicas cancer is in remission. But she is still undergoing chemotherapy. Tomorrows event is a big surprise for her but her mother says its okay for us to talk about. She is going to keep her from watching any tv tonight. [ laughter ] lets go live to meteorologist paul deanno. Everybody start watching tv right now. Yes. Because we have the mobile weather lab out in emeryville. Hi, paul. Reporter hey, how are you doing, guys . Out in emeryville its the holiday rush. Isnt there more people caught up in the rush of having to shop and do all these things . Lets pause for a second before we talk about the weather. Look how beautiful they have made bay street in emeryville. Its a prime shopping destination. Things look really, really nice out here all decorated for christmas and for the holidays. Lets take a couple seconds and enjo