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KPIX CBS July 3, 2024

Fremont. Theyre not going to go to school because we have to figure out whats going to be next. Reporter jasmine and her kids moved to oakland about five months ago. They were at one point homeless after she lost her job. We close to be homeless here in oakland. Reporter Oakland Police report from january 1st to september 17th , they recorded 10,547 stolen vehicles. That comes out to about 40 stolen cars a day. Officers say thats a 51 increase compared to the same period last year. Its astounding. Its really hard to believe. Thats insane. I didnt realize it was that bad. While the number is pretty staggering, i wish i could say that i was truly surprised or am truly surprised, for that matter, because of the lack of leadership in oakland City Government and the lack of accountability. Reporter officers say there are more stolen vehicles than the reported car breakins, 10,335. Officers admit most people dont report breakins anymore. We found several families on sunday checking out their recovered cars at a lot that contracts with the police department. My car was parked at coliseum b. A. R. T. I took my son to a baseball game last sunday and i came back and the car was gone. Reporter the families tell me their recovered cars were totaled. All four of my tires were stolen. They were all brandnew and all the windows were broken. Everything was burnt to a crisp like there was no steering column, no seats. It was down to the wire. The back trunk was broken in, gutted, everything. Reporter the city plans to install 300 cameras throughout oakland by early next year. The interim police chief believes that will help track down some of the stolen cars. We do see stolen vehicles used in other crimes, being used to get parted out for money. Reporter as for jasmine, shes trying to stay strong and positive for her family. I know everything is going to be fine. I know that. Reporter carjacking is up as well. Oakland Police Report carjacking up 20 this year compared to last. If you can, police say try to park in a garage. Most of the people da interviewed today say they have a hyundai. Police say hyundais and kias are fairly easy to hotwire. We understand hyundai has reached out to some customers depending on the year and model to better secure their cars. Compared to other bay area cities, so far this year in San Francisco nearly 4,900 cars have been stolen, much lower than oaklands 10,000, but this is still an 11 increase in the city compared to last year. Adding to oaklands troubles, the citys naacp and Chinatown Community leaders came together to voice their frustrations and said several businesses will be going on a oneday strike on tuesday in response. Time to switch gears and look outside where things were dramatically different. As forecasted, air quality was better. Weve got rain coming, not a lot, but its the first rainmaker of fall. We started fall late friday night and its kind of like the pacific flipped a switch. Wait till you see the storm sitting out there. In its own right, its a quite impress extensive looking storm. Were just on the very southern edge of it, so we wont get a lot, but its nice to see whats developed. The northwest coast is already getting good rain. Most of this is going into the Pacific Northwest. If we play this forward for our little branch, heres the big overview on how this storm kind of grazes us barely. Look at the southern edge of that. Thats going to move through the second half of the day tomorrow. There wasnt a whole lot there, but well look at that in a lot more detail coming up in the complete first alert forecast, but to show you the broad bush whats going to happen, theres a lot of rain coming up here. Thats where the smith river complex fire has been burning, the big offender on the smoke. That thing is about to get poured on. If it doesnt go out completely, it will go out so much there wont be any more smoke coming off, that but down here if you look at how the rainfall totals kind of fall off, thats what well look at. When we come back together in the complete first alert forecast, well slow this thing down for the bay areas part of the rain and time that out, pretty much the second half of tomorrow in the north bay. Back to you. The weather was nice for events in San Francisco, hundreds coming out for the folsom street fair and the autumn moon festival, two very different events celebrating very different themes. I was adopted. So i didnt really have a lot of asian culture in my life. For him, i think its very important to just kind of be part of that culture and exposure and that sort of thing. The autumn moon festival dates back over 3,000 years. Its popularity is similar to chinese new year. B. A. R. T. Shut down their green line today and that runs from daly city to berryessa. There was a bus to go between union city and fremont. Northbound highway 87 is back open after being closed all weekend for repairs. The highway was closed since friday night. It was shut down from 85 to the 280 and the southbound lanes will be closed during a weekend in october. Muni officials today in San Francisco dusted off its vintage buses and streetcars. John ramos has that story. Reporter theres a lot of concern about the state of Public Transit these days, but if you want to figure out where youre heading, sometimes it helps to look to the past. If you didnt know better, youd think you traveled back to the future in San Francisco. The vintage streetcars and buses were all part of the annual muni heritage weekend. Transit built San Francisco. When Andrew Halladay invented the cable cars 150 years ago this year, then whole neighborhoods opened up. Old films from the early 1900s focused on people riding the rails. Then up into the 1940s Public Transit thrived, as the trolley cars werent filled with tourists, but workers hurrying to the office, briefcases in hand. Rick lobsher, president of the History Preservation Group Market Street railway, says transit brought everyone together. Thats why San Francisco thrived as a big, booming office and retail center, because you could get downtown quickly from great distances and muni heritage weekend reminds people of the role transit played in building the San Francisco we know today. Reporter but in the 50s and 60s people fell in love with the automotive and transit took a back seat to individualized travel. There are still dedicated transit riders like steve va carro and allen avery, but not nearly as many as back in the glory days. Because of covid, its changed everything. Ridership is done, slow to come back. Its hard to say, but i think people maybe back then were more willing to do their share. To me it seems like as citizens of a very, very dense community, dense city, we shouldnt be getting in cars. Reporter ron mitchell has seen it all as a muni driver for 34 years. On this day he was in a bus from 1999, but hes operated trolleys a lot older and says it wasnt easy keeping the older vehicles rolling smoothly along the overhead power cables. You see up here . You look under there. You see where those fibers, thats what theyre called, fibers, thats a breaker. You had to make your breakers. If you got caught on a breaker, the bus would stop moving. Reporter back then you had to be a real operator he said, not just a driver, and hes proud of that. This unit on the mta is called the municipal railway. That makes you feel proud that something lasted and hopefully will still go into the future. Reporter so what about the future . Will a giant fleet of robotaxis take the place of buses and streetcars . Lobsher reminds us 150 years ago the cable car was a leap in technology that transformed everything. San francisco has always innovated technologically and i think were doing it again. Well have to wait and see, you know, how many people opt for mass transit in the future where youre sharing a train car, bus with a lot of other people and how many people opt for individual rides in pilotless cars. I mean thats going to be the big question. I guess well find out. Reporter San Francisco has always relied on technology of some sort to keep moving forward despite getting caught in a few breakers along the way. Muni vintage weekend is an annual event the Railway Museum near embarcadero plaza. Still ahead, during hispanic heritage month, a new push to help california farmworkers who are critical to feeding our country. They need to have better housing, better pay, better access to medical. Later, something out of this world has come back down to earth and streaked over the bay area welcome back. After the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay that left seven farmworkers dead, Governor Newsom said Living Conditions for those workers are deplorable. Our Jose Martinez spent a day with a gilroy family, just one of many who could really use help from the state as they try to make ends meet. Reporter its a journey that started 35 years ago for raul vega. Every day hes here at a farm in gilroy making sure these strawberries can start their journey to your grocery store, but this year that journey has hit a roadblock because of the heavy rains we saw the beginning of the year. [ speaking in a global language ] reporter raul tells me he planted two acres of strawberries this year, but because of the floods, his crops will be delayed and with a mortgage payment of more than 3,000 a month, raul cant afford that delay. He managed to buy this house after years of struggle and effort. Now he works at a factory job at night to keep his American Dream alive for himself and his family. [ speaking in a global language ] reporter he tells me its been challenging for them lately because of all that happened with the flooding and his wife is sick. She had surgery and she has another one next month. Melinda aguirre is the director of a Nonprofit Organization focused on helping farm works are. The need to have better housing, better pay, better access to medical, increased human rights. Reporter but it took a tragedy to bring broader attention to that effort. The january mass shooting at Half Moon Bay exposed the deplorable Living Conditions countless farmworkers face. Were really grateful because Governor Newsom came to Half Moon Bay right after the tragedy with the mass shooting. We spoke to him about the conditions of housing. He saw the images. He heard the community. Reporter now the Governors Office has announced more than 825 million to build affordable housing, including for farmworkers. About 58 communities across the state will receive funding to build nearly 10,000 homes as part of a new funding approval process that eliminates the need for a developer to submit multiple applications. This includes roughly 700 million in funds for multifamily development and 125 million for infield development, all part of the statewide housing plan focused on building at least 1 million Affordable Homes by 2030. Since that shooting, San Mateo County has launched a task force aimed at improving Living Conditions for farmworkers. You can find more of our hispanic heritage stories all month on kpix. Com. Well, that smoky air is gone and lucky us, we get maybe a drop of rain in the north bay . Thats going to be about it, probably about a 0. 1inch of rain in the north bay. Well start with how good the air quality looks. The last four days we saw all the sensors shaded in all different colors we had to get reacquainted with. Now theyre all green, good air quality. We started clearing out last night at the golden gate by about 11 00 and scoured out all the smoke down in the santa clara valley. Everybody has good air, a little haze out there, leave from the top of salesforce tower, but you can see mount diablo now. You couldnt yesterday. Lets look at the rain. We skipped ahead to tomorrow afternoon. You can see the leading edge off the far northwest coast. Well bring that into the north bay tomorrow, late afternoon, early evening, about 7 30 when were seeing the leading edge of the shower way up on that far northwest edge, does not get down towards like santa rosa, petaluma until weve got into the evening, 9 00, 10 00 tomorrow night. Then well see the line kind of drag its way across the entire bay. Once weve gotten to about 11 00 midnight, you can see theres an organized line there dragging showers with it. Thats a very weak cold front that works its way across the entire bay. Once it get south of the golden gate, it pretty much peters out in terms of the ability to keep producing rain here. You can still see the line in the clouds, but it doesnt have rain in it. So it will be done by Tuesday Morning. If we put the rainfall totals in it, see how much you might get for your part of the bay, 0. 05inch or so for the north bay. The forecast models are saying you could get 0. 01inch of rain anywhere, a drop or two. Thats our branch of this storm. Its not impressive, but the storm is. Thats it on the big picture, strong area of low pressure here. It has pulled an Atmospheric River into it. Its a category 2. Theyre bracing for a lot of rain in the Pacific Northwest from this and on the far northwest coast of california. We saw how well get 2 to 3 inches on the smith river complex fire, which is great news in terms of getting rid of smoke. If you look at the Atmospheric River, the moisture will come into the bay. We wont be able to access it because we dont have the energy to produce much from it. You can see that when you watch the wind. Theres the cold front. We arent getting a very windy scenario from the storm and you can watch the cold front evaporate moving through. Its one thing to have an Atmospheric River. If you dont have the dynamics to do anything with it, it doesnt matter and for us its just light rain, a little breeze, the first one of fall. This is the way they typically go kind of right on schedule. Daytime highs tomorrow remain fairly low in terms of comparison to average, mid70s for the warmest inland valleys. On the microclimates, everybody get a drop of rain monday. Its a real quiet week after that. This comes in and then its done and theres nothing else. Numbers stay pretty much average for this time of year. You will warm up to the low 80s in the north bay. In the north bay youll be a little below average, but youll warm up to the low 80s. Vern, over to you. Straight ahead in sports. An nfl team dropped 70 on its opponent today. And what do chiefs travis kelce and taylor swift have in common . Well, like the at cretors, we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even Better Together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. Nfl up top and the 49ers. What did the bolt have in common with them today . Both had sunday offs. The two teams the 49ers will meet in week four and five, cardinals, cowboys, dak press on the in peril in the desert. Arizona led dallas by five, midfourth quarter and added more right here. Look at the touchdown grab by marquise brown to put the game away. Arizona pulled off a 2816 upset of the mistakeprone cowboys. Next for the cardinals . Levi stadium next sunday. Tyreek hill, playtime in miami, the day they had against the broncos knocking at the door up 147. Heres a sweet shovel pass for a Second Quarter score, rushed over 200 yards, man. Later 4213, Third Quarter Tua Tagovailoa to Raheem Mostert and the former 49er scored one of his four touchdowns. Dolphins ran up over 700 yards of total offense, won the game 7020. Yeah, i said it, 7020, second most points in nfl history. Chiefs star tight end travis kelce playing in front of taylor swift, yeah, theyre an item now against chicago, Third Quarter. Pop culture waited for this one. Patrick mahomes found kelce in the back of the end zone and miss swift joyously approved in the family suite. The chiefs crushed the bears 4110. Saints derek carr silenced the packers crowd at Lambeau Field until this happened in the Third Quarter. Carr hit and dropped on his right shoulder, his day was over and the saints had a 170 lead, too, man. Momentum shift. Packers storm back. Jordan love hit romero dobbs. Green bay scored 18 unanswered points, took the lead in the fourth. Packers won the game 1817. Both teams records are 21. Pivot to baseball, as and tigers, final game of the year in the coliseum, scoreless in the third. Detroit struck with the bases loaded. Spencer torkelson from petaluma blooped the single into right center. It scored two for the only runs of the game. As lost their 108th game of the season, tied the record for most losses in oakland history. Giants and dodgers doing business right now. Well have a wrap of that on gameday tonight. Now to the tennis world, another worldwide event with a bay area tiein, this star grew up in piedmont, later lived in san rafael for 30 years and in that time brad gilbert has been a top fiveranked player and now the hottest professional tennis coach in the game. Lets take you to st. Helena. The more were involved, the more we have a chance to do something. Long time tennis coach and tv analyst brad gilbert doesnt just talk the talk. Im 62. Ive been playing tennis since ive been 3 years old and i still love hitting. I play every single shot with an eastern forehand grip. This day gilbert is home in the north bay giving a clinic at the lawn club in

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