Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Mornings Weekend Edition 20170716

KTVU KTVU Mornings Weekend Edition July 16, 2017

Thousands are going to gather for the aids walk. They say there is a new sense of urgency. We will talk about how warm it will be down there. It will be another warm day. I was in walnut creek yesterday. It felt nice but it was early. So, when we have these types of days where the temperatures reach 100 and go above, the Morning Hours are definitely some of the best times of day. Giving you a look at San Francisco, as we look across the bay. Temperatures are going to be just as hot as yesterday. We had anticipated, perhaps, a bit of a sea breeze coming our way. There will be winds that pick up later today. Because of that, heat advisory for some. High fire danger for others. Giving you a view at the advisories in place. Through 8 00 tonight the heat advisory. That includes the inner east bay. Very widespread into the sacramento and san joaquin valleys and we have it for the north bay. Having participated the sea breeze cooling us off over portions of the north bay but it doesnt look like it will happen, at least not today. Then we take a look at the reds. Due to the wind picking up this afternoon, we are looking at a red flag warning. That means heightened fire danger. Be aware. It will be hot, dry and for many it will turn breezy. 64 in oakland. 56 in San Francisco. To the north bay we have 58 in santa rosa and the inner east bay 67 to start the morning. Upper 60s in concord. Temperatures, well above where we started yesterday morning by 5 to 10 degrees. Warmer in fairfield. By 5 in oakland and 5 in san jose. A look out to the view up above, no fog to speak of. We had fog on the coastline. Not going to be the case today. It will be another gorgeous beach day. In the afternoon, winds will be picking up. Fairfield reporting a weak on shore breeze about 7 Miles Per Hour. The afternoon highs expected today, comfortable at the coast. 78 there. 80 in San Francisco. Mid80s to low 90s around the bay. Inland cities, the folks that reached about 100 degrees and just above yesterday going above it today. 104 expected for antiyoke. We begin an early antioch. We begin a cooling trend tomorrow. Many will be in San Francisco for the aids walk. Its the largest hiv Fund Raising Event in california. We have ku tvs allie rasmus there to tell us why they say there is a new sense of urgency. The people taking part in the event, people organizing it are watching closely what is going on a thousand of miles away from here, the Senate Republican Health Care Bill. It created a new sense of urgency for the people involved in the event to be more politically active. Giving you a look around at where we are. You can see the main stage. They have some of the tents set up. There is about 7,000 people registered to walk this 10k event. There is hundreds of volunteers. This morning all the people and most of the activity that you see around here are from the volunteers. The walk doesnt start until later this morning. I want to bring in ben fordham. Thanks for being here with us. Show me what you have in your hand and how is this kind of part of the theme Going Forward with this event today . So, this morning as you know, we are raising money for People Living with hiv and aids and to support their health and support them. And this year we are rallying against the Health Care Bill in the senate right now. That is a big important aspect of this morning. Part of what we are doing is creating signs that look like this. We will be handing them out and inviting people to write in their own message, a medical condition, hiv, diabetes, disease. Reporter what is the concern. The reality if it passes, it will strip away health care from millions of people. Many of those are people who are living with hiv, who need support and, you know, some of the services we are supporting today like the Golden Compass Program at ward 86, hiv positive over 50 access for medical care, anything like that that passes in the senate could jeopardize their ability to access the care. That is a lifeordeath situation for these People Living with hiv. Reporter particularly people with preexisting conditions, hiv, aids a preexisting condition. The concern is that it could lead to premiums going up or make health care unaffordable. Exactly. What we are doing is rallying together as we raise funds and rallying against efforts in washington to take health care away. So, whether your preexisting is a medical condition or inviting people to make moret tori call points, compassion, determination, hope, thats what we want to see in the meadow today and thats what i think we will see in the walk. Reporter thanks so much. This is the 31st year this event has gone on in San Francisco. So, 8 30 is when the people walking about 7,000 show up. They will have a breakfast, speakers, a warm up in front of the stage. Get the group rallied and geared up ready to go then they start walking at 10 30 this morning. We will be here throughout the morning with updates claudine and frank. Good day to walk. Beautiful there. Thank you, allie. Firefighters are on the scene of a threealarm fire in bay point. The fire started at a home on north street after 10 30 last night. Flames spread to the house next door. It took nearly an hour to put the fire out at both homes. There are no reports of injuries but two dogs did die. Investigators will start looking for the cause of the fire later this morning. San Francisco Police are investigating a deadly shooting in the bay view district. Officers say it happened around 2 30 yesterday afternoon at keith street and palue avenue. The victim was taken to the hospital where he later died. Investigators say they have no information about a suspect at this time or suspect yet and there is no word on what the motive might have been. Nine people went to hospitals after a collision involving a wrong way driver in eastern Contra Costa County last night. It happened in brentwood near the sand creek road to highway 4. Investigators say a car that was reported stolen slammed into a minivan carrying eight people including two young children. The crash happened after 8 00. It shut down highway 4 for nearly two hours. We had multiple trauma victims that went to trauma centers, two by helicopter and multiple patients by ground. There were two people in the car. One managed to get out on his own. The other was pulled out by fire crews and taken by helicopter to eden medical center. Officials say seven people in the car were hurt with the most serious injuries a broken leg. The youngest was air lifted to the hospital in oakland as a precaution because of the babys age. Chp is investigating a fiery crash in Pleasant Hill that injured four people. It happened around 8 30 last night on southbound 680 near the monument boulevard off ramp. A ktvu viewer shared with us video. The Nissan Altima swerved into a second car that crashed into a third car and the altima burst into flames. Two people in that car and two people in a second car were taken to the hospital. We dont know the conditions of those victims at this hour. Crews are working to rebuilt the oroville dam are making progress. The lower portion of the spillway has been removed and crews are working on the replacement. The spillway was badly damaged during heavy rains last winter. The department of Water Resources says there will be a functioning spillway in place by november 1 to handle the upcoming rainy season. The entire project could be completed by next year. Repair work set to start tomorrow on a stretch of road in Contra Costa County that washed away during a landslide in february when we had all the flooding. Part of Morgan Territory road near clayton will be closed  through midoctober while the repairs are being made. People in the area have had partial access to the road for three months. Many say they are frustrated it will be closed once again. This is a nightmare. My daughter has epilepsy. She had three seizures and i couldnt get to her because the roadways closed before. Now that these eye open, you know about 40 minutes walk each way in the morning and carry in your groceries. Everybody bought wagons. We bought a scooter, doing everything you can to get in and out every day. Traffic will be diverted to a temporary access road on leon drive during that closure. We are getting the firsthand look at a crop dusting plane that crashed in Sonoma County. Sheriffs deputies were called to the crash site. It crashed in a vineyard south of the community of kenwood. The pilot walked way from the crash and was not hurt. An investigation is underway to find out why it went down. Just Getting Started on this sunday. A bomb scare in the south bay. Public safety officials are ordered out of their offices after somebody brought in a box of grenades and ammunition. A g. O. P. Health care bill has been put on hold. Strummed guitar you cant experience the Canadian Rockies through a screen. You have to be here, with us. Strummed guitar travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing. With a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. Canadas Rocky Mountains await. Call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. At ikea, we believe your perfect student deserves the perfect room for the perfect price. So she can afford to feel at home even when shes miles away. And you can help her feel bright, without breaking your budget. And. 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The senate Health Care Bill stops the obama care disaster, expands choice and drives down costs and i want to tell you the republican senators are working very hard to get something that is going to be really, really good. The opposite of the big lie which was obama care. An important report that could sway votes comes out this week. The Congressional Budget Office will release how much the proposed plan will cost compared to the Affordable Health car act. California lawmakers are leading an effort to extend the signature Climate Change Initiative Making a last minute appeal. Critics say the plan doesnt do enough to rain in polluters. Lawmakers are scheduled to vote tomorrow on bills that would extend the program. Californias cap and trade program puts a limit on Carbon Emissions and requires polluters to have permits to release greenhouse gases. The program will expire in 2020 unless lawmakers make action. Nasa said it didnt have the funding for a manned mission to mars. Nasa estimated the mission would cost about 100 billion over 30 or 40 years. Many are looking to private space flights. Elon musk said the cost could drop to 200,000 per person using reusable rockets. Would you go . On a reusable rocket . He hasnt had a lot of luck with those. I would let other people go first. You dont have to be first. Lets talk about the weather because its hot. In a word for sure. We are looking at warm weather. Even warmer than yesterday. Along the coastline this morning, we are starting out with mostly clear skies. A nice beach day. Outside of that, just be prepared. We are heating it up. We are warming at this hour than we were 24 hours ago. I will show you those numbers in a moment. A view across the bay waking up with a few patches of fog and haze this morning. Mostly sunny skies in the forecast today. If you are just joining us, a heat advisory that goes until tonight for our inner east bay yesterday and today but now included is the north bay. This is new. And the shades of red are the red flag warning. For areas above 1,000 feet, hot, dry and breezy. Those three combined increase fire danger for sure. Something to be aware of as you are out and about for the afternoon today. Take it easy. 56 in San Francisco, at least on the west edge here where we are looking at cooler weather. 64 oakland. 67 walnut creek and 67 in livermore. Temperatures are starting out 5 to 10 degrees above yesterday morning and as we get into the afternoon, we are looking at temperatures just as hot, even hotter. No fog to speak of. That will be the case for today which means it will, again, be a nice beach day. The on shore breeze is weak. Fairfield 7 Miles Per Hour. The north breeze has picked up some and that is what has lead to the red flag warning. For the today, expect it to be hot. Still tracking the monsoonal moisture. We wont see as much cloud cover as yesterday. If you look closely, you can see the Green Crossing over southern california. Again, nothing for us in the bay area. We will get into a cooling trend. It starts tomorrow. It doesnt mean it will be cool but better than today. Tuesday even better. Then we settle into comfortable weather, at least more comfortable than what we are experiencing today. A look at what you can expect for the inner east bay starting at 80 in antioch. Danville 69 and 77 pittsburg. Lets talk about the as game, warm at the coliseum under mostly sunny skies. 81 at the start of the game. 80 to 85 for oakland in the afternoon. 83 sausalito. East bayshore, 82 alameda. 105 the afternoon high for brentwood. South bay, 95 san jose. 100 morgan hill. 98 saratoga. 93 in redwood city. 80 in the city of San Francisco. Thats a warm day. A view at the extended forecast, temperatures fall off on monday. Comfortable at the coast and around the bay but the inland communities are quite hot. It will drop off nearly 10 degrees and be very hot. Tuesday, wednesday, thursday a little better with temperatures falling back into the low 90s. I think ice coffee most of the week. Ice coffee, ice cream, treat yourself nice. Speaking of which that homemade air conditioning unit. Yeah,. Find a cooler, throw a fan in and a bag of ice. Good to go. Thank you, rosemary. Two days of celebrating music and nature returned to Golden Gate Park. This is the third year where 12 pianos are hidden around the San Francisco botanical gardens. Martin holton takes us on a tour with great music. Reporter we have 12 pianos spread throughout the gardens for 12 days. [ music ] there are two gentlemen men that had this idea. They started placing the pianos in the san mateo coast and elsewhere. Then they came to us. This has become their largest endeavor. When i saw there was a few pianos you could play, i decided to make a day of it. Maybe i will come back a couple of times and do it a few more times. [ music ] its a form of meditation for me. I kind of space out and let the fingers do what they do. This is the best idea i heard in a long time. I played piano outside a couple of times only. When i do it, i am struck by it. Its cool. Amazing who comes out and what they play. Mostly its just completely spontaneous and organic and thats really the true magic of flower piano. What is it about a piano. I always sit down, i had one in my home all my life. I cant play it. [ laughter ] i think i can. I sound so bad but it is so much fun. I took a year of piano lessons. I needed more time. Well, a california kid is grabbing all the headlines in the big apple. We will take a look at how new york yankee star aaron judge got his Start Playing ball near stockton, fresno state and now he is in the big leagues. There is a push to provide some more Affordable Housing in San Francisco. We will tell you about the action taken by city leaders that could keep rent costs under control. April the bay area has seen a boom in business for one retailer, goodwill industries. The greater east bay chapter has plans to open nine new stores during the next three years according to the mercury news. The newest will open in walnut creek. That will happen this week on wednesday. The goodwill says it has to be careful to choose where to put its stores so they are convenient for shoppers as well as people making donations. Goodwill has lower prices than most other stores and unusual items that cant be found anywhere else and shoppers say they like the idea that they are helping people get trained for jobs when they shop at the Goodwill Stores. The city of oakland is adding 300 new jobs to the summer youth jobs program. Its called classroom to careers and they are in various fields including research, construction and working for nonprofits. This brings the total number of youth jobs this summer up to the mayors goal of 2,000. I hear over and over again that our young people want jobs and not just a paycheck. They want opportunities to explore what the world of work has to offer for them. They are available to oakland residents between 16 and 24. San francisco is taking action to create more Affordable Housing. The board of supervisors approved two housing

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