Ordinance. Last month the city council narrowly approved new rules that capped annual rent increases at 3 or 60 of the bay area Consumer Price index, whichever number is lower. Advocates say the rules would help keep people off the streets. Because of this policy, families will have relief. Rent will be in line with wages. Communities will state intact, and antioch can stay strong. That ordinance also limits landlords to just one rent increase every 12 months. To the governors pandemic state of emergency, one bay are Infectious Disease expert says he is surprised by the move, as we first reported yesterday the governor plans to lift hundreds of emergency covid related rule at the end of february. Ucsf says we are certainly not out o the woods yet. I was a little surprised because of the timing. Because we were talking about new variants coming on board, they are more transmissible. I think symbolically it was surprising to me, because it seems that we are making progress and we are, we
Administration is touting the te deal between the Nations Railway workers and carriers with a looming strike just hours hours away. Skyler henry at the white house, detailing the agreement of what President Biden calls the backbone of the nation. Good afternoon, im reed cowan. Lets start with the new new milliondollar claimant to t to fight hate and hate crimes against Asian Americans in the bay area. Kpix 5s [ end of song song ] of it with moreec anne m this afr a huge spike spike in hate crimes over the Asian Community in the last two. Two years. Citizen, you mentioned, is a popular app where people can share whats going on in their neighborhoods, neighborhoods, and no one in 3 people is already using this ap. This app. It also has a Premium Version that gives you access to to 24 7 monitoring, texting, and and video chatting, with agents. Agents. And now the app is partnering with good water capitol. And they are giving premium accounts to people for e for free in the Asian Community
Right . Picking up, yeah. Definitely not how that uber driver thought his they would go. The tree accident that cut his route very short. And somebody crashed into their building. Some san jose residents are sleeping elsewhere elsewhere tonight. Plus this. People were just calling and were just trying to catch up, and we were like, oh, this is getting real. The flavors of home. We are going to check that out as we celebrate hispanic heritage month, helping this business th. Business thrive. Good afternoon, afternoon, everybody, im reed cowan. We start with an uber driver driver after a tree fell on his car out of nowhere. Kpix 5 s anne makovec with more on this close call. On the middle of this guys , check it out, that tree come down at 8 then Market Street right onto a vehicle driven by an uber contractor with a passenger inside. The car windshield smashed pretty hard as well, similes are still stuck stuck in the wipers. The fallen tree was taken up by its roots d roots and it was bl
for her signature. stay tuned. why do i have the feeling this will be stuck in committees and discussions and they will just keep talking about it? reporter: highly likely. san francisco is the first city in california to be addressing this issue. it will be interesting to see how other california cities handle this as well. thanks. meanwhile, santa clara county health officials are warning about a sharp increase in covidien wastewater samples. sarah, they don t like the direction this is heading. reporter: not really. the wastewater samples basically show us just how much virus is out there. it is actually more reliable than the case counts at so many points, people are just testing at home, and those numbers are not automatically recorded. here is what we know. the levels are skyrocketing right now. there is this spike at the end of the chart, showing counties sewer sheds are in the redline for cobit. even higher than the last winters omicron surge. the orange lin