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Shop. Like so many people in San Francisco, she and her husband are being priced out. Going out just around the community will be, youll spend 100nd a weekend which is something that personally i cant afford to do that. Reporter she works for a nonprofit teaching english to adult refugees. She earns 25 an hour. I want to teacher forever. I cant see myself doing administrative jobs. Reporter she reached out to her neighborhood communitys social network asking for help how to get a second job. I have done everything from dog sitting, housekeeping. Reporter city hall has heard more off its share are of stories like that one. The city maintains the only way to keep people like her in San Francisco is to build more Affordable Housing. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development set a goal of 10,000 affordable units by 2020. As of last december, the city had completed 7,300 and 86 units and now it has confirmed that 2,827 units are in the pipeline expected to be completed by 2020. Which would surpass the goal set by San Francisco. The California Legislature is also trying to pass a bill that would cap yearly rent increases in the state at 10 . To keep people from being forced out. My rent when went up 20 one year. Many people experienced the spiky increases and for many in the bay area, thats a matter of life and death, the difference between keeping a roof over their familys head and being on the street. It makes no sense anymore. Sometimes to struggle here when we cogo somewhere else, make the same amount of money and make it work. So i went back to look at some of the responses that Shirley Riley has gotten so far. Some people offering a private tutoring job. One person suggested a summer camp job. Another said a park was hiring a rec leader right now. One woman said your kind words touched my heart. As teachers we do this for the love of it. In the newsroom, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. Thanks very much. Our focus on building a better bay area and the issue of Affordable Housing turns to the State Capitol where lawmakers are considering a rent cap bill that allows a maximum 1200 rent hike over five years restricting increases on certainern properties to an average of about 10 a year. It also requires a just cause eviction. That forces landlords to give a specific reason under certain criteria before an eviction could be happen. Supporters say they need protection from skyrocketing rent. Opponents believe providing adequate housing supply is the only way to protect against rent hikes. The bill passed a Senate Committee yesterday. Oakland city Council Voted to close a street to revent people from camping inside their vehicles. Home depot pushed city leaders to fence off of 37th avenue behind the store. Some home depot employees complained they felt unsafe because of People Living inside cars and rvs. The closure will last at least 18 months and home depot will pay for the cost of installing fencing to block 37th avenue. Able more housing is a big part of alleviating the need. Now a planned development in alameda could add more than 100 new residential units proposed for the South Shore Shopping Center along crown beach. News reporter liz kreutz met with the verpz today and is live with the story. Liz . Reporter hi, dan. If developers have their way this parking lot will be converted into an eightstory apartment complex with beautiful views of the bay. Some people say this is a great solution to the housing crisis. Others who live here are saying high rises like this dont belong in alameda. The city of alameda may be getting 1200 new apartment units. Developer who owns the massive South Shore Shopping Center is making the proposal as part of a massive overall of the beachside space. The longterm vision is we make it a more dynamic mixed use space. Reporter in the first phase of the plan, develops are want to convert this parking lot into an eightstory apartment building, retail and restaurants on the ground floor and 300 units bob. Its a proposal some who live in the area are questioning. Were concerned about the number of units that will be brought into town. Traffic. Reporter he says the eightstory building will block his views of San Francisco across the bay. Alameda is a small town. Eight stories will change the vibe of the island. I understand their concerns. It is a change for the island. We cant deny that it is. But you know, were on a waterfront site here and theres a car wash and a mcdonalds close by. A big five. We think the highest and best use for this land is housing. Reporter thats something alameda needs. We live in the bay area where we have a housing crisis. Reporter we sat down with mayor ash craft to ask her about the housing proposal. She says she is open to the new development but wants to make sure it includes not only local Income Housing but housing for middle income families, as well. So i would keep an open mind because what i like to tell people is i cant turn the block back. We are the bay area. Reporter the Developers Tell me they are planning low income, middle income and market value units. Point. Ll is preliminary at this they need to get an environmental review. This is landfill so it could take many years still. They hope that if they are able to get it passed that phase 1 will be built a 2025. Liz kreutz, abc7 news. Thank you. We turn now from housing to safety. In the effort to build a better bay area with a look at the all too common krix car breakins in San Francisco. The latest data from the Police Department shows carburglies are down year to year from may of last year. From 2047 to 1,921 this past may. While breaks in are up 8 month to month since april when 1,765 were reported. One those burke alerts took a violent turn yesterday believing a tourist seriously injured. News reporter vic lee is he in San Francisco now live with the latest on the investigation. Vic . Reporter na car burglary happened at the legion of honor. The tourist was run over by the burglars as he was taking pictures of them breaking into his car. He was taken here to zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital with serious injuries. Visitors to the legion of honor where are shocked at the news. The risk parking here. Definitely. That makes me sick. Thats really hard to hear. Reporter a tourist run down by burglars in their vehicle yesterday in the late afternoon. It happened when he began snapping pictures of them as they broke into his parked rental car. In doing so, he was interrupted by the suspect vehicle which struck and ran into the victim. Reporter heres what we know about the victim. Hes reportedly from oregon. A father in his 40s visiting with his teenage son. He was rushed to zuckerberg San Francisco general with lifethreatening injuries. Just beautiful. Its such a place that anybody can come and enjoy. Reporter today was another normal day at the legion of honor. The parking lot littered with shattered glass. We counted glass in more than a dozen spaces. Low theyre wood thought she was lucky finding a parking place until she looked down. This is probably why this parking spot is open. They saw the glass on the ground. Reporter then she realized something. And theres not even anyplace around. Reporter the museum does have cameras on the rooftops. We dont know if they captured what happened. There are signs on lamp posts around the parking lot but theyre small and easy to miss. As for Police Presence, we saw officers parka empty police van here as a possible deterrent. The city as a whole has seen a dip in the auto burglaries. We have been conducting operations throughout the city. They say the legion of honor is one place but admit there have been problems here, as well. The Police Department is understaffed. Reporter mayor london breed wants more offices on the beat. This is why i continue to push for more Academy Classes because we do need a Police Presence in areas where we know there are large groups you have people. Reporter police are still looking for the suspects. Police tell us that investigators are looking at Surveillance Video including the images taken by the tourist on his cell phone camera. Hopefully shows not only the car that the burglars used but the burglars faces themselves. Vic lee, abc7 news. Hopefully the video will give them leads to work off of. I know its early in the investigation process but how is it going . Reporter we know that investigators have to figure out first of all, if the auto burglars ran over the tourist intentionally or if it was simply accidental as they were trying to get away quickly. Now, the charges of course, once they figure that out, would be vastly different but first, theyve got to catch them. Back to you. Good point. Thank you. We want to hear your ideas for building a better bay area. Join our facebook group. Today San Francisco received the only grant of its kind in california to help homeless and run away teams from becoming victims of human trafficking. Abc7 news was at larkin Street Youth Services in the tenderloin. Thats where mayor london breed and Community Leaders celebrated receiving more than 9 million in state funding to help nonprofit groups steer homeless teens to permanent and safehousing. Im just really excited about what this is going to do to change and save the lives of so many young people any our city. A major part of the threeyear program will focus on preventing teens fres being exploited in the commercial sex trade. Another california racetrack has banned a top horse train b. The Bay Area News Group reports del mar near san diego wont let Jerry Holland dorfer run horses there. He was banned from berkeley and san tab anita in california. 30 horses have died at santa anita since december. His horse, american currency, was euthanized after getting hurt at san tab anita last month. In the east bay, the concord unable weapons station will be the site of the bay areas newest regional park. The east Bay Regional Park District accepted over 2,000 acres of land from the u. S. Navy last week. The transfer of ownership is expected to take six months. 300 acres are set 0 transfer to the park at a later date. The Park District will host a celebration on saturday morning. More to come. The trial over the ghost ship fire gets personal. Coming up, the family matter that an attorney brought up while questioning the founder of the ghost ship art collective. This is the most important thing in our life. Our family. A couple claims a california fertility clinic made a huge error that has forever changed their family. The basis of the couples lawsuit. Thats ahead. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Temperatures have been cooler than average late by but not for long. Well be seeing hot summer days ahead. Ill be back with the full forecast coming up. And where the commute suddenly became a after which al manes young son found a used condom. He is a minor. Its anner that should have remained confidential and has nothing to do with this case. From my perspective it was a disgrace to bring it up. Prosecutors are trying to establish it was not a safe environment so unsafe that it led to the december 2016 fire that killed 36 people. The information about the condom was inside of a Police Report and recorded on a body camera worn by one of the officers who responded to almenas call for help in deeing with the people ho had thrown the party. Prosecutor autry james then asked almena whether he got proper permits for bathroom, kitchen, stairways and doors add the to warehouse. He admitted he never gotment permits for any of the work but insisted it was the owners or contractors responsibility. The exchange was often testy. He hasnt slept in three days. Hes fighting for his life. Reporter hes expected back on the stand thursday morning. Its not clear yet whether his testimony will extend into next week. In oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today warned democrats to stop ot public infighting and focus on the partys common goals. Like defeating President Trump in 2020. That meeting took place behind closed doors after a few freshman members including alexandria oh Cassia Cortes have taken public aim at the party. Pelosi says if someone has a complaint, talk to her, dont tweet about it. This is how ha keen jeffries responded to reporters when asked how the Democratic Party is doing after those public spats. Its all puppies and rainbows. Not exactly. Puppies and rainbows. Pelosi says in a New York Times article published saturday that the socalled squad a group of liberal freshmen had a limited following inside the house. Pelosi says tonight she has no regrets about anything. Theres now a second lawsuit against a Southern California fertility clinic. A couple discovered their biological son was born to another set of parents also suing the clinic. Miriam fernandez from our station in election has the story. Shock and heart break to learn the son they wanted had been born but to the wrong mother. The legal battle to claim him and now the lawsuit that targets cha. Comprehensive Health Systems Fertility Center part of a multinational company. Two male embryos one that belonged were implanted in a woman in new york. That woman confused because tests confirmed her embryos were female. At birth the shock. Male twins one of them the ma you cannians son the berth mom learning her babies were not related to her to, each other and were not crane. The only reason we found out about this one is because the couple that was quaerg them were asian and we are caucasian. It took a legal battle for them to claim their son. Who wants to meet their child in a lobby of a hotel . It was just it was heartbreaking. It was terrible. Annies anguish not just for herself but for the mother who carried two sons to term had bonded with them. The first thing that came out of my mouth, i lash outside, i said what about her . What is she going through right now. Reporter we have received no response to the claim from the cha Fertility Center. Daks are still to be specified. What the couple really wants is more regulation of these centers. Miriam fernandez, abc7 news. Some people have started returning the money they an scooped up after it spilled on to a highway in georgia. The leuer of cash blowing around lured more than a dozen drivers to stop along interstate 285 near atlanta last night. Two armored truck guards say about 175,000 fell out of their side door when it suddenly opened but the guards and police only found about 200 bucks. It is a crime in georgia to keep someone elses lost cash and Police Say People South Carolina return it no questions asked. And some folks are start to do the right thing. It looks like there werent a lot of car accidents. That could happen. Dangerous. Not only illegal its dangerous. The weather is getting more pleasant if you like it warm and milder. Sandhya patel is here with the chaging forecast. Thats right. Delivering some heat this week. Right now live doppler 7, notice the absence of a marine layer. This morning we had thick fog around thats gone. Its patchy out there but the marine layer disappearing, the temperatures responded and up right now, 9 degrees warmer in concord. Travis air force base, warpner santa rosa. This is the place to be and enjoy summertime beach weather. Surf in santa cruz, people are enjoying. 66 in San Francisco. It is 37 in oakland, 77 san jose, Half Moon Bay at 63 degrees. Bright skies from our san jose camera right now. It is in the low 80s from santa rosa to napa to livermore. Concord surge at 85. You noticed that it was a little warmer today. Were going to continue with that theme as a matter of fact, it has been a nice change of pace to get that break from the heat. Its coming back for those of you who like the hot summer weather. The summer sizzle on saturday near 100 inland. Mid90s inland on sunday. The coast will be in the mid 60s both days and 80s around the bay. We will still have the fog around giving way to some sunshine. We have bright skies from our emeryville camera as we look across the bay. It is sparkling. Seeing blue skies right now. Areas of dense fog and spotty morning drizzle, temperatures back to average tomorrow. Hot days inland friday through monday. The morning temperatures, probably similar to today. Low 50s to low 60s. Definitely some fog around near the coast and around parts of the bay. Could be a little bit of spotty drizzle right around Half Moon Bay. Tomorrow afternoon, temperatures in the south bay, 9 in gilroy. 88 degrees, nice and warm in morgan hill. 1 santa cruz. 0 in sunnyvale. On the peninsula from the low 70s to the upper 70s in palo alto. 76 redwood city, coast side, the fog hangs around. Its going to be breezy. Temperatures will be in the mid 60s from pacifica to daly city. 6 in downtown San Francisco. North bay temperatures anywhere from the 60s at the beaches to the 80s elsewhere. 71 in sausalito. 82 san rafael. 87 in santa rosa. 84 in napa. East bay mild sunshine. 74 berkeley. 77 newark. As you head inland, this is where it gets warm. 90 in antioch. 3 san ramon. 90 in concord. I want to turn your attention to a tropical system in the gulf of mexico expected to become a hurricane barry. Right now a depression. Winds of 30 miles an hour. It will intensify. Becoming a category 1 right now is the forecast. Saturday afternoon. And then weakening to a Tropical Storm by sunday afternoon. Biggest threat with this, the storm surge and some drenching rain. Louisiana is already seeing flooding. Theyre going to be seeing some rain that is going to add up to two feet for some parts. That is obviously going to be something worth watching if youre traveling there, be aware of that. Sevenday forecast, a wide range of temperatures tomorrow. The summer heat, friday saturday mid to upper 90s inland. Sunday still hot. Typical range towards next week, a little bit cooler. The good thing about the bay area, the 60s at the beaches. You dont like the heat, head west. We have options. Yes, we do. Its nice. Options are good. Creating change through art. The we want to share with you a Program Helping build a better bay area in the east bay. The grand unveiling of a mural at angry fish sushi on east 14th street features godzilla fighting with a group of angry giant sushi rolls. 128g youth artists collaborated on designing and painting it over the past six months. I always wanted to have some kind of impact on the community. It would be nice to like do my part. The murals part of the Alameda County Sheriffs Office Community Capitals policing program which is, was created to reduce crime by providing young people with outwill hes to create compelling street art and beautify the neighborhood. The man who had a 32game winning streak on jeopardy will be back on the show this fall. James holtz hour won nearly 2. 5 million during his recordbreaking streak and the woman who finally defeated him emma will also compete in the tournament. You will be able to watch 15 players go for a 250,000 grand prize here on abc7 in november. Youve seen the rescue video of whales or turtles cause in fishing line. How about an owl . It happened. Fire yeses at herry man lake park in littleton, colorado used a cherry picker to reel in this Great Horned Owl tangled up in a fishing line left in a tree. The Colorado Parks and wildlifes northeast region tweeted video of the rescue. Crews took the owl to the birds of Pray Foundation Rehabilitation Center to recover. What kay stunningly beautiful creature. The worlds best athletes are together right now for one of the biggest nights in spor on abc7 news at 6 00, the iteam digs into a report that pg e knew its equipment could spark wildfires. A look at the evidence that specifically is link dodd novembers camp fire in paradise. Plus, we followup after a San Francisco womans home was ransacked and take this issue to te mayor in our efforts to build a better bay area coming up at 6 00. Well see you then. The biggest names in sports have gathered in hollywod for the espys. One of the worlds newest champions arrived just in time. Meghan rapinoe stepped off an airplane just moments ago. Theyre at the espys after winning the world cup on sunday. For the First Time Ever this evening, the espys will go on the top e gaming professionals, too. Tracy morgan hosts tonight that you can watch right here. They start at 8 00 p. M. You just validated coopers career choice. E gaming. World news tonight with david muir is next. Preapprecia tonight, the state of emergency. A potential hurricane now bearing down. The major tropical threat in the gulf right now. A hurricane watch just posted. Much of new orleans under water. Flash flooding, a water spout touching down. And now, what could be a major test for the levees after katrina. Alerts across several states. Rob marciano live in the gulf with the new track tonight. President trumps labor secretary under fire tonight, standing before the cameras late today, forced to explain why jeffrey epstein, now charged with sex trafficking, got that secret plea deal all those years ago. The american mom and u. S. Scientist discovered dead overseas. Authorities now calling it tonight a criminal act, saying she was suffocated, found in a tunnel in a former world war ii bunker. The outrage tonight. The embryo mixup