As a long Time Employee of valley water, i know the operations, i know how to basically navigate within the community. But i think i bring a unique view, especially at this time right now, being able to make sure we have equity in everything we do. Both internally and externally with this organization. Calendar worked at valley water for 24 years and was chief of external affairs. He might be best known in the community for his role as the president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the naacp from 2000 to 2008. The current president called his appointment as ceo of the water district, historic. Most water districts in the boards across the state and the nation have been dominated by the white majority. And hes concerned about the latino and African American communities who have been left out of water policies and water considerations in the past. Calendar will have his hands full leading the water agency through the pandemic and the ever looming possibility of drought. While still overseeing major projects, including the anderson dam retrofit. The pacheko dam construction. Talking to people of color that live in the flood zones in the valley, we need to provide equity and flood protection for everyone. Calendar was voted in by the board in a close 43 split. Hell take home a salary of 326,000. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Heres a look at top stories for you at 5 30. Several prominent twitter accounts were hacked in a crypto currency scam. They include barack obama, joe biden and elon musk accounts the tweet would include a link asking users to donate via bitcoin. Twitter is aware of the hack and is investigating it. So far no word on who was behind the scam. The oakland zoo can reopen thanks to a variance. Since the county is on californias coronavirus monitoring list, only Outdoor Worship Services are allowed and indoor malls have to close starting today. A live look from our exclusive sales force cameras. Pretty hazy right now. Were at the San Francisco bay and the east bay, winds carrying smoke from multiple fires our way. The largest is the mineral fire. It erupted monday in fresno county. Its exploded to 11,000acres. Containment is only 5 . And in san bonito county the coyote fire grew to 200acres in a matter of hours. City Council Members passed sweeping reforms that will reshape the police department. Most notably, officers will no longer pull people over for traffic stops. Berkeley will become the first city to put that job in the hands of unarmed city workers. The city says the idea is part of a larger conversation on reimagining public safety. After George Floyds death. Council members also set a goal of reducing the Police Budget by 50 . Police are searching for leads tonight in a shooting that killed a 42yearold man. Deputies responded to drake avenue last night where they found a man gunned down. Hes been identified as marin city resident, tayan tony ford. So far no suspects have been identified. You could be fine if youre not wearing a mask in napa county. They authorized citations up to 500 for people who received repeated complains of violating the health order. Businesses can be fined up to 5,000 but Officials Say they do want to educate people saying it takes approximate multiple complaints to receive a written warning and more violations after that before a potential penalty. Contra costa county extended renter protection through september. So that means Property Owners cannot evict a tenant for failure to pay rent if the tenant is unable to pay due to covid19. People who are not able to pay will have until next year to pay the pastdue rent. A Property Owner may not charge or collect late fees or unpaid rent and landlords cannot increase the rent. After 33 years of service, alameda countys fire chief will retire next month. Chief david roka will leave august 15th. And Willie Mcdonald the current chief of the Las Vegas Department will take over. He began his professional fire career in 1987 as a firefighter in san leandro. Roka did not say what his plans are for the future. Everything wont be coming up roses on new years day. Today organizers canceled the 2021 tournament of roses parade in pasadena. First time since world war ii. Reporter Joyce Benedict tells us that tradition would have logistically im pull f during a pandemic. Its a staple of new years day. As handmade floats featuring millions of flowers travel the streets of pasadena. Hundreds of thousands of people filled the sidewalks. Millions more watch on tv. As word spread throughout the city that the parade scheduled for january 1st 2021 was canceled, folks say they understand. You got to take a step back and figure out whats most important. Officials with the tournament of roses parade made the tough decision. To cancel the parade more than five months early. Ceo david eade says they couldnt delay, any longer. The bands selected 18 months in advance have to make plans but all ready 12 of the 22 scheduled have canceled. If you think about marching bands playing instruments, horns with aerosols, you know, from a Public Health perspective. It wouldnt be allowed. It would have been nice to see the floats even without spectators, the real issue isnt the fans. Its the floats themselves. The week before the parade we have to add to the floats millions of live floral decor. Although the structure and mechanics are made months in advance. It takes hours of manpower to lay every seed and flower by hand. And since it has to be done in a short amount of time, float builders rely on volunteers in tight spaces. That takes thousands of people working in really close proximity. Because all those flowers are live and theyre imported from south america. But even though the parade is canceled, the tournament of roses plans to do something on new years morning. Joyce benedict reporting. Now todays announcement only affects the parade. No decision haves been made about the rose bowl game itself. Coming up, no mask, no service, the major retail chain stepping up enforcement to protect customers. And seeing double times three. The twin baby boom at stanfomi, ar mans sea Plane Business shut down because someone reported it wasnt covid safe. So during a pandemic, are were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. President trump traveled to georgia to explain his decision to roll back regulations that have been in place for decades. Hes the policy that dates back to the nixon administration. Environmental reviews of major federal Infrastructure Projects from freeways to pipelines. President trump argues the regulations blocked were delayed important Infrastructure Projects. Masks will soon be required to shop at the nations largest retailer, walmart announced the policy today. But customers have until monday before that mandate goes into c step to protect the safety of employees and shoppers during the pandemic. Meanwhile, the face mask mandate went into effect at starbucks today. All customers entering one of its 9,000 Stores Nationwide must wear a face covering. The company says those who refuse, can drivethrough or order online for pick up or delivery. It might be 2021 before amazon employees get to return to the office. Amazon says that its staff can now work from home until january of next year. Its an extension for 840,000 employees who were told that theyd be back in the office by october. However, as you might have suspected, the remote work policy does not apply to amazons warehouse workers, other tech giants unincluding facebook, google, apple, shopify they dont expect workers to return to work before the end of the year. Tax day is here after a threemonth delay. What last minute filers need to well many people have such a misunderstanding as to how a reverse mortgage works. People think that the bank takes your home, but that is not true. Thats absolutely 100 wrong. The home is ours. We can sell it if we want to at any time. I like the flexibility of not having a payment, but i can make the payment if i want to. Youre responsible for keeping up your property taxes and youre responsible for paying your insurance on the property. For us, it was a security blanket. The value of our house, was to fund our longterm health care. For years, reverse Mortgage Funding has been helping customers like these use the equity from their homes to finance their lives. They know the importance of having financial security. Make an appointment so they can tell you how it works. Its a good thing. Access your equity. Stay in your home. Have peace of mind. After a three month extension due to coronavirus, today is tax day. Reporter christine shares what last minute filers need to know and how to protect themselves from tax related scams. Nancy didnt finish filing taxes until tax day. She and her husband didnt get their stimulus check until the end of june. Shes retired and hes out of work due to covid. Hes in the printing industry. And thats he had a bunch of different schools and doing their printing. Theyre not working. So its been very rough. In order to help cash strapped americans, the feds pushed back the tax deadline from april 15th to july 15th. You can file for an extension and delay longer until october 15th. But you still have to pay what you owe with that extension. Otherwise, youll get hit with penaltys and late fees. Another thing to be mindful of. Email scams targeting panicked tax filers. We see tips for individuals and tax preparers. He says the scammers are usually trying to get sensitive personal information. Or money. The most common and one were seeing currently is a phishing attempt. A fake email being sent caiming theyre from the irs to the individual. Stating if they dont pay by a certain date, their Social Security number will be turned off or canceled. So look out for the red flags like misspellings or email addresses that dont end in dot gov. And that was Christine Lazar reporting there. The irs says if you cant pay the full amount that you owe, you can also arrange a payment plan or apply to differ payment. But youre still going to be on the look for interest. Families able to get free groceries today thanks to the food bank of contra costa and solano. Dozens showed up for the drive thru food give away. To the parking lot of a college in pittsburgh. Families were able to drive up, open the trunk, volunteers would drop in the box or bag of food. Organizers have seen a lot of new faces since the pandemic started. We are seeing an increased need. A lot of new faces. We have people that are here today that have mentioned this is the first time theyve ever utilized food services. So were happy to be able to provide that support to new faces as well. In all, volunteers distributed 1,000 food boxes. A pair of winning teams joining forces to show how we are better together. The 49ers and the warriors teaming up as part of a bay area unite campaign to distribute meals to Second Harvest food bank. Together the teams donated 10,000 bags of food. This is the second time the warriors and the 49ers have joined forces to help the community during the pandemic. Back in april, they donated face masks to 50,000 front line workers. Well, a few rats appeared in london over night. But they didnt stick around too long. The elusive british street artist banksy snuck on to the london under ground to paint those famous rats. This time he showed them spraying shot in to highlight the importance of wearing masks. Banksy called the art, if you dont mask, you dont get. However, london transport has since removed the paint due to its antigraffiti policy. All right, hows this for a baby boom. Four sets of twins born in just 32 hours. It happened at lucil packard Childrens Hospital stanford. I got three of the sets for you, the lee twins, ethan and eusol. Hadley and olivia. And brothers henry and logan. The marathon started june 29th with three sets of twins born in one day. The fourth set came the following afternoon. Now the odds they say of having four sets in a row in such a short time are pretty slim. Roughly 1 in 1 million. Theyre each unique. 1 in 1 million. Seriously. I think that the odds of having some good weather probably way better than 1 in 1 million. Paul hagan joins us now. Slightly higher than that. [ laughter ]. Temperatures pretty pleasant across the bay area today. Over all, were in the midst of a nicer weather pattern. And were not going to see a whole lot of heat. Even for inland portions of the bay area, even over the weekend when temperatures warm up to 90. This is a typical july weather pattern. The difference today, haze overhead. Part of it is high cloud cover. Most of it is smoke blowing from wildfires down to the south. Thats going to be with us once again tomorrow. Most of what youre seeing on the just the marine stratus. The low cloud cover and fog on the coast thats streaming back through the golden gate. Well zoom in for a closer look. You can see that shooting toward berkeley and richmond here. And that will spread across the bay and inland through the rest of the evening into tonight and early tomorrow morning. Air quality will be a concern. You didnt see a whole lot of wildfire smoke. It doesnt show up really well on the visible satellite image. You need a thermal scan to pick up hot spots. But air quality will be unhealthy for sensitive groups. Its one of those spare the air days tomorrow. It doesnt matter which part of the bay area you live in. Everybody will can have to contend with the possibility of breathing issues because of the wildfire smoke. 90 degrees inland. Livermore and fairfield with the hot spots right at 90. Thats not bad at all for the middle of july. San jose climbed above degrees. Fremont. Mid 70s. Mid 60s. Halfmoon bay made it to 65 degrees. 62 degrees downtown. Quite a difference even within San Francisco. Temperature stands at 68 degrees in oakland. Mostly 70s. And low 80s farther inland. Back to the upper 50s along the coast. No surprise there. Well have thick fog an cloud c tomorrow. Future cast indicating all these areas in red where the fog will be thickest. Theres quite a bit of it on the map. This will back up toward the coast as we head through the day tomorrow. After temperatures start off in the mid to upper 50s. To around 60 degrees for the warmest spots, we are going to warm up to almost exactly whats normal for this time of the year. Lets check it out hour by hour. In the city, slow to warm up initially. Until the fog and low cloud cover back off. Then the on shore breeze kicks back in. Temperatures drop back down in the lower half of the 60s. San jose manages to climb up to above 80 degrees. A degree or two warmer than today. Plenty of sunshine for most of the day. Nd. En sclear. Concord. Temperatures in the mid 80s. Which is slightly below average for the middle of july. Dont get used to that. Temperatures heat up toward the weekend. And the north bay looking nice. High temperatures in santa rosa rising up to the upper 70s. Heres the other temperatures we expect for highs tomorrow. Lower half of the the 60s on the coast. Not a surprise this time of the year. A mix of 70s. And 80s further away from the bay. Temperatures climb on friday. They climb more as we head into the weekend. 90 degrees inland saturday and sunday. Which isnt that hot for the middle of july. High temperatures around the bay climb slightly. Near 70 degrees saturday and sunday. And its back into our normal weather pattern. Normal temperatures and the normal back and forth fog pattern as we go through most of next week. Coming up at 6 00, well have this evenings hour by houring to walking forecast. Sounds good, thank you. Airbnb is getting ripped apart tonight after asking guests to donate to hosts. Plus. Im john ramos in marin county patience is wearing thin and people are turning their neighbors in for violating the rules. Some good news among all the despair, the coronavirus vaccines in the works and everybodys role in helping contain the pandemic. Meet the womans whose weve always put safety first. And we always will. For people. For the future. And there has never been a summer when its mattered more. Wherever you go, summer safely. Get zero percent apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers. And the hidden smiles. The foggy glasses, and the muffled laughs. A simple piece of fabric makes a big statement i care. Wear a mask. Lets all do our part to slow the spread. Farm worker families are not feeling forgotten in the fields on the San Mateo County coast. Thanks to this weeks jefferson award winner. Sharon chen has her story of giving, sharon . Well, dr. Belinda hernandez ariagas says what she does to serve the farm workers is work from the heart. So everyone will drive through and get tortils, and be d gg farm workers and her families. But shes at work giving them free food. I think about the hard work that our immigrant community is putting in everyday in this country. And thats what keeps me going. Belinda started off serving latino families pro bono as a clinical social worker. When she discovered they needed more. Although theyre suffering from depression, anxiety, stress, what they really need was to be visible to have a space to celebrate who they were. So in 2011, she founded alas. It means helping latinos to dream big. The nonprofit offers cultural arts, educational, and social Justice Programs for latino families from halfmoon bay to montera. Employee cecilia says since covid19, belinda has been serving three times as many families. 1,000 each week. Shes hard working. Shes always looking for resources to help the community. Volunteers have sown 7,000 masks to protect coastal farm workers on the front lines of food production. And alas partners with Community Businesses to give free lunches to farm workers every friday. At the ranches, she helps meet other needs, when the pandemic hid, serafine was stuck with hundreds of pounds of beans restaurants no longer needed. So alas bought them to give to poor families and save serafines business. I was desperate. I was ready to give up. Alas came in and started helping. Employee Jorge Sanchez says belinda leads the way. [ spanish ]. He says belinda has a big heart, shes very noble and humble. For serving latino farm workers and their family ozen the north san mateo coast, this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to dr. Belinda. She heads to the border to help families seeking asylum from mexico. Great effort, sharon, thanks so much, you can nominate your local hero for a jefferson award. Do it online at kpix. Com hero. Thats it for the news at 5 00. Kpix 5 news begins right now. Its rather amazing to see this many accounts compromised at once. Now at 6 00, the biggest hack job in twitters history, how elon musk, joe biden, barack obama, and bill gates all got wrapped up in an apparent bitcoin scam. Plus, while we endure a surge in cases, some good news tonight, the fight against covid may be slow. But progress is steady. The vaccines that are in the works. But first, our top story on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a stunning admission as the debate rages over students returning to classrooms. The School Board President who admits distanced learning doesnt work. This evening we focus on whether students should return to classrooms. Today San Francisco unified school board announced plans to start all fall classes with distanced learning eventually the hope is to move to a hybrid approach. A mix of inperson classroomen learning and virtual instruction. The state superintendent of public instruction is urging districts to proceed with caution. We believe that we can continue to monitor the data. Should the data show that its safe to do so. We want to open those schools for inperson instruction. I believe that thats the approach that other School Districts are taking. Also, this evening, a very honest assessment on Distance Learning from a surprising source. Kpix 5s kenny choi on the School Board President who admits it doesnt work. Veronica, that School Board President is an elementary schoolteacher in the San Francisco unified school district. And he knows