Years ago it became the first city to pass a soda tax, so now, it is targeting the grocery checkout aisle. Good evening, i am ken bastida. I was with cook. The city of berkeley again trying to change diet habits. Don ford says that means changes in the checkout line. Reporter they will put a stop to that. It is a temptation to start to control, they say, something had to be done. Last night the Berkeley City Council universally past the healthy checkout ordinance, the first in the world, to require that food right of the Cash Register be healthy choices. Reporter Stores Larger than 2500 ft. B2 must have only wholesome food for you to look at while waiting to check out. One of those stores is. They say the last minute shopping impulse is real. We know as people tend to purchase that which is accessible to them at the last minute before they are about to pay. Adam bowles, or just out of visually come you know, visually being attracted to the product or being hungry order the situation maybe. This store has already limited junk to dallas barristers, and they still have candy but you have to look for it. We do have a variety of candy that we sell and sweets and make bread and stuff but everything is still accessible in the store, i think it is the idea, to kind of maybe promote a different thought. Some folks are not sure the idea of government controlling the shelf is okay. Council member harrison has an answer for that as well. Where you to tell me what i can buy and not by . You just cannot buy within 2 feet of the Cash Register so it is right behind you if you really want that thing, go ahead. Enforcement starts january 1. 2022. And berkeley, don ford, kpix5. Petaluma please investigating a crash involving a suspected dui driver, that left a pedestrian dead. Officer say the driver was going south when he drove onto the sidewalk near a roundabout, killing a 53yearold victim. The suspect has been defied as 41yearold James Watkins of cotati. Please release this photo of his prius in the center of the roundabout with the driver side headlight smashed in. This is not the first time he has been arrested for a dui crash. He is awaiting a court date for a 2018 incident in sonoma county. Santa Rosa Police Department has been slapped with a huge fine for failing to protect employees from the coronavirus. They find the Police Department 32,000 to the agency said the department failed to implement required screening for people showing symptoms of covid19. Back in march an officer died from coronavirus, after being exposed to anothers employee. They say they were not notified until two weeks after the death. We reached out to the santa Rosa Police Department for a comment. We have not heard back. Meanwhile they also issued citations to six Healthcare Agencies of Skilled Nursing facilities and sentences go, san jose, and hayward, including gateway care, and debilitation center. The hayward nursing home was fined more than 22,000 and in san jose, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center was also fined, over 9000 for violations at two of its facilities and we reached out to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and gateway care for a response. Again, have not heard back. Leaders are taking covid19 safety a step further with a new Community Health and Business Engagement team. This new program aims to better educate residents and businesses about covid19 protocols. It also hopes to be a resource for essential workers who need to be out in the community and dont have access to Important Safety Information. When youre doing everything, and you still dont see the case is dropping, you have to do more, and you have to do something more innovative. Community leaders on the team are beginning to do outreach, disturbing face coverings on the cleaning supplies, and Important Safety Information to those who need it the most. As a cinema parents and other Supreme Court nomination fight, new report have come up this about dianne feinstein. That is according to an article in political. And 87 years old, she is the oldest sitting u. S. Senator. She is also a Ranking Member of the judiciary committee. Political claims that some of her colleagues are worried that she could mishandle the confirmation fight. They cite her role in the confirmation hearings for Justice Brett cavanaugh back in 2018. She waited several weeks before revealing allegations by christine blasi for claiming that cavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. Went and picked senator told political she is not sure what she is doing. If you take a look at cavanaugh we may be sure to senators because of that and if this gets messed up, it may be the same result. The report claims that democrats are discussing adjusting the seniority system for next year in case they win the senate and that would potentially block her from becoming chair of the judiciary committee. We reached out to her for a response. Rob instructed us to the comments in political, she said im really surprised and taken aback by this because i tried to be very careful and i am puzzled by its. My attendance is good, i do the homework, i tried to ask the hard questions, i stand up for what i believe in. She told politico that she and fellow democrats can only do so much to slow the sprinkler nomination. She went on to say she cannot stop it, if republicans stick together. The California State University system making history today, dr. Joseph castro has been named chancellor of the 23 campus system. He is the first Mexican American and first native californian to hold the position. Raised by a single mother and his farmworker grandparents, castro earns degrees at uc berkeley and stanford. He was previously the president of fresno state. Csu says his story he sympathized the transformation of power and the power of Higher Education in an individuals life. The apartment also marks another milestone for the first time all three California Public education systems, you see, California Committee colleges, and csu, are led by people of color. Still ahead another black eye for wells fargo. Why the ceo is apologizing for blaming the companys diversity problems on a lack of talent. The 70s iconic sites, shrouded in mocha, but we just learned some good news about the parks reopening plans. Coming up new at six, gas guzzling cars will become a thing of the past in california. Gov. News handing down a historic order to combat climate change. What that will mean for the current car industry. Plus. There is a direct causation. It was the smoke, air pollution, that hastened peoples deaths. A scary reality im voting yes on prop 19 to help californias most vulnerable. Over 24,000 homes were destroyed by wildfires in less than two years. Too many of those victims are also hit with a sudden tax hike after their forced to move. Its wrong. Prop 19 limits taxes on wildfire victims and limits taxes on seniors and severely disabled homeowners. Join firefighters and Emergency Responders in voting yes on 19. President trump slapping a new round of economic sanctions on cuba, Trump Administration is banning u. S. Citizens from buying cuban cigars, and rum. In staying at hundreds of cuban owned hotels. The order part of a broader effort to tighten restrictions on the cuban government. And it is a sharper reversal from the more open policies under president barack obama. The obama biden demonstration made a weak, pathetic, onesided deal with the castro dictatorship that betrayed the cuban people. We will not lift sanctions until all Political Prisoners are free. Freedoms of assembly and expression are respected, all Political Parties are legalized. Now u. S. Citizens need to apply for a license to travel to cuba for events including sports, games, meetings and conferences. On the campaign 2020, democratic president ial nominee joe biden brought his campaign to charlotte, North Carolina for the first time in months today. He said that the fact the pandemic is impacting African Americans worse than other communities is emblematic of the inequality that exists in our nation. The point is i believe we have a gigantic opportunity, a gigantic opportunity to fundamentally change the systemic racism and systemic problems that exist in our system. And i think we have to do it but only one way to do it, we have to show up and vote. He also slammed President Donald Trump for what he called the most corrupt administration in modern american history. The ceo of wells fargo apologizing for his remarks on race and diversity. He blamed the lack of diversity at the bank on a limited pool of black talent to recruit. He apologized, saying in part it is clear to me that across the industry we have not done enough to improve diversity especially at Senior Leadership levels and there is no question that they have to make meaningful progress to increase diverse representation. He was brought in as a ceo a year ago to clean up a series of problems, most notably the fake account scandal that became public four years ago. Hodges of wales killed in a historic mass in just a few months, weve learned a lot more about the covid19 virus. Its real. Its dangerous. And we do know how to keep you and your loved ones safe. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay six feet apart. We can do this. If we do it together. Reaction continuing to pour and tonight over a grantors decision on the Deadly Police shooting of breonna taylor. The congressman roche deserves justice, not justification. Colin kaepernick posted this on twitter, but the premise and institution of policing that stole her life from us must be abolished, for the safety and wellbeing of our people. And warriors eric pascal wrote the fact that i am not surprised scares me. You can weigh in by using the hashtag kpix. New at 5 30, investigators are looking into whether Utility Equipment from Southern California edison sparked a Massive Wildfire burning in la county. Last week the company filed an incident report with the California Public utilities commission. The report says its great experience an issue around the very same time. And near the area where the fire started on september 6. The bobcat fire has scorched more than 113,000 acres and is 30 contained. After being closed for nearly a week due to smoke, Yosemite National park has left a reopening date. Visitors will be welcomed back to the park this friday, beginning at 9 am. Campsites will also be open. However, reservations are required to enter the park and camp. Yosemite has been closed since last thursday because of all of that hazardous air quality. Nearly 400 wells have died. A massive operation is underway off the coast of tasmania, rescue crews are scrambling to save the whales stranded on sandbars. But the majority have not survived. Their bodies littering nearby beaches. The cause of all this is still puzzling scientist. They are very closely bonded and that is why we have since the money in this case unfortunately end up in the situation. For now, both can to to ferret those still living to deeper water. Crews brought in their search the surrounding area but fear that time is running out. This is a 300 foot icebreaker ship soaking up the warm weather right now. Usually it is floating around antarctica, crunching through frozen these, it is called the Nathaniel B Palmer and it is known as flagship icebreaker. It is here to load up. 31 number crew before heading back toward the south pole tomorrow. Next time the crew will set foot on unfrozen ground, in december. Here, it is warming up fast. Temperatures will be hot as we head into the weekend, we are going to be flirting with record territory once again so lets talk about the big picture perspective, what is going to change. In the shortterm, nice weather will continue. The storm system moving into the pacific northwest, sending some clouds toward us, but any chance of rain will stay well to the north and then a turnaround as we head to the end of the work week and into the weekend, yet another one of those heat domes will be building overhead, just a big area of high pressure. Pressing down on us, just more air on top of us, as the air gets pushed down a compressed, it warms up, we will be talking about triple digit heat for some portions inland portions of the bay area, combined with onshore wind, that is a bad recipe. Not only bad but the offshore wind could send some smoke back toward us, still smokefree clouds expected for the bay area, but one of the models indicating already some smoke drifting down especially into the northbay as we head into friday afternoon. We are not done with it. More of a southerly wind will try to bring some smoke on the august complex maybe the north complex down toward the bay area as we head into the first half of the weekend as the wind was around, some of the smoke from the creek fire is going to making its way toward us. I dont think we are talking but a return to the just awful conditions we had a couple weeks ago but the air quality will deteriorate. We take a look at the fiveday airquality forecast coming up at 6 00. In the shortterm, still good news. Nice weather right now. High temperatures, in the upper 80s, at worst, concord made up to 80 degrees. San jose made it 82, that the 70 degrees in the city and half moon bay. 70 degrees along the coast. Probably wont be the case tomorrow because we are going to see more low cloud cover and fog for at least the first half of the day. Current temperatures a mix of 70s and 80s and most locations, 74 at sfo. 66 in half moon bay, not bad at all for almost 6 00 and evening. Here is the law, spreading into the inland valleys as we head towards early tomorrow morning, even if it is mist and drizzle possible along the coast but that is not going to be a major factor in the fog will be slow to dissipate around the bay and the coast. It pulls back a bit more as we head into the afternoon. In terms of adding up any moisture, it is going to be trace amounts as that fog and mist kind of hangs out in the and is here, mainly along the coast, and the immediate vicinity of the bay. Temperatures slow to warm up, or at least the first half of the day, temperatures by tomorrow morning dipping down into the upper 50s and low 60s. In most spots, warming up to temperatures in the vicinity of what is normal for this time of year, maybe slightly above average for far inland portions of the east bay, upper 60s and low to mid 70s around the bay, 70s and 80s around the south bay and low to mid 80s for the northbay. That will happen after. And the heat kicks in. Friday we warm up significantly, and near triple digit temperatures for at least three days, in the and portions of the bay area, and even around the bay, temperatures well into the 80s. We have a fiveday airquality forecast coming up at 6 00. A heart beating outside the body. It is a new technology that will save millions of lives. Plus the sale of new gasoline cars will be phased out in 15 years, is that a realistic goal . A new study out presenting a scary reality of breathing and all that wildfire smoke. Still ahead here at five, how one bay area woman is sowing the unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. Friends bielefeld those women say she is so generous it is as if she only has one oregon. Her heart. We are introduced to this weeks bay area jefferson award winner. Reporter she started a full project after someone asked her to so a mask. She never sown a mask until friends needed coronavirus protection. His hospice worker came and said he cannot find masks and from that point on people kept asking me for more and more masks. The former teacher who is that organize several woman from her church since sheltering in place in the spring they have some 2000 masks sent for free to whatever is asked, from nurses to farmworkers, even the Navajo Nation in new mexico. Married and a friend made almost 100 masks, so each participant of the Autism Center could have two. The Program Director says the designs made participants want to wear them. She knew that to have a lining that was soft would be easier for our guys to where. Marion even made masks with a clear covering, so the death and about mentally challenged can see a persons facial expressions. Her ears are wide open to the needs of everyone around her. She is amazed that the single mom has found the time to so six and 50 masks while caring for five adults and, one of them in hospice. In fact, her parenting or adopted . 27 over the years all with disabilities, like cholla, a painter who was born without arms. They have been raised to believe there is nothing that they cannot do. Reporter she lives by this same cando spirit. Sometimes people dont realize that they are capable and have the potential unless they try something new. So for sowing something new to meet her communities need for protective masks, this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to marion aiken. Shes taking part in compassion week. She is sowing tote bags and dresses to give to sexually abused women and african hospitals. Just wonderful work, by a wonderful woman. Just amazing. So good. Thank you so much. You can nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online at kpix. Com hero. Now at six a heart that keeps beating outside of the body. The new technology that will save millions of lives. Small businesses are struggling to stay healthy and stay in business during the pandemic. A new outreach effort by santa clara county, what Business Owners they they are doing to survive. It to be cheaper to have an electric vehicle then an internal combustion. Our top story, streaming on cbsn bay area, the governor wants to phase out the sale of new gasoline powered cars by 2035. But is that timeline even doable . Good evening. Andria borba joins us on the ambitious goal. Reporter even experts say that this goal is very ambitious, they say it is doable but it will take a massive effort on all fronts. From the state that brought you american graffiti and the back of of cars, gov. Gavin newsom announced an executive order to end the sale of internal combustion engines in the state by 2035. When we are looking to achieve our audacious goals to get to 100 carbon free economy by 2045, we cant get there, unless we accelerate our efforts in the transportation sector. Reaction to the news was mixed. And the next 34 years, it will be cheaper to have a larger vehicle than an internal combustion. So i dont think it will have mandated, i think it is the common sense to go that way. Nothing can compete with the sound of a v8, so test is a cool and all but it is all about that v8 bender, baby. Transportation expert from the university of San Francisco calls goal doable even with recent power grid overloads with pacific gas electric. I think we should be asking rs
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