You are watching kpix5 news at 5 30. Right now , and streaming on cbsn bay area, more local news here at 5 30. Guaranteed rent, even the tenant cannot pay. Scandals. Plus with the u. S. Census holding the keys to crucial federal funding, some local leaders claim the bureau is being shortchanged on federal resources to make the census count on time. Good evening. Devin fehely has details on what local governments are doing to make sure everyone is counted. Cities and counties across california and the country are trying to ensure that they get an accurate census count, often hiring their very own workers to supplement the efforts of federal census takers. On san joses eastside, homeless advocates offered free meals and free help filling up the census. My signature, my name, and my future matters. Reporter the process only took a few minutes. But will ensure he is counted for Political Representation in congress, and money for education, housing and transportation projects for years to come. These folks are usually undercounted and everything that is done in the county in the city of san jose and now what is most important is making sure that they are counted for the census. Reporter cities and counties have hired dozens of people to help with the census count, increasingly skeptical of the trump administrations ability and perhaps even desire, to get an accurate count of communities, communities of color, and the homeless. Larry moody says his city received just a fraction of the census takers and federal help it was promised. Were basically told that nine individuals were going to be pulled out of these and knowing going and that we are historically a hard to identify, hard to serve community. Reporter a spokesperson in response to our questions about staffing said that they were fully staffed but the entire process. But then refused to say exactly how many people were employed as census takers in east palo alto, san mateo county, or Northern California in general. That it is what has led many communities do not rely on the federal government alone, to ensure a full and accurate count. With some of the anti immigrant rhetoric, espoused by this could demonstration by fear, that is already really deeply embedded within our communities here in santa clara county, and made even more difficult for us to engage them. Reporter even though a federal judge has ensured there will be an additional month to complete the census many of the people working to collect that data say they are trying to make a hard push now that more work in september means less to be done in october. In san jose, devin fehely, kpix5. Oakland is holding a free testing event this weekend, geared toward helping the latino community. The city is partnering with ucsf to test up to 4000 people in two days. It is happening at near fruitvale bart. The mayor caused the event a family festival where people can get helpful information. We know that this zip code has been the most affected by the covid19 virus. That our latino families, they are testing at more than six times the rate of our white families. We want everyone to be safe, and to get the resources that they need, to avoid contracting the disease or to avoid spreading it. The testing site is open from 9 to 5 this saturday, and sunday. Parents and teachers in lafayette rallied calling on local districts to reopen schools. They held signs urging education officials to come up with a plan to bring students back on campus for in person learning. It is really important to get the schools opened to kind of get back to the traditional classroom structure that kids depend on. I think the local districts and counties will follow suit once california figures out what is right. Parents also say Distance Learning has impacted the Mental Health of their children. Right now there are a lot of tenants and landlords who are struggling to make ends. A Company Called supper is launching a first of its kind rent guarantee program. Is able to i cannot cover rent for some reason other than covid, the landlord still gets paid. Susie steimle shows how it works, and with the limitations are. For roughly 10 million small numbers across the country, cash flows is critical to keep them afloat. They count on the income, they need to pay the Mortgage Company to pay their bills. Reporter when times for tenants get tough, that monthly rent payments to landlords can disappear. They are offering a way to ensure that small landlords dont lose out just because there tenant is struggling. So at its core we are trying to help the Property Owner make sure they get there 12 months of rent. Heres how it works. If you find a tenant and agreed to play 2 of the monthly rent, you can guarantee you will not lose out if your tenant cannot pay. If theyre not paying that rent we end up covering you up to 12 months. They dont guarantee rent after that 12 month period. s attorney encourages landlords to read the fine print. They are trying to limit the likelihood of the field relationship within your unit. To ensure that they dont have to actually cover the rent. Reporter they will only cover apartments that are less than 110 of the median market rate or 4000 a month in san francisco. The tenant has to have a credit score of 650 or higher. And an income of three times the monthly rent and no history of evictions to qualify for coverage. And if youve lost rent due to covid19, or any future recession, it wont be covered. It is a tremendously stressful period for many, many people, were confronted with individuals who, for number of reasons, are not able to pay their rent. Reporter at 4000 among the landlord would pay 80 a month to ensure that rent. The tenant skips out at the end of the lease, he says it is not quite pencil out. So on the 11th month, if you paid close to 1000, and all youre going to get is potentially one month of rent paid by zumper if the tenant does not pay, you overpaid for the insurance policy. Reporter but for others it is purchasing peace of mind which can make all the difference when inviting someone to stay in your home. It is a decision fraught with a lot of stress and anxiety and so how can we help out in that regard, right . And provide a level of comfort and reassurance. Reporter it is the Fastest Growing frontal platform with new investors like blackstone. Does raise 200 million since its inception. Susie steimle, kpix5. Keep sending your stories and ideas. And see all of this reporting on our website. A car plows into a dental office on the peninsula, and police learn the driver should not have been behind the wheel. And how some oakland hometown celebrities are rallying to save childrens fairyland. Coming up new at six, another round of hate means another round of fire danger can turns where this date 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. All californians will be able to vote safely from home. Every active, registered voter will receive a votebymail ballot with a unique barcode. You can track it using wheres my ballot . And youll receive automatic notifications by text, email or voice call to let you know the status of your ballot once you mail it, drop it off at your polling place or at a drop box. Vote by mail ballots. Simple, safe, secure. Counted. Learn more at vote. Ca. Gov a distracted driver crashed into a building in san mateo this morning. Pictures from the scene for the vehicle into the western dental and orthodontics building, on south el camino real. Authorities tell us the driver was driving on annex fired license. No injuries were reported. Googles Parent Company alphabets has settled a shareholder lawsuit accusing the company of paying big exit packages to executives found responsible for Sexual Misconduct. As part of the terms, the company will set aside 310 million in funding toward diversity programs. It will also been severance packages to employees involved in any pending Sexual Misconduct or retaliation investigations. In a memo to employees obtained by cb nc, ceo wrote i hope these commitments will serve as a strong signal to all of you that we are not going back in time. U. S. Has reached another grim milestone, surpassing 7 million confirmed covid19 cases and in 23 states, mostly the midwest, they are seeing a surge in cases. In the meantime for the lifting almost all restrictions, gov. Rhonda santos announced restaurants and many other businesses will be allowed to operate at full capacity. Some people in the bay area are living in a strange, post covid limbo. I. D. d coronavirus, but its beating me back. It is just horrible. It is so scary. They are called the long haulers and tonight, what happens, the symptoms and how some patients are fighting back. Gov. Newson has had the first in the nation are requiring plastic average containers to have an increasing amount of material. It must contain 15 recycled plastic in their bottles by 2022. 25 by 2025, 50 by 2030. It aims at reducing the huge amounts of plastic litter in the oceans and along roadways. Luxury retail chain Neiman Marcus is emerging from bankruptcy. It is one of the highest profile collapses of the covid 19 pandemic. It is restructuring, eliminating more than 4 billion of debt, and 200 million of annual interest expenses. The Department Store also has a new board of directors. Coming up, the secret below Grand Central terminal. The new York Railroad employees who got busted good news for nature lovers, tomorrow, National Parks including mayor words will be waiving the entrance fees and honor of National Public lands days. It is held every there every year. The free admission comes just in time as a 70 National Park is set to reopen. Actually is open again. A close last week due to unhealthy air quality. Campsites are open but you need a reservation. It might not be happily ever after for the fairyland at lake merritt, the oakland Amusement Park is celebrating its 70th year, and facing permanent closure because of the pandemic. So to local artists are actually planning a unique virtual fundraiser this weekend, we spoke to oakland natives about celebrity storytime. , east bay, various figures and some beloved come you know, bay area affiliates and teachers from the town and athletes and stuff are coming in. To give an artistic sort of gift offering to fairyland. You can come together as a community and make sure this place exists forever, and it is not have to stretch anybody to their limits, and look at all of that i can come out of that, including this Digital Library that is will be a resource for teachers. I hope it works for the homegrown she was hosting the fundraiser tomorrow night at 130, while the event is free to attend they are asking for donations to keep fairyland open. Allegedly build this man cave under the Grand Central station. The room featured atv, a microwave, fridge. All the necessities as well of couple of rollaway beds and infantile mattresses, workout equipment and a futon. And inspectors report alleges the room was built and maintained with mta resources. The workers denied involvement spikes they are suspended without pay, during investigation. Maybe it was the beer that was in that little refrigerator. Otherwise some everything would be fine. Do we have anything like that . I will tell you guys to the basement at dinnertime. After dinner. I have not been here long enough to know the nothing 20s yet. Is taking the what is happening. We start with the overview. What you need to know. About this along the coast tonight, nothing to do very far inland at all is even around the bay mostly clear skies, over the weekend we got quite a trifecta, near record high temperatures by sunday, escalating fire danger and decreasing airquality over the weekend because the smoke plug in from elsewhere around the state the hottest days are going to be sunday, monday and tuesday they. The hottest day will be on monday. Now we value the fire danger by the get a bunch of different factors that we combine all of those to give you the fire danger index. This looks at the dryness of the fire rules, relative humidity levels, temperatures, the wind speed, even the wind direction. And we usually see values like this, to the four committees of the church by danger indices but as we head into the weekend those numbers are going to creep upwards. Kind of focus on the northbay because that is where the greatest danger is to be. At around five by tomorrow afternoon, that is not too bad just yet. Close to zero as you can possibly get. Things are just like as we head into the 2nd half of the weekend. By sunday, late morning, the wind will be Strong Enough to see values around six or seven. That is where it will be closer to eight or nine. Temperatures around 110 degrees, but it is still high than we would like to be. Now the airquality is going to decrease not necessarily because of any fires in our immediate vicinity but there is smoke elsewhere in the states, some of it did sneak into the east bay today thanks to the august complex and that will be the same case again on saturday. They will have the worst air quality but in the moderate category overall. The smoke will be blowing in from a different direction. That will be sending smoke toward us from the creek fire from the sierra as those mid level wins but to miles off the ground big having that smoke and pulling it in from the east and that looks like it will be tough to get rid of. It will stick around, monday even into tuesday so not just triple digit heat but also air quality, that we do not want to see take a step backwards once again. It is still nice out there right now, we would like it to stay like this as much as possible. High temperatures today pretty close to normal, slightly above average. Otherwise all these numbers, with their supposed to be in late september, and still it is nice of that this evening, the warm spot is 89 degrees in fairfield, otherwise low 80s in concord, mid 80s in santa rosa, 67 at sfo. Low 70s on the east side of the bay, mid 70s in san jose, temperatures tonight dropping down into the upper 50s to around 60 degrees. Temperatures tomorrow are going to be several degrees warmer than where we got to today. Talking mid to upper 70s to around 80 degrees around the central bay, low to mid 80s for the santa clara valley, upper 80s to 90 for the trivalley, same thing for the northbay with the hotspots east of the diablo range reaching up into the low to mid 90s but another big jump in temperatures on sunday puts us up to at least upper 90s if not triple digits for in the and portions of the bay area with the peak of the heat on monday and then we backed down slightly on tuesday but only to the upper 90s and went and temperatures even around the bay touching 90 degrees on monday. We compare the forecast high temperatures to record high temperatures for sunday and monday, coming up at six the clock. New at six recent wildfire smoke possibly ruining our wine. A lab shows us one of the grapes survived. Plus. After six long months with the others are beginning to reopen. We will show you who is going, what the rules are, and whether or not youre so far will replace the silver screen. We are keeping an eye on the beach where swells are reaching 12 to 15 feet. Still ahead here at five. Using her law practice this election, all californians will be able to vote safely from home. Every active, registered voter will receive a votebymail ballot with a unique barcode. You can track it using wheres my ballot . And youll receive automatic notifications by text, email or voice call to let you know the status of your ballot once you mail it, drop it off at your polling place or at a drop box. Vote by mail ballots. Simple, safe, secure. Counted. Learn more at vote. Ca. Gov when the scholars sought only clinical Legal Services she stepped up. Michelle reports she is now helping others in need of legal advice. Reporter she has her hands full, literally, with three yearold daughter victoria keeping her on the go. This little one is smart, she is going to go very far in life. Reporter she has done far night, to, starting her own law practice at just 27 years old. I wanted to make a difference in my community. Reporter it is a community is oakland native has dreamed of helping since she was just a team, seeing her own family struggle financially, at times with no food in the house. Would have to wait until School Started the next day. And go to stool school and get food there. Rematches captain of the Cheerleading Team and captain victorian of her class. Her law work mostly virtual now, but it is her past days in Probate Court that show her a new way she could help her community. When i looked around and saw and i joked about this for my colleague, he, he said do you notice something . We are the only black people in the room. Who are professionals. Reporter many African Americans dont have estate plans and when they passed away, the assets they do have are often tied up in probate. Reporter he was important to me to make sure that people have the information. And that i was given Something Back for free. Reporter she found the nonprofit, estate and Retirement Planning specialist. Focusing on generational wealth building for africanamericans. Precovid19, she held yearly informational summits, and she spoke frequently at schools, community events, and churches. Traditionally that is where africanamericans get our information, so it was important that i made that connection. Now the pandemic she plans on holding future events virtually. As she and her husband await baby number two, also a little girl, who no doubt will have her moms cando attitude. You can take any situation and turn it around. Reporter for students rising above, i am michelle diego. Just go to our website, kpix. Com sra. Now at six crews getting ready for dangerous fire weather shifting resources from parts of the state Northern California including the bay area this weekend. A live look at ocean beach, the dangerous earth times for a weekend heatwave. I was just driving by and i saw people come you know, at the ticket booth, so i made a u turn. Movie theaters reopening. Will people come back . One film buff is predicting a slow recovery. Good evening. The dangerous heat created concerns on several fronts. We do have Team Coverage this evening and huge waves also a concern this weekend. This is dangerous surf right now at ocean beach. Lets get right to chief meteorologist paul hagan. You can of the workers you can see all the windsurfers taking advantage. It is the first time the surface kicked up so far this season. We do have that beach hazard statements. For the press, mainly up ripcurrents because the stronger the way the action is the stronger the recurrent is underneath, so the windsurfers and just the surfers need to exercise caution. As we head to the rest of the weekend the issue will be increasing temperatures and increasing fire danger. A red flag warning goes into Effect Tomorrow evening at 9 00, through monday morning at 8 00. Most inland portions of the east bay, dry offshore wind, gusting up to run 50 miles an hour on the hilltop, it is not going to be that strong in residential areas that still the hilltop so that the 50 mile an hour gusts. Is a dangerous combination. We will take