49 towers needed to be replaced entirely. The journal says a 2017 internal presentation by pg e, estimated their transmission towers were 68 years old with the oldest towers being 108 years old. The Life Expectancy was 65 years. Pg e neglected and failed to make up grades. Since the campfire in the past year, pg e worked to intensify the inspections on transmission lines in the last year, pg e inspected 222 substations, 50,000 transmission structures, 30,500 miles of power lines and 700,000 distribution poles. We brought in more than 2000 qualified linemen outside of california to help us with all of the inspection work in terms of doing the inspection as well as being able to do the repair. The journal says detailed inspections include workers physically climbing the towers to inspect them. It hasnt been done in decades. We are waiting on a response, we reached out to them this morning as of air time, nothing has come in to our newsroom. We will keep you posted when it does. To san pablo, polisible for shooting. The man was shot and killed before 9 30 near stanton and giant road. Police believe the shooting was targeted and there were no other victims. No arrests. If you have information, please call san pablo police. San Francisco Police are investigating the 23rd homicide this year. A man was shot and killed in the bay view a second victim is recovering at the hospital. Hospital. Reporter i spoke with san Francisco Police about this shooting. They dont know a motive but continue to interview witnesss and trying to track down Surveillance Video to peas together a timeline. There might have been a verbal altercation. Everything is early in the investigation. Reporter officers were called to the scene around 11 30 last night and found two victs,en in their 30s or 40s, suffering from gunshot wounds. It happened on jennings street near a homeless shelter in the bay view neighborhood. One of the victims ran inside bleeding asking for help. A few people did provide aid but say he died a second victim was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. This is the 23rd homicide of the and comes days after a teenager was killed in the mission. The community, the family and the victims and the officers, we take this very seriously, we dont like to see this violence occur in the city. We are investigating everything. We are trying, we will look at all possibilities as to why this is happening and respond asnecessary to help decrease this activity the city. Reporter police are search for the shooter. They dont have a suspect description but say he may have been driving a sedan. San franciscos received a state grant to combat human trafficking. The 9. 3 million grant is from the California Social Services department. It will provide services to youth who are survivors or at risk of human trafficking, specifically commercial sexual grant and it 10 partnering organizations who help to deal with the challenges we know sadly so many of our young people face around Sexual Exploitation. There cases of Sexual Exploitation reported in 2017 in San Francisco. The Grant Application was coauthored. The public defender for a man accused of raping four women in San Francisco says police illegally obtained his dna. The attorney for cruz says police gathered dna evidence by testing him for alcohol intoxication during a traffic stop last july. The chronicle reports the deputy public defender is arguing the search was illegal because there was no search warrant. Cruz had no alcohol in his system at the time of his airs. The hearing in this case is set for monday. Misare looking for the people who ran down a man in the parking lot of San Franciscos legion of hon no, a group of people were in the parking lot breaking in to cars. The victim and his son were walk when they saw two men in gray hoodies breaking in to their car. The victim started taking photos of the men. They spotted him and jumped in to a bmw and rammed in to him. It sent him onto the ho and in to the windshield before he fell to the pavement. What originally started as a burglary will likely turn in to an attempted murder case. They are asking anyone who sees the car to call them. A silver or gray bmw four door with at with at at tinted windows. The man is in the hospital and expected to survive. The son wasnt hurt and staying with his father at the hospital until his mother arrives in the bay area. Investigators are looking at videos and photos and a controversy camera from a muny bus. A drive crashed in to a patrol car while at the scene of an earlier crash. A car lost control and crashed in to the Grace Baptist Church at 98th and walter avenue. Three people were hurt but expected to be okay. The drive of another car hit a Police Officer inside a patrol car. The officer was directing traffic at to the crash scene. Oakland council will shut down a street considered a source of crime. There are several Homeless People living on 37th avenue. Councilman said shut down the street would force them out and create a safer environment for workers and neighbors. Late last night the meeting went in to the rly morning hours, business operators expressed mixed reaction to the plan. We definitely support this closure just for the safety of our associates. We have associates that work in the back that work in a lot of activities unloading trucks and had significant opportunities with safety and just the morale of the associates. Once it is blocked off, we have no access. We believe if there are more vehicle traffic around our business, it would deter crime. If its closed off, it is like a sanctuary for crime. The Council Approved the temporary closure. Law requires people be given 24 hours notice before anything is done. The council give more tail. Details are being worked out. Mental Health Therapists at keizer are on the picket line. The second time since december therapists staged a protest to highlight what they call severe under staffing at keizers Mental Health clinics. The oneday strike lasts until 3 30 outside of the keizer medical offices on gary boulevard. Keizer sent a response saying sit committed to working with the therapist to address increase in demand for Mental Health sertaking another look at guidelines for Police Shooting investigations. How a proposed bill aims to reduce thous of force among officers. Developing news in washington, the labor secretary is responding to his involvement with jeffrey epstein. Why he says he is not stepping down. Weather outside, after overcast this morning, blue skies showing up. Talk about a warming trend. We will have that forecast coming up. Developing news out of washington dc, embattled labor secretary Alexander Acosta is speaking out about calls for his resignation. He got 13 months in prison for prostitution charges, not sex trafficking. The deal was made by acosta when he was the miami u. S. Attorney. The deal is criticized by many as being too lenient and democrats including House Speaker nancy pelosi and senator Charles Schumer are calling for acostases are you are egg nation. Acosta spoke to the chief of staff on the case and says he is not stepping down. I keep reading about articles about my relationship with me and mr. Mulvaneny, he called me this morning to say if asked that our relationship is excellent, too, any articles to the contrair are in words, bs. Im here, im defending this case. Thats my job. Epstein is facing sex trafficking charges in new york. According to prosecutors, the case involves girls as young as 14. Uks ambassador to the United States announced resignation this morning after President Trump blasted the diplomat for making critical remarks about his administration. Reporter britains ambassador is stepping down. Saying the Current Situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as i would like. Derricks resignation after secret cables leaked to press revealing he called the Trump Administration inept, clumsy andysfunctional suggesting britains incoming government change the way it does business with the white house. The reality was in light of the last itw to be affective would kpno long the ambassador, calling derrick whacky and a stupid guy relationing with the uk remains strong. We have a special and strategic relationship with the united kingdom. Its bigger than any individual, its bigger than any government and stood the test of time and will continue to do so. Reporter teresa may will have a chance to choose the replacement before she steps down at the end of the month. Bernie sanders is focusing on San Francisco hoadusin for h president ial campaign. You share a kitcn s sanders touring a up to neighborhood. Sanders visited an Affordable Housing development. The 21st century bill of righ include guaranteed health care and living wages and fair housing. A 56 year old map was found pinned under his jeep which fell off of its jack as a result of one of the ridge crest earthquakes. A form of small earthquakes hit oregon. Several dozen quakes hit thebeit 2. 1. Seismologist say they were too small to feel. Happening today alameda is holding a Community Seminar on how to limb the damage tom equations. Much of the damage from recent earthquakes in california resulted from e lick call and Plumbing Systems and furniture and contents inside homes and businesses. Safety experts say Property Damage can slow down evacuations, delay rescues and ignite fires. The training goes at the county office of Emergency Services in dublin. Across the bay, the men low park Fire District is demonstrating earthquake capabilities. Me low fire formed one of the top urban search and rescue task forces. The demonstration starts at 1 00 fire station at the oak road in downtown men low park. Usgs is celebrating the opening of a new campus. Moving from menlo to be kated with the nasa aimed research instruct her amount Ribbon Cutting was held 2 hours ago as the first face of employees make the move. Th o agencies to collaborate. For most of my career, we have been living the reality of limited federal resources. If we can use those resources most efficiently and collaborative we get more out of what we got. Moving all the usgs employees and equipment is expected to take several years. Lets talk about the bay area weather. We had a gray damp start to the day, mark. Look at us now. Outside now, we have a little bit more blue across portions of the bay area. We are seeing out of the past few minutes, this picture changed dramatically, the clouds clearing out. Partly to mostly sunny skies. The weather system to the north. The circulation towards the pacific northwest, cooling off the bay area, impact with our local pattern, producing drizzle as well. Coast side over the past few days, around the bay, still a few lingering clouds to talk about this wednesday afternoon, scattered around the bay, closer to oak land and hayward and freeland. We are heading in that direction for clear right now. Current numbers, no excessive heat for today. That could be changing a bit towards the weekend. Santa rosa, 75 degrees. San jose 71. San francisco last check reporting 64. See in the pacific, this big l, area of low pressure, this has capping our temperatures, it has been the same pattern over the past week or so. Scattered low clouds from this morning, mixing out this afternoon. We are watchingnext few days, this area of hi and a warming trend that begins especially for tomorrow, saturday should be the hottest day of the period inland. This is a mild coast side warm around the bay, hot temperatures inland, seeing the microclimates and the inland neighborhoods by saturday could approach the mid90s. That should be the hottest day of the week. Later on today, few lingering clouds especiaastside, not in the clear, the fog could resurface tonight in to tomorrow morning. This is thursday morning. Clearing back to near the coastline. No major changes for tomorrow. Temperatures will begin to warm things up a little bit in your thursday forecast. Highs talking about 60s towards San Francisco and pacifica. Santa rosa 81. Antioch and brentwood 80s. San jose 75. The fiveday forecast, temperatures, we are talking about inland heat, thats the case, nothing too major for tomorrow. Friday we begin to sneak in to the lower 90s inland around the bay low 80s. Beaches in to the mid to eknlan u. S. Womens National Soccer team is celebrating its win at the g their win to call for equal pay. Because ill never be a sidekick. Our an understudy. Ill never be benched, subbed, or picked last. Because ill be a little busy. Leave the bench warming to your tennis bag. Join net generation. Wall street welcomes signs from the Federal Reserve the central bank is prepared to cut Interest Rates for the first time in a decade. Dow jones spent the session on the entire side of things. S p up by a half, nasdaq is up by twothirds of a percent. Fed chief made the comments about Interest Rates this morning. He is testifying before congress. Delivering the fed semi annual monetary report to congress and says a weekend economy boltsterred the trade. The central bank boosted rates four times last year. Malicious apps downloaded to 25 million android devices. This according to research by Cyber Security firm check point from a campaign called agent smith and distributed through the Google Play App store and third party stores ow out of china. Hackers could activate the malware to display unwanted ads and access personal data. Google deleted the apps pes use ad Blocker Software and always update their devices when prompted. To the u. S. Womens National Soccer team, they are bein welcomed home as would champions today. They took part in a ticker tape parade in new york city. The parade ended in a celebration at city hall where meagan spoke to thousands of supporters. This group is incredible. We took so much on our shoulders to be here today to celebrate with you today. We did did it with a smile. The netherlands on sunday. Reporter new york city ros soccer team to honor their world cup victory. Tons of shredded paper showering the team along the stretch of Lower Manhattan known as the canyon of heroes. Celebration of their historic world cup win on sunday the womens team defeated the nether lands 20 in france. The squads fourth victory. The parade followed by a ceremony at city hall, with the team being presented with keys to the city. The players have become the face of a fight for closing the gender pay gap as they push for salaries equal to their male counter parts, earning praise from President Trump despite putting heads with cocaptain after the tournament mvp said she would not visit the white house if the team won the cup. They are the only female squad to ever receive the honor of the parade through the canyon of heroes. Planning for a future without natural gas. How a cityis considering a ban in new homes. Learning about a controversial plan to remove mice, federal regulators are withdrawing their proposal. K its my special friend, antonio. His luxurious fur calms my nerves when im worried about moving into our new apartment. Why dont we just ask geico for help with renters insurance . I didnt know geico helps with renters insurance. Yeah, and we could save a bunch too. Antonio fetch computer antonio . Ill get it. Get to know geico and see how much you could save on renters insurance. Developing news in san jose, Police Officers say a vta train struck a cyclist at stoke street at southwest expressway. She has been taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. Vta set up a bus bridge. We will follow this throughout the day. Oak land ghost ship fire triacontinues today. Prosecutors are cross examining derrick almenna on the witness stand. He testified officers and firefighters made several visits to the wareand signed off on the safety of the building. Almenna accused oak land fire officials of lying. Make no bones about it, we believe that the Fire Department perjured themlves when they said they never went in. My client itemized where Law Enforcement and officials have gone in approx30 times. Almenna will be on the witness stand for the rest of this week under cross examination. We hope you stay with ktvu for the continuing coverage of the ghost ship fire trial. Henry lee is in the courtroom, find his blog on the trial online at ktvu. Com. Many people in livermore are mourning the loss of a promising High School Football player while Police Search for a man suspected of shooting and killing him. There is a memorial at the taco bell on stanley boulevard where Emmanuel Mosby was shot to death. That could have been me. Its sad to hear. Its devastating to the town. He was great person. Police say the shooting happened after an argument. They identified the suspect as 21 year old george taez. Authorities are providing information on an american scientist with the bay area tie that died in greece. Authorities recovered the body of susan eaton that disappeared last week. She was a molecular biologist. The state coroner said eaton died as a result of a criminal act. She was working in germany and went to the island of create for a conference. A proposed bill to the governors desk aims to set tougher rules for california officers to reduce the number of Police Shootings in the state. Clark was shot and killed by Police Officers. His brother hasnt stopped fighting. Not one day. It gets depressing. It is a lot. It wears me down. Reporter he is seeing results in the form of Assembly Bill passing the house and the senate with bipartisan support. Slow progress is better than no progress. We will take whatever at this p we are desperate. Reporter it will set the strongest use of stap standards in the nation. When its reasonable to only wh the bill initially faced opposition from Law Enforcement groups. It allowed officers to be quarterbacked, if you can find a small thing the officer could have done different, that would have resulted in there no being a loss of life the officer could be charged with murder. We thought that was unreasonable. Reporter they came to a compromise, officers will be judged by their mind set and not required to try all non lethal options. For officers to follow the standard, backing another bill, sb230 to make it happen. We have better policies. Our officers will be able to go in to those with better training. Reporter clark is grateful it passed but doesnt believe it would have saved his brother. Dont believe the law in its current form would hold officers accountable if the way the clark family would lake to see it. Its a watered down. Bill. Why he says his fight for justice is far from over. Berkley, the council debating whether or not to ban tu to New Buildings over time. Harrison and affects the indoor environment and affect children with asthma. She wants to lay the ground work for a requiring 40 of construction across the state not to include natural gas. We are getting ahead of the curve so we ensure the New Buildings lasting for 100 years, already meet the standard. The council could vote tuesday, berkley would be the first city to impose a ban on natural gas. Livermore is the second California City to ban the sale of ecigarettes in brick and mortar stores. They passed the legislation prohibiting the sales of flavored products and vaping equipment. Unlike San Francisco, this legislation in livermore doesnt ban the sale of e cigarettes unless the seller is located in livermore. Richmond is also looking to the ban of ecigarettes. North bay, the Dixie School District is now elementary scho district. Trustees voted to change the name after critics linked to it slavery and confederacy and voted to change the name of Dixie Elementary School to lucas valley elementary. The issue was pitting members of the community against each other for years. The California Coastal commission is meeting, the u. S. Fish and Wildlife Service is withdrawing a plan to draw up 1. 5 tons of rat poison onthe fair lawn islands. The Wildlife Service will give the Commission Information about another plan. House mice invaded the islands. Con visionists oppose the plan to use rat poison saying it woulhurt other animals. President shing back against critics of his immigration policy. Reports of inhospitable Living Conditions were reported. The Trump Administration is addressing those complaints. Po capitol hill, still pushing back against President Trumps crackdown on illegal immigration, seizing on a home land security report, alleging unsa conditions at migrant holding facilities. Another delegation heading to the border to inspect the facilities, but the lawmakers say were denied access. We now havean official cover up by the department of home land security. I can frankly say this will not bare well in washington, it is an outright disgrace. Reporter the administration denies migrants are being mistreated but acknowledges customs and borders control are in a crisis control with a lack of resources and personnel to deal with the migrants, more than 100,000 every month crossing the border illegally. We are not asking for the moons we are asking for things that president bomb had the same position on. How hard is that . Reporter on the mexican , t program is expanding more border cities. The white house says its the best way to keep migrants out of there are concerns that not enough resources e care for the if they had 5 shelters in the city it wouldnt be enoughs we are talking people per day. Reporter mike pence on tried will make his way down to the south to look at the holding facilities. Closer to the date of President Trumps ice raids across the country. This morning i spoke with uc hastings professor about the sense us and the likelihood of the immigration raids. Nothing like what the president threatened a couple o of people. There no way will happen. Would thousands end up getting caught if the nets for deportation . That might happen. Noing like the large ams. Its all about shock and awe and scaring people more than anything else. The professor nt do believe the Citizenship Question will end up on the sense us and there are too many legal challenges and says that will t print new sense us forms. San tran leaders are trying to address the unaffordability issue. How they hope a through plan is one of many on the horizon. Weather looking above san fan this wednesday afternoons clouds clearing shaping up to be a nice wednesday afternoon and going to warm things up. More on the february coming up. Forecast coming up. A state bill restri rent increases and require just cause evictions is to percenting law. The measure known as the rent cap bill would help ease the housing crisis. I allows 1200dollar represent increase over five years and forces landlords to give a reason before evicting someone. Opponents say it makes the shortage worse because it discourages the availability of new rental units. The bill passed the assembly yesterday and heads to the Senate Appropriations committee. San francisco board of supervisors is putting Affordable Housing bond on the ballot. They voted on a 600 million bond allowing 2800 affordable units to be built in next four years. 20million from the bond would go to teacher housing. Supervisors will take a vote to put the bond on the leers are celebrating the house of a start project for seniors that used to be homeless. Its one of several such projects in the pipeline. Reporter perhaps San Franciscos most persistent problem, the sky high cost of housing, the reason for homelessness and forcing many families to consider leaving, among them, this long time north beach resident and father of two. Everyday you are thinking about should we move out of the city so we can afford more to do for qour children. We love this place. We want to stay here. Reporter leaders broke ground on a new Affordable Housing project tuesday, its two projects in one, eventually providing 178 new units on broadway near the water front. The rents will start 75 a month 750 a month. We will have mixed income of in these 178 units. Reporter this the 7th major Affordable Housing project in various stages of Construction Since last july combined providing more than 900 units. Perhaps a safety net preventing some from joining the thousands of Homeless People on the street. A combination of preventing people from entering in to homelessness and housing people experiencing homelessness. When they move in and look out the windows and cooking dinner on their new stoves, can you think about how it might feel especially if you didnt have housing in the first place. Reporter tuesday the San Francisco board of supervisors voted to place a 600 million Affordable Housing bond measure on this novembers ballot, 20 million of that would go to teacher housing. Grocery store chain is coming back. Safeway will bring back the legacy name to four locations. Safeway bought the chain in 2016 and rebranded wae communit market. One location in the sunset was never renamed. The company says the new andironcos markets will bring back old favorites and renamed by the end of the year. An based Cannabis Company is attracting star power. Jayz is partnering with caliva as the chief brand h[strategist Azenith Smith spoke with the company about jayzs role. Reporter jayz is entering the legal weed game collaborating with caliva in san jose. The first reaction was, how did you get ahold of us . Tell me who you are again. Reporter dennisis the ceo, the company doesnt market nationally. Jayzs call came out of nowhere. We are a company thats been around for four years. Jayz is the worlds first hip hop billionaire. He runs rock nation. Reporter jayz, sean carter, sought caliva on a referral founded in 2015 the company employs 600 people. It manufactures weed at the indoor farm. Jayz, vocal about the legalization of marijuana, now wants to help advocate for those who have been incarcerated for nonviolent cannabis crimes. What is important to jayz and caliva in this partnership is we take an active advocacy role in types of industries of those who have been left behind around this cannabis movement. Reporter in a statement, the rapper said with all the potential if the cannabis industry, calivas expertise makes them the best partners for this endeavor. We want to create something amazing and have fun and do good and bring people along the way. This year, 49ers legend joe montana invested 75 million in caliva. You cant fake authentityare excited about the buzz. One of the biggest names in rap music. Any big celebrity is pretty major. Reporter Azenith Smith, ktvu. A local civil rights activist and former star is continuing to give back to his community. Tom michigan null the gold medal in the 200meter sprint at the 1968 olympics. Rlos and he raised their right firsts in a salute that advocated human rights. Smith hosts a track meet for children between the ages of 4 and 18. He sat down with Paul Chambers for people pod cast and discussed issues from his silent gesture to early days picking cotton and the opportunity that brought him to san jose state. Find the interview by searching bay area people wherever you fete your pod casts. The 9th Major League Baseball all star game is in the books, the 7th straight win for the American League. Reporter a close finish to a neck in neck game, the American League winning the 90th mlb all star game 43. The men league getting off to an early lead in the bottom of the second, thanks to a double from the astros michael brantley. A homer by joey gallo of the rangers helped put the game out of reach the national league. 24 year old shane bieber of the indians, a first time all star, struck out all three batters when he took the mound earning him this years mvp award. Is an incredible feeling. Reporter the organization rolling out a new viewing feature, live conversations between players on the field and announcers in the booth. The braves, freddie freeman, testing it out. The most emotional part of the night coming when players and fans honored former Los Angeles Angels pitcher, tyler skaggs. The 27yearold dying unexpectedly last monday. Please join us in a moment of silence. Really cool start to the day. Over the past hour, seems likethe hour of change with the clouds clearing out. We havemore sunshine across the bay area. Not everybody in the clear but we have a lot of sunshine. Quick his big l thats forecast track, thursday, friday and to saturday, possibly a category 1 hurricane moving in to louisiana. Along the track, a big condition will be the Mississippi River and the levee system as the rainfall and the storm surge creates a complex and challenging situation, possibly dangerous. Thats something to watch now. Not a Tropical Storm or hurricane, but forecasted to be over the next couple of days. Back here in the bay area, low clouds from this morning, beginning to melt away. We have partly to mostly sunny skies across most areas, a few patches of clouds. Current numbers, San Francisco 64, santa rosa mid70s. Livermore 74. San jose 71 degrees. The temperatures are fairly pleasant. The lows are pretty mild as well. Off to a mild start arguments warm afternoon, this area of low pressure has been capping our temperatures and setting up the cloud patterand the drizzle. This begins to move out of town as this area rebuilds, the source of warming especially inland, thursday, friday and saturday, temperatures back up, by saturday, this should be the hottest day of the week. Inland hot spots 94 to 95, 96 degrees. We will have the microclimates in the bay area. Beaches in the mid to upper 60s by the weekend. 65 to 95 by saturday. The foggy model today, maybe still patches of clouds near portions of the coast or the bay. Clouds expected to regroup tonight and in to tomorrow morning. The trend with temperatures we are warming up. Today, you can see 80s towards concord, antioch and brentwood. San francisco 66. Santa rosa 83. The moisture moving in from the pacific. Mountain view 78. Gilroy in the mid80s. Warming up tomorrow, warmest spots near 90 degrees. If you want the cooldown, you might like the sunday forecast. Cooling relief headed our way by the second half of the weekend. Its not easy for first time home buyers, the specific cities called the worst in the country for first time home buyers. Markets close in just minutes. Dow jones spent the session on the plus side on track with a bump of under onethird of 1 . S p finishing under eha of 1 . Nasdaq up by three quarters of a percent. Are among the worst for people trying to buy their first home. The personal finance website wallet hub puts berkley at the top for the worst for home buyers. Marriott international is ordered to pay a 124 million fine for a consumer data breach Starwood Hotel cations around the world. Marriott bar the chain in 2016. In 2014, when it was a separate company, hackers harvested passport details and payment card numbers from some 339 million guest records. European regulators say marriott didnt take steps to ensure the security. Today marks the end of an icon, the last volkswagen beetles rolling off of the assemblylinethe auto make is st production in mexico. For the u. S. Recall be womens soccer team in new york wrapped up. The fight for equal pay for equal play is ramping up. Today we will break down the complicated issue and what the next steps might be legally and explore how the champions are Opening Doors and prompting conversoday on the 4. Sir Paul Mccartney takes the stage tonight in san jose. The former beetles wrapping up his tour with a show at the sap center. The concert starts at 8 00. The final show of the tour is saturday in los angeles. Thank you for choosing ktvu. Dr. Oz a true crime investigation. 52 charges in total. Dr. Oz shocking updates on the. House of horrors. Why did they torture their own children . Dr. Oz Louise Turpins sister reveals their intimate prison conversations. I didnt know what would happen dr. 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