Watch. They released a statement reading their weather forecasters are monitoring a possibly strong and dry offshore wind event wednesday and thursday. Pg e ao said its considering proactively shutting off power to prevent its equipment from sparking a fire. At this point they have not called for a power safety power shutoff yet, but the company says if one is issued, it will likely affect the north bay and sierra foothills. Pg e also said if they implement a power safety power shutoff, it could be smaller in scope from the one that took place between october 9th through the 12th. For more on the dry, windy weather expected later this week chief meteorologist bill martin joins us now. Its also expected to heat up. Its going to heat up, but i said earlier in the newscast if you watched the 5 00 newscast after the football game, i was talking about this pattern not unusual. This is what happens every fall. The pattern coming up, the wind event coming up as we go into the middle of the week monday night, tuesday into wednesday, is very typical for this time of year. So what does it mean . It means get used to pg e saying that were going to do this because theyre a private entity taking care of their business. The National Weather service will issue red flag warnings if theyre needed. They could be needed at this point. Im just saying get used to this kind of new paradigm where we get concerned rapidly in these conditions this time of year. Theres the ridge of High Pressure. Theres the trough right there. See that trough . Thats what was here last week. Thats why we were below average. We had a break from all this, right . Now were back under this dome of High Pressure. This dome of High Pressure will set us up with another pattern that will get us winds gusting perhaps to 25 to 28 miles an hour out of the north, northeast into the evening hours of monday, tuesday and maybe wednesday night as well, but none of this is unusual. The heat wont be that extreme. The winds wont be that extreme. They wont be unusually strong. At least the models are saying that now. I think this is just a precautionary obviously a precautionary thing with pg e, but we look at the National Weather service, the models and well tell you when theres a red flag warning, we could see a red flag warning, but what were looking at this pattern, whats going to happen this week happens three or four or five or six times every fall. Thats where we are now. When we come back, well break it down, make it more simplistic, but i just wanted you not to freak out that this was a major event, could be, but looks like a typical event with typical winds and typical temperatures for this time of year. Bill, thank you. Tens of thousands of wildfire victims who are eligible to receive payments from pg e face a hard deadline tomorrow or risk being left with nothing. According to the new york times, as many as 70,000 people have not filed a claim as of two weeks ago. Thats about twothirds of the people where eligible. An 8. 4 billion fund was set aside by a bankruptcy judge for payouts to victims of the north bay and butte county wildfires. Those fires were sparked by pg e equipment. Now people eligible to file include those who lost their homes as well as those who lost wages or suffered emotional distress. The deadline to file is monday at 5 00. For more information just go to our website at www. Ktvu. Com and click on web links. Today marks 28 years since the deadly Oakland Hills firestorm. The massive fire on october 20th, 1991, was sparked by a grassfire northeast of the caldecott tunnel. Firefighters thought the fire was under control, but it flared back up the following day when the winds kicked up. The high winds caused the flames to spread quickly through the oakland and berkeley hills. Many people became trapped. 25 people died. More than 150 were injured. Nearly 3,500 homes were destroyed that day in what became one of the nations deadliest urban wildfires. The total loss in Property Damage was estimated to be at 1. 5 billion. Former president ial candidate Hillary Clinton and her daughter chelsea were in the bay area today promoting their new book and talking about the women who inspire them. The women we profile in this book are gutsy because they persevered. The clintons spoke at tw soldout events today at Temple Emanuel in San Francisco and in danville at San Ramon Valley high school where hundreds of supporters turned out tonight. Ktvus Azenith Smith joins us now. Shes live in danville with more on what they had to say. Reporter it was a moderated question and answer setting that lasted a little more than an hour. The clintons did not take questions from reporters. They spoke about gun control and immigration. Hillary clinton did not speak about her current feud with president ial hopeful Tulsi Gabbard. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her daughter chelsea spoke to a crowd of more than 1,400 people at San Ramon Valley high school in danville sunday night, there to promote the book of gutsy women, a compilation of stories about women who inspire them. The first time i heard of ia earhart, the first woman war correspondent and photographer, Margaret Burke white, helen keller, i mean people who when i read about them, they made such a big impression. Reporter during the hour long talk the clintons weighed in on title 9, gun control and the president s policy on immigration. I have discovered an anger i didnt know was in me with the separation of families and the caging of children. Reporter they spoke highly of former congresswoman Ellen Tauscher and gabby giffords. The amount of determination it takes for her to get up, get dressed, go out and speak, which is very hard for her, is immensely inspiring. Reporter one congresswoman Hillary Clinton did not talk about, democratic president ial candidate Tulsi Gabbard of hawaii who in a podcast clinton suggested russia is grooming gabbard as a thirdparty candidate for president. Gabbard fired back on twitter sunday calling clinton part of the corrupt elite. Im not quite sure i understand the motivation behind it. Reporter this trump supporter visiting the bay area from scottsdale, arizona, held a sign outside the event calling Hillary Clinton a liar. I like Tulsi Gabbard. I think shes a veteran. I think shes informed. I dont agree with every policy of hers, but i think what Hillary Clinton said about her being a russian agent is terrible. This is a free country. Shes not running. She can say whatever she pleases. Reporter denise ariza defended Hillary Clinton wearing a hillary for president 2020 shirt. Just in case she has a little inkling maybe shell jump in, i want her to know her army is ready and waiting. Reporter well, Hillary Clinton made no mention of running for president again. In the book she does profile two first female president s and she said tonight she likes the sound of madam president which got cheers from the audience. Azenith smith in danville tonight, thanks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a surprise visit to the middle east accompanied by Nine Congress members. They flew to jordan over the weekend to discuss the deepening crisis in syria. Democrats and republicans have criticized the president s decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from the region which has led to heavy fighting between turkey and kurdish forces. The u. S. Brokered a cease fair agreement last week, but the situation remains volatile. Reporter secretary of defense mark esper says forces being pulled back from syria will eventually end up in western iraq to monitor the Islamic State adding the ceasefire negotiated on thursday by Vice President pence and the turkish president is in his view holding. I think overall the ceasefire generally seems to be holding. We see a stabilization of the lines, you will, on the ground and we do get reports of intermittent fires, this and that. That doesnt surprise me necessarily, but thats what were picking up. Thats what were seeing so far. Reporter both democratic and republican lawmakers have vocally opposed President Trumps decision to withdraw u. S. Troops and fear its potential long term impact. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a surprise congressional visit to jordan over the weekend releasing this statement. With a deepening crisis in syria after turkeys incursion, our delegation has engaged in vital discussion about the impact to regional stability, increased flow of refugees and the dangerous opening that has been provided to isis, iran and russia. South carolina senator Lindsey Graham who spent the last week imploring President Trump to reverse course may now be changing his tune. I am increasingly optimistic that we can have some historic solutions in syria that have eluded us for years we play our cards right. Reporter the defense secrety did not rule out the possibility of cross border Counter Terror operations from iraq into syria. Steve harrigan, fox news. The older brother of house Speaker Nancy Pelosi who was also a former Baltimore Mayor died today. Thomas dalessandro, iii was 90 years old. He died due to complications from a stroke his family said. In a statement pelosi said her brother was, the finest Public Servant i have ever known. Dalessandro worked as an attorney after he left city hall and leaves behind a wife, five children asevel grandchildren. New information tonight on a training accident that killed three soldiers at an army post in georgia early today, u. S. Army Officials Say the Armored Vehicle they were in flipped over into water. The accident happened at about stewar is morning at ft. Three other soldiers were injured and sent to the hospital. Two have been released. The third soldier is expected to survive. The chp is continuing to investigate a rollover crash in san jose that killed three women and sent four others to the hospital. The single vehicle wreck happened 11 00 last night on nortound highway 101 south of bernal avenue. The chp says the chevy tahoe suv crashed in the Center Divide and rolled over. The driver and three other passengers suffered minor injuries. The collision is still under investigation. However, alcohol and drugs do not appear to be a factor involved in this collision. Some of those involve moderate injuries. Chp officers are looking into whether seatbelts were worn. A far cry from the red carpet, a glimpse of Actress Felicity Huffman doing her time in an eastbay prison. Best celebration ive ever been part of. The 9ers slip and slide to another victory. The 49ers head into a sloppy, rainy, muddy d. C. To take on washington, but even with the rain, the mud and tough conditions the 9ers were perfect. Ktvus scott reiss here now with another win for the 9ers, but for the raiders a different story. Tale of two teams, no question here. The 9ers, of course, have proven they can win with offense and with defense through the air and on the ground, at home and on the road. Now we can add on land or under water. Taking on the redskins and i tell you it was pouring in landover, maryland, ever watch a game in those conditions . I think the players enjoyed it. Adrian peterson stopped on fourth and one by jullian taylor, backup d lineman making a play and the 49ers take over on downs. Third quarter the games scoreless because its a monsoon. Nobody can put points on the board. Jimmy garoppolo to richie james 40 yards later sets up a field goal, 309ers. Garoppolo 12 of 21 passes. Later in the third peterson again, Kwon Alexander punches out the rock and theres taylor again having the game of his life. Back to the 49er 41 thaleads to another field goal. Late in the fourth its 90, last gasp for the skins and nick bosa, the exclamation point. Thats case keenum and the slip and slide ensues. 9ers win 9 0. Theyre 60 anbosa having a good time. That was a lot of fun. I was hoping to get one at the end, got one and then i went to slide and i slid so much further than i even expected. It was a lot of fun. Good for them. You want to meet the packers in green bay, you better bring your a game unless you were grading on a serious curve. Youd be hard pressed to move the raiders to the head of the class after todays efforts. The raiders fans did their parts. Thats a custom cheesehead. Those are cool. Second quarter 73 pack, derek carr to foster morrow, 107 oakland, but Aaron Rodgers bring the pack right back, easy toss to jamal williams, 1410 green bay. Carrs turn, now hes not nimble, but boy, hes going to try. A for effort if nothing else. Problem is he loses the ball and it goes through the end zone out of bounds, touch back. Green bay gets it, no point, costly. On the ensuing drive rodgers drops it in the bucket, 37 yards. 2110 green bay at the break. Third quarter, rodgers gets to the corner, score it, 2810 packers and then theres this. Fourth quarter rodgers to marquez valdez, scantling, one missed tackle later hes gone. 429 passing yards for rodgers, six total touchdowns. Packers win 4224 and the raiders back at. 500, 33 on the season. Mark ibanez will join me if we can get his voice warmed up, a little under the weather, but he will be out here at 11 30, full edition of sports wrap. The first pictures of Felicity Huffman where she is serving time have emerged. She began serving her 13 day sentence last tuesday for her role in the College Admissions scam. The 56yearold huffman was spotted yesterday in a green prison uniform walking to a family visit on prison grounds. Tmz took the photos of huffman on the grounds of the Federal Correctional Institution in dublin. The minimum security prison was once named one of americas 10 cushiest prisons by forbes. Huffman is expected to be released next sunday. Widespread damage reported in dallas after a tornado touched down on the north side of the city. The National Weather service confirmed the tornado touched down around 7 30 local time. Authorities say theyll get a better idea of the damage tomorrow during daylight hours. Parts of texas, oklahoma and louisiana remain under a Severe Weather warning right now. The weathers changing, as you know. Last week was mild. The week before that washe red flag warning week. Remember that . So we had last week to kind of cool off. Now were going back into this cycle of the High Pressure building in. The low pressure out here. Ill draw the jet in again because its pretty much everything when we get our fire winds and these lows. Thats the upper level. If you look straight up, the red line is what the jet stream would be doing. In this trough area its cooler. Thats why we were last week. Thats why temperatures were below average and in some cases we were kind of cloudy in cases, some drizzle reported. Temperatures again on the cool side, fire danger down. Now this area moves in, this High Pressure ridge. Its very typical for this time of year as the transition season works its way into winter. We get these kinds of setups. We have it now and the winds are already kind of coming from the north. They will go a little more northeasterly over the next 24 hours and then theyll kind of hold it north, northeast for probably through wednesday morning. Thats a fire direction because it heats up. The air heats up. You have temperatures that are going to be into the upper 80s certainly, maybe some low 90s and youre in a position where the winds will create concern for if a fire starts. Thats where we could see a red flag warning and pg e ramped it up a little bit. We did a story in the newscast about theyve got their center open and they should, quite franklin, as we all have our ears on, too. The National Weather service will let us know if they issue a red flag warning, probably tomorrow or the next couple of days, but we are heading for a warmer period ahead. Forecast highs tomorrow with warming, 88 in brentwood, fairfield. In the fiveday forecast looks like tuesdays the warmest day. Its not a heatwave, but the winds will come up a little bit and the humidities will drop. Fire danger will be up tuesday, wednesday, a little bit into thursday. Visitors crowded onto main street in Half Moon Bay today for the annual art and pumpkin festival, the citys biggest event of the year. It wrapped up today. The festival draws about 100,000 people to the small town every year. Sara zendehnam tells us about it. Reporter theres food, live music and even unique art. One camera, another camera and another, so much focus on a little stage at Half Moon Bays art and pumpkin festival. It makes people smile and thats the primary thing. Reporter this farmer and his interesting art is the center of attention. Carving pumpkins takes on a whole different meaning for him. The first year i had some giant pumpkins and nothing to do with them, so i carved one. Very quickly it occurred to me it was too thick for the typical triangle eyes. Reporter instead of slicing through his pumpkin, he carves faces, animals, really anything you can think of on the surface. I typically sketch on the pumpkin just the outline where i want things to be and then i carve the details. Reporter his art on display at the annual festival. Upwards of 100,000 people visit Half Moon Bays main street for the twoday event. Tents with food and trinkets line the road. Money spent here goes back into the community. We like to beautify main street, underground utilities and helped build parks and all sorts of Different Things like that. Reporter a beautiful street is the best place for farmer mikes stage. He spent hours carving for a big crowd. Even though the pumpkins only last a few days, he says he enjoys every minute. This gives people a little bit of a happiness, that makes it all worthwhile for me. Reporter in Half Moon Bay, sara zendehnam, ktvu fox 2 news. A solemn ceremony in Northern California as names are added to the Vietnam Veterans memorial and one of those names was a first of its kind. Coming up tonight at 10 30 a roundtable with bay area leaders to get their response to the homeless crisis. There are those who will say that youre too fat. Too skinny. Too hard. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. And to them we say too bad. Because at kaiser permanente, we believe that everyone deserves the right to thrive. A marine corps veteran says his final goodbye to his beloved dog. Vietnam vet john vincent was reunited with his 5yearold yorkie named patch. The 69yearold is in hospice care in albuquerque. He was forced to take patch to an Animal Shelter because he had no family in new mexico. His only request was to see patch one last time. The shelter says they found a new owner for patch and he will be leaving for a new home sometime soon. The names have been added to the california Vietnam Veterans memorial. The 20 names were unveiled today in capital park in sacramento. The department of Veterans Affairs and Vietnam Veterans memorial Honor Committee worked to add those additional names. A womans name was added for the first time. The list of names currently on the memorial also include those who died from illness or injuries that were caused by military service in the vietnam war. We finally recognize them. They belong on this wall, too, because they brought that war back with them and died. Families of the veterans whose names were added were also honored at todays ceremony. Nasa scientists are working on a new project to find out if there was ever life on mars. An Upcoming Mission to mars is different this time. Its the first time take rockets will launch from mars and bring samples back from its surface. The rover will take off from earth in july and land in a crater on the red planet in february of 2021. It will look for life in whats left of an ancient martian lake. Scientists across the globe will be able to study what they bring back. Theyll be able to be analyzed with cutting edge techniques here on earth looking for the kinds of rocks, the kinds of past environments that might have been present, any signatures of potential past life would be a very big deal. So nasa and the scientists on the project hope the rocks from the red planet will help them discover if life was even ever possible on mars. For the past week ktvu has spent a lot of time digging deep into the homeless crisis. The people that are homeless are people that were previously living in our cities and living in our region. These arent people coming from across the country. These are our neighbors. Coming up next we sit down with the mayors of the bay areas biggest cities to talk about what theyre doing to ease the problem. We will spend the next half hour looking for solutions to this growing crisis. Closed captioning for the 10 00 news brought to you by mancini sleep world. Rest easy with huge savings during our tax free mattress sale. Visit sleepworld. Com. Out and mark your lines. Ts easy,e we provide you the information so you will dig safely. Itreat them all as if, they are hot and energized. Stay away from any downed wire, call 911 and call pg e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. Over the past week ktvu has been focusing on the bay area homeless crisis bringing you stories that were both disheartening and inspiring. Tonight we want to spend some time speaking to the leaders of the bay areas biggest cities to get their response to the homeless crisis. Recently Frank Somerville sat down with the four mayors and the director of San Franciscos department of homelessness and supportive housing. Well spend the next 30 minutes sharing part of that discussion from solutions to enforcing the law and the misconceptions surrounding homelessness and we begin with a sentiment many people have felt. What do you say to those who are fed up with the bay area homeless crisis . Heres San Franciscos jeff kositsky. I understand a lot of people in San Francisco and throughout the bay area are very frustrated by what theyre seeing on the streets and i think its also important to understand how this connects back to growth in our cities. There are not necessarily thousands of more Homeless People in San Francisco than there were in the 90s. In fact, i would argue theres probably fewer. However, areas around mission bay and where the ballpark is and all along the eastern waterfront have gotten developed. We didnt have the encampments back then like we do now. Would that be a paper fair statement . We actually did. They were just out of the way and in places we didnt go. The more people are experiencing homelessness are pushed out into the open where people are seeing them. In San Francisco we dont have large tent cities anymore, but theres still thousands of people sleeping on our streets who have been actually displaced from areas that have gotten developed and the best that we can do is try to create safe places for people to come indoors. Thats why mayor breed proposed and is pushing us to open up 1,000 new shelter beds during the next year and a half which we will do, but again we still need to address those folks in the shelters need somewhere to go. Shelters arent a solution to homelessness. Housing is what solves homelessness. So thats why the mayor is also pushing this housing bond measure which will be on the ballot in november and is working at the state level to try to increase investments in not only homeless programs, but in affordable housing. Mayor, at some point do we hit a Tipping Point . Everyone wants to be compassionate, but at some point are people going to say essentially enough is enough and by being compassionate does that mayor liccardo touched on this a moment ago does that bring more people into your cities because you are Offering Services which is fantastic because again Everyone Wants to be compassionate, but does that compassion bring more people into your city as opposed to living in a city that doesnt offer as Many Services . I think its important to really address the myths around homelessness. One, theres a perception that Homeless People are coming from all over the country to the bay area because we provide such a rich array of services and really were just trying to deal with the growing humanitarian crisis that were seeing on our streets. We cant turn a blind eye to this issue. So we cant do nothing. We have to do something, but study after study shows that the people that are homeless are people that were previously living in our cities and living in our region. These arent people coming from across the country. These are our neighbors who are becoming homeless on the street. When i visit shelters and see 60yearold women, when i talk to people where working but cant afford the cost of housing, i think its important for people to really understand who are the homeless and really what do we need to do to actually solve this problem. Who are they . I think its a very diverse population. We have youth that are aging out of foster care. We have a growing number of seniors who are becoming homeless. In my city over 50 of the homeless are African American which i think is an example of the broader issue of systemic racism in our society, that we see more and more people where people of color living on the street. These are people that work. These are students. So its a very diverse population and we need to understand that these are people that are really victims of our society and the robust economy that were seeing in our region and just to touch on one thing mayor liccardo said, the fact that we have such a dysfunctional situation where we are one of the most prosperous regions in the country, but yet we see such deepening poverty is really unsuspectable and we cannot ignore this problem. We have to do more. We have to provide housing. We have to provide shelter. We have to expand Mental Health services to address this problem. Frank, i want to answer your question who are the homeless. Go ahead. I just want to share one persons story. Go ahead. Marcus emery grew up in west oakland just a few blocks from where i first met him living in a box under a freeway overpass. He was one of 10 brothers and sisters. He actually worked for you, jesse. He worked for berkeleys parks and rec department. He took an early retirement and he was a very spiritual and beautiful and generous human being. A number of members of his family sought help from him and it actually ended up exhausting all his resources and he found himself on the street. Now it was just a joy for me to know mr. Emery. I followed him from his box under the freeway. He was one of our first residents of the northgate cabin communities right at that 27th street exit. Im sure you know that area. Ive seen it. And then what a joy to be invited when he had his own apartment. He had moved all the way through this system. I came right before christmas to visit him, bring him a housewarming gift just to see his simple furniture and a bible open on the table in his kitchen, but, frank, i attended his funeral last month and i want to talk about marcus emery, you know, for a few reasons. One, lets put names to this problem. Right. These are each human beings each with a unique story. I know we talk about statistics and shelter beds, but these are people from our communities and i hope marcus story reminds us of two things, that one, we have a structural problem when people within our own communities, Public Sector workers, are actually becoming homeless in their old age even though they have families that have tried to help one another, but that that whole system is so stressed that we are breaking down these links of human decency and that we have to work with such urgency that even once weve gotten someone out of homelessness, the damage to Peoples Health happens every single night that theyre outdoors. Ive spent time with homeless actually just down the street and they had an encampment. Its not there anymore, but it was right underneath the freeway and i just that freeway was so loud and when you see up close the conditions that theyre living in, one guy had a bucket. He said i have to go to the bathroom in a bucket. I mean thats just what we do. Do you think, mayor, that the stereotype of homeless and maybe these are because these are the ones where most visible is that theyre a whacked out drug addict . Well i mean there are some, but would that be the stereotype , do you think . Certainly thats a stereotype and as we know with all stereotypes theyre false and occasionally true. And the challenge i think that jesse described well is this is a very diverse population. Theres a lot of Different Reasons why people become homeless and i just had a conversation literally two days ago with a woman i first knew when she and her daughter were homeless 19 years ago and i was tutoring and now she tells me she makes 70,000 a year working for the county and is afraid shell be homeless because her apartment owner is going to sell the Apartment Building and she has no idea where she can go to actually pay the rent. There are just so many stories and these stories are all true and yes, then theres also addiction and theres also Mental Health challenges and the reality is Mental Illness and addiction isalso a natural consequence of living on the street. And i imagine many of us would probably be addicted, too, if we had to sleep outside for too many nights in a row. I think the reality is that theres no question we have to step up to our responsibility as a community and provide the housing, but i am concerned about compassion fatigue as you described and i think there needs to be responsibility on both sides. We also should have a responsibility to enforce the law. Right. We know most Homeless People are not out there committing crime. We know theyre doing everything they can simply to survive, but we also know that many frustrations like the one you experienced with your friend and the business in San Francisco are frustrated because theyve got a broken window every week that they never had to deal with before because they know theres from their cameras theres this guy in the neighborhood who keeps coming by. I mean these are the stories you hear every single day of people who are compassionate but frustrated and so we need i think a change in state law that enables us to be much more proactive in dealing with Mental Illness than we are today. The it is certainly necessary for us to respect Civil Liberties and be compassionate with people. At the same time if someone is out in the middle of traffic with their pants down urinating and screaming at traffic, there has to be a mechanism for us to be able to get that individual into Mental Health treatment even if theyre not that interested in going and it cant simply be an encounter with a Police Officer with a gun and a badge. That usually ends poorly. So i think we need some changes in laws that enable us to be much more proactive in addressing these challenges and we need to recognize the responsibility both for us to provide the housing and services and for the Homeless Individuals to take it if its offered. Coming up next tonight our conversation continues as we discuss drug addiction, the federal response and finding solutions. Nothing frustrates me more when people say to me oh, mayor, the solutions of homelessness is so easy. Just open up all those empty buildings that the city owns. What these leaders say really needs to happen in order for the problem to be fixed. Thats next as our special roundtable on the bay area homeless crisis continues. Announcer Time Magazine reports the new american addiction. How juul hooked kids and ignited a Public Health crisis. Other news outlets report juul took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Markets ecigarettes with kid friendly flavors and uses nicotecigarettes. Juul is following big tobaccos playbook. And now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn ecigarette protections. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. Welcome back to our special coverage of the bay area homeless crisis. We continue our discussion now with the leaders of oakland, berkeley, san jose and San Francisco taking a closer look at solutions and finding the money to make a significant impact. We have some of the biggest corporations here, the Biggest Companies here, in the world. We have so many billionaires here. We have so many multi millionaires here, one person who always comes to my mind who steps up is marc benioff. Is it fair to ask them for money and do we need more Marc Benioffs here in the bay area . Well, i think its certainly fair and mr. Benioff has been not only incredibly generous, hes been incredibly smart about where hes been investing his philanthropic dollars, but i think its more important we look at whats happening at the federal level rather than look to individuals or, you know, to rely on the generosity of individuals. Hud, the department of housing and urban development, lost about 80 of its Budget Authority since 1978 and that actually corresponds with the rise of this modern day homelessss. If you go back and look at the Great Depression when there was over 2 Million People who were experiencing homelessness in the United States and eventually that number was down to below 200,000, that was due to federal investments in affordable housing. If you just took a fraction of the department of Defense Budget and invested that in housing and gave everybody who is living below at or below rty a section 8 or now its called a housing choice voucher where they could pay 30 of their income to rent, it would infuse tens of billions of dollars into the u. S. Economy. I am sure the Housing Market would respond to that and we would be able to go back to how things were in the 50s and 60s in which the federal government was insuring that every american, every person living in america, had access to some type of affordable housing. I think thats the most important thing that we should be looking to and i think people like mr. Benioff and many others who are so generous, whether its with tens of millions of dollars or 10, we certainly need that kind of assistance, but i think we need bigger systemic change if were ever going to get a handing on this problem. Jesse, you talked about the federal government. President trump just said he is reportedly considering a plan to get involved in the homeless crackdown, specifically in southern california, but i would imagine if he goes to southern california, hed eventually come up to the bay area. The president reportedly asked his staff, how the hellcan we get these people off the streets . So i guess what he is considering here is putting them in a facility once used by the faa. Is that a potential solution . I think we need any help from the federal government. What we are seeing is hud cutting funding for Public Housing, taking money away from Public Housing programs and voucher programs. Were seeing decreased funding for programs that serve the homeless. So its hard to know whether the president is serious about this statement, but i think what we need is a real commitment on the part of the federal government. This is a National Problem. This isnt just a regional problem. This isnt just a state problem. This is a National Problem and we need the leadership of the federal government. Yeah, but lets be clear. What jeff was talking about is the kind of help we need from the federal government, not just hiding homelessness in an airplane hangar, okay . The offer just demonstrated such a lack of understanding of the actual problem and what it will take to solve it as opposed to hide it. That being said, there are federal resources. Theres a lot of federal land that we would love to take advantage of to build the housing. There are a lot of ways the federal government could get constructively engaged. So if they want to be constructively engaged, i welcome it. Weve all had opportunities to engage in taking shots at President Trump for one reason or another, but i think we should hold fire here. Democrats and republicans are out there dying on the street right now. This is a problem that requires all of us to work together. If they want to work with us, lets work with them. A number of us are members of mayors and ceos for u. S. Housing investment. Its actually a Bipartisan Coalition of mayors from across the country that have been pushing for these kinds of reforms from the federal government. So this is not a partisan issue. It is just a basic human right. That leads me into my next question. I read the other day an article written by former San Francisco mayor willie brown. He was essentially saying we need to think outside the box. He said, if you want to fix homelessness, we have to get tough and think outside the box. What he suggested was using Juvenile Hall in San Francisco which will shut down in 2021. He also suggested using the county jail in san bruno and unused jail annex on Treasure Island and the log cabin youth complex in la honda. He said turn them into shelters from the homeless. This was his quote. We could get hundreds of new shelter beds from the chronically homeless with no objections from neighbors because there are no neighbors there. It would all be voluntary, but if they say no to the city, the city would say no to sleeping on the streets. Whats your thought on what former mayor brown said there . Well, i think theres opportunities to get creative with resources that are currently available in the city. However, theres 5,000 people sleeping on the streets in San Francisco on any given night. So until we can find ways to find a safe place for all of those individuals to be, whether its in a repurposed juvenile Detention Center or a former jail, we still have to scale these solutions up to a level that i think its going to be extremely challenging for the city to do and again, just putting people into shelter without having housing exits for them on the other end isnt going to solve the problem because as i said earlier, forcing three newly Homeless People for every person that we house, we have to have flow in the system. We have to create exits for people. Shelter is important and its an important alternative to sleeping on the streets, but its not the only solution and its not the only place we need to be investing our money. Mayor, what about the jail that is closed right next to the Police Department in oakland . From what i understand, Alameda County is willing to rent it to oakland for 1 a year, but i mean i imagine you would have to do some rehab inside, maybe take down the bars obviously, but is that a viable option . Well, jesse and i the went h a group of other mayors throughout Alameda County to take a tour of that facility. Nothing frustrates me more when people say to me, oh, mayor, the solution to homelessness is so easy. Just open up all the empty buildings the city owns. Rst a own empty buildings. Its true the county does own three empty buildings, but when we went on this tour, we learned that just to kind of keep the lights on and the hvac running, the county pays 300,000 a month just to have that building operational and habitable. So when you think about our really limited resources for homelessness, its not as simple as opening an empty building. Now we are doing a cost comparison of what it would cost to actually operate a, you know, humane, dignified shelter facility with exits attached. We cannot just warehouse people. These have to be rapidly rehousing centers where every bed has resources to move that person on to selfsufficiency, but the cost of renovating the jail may, in fact,ing less than putting up, for example, a storm shelter. These are kind of large almost military style tents. Almost every major city in california is in the process of or has invested in this ty of shelter and were starting to do a cost comparison to see actually it would be less expensive and actually faster to just put up a sprung facility. We have several sites that were evaluating and again were working in Close Partnership especially with berkeley. Jesse has been a wonderful partner and leader within our county to really think about different ways. We are thinking outside of the box, but empty buildings are not as cheap as you might think. Mayor, what about tiny homes or tough sheds . Yeah. I think libby and her team are doing great work with tough sheds. Particularly we dont call them tough sheds anymore. We call them Community Cabins. That was a term that the residents themselves came up with and also we no longer use that supplier. So cabins. Let me rephrase. Libby and her team are doing great work with Community Cabins particularly with the surrounding neighborhoods. I them thats a really important advancement that oakland has made and were opening our two tiny Home Communities in the next couple months and, you know, that provides at any one time a space that is dignified and safe for 80 residents. Well be rotating folks out. This is really just transitional housing for a month or two or three as were able to get them into permanent housing and as theyre able to save enough money for security deposits and so forth. The reality is that, you know, going back to some of these ideas every time i hear a simplistic idea and we run down that rabbit hole to figure out hey, could this work, its always ail lot harder than it sounds and all of us i know on any given week can probably tell you how many times somebody said why aint you just doing this about homelessness as if finding sites is easy to do, as if Building Infrastructure it doesnt matter whether its a tough shed or Community Cabin or tiny home or whatever you call this thing. You can build it out of papier mache. You still have to have utilities to provide electricity and sewer and water and all those things. You still have to have a site that is somewhere in the real world which is usually somewhere next to a neighborhood that might object and you still have to provide basic services for folks who may have issues around drug addiction or Mental Health. Right. So its never simple. That doesnt mean we cant accelerate and scale good work and youre seeing examples in cities certainly in the bay area that should be scaled. Does all of this ever feel overwhelming . Occasionally. You know, when were housing and sheltering 13,000 a people a night and see our numbers grow it feels sometimes like were shovel ing water. However when, you think about the people were providing assistance to and their lives have changed, i think no matter how overwhelming or difficult it is, we owe it to our community and to those individuals to do our best to help as many people as we possibly can. And i continue to be optimistic that again i go back to looking at the hisry of this problem and what happened during the Great Depression and then our ability to overcome that economic crisis and that housing crisis to dramatically reduce the number of Homeless People in the United States and the fact that since george w. Bush was in office we actually saw some really good gains nationally from 2005 to 2016 nationwide. We have saw i believe a 23 reduction in homelessness during that period of time. We know what the solutions are. We know what to do and as jesse said, wejust need to scale them and i remain hopeful that were going to find a way to scale these solutions up and help all the people who need it, not just those who are fortunate enough to have access to the services that were all providing. How about you . Do you ever feel like youre just swimming upstream and you cant get anywhere . It can be disheartening. I think this is all an issue we are very committed to trying to address and it really is a humanitarian crisis and its heart breaking to see people who are living on the street, living in unsafe conditions and to be working so hard and be putting so much resources into trying to solve this problem and seeing the population increase. But im optimistic. I think that the work that were doing in the bay area and the state of california is really focusing on the Long Term Solutions to the problem and really we need to look at this issue as the emergency that it is and really address it on an emergency basis. Is this an emergency . Is this a crisis . And do you get overwhelmed . Its absolutely a crisis and we need a declaration of crisis, emergency statewide and i think we need a lot of changes in laws that will enable us to have the flexibility to do what we need to to address the crisis that it is, but we can do this. We know how to do this. You know, i was at a Ribbon Cutting two weeks ago. We opened apartments for about 150 individuals who had just gotten off the street collectively. They had had 400 Years Experience of homelessness that we ended that day. When you see that happen and you see someone get the key to their apartment and many of them as libby pointed out, many of them working, the working poor, they just needed that key, their lives are back on track. You see the extraordinary good that can happen. We can do this. We just need to scale our solutions. Is that the kind of thing that keeps you going, too, mayor, when you see people get their first apartment in a long time . Absolutely. Homelessness is the most kind of soul scathing thing that i experience on any given day, not just as a mayor, but as an oaklander, that is proud of my city, but cannot fathom that my fellow residents are living like this, but i am energized and determined because we have to change the basic system. Just last week i met a woman named kathy. She was a retired schoolteacher. In fact, she was a second grade teacher of a friend of mines son. She has an active case of cancer. Shes undergoing treatment. She actually only has one kidney left because chemo killed one of her kidneys. This is one of the most dignified human beings that we as a community should be taking care of. She is living in her car. There is something fundamentally wrong with government that our public system allowed that to happen and thats what motivates me because i believe, you know, we all want to see immediate change, but we all are also absolutely committed to making fundamental changes so that this does not happen again and that we have a society and a government that we can feel proud of. As you likely noticed, San Francisco mayor london breed was not part of our discussion. We worked with her team for weeks to agree on a date that would work with her schedule, but unfortunately it didnt work out. But mayor breed has agreed to sit down with us this tuesday and well be sure to ask her the same questions. You can see our entire discussion in its nearly hour long unedited on our website www. Ktvu. Com. 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