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This vintage rv is home. I didnt plan on living here. I just, lost my job, about a year and a half ago. And i couldnt find a place that i could afford. Hes not alone. We counted six rvs parked on this street on thursday. The city wants them to leave. We are good people. You know, i work every day. The Mayors Office tells us they are giving rv owners until march 28th to remove their vehicles. San franciscos transportation code prevents any vehicle from being parked on a street for more than 72 hours. Its a great spot. I can understand why theyre here, but its limited parking. The Mayors Office says that parking these large vehicles along this windy, narrow road is dangerous, and that the raw sewage being dumped here is a safety hazard. Weve all been coming out and picking up all the trash every morning. Theres drug dealing going on in the back of the one. Theres the dogs left all day long. Other neighbors dont have a problem with the rvs. Heartsick to see it happening on all the levels. The rvs, the tent cities. And theres just nowhere for people to go. The coalition on homelessness says the rvs are a low cost alternative to the rising cost of rent and allow people to avoid living on the streets. Let us stay here for a little while longer so that we could figure out what were doing. The Mayors Office tells us the no parking restriction applies to all vehicles, not just rvs. They have until march 28th to move. And according to the transportation code, they could end up being towed away in the studio. Joey hornick, ktvu, fox two news a group of five residents in two hotels have joined together to file a federal lawsuit aimed at forcing the city of San Francisco to improve the streets in the tenderloin. Matthew davis is the attorney representing the residents and hotels. He says his clients, some of whom are working class families with small children, feel trapped inside their homes because of the conditions just outside their doors. He says they pay for City Services in the form of taxes, but the city does not hold up its end of the bargain. Today. If you go into the neighborhood, the streets are unsafe, theyre unsanitary, and theyre inaccessible. All those are basic city functions and the city isnt providing them. The university of california, San Francisco school of law has filed its own separate lawsuit, saying the city is failing in its efforts to improve conditions surrounding the campus in the tenderloin. The city says it is reviewing both complaints in a statement today, the San Francisco City Attorneys Office said while we understand and share the frustration of tenderloin businesses and residents, the city is making efforts to reduce crime, disrupt open air drug markets and address homelessness. Mayor london breed vetoed a piece of Housing Development legislation today that was proposed by city supervisor running against her in the november election, the board of supervisors passed the legislation proposed by supervisor aaron peskin, 8 to 3 last month. That proposal would impose density limits in three areas that peskin represents in a letter shared on ex london breed claims these density limits would go against her goal of creating new housing in the city and would even reverse changes. She and the board signed off on in july of last year. A supermajority of eight supervisor votes can override the veto. Their last meeting before spring recess is april 2nd, so its unclear right now if they can hold the override vote before the 30 day window has passed. Most of the 80 protesters arrested for shutting down the bay bridge in november have reached a deal to avoid trial. Today, 78 people accepted an offer from the court to complete five hours of Community Service. Theyll also pay restitution to be determined. One case was dropped for insufficient evidence, however, the case of retired pleasanton firefighter masood barakzai is still going forward. He told us his case is separate from the others. Its unfortunate that an innocent person has to be dragged through this type of thing for something they had nothing to do with, so i guess im just im disappointed. Still, im disappointed in the District Attorney. Im disappointed in the prosecutors. I really am absolutely disappointed that they would continue to push something onto somebody that, again, has nothing to do with it. Barakzai, who is muslim from afghanistan, says he was on his way to catch a flight when he was caught up in the gaza protest and wrongfully detained. He wants prosecutors to drop misdemeanor charges of unlawful Public Assembly and failure to disperse. New at 11 tonight, an arrest has been made in last weeks shootout between two cars in fremont. One person died and another was hurt. Police say 25 yearold Sylvester Carver has now been charged with murder and attempted murder. That shooting happened on march 5th in the area of stevenson boulevard and albree street. Police say people in two cars were shooting at each other when officers arrived at the scene. They found one of the shooting victims inside a crashed car. He died four days later. Carver was eventually arrested last night at a home in richmond. This is video now from the citizen app showing authorities surrounding the house on harnett avenue. A second suspect, identified as keon bowles, has also been charged with gun crimes after allegedly helping carver get away. New tonight some uc berkeley parents are upset about what they say is a lack of Safety Measures on campus, so theyve taken matters into their own hands. The group has raised 40,000 to hire private security ambassadors that will patrol the areas near campus. But as ktvu zac sos tells us, the security guards will only be able to patrol until the end of next week. It is kind of scary having that threat of like, it could be anyone and at any time. Why cal freshman taylor ho now counts himself among the students, happy to see private security guards like these roaming his campus at night, especially at night. It can get kind of scary, like walking back home. The guards, also known as safety ambassadors. How you doing today . Part of a Pilot Program launched last week by the nonprofit safe bears, a group of parents concerned about an uptick in crime on campus. They dont have batons. They dont have mace, they dont have handcuffs, nothing like that. They have radios, radios. Group president jatani says the guards can use to call police as a last resort, but the hope is they wont need to. Theyre meant to provide a visual deterrent to crime. The group raising 40,000 to hire the guards for three weeks, one month after my kids started at uc berkeley, there was a gun battle outside their dorms and somebody was actually killed, jatani says. The university has been too slow to hire additional security. As for students feelings about the program. If people feel really scared, i think, that can take away the fear. I dont know why we need the need for private security, but it feels, probably unnecessary in a statement to ktvu, the University Says its been bolstered in campus security, including through the addition of 32 more Community Service officers, adding in part, quote, hiring private security raises a number of concerns, including the training and experience of individuals hired by such firms. We believe that University Funds are better spent hiring more sworn or nonsworn ucpd officers. Cal encouraging concerned parents to donate to the university instead. Our message to uc berkeley is right now, your students arent safe and a small, meaningful Financial Investment could turn that situation around so quickly and the program again scheduled to wrap up march 23rd, theyre hoping uc berkeley will pay to extend it. If not, theyre considering fundraising to extend it themselves. In berkeley, zac sos, ktvu, fox two news. Well, some of the Financial Aid application glitches that were affecting hundreds of thousands of students are now getting fixed. The u. S. Department of education says it has made technical updates to the online fafsa form this week. Now, parents or financial contributors who dont have Social Security numbers can access the Financial Aid form. Those groups were blocked from doing so earlier this year, when the application was overhauled in an effort to prevent these kinds of issues. Officials say there are other glitches, though , that are still being worked out. A south Bay Middle School facing a possible closure but some parents are pushing back on the decision. The decision made it tonights meeting. Also ahead tonight, new plans to rebuild and repurpose what was once used as a sports venue for years, the construction renderings now being discussed for Kezar Pavilion and to be invasion is all the buzz in Southern California, how it impacted a wellknown tennis competition coming up in west coast rap you made a cow actually its a piggy bank. My inspiration to start saving. How about a more solid way to save . Im listening. Well, bmo helps get your savings habit into shape with a cash reward, every month you save. Both cash reward . And theres a cash bonus when you open a new Checking Account to get you started. Wow. Anything you cant do . mugs. Bmo playing pickleball in their fire station parking lot when they were nearly hit by a car. That story begins tonights west coast wrap. Tempe fire and medical rescue released this Surveillance Video showing the incident for firefighters scattered when they saw the car speeding towards them. It crashed straight into a fire hydrant and several parked cars. The firefighters rushed over to help the driver and provide medical treatment. Officials are now investigating what caused the crash. In colorado, an early spring storm has caused significant snow to fall throughout the day. Parts of that state are digging out for more than a foot of snow. Denver International Airport tweeted this video showing very low visibility. Hundreds of flights have been canceled and highways and schools are closed around denver. A 50 mile stretch of i70 was also shut down, leaving drivers stranded. For others, they are hunkering down at home because of the severe conditions in the city of indian wells, east of palm springs. The weather was perfect, but nature did impact a tennis tournament. The bnp paribas open had to be suspended because of a bee invasion. Wow i dont think ive ever seen this before. Minutes after the quarterfinal match between Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev started a swarm of bees surrounded the spider camera over the stadium. A beekeeper had to be called to the court to safely tend to the bees. The delay ended up being nearly two hours afterwards the match was able to resume. You can hear about the west coast top stories every weekday right here on ktvu. West coast rap with alex savage airs at 7 00 monday through friday, or find around the clock coverage at west coast rap. Com. Well, new tonight a south Bay Middle School at risk of being closed due to declining enrollment. But as ktvu, Lamonica Peters tells us, pushback from parents has prompted the School District to hit the brakes on the plan. For now, parents, students and staff of aptitude academy voiced their concerns about Alum Rock Union School District removing grades six through eight from campus. Yes, there are declining enrollment, but by closing six, seven, and eight, you will create more difficulty for the family. Students may have to attend other nearby middle schools, and many people at the meeting oppose that recommendation. Just like me, they like the k through eight model. My son is safe. His teachers care about him. Weve been here since charango and we want to be here until we finish eighth grade. You dont do a great job. So now their option is to send my send our kids to a different middle school. Which one . District leaders say low enrollment families leaving the area and low birth rates are all contributing factors. Currently aptitude serves kindergarten through eighth grade, but the superintendent says there just arent enough students to justify keeping the school open as it is just too. Remind the board to run an elementary site, we need about 500 students to sustain the site. Doctor bauer says aptitude academy currently has about 410 students, but middle schools need to have at least 700 students to operate the board. Ultimately decided to shelve the recommendation until june. Still some say district leadership should have been more transparent sooner and involve the community. We do know that this theres going to be some very unhappy decisions coming along, but the Community Needs to be part of that right now. We dont trust, you know, the superintendent, im sorry to say this, but thats how we feel. The district also says that it will take a look at the entire district and determine whether or not there are other schools that may be closed, as well as aptitude academy, and they say theyll have a decision about that in june. Lamonica peters ktvu, fox two news in the north bay, more funding is on the way to support homeless programs in Sonoma County, the press democrat reports. The Sonoma County Homeless Coalition has been given an extra 2 million to hand out this year from the state. That means cuts to existing programs will be minimal. The coalition is now in the process of narrowing down which local nonprofits will receive a share of what is now 7. 8 million in funding. California is launching a new proposal to allow Home Insurance companies to base rate hikes on catastro fee prediction models. Currently, the state requires companies to base rate hikes on only historic loss experience. As a result, many Insurance Companies have stopped offering new coverage or dropped customers in wildfire prone areas. State leaders say the rule is outdated and has led to rate spikes and balloon premiums. Golden gate parks kaiser pavilion is about to get a 137 million renovation on. The pavilion currently serves as a sporting event venue and hasnt been renovated in 100 years under a two year project unveiled at tuesday nights meeting at the park police headquarters, it will transform into a drop in rec center as well as a Disaster Response facility. Construction is expected to begin in spring 2025 and finish in winter 2026. A new resource aimed at helping people get jobs coming up the Career Center opening at San Francisco city hall, a group of uc Berkeley Students just broke a Guinness World record. Well tell you what they accomplished. And how about a friday forecast thatll blow you away . Plus its the last full weekend of winter. Weve got that forecast. Its all coming up as the news con nues. Wel more this afternoon. You can see those palm trees just whipping in the wind. The windy weather left thousands of pg and e customers without power across the bay area this afternoon. Most of those Power Outages Power Outages have been restored tonight. All right, lets bring back meteorologist roberto gonzalez. Roberto, you actually took that wild video. The wind was howling, and were not done yet. When you see those palm trees arching, it didnt look really dramatic, but trust me, those were 40 mile per hour winds right there. And thats what we experienced all day. You could hear the wind roar throughout the day today. Its still pretty breezy outside, but boy, the wind gusts were up to 74 and 75mph at Mount Saint Helena in the north bay. Mount diablo, 3800ft, 72 mile per hour wind gusts. Livermore with 40. And how about mineta International Airport at 30 mile per hour to 34 mile per hour winds . Now, our current wind speeds, we still have gusts up to 28 in fairfield. I just took a look at livermore there. Wind gusts are up to 23 along the coast. Half moon bay, 18 mile per hour wind gusts, and 29 in hayward. Now we still have the wind advisory in effect for the interior valleys and the Higher Elevations at the surface that wind advisor has allowed to expire. But the wind advisory for the highest elevations until 11 a. M. For your friday and 5 p. M. For solano county, which means its going to be another breezy, brisk to downright windy friday with that offshore push out of the north and northeast. So its drying out the relative humidity right now in santa rosa, the relative humidity is at 21. So you see the clear area here. Thats because were under the influence of High Pressure and that offshore push. So the High Pressure is here low pressures over there over Southern California. And between the two, its what we refer to as a pressure gradient. And it causes friction. And thats what gears up and prompts the wind and cues it to blow. We do have a lake wind advisory in effect for the greater lake tahoe area for your friday. Otherwise lots of sunshine, winds, blue skies, temperatures where they should be for this time of the year. Otherwise tonight, overnight with the clear skies, a starry night, temperatures in the 40s and 50s overnight rebounding tomorrow. I think this is the first time i said this. This year 75 degrees in san jose, 72, in concord, clayton, walnut creek, alamo, diablo, all the way into livermore, 71 in San Francisco, well above average. And we are talking about above average temperatures each and every day, all the way through the first day of spring, which is on tuesday. Enjoy. Beautiful week ahead, roberta. Thank you. San francisco has opened a new Career Center at city hall. Staff at the Career Center will help candidates navigate the citys hiring process, as well as provide tips on how to write a resume and interview. Mayor london breed says right now, the city has nearly 4000 vacant positions, and this center will allow them to hire more people and do it faster. It takes too long, its too confusing, and all people want to do is get to work. Can you imagine going through a 6 to 1 year process to try and get a city job . And by that time you have a job offer from someone else . The center also provides Career Development for current City Employees to help them progress in their department or learn about new opportunities. Heres a look now at the stories trending tonight on ktvu. Com one of our top stories Alameda County Elections Officials say they will have to manually count tens of thousands of signatures submitted in a petition to recall District Attorney pamela price, also a construction site intended to become Affordable Housing in san jose facing mold problems. Now, the city is working to ensure any new construction is up to code, and horn barbecue has announced it will close its west oakland location for good. This comes after a fire destroyed the restaurant last year. You can find these stories and much more all on ktvu. Com. A huge surprise today for a high schooler working at a chick fil a on the peninsula. How the company celebrated his launch of a special program with a special award. But first, a look back at tonights gorgeous sunset. This was right outside our backyard on the oakland estuary. Youre watching the 11 00 news on ktvu. Well be right back morikawa on 18. He is really boxed in here. Not a good spot. Off the comcast business van. Into the vending area. Oh, not the fries wheres the ball . Anybody see it . Oh wait, there it is back into play and. Aw no, its in the water. Wait a minute. Are you kidding me . You got to be kidding me. Rolling towards the cup, and its in the hole what an impossible shot brought to you by comcast business. you made a cow actually its a piggy bank. My inspiration to start saving. How about a more solid way to save . Im listening. Well, bmo helps get your savings habit into shape with a cash reward, every month you save. Both cash reward . And theres a cash bonus when you open a new Checking Account to get you started. Wow. Anything you cant do . mugs. Bmo the new Transportation Center in hercules are getting a financial boost from the federal government. President biden has signed a spending bill that allocates 850,000 to what is known as the hercules hub. Its a planned Transportation Center for cars, busses, passenger trains and ferries. It would be located right along the waterfront and next to the capitol corridor train line. Earlier today on the four, we spoke with the hercules city councilman and former mayor alex walker griffin. He says the project has been in the works for decades. All of us have experienced interstate 80 at 5 p. M, and we know that its a miserable place to be. And so we want to do is really capture the riders who are going to San Francisco, into oakland, wherever they may be going, and giving them another alternative to use for public transportation. And were also really trying to capture those who are going up to the north bay or even sacramento with the capitol corridor. The project will also include housing as well city leaders say they are still two years away from breaking ground. A High School Student working at chick fil a Ceremony Center location in daly city got a massive surprise for the companys ceo today. Noelle huang was gifted a 25,000 scholarship to help him attend college in the fall. He was also gifted a brand new laptop. Noelle helped launch a pilot Leader Academy program and facilitates several Community Service projects. He says this came as a total surprise. They told me i was here for parents appreciation interview and so i brought my parents and boom, i was just working in the back and they were like, you know, come, come on out. Theres like the ceo of chick fil a is here. And i was like, oh, thats so cool. I walk up and i, and i start doing an interview in front of a bunch of people and then boom, they Just Launched this scholarship on me. Im super blessed and im super excited. Yeah i bet his parents are super proud too. Noelle is still waiting on some college applications, but has already been accepted to Business Business School at the university of pennsylvania. Some lawmakers in washington are pushing to make a 32 hour workweek. The new standard vermont senator Bernie Sanders is among the advocates for a four day workweek. California senator Laphonza Butler coauthored the bill. It would require employee employers to pay overtime after 32 hours, while paying them as much as they made in 40 hours. The bill is supported by labor unions, including flight attendants, service employees, and auto workers. Advocates say the productivity will rise if the u. S. Adopts the 32 hour week, but opponents say that the policy would threaten small businesses, who would find it even harder to find enough workers. Analysts believe its unlikely enough republicans will get on board to support the legislation. A group of uc Berkeley Students broke a world record for the fastest bay area transit tour. The Group Visiting every single bart station saturday, and they did it in less than six hours. Their trip breaks a new Guinness World record for bart speedruns. Bart says the students carefully mapped out their route with a witness at every station and a lot of video. Social media is buzzing tonight after a long awaited reunion on a Southern California stage. Justin timberlake surprised who turned out for a free show in los angeles last night with an nsync reunion. The Group Performed some of their biggest hits, including bye bye bye and its going to be me. Tmz Branson Clark says they also debuted something new. They actually have a new song on Justin Timberlakes new album, which actually drops on friday. Its called everything i thought it was. Hes been promoting this for a while now. On his new tour that hes been on for a bit, and now its called paradise and i heard some of it. Its a great song and its really good to see the band back together. Last nights reunion marked nsyncs first performance on stage with all five band members since 2013. Oh, fun for the fans at a free show i know, and nice surprise. And im sure fun for them too. I love surprises like that. Thats incredible. All right, thats our report for tonight. Thanks for watching the 11 00 news stream the latest news and wea er on ur hello. Im dave clark. Thank you for joining us. Welcome to like it or not. Its a show where our panel weighs in on everything from major controversies to some of those daily annoyances. 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