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Countys District Attorney says the number of Domestic Violence cases has increased 142 over the past five years. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im julie julie haener. Advocates worry budget cuts could create more limitations on the county and ultimately make it more difficult for Domestic Violence survivors. Ktvu Lamonica Peters reports. Since 2019, the number of Domestic Violence cases in Santa Clara County increased from 76 cases to 184 cases per prosecutor. At the same time, the county is facing a 250 million deficit and the District Attorneys office may face 6 million in budget cuts and some of the staff positions needed to prosecute the cases may be eliminated. Rosaria henderson is the executive director of next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence. So our shelter is full. It is constantly full. Our Sister Agency shelters are full and because of that, our hotel bill has gone up three fold. The Santa Clara County das Office Released a statement saying in part, the rise in Domestic Violence in our community, coupled with the lingering problems caused by reduced court capacity during the pandemic, has made the work of serving victims harder and harder. We are really on the precipice of a of a situation in which survivors may come forward to our systems and to our agency and ask for support, and we may have to say no. Henderson says next door is also facing federal funding cuts after seeing a 33 client increase over the last five years. People should still call for help, they should still ask for what they need and we are. And its our job to try to figure out a way to ensure that we can get them support, henderson says. Next door is seeking state and private funds to help Keep Services available for survivors, and Santa Clara County will finalize its budget for 2025 by the end of june. Lamonica peters ktvu, fox two news a documentary on the disappearance of a young woman from oakley, premiered tonight with mixed reactions from those involved in the case. The watch party for the hour long where is alexis special was hosted at a pizza restaurant in gabes hometown. 24 year old alexis gabe went missing january 22nd, january of 2022. Her body was eventually found later that november. Her suspected killer and exboyfriend, Marshall Jones died during an investigation in tonight. Her family says they are disappointed in the documentary, claiming it left out evidence implicating marshalls mother, who was arrested in 2022, accusing of aiding and abetting. Why is the da not filing charges against marshalls mother . Were not going to quit until shes in jail. However, the Contra Costa County District Attorneys office tells ktvu there is no indication anyone other than marshall was directly involved in the murder. The attorney for the gabe family will present the case to the District Attorney in the coming week. Now to the propalestine protests that have intensified on College Campuses across the nation. Demonstrators at the university of Southern California in los angeles began clashing with police this afternoon after they were told by officers to disperse some moments of chaos soon followed, causing University Officials to close its gates to the public indefinitely. And tonight, while many people have moved out of uscs alumni park, demonstrators remain on the outside perimeter. Reporter ed laskos brings us the latest as i get back. Chaos in the very center of the usc campus. So lapd moving in, ending the occupation of alumni park as Tactical Squad surround the park, sealing it off, turning it into a tense face off with hundreds of propalestinian protesters, kkk, a wild scene with bottles and liquid being tossed at the officers who gave the protesters a deadline to leave the park, or else hopefully they start dispersing and leaving the area, and then well go ahead and go to that next step. And if they do not leave, if they dont leave, then theyll be placed under private persons arrest by the department, and theyll be subject to arrest for trespassing. Tensions began to heat up hours earlier, with uscs department of Public Safety officers moving in to confiscate some tents and detain a protester. That led to a scuffle pushing, shoving, yelling with a standoff growing from there, forcing usc to even close its campus to anybody whos unauthorized. But hundreds of protesters already on campus locking arms, vowing not to leave, instead vowing to face arrest. Let them go, right, let them go because, like most of them are students. These people are not criminals. Theyre not criminals. One by one, the protesters led away, some 70 of them arrested and booked, all to make their demands for usc to end its ties with israeli connected investments. I love it, i love it, i think its very necessary. I hope it doesnt escalate the way it has at columbia university. I think its a peaceful protest and its necessary. Again, that was ed laskos reporting. Meantime, in northern california, Cal Poly Humboldt remains closed through the weekend. Propalestinian demonstrators continue to occupy one of the schools Main Administration buildings. The doors of siemens hall have been barricaded with tables, chairs and other objects. Three people have been arrested. The protests first started monday night. The students barricaded inside have several demands. Among them, theyre asking the university to divest from israel and no penalties or charges for any of the student protesters. University Officials Say they have asked the students to be open to dialog to reach a solution. And here in the bay area, protesters are also camping out in tents at uc berkeley. This protest also started monday with about a dozen tents. It has now grown to at least 70 large tents right outside the administrative building at cal. Demonstrators have the same requests of wanting the university to condemn the violence in gaza. The University Says it has no plans to change its Investment Policies or practices. Meantime, Campus Police have been scene monitoring the protest from afar. But have not engaged with any of the protesters. The demonstrators say they do not plan to leave any time soon, and you can stay up to date on the growing protests across the nation online. Just visit ktvu. Com anytime around the clock. New at 11 a bill was introduced in sacramento today that seeks to avoid punishing students for drug use or drug possession on campus. Ab 2711 requires interventions before suspensions or expulsions. The author of the bill, Assembly Member james ramos of san bernardino, says schools would be required to connect students with Treatment Services first to help break the cycle of punishment often associated with drug use. This is an Important Health and even potentially life saving measure by allowing schools to refer students to programs, we can get them the much needed resources they need, Assembly Member ramos says more than 83 of drug related suspensions are students of color. The bill has the support of several children, advocacy and Mental Health groups. If approved, the measure would take effect in two years. The use of narcan is being credited for saving the life of a high school student. The Antioch Unified School district says. The schnue at Deer Valley High School administered four milligrams of narcan yesterday to a student who was showing signs of a possible ntyl overdose. That student was immediately revivednd transported to the hospital this mog,he family reported the student was doing well and planned to return to schooltoy,o release an informational video to students warning them of the dangers associated with fentanyl. New at 11 a plan to expand the states free tuition and Cash Aid Program for qualifying College Students is in jeopardy due to a projected budget deficit, a law passed two years ago calls for the expansion of the Cal Grant Program, but only if there is money to fund it. The legislative Analysts Office says the expansion appears unlikely, as early signs do suggest the states upcoming budget wont be able to take on new expenses. Expanding the Cal Grant Program would cost california 245 million. We are learning new information about a south bay caregiver under arrest, accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an elderly couple, and investigators say they believe there may be more victims. The Santa Clara County Sheriffs Department says 44 year old gerald cirillo used the debit card of a Los Altos Hills couple, 15 times and withdrew 10,000. The unauthorized withdrawals were discovered by the couples daughter. Cirillo was identified in an atm surveillance photo. He has been working as a caregiver for four years in Santa Clara County and in surrounding areas. During the arrest of this individual, we did recover several other items in his wallet, bank cards, debit cards, checks, things that did not belong to him. Which leads us to believe there could be more victims out there, and were actively working to reach out to those victims. Cirillo was arrested and booked into county jail on felony identity theft, financial elder abuse from a caregiver and drug charges in tonights west coast wrap. The investigation into Sean Diddy Combs continues reaction to the drug charges his main associate is now facing. Also ahead tonight, the california garlic festival shooting in another town. Why organizers say it will be a better fit. And the oakland zoo sending bison to montana. How its become part of a greater effort to return the animals to their natural next. Stop. You got it . Lets go back to the beginning. Are you. Your electric future. Customized. The fullyelectric audi q4 etron. Get exceptional offers at your local audi dealer. Everyone needs a place to recharge. How we get there matters. Get exceptional offers at your local audi dealer. Mogul caught in a sex trafficking investigation and associate to diddy, was charged with a felony count of drug possession. This story begins tonights west coast rap. Brendan paul sean combs, his assistant, pleaded not guilty to a drug possession charge in Florida Court today. Last month, he was arrested at an Executive Airport in miami. The same day combs homes were raided. Earlier today, tmz told us pauls alleged involvement could serve as leverage in the overall investigation. He has been by diddys side doing everything for the man and yeah, hes facing with this felony charge. Its not a misdemeanor, its a felony. He is facing significant prison time himself. And is that enough leverage to say, hey, look, well cut you a deal. All you got to do is tell us what did hes been up to . Brendan paul is accused of being a drug runner for diddy. Combs is currently being investigated by the federal government for sex trafficking, illegal gun possession and other alleged crimes in utah. Fans gave a warm welcome to the states newest pro sports team. Hockey players from the nhl. Former Arizona Coyotes arrived in Salt Lake City this morning, screaming fans were waiting for them at Salt Lake City international airport. The delta Center Hosted a party for the team and the fans this afternoon. Extremely excited to have an nhl team here. I think its going to completely change the landscape of hockey in utah, especially college hockey, and its going to be. Im excited to see what happens. As of right now, it is still unclear what the teams new name will be when it starts playing in utah, and you can hear about the west coast top stories every weekday right here on ktvu. West coast rap with alex savage airs 7 00 monday through friday, or you can find a round the clock coverage at west coast rap. Com. The california garlic festival moving yet again, this time to los banos in merced county. Organizers say they wanted to be closer to where the garlic is grown and then make it easier for vendors from the now defunct gilroy garlic festival to take part. Ktvu is an rubin has the story. Whether youre craving garlic popcorn, garlic sausage or maple brown sugar garlic ice cream this summer, theres a new destination for all things garlic las banos. The fairgrounds there will play host to the california garlic festival, and we felt it was best to be centrally located between the top producing garlic county. The move comes after two years in stockton, but really the organizers are picking up the torch from the now defunct gilroy garlic festival. Following a mass shooting in 2019, gilroy canceled their event indefinitely and started offering a charitable golf tournament. Instead. We reached out to them for reaction, but didnt hear back when gilroy ceased their operations. We had a lot of people reach out to us saying, hey, you guys do festivals, your local farmers, is there something you can do . So the new organizers, who also run an asparagus festival, knew exactly what to do. There will be monster trucks, camel rides, live entertainment, scholarship, pageants, and of course garlic. And we just didnt want it to hurt our agriculture community. So we just picked it up and created our own with the respect to them and also the outreach to the community. Its not going to be as big as the gilroy garlic festival on its first year, but bringing that Economic Opportunity here to merced county, i think it could be something really great. Los banos, which holds a spring festival at their fairgrounds, already wanted a second event. This seemed like the perfect fit. Plus the site is close enough that farmers, vendors and volunteers from gilroy can easily participate. Its kind of a way to tie the two communities together, and i think its, you know, its pay homage to them. Be thankful for what they started. Unfortunately, its not there anymore. But hey, well pick up the mantle and run with it. The california garlic festival, in its new location, is set to run august 30th through september 1st. Tickets go on sale later this week in los banos and ruben ktvu fox two news. More layoffs hitting the bay area this time a San Francisco Biotech Company, plus. Were here to keep the community safe. Were here to make, to make the department a better place. Very honored to that. They would think of us. Two San Francisco Police Officers being recognized for their work. How the two have the Greater Mission to bring more women to the police force. Our cool to mild weather expected to continue for your bay area thursday. Little change on friday, but more sunshine in time for the weekend. A better look a what we ca were in the middle of. Livin large and having a big day the Meeting Point of humanity and history. In the middle of being the fun uncle in the middle of being a kid again beep beep theres something for everyone in illinois. The middle of everything this marks 38 total heritage bison from the oakland zoo to be released into the care of the blackfeet nation. This is all part of an effort to restore the wild bison population to their native landscape. The oakland zoo has been a major contributor to the effort since 2016. Uc berkeleys cal falcons are celebrating the four new baby peregrine falcons that hatched today. The public has been able to track the egg hatch over the past month through the cal falcons live stream. The chicks mother, annie, is a longtime campus Celebrity Living atop the schools campanile clock tower. For years, we spoke with sean peterson, an ecologist with cal falcons, about why this hatch day was especially significant. This is like the culmination of tons of conservation effort to bring these falcons back from the brink of extinction, and to have four new chicks this year is just so wonderful to see, and annie has never hatched a full clutch of four before, so four chicks before. So this is a really exciting time for her. Theyre so fluffy. Cal falcons says the father of the chicks. Archie is already bringing meals back to feed the newborn chicks. Theyre so cute, so adorable. And i heard the man speaking earlier. He said they would have to take flight school, flight training. Flight training . Absolutely, good evening to you. We are joined by the clouds , the fog and patchy drizzle expected once again for tomorrow. Giving you a live look here over San Francisco. Well, this is a beautiful view over the city. A little change expected for tomorrow and friday. Were even going to add in a few sprinkles. But then in time for the weekend, more sunshine. More on that in the extended forecast. A view of some of the numbers from today. 62 degrees in San Francisco. Mid 60s and livermore. Right now. Temperatures ranging from low to mid to upper 50s 56 right now fremont, san jose youre sitting at 60 degrees. One of the warmer, milder temperatures out there at this time. All the cloud cover still over the bay area. We even had thunderstorms push through areas of the sierra earlier today. And weve been talking about this low here now for some time. It was parked off our coastline yesterday. Its now moving across Southern California and will be out of here by tomorrow. But the future cast here shows you another one dropping in from the gulf of alaska. And this is what will bring us that possibility of a little bit of wet weather. It doesnt look like a big deal, but we may see some of that come our way thursday night into friday. And a little bit of snow in the sierra is expected as well, with snow levels above 6000ft. But a few inches would be possible. Then as we get into saturday, that system moves out. Have a little bit of a ridge build in and thats going to push the storm track to the north. And we are again going to see a little bit more sunshine tomorrow morning. Temperatures will be on the cool side with the clouds, the fog, the patchy drizzle, low 40s to low 50s and then for the afternoon, very similar to today, low 60s in San Francisco, 65 for fremont, upper 60s to about 70 degrees for some of our warmer locations. 70 degrees expected in concord. And your extended forecast here. Again, temperature wise, we dont see a whole lot of change. The patchy drizzle, a few sprinkles getting into the final business day of the week and then into the weekend. Temperatures dont. Nothing like last weekend, but a little warmer, more sunshine. Get that low out of here. Yeah, today was such a weird day. We hardly didnt see any sunshine. Yeah. Not enough. All right, well, were maybe going to slowly get there. Yeah. Rosemary. Thank you. Mary. New at 11. South San Francisco based Biotech Company freenome is cutting 20 of its workforce. These layoffs come shortly after the Company Secured 245 million in funding to develop early Cancer Detection tests earlier this month, a couple other south city biotech companies, including genentech, laid off hundreds of workers also new at 11 tonight, San Franciscos Public Utility Commission is hosting a webinar tomorrow to discuss efforts to purchase the citys electrical grid from pg and e, the commission claims the transition would unlock Affordable Electric rates for residents. The webinar will cover what the commission calls the benefits of public power, as well as how locals can get involved in the movement. Tonight, some bay area students had the opportunity to share their musical talents. How the Program Benefits these students directly and but first, heres a quick look at tonights sunset. You can see the puffy clouds there and the light filtering through. So pretty. Youre watching the 11 00 news right here on ktvu. 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Police officers Brittany Taylor and wing luck are being honored by the city of San Francisco for their outstanding work. The two women received recognition for their actions during an incident on the graveyard shift. 903 at age 65, shortly after one in the morning on february 8th, the two officers were patrolling in their squad car in the south of market area when they noticed a man riding his bicycle on the sidewalk, which is illegal. Officer luck got out of the car to speak with him, and i asked him to get off of his bike, and then he kind of ditched his bike and hopped over here. Ran over luck, chased on foot. The two officers managed to take down the suspect, who is a convicted felon, but the officers didnt stop there. They retraced the mans steps and gathered evidence that he had tossed out a stolen gun that was loaded, and illegal narcotics, including meth, amphetamine, and fentanyl. You dont know whats going to happen, but but at the end of the day, youre ready for it. Police chief bill scott says the female officers are part of what he describes as a momentum, a turnaround in policing here and across the country. Theres a lot of research out there that talks about, you know, the benefits of having women in Law Enforcement lower rates of use of force, deescalation tactic, senior medic or anything. Both officers are 34 years old. Luck, a bilingual chinese american, is a rookie. She was an accountant and wanted a Career Change to Law Enforcement. But she says initially, the antipolice sentiment stemming from the george floyd incident gave her pause. I wanted to be like the change that, we wanted to be so in order to do that, you cant just criticize. Taylor has been patrolling the streets for five years. She says being a gay African American woman will hopefully encourage people from many different backgrounds to join Law Enforcement. The only way you can stop the bad things thats happening out there is to put on a uniform and go and do something about it. The San Francisco Police Department tells me. Female officers currently only make up 15 of its force. The goal is to reach 30 by the year 2030. In San Francisco, amber lee ktvu, fox two news. Bay area olympic figure skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi is the latest inspiration for a new barbie doll. It is one of the dolls and barbies inspired womens series. Yamaguchi says its a huge honor to be recognized. The dolls release comes just ahead of aarp heritage month in may. The doll costs 45 and is available now for preorder. Oakland Unified School District held its Second Annual vocal festival tonight, featuring performances from east oakland elementary, middle and high school students. The festival was at castlemont high school, essentially an initiative to reestablish the legacy of choral music in east oakland. So weve got six schools in east oakland that are participating in music classes during the day. Theyre learning choir, singing, vocal performance, all those things. Theyre being taught by teaching artists that are coming into the schools on a week to week basis. The curriculum covers several genres, from gospel to r b, just about anything else. The students want to learn. Just keep singing, get on stage and keep going. Nice to hear that tonight. Yes. All right. Thanks for watching, everybody. Our next newscast of course, mornings on two starting at 4 00. And a stream the latest news and weather on your smart tv anytime. Just download the fox local app to your tv. Thanks for joining us, everyo. G d night welcome to like it or not a show where our panel weighs in on everything from major controversies to daily annoyances will tackle a topic and each person will let us know whether they like it or not. I am henry lee. Im excited because we have a return of our all kids panel soxc