Converter thefts have increased tenfold since 2018. The parts can be resold for hundreds of ds because of the valuable metals y are made with. The new law will alsorequire people who buy sell them to tailed records of e ion. If you away the maet stli. Its not much more competent than that. Reporter the idea is to make make it less profitable to sell the parts. I just dont think its going going to solve anything until somebody actually cares. Reporter this new law says recyclers will will also face fines if they are are convicted of breaking the law. Starting at 1000 and going going all the way up to 4000 if if there are multiple convictions. More evictions underway, caltrans crews lunging phaedrus two of the project to clear out the largest homeless encampment and while the plan has been in place and in motion for weeks, some residents still dont have a place to go. Another week and another round of cleanup underway, dozens of caltrans workers on site removing everything from trash to Brandon Brandon cars. Some protesters turned up with signs supporting the camps residents but could only look on as the evictions continued. A few weeks ago, crew crew started at the camps northd north and and they are now working their way south down the the i80 corridor, a span of nearly 25 city blocks. This man lf ars the encants forcing everyone out will only make things worse in oakland. Its hard to find a place. Reporter he is still not sure where he will end up longterm, but he and other residents we spoke with say officials gave them plenty of notice to pack up. Where in a difficult situation but i think theyve done a good job. Reporter this man has called called wood street home for 11 years. It was a good run. Reporter while he is sad to leave, hes planning on moving to some cityowned land that wont be part of any caltrans weeps. They just take all your stuff stuff and move it further on down the road. Reporter phase 2 of the project impacts about 40 people and of those 40 they say so far, far, 12 of them have accepted alternative housing offers. The entire camp is expected to close close by november. Longer lines at sfo have nothing to do with security checkpoints, it is hungry travelers looking for the food options still up and after most Food Service Workers went on strike. The staff of 84 different food and beverage outlets walked through sfo or work in sfo walked out today, the union says most members make make around 17 an hour and havent had a raise since 2018 and they say they just cant afford the bay areas cost of living. Conditions have changed and these workers have fallen way behind the cost of living, weve weve got to make up ground. Airport Officials Say a few food outlets are still open with with limited staffing and the strike does not affect news stands where you can get some grab and go food options. A live look at oakland with a a new project underway, we havee on the program and how it will help not only the environment, but a struggling single mom looking for a brighter future. Reporter lynette begins her day at 6 00 a. M. And ends at 11 pm. Like all young adults, she is trying to make her place in this world. But living in west oakland makes it hard. Being low income and hoping that my normal day today check s enough. Reporter long and full of challenges like the rest of us, she tries to keep her eye on the the ball for herself, her family, and the new baby. You can see the light in her eyes wn she speaks of her son. Now a single mother at 26, she wants what is best for him and to break the pattern of poverty here in west oakland. Im doing what i need to do to give myself a better career and a better life. To provide an an get my son a good education and just show him that there is more than just the street life. Reporter she has no illusions about how hard it will will be an her dreams for a better life keep her motivated. Hopefully i will be able to one day buy a house and be a homeowner. Reporter to find those dreams, she turned to the west oakland job resource center, a Nonprofit Organization serving low income jobseekers and serving particularly those in wt oakland, giving them access to s that might otherwise prove elusive. We do all of these things so people can get the confidence to to see a true vision of their future they dream about. Reporter today is day one and lynette and class to be trained for the latest developments. These are multiple multiple jobs aimed at reducing Greenhouse Gases and is made possible through a 350,000 grant from the California Energy energy commission. The benefit to the recruits are multiple. They are being trained for a number of jobs related to Port Industries and you have a reduction of greenhouse emissions specifically here in this community. Reporter the benefits of the the community are obvious, and so are the benefits for lynette and her son. I highly doubt that my kid will have to suffer as much as e as my siblings day. Reporter and a chance to live a life where they cannot only survive, but thrive. There is a goal, theres an american dream, and i am chasing chasing it. The Green Jobs Program is also funded in part for the California Energy commission which each year kicks in 100 million to support green transp. Green transportation. The 49ers are regrouping after a weekend when the offense offense just could not get it into gear. We have reaction to the struggles with jimmy g under ce. Under center. You called it at the top of the newscast, back to the drawing board from the opening drive on, Everything Else was just a blunder, the 49ers lost their best player, trent williams, and it impacted the offensive line and on that play, play, what was that . When Jimmy Garoppolo stepped out of the end end zone for a safety. That was probably the glaring play but he he did have a terrible game in denver last night. A fumble, an interception, a safety. Hes not not the sole target in the blame blame game but he does happen to to be the starting quarterback so the bullseye is on his back back in an 1110 loss in front of a national audience. We had a good rhythm last year, you could see it on the field and you could feel it on the sideline and weve just got to get back to that and we are capable of that and we will get there. What happens now . They get up, brush the dust off and host the rams on monday night for all as a home underdog. Last year was the monday night football route of the super bowl champions that ignited San Franciscos season into the nfc championship game against that very rams team. Its only week three. You got to have a short memory. Thats right, its a long season. Its tough for the family expects more. A retired San FranciscoPolice Department sergeant pleaded no contest to a robbery at a san mateo drugstore. 56yearold Davin Lyle Cole is accused of robbing a rite aid pharmacy in november of last year. Prosecutors say he walked walked in and handed a pharmacy tech a note saying he had a gun and demanded norco pills, he was he was given 900 worth of pills pills and was later arrested. Police say he had a small unregistered handgun in his waistband. He pleaded no contest contest to two counts of felony felony, Second Degree robbery. Prosecutors say he could be sentenced in november. The 22yearold hayward man under arrest facing murder charges in the stabbing death of of a father and son over the weekend, this happened around 4 30 yesterday morning at a home home on lund avenue. Officers found the bodies after receiving receiving a call about an argument inside that house. No word yet on a motive for the killings or how the suspect knew knew the victims. Lets take a live look from capitol hill with a january 6 committee is repairing to resume resume public hearings this week. This comes after a startling revelation from a former republican congressman who spent time working as an investigator for the committee. Reporter days before haiti hearing of the selectivity, a former Committee Staffer is revg new information about what he ds he describes is a potential link link between the white house and and the rider on that day. The white house switchboard had connected to a writers phone while it was happening and and thats a pretty big moment,. Someone in the white house was calling one of the writers well the right was going on . On january 6, absolutely. And you know who both ends of of that call . I only know one end. Reporter said the call lasted just 10 seconds, it was asked whether it couldve come from the former president. I would say its probably not not probable, but on the other hand, we dont know what those extensions are numbers are. Reporter a former house member served as a Technical Advisor for the committee assessing data and phone records records before leaving in april. April. Without the advantage of the Additional Information weve gathered since he left the committee, it poses a real risk to be suspect suggesting things. Things. Thats one of thousands of details that obviously the committee is aware of. Reporter in the first Public Public hearing since july, the january 6 committee on wednesday wednesday is expected to reveal new information and focus on ongoing threats. The trial of both keepers founder Stewart Rhodes gets underway tomorrow, hes accused of plotting to attack the u. S. Capitol in an attempt to keep donald trump in the white house. House. The seditious conspiracy charges are the most serious criminal charges leveled against against any of the january 6 attackers to date. Still ahead on kpix5, a big show of support from the bay area as protesters in iran risk risk their lives to make their s heard. A criminal investigation now underway in connection with californias biggest wildfire of of the year, ypg and he is once again under the microscope. This is going to be a storm like we have not seen in the past. A monster hurricane taking aim at florida, we are tracking ian is a potentially recordsetting storm picks up sm in the gulf of mexico. We will take a look at the pg e under the microscope inn with californias largest wildfe so far this year. The u. S. Forest service has launched a criminal probe into the mosquito the mosquito fire. That fire erupted in the sierra foothills northeast of sacramento earlier this month. The Forest Service has now confiscated a pg e transmission pole near where the the flames were first spotted. Weve reached out to the utility Utility Company for a statement and they told the mercury news its cooperating with the investigation. The mosquito fire fire has burned nearly 77,000 acres and is 85 percent contained. Now to Hurricane Ian, forecasters predict it could strike florida as a category four storm later this week. It looks like most of the states gulf coast will also be impacted. We go to st. Petersburg where the storm is expected to make landfall. Reporter Hurricane Ian previewed its power as a pastor the Cayman Islands with storms expected to pass over the western tip of cuba and grow ino a major hurricane in the gulf of of mexico with florida in its path. Mandatory evacuations are already underway in some of the lowlying areas surrounding tampa bay. This could be the storm thate have hoped would never come to r shores. Reporter officials have asked others in the area to voluntarily evacuate, knowing it it could take some time to move hundreds of thousands of people out of Hurricane Ians path. For all practical purposes, get out, right now. Everybody needs to go. Reporter the National Hurricane center predicts ian could bring lifethreatening storm surge of up to 10 feet in and around the tampa bay area. That is due to the storms track in the high tide when it is set to arrive. This is like a wall of water coming in and it will come in very rapidly. This could push houses off of their foundations. Their foundations. Reporter florida officials have been urging all residents to stop up on essentials, at this Grocery Store in fort myers, cases of bottled water disappeared in seconds. The state is facing a storm about 500 miles wide. You will have really significant winds, it will knock knock over trees, it will cause interruptions, so thats just the name of the game. Reporter heavy rain will be a factor, too, all of it expected to lead to power outages. Hurricane hunters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are over the eye of the storm, gathering data. Southern florida florida and the keys may start seeing Tropical Storm force winds as soon as tonight. As we check in with our first first alert meteorologist, florida kind of dodged the bullet with fiona, but maybe not not this one. No, we started looking at this on friday and its just is gut wrenching now as it was then then to look at the forecast track. If we go to the High Resolution satellite you will se the organization on this storm and you can start picking out the circulation, the eye, there is cuba, and that will be the first target. Right now a category two so this will go across the western side of cuba likely as a category three. Then then it gets really ugly, it strengthens when it gets into the gulf and now youve got a category four hurricane and the forecast track that wants to keep curving it back up toward tampa. The question is, how much much of that intensity does it hold onto before it makes landfall. A category four hurricane could potentially be sitting right off the coast of a of tampa and as troubling as that is, you almost cant look solely at the intensity of this storm because of its aim, even f its not a category four. Lets say it weakens down to a category two. The location of that is almost the worst possible spot because of the alignment of tampa bay and when you look at a closeup of tampa bay, the color codes show you how high this storm surge could go. Into the deep say shades of red, that is 10 feet and if you are not familiar with the way this is laid out, the city of tampa sits there and of course youve probably always heard tampa st. Petersburg, this will be a major story, the storm surge will be the overriding impact from that storm, and a category for brings a whole separate set of issues, theres a lot to go over that storm for the next few days. Back home for for a moment, thats the view from the top of the Salesforce Tower and you see the marine layer come back in, it did it yesterday, dutiful to watch that that onshore come in right over the mountain and within about te last 30 minutes now the clouds have overtaken the top of the se the Salesforce Tower. San jose we have no clue, but you will tonight and tomorrow morning you you will wake up to gray skies, this will be another one of those days with the marine layer layer gets everybody and we all wake up to cloudy skies on tuesday morning. You can see how how widespread this is, this is how you cool down. We were like 70 degrees cooler on sunday from from where we were on saturday and this pattern now which did most of the cooling is just goig to keep us right here and we are are pretty much just doing average now. We went all the way way back down the average for daytime highs. There will be a little bit of missed from this, the marine layer will be so thick along the coast you might pick up a couple hundreds of an inch of rain. Morning lows in te mid 50s, daytime highs tomorrow, tomorrow, all of those numbers are exact the average. Exit for the city, you are actually a little cooler than average in this is your time of year in san San Francisco to be sunny and low 70s, but its more like august right now, its cool andy and cloudy and will stay that wy for the next few days. If you check out the numbers for san jose on the bottom, it will warm warm up a bit. We will see the numbers that do get close to 90 even in san jose and you will go go back to the low 90s for the inland east bay valleys by friday and saturday some more of of that fall like warmth is coming, but for right now, it is is fogust. Amid a brutal crackdown on protests in iran, the bay area is stepping up to show it support for demonstrators, thousands of miles away. If skyhigh gas and food prices werent enough, americans americans will progovernment demonstrations progovernment demonstrations also erupted yesterday in some n cities. The recent death of a 22yearold woman trigger the antigovernment protest. She died died in custody after Police Arrested her for allegedly wearing her headscarf improperly. Women across iran are outraged over the countrys mandatory dress codes and are demanding more rights and freed. And freedoms. Support for the running protest is growing internationally including right here in the bay area. Sunday, hundreds of demonstrators walked walked across the golden gate b. They also formed a human chain stretching across the span of the bridge. A similar demonstration happened at union square, demonstrators waved flags and chanted their support and announce the current iranian iranian regime. The white house is closely watching russian occupied areas of ukraine. The kremlin orchestrating a series of referendums that many believe is is the next step to annexing those territories. There are reports that prorussian Election Officials are going dor searching for voters sometimes accompanied by armed soldiers. The white house now dismissing the referendums as illegitimate saying they will not recognize the occupied territories as part part of russia. We will continue to work with with our allies and partners to hold russia accountable in support ukraine for as long as it takes. Reporter the Russian Foreign foreign minister has said russia russia would be entitled to use Nuclear Weapons to defend newly annexed territories. The white house is warning of catastrophic catastrophic consequences if russia does cross that line. Still ahead at 5 00, gas prices in california now more than two dollars higher than the the rest of the u. S. , the explanation and when we might see a little bit of relief. Governor newsom rejecting a bill to require all children to attend kindergarten, why he says says hes not against the idea despite the veto. We will take you to the Central Coast where the next generation of mariachi musicians musicians and learning about the the artform and their heritage all at the same time. Kevin ive fought wildfires for twenty years. Heres the reality we face every day. This is a crisis. We need more firefighters, more equipment, better Forest Management to prevent wildfires and reduce toxic smoke. And we need to reduce the tailpipe emissions that are driving changes to our climate. Thats why cal fire firefighters, the American Lung association, and the California DemocraticParty Support prop 30. Prevent fires. Cut emissions. And cleaner air. Yes on 30. Have Heart Failure and still experience unresolved symptoms . Heart failure and seemingly unrelated symptoms like carpal tunnel syndrome. Shortness of breath. Irregular heartbeat. And lower back pain could mean something more serious called attrcm a rare, underdiagnosed disease that worsens over time, so its important to recognize the signs. Sound like you . Call your cardiologist and ask about attrcm. Americans dealing with risin, food, and home prices will haver thing to worry about this winte. This winter. California will not become the next state to require kindergarten for all students, now the governor explains his veto. Nasa conducts its first Planetary Defense test, so did the mission go as planned . As we are seeing relief at the pump, gas prices are on the rise once again. At this station station it was 5. 39 a gallon if if you pay cash on the price goes up from there. Across the street street, this station was charging 6. 19 a gallon for regular gas and california is now two dollars higher than the rest of the country according to to aaa. The National Average is 3. 72 well in california it is. Is 5. 80. What is causing the gas prices to rise again . According to the Energy Information administration, aaa says that has led to unplanned maintenance and local oil refin. Oil refineries. We should ex t