Trained to deal with that to keep the channel of communication open. Police were able to use drones to see what the suspect had access to in terms of those Construction Materials and equipment. That was a huge concern throughout the day. They knew that he could be violent because police say he assaulted the victim in that Home Invasion robbery earlier in the day. But police do tell me that the victim is expected to be okay. Back here live. Police tell us the suspect did make a request for some cigarettes and food. They provided those items to the man as part of the negotiation, but just moments ago he surrendered peacefully to police. Were live in fremont tonight. Im chris nguyen, abc 7 newsment back to you. What a bizarre story. Glad its all at an end. Now to storm watch. Sky 7 found some people who enjoyed this weather, have you ever seen other people, though, arent enjoying this weather quite as much. It sucks. Because its still every time its like this, means zero. You cant catch a
Reporter an improvement she hopes to achieve by calling on city departments and the board of supervisors to commit every spare budget dollar towards homelessness, Mental Health s. F. , as well as people who are struggling with Substance Use disorder. Those will be our priorities because we want to make sure that we change what we know people are frustrated over. Reporter a lot of the frustration is coming from Business Owners who, according to the San Francisco chamber of commerce, are concerned about our streets. Our level of street care is not great enough, and that we need to up our game when we can all step up and be part of that. Reporter oracle reits entitlely announced it will move its world conference to las vegas. One of the reasons, poor street conditions. Do you think San Francisco is falling apart . I dont think its falling apart, but i think it could if we dont be more careful and take bolder steps. Reporter the oracle open world conference will cost San Francisco an estim
My wife is she cries about it because its our home. And my son, hes just worried, are we ever going to move back in here. Hes 11 years old. Reporter days prior to the storm, he said the San Francisco San Francisco Public Utility Commission sent someone to check the drain after an incident. Its fine, the whatter is flowing. Its not the issue if water is flowing. Thats not the issue. Its the capacity. Reporter we talked about drain capacity with the boards president norman yee. Sunny side is in his district. I think its worth us researching what it would cost into a tenyear increase the size. As we are replacing, we could go into a bigger system, but it koftsds more. Reporter we also contacted the puc. The city just replied to us. This is what theyre doing. In a statement they said they received the ticket numbers from this household and added in part based on the initial information provided, it appears the area may need more maintenance than a simple clearing of the storm drain which i
Having the provisions to shower or, you know, use the rest room. A 200,000 county grant and donated labor and materials went into the homes. Those selected can live here up for up to 18 months while they prepare to lock for permanent housing. Theyll have to have jobs because they have to pay rent. So its going to start at 200, and then for four month, and then go to 400, 600, 800. She runs the churchs homeless assistance programs. She says the church wont profit from the rent. After utilities are covered, whats left over will be put in a savings and returned to the residents to help pay for permanent housing. I love this work. I want people to be housed. I want people to have dignity. In where they live and feel proud of who they are. And so i think this is one step in that direction. Whats worth having is worth waiting for. Now getting these tiny homes here was just the first step. There is still a lot of work to do. They have to finish the insides. You saw the unfinished version. The
Never cool, there is a new report from realtor. Com that says thats exactly what could happen in 2020. Here and across the country. In the bay area itself we expect to see weak sales so small decline in home seals in 2020. And roughly flat prices. Reporter according to realtor. Com, 2020 home sales will drop nationwide by 1. 8 . But more than twice that, down 4. 5 in the San Francisco metro area. Down 3 in the south bay. Up. 8 nationwide but down. 4 in the San Francisco market and up more than 2 in the san jose area. Realtor. Com report indicates the market will clear because Economic Uncertainty cause people to stop spending especially in the entry level category. He says the report may be accurate but no one trend or prediction especially at the National Level applies to all of the micro markets in already high priced bay area. We cant continue to go up at 6 and 8 a year. We are out running wage growth. So yes prices are leveling off. And its becoming more what we call a normal marke