Melanie louis . I have worked for the city and Health Department the last 30 years, last 18 years in the emergency department. I want to ask all of you to do the right thing. We, who benefit from our pension, dont want our pension money invested in evil. Fossil fuel is evil. Its hurting its hurting what will be left of our planet for our grandchildren and i encourage all of you to vote to divest all of our money from fossil fuels. C. Landry and Carol Brownson after that. I decline to speak. Ruth magony. I worked in the library for the city for 40 years, worked hard for my retirement. Over the last four years, ive been doing research on fossil fuels and investments and though Nelson Mandela said, well, everything that you gave up in the best things from south africa, somebody else picked up, it was still powerful enough a message to south africa and the world that there were disinvestments. My studies have shown that the nonfossil fuel investments have been going up steadily. The social
Would have on pension performance and costs. We appreciate and understand the desire to divest from fossil fuels from different entities, but we must understand the implications of such a decision before its made. Sorry. Time. Thank you very much. Again, everyone has 1 minute. Were going to announce loudly when you are at your 1minute mark. Understand the constraints we have. Sara greenwald, are you present . Seeing shes not here. I will set her speaker card aside. Phil casky, followed by margaret pierce. Phil casky, retired from the Water Department. I think i want to say briefly the Water Department is an incredibly wonderful system. Its one of the most protected systems in the world. And we didnt get that way by being unprotective of the environment. So burning fossil fuels is not protective of the environment. And i would like to keep the water system the way it is and i think that San Francisco can be a leader in many, many ways and by divesting is one way to do it. Thank you. Tha
Roads are treacherous for those not slowing down. Drivers are reminded if youre using your windshield wipers you need to use your headlights as well. Look at that. Slick roads. Lets take a live look at conditions outside. This is our san rafael camera. The area will get a drenching tonight. Our meteorologist is tracking the storm with live doppler 7 hd. Drew . Were talking about drenching downpours beginning to move into the bay area. Busy tracking the downpours right down on the street level over much of San Francisco. Look at this. The pops of red you see on your screen around sunset, moving into the marina. This is very heavy rain about to cross the city of San Francisco. These pockets of yellow you see in the east bay from emeryville as you go into berkeley as richmond. Heavier downpours. Even downpours in the north bay as well. San rafael around 101, this are heavy rain showers. Look what is waiting in the wings. Live doppler 7hd, huge shield of moisture is offshore. Its going to
He is accused of hiding and stealing mail from customers. The mans arrest is the result of a federal investigation that dates back more than a year. Kron fours Philippe Djegal is live in san jose. With the latest on this investigation. Philippe. Pam. Quan howard was arrested last night, and booked here into the Santa Clara County main jail earlier this morning. He is accused of abusing his power as a postal inspector and ripping people off. This is a photo of 52yearold postal inspector quan howard taken back in 2012 after being awarded federal employee of the year by the San Francisco bay area federal executive board of the us postal inspection service. A far cry from what hes being recognized for now. Charged by the office of Inspector General for delaying, destroying, stealing and possessing stolen us mail. Sot im actually very surprised and shocked. Anne lauzon is a longtime neighbor of howards, living nextdoor to him in saratoga. Sot its dumbfounding. I just would not have even ant
Here on cbs 5. Reporting from napa, Roberta Gonzales cbs 5. And as you just heard, the north bay is going to get hammered but one spot in particular really needs to watch out. In the past, heavy rains have flooded San Anselmo Creek inundating the downtown with water. Voters approved a tax for prevention projects five years ago. But the money has been tied up in court most of the time. Now theres about 10 million waiting to be spent. There are efforts that Planning Efforts and more to develop what are called retention ponds in upstream areas the idea of which is to slow down the downstream onslaught of water that happens in big rain events. The town may be on alert but not everyone there is happy about being on the news. Ahead at 6 00, cbs 5s Mike Sugerman explains why. We might be seeing more of this before all is said and done. This tree came down in San Franciscos Bernal Heights neighborhood. Crews were trying to clean it up this morning. There have been a number of trees that have c