Synagogues, Community Groups and israelis in the bay area are banding together to fundraise and build support. Many of them have direct ties, of course, to friends and family in israel who have been killed, taken hostage or injured. Abc seven News Reporter Leslie Brinkley has more on how the war in israel is hitting home in the bay area. Israel is a small country. Everyone knows someone. One rabbi berkowitz is knitting together support in the contra costa Jewish Community in the face of what he called horrific attacks. Yes, im getting news that that people that i know persons we know are no longer with us. They were brutally murdered, brutally slaughtered, and the news just keep coming. This is denying 11 of the israelis. This is the nine over 11 of the israelis. I was raised and grew up in ashkelon. The city that right now is under tremendous attack of missiles. And my parents right now and my mother in law are in the shelters. We are not there. We are here. And we hear all the sadnes
In my camper. Soon michael will be moving to larkspur into this brand new permanent support of housing space. Im ready to get get surrounding, get get a shower. Heres what the place used to look like a former Skilled Nursing facility which had been shuttered for years. So this will be one of the new homes for the residents. At 1251 south, alicia, excited to show you. Come on in. Beth stokes from Episcopal Community services, the nonprofit partnering with marin county, shows us one of the 43 rooms in the facility, complete with a fridge, microwave and ac, including a view. It has a beautiful scenery for folks who have experienced chronic homelessness for a very long time. This is going to be a really special place for them. The project received 12 million from the States Project home key initiative. Residents will get support and Services Customized to their needs. This is, you know, bringing in case managers, bringing in Behavioral Health folks, bringing in medical folks as needed, Pub
snow biello joins us now live from the newsroom with more with the family has to say no pam and ken new tonight, oakland police did announce they ve recovered the car involved and they re processing evidence from that that the iver as you mentioned still has not been found officers say 40 year-old maisch a singleton was walking to pick up her child from elmhurst middle school friday when she was struck and killed in the cross walk toght by aisha sister is calling on the driver responsible to come forward. ever did it please just a family misses the taliban miss her every move issue says there just needed probably need we don t want it we need it please. been it just sign he really can just hear the hurt and her voice tonight, she and other family members spoke at the intersection where my show was killed it happed at 98th avenue and cherry street. there s now a makeshift memorial of candles and flowe there a friend of shes councilmember lynette mchaney spoke tonight as wel
exactly three years ago today, january 20th, 2017, that i was sworn into office. so appropriate that today is also mlk jr. day. [ laughter ] is it, though? because i don t think it is. african-american unemployment is the lowest in the history of our country by far. also best poverty youth unemployment numbers ever. great! [ laughter ] that s right. martin luther king s dream that racism would one day become a relic of the past has one day been realized thanks to donald trump, the great uniter. let me tell you something. martin luther king had a dream. this wasn t it. [ laughter ] and the only dream donald trump ever had involved porn stars and unlimited breadsticks. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] and then a scant 13 minutes later his little thumbs followed that up by tweeting he would never allow our great second amendment to go unprotected, not even a little bit. 13 minutes after tweeting about dr. king he tweets support for the weapon that killed him. what a dope th
us. but then we re going to be looking at some drying quicker an you know it so here s a look outside this morning. you do have the golden gate bridge looking nice and dry this morning.early risers again it is the time to be on the roads you re going to be missing a lot of the action we re going to be looking at later on in the day today. so we do have some light showers right offshore right now if you re up in the north bay couple of light sprinkles but activity as of this point has remained at a minimum now as we work our way through the day you re going to see the shower intensity only increasing so right now is definitely a good time to be on the roadways for some of our early risers this is a 05:30am right here notice the north bay starting to pick up some rain at this point so for those of you in the north bay, you re definitely going to be receiving your rainfall before the rest of us light to even moderate even a spot, a heavy showers up there around the russian rive