Contract with the owners and were illegally occupying this house. The Property Owner offered to pay for two months of housing elsewhere and offer a mover. The mothers called it an insult. This is out of our hands. The sheriffs will evict them and its quite possible they will be coming this week, maybe even tomorrow. We encourage them to leave peacefully and voluntarily. We are here and we are not leaving. Weve been here since november 18 and that is a win for us. [ cheers and applause ] reporter the last piece of video showed that walker and her children are here and they had entered the unoccupied home in midnovember and since then, several other homeless moms and kids joined them. Wedgewood properties purchased the property in july for 500,000 and the moms want wedgewood to sell them the house. They said the housing crisis in oakland is outofcontrol and there are too many vacant homes and that housing is a vacant home owners right. People have been bringing food to the moms and they
Mostly cloudy later and we cloud up and then we get some rain moving rapidly with quartermile visibility in santa rosa and morning sunshine and then we cloud up with rain tonight. 40s and 30s on the temps and 50s later. Clouds later. 6 01 and we have sal to tell us about the roads. More crowded and we expected that, especially in the east bay. We do see traffic that will be a little bit slow as you come in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. The toll plaza gets very crowded and nothing unusual about this with traffic moving okay. When you get on the bridge, it looks okay and to the south bay, it is slow and so is 101 into morgan hill and eventually into the south bay was slowing and coming up, more of the east bay commutes but lets go back to the desk. Right now, mothers who moved into a west oakland home a legally are staging a rally. We have Alyssa Harrington at the house. The women and children are facing eviction . Reporter the women could be evicted as early as today
But the roads are are still wet. You could see that as we look at the Golden Gate Bridge camera. If youre about to step out, it is nice and cool as the skies clear. Were in the upper 40s in San Francisco but well get some sunshine today with highs in the mid to upper 50s all across the bay area. Well talk about more rain in the forecast and right now, mike, youre seeing changes at the bay bridge. Definitely changes from the last few minutes and it seems heavier than this time on monday when traffic started to ease back. So were continuing the build from the vacation weeks at the end of last year. 2020 now shows you the backup at the toll plaza. We should see the metering lights on at 5 15 but last week was 5 10 so keeping in earlier. So around mcdonald slowing there and maybe a crash there. Well follow up with chp. The rest of the bay does look nice. Well talk about danville coming up. Back to you. At 5 01 if you ride b. A. R. T. You might notice a Higher Police presence because b. A.
Accidents blocking lanes. The biggest one is right around Redwood Estates and you have got that right lane blocked there. Traffic is slow there as you work your way approaching that crash. And right at the summit area, summit road we have report of a crash there as well. Right lane blocked on that one also. Busy ride going out of Santa Cruz Mountains this morning. Also busy through the Altamont Pass. Thats coming up in the next report. Right now the battle between some moms in oakland and a Real Estate Company is on the streets with a potential eviction looming. Kpix 5s jackie ward joins us live from west oakland where protests are getting underway. Jackie . Reporter you can see the crowd is growing behind me michelle. They are rallying in support of the moms who live here with their kids on magnolia street. The moms are going to be evicted and theyre not leaving without a fight they say. Judge Patrick Mckenny recently ruled oakland moms for housing must leave the west oakland home the
Historic preservation architects at trainer angel. And they are here today, and, they have been with us through thick and thin. And we really appreciate their their patience and their support and their confidence of us being able to move on. So as you know, no project gets off the ground without the support of many. And we have many, many people to thank here today. But before we get to that, we want to make sure that we continue to stay in the good thoughts of the many ancestors who made this building possible for us to preserve and use and enjoy for many generations, to help us with our appreciation. We are grateful to the members of the Japanese American Religious Federation or by its acronym jaaf, who are here today to share a blessing, prayer and chant to thank those before us, those here today, and those who will come tomorrow. So id like to introduce all of them and they will all come up individually. Starting with reverend rodney yano of konko church of San Francisco, reverend