Will be opened up for the homeless. The scene today reminiscent of this, the more rooms for housing protest in oakland late last year, a group of homeless mothers occupied a home for several months after being forcibly evicted in january, they were given the opportunity to buy the property. Developing news out of palo alto where smoky fire near the popular hiking area beneath the stanford dish could be seen for miles. You can see multiple patches of thick smoke coming up from the dry grass, fire crews aggressively attacked it, even cal fire joined the fight. Fortunately only vegetation burned, less than three acres per onto the other big story today, a Bay Area Company at the forefront of working to treat the virus just got fda approval from a promising experimental drug. Today the fda granted emergency use as a result authorization for Gilead Sciences remdesivir drug earlier this week, the National Institutes of health announced the results of a study showing hospitalized covid19 pati
Two people shot in San Francisco tonight. Still an active scene. Well have the latest information from police. The Antioch City Council held a special meeting tonight to decide whether or not to remove the planning commissioner who made controversial comments about letting the coronavirus kill the weak. Santa cruz is cracking down as social distancing guidelines go ignored. I got a ticket for just sittingting down there. Tonight the new beach restrictions about to take effect. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are following two breaking stories tonight. Im Juliette Goodrich in for elizabeth. And im ken bastida. We begin in san jose. Police say an officer fired a gun during some sort of incident earlier tonight. This happened at 7 00 in the area of king road at duffy way. Now, details are scarce at this point, but were told that no one was hurt and two people were taken into custody. We are also following breaking news in San Francisco. Right now police are on the scene of
Special zoom meeting tonight, some member of the public called in, and roughly 90 emails were read. In a unanimous vote, the council stripped ken of his title as planning commissioner. After many years of service to the city in both the private and public sectors, it is disheartening that you are considering removing me from the planning commission. Reporter planning commissioner ken was the first to speak as his city job was on the line. He was followed by nearly two hours of public comments, some in support of him and others who demanded his removal. You have no business ever holding an office elected or appointed in any jurisdiction in the United States of america. I know this m sp t man. This man isd amproud of it. Repter thepecial meeting after outrage erupted over a Facebook Post. Ken says he just offered an opinion which suggested to let the coronavirus kill the elderly, weak and the homeless. Prior to tonights meeting, ken defended his actions in an interview with kpix 5. I put
Find great offers and value, today, at xfinity. Com. Now at 11 00 p. M. Tside dur place order. The efforts to keep crowds from forming at bay area parks and the fines if you ignore the order. It is not going to be a light switch. How close are we to reopening the country. Officials saying we might be too far off. I think that this time has really allowed people to look within and really focus on what is important to them. Dating while distancing. The apps helping people find new relations while stuck at home. People still inundated bay area parks this holiday weekend. Good evening i am brian hackney. Kpix 5s joe vazquez on the crack down in one city to keep the crowds from forming. Reporter gorgeous Easter Sunday is by no means a normal one. Folks are not packed in but it isnt a ghost town either. They really do seem to be trying to keep away from others still, Police Announce everyone in the park should go home. Reporter park rangers also walked through. Reminding folks the city is sh
North for a while and maybe by the weekend something was begin 50 around sacramento and lake tahoe is at 34 and everything is staying north right now with temperatures in the 60s for most temperatures which are slightly below average but ever so much closer, maybe by thursday. And now lets get over to Sal Castaneda. Good morning, i want to mention that as the days where on weve had our share of serious crashes but right now looking at pretty clear roads but chp is asking you keep speeds down but weve had a little bit of a problem in the bay area the past three days where people have been speeding and a lot of officers have cited people and they want us to remind you to keep speeds down and drive safely because you will be cited if caught and now back to you dave. We are hearing reports that if you live in the bay area expect the shelter in place order to continue for at least the next month. Health officials are expected to announce the current order will stay in effect until may 1. Kt