Thank you so much for letting us into your homes. We are grateful. The beat with ari melber starts now. Hi, nicolle. Thank you. The developing news that has been coalescing around the possible replacement for Kevin Mccarthy to be Speaker Of The House. It is developing because the people you see on your screen, one of them is the former speaker. The other may or may not become the republicans pick. Hes had more vote than anyone else, but maybe not enough votes. That is a big deal for the United States, for the congress at times like these, so we are going to bring you an update on that story later in our newscast. The news out of israel right now is bleak. There is escalation. There are reports that now 22 americans have been killed in this unfolding israelhamas war. Youre seeing gaza pitch dark because gaza is under a blackout. 17 of those are still unaccounted for and feared held hostage in gaza. The shelling tonight there intensifying. Vaez says it has fighter jets that have hit over
June 1st more than 260,000 drivers have stickers. A bay area commute crisis. Question is, can the solution be fixed in the fast lane . The real issue is, is the car pool lane cheaters. The clean air vehicles are a small portion of that. Reporter and if you get caught cheating in that car pool lane the ticket nearly 500 but as you heard, a lot of people willing to take that risk. Live in san jose, maria medina, kpix5. Some drivers in the Santa Cruz Mountains are breathing a sigh of relief this evening. Sky drone five giving us an exclusive view of the nearly reopened socal san the tpe road. A stretch of that road was closed for months because winter storms made it too dangerous for cars. Kpix5s kip doe shows us caltrans has plenty of work to do on other roads that are still shut down. Reporter the four month long nightmare is over. Santa cruz county held an opening to normal traffic. A small victory against Mother Nature. Brown family endured the brunt of it after a 200foot section crum
Materials used in explosives they look like cocaine a white powder. Reporter 7 bay area airports screeners face similar charges. I think we need to take a close look at how were hiring tsa people, how theyre screened, what kind of background investigations are done and all of this costs money. Reporter kianna clark was a tsa screener at Oakland International airport. In a few days she starts a 21 month sentence for smuggling these suitcases filled with marijuana through security. In all, she allowed more than 200 pounds of marijuana to pass through her xray screener in carryon bags. I dont believe this is an isolated incident at sfo or oakland. I think what will happen here is tsa is going to have to take a hard look at what theyre doing across the country. Reporter the six screeners who work here at sfo and are facing charges work for a private Company Called covenant aviation security. They are contracted to do screening work at sfo. Over at Oakland International airport, those are a
Now the city wants to compensate him with 190,000. Mayor lee says it sends a message to immigrants. How long is it to correct the perception with a whole slew of immigrants who said, god, if that can happen to him, im not going to walk the streets. Im not going to go to school. Im not going to see my doctor. What does that all cost . Reporter Howard Epstein is the Vice President of communications for the San Francisco republican party. I think its an insult to the taxpayers of San Francisco. Reporter epstein says the city was right to comply with federal law. The Police Officers and deputy sheriffs did nothing wrong. They take an oath to uphold the federal laws and state laws and they are upholding the federal laws. The man has no right to be in this country. Reporter one more note about our poll. 61 of whites agree with the settlement. But for minorities the number is much lower only 38 of blacks, 31 of hispanics, 31 of asians agree that the city should pay the settlement. Now, figuer
Increases to customers. Increases the cost of your salads and soups and your goods that you sell all that sort of stuff. Reporter and spreading that cost increase over several years keeps people from noticing that they are paying more. So they increase the cost of a sandwich another 50 cents or so. Do people really notice it. Reporter not every business will be impact by the increase. Unemployment is low in San Francisco and most workers are already paid more than minimum wage. If you want someone now you have to pay them more. Or you wont get anyone. Why should i work for you when i can get more down the road . Reporter this man says paying people decent wages is good for people. You have to compensate someone so they have a standard of living so they want to come to work. Reporter but even at 14 an hour, its still less than 30,000 a year for a fulltime employee. How can you live on that . There are ways people can get by on minimum wage but not by themselves. Reporter next year, the