Now, and tonights project home, Susie Steimle breaks down the latest draft. Reporter if you are someone who supports as be 50. Sb50. This new and improved bill checks every box for californians. Reporter or vehemently opposes it. It has failed three times. Reporter you have at least one thing in common. You are likely entrenched in california housing policy. Senator scott weiners highly controversial bill does deserve a break down. It was introduced last legislative session and then put on hold. At its core, it is a Housing Production bill at co uragenesj the bay areas bigcity may it. E small cities, homeowners, and people who want local government to maintain sony control dont. Sb50 mandates zoning areas that are in the area of Public Transit without taking into consideration the existing Service Capacity of the transit or other infrastructure needs of the area. Reporter gordon mar and the board of supervisors in San Francisco largely oppose sb 50. They call it a trickledown housing b
Month, creating a large economic dent for residents and businesses. The historic swiss hotel has been in hank mariones family for decades, but he cant seem to recall anything like this happening in years past. For the second time this month his business could lose power. Youre talking about thousands of dollars a day. During the first Public Safety power shutoff, he had to throw out meat, fish and poultry. Marione lost his home in the tubbs fire two years ago. He says he gets it, but questions why pg e officials shut off power as broadly as they did. I dont really have a problem with them shutting down up in the hills where the winds were 40, 50 miles an hour. But in town i dont believe there is a lot that can burn. Pg e has said its transmission grid is so complicated, it cant isolate smaller areas. Sonoma county First District supervisor susan goren. They should have been on this from decades ago, undergrounding lines, setting the transition grid as they have been doing in Southern C
Live from the cps bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Now at 4 30 looking life from the exclusive Salesforce Tower camera looking east this morning. The beautiful a bridge. It is wednesday morning, already. Yeah, halfway there. September 25th, good morning. I am michelle griego. I am kenny choi. To check the forecast, it is going to be another hot day. That is right, one more day of the heat and major changes as we head through the rest of the work week. And especially into the we can pick a cooldown is coming but in the meantime check out the highs. 100 in concorde, 101 in fairfield, one of three in livermore, 95 in san jose, 90 in oakland and upper 80s for San Francisco. The heat advisory in effect once again for today for most of the bay area due to the dangerous heat, and we have the red flag warning still in effect until 11 00 a. M. For the northbay mountains east bay hills and diablo range due to the gusty winds this morning, we are going to see the winds relax as we head throu
Well, you can see that green on live doppler 7 and much more rain is headed our way. But tonight its already falling in the north bay. And the words mudslides, flooding, and sinkholes are the last things a community thats already been through so much wants to hear tonight. Good evening. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. The north bay fires destroyed thousands of homes. Turns out it also melted critical plastic drainage pipes. Now those pipes are causing sinkholes and prompting road closures and a warning from officials tonight, have a plan to leave your home. We have live team coverage. Lets begin with abc 7 News Reporter Elissa Harrington live in santa rosa. Alissa . Reporter the rain is coming down in santa rosa which is causing a great deal of concern tonight. You can see barriers are up at crosscreek road. Thats because this area is closed to the public. Pipe underground burned away during the fire, which is causing a great risk. Just a month after fires devastated parts of santa rosa t