Ext i knew the driver was on top of me trying to put his tongue in my mouth. Reporter three of the 20 women suing lyft appeared before reporters saying they had been sexually assaulted by the ride share companys drivers. Their lawyer. The bottom line is lyft does not take safety of their passengers seriously and never has. Reporter this is the second lawsuit filed against lyft since september. 14 individuals said in that suit they were the victims of rape and Sexual Assault by their driver. Since September Lyft says it has added more safety features. Bomberger says they dont work. The reason we know these dont work, eight of the women that are part of this lawsuit had their incidents occur after these features were in play. Reporter and there have been even more victims, he says. Weve gotten calls from 100 different women since just september of this year. Reporter one plaintiff who went by the name of ashley and her husband said lyft was uncooperative. They wouldnt give the police any
Its part of the comprehensive plan to deal with the homeless crisis, and says she has received positive feedbacks from players in the cruise ship industry. They could provide rooms for a thousand people very quickly, and the magnitude of our homele homelessness crisis requires a broader response than what we have seen before. Before they Start Talking about putting a bunch of homeless folks on a boat in the middle of the bay they should enforce whats already been passed. Reporter homeless advocate nita bee says kaplans heart is in the right place but the city Council Passed a measure to use city land to build tiny housing, and that has not happened, maybe they should concentrate on that. Back here outside oakland city hall, we reached out to the port of oakland for their reaction to this idea, and it would be an under statement to say theyre not that crazy about it and there are several reasons for it. One of them being they dont have the facilities for it. Well expand on that on our s
Hughes, who grew up on the streets of bay view, has found shes no longer welcome as she lives in her van. And the Community Members yell at me not to park there, to move away. They treat me as if im less than human. I wish they could understand that i dont want to live in my rv or have to park there either. Reporter city supervisor brown talked about how she grew up in a van on the streets. As a child of 13, living in a van, theres a lot of struggles. Reporter San Francisco officials visited this safe parking lot in oakland near the coliseum after it opened in june, according to the Oakland Community houses services manager. She says they shared their Program Model and rules. The lot expanded from 28 to 46 spots, so theyre putting names on a waiting list. The San Francisco lot is calling itself a victory yaunlg center. The goal of getting folks into permanent housing. The search is on to create more safe parking sites in San Francisco because 70 of the increase in homelessness is due t
Thing. But we want some solutions to the problems. Solution and answers. Thats a county supervisor talking about state regulators today opening an investigation into the recent pg e power shutoffs. Blackouts that pg e insists were necessary to prevent its lines from sparking wildfires. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. Thanks for joining us. More than a million customers were impacted. We went through four rounds last month adding up to ten days total. Thats about a third of october. Abc 7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow was at the cpcu meeting. Shes in the newsroom with the latest. Dan and kristen, the vote followed a series of Public Comments in which residents and local leaders conveyed the challenges theyre facing in the wake of the shutoffs. They may consider taking action if they find pg e committed violations. Commissioner cher ohm a the California Public Utilities Commission voting to formally investigating the pg e power shutoffs. The the investigation will assess whe
County, especially along bailey road, rural bypasses, where it seems theres an appliance, a couch even every few hundred yards. Were looking at lighting, cameras, making sure that people that are supposed to have Garbage Service are actually subscribing. Were making sure that we are looking at the way we do outreach for those folks that need to know how to get rid of a mattre or chemicals. Reporter the teeth of this new program will be enforcement, hiring, sworn officers in each county to identify and then prosecute folks who do things like this. Leave mattresses where they shouldnt be. In concord, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Oakland had a sixmonth Pilot Program to address illegal dumping. How did that work out . Dan, they did have a sixmonth program. They identified two key problem areas. They focused a lot of enforcement on those areas. They were told by nate mile i they made 500 arrests when focusing on the two locations. They say that the funding ran out and thanks to this new pilot