What followed was a review 2016 by a department of review. Today half of the recommendations have been implemented or close to being approved. Use of force has dropped 18 in 2017. We hope the trend continues and expects it to continue. Reporter citizen complaint dropped 9 . We stopped getting complacent and we got serious. Reporter last year President Trump decided to scale back the program. That is until the California Department of justice decided it would take on the job. The city of San Francisco are going to be the big winners because we picked up the ball and are running for it. Reporter while police are making progress, they need an independent body to make sure they follow through. I would say we have work in progress to continue to making that Relationship Building and bring them together. It is working. Reporter state attorney general bess sera promised the funding will be there. Too important to not get it done and we will do it right. Reporter in San Francisco so lyanne melendez. David and faye faye faye fae had 250 women working for them. Police are treating the women as victims and want to talk to anybody involved to build their case. The women will not be prosecuted. All lanes are open in Mountain View tonight. A Motorcycle Police officer was involved in a crash this afternoon. Near shoreline boulevard, causing traffic to back up in the eastbound direction. The extent of the injuries are not known. Drugs and alcohol are not factors in the crash. And the driver who hit the Police Officer is cooperating with investigators. Witnesses calling a man a hero tonight after he helped others escape from their burning cars. A fiery scene at fountain parkway and mendocino avenue. A dump truck lost its brakes. Fire erupted when the truck hit other vehicles. A driver who just missed being hit ran from car to car helping people escape this mornings inferno a few months after his own home was lost in the fire. Chaos, debris, pops. I made it through the intersection and i heard a boom. Scarey stuff. The out of control truck hit nine other vehicles. Six of them caught fire and six people needed to go the hospital. Arson investigators in san jose are trying to figure out why someone would set a fire that destroyed a mobile Health Center that brought Curbside Services to the abc7 News Reporter david louie has the story . San jose. Reporter san jose fire investigators say a suspected arson is one of two such units that provided checkups immunizations to nearly 3,000 homeless patients yearly. The unit goes out at least once a week and we do have a doctor and a medical assistant that are on that unit providing services. So it is a setback and we do need to get this replaced as soon as possible. Reporter the challenge is cost. The estimateds to build a new one is 250,000. I am going it see what my office personally what i can do to help off set some of the costs. I think it is worth exploring to see what the city can do or the county can do. Reporter concern that 500 people will lose medical care for six months or longer. One automobile unit is going to be impacted and our cathedral unit will be impacted as well. I think people are going to go untreated. Reporter serving the uninsured and medical patients for years. On the road for 15 years. In san Jose David Louie abc7 news. If you want to help replace the unit you can look for this story on our website abc7news. Com. Safest city in california according to the National Council for home safety and security. Danville number three. And and orinda more imperial was number one. Near el centro. Encouraging people to call if they text if they cant. Abc7 news rep rep rep rep rep rp woodrow. It will be a good thing to make that available for the speech impaired, deaf, hardofhearing community. We want you to call if you can, but we want you to text if you have to. Reporter receiving 4,911 calls every month. Dispatchers recall times text would make a deference. Home invasions or instances of Domestic Violence or abuse. Drunk father was trying to get into the room where i had her and her sister in the closet. Reporter the system isnt perfect. If you text a location that is next to a freeway, the text goes to the chp. And that agency needs to route it to at appropriate chp. The first question is for the senders location. The text is not gps capable dispat dispatchers can type pre text questions back. Hoping it will expand to text photos and videos. You could be causing serious injury to someone who is a victim. Reporter news. Setting High Temperature records for the third day in a row. Spencer christian is live here with the record setters. How warm was this . Lets take a look at some of todays record High Temperatures for this date around the bay area. 78 in livermore. San jose 79. Half moon bay both at 76 record highs for february 5th. Gusty winds especially in the hills. Increases the fire risk. But we have more beautiful weather coming our way and i will show you in just a few minutes. Sounds good. Coming up on abc7 news at 6 00. Taking a trip around San Francisco. We will have the explanations for empty store fronts next. More than one reason. Also ahead. It is the worst day in some ways but not others. Financial adviser giving the perspective. I am Jonathan Bloom with the showdown over selfdriving cars ahead on there are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. On any given street in San Francisco you will find a mix of stores. And now are more likely to find they have something in common. They are empty. You could blame the high cost of doing business in the city, but that is not the whole story. Corn gel bernard reports. Reporter dozens on Market Street alone. As a dog walker i past by them every single day. Reporter it is getting bad. Not good for the safety of the area. Reporter locked doors and empty store fronts common sights. Ten businesses have closed up shops. Snore castro street twice the number. Reporter high rent pricing many retailers out of business. Monthly from 5,000 to 50,000 per mo month depending on the space. This hearing was about finding solutions. A 2009 ordnance requiring landlords if you do not want to be in a commercial rental business, then get out of it. Reporter the city could propose possible fines for landlords with vacant properties. Gotten so pronounced in the city, a person wanting to open up a store front is in for the long haul. New at Athletic Company lululemon is resigning. It expects employees to carry themselves with highest level of integrity and respect for one another. Well, not a lot to cheer about at the closing bell today as stocks mark their worst losses in more than six years. Dow dropped more than 1100 points to close at 24,345. Not the worst loss in terms of percentages. Nasdaq went down 27 thee today on abc7 news this advice. Dont sell because the market is town. It is certainly a good idea to o diversify your risk. Adding he views today drop as a healthy correction. Some call it googleville and some call it a homeless encampment. Highway 101 and story janine de la vega was there. Reporter sherry todd shows us her belongings stuffed into grocery carts. Roughly 100 people call this place home. Transcrews. Do you want to be in house something. I would love to be in housing. Reporter the lack of Affordable Housing is what prompted advocates holding up a sign. They want to show the great divide. Some say the city and county are not doing enough to solve the problem. No one is winning today. So how do we create a winwin, look at it like it is katrina, a hurricane, a flood, a tornado and pull the resources together. Reporter city leaders say there are numerous projects in the pipeline. About 130 apartments that are set aside just for people who are chronically homeless, to get them off the streets as quickly as possible. Reporter homeless advocates say that is still not enough. They want the city to look at designating a permanent camp with porta potties. It still wont solve this complicated problem especially with some refusing to take any help. In san jose, janine de la vega, abc7 news. Announcer accuweather forecast with spencer christian. Clear skies across the bay area and mild conditions this evening. So beautiful out there. Live view from our east bay hills camera looking at the after glow of sunset. It is currently 63 degrees here in San Francisco. Oakland 68. This is the view from the abc7 exploratorium camera looking at the calm bay waters. 65 in santa rosa. Low 60s in napa and novato and a clear view from more winter warmth will follow through friday and breezy and slightly cooler conditions this weekend. Look for clear skies with low temperatures in the low 40s. Lows will drop to 40 in napa. Midto upper 40s and San Francisco low to 51 degrees. Breezy as i mentioned because this of alignment. The sharp pressure difference or Pressure Gradient between the two. Gusty wi gusty winds that we will experience. M midnight we will see gusts about 23 to 27 miles per hour. Remaining relatively strong. We will see the winds beginning to diminish a bit. Calm right along the bay. Still a bit breezy over in the delta area. The wind concerns for tonight and tomorrow mainly north bay and east bay hills. Gusts 20 to 30 miles. Fire danger. 71 at San Francisco. Up in the north bay rosa. Uniform temperatures readings from coast to bay. But a little bit warmer in the inland areas. Accuweather sevenday forecast. Low 70s, around the bay. Little bit of a cool down over the weekend, not much though until sunday monday. Around the bay mid60s and low 60s on the coast. I want to thank the students and teaches at Laurel School in menlo park. We had stimulating conversations about hurricanes and earthquakes. Tornadoes and lions and tigers and bears. All the wild weather oh my. The kids love seeing you there. The Philadelphia Eagles and their fans are flying high after last nights at home. Ld generate your own energy, or to save energy, unplug unused appliances. Do your thing, with Energy Upgrade california. There is the trophy. Now this is how you greet your team after they win their first super bowl ever. The eagles returned to philadelphia today to a cheering crowd. Fans flipped cars and broke street lights and broke windows. And police made three arrests. Trump tweeted his congratulations. Safetiy Malcolm Jenkins was one of the first players to protest. Jenkins did stand for the anthem yesterday. All be it with the raised fist. One of the super bowl heroes has his hometown here in the bay area. Zach ertz. Scared my threeyearold son. Scared my dog, scared my wife. It was loud in my house. Scared in a good way. Bill powers coached zach basketball. But of course he was more about football. He called his High School Coach after the game. A lot of excitement in his hs voice. Another high schooler having a big day in school. Ryan mckenna ended up right near Justin Timberlake and snapped a selfie with him. Like right after immediately, right after, my phone exploded and then last night, like i got 8,000 followers, i have 8,000 more followers in my snap chat. Thats is way more than i have. Ryan is getting free skiing because of this shot here. He was wearing a sweatshirt bearing a name of sunday river resort offered a free year stealing secrets. What is at stake for valley. Some call it big brother its just my eczema again,t. But its fine. Yeah, its fine. You ok . Eczema. Its fine. Hey hi arent you hot . Eczema again . Its fine. I saw something the other day. Eczema exposed. Your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. Maybe you should ask your doctor . Go to eczemaexposed. Com to learn more. Announcer live, where you live. This is abc7 news. Well, what is more important . Privacy or security . That is the question being posed in alameda and no clear answer. The Police Department wants the city to buy and install license plate readers. Laura anthony spoke with people on both sides of the debate. Reporter could be a new feature coming from the webster tube. License plate readers. This is about pushing the readers back and trying to reduce property crimes. Reporter saying crime has gone up 12 this past year. Yeay twothirds driven by car breakens robberies. License plate readers mounted on the tunnels. Not just for crimes committed in alameda. It could be another vehicle that was stolen another place. We would get alerted. Reporter pointing to other cities like piedmont reporting 30 reduction. Are you worried about the big brother aspect . No. No, i mean, you got to intervene somehow and if you are not doing anything wrong, then there is nothing to worry about. Historically true that 99. 97 of all scans are never connected to any criminal wrongdoing. So collecting data on people not suspected of crime. Why are we retaining that. Reporter and some worry that alameda might share its data with federal immigration districts. No interest at all in providing information to i. C. E. Lets get to breaking news coming out of colorado. Take a look, a sheriffs deputy has been shot to death and three other Law Enforcement officers injured. Video that just came in a short time ago. Quite an active scene. We are told they were investigating a stolen car in colorado springs. The suspect has been killed. Developing story we were following is a deadly collision between an amtrak train and a Freight Train in south carolina. The train engineers realize switch was set wrong. We are not sure what happened here. We do know the switch was left in a position that lined the amtrak train to go into the siding. The expectation is that they are cleared through here. We want to find out why this switch was in this position. The crash killed two amtrak employees and injured more than 100 people yesterday morning. It has been called one of the most important trials in Silicon Valley in history. The showdown between selfdriving cars. Jonathan bloom was at the courthouse today as opening arguments unfolded. We moceo was testify. When those people have inside information, is it stealing . In this case the stolen goods could be the laser technology. Way mos case is that uber came in and stole these secrets. Reporter if the jury agrees, uber could be in a world of hurt. May have to cut back or stop its selfdriving reporter talking about the talent, this is about the talent and waymo is angry they got these top engineers. Reporter the main act will be page and serg one person who we will not from has uber countered cound it is normal for engineers to download lots of files. And there are arguments we didnt see. The jury was given a list of the trade secrets that they are supposed to carry to the grade. Reporter judge allowed a closed session to discuss the very secrets central to the case. And then the legal teams that carries those secrets left in cars that have drivers for now. In San Francisco, Jonathan Bloom abc7 news. Its just an animation today. But tomorrow this could be real. At 10 30 our time, space ex plans to launch its biggest and powerful rocket. The Company Released this video. Bowies music will be playing inside the only cargo. Elon musks roadster tesla. Musk said he wanted the car board the rocket because he loves the people came to Michael Finney with concerns about their home skmur insurance and those issues are. You got to check this out. The latest fusion food sign taking San Francisco by storm. Called a tacro. And rapidly becoming a top item on instagram. Kristen sze went to the only place that sells them and we want you to weigh in think on our abc7 poll on poll abc7news. Com. Now here is the reporter meet the tacro. Taco and a croissant. Wanted to feature a defining new mashup that equals or surpass the cronut. A tacro is a taco we we we we of a savory dough. It is pricey but definitely one of those once in a lifetime opportunities. Reporter would you instagram this . She already did. Thats why i came here. Reporter modified version of the regular croissant. Less sweet and less buttery. The three flavors are pulled pork with pineapple. Keep an eye out on your instagram feed, kristen sze abc7. I had this a few weeks ago and it was delicious. Everyone was taking photos of their food. It is so unique it is odd looking. And you can see the votes on the bottom of the screen. 34 of you agree that it looks delicious. 20 of you said isnt it just a sandwich. Weigh in on abc7news. Com. Well, moving on. Tonight on jimmy kimmel live, you can catch up with three california heroes about to see themselves on the screen. Life pushing us wards something. Sacramento Army National guardsman. The three tackled a gunman and stopped what could have an a massacre. They play themselves in the movie. We have a special report at 11 00 tonight. Cannabis is becoming a staple ingredient in recipes. And we are not talking about brownies. Local chefs paving the way for a culinary revolution using cannabis. Tonight on abc7 news with the chase mobile app, Michaela Deprince could pay practically anyone, at any bank, all while performing a grand jete between two grand pianos. She could. In a commercial. In real life she uses it to pay her sister, from her couch, for that sweater she stained. 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