Arena, but it wont be putting its name on it. Why its trying to send a different message. And our original series, project home. As San Francisco struggles with one of the worst housing crises in the nation, developers are eyeing the western neighborhoods as the new frontier. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. And im ken bastida. As Susie Steimle reports, some residents are putting up a fight. Reporter in the heart of San Franciscos sunset district, this old Apartment Building on irving street has become the latest flash point in the battle over housing. The new owner converted the first floor parking garage into five new units and is doubling the number of bedrooms on the other floors to make it 41. Were scared hell turn it into a motel. Reporter jim has lived on the block for 25 years. We feel like we have an absentee landlord running part of the neighborhood. Reporter larry and barbara are also long time residents. In those 40 bedrooms, there could be as many as 80 people. If even just 20 of them have cars, it would be a nightmare for the neighborhood. Reporter and they have growing suspicions about how the construction ever got started. It turns out the San FranciscoBuilding Department signed off on the permit without sending it to planning first for final approval. And the signature made neighbors even more suspicious. Tom whey is the former Building Department chief. He resigned in march after being implicated in a federal corruption case. He was the one that approved the plans, even though he knew or should have known that he didnt have the right to do so without sending them to the Planning Department first. Its a red herring. It means nothing. Reporter this is the developer of the project. I had no interaction with him. Reporter he says hes just trying to do the right thing. Were trying to house people. Were trying to find a safe place for someone to put their head at night and close the door. Im just going to call a spade a spade here. This kind of privileged, rich, owner opposition is exactly what has prevented housing. Especially on the west side. Thats whats always presented difficulties to providing Affordable Housing. Reporter whats the affordable part of this . What does that look like . The rent is fixed. This building is 100 rent controlled. Reporter but it would start at market rate, so it wouldnt be Affordable Housing . No, but my point is that is a kind of Affordable Housing. Reporter while the new units will be rent controlled, theres no guarantee theyll be affordable. And theres a push to create more housing like this in the richmond and the sunset. A clear answer from a regional point of view is to try and put the housing within the existing metro area. Reporter randy is with the association of bay area governments that recently added the traditionally low density western neighborhoods to a list of Priority Development areas. He says the biggest obstacle to creating more housing anywhere in the bay area is resis tense from neighbors. I have heard every reason under the sun as to why we wish it would be built someplace else, and that has been the reason we have the crisis that we have. Reporter meanwhile, on irving street, the the battle has escalated. Now the developer wants another floor with more bedrooms that neighbors say will obstruct ocean views. Were allowed to go up to 40 feet, and were only at 30 feet. Yes, it is dense. But my question would be, when you want to tackle the housing crisis, how are we going to do that without being dense . Reporter but neighbors said the developer said hed abandon the plans for the extra floor if they stopped protesting the rest of the plans. Its totally manipulative. Were not against more housing. People need to commit Affordable Housing for people, but hes made no commitments to do that. Reporter the department of building inspection turned down our request for an interview for this story, but they sent us a statement confirming the plans for this building should have gone to the Planning Commission first. They also say tom wheys name only showed up on the documents because he was the head at the time. Susie steimle, kpix 5. And we want you to keep sending your stories and ideas to project home. See all of the reporting on our website. Heres a look at our top stories. An investigation is underway after a deadly shoplifting incident. A fight broke out inside a lucky supermarket in antioch when a store worker confronted an alleged shoplifter. At some point he stopped breathing and couldnt be revived. The store worker was hospitalized. California had nearly 5300 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. Thats down from the 7,000 the day before. And while more people are being tested every day, the percentage coming back positive has risen slightly over the last week. 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Amazon just bought the names rights for seattles biggest downtown arena, but the companys name wont appear on the building. The historic key arena will now be called the climate pledge arena. The Ceo Jeff Bezos claims it will be the words first net zero carbon certified gerate ze events and operations. Theyll even use reclaimed rain water for ice on the nhl surface. The company has been under pressure to reduce waste and push zero emissions goals. Amazon is also creating a 2 billion fund to invest in reducing the impact of climate change. Still ahead, new research raising concerns about the health risks for pregnant women with coronavirus. Plus the pandemic changing many of our habits. How one benefit could be saving the lives of wild animals. Coming up new at 6 00, prison walls wont keep the coronavirus contained. Bay area health oh, we love our new home. Neighborhoods great. Amazing school district. The hoa has been very involved. These shrubs arent board approved. 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Com starting at 5 00 p. M. The Parent Company of restaurant chain chuck e. Cheese has filed for bankruptcy. Cec entertainment filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy due to financial strains brought on by the pandemic, but they expect to maintain normal operations. Nearly half of its 555 locations have reopened, with more reopening in the coming weeks. Macys is cutting 3900 corporate and management jobs as the retail giant looks to restructure. Thats roughly a quarter of its corporate work force. The cuts are on top of the 2,000 lay offs macys announced in february. The company says it will adjust staffing as sales recover. A Training Exercise on the water quickly turns into the real deal. How some firefighters were in the right place to save four lives. And kpix 5 wants to bring you the good news happening across the heres what we want everyone to do. Count all the hugs you havent given. All the hands you havent held. All the dinners you didnt share with friends. The trips you havent taken. Keep track of them. Each one means one less person vulnerable, one less person exposed, and one step closer to a healthier community. So for now, keep your distance. But dont lose count. Well have some catching up to do. Weve learned the irs sent more than a billion dollars of stimulus payments to dead people. Thats according to a new report from the Government Accountability office. It found the tax agency failed to use Social Security death records to filter out those payments. The irs has outlined instructions for returning the money, but so far it hasnt outlined any consequences for people who dont. The cdc has updated its findings on pregnant women with covid19. They now say that infected pregnant women are more likely to wind up in the hospital, be admitted to the icu, and put on a ventilator compared to infected women who are not expecting a baby. This is after studying thousands of women across the u. S. From january to this current month. Heutmes the babies themselves. The covid19 pandemic seems to be saving the lives of wild animals. With fewer people driving, uc, davis is reporting a lower amount of road kill on california roadways. 56 fewer mountain lions have been killed during the stay at home order. And talk about the right place at the right time. A group of firefighters in the middle of a Training Course when they got the chance to put their skills to the test. They jumped into action to savefour people caught in the american river. Ryan hill has the detail. Reporter the last day of training for a group of Eldorado Hills firefighters ended like this. It was no normal training day. We could see a father and a boy down in the water in a rapid. Reporter the firefighters say their Training Instructor was the first to notice it before they followed to help. Myself and another one of the personnel in the class with us could see the young boy. He was at least three feet under water. Reporter all of them were rescued thanks to the groups swift actions. The blood gets pumping. Obviously its different when its a real scenario. We take classes to make ourselves better when it comes time to do our job. It feels good. Reporter no one was wearing a life jacket, and Firefighters Want others to remember how dangerous the river can be. That course gave us a broader view of how that water is moving pretty fast, and youre in the river and its a dangerous place to be. Reporter proper training, heroic actions, and a valuable lesson for anyone on the water. Have life preservers on your kids and yourselves. Being a parent, seeing that small child, ill have that image locked in my memory for the rest of my life. Absolutely. Ryan hill reporting. And get this, the training class was preparing to do a water rescue simulation just like the one they pulled off. Thanks goodness they were there. Paul is here now to talk about weather for the weekend. See, im already ready to go one more day to go one more work day and then the week looking pretty cooperative. The weather patterns will shift a bit into the weekend, but the typical summertime weather pattern was in place again today, and it will be in place again tomorrow. The one wrinkle is more activity blossoming this afternoon over the high sierra. Lets so many in for a closer look at the thunderstorms that really got going this afternoon. Theyre starting to fizzle out a bit, but thats something you have to watch out for when youre climbing this time of year. The thunderstorms bubbling up over the high terrain during the afternoon. Around the coast, just plenty of low cloud cover, and that fog is making its way back inland once again. We zoom in for a closer look, and you can see the fog shooting right through the golden gate and spread over downtown as well. Throughout the rest of tonight, the fog will spread inland. No surprise, thats what its done the past several nights. And the last several days its backed up to the coast. Gray skies throughout the day for most coastal areas today. It comes back early saturday morning. Saturday the wind will start to pick up. Its an onshore wind, so temperatures will drop a little bit, even inland. But the really breezy half of the weekend will be sunday. Any wind sensitive outdoor activities, get those out of the way on saturday because sunday will be a blustery day. These are the High Temperatures from today looking out over the sunshine in san jose. They made it up to 84 degrees. Also 84 for a High Temperature in santa rosa. Low 90s for livermore and concord. Just above 7 70 in oakland, and the warmest hour by hour temperature was 64 downtown. Still 68 at sfo, but downtown is 62 and dropping more. A mix of 70s and 80s further inland. Still close to 80 in santa rosa. Upper 70s for san jose and, close to 90 for much of the trivalley and east in solano and alameda counties. Temperatures tonight dropping into the mid to upper 50s. Normal territory for late june. Tomorrow, San Francisco warms to the upper 60s by early afternoon, and then the onshore breeze strengthens and the fog tries to make it back inland once again as temperatures start to drop off. San jose could be a couple of degrees warmer than today, the upper half of the 80s for the santa clara valley. Concord stalls out just short of 90 degrees i believe. Other areas will give it a run. Mid80s for santa rosa, much like today. The wind turning more to the southwest. Other High Temperatures, cooler along the coast as youd expect. Upper 60s and low to mid70s around the bay with the hot spots farther inland. Temperatures back off boot weekend. Sunday a cooler and breezy day, and temperatures bounce back into early july, wednesday and thursday. Well check out the dog walking forecast coming up at 6 00. New at 6 00, red cross trying to determine how to manage Evacuation Centers when theres a wildfire during the age of covid19. And bay area Fire Departments ill s. Residents to put tonight the the city of oakland making room for restaurants to reopen. Don ford on how restaurants and cafes are welcoming back d s approval from the county to have outdoor seating, the mayor says shes not wasting any time getting started. Outside this mexican restaurant, mayor libby schaaf says oakland didnt have much warning about the newly relaxed rules, but is working to ease restrictions on businesses as soon as possible. Cutting red tape is not normally something associated with oakland. Oh, no, im clear we want to be a less irritating government. Reporter theyre not just opening the sidewalks to tables with the program called flex street. Even the parking area in front of your shop, you can get a free, quick, online permit. Reporter thats good news to extreme pizza owner karina perez. Oh, we want wait. Weve seen how its worked in San Francisco. Reporter she already has outdoor lighting and says shell use both sidewalks and parking spaces. Then theres this. Farleys coffee completed their parking lot space years ago, but say more tables is good. Where are you eating tonight . Im eating at home. I learned my husband is a phenomenal cook. Reporter in oakland, don ford, kpix 5. Kpix 5 news at 6 00 starts right now with ken bastida and elizabeth cook. Now at 6 00, prison walls cant keep the coronavirus contained. How the outbreak at san quentin could overwhelm nearby hospitals. Plus those illegal fireworks are more than just a noisy nuisance. A sudden jump in fire calls linked to illegal displays. For somebody to die just over some food, i mean thats kind of sad and not right. A deadly confrontation at a lucky supermarket. An alleged shoplifter dead. The actions of a store employee now under scrutiny. Our top story on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, new concerns over the coronavirus outbreak at san quentin prison. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. And im ken bastida. Here are the latest stats for you. 505 inmates and 50 staffers have been infected. 19 of the inmates are still hospitalized, 6 released now. And were just getting word that an inmate has died, although the cause of death is under investigation. Wilson walker has mor