Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm 20240712 : compareme

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm 20240712

To pull my money from savings in order to survive this time. It has not easy for small businesses. Reporter the mayor said she understands the financial implications of the pause. This is hard because we are talking about not just Public Health but peopled livelihood. Reporter these businesses were set to reopen in mid july. The mayor said she is going to take a look at the data that comes in over the weekend to determine what the next steps might be. Live in San Francisco, kpix 5. The mayor also said this is one of the toughest calls she has had to make. You can hear extended thoughts from her on our website, www. Kpix. Com. Marin county announced plans to delay reopening and this comes as the county recorded its highest number of daily infections at 54. A hotspot in marin is san quentin prison. 500 inmates infected in the past two weeks. Contra costa county and Santa Clara County are also reevaluating their reopening plans. Watch list after a spike in cases and hospitalization rates. More and more californians are testing positive for the virus. The Positivity Rate went up and is a little more than 5 right now which is a small increase from the rate recorded earlier in the week. The hospitalization rate also increased up more than 3 . The governor knows that these numbers will likely continue to go up. You will start to see that tragically with the number of lives lost and it is not just 80 and 90yearold that are losing their lives and it is not just 65 and older that are getting positive test results back. The governor is warning the number of deaths will likely go up in the coming weeks as the hospitalization rate increases. An update on a deadly confrontation between a suspected shoplifter and a worker at an antioch lucky store. Investigators now say the suspect suffered no trauma to his neck. That contradicts early reports that a clerk had him in a choke hold wednesday night. An autopsy revealed the 34year old likely died from methamphetamine in his system. The das office is reviewing the case. New questions tonight about how a city program to house the homeless in trailers failed. We are near Happy Hollow Park where the refurbished trailers are still sitting empty with no plan insight. Reporter thats right. The trailers are sitting empty in the Happy Hollow Parking lot behind me. Millions of dollars were spent setting them up but the program was scrapped just after a few weeks and now homeless advocates are trying to make sure that the housing as well as those taxpayer dollars dont go to waste. A small group of homeless advocates gathered just outside the gates of Happy Hollow Park. Inside the parking lot 90 refurbished fema trailers which were a gift on the state of california that empty in what the city calls a failed experiment to house the homeless. If you invest 1. 3 million in the project, you should have something to show for it. And all they have to show for it are into trailers. Reporterthe 1. 3ion was used to set up the trailers like an rv park. They paid 700,000 on a contract to operate the park until october. Sewage backed up and there were electrical problems and the people picked to live in the trailers because of pre existing Health Conditions have trouble accessing the site. Only 37 people lived in the trailers for three weeks before the city pulled the plug blaming escalating costs. The city spent over 54,000 per person on the failed plan. We were hoping that they could use the trailers after you spent that much money. It seems like it has gone to nothing. We Santa Clara County officials stepped in to move 25 residents into motel rooms. This is the Silicon Valley and we are trying to innovate and this was not a good innovation. Al horford the city is moving ahead with Permanent Housing Solutions but like many he wants answers on where the city goes with the trailers from here. What happens now . Are we going to sell them or what . What happens to the abode contract . Are we going to get refunded . Reporter lots of questions and we do have at least one answer. They got back to us and said abode will refund some of the unused portion of the money that the city paid for the services. That is a good news. The whole thing will be talked about at next weeks City Council Meeting in san jose where even more questions are likely to be answered. Live in san jose, kpix 5. Dozens of newly sworn in Police Officers graduated on the San Jose Police academy. Under normal circumstances it is a moment of tremendous pride. This comes at a time when Many Americans view the police as cogs in the cycle of racial injustice. Our reporter on what it is like to enter the force during these trying times. Reporter this was no ordinary graduation ceremony. It happened against the backdrop of weeks of nationwide protests and unrest that could reshape how policing is done in the country. It is about you. Reporter the 42 men and women in the Police Academys graduating class will hit the street at a time when the actions of officers in cities far away from san jose have damaged the trust ish the reputation of Law Enforcement officers everywhere. The tragedy of george floyd presents a huge obstacle for us to overcome moving forward. Reporter despite the current controversy, the graduates say they are joining a noble profession, one of service and sacrifice but they acknowledge they will need to make an extraordinary effort to rebuild and regain the trust of the community they serve. Occurrences like this happen and it definitely shakes the whole world around us. Not just for Law Enforcement but for everyone. You are getting great power and with that comes great scrutiny. Reporter the graduation speech was part pep talk and real talk. Emphasizing the need for when things happen across the country we have to be equally as loud when things up wallace. Reporter the latest class was interrupted i the coronavirus outbreak and shut down for several weeks and then up on reopening thrust into a National Conversation about race and justice and police. Our position hasnt changed. We have the same values as we came in. You want to make a difference in the community in a positive way. Reporter chief garcia is on record in support of reform and accountability. He does not support the idea of defunding or disbanding the police department. A brandnew recruiting class starts here on monday. In san jose, kpix 5. Some Business News now. Shares of San Franciscobased gap are soaring after announcing a deal with kanye west. Stocks rose 36 after the plans for a yeezy gap line were unveiled. According to the New York Times gap estimates the partnership will generate 1 billion annually. What do you think of the deal . Weigh in on facebook and twitter. The multimillion dollar effort from a bay area Healthcare System to combat systemic racism. Should oakland change many of its downtown street names . Washington, jefferson, and jackson just to name a few. Some people think so and i will tell you why. The county where you can hit the beach starting this weekend. Speaking of the beach, looking out at ocean beach and it has been great all day but that is not stopping a few intrepid people from getting out and enjoying the surf. Motorcycle riders love the open road. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. There is a push in oakland to rename some of the streets downtown. Supporters say they are currently named after people who owned slaves. We have reaction from city leaders. Reporter washington, jefferson, and jackson, what do they mean to you . Some say they are just names of former president s but others say those represent the sign of oppression. All references to slavery should be abolished. Reporter a drive around downtown oakland and you will notice many last names of former president s and famous frankldison, webster and the list goes on. Some oakland residents point out some of also slaveowners. I think the names and symbols help perpetuate the mindset of racism. Reporter they say the city should change those names. They want to change jackson street leave to be named after Andrew Jackson to black lives matter street. A reexamination and a Robust Community conversation about all of the names. Reporter the mayor and councilman say they are open to changing the street names if the Community Supports it. That is the sign of government approval. If that is not what the government should be saying at this moment, we need to change it. If they are named after former president s who were slaveowners, i will do an ordinance to change the street names. He was the first president and i think his name should be up there. Reporter some leaders say taking down the names wont change the racist mindsets. Im not in support, it is just a dog and pony show. Reporter one says not waste the money. Use the money on Community Programs that can bring real change. That will not change the racism or the hatred that is in the heart of men and women. We have got to have a heart transplant. We have to have a heart change. Reporter the city has no to direct staff to study the name change issue and how much it would cost. If there is enough Community Support or pressure, then it could get more attention. In oakland, kpix 5. Niwot 6 00, Kaiser Permanente pledging 100 Million Dollars to addressing systemic racism and increasing systemic opportunity for people of color. The Hospital Group joining a nonprofit in a 60 Million Partnership to provide loans to black and minority owned businesses. Kaiser will also spend 50 million in grants to help businesses with coaching and training and 25 million to Grassroots Efforts as well as its own research. The beaches are back open along the Santa Cruz County coastline. Beachgoers will no longer be subject to fines put in place last month. Santa cruz county is the last in the state to lift beach restrictions. Paul, i think people are so anxious to get to the water. Doesnt matter if it is raining, lazing hot they are going. All of the above. They want to head in that direction. Stay six feet apart. As we head into the weekend there will be a few changes in the forecast but you will not notice too much of a change along the coast or the bay. Same pattern repeating itself with the fog making its way closer to downtown. As it spreads farther inland, temperatures will drop off and it will be tougher to shake as we head through the day on saturday. Temperatures the usual spread from 61 degrees downtown 285 in concord. 84 degrees still in livermore. He comfortable this evening. Good walking or jogging weather. We are checking out the dog walking forecast in just a second. We want to talk about the fog and some drizzle to begin the day tomorrow. We are talking about a trace of some drizzle in pockets right along the coast. Temperatures this evening so lets focus on marin county around 70 degrees at the moment. Dropping down through the 60s as we head through the rest of the evening as fog makes its way further and further inland. Pretty comfortable temperatures. Temperatures will start off tomorrow morning in the 50s to around 60 degrees. While we are going to warm up, ll as eat an ns of the bay area extent as a warmup in the past several days. By noon temperatures pretty reasonable for late june. We will see a lot of 80s on the map and a fair number of 70s for inland portions. Further east in Contra Costa County getting around to 90 degrees near antioch and brentwood. Tomorrow evening temperatures will back off. It looks pretty pleasant but breezy out there. Windy conditions will stick around on sunday. A strong onshore breeze means temperature for inland portions of the bay area only reaching up to 80. Below average for a change. Midsixties around the bay. A little bit of a warm up as we head through next week. A nice and to june and a start to july. Hopefully vern has some niceness in sports as well. Im always here to deliver that. We have a couple of 49ers now signed, sealed and delivered. Covid19 has struck again. And what is up with these guys . Up my friends is the keyword. Their story next. Stick around. Earlier we asked you to weigh in on gap steel with kanye west. Cat tweeted just what nobody asked for. Kevin scott said if kanye west and the gap can come together, so can were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Golf laptop and the coronavirus has struck another pga player. This time Danny Mccarthy who withdrew from the travelers championship after the pj has now had seven players drop out of this weeks event due to the virus. Lets take you to connecticut for second round play. We will pick it up with bryson. His tee shot and look where this one goes. You weekend hackers can relate. Down the path gave an extra hundred yards. 428 yard drive. He is tied for ninth. In the fifth hole, Phil Mickelson out of the cat box and in. Mickelson with those cool shades shot a seven under 63 and leads thelsilet. He has not won since very of 2019. In nfl 14th overall with his rookie contract. Brandon from arizona state. 49ers inked that first rounder. We will get out of here with some elevation. This guy as smart as he is, there we are. Uphill is paul webb. He picked the road connecting mill valley. Backandforth 95 times ass n eres the term is called everest thing. The everest challenge is a thing. It started out in australia and the idea is to climb one climb over and over again until you do 29,000 feet. Where can we do it and be visible and raise money for worthy cause so we picked this. 4 am tomorrow it is going down. Feel free to join. You can send a few dollars to the skys the limit fund for families in crisis. Each one of those lacks the elevation just over 300 feet. They have to go 95 times just to hit the elevation of everest. The only part of that that i really like is ever resting. They will be resting once it is done. Trust me on that. We will be sleeping while they do it. Still ahead this week serena a suite serenade at the oakland zoo. I bay area band played a cover of guns and roses sweet child of mine for the animals. And oj the tortoise got up close experience and even rocked out of it. There is hope for all of us. The San Francisco Public Library celebrated pride day today with a special guest for its sweet story series. Persia read to kids online for drag queens story hour. This day in june, parades start soon. Rainbow arches, joyful marches. Always a hit. Todays book was this day in june. A pride in style inspired selection. We partnered up to bring you pride 50 generations of hope. It airs this sunday thank you for watching tonight. The news can and you streaming on cbsn bay ar and captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell tonight, the warning of a catastrophic and unsustainable situation with covid19. The u. S. Hits nearly 45,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day, the largest ever. Tonight, as hospitals struggle to find beds, the houston area declares a code red. The governors of texas and florida shutting down bars again. Plus, the warning to young people from the nations top Infectious Disease doctor. Mixed messages after nearly two months of silence, the president s task force speaks out. We have made truly remarkable progress. Odonnell but are they on the same page

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