News at 5 30. Right now, more local news at 5 30. A trip to the marin head lands took a scary turn for one family when the tide started rising. The heroing rey , the governors crack down hitting more Southern California counties. Whats changing for hot spots where the coronavirus is heading. A years long battle, now a controversial Housing Project in lafayette is taking another step forward but only because the city was almost forced to do it. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. The fight is over a 315 unit apartment complex. They call it terraces of lafayette. Its near Pleasant Hill and deer hill roads. Kpix 5s john ramos on why the plan is going forward. Lafayette has been fighting over what to do. But the Planning Commission made its decision. Not because they wanted to but state law forced their hand. Mr. Majio. You could tell by the sound of their voices, they werent thrilled about it. Aye. Zeke so the motion carries. After a seven hour meeting the Planning Commission approved the terraces of lafayette. A 315 unit apartment complex situated on this land over looking highway 24. Neighbors complain the project will increase traffic and pollution and hinder evacuation in case of a wildfire. So its become a poster child for nimbism and stuff its not its a project in a difficult location with challenges. The project has had multiit will hearings a court case, a failed redesign and a public vote. But a recent state law called the housing accountability act or haa makes it harder for cities to reject developments. Especially ones that include affordable units. Following the vote, the developers attorney wrote after nine long years and every form of legal and political challenge, the commission recognized that the housing accountability act required approval of the terraces. Commissioners were warned that if they didnt approve the project, the city could be forced to pay more than 15 million in legal costs. Theyre sort of blaming the housing crisis on small local cities forcing them to do something about it. The matter will almost surely be appealed to the city council for a final decision. With the haa on their side, the developers are now confident the project will go through but the Homeowners Group opposing it doesnt seem ready to throw in the towel. I think whatevers going to happen is going to take a long time. Just because of the legal process. Really theyre back to where they started from. In lafayette, john ramos, kpix 5. Opponents have a 14 day window to appeal the decision to the lafayette city council. Heres a look at our top stories at 5 30, the governor is ordering dinein restaurants and bars to shut down immediately ahead of the holiday weekend. The new order applies to several bay area counties and comes as the state continues to see a spike in coronavirus cases. If youre planning to hit the beach this weekend, you might want to reconsider that. Pacifica shut down all of s l s after the governor ordered state beach parking lots in the area closed ahead of the holiday weekend. Another coastal city shutting its beaches down for the 4th of july weekend. Newport Beach Council members just wrapped up an emergency meeting a short time ago. Reporter michelle in Orange County with details on the last minute decision. An exposure situation with those two employees. Were going to have them tested as well. Two Newport Beach life guards tested positive for coronavirus and nearly two dozen are being quarantined. These are among the factors the city council used to decide late today to close the beaches in newport for the 4th of july. It does pain me. The beaches are the life blood of Newport Beach. But we know this weekend will have high surf. Extraordinarily high number of people coming into the city. And we are down 23 life guards because theyre in quarantine after two life guards tested positive. We cannot realistically ask life guards to do more with less and its a Public Safety issue at this point. The closure includes board walks, piers, and parking lots. Laguna beach is closed on the 49. Theyre worried about the health of employees and safety of tens of thousands of visitors if the life guard ranks are stretched thin during a large swell. Health safety, well being of the people that live in the city. Absolutely. Number one priority. The residents by a large majority say just close the beaches for a day or two. Lets see how that works. Michelle reporting. Now this evening were getting our first look at the suspect accused of stealing a car leading deputies on a chase and driving off a cliff. Hes 56yearold, john ken of portland. Authorities in santa cruz took him into custody yesterday. This began when the suspect walked into a restaurant in davenport, carjacked a victim, fired a handgun into the air. Officers tried to pull him over but he refused to stop. Police spotted the suspect speeding on west cliff drive in santa cruz where he apparently lost control of the vehicle and drove off a cliff. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. New video shows the moment a family is rescued from a cliff in the marin head lands. A couple and their two kids were walking along the shore yesterday when they were forced to climb rocks to avoid the rising tide. A Helicopter Rescue was able to get them to i safety. No one was injured. The city is looking to hire a moderator to weigh in. The trained facilitator will help direct potential changes. The move comes after last nights City Council Meeting where members and residents talked about a range of topics, including hiring practices, excessive use of force and the need for more youth programs. No word on how much its going to cost for the city to hire a moderator. But were told the salary will be paid for from the general fund. Well, starting today, california parents will get more paid leave to care for their newborns. A new law takes effect, increasing the time from six to eight weeks. It also applies to workers who take time off to care for a seriously ill family member. Well, have you heard the golden gated bridge making an eeri whistling sound . I have heard that myself. Its been happening since new handrails were installed. Whats being done to try to bring down the noise. Plus how prince harry is inspiring young people to tackle racism. The bay area teens getting a special award from the duke of sussex. Coming up all new at 6 00, the bay area becoming a renters market. But dont sign that lease just yet. When we might see the biggest drop in rents. Well, shares of pfizer soared after the first Coronavirus Vaccine tests showed promising results in early testing. 45 test volunteers participated in the first experiment. Heres how things went. They were given a low or medium dose in two shots about a month apart. And preliminary results, pfizer says the volunteers had vaccine responses expected to be protective. More than a dozen covid19 vaccine candidates are in human testing worldwide. More apple stores are closing across california as coronavirus cases continue to spike. The bay area based company says its closing 30 more of its Stores Across the country. Half of which are in california. Fremont based tesla is now the worlds most valuable automaker the companys valuation of over 206 billion has now surpassed toyota for the first time. Tesla shares hit a new all time high of 1,135. Tech stocks pushed the nasdaq to another record close today at 10,154. Its up 95 points the dow fell 77 points the s p 500 gained 15. Coming up, a new dog breed just announced. But it might be a while before we see one in person. Kpix 5 wants to bring you the good news happening in the bay area. Go to kpix 5. Com together. Youll find stories. Lets take a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge where an unforeseen phenomenon has bridge officials a little perplexed. Okay. You hear that . I think its singing. But the bizarre whistling noise emanating from the bridge can be heard from miles away depending on how strong the wind is blowing. This is the result of gusts blowing through the new railings on the western side of the span. Now the Golden Gate Bridge district is launching a study on the noise so they can find a plan to muffle it. Well, with fire works going off every night in the bay area, and i know that youve heard them. Contra costa fire crews show us what can happen if your fire works show goes horribly wrong. And fire crews didnt pull out the m 80s. They used this set of small, simple, sparklers, firefighters lit the sparklers and dropped them on this roof gutter with some dry vegetation to show you what can happen if they fall in. The sparklers quickly ignited the roof, spreading under the shingles, fire crews say a fire like this could spread to an attic and put everyone at risk. In recent years, countless fires have been caused by fire works throughout the county. These fires resulted in Property Damage and injuries. There are real consequences to using fire works. In 2018, an antioch resident lost both parts of his hands while handling illegal fire works. Fire crews say illegal fire works put an incredible strain on a Fire Department that is all ready over taxed. Some bay area cities tir uly f works celebrations due to the rise in illegal fire works shows. Uber is extending its mask requirements for drivers and for passengers, the no mask no Ride Campaign was set to expire yesterday but is now saying it will not have an expiration date. Uber has been requiring passengers and drivers to wear masks since mid may. Alaska airlines stepping up its mask requirement for passengers. The airline will issue passengers a yellow card or a final notice to anyone who refuses to wear a mask. Passengers who get the yellow card will be subject to suspension from flights. All passengers will also be asked to sign a Health Agreement that promises they will adhere to the Airlines Mask policy before they board. Contact tracing apps for covid19 are becoming popular worldwide. They can tell you if youve come in contact with an infected person. So you can get tested. But for some, there are privacy concerns. If you think that the app thats supposed to keep you safe from a virus is going to sell you shoes the next day from a shoe store you walked by on your afternoon jog, youre not going to want to use it. Tracing covid contacts tonight at 11 00. The duke of sussex speaking out about racism. He had a virtual message for the youth honored with the 2020 diana hey wars named on behalf of his late mother. Institutional racism has no place in our societies. Yet it is still endemic. Unconscious bias must be acknowledged without blame to create a better world for all of you. Harry echoed his wife megans recent praise of the black lives Matter Movement and spoke on what would have been dianas 59th birthday. The diana awards honor young activists and humanitarians and in fact three bay area teenagers among the 180 honorees, 15yearold, sara goody, a Climate Change activist from cordo medera. A new dog breed in town. Thats right, the American Kennel Club has officially recognize add new pooch. Meet this wire haired guy. The belgian locken. The breed is rare. Only 200 nationwide. Less than 400 in the United States since 1995. Its the rarest of four belgian herding breeds used as messenger dogs during world war ii. The original purpose, guarding and tending to flocks and guarding linen in the fielding. There you go. Very cool, time to get a check of the forecast, paul is standing by. I dont know about you guys but i need more animal stories. I need more good weather stories. We can deliver on at least half of that. Pretty good weather. Especially as we head toward the holiday weekend. Even fancy dogs like that. How few there are of them. All i see a puppy. I get excited about that. Looking toward the Golden Gate Bridge. The fog is making its way through the golden gate. The same pattern. Back and forth as we often do if this time of year for the next several days. Through the end of the week on friday. Friday is a holiday for a lot of folks with the 4th of july on saturday. Friday is the observed holiday. Temperatures backed off. 90 degrees in livermore. Close in concord. 89 for the high this afternoon. 83 degrees santa rosa and san jose. Only 70 in oakland. Warmer at the airports in oakland and san francisco. But the downtowns topped out at 70 and 67 degrees. The downtown temperature in the city dropped to 61. But still 70 at the airport. Theres a difference. It just depends on the geography and what the wind is doing to you. 80s for inland, east bay, low 70s in santa rosa. Things cooling off. Halfmoon bay, 55 degrees. Brr for july. Well see the winds dying down a bit through the rest of tonight. But tomorrow winds pick back up. Especially as we head through tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening, 30mile an hour gusts around the bay and along the coast. But its going to be an on shore wind, that means the fog will do its usual thing. Filling in, spreading inland into early tomorrow morning. But not everywhere. Where you start off with fog, it should back up. Future cast optimistically trying to clear things out entirely along the coast. Thats going to be tough to do. The gray skies overhead, the june gloom here in early july is going to be with us as we head into early friday morning. I think a slightly better chance the fog backs up by friday afternoon. We should push it farther offshore as we head into the weekend. A shift in the over all weather pattern will allow temperes warm up as we head i of july on saturday. Tonight, dropping down in the low to mid 50s. Some valleys in the north bay, cooler, upper 40s in santa rosa. Temperatures tomorrow, almost exactly where they should be for the 2nd of july. Within a degree or two on either side of whats normal for this time of the year. Temperatures barely above 60 along the coast once again. 70s to 80 around the south bay. Inland in the santa clara valley. Low to mid 80s. Normal for july. Low to mid 80s. Warm spots where you expect them to be on the east side of the diablo range. Temperatures around the bay itself reaching up into the mid to upper 60s. East bay low 70s. Mostly 70s for the north bay. The warmest spots in the north bay up to around 80 degrees. And toastier for lake and mendocino counties again. Instead of the 90s. Youre in the 80s. Temperatures retreat as well. We warm up into the weekend, 70 degrees around the bay on the 4th and on sunday with high temperatures inland getting toasty around 90 degrees. But thats not that hot for inland portions of the bay area in early july. The nation coming together over one beer, the movement behind the black is beautiful brew. Plus im juliet goodrich, coming up, an inhate animate just released from the prison tells me conditions are fillty and contaminated with germs. Something needs to be done before more inmates test positive for covid19. The crown jewel for the san jose park system, guatalupe river park is one of the least used parks and some consider it dangerous. Whats happening now that could change that perception. Up next, how one bay area artist is using her paint brush and canvas to help those in. People are coming up with creative ways to give during the covid19 pandemic. Tonight, sharon chen introduces us to this weeks bay area jefferson award winner whose generosity started with her paint brush. Sharon . Thats right, veronica, a picture may be worth a thousand words but one of her portraits is a gift that keeps on giving. Gina presents pamela with a portrait of pamelas father who recently died of covid19. Do you like it . I love it. Thats my dad. The fact that it looks like him and she loves it means a lot. She created the piece as part of the Service Project she began while shettering in place. Shes painting portraits at a fifth of the normal rate and donating money to pe ed the professional artist who is also a math teacher spread the word through social media. My husband and i and my kids are all lucky to have a place to stay, we have money groceries and were able to pay our bills. It broke my heart to see so many people struggling. Gina painted 55 portraits. And made more than 11,000 since mid march. She says shes given all the funds to 55 families. Families like adama and her fiveyearold son, jeremiah of oakland who received 400 in donations for food. Adama, also helped direct her donations to other cash strapped households. I think shes awesome. She just cared and was willing to take care of people ha that she doesnt know. It says how jeb Ronald Mcdonald house she is. And talented. Her paintings become treasured possessions. Pamela will give hers to her nephew. He juans something to remember his grandfather. This picture is perfect. I felt hored to do that for her in honoring her dad. So for painting portraits and donating proceeds to families in need. This weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to gina alvarado. Giana spends two hours on each portrait. Right now shes taking a break but may pick the project back up again especially if we shelter in place again, veronica. Love that. All right, sharon, thank you. You too can nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online at kpix. Com hero. And the kpix 5 news at 6 00 begins now with allen martin and elizabeth cook. Now at 6 00, bay area beaches will be off limits this holiday weekend. The state is dialing back reopenings as coronavirus cases surge. Its so filthy, contaminated, and ridden with germs. A former inmate at san quinton sounding the alarm as covid19 spreads through the prison. The promise he made to a former cell mate. Once envisioned as a grand gathering place, how san joses guatalupe river park has not lived up to that dream. Our top story on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. Governor newsom walking back reopenings. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. New restrictions cover 19 counties placed on the states watch list. Including three in the bay area. Con that kosta, santa clara, and solano counties. The rules and dinein Restaurant Service limit access to the california coastline, andrea joins us live from paca on thcoastline, andrea . Well, parking lots up and down the coast starti