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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm July 12, 2024

That is up on the higher peaks. Always using mount st. Helena for our representative spot for what the wind will be doing in the mountains. And thats where this applies, 1000 feet and about. That is still 25 mile an hour sustained winds out of the north. Just enough wind where they cant let their guard down and they need to stay on a heightened level of alertness and readiness over the next 24 hours. And when you factor in how dry it is, and the relative humiditys will state relatively low into the overnight hours. We will talk more about what this all means, you might have noticed that your quality get a little better. So theres good news there, and wait until you see what could potentially be coming our way by saturday. Its good news, we might be looking at our first good rain of the season. Its very early on this but it is worth talking about at this point considering our current situation. I will be back with more on that coming up in a few minutes. Cooler weather and homer winds overnight did help firefighters make some progress but now they have containment lines around 10 of the 62,000 acre blaze. But the progress comes too late for nearly 1000 homes and other buildings. Today a Church Leader organized a small Prayer Service for his fellow evacuees in napa to help them deal with all the disruption in their lives. It is very strange to be Walking Around a hotel with 20 docs Walking Around all over the place. While weve been successful in keeping the fire from impacting the community, we certainly dont take lightly the fact that we had to evacuate that community and essentially disrupt everyones lives up there. But we had to do it. Since the fire erupted last sunday its been making a steady march toward the community of england. So far cruz have been able to keep it away from the heart of the town as well as nearby calistoga and st. Helena to the west. Evacuation warnings also were lifted in Sonoma County. So smoke continues to be the big issue outside of the fire zone. The haze didnt seem quite as bad today but of spare the air alert remains in effect through tuesday. The glass fire is one of about two dozen large places currently burning across the state. And if those blazes collectively grow by another 20,000 acres that will mark an unprecedented acre of 4 million acres that have burned so far this year. That is 6250 square miles. For comparison the entire name county bay area covers just under 7000 square miles. California firefighters have the enough containment line to stretch from san diego generic city. Stay with kpix 5, kpix. Com and cbsn bay area for continued coverage on the fire danger throughout the week and on this unprecedented fire season. I feel much better now, we are working hard to get me all the way back. I have to be back because we still have to make America Great again. President trump gave that update on his condition about two hours ago but the white house says there will be no more updates from the doctors. We reached out to a leading expert in the bay area. The chair of the ucsf department of medicine, his observations and commentary have drawn a massive following on twitter. He says understanding the severity of the president s condition will take time. In the news, it was discussed a little more hopeful than one had feared. If it is an actual accurate piece of data that he is not short of breath and his oxygen is at 96 . That would be good, in the other hand we know he was pretty short of breath yesterday and he needed oxygen. In a 74yearold obese sky, that is pretty prognostic late dicey, he is certainly not out of the woods. What is at the top of your mind right now that you would like to know given everything we know here at 1 00 in the afternoon . I do have one question, i think the issue of the super spreader, i would like to know who was infected in that event and following them. Its a disaster. Id want to know more about that and who was in contact with you. In terms of the president s health, youd want to know his oxygen saturation, not just today when it seems like its okay, but yesterday. And id want to know the results of the cat scan of his lungs. Which undoubtedly they have done. Those two pieces of data will tell you more about whats going on with his lungs and ultimately his prognosis. In your discussions you use those medical key kind of charge to talk about how there are certain probabilities based on what we know, etc. I guess another way to describe that is that there is so much uncertainty. Is there a window we are looking at where we could get more certainty, 48 hours has been discussed. What is the window you are looking at to where we really will know something more about the course the president might be on . Certainly will take another week. This is a disease that has a number of uncertain paths. And even with the experience now with millions of patients, all we can say is that certain patients have a higher risk of things going sour and other patients have a lower risk and we suspect they will do well. But then time does its thing and that really is 70 10 days. That was Wilson Walker speaking with a doctor from ucsf. And we have a live report at 6 30 from walter reed. Meanwhile the covid19 pandemic has climbed another historic bay area business. Harringtons bar and grill is closing its doors permanently. Its a restaurant on front street and they announced the news on their website. The owners say weighing out the pandemic was financially unreasonable and they also released a statement saying weve had 85 wonderful years of a broad and diverse mix of patrons. We so appreciate it thank you for your support through the years. Harringtons had been operating since 1935. New 6, the future of one minority owned gas station is feeling quite a debate this evening. Twin peaks auto care is located at the busy corner of her toilet drive and woodside avenue. On land owned by the city. Affordable housing advocates tell kpix 5 that instead of filling up cars the property can fill a much more important need. Reporter the gas station owner is asking the city to sign 25 year lease extension. This is a city in desperate need of Affordable Housing. And this is a great neighborhood to build Affordable Housing in. Beth ross believes the city should use the public land for public good. I have friends who are retired and cant afford to stay here. Other neighbor say this is an essential business in the community and they want to keep it. Twin peaks auto care has eight gas pumps and a small repair shop. The pumps are always busy because of the location and prices. We live right up the hill so its easy to get in and out, the guys are nice and they do a good service. There are not enough gas stations left in the city. We will be using gasoline for a while. Carol understands the importance of Affordable Housing and she points out that theyve already lost several gas stations here in the last two decades. There needs to be balance. We need to have places to fuel up our cars. The Business Owners as the state requires all stations to have stronger underground storage tanks by 2025. Thats why hes asking for a 25 year lease. Its like buying a house, you have to secure a loan and it will take 20 to 30 years to pay off that loan. He says he will shift his Business Model in the future as the market moves toward electric cars. But opponents argue that if San Francisco is serious about fighting Climate Change then this gas station should not be a part of the future. The gas station is definitely a convenience for those who live here but there are other gas stations not too far away. They will vote on the lease on tuesday but if they do not like it they can reject it or shorten the lease. Coming up, people across the state are finding their mailboxes filled with fraudulent unemployment claims. Plus, a huge nfl game is on hold after covid19 benched a big named cornerback. Meanwhile its game on for the pac12, almost. The conference is out with schedule and thats just ahead in sports. Wave now track thousands. Do you understand how widespread this is and how many millions of taxpayer dollars have been lost so far . The governor did not answer that question but this evening kpix 5 has obtained edd data that for the first time reveals just how widespread the implement fraud may be. Our Investigative Reporter has been digging into the data with more than 30,000 addresses that may have been used to make fraudulent edd claims. For the first week it was the same two or three people. Georgette says the employment document keep coming. Add recently acknowledged that crooks are stealing victim identities through data breaches who are implying for employment with their names and Social Security numbers, using fake names like georgettes. Weve obtained data that indicates georgette may be one of more than 30,000 addresses used to apply for edd benefits for 10 or more different people, in some cases more than 1000 people at each address. We counted 23 different names and letters coming to georgettes house with more than 33 Social Security numbers using her address. Debit cards and notifications for employment. The data shows 23 different claims for daniel frankels address. There is a whole container about this big. Among the top 50 addresses there are at least eight locations where you might expect multiple claims encoding homeless shelters, and a post Office General delivery address. But the vast majority, five out of six are mailbox rentals or homes listed for rent or for sale including multimillion dollar mansions. And this house for sale in sacramento was used to apply for unemployment under more than 1300 unique Social Security numbers. The photos online clearly show it is entry. And that strip mall has more than 5000 claims. Assemblyman shoe reached out to top edd leadership. I did not hear back but i do understand that as someone close to edd, this was not a surprise in the system should have been able to address this but did not. Edd did not confirm or deny our findings but says they are canceling multiple claims on the same address. Yet the documents continue to come. Funneling millions of dollars to fraudsters while putting potential he tens of thousands like georgette at risk for mail theft and fraud. Certainly stay tuned for more updates as she continues to investigate. Switching gears to the all important air quality and temperature forecast. Things went downhill a little, theres more sunshine but that is not necessarily good news for the firefighters. No its not. As we saw with the red flag warning being issued. And it may seem to be just as much smoke in the air as yesterday, but for most of us there was a big improvement today and that changes color coded on the map behind me. You know the way that he works on this, yellow and green is where we want to, orange and red is not so good. But when you look at this map you can visualize how the onshore flow really helped to clear out the smoke the closer you are to the bay. Inland, he still have issues like in the far south bay were just in the last hour we finally saw san jose come out of unhealthy for sensitive groups. Same story as we go further inland. In the trivalley would just havent gotten enough of that onshore search to get through or over the mountains yet here you are still living with the same smoke from yesterday. Over on the other side of the hill, big improvement today. Weve gotten green over here because weve got more direct access to the delta in the breeze that is working through. Great news for concord, good news for the city and even better news for marin and better news up through Sonoma County if you are on 101. If you get over into wine country, it is still bad. In the official forecast for tomorrow, still a spare the air day. And we should at least think of tomorrow is still being an unpleasant day air quality wise. But i have reason to be hopeful that it might tell us that its a little better than that. While you still see plenty of smoke looking south, less of it is overhead and that did a number on the temperatures today. Weve got more direct sunshine so if you were inland you felt a big warmup because of that. Look at the difference, 24 hours, 8 degrees warmer in santa rosa, concord and livermore. We cool down in the bay because the onshore flow brought the cooler air in. But you really did feel the influence of less smoke overhead if you were inland, you felt the warmup. Look at the numbers for daytime highs today. We will bring those numbers down tomorrow by as much as 5 to 8 degrees. And later tonight into tomorrow, the stronger onshore flow continues and thats got to look good. That is a nice clearing for us. So fingers crossed that the air quality should be much like today, if not better. In other words we will start out better in the morning so we get a longer part of the day with reasonable air quality. Then we will turn our focus ahead. This map will show you next saturday and sunday of what the accumulated rainfall could look like across Northern California. I mean thats, if this pans out, and today is saturday and right now im showing your forecast for next saturday which is never a good idea, but considering how much we need a scenario like this, its time to Start Talking about this possibility and its time to be hopeful. That could be endeavoring to really make a significant dent not only in what is going on now but for the rest of the fire season here lets hope this pans out. We could be in for a good rainmaker but it is too early. In the 7 day forecast, thankfully once we get past tonights red flag warning, the weather will start being a lot less of an issue. Even before we get that rain we will cool down and see less offshore winds and then we wait for saturdays rainfall. In the next half hour i will show you two different outlooks on these longrange forecast models to see how they are agreeing on that rain. Storm exports settling in, an absolute shocker in thoroughbred racing. Game breakers, showstoppers and absolute stunners from the nfl. This eve of sundays say yes. To the best bargains ever at ross yes oh, yeah yep. Yesss savings on savings on savings . Thats yes for less. At ross. Oh, yeah theres always somethiat ross. N store yep. Oh yeah say yes to those looks, the best brands. And check you out bargains savings from top to bottom thats yes for less. At ross. Nfl up top and covid19 is throwing scheduling monkeywrench already. The titans and steelers game has been postponed to late october. Positive tests now have hit the sundays chief and patriots game, after two players, including star quarterback cam newton tested positive. That news broke out early this morning. It has forced england to cancel its flight to kansas city. The game will be rescheduled and the league wants to see more test results on sunday. Kansas city backup quarterback has also tested positive. Now the 49ers are a touchdown favorite to beat the eagles and they have another star go down, the defensive and was placed on injured reserve. Other key personnel, number 19, deebo samuel makes his 2020 debut tomorrow. George kittle, another weapon back from a sprained knee that cost him two games. More targets for quarterback nick mullens who cant wait to use them. That some excitement. You can get the ball into those guys hands, i havent played with george in a while. Hes always messing with me about i cant wait to play with you again i love that. He leads in a different way, he leads with his play which is when i respect. He never messes up, hes there and hes consistent. He works hard and thats what our team responds well to. You guys go out and do their job and do it at a high level. As for the raiders they will face the undefeated bills and quarterback josh alan who has been one of the best cornerbacks in the league, 10 touchdowns, an interception and only one of two cornerbacks to throw for over 1000 yards already. And while alan may not get the respect nationally, he certainly has got john grudens attention. This guy is something else. He is a problem for everybody. He can make the throws that you dream about, hes powerful, hes a rocket, hard to tackle, hes smart, hes everything youre looking for in the quarterback position. And he will throw it everywhere, you may throw it out of the stadium if they let him. This guy is really hot right now as a quarterback. You can see the raiders and bills right here on kpix 5 tomorrow at 1 25 followed by the fifth quarter post game show. In college football, kicks off in 25 days, the schedules were released this morning. Stanford starts november 7 in eugene and the ducks are picked to win the north division. The big game will be played in berkley, and as for the bears they will open up at home in washington followed by backto back road games in Arizona State and oregon state. The baseball playoffs and the as, get ready for mondays divisional showdown with rival houston astros. Put those two teams in a mixer, thats a bad tasting cocktail. Bad blood between these two clubs. Boiled over in august when Ramon Laureano when charging into the houston dugout. As for the tale of the tape, the as won the series with a record of 73. And then the bullpen era, the as relievers allowed two runs in 28 innings. Outstanding bullpen, theyve got good starters as well. That one dude, i dont know if he gave up a run all year. Did he give up a run all year . I believe he gave up a homer. All, one all year . Yes, he gave up one. And who took this trophy today in baltimore . The winner of the 145th preakness stakes, the cold authentic on the outside and swiss skydiver on the rail, going for it. To make the derby winner is the philly, swiss skydiver, all the way to the wire and it is going to be a photo finish it was the philly swiss skydiver winning by ahead. She became the 12th female to win a triple crown race and get this, the jockey, a lastminute rider. This is unbelievable. I know we live in a world where youve got to be able to dribble it, shoot it, whatever, but in horse racing, a last minute rider . So they had to go the last minute and get this guy. And he won the race. Ill love those stories. The other rider had other things going on that day i guess. Kicking himself now. Conflicting information over President Trumps condition as hes treated for the coronavirus and walter reed. Why there are also new questions about the timeline of the president s diagnosis. The pres

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