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Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 530pm 20240712

Overhaul the dialysis industry. Good evening. Here is devin fehely, on what prop 23 means for the dialysis industry. The people who rely on dialysis access to clinics like the one behind me and the quality of care that they receive there is a matter of life and death, so it is so much on the line. You can imagine the passion surrounding a Ballot Initiative that seeks to make major and controversial changes to this industry. You can stroke out, have a heart attack, all kinds of things can happen while you are on the chair. So that is why it is important to have a doctor there. Reporter she has depended on dialysis to keep her alive for the past 12 years. She hopes clinics are often understaffed and the entire industry is in desperate need of reform. These clinics are not required to have a doctor on site. Enter prop 23, a brandnew ballot measure from some familiar foes at the dialysis industry. After failing in 2018, the Service Employees International Union is back, with another attempt to convince voters to force changes on dialysis clinics. Is pathological of unionizing employees. I find it hard to understand why our motives are always suspect, the fact that we are a labor union trying to include things in these clinics. There has to be an ulterior motive and im here to say there is no ulterior motive. Im not going to die from dialysis. Im going to die without it. The yes and no campaigns have launched dueling ads. Often those clinics are dirty with machines not properly maintained. Reporter each with dire predictions about will happen. One special Interest Group again is putting my life at risk. The other side wins. Prop 23 would require a doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant to be on site at all times. Critics say it is the a risk and expensive requirement that does little to improve the actual quality of care. On its face when i first read it, i thought it was unnecessary. And then once i started looking at the implications of it, i could understand that it was dangerous. Dialysis patient says he fears the financial burden of the top 23 might for some clinics out of business. Proposition 23 the lives of 80,000 dialysis patients at risk. And it will jeopardize their access to Dialysis Care that they need to survive. And ultimately, clinics will close. Supporters prop 23 say that is a scare tactic. Theyardi pa, they are nog feey dont know what we, what we go through. So it is really easy for them to only give a about their money and their profit. Once again this is the second Ballot Initiative aimed at reforming this industry, voters defeated proposition eight, in 2018. Devin fehely, kpix5. Much officials are scrambling in ohio after nearly 50,000 voters got the wrong ballots. Someone accidentally changed a setting on the machine on saturday. That put absentee ballots on envelopes to go there promising to mail a corrected balance within 72 hours. Twitter is cracking down on misinformation ahead of the election, instead of immediate retreats. As for victory pose, uses lung with candidates will not be allowed to treat a victory unless it has been officially announced. We are getting a lot of questions from you have election day. Today we are asking napa county star voters, thanks so much for joining us, helping folks out. I appreciate you giving me a platform. One of our reviewers asked, should i be concerned if i dont think my ballot yet . You should not really be concerned, until probably tuesday. October 13. Monday, the 12th, is not a postal delivery day but you can go to my voters status. Sos. Da. Geo v and check to make sure youre registered to vote. If you are not registered to vote, you have until october 19, at midnight, to register online at register to vote, at midnight, to register online registertovote. Ca. Geo v. With had a lot of people also say they never got, you know, that official voting, it break something down for you. What resources are out there, are they online . Well, there are two of them, so they are both online, the first one is the state of california voter information guide. That is printed on newsprint, and that is available on the secretary of states website, right there, november 3, 2020, official voter information guide. The other guy that you receive is your local county voter information guide, and our voter information guides are online, at our website, where a voter can come in, by their last name and birthdate and get to see exactly the voter information guide that was mailed to them in case for some reason they did not receive it. I received both my voter information guides and my ballots on the same day for our family. Certainly in your area and other parts of the viewing area as well, the wildfires of course are a big, big, big deal affecting people but is it affecting, the fires affecting the voting and getting their ballots and getting those ballots in . Absolutely. We have two ways that people whose been evacuated, or displaced or have lost their homes, the first way is to call our office, i wont give our numbers but it is true that every county, and tell us what your temporary address is, you can put a temporary address at the post office, they are not allowed to forward your ballot, there is no forwarding for ballots. So you have to call your local registrar to give them your temporary address, and they will send you a new ballot to that address, within a couple of days. And lastly for you, voter turnout, what have you seen so far in napa county . Welcome back and his expression it is smoking, i, ive been doing this for 22 1 2 years, and excuse the pun, we have never seen a turnout like this. We have over 2500 ballots back in the mail we have 900 ballots in our dropbox is already, and our ballots just hit our voters on tuesday, october 6. So this is going to be a huge turnout, we are up for it, we are prepared for it and we want to ask our voters to vote safe, by using their vote by mail ballot and we also are asking our voters to vote early, if they need in person voting, come to your vote centers that are open on saturday, from halloween, through election day, saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday. Do it saturday, sunday and monday because they will not be the long lines there. Is inspiring to see that kind of dissipation. Napa county register voters, thanks so much for being with us, good to see you. Now that you have your ballot we do have some resources for you as well, on our website, to help you vote smart quickly go to for backgrounders, especially on the california ballot measures. Testing video, on holway highway 50. The actual driver says could have been devastating. I tell you why the city is adamantly opposed to any electronic signs on the. Coming up new at six, thousands of power and telephone poles destroyed by fires the north bay. How theyre going beyond just repairing them. Plus. In nfl Expansion Team in oakland, africanamericans. That is the vision from a group of local leaders, coming up, how will they figure 8 and the challenges it proposition 16 takes on discrimination. Some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. When was the last time your property tawhat . L went down . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. And invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. When you take a it all begins to unravel. Ann ravels no reformer, shes backed by big corporations whove poured hundreds of thousands into her campaign. And she opposes ballot measures to make the economy more fair for working people. Only dave cortese is endorsed by the California Democratic party. Hes helping us battle the pandemic with a sciencebased approach. And expanding Health Services and child care to those in need. For state senate, Democrat Dave cortese. The ceremonial bellringing today in santa rosa, the City Fire Department honor guard rang the bell 24 times, in honor of each people who die in Sonoma County during the 20 people who die in Sonoma County during the 2017 wildfires. Certainly, it is a time wh ny classrooms across the bay area and the state continues teaching from the classrooms, while we are in distance learning. I want to echo all of the appreciations the people that worked on this project. The campus was torn down back in 2016, to begin the renovation project. Be prepared for flight delays attendance is go international. A runway was being repaved. Two of the four runways are closed, the project includes repaving part of 28 are, that is and right there. Repaving is expected to be finished a week from today. A bay area family that has been feeding families for decades gets a major boost to help its mission. A reminder, we have a new app for you, gives taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. Breaking state employment laws for years. Now these multibilliondollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No unemployment benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. The unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. To avoid hitting a car, clips the side of the before losing control. The menu capture the dash cam video says those actions could have impacted so many others. They are seeing an increase in aggressive drivers on the road in certain those cases could turn deadly. This could not have come at a better time, a local food bank that has been feeding families for decades moved into its permanent home today. There it is. 12,000 squarefoot home, and commercial kitchen come in san jose. Today, the group made the move of officials with the women cutting ceremony. Our goal is to make sure we can be that resource, consistent presence of support in the community. And ensure that especially our families, our children, our seniors, our veterans know that they are in need of the mail, we have a meal for them to have. They were put some benign Partner Organizations to feed families throughout santa clara and san mateo countys. A great organization. I woke up this morning, i was so excited, it was like christmas morning, the ground was actually wet. I thought you going to say snow. It almost felt like that. Felt like that moment, i was so thrilled. A little bit of drizzle, a lot of clouds, and fog, that video have gray skies overhead. Then the sun broke through. Temporarily. The fog come the drizzle, it is going to spread back out as we had to the rest of tonight, which again is a good thing overall. There is a possibility of a couple of sprinkles and the north bay, maybe a brief passing shower that is not going to amount to much more than a trace of precipitation on saturday and then we clear out and we start warming up on sunday. That woman trend will be much more noticeable as we had to next week back to well above average amateurs by the latter half of next week. The airquality really improved today. And knowledge a lot of green dots on the map. The poor air quality pushed farther off to the east and northeast of stronger, onshore wind. Not just a groundlevel. We have those yesterday but farther up in the atmosphere they were not helping is not a whole lot. Now it is much deeper, pushing the smoke into the Central Valley and farther away from us. Lets see how things will evolve. Still smoke rolling off the august complex. In Northern California but that part of the state might actually get a little bit of rain. That would help. The shift to the north, jack that smoke back down, at least in the upper levels, some deterioration in air quality, and were going to be in the same pattern as we had early next week. Another batch of smoke is going to be rolling down our way. Will not return to orange sky airquality, but it is going to be just variable until the fires are actually extinguished. Temptress they were pleasant, 60, 70 come to around 80 degrees, 80 was the warmest but on the map, in fairfield, 70s and concord and san jose, 60s for fremont, sentence is going to happen bay, all the symptoms about 2 to 4 degrees below average, and right now, temperatures are exclusively in the 60s and 70s. It was just a few days ago we almost a 40 degrees spreading temperatures at this time of day. Now is a 14 spread. Very nice weather this evening. Which they well. Is early tomorrow morning. Slow to improve as we had to the first half of the day, and even with the fog, still going to see more clouds and sometimes even if we dont see that very limited chance of passing sprinkle. It dwindles to 10 chance the coastal drizzle. In the upper 50s, to around 60 degrees most locations, that is a bit above average because of the cloud cover overhead. We were moved to the mid 60s in the city, about five degrees below normal for this time of year with the clouds reluctant to break up. Not much sunshine in the city orland the coast as we had to the day. Temptress are still managed to struggle into the low 70s, santa rosa, mainly making it along to 70 degrees. Your the best chance, of even a passing shower. Temperature slightly warmer for concord. Even the warm spot on the map camisa the diablo range, going to stay below 80 degrees but we start warming up on sunday and the atmosphere kind of steps on the gas pedal. From the mid to upper 80s inland, monday and tuesday, back into the low 90s wednesday, thursday and friday and even around the bay close to 80 degrees i thursday and friday. Ski season is almost here, but be prepared for the changes coming to tahoe, toocovid. Plus, people are plugged in and they are paying attention to detail, the first couple of days of voting, giving us an indication of what turnout might look like here in 2020. A group in oakland is asking the nfl to create a new team in oakland and this time, it is blackowned. Now has the nfls attention. Still ahead here, realtime traffic signs could help with the beach good luck on highway one, but when was the last time your property tax bill went down . What . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. When you take a it all begins to unravel. Ann ravels no reformer, shes backed by big corporations whove poured hundreds of thousands into her campaign. And she opposes ballot measures to make the economy more fair for working people. Only dave cortese is endorsed by the California Democratic party. Hes helping us battle the pandemic with a sciencebased approach. And expanding Health Services and chree in nd. For state senate, Democrat Dave cortese. Im voting yes on prop 19. Nineteen limits taxes on seniors. It limits property tax on people like me. Nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. It says so right here. If 19 passes, seniors can move closer to family or medical care. I looked at moving but i cant afford the taxes. Will you help californias most vulnerable . Vote yes on prop 19. The drive along highway one could look a little different. Caltrans wants to put up real time traffic signs along the coast. Devin fehely is at Half Moon Bay were summer pushing back. Reporter the city of Half Moon Bay says they dont believe a large excited keeping in character with the highway or the community. It would be installed here the for dealership just south of downtown Half Moon Bay. Many complained is in would be unnecessary, and unattractive. It deftly would be an eyesore and i also think that the nature of highway one is changing. The Traffic Congestion is incredibly problematic for the locals. Provided realtime traffic information, every four, 5 miles on the coast. From daly city to pacifica, to Half Moon Bay. The many people who live or visit the area say the signs to be an unwelcome addition to one of the most beautiful stretches of californias coast. They should make optimize between providing that kind of information in not have his big glaring, you know, blinking sign that you that come you know, put you back into that modern world. The city council sent a letter to caltrans formally opposing the sign, others wonder, given how common gps navigation apps have become, if it is even needed. I think you get enough information that you dont really need it, before you needed the sign, do not have information, and you have it at your fingertips now, so i think, i think it is already there. Its not necessary to added. The project is in an early planning stage, the agency is listening to the growing chorus of opposition, and communities, along the coast. The mayor and city council are on record saying they opposed this electronic sign billboard in will have to wait and see how effectively they can mount a campaign to block it. And Half Moon Bay, devin fehely. Our senses the original purpose of the project was to increase the d and mobility on highway one. Now at six, our top stories, potential legal and financial troubles for pg e tonight. The companys equipment being looked at in connection to deadly fires again. That evening, i am was with cook. I am in for can tonight. Lets get to that developing story. Pg e unde

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