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Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 6pm 20240714

Picked up. An elderly woman lives in a home that bird burned but she did not seem to be home at the time. Reporter one firefighter had a heat related illness but no one else was hurt. Has been a hot, dry fire season so far. Weve had several large fires around the city but we havent had the really big ones happen in san joses jurisdiction yet. They are coming. Reporter among the things firefighter safes, these two park seeds that sits overlooking the santa clara valley. This is one of the homes that were saved. You can see the fire came right down to the driveway. Firefighters are now investigating reports of the downed power lines to see if that indeed was the cause of the fire. In san jose, maureen naylor, ktvu fox 2 news. We saw temperatures above 100 degrees and many inland locations today. This obviously a picture of San Francisco where it hits 91 degrees today. We will check in with bill martin a few minutes to find out when we can finally expect some relief. The heat has triggered a number of Power Outages around the area. Tom vacar explains how pg e is handling the extra stress on the grid. Reporter pg e santa rosa materials and equipment yards, like all such bay area facilities are ready with people, material and equipment to respond to this afternoons outages. Yesterday was a doozy, most notably in the east bay. Yesterday reached 104 degrees in a lot of areas. It was the highest temperature we have seen any couple of years. Throughout the day about 10,000 customers were impacted. Not all at once but throughout the day due to heat related outages. Reporter transformers of all sizes can only carry so much load. And the problem of course is whether they are up on a poll pole or underground, they have to carry too much load, or they simply get too hot, they will shut down. The transformers and other equipment this cannot cool down fast enough especially the underground equipment, it just cannot cool down. Reporter then add in mega demand on the system. We see load issues the increase in demand, when the weather atop people use their airconditioners more reporter transformers step the power down from the main voltage system to the voltages needed in homes and businesses. Bottom line, when transformers fail, they usually have to be replaced and that can take a significant time for a crews to climb a poll or enter a vault to change a transformer out. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. The Santa Rosa City council is getting an update on the citys lawsuit against pg e. The lawyers for the city or outlining the lawsuit in a meeting underway right now. More than 3000 homes in san  jose were destroyed when the north bay firestorm drove out broke out in 2017. Cal fire concluded that pg e equipment caused some of the fires. New details about the salesforce Transit Center. Officials say it is reopening the day of july 1st. The Transit Center has been closed september when cracks were found on two support beams over fremont street. Those beams were repaired, as well as those over firstrate which were not cracked but were similar to the ones who did crack. They said that an independent panel determined those repairs have made the 2 billion center safe to reopen. Airline kitchen workers at sfo are discussing the public possibility of a strike. They say they are fighting for higher pay and affordable healthcare, and one job should be enough. Alyana gomez joins us live in the studio with more on the union negotiations. Reporter Union Workers at the united here are voting right now on whether or not two strike after nearly 2 years of negotiating in good faith. One worker we spoke with today is living in a room with his son and trying to save money for his two other children in the philippines. That is the reality. Reporter overcome with emotion santiago shared his truth. He is struggling financially. Centered on the job where he prepares food for the airlines, and now cannot afford his 1700 medical bill on top of his 200 a month Health Insurance premium. It is hard to pay that kind of money because that is not the only bills we have. Reporter the base salary for an airline food prep worker is 37,000 a year. Where santa on san diego and his son rent a room in a house to keep cost down so you can try to save for his two other children overseas. You are try to save some money for your family in the philippines . I need mine to give for my kids. Reporter santiago and other workers who are local are voting this week on whether or not two strike after months of negotiations with sky chef and gourmet. American, united and Delta Airlines are in contracts with those companies to handle their inflight food and beverage services. This is a billiondollar industry that is making huge profits and we are looking to improve the standards for the airline kitchen workers that help provide the planes and what they need to take off. Reporter the workers in fs sfo are on average about 18 an hour, less than 50 have company Health Insurance. We are prepared to fight to get a good contract. We work hard. All the people work hard. Reporter unite here has workers in other cities including new york, dallas, chicago, miami and seattle where they are also considering a strike we are told but the workers say they cannot strike until mediation efforts are exhausted and the federal government releases them. We are told oakland and san jose airport are not involved in this dispute currently. What about airlines and travelers, will this have any impact . The Union Workers essay there will be disruptions. They are telling me in order for the food and beverage to get on the flight they have to load it onto the plane or has to be loaded onto the plane and it cannot leave the runway until it is there. If they are on strike and are not loading the food, no word on whether or not these airlines have a contingency plan to get the food on board or how they operate with backup. We are still winning for the airlines to give us information on this potential contingency plans. There is a new plan in oakland that is aiming to help her fill the need for Affordable Housing. The city is launching a new fund to help developers build affordable units. Andre senior in the newsroom with what the mayor had to say today about the plan. Reporter in announcing the new plan to get more Affordable Housing to City Residents the mayor also blasted other cities that she says are not addressing the problem. A group of people listened intently as oakland city officials talked about a new plan to build more Affordable Housing for residents increasingly finding themselves priced out. What is exciting about todays announcement, it is a 260 Million Loan Fund to help quickly build more Affordable Housing, as well as to preserve existing housing and make it protected and affordable for those who live there or for just our workingclass folks. Reporter cranes the open skyline but the cost of these new homes may be out of range for many with prices closing in on the other side of the bay. The mayor lashing out at other local governments for not doing their part. The level of red tape, the different cities are imposing on new Housing Development is hurting the whole bay area, including the residents live in those communities. Reporter homeless encampment have become a common sight underneath highways. The mayor says Housing Affordability is a factor. These are not drifters. These are our neighbors, these are people who have called oakland home for generations. And we know how to get people out of homelessness but this housing crisis is putting two people into homelessness for every person that we get housed. And that is because of this affordability crisis. Reporter the new fund will give developers an assist in creating homes more profitable for those who continue to see themselves priced out of the market. The partnership for the bays future is an innovative, giant tent that recognizes everyone has a role to play, not just government but philanthropy as well as the private sector. And it is my honor as the mayor to go out to the businesses that call oakland home and encourage them to participate in loan funds like the one that we are announcing today. Reporter said this is the latest move by the mayor to fill a plan unveiled in 2016 that aims to preserve 17,000 Affordable Homes and protect an additional 17,000 new homes in order to preserve oaklands economic racial diversity. Andre senior in our newsroom. Coming up, surviving a 100 foot plunge from the highway onto the rocks below. We will hear from one of the rescuers who helped pull a woman to safety. A newborn baby boy found wrapped in a blanket and deserted a dumpster but luckily he was still breathing. What we are now learning about his mother. We are taking a look at the weather, some records to talk about any cooldown beginning to show up in the south bay. Also, controversy over contracting sheriffs deputies for a private mens only retreat. The decision today on next months Bohemian Grove gathering. Looking into the tuesday evening commute as the toll plaza looks like a morning commute, it is back to big time because of an accident that is blocking the right lane at the metering light. Ktvu news and 6 will be back in a moment. Have the Fastest Internet and now the best mobile network too . Yeah and get them together and save hundreds on your wireless bill. Wow, thats great. Oh, and this looks great. Are these words for sale . No. Go, go, go, go, go. Now the fastest, most reliable internet can help you save on your wireless bill. Thats simple, easy, awesome. Taxi should i have stopped her . Save hundreds of dollars a year when you get internet and mobile together. Plus ask how to get 250 back when you switch to xfinity mobile. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. Two and a day of hot weather had folks heading to the beach and First Responders are reminding folks to stay safe. Christien kafton reports from San Francisco were a 14 yearold boy drowned yesterday at reporter yet another day of hot temperatures have many looking for relief on separate ciscos beaches. With this is where a 14year old drowned on monday. Emergency workers reminding locals and visitors that San Franciscos beaches can be beautiful and deadly. And that combination of factors can be a recipe for disaster. Think about the extremely aggressive wave patterns we have in San Francisco. The very strong currents we have not only on the coastline but inside the bay as well. Experience rescuers know that San Franciscos water conditions can make swimming and surfing here dangerous and that crews your advise those looking to swim to look elsewhere. If youre going into the water we recommend that you plan that trip. And think about going to a lifeguard protected beach and the closest one to San Francisco is penson beach in marin county. But for many the lore of a cold break from the heat is too tempting to pass up. Roland came to the beach with his granddaughters and said he came from sweden and spent a lot of time on the beaches there. He said safety has to be the number one priority. That means keeping a close eye on the kids and making sure they can float if they need to. As long as i go with them, they can be out but if they are playing alone, they need help. Just to make sure somebody is there. Somebody must be with them. Reporter as we are talking about coastal dangers let us talk about another one, Emergency Responders are warning people going hiking on separate ciscos cliffsides to be cautious. Every year they have to rescue people who are hiking and get stranded on the cliffs or who fall and injure themselves. They say be sure to bring your cell phone with you and be as safe as possible. In San Francisco Christien Kafton ktvu fox 2 news. And for the second straight day weve had some significant records being broken. Santa rosa, these are all the records, there were a lot. Yesterday was very similar. Lafayette fields, 101, reached about 100. San jose 99 an apple 102. And napa 102. These numbers, that is a lot of records. , tomorrow we are getting break from the reference, that is the hope, we are planning attempters being cooler as we are already seeing a bit of a seabreeze down around santa cruz and down around Salinas Valley and monterey. That is an indication that the suddenly surge, the cooler moister air with fog, is working its way up the coast and pulling it along the coast. That would mean tomorrows temperatures and the forecast for tomorrow temperatures, will be significantly cooler. Especially along the coast were temperatures there could be as much as 15 degrees cooler in some places. The heat advisory and the excessive heat warnings and stay in effect until 9 00 tonight. It should not be reissued for tomorrow. We do have a spare the air day tomorrow, but it has been a run of big heat no red flag warnings, nothing like that but issues with fire just from sheer heat, low humidity and really drive fuel moisters or low fuel moisters which does tell you how much moisture is in a stock of grass. When he gets down things burn. Current temperatures 102 invariable, 100 and concord and the temperatures are ahead of where they were last night and linda but a little bit cooler in napa. That could be the seabreeze kicking and. When we come back we will lay it out for you and what you can expect the next couple of days. The chp is investigating a deadly crash that shut down all westbound lanes of highway four. The crash was first reported ron 2 30 this afternoon between loveridge and summersville road. A motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a bmw. The corner was corner was called to the scene forcing the closure of all westbound lanes for more than two hours they reopened ron 4 30 this afternoon. And the crash involving three big rigs backed up traffic on eastbound interstate 5 80 580. They say this crash happened around 10 30 this morning in livermore near greenville road. Sky fox is overhead just before 1 00 this afternoon when two lanes were opened. They were also problems heading westbound with a three car crash that happened in the same area right around noon. New at 6, the Sonoma County board of supervisors politely approved a contract with the exclusive Bohemian Club today provide sheriffs deputies for security at their annual mens only retreat at the Bohemian Grove on the Russian River near montrial. This comes despite concerns from some members of the club discriminates against women. The club has been reimbursing the county for security now for more than a decade. The Oakland City Council is scheduled to meet again tomorrow to discuss competing Budget Proposals after meeting for hours last night and then postponing a vote. Protesters gathered at city hall ahead of the meeting. The council is considering one budget proposed by mayor libby schaaf and another by Council President rebecca kaplan. Many other Community Members who spoke out support kaplans Budget Proposal but mayor shaft says the overestimate city revenue. Affordable housing, homelessness, taking care of late are light and trash, protecting the Public Health and maintaining our these are values that are shared. To spend more money than you have is a financial disaster. Mayor shaft says the city is facing a 40 increase in Employee Pension and healthcare cost in the next five years. Still ahead here, william barr held in contempt of congress. The legal fight over subpoena documents as of the house votes to take the Trump Administration to court. 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