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The comments here in San Francisco is pretty universal. It was put your money where your mouth is. During an interview on fox with Tucker Carlson President Trump says hes considering addressing the homelessness crisis and cities including los angeles and San Francisco. We may intercede and we may do something to get that whole thing cleaned up. The governor wrestlers wrestles with the homelessness issue. The state cannot solve the issue. Cities and counties working with the state and federal government cant. President trump did not offer any concrete plans but indicated it has been a problem the last two years even though homelessness has been persistent for more than 35 and also cast blame. The cities are run by very liberal people at the thing that nobody can figure out is due the governors or mayors, do they really think its a positive and do they think its okay because its not. The Communication Office responded saying, we are focused on running the city not responding to every tweet and ramps. The supervisor said the president can help by providing more money for Affordable Housing. If they want to start actually helping cities reduce the housing we need to brace for low and middle income folks, that would be great. Homeless advocates say the crisis began in the early 1980s when president reagan cut billions of dollars from hud. Weve tried different plans and its not working because we have not restored the funding to Affordable Housing. President trump owns a 35 share of the street. Areas that you used to think as being something very special , you take a look at whats going on with San Francisco and its terrible. He recognizes he has work to do on the issue and is committed to some intervention which is encouraging. I applaud his recognition of this as an issue. Reporter President Trump never mentioned the word homelessness but the problem has not ended on his watch. We will see where things go from here. Governor was here in the bay area this morning talking about his new bill to address housing and homelessness entering an Affordable Housing development. The governor toured the apartments near macarthur boulevard along with the mayor of emeryville and other officials behind the project. It includes everything from studios up to four bedroom apartments and qualified renters will never pay more than 30 of their income. The city gets it and its also getting it done. Meeting the demands and it is a crisis that is developing in our state. We are protecting the most vulnerable individuals and families. The apartments will start accepting applications on monday and developers expect the project to be completed by the fall. The housing bill is now headed to the state assembly where it is expected to pass. We are getting a new look this afternoon at the conditions inside Border Patrol facilities. The auditors released the report today after visiting facilities in south texas in june. They describe dangerous overcrowding and in some cases people had no access to showers, clean clothes or hot meals. At one facility adults were held in standing room only conditions for one week. The Oversight Committee has called Homeland Security officials to testify next week on the treatment of Migrant Children in particular. As Casey Steagall reports some democratic lawmakers are getting a firsthand look. The Congressional Democrats taking the immigration fight to the border to Detention Centers describing rapidly deteriorating conditions for migrants alleging that detainees do not have access to proper food, healthcare or water. This is them on their best behavior and they put them in rooms with no running water. The white house immediately pushing back claiming there is no mistreatment and while more resources are needed, lawmakers are exaggerating the conditions at the holding centers. Is not how the facilities are designed. People get regulated coming in and out. All of that stuff is regulated. Those explanations are not sitting well with immigrant rights groups. Thousands of protesters taking part in close the camps rallies and more than a dozen cities with demonstrators demanding congress order the closure of what they call inhumane detention facilities along the border and the immediate reunification of all families who have been separated by border officials. It is unamerican and illegal and we are here on a day of action to close the camps. President trump said the immigration raids that were delayed by a few weeks will now happen after the fourth of july holiday. Several of the protests that we mentioned are happening here in the bay area. Skyfox is over San Francisco earlier this afternoon where more than 1000 people gathered. You can see they were blocking the intersection there at poston market street. People also gathered in palo alto and santa rosa. Mope more protests are expected this evening. For more im joined by a member of one of the groups protesting called raging grannies. She joins us now near where one of the protest took place earlier today. Thank you for being here. Can you tell me more about why you decided to protest today . The protest was part of a National Action on the part of moveon. The raging grannies have protested the detention facilities previously and we have been appalled from the get go that children were separated from their families which knowing anything about childs ecology is right away child abuse. Tell me what you want lawmakers to do . Everyone admits that this is now crisis but it seems there are different views on how to deal with it. First and foremost, stop demonizing immigrants. They are legitimate refugees and the families are fleeing really dangerous situations. It has to be recognized as a human rights crisis and not as some kind of a dangerous invasion. And that has to dictate what measures we take and first and foremost, we must keep children with their families and we must make every effort to meet their needs. Heaven knows we are spending enough money on it and some of the centers with children are receiving their private prison for children 750 a day per child so we are spending enough money but its not being it is not getting to the people that need the help and the resources. The Deputy Commissioner of customs and Border Control says the agency has complained about the overcrowding issue which we really got to see in the new pictures that were released. He also reiterated that the facilities were never designed to hold this many people. What do you think the correct way is to solve the situation that now has so many more people in these Detention Centers . They need to make much more effort to keep the families together. Previously they were held for a maximum of 20 days and released with ankle monitors. The system was not perfect but it was certainly more humane than separating them and leaving children without proper care and often having to be tended to by unrelated older children. Children as young as two or three years old. Crying, sobbing and living in filthy clothing without adequate supplies for sanitation and with very poor food. We are going to end it they are, thank you for taking the time to talk with us. The los angeles District Attorney has charged a suspected gang member with killing a son of an oakland city councilwoman. 23yearold Ivan Hernandez charged with murder and attempted robbery in the shooting death of 21yearold Victor Mcelhaney back in march. He is a son of Lynette Gibson mcelhaney. He was a student at usc and was out with friends when he was shot and killed in a strip mall parking lot about 1 mile away from campus new information on the hazmat situation at the facebook mail facility that prompted evacuations. Testing now shows a suspicious package did not contain the deadly nerve agent sarin. It was a team effort as a National Guard team, fbi and others wrapped up the investigation. They were on the scene for 14 hours. The good news is it ended well with no dangerous substances found after extensive testing. The buildings were clear for employees to get back to work this morning. We hear from the fbi and facebook about the hazmat scare. The fbi said the items were to thoroughly tested and determined to be nonhazardous. A spokesperson said it took time but ensured a careful and methodical testing was taking place. Well and facebook spokesperson said, our rigorous security and safety procedures worked as intended to limit exposure and keep our people safe. It started just before 11 00 a. M. Yesterday when facebook found a suspicious package during a routine mail check. Hazmat teams went into the building twice to investigate. The first time at 6 00 p. M. And the second time at 10 30 pm. Sometime between getting the package late last night and 5 00 a. M. This morning the test came back negative. You sought live right here on ktvu, the u. S. Womens National Team now on its way to the world cup finals. We were with the elated crowd and watch party in San Francisco earlier this afternoon and we will take you there when we come back. And the weather, lots of sunshine across most of the bay area. I will let you know if it continues in the forecast. Right now, earn 60,000 bonus miles after qualifying purchases when you apply and are approved for the Hawaiian Airlines world elite mastercard. Plus, you earn miles on everyday purchases. Get closer to the travels and moments youll remember forever with this special offer. Need another reason . Enjoy an introductory no annual fee. To apply, visit hawaiianairlines. Com sausa4 donut holes. For just a dollar. Dang try my 2 for 4 breakfast biscuits and add 4 donut holes for just a buck. Only at jack in the box. Authorities who cross the bay area are preparing for a busy fourth of july holiday and they are stepping up patrols to crack down on illegal firearms fireworks. Fourth of july can be busy for Law Enforcement and firefighters and today the preparations are underway and they hope to keep the holiday safe for all. Earlier today cal fire told us they are preparing for the fourth of july holiday. The agency says they have their own Law Enforcement officers that are going out day and night doing random patrols to try to catch people setting off illegal fireworks. We do start to see as we get closer to Independence Day that we start having that kind of activity oak her. We will have resources out  doing random area checks on fireworks compliance. The Sheriffs Department is also stepping up its patrols for the fourth of july holiday to crackdown on illegal fireworks but also to keep people from gathering the popular lookout spots where no parking is allowed. As for the fire danger, that is always a concern. Firefighters say one helpful thing has been that the weather has been moderate and they will be ready for whatever comes their way. It is a very serious issue about the risks and hazards. Officials really trying to clampdown on this problem and you got to see firsthand how they are trying to enforce the law. Earlier today we went out on a ride along and they took us to the lookout areas where people go to watch some of the other illegal fireworks and they say they will be out giving citations. Firefighters also mentioned another concern, they see structure fires into manic injuries. They want people to have fine fun and be safe so go to the professional fireworks shows. If youre looking for something to do this fourth of july holiday, we posted a list of all the events happening across the bay area, some of the professional fireworks shows are the best for you to attend. Head to our website ktvu. Com. Lets talk about the weather. Sunshine as far as i can see. It feels like we are stuck in a weather box with the pattern not changing. We have fog in the morning hours. Heres a live camera looking out and it does look like we are looking out toward a fog bank that will gradually roll back. Patchy morning fog to start out the day for wednesday with mostly sunny skies. Temperatures not a big change. No triple digits or 90s, low to mid 80s for the high end of the temperature range. Some storms way up to the north in the Pacific Northwest but for us patchy low fog trying to regroup just off shore and we still have onshore breeze with the wind coming out of the north and west and this was more of a northeast wind and the fog will clear out with much warmer temperatures and high fire danger. Typical summertime pattern setting appear in the region with the clouds near the coast toward Half Moon Bay and pacifica. 70s and 80s well inland. The hotspots, fairfield at 86 degrees, santa rosa, 85. Here is the camera once again looking toward San Francisco bay and there has been some haze in the sky but the onshore breeze is still somewhat of a factor. Overnight lows starting out tomorrow morning in the low to mid 50s, here we are tomorrow for july 3 expecting scattered low clouds and we should have increased in sunshine but also increasing windspeed with wind speeds around 20 to 25 miles an hour with San Francisco approaching the mid 60s. Partly cloudy skies around the bay, clouds somewhat of a factor coast side 60 to 84 degrees by four clock tomorrow afternoon. We will take a look at the fourth of july forecast coming up. Heather and i can tell you it was a perfect day today to kick back and watch world cup soccer on the big screen. We had the pleasure of hosting the previewing party earlier today. Right across from the ferry building. The parties were sponsored by parks and rec and hundreds of people turned out to enjoy the match. We came across one plan who played soccer in high school in atherton with one member of team usa. When she was on the field she had so much energy and hustle and she is the youngest player on the u. S. National team. Today im just excited to see the u. S. Play and give england their all. It was a great time with a great match. Team usa beat england 21 and they now advanced to the world cup finals. Alex morgan scored the goahead goal and she did it today on her 30th birthday and that is quite a way to celebrate your big day. The viewing party will be at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco this sunday with the match underway at 8 00 a. M. I think they said no one has scored a goal on their birthday prior to alex morgan. It was so much fun and great to see so many ktvu viewers stopping by to say high end cheering on the team. President trump planning a major patriotic event at the fourth of July Celebration on capitol hill and while he calls it a salute to america some are questioning the motivation and the cost of the extravagant event. We hope you tune in tonight for spin the wheel 8 00 followed by 911 at 9 00 then of course we hope you stick around for the 10 00 news and the 11 00 news all here on ktvu. The Census Bureau confirms it began printing 2020 census forms today without the controversial citizenship question. This comes after the Trump Administration announce it had dropped efforts to pursue further legal action in response to the Supreme Court blocking the question from being printed on the forms. Moved by the Census Bureau is a major victory for those who said the question was part of a larger effort by the white house to enter count regions under count regions. The washington annual fourth of July Celebration. The white house is pushing back against criticism that it is politicizing what has been a nonpartisan event. The Trump Administration says this years Independence Day event will be patriotic and not political. Its about a salute to america and the president will not get political celebrating the greatest come country an idea in the history of the world and that is the United States of america. Blowback from lawmakers after the white house revealed more details about this years fourth of July Celebration. The president typing this years event on twitter a salute to america counting a show of the strongest and most advanced military anywhere in the world. The event will include the appearance of tanks and flyovers from the blue angels, other fighter jets and air force one. Now democrats are pushing for cost estimates, something the white house has not yet offered up. Local officials and the District Of Columbia have called on the president to rethink using tanks concerned the heavy machinery will damage dc roads and bridges and a congressman says he doesnt believe the white house it narrative saying the president is turning Independence Day into a Campaign Event calling a President Trump to personally reimburse u. S. Taxpayers and local government for any damage to local infrastructure. The faa will suspend operations at Reagan National airport early this y

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