San francisco has more Homeless People on its streets than just about any other city. Last check the number of people sleeping on san froon streeanci streets second to new york. Staggering number. The new police chief has an idea how to handle it and help the community. Abc 7 News Reporter vick lee and a story you will see only on abc 7. Vick. Ama, to give you an idea how much the homeless problem has grown. Here at mission station they get 1,000 homeless calls a month. Now, chief scotts vision is to have a dedicated team of officers who can help conct these Homeless People to city services. And in other words, more outreach, less enforcement. You have a place you can do laundry and get a shower. Reporter officer jared harris responding to a complaint. That a homeless camp was blocking the sidewalk on fulsom and 1th street. He and his part next, officer yasser shaw convinced them to clear the sidewalk and offered tent dwellers help in getting city services. Get your shower and Laundry Services okay. Address, phone number, everything. The new officer unit soles purpose is to concentrate on issues involving the homeless. To use more outreach, than enforcement. Commander david lazar head the unit. Get someone help. Get them housing, get them treatment. Thats way more successful than enforcement. Enforcement is still a tool. But not the priority. The unit will work collaboratively with city agencies foremost department of homelessness which welcomes their partnership. They have all been trained in, in, responding to, to Critical Incidents in working with people who are suffering from perhaps Mental Illness or other challenges. At this encampment, the officers tacked to desiree, on the streets for ate month. Theyll get social workers to visit her tomorrow. She is appreciative. I thought it was very good. You know. Politely. Small, significant victory for the unit. A victory, they can build on. Vick lee, abc 7 news. New, east bay freeway connector shut down because of a big rig crash. Isnt expected to reopen until 9 00 tonight. The big rig overturned on a connector ramp between 880 and 238 in san leandro. Traffic on northbound 880 delayed all day. Two lanes on the western span were blocked for several hours. After a distraught man climbed up on an anchorage. You mentioned if anybody climbed up there he would jump off the bridge. So, we gave him, gave him little bit of room. Talked to him. He did give a cell phone number. Able to call him and begin the process of talking him back down. The man was taken for a psych evaluation and could face charges. Traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza cleared a bit. Still looks pretty bad out there. This is a live look at people trying to head into San Francisco. Following breaking news out of the east bay. Crash closed down one of the tunnels. The board closed eastbound commute direction. This will impact the commute. There is no information on injuries or when the board will reopen. Fire fighters on scene. Updates on air and on line as available. Developing news where Police Identified the man killed in an officer involved shooting early monday morning. Officers say they tried to pull over 20yearold joseph godinez, driving a stolen car. After a brief chase, officers were able to perform what they call a pursuit intervention technique. And stop that car. They stay, godinez drove into a police car, sending it down an embankment, Police Say Officers opened fire after godinez drove into a police car. Investigators discovered he was wanted for probation violation. He was also want ford questioning in connection with an armed carjacking, kidnapping, and robbery in San Francisco. A candlelight vigil held tonight at the scene of the accident that killed two High School Students. The vigil its organized by the family of 17yearold Brianna Ortega riding in a pickup truck. Speeding, hit a minivan, and slid into a light pole. Five people hurt. Vigil at lincoln avenue park street. San jose state student who faked kidnapping will not face charges in san jose. According to a Media Partners at bay area news group. The 22yearold said she was abducted at knifepoint and forced to drive to oregon. Later recant herd story. Motivation behind the false report remains unclear. Oakland City Council Approved a settlement of 1 million. After a Police Sex Scandal involving several former officers and a teenager. She identified herself as the an underaged prostitute, who went by the name, celeste guap. Today asked that we refer to her as jazmine. Abc 7 News Reporter, Laura Anthony at Oakland City Hall with what else jazmine has to say. The settlement reached by oakland is one of many that could be in the works. Other cities, San Francisco, livermore, richmond, could all be facing similar claims. As for jazmine, she told us today, she is relieved that one hurdle is behind her. I feel happy that i can close this chapter and, and move on with my life. Now, 19, jazmine was just 17 when sunny claimed sunny was having serks wix with more than dozen Police Officers from six agencies. Now one city oakland settled with jazmine for 989,000. About a third of that will go to attorneys fees. The message is pretty clear. Police officers held to the standard of obeying the law. If theyre not above the law. Cant engage in illegal or immoral conduct. Best interest of constituenty to settle the matter quickly and fairly. We need to focus attention on rebuilding the public trust so damaged by this incident. Five of the oakland officers allegedly involved with jazmine are facing criminal charges. The original claim against city of oakland filed by a prierl attorney. For 66 million. I never came up with the numbers. The large numbers. Never came up with those. She obviously has been at the center of attention for a while. Not the kind of thing sunny wants and likes to occur. Hopefully a page in a personal history that will be turned. Jazmine says she has had great support from her family. Plans to return to school, and hopes to pursue a career working with animals. Laura anthony, ax 7 news. New developments in the story of the goats that escaped a grass fire last week. Sadly, one baby goat badly burned has died. Sky seven captured dramatic images of the snaul hemall herd goats trapped thursday. Most managed to escape with burns. One kids injuries were significant. She died last night. Another goat was transported to uc davis remains in critical condition. All of the other goats are doing well. And have been taken in by farm sanctuaries or private citizens. The original owner, surrendered them. If you want to share your support, find a link on our website, abc7ne. Com. Awe. Tonight, cal osha reviewed slides to find slides similar to the emerald plunge. Two slides at raging waters, closely resell bum the slide in dublin. A 10yearold flew off the slide, the opening weekend, that slide and two others in dublin remain closed indefinitely during the investigation. A new campaign is under way in san jose to require contractors to hire locals and to pay them prevailing wages. The union led effort aims to put such a measure on the November Ballot next year. Looks at potential impact and why the unions believe there is public support already. Theyre not on strike. Created a line to show their resolve. They want to got a measure on the ballot next year to require contractors at major residential and commercial products to hire local and pay market rate wages. I know how expensive it is to live here. And, we think that normal people, have an opportunity not only working on the projects in their community, but hopefully build, even make some living. Survey of the Commission Says 76 of voters would approve such a mandate. Regardless of whether or not the union households, nonunion household, we see strong support for workers in the community. And making sure people get paid a living wage. However support drops to 50 when people are told it might raise the cost of condominiums. A concern for opponents including at associatated builders and contractors. A group that lobbies for fairness and competition. It points out a construction boom is created a need for more trades people and the labor pool has the not returned a prerecession levels. For 18 year Union Electrician san jose native will smith the issue is giving workers a chance to buy a home and to work near job sites and provide for their fmilies. Is it owe ska for American Dream to be achiefable here in san jose. Why is it that so many people that i know and that we all know, work here, find themselves moving away. Having to commute in. In san jose, david louie, ax 7 news. The nba finals at long last under way tomorrow right here on abc 7. It was media day atk or to day. Where players from both teams got peppered with question buys reporters from across the world. In fact, young andld. Best taste in music. Right back there. I mean, you take the bus in here. Over the bridge today. You see the finals logo. Its special. Warriors were asked how they plan to move past the devastating loss to the cavs. Ive dont know if it has been in our locker room one time this year. All it not something that, when you are chasing greatness, thats the expectation. You dont need something to motivate you to reach that. Well said. This is the first time the same two teams have melt in the nba finals three years in a row. The nba is staying local for tomorrows National Anthem performance. Pat monihan lead singer of train will sing star spangled banner. Showing donation pride too. And matt keller took the video at the airport showing International Terminal you can see bathed in blue and gold. Espn coverage of game one of nba finals starts tomorrow at 5 30 here on abc 7. Right before game one. Join abc 7s for the ws on 7 pregame show. Brought to you by jeep. And mary and meek live ike live he finals begin. Stay with us. President trump is about ready to deliver on a campaign promise. It has the california environmentalists scrambling to keep theirs. Well look at both big picture and local picture. Climate change and the global commitment the u. S. Could leave. Spencer christian. We have a nice warmup around the bay area. Dont expect the trend to carry us into the weekend. The accuweather forecast coming up. Spencer, thanks. Single Payer Health Insurance scud be more affordable than we thing. Depend on whose numbers you read. Hope is a beautiful thing. She is hopeful. And she needs your help. Next, meet the mid peninsula teacher who is one step away from end stage renal failure. New, lawsuit against the state of california claiming there arent enough lawmakers in the capital. The suit was filed by people who support the movement to split off the far northern portion of california into a new state called, jefferson. Today they rallied at the state capital. Supporters say the northern part has 6 legislators. The rest has 114. We have no say in how tax money is spent weecht cant affect events for simplest things in our lives. They want to force an expantion and overhaul of representation across the state. Organizers say if they cant get equal representation they would rather form their own government in jefferson. Teacher in san mateo in need of a kidney transplant learning an unexpected lesson in faith, and perseverance from her own students. Abc 7 News Reporter, chris winn has the story. Prototyping. At the nueva school in san mateo. Loving. Passionate. Exciting. Many words to describe engineer turned educator. Mother. Believer. Advocate. Kim sax teaching here 26 years. Students will fell you she had a profound impact on their lives. Kim made school the place i want to be, makes me excited to walk in. Last week, sax had tough news of her own to share. That letter was the hardest thing i ever had to do mine life. In message to nueva campus, sax, opened up about her battle with end stage renal failure. Her life declined and she needs a transplant to survive. Her kidney function is at 10 . Right after the shock and sadness, how do i be there for her . How do i help her in a time where she needs me. She has been there really, for me. The outpouring of support has been encouraging. So far, dozens of people have stepped up to see if their kidneys could be a match. I felt an obligation. An obligation to do something that was really, not that difficult for me. And, yet utterly critical for kim. Many of them doing their best to spread the word. There are people around you struggling every day with major diseases. You might not see it. Might not be visible. Might not pub li size until the end. Teacher learning a lesson about love from those around her. It made me realize there are so many great people in the world. Thank you. Like, for all that you have taught me. And you are welcome. Providing strength and comfort when she needs it most. Hope, hope is a beautiful thing. On the peninsula, chris winn, abc 7 news. Pulling for kim. If you would like more information about becoming a Living Kidney Donor or helping out kim, we have posted links on the website. Abc 7 news. Com. New survey offers more optimistic picture of how california could afford a Single Payer Health in sure ans system. Last week, a senate reportest mated the plan would cost 400 billion annually. More than the entire state budget. A new report by the university of massachusetts put the price at 330 billion. The numbers also very widely when it comes to calculating how much tax revenue would be needed to pay for it. New survey commissioned by the bills lead sponsor. When the legislature passes, healthy california act, we will actually spend less than we do on health care. The fundamental issue we have to, concern ourselves with, what will be the quality of health care for californians and what will be the cost . The bill is up for a volt in the senate this week. A meeting is set to get under way in just a few minutes now to explore the possibility of putting a hotel in San Franciscos waterfront. The study by port of San Francisco, looks at building a 200 room hotel on pier 35 right next to pier 39. Now, building a hotel there is not a slam dunk. Voters banned hotels from the edge of the waterfront. The port says there are no plans to try to change that. But the commission did pay for a study to look attic nomic impact of building a twostory hotel inside pier 35. We are starting to see a little more blue sky today. Nice isnt it. Spencer christian is tracking the weather. Lot more blue sky. Next couple days. Right now tell you about the ws on seven tomorrow evening. S you may know, warriors, cavaliers are playing game one of, kicking off game one nba finals tomorrow evening in oakland at arena. Third Consecutive Year the two teams met in the finals. Weather is lovely. Though, game is going to be indoors of course. If you are going to the game. Traveling through sunny conditions tomorrow evening. With mild weather. Temperatures in the 60s. And, maybe the, the cavs can shuttle down, the, the cavs, the ws can shuttle down the cavs as sun goes down. Trying to say. Live doppler 7. Sunny skies across the bay area now. Check out the 24hour temperature change. It is five to 8 degrees warmer in most bay area locations this hour yesterday, 11 degrees warmer right now in antioch than this time yesterday. View from the rooftop. Looking out over the bay. Unr mostly blue sky. 59 degrees in San Francisco right now. 65, oakland. 70, mountain view. San jose. Gilroy. 57. Half moon bay. Well, we are going to say this is the view. There is not much view right now. From emoryville, looking west yard. See bits of the coastal fog. Moving down the coast, obviously. Out over the bay. Currently, 74 in santa rosa. 70, napa. 75 at fairfield. Concord. 69, livermore. This is how it looks at golden gate. Foggier, foggierment coastal fog no longer at the coast. Fog near the bay, coast. Sunny skies. Mild in most areas two days. Little cooler this weekend. And, we will have a warmup next week. Ernight, as the the fog stretches out, to our inland areas, much as the it has been doing all week long. Low temperatures in the Early Morning hours, mainly in the mid to upper 50s. Then tomorrow, fog will pull back to the coastline. Much look today was. A little cooler at the coast. Than, anywhere else. A low 60s there. Some locations may, may reach only to the upper 50s. Coast tomorrow. But around the bay, we will see highs in the upper 60s, low 70s. And inland see mainly upper 70s to 80 in a few locations. And, here is a, three day outlook for friday, saturday, sunday. Showing you the little cooldown. That will go through the weekend. With highs inland in the 70s around the weekend. In the bay, upper 60s. Sunny, dry. Here is the accuweather. Seven day forecast. See it will warmup. Next week. So, for tomorrow, friday, mai y ly sunny. Mild although breezy tomorrow. Cooler, over the weekend. But mainly sunny, dry. Then much warmer monday. And tuesday. With high temperatures reaching about 90 degrees inland next tuesday. Warm enough. Thank you, spencer. Home security keeps getting smarter. New feature added to nest is next. W nation, want to see your pride, check out some of the photos post on social media by warriors fans. Use the hash tag, ws on seven. Post photos. May show them here on abc 7 look closely this man isnt sta po supposed to be here, suspected burglar inside a home. The Sheriffs Office posted on line hoping some one will recognize him. And call them. Obviously the camera got a very good look at this guy. On that subject. Home Security Camera able to recognize faces on its own. Leads tonights bay Area Business watch. The nest cam iq zoom feature activates when a person walks by fol