The end of the day, the council is a representative of the people that are elected and the council needs to do what the residents want and i believe the residents want Law Enforcement. Reporter the city councilman says the issue will be taken up again at their september 15 meeting. No official decision was made today because the police chief was not present. In san jose, devin fehely, kpix 5. New at 6 00, if you are looking for a used car, get ready for sticker shock. The average price for a used car is at an alltime high. Consumerwatch reporter julie watts joining us with what is driving the increase. [ laughter ] reporter 25 to 30 of new cars are leased not owned. As leases expire, those cars are floodings the used car market flooding the used car market often as certified used or preowned vehicles which is great for some, not so great for others. New or used . Used car. Reporter why . I dont know. I want to save money. Reporter thats been getting harder to do for some used car buyers and edmunds latest used Vehicle Market report found used car prices have hit an alltime high. The reason, theres too many of them on the market. We have so many like off lease near new vehicles entering the market that overall average is at the highest its ever been. Reporter buck the traditional understanding of supply and demand where the more supply the lower the price, ivan aurorary of edmunds. Com explains a flood of newer previously higher end vehicles have hit the market. But while they may come with a higher price tag than regular used cars. Its easy for consumers who are like, you know what . I dont want to spend big bucks on a new car, i want a near new used vehicle. Reporter however, the trend is also driving up prices at mom and pops buy here pay here type of used car dealers where traditional rules of supply and demand are in play because there arent enough used cars to supply the lower end demand so they can charge more. So many consumers are looking for that bottom end basic transportation. Reporter another factor the influx of subprime car loans. The more money people can qualify for, the more car dealers can charge. Customers that are financially challenged with their credit problems, they can get a car now. Reporter now, if you are looking to save money on a used carr, edmunds says think small. They say prices are actually falling on smaller cars on these subcompact or midsized cars. The prices are falling because, well, frankly, gas prices are falling prompting more people to buy larger cars like suvs, more suvs they buy the more of these are left over and yes allen, that means lower prices on smaller used cars. We all know gas prices are going to go up eventually. [ laughter ] reporter maybe now is the time to grab a small car. There you go. Thank you. New at 6 00, Small Business owners in oakland are hoping a proposed soda tax goes flat. Kpix 5 reporter da lin on why they say the soda tax is bound to spill over. Da. Reporter oakland politicians say it will drive up soda prices but food prices. Is it a soda tax or grocery tax . Grocery tax. Only on sweetened beverages. Reporter supporters say the tax would only affect big soda like coke and pepsi but opponents say it would force Small Businesses to raise grocery prices. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones that are going to pay. Reporter store owner abdul that like says the penny per ounce tax would push this two liter soda from 2 to 2. 68. He cant do it. Its too much. He has to spread it out to other products like produce. Cant put it on one single item or single items like they are proposing. We have to distribute anything because we at the end of the day are a business competing for customers, you know, in our neighborhood. Reporter just like the cigarette tax applies to cigarettes, why would a store owner then turn around and subsidize cigarettes out of their own pocket . They dont do that. The cigarette price just goes up. Reporter people will vote on the tax in november. In oakland, the American Beverage Association has already spent 600,000 to fight the measure producing ads in spanish and chinese. [ nonenglish language ] reporter targeting minorities. Many of the people in the ads are Small Business owners. The last thing we need in oakland is a tax on groceries. Reporter both sides are pointing the finger accusing the other side of lying. If the soda industry really thought it was a tax on bread and vegetables, they wouldnt be spending money against it. From a business point of view, the smartest decision is for us to just spread it on all items not just on soda. Reporter berkeley was the first u. S. City two years ago to pass a soda tax but theres not a reliable independent study to say who is right or wrong in this case. By the way, a simple majority will pass the soda tax in both San Francisco and oakland. Live in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. About an hour ago a school bus transporting special Needs Children crashed in petaluma. Chopper 5 is overhead showing the collision between the bus and a pickup truck. The intersection of washington and maria. Police say at least one student was injured in the wreck and taken to the hospital. No word on what caused the collision. A hiker from santa rosa is lucky to be alive as she can thank the quick action of rescue teams and a chp helicopter. 66yearold tara steele was hiking the Pacific Crest trail sunday when she began experiencing symptoms of a possible stroke. Steele activated her emergency personal locator beacon and the chp helicopter was able to airlift her out. They posted footage of the rescue, which happened east of brave lake in fresno county. She was eventually taken to the Community RegionalMedical Center in fresno. San jose doctors are working to safety baby of a young woman who died in a car crash. She was 18 years old two months away from giving birth. She worked at a taco bell in morgan hill and her supervisor told us her brother was driving her home after a latenight shift and then their honda civic hit a car on the shoulder of highway 101. The chp says the driver of the civic her brother 20yearold Carlos Hernandez swerved as he exited tully road and hit the bmw. Investigators arent sure why the bmw was there. The information we have is the possibility the bmw is parked on the shoulder of 101 prior to this collision may have been involved in a previous collision. The driver is 22yearold hung tran. He was arrested on suspicion of dui. The woman died hours after being taken to the hospital. Doctors were able to deliver remember baby. But other doctors we spoke with today say that he will need specialized care because of that early delivery. A hillsboro girl was killed in a suspected dui crash in Southern California and now we are learning the suspect was on probation for a previous dui. Prosecutors say 36yearold adam cann is was on cocaine and opiates when his chevy hit a girl on monday on seal beach. The impact sent the tesla crashing into a honda. A passenger from that car posted video and pictures from the scene along with an Emotional Message against drunk and drugged driving. Tenyearold kendra was aveep in the back seat when she was killed. Her older sister was seriously injured along with their father. He is a School Board President in the Hillsboro School district. Firefighters in california are beginning to make some ground on the bluecut fire in San Bernardino county. Lets take a live look at the fire from the air right now. It is still putting out a lot of thick white smoke there as flames shoot through the droughtstricken area. Its burned 49 square miles, 4 contained. Some evacuation orders have been lifted but tens of thousands are still out of their homes. Some homes have been destroyed but it is unclear how many. Interstate 15 the route between los angeles and las vegas in cajon pass reopened. Randy paige caught up with some people still out of their homes. Reporter the air attack is aggressive as firefighters tried to take advantage of less wind and lower humidity today tens of thousands of people still under mandatory evacuation. Beth is still one of them. Its nerve racking. Its stressful. My husband wants to go back but i dont. I want to wait one more night, make sure that all the hot spots are done and then go back tomorrow. Reporter on tuesday, day one of the bluecut fire, we saw gary hopkins preparing to evacuate as the fire headed straight for the historic ranch where he is the caretaker. He said he was running out of hope. He told us it was built by clyde family in the 1800s. This old gas station was built in 1918. How long was that cabin been around . Build in 1872. Reporter it was wyatt earps brother who helped build it. This is more than a place to live. Its a historical treasure . Yes. Sole canyons outrageous. Reporter today the old gas station is Still Standing and so is the main house where gary hopkins lives. But the cabin built by the white is gone. It survived 144 years here including the fire of 2009 that came ripping through this canyon. But it not to do survive this. There are no estimates on how many homes have been destroyed and full containment is nowhere in sight. Officially we are told the fire is 4 contained, 32,000 acres burned but those are old numbers. We got those early this morning. The numbers will be updated this evening and we expect they will be much better because of the favorable environmental conditions the firefighters found here today. Near phelan, randy paige, kpix 5. Lake county fire is now 55 contained. 268 buildings were destroyed. 175 singlefamily homes and those numbers could rise. The fire will be contained by sunday. A member of the u. S. Olympic fencing team is returned to the bay area to find out that his house was destroyed in the clayton fire. Matthew porter the equipment manager seen here in the middle just bought the house in lower lake. He and his wife moved in days before he left for rio. Longtime friends have now set up a go fund me page to help them recover losses. Stocktons mayor faces a judge and fires back at charges he recorded drunk teens playing strip poker. Why he is calling the timing extremely suspicious. The mean streets of oakland, the city dubbed one of the unfriendliest in the world. Wait until you see how some locals are proving that wrong. And lochte caught in a lie . New video from the night of his alleged robbery in rio. Why police say the olympian was a vandal and not a victim. The kpix 5 mobile weather lab is live tonight in walnut creek. Hazy skies in the east bay due to a west and south wind blowing at 10 Miles Per Hour blowing smoke into the direction of bay area. Well talk about how warm we stay away from the water and if theres any rain chance coming up in the sevenday forecast next. ,,,,,,,, innocent of accusations he gave teenagers alcohol. And lf playing strip the mayor of stockton says that he is innocent of accusations he gave teenagers alcohol and then recorded himself playing strip poker with them. Reporter macy jenkins shows us the scene in court today as the mayor entered his pleas. All rise. Roars all eyes on an on this reporter all eyes on anthony silver this morning as he stood before a judge in Amador County facing a felony and three misdemeanors he pled not guilty on call counts. He spoke briefly to our cameras just after leaving the courtroom. First, thanking Amador CountySheriffs Department for their professionalism. They dotted all the is and crossed the ts and gave me a great Peanut Butter and jelly sandwich so i thank them. Reporter the timing so close to the election he says is suspicious. Theres a lot of things about this case that should just make you go, hm. Reporter he is charged with recording a confidential communication at a strip poker game last summer. There was different judgment i could have used like all of you can in various situations, as well. But those things are a far, far cry from any sort of criminal activity. Reporter attorney mark reichel says Amador County authorities had nothing to do with the investigation. This is an attempt by the san joaquin powers that be to come to a different county and hand them a file and say here, charge this man. Reporter both he and attorney alan sawyer say they will be investigating Police Misconduct in the case. Inside the courtroom they made an oral request to change the judge presiding over the case. We felt that that was in the best interests of our client. Reporter he looks forward to get back to work for the city of stockton. Silva is set to appear in court again in three weeks on september 7. Macy jenkins, kpix 5 news. Daly city police are hunting a man who attacked a Grocery StoreSecurity Card trying to steel booze. He tried to walk out of a lucky store on Mission Street with the alcohol. When the guard tried to stop him the suspect hit him with rocks and fled. But he wasnt done yet. 15 minutes later police say that same man came back and threw a glass bottle and rock at the guard before running off again. Prices run but home sales have dropped in the bay area. Prices are up but home sales have dropped in the bay area. The volume was down 13. 5 from july of last year. Thats the lowest for that month in five years. Experts say the factors are low inventory and tight credit. Still, prices were higher than the same time last year with the median sale at 700,000. And we are not buying this one. Oakland has earned the distinction of being ranked as the third unfriendliest city in the world. The annual list is compiled by Conde Nast Traveler rankses newark new jersey as the most unfriendly city. Atlantic city ranks number 5. But wait oaklanders say being ranked in the top three is just misguided. Yeah, yeah, i dont think its unfriendly, um, for example, hi, sir, could you just talk to me . Look at this. I pick a random guy and i just talking to him. He is friendly, huh . [ laughter ] i proved my point right there. I just see i just pick a random guy. And he talk to me. There you go. Conde nast travel also named the friendliest cities in the world. Two in the top five are in the united states. Charleston, South Carolina came in at number one and park city, utah, is number 5. A lot of people talking about the bad air in the east bay today. You can see the haze from some of our tower cams in dublin and oakland. Winds shifting smoke from the nearby wildfires our way prompting a spare the air day and we are told another alert is already called for tomorrow. Meteorologist paul deanno standing by in walnut creek. All right, paul. Whats the air like right now . Reporter 85 degrees here. The air is hazy. We are not breathing the smoke but bee can certainly see it but we can certainly see it. Heres that specific forecast for the air quality tomorrow. North bay and central bay youre moderate. South bay moderate not a spare the air day but in the east bay we have unhealthy air quality which is the reason why tomorrow will be our 18th spare the air day of the summer. Watch out for poor air quality against in the east bay. High temperatures tomorrow 92 in livermore. These are actually your highs from today. Morgan hill 85. Santa rosa 82. Everybody a degree or two cooler and that cooling trend will continue away from the water coming up tomorrow. San jose a beautiful 80 degrees today. Fremont 76. San francisco yes its still chilly near the water 65 daly city you didnt even hit 60 today. Giants can we win a ballgame, please . Taking on the mets tonight 7 15. Low cloud cover and cool we have some catching up to do. The dodgers are winning tonight. 56 degrees first pitch temperature there. Your walnut creek forecast the winds from the south will continue blowing the smoke from the soberanes fire towards the east bay so hazy sunshine is expected again tomorrow. And also saturday. That said, not as warm. Should be a very comfortable 86 degrees both tomorrow and saturday. And burlingame on the avenue this weekend what a great weekend event it will be, what beautiful weather youre going to have, sunshine with highs in the mid70s. All of this the result of an area of low pressure which is spinning over california centered to our south, keeping a light to moderate onshore flow. Its a little bit stronger today compared to yesterday. It will be a little bit stronger tomorrow. Thats why temperatures are, oh, so gradually creeping downward. Concord tomorrow 87. Napa 82. San jose 82. High for san rafael 78. Morning cloud cover afternoon sunshine in oakland and alameda and emeryville, high of 70. San francisco high tomorrow 65. A little fog and drizzle to start with some blue sky in the afternoon. The trend is downward but only by a few degrees. Normally this time of evening the sky would be blue. Today its more a milky white. Thats because of the smoke and haze blowing up from the south. We expect that to continue tomorrow and guys, one note, Broadway PlazaConcert Series starts in 15 minutes 6 30 tonight. Its a nice night for a concert. The countdown is on. Not a bad assignment. Thank you, paul. While people are eating lunch, they are at work. The warning about some smooth operators making off with wallets and how to avoid being a target. The bay area loses its last tie to an important part of california history. A look back at the legacy of the last fisherman in china camp. Closed captioning of this newscast is sponsored by Living Spaces furniture. Keep on the sunny side of life californias clean air laws weve cut toxic pollution. Were seeing fewing cases of asthma in kids. And the new Clean Energy Economy has created more than half a million jobs. Im tom steyer. Just when were making progress, the Oil Companies are trying to weaken our clean air laws. But we can stop them. Send them a message. Were going to protect our kids not their profits. Keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side keep on the s