Reporter she was one of a handful of women who came to the California Coastal commission hoping to put pressure on mavericks organizers to bring true gender equity to the event. Theres definitely sexism out there. Theres no doubt about it. Reporter the committee for equity and womens surfing says mavericks plan for a womens heat doesnt go far enough and says the prize money a total purse of 120,000 for the men and 30,000 for the women is obviously unequal. The group wants the commission to deny mavericks fouryear use permit application and cut it down to one year to leverage a full Womens Division in 2017 and beyond. I would like to see these women compete in semifinals and a final. I dont know why it doesnt go far enough that we had a very hard time finding six women to make up one heat. Reporter mavericks founder jeff clark said more women need to surf mavericks on a regular basis to qualify for the contest and mavericks worked hard to put women on an equal footing. 6 women, 30,000, 120,000, 24 men, divide it. Reporter women surfers are allegedly not trying to disrupt the contest. We are trying to pave the way for future for children to make a living surfing like Serena Williams and tiger woods. Reporter len ramirez, kpix 5. The Coastal Commission meeting is going on. So far no decision on a mavericks permit. New at 6 00 a new study shows traffic is now worse in the bay area than it is in los angeles. Chopper 5 live right now over the evening commute in the south bay. And thats typical. Youre looking at slow traffic on highway 101 and mountain view. The study came up with the term megacommute a solo driver stuck in commute of 90 minutes or more. Based on that definition 5. 3 of drivers in the bay area fall into the category and 4. 6 of drivers face a megacommute. Experts blame it on job growth and a housing shortage. A big change is coming to how two bay area counties tally the votes on election day. The goal is to speed up the process. Emily turner. Reporter it used to be the end of the election day before ballots got counted. Now ballots will be picked up midday as well to get the final numbers in sooner N Santa Clara county, courier teams of two will pick up ballots midday from 210 precincts. They will bring them back even before the polls are closed. The county is also adding four more high speed ballot counting machines bringing the total to 18. All of our machinery will be working 24 hours a day with staff counting until we go final. Reporter iN Santa Clara county, they have a record 875,000 registered voters in this election. Elections officials are earn couraging people to take advantage of early voting thats happening this weekend. In the newsroom, emily turner, kpix 5. The board of elections is letting you watch democracy in action. A live feed going out on the website where you can watch people counting ballots from now until Election Night. Its pretty quiet right now but on november 8 there will be a lot more going on. We all know San Franciscos an expensive place. Now theres a plan to make it more expensive. Proposition k and g would raise San Francisco sales tax from 8. 75 to 9. 25 . That extra money would go to muni and homeless projects but our phil matier is asking why a city thats raking in tax money needs more. Phil. Reporter thats right. We put the questions to supervisor aaron peskin here at city hall. Heres his answer. Thats a very good question. Prop j and k take the prop j and k fund more bart and muni trains to ease crowding. Reporter they are being billed as a solution to two of the citys biggest problems. This will generate 100 million for street pavement. It will give us 50 million for homeless services. Reporter but it means raising the citys sales tax at a time when the controller says that the current economic boom is already bringing in record dollars. We have seen growth in sales tax, hotel tax, business tax and property tax. We have seen general fund revenue grow well over 100 million. Reporter why dont we have enough money for muni and homeless . Thats judgment call for the voters the mayor and the board of supervisors. Reporter supervisor aaron peskin was lone vote against putting the tax on the ballot. We have a an amount of money thats larger than a third of the nations in the world and yet we cannot solve our basic problems. Reporter the priority is keeping up with the pay and benefits for the 30,000 city workers which already takes up half of the citys budget. We have had Higher Health and pension contribution during the last couple of years as well as wage increases. Reporter tax advocates say how the city spends money is part of the problem. They just offer a different cure. They will not be able to reallocate that money for tree trimming or for trash collection. Its about Real Solutions for San Francisco. We are going to hit it out of the park. It is sinking faster than the millennium tower. Reporter now, its interesting to put up there, is that this is two measures in a ballot with 25 local measures many asking for money 17 state measures some asking for money plus the bart bond. This is a heck of and ask in San Francisco and elsewhere. Find out whether its worth it. In San Francisco, phil matier, kpix 5. Former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg is putting some big money behind his soda tax crusade in the bay area. Bloomberg has poured 9. 1 million into the tax measure in oakland and another 9. 3 million into the measure in San Francisco. He tried the soda tax in new york back in 2012. It was struck down by a judge. He bankrolled the soda tax initiatives in berkeley and philadelphia. Hillary clintons chances of win the white house are tied to her bay area volunteers. Kpix 5s melissa caen is at Clinton Campaign headquarters in San Francisco where supporters have a Critical Mission turn out the vote in key states. Reporter yeah. Veronica, i am standing in whats ground zero for the Clinton Campaigns final push to win the election. Staffers say starting saturday this room is going to be filled with hundreds of people making phone calls on behalf of clinton. Follow me, ill show you whats going on next door in this large room. They are going to be again hundreds of people sending Text Messages on election day making sure voters get out to vote and turn in those ballots. All of this because the rooms the volunteers are in right now are too small to handle the people who want to help. Hillary reporter clinton is sliding in the polls. Susan pfeiffer works the phones for barack obama and has been doing the same for clinton. She says that recently democrats have been motivated. It took a while for them to become enthusiastic. I think they felt we had this locked up. Last night, we had an overflow crowd here of people streaming in to say where can i get on the phone . I have to make calls. I have to help. Lets make sure that when the polls close, we have done everything that we can. Reporter the president of the San Francisco board of supervisors was one of those people. Today she was at the Clinton Campaign in Northern California headquarters. Im very concerned. Thats why i want to make sure that people know that she doesnt have it in the bag. We want everyone to be working to the last hour to call people. Reporter those volunteers are doing a lot of work including sending thousands of Text Messages each day. The San Francisco office is one of only 4 Clinton Campaigns text center. This person runs the San Francisco operation. Some people have changed their vote to republican. We have people conversing with one person as well as sending Text Messages to thousands of others. Reporter who is on the other end of those phone calls and Text Messages . Not californians. We are calling outside of california. California is going to vote for hillary. Reporter thanks to technology, these california volunteers are calling people in other states. The role california plays is we bring extra volunteers to help other states. So we have been calling everywhere. Reporter not everyone has been nice. Worst is definitely people who will cuss you out. Theres some power of anonymity behind a keyboard. That doesnt necessarily have the same function over a phone. Youll reach the member of the household thats not supporting hillary and they will let us know that they are not. Reporter still, the effort is going on. Early numbers in nevada show democrats voting. Members of the campaign say the festivities that will be here on Election Night are being planned at a different location. Thats because they want phone calls and Text Messages to be sent right up until the very last second. Melissa caen, kpix 5. Melissa will be on Facebook Live tonight talking about medi cal hospital fees, school bonds and more. Go to facebook. Com cbssanfrancisco. Thats at 7 10 p. M. To join the conversation. Berkeley teacher who was force the out of the classroom following a violent protest in sacramento is now back at work. Yvette felarca was caught on camera in june pushing and shoving a man as she protested against a neonazi rally. A few months later, Berkeley Unified School district placed her on paid leave which prompted the teacher to file a lawsuit. She claims the district retaliated against her because of her political beliefs. Today was her first day back at king middle school. Felarca spoke to kpix 5 and says she stands by her actions at that protest. Its clear that the nazis and the fascists are the dangerous violent ones and im very proud that we stood up against them defended ourselves and defended each other. The district wont say why felarca was allowed to return to class but she is still suing the district. And a victory for students at another bay area school. Last night the Palo Alto School board voted unanimously in favor every reporting weighted gpas on current student transcripts to help they get scholarships for college. And they are creating an Advisory Committee to decide whether to weight gpas for all students. A bay area mother demanding answers. She claims officers broke up a fight and tased her teenaged son in the head. 24 hours later her frustration with the lack of an explanation. Plus why a man who lived in one of the richest cities in the bay area left a windfall to his local library. And you can get a fisheye view of the journey. The tunnel that has turned a bay area river into a unique aquarium. Skies are always gorge. Its especially gorgeous, especially gorgeous right now. Beautiful view looking toward the beach. Looking good over the bay bridge, as well. We are coming up on sunset. When this november dry streak ends coming up. ,,,,,,,, tased her 15year old son. In the head. E heard about this a bay area mother says an Oakland Police officer tased her 15yearold son. In the head. As soon as we heard about this story this morning we called Oakland Police to them for comment and they said they would get back to us. We still havent heard anything from them. So in the meantime heres devin fehely with the mothers side of the story. I think they went about it the wrong way. He didnt have a weapon. He wasnt a threat. He just ran. Reporter she says Oakland Police use Excessive Force and poor judgment when this arrested her 15yearold son after a fight broke out between a group of students outside a school yesterday. Somehow my son ended up involved in it and he ran and they tased him in the back of the head. Reporter the prong from the taser davis says lodged in the back of her sons head and had to be surgically removed at Highland Hospital this afternoon. Thats so appalling. Why would you aim for a child and they knew that there were kids in the back of the head. Reporter she said her son spit at one of the officers but never touched him and believes the evading arrest and Assault Charges are as inappropriate as the departments handling of the situation. In oakland, devin fehely, kpix 5. Two men accused in the beating death of a San Francisco homeless man have pleaded not guilty. One of those suspects joseph stull was in jail in idaho for grand theft. In september, investigators say dna evidence linked him to the 2014 attack in the financial district. Stull then identified the other suspect as david peters. Surveillance video captured the attack, shows the men viciously beating a 67yearold homeless man as he slept on the sidewalk. The two suspects are due back in court in january. A former 49ers player told the judge today that he didnt do it. Bruce miller pleaded not guilty to charges connected to an attack at a San Francisco hotel. Surveillance video showed miller in the hallway of the north bee marriott on september 5. Prosecutors say he mistakenly tried to get into a room that wasnt his then beat the 70yearold man and his 29 yearold son who were in the room. A pretrial conference is set for later this month. Pedestrians and cyclists will soon have a safer way to board caltrain at one south bay station. Today the Transit Agency broke ground on a 14 million tunnel at the santa clara station. People will be able to access the tunnel from brokaw road. The injured to allow passengers to reach the stations platform without having to cross the tracks. Money to pay for the tunnel is coming from previously approved tax measures. New at 6 00 a bay area man has left behind a large donation to a library in marin county. Kpix 5s john ramos [chuckling] on the 2 million gift. Reporter you can tell by how worn the mat is that the Larkspur Public Library is a welcoming place. Thats what it became for john zimmer after the death of his wife jan. He would come in and read the paper and, you know, check out materials. He liked to spend some time here. Reporter he was a low key guy who only once raised a ruckus when they tried to get rid of some of his beloved mystery novels. So most here never paid him much mind until he died last summer and left a little gift for larkspur and the libraries in mill valley in corte madera. In total it was over 2 million. We each received a check for 661,000. Reporter it is the single largest gift ever for these folks. And they say just the interest earned from it will allow them to set up an ongoing fund to expand Educational Programs for young people and buy new technology. And we will perhaps put some more programming and books in that he would approve of like mysteries. [ laughter ] reporter mr. Zimmer also donated to whistlestop, a program that provides seniors with meals and transportation in nearby san rafael. And the funny thing, the zimmers were not wealthy but they had no children so the sale of the couples marin county home raised millions for this amazing gift. Perhaps the lesson here is, always be nice to that old guy reading the newspaper because you just never know. Or as they like to put it you should never judge a book by its cover. [ laughter ] reporter in larkspur, john ramos, kpix 5. A distant relative of mr. Zimmer said the family had no idea he had that much money. One of the best investments mr. Zimmer or anybody could make. Libraries are awesome. Great deal. Nice to see them packed. They are packed nowadays. You think in the digital age, they are still humming along. With their laptops. In marin county they are going to have really nice libraries its already spectacular. It will be that much better. Chopper 5 is up because its sunset. Every once in a while we like to give you reminder of our beautiful to give you a reminder of our beautiful area. Thats a reminder because thats where we live, folks. Thats San Francisco in the digs stance im seeing mount tam a plane coming in at sfo. Great sunset shot. A view from the ground oakland to San Francisco sutro tower the left of our Weather Information oakland 71 gorgeous degrees today. San francisco 68 today. 65 at the beach. Napa 69 degrees. Fremont 70. Nothing on the radar which is not wonderful news because we got the rain in october. Its wonderful things are greening up everywhere. This is the time of year when we expect rainfall. Average rain in september. 25. In october we only average a little more than an inch. In november we get more than 3. We are getting into the heart of our rainy season and temporarily weve gone dry. It will be chilly tonight with valley fog especially in our north bay valleys because overnighter lows are going to drop down into the 40s. Some of you in Mendocino County inland along 101, 38, 39 degrees this morning. Santa rosa 42. Healdsburg may make it to the 30s tonight. Napa, saint helena, 45. Fremont, milpitas, 48 degrees. San jose 47. And concord 45. But the afternoon will be milder because a ridge of High Pressure is working its way closer and there will be a lot of sunshine. Chances are this is right in the wheelhouse of the comfort zone in november for you. Well be the envy of weather all around the country. Mountain view 71 with sunshine. Livermore 73 with sunshine. Even 70 in