Oakland the tax they already have and the 60 cops it helps pay for. Its hard for me to get into the exact numbers but it would be enough that it would make a big difference. Reporter so instead of rolling the dice, city officials are going to ask voters just to reapprove the existing tax and no more which city polls show 77 of the voters support. And the kpix 5 surveyusa poll shows 66 support. Either way, much better odds. Its great news as far as im concerned. Reporter this was a classic case of double down or nothing. Double or nothing they could have doubled the tax or tried to this november, but if the voters said no, they would have been left with nothing and actually even fewer cops. Given that choice, they are just going to have to live with the status quo for this year figuring thats the best they can do. Elizabeth . They got to change something, though. It has to get safer there. All right, phil, thank you. New at 6 00 we are giving you a special look at a Surveillance Video that sparked a big lawsuit and multimillion dollar verdict. Youre about to see what happens when an ac transit bus hits a speed bump. Watch this woman right here. She goes flying but what you dont see is much sympathy coming from the driver. John ramos has the story. Reporter Maria Francisco of richmond thought it would be an uneventful bus ride through san pablo in 2011. Her Attorney Says the ac transit drive was going twice the speed limit when she hit the speed bump launching francisco up in the air. So she took forces over 1,000 pounds which would be the equivalent of one striking you with a sledgehammer which caused a burst fracture in her spinal cord. Reporter a fellow passenger began calling for the driver to take her to the hospital. Go to the hospital reporter but the on board video shows the bus driver walking back and threatening francisco with arrest if she was faking. [ inaudible ] yall faking im telling you know, they dont they gonna prosecute yall. Im not faking not only was she in severe pain but she was scared to death and i cannot believe that the ac Transit Administration and management allows their employees to act in such a manner. Okay. You said you need a ambulance, you know you got to pay for it. Reporter the Attorney Says despite the video ac transit denied they had done anything wrong and refused to settle. The jury disagreed and awarded francisco 14. 3 million. They also awarded 1 million to her 4yearold daughter for emotional distress. And they continue to keep their head in the sand and ar in denial and refuse to accept any responsibility whatsoever. Reporter the Attorney Says at trial, a defense medical expert actually testified that the victim may have been more likely to react to pain because she is hispanic. And he says the driver is still employed by the transit agency. In oakland, john ramos, kpix 5. Well, a spokesman for ac transit declined our interview today but said they are mulling over the verdict and Still Deciding what their next steps will be. An update tonight on our exclusive story about chrysler cars at risk for stalling. There is yet another delay in notifying more than 150,000 chrysler owners of a fuel tank condition that could cause sudden stalls. Chrysler was supposed to have notified drivers back in january. Now, following our investigation, both the government and chrysler said that final notices to drivers went out yesterday. Today we find thats not the case. Chrysler admits it will be another week at least before it begins to send out notices. So far, more than 1300 2005 and 2006 chrysler 300s, dodge chargers and magnums have reportedly stalled on the roads. Chrysler had extended the fuel tank warranty to cover the fix. Palo altobased tesla lost nearly 50 million in the 1st quarter. Thats because costs are up as the electric car Company Expands its lineup. But tesla says revenue is up, as well. Shares are down 7 in after hours trading. Meanwhile, tesla says california is back in the running for that massive battery plant it starts to build this year. Its looking at nevada, arizona and texas. Linkedin is reportedly eyeing a site in Mountain View at shoreline boulevard and 101 for its next major expansion project. Len ramirez is live from there tonight. Len, the Company Seems to be on quite the buying spree lately. Reporter no question about it, liz. Linkedin is growing fast. It started with this one Main Building behind me several years ago. It now occupies five more buildings in this area. More buildings are going to open up in sunnyvale and even that isnt big enough. The question now, is the city of Mountain View big enough . Almost everywhere you look in Silicon Valley, another high tech building is taking shape. And the professional social networking site linkedin is one of the Companies Leading the latest building boom. The companys massive new sunnyvale complex is about to open but even this wont be big enough. Linkedin just filed papers with the city of Mountain View for a headquarters expansion of more than 2. 5 million square feet enough space for 10,000 workers. I was very happy that linkedin would like to stay here and keep their headquarters here in Mountain View. Reporter but the mayor is also worried there might be too much of a good thing when it comes to expanding hightech companies in the North Bayshore area. Its already home to tech titans google and microsoft. Shoreline boulevard is team, with traffic during most parts of the teeming with traffic during most part of the day and its driving up rent. We are hoping to pass a plan at the end of the year that really looks at how much growth can North Bayshore absorb. Well evaluate everything at the end of the day. If it needs to be scaled back, well scale it back. Reporter linkedin has no comment saying the plans are preliminary but it is eyeing this chunk of land next to highway 101 with an older Small Business park home to a laser tag company, a togos and golds gym that might be forced out. Customers say its a combination of positives and negatives. That kind of Economic Growth is what powers this part of the bay area. When you get these really Big Companies like google and linkedin and stuff it kind of pushes out the little guy. To me, i think there should be a limit to that kind of stuff. Reporter its the kind of growing pain most cities in america would love to have. In Mountain View,len ramirez, kpix 5. Linkedin is still growing its worldwide head count over 5,000 employees with about half of them in Silicon Valley. Other bay area headlines, a raging fire under the eastshore freeway in berkeley this afternoon. Smoke visible for miles. Nobody was hurt. But two men were taken in for questioning at the scene. Investigators think that fire started in a homeless encampment. A false alarm at Mineta San Jose International airport this morning. The fire alarms went off and terminal b prompting all passengers and staffers there to evacuate. The Fire Department blames an equipment malfunction. They gave the all clear at 10 15. San Francisco Police looking for the people who were inside this black car that hit a pedestrian and another vehicle before smashing into this building. This happened last night in the Marina District near franklin and chestnut. Two people got hurt but are expected to be okay. President obama is paying another visit to the bay area. He is due in Silicon Valley tomorrow to raise money for the upcoming elections. On friday, he is scheduled to appear at the walmart in Mountain View to talk energy efficiency. Fearing it could be a medical disaster, tonight how nurses are trying to bring back to life a Bay Area Hospital on life support. Plus horror over the way a post office dealt with a bird problem. Mainly sunny skies along the embarcadero in San Francisco right now. But coming up, well talk about when the wind returns and when 90degree temperatures return coming up in about 6 minutes. Very rare to see Something Like this. It truly is. After he had his identity stolen, how a bay area crime victim outsmarted the crooks. Eand a Congress Standing in the country ready way. Ove forward. Their budgets are late; jobs bills are stalled. And special interests run rampant. As an economics teacher at stanford, i know education means good jobs. So heres my plan id start teaching computer coding in Public Schools right away. Open doors for women in science and technology. And prepare young people for middle class manufacturing jobs. Im ro khanna and i approve this message, for death. Doctors hosp new at 6 00, a frantic push to save an east bay hospital destined for death. Doctors hospital in san pablo will close this summer after voters rejected a parcel tax. Our ryan takeo spoke with patients left saying you know what . Its a lot of people that aint gonna have nowhere to go. Doctors hospital serves thousands who dont have much of a choice in where they get healthcare. 90 of our patients are either on medical, medicare or uninsured. Reporter doctors administrators say that math is to blame for being about 18 million in debt thats only getting deeper. Voters have approved a couple of parcel taxes in recent years. But not yesterday. I think people are tax fatigued in west county. Are you serious . reporter janice had no idea until we told her. It could close as early as july . reporter her hospital is set to close. Doctors, thats going to be really bad. Reporter she says her grandson, who has asthma, relies on it. And they dont have a car. He have attack, where i dont know what we supposed to do on that. Reporter the nurses union says the closure would be a medical disaster for the region. And without the hospital being open, i dont know where theyre going to go. Reporter if doctors closes, west contra costa will only have one emergency room, Kaiser Richmond but it wouldnt be able to handle all the areas e. R. Calls. Ambulances would have to take some patients to either berkeley or martinez. The nurses union is trying to get county supervisors to take over the hospital but john gioa says that wont happen. Unfortunately, the county doesnt have 18 million to take over the hospital because what that would do is cause the county to have to cut its own health services. Meanwhile, patients like janice worry about whats next. In san pablo, ryan takeo, kpix 5. County clinics will likely have to pick up the slack for patients who dont need emergency care. An Oakland Post Office is under fire for how it handled a messy bird problem. Juliette goodrich shows us a bunch of baby birds took the fall. Juliette. Reporter well, liz, those post Office Trucks are parked right under the trees. And those trees have birds and they make a mess. So when the post office hired a crew to trim the trees, some of the baby chicks fell 30 feet to the ground and witnesses fear eggs and nests may have landed in a wood chipper. Five rescued chicks are now being cared for at the International Bird rescue in fairfield. They are just one to three weeks old, knocked out of their nests during the tree trimming and injured from a fall. This little ones beak was damaged. So far none of these appear to have any sort of infections going on. They seem healthy but bruised. Reporter they are black crown night herons and nest in city owned trees around the post office and everywhere. But they make a mess and that was getting on the citys postal trucks. Just like it did to this parking meter. What is the protocol then on tree trimming . Hands off. Hands off. You cannot disturb anything thats nesting during this time. Reporter but the post office hired Campos Tree Service to trim the trees. A concerned neighbor took this phone video when it was happening. It was n independent contractor who borrowed the truck and equipment to do the job. He told me injuring the birds was an accident and he is to blame. Human beings, we all make mistakes and im fully responsible for it. If i have to go to jail for that ill be more than happy to do it because i made a mistake. Reporter state and federal wildlife officials are investigating because nest destruction may have violated the u. S. Migratory bird treaty act. Nearby residents dont know who to blame. Its just frustrating to see these trees get whacked and the birds right when theyre nesting. I dont want to know if there were any active nests destroyed. Reporter at this point there are no reports of any birds dying or nest eggs destroyed. As for the postal service, they say that this is a terrible accident. They would never want to hurt any wildlife and they say in fact they issue stamps to protect birds. In oakland, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. Killing nesting migratory birds is a crime. There are no confirmed deaths in this case, only injuries. A team of california scientists have determined there are no signs of radiation detected on the west coast shoreline. Inaccurate reports on social media, thats what stoked the fears that radiation from japans Fukushima Nuclear power plant disaster had somehow come our way but researchers now say our coastline is completely safe based on samples of kelp collected and analyzed between february and march. The group is closely monitoring the situation and will test again in july. All right. You have heard of a solar flare but this is a solar explosion nasa just released there video. The blast shooting off the suns surface last month. These eruptions are common but we are getting a better look at them now thanks to napas Solar Dynamics observatory. That is so neat. Its about to get warmer in the bay area. Chief meteorologist paul deanno is out enjoying the breezy weather today on the embarcadero. Breezy and beautiful in San Francisco. Good night for a soccer match. Were cross from the Ferry Building and a four on four pickup game going on. Its not the warmest day in San Francisco history but its comfortable to wear short sleeves or maybe a light jacket. High temperatures today from a breezy dublin cam where we barely made it into the 70s. San jose 70 today. San bruno only 64. Hayward 62. San francisco today officially in the financial district only 62 degrees. Overnight tonight, as a blanket of cloud cover moves in just like you at home put a blanket on top of you to stay warm, Mother Nature is doing the same for us tonight. With that increase in cloud cover, lows will generally be in the low 50s. Concord 52. Redwood city 50. San rafael 50. And san jose 51. Cue the ambulance. [ siren ] whats going on the next couple of days . We have a low pressure area tomorrow that will pass by to the north firing off a few showers in the north bay. So drizzle along the coastline and at a minimum it will be cloudy and cool tomorrow. Low moves out allowing the big ridge to move in which will get us sunnier and warmer but windy especially on saturday as that low moves out. Were indicate right in between the two pressure systems and we are going to be pretty breezy to windy coming up on saturday. Your highs tomorrow, with that tiniest chance of a shower, santa rosa 58. Oakland excuse me, 68. Oakland 67. Livermore will hit 70 tomorrow. Fremont 67. Mainly cloudy day and chance of a few showers. Heres the forecast for the next seven days. Friday, saturday sunny, windy, highs in the 70s inland, upper 60s near the bay. Mothers days sunday its going to be a warm one. 85 inland. 75 near the bay. 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