Ban on evictions in place really big win and just a huge relief for tenants across the city in a district overwhelmingly filled with renters city supervisor dean preston says he introduced the legislation to protect people. He feared without covid19 rent forgiveness, a wave of evictions would follow the small Property Owners of San Francisco weighed in on their failed attempt at suing the city over the eviction ban saying in part quote we are very disappointed in the decision we are not looking for ways to evict people we simply want the same rights in access to the state courts that any other citizens have the county board of supervisors has overstepped their Legal Authority they have the right to appeal and maybe theyll do that, but thats up to them but in the meantime, we know that for the foreseeable future this law will take effect it will stop any evictions preston has maintained the law does not mean the rent is wiped out renters will still have to eventually pay whats owed but
Swift. What were learning about chief eddie garcias plans to retire. But first, cautiously optimistic. The new numbers that show california and the bay area are making some progress in the fight against covid19. Amidst all the setbacks there are small yet notable victories during this pandemic. Governor newsom now says cases, hospitalizations, and icu numbers are down. Take a look. Yesterday the state added 5,700 new cases. Thats well below the daily average of 8,800 cases in the last couple of weeks. However, we still have a ways to go. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney has more. Here is extending on the narrative of some early good signs. Reporter Governor Newsom not only a 21 drop in cases the past week, but in the past two weeks, hospitalizations down 10 , icu cases down 5 . Those statewide numbers are good, but the bay area numbers are even better says dr. George rutherford, a professor of epidemiology at ucsf. Similarly in the bay area, the cases are dropping perhaps even more marked
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, interstate inferno. It looked like a disaster movie playing out on a california freeway, only, this is real. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. Liz has the night off. Im ken bastida. Lets get right to joe with those incredible images. Joe . Reporter ken, the fire is still raging, 3500 acres and only 5 contained. It has burned at least five homes in a Rural Community north of San Bernardino and it is a mess. Look at the aftermath on i15. The highway is still closed as a massive cleanup operation is underway. Just a few hours ago, those were cars driving thrown the interstate. It started out as a grass fire but it kept growing and growing. 80 people driving along i15 decided to abandon their cars and trucks leaving them right there on the freeway. At first we thought it would be taking out. But it got closer and closer. So you did what . Got out and started running up the hill. The fire kept growing. Reporter it jumped
When broker chris hill stays at laquinta he fires up the free wifi with a network thats now up to 5 times faster than before so he can rapidly prepare his presentation. And when he perfects his pitch, do you know what chris can do . And that is my recommendation. Lets see if hes ready. He can swim with the sharks hes ready. La quinta inns suites take care of you, so you can take care of business. Book your next stay at lq. Com la quinta live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, interstate inferno. It looked like a disaster movie playing out on a california freeway, only, this is real. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. Liz has the night off. Im ken bastida. Lets get right to joe with those incredible images. Joe . Reporter ken, the fire is still raging, 3500 acres and only 5 contained. It has burned at least five homes in a Rural Community north of San Bernardino and it is a mess. Look at the aftermath on i15. The highway is still closed as a massive cleanup
Terrain. The fire moved very fast and ended up burning 20 vehicles in all and damaging 10 others. A Highway Patrol officer said he had never seen anything like it before. The fire broke out about 2 30 this afternoon then jumped the freeway about an hour later. Fire crews made water drops on the vehicles but then other vehicles caught fire. We couldnt get out. It started over on that ends and slowly started to move forward then it jumped the laneses. At first it was a little. Okay theyll take care of it. T put out. But then when it started getting closer and closer we started to panic. Many people abandoned their cars and hiked out of the area. The chp asked people to leave their keys behind but some people didnt and those vehicle. Tom have to be towed out. 3,500acres have burned so far and at this hour, interstate 15 is still closed. Social media filled with photos from the north fires some from drivers who were caught in it. Others from near by towns. We received these pictures were t