have negative impacts on the surrounding community. the new kpix5 news at 7 starts now with the feds kicking off a major crime crackdown in san francisco. good evening i am elizabeth cook. i am ken bastida. andria borba joins us live from the tenderloin, what s going on? reporter: the dea has already taken 32 people into custody in connection with two hunter and drug families that were setting up shop in the bay area and peddling their drugs here in the tenderloin. my 23 years of law enforcement i haven t seen this business model before. reporter: in hundreds of pages of charging documents, the drug enforcement agency says it is cracked not one but two drug trafficking rings run by hand or nationals based in oakland, and selling in the tenderloin. these commuter drug dealers, every load or every morning a new load would come into the east bay, packaged up. i did take bart or commute across the bridge, into the tenderloin to sell your drugs during the day and then
i remember temecula when it was watermelon country, and i was there working. but but i m bias toward our vintners in northern california. we ve got for our event, we have vintners coming from, of course, napa, sonoma, mendocino, santa cruz. damian: and that s pretty amazing. you re talking about 8 years of partnerships that you have developed over the years. ray: yes, yes, it s a great thing, you know, to have all these vintners. this year, we ll have around 22 to 24 vintners. most are latino vintners. we have boutique vintners like joseph george, fortino, guglielmo s, testa rossa, and even travieso. damian: and here s some great images that we got off your website of last year s event, and you pair these with some great food, and how can you go wrong? ray: oh, the food. and then this year, we have, you know, rudy mason s falling off the bone ribs. damian: ha ha ha ha. ray: you know, ronnie lott owns tracy toyota, and every time he has an event there, rudy is from tracy and h
the connection between ordinary life, human beings and transcendents. they symbolize it. given what happened in this last week. today, people came to find comfort outside of the church 36 steady rings. a brief but powerful pause to remember the 36 young lives lost. each one of these people had a mother and father that loved them and cared for them. lovers, friends. just how much pain and hurting there is wherever a disaster like this strikes us. in san francisco jessica flores, kpix5. another tribute to the fire victims from the bay area s own green day. the popular punk rock band played last night. live at one of the silent night shows. billy joe armstrong was born and raised in the east bay and says he grew up playing in the west open warehouses like the ghostship. my heart just goes out to all of the people that perished in that warehouse. people looking for themselves. just trying to have have a moment where they can all just celebrate being artists and be
this city council to push for sound policies that allow richmond to grow and thrive. they haven t tried to be a partner. what they have tried to do is buy city council that they own. and this is what they failed to do. reporter: this relationship isn t going to be strengthened overnight and no one thinks compromise will come easily but doesn t expect any huge butt doesn t expect any huge confrontation with chevron. many issues were resolved by regulators after the refinery fire two years ago but he wonders, if city elections might change. richmond has what he calls a tradition of behind the scenes machines controlling elections. i think the part that s different is it doesn t work anymore. reporter: what s interesting to note is that voters clearly rejected the chevron-backed candidates, but last year, people in richmond were asked to outline their priorities. at the very top was safety on the streets, crime reduction. they are also concerned about the condition of
that s airing. reporter:the safety campaign is called slow for the cone zone campaign, featuring the children of caltrans very own field maintenance employees and highlighting a message to be alert, my pam: happening today. pam: crews are expected to pull the stranded fishing boat off san francisco s ocean beach tonight. pam: we re also learning more about the missing captain who may have abandoned the 40- foot fishing vessel pam: when it ran aground. pam: but first let s check in with kron 4 s alecia reid. she is live in san francisco. where the stranded boat has become quite an attraction. alecia?? reporter: i am going to get out of the way so you could see what the ways look like right now. crashing against quite heavily. now look at that coming in pretty hard. they have a big portion of the beach just cornered off. as the way to get his boat out of here. now they also have a bulldozer weighty, and just waiting inside of in front of the boat to get o