Use. Reporter they also weighed in on governor good afternoon newsoms plan to spend 750 million of taxpayer money to fix the states homeless crisis. Up for debate, the way in which the money will be distributed. Newsom wants to hand out the funds through regional administrators. Assembly member phil ting said adding another layer of bureaucracy doesnt add up. The dollars need to go where the responsibility lies. Those of us who are accountable should be able to get things done. Reporter state lawmakers will take the i didnt want from todays hearing as well as other subcommittee hearings to craft their own budget. The state budget is due by june 15th. In San Francisco, melissa colorado, nbc bay area. This impacts almost all of us. What do People Living here in the bay area think about the housing crisis . A new poll asked 500 San Francisco voters about life specifically in the city. 64 ranked homelessness as the top issue facing San Francisco. Nearly 80 said in order to combat homelessn
Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with more on the conditions theyre dealing with. Even some low 90s in the vicinity of the fire. The heat and the humidity are the number one things theyre battling. The good news which is probably helping them get that containment we just heard about is the wind is not extremely gusty. Right now we have winds out of the northwest at 10, occasional gusts to 20. So that likely has been helping those firefighters. Here you can see it on this map. South of Lake Berryessa. Smoke from this primarily blowing towards winters with the way that that wind is blowing. Once again, 128 and wragg canyon road. Tomorrow winds out of the west at 10. Tomorrow gusts also up to 20. Hopefully that lower wind would again help out the firefighters. Now, our fire danger going up all across the bay area. Today the fire burn index is 75. Basically putting our fire danger on a scale which is in the high category. Tomorrow goes up to 100, which is still high but getti
Thnew kpix5 news at seven starts right now the vigil getting underway for the victims of the garlic festival shooting. Good evening, lets take a life look at where that vigil is being held come is at the chamber of commerce at monterey road and fifth street and get away. You can you hear dozens of people are already there, pepper five is overhead, giving you a better idea just how big this crowd is. We have seen people still trickling in, in the meantime kate is in san jose after speaking to to victims who were just released from the hospital today. Reporter Valley Medical Center d grof pahing t , eynde erlcha bu walkunwer. Ey wanteto aman by the name of john. On the left, and gabriella cows were halfway up the inflatable yellow slide. When they spotted him and realized what he was about to do. I saw him with a gun and i kind of was like, i just kind of stared Community Center rapid firing and i was like okay, lets go. They climbed on the rope ladder, right around the blue porter parti
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Once but repeatedly. Reporter the president repeatedly asked, why do we want all these people from s hole countries here . We should bring in people from more places like norway. Republican senators also attended the meeting and issued a joint statement saying, we do not recall the specific making these comments specifically. President trump denied using the language in question, but neither he, nor the white house have disputed comments that suggests he prefers immigrants from certain countries over others. I read those comments later last night. So the first thing that came to my mind was very unfortunate, unhelpful. Reporter the controversy could derail negotiations over Immigration Reform including protection for daca recipients. If lawmakers dont reach an agreement by january 19th, the talks may spill into a spending deal to keep the government open. President trump also tweeted today that he believes in a meritbased immigration system. Its something weve heard before, that he wan