Yamamoto, Alameda County just released a snapshot of its homelessness picture countywide. Homelessness has dropped by 3 with unsheltered homelessness decreasing from 11 . From 2022. They also say there was a 19 . Increase in people accessing shelters, but in Alameda Countys largest city, oakland the number of Homeless People that actually went up by 9 over the last 2 years. Still, that is less of the trend from 2015 to 2022. When oakland average increases of 32 32 . Between between counts. County leaders say theyre encouraged by the progress, but they acknowledge much more work needs to be done. And San Francisco also in the spotlight for its homelessness crisis. And this morning, merrill canada, daniel lurie announced his plan to tackle the issue. And that home run strategy will focus on building more. Interim housing and opposed to just permanent how which loury says takes takes many years to permit and build. Leaving more people out on the streets. Well, the family of the man who di
Killed. The man was walking on international boulevard and one of the cars struck him. The impact took out a metal phelps and this car came to rest in the parking lot of a walgreens store. The crash happened just before 1 00 near the intersection of 82nd avenue and international boulevard. The driver of a black Dodge Charger veered off the road, striking the 49yearold man who was pronounced dead here at the scene. The driver of that charger got out of the car and ran away after the crash. Investigators say that driver was likely racing another driver who was behind the wheel of a maroon bmw 320. The bmw continued to drive for several more blocks and they eventually found it abandoned on international boulevard. Police are searching for both drivers involved and asking for anyone who witnessed the deadly crash to come forward. Someone may have seen something. They may have seen the vehicles traveling at a high rate of speed. They may have witnessed the accident. And if theyd like to rem
Employees will be on the picket line. Librarians, parking enforcement, nearly every public worker in oakland. 911 dispatchers not allowed to strike. 1021 continues to complain how city departments are understaffed and rely on temporary workers. We rely on a city running on half the force being parttime. Unsustainable way to run a government. Reporter and concerned about health and safety issues they claim the city is unwilling to address. One of the employees. A bunch of needles, feces, plus its just i dont know. Kind of like a mental kind of thing. Youre taking peoples belongings. Reporter union had hoped to bring in former San Francisco mayor willie brown to help as mediator. Idea was rejected. In oakland, abc7 news. Strong winds are being blamed for Power Outages around the bay area. Powerful gusts believed to be responsible for tossing this eucalyptus tree on power lines around 11 00 this morning. Knocked out power to a handful of residents. Winds are blowing pretty strong in that
Tells us is not clear who will bench first. Reporter strike preparations were underway at the office in oakland. A second unit has approved a solidarity strike. A third union says that its members will not cross the picket line. Workers say that they are upset about unfair labor practices. Both are at the bargaining table in the workplace. They had the last, best, final offer with a 6 raise over two years. But Union Leaders say that city workers are fed up with the working conditions and also the safety issues to the community at large. Homelessness, illegal dumping, and the use of temporary parttime workers and reduces the level that we can provide at a high level. We hope that the citizens will stand with us on the issues. Reporter 2700 workers will be on strike. They include librarians, public works crews, there will be no fire and Building Inspections and Parking Enforcement or sweeping. It affects everyone, families, children, it affects workers. This is the last effort. This is t
Diego. And were looking at wind gusts 60 Miles Per Hour. And isolated gusts could reach 80. And this is going on for several days. They definitely have a lot of trouble when it comes to weather conditions and the fire in the santa paula area. Theres a look at Ventura County and closer to where the fire is burning. We are here at home looking at dry weather. And the winds are coming down and the temperatures are coming up. The temperatures are in the upper 40s to upper 50s. 58 half moon bay. Mid40s in livermore. And the temperatures climb and a bigger warmup for the weekend. Well have a look at the extended forecast in just a moment. Its 4 31 and we want to get a check on the highways. Good morning to you. Traffic on the solano commute looks pretty good on interstate 80 for vacaville, fairfield, through the carquinez bridge. No problems on highway 37. And the general commute looks good around the bay area with no major issues. 80 westbound also looking good getting to the bay bridge whe