Gotten back to us with any official comment. Santa cruz county says they hope to have their new regulation about where grow sites are permitted completed by early next year. In boulder creek, devin fehely, kpix 5. New at 6 00 a north bay city could give police more power to crack down on crimes associated with the homeless. Critics say its criminalizing people who live on the streets. Kpix 5 reporter Susie Steimle live in santa rosa with the debate. Reporter when i talked to the mayor earlier he said the city of santa rosa has tripled the amount of money it spends on homelessness in the past through years. He says this is a sign of what they are doing isnt working. He hopes enforcement can bring about change. The problem is, not all City Council Members agree with him. Its an issue nearly every community in the bay area cant seem to solve. Homelessness and how to handle it. My primary concern is that we shouldnt be criminalizing homelessness. Criminalizing homelessness is putting peopl
In far northern lehigh valley, toward the poconos, fishily, see it change over to all rain, temperatures just system, pretty fast mover. Like i said, it is out of here by late morning, early afternoon. Here is the freezing rain advisory in effect until 11 00 this morning, carbon, monroe counties, again headed northward into the mountains, best chance to see any frozen precipitation, freezing in mount pocono, 33, last hour, now 32, everybody else above freezing, 37 allentown, at philadelphia, up 30ths wilmington, suburbs good shape this morning, holding mid 30s at this hour in quakertown and pottstown. So, what to expected to . Rain during the morning, little freezing rain possible, poconos, maybe up to half inch every rainfall from the system. Then skies pretty much mostly cloudy for the afternoon, upper 40s for philadelphia, near 50 at the shore, eventually, we get to up about 40 for the high in the poconos, and sunset tonight, hanukkah begins, looking pretty good, clearing skies, 45
Youve got last minute shopping trying to get to where your family is for the holidays you dont want to deal with a big storm. Luckily this time were warming up to where were not dealing with a mess on the roads of wintery weather like we did last saturday at this time. This time its just rain. Nonetheless theres quite a bit of it. It is going to be meaning that you need to give yourself a couple of extra minutes to get where you need to go this morning. Theres a look at first alert live doppler. You can see green blanketing the entire area. It started to develop and move in overnight. We as we look back to the west, this is where were starting to see some clearing in parts of western pennsylvania and West Virginia and arrives here later this morning. By noontime today, we do start to see things drying out and even by the end of the afternoon some spots get some sunshine. Right now 40 degrees in town. Weve got rain and temperatures stuck in the 30s to around 40 across the region. Rain s
To have for you, and the news room ate every last bit. Thats absolutely true. They only left me a deli pickle. Guys, common. Poor tori. Tori went to herschels east side deli in the Reading Terminal for a look at some of the hanukkah food, which the news quickly devoured. Aint it the truth . Were like vultures. Free food out there, we zoom down. I guarantee if someone delivered free food right now there wont be anything left by the time we get out of here. But we do love our is that correct, katy . Of course we do, we always thawing they swing by the studio first, so we can get our little plate full. And then they can go out to the news room. So true. So much good food in this city. So im not going to give the news room a pass, but i understanded it. So we have a chill in the air, my friends, and that chill is absolutely making you want to hug that winter coat little bit tighter. And it is not just the chill, as it pertains to the air temperature, but factor in winds, as well, to make i
Been sit there is for months. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores shows us what is taking so long to fix it. Reporter right now were here in orinda. I want to take you to the sinkhole we are at the edge of it. Its 22 feet deal. And workers are here right now. There is not the only sinkhole causing a headache in the east bay. The massive hole stretches across miner road in orinda swallowing up every raindrop today. Crews working in the storm stabilized a 16 water main to be sure this sinkhole doesnt go from bad to worse. Well have pumps and manpower, and well just see how bad it gets. Reporter a few miles away the nearly year old sinkhole in moraga is covered in tarps. Moraga is a wealthy community. Why does it take so long to fix this . We dont have any restricted funding specifically for storm drains. Reporter public works director says the town is waiting for the federal government to approve funding for the project. We worked diligently with my team to get the plans and everything ready to bid a