even the best of us sometimes forget, like our own john ramos. >>> just one of those days. whoa! >> and it is a new year's eve first. why the famous time square ball will be lit not once but twice to ring in 2024 . >>> talk about a crazy scene in florida where a truck driver was left dangling over the highway overpass. he was hauling scrap metal when he lost control of the 18 wheeler. traffic was stopped while firefighters used a ladder and bucket to bring him down. apparently unhurt. somehow that was not the most miraculous driver recovery. a driver was left in his mangled pick up truck for six days. stuck in a creek under an overpass. no one heard his calls for help until a man was passing by with his nephew looking for a good fishing spot. >> it caught our curiosity. i looked inside and moved the white air bag and he, there was a body in there. and i went to touch it and he turned around. and that just -- it almost killed me there. it was shocking. he was alive and he was very happy to see us. >> wow. he was helicoptered to a hospital where he is being treated for several brok

we sent john ramos to a spot in the city where niner fans and eagles fans watched the game together. >> reporter: for a solid year, football fans have been looking forward to this grudge rematch between the 49ers and the eagles. this is a place where fans of both teams can call home. the pub is normally a niners hang out, but also the bar of choice for eagles fans. bartender mary limos says that has made this matchup not just good for football, but business. >> it is just as busy as it is for the eagles, and the niners. if you look around, it's about 50-50 right now. we expect it to be 50-50. eagles, niners. >> reporter: while there may be some hard feelings after last season's disastrous nfc title game, frankie brushes off the facts that eagles fans once attacked a guy in a santa suit. >> philadelphia gets a bad rep. throwing snowballs at santa, which was what, in the 60s, get over it. >> reporter: a traveling nurse from philadelphia understood 49er fans were looking for some pay back. >> they're hyped, ready for revenge after we hurt two of their quarterbacks last year. >> yes, it'

john ramos was at a watch party as well, this was a little closer to home. >> the kezar pub is normallyniners hangout but it's also the bar of choice for eagles fans. this bartender said this made the matchup not just good for football but also good for business. >> it is just as busy , off-the-cuff busy for eagles and for the niners. if you look around it is about 50-50 right now. we expect it to be 50-50. >> jordan understood that 49er fans were looking for payback. >> they were hyped and ready for revenge after they hurt two of their quarterbacks last year. >> we love to dominate enemy territory. >> this game is very special with especially with the way it ended last year, seems like we left some meat on the bone . it is a little personal this time around. >> after halftime the 49ers continued to scoring, eventually putting the game out of reach. even those watching from the sidewalk outside had their revenge but both fan bases had the feeling that this probably is not the end. >> there will be a tough schedule for the rest of the year but moving forward in the playoffs, we will see

john ramos tells us businesses are breathing a little bit easier, at least for now. >> reporter: sittingght next to the berryessa b.a.r.t. station, the flea market property is prime real estate for housing. in 2021 the city approved a plan to build nearly 3,500 homes on the site, but with the cost of construction rising, the property owners changed their plan, proposing to build only about 900 homes. the city isn't thrilled about that. >> if it means waiting a few years until interest rates come down and cost of construction stabilizes, i think that's the right thing to do. >> reporter: but in the meantime those who make their living at the flea market has been kept in a state of uncertainty. there's an agreement they will get a year's notice once a decision to build is made and they were expecting something in january, but on friday the word came down. >> they sent us an email saying that the flea market has decided to extend the one-year notice, meaning the earliest date the flea market would close would be 2026. >> for people like me that's been many years here, no more way to go. it'

even our reporter john ramos was caught a couple years ago doing a story on dangerous waves, take a look. >> i was caught in a sneaker wave while shooting a stand up. you can see two little girls playing the water's edge. then watch as the wave starts coming up and just does not stop >> whoa! >> it happened so fast. let's send it back over to you with more on this high surf warning for tomorrow. >> reporter: we are going to use the virtual map to illustrate that. the reason we have a first alert status and you are seeing the banners in red. it is because of the focus along the coastline from a swell that still is a couple hundred miles out that way. it is lagging behind today's storm. that swell is moving towards our coastline. in fact, let's come back here. you can visualize it. the deeper shades of red can show you the higher wave heights. the time is important on that. the higher waves are going to get here late in the morning tomorrow. high surf warning. and the terminology is important. we had high surf advisories a couple times this winter. not a warning yet. warning is reserved fo

john ramos has that reaction. >> reporter: the argument is that donald trump cannot be president because he violated the 14th amendment by participating in a insurrection. but, now, there is discussion about whether leaving his name off the ballot would be good for the democratic process or the nation in general. the colorado supreme court stunned political observers by ruling that donald trump was disqualified from holding the office of president under section 3 of the u.s. constitution. disqualification clause was written after the civil war to prevent those who supported the south against the union from holding office in the federal government. it disqualifies anyone who had previously taken an oath to support the nation if they had engaged in insurrection or rebellion. the court says that is what prompted on january 6th. >> it has never been used to disqualify a presidential candidate. has been used occasionally to disqualify people from lower offices, but not very often. >> reporter: david is a law professor at santa clara university. he has followed the case closely and says mother

john ramos has that reaction. >> reporter: the argument is that donald trump cannot be president because 14th amendment by participating in a insurrection. but, now, there is discussion about whether leaving his name off the ballot would be good for the democratic process or the nation in general. the colorado supreme court stunned political observers by ruling that donald trump was disqualified from holding the office of president under section 3 of the u.s. constitution. disqualification clause was written after the

john ramos has the story. >> reporter: the man living in the house behind me had already shot his wife and fired at a police swat team. so neighbors are wondering how it was that police did not consider him to be a threat to the public. there were lots of police today at the home on cleopatra drive, just like there were on thursday at 7:00 p.m. after a woman was shot by her husband when she tried to enter the back door of the house. her injuries were minor, but police tried to get the man, a former pittsburgh police officer to come out. he'd been posting videos to social media wearing a flak vest and holding an assault rifle, and the message anyone tried to break into my home is going to be killed, and i will have no remorse because i did a good thing to rid evil. but around 11:30 p.m. thursday night, with the man still inside, the swat team packed up and left. a news release said despite the fact that his posts suggested he might be suicidal, circumstances suggested he was quote not an immediate threat to the general public. the police chief says it was his decision. >> i believe i ma

john ramos has the story. >> there are plenty crime victims of crime in oakland but more fear crime.hese are the people this event was meant to help. people turned out in droves to celebrate the posada festival 15th birthday. there it was all kinds of fun music food and dancing and even a chance to sit with san though claus and the largest piÑata in oakland history. alex cox founded the event as a toy distribution party and it's grown. the event offered another experience important as fun. >> i'm telling you there's a heightened safety to enjoy the beauty of this. >> safety is a primary concern about anything happening in oakland these days and it's affecting businesses year-round. martinez was reporting a restaurant on this day and said it was nice to see people on the sidewalks again. >> it's good. it's good always to have something because bring people to the area. things happen in the area. the robberies and all that. so not too many people and not many people stop to buy. >> at one point like a lot of businesses the restaurant had to board up its front because of the groups of p

john ramos explains how it got to this point and the big offer that could help change things. >> reporter: in the past, homelessness was treated as a nuisance issue, but as the number of homeless people swelled, officials have had to take a different approach. here in marin, they're not just offering support for people living on this street, they're offering an incentive to get off of it. campers began showing up on binford road in rural novato shortly after the 2017 tubbs fire made a lot of sonoma county residents homeless. over the years, it's grown thanks to the pandemic, the economy, and high cost of living. dino moved his trailer here from sonoma county about eight months ago and says a lot of the stress has been relieved. >> here is nice because you don't have to worry about the sheriffs coming in and kicking you -- making you move and go to another spot and then making you go to another spot, back and forth. in sonoma, that's what we were doing constantly, constantly. >> shuffling individuals around or moving them from location to location doesn't really solve anything. >> reporter

here's john ramos with that story. >> reporter: here's the story.o raise $10,000 over two weekends selling cookies from his front yard. it may sound like a half baked idea, but actually it's baked to perfection. first the cookies, the sugar and spice molasses cookies come from amy meyers who won a baking contest from the local newspaper with them. >> they are like the epitome of christmas, christmas in a cookie. >> reporter: which brings us to her son, 16-year-old cannon meyers, who is also the epitome of christmas. the last ten years he's been using the cookies and hot cider to attract people to a fundraiser for his annual secret santa effort. when he reads the simple wishes of people in need, it brings out the st. nick in him. >> i can't get them for one. i must get like two. >> reporter: so you're a pretty generous gift giver? >> yeah. >> reporter: you don't go cheap. >> no. i go big or go home. >> reporter: so this year his tenth year cannon set the goal of raising $10,000 even though last year he only raised a little over 4,000. even his father

john ramos has the story. >> reporter: the man living in the house behind me had already shot his wife and ended up shooting multiple rounds at a swat team. so neighbors here are wondering how he wasn't considered a threat to the public by the police. on saturday morning, there were lots of police at the home on cleopatra drive, just like there were on thursday at 7:00 a.m. after a woman was shot by her husband when she tried to enter the back door of the house. her injuries were minor, but police tried to get the man to come out. he'd been posting videos to social media wearing a flak vest and holding an assault rifle and the message anyone trying to break into my home is going to be killed, and i will have no remorse because i did a good thing to rid evil. but at around 11:30 p.m. thursday night, with the suspect still inside, the swat team packed up and left. a news release said despitehe fact that his posts suggested he might be suicidal, circumstances suggested that he was quote, not an immediate threat to the general public. police chief scott vermilion says it was his decision.

as john ramos explains, some of the renters it is designed to help want to see it go back to the drawing board. >> concord is considered to be more affordable than many big cities in the bay area. the rising cost of rent is pushing some people out. the city is looking to prevent that from happening. the protections come too late for some. in 2018, after living in concord for 18 years, she and her daughter were pushed out of their apartment without warning. >> the owner came in and gave everybody notice. he didn't have to give us a reason why he was doing that. he just said it was because -- he didn't have to give us a reason. >> became a housing activist and will be joining others at the concord city council meeting. they have been pushing for rent control and eviction protections for seven years now. on this night, they would rather the proposed ordinance not to be passed. it would protect any tenants if this gets passed tonight. >> in the law, words matter. it calls for a cap on rent hikes, but not for accessory dwelling units. it says that it is so vaguely designed that every rental u

john ramos breaks down the plan from the north bay. >> reporter: in the past homelessness was treated as a nuisance issue, but as the number of homeless people swelled, officials had to take a different approach in. marin they're not just offering support for people living on the street. they're offering an incentive to get off of it. campers began showing up on binford road in rural novato shortly after the 2017 tubbs fire made a lot of sonoma county residents homeless. over the years it's grown thanks to the pandemic, the economy, and high cost of living. dino montarello moved his trailer here from sonoma county about eight months ago and said a lot of the stress has been relieved. >> here it's nice because you don't have to worry about the sheriffs coming in and making you move and go to another spot and then making you go to another spot and back and forth. in sonoma, that's what we were doing constantly. >> shuffling individuals around moving them location to location doesn't really solve anything. >> reporter: marin supervisor eric liukin says the county is taking a more practic

john ramos has that story. >> reporter: the man had already shot his wife and ended up shooting multipleo neighbors are wondering how police consider him not to be a threat to the public. on saturday morning there were a lot of police on the home of cleopatra drive, just like there were on thursday

the harvest was pushed back and john ramos reports the wait could be worth it. >> reporter: it is quiet at the winery. the harvest is over and the wine sits in barrels, slowly transforming into what has been called bottled poetry. but as serene as the process seems, the wine maker says over the last few years they come to expect just any anything. >> you know, every year these challenges, we never know what is coming until it is right on top of us. >> reporter: in 2021, the drought produced high quality grapes but not many of them. volumes were small. then in september, the glass fire broke out filling the air with smoke. >> we still had 10 tons of grapes on the vine and the grass fire was just a few miles of north of here. it was so close we lost those grapes. >> last year, heatwaves forced growers to rush to pick their crops early to effect the taste of the wines. one thing after another until this year. the blogger, who wrote the wine bible, says they were bracing for more heat spikes this year but none came. >> and still, the gentle weather continued, clear skies, cool sun, no heat

the harvest was pushed back and john ramos reports the wait could be worth it. >> reporter: it is quietthe winery. the harvest is over and the wine sits in barrels, slowly transforming into what has been called bottled poetry. but as serene as the process seems, the wine maker says over the last few years they come to expect just any anything. >> you know, every year these challenges, we never know what is coming until it is right on top of us. >> reporter: in 2021, the drought produced high quality grapes but not many of them. volumes were small. then in september, the glass fire broke out filling the air with smoke. >> we still had 10 tons of grapes on the vine and the grass fire was just a few miles of north of here. it was so close we lost those grapes. >> last year, heatwaves forced growers to rush to pick their crops early to effect the taste of the wines. one thing after another until this year. the blogger, who wrote the wine bible, says they were bracing for more heat spikes this year but none came. >> and still, the gentle weather continued, clear skies, cool sun, no heat dome

john ramos was at the watch party a little closer to home. >> for a solid year, football fans have beenlooking forward to this grudge rematch between the 49ers and the eagles and the pub in san francisco is a place that fans of both teams can call home. the pub is normally a niners hangout, but also the bar of choice for eagles fans. mary limos says that has made this good for business. >> and it is just as busy as it is off the hook busy for eagles and also busy for the niners. if you look around, it's about 50-50 right now. we expect it to be 50-50, eagles, niners. >> and while there may be hard feelings, frankie brushes off that the phillies fans beat up a man in a santa suit. >> it's like get over it. >> reporter: jordan lily, a traveling nurse understood that 49er fans were looking for some payback. >> they're hyped, ready for revenge after hurting two of their quarterbacks last year. it's the territory. we like to dominate the enemy territory. >> fly eagles fly. >> reporter: philly dominated the first quarter and only came away with two field goals. it was in the second period whe

our reporter john ramos was doing a stand-up about sneaker waves, and right then when he was doing it, the wave just smacked him. and it was a good indicator, look, it can happen to all of us, so. >> sit a serious thing, but i want to see that as a blooper. >> that too. so the start of 2023 brought strong storms to the bay area. mary lee was there when the storm hit. she returned to catch one business owners who are still in that recovery mode. >> reporter: i first met david morris back in january when a powerful atmospheric river and monster waves destroyed his business on the capitola wharf. i recently caught up with him and spoke to him about what this year has been like for him and his family. >> i can't wait until we can get out there, though. >> reporter: david morris and his sister tina took me to the exact spot where we met earlier this year when a strong atmospheric river devastated their family business, capitola boat and bait. you can still see where powerful waves knocked out a large section of the pier. almost a year later, david and tina's business is still closed. >> th

john ramos spoke to students and parents about their concerns. >> reporter: following the killing of george floyd and with criticism of police running high, the santa rosa city school board voted to suspend its school resource officer program, removing police from campuses. a lot has happened since then, not all good, and some parents are saying it's time to bring the officers back. montgomery high school in santa rosa used to have a school resource officer or sro named officer luigi. he was a familiar face around campus and teacher jim la france said he had a calming influence on both students and staff. >> when i was breaking up a fight and i've broken up numerous fights in my career, having luigi there changed my feelings of safety and that for me was the important piece. >> reporter: but in 2020 in the midst of the black lives matter protest, the school board halted the sro program, leaving montgomery with no police presence. are in recent years there has been an increase in violent, sometimes armed fights on campuses in the city and in march last year a student was stabbed to de

john ramos was at a party as well a little closer to home. >> reporter: normally a niners hang out buto the bar of choice for eagles fans. that's made the match up not just good for football but also for business. >> it's just as busy. off the hook for eagles, off the hook for niners. it's about 50/50 right now. >> she understood 49er fans were looking for pay back. >> they're hyped and ready for revenge. >> we like enemy territory. we like to dominate. >> fly eagles fly. >> this is special especially the way it ended last year. it feels like we left some meat on the bone with purdy going down. it's a little bit more personal this time around. >> after half the 49ers continued scoring eventually putting the game out of reach. both fan bases have the feeling that this isn't the end. >> niners and eagles have a tough schedule for the rest of the year. in the playoffs it will be another blood bath. it will be fun. >> these teams seem to be on a crash course. >> they'll probably all be back at the pub in january. while the match up is too close for anyone, niner fans know they have a reaso

as john ramos shows us, that did not stop people from heading out to the beach. >> reporter: with the storm breaking up, kathy traveled the two blocks from her ocean beach home to take in the show. >> i heard the rain all night and winners of the blue skies i took a break and ran out and saw it. it is gorgeous. >> reporter: they say you should never turn your back to the ocean, but no one wanted to do that anyway. it was hard to take your eyes off of it. >> when you look at it you kind of get mesmerized by what you see. it is a site. >> reporter: jack brought his whole family from los altos to see, what on this day, was the best tourist attraction in town. the force of the pounding surf was turning seawater into a kind of whipped cream and it was enough to make even an 11-year-old stick about his place in nature. >> it makes you realize how big everything is and it makes me feel a lot smaller. >> reporter: in pacifica, they are used to big waves but this was something else again. you can see the effects while still a block from the beach, as a small wave of water poured down the stree

john ramos has that story. >> reporter: the man had already shot his wife and ended up shooting multiple rounds at a police s.w.a.t. team. so neighbors are wondering how police consider him not to be a threat to the public. on saturday morning there were a lot of police on the home of cleopatra drive, just like there were on thursday at 7:00 p.m. after a woman had been shot by her husband. her injuries were minored, but police tried to get the man, a former pittsburg police officer to come out. he had been posting video to social media wearing a flak vest and holding an assault rifle and the message anyone trying to break into my home will be killed. but about 11:30 p.m. on thursday night with him still inside, the s.w.a.t. packed up and left. a news release said despite the fact that his post suggested he might be suicidal, circumstances suggested he was not an immediate threat to the general public. scott vermilion said it was his decision. >> i believe i made the right decision. having said that, the factors changed, and my decision to do that eventually really didn't work. and for th

john ramos tells us businesses are breathing a little easier for now. >> reporter: sitting right next to the station, the flea market property is prime real estate for housing. in 2021, the city approved a plan to build nearly 3500 homes on the site. with the cost of construction rising, the property owners changed their plan proposing to build only about 900 homes. the city isn't thrilled about that. >> if it means waiting a few years until interest rates come down and cost of construction stabilizes, i think that's the right thing to do. >> reporter: in the meantime those who make a living at the flea market have been in a state of uncertainty. there is an agreement they will get a year's notice once a desis to build is made and they were expecting something in january. friday the word came down. >> they sent an e-mail saying that the flea market decided to extend the one year notice meaning that the earliest date that the flea market would close would be 2026. >> for people like me, many years here, it's only the flea market. that's all i have to make a living right now. so i am ha

here is john ramos. >> reporter: okay, here is the story.ed to raise $10,000 selling cookies from his front yard. it may sound like a half baked idea, but actually it's baked to perfection. first the cookies. the sugar and spice molasses cookies will come from amy meyers who won a baking contest from the local newspaper with them. >> and they are like the epitome of christmas. it is christmas in a cookie. >> reporter: which will bring us to her son, 16-year-old cannon meyers, who is also the epitome of christmas. for the last ten years, he's been using the cookies and the hot cider to attract people for the fundraiser for their annual secret santa effort. when he reads the simple wishes of the people in need, it will bring out the saint nick in him. >> i can't get them in for one and must get like two. >> you're a pretty generous gift giver? >> yeah. >> you don't go cheap? >> no. i call it go big or go home. >> reporter: this year his tenth year, cannon set the goal of raising $10,000 even though last year he only raised a little over $4,000

john ramos explains. >> reporter: campers began showing up on binford road shortly after the 2017 tubbs fire made a lot of sonoma county residents homeless. it's grown due to the pandemic, economy, and cost of high living. dino moved his trailer here about six months ago, and says a lot of his stress is relieved. >> here is nice because you don't have to worry about the sheriffs coming in and making you move and go to another spot, and them making you go to another spot, and back and forth. in sonoma, we were doing that constantly. >> shuffling individuals around and moving them from location to location doesn't really solve anything. >> reporter: marin's supervisor says the county is taking a more practical approach to the rvs, making the encampment more livable than just remove it. they supply portable toilets, hand washing statements, and trash pick up twice a week. but he says there was a necessary first step. >> number one, we stopped it from growing any larger. we physically closed off spaces on binford road to stop the growth. >> reporter: as soon as a vehicle leaves, a fence or

john ramos has this story. >> reporter: there are plenty of victims of crime in oakland but more victimsthe fear of crime. and those of the people this event was meant to help. people turned out in droves to celebrate the las posadas , 15th birthday. there were all kinds of fun , music, food, and dancing and even a lighthearted chance to sit with santa claus. the highlight of the event, what was billed as the largest piÑata in oakland's history. alex actually found the event as a toy distribution party and it is only grown. but the event offered another experience , just as important as fun. >> i am telling you, there is a heightened level of safety in the fruitville district to allow shoppers to feel safe and to be able to enjoy the vibrancy. >> reporter: safety is a primary concern about anything happening in oakland these days . and it is affecting businesses year-round. she was running a restaurant on this day and said it was nice to see people on the sidewalks again. >> it is good. always to have something. it brings people to the area. things happen in the area. robbery and all tha

john ramos has the story. >> reporter: the man in the house behind me had shot his wife and ended upiple rounds at a police s.w.a.t. team. so neighbors are wondering, how the police could consider him to not be a threat to the public. on saturday morning there were lots of police at the home on cleopatra drive. just like there were on thursday at 7:00 p.m., after a woman had been shot by her husband when she tried to enter the back door of the house . her injuries were minor, but police cordoned off the area and tried to get the man, a former pittsburg police officer named chunliam saechao to come out. he had been posting videos to social media wearing a flacco mess and holding an assault rifle in the message, anyone trying to break into my home is going to be killed and i will have no remorse because i did a good thing to rid evil. but at about 11:30 p.m. thursday night with chunliam saechao inside, the s.w.a.t. team packed up and left. the news release said despite the fact his post suggested he might be suicidal, circumstances suggested he was, "not an immediate threat to the gene

john ramos has more. >> reporter: the newest homes on amber street in the diamond heights district come with all the modern features and one that feels like something from the distant past, ownership. >> i'm so proud, so proud, to be here today to celebrate our eight newest habitat families. >> reporter: one by one, the families were officially welcomed to their new homes, courtesy of habitat for humanity greater san francisco. half of them came from a city list of families displaced from their homes in the 1960s and '70s. >> they had to move out during redevelopment. these folks and they represent to their families the journey to the dream. and the dream is here. they are living it. so thank you. >> reporter: for most, like kristin mccloud, the idea of owning a home in the city was more like a pipe dream, but habitat makes it possible by leveraging the volunteer work of perspective homeowners. >> it was here quite a bit doing all sorts of things, as well as my family and friends that would volunteer for me as well. so it was, like i said, it was a community effort. >> reporter: she put

john ramos spoke to students and parents about their concerns. >> reporter: montgomery high school inhave a school resource officer or sro named officer luigi. he was a familiar face around campus. and teacher jim lafrance said he had a calming influence on both students and staff. >> when i was breaking up a fight, and i have broken up numerous fights in my career, having luigi there changed my feelings of safety and that for me was the important piece. >> reporter: but in 2020 in the midst of the black lives matter protests, the school board halted the sro program, leaving montgomery with no police presence. in recent years, there has been an increase in violent, sometimes armed fights on campuses in the city. and in march of last year, a student was stabbed to death during an altercation. >> that tragedy opened the eyes to what was happening here and that maybe we weren't aware of. >> reporter: stephanie taylor and melissa stewart founded a parents' group called the safe campus alliance to lobby school board members to make changes including bringing back the sros. >> i do want saf

the same time last year, lands' end with our john ramos, a huge wave nearly washing away one unsuspecting beach goer and in fact this shows us how quickly sneaker waves can sneak up. >> i was caught in the sneaker wave while shooting a stand up and you can see two little girls in the distance playing at the water's edge. then watch as a wave starts coming up and just doesn't stop. whoa. [ laughter ] >> and you know we can laugh at that but really it's serious and we know that the little girls are okay. in the video back there you might have looked at them andwondered but man this is serious to show how fast they can sneak up on you. >> that even startled me a little bit. in the grand scheme of things today not the day to risk your life by going to the coast. the national weather service has issued a high surf warning upgraded from that advisory along our coastline that we've been seeing anywhere from bodega bay all the way down into half-moon bay too. today those breakers can get up to around 33 feet high. to add to that sneaker waves are possible and of course strong rip cornutos. we can

the harvest was pushed back and john ramos reports actually the wait could be worth it. >> reporter:iet at seavey vineyard winery. the harvest is over and the wine sits in barrels, slowly transforming into what has been called bottled poetry. but as serene as the process seems, wine maker jim duane says over the last few years they have come to expect just about anything. >> you know, every year these challenges, we never know what's coming until it's kind of right on top of us. >> reporter: in 2021, the drought produced high quality grapes, but not many of them. so volumes were small. then in september, the glass fire broke out. filling the air with acrid smoke. >> we still had about ten tons of grapes out on the vine and that glass fire was just a couple of miles north of here. so that was so close that we lost those grapes. >> reporter: and last year, some heat waves forced growers to rush to pick their crops early. affecting the taste of the wines. it's been one thing after another. until this year, wine industry blogger karen macneil, who wrote "the wine bible," says vintners we

john ramos has the story. >> reporter: there are plenty of victims of crime in oakland, but there are even more victims of the fear of crime. and those are the people this event was meant to help. people turned out in droves to celebrate the posada festival's quinceanera, or 15th birthday. there were all kinds of fun, music, food, and dancing and even a lighthearted chance to sit with sancho claus . alex cox founded the event as a toy distribution party, and it's only grown from there. but the event offered another experience just as important as fun. >> i'm telling you, there is a really heightened level of -- to allow shoppers to feel safe and to be able to enjoy the vibrancy of this community. >> reporter: safety, it's a primary concern about anything in oakland these days, and it's affecting businesses year round. she was running the restaurant on this day and said it was nice to see people on the sidewalks again. >> it's good. it's good always to have something, because bring people to the area. things happen in the area, they -- robbery and all that. so not too many people come

john ramos saw a huge wave nearly washing away one unsuspecting beach goer and look what happened to him with a sneaker wave. >> you can see two little girls in the distance playing at the water's edge and then watch as the wave starts coming up and just doesn't stop. whoa. >> looks prim simple there but look. even 2 inches of water you can drown in. and that wave can take you right out. so this is why we talk about these surf conditions and jess, we're going pull you in on this first alert weather day. good morning my friend. thank you so much for the warnings and we hope people who are just visiting maybe tuning in from their hotel room know to stay away from the coastal communities. >> exactly the case for us and everyone throughout the bay area needs to be -- paying very close eye and paying very close attention to our coastlines in the next couple of days. here's the reason why. we are under that high surf warning all along our coastline from bodega bay stretching down into half-moon bay and everywhere in-between until 3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning issued by the national weather se

john ramos spoke to students and parents about their concerns. >> reporter: montgomery high school inused to have a school resource officer or sro named officer luigi. he was a familiar face around campus. and teacher jim la france said he had a calming influence on both students and staff. >> when i was breaking up a fight and i have broken up numerous fights in my career, having luigi there changed my fields of safety and that for me was the important piece. >> reporter: in 2020 in themidst of the black lives matter protests, leaving montgomery with no police presence. in recent years, there has been increase in violent, sometimes armed fights on campuses in the city. and in march of last year, a student was stabbed to death during an altercation. >> that tragedy opened the eyes to what was happening here and that maybe we weren't aware of. >> reporter: stephanie taylor and melissa stewart lobbied school board members to make changes including bringing back the sros. >> i do want safety resource officers on our campus particularly at montgomery and all the other campuses. i think wh

and john ramos reports the wait could be worth it. >> reporter: it's quiet at cv vineyard winery.er and the wine sits in barrels, slowly transforming into what has been called bottled poetry. but as receive seen ryan sweeney as the process reams, wine maker jim dwayne says over the last few years they have come to expect just about anything. >> you know, every year these challenges, we never know what'scoming until it's kind of right on top of us. >> reporter: in 2021 the drought produced high quality grapes but not many of them. so volumes were small. then in september the glass fire broke out. filling the air with acrid smoke. >> we still had about ten tons of grapes out on the shrine and that glass fire was just a couple of miles north of here. so that was so close that we lost those grapes. >> reporter: and last year, some heat waves forced growers to rush to pick their crops early. affecting the taste of the wines. it's been one thing after another. until this year, wine industry bloggering karen mcneil who wrote the wine bible says vintners were bracing for more heat spikes