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in need of affordable housing. governor brown taking action today. i'm kenny choi. now at noon, help on the way for californians in need of affordable housing. governor brown taking action today. good afternoon, i'm kenny choi. >> i'm michelle griego. affordable housing in the bay area is definitely not easy to find. but governor brown just signed a bundle of bills to tackle the issue head on. kpix 5's jelive in san ssesfra ancisco florwith
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details. jessica. >> reporter: good afternoon, kenny and michelle. the governor just signed that series of bills just moments ago. take a look behind me. you're going to see dozens of lawmakers gathering speaking before the governor signed ouosabfoe hn lerdng ls bfrsianciscilo because this site of an affordable housing project and one of the most expensive cities in the state. several lawmakers spoke. we also had mayors from los angeles, san francisco and oakland calling this a landmark moment and a major step to increase affordable housing. >> welcome to the bay area. let's get to solutions. let's hand out keys. >> we see it every day here in the bay area as we are stuck in traffic next to "super commuters" who spend two hours driving from a home they can afford to a b joit driving over
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tent encampments. >> the california dream is in danger. this session on top of "cap & trade," on top of transportation and traffic mitigation, you stepped up and did something that is a brave step for this entire state. >> reporter: there's a total of 15 bills increasing the supply of affordable housing, among them three stand out with the biggest impact, including one would put a measure on the ballot asking voters to decide on a $4 billion affordable housing bond. a second bill there would be a $75 fee on real estate transactions documents and that alone is expected to bring in about $250 million for a housing program across the state. other bills will cut some of the red tape to help speed up affordable housing construction. now, these speakers admit this is not going to be the end of the story here, not going to take care of the problem. there is still a housing shortage even with these bills.
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now, it's expected these bills will increase affordable housing by some 90,000 units. still, there's a 1.5 million housing unit shortfall. reporting live in san francisco, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. in the south bay police are investigating after a man was shot to death in his san jose apartment. it happened around 8 p.m. last night on the 300 block of elon village lane north of montague expressway. kp 5 j'skiace wa rd this apartment ay that village is in a quiet part of san jose near several big tech companies. >> it seems very safe here. i guess anything can happen anywhere. but it is a very safe community that wlie in. the homicide and wanted to stay anonymous. she heard a gunshot lying in
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bed. >> super scary. >> reporter: around 8:40 last ce came to this apartment and found a niman ghl a gunshot wound. they took him to the hospital e information about the victim isn't being released heere di until the santa clara county coroner's office has confirmed the identity and the next of kin are contacted. police haven't identified motive or any information about possible suspects. in san jose, jackie ward, kpix 5. firefighters arrived to this home in redwood city overnight to find it engulfed in flames. you can see fire just shooting from the windows of the home on crompton road. no one was hurt but crews stayed on scene for hours to keep an eye on hot spots. no word yet on the cause. new details in a series of rockslides at yosemite national park. kpix 5's anne makovec is here with the latest on access to the park. anne? >> reporter: yosemite is back open today after another massive rock fall yesterday. this all comes at the peak of climbing season for el capitan.
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>> i felt the ground vibrating underneath me. it went across the road. >> reporter: one of dozens of people climbing el capitan on thursday caught this video on his helmet camera, a view from above the second massive rockslide in two days. >> looks like smoke. but that again is dust. >> reporter: hundreds of tons of granite plummeted thousands of feet and even larger rock falls than the deadly one on wednesday. video captured from inside yosemite national park showed dust in the air. >> all of a sudden we heard sounded like thunder. >> reporter: her husband was injured after so mellinrock crashed through the sunroof of their suv. >> it shattered and the dust just poured in. >> glass was flying from the sunroof. >> and so we were trying to outrun it. it was like go, let's go! and at the same time, my husband reached up and he was, like, oh, head, my head.
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because it was bleeding profusely and hurting. >> reporter: he was flown by helicopter out of the park to a nearby hospital. he is expected to be okay. the rock slid off the southeastern face of el capitan, a popular spot for climbers, and into the valley below. >> the rockslide went all the way down to the road. >> reporter: and we now know the identity of the man who was killed by the first rock fall on wednesday. 32-year-old andrew foster of wales. his wife is in the hospital today. ssibthpo rocks e same place so were destabilized from the event that happened yesterday. >> reporter: geologists say that break could have been caused by the heating and cooling of the granite as the temperatures dipped, the rock becomes more brittle. the last time someone was killed by a falling rock in yosemite was 2013. kenny? >> thank you. millio of people in puerto rico are pleading for help nine days after hurricane maria flattened the island. the power is still out in most areas, and there's still no running water on the island.
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entire towns cut off by fallen trees and washed out roads making it nearly impossible to get victims everyday essentials. fema says it has delivered thousands of gallons of drinking water and more than a million meals. but that's barely making a dent in the situation. >> do you need more help? >> of course i do. i need more help. >> a response to an incident like this is complex. it's difficult. and it is not neay as fast as any of us want. >> some puerto ricans have been getting on cruise ships going to the u.s. mainland. many say they will never go back. acting homeland security secretary elaine duke is in puerto rico today to help coordinate the federal government's response and as weijia jang reports, president trump is defending the relief efforts as critics take aim. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: speaking in washington, president trump detailed the federal response to the disaster in puerto rico before delivering a message to residents on the island.
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>> we want them to be safe and sound and secure and we will be there every day until that happens. >> reporter: thousands of service members including the puerto rican national guard have been leading efforts to bring food, fuel and supplies to the hurricane-ravaged island. they include marines and sailors from the uss kearsarge who have set up a high-tech operation center there. >> we have been able to find the critical infrastructure, find the place where we can save the most lives if necessary. >> reporter: another ship is on the way to puerto rico to assist areas where medical facilities are crippled. the vessel has more than 850 service members and 70 civil service mariners on board. it's traveling with 5,000 units of blood, four x-ray machines, a dental suite, a pharmacy and a physical therapy center. >> we'll go out there and hit the ground running or hit the deck plates running as we say in the navy and we'll keep moving until somebody tells us
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that we're no longer needed. >> reporter: despite those efforts, president trump is facing criticism for what some claim is the government's slow response to the u.s. commonwealth. but the trump administration says the problem really lies in getting supplies from the port to the people. on thursday, president trump waived the jones act in puerto rico to help ship goods to those affect. he will visit the island next week. weijia jang, cbs news, the white house. a supermarket security breach. coming up, which customers may have been exposed. >> spacex's ceo elon musk unveils a rocket that would revolutionize travel to mars and here on earth. i'm nickie batiste in new york. i'll have details coming up. >> from the kpix weather center, on this friday the fog has returned and it will have a direct impact on your weekend. the forecast as the news continues. don't go away. we'll be right back. !
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colonize mars! musk was in australia... showing off his vision for a commuity on the red planet. his elon musk unveiled plans this morning to colonize mars. he was in australia showing off his vision for a community on the red planet. his company spacex plans to send two cargo rockets there in 2022 to find water and start setting up infrastructure. musk believes that he will pull off the first manned mission to mars in the future. >> i can't think of anything more exciting than being among the stars. >> musk also unveiled the big falcon rocket designed to take people to mars. he says it will also be able to transport people all over earth. musk says that the trip from
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los angeles to london would take just 32 minutes. whole foods is investigating a security breach that may have exposed customers' credit card information. the supermarket chain says only its in-store restaurants and taprooms were affected. its primary store checkout system was not compromised. >> shares of roku soaring this midday. the company from los gatos started trading publicly yesterday at $14 a share and at one point the price hit almost $30 a share. experts say that roku could earn more than $1 billion in market capital in just two days! taking a look at the rest of wall street and how the financial markets are doing, the dow is down slightly down about a point and a half. ikea says it is trying to make customers' lives a little easier. the swedish furniture giant just bought san francisco startup cast grab it which lets users to hire people and assemble furniture and do other chores like housecleaning. >> that would be nice.
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time for a check of the forecast with the one and only roberta gonzales. >> over mount vaca, the bases are roughly about 6500 feet. they can gather to 23,000 feet. those are what we call mid- level clouds or also stratus clouds and it usually consists of ice crystals and also water drops. we have had appear offshore condition so the atmosphere is dry. here's another view of the golden gate bridge this time around. those clouds are associated with the fog that did develop overnight and pushed into the bay. 66 in santa rosa. 70 livermore. oakland now sporting 63 degrees. i just love me some weather watchers. dana in novato 71 degrees. charlie in vallejo 68. robert a fine looking day in redwood city. going to miss you, too,
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robert. in daly city. jonathan our youngest weather watcher 65 degrees. 16-mile-per-hour winds now at sfo. westerly at 14 in san francisco. west winds means an onshore push. west-southwest winds in san ramon and lower relative humidity. napa 9-mile-per-hour winds. satellite-radar shows some clouds streaming overhead. these clouds are all associated with that right there. that's the core of the center of low pressure. that's the front that has precipitation well to the north of the bay area. but again, once it bangs up against the ridge of high pressure, and the drier air mass it evaporates. virga. 85 sacramento today. 60s in the high sierra. overnight lows around 31 degrees overnight. we have temperatures in the 60s, 70s and 80s today. we have cooler conditions with the passage of this front on saturday. then on sunday, we rebound under the influence of high
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pressure a stagnant weather pattern very autumn-like monday through thursday. >> good-looking weekend. >> we'll take it. still ahead, a look at a crime drama premiering this weekend from the actor's perspective and what's cool about your school? email your nomination to us at coolschools@kpix.com, and we may feature your school on the thursday morning show.
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he also recruits the original detective who investigated the a drama debuts on sunday. a crowdsourcing app is used to search for his daughter's killer and recruits another investigator for police work. >> evidence that leads me to believe. >> they incarcerated the wrong man. >> and whoever did this to my daughter is still out there and i believe that more evidence would emerge if a platform existed for it to be brought forward. and that is why i have created that platform. i call it sophie. >> you think this is going to work? >> i know it will. >> i had a chance to speak with the two stars of the show. jeremy piven and richard jones. >> it's a crime drama, can you tell me what it's about? >> there is a lot of wisdom in a crowd. and then it's about the premise being extracting all of that wisdom 90% of it is unusable, 10% of it you can really use.
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>> it's about bridging the gaps of old school and new school. he is teaching me the new ways. i'm trying to instill in him the old, um, perfected ways of the police department. >> you can watch wisdom of the crowd sunday night at 8:00 right here on kpix 5. and a quick reminder now, if you have a problem: you could save energy
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a career in the news business spanning three decades... and 21 years here... roberta gonzales is starting a new adventure. today is her today is a bittersweet day for us. after three decades in the news and 21 years here at kpix 5, roberta gonzales is starting a new adventure. so that means today is her last day with us. but we're going to see her around every now and then. here is a look back at some of her time here at kpix 5. >> tomorrow another storm is expected to spread throughout the entire coast of california. >> it's raining, it's pouring. your umbrella has been snoring. ♪[ music ] >> here's roberta gonzales from kpix 5 in san francisco with our first check of the weather. >> good morning. it's such a pleasure to be here today and as we look at the contiguous 48 states it's what you don't see that's most notable. >> boy, oh, boy has it been a day in the city of san francisco. >> roberta gonzales has just hit a golf shot!
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>> look who is out here! hook who is on the bandwagon. >> is this bandwagon? >> roberta! [ screaming ] >> good morning, roberta gonzales live at the alameda county fair on the bungee flung about 130 feet high and it's a beautiful view from up here. >> sharkey the best mascot in the world. >> just moments ago i rappelled 38 stories down the grand hyatt hotel. >> you can progress very quickly. ♪[ music ] >> it's where all this water continues to gather here on the beach or it's because of the very high surf. we are going to continue to show you where it is raining
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and let me tell you when it rains, it pours. >> are you serious? >> it's blue. [ laughter ] >> love that. >> roberta, we're going to miss you so much. >> such an active storyteller. >> thank you. i'm going to miss you guys. i was telling people a moment ago it's been a true pleasure and privilege to work for kpix 5 for the last 21 years. i worked a couple of other years in san jose so together 23 years here in the bay area. my number one priority was to get the forecast right. but also, um, to serve my community and i hope i have done that diligently for all of you and i will continue to serve. you know, my mom always told me i would never be the world's best meteorologist but i could be a great humanitarian. so that's always been my aim. as of monday i'm starting a second chapter in my live and
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that's roberta gonzales productions and travel-/ travel- /entertainment show which means i get to to have breakfast at home with my sons. >> here they are. >> on behalf of all of you, here they are -- >> 22 just graduated from university. and randall is 24. also working in the industry. both of them pretty much. and thank you, guys, for being here. i love you. >> congratulations. >> they were born in chicago where i was weather forecasting as well so they have never had me home in the mornings with you. have you. >> no. >> so we are going to get to have some quality time together. >> you're going to make breakfast for mom. >> sure will! >> thank you so much. i really appreciate it. and i appreciate everybody at cbs. you know, one of the best things kpix 5 did for me ever in my life is bring this woman into my life. >> wow. >> it continues on, doesn't it? >> it will. >> and from all of us here at channel 5, we are so blessed to have you and your spirit will be with us and we'll see you on the air. we know that. >> yeah. >> got a lot of work yet to do but thank you. >> that's my aim.
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now, just it's a big dream, it's a big leap of faith is what it is. it's all in god's hands. >> and we know you're going to succeed at whatever you try. we love you so much and we're going to miss your energy around here. but i know we're going to keep in touch. no alarm clocks, honey. >> no! >> no waking up at 2 a.m. how about that! ♪[ music ]
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♪ >> bill: you mean that, don't you? >> steffy: absolutely. as long as i'm around, you got a friend. >> bill: i guess i better keep you around then, huh? >> steffy: i guess. >> bill: i appreciate what you did today. >> steffy: hey, i needed that ride as much as you did. we're helping each other out. you looked pretty slick on that motorcycle, i must say. >> bill: yeah, well... not so bad yourself. motorcycle mama. >> liam: wyatt, don't you want to be a part of this? >> wyatt: what, going up against dad? no. >> liam: no, going with what's right. dad's way of doing things, it's wrong. it's always been wrong, and we sure got used to looking the other way, didn't we? excusing every terrible thing he did or said -- "ah, it's just dad." you know, he didn'me
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