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joins us live to talk about the issues facing his city. plus, it was cold enough for a lot of us to see snow atop some bay area peaks, look at that. a recap of the 49ers block party against tom brady and the buccs, get out everybody, it's nice to have you with us on a monday night, san jose will have a new mayor come january, but the current mayor has a couple of weeks left in his final term, so we are happy to be joined now my life, with the bay area's most populous city since 2015, nice to have you with us here on kpix 5. we are your community station, one of the big headlines over the last couple of weeks has been getting two city council people appointed, you are not a huge fan event, tell us why. >> we believe in elections in this country, given the fact that elections have been under assault, certainly throughout the nation since january 6th, we have seen the extreme examples, our institutions need to stand for the principal that

elections matter, we have 200,000 people in our city in those districts that are not going to be able to elect the council member who will represent them for the next two years. i think that's a shame, and i'd like to do whatever we can to go back to the notion that we allow people to choose their elected representatives, not having politicians choose for them. >> someone said may not actually be on his side on many issues, looking forward, how is that going to happen? >> i think he's a very bright guy and he's very collaborative, because what he is focused on is what everybody cares most about, it's around homelessness, it's around crime and safety, and there's going to be a lot of support for pragmatic, common sense solutions that he's going to bring to the city. i support him because i know he's capable of overcoming an awful lot of antagonism that exists in politics, he got elected, nine council members supported the

other candidate. >> let's talk about safety because it's top of mind in san jose, so many people killed because of pedestrian accidents on your roads, it's been something of a huge problem, it's too dark rye live, right here in my neighborhood level we need streetlights and we need to light up the streets so people are killed, and the word of maria marcello killed not long ago leading a prayer procession on the streets, what is the solution for safety? >> there need to be a lot of solutions, talking to neighbors at maria's memorial, just a couple days ago, we have invested now to replace streetlights, for example, 60,000 of them with brighter l.e.d. lights that will help improve safety in many of our neighborhoods, we've been pushing hard on the state legislature to give us the ability, like they haven't 14 other states in this country to be able to implement automated speed enforcement, we know we have a thinly staffed police department although we've added

200 officers, we need more officers but even if we had three times the number of officers, technology will enable us to get two more locations where we can regulate the speeds, because we know speed is the primary determinant in many of these deaths, we've got to be able to slow folks down. we want to do what other cities can do in other states, and i'm hopeful that the legislature this year will hear a call. >> with so many people grieving the loss of their loved ones, people are behind that as well, let's talk about housing, you've been a proponent of getting housing that's where you live, will that be one of the hallmarks achievements as you leave office? >> bluntly this is an area where none of us in the bay area have succeeded, so i certainly, i'm not going to start celebrating, the good news is we've seen a lot of good progress securely in this agreement we have that's going to enable us to build tens of thousands of new homes, along the transit corridor, places where legal prohibitions prevented us from building

over the last decade, so we are going to have to think disparately about how we build particularly for addressing homelessness, more squarely, in a bay area where it cost $800,000 per unit to build a typical apartment building it takes five or six years, we need more nubel solution and and we've been piloting those through the pandemic, with prefabricated housing that we can build in months rather than years at a fraction of the cost, we need those noble solutions to scale. >> what is affordable housing and what's the metric for what you consider affordable housing? >> it's based on the income of the person, what they can afford, we have programs that focus on ensuring nobody is paying for more than a third of their income on rent, and we know the reality is we still have thousands of on house residence, they can't pay anything at all. the solution needs to be essentially a government solution, there's not going to be a market solution for someone who cannot pay rent.

>> the housing problem a huge problem where you live, where you been a leader, we understand that federal dollars were at risk if the homeless encampment hadn't been cleared, where did those people go, and what as you leave office needs to happen? what mayor elect needs to have on his plate to curb the homeless problem for you? >> i'm proud of the way our team responded to get more than 180 residence living housed, many refused the housing we did the best we could, some cases they didn't want to let go, for example of an rv they might have owned or a car, and we were paying folks to let go of their rvs, hundreds of dollars. these are intractable challenges that we have in the bay area where we simply don't have enough housing that's accessible, in many cases to residents who are working and are still on housed. we need the kinds of solutions that get us off of the standard let's wait five or six years for an apartment building to get built. we started innovating around converting motels to

housing, in 2015, 2016, we saw it was successful and now it's gone statewide. we need those kinds of solutions to scale, it's going to take more resources and going to require all of us vividly about how we build housing. >> had a conversation with somebody who is on housed in your area and they said here on the ground they can talk about getting us into housing, talk about getting us into these motels, but the process is horrifically not streamlined. tell us about streamlining the process so somebody doesn't have to get on the list and wait to get on the list and then wait for somebody to reach out when they are on a tracfone they may lose that phone number. it's really difficult on the ground. >> it's brutally hard because of state and federal rules, we have essentially a list that is countywide, that provides priority and there are important reasons for that, we know they want to prioritize those residents who are most acute need, typically because of physical or mental health

challenges, at the same time we know there's unique challenges where we want to get people who are on housed because there may be another issue. what we've done as a city is investing city dollars, if we are only using city dollars we are bound by the same restrictions of county and state and so forth, and we are able to select residence in our community and our neighborhood and accelerate the rehousing, a fourth just got built, we are scaling that solution now, with the council we have now, got underdevelopment of thousands of these quick build units, this will be the solution that they will transitional housing, many more people off the street. >> how do we bring people in real u ou see in rlsomerite see elected officials, paul pelosi attacked in his own home, how do we dial down the

boiling point that we are at? how do we get the message out, it's time for all of us to come together and find community where these issues are concerned? is that possible? >> i think it is in our local communities can provide the best example when we think about the toughest of times to the pandemic after the flood when i saw thousands of people coming out to help their neighbors in need, what we know is that we face a lot of common threats, we think about climate change, poverty all the challenges urban communities face, we can bring people together when we focus on how we can solve these problems in the future. i like to believe we've demonstrated some of that in san jose when i came into office everybody was fighting pension reform, the great recession, we had more than 1000 employees, what we've been able to do is focus our residence on a future that's more promising, then trying to win the battles of the past, whether it's investing in first-generation students to ensure that they can have a pathway of college or protecting ou acres

in coyote valley for future generations when people are talking about the future, it does bring us together and that's what we've got to focus on. >> you want to break any news about your future? i tried to get you before we start of the segment, what are you doing? >> i'm trying to focus on sprinting through the tape, we've got more work to do in the last two weeks, so in a few weeks i'll figure out my future. and hopefully get a job and work for a living. >> you heard it here, he's applying for a job near you. thank you so much, for talking to us today, we appreciate it very much. still ahead, a bay area city could finally make a new mayor today after being without one for more than a week. how city council drama is causing a little bit of a holdup. plus power generation company is pumping energy into our food for bay area families who drive for our community, when we come back. >> now that we are done with the rain, we will look ahead to

welcome back, tonight san mateo can finally name a new mayor, the city has been without one for more than a week thanks to drum on the city council, that counsel was supposed to elect amarin's lead to the post last week, for nearly 130 years the council has operated under a rotational system that selects the most senior member as mayor, but two brand-new city councilmember blocked the nomination upon their swearing-in, so, lee

doesn't want to speculate on the next move or motive. >> i believe that we are in unchartered and dangerous territory. and i absolutely believe that this is sowing seedof divi and strife, that will take years to repair. >> as soon as we get that fifth member we will select the mayor and the deputy mayor. i don't see this as an embarrassment at all. >> the council meets tonight at 6:00, they plan to select the sixth councilmember, then the mayor, if they can agree on who the fifth councilmember will be will be there. we want to thank you because our food for bay area families drive has been filled with locally sourced love and help and volunteerism. food bank of contra costa and solano has been making ends meet for families across the east bay. they serve more than 3 million meals every month, and i was

there when they got a hefty donation from america's largest generator of electricity from natural gas. >> your community is so much fun as we watch these bins get stopped at contra costa and solano food bank, it's a beautil day, and is beautiful in part because it is supercharged, superpowered by this gentleman who has something very good, what, why are you here? >> this is a check for $15,000 that kal pine will be donating to the food bank. we have power plants across the u.s., several of them in california, as far as we have a couple of plans there, we try to partner with our community to help any way we can, so one of the employees at one of my powerplants, the other is delta energy center, one of the employees wanted to kick off a food drive, so, he

started going, and said let's just help them out. so this is where the $15,000 came from. >> from one idea. we have joel here, the ceo at the food bank, pretty amazing to hear that one person stepped forward and made his $15,000 check happen. >> they have been a great supporter of our food bank since 2011, and this generous donation will go a long way in helping us serve our community. we know that we are, due to covid and inflation, we are still serving more than 100,000 clients every month and we were there before the pandemic, and we had a problem then. this will go a long way in serving our community and i think you. >> one person is all it takes, what idea to step forward if you like to be that one person in your community go to our website,. >> on the morning drive off to a slow start in lafayette were

a large tree fell across a portion of pleasant hill road, not so pleasant there, thankfully nobody got hurt but it took cruz a few hours to cut it up and reopen the road, then we were down in morgan hill, beneath the animal rescue, they got cleaning up to do, look at that. wind took down the structures on the property, devon feel he is headed there now, you can look for his report tonight at 5:00, and it wasn't rain and wind the bay area pi up snow, the observatory had to shut because the roads were icy up to urries vermore lls and santa cruz mountains. so, here to answer all of it is darren peck in the bay area, goodness. >> it got cold enough for snow to get under, and a lot of those have peaks around the bay area, just enough higher than that. santa claus is doing his job. >> even better we are sitting at 300% of average for this point in the year for the sierra, we will talk more about that in the newscast, let's

talk about what rain was like, where the majority of us live, san jose had an inch of rain over the last several days, four inches, san francisco picked up an inch and a quarter, and if we look at the state as a whole and colorcode the map, for the last three days, this is the storm in its entirety, look at the key up here, into those shades of red and white in the sierra, the equivalent of eight inches fell, that came as snow in the home, when you look at the totals you can see a lot of yellow on here showing you many places at three inches and 5 to 6 inches the santa cruz mountains really got hit the hardest, with the biggest rainfall totals, but we are done now if we take a look at first alert doppler live, there is still flurries falling, east of the sierra, towards reno and western nevada, if we put this in the future cast and watch what happens next, nothing. we are in the clear, not only for now but for the next few days, the storm is t theranit won't be able to get here. the

rest of the seven day forecast there is no rain. so what the focus is going to be, especially tomorrow, is how cold we are going to get. now that the storm is gone it left all the colder behind, and with clear skies tonight it's going to get cold, there is a freeze warning here, for the north bay valley and this goes from 1:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. tuesday, if we do the comparison on here, the morning lows, 28% arose it will be mid 30s everywhere else. you can see how the north bay valley's really get hit with this in a more significant way, it'll be cold for everybody tomorrow, but technically, you are below freezing for several hours in the north bay tomorrow morning. it's a bigger deal, there. daytime highs were chilly, low to mid 50s tomorrow, as we look across the seven day forecast, i'm going to show you six lines for 6 different microclimates, and this is the kind of scenario where there is no difference between any of

them. that's what tends to happen around here in the winter. we get the big microclimates spread in the summer but when you are on the back edge of a winter storm like this, it's like the equalizer. so here is your take away, no matter which one of these climates you are in, low to mid 50s every day for the next seven days, a few clouds out of the storm track for now, and that freeze morning for the valley tomorrow morning. back to you. >> thank you so much, when we come back the red and gold report, as they say a pretty good win for the 49ers yesterday, vern glenn shows you how her rookie quarterback outplayed none other than tom brady. and you can watch us anytime, anywhere on our streaming service, cbs news bay area, catch our live newscasts plus news and weather updates througho ccaneers and our vern

picks it up from here. >> this is the red and gold report. >> raise your hand if you had brought pretty outplaying tom brady on sunday. put it down,

tell the truth. 49ers rolled through their sixth straight win and spoiled brady's return to the bay area, and purdy stole the show, from homecoming to the bay area, the 49er rookie threw for 185 yards and two touchdowns, and no interceptions. he had his career rushing touchdown and became the first quarterback to ever beat brady and his career first start. >> it was surreal, tom brady talking to guys, and dabbing guys up and stuff, to him for have respect for what i did today was pretty cool, not going to lie. being a little kid watching that guy kill it throughout all these years, win super bowls and to be able to give him a high five or whatever at the end, that was pretty cool. >> he understands his role, he understands the job that he needs to do, he doesn't need to be superman. today he looked like superman at times which is better for us, but he has to be

himself and himself is proving to be pretty good. >> now the bad news. depot samuel left the game with an ankle injury, it's not broken, high ankle sprain that could sideline him until the playoffs. with the red and gold report, i'm vern glenn. >> thanks, now it's your chance to recognize your favorite 49ers super fan, get yourself on out, scan the qr code, nominate members of the faithful and all season long we highlight these super fans, it's lots of fun. >> it was a red avalanche in maine over the weekend, we will tell you why the santas to the slopes. >> coming up on the cbs evening news, how could a social media app featuring dance moves and food recipes the unnatural security threat? we will go in-depth with what tick-tock does with your data. that's tonight, on the cbs evening news.

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fake accounts. coming up at 5:00 we've shown you plenty of snow in the bay area but we will take you up into the sierra to see how they are digging out after getting covered with several feet of fresh powder. we have that story and more with liz cook and ryan yamamoto coming up at 5:00. before we leave you we have to have you check this out, in new remain hundreds of santas took to the slopes yesterday in a benefit for charity. skiers had to wear a full santas who do participate but it looks like at least one grinch was able to sneak into the mix. can you spot the grinch? the event happened at the river resort according to the portland press raised more than $7000 for local charities, like spotting waldo. and fun to see the snow, it's really much needed snow, and much-needed water. >> and these are after aspects to it, now would be a good day. you can get up there. the real aspect is what it's done for our water storage and we will be looking at that in more

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