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>> a final option if necessary would be to call in the national guard. we go back to the site of some of the most recent homeless encampment sweeps in oakland. what the neighborhood looks like now. later, one man's journey from farmworker to farm owner in the program that helped him achieve his dreams. good evening. police in antioch are still on the lookout for a person they say shot and killed an 18-year-old friday afternoon. police put up pictures of what they believe is the suspects car, a blue gmc sierra pickup truck with a towel rack and black rims. they are asking anyone with information to come forward. this latest murder is far from an isolated incident. more than a dozen shootings in the city in just the last 18 days. we went up to the neighborhood where it happened to see how neighbors are coping with the surge in violence. >> reporter: rosa lives in the epicenter of the violence-plagued neighborhood,
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antioch. she says she is being worn down by constant gunshots near her home. rosa has lived here for 11 years and says it is not just the shootings, but persistent drug dealing and traffic caused by people looking to score that have made this neighborhood unlivable. for her, her daughter and granddaughter. >> i feel that not enough focus is implemented in this area . >> reporter: the september 2nd murder of elijah scales kicked off a series of shootings. so far, antioch police responded to nearly a dozen shootings this month with eight of them occurring in the last week. a spokesperson says the violence is mostly targeted, not random. >> it's an increase in activity between two gangs that are at odds with each other. >> reporter: the spike in violence is not flying under the radar. antioch police posted a call to action on facebook asking community members to post what they see
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and ramping up police presence in those areas . >> were looking at all options on the table from the district attorney from her state -- safe streets task force to restricting access to the sycamore area and then of course the final option , if necessary, would be to call the national guard. >> reporter: back in her neighborhood, rosa says she can endure for a little longer, but if the violence continues, she will have no choice but to leave for the sake of her family. >> my main thing is our future. the children of today are our future . if this is the example you are giving them, what do you expect them to grow up doing? >> reporter: -- switching over to the south vta, the person shot and killed at one of their work yards last night was an employee. it happened at the sheboygan division railyard on south seventh street. police say by
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the time officers arrived the employee was already dead and while investigators have not released any information on a suspect, they say it appears to be an isolated incident. >> we will have extra security at all of our yards over the weekend just to reassure our employees. while we do believe this is an isolated incident, we want them to feel safe. we want to encourage people to keep taking transit. we don't anticipate any disruptions in service. >> no arrests have been made in additional patrol units have been assigned to the area just in case. this follows a 2021 mass shooting at a nearby vta property where nine people were killed. santa rosa police arrested an arson suspect they say is responsible for four separate fires over the past week including a brush fire that forced a nearby elementary school to shelter in place. investigators say the fires were all started at southwest community park with the latest incident yesterday forcing students and staff at meadow view elementary school to go
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into lockdown due to heavy smoke. officers were able to catch the suspect, 61-year-old james conforti thanks to eyewitness accounts. police say no one was injured and no structures were damaged by the fires. in oakland, crews are working to clear another long-standing encampment. this one was on martin luther king jr. way under interstate 980. this closure comes amid reports of elevated levels of crime in the area including a double homicide earlier this month. or amanda harry explains why everyone is not on board. >> reporter: feelings are mixed about the cleanup in this area. some people think it is more hygienic and safer, while others are concerned about the people who used to live here. there is even a sign above the overpass that says displacement is murder. >> it makes you feel a sense of doubt and helplessness. >> reporter: meant butler does not know how much longer he will be able to live in the place he calls home. he has an
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rv on brush street just a few bucks from west grand avenue and martin luther king jr. way in an area where the city of oakland has created the first phase of closing a long-standing homeless encampment. butler is worried he could be next. >> i could be in displacement somewhere and i don't want to stay around a bunch of people that are disruptive like this. >> reporter: butler is getting by and does not want his life to change, but he may not have a choice. city crews are expected to continue cleaning out the area. they are citing elevated levels of crime including aggravated assaults, burglars, and the double homicide on september 2nd. the city is relocating some people to the community cabin program or the medical respite program. butler says sometimes the programs don't help. >> not really. they promise you a lot but they don't do much. they really don't. >> reporter: so far, 40 tons of large debris have been removed by public works. now, the
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beautification counsel, a nonprofit, is coming in to clean up the rest. hans was out early saturday morning putting on the finishing touches. he expects to be back. >> we have a big problem with garbage right now so our job is just trying to clean it up , but since like every day that we cleanup , there's more garbage on the street. >> reporter: for now, bonnie griffith is grateful the area is cleaner and some fences have been reinforced to prevent people from moving back in. she lives nearby and walks here every day. she says before, temps covered the sidewalks. >> extremely dangerous. it left the pedestrians with no place to walk but the streets. >> reporter: now, she questions the people who are moved are safe. >> but, i'm not happy thinking, where do these people go? where are they going to sleep tonight? >> reporter: butler shares her sentiment and shares for his future. >> it's an inconvenience. [
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inaudible ] >> reporter: city staff posted notices letting people know about the closure a week in advance. they say they are continuing to work with encampment residents to make sure they're getting the services they need to stay off of the streets. >> the city of oakland says out of nearly 40 people living in the encampment area, 16 moved to the cabin program, and nine went into a program to get medical care. warning for drivers, the 580 and 680 connectors in pleasanton will be closed this weekend until early monday morning, as well as south bound 680 between alcosta boulevard and san ramon. also, the express lane and left shoulder of northbound 680 between amador valley boulevard and
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acosta boulevard will be closed for repairs. two more closures are scheduled for early october and drivers are asked to use alternate routes to avoid traffic congestion in the area. today, caltrain said goodbye to their old diesel-powered trains and welcomed their new fully electric fleet. local leaders say the new trains are good for the environment and for commuters. >> they're moving faster. you don't hear any engines anymore. it's electrified. it's electrified. that is why today is i think really an electrifying day. >> the new fleet of trains also includes wi-fi throughout the passenger seating area, and changing tables for parents with infants. we have some fast facts about the electric trains and what the changes mean for your commute. >> reporter: on saturday, caltrain officially ushered in a new era by launching fully electric service between san francisco and san jose. this was the culmination of a $2.4
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billion project that broke ground in 2017 that spokesperson dan lieberman says it is generational change. >> this is a vastly improved railroad. this has trains that are so much better, so much nicer. >> reporter: caltrain now has a fleet of 37 electrified trains. our new expresses being able to travel from san francisco to san jose in under an hour. that is practically miraculous. >> reporter: caltrain now plans to run trains more frequently, as well. during peak hours, 16 stations will receive trains every 15 to 20 minutes. that said, if you regularly commute on caltrain, some tri numbers are changing, so make sure you plan ahead before heading to the station monday morning.
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with fully electrified service, the move will also help caltrain meet its climate action goals. professor of environmental engineering and environmental health sciences at uc berkeley says -- >> for future generations is going to be important in terms of reducing emissions and climate. we are looking at a corridor that is been in use for 160 years. when we are talking about any sort of improvement like electrification, that is not just an improvement for today. that is an improvement for today, tomorrow, next year, next decade, next century and that is the sort of work we have done here. still had tonight at 11:00, tens of thousands of people showed up on california's beaches today. how much trash they were able to haul away. we meet a farmworker turned farm owner and the program working to help more people plant, nurture and growth their own version of the american dream. you only have 6.5 hours left of summer. astronomical summer is coming to an end tomorrow before sunrise. however, the weather did not really get the message. we are going to look at the long-range forecast here. i will show you how the temperatures are going
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an innovative program in salinas valley called the agricultural land based training association, it is helping farmworkers become farm owners. the programs roots trace back to the 1960s and president lyndon b. johnson's war on poverty. since then it has evolved into a publicly and privately funded organically farm incubator with classrooms, equipment and acres of prime land to lease to farmworkers who dream of something bigger. >> as you probably know, farmworkers are aging out in california and across the country and we need new folks to fill their boots. in our experience, farmworkers are a great pool of talent to do that. >> i see my future and i one day make the land [ inaudible ] starting my small business, be in my own owner. >> farmers must exit the alba program after five years and make their new farms work on
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their own. young group of volunteers out today in berkeley picking up trash washed up on the seashore. for the 40th anniversary of california's coastal cleanup. similar scenes at ocean beach in san francisco, about 200 people there showed up to help clean up the shoreline. organizers and volunteers around the bay say it is a small act, but it can have big results in keeping california's beauty alive for generations to come. >> reporter: why do you want to do this? >> because it is fun and i love the earth and apparently we are going to be the generation that is supposedly going to have to save the earth so yeah, i have to do my part. >> reporter: hopefully getting people to keep building that habit to keep coming out because the trash and litter
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keeps coming back but as long as we keep coming back we can prevent a lot of it from polluting the environment. >> according to the coastal commission, more than 28,000 volunteers collected 127 tons of trash and recyclable materials from the coastline. darren peck joins me now and we saw a shot of san francisco before entering the segment and it looked cloudy and foggy. it is coming in. in that way, we are still kind of doing the summer thing. the marine layer comes in but as we have been seeing, fall is starting in 6 1/2 hours. we are going to do a transition, just not yet, and the real headline in this forecast is actually, believe it or not, the warm-up back to near 100 degrees to start this coming week. that is monday. let's first go in order. here come sunday and the first thing we're going to look at is what andrea was just talking about. you saw the marine layer hanging out today through the morning and the afternoon . tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m., this is how widespread it's going to be.
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it is doing it again. the fog is perfectly outlining the contours of the bay itself, so everybody wakes up tomorrow and you get gray skies than it is going to melt back, like it always does, and we will take it from its greatest extent at 7:00 a.m. and watch it melt away and by the time we get to 11:00 in the morning it is gone all the way back to the coast hanging out on the west side of the city like it did today. we might have a few scraps of remnants hanging out through the middle of the bay. let's put the daytime highs on that. here is sunday. four or five degrees warmer than you are today. this is a subtle increase to get numbers back up to the 90 degree range, the low 90s for inland, east bay communities. san jose will be in the upper 80s. we transition and say goodbye to the fog and lose the daytime highs for tomorrow because we have to make way for the main event, which is the monday forecast. we will pick out some of the
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representative spots here and now you're right on the verge of 100. some of the inland valley back here will get to 100. clayton, concord, you could do it. livermore. it's going to be close. pleasanton, you could do it. san jose, you're going to be in the mid 90s. this is the time of year for average daytime highs are falling and you should be in the mid-80s. this is 10 degrees above average tomorrow, so with numbers that far above average, we do start seeing the national weather service messaging some moderate degree of heat -related health impacts on monday. the good news is, it is not going to last long. we start out by taking a look at our inland microclimate first, and we have already discussed the trouble spot. tuesday it is a little better, but all we have done on tuesday is start the trend. it is cooling. then you go back down to average. at least for most of the seven-day forecast after that. there might be a little bump on friday but when we look at the seven-day forecast for the bay, daytime highs here go down to
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the city hall insiders have a formula: grow the system, exploit the system. take mark farrell's record. after receiving the largest ethics fine in city history for breaking campaign laws. mark authorized a commission almost every year he was in office. he was even caught taking donations from people he would then appoint to commissions, including a felon convicted of bribery. san francisco's challenges demand urgency, not more of the same failed insiders.
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500 and pick up their first divisional win of the year. earlier this week we knew they would be without mccaffrey and samuel but on saturday, more bad news hit the offense. george kittle officially out for tomorrow's game with a hamstring injury takes another brock purdy weapon off the field then nick bozo and her various word or questionable. this is a golden opportunity for brock purdy to show off what kind of quarterback he is without all those weapons and it is worth mentioning, the rams are going to be without their two wide receivers. there is good news for the niners. they get an opera back in the secondary for the first time this season making his return after tearing his acl last year and half is excited to prove what he still has. >> am super excited, super blessed first and foremost i praise god get me back on the field. got a great team and sport. that is really help me
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through a lot of this process. >> something we've been waiting on for a long time. we've been hearing a lot how it would look with us two together back there and so far it's going to be exciting to see. >> should be a great game. 1:25 kickoff. giants in kansas city up 1-0 in the fourth. lamont wade junior homered early in the game, gets a hold of another one for eight two-run lead. in the sixth chapman signed his extension earlier this year giving giants fans a reason to be excited about the future. giants won 9-0 looking to sleep tomorrow. a's hosting the yankees. skip ahead to the seventh inning yankee is already with a healthy lead then aaron judge adds a cushion. 425 deep shot to center field puts new york up 7-0. they won 10-0. the a's will look to avoid the sweep on sunday. in soccer hosting st. louis
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city soccer club, a st. louis penalty kick didn't help. the visitors have a 2-0 lead. st. louis wins 2-1. start coming up on the other side, cal football opened acc play on the road and the bears had a tough task facing the defending conference champs. we will show you how cal fared against their new conference rivals.
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here is something i did not have on my bingo card. an online group known as cal twitter has taken over the college football side of the social media twitter. bears opened 3-0 facing florida state. conditions were perfect for the algorithm to pick up traction. bears got a healthy jada not back in this one. first quarter , quarterback
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scanning the field but is picked off by myles williams. 10th interception of the year for cal. bears responded with a field goal. fourth quarter, they go deep. douglas makes the grab and the end zone to get the lead back. cal fought back final drive facing fourth and long. mendoza connects for just enough to move the chains, keeps the bears alive but a few plays later another fourth among them this time the signals get mendoza in the backfield. fsu goes on to win 14-9 in the first loss of the year for cal. they will have a bye week before hosting miami back here in the bay. late last night san jose state hoping to keep up their hot start to the season as they take on washington state cougars. trailing late in the fourth, emmett brown looking for his man. they take a three-point lead. you want to
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hurry up and in this game but a 52 yarder is good. we are all tied up. this game made it to second overtime. the spartans needed a miracle and they found it in nick nash , bring some within two. they had to get the two-point conversion in double overtime. brown had pressure and no dice. 54-52, one heck of an effort. said week because this is the final one at the coliseum for the letter a's. >> so hard to believe. >> it stinks. they are off monday. bruce pucci will actually bid farewell to the coliseum. a lot of great games i'm sure he played there is a member of the giants. >> it is weird.
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the city hall insiders have a formula: grow the system, exploit the system. take mark farrell's record. after receiving the largest ethics fine in city history for breaking campaign laws. mark authorized a commission almost every year he was in office. he was even caught taking donations from people he would then appoint to commissions, including a felon convicted of bribery. san francisco's challenges demand urgency, not more of the same failed insiders.
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the city of san francisco joint missions around the world in celebrating an international day of pete's. -- peace. it highlights global conflict resolution and cooperation. organizers at the event tell us the messages pieces needed now more than ever. >> there is a lot of pain and grief and anguish and i think the one thing we can always [ inaudible ] when all else fails is hope. >> the u.n. says today marks a time when people must observe cease-fires, lay down their weapons and see others' humanity. it is a good message every day of the year.
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dr. charles: and the son of god, jesus the lord, said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life. no one comes to the father but by me. therefore, go into all the world, teaching and preaching the gospel to every single person, at the remotest parts of the earth." male announcer: in touch, the teaching ministry of dr. charles stanley. next on "in touch," "why we lose our peace."
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