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voice their opinion. ktvu is at city hall tonight. sounds like it's going to be a long night there. >> yeah, absolutely. frank and i were about the line to get into the meeting. the line to get in stretched out the door, down the hall, and around the corner. obviously a lot of people wanted to weigh in on this important issue. also generating a lot of heated emotions. >> against putting a moratorium on the mission district. >> at a rally opposed to a 45 day building ban, supporters of the moratorium couldn't keep their opinions to themselves. >> i don't see a mission. this is the face of the mission. >> supporters of the moratorium say long time mission residents are being forced out by sky high rent and that building new luxury housing is just building more housing that's out of their reach. rafael says he grew up in the mission and the housing issues literally hit home for him. >> i work for the city. i don't want to see this going on. i can't live in the city because the rents are so high.
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i can't afford $4,000. i have to make over $100,000 to live in the city. >> opponents of the building ban stay stopping construction on new housing makes no sense. so from the san francisco bay area renter's federation say more units mean more inventory, which will lower prices. lower prices means more people can stay in the mission. >> as long as the shortage is going on, the most as a vulnerable of us, new home buyers are going to be put out. >> opponents of the moratorium say it would delay 1100 units from coming on to the market. more than 200 are set to be below market rate units. most importantly, they say it would do nothing to protect residents of the mission. >> this is not an antieviction policy. nobody going through an eviction is going to get a lawyer because the moratorium passes. this is a land grab. >> supporters of the temporary building ban say the idea that more housing will lower prices doesn't work in the real world. >> they are doing that now.
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they are building. half the condos replace the giant in the mission. that is not affordable housing for the people of the mission. that's obvious. >> i had a chance to speak with a couple supervisors before the meeting. they are settling in for a marathon session. they are expected to listen to six to seven hours of public comment before they vote tonight. >> christian, i'm curious, what good does a 45 day moratorium do? after the 45 days is up, aren't we right back where we started? >> yeah, supporters are hoping that this 45 day moratorium will get them a chance to start to work on a more comprehensive strategy for making more affordable housing in the city. and opponents to it are concerned about the exact same thing. they say they are worried this 45 day moratorium will actually stretch longer in 45 days and spread to other parts of the city that can stall construction throughout the city. >> christian, thank you. authorities in boston shot and killed a man they say had been under 24 hour a day
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surveillance by the joint terrorism task force. the man came at officers with a nighttime rob our rob roth is live. rob. >> reporter: we're outside the mosque in oakland and the alarm is the older brother of the man boston police shot to death has a different version of the shooting than police. >> the fbi in boston says terrorism investigators were closely watching usama. >> authorities say members of the joint terrorism task force approached him this morning about quote, terrorist related information but wouldn't say what it was about. >> it was enough information that we thought it it was appropriate to question him about his doings today and that's when, so i'm provoked. he came out with a knife. >> this military style knife, they say when he wouldn't put to down, authorities shot him to death. but the imam of the mosque paints a different version. on facebook, imam posted his
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brother was waiting for a bus to go to work, quote, he was on his cell phone with my dear father during the confrontation. his last words to my father who heard the shots were, i can't breathe. outside the mosque, one member said he doesn't believe the imam's family is tied to terrorism or terrorist groups. the imam moved here last november. >> i would be absolutely shocked if he was connected with any terrorist activity because as i mentioned, you know, the imam is -- a spouse's love and caring for one another. >> at the council in santa clara, there's concern over still another police shooting of a person of color. and that being under surveillance is not evidence of any wrong doing. >> many innocent people are surveilled by law enforcement on a regular basis. problematically, i would say, and so i wouldn't read anything into the fact he was under
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surveillance. >> the fbi says there is no threat to public safety. gasia. >> rob in oakland, thank you tonight. new figures show water use fell in april by 13%. the state water board says those numbers are for residential and business customers. people here in the bay area conserve 20%. san diego and los angeles cut water use by 9%. april numbers likely the result of renewed efforts in march to cut water use. in april, there were more than 22,000 waste complaints made to water agencies. 22,000 formal warnings went out and penalties were levied by water agencies. we are two days away from the nba finals. a key warriors player has been cleared to play. he was injured with a concussion in the final game against the rockets. >> our sports director is here now. this is great news for the warriors. >> oh yeah, i have to agree with you there. obviously, and we all know how serious concussions have been. lots of discussion. certainly in the last few years in particular, but can you
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imagine on a lighter side if he hadn't sustained this concussion? what would we be talking about? >> we would find something. >> first game, it's the longest break i can remember leading up to a championship series. but in all, it is good news for the golden state warriors today, clay thompson worked out today, looking free and easy. jump shot smooth. no problems. he has cleared. he has gone through the entire nba protocall with regard to concussions. we'll have more on that in just a couple minutes. but clay thompson overall, besides a few nerves here and there couldn't be feeling better as it is. >> i feel great, honestly. these last two days feel like i got my wind back and last final tuneup and trying to stop the nerves and anxiousness and keeping down as much as possible. >> what is the process?
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>> just uncertainty, that's the most painful part of it, but i knew that was never going to happen and the week off is very beneficial. >> all right, so you heard him there, maybe the toughest part, the nerves, you know, a lot of anxiety leading up to this. this has to do with the long layoff. these guys, truth be told, they are physically ready to go and get out there and play the game. a long break, finally thursday, and evidently, we have no more clay thompson concussion news, because it's all good. there is something interesting with the nba union. they want to look at the protocalls that the in, ba has when it comes to concussions because of what happened to clay thompson and currie. >> we think of football and hockey as sports where you really worry about concussions. we can probably go another 20 years or so before we again hear about a basketball player sustaining that kind of an
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injury. but think about it, clay thompson actually did suffer a concussion and guys, he was allowed to go back out there. only because he had alas ration inside his ear and they saw some bleeding was he pulled off the court. he really wasn't even taken off the court because of a concussion and as we all know by now, he vomited a couple times, he didn't feel well at all. didn't feel well enough to drive home at night. so, it's a great thing that they look at it further and the union chief said she was stunned, actually, you know, little surprised when currie came back in the other game, but she was absolutely mortified were her words that, you know, that he was allowed to come back bleeding from the ear. >> yeah. and think about how many don't get diagnosed. >> so it's a good thing. >> more at 6:00, i hope. >> you got it. >> the city of oakland is going to get a lot of attention during the nba finals.
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the family of murder victims talked about how they want to use the spotlight from the finals to help bring the city together in the name of peace. and ktvu's noelle walker spoke with one father whose son was killed for no apparent reason. noelle. >> a few months ago after he was murdered and since then, he has been turning his grief into action. he was here oakland city hall hoping to share some of the spotlight the warriors are getting in an effort of peace in oakland. a lot of nations on oakland the next couple of weeks with the hopes of an nba title. there are some who wiped tears from their eyes and hope for a better community. >> the city of oakland is a great city. >> christopher ellis' 14-year- old son, devon was murdered in oakland. >> rolled down the street and killed him for nothing. >> reporter: the shooting happened on february 28 in the
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fruitvale neighborhood where generations grew up. >> he was my only son. he was everything i ever wanted in a son. and it was all gone just like that. >> ellis is trying to turn the attention. the warriors success is bringing to oakland to success stories on the street of oakland. >> it does not necessarily taking all the guns off the streets because they can always get more guns from wherever. it is change in mentality that is making them want to shoot another person. >> we look to crime maps of oakland, which showed 126 crimes last week that include homicide, robbery, and vandalism. something oakland hopes struggle to contain during recent police protest, certainly not the oakland the city wants visitors to experience. >> we're going to work together as a community to put our best foot forward as the nation's attention is turned on. >> no one wants to see the real oakland. they don't want to show that. >> oakland rapper grew up here. >> this area taught me everything i know.
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murder shouldn't be regular. >> and the bad. he raps sarcastically about the negative things glorified on the streets. >> a person gets out of jail, he gets more love than someone that graduates from college. >> and some don't get the chance to go to college. >> but it's like, that's not a wild to us, and that's wild to me. how can someone lose their life and people aren't like, i don't know about you, but one life gone is one life too many. >> so ellis formed the foundation after his son died and hopes that it is providing activities, jobs, and hope for kids in oakland and frank, his foundation is going to hold a march and a rally on june 13. that they are calling a piece of peace for oakland streets. >> noelle walker in oakland tonight, thank you. >> outgoing fifa president is
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being investigated by federal authorities in the united states. this news comes as he decided to step down from his position. shocked many after he was just reelected last week to a fifth term in office. the international soccer organization has been hit with a string of scandals alleging widespread corruption. the 79-year-old is urging the organization to elect a new president as soon as possible. >> although the members of fifa has reelected me as president, this mandate does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football. this is why i will call an extraordinary congress and dispose of my function. >> seven top officials were arrested days before blatter's reelection. money laundering, wire fraud, also indicted 14 people, a separate criminal investigation by swiss authorities is underway. into how the 2018 and 2022 world cups were allocated. in marin county a diver died during a group outing this
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morning. a national park official says the victim was one of four men swimming away from a boat. apparently he suffered some kind of medical emergency. his friends helped get him into the boat and to lawson's landing. they began doing cpr and paramedics continued to work on him. no word yet on his name or where he is from. >> it's a controversial plan to get rid of trees in the east bay. why people are so dividedded and why both sides think they are doing what is best for the environment. >> fails critical security tests. tonight, the lawmaker who says profiling is the answer. >> and inside the oracle arena as the warriors get ready for game one of the nba finals. >> and i'm tracking a little bit of a warmup. we have 80-degree numbers. what can you expect for your bay area wednesday. i'll have the specifics. crystal geyser alpine spring water. bottled at the mountain source. my new summer meal's got eight pieces of chicken, a large coleslaw baked beans with
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investigators are trying to figure out why a small plane crashed in a field killing the pilot. the plane went down about 8:00 last night. 3 miles north of the municipal airport. the victim was a 74-year-old retired airline pilot who was highly experienced and well respected. he was the only person on board. investigators say the pilot of the single engine piper plane reported control problems shortly after takeoff. there are witnesses who did report the airplane going down at a high rate of speed and that there was a considerable impact and subsequent fire. so, yeah, we are talking to those people and i'm sure the federal authorities will be talking to them as well. >> that fire covered 2-acres before crews put it out. it could take months for federal investigators to
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determine the exact cause of the crash. there were bomb threats made against five u.s. flights. one was a flight from san francisco to chicago. another flight was from south korea to sfo. federal officials say none of the threats appear to be credible. now, this comes after a report of tsa agents failing to detect fake bombs and weapons. joel walden with more on the response to that. >> according to the department of homeland security's office of the inspector general, its covert red teams posing as passengers were able to smuggle fake explosives through check points, 67 out of 70 times. an astonishing 95% failure rate. the dismal results coupled with taxpayer expenses, including more than $540 million spent on baggage screening equipment has some lawmakers looking for effective solutions to make our skies safer. >> what they should be doing is behavioral profiling. they should be screening for
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going through a metal detecter and bring in the dogs. >> in one case, a tester triggered an alarm, but the screener missed the fake explosives strapped to his back. the department of homeland security responded in a written statement. the numbers in these reports, he says, never look good out of context, but there are critical element in the continual evolution of our aviation security. secretary johnson directed tsa to immediately revise its standard operating procedures, including to retraining agents to retesting screening equipment. >> we have had at least 68 terrorist plots. 64 have been stopped. none of them were stopped by the tsa. >> tsa's acting deputy director will oversee the agency. a full written report is expected later this summer. in washington, joel waldman.
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>> president obama honor the world champion sphwan san francisco giants. president obama will congratulate the team on their third world series victory in five years. the president will also recognize all that the giants do to give back to their community. the team is swinging on their way to a three-game series in philadelphia. that will start on friday. two days from now, oracle arena is going to be jumping as the golden state warriors prepare to take on the cleveland cavaliers. the arena features signs that say the finals along with the warriors slogan, strength in numbers. inside the chairs are getting new back covers for the finals and the western conference signs are coming down and being replaced so there's no doubt at all about what is at stake here. game one, of course, thursday at 6:00 p.m. >> i just happen to drive by oracle arena today. those signs are huge and it's kind of cool thinking hey, this is where the finals are going to be starting on thursday. >> all right, let's bring in
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our chief meteorologist now. nice day. looks like it keeps getting better each day. >> yeah, a little bit. >> slow. >> it is incriminate. i look back to the warriors in the championship and gasia wasn't born. but i think you and i were sophomores in high school. it was exciting. this is how it's always going to be. and we go how many years without anything? >> 40. >> this is great. it's outstanding, exciting. the weather around here has been, as you know, kind of like we just talked about, flat lining. it stays that way this week. that's why we are talking about basketball on the weather segment. it's more of the same. it's a beautiful weather. right now it's clear in san francisco. the beaches are clear. downtown is clear. the fog went away. the fog will be back tomorrow and you know, more of the staple will ensue. what is more of the same, a clearing period tomorrow mid- morning. and then temperatures, there's the live current satellite imaging. there's no fog along the coast
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right now. but it will fill in tonight. a nice warmup and tomorrow mid- morning in most areas. you have 80 right now. or 79 in fairfield. so that's clicking along pretty good. 79 right now in concord and it's, you know, coming up on 5:30 at night. temperatures tomorrow are going to be about the same. the daytime highs today, a couple low 80s. next weather hit, i'll show you the actual registered highs from the national weather service. know tomorrow rolls into what we had today. that's how it goes. there might be a little drizzle. i had reports of drizzle here and there and the way this breaks out for the next couple of days, mostly cloudy and cool tonight. tomorrow, more of the same, partly cloudy, mostly sunny by afternoon and little change. there, i said it. and again, it's nice. as you go through the microclimates, good air quality, a fire danger that is not that bad, really. for this time of year, i can't, okay, i can't remember a time when we got into june when we didn't -- i can only count one or two or three fires since
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springtime started. small brush fires, grassland stuff, along freeway stuff. we are not getting them. this pattern keeps moisture up, humidity is up. if you know anything about trying to light a fire when it's moist out, that's what is going on. more humidity out there. the temperatures tomorrow, there's that 82 in vacaville. fairfield will click up to 80 somewhere. just because i put a 77 in pittsburgh doesn't mean out on the schoolyard, at 3:00 it's not going to be 82. it depends. which are typically away from the cities so your temperatures tend to be a little bit cooler in the forecast. 67 in mountain view. i'm just saying, downtown santa rosa, downtown walnut creek. if i say 75, you'll feel like it's 80 degrees on the street. five-day forecast and no real rain in this forecast. i guess we can take solice. when is it that we went this
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deep without talking about fires? >> that's good. facebook opening up a research center. cutting edge work bringing them to paris. and a new plan to make sure young people don't get hooked on tobacco. >> now to julie haener in the newsroom with what we are working on new at 6:00. >> coming up, after hours of panic, a happy ending in san francisco. ktvu cameras were there as an elderly woman with dementia was reunited with her worried family. where police say they found the woman after she was reported missing. >> and, driverless cars are here. ktvu's tom vacar goes for a ride and finds out what it's like on the freeway and parallel parking. these stories and much more are coming up at 6:00.
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california could become one of the first states to raise the legal smoking age. right now it's 18 and a bill passed by the state senate would raise the age to 21 for buying tobacco product. next, it has to go to the assembly and on to governor brown. the bill's author wants to prevent another generation from getting hooked. there's no comment from the tobacco industry. it's now before its governor. >> today the u.s. senate passed a new version of the patriot act now called the u.s.a. freedom act. the bill changes surveillance indivisible were enacted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. the bill ends the national agency bulk collection of phone records and replaces it with a more restrictive measure. the nsa will now have to obtain court records to get data from
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phone companies. the freedom act allows other surveillance programs to continue president obama plans to sign it. that could happen late today or tomorrow. >> facebook says it will be open the world's first international research center for artificial intelligence in paris. the ceo announced the plan on his facebook page today. he says his team hopes to build new kind of internet services that are more intuitive. images, videos, and other information. zuckerberg says france has one of the strongest artificial intelligence companies in the world making paris an ideal location for his new lab. the bay area host committee is putting out a call for thousands of volunteers. more than a million people are expected to be part of the super bowl and all the parties and festivities and the committee organizing in the events are now taking applications for potential volunteers. they need more than 5,000 people as ambassadors to give a warm welcome to an expected
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huge crowd. jobs will include posts at airports, train stations, hotels, major tourist destinations, and pregame events. a home that was in the same family for three generations gone in hours. >> my parents played in this house as kids. my grandparents lived next door. >> tonight, the people who are inside describe the moment they realized their house was on fire and how investigators think the fire started. plus -- >> a plan to remove most of the nonnative and trees in the oakland hills could mean a dramatic change in the landscape. why there's disagreement about whether that's a good thing. >> and a magazine for decades has a new home. we'll tell you where sunset magazine is heading.
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a vote set for tonight's oakland city council meeting could determine the future of the look of east bay hills. the heated debate and why the devastating hills fire is a focal point for people on both sides of the debate. >> in our minds, the world is divided into before the fire and after the fire. >> peter scott is the architect who designed this oakland fire education center. the inspiration was personal. his home burned in the 1991 oakland hills fire. his mother died trapped inside.
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>> the disaster of the fire changed our lives and so i probably think about it every day. >> scott says he wants these hills to be more fire safe, but the city of oakland's plan is all wrong. the oakland city council will decide whether to accept $4 million in money from fema and contribute money to implement a fire risk reduction plan. >> the fire event that occurred here was one of the most expensive natural disasters in the united states history. we don't want to see a repeat of that. >> vincent with the oakland fire department. >> the intent is to remove all of the smaller size trees that are lower hanging that create fuel latters from the ground up into the tree canopy. >> the three year plan would result in a visible change to about 100 acres near the tunnel. more than 90% of the nonnative, pine, cyprus, would be gone. >> we are not in the business of creating a larger hazard or cosmetic eyesore for our
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citizens. what we are trying to do here again is reduce the fire threat and turn this back into what it should be. >> he used this area in north oakland as an example. on one hillside, you see a lot of trees. on the other side, there's more of the native bay and oak trees. he is hoping that's what this entire area will be filled with a generation from now. opponents are worried about the herbicide that will be used to prevent eucaliptus to grow back. and critics complain there is no plan to replace the trees cut down. >> the plan is to drop the big trees and then leave them there to rot and they are sitting on a bed of chips, is that fire safe? i don't think so. we want to keep the forest environment -- >> is that forest a friend or foe to nearby residents? it's a debate that has neighbors deeply divided. in oakland, ktvu fox 2 news. a federal lawsuit has been filed in the case of a three-
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year-old girl who was beaten to death in napa. it accuses napa authorities and child welfare of failing to fully investigate reports of child abuse. caylee's mother, sarah krueger and her mother's boyfriend, ryan warner, were arrested in the case. both are charged with the lit girl's murder. family members filed the suit of claims that social workers along with the fire department and child welfare services failed to adequately investigate prior reports of child abuse. caylee's grandmother told authorities several times that her granddaughter wasn't properly fed and cared for and possibly being abused. the 18-year-old man charged with the murder of a nine-year- old boy from discovery bay entered add not guilty plea. accused of stabbing and killing jordan last april inside the boy's home. defense attorneys have said that mental illness played add role in the stabbing, but they did not enter an insanity plea today. he was spending the night at the time of the killing.
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the family says they were unaware of any mental health issues. a preliminary hearing is scheduled for july 8. >> historic home that had been in the same family for generations is a burnt shell tonight. the five people managed to get out safely. they talked with ktvu janine about the moment they realized their home was on fire. >> you can see from the extent of the fire that there has been a lot of structural damage and the eves have fallen off at the front of the house. >> this home now a collapsed shell of what it used to be has been owned by the same family for three generations. it is right on the road and over 100 years old. >> my parents played in this house as kids. my grandparents live next door. so for this house to be destroyed like this is devastating. >> a fire started at 2:30 this morning. the smell of smoke and loud explosions woke the five people
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sleeping inside. >> the guys are playing with fire crackers or something. sounded like exploding. >> my room was filled with smoke and the next thing we knew, the house was lit. >> they all escaped quickly, but the fire grew to two alarms. firefighters stayed on the outside, dousing it with water. after two hours, it was contained, but the damage was done. >> it is impossible to get inside because the building is unsafe to enter. >> red cross is helping the victims now that the home has been red tagged. they lost nearly all their personal belongings, but trying to stay strong. >> i lost my husband late last year, it's one of those thingses where it's okay, i can get through that. ky get through this. >> investigators say the fire started on the second floor, but now with most of the floor gone, they may not be able to find evidence as to what sparked it. the cause is likely electrical. janine, ktvu fox 2 news.
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sunset magazine leaving its historic home in menloe park. they have a special historic link to their new home. a new report on the deadly am track derailment and what the ceo of amtrak said would have prevented the crash from happening in the first place. plus, caitlin jenner revealed how she picked her new name. female announcer: want your best rest ever? then don't miss sleep train's best rest event. you'll find sleep train's very best mattresses at the guaranteed lowest price. plus, pay no interest for three years on beautyrest black, stearns & foster serta icomfort even tempur-pedic. and rest even better
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the ceo testified on today that existing safety technology could have prevented last month's deadly derailment in philadelphia. members of the national transportation safety board and federal railroad administration went over possible causes of last month's deadly accident which killed eight people traveling from washington, d.c. to new york. the ntsb's preliminary report believes it remains unclear if damage to the windshield was caused by the wreck or an object thrown at the train. officials say they are also not ruling out human error in the crash. >> humans make mistakes, that's fundamental. the engineers are very good population of people. they are hard working, try to do the right thing, but they make mistakes because they are humans. that's not criticism, that's a statement of fact. >> federal investigators say they still don't know if the engineer was on his cell phone before the speeding train derailed. last month's accident is said to have cost amtrak more than
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$9 million. >> the families of four americans held in iran are appealing to the obama administration to do more to win their release. family members testified before a house committee made an emotional appeal. right now, there's a window of opportunity to win the freedom of the hostages. washington post reporter, jason is one of the captives. the native went on trial last month for spying. lawmakers from both parties said they wouldn't trust iran to abide by a nuclear deal unless the captives are released immediately. >> homeless advocates shown a drastic rise in homelessness among children and families and outlining what to do it about it. the coalition released a five year plan called the road map to end family homelessness. the report says families are waiting for seven months or more for any kind of housing. it estimates that the city has 3300 homeless children under the age of five. the road map calls for the city
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to add funding each year until it reaches $9 million annually by 2020. other key points include an increase in affordable housing. assisting families with rent by having the city pay the landlord the difference between the full rent and the subsidized rate and moving homeless households into vacant units run by the housing authority. >> we have in san francisco unified school district, one in every 25 students is homeless. that is, that could fill 70 classrooms. >> the report says homeless children have lower academic achievement and more than half of them are held back a grade. >> two of the top five u.s. destinations for summer travel are here in the bay area. according to trip adviser. the travel website listed alcatraz island as the number one spot for vacationers. the golden gate bridge was a close second. after alcatraz, the other top three landmarks are the lincoln memorial and reflecting pool in
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washington, d.c. the september 11 memorial and museum in new york city and the uss arizona memorial in honolulu. >> should visitors have to pay to walk or bike across the golden gate bridge? the move that could decide that issue once and for all. >> also ahead, small unassuming planes traced back to the fbi. the steps to hide the ownership and the mission the planes were flying. >> and it's going to warm up a little bit. i'll let you know how much. we'll see you back here.
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state lawmakers approved a bill that would keep the sidewalks free. introduced legislation that would prohibit pedestrian and bike tolls on state owned toll bridges. the bill passed today, now advances on to the senate. it comes as the golden gate bridge district considers charges sidewalk fees to close its budget gap. >> just as the warriors are rising to the occasion. the city of oakland captured another win. sunset magazine said it's moving its headquarters to jack london square. john fowler is at there tonight. >> editor in chief of sunset magazine said it is more than just the wonderful waterfront views. she says she wants the world's headquarters for sunset to reflect reader trends. sunset, the iconic lifestyle magazine chose here, the 55 hair son street building on oakland's jack london square.
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it first moved from downtown san francisco to the trendy suburbs of menloe park in 1951. >> everybody in america was moving to the suburbs to enjoy the wide open spaces. the story has completely reversed. people are filling in old industrial spaces. great new businesses are springing up in places that used to be industrial. >> this is the latest move in the resurgence of downtown oakland. >> it is just the icing on the cake of really showing that oakland is a new destination for the creative food scene, for creative endeavors of all types. >> 75 sunset magazine employees are to move into this 20,000 square foot second floor. in a new and efficient energy space bringing a kitchen and wine cellar, plus promises for public events. pleasing residents. >> i'm glad to see this building getting built up. because it's been empty. and there's a lot more activity
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down here now. >> and jack london square business owners alike. >> it's just come alive. there is so much more going on. there are so many more people around. business has been picking up for everyone. >> jack london himself was a contributor to sunset magazine back in the day and as you know, his bar is right over there. and you might actually find some of us there occasionally. >> well, there's a story for you. now the offices are to open up the first week of december. a kind of early christmas present for the city of oakland. frank. >> it sure is, john fowler near jack london square tonight. thank you. the head of the irs was on the hot seat at two senate committee hearings. john heard from members of both parties upset about the recent data breech. exposed the personal information of some 100,000 taxpayers. blamed in part the computer system and a lack of money to update it. >> this is not just a question of resources and it's certainly not a lack of commitment from
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the irs staff. it is also a question of expertise. >> the irs said after the breech, 13,000 fraudulent tax returns were filed. refunds were paid totaling about $39 million. a report from the inspector general said the irs ignored warnings about the possibility of cyber attacks. let's go back to our weather now, bringing our chief meteorologist. we brought the pictures from john fowler, right by jack london square. >> it is fun. we have been in oakland for 25 years. and you know, we have all grown up and it's fun to see oakland. >> it's so nice. >> i can say, when we first moved to this building, there was -- next door was a vacant lot. we had cats everywhere. it was a whole different deal. now oakland has some game. beautiful town and the weather is beautiful. that's why we all live here. the temperatures today, they did get up there. it won't be a hot one, but it was warm.
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you got 80 in santa rosa, and 80 in antioch. i would expect 92 on a day like this. temperatures are a good 5 to 8, 10 degrees below where you might expect them. live outside, there's some of that beauty again. it is beautiful. and it's interesting. think about oakland, i think about after the '06 earthquake, a lot of people, that's when oakland came on because people fled san francisco because they were so scared of another earthquake. not everybody, but many of the city burned down, as you know. so people fled and they came across the bay on ferries to oakland. that's when oakland had its big surge. it is when l.a. started to grow because people didn't go to oakland went down so southern california. i love california history. so i just happen to know that. the temperatures tomorrow will be about the same. the winds are blowing 28-mile an hour west wind in fairfield. 22-mile an hour southwest. the winds are there. that's gusty. look at 32 at sfo. it is not that abnormal, but it
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is fast pushing that moist cool air inland and there's the warmth. hesitate to call it heat. it is warm in the central valley. and here's nice temperature footprint for right now. the current numbers are nice. the fog forecast for tomorrow morning, not much. less than this morning. you saw the high clouds going over. they went away, and you see the fog and low clouds showing up around san jose and half-moon bay and then it burns off. and the winds and the high clouds came in. so tomorrow is a lot like today with a few more high clouds. i'm going to get to the five- day forecast: we are looking at temperatures that are going to stay kind of the same. we have patchy forecast. look at the top tier. basically represents your warmest spots. we're going see low 80s on friday and saturday. kind of like we did today. a mild weather pattern that kept fire danger out of the news, which has been nice. and yeah, it's nice. after the quake, a lot of people just came, that's when
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oakland began to flourish. >> i live in oakland, so do you, and i love oakland. wouldn't want to live anywhere else. >> thank you, bill. >> caitlin jenner reveals how she chose her name. the person who helped seal the deal. now to julie haener in the newsroom. >> driverless cars are here and we take one for a ride. coming up, our tom vacar will show what it's like on the freeway and how well it can parallel park. also the police officer whose instinct helped free jaycee dugard. these stories and much more coming up at 6:00.
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we showed these kids some items from a nearby store, whoa! but they didn't know they were all tobacco products. ooh this is cool. it smells like gum. yummy. this smells like strawberry. ooh, are these mints? with colorful packaging and fruit and candy flavors that kids love, who do you think tobacco companies are targeting? do we get to keep any?
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my name is tony sartorio. i'm a lineman for pg&e out of the concord service center. i have lived here pretty much my whole life. i have been married for 12 years. i have three kids. i love living here and i love working in my hometown. at pg&e we are always working to upgrade reliability to meet the demands of the customers. i'm there to do the safest job possible not only for them but everybody, myself included, that lives in the community. i'm very proud to do the work that i do and say that i am a lineman for pg&e. it's a rewarding feeling. together, we're building a better california.
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the fbi had been operating a civilian air force of sorts and hiding it behind fictitious companies. an associated press investigation traced at least 50 planes back to the fbi. the manes were equipped with high-tech cameras and seen flying low over american cities. the program is not a secret and says the front companies are used to protect the safety of the pilots. san francisco 49ers pulled bruce today. the charges stem from miller and his then fiance. the two were arguing when he pushed her to the ground. part of a sentence, miller is requiredded to attend a 16 week domestic violence counseling
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program. a protective order remains in effect that bars him from any contact with the victim. a woman from the south bay says the sky high rent there has forced her out of her home. she is either couch surfing now or living in her car while her kids stay with relatives. she reached out to ktvu with her fight for affordable housing. a city she loves, but can't afford to live in. ktvu's esna smith is there with her struggle and what the city is doing to help people like her. >> reporter: frank, i'm near the great mall and this year, this real estate is in high demand because of the new bart station that is coming in two years. i'm standing on a plot of land here that will soon be developed into a housing complex with 900 units. the demand is driving up prices and currently there's a 3 to 5 year wait time for low income housing. when julie martinez got her first apartment more than 30 years ago, she was hooked on
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staying and raising her family here. >> the schools are fantastic. the teachers are great. >> that dream hit a harsh reality when last month, the property manager of her three bedroom home upped the rent more than she can afford. despite perfect rent history, she and her children are now homeless. >> my daughter is living with my son in south san jose and i'm living couch to couch and sometimes in the truck. >> i'm devastated beyond belief. i have never been in this situation. i was at a point where i want to give up. >> the mayor called the housing crisis unfortunate. he says the new bart station is bringing new housing developments. upwards of 7,000 new homes. pricing will likely be at current market value. average rent, $2,000 to $3,000 a month. >> it looks like we are building enough, but it's not yet enough. that's why the demand is so very high and the supply is not enough. >> he says like other cities,
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losing redevelopment agency funds cut affordable housing out of the picture. hoping a new study will provide alsos on either making developers pay a housing impact fee or set aside a percentage of affordable homes all to help low income families. martinez wants the city to do something, saying she'll keep fighting to live in milpitas. >> i want to stay in milpitas. that's my city. i feel at home there. >> reporter: she'll be taking her fight to city hall tonight airing out her concerns and on the agenda, the city council will look at ways to legally enforce affordable housing requirements for those houses that are being built now and in the pipeline. frank. >> let's just hope she finds something. azna smith reporting. we are learning new details how caitlin jenner chose her new name.
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jenner's debut as a woman. she watched the miss america pageant to brainstorm names. that's when her assistant suggested caitlin. in the vanity fair article, jenner said she decided to break the kardashian k tradition and spell her new name with a c. the ktvu fox 2 news at 6:00 starts now. a man being monitored by antiterrorism investigators were shot and killed by police in boston today and tonight, we're learning that he had ties to the bay area. good evening, everyone, i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. the man lunged with a knife at a police officer and fbi agent. that's when he was shot and killed and now we've learned the man has family here in the bay area. ktvu's rob ross joins us live in oakland with more on the investigation and the bay area connection. rob. >> reporter: julie, the imam here at the mosque is the older brother of the man police shot to death in boston.
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and we're told the imam is on his way back to boston to be with his family. the fbi in boston says terrorism investigators were closely watching usama. >> the subject had been under 24 hour surveillance. >> members of joint terrorism task force approached rahim this morning about terrorist related information, but wouldn't say what it was about. >> it was enough information there that we thought it was appropriate to question him about his doings today and that's when -- unprovoked. he came out with a knife. >> authorities say this military style knife. they say when he wouldn't put it down, authorities shot him to death. the imam in oakland paints a different version. on facebook, imam abraham posted his brother was waiting for a bus to go to work. he was on his cell phone with my dear father during the confrontation. his last words to my father were, i can't breathe. outside the mosque, one member
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