supervisor cindy chavez.cindy chavez/santaclara county supervisor "...they have a need for teacher and staff housing and we have funding for foster homeless housing and we are looking to see whether it's possible to create a partnership to see if it's possible to get both workforce housing and housing for populations in need on school district property..."no specific properties have been identified, but east side union, san jose unified and 31 other school districts in the county are home to hundreds of vacant lots and other under-used resources that might be tapped for housing says chavez. cindy chavez/santa clara county supervisor "...school districts have properties where they used to be a school and don't any longer and we are trying to think how to creatively use those assetts because in many cases...."the board voted unanimously tuesday to reach out to school districts with an offer of funding to pay for assett evaluation and feasablity studuies that would would address cost, zoning and potental conflicts arising from housing the homeless near schools.cindy chavez/santa clara cou

cindy chavez/santa clara county supervisor "...school districts have properties where they used to beer and we are trying to think how to creatively use those assetts because in many cases...."the board voted unanimously tuesday to reach out to school districts with an offer of funding to pay for assett evaluation and feasablity studuies that would would address cost, zoning and potental conflicts arising from housing the homeless near schools.cindy chavez/santa clara county supervisor "....what we are really talking about is how do we share assetts and put people together in a way that's cost efffective for everybody and meets our broader community needs of getting housing..." rob fladeboe/san jose ".... san jose unified school district welcomes the idea, havingalready passed a resolution to work with both the county and the city of san jose on addressing the affordable housing crisis. in san jose rob fladeboe kron4news (sports) just ahead, even through their success, the a's keep having to send pitchers to the disabled list. but the green and gold...still grinding....their latest th

. >> reporter: supervisor cindy chavez unveiled a plan to partner with the county school districts to build low income and homeless housing on their unused acres of land. >> housing is such a crisis in our community that it's all of our responsibility. >> reporter: school districts are some of the biggest land owners in the county, some of it still vacant like this lot behind the east side union district office. two week ago chavez met with several school districts to begin talks and today the board of supervisors pushed an exploratory measure ahead. funding would come through voter approved measure a. >> they have a number of families in their schools that have homeless children that are attending their schools today. this is not an outside population. this is part of their communities. >> reporter: but even with county assistance and funding and streamlining the process new projects would take years to complete. homeless advocates say the crisis is happening now and that's why they're trying to leverage existing county properties. about a dozen people urged the county to allow priva

cindy chavez/santa supervisor "...school districts have properties where they used to be a school andd we are trying to think how to creatively use those assetts because in many cases...."the board voted unanimously tuesday to reach out to school districts with an offer of funding to pay for assett evaluation and feasablity studuies that would would address cost, zoning and potental conflicts arising from housing the homeless near schools.cindy chavez/santa clara county supervisor "....what we are really talking about is how do we share assetts and put people together in a way that's cost efffective for everybody and meets our broader community needs of getting housing..." rob fladeboe/san jose ".... san jose unified school district welcomes the idea, havingalready passed a resolution to work with both the county and the city of san jose on addressing the affordable housing crisis. in san jose rob fladeboe kron4news (vicki) ahead at nine... haunting videos shows a possible abduction- caught on a doorbell camera in two different cities... what police say you should do if this happens t

. >> cindy chavez scheduled a special hearing after a fire chief says verizon put his crews in danger. in a story we told you earlier this week, santa clara's fire department joined a lawsuit targeting verizon saying during the deadly mendocino complex fires the company slowed down data on customers phones because they had gone over data limits. the company said they would have lifted the restriction but it was a mistake. >>> jackie sphere has written her detailing the difficulties she faced. she was shot five times in jonestown. it was to help people escape in guyana and also helped crafting legislation on how sexual harassment and assault are dealt with on capitol hill. the book is set to be released november 6th, the same day as the midterm elections. >>> a drug tunnel was discovered and narrow only 8 inches in diameter. only 20 feet deep. it ends at a home in mexico. investigators seized a huge stash of drugs including 260 pounds of meth amphetamines. >> imagine how much time it took to build. >>> on the outside, it looks like a nice new house. wait until you see what's on the ins

. >> reporter: country supervisor cindy chavez. >> and the idea that verizon or any other provider can opt in or opt out of helping us do what the public demands is appalling. >> reporter: well verizon issued a written statement which said in part, and i quote, we have a practice to remove data speed restrictions when contacted in emergency situations and in this situation we should have lifted the speed restriction. this was a customer support mistake. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> thanks. >>> more news about the internet. new at 6:00, a bill authored by local politicians to restore net neutrality protections in california is moving to a final committee vote. the legislation paszed the assembly communications committee this afternoon and it has been amended a number of times. the measure prohibits internet service providers from throttling traffic from certain websites or charging access fees and restores the rules in place before the fcc deregulated the industry last year. >> make sure that internet service providers can't block websites and have fast and slow lanes depending on who is pay

. >> reporter: county supervisor cindy chavez. >> the idea that verizon or any other provider can optlic demands is appalling. >> reporter: well, verizon issued a written statement which says, in part, and let me quote, we have a practice to remove data speed restrictions when contacted in emergency situations. in this situation we should have lifted the speed restriction. this was a customer support mistake. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> new york state investigators today subpoena michael cohen, president trump's former personal lawyer, as part of an investigation into the trump subpoena came after cohen's attorneys said their client had information that would be of interest to prosecutors. meanwhile, president trump is reacting to cohen pleading guilty to campaign finance-related crimes. abc ease tara palmeri has more on that. >> reporter: president trump implicated in campaign finance crimes of michael cohen. the president now speaking out, telling fox news the campaign finance violations, cohen pled guilty to, are not crimes. >> my first question when i heard about it was was did they

cindy chavez/santa clara county supervisor "...school districts have properties where they used to bethose assetts because in many cases...."the board voted unanimously tuesday to reach out to school districts with an offer of funding to pay for assett evaluation and feasablity studuies that would would address cost, zoning and potental conflicts arising from housing the homeless near schools.cindy chavez/santa clara county supervisor "....what we are really talking about is how do we share assetts and put people together in a way that's cost efffective for everybody and meets our broader community needs of getting housing..." rob fladeboe/san jose ".... san jose unified school district welcomes the idea, having ( darya ) almost a year after the destructive north bay firestorm...only a fraction of almost 27-hundred single family homes lost in santa rosa... have been rebuilt. this video from our quad copter 4 ... of how little new construction is going on in santa rosa. city records show that only 9 homes have completed construction as of last thursday... and another 250 are under cons

cindy chavez/santa clara county supervisor "...school districts have properties where they used to bel and don't any longer and we are trying to think how to creatively use those assetts because in many cases...."the board voted unanimously tuesday to reach out to school districts with an offer of funding to pay for assett evaluation and feasablity studuies that would would address cost, zoning and potental conflicts arising from housing the homeless near schools.cindy chavez/santa clara county supervisor "....what we are really talking about is how do we share assetts and put people together in a way that's cost efffective for everybody and meets our broader community needs of getting housing..." rob fladeboe/san jose ".... san jose unified school district welcomes the idea, havingalready passed a resolution to work with both the county and the city of san jose on addressing the affordable housing crisis. in san jose rob fladeboe kron4news happening today for people living in milpitas.... there will be a planned water system shut-down. it will happen in the overnight hours-- 10 p-m u