da lin, kpix 5. >> now the attention turns to what happens tomorrow in berkeley. right wing rally was scheduled but has been canceled. >> reporter: the park is quiet here tonight, but tomorrow it will be a much different story. the mayor is expecting thousands of people to come to berkeley. >> stay away, you're not welcome in our city. >> reporter: that's the mayor's message to anyone who brings violence to his city. >> and those that wish to spout hate and commit violence, you're not welcome in berkeley. >> reporter: just two days before a right wing rally was scheduled at the civic center park, the organizer canceled the event, she says in fear that other groups would use it for a platform for hate and violence. still. >> we want to show the world tomorrow that berkeley can come together. >> reporter: city leaders and the community and the police are preparing for the worst. >> we know the groups that have a hateful message plan oncoming like they have in previous months, so we're taking every precaution. >> reporter: counterprotesters like the freedom socialist

live in berkeley, i'm da lin, kpix5. >> da, thank you. >>> it wasn't all violence, exhibition five's kit doe with the people who actually tried to talk to one another. kit? >> reporter: the rally started off peacefully as they often do. this morning the trump supporters started trickling in. the topics ranged from immigration to jobs to economy. each side paused to let the other finish at times and there were genuine exchanges going on. here's a sample of what we heard. >> there is an opportunity to make change. >> he had the opportunity but he did not take it. >> they need to work the fields. if you want to go out there and pick them, by all means, go. >> we don't have to agree. that's part of free speech. >> my grandpa got killed by the nazis. >> they were killed. one week ago. that man is a world war ii vet that died killing nazis. >> reporter: and then tempers and emotions flared. then came the yelling and shouting and name calling. by noontime, several thousand black block anti-trump protesters, several hundred of them were part of a large contingent of what appeared to be anarc

kpix 5's da lin reports. >> reporter: she made a brief appearance in the courtroom here.side, she and her supporters are calling this case a witch hunt. they want the prosecutors to drop the charges. [ chanting ] >> reporter: a small vocal crowd rallies in support of the berkeley schoolteacher. >> drop the charges! stmefrom t fight at the state capital. yvette felarca's group, "by any means necessary," was protesting against a white nationalist group. a video shows felarca repeatedly punching a man. the man had both hands up, walking to a line of police officers for help. felarca and others dragged the man down and kicked him! prosecutors charged felarca with one count of felony assault and two misdemeanor counts of inciting and participating in a riot. felarca did not enter a plea today. her lawyers are still waiting for all the documents on the case. >> these charges are false against me. they should be dropped. >> reporter: she gave a short statement but did not answer any questions. >> i'm standing up against fascism and rise of naziism and fascism in this country is

on grizzly peak boulevard i'm da lin, kpix5. texts led to h >>> this airline passenger is accused of preying on little children. tonight police say his big bold text led to his bay ea ararea artist as he painted a peace mural. tonight the victim's family blames the feds for his death. >> we've reported on a silicon valley school district where half the students are homeless. only on 5 tonight the district's unusual step to help struggling families. ♪ >> closed -- >> closed captioning for this newscast is sponsored by of fla -- chunks of flaming debris rained down from the residential high rise of the 86 story building in dubai, the torch tower. this video shows fire falling from the tower like confetti. amazingly everyone played it out of the building okay. now this is the second fire at the torch tower in less than three years. restoration work from the last fire was still going on when this one broke out. >>> it's been nearly two years since an east bay artist was gunned down painting a peace e mural in iloakland. wh tonight t

in oakland, i'm da lin, kpix 5. >>> we now know it was a dentist with ties to the bay area who was the one in a plane crash in sacramento county. the coroner confirmed the 71- year-old doctor had been flying the small plane when it went down yesterday. he ran a busy bay area dental practice with his son and was living in placer county. his plane crashed in a backyard in rio linda. he left from auburn municipal airport and was headed to san carlos at the time. he was the only one on board. the faa and ntsb are both investigating what might have gone wrong. the pilot was also a volunteer pilot for a group called angels flights west. the group said: s and hearing impaired kids to special needs camps. his entire a-f-w famil miss him greatly." and we're just learning that a >> female airman from c as killed in a car crash in benicia today. she was 22 years old... and had been assigned to travis air rce base. >>> and we're just learning that a female airman from concord was killed in a car crash in benicia today. she was 22 years old. she had been assigned to travis air force base. around 6:

da lin with the story. >> reporter: this is what's left of an east oakland homeless encamp. 30 tents structures gone. the union pacific railroad earlier this week bulldozed the site. >> you had a little wooden house right here? >> yeah. i had my room, my key chain. my living room right here. >> reporter: this is how it looked before. union pacific gave a notice. they came a day late, so people thought they weren't coming and moved their stuff back. >> we got railroaded. >> reporter: they say it's private property and they say it's way too dangerous for families and kids to live near the track. >> we needed a cleanup effort for safety reasons. we didn't want anyone hit by a train. >> this was unjust, unhumane. >> reporter: they're upset about cleaning crews taking down the structures and the tents. but they're upset about the trash left behind, cooking pots, a lot of clothes, shoes, tools, and here you have a backpack. and so far, no one has said they'll come back to clean this up. not union pacific, not the city, not the county. the trash stretches a block back that way. if your purp

da lin begins our coverage. >> reporter: right. the city of berkeley has denied the request for the rally as no to markism. no per mitchell for them. the organizers will still attend the event this weekend. he is asking folks not to engage them. he is hoping people will put this sign in front of stores and homes. >> they may have concealed guns. they may. they may have tear gas. >> reporter: these folks plan to stay away from civic center park sunday. they are making signs for peaceful counter demonstration for other parts of berkeley. >> my sign says no hate here. >> you can't ignore president trump. to ignore them is at this point empowering them. >> reporter: a lot of posters, signs and messages most of them conveyed love and unity. berkeley mayor jesse arreguin is endorsing this one, berkeley stands united against hate. they are free throughout the city. >> when these groups come to berkeley on sunday, every corner of the city they will see that berkeley is united against hate. >> reporter: a transgender person is organizing a

kpix 5's da lin with the surveillance video that may put bart riders on edge. da. >> reporter: yeah. that is the bigger story in the sense that the bad guys are casing unsuspecting bart passengers. in the latest case, which was caught on camera, it happened tuesday afternoon. two robbers actually followed the bart passenger out of this station. what happened next is hard to watch. the victim had no clue he had been followed until a robber grabs his backpack. a brief struggle led the man to slam the victim to the ground, and punched and kicked the victim as he screamed for help. a mechanic ran up behind the fence telling the robbers to stop. another witness stood 20 feet away while the accomplice walked off. the man in the gray hoodie kept punching the victim. >> that's the horrifying part. they were obviously very committed to getting what they could off the victim. >> reporter: the attacker finally gave up on the backpack and stole the phone. this business owner's surveillance video captured the robbery. he doesn't want to show his face fearing retaliation. >>

kpix 5's da lin live in the oakland hills with the fight over trees tonight. da. >> reporter: veronica, this new fire is reigniting an old debate up in the oakland and berkeley hills. should the government chop down these eucalyptus trees and other noninvasive -- non-native trees? it's got folks on both sides of the fence pointing the finger at each other blaming each other for this ongoing problem. many nearby homeowners say they dodged a bullet thanks to the aggressive firefighting containing it to 20 acres. but those neighbors say the eucalyptus and monterey pines remain a major threat. they want to cut down the nonnative trees said to be more flammable. >> these were scheduled to be cut down but fema walked away because of environmental opposition. >> both parties are to blame, both the litigants and continually fight efforts to make our community fire-safe and fema for buckling under the pressure. >> reporter: they are blaming dan rosetti and his group, the hills conservation network. dan has filed multiple lawsuits to stop uc-berkeley, oakland and the eas

da lin was in court. >> reporter: the former ghost ship master tenant derick almena is in jail. a judge at the courthouse refused to release him but gave him a bail reduction. no cameras were allowed inside the courtroom. outside, plenty of emotion. a supporter gave a big hug to the wife of defendant derick almena and there were a handful of other supporters. inside the courtroom, they even blew him kisses and yelled out that they love him. >> he has been made out to be sort of a unfeeling person, a self, person, which couldn't be farther from the truth. he is extremely spiritual. >> reporter: his pro bono attorneys asked the judge to release him on his own recognizance while he fights the charges. >> he is not a flight risk. he has three ying children who he loves. they're all connected to this county. >> reporter: but the judge expressed his concern that almena might skip town if he released him pointing out that if convicted on all 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, almena would be locked up for a long time. but he did reduce the bail amount from more than a million dolla

kpix 5's da lin reports from sacramento, where yvette felarca claimed innocence after facing a judge.] >> reporter: a small vocal crowd rallies in support of the berkeley schoolteacher. >> drop the charges now! >> screaming and cursing ] >> reporter: the charges stem from this june 2016 fight at the state capital. felarca's group "by any means necessary" was protesting against a white nationalist group. a video shows felarca repeatedly nching a man. the man had both hands up, walking to a line of police officers for help. felarca and others dragged the man downed and kicked him! prosecutors charged felarca with one count of felony assault and two misdemeanor counts of inciting and participating in a riot. felarca did not enter a plea today. her lawyers are still waiting for all the documents on the case. >> these charges are false against me. they should be dropped. >> reporter: felarca is known for her militant style protests. earlier this year, she again got physical with trump supporters in berkeley. [ screaming ] >> i'm standing up against fascism and the rise of naziism in this c

da lin at alamo square in the city. thanks, da. >>> a homemade banner hanging from the top of one of the painted ladies, and colorful victorians on alamo square, the banner reading love trumps hate. >> kpix 5 devon feeley joins us now. a much different scene expected there. >> somewhat an -- anticlimactic. there were two dozen park police officers gathered here in the parking lot. there was a lot of them without a whole lot to actually do, which they say was just fine with them. >> with the political rally and counterprotests cancelled, park rangers this morning broke down the barricades meant to maintain order, but for businesses that had shut down in anticipation of a potentially chaotic protest, it was still anything but business as usual. >> i would rather the whole thing didn't happen at all, but it's nice that it's quiet here. part of me was curious to see what was going to happen or to have the day off and go for a bike ride. >> around the field, there were lingering vestiges of the planned protest, people who wan

we have a team of reporters covering today's violent protests and we'll begin with kpix5's da lin at ty center park. da? >> reporter: even with police watching over, there were quite a few fights and definitely a lot of pushing and shoving here between counterprotesters and trump supporters. arguments quickly escalated into fistfights. police officers stepped in to break it up. this type of drama played out repeatedly throughout civic center park between trump supporters and counterdemonstrators. >> black lives matter. black lives matter. >> reporter: about two dozen trump supporters showed up despite the cancellation of the event called no to marxism in america. >> nazi, go home. nazi, go home! >> to show growing hatred against anybody that's conservative being labeled a white nationalist isn't true. >> reporter: trump supporters were outnumbered. there were hundreds if not thousands of counterprotesters. at times both sides were able to have constructive conversations. >> i don't agree with everything that he's done, no. >> reporter: but in most cases we

in oakland da lynn da li -- da lin, kpix5. >>> on play 18th someone killed george garza at south first street and edwards avenue. investigators are trying to determine a motive. tonight investigators released these sketches. if you recognize them, police want to hear from you. speaking out.. to kpix 5's devin fehely: rone exteriors o tonight the gilroy police department is at the center of a sex scandal. for the first time the mayor is speaking out to kpix5's devin fehely. >> we have serious concerns. we've expressed those concerns to city administration. i am confident, though, in the men and women of the police department to continue to do their duty and continue to serve the people of gilroy. >> reporter: gilroy mayor breaking his silence this afternoon making his very first public comments about a lawsuit filed by a former police dispatcher claiming the culture inside the department was unprofessional, sexually pro police cuss and at times predatory -- promiscuous and at times predatory. >> these allegations are one side of the story and we will now have to go through a court of la

tents da lin with the story you'll only see on kpix5. e" homeless = >> reporter: this is what's left of an east oakland homeless encampments, 30 tents and structures gone. (footage of a homeless 2 year old walking on the tracks) union pacific says it's private property... and it's way too dangerous for families and kids to live near t jacobs / union the union pacific railroad earlier this week bulldozed the site. you had a little wooden house. >> right here. i had my room, my kitchen, my living room. >> reporter: this is how it looked before. union pacific gave a warning notice. problem was they came a day late, so people thought they weren't coming and moved their stuff back. >> we got railroaded. >> reporter: union said it's private property and it's way too dangerous for families and kids to live near the tracks. >> we went in to do a clean-up effort for safety reasons because the last thing we want is somebody or something getting hit by a train. >> this was unjust, unfair, inhumane. >> reporter: no doubt they're upset about clean-up crews taking

kpix 5's da lin reports. the question is, will people ride it?that is the big question. and smart train officials believe people will ride their trains. this is the first time in 60 years people can ride passenger trains in the north bay. they think this will transform how people commute in this region. a lot of excitement but also, a little bit of skepticism. that sound is great for train riders. >> i would love to use it to commute to school. >> reporter: people will be hopping on board. >> i have been waiting for this for 20 years. so we're glad it's here. >> reporter: 20 years? >> yeah. 20 years. it's been that long. they have been talking about doing it. so i'm glad it's done. >> sometimes good things are worth waiting for. and it's exciting it's here. >> reporter: this is why. people have been waiting because traffic on 101 is relentless! this was taken at noon today in petaluma. stop and go. and even worse, during the morning and evening commute. >> a positive option for people like myself living in sonoma county. >> the other option you h

kpix 5's da lin -- has both of them: >>> renters rallied in alameda today calling for stronger protections against eviction. but landlords say there are two sides to this issue. we have both of them. >> reporter: a vocal crowd rallying for stricter rent control in front of alameda city hall. because losing means becomes homeless for some of these tenants. >> they didn't give us a reason. they wanted us out so they could double the rent. >> reporter: julie has been fighting eviction since november 2015. a corporation bought the bay view apartment complex and tried to evict everyone. >> i desperately looked and there's nothing i could afford. >> reporter: she says the only reason she isn't sleeping under a bridge is because the city council added a no-cause eviction clause to the ordinance. >> it's been very stressful. every morning you're afraid to open your door, what kind of notice is on the door today. >> we don't feel just. >> reporter: but many landlords are also crying foul. >> really trying to level against the big guy, but he's hurting the small one at this time. >> reporter: lester

live in petaluma, i'm da lin, kpix 5. >>> the organizer of a provocative rally set for san francisco's crissy field is speaking out. the founder of "patriot prayer" wants to set the record straight about his group. he told our melissa caen that he is not about hate and doesn't like being tied to extremists. melissa. >> reporter: now, we are here at crissy field where an event scheduled for next saturday is called "patriot prayer." some of their events have been attracting extremists. the mayor and chief of police are expressing concern but so far the rally is a go. we spoke with the founder of "patriot prayer" who says his organization is about free speech and not violence. >> you know, i have been spit on in san francisco, like i have been yelled at, cussed after. >> reporter: joey gibson says he was moved to start "patriot prayer" after watching people get beaten as they left a trump rally in san jose last year. >> it was the fact that these people went to go see a man speak who is running for president of the united states of america. and they were so harassed, you know, yelled at,

in oakland, i am da lin. >>> in the north bay, a clash over classroom space in marin, it centers on whitel middle school in fair fax, the state allocated eight classrooms at white hill for the ross valley charter school, but some parents complain the charter school doesn't need that much space because they their enrollment is far less than first projected. to make room for the charter students, 800 middle schoolers at the regular school are being crammed into space meant for just over 500. >> they converted flux space, they converted teacher break rooms, dedicated special education space. >> having the classrooms have too many kids, it is too loud and harder to learn. >> the charter school operatorerize offering one classroom back before school starts on wednesday, but parents say four or five should be returned. >>> tomorrow, solar eclipse providing the perfect opportunity to spread light on the science behind us. >> reporter: the only thing hotter than the sun these days is demand for the glasss to watch the eclipse. you can't find them anywhere. but the lawrence hall of science in berk