joining us is senator dave cortez he. thanks for your time. >> thank you. i am happy to be here today. >> tell us about senate bill nine and details of what you are proposing. >> senate bill nine takes the current cap on transitional age foster youth which is 21 years old and adds another five years to it. it slickly stands for the proposition that -- it basically stands for the proposition that most of our foster youth manages population by county are unprepared especially in this high cost-of-living state we are in and some of the high cost of living areas we are in like santa clara county, they are unprepared to launch fully without some additional support and we are seeing the symptoms of that throughout many other systems in a lot of tragic ways. >> talk more about what is supposed to happen during this transitional phase. a lot of people are not aware of its existence thinking you term out at age 18. >> once upon a time you did term out at 18. that was changed to age 21. what is supposed to happen is first of all, foster youth would be eligible for co

we spoke with state senator dave cortez ghee from san jose. >> that young person would have what might same support that an extended family would provide, or a nuclear family would provide to one of their own children. that might be a it might be a little bit of support with community college costs. it might just be basic sustenance like dinner every day. those are the kind of things that just end very abruptly and suddenly with foster youth. currently that is at 21. we have seen, as a society, as a community, lots and lots of signs that the age emancipation, for all young people, is something that is going up chronologically. it is not going down. we are not seeing a trend where 16-17 your desk-year-old's are suddenly able to survive out there. we are seeing quite the opposite. where many of our youth 25 and under are homeless. >> his bill claims continued foster care support would help young adults in the foster care an education or stable employment. some young people that age out of foster care are left without any emotional or financial support. >> the new girl scouts cookie is al

audit committee approves state senator dave cortese is risk request to learn more about how san jose hey, spending money to get people off the streets. senator cortez. he has requested the audit by published be published rather, by september that would be in time to make changes through legislation or through the state budget. cortesi says the number of people living on the streets of san jose continues to rise. san jose has the highest number of housed youth in the nation. still to come storm damage at the oakland zoo, the animals affected and missing after a tree came crashing down. also frustration in the east bay what a tenant is dealing with on her property following yesterday's storm, also a threat in a south bay neighborhood, the mountain lion that took over one backyard and how officials responded. birds. that flew out of their aviary during yesterday's storm. the strong gusty winds brought down several trees there on the grounds, one tree toppled onto a new exhibit, tearing the mesh enclosure and zoo officials say that's when six birds flew out and animal care team has been taking nonstop shifts to retrieve the birds remain on zoo grounds.