kpix 5's devin fehely explains. >> reporter: san mateo county set an ambitious goal, hoping to quadruple the number of electric vehicle charging stations in the next 3 years. as part of their plan to steer drivers away from gas guzzling, non-environmentally friendly cars. >> we see what is happening with gas prices. now what we need to do is get to a green economy that works for everyone. >> reporter: the united states has nearly 114,000 charging stations nationwide. the overwhelming majority are clustered in california, with more than 41,000. those numbers still lagged behind the leader in the ev market, china, with more than 800,000. >> we have to expand charging stations. if we don't expand charging stations, how do we expect people to expand the electric vehicle fleet. >> reporter: is a macao county supervisor says for the county to reach his goal, increasing the number of charging stations from 2000 to 8000 by 2025, they are going to need to get creative, and make investments not only in the infrastructure, and job training as well. >> we are going to make sure that not only are we

here is devin fehely. >> reporter: because of the drought, fire season will start earlier and last longer. the inescapable truth is that we are in for a long, hot, and potentially fire prone summer. >> reporter: it seems like this early-season fire in watsonville last year, that cal fire is desperately trying to avoid by suspending burn permits weeks ahead of schedule. >> we are ahead of schedule by a month, a month and a half. >> reporter: jette wilson says the drought is drying the landscape out. grass and brush that in a normal year would not pose much of a threat is instead, a tinderbox. for evidence of that, look no further than this small spot fires parked on skyline boulevard in the san mateo mountains. >> we currently have 980 staff and at peak we will have 13. we are ahead of schedule, sort of matching where the fuel and weather have put us. >> reporter: it is not just the santa cruz mountains that are at risk. dry creek bed in east san jose is an indication of the area that is equally vulnerable to wildfires. >> it was bad a couple of years ago. really. i've never seen this guy

devin fehely has more on the latest in the investigation and why this fire got so out of control. >> reporter: after this home depot turned into an inferno over the weekend, the question on a lot of people's minds was why did not the safeguards expected to be in place, smoke alarms, sprinkler systems, and other fire suppression mechanisms, why didn't they do a better job of slowing the fire down or stopping it altogether? and, that is one of the focuses of the fire department investigation. >> reporter: this is the central aisle of what used to be the home depot on blossom hill road. the one part of the store that is partially clear of ash, brentwood, and blackened metal. which litters of virtually every inch of the warehouse. >> it was obviously a very big fire. >> reporter: diana watched the store go up in flames on saturday. struggling to comprehend the intensity of the inferno and the seeming inability the to bring it under control. >> they have a lot of propane tanks, shop there, i love that store. i feel really bad for them, what happened. >> reporter: the fire department says

i'm devin fehely. let's start with a quick check on the weather. >> we have the forecast of low clouds around the bay area. mostly it will be a sunny weekend and cloud up on monday. temperatures will rise up about 5 to 7 degrees. more sunshine. temperatures from 60 to 80. 80 in thein innland areas. no rain and create will stay dry up coming week. next saturday. we'll have more details in a few molts. >>> first, the news. >>> last year, there were a record number of traffic deaths. with 29 so far, the total in 20 two could be higher. the city has installed licensed plate cameras at a dangerous intersection. kpix 5s sarah donche reports that the upgrade comes too late for one grieving mother. >> reporter: it's not easy for her to visit the spot in san jose. >> for me personally, it's really hard to come through here. it's taken me almost a year to finally cross the intersection. >> reporter: her daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver here on august 19th, 2021. >> a lot of mixed emotions. me daughter

devin fehely, kpix 5. is >> alameda county releasing its first-ever report on unhoused deaths. the county's healthcare for the homeless report reveals 809 people experienced homelessness and died in alameda county between 2018 and 2020. that is an 89% increase of annual deaths during that three year span. the program hopes a court will help health and housing partners develop interventions to decrease those deaths. >>> now to the peninsula, where federal investigators are revealing new details about last months caltrain crash that injured 14 people. about 75 passengers were aboard the train that hit three maintenance vehicles, into a fiery explosion and a derailment in san bruno. now, a preliminary ntsb report shows maintenance vehicles got permission to be on the tracks at 9:50 a.m. investigators, about eight minutes later notified they had cleared the tracks for 35 minutes later, the caltrain collided with those maintenance vehicles. ntsb investigators put together their initial report after examining the track, the equipment and after conducting interviews with caltrain empl

i'm devin fehely in for lynn. >> i'm amanda starrantino. get ready for a warm start to the week. we had a warm weekend. how long is this going to last? >>> pretty much just today. after today cooling down. typical for late april. who knows what that is. you are going to find out from tuesday through thursday of this week, going to have it. for today, warmer than average. the view from the top of the sales force tower, high clouds streaming in overhead. it's going to look hazy down here at the lower levels high pressure warming us up is going to trap in the lower levels. it looked hazy yesterday. 45 now santa rosa. it's almost as cool in livermore. it wasn't long ago where the temperatures went when he hit the cool morning lows would be in the mid 30s. no issues with fog on the road. doing fine on the visibility map. daytime highs, upper 70s inland. low to mid-70s in the heart of the bay. we will look at that seven day as well, for now, let's check in on the drive. >>> a traffic alert happened at 4:30 this morning, blocking lanes and backed up. this is southbound 680 southbound at

i'm devin fehely in for lynn. >> i'm da

i'm devin fehely. let's start with a quick check of the weather. good morning. sunny and windy for today. we'll get gusts to 30 miles an hour and this is before we get a chance of rain moving in on monday. the weekend looks sunny. in general today, and want to, far skies. tomorrow, fire skies and cool or sunday. the chance of showers return late sunday and monday and another chance after that on thursday. investment, have a great saturday. >>> and oakland police are trying to stop a trend of guns pointed at them. >> she hasn't touched a bikence is the robbery. she's the first victim in a series of armed robberies targeting mountain bicycles. >> everything about it fit me per picture. the handlebars, the seat and i could left it up. >> reporter: it brought her a lot of. >> until last tuesday. she was riding solo on the skyline boulevard median trail near fire station 21. >> the first one said give me your bicycle. i started to get off of my bicycle and the one on the street came and pointed a gun at me

i'm devin fehely. >> i'm amanda starrantino. ann makovec will have more on that story in a moment. breaking news, elon musk has completed his purchase of san francisco based twitter. the deal is on the terms musk laid out last month. the offer was r $54.20 a share, twitter fowill now be an entity and entirely owned by elon musk. he said free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy. more on that story as we get it. >> i'm ann makovec. back to the nurses strike, thousands of stanford health care nurses are striking today, striking was the last resort but at this point many are rethinking their career s that's how bad this has gotten and the scene today outside of stanford hospital. 93% of eligible nurses voted to authorize the strike because of burnout and exhaustion. under staffing is leading to requests for overtime and want more money and better health care in the next deal. >> they are not keeping up with inflation and the cost of living. we are unable to stock icu's and other departments, people look forward to work and live here because the cost of living is so high an

. >> devin fehely says the streaming service will crackdown on those that share subscriptions . >> netflix was hampered by investors amid reports at the streaming service is shutting subscribers and it was a dramatic rehearsal for the original streaming come to me. >> the stocks tumbled after the company announced that it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter and expected to lose 2 million more. >> the subscriber count has grown steadily and in big gulps for almost a decade and now we are seeing it come back down. >> the marketwatch tech editors of the streaming landscape is changed and it is more crowded hulu, paramount plus, amazon prime and apple tv all competing for subscribers. >> most of my streaming services i share >> it's a commonplace and frowned upon by streaming services representing lost revenue but netflix might be the first to cut if the company ever crackdown. >> netflix is my least favorite one because i don't think their productions are good. >> netflix is considering changes including a cheaper subscription with advertisements and they also plan to tackle the per

. >> devin fehely following the start and will have more on the newly passed restrictions coming up onx5 news at 5:00. >>> b.a.r.t. looking towards influx of federal dollars as it works to bounce back from the pandemic. anne makovec on what riders can expect. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. and muni subbing half $1 billion in federal funds in the pandemic began. b.a.r.t. is getting 900 million from the american rescue plan. local politicians just toured the powell street station to see the modernization with new lighting, rebuilt escalator entrance, and bathrooms with attendance. the project is a little over half finished. u.s. senator alex padilla is pushing for more infrastructure money in congress. >> public transit strengthens our economy. not only by connecting workers with their jobsites but by connecting consumers with a lot of local businesses. >> reporter: a new survey from bay area council says 80% of local employers say they plan to bring workers back to the office this month or have already done so. art ridership is up 23% at downtown san francisco stations compared to the previous m

in san jose, devin fehely, kpix 5. >> stay with kpix 5 for continuing coverage of the mass shooting in sacramento. you can find the latest updates on kpix.com, and streaming on cbs news bay area. >>> a student status and has a high school is recovering, this evening. police say the boy was stabbed at gunnison high. chopper five was over the scene as police responded to the campus but this happened after 10:00 this morning. i suspect is in custody, who police think is also a student at the school. and to get his essay the campus officer was key in catching that suspect. no word yet on what led up to the stabbing. >>> this evening, new evidence of russian war crimes in ukraine. new atrocities coming to light as russian forces retreat from towns near the capital of kyiv. debra alfarone has the story. first, a warning, the details about what happened are hard to watch. >> reporter: in a town just outside ukraine's capital, dead bodies remained in the street, some with their hands tied behind their backs. we are seeing the images now, that russian troops have pulled out of the area. ukraine

. >> devin fehely says the streaming service will crackdown on those that share subscriptions . >> netflix was hampered by investors amid reports at the streaming service is shutting subscribers and it was a dramatic rehearsal for the original streaming come to me. >> the stocks tumbled after the company announced that it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter and expected to lose 2 million more. >>

in palo alto, devin fehely, kpix 5. >>> any labor report out today shows inflation hit a new forty- year high, consumer prices such as food, housing and gas spiked 8.5% in the month of march. these numbers are the first to reflect the full surge in gas prices following russia's invasion of ukraine. >> when you put together crude energy and shelter, you can imagine, that americans who are, say, in the lower third of the earnings spectrum, are really being pressured right now. >> economists say that the march rick report could be the peak for the inflation but also caution that ride back down will be a slow one. a live look at the white house, where president biden is proposing a new plan to lower gas prices, by allowing a higher ethanol gasoline blend this summer. coming up at 5:30, a closer look at how that could impact you, and what you pay at the pump. >>> new concerns over the use of chemical weapons in the battered ukrainian city of mariupol, now looking into claims that a poisonous type of phosphorus was used there, which can cause awful burns, not technically classified as chemical

i am devin fehely. let's start with a quick check of our weather. >>> we are starting off with near normal temperatures this morning. we will end up above average this afternoon and then closer to normal temperatures for sunday afternoon. passing clouds on sunday and monday but we will remained dry. it will be almost hot by the middle and end of the next work week. they will be 5 to 10 degrees above normal. upper 60s and low 70s around the bay. 10 degrees above average further inland. closer to 80 degrees for four and then portions of the east bay. the system passing to the north sending clouds towards us on sunday and monday. we will see high pressure taking over in the upper levels of the atmosphere. that will compress and then it warms up with temperatures well into the 80s for in then portions of the bay area as early as wednesday. >>> we have seen thieves target high-end retailers in the bay area. the same thing is happening down south. we look at how beverly hills retailers have become a target. >

i am devin fehely. let's start check of the weather with brian hackney. >>> we have sunshine and low cloudiness, once we have done that, temperatures will reach the low 80 inland today. but tomorrow, we pick up a few more clouds. so, we are expecting more sunshine, temps from 60 to 80 the 60 along the shoreline. and more clouds tomorrow, not any rain, though he. and it will stay dry all week. next chance next saturday. as for highs for today, all the way up to 81 at fairfield and 66 in san francisco. more details coming up, but first, back to the news. >>> we are learning this morning that a cruise ship docked in san francisco earlier this month a ship that was under investigation by the cdc has experienced yet another covid outbreak. the mercury news reports 143 people aboard the ruby princess cruise ship tested positive for covid after a trip from san francisco to hawaii ending on april 11th. the last voyage is under investigation as well. it ended with 73 people sick in march. >>> stepped up security

i'm devin fehely. start with a quick check of the weather with brian hackney. >> good morning.ny and windy for today. gusts up to 30 miles per hour along the shoreline and this is of about a chance of rain is moving in on monday. the weekend looks sunny. in general, today, and tonight, fair skies. tomorrow, fire skies and cooler on sunday. then, a chance of showers return late sunday and monday. we get another chance after that coming in on thursday. in the meantime, have a great saturday. >>> oakland police are trying to stop an alarming trend of bicyclists being robbed at gun point. groups are unfolding on busy streets. kpix 5s da lin spoke to a woman who had a gun pointed at her face. >> reporter: the victim said she hasn't touched a bike since the robbery. oakland police say she's the first victim in a series of armed robberies targeting mountain bicycles. >> everything about it fit me perfect. the handlebars, the seat and i could lift it up. >> reporter: uck tell from the smile it brought her a lot of joy until last tuesday. she was riding solo on the skyline boulevard med

i'm devin fehely. start with a quick check of the weather with first alert meteorologist brian hackney. good morning. we have the forecast of patchy low clouds around the bay area. the early going on saturday. mostly, a sunny weekend and it will cloud up on monday. so tosum it up, more sunshine. temperatures from 60 to 80. 80 in the inland areas and more clouds on monday. no rain. yet will stay dry all upcoming week. the next chances coming in next saturday. we'll have more details in a few moments. first, the news. >>> last year, there were a record number of traffic deaths in san jose. 60 in total. so far this year, there has been 29 and counting. the fear is that 2022's death goal could be higher. the city installed license plate cameras at a dangerous intersection. the upgrade comes too late for one grieving mother. >> reporter: it's not easy for her to physical the spot in san jose. >> for me personally, it's really hard to come through this intersection. it's take know me almost a year to finally