elizabeth cook has her story. >> reporter: it is true, one moment can change a person's life and for diamond allen, that moment almost did not happen. >> i kept receiving a call from a number, i did not know if i would answer. who keeps calling from san francisco? >> the cause kept coming from a san francisco nonprofit providing crowd funded loan progress to underserved communities worldwide. the offer was an internship offer diamond applied for. when she called back, bad news. the job was no longer available. >> oh, my god. i contacted them, we already fill the position. i'm sorry. i was a little down because i had a an opportunity i missed out on. >> reporter: that was diamond then and here she has now at work for them. one of five students selected for summer engineering internship program. the manager of talent programs -- >> jumping into technology and processes where she demonstrates her ability to learn quickly and provide value to our team. >> reporter: the 21-year-old oakland native accelerating at a job she got when the other applicant backed out. ironic because growing up,

kpix5 elizabeth cook has the story. >> there is a lot of value that can come from knowing who you arewhere your people come from. >> reporter: she is walking with confidence into her future. heading to alabama state for her last semester of college. the historically black university providing the 23- year-old pittsburgh resident with an educational link to family and community in the deep south. >> i am still grasping the depth of it all. when it means to me cuand to be more about my ancestry and history, as a black woman, and so for me, like all i can do is go back to look at my parents being deceased, i have to jump back a generation and use my grandparents as much as i can from what they remember, from what they were able to access. >> reporter: a big jump for a young woman whose lost so much. >> i had lost my dad when i was in elementary school. somewhere around elementary school. >> reporter: when he mother pamela lost to breast cancer when she was just 15 years old. >> the glue. i like to call her the glue. always smiling, independent, but very caring. stern, and, yeah, like, ju

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> ellen martin is off tonight. researchers are revealing the damaging risk that comes with smoke exposure, from asthma to lead poisoning, and it all began with what was, at the time, the worst fire on record in california. >> reporter: november 2018. smoke from the camp fire blows south and turns day to twilight in the bay area. and our lungs? >> there's a huge range of health concerns. these fine particles and smoke can increase asthma attacks, can increase susceptibility to infections, and can even contribute to heart attacks and strokes. >> reporter: during the camp fire, the town of paradise went into smoke and into your lungs, and parts of it were pure poison. >> yes, there are toxic components to the smoke with structures and cars, and that these toxic components travel a long way. >> reporter: 150 miles away. that's how far lead and zinc and other heavy metals were carried by the heat and the wind and the flames. >> so all of this tells us that people do need to be very concerned about protecting their lungs

kpix 5 elizabeth cook has the story. . >> there is a lot of value that can come from knowing who youre your people come from. >> james walking with confidence into her future. heading to alabama state for her last semester of college, the historically black university providing the 23-year old pittsburgh resident with an educational link to family and community in the deep south. >> i'm still grasping the deposition of it all. what it means to be to be going to hbcu and learning more about my ancestry and history. as a black woman. so for me like all i can do is go back to both of my parents being deceased. i have to jump back a generation and use my grandparents as much as i can from what they remember and were even able to access. >> a big jump for a young woman who has lost so much. >> i had already lost my dad when i was in elementary school. somewhere around elementary school. >> her beloved mother lost to breast cancer when she was just 15 years old. >> the glue i like to call her the glue. always smiling and independent and caring. stern. and yeah, like just a light. >> pamela

i'm elizabeth cook. >> and i am ken bastida. if you're just getting home, california's test positivity rate rose another half a point in 24 hours. now, at 3.5%. cases are rising so fast in l.a. county, it's bringing back its indoor mask mandate beginning saturday. >>> on the east coast, positive test postpone the start of the yankees' series against the red sox, and the biden administration declared war against vaccine misinformation. >> two thirds of people who are not vaccinated believe common myths about the covid-19 vaccine or think some of those myths might be true. >>> happening right now, sam hill county youth are leading a virtual town hall to answer questions about the vaccine and to encourage their peers to roll up their sleeves. a new ucsf survey found a quarter of respondents 18 to 25 years old have no current plans to get the shot. >>> san francisco mayor london breed says every single covid patient in a city hospital right now is unvaccinated . the city has seen a threefold increase in cases in just the past 12 day

i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ken bastida. we see it every year, of course, and despite the drought, fire danger, we are about to see it again. illegal fireworks lighting up the skies on the fourth of july and potentially setting off destructive fires. >> kpix 5's katie nielsen is live in the oakland hills where firefighters are literally tossing up roadblocks for holiday revelers, katie? >> reporter: yeah, liz, if you take a look at the hills, you can understand why those firefighters are so concerned. all the brown grass, dry shrubs and parched trees. that's why grizzly peak boulevard will be closed on the fourth of july from -- and centennial drive. in past years, it has been a common place for people to gather to watch fireworks and, in some cases, even to set them off. due to the extremely dry conditions, the police and fire departments in berkeley and oakland have teamed up to close the road to all nonresidents. >> we understand people want to have fun and enjoy themselves, but the smallest of an accident, whether it be

. >>> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ken bastida. let's get to the numbers tonight. 6.4% of californians being tested for covid-19 are now cming back positive. >> that average stood at 1.5% just 30 days ago. the state confirmed another 10,000 new cases in just the past 24 hours. you have to go back to early february to find a one day total that high. >> statewide, about 4100 covid patients are in the hospital, 122 more than there were just yesterday, and 3 1/2 times the number we saw in mid june, right before reopening. >> san francisco is averaging 176 new cases a day. úthat's a beginning of june. most are turning up in unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people, but there are plenty of break cases as well, and as juliette goodrich tells us, not necessarily where you rthdeltt, led cischaving to ouin sick. we've also learned it did not happen inside the hospital. >> delta variant is a different beast and it can still be there when you are vaccinated. >> reporter: the cdc finding vaccinated individuals may be able to infect others as

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. a statewide flex alert is in effect until 9:00 tonight due to the lingering triple digit heat and other parts of the state, as well as the fast- growing bootleg fire in oregon, which is threatening transmission lines that fell down into california. >>> let's take a live look at current power demand. you can see that we are right up against the forecasted peak, but still well below what's available. again, that flex alert is in effect until 9:00 tonight. >>> let's bring in chief meteorologist paul heggen. should be a lot easier for the bay area to conserve because it's not so hot here. >> a bit on the chilly side. san francisco made it up to 57 today, the coast only 55. other parts of the state are to bhot. re going these are the high temperatures for tomorrow. the inland heat continues. temperatures well into the 90s for most inland parts of the state, if not above 100 degrees, so that is going to put more stress on the statewide power grid. our temperatures aren't going to be nearly

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> and i'm ken bastida. the dixie fire has exploded across at least 1,200 acres since it broke out yesterday. it's 0% contained tonight. it's actually burning within the scar of the 2018 devastating camp fire. >> reporting renee santos is there this evening. >> reporter: burned trees scattered throughout butte county are a reminder of the devastating camp fire that reduced vegetation we're learning will help with preventing the new dixie fire from spreading further. >> the fire's moving, progressing on both ends up ahead. >> reporter: the dixie fire exploding in butte county, flames smoldering trees, blanketing the sky with heavy smoke, burning close to power lines. >> they're requesting main transmission lines to be deenergized. >> reporter: taking water from the feather river, using it to put out hot spots. desmond david has lost his home twice to wildfires. first in 2008 then again in 2018 during the camp fire. the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history. >> don't worry about the small stuff.

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. now at 11:00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a threat from the feds to san jose city leaders -- remove a massive homeless encampment or risk losing funding for future airport projects. the camp is on vacant land. the city bought it as a buffer between the airport and the community in case of a plane crash. kpix 5 reporter maria medina is in san jose with the faa's demands and reaction at the encampment tonight. >> reporter: behind me may be the bay area's largest homeless encampment. city officials say there are about 200 unhoused residents here, but homeless advocates tell me it's more like 400. and the faa says they're not welcome here. >> i just need a place i can be at for three or four months toot off of heading street. >> seeing this can kind of be scary from a distance, but when you go in here, you have people that are disabled. they're elderly. you know, people that are, you know, they're kind, nice people. >> reporter: but now they're learning san jose city leaders are under

. >> i'm elizabeth cook. said they planned to resume light rail service by the end of july, but delays are now pushing that back indefinitely. the bta stopped light rail service back on may 26, the day of the mass shooting at the guadalupe bay railyard in which an employee guns down nine coworkers, they don't have a hard restart date for the light rail service, but they will be phasing it back in as long as over the next three months. >> nearly 7 weeks after the bta mass shooting, tracks are still silent, the stations are empty come the trains sit idle. >> we definitely need them back. >> for tens of thousands of people who depend on the service, it has been tough to get around. >> it has been really difficult. it is inconvenient. >> charles davis had to switch to getting around on the bus, but it is not reliable. >> you have a business to take care of. the bus system is iffy. >> they are waiting for things to resume. >> we have a responsibility to the community, we are trying to work diligently and compassio

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> and i'm ken bastida. fire has exploded across at least 1,200 acres since it broke out yesterday. it's 0% contained tonight. it's actually burning within the scar of the 2018 devastating camp fire. >> reporting renee santos is there this evening. >> reporter: burned trees scattered throughout butte county are a reminder of the devastating camp fire that reduced vegetation we're learning will help with preventing the new dixie fire from spreading further. >> the fire's moving, progressing on both ends up ahead. >> reporter: the dixie fire exploding in butte county, flames smoldering trees, blanketing the sky with heavy smoke, burning close

that evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm alan martin. the city made some last-minute changes to its terms, hoping the deal could be a windows win for both sides. >> the a's say it's not over yet. kpix 5's andrea nakano spoke with the president dave kaval just moments ago and asked him what needs to happen to get both sides back to the table. >> cattle told me this afternoon that he really wished the city council voted on its term sheet it proposed in april. instead, the city voted on a proposal that they came up with and made a lot of changes. now koval says the team has to look over all these changes and then run it through major- league baseball. >> i think we need to analyze what was passed and understand it better, and understand it, how it relates to our original term sheet, and a proposal that we agree to. and in doing so, i think that answer will fall out of that. >> he says it shouldn't take that long for that answer to come. after hours of public comment and negotiations, the oakland city council approved a term sheet with six y

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook.now at 11:00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a live look from sacramento tonight. two bay area men are accused of plotting to blow up democratic targets at the state capitol. kpix 5's andrea nakano joins us live from vallejo where the second suspect was arrested, andrea? >> reporter: liz, ian rogers from napa has been in custody since january, but authorities just arrested jarrod copeland from vallejo here yesterday. according to the doj, not only did these men talk about it, but they had enough fire power to carry out their attacks. authorities already caught up to this man, ian rogers, from napa on january 15th. they searched his home and his business, british auto repair, where they seized a collection of guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition and five pipe bombs. the indictment describes how rogers communicated with 37-year-old jarrod copeland on multiple messaging platforms. authorities say rogers wrote i want to blow up a democrat building bad. copeland responding, i agree, plan

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. we start with a look at the l a that parents are closely monitoring the news on the delta variant. >> reporter: this oakland father and son are enjoying the last days of the summer break. 13-year-old ethan zambrano will be entering high school as a freshman. >> he's anxious. >> i just want to go back to school. >> how long has it been? it's been such a long time. >> it was i think over a year and a half ago that they shut us down. >> reporter: while dad, mario, believes ethan should be safe, he worries about sending his younger son back to school. kids under 12 cannot get vaccinated. >> my 6-year-old, he does have certain bronchitis and i don't want to do that, so it's tough. >> reporter: many bay area parents are facing the same dilemma after hearing about how contagious the delta variant foation now, it's time to sit down with my wi

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook >> on alan martin in for ken. fire weather watch just been issued for the bay area starting on sunday. >> chief meteorologist paul heggen is here tracking those conditions for us. >> spivak still about 48 hours away from any dry lightning forecast that far out is very tricky, but it is a fire weather watch for the entire central valley, more selectively issued around the bay area. mainly the highest elevations, the northbay mountains, the east bay hills, the diablo range and santa crews mountains, especially areas above 2000 feet, where the marine layer that has been very stubborn the last few weeks hasn't had impact because the rain their tops out around 2000 feet. tracking the possibility of dry thunderstorms developing as early as sunday evening, continuing through mid-day monday, and any erratic gusty winds produced by those thunderstorms would help to fan the flames of the storms have been in the first place. it's a fairly low chance but it's not near zero. take a look at the setup that's producing this comin

. >> on elizabeth cook. want to take some time to sort out what's going on with the delta variant and the latest studies from the cdc. joining us now is ucsf infectious disease expert dr. peter chin-hong. we are getting our first look at the evidence the cdc used to recommend masks while indoors. what surprised you about their findings? >> the most surprising finding to me, liz, was that the viral load or the amount of virus in the noses of vaccinated individuals was very similar to the viral load in the noses of unvaccinated individuals. and what that means is that vaccinated folks could potentially spread the virus to >> so do you think that we should not waste any more time n question, liz. i think it's all context dependent. so of course in this setting, the heartbreak in -- the outbreak in provincetown, massachusetts, which is the big paper that had the cdc change its guidelines, was really kind of a setting where people were carrying on with wild abandon, like we did after reopening. i think with maski

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> and i'm ken bastida. >>> we begin with san jose filing a lawsuit to shut down this sports bar after a long list of complaints and a deadly driving incident. >> len ramirez is live with more, len? >> reporter: well, we're talking about a place where a woman was run over and killed last month, allegedly by a bar patron who had had too much to drink. there have also been numerous allegations over to years, including prostitution and violating the health orders. the name has been removed from the sign in front of the agave sports bar and grill, but the business was still open. and now the question is for how much longer. san jose filed suit against the establishment seeking to have it shut down as a nuisance. >> yeah, it's been a trouble spot for many years. >> reporter: city councilmember davis represents the district where the bar is located and supports the city attorney's action to try and shut the business down. >> there's been violence at that site, len, and somebody lost their life by another person being overserved at that location. >> reporter

>>> at evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> and allen martin in for ken bastida tonight. a change in plans now, as apple was gearing up to welcome back workers. here's why -- covid cases across california are on the rise. in just the last month, the state apps positivity rate jumped from 1% to 4.2%. kpix 5 apps len ramirez in cupertino, where apple is reportedly postponing its return to office plans. >> that's right. apple had a pretty conservative plan to begin with. it wasn't planning to bring employees back to its cupertino main campus here until at least september, but now with this covid surge, they're pushing it back at least a month. >> reporter: apple's gigantic so-called spaceship campus no -teto loomeven ll workers. around campus, mostly security people and a few tourists were visible, but very few employees, and according to bloomberg news, the company is pushing back return to office plans from september to october because of rising covid cases. >> there was a new kind of virus called delta. >> reporter: o chin wong doesn't work for apple. he runs a small fina

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. we start with a sharp reversal of how the state handles unemployment payments. >> as kpix 5's devin fehely shows us, the state has adopted a pain our policy to cut through the red tape. >> reporter: the previous system designed to catch and cut down on fraud, you had to verify your identity before you got paid. now in practice that became cumbersome and time-consuming and unwieldy, and ultimately resulted in a lot of people waiting a long time to receive their payments. >> there is so much fear and anxiety last year. >> reporter: when the pandemic hit, erin had no income coming in. her massage therapy, art, and airbnb businesses cratered all at once, and navigating the state's unemployment system, she says, was a nightmare. >> it's heartbreaking. i have a lot of friends that moved because they panicked. i didn't move because of my health issues, but i was still panickin

. >> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm alan martin. several bay area health directors urging everyone, even those fully vaccinated, to mask up indoors in public places. >> joining us now is doc there kirsten bibbins-domingo. she is chair of the epidemiology department at ucsf. what do you make of these new mask commendations? >> i think they're wise. i think our public health leaders in the bay area are trying to give us the warning. they're watching the rise, the uptick in cases, and even though the cases are low and the hospitalizations are low, there is clearly a trend for moving up. and in this environment, we have to be cautious. all of us have to do our part, and that is in the most risky environments, indoors, for all of us to mask up. >> you told us yesterday, we got to keep an eye on those numbers, and here we are going for it. but at what point might we go the route of l.a., we go from recommending to requiring the masks again? >> l.a. has both a larger uptick in cases and hospitalizations, and they have a lower vaccination r

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> and i'm brian hackney.he new york jets assistant coach was riding his bike saturday near his home in danville when he was hit by a car. his family is asking the public for their prayers and kpix 5 reporter devin fehely joins us live from the scene with the details. >> knapp had recently joined the staff of the jets. he was actually splitting time between his home in danville and in new york. this was a pretty serious crash. it left him in the hospital in critical condition. >> reporter: san ramon police say knapp was riding his bicycle near the intersection of doherty and monarch roads, not far from his home in danville, when he was hit by a passing car. the force of the impact seriously injuring the 58-year- old nfl vet who has worked on the sidelines with the 49ers, raiders, seahawks, falcons, uncles, and texans, before joining the staff of the new york jets. knapp's family released a statement. it reads, greg is an amazing father and husband whose passion for life can be felt in all of his interactions w

. >> and i and elizabeth cook. just when we thought we were in the clear, bay area counties now recommending everyone wear a mask indoors. here's the overview. the peak of this graph shows covid cases at the peak of the epidemic. now we are much better today, but the concerning number is that seven-day positivity rate, now 3.7%. this time last month it was below 1%. >> let's get right to juliette goodrich, live in downtown pleasanton with how this new mask recommendation is going down. >> a lot of people caught by surprise. they thought it was just southern california. now this mask is a recommendation. the masking outdoors is not necessary. oo me set the stage for you. we were in downtown pleasanton. a lot of people dining outdoors that are not wearing masks right now. the recommendation to wear masks indoors is simply a recommendation, but a lot of people were under the assumption that if they were vaccinated, they didn't need a mask. >> i'd only heard that it was l.a. county, so it's surprising that it's now up

i am elizabeth cook. >> we learned that brave officer just graduated from the san jose police academy. our reporter has his story. >> reporter: the fire victim actually made it out of the burning building and at the point where you might have thought reasonably that the immediate urgent danger had passed suffered a massive heart attack and thankfully there were three skilled police officers on hand to help. >> the curtains were on fire and the front door had fire around so he knew we couldn't get out that way. >> reporter: the flames chased the victim out of a small window in the back of the apartment and a narrow escape became the least of their worries. >> her heart stopped and she had no pulse and respirations. >> i had her head hunched down and she was not responsive. >> reporter: they found the woman slumped on the ground outside of a neighbor's patio but she wasn't dead but she was dying. >> is that the medical definition of death? >> yes. i guess you can say that. i would say she was technically. she has no pulse and she has no breathing. >> reporter: what transpired over the n

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. now at 11:00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a firsthand look at the increasingly urgent search for a missing bay area jogger. 37-year-old ultra marathon runner phillip disappeared three days ago. he told his wife he was going for a run in the pleasanton ridge regional park on saturday morning and never returned. his car and cellphone were found at the maller ranch staging area. on the phone, a map of the 8-mile route he planned to run. kpix 5's katie nielsen is live -- katie, what's happening right now? >> reporter: it might look here. that's because all of the daytime ground search and rescue crews have gone home, but on the night shift tonight, it's actually crews up in the air. tonight the alameda county sheriff's department is taking over to search efforts from the air, using a drone equipped with infrared cameras. >> we got a good picture here during the daytime. if it cools off at night but yet your body temperature is different than what the ground temperature would be, so it

i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ken bastida., and despite the drought, fire danger, we are about to see it again. illegal fireworks lighting up the skies on the fourth of july and potentially setting off destructive fires. >> kpix 5's katie nielsen is live in the oakland hills where firefighters are literally tossing up roadblocks for holiday revelers, katie? >> reporter: yeah, liz, if you take a look at the hills, you can understand why those firefighters are so concerned. all the brown grass, dry shrubs and parched trees. that's why grizzly peak boulevard will be closed on the fourth of july from -- and centennial drive. in past years, it has been a common place for people to gather to watch fireworks and, in some cases, even to set them off. due to the

. >>> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ken bastida.of californians being tested for covid-19 are now cming back positive. >> that average stood at 1.5% just 30 days ago. the state confirmed another 10,000 new cases in just the past 24 hours. you have to go back to early february to find a one day total that high. >> statewide, about 4100 covid patients are in the hospital, 122 more than there were just yesterday, and 3 1/2 times the number we saw in mid june, right before reopening. >> san francisco is averaging 176 new cases a day. úat

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin. kpix 5's kiet do live in san jose with a story of a man losing patience with a homeless camp on his block, kiet? >> reporter: we're live here at blooming bouquet on coleman near the airport. we're here because the business owner says he's been hit for a second time this month by burglars and vandals. you know, on one hand you have volunteers doing good work out here, trying to ease some of the pain and suffering. on the other hand, you have a small number of individuals who are homeless causing pain and suffering themselves. >> and the encampments behind us are just making our daily lives really miserable for the past couple months. it's just gotten really aggressive, and we just don't feel safe being here working like we used to. this is how they came in. >> reporter: last week simon said his employees had just pulled out for a delivery around 6:00 p.m. a short time later, they recorded video on their cellphone of this man leaving the shop. they say he used this rock to smash the fro

. >> and i and elizabeth cook. just when we thought we were in the clear, bay area counties now recommending everyone wear a mask indoors. here's the overview. the peak of this graph shows covid cases at the peak of the epidemic. now we are much better today, but the concerning number is that seven-day positivity rate, now 3.7%. this time last month it was below 1%. >> let's get right to juliette goodrich, live in downtown pleasanton with how this new mask recommendation is going down. >> a lot of people caught by surprise. they thought it was just southern california. now this mask is a re

. >>> at evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> and allen martin in for ken bastida tonight. a change in plans now, as apple was gearing up to welcome back workers. here's why -- covid cases across california are on the rise. in just the last month, the state apps positivity rate jumped from 1% to 4.2%. kpix 5 apps len ramirez in cupertino, where apple is reportedly postponing its return to office plans. >> that's right. apple had a pretty conservative plan to begin with. it wasn't planning to bring employees back to its cupertino main campus here until at least september, but now with this covid surge, they're pushing it back at least a month. >> reporter: apple's gigantic so-called spaceship campus no -teto loomeven ll workers. around campus, mostly security people and a few tourists were visible, but very few employees, and according to bloomberg news, the company is pushing back return to office plans from september to october because of rising covid cases. >> there was a new kind of virus called delta.

good evening, elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin. in san francisco, where there is serious talk about requiring proof of vaccination along with your i.d. >> reporter: with the delta variant surgeon, city business leaders are trying to figure out ways to stay open and prevent another covid related should down. the san francisco chamber of commerce has been pulling business owners to see if they'd be open to customers showing vaccination cards to get inside, much like flushing identification at a bar. more than 70% of business owners polled told the chamber they be open to the idea. >> we want to do everything in our power to protect both our employees and our customers, and what that could look like is requiring masks in the workplace or requiring proof of vaccination status. >> reporter: the city of san francisco itself is requiring all employees to get vaccinated, but the department of public health hasn't extended that mandate or even recommendation to private businesses per no other american city has asked for this kind of mandate

. >>> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> on alan martin. some bay area wineries hit hard by recent wildfires are now hit with another problem -- more expensive, or possibly no insurance coverage. >> reporter: last september's glass fire blackened 57,000 acres and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses. among them, nearly 3 dozen wineries in napa county alone. >> hi, this is hugh davies. >> reporter: you davies was among the lucky ones. the glass fire burned all around his 230 acre property near calistoga. >> we were able to make it through the fire with all of our buildings intact, and life goes on. we are thankful very much for that. >> reporter: what this year, along with the threat of more devastating wildfires, has come the skyrocketing cost of insurance. or worse, the possibility an insurance carrier dropsy altogether. >> for some of these rural areas that have been visited by fires recent, we have a real challenge of being able to afford fire insurance, or even security. >> reporter: davies says his policy, which he locked in two

that evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm alan martin.to its terms, hoping the deal could be a windows win for both sides. >> the a's say it's not over yet. kpix 5's andrea nakano spoke with the president dave kaval just moments ago and asked him what needs to happen to get both sides back to the table. >> cattle told me this afternoon that he really wished the city council voted on its term sheet it proposed in april. instead, the city voted on a proposal that they came up with and made a lot of changes. now koval says the team has to look over all these changes and then run it through major- league baseball. >> i think we need to analyze what was passed and understand it better, and understand it, how it relates to our original

. >> and i'm andrea nakano in for elizabeth cook.we start with a live look across the bay area, where nearly every county is recommending people to mask up indoors, regardless of vaccination status. just hours ago, napa, monterey, and santa crews counties joined the list. here's why the positivity rate across the state has now taught 4%. it's around 1% -- kpix 5's devin fehely is live in san jose where some businesses are pushing back against the new mask rules. >> one thing business owners and in particular restaurant owners say, they feel like they're caught in the middle between an unpopular mask policy and members of the public who are frankly fed up with restrictions. >> my staff doesn't want to wear masks and i certainly don't. >> reporter: jim says his business is back and better than before the pandemic, but requiring people to wear masks again says, he feels, like a step backwards. >> why should my staff have gotten vaccinated go back to wearing masks? they don't like it. masks are very restrictive, especially in this type o

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> on alan martin.now in southern california, the surge in coronavirus infections is so bad a burbank hospital is reopening its covid ward. >> reporter jeff nguyen is outside that hospital for us. >> liz and ellen, about a month ago covid protocols were lifted at this hospital. now work crews are reinstalling 30 covid rooms. >> reporter: at providence st. joseph medical center in burbank, the windows are being replaced with drywall because this floor is being converted back into a covid ward. the zipper doors and air filters are part of what's called a negative pressure room, which sucks out bad air and pushes it outside. >> in a lot of ways it's a bit like going backwards. >> reporter: chris rice is a nursing manager. he says about six weeks ago he and his coworkers held a celebration, because they had zero covid patients. >> but after the fourth of july, which is when all the family gatherings begin to happen, and all of the restrictions started to get lifted, it started to get that again. >> reporter

good evening, i'm andrea nakano in for elizabeth cooked in a. >> and i'm brian hackney in for alan martincal fire released startling new numbers today. compared to this time last year, there have been 900 more wildfires and over 165,000 more acres burned, just when we thought it couldn't possibly get worse. >> reporter: 2018. the camp fire leads the way in what would become the worst fire year in history in california. until 2020. the fires then more than doubled the damage of 2018. 4% of the state went up in smoke, including 10% of the world's giant sequoia's. is it possible 2021 is even worse yet? >> the potential for it to be worse than 2020 is absolutely there. >> reporter: fire chief lynn thomas schock says we are already be ahead of last year's incendiary pace. >> we burned about 40,000 acres more than we did this time last year. >> reporter: the weather of course has not helped. >> we are seeing triple digit temperatures occurring almost weekly, it seems like. >> reporter: in fact, fire season is lasting about 80 days longer than it did just a few decades ago. so here we are -- >>

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook.e start with disturbing new crime trends in san francisco. >> looking lie that the city where just hours ago the police chief revealed certain violent crimes are spiking here. kpix 5's andria borba on the crime step that has achieved -- has the chief particularly frustrated. >> chief william scott is concerned about the spike in shootings here in the city and county of san francisco in the past six months, just the first part of 2021. he wants to see some improvement in that area as well as some other areas, like burglaries and car break-ins. >> reporter: introducing the midyear crime statistics in san francisco, chief william scott wanted to send this message to criminals. >> you will go to jail, we will catch you eventually. >> reporter: there have already been 26 homicides in san francisco this year, up four from 2020, and the most startling spike of crime is incidents of gun violence. 119 shootings compared to 58 incidents at this point in 2020. while appearing frustrated about arr

i'm elizabeth cook. >> and i am ken bastida.tivity rate rose another half a point in 24 hours. now, at 3.5%. cases are rising so fast in l.a. county, it's bringing back its indoor mask mandate beginning saturday. >>> on the east coast, positive test postpone the start of the yankees' series against the red sox, and the biden administration declared war against vaccine misinformation. >> two thirds of people who are not vaccinated believe common myths about the covid-19 vaccine or think some of those myths might be true. >>> happening right now, sam hill county youth are leading a virtual town hall to answer questions about the vaccine and to encourage their peers to roll up their sleeves. a new ucsf

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook.ioch, where a grass fire spread to e fire broke out just 4:00 p.m. in the area of james donlon boulevard and tamora drive. the flames spread to cars and send residents running from their units before reaching the apartment building. chopper five flew over the scene where fire crews climbed to the top of the units and punched holes in the roofs while smoke poured out. this is new video of the firefighting efforts on the ground. it came into our newsroom in just the past hour. that fire covered a lot of ground before it spread to the building. we are told two children were treated on scene after having trouble breathing. otherwise, there were no injuries. >>> and in alameda county, this fire threatened a home in the hayward hills this afternoon. the flames raced through parched grass just east of mission boulevard near the hayward/union city border. the fire burned right up to the fence line of the property. >>> california's covid surge, driven by the highly contagious

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook >> on alan martin in for ken. the bay area starting on sunday. >> chief meteorologist paul heggen is here tracking those conditions for us. >> spivak still about 48 hours away from any dry lightning forecast that far out is very tricky, but it is a fire weather watch for the entire central valley, more selectively issued around the bay area. mainly the highest elevations, the northbay mountains, the east bay hills, the diablo range and santa crews mountains, especially areas above 2000 feet, where the marine layer that has been very stubborn the last few weeks hasn't had impact because the rain their

. >> and i'm elizabeth cook.ert is in effect until 9:00 tonight due to the lingering triple digit heat and other parts of the state, as well as the fast- growing bootleg fire in oregon, which is threatening transmission lines that fell down into california. >>> let's take a live look at current power demand. you can see that we are right up against the forecasted peak, but still well below what's available. again, that flex alert is in effect until 9:00 tonight. >>> let's bring in chief meteorologist paul heggen. should be a lot easier for the bay area to conserve because it's not so hot here. >> a bit on the chilly side. san francisco made it up to 57 today, the coast only 55. other parts of the state are to bhot. re going these are the high mp

and good evening, i'm juliette goodrich in for elizabeth cook. >> i'm alan martin. there is concern that a smaller homeless encampment in san jose could get a lot bigger, and dozens of people living on land just north of the highway 101/87 interchange. kpix 5's kiet do and on why many others may soon join them. >> as it stands right now, there is no long-term plan for housing all the hundreds of people that are living right near the airport. once that area get swept, there's a good chance all of them are going to come right here. >> reporter: we are talking about 55 acres of prime commercial real estate at the corner of 101 and highway 87, right in the heart of silicon valley. according to the santa clara county tax assessor's office, the three parcels bordered by trimble road, north first street and 101 are owned by none other than apple. the homeless encampments now have about 30 people and counting. if lynn shipman looks familiar, it's because we first met her a year and a half ago, when she was living in an rv in front of another billion-dollar tech giant, tesla

milestone for those who have lost disability due to illness or disease or an accident and as elizabeth cookeports, it is thanks to bay area scientists and a 38-year- old man. >> reporter: the man in the wheelchair wants to be known only by his nickname, but what poncho and ucsf have accomplished speaks volumes. 18 years ago poncho was paralyzed by a severe stroke after a car crash. >> when he had that stroke and woke up from that accident, he couldn't move his arms or legs. and he couldn't talk anymore. >> reporter: his thoughts were intact with the signals couldn't get out of his brain. this neurosurgeon and this engineer were part of the team that then changed his life. >> he was the first participant in this new trial. >> reporter: three years ago the scientists implanted a thin sheet of electrodes, smaller than the size of a credit card and this was over a special area of his brain. >> it was placed on the part of the brain that controls the ability to speak and what i mean by that is areas that control the muscles and move the lips and the jaw and tongue and atlantics. >> reporter: res

crucial 6 percent threshold said why the countries central bank, elizabeth per item has more now for new delhi 12 year old shelba cooked flat bread for her family on a fire made of wood and dried cow dung. her mother sony urns just over $3.00 a day when she gets work, the vegetable farms that surround their home. but she says they can't afford to buy gas for cooking. as much guillory is done, but the day that it's really hard right now to take care of my family prices are going up lentils, $1.30 kilo who's going to eat that. we don't buy anything to eat and we only eat the vegetables which grow in the fields and don't buy anything else because of the rising prices. i've had the prize of essential items has been increasing in india during the past year. cooking oil by 30 percent fruits and vegetables by 12 percent and lentils by 10 percent. and that has had a big impact in the country with average income as the equivalent of about $5.00 a day. one reason for the higher price of food is the cost to transportation failure. the ones who the roots are not for the poor because their prices are skyrocketing and even vegetable

but to learn to cook and clean and case her free education stops. and she'll have to find work. elizabeth koran m. algae 0. new denny. the middle east has always loved bricks and mortar shopping. mostly because of family. owns conglomerates controlled by the old guards, but a younger generation has been pushing the boundaries with e commerce, with huge success, with rights hailing up, carry me being snapped, felt by uber and silk dot com, falling to amazon. and the panoramic has accelerated the shift old line for chauffeur's. i'm cities of like one company that has managed to raise $24000000.00 from the likes of south georgia. 80 and investment funds is open search. the man based mobile 1st classified marketplace claims to have $65000000.00 consumers across the region and sells goods worth around $30000000000.00 a year. so let's talk and i will call don't above the phones are and managing director of investment group. i mean a group, he's also chairman of open 6. great to talk to you to a know you own many of the middle east talk e commerce sites and talk of course about open soup, sell a