this could make gilroy a key hub for transportation. kpix 5's len ramirez tells us that is ready to take full advantage. >> reporter: gilroy is not just envisioning this as a stop, but rather a transit hub of the future that is going to link the bay area with monterey bay as well as the central valley. and of course, southern california. >> this is the historic gilroy train station. this building, no matter what high-speed rail is doing around it, will not be touched. >> marine blankley says her town wants to protect its past while moving into the future with high-speed rail. >> i believe this will be transformative for the community. ac po through gilroy station before heading across pacheco pass into the central valley. it is hoped to spur future development of a multi mode gilroy transportation hub. >> this will be a connector for bus and rail to monterey, to the east. north to san jose. and it is going to help so much moving people. >> reporter: gilroy resident says it all looks good on paper. >> it would be like having an airport t

build the so-called gilroy data center.ls are being hammered out, but it will likely be several buildings totaling around 500,000 square feet two, quote, meet the increased demand of the digital economy. silicon valley eat your heart out. >> would you say that gilroy is having a moment right now? >> i think gilroy has had a moment for quite some time. i think it's time that silicon valley finally recognized that the southernmost city in silicon valley is a certainly open for business and has so much to offer. >> reporter: peters is gilroy's voicemail and also vice council of the silicon valley leadership group. he says they have been working for years to attract big tech but they will not rush projects. >> it is not opening the floodgates and come on and. >> we want to be very thoughtful , as we are with every applicant that comes to our city, and we certainly want to work with them, but we want to make sure it is a good fit for both partners. >> reporter: the gilroy data center is just down the street from another large pr

. >> gilroy garlic festival organizers say farewell to the large event. what challenges are forcing changes. >> tracking showers for the morning commute and possible thunder. hour-by-hour forecast coming up. abc7 news at 11:00 starts now. >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc7 news. >> when it is happening to you, so many things are running through your head. >> uc berkeley students not quite easy after the multi-hour lockdown that took place on campus. classes will be back to normal tomorrow as investigators say today's issue is resolved. it was tense for a time. i'm dan ashley. abc7 reporter tim johns was on campus and spoke with several students. >> the sound of sirens greeted thousands of students thursday morning. the campus implemented a replace order around 10:00. it would last for hours. >> it was definitely a scary experience. >> school officials received information an individual affiliated with the university posed a serious and credible threat to others on campus. sky 7 video shows armed police officers

we're down to 59 in san jose for the high. 61 in gilroy. east bay, not too many differences here. 61 in antioch. 58 in pleasanton. 57 in redwood city. san francisco, 55 downtown. 52 in the marina. 65 in napa. novato, 57. we are going to stay with a pattern similar to this as we head all the way through this week. the way the storm track is setting up, it's going to be just to the north of the bay area. it's going to bitterly in the rain chances, also this colder weather back into the bay. you'll see by wednesday's forecast looking at more showers moving in primarily to the north bay by wednesday night and a chance of spotty rain thursday mainly for the north bay. you see my seven-day forecast in san francisco, chance on friday. best chance on saturday with 0.05 inches. temperatures in the 50s to 60s. inland valleys through the 60s all the way to saturday. then by sunday and monday we get it back up into the 70s. i mean, this is, like, mind-boggling weather compared to what we had last week for sure. >> what a huge change. >> big time. >> go

they're asking the question, who's to blame for the cancellation of the gilroy garlic festival. a lot of finger pointing going on right now. the mayor of gilroy is responding to some of the rumors surrounding the events demise of what was easily the city's largest most high-profile event during the year for second, talk to the mayor who says that there is more to the story. >> the backlash is just it's from the pain that our communities feeling gilroy. mayor murray blankley says the city has taken some of the heat after many pointed fingers at the city online, blaming it for the cancellation of the gilroy garlic festival. as we know it. >> however, mayor blankley put out a statement on thursday setting dwindling cash reserves impacting the associations ability to put on the large event. >> i believe the association to some degree was also kicking the can down the road, trying to figure out what to do about the development that encroached around christmas hill park because that was the beginning of the inability to accommodate. >> people, all those people coming to the garlic fes

. >> gilroy garlic festival organizers say farewell to the large event. what challenges are forcing changes. >> tracking showers for the morning commute and possible thunder. hour-by-hour forecast coming up. abc7 news at 11:00 starts now. >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc7 news. >> when it is happening to you, so many things are running through your head. >> uc berkeley students not quite easy after the multi-hour lockdown that took place on campus. classes will be back to normal tomorrow as investigators say today's issue is resolved. it was tense for a time. i'm dan ashley. abc7 reporter tim johns was on campus and spoke with several students. >> the sound of sirens greeted thousands of students thursday morning. the campus implemented a replace order around 10:00. it would last for hours. >> it was definitely a scary experience. >> school officials received information an individual affiliated with the university posed a serious and credible threat to others on campus. sky 7 video shows armed police officers

it's our thing in gilroy and we all love it. and we lose a lot of business because of it. >> the steep decline of the festival is easily traceable to the 2019 mass shooting that left three people dead and 17 injured. the festival was cancelled in 2020. and a small drive through event followed. people we talked to say that shooting changed everything. >> you haven't been back since? >> yeah. >> any reason why? >> i feel like -- you know, there might be somebody out there who is harm you or anything like that. >> the truth is, the buck stops with the city. >> ken of christopher ranch one of the major garlic companies in the world and family helps start the festival in 1979, says the city let the festival down, requiring $10 million of insurance coverage. >> attendance could have been improved. bussing could have been better. but the insurance requirements the city was asking for the festival were incredibly cost prohibitive. and there's no way that any festival or organization could pull something off with those restraints. >> we

yeah, the gilroy garlic festival.estival not happening this summer and they're telling us maybe never again. >> the board of directors is talking about pandemic-related problems along with financial problems. all that was a big factor. one example bought very high cost of the insurance being required by the city. in a statement, the board says that gilroy work requires a minimum general liability coverage of 1 million dollars for any event. some city parks, city streets, sidewalks, parking lot, city buildings are taking place in any city facility, but it adds they're requiring much more from the gilroy garlic festival and for the record, the association does have insurance coverage of 1 million dollars first. the festival, if you recall, it was canceled in because of the pandemic. and then, you know, last year. >> it was a drive-thru event, but also in a tragic shooting left 3 people dead, 17 injured. and the board says that the garlic festival will never be the huge event it used to be, but maybe someday it might be

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. >>> the old gilroy transition has been around for more than 100 years. but it has never seen anything like it is about to happen. over the next decade or so, high-speed rail is just approved for gilroy. of the transportation hub of the future that some are calling transformative. >>> let onshore winds across the bay area. today, that means warmer temperatures. 5 to 10 degrees warmer. temperatures going up over the next few days. we will take a (music throughout) under district attorney gascón, i prosecuted car break-ins. all repeat offenders, often in organized crime rings. but when chesa boudin took office, he dissolved the unit and stopped me from collaborating with the police on my cases. now home and car break-ins are on the rise because repeat offenders know they can get away with it. chesa boudin is failing to do his job. there's a better way to keep san francisco safe. recall chesa boudin now. >>> google now says it wants to protect your personal information to help you from becoming a victim of identity theft and fraud. kpix 5 anchor with how the

wha they say the gilroy garlic festival has come to an end. >>> then record low numbers at the coliseum. does negotiations over a new ball park have anything to do with it? >>> and he's a martial arts master. this weekend a behind the scenes look at the exhibit in honor of bruce lee. for we'll hear from lee's daughter. >>> good evening. this is nbc news tonight. i'm audrey asistio. it's been a gorgeous earth day, right? a live look at storm ranger now. looks cloidy. still scanning. not a lot of activity on the radar. this last storm system did bring a lot of fresh snow to the sierra overnight. some parts of the mountains got nearly two feet of snow. here's a live look along 80 near kingvale where some of the snow is already starting to melt. let's bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. i recall you were urging everyone don't drive the sierra at least until after this morning. how is the snow pack looking? >> it's not going to get us back to 100% of normal but about 41% of normal in the central sierra. 37% northern sierra. dismal when you look at it overall. but good news to keep the

gilroy's mayor says the city will not remove a city council member from office over a deadly shooting at a halloween party at her home last year. >> an independent investigator that the city hired found the gilroy councilwoman rebeca armendariz helped plan the party miners were drinking at the event the night ended with 4 teenagers shot. one died. another was left seriously wounded. the city of gilroy says community members have been asking if the council member loser spot over the shooting, but the city says it can only cite her for breaking eunice abul codes and it will not remove her title. but the council woman and the city of gilroy are facing civil cases in court over the events that night. that our coronavirus coverage and the city of philadelphia is reinstating its indoor mask mandate ahead of the busy weekend upcoming. the city's health commissioner says businesses will have a week now to give customers a heads up before the mandate goes back into effect on monday of next week. this comes as the city's reporting, more than a 50% increase in positive covid cases over the past

what has been a tradition in gilroy for 42 years, but the gilroy garlic festival will not be returning this year and may never return to what it once was. ktvu mark sayers in gilroy with a look at the decision and what it means for the local community. christmas hill park here in gilroy is the center of the action every summer, but the pandemic the shooting in 2019, and changes in insurance markets have made it impossible for organizers to continue the tradition. garlic shrimp is always a top attraction at the gilroy garlic festival, with chef sending flames high into the sky. people come from near and far to christmas hill park to have fun and celebrate the town known as the garlic, capital of the world. but it's all coming to an end. we've worked hard to try to, you know , overcome the challenges that we have currently and we just couldn't get over that. board member tom klein says the event has actually been losing money for much of the last decade bility to get the kind of insurance required for the venue. it makes it impossible to continue in its current form. that business model

the gilroy area also. notice the temperature change. it is a little cooler to start, but by the afternoon we will be warming up. let's take a look at the forecasts highs for today. it actually will be in the 70s, very spring like around here. a little bit more normal as high pressure starts to dominate in our forecast. that will help keep us dry. look at 72 degrees in san jose. down through morgan hill, 74. 73 degrees in gilroy. it will be a pleasant afternoon. in through the east bay, some of the warmer spots include antioch at 77 degrees. in through pleasanton, 72. look at concord, 76. in through san francisco, it will be a really beautiful day in the city. take advantage of it. 65 degrees. a little breezy right now with winds from the west, about 17 miles per hour. but look at north bay temperatures today. in the mid 70s. a really nice day. out through sonoma, 75. santa rosa, 73. let's look at how we're doing so far. of course, you are wondering probably how does the rain help us out. santa rosa, so far a little over 25 inches but no

tonight, the mayor of gilroy is responding to some of the rumors surrounding the dub eyes of what was easily the city's largest and most high-profile event. good evening, everybody. thanks for being with us tonight here on kron, 4 news at 9. i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis. the festivals association. >> made the announcement last week. they put the blame on the city citing rising insurance costs. tonight, kron 4 s taylor bisacky spoke to mayor murray blankley who says there's more to the story. >> the backlash is just it's from the pain that our community is feeling. you're mayor. murray blankley says the city's taken some of the heat after many pointed fingers at the city online, blaming it for the cancellation of the gilroy garlic festival. as we know it. >> however, mayor blankley put out a statement on thursday setting dwindling cash reserves impacting the associations ability to put on the large event. >> i believe the association to some degree was also kicking the can down the road, trying to figure out what to do about the development that encroached around christmas hi

. >>> a developing story in gilroy tonight. police have discovered the body of a woman found in a canal. it was spotted earlier today. you can see our sky ranger was overhead. this is on murray avenue in gilroy. you see the map here. near 101 between the gilroy premium outlets and st. louis hospital. no word on how that woman died. anyone with information is urged to contact gilroy pd. >>> new at 11:00, twitter adding a new feature that will allow users to remove themselves from conversations. the social media giant announced it's experimenting with an unmentioning option. in a tweet twitter said it will be a way for users to protect their peace. the feature's only available to some users right now but it will be rolled out to everyone in the future. >>> a live look in san francisco where activists and leaders are celebrating more money for the aapi community. $14 million in state grants are headed to the bay area. organizations here that serve the aapi community. that's just a small piece of a historic $166 million in statewid

. >> a lot of people asking who is to blame for the cancellation of the gilroy, garlic festival. there's a lot of finger pointing going on. and now the mayor of gilroy is responding to some of the rumors surrounding the demise of what was easily that city's largest most high-profile event. all 4 say that sacking talked to the mayor who says that there's a lot more to this story. >> the backlash is just it's from the pain that our community is feeling gilroy. mayor murray blankley says the city has taken some of the heat after many pointed fingers at the city online, blaming it for the cancellation of the gilroy garlic festival. as we know it. >> however, mayor blankley put out a statement on thursday setting dwindling cash reserves impacting the associations ability to put on the large event. >> i believe the association to some degree was also kicking the can down the road, trying to figure out what to do about the development that encroached around christmas hill park because that was the beginning of the inability to accommodate. >> people, all those people coming to the garli

it has been a tradition in gilroy for 42 years , but the gilroy garlic festival will not be returnings year and we never again be what it was ktvu. south bay reporter mark sayer is in goal roy with a look at the decision and also what it means for the local community. garlic shrimp is always a top attraction at the gilroy garlic festival, with chef sending flames high into the sky. people come from near and far to christmas hill park to have fun and celebrate the town known as the garlic, capital of the world. but it's all coming to an end. we've worked hard to try to, you know , overcome the challenges that we have currently and we just couldn't get over that. board member tom klein says the event has actually been losing money for much of the last decade. but with no revenue during the pandemic, the shooting in 2019 and an inability to get the kind of insurance required for the venue. it makes it impossible to continue in its current form. that business model here at christmas hill was just not sustainable for us any longer, just because the houses showed up. we couldn't park here.

a big change has been announced for the gilroy garlic festival. what we learned about the event's future. the rain isn't done yet. more wet weather moves in. this is a live look at storm ranger. you can see the green bands picking up. rain here, snow in the sierra. right now, chaps are required on interstate 80. >> let's get to jeff. >> you know it's active when you have the red sweep. it scans and gives us real live data. there's two spots to watch out for. moderate and heavier rainfall in evergreen. it's been spotty in nature. and the second zone we're dealing with here, is about to rosa, ronnert park. as we head into the overnight hours, we have a chance of isolated thunderstorms. another band will reform here and the early morning commute, at 5:00 a.m., small hail and gusty winds. we'll track it through your friday forecast. i want to give you this warning tonight. if you're planning to leave for the sierra tomorrow morning, you may want to change those plans. we have a winter storm warning in effect. avalanche warning and winds of 40 to 80. i

i was able to leave the festival before the kind of the blockade of gilroy started.rough. you can't just turn on netflix and forget i and i started really struggling with my mental health and i'm just wondering since after that, you went through a car accident as well. you can compare, you know, mental wounds to physical wounds. and i'm wondering in your experience, which is harder to recover from where they both equal or what? what do you think? they're both very different. had also same at the same time, physical injuries have such a connection your mental health as well. that and for me when i was going through ptsd with the gilroy shooting, i use a lot of my like fiscal work out some things as a way to cope with my mental health and then that was taken away by the car accident. here's the thing is when you're a car accident. and so you break a bone, you go to hospital. help is there. it's easy. it's visual. you know, they say, oh, well, we'll just fix that. but when you return from the garlic festival, you couldn't see those ones. and that's what really you said

why the mayor of gilroy says it's not the city's fault that the gilroy garlic festival got ther finger pointing going on about who is to blame for the cancellation of the gilroy garlic festival. and now the mayor of gilroy is responding to some of the rumors surrounding the demise. what was easily the city's largest most high-profile event last week. the festivals board of directors said that they will be canceling the festival because of the pandemic and prohibitive insurance requirements from the city. but mayor murray blankley disagree. she says that the festivals associations dwindling cash reserve is impacting their ability to put on the event. tom klein, one of the festival's board of directors said there have been financial hardships when putting on the festival and that only got worse in 2019 because of the mass shooting. he says the vhooting ultimately lead to increased insurance costs. however, the mayor says the city has no control over this. >> public funds cannot be used for private purposes, no matter how wonderful private purposes are. and by the way, the insurance for t

the mayor of gilroy. >> says, well, they're responding to rumors about this event. so let's take a look at what's going on last week. the festivals board of directors said they're canceling the festival for good because the pandemic and also insurance requirements from the city. but the mayor, she disagrees. yeah. she says the festival's organizers have had limited cash >> for years now and it's been impacting their ability to put on this event. one of the festival's board of directors says, yep, there have been financial hardships putting on this festival in the past and it got really bad when 2019 came around there was that mass shooting the shooting, they say ultimately led to an increase in insurance costs. the mayor points out though, the city >> has no control over insurance costs. >> public funds cannot be used for private purposes. no matter how wonderful those private purposes are. and by the way, the insurance for the city of gilroy is not something the city don't rate it herman's either. we belong to an insurance pool. that's how we keep our costs down. a

in a letter to the community, gilroy's mayor said that an investigation is determined that amend ours assisted her son and nephew organizing the event, which included consumption of alcohol by underage guests. she faces 10 citations, including violating gilroy's social host ordinance and failing to obtain a special event permit. and they said that well, it has been heart wrenching to hear pleas from the community to take action against amend or is absent a felony conviction only voters have the power to remove a council member from office. investigators are starting to sift through the charred remnants of a san jose home depot store that was completely destroyed by fire over the weekend. a t f agents, along with other investigators are looking for the cause of the blaze that tore through the store on blossom hill road saturday. firefighters remained on the scene today. looking for hot spots. fire officials say it may have started in the lumber and drywall section of the store . no one was hurt. authorities in venetia are trying to determine the cause of the fire that also broke out on

of love tradition facing major changes what we can expect from future gilroy garlic festivals up next. also ahead tonight, the bay area companies that fortune says are some of the best in the country to work for. and i'm tracking what's left of the showers. a lot of snow still coming down in the mountains and what' 100, and three barrier companies topped the list. san jose bay, cisco systems nabbed the top spot for 2021. this was the second year in a row that the tech giant came in first place. cloud software leaders salesforce, which has its headquarters in san francisco, came in fourth, sliding down from the second place in the previous year and video with headquarters in santa clara took the fifth spot. downtown los altos kicked off its farmers market this evening, and it's ktvu sema gas tells us it's just one way the city is working to bring more food and entertainment to the downtown area. very excited. i've been telling kelly all days back in. farmers market kicked off thursday evening tradition, but this year feels different in a good way like it's a lot more hip, more going on

after several tough years the gilroy garlic festival is canceled. how the city plans to celebrate without the main event. >>> plus, he was back in court. sunny balwani continues to fight fraud charges from his time at theranos. his defense says the issues were not his fault. we'll look at how prosecutors are using his own texts and e-mails against him. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we've got some fog rolling in for tomorrow morning. but how about the rest of the weekend? i'll get you all ready to go for your saturday, sunday, and beyond. coming up in about nine minutes. >>> right now is a double standard in effect at the u.s. border? the uneasy question as ukrainian refugees appear to find smoother entry into the u.s. also, the future of electric car charging could be built into the road itself. we'll show you when we join our viewers in the west for "nightly news." are you looking to renovate your kitchen or bathroom? i'm mike holmes here with ivan from agm renovations thanks mike! too often, homeowners hire the wrong contractor. ivan,

reporting in gilroy. i'm mark sayer, ktvu, fox two news.urants will close for good this weekend. the owners of oliveros will serve their last dinner tomorrow night. officials of the italian restaurant first talked about their plans to shut down last year since they were losing money during the pandemic reported on that but they actually stayed open a bit longer to help out the neighborhood. well as we head into your barrier weekend. looks like your umbrellas get a break, so the recent rainfall has kind of scooted on out to the east, and we have clearing skies right now. what about more rate in our future? well, we're going to look at the forecast model. we're showing you basically a bunch of zeros a little bit of activity up to our north that doesn't dry. into the next week . but what's interesting sometimes maybe. no. may maybe we're on cinco demayo kind of around that time frame some of the forecast model suggesting that we could see a return of us and what weather so that's still a ways out, but something will be watching out for closely

is responding to rumors surrounding the gilroy garlic festival last week.oard of directors for the festival said they're canceling it because the pandemic and insurance requirements from the city. >> yeah. but the mayor disagrees. she says that it's not the city's fault for a festival. organizers have limited cash available and that's impacting their ability to put on the event. one of the festival's board of directors says that there have been financial hardships to be sure when putting on the festival in the past. but they only got worse in 2019 because of the mass shooting that happened says that led to an increase in insurance costs. but >> the mayor says that the there, the city doesn't control over that. >> public funds cannot be used for private purposes. no matter how wonderful his private purposes are. and by the way, the insurance for the city of gilroy is not something the city don't rate it herman's either. we belong to an insurance pool. that's how we keep our costs down. and there are 20 plus organizations in this pool. >> yeah, no matter who

microclimates tomorrow. 75 in morgan hill and gilroy.palo alto and go up the peninsula. mainly upper 60's. mid 60's for downtown. low to mid 60's in the north bay coast. not as breezy as the peninsula coast. along the east bay shore, looking at upper 60's to low 70's. as we move inland, 74-79 degrees. here we are on wednesday. you can see the 60's, 70's and 80's. you can get that offshore breeze. you will have 70's, 80's and 90's. that will be temperatures nearing record highs. probably not quite add record. saturday will be a lot like tomorrow temperature wise, increasing high clouds. you can see you have that onshore breeze, a dry cold front will keep us pretty cool monday also and then those temperatures take off tuesday, wednesday and thursday. it will feel like summer. we will see you next week. it is more than the end of march. if you're in sales, you know all about that. the stock market has been through several ups and downs. through several ups and downs. what are you recommending for muscle pain? based on clinical data, i recom

the mayor of gilroy is responding to some of the rumors around the end of the famous garlic festival. it was the city's largest most high-profile event. kron on's taylor bisacky spoke with mayor murray blakely who says there is more to this story. >>the backlash is just it's from the pain that our communities feeling you. roy mayor murray blankley says the city's taken some of the heat after many pointed fingers at the city online, blaming it for the cancellation of the gilroy garlic festival. as we know it. >>however, mayor blankley put out a statement on thursday setting dwindling cash reserves impacting the associations ability to put on the large event. >>i believe the association to some degree was also kicking the can down the road, trying to figure out what to do about the development that encroached around christmas hill park because that was the beginning of the inability to >>accommodate people. all those people coming to the garlic festival and being able to park right there and walk in and the cost of busing people from 8 farther location was eating into their reserves and

. >>> the gilroy garlic garlic festival is calling it quits. the event is no longer financially sustainable due to rising cost and insurance premiums and the expenses of the festival. >> the truth of the matter is the development is what was eating at the reserves and they were barely able to keep it going. >>> organizers even before the pandemic the festival never really recovered from the deadly shooting on the grounds in 2019. they say they will try to bring it back on a smaller scale if they can find a venue. >>> the warriors are one victory away from advancing to the second round of the nba playoffs. in that is after they outlasted the denver nuggets in game three. >> i am from la and i really like the warriors. i'm going to go to san francisco for spring break. i'm really excited and i hope the warriors win. >> they clinch the series sweep when they play games four saturday afternoon in denver. >>> still to come, san francisco and the new project coming up next. >>> today is a day dedicated to celebrating the earth and the environment. wh

maybe 10 in some places like gilroy. here are some more highs today.your backyard temperature 92 in santa rosa 91 , antioch's 96. morgan hill. i thin

there will be no gilroy garlic festival this year and likely never again. yeah, it's upsetting the hear the world famous event. >> has been postponed indefinitely. now due to a number of issues that they're dealing with. kron four's terisa stasio. >> has details on what led to that tough decision. >> you know, we work hard to. i no way to having a mat and we've just hit. >> hit a wall. basically. that is tom klein, one of the board of directors for the gilroy garlic festival delivering the disappointing news. the festival is a no go this year and quite possibly gone for good, at least the way it once was. you look at the festival. >> especially the last 10 years we were not. and of those 10 years, we didn't make money. we lost money. i'm making in 2018 report $100,000. so you have that and then rolling in the covid, you then have no income besides losing money from covid. there was also increased security demands on the festival following the mass shooting in 2019 where 3 people died. >> and 17 were injured. plus, klein says that the city was asking for add

an independent investigator hired by the city found the gilroy council member rebecca, are men d-ariz helped plan the party miners were drinking at that event. the night ended with 4 teens shot. one died and another was left seriously wounded. the city of gilroy says that community members have been asking if the council member will lose her spot on the council over the shooting. but the city says it can only cite her for breaking city codes. now it won't remove her title, but the council woman and the city of gilroy are currently facing civil cases in court over the events of that night. well, happening right now, the city of benicia is trying to figure out what started a massive fire over the weekend. the city's pier was severely damaged. kron on's charles clifford is there with a look at the progress. how's it going out there? >>well, it's slow going on right now. fire crews, the city are trying to assess the damage and figure out how this fire started. pretty dramatic fire from over the weekend here in benicia. you can see it from miles away. let's going take a look at some video

i was able to leave the festival before the kind of the blockade of gilroy started. and i went home and go, what do i do now? how do i cope with everything i just saw lived through. you can't just turn on netflix and forget i and i started really struggling with my mental health and i'm just wondering since after that, you went through a car accident as well. you can compare, you know, mental to physical wounds. and i'm wondering in your experience, which is harder to recover from where they both equal or what? what do you think? they're both very different. had also same at the same time, physical injuries have such a connection your mental health as well. that and for me when i was going through ptsd with the gilroy shooting, i use a lot of my like fiscal work out some things as a way to cope with my mental health and then that was taken away by the car accident. here's the thing is when you're a car accident. and so you break a bone, you go to hospital. help is there. it's easy. it's visual. you know, they say, oh, well, we'll just fix that. but when you return fr

an independent investigator hired by the city found gilroy council member rebecca arm. and there is helped to plan the party miners were drinking at that party. the night ended with 14 shot. one died and another was left seriously injured. the city of gilroy says community members have been asking if mendez we'll lose her spot on the council over the shooting. the city has cited her and several of her family members for breaking city codes. but it won't remove her title. both the council member and the city of gilroy now facing civil cases in court over the events of that night. and we continue to fall the huge fire at a san jose home depot. that fire broke out around 5.30 saturday evening. as of today, the flames were still smoldering. this home depot is on blossom hill road. it started near the store's lumber supply, forcing people inside to evacuate and people living nearby to shelter in place. it took over 100 firefighters about 6 hours to knock the flames down. thankfully, nobody was hurt. one we spoke to says he's a regular at this home depot and he's never seen t

outside of gilroy, and also in watson. they'll otherwise, you see the deck of clouds over the city of san francisco roughly about 12,000 ft. we have a lot of instability still in the atmosphere so you could still see a stray shower, but mostly for the most part, we've got sunshine that is here in the bay area to stay. for a while. temperatures right now. 60 degrees in santa rosa. we're in the fifties in san francisco, conquered. also san jose. it's a fantastic friday partly sunny skies a slight chance of a shower otherwise northwest winds 10 to 20 mph see this big, beautiful area low pressure right here. not going to affect us at all. we have partly sunny conditions with that stray shower now beginning to push on out mostly sunny skies for the weekend and warmer conditions with this area of high pressure, diverting that storm to the north of us if you're heading to the beach. it's a good looking day to do so and same tomorrow, but we do have a high surf advisory in place until three tomorrow morning. due to those ways, bui

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why the gilroy garlic festival is no more. and what will happen in its place.'re learning tonight about the criminal history of the man who got into it with mike tyson on a plane sfo. when a truck hit my son, i had so many questions about his case. i called the barnes firm. it was the best call i could've made. call the barnes firm now and find out what your case could be worth. ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ >> today we're learning more about the man who mike tyson punched in the face on a plane at sfo earlier this week. several news agencies are reporting that the other guy, the passengers, 36 year-old melvin towns and the 3rd prefers. rob nesbitt has more now on how towns in this had his run-ins with the law before. >> according to court records, townsend has multiple felony offenses that he's been found guilty of serving more than 2 years in prison. time will tell if he or tyson served any jail time for their brawl on a plane at sfo. and san francisco police were called to the airport wednesday night around 10:30pm, after a fight broke out betwee

among those attending, this young woman forced to run for her life at gilroy garlic festival.survivor's guilt and ptsd made moving forward nearly impossible but prosecutors are offering help. >> online resources, events, stories and communities, community forum, reclaim network, so survivors and others impacted like family and friends won't feel isolated, forgotten and without support like i was. >> reclaim network is way to reclaim lives after experiencing a life-changing, traumatic event. >>> fire in san francisco left one firefighter hurt. just before noon west portal and 14th avenues. sky ranger was overhead. investigators say it was accidentally sparked by construction work. three buildings damaged, no homes. injured firefighter is expected to be okay. >>> when you think of eating healthy and climate friendly, lots of fruits and vegetables come to mind but new study finds seafood is often better choice and more climate friendly. as we celebrate earth day this friday, marianne favro looks at options. >> reporter: oysters may not be go-to choice for dinner but study shows m

today gilroy released a 120-page report. outside of today's citations there's little else they can do. >> no, that was the whole point of the statement i was trying to make is to inform the public that this has nothing to do with the scope of council member. >> she plans to appeal, but critics say they plan to double down on calls for her to resign. >>> like him or not, it's impossible ignore him. elon musk, the richest person in the world is the single biggest share holder of twitter. what's happening here? i'm reading headlines that change every few hours. >> for a brief period of time it appeared he was on his way to a seat on the board of directors. then it was announced that musk was not going to join the company's board and warned the company of quote, distractions ahead. what distractions? if he was a board member, he would be unable to buy more than 14.9% of twitter stock, and therefore 14.9% of ownership in the company. now as a non-board member, he can buy a whole lot more. musk buying into twitter has employees an

reggie: the gilroy garlic festival is no more.say that financial challenges are forcing them to reimagine the festival. drew: number five, morning showers at through 9:00 a.m. we will dry out this afternoon and expect sunshine by 4:00 p.m. with 50's and 60's. >> following that commute, if you are using the windshield wiper's, keep your headlights on. the montague expressway is closed because of a fatal accident. jobina: today, the mayor will officially open the new battery open space in presidio. it will connect to cavalry bowl. and another site will open to coincide with it. reggie: elon musk says he has obtained $46.5 billion to finance a twitter to go very deal. this comes a week after he made the initial offer to buy the company. here is our technological correspondent, rebecca jarvis. reporter: elon musk is forging ahead with his bid to buy twitter. the world's richest man confirming in a filing on thursday that he secured $46.5 billion to finance the deal. the plan may also include purchasing some or all of t's stock directl

santa rosa, san jose gilroy in the 90's. gilroy being just below 100 degrees.89 yesterday. so looking at these numbers, not something i think a lot of us want to do again in the good news is even though we're warm today, we're taking a big step back from that. he skies are clear. but even with this, high-pressure ridge still trying to hang on this cold front pushing in just enough tonnage out the high in the energy that it's packing with it, allowing us to cool well into the 70's 80's today, even cooler into tomorrow, saturday and sunday are going to be days with 60's and 70's sunday. you'll start to see some cloud cover in monday morning, although dry, we will see some showers moving through towards the middle of a day on monday. we may have had our first heat wave of the season, but that's not to say we're done with winter weather just yet. look at the snow that will see through the day on monday. the sierra and the rain in the bay area is going to be super welcome highs, barely making it to the 60's for the bay. so this is a cold system clearing through tues

and in a letter to the community, gilroy's mayor said that and investigation is determined. armendariz assisted her son and nephew in organizing the event, which included consumption of alcohol by underage guests. armendariz faces 10 citations, including violating gilroy's social host ordinance and failing to obtain a special event permit. the mayor said that while it's been heart wrenching to hear pleas from the community to take action against her absent affiliated conviction, only the voters have the power to remove a council member from office. we're following a developing story right now. pg and e says today's blustery winds have left nearly 10,000 bay area customers without electricity. here's a look now at the power outages a list by the area. the most affected area is the peninsula right now where there are more than 3300 customers without power. there are nearly 3000 affected customers in the south bay nearly 1700 in san francisco , about 1600 in the north bay and more than 400 customers without power in the east bay. in total, the outages affecting nearly 24,000 cu

. >> plus, a major change for a bay area festival, the gilroy garlic festival no more. the reason organizers say it is not coming back. this is "today in the bay." >>> good friday morning. thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. if you recently got a smart tv, you can watch us live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv, and online. >> what a forecast we've had over the last few days, and it looks like we could see some rain continuing. >> yeah, we still have plenty of activity on the radar but the last is expected to move out by midday. let's take a live look at downtown san jose. it is off to a much calmer start, but you can see the line of showers just off the coast. we're not completely in the clear just let. there is still a lot of instability that can bring more rain, but also sierra snow still in the forecast right now. not a great day to commute to lake tahoe. we'll talk about the winter storm warnings for the sierra, rainfall totals coming up, but first let's check in with mike. >> we have news breaking out of the south ba

i think that gilroy 97 is pretty impressive.om 100 degrees in april. early april happened by 80 degrees pretty warm, but the coast, san francisco didn't set a record, but they hit 86. here's the story. the high pressure weakens starting in about six hours. and then we cool off starts cooling tomorrow cools further on the weekend with the chances and the potential for some showers. some rain let's take a look at it. here's the long range model. here's the cooling. so here's thursday. see that line of white . that's just a weak front, but it cools things off. so there's your cooling for tomorrow's like five degrees. and then you watch everything coming north and then sunday, right there monday into tuesday, a good chance for some showers and then kind of little something low latitude there on thursday, so hopefully it kind of keeps going anyway. either way, we've got a pretty good shot at a few showers out there, which i think is something we would all like to see. especially it. will it help the drought? no but it again it's all

they approved a new section of the line passing through gilroy. that station would link to the bay area to monterey bay and southern california. gilroy's player and local businesses say it will be a big boost for the city. >> we are a secret town that a lot of people, you know, remember us from the garlic festival, that would be a plus for this town. >> it should begin in the next two years. >>> meanwhile, starting on monday, cal-train will scale back service for electrication work. there will be 88 daily trains down from 104 and single track between broadway and hillsdale. bullet service will be suspended during that same period. >>> affordable student housing is hard to find in berkeley. now, residents of one of the most affordable complexes near cal are facing a shift. kpix5 explains why their rent could be raised by 55%. >> reporter: there is no doubt affordable student housing is hard to find around the berkeley campus, now, hundreds of units may go off of the market due to a safety issue. >> if we don't do what they are asking us to do we ar

person. >> reporter: kpix5. >> story makes you feel so good. >> yes it does. >>> new at 11:00, the gilroy garlic festival is calling it quits. a surprise announcement, the event is no longer financial substainable due to rising costs and insurance premiums and the expense of busing people to the venue at christmas hill park. >> the truth of the matter is that the development around christmas hill park is what was eating at the garlic festival association's reserves and they were barely able to keep that going. >> organizers say even before the pandemic the festival never really fully recovered from that deadly shooting on the grounds back in 2019. they say they will try to bring it back on a smaller scale if they can find a venue. >>> a rare tornado warning sent people scrambling for cover. while some people in valley springs tried to catch a funnel cloud on camera, others took shelter in this convenient store. >> when you got this warning on your phone, what did you think? >> i thought it was a joke or something. i never caught one. >> let's bring in chief meteorologist, paul, pouring, y