jackie ward is live with a look at how much more it's going to cost drivers. jackie-- >> reporter: part of the money collected from drivers will be used to maintain this 80-year- old bridge but most of the money will be used to make up for a budget shortfall. fast track drivers will pay $6.75. they'll continue to get invoices maled to them. carpoolers have the best deal. [ no captioner audio ] >> now to a live look outside. the morning rush is about to start with drivers hitting the roads heading to work. we are monitoring what you can expect including the forecast. it just depends on where you look in the bay area. you'll see fog. and other areas not so much. >>> we were just having some technical difficulties with jackie ward's microphone. and you've been following the toll increases. >> 25 cents more today. >>> let's head over to roberta. >>> it's a seasonal weather pattern and indicative for the month of july. hi, everybody. it's the june gloom that's seeped in to the bay area. and we will stay cloudy at the coast. and we'll have clearing around the bay. an

kpix 5's jackie ward is live in san jose on the claims they plan to file. jackie. >> reporter: as you can tell behind me, clean-up is far from over here in the coyote creek neighborhood in san jose. there's a long list of flood victims we expect to hear from later this morning. the press conference is happening here at rocksprings park because this was one of the areas that had to be evacuated last winter. a lot of horror stories came out of the situation. thousands of people in the coyote creek area lost everything and some of those people are suing the santa clara valley water district, the city of san jose, and santa clara county. the city of san jose estimates the flooding caused $73 million in damage. and since march, the city has hosted public hearings to talk about its responsibilities and how all of this happened in the first place. san jose mayor sam liccardo has spoken to us in the past about how the city had failed its residents and how they should have done a better job of evacuating people safely. jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> a santa cruz county tow

. >> kpix 5's jackie ward is live at the scene with the latest. jackie. >> reporter: anne and michelle, although the fire has been out for hours, as you can see behind me firefighters are still here on the scene just making sure that it doesn't flare back up. the fire on williams road in san jose quickly escalated to three alarms by 3 a.m. it was an abandoned boarded up building but homeless may have been sleeping there. >> we are overhauling and doing fire watch until dawn. we have a total of 6 companies still here. about 65 firefighters and command staff is a three-alarm fire, with no injuries to report. >> reporter: at this point the fire department doesn't believe fireworks caused this. the captain with san jose says it started from inside the building. but the fire remains under investigation. so as you just heard the captain say, his crews will be out here for a few more hours this morning. in san jose, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> developing overnight, a new york police officer was shot and killed while sitting in her patrol car. it happened in

kpix 5's jackie ward live outside twitter headquarters in san francisco with more about the big online protest. jackie. >> reporter: it's being called a day of action and twitter is just one of thousands of companies that are trying to drum up support for this day. amazon, google, facebook, those are just some that are joining twitter to push back against big internet providers like at&t, verizon and comcast. under the obama administration, tough open internet protections were put into place to prevent providers from blocking or slowing down access to web content. but since president trump took office, the fcc under its new republican leader wants to get rid of them. >> turn the internet into what they have done to cable tv to charge you an extra 5 bucks a month to access netflix or use twitter a lot wouldn't it be great if you could pay us another $5 a month to access it faster? >> reporter: the fcc's website says it's exploring how best to honor its long-standing commitment to internet freedom and is accepting public comment until monday, the 17th. in a statement released on twitter'

. >>> kpix 5's jackie ward continues our team coverage with people who had to rush out of their homes when the fire broke out. jackie. >> reporter: for a while, a lot of people who live around here didn't know where to go, what to do or where to seek shelter. for a long time they just knew they had to get out of their building and get out fast. >> we had to wake up, get your stuff and get out. >> holy crap, that's the biggest fire i have ever been this close to. >> reporter: she was one of hundreds looking for a safe place to go while this fire ripped through the structure adjacent to her home. >> it's giant. it was all the way up into the sky. i thought, maybe i should get away from this thing as far as possible but i have two dogs, and so we were trying to find a place that ash wouldn't fall on them while we were walking around. >> reporter: this family was trying to find a safe respite, too. they just moved to oakland from new york two months ago with their baby, dog and cat. >> the scariest part is the crane was going back and forth swinging wildly at 5:30. so that was bad. >> it

kpix 5's jackie ward is live.. where it got approval to open.. with the latest. jackie?> a group will try to stop a controversial marijuana shop from opening in san francisco. kpix 5's jackie ward is live, where it's already got approval to open. >> reporter: right, so this could be the only medical cannibis dispensary in the sunset district as long as plans to block it don't happen by the pacific justice institute. pji is an organization that the southern poverty law center has called a hate group for its anti-lgbt and conservative christian views. pj i says it has signatures from 40% of the property owners that are within 300 feet of the future dispensary site and who are worried about how close the school and church are to this site. this isn't the first time people who live around 32nd and noriega have expressed concerns. >> their quality of life will be impacted negatively. >> six years on market street, we have never had a police incident. we have had no complaints from merchants, from neighbors or parents. we are across the street from a lutheran church that opera

so kpix 5's jackie ward is trying to get more information from oakland fire. what can you tell us, jackie? >> reporter: michelle, oakland fire isn't saying much. i'm at grand and valdez so i'm on the other side of where katie is. right now they are focused on putting out the fire. the flames have significantly decreased since i have been here since my drive from san francisco over here and the smoke is now white. at one point it was an incredibly dark gray black smoke that was -- you could see from the bay bridge basically from the time i got on the bridge in san francisco, you could see just how big this was. sorry. someone is yelling in the background here. as we approached oakland we could feel how hot this fire is because everything was so intense. the ash, soot and debris is for blocks. i'm doing facebook live now. as i take steps i'm crunching the debris that's from the building. we are trying to get more information. they have a huge job on their hands. >> thank you. >>> jackie is talking about the flames dying down and decreasing significantly. we can j

jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> it is 6:57.nications director anthony scaramucci offers an explanation after a vulgar interview published in the new yorker magazine. the not so nice words were aimed at white house chief of staff reince priebus whom he accused of being a paranoid schizophrenic. scaramucci says he sometimes uses colorful language and promised to refrain in the future. >>> this morning, one of the men charged in last year's deadly warehouse fire in oakland returns to court. max harris his lawyer expected to seek his release from jail on bail. >>> a fan of milo yiannopoulos is dropping her lawsuit. it was filed against the board of regents at uc-berkeley, the mayor of berkeley, and others, overalled civil rights and first amendment violations. >>> an uphill legal battle against the raiders. the group of fans known as forever oakland is trying to cope the team here. they want the group that runs the coliseum to vote to support fans in a potential lawsuit. >>> later today, the golden gate bridge authority could take

kpix 5 jackie ward is live in pacifica with how to celebrate safely. jackie? >> reporter: and we are always such downerses, right? we always tell you about the bad stuff going on. we have been talking a lot about illegal fireworks. but we have good news for you this july 4th. this is one of the places where you can legally buy fireworks because they allegedly don't explode or produce an aish effect. safe and sane figures legally sold in pacifica. pacifica is one of the 10 places in the bay area that sells these along with san bruno, and roanoke park and petaluma and a few others. sparklers fountains and smoke balls an all kinds of fun stuff. according to the sf gate a lot of the crews that sell the fireworks partially do to to help offset public safety costs that incurred during the holiday weekend. for example nonprofits in pacifica that sell them include an 8% surcharge. and police here wrote in a report to the city council that it costs their department about $33,000 to protect the city through july 4th. and the national council on fireworks safety is remin

kpix 5's jackie ward is live outside twitter headquarters in san francisco with details.d morning. >> reporter: good morning. when you go online today, expect to see an array of messages on in day of action on at least 70,000 sites, twitter being one of them. amazon, google, facebook, snapchat, airbnb are also joining this fight against the fcc thanks to regulations put in place in 2015 under president obama internet service providers have to treat all online content the same. the new republican leader of the fcc wants to change those rules which would allow telecommunications and cable companies to slow down, speed up or charge more for access to different sites and services. >> internet users all over the country said no, that actually sounds like a terrible idea. >> the fcc first announced these changes in april. the chairman said the regulations in place have a negative impact on businesses and decreases innovation and investment in infrastructure. a snapchat spokesman said: >> reporter: the exact display of defiance will vary among different internet users and sites

let's get to kpix 5's jackie ward who just arrived on scene. >> reporter: the fire is out. but san jose fire says their crews will be here for hours. take a look at what's still going on behind me. as you can see a lot of fire trucks and fire engines are still here. the fire started around 2:20 this morning and developed into a three-alarm fire. this two-story building on williams road is abandoned and boarded up. it used to be a dentist office. witnesses say they think they saw homeless people fleeing from the building and the captain of the san jose fire department says that the homeless population is a problem here in the city of san jose. san jose fire can confirm that fireworks did not cause this to happen. the fire started in the inside somehow. an exact cause hasn't been determined. so thankfully there are no injuries to report. and right now fire crews are just monitoring the scene hoping that no hot spots flare up. in san jose, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> the 4th of july celebrations around the bay area went well into the night. here's a look at some of the fireworks

kpix 5's jackie ward is live in san jose with the details. reporter: parking is actually getting more difficult around here because there are no longer dumpsters. instead, it's just piles of trash because the community is still trying to rebuild nearly five months after it was under water and its residents had to be evacuated. this morning, some of those people are putting the blame on the city of san jose, the water district and the county. the rocksprings park neighborhood was under four feet of polluted water at one point, and there are still about 100 people displaced from their homes. a plan to protect this area from flooding in the future is in the works including floodwalls and levees upstream of coyote creek. but residents are skeptical because of what has happened in the past. san jose mayor sam liccardo has said that although there is still work to be done, there's still about 100 people that are displaced, he wanted to recognize the fact that at one point, nearly 14,000 had to find temporary housing. in san jose, jackie ward, kpix

in pacifica, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> well, we will simplify it.lenty of places to watch a professional fireworks show, berkeley and san rafael and napa, 9:30 p.m. we have a full list at www.cbs- sf.com on the web site. >>> in danville, hundreds of people are getting ready for the fourth of july festivities. kpix 5 jessica flores is live with all of the details. and all of the chairs. jessica? >> reporter: that is right. 40,000 people are expected here later today. to watch the parade. right now, are you going to see hups of chairs. take a look, people have been claiming their spot, doing it in creative ways and putting the chairs out with tape, and with chalk and making sure people don't steal their spot before they come here, and watch the parade later today. now the city has instituted a couple new rules. they opened hart street to allow people to put out chairs since 6:00 p.m. last night and this year the city asks people not to use chalk or tape to claim their spot, but we have of course seen people doing that. they have been breaking the rule

jackie ward reports. >> reporter: yeah. that's right, michelle and anne.would be the only medical cannibis dispensary in the sunset district if plans to open it don't get blocked by a group called the pacific justice institute. pji has been called a hate group by the southern poverty law center. and its anti-lgbt and conservative christian views, it says it has signatures from 40% of the property owners within 300 feet of the future dispensary site and who are worried about how close the school and church are to this site. this isn't the first time people who live around 32nd and noriega have expressed concerns. >> i do not think all san francisco residents need marijuana for their sickness. i wonder if this is because there is a big profit for the owners. >> exposure of marijuana to the grandchildren when walking around in the family oriented area. >> reporter: the dispensary will be run by former oakland mayor jean quan and her doctor husband. he already serves as a medical adviser for apothecarium the business that sponsors the new dispensary and that h

. >> toxic algae blooms prompted several warnings, and jackie ward is there now with a threat to people and pets. hey jackie. .. where l launching th >> reporter: yes, the last time inspectors came out to discovery bay they got the all clear here in the eastern part of the bay, but you can still see the algae here. the water is essentially clear at the discovery bay yacht club where lots of people are launching their boats and enjoying the hot weather where it's cool. part of reason the algae isn't to bad here is because it's closer to the fast-moving water, but that's not the case near newport drive. >> if you have good flows and your neighbors don't block off the flow it cleans the water and takes it out and around and keeps it moving. >> reporter: jacob has lived in discovery bay for 18 years, and where he's located the algae isn't bad, but it is annoying. >> it gets in places and it's not good the leave your boat in the water and suck it up, it's not good. >> reporter: the sludge-like blue-green muck can be more than bothersome. the california department of public health says you ri

. >> kpix 5's jackie ward explains, residents are now taking action and filing claims. >> reporter: it's been nearly five months since this neighborhood was under four feet of polluted water, and as you can see, this neighborhood is still covered in filth. people are living among it. they are putting the blame on the city of san jose, the santa clara valley water district and the county of santa clara. at one point, san jose says 14,000 of its residents had to be evacuated and find temporary housing. the san jose mayor admitted the city failed to provide adequate warning to people about the likelihood of the flood and that more should have been done. amanda haas is the attorney representing the victims and says some of those who were displaced still need a stable place to call home. >> it's good to hear some acknowledgment that there was -- they could have done more and sooner. but until people have been compensated with no warning, there's more to do. >> reporter: since march san jose talked about a plan to extend floodwalls and levees upstream of coyote creek in order too prevent this

kpix 5's jackie ward reports they accuse the officers of manipulating a sex scandal investigation. >> reporter: as three officers were inside getting promoted, these protestors were outside voicing their disagreement. a group of about 20 people from the anti-police terror project held signs in front of the greek orthodox cathedral in oakland today. they said by being here, they are holding oakland city leaders accountable. the anti-police terror project claims the officers getting rewarded today were involved in trying to cover up the police sex scandal involving a minor. they believe the officers failed to properly investigate the scandal and even encouraged the teen sex worker formerly known as celeste guap to destroy evidence in the case. a representative for the protestors said they are putting the chief and her department on notice. >> she is interested in ending the good old boy's network, she is interested in business as usual. that's what they are doing here. it's been given the code sign by libby schaaf. we are here letting them know, we see what they're doing and we won't st

jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> republican senators just wrapped up a working lunch with president trump to talk about the failed plan to repeal and replace obamacare. weijia jang reports. >> reporter: president trump told republican senators, it's time they did the job they were elected to do. >> for seven years you promised the american people that you would repeal obamacare. people are hurting! inaction is not an option! >> reporter: the president pushed the senators to sign off on the latest bill which repeals obamacare but delays it for two years giving senators time to figure out a replacement. >> any senator who votes against starting debate is really telling america that you're fine with obamacare. >> reporter: but moderates and conservatives can't agree on the best way to move forward. >> until there's a vote, there's still an opportunity to come up with something which is common ground for enough folks to pass legislation. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is moving forward with the bill even though he does not have enough votes to pass it. he says it is at the r

kpix 5's jackie ward reports on the new incentive for witnesses to come forward. >> reporter: months after jim gilliland was killed in front of his home here in el cerrito, his friends are doubling the reward amount that would lead to any information or an arrest as police continue to search for his killer. >> he was a big hearted and warm person, generous with his time and skills to anyone who might benefit. >> reporter: on behalf of jim gilliland's family, a pastor from his berkeley church spoke today inside the chambers of el cerrito city hall. jim was a prominent lawyer based out of san francisco. police say he was coming home from choir practice on october 27 of last year when he was shot and killed on his front porch. his wife was inside. >> we don't know what we're looking for yet. so in the event that somebody can identify a suspect for us, then we know what kind of car they have and we can look for that car and those videos. >> reporter: nearly nine months after his murder and police say they still don't have a motive and only a few leads. friends of jim have increased the r

in san francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> a legal showdown is you understand way in oakland right now over whether social media companies can be held liable for what users post. this all stems from a lawsuit brought on by the family of a long beach state student who was killed during the 2015 terror attacks in paris. the parents of 23-year-old nohemi gonzalez accuse google, facebook and twitter of helping isis carry out the attacks. the tech giants claim the lawsuit has no merit and say they do work to remove terrorist content that violates terms when they are made aware of it. >>> activists are protesting statewide today calling on lawmakers to pass legislation for affordable housing. kpix 5's jessica flores is at one of the protests in pleasant hill. >> reporter: protestors are here in pleasant hill at the office of the california apartment association. they are protesting the association because the association supports limits on rent control. protestors are demanding a statewide freeze on rent increases. they also want lawmakers to repeal the rental housing act that pans rent cont

kpix 5's jackie ward has that part of the story. >> reporter: moments after president trump tweeted this morning there was an overwhelming amount of backlash from people across the bay area even his gop supporters here in san francisco wish he did things differently. >> we have honorable people transgender, gender, nonconforming individuals who volunteered to serve our nation, putting their lives on the line. we have this coward in the white house who is telling them they can't serve. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor who served on the board since january and made rights a priority says what president trump tweeted is outrageous! >> what i think is awful is that you have a man who received deferments and didn't serve in vietnam one for a bone spur in his heel, that he got while playing golf. >> reporter: jason clark chairman of the san francisco republican party says he thinks president trump's tweets are a mistake. >> i think what the president should have said was, chelsea manning is unqualified to serve in the u.s. military in any capacity. instead, he has painted the whole broad

kpix 5's jackie ward confirmed fireworks did not start it. >> reporter: hours after san jose firefighters successfully put out a three-alarm fire, some remained on scene to monitor any hot spots. this is what's left of an abandoned dentist office after an early-morning fire that started at 2:20 and went to three alarms at 3 a.m. > 65 firefighters and command staff. we have no injuries. >> reporter: although this happened just hours after july 4 celebrations ended, san jose fire tells us fireworks did not cause this to happen. witnesses told them they saw homeless people running away from the burning building before firefighters showed up. >> thinks case, it's very common for boarded up facilities to become kind of de facto homeless encampments. so i hope that wasn't the case here. >> reporter: but it started inside. and there was a lot of toxic smoke firefighters had to battle through. >> it had fairly high contaminants in it so we evacuated the two structures to the back side of the building and sheltered in place other residents. >> reporter: the building on williams road has abandoned

jackie ward is there. she says two of the fires have been contained, but heat is taking its toll on firefighters. >> after july 4th, cal fire expects their days to get more intense, but three fires starting back to back to back leads them to think something is up. >> very close to each other in proximity and time. of course, that is always suspicious, coincidental. we're looking into it. it could be human caused intentional or accidentsal. >> at one point, cal fire says 250 acres were on fire. now two fires are completely contained and the third is at 80%. >> the problem is the terrain. it's steep. it's oakwoodland. it's limited access. there are good roads into there as far as good roads. it's deep for the bulldozer to cut the line. >> 35 miles away at brentwood at the aquatic park, you can smell the smoke from the fires. the people who live here say they are used to it this time of year. >> you can see the smoke in the area. you can see that haze there. you know there's a fire. >> when it does happen, it

kpix 5 reporter jackie ward spoke to a pilot who says, this never should have happened. jackie? >> reporter: ken, pilots across the country are talking about this and trying to figure out how this could have happened in the first place. we spoke to a pilot who flew for decades and now he is questioning whether the air canada pilot got enough sleep before flying that night. >> somebody wasn't paying attention. it blows my mind. the only thing i can think of is fatigue. >> reporter: this former airline pilot flew in and out of sfo hundreds of times and logged more than 30,000 hours in the sky. >> it's a clear night you see the runway out the window, the yellow and blue lights. >> reporter: the moment leading up to the approach seemed routine. >> lights on the runway there. >> confirmed. clear to land runway, no one there. >> reporter: until other pilots waiting on the taxiway see something incredibly out of place. >> where's this guy going? he is on the taxiway! >> in the go-around. >> looks like were you lined up for charlie there. >> united 1 air canada flew directly over us. >>

jackie ward, kpix 5. [ pause ] >>> one more look right now. a live look from chopper 5. there you see smoke still billowing, flames at the center. lots of debris there. that's what's smoldering right now. hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate. we're going to stay on top of this developing story and bring you more later. >>> in the east bay, several destructive fires in the past few months. in may a fire destroyed a zen story construction site -- seven-story construction site in emeryville. a suspect was seen riding a bicycle up to the site moments before the fire broke out and the project was half finished. it was also torched in july of last year. and this overnight fire last march killed four people in west oakland. the building was transitional housing for more than 80 low income individuals. investigators say a burning candle accidentally started that one. we'll have more on the fire coming up tonight at 6:00 including how other developers protect their properties that are under construction. >>> now a developing story. oppose central worker shot as she was

jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> an upgraded robotic vacuum may be collecting information in your home at the same time as it cleans. irobot has updated its "roomba" with the "roomba" 980 model. it comes with software that actually captures images of a room. it compiles those images to gradually build a map of the robot's surroundings. essentially, a blueprints of the inside of your home. eventually irobot has plans to sell the data collected. buyers include amazon, apple and google. as you might imagine, that plan has created some privacy concerns. >> the "roomba" of tomorrow may be able to scan what furniture you own and figure out your income of your home or what your tv watching habits are. >> the company acknowledges the concerns and said it takes privacy and security of its customers very seriously. irobot says it will always ask permission to store mapped data. >>> 4:46. have you ever tried one of those things? those robotic vacuums? >> yesterday we were discussing about putting, you know, implanting the chip in your hand so you can -- i know it's progressive and i know it's a sign of

kpix 5's jackie ward is in san francisco's glen park neighborhood to explain. >> reporter: liz, this all started when a woman found cooked chicken here at glen canyon park and she boasted about it on the next door app. some people thought maybe this food was left out to feed the coyotes while others thought it was put there to poison them. either way it posts a danger a. -- it poses a danger. it was near this area just north of silvertree in glen canyon part where a woman found what she thought was chicken. she picked up what she could and wanted to alert others in case someone was trying to poison animals. dan is a volunteer with project coyote and says she did the right thing by getting rid of it. >> we just don't want people feeding wildlife in any way. >> reporter: dan says whether people want to provide food for animals or try to poison them, either way athey are not doing the environment a favor and they are doing more harm than good if the food is poisoned. >> even if you get the particular species that you're trying to poison, other creatures will dine on them and it goes all

jackie ward has the did section -- sexually exploited teen. jackie ward has the story. >> reporter: just weeks before the federal judge leaves he is handing the case over to another judge. henderson is giving the case to judge william orrick. oakland officials are now required to hand in a report by september 15 based on findings on the underaged prostitution investigation. jim chanin is the attorney for the plaintiff and says the department needs to face consequences for what he considers a botched job. >> they must be investigated and held accountable. >> reporter: an oakland police officer who committed suicide wrote a note saying other officers were having sex with an underaged prostitute. the investigation was inadequate and defective. judge orrick says he will hold another hearing in three months. >>> steve scalise is out of intensive care but is hospitalized. the congressman was shot last month when a gunman opened fire on a republican congressional baseball practice in northern virginia. the suspect in the june 14 shooting was killed b

. >> kpix 5's jackie ward joins now with the all-out evident to get it under control. >> reporter: the video we are getting from the scene is staggering. already the fire has scorched 39 square miles and is threatening 1500 homes. that fire is burning near yosemite national park. as of 11:30 last night, cal fire says it's only 5% contained. it only took two days for flames to rip through more than 20,000 acres and as it burns along highway 49 and 140, 300 structures are threatened. a mandatory evacuation is in place and all 2,000 people have moved out. >> this is the first time it's come this far. 20 years ago one made it to bear valley and they stopped it. but just these winds are just totally different this year and there's a lot of fuel. >> even staging operations for cal fire are moved 40 miles west into merced. firefighters from all over the state have come to combat the detwiler fire. besides first responders, the main street highway 140 looks like a ghost town. officials believe the hospital patients and other areas are not being evacuated because it's safer. >>> a san jose poli

we have jackie ward who is on the phone with us. she is at the scene, as well. what do you see? >> reporter: hi, ladies. we're actually at what will be the media staging area at 200 kaiser plaza so we're on the opposite corner of where you have seen our live crew earlier this morning. it is a massive fire still as you can tell from all the aerials that chopper 5 has been giving us. we were driving from san francisco and as we were coming over the bay bridge, you could see just these massive plumes of smoke intense incredibly big flames. then we we got into oakland, we were at a light at broadway and 27th, i rolled down my window and we were still blocks away from where the fire is. the heat was intense from blocks away, and ash is all over the place, probably within a scare mile of the scene. there's just all sorts of ash -- probably within a square meal of the scene. there's just all sorts of ash and debris flying from the structure landing on cars, sidewalks and people and causing of course quite a spectacle. everyone is awake and taking pictures and videos of

jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> unusual congestion concerns along a busy bay area bike path. >> coming through, coming through! >> turns out buy cycliests are having a problem getting past the people who live there. >>> and 150 years ago crawling through this hole. i'll have more coming up. >>> and people are grabbing their suits for the 4th of july weekend, but they're not here for water skiing. >> video from the bay shoreline, too, and the all-important 4th of july forecast coming up when we come back. instead... they are living there. . >>> a popular bike path in san francisco is overrun with people who are not on bikes at all. instead they're living there. frustrated cyclists tell aund rea borba, something's got to give. >> reporter: it's called the hairball. bike paths and pedestrian walkways at 101 and caesar chavez. it's also become an intersection that's a san francisco problem. >> coming through. coming through. >> reporter: this video shot on a morning commute shows the reality of urban bike paths and the city's homeless population fighting for the same space. >> you're stopping your

jackie ward, kpix 5. >> congratulations to them. >>> the 4th of july parade in morgan hill is 22 hours away. >> and counting down. a lot of people are reserving spots on the route. we found camping chairs and folding chairs. one business owner says they've been there for weeks. and others are taping off areas or writing the word reserved in chalk. >> people trying to save the spots with chalk but the city says that's illegal. and it goes against federal storm water guidelines. >> for a full list of 4th of july events around the bay area, go to our website, www.cbssf.com. >>> president trump is spending the day at his new jersey golf club before heading back to washington, d.c. meanwhile, reaction is pouring in to the president's latest tweet. >> reporter: president trump send the holiday weekend taking shots at the news media. >> the fake media is trying to silence us and we will not let them. >> he faced criticism after this video. a sad day when the president of the united states encourages violence against reporters. thomas bossert defended the tweet. >> there's a lot of cable news

in walnut creek, jackie ward, kpix5. >>> actually more of a hike here. congressman hosted this at the regional park. about a hundred constituents joined him for the walk and asked him questions about issues that were important to them. >>> officials are warning people to avoid any bats they may see in the parks and trails there, contra costa, after one was found in a park that tested positive for rabies. the bath bat was on a path way and immediately removed. it was treated but died a few days later. tests revealed the bat did, in fact, have rabies. the virus spreads from animals to humans mainly through bites. health officials don't believe anyone was exposed to that particular bat. they say if you spot one, don't touch it. call local animal control. >>> for the second time this month, police are inspecting a report of sexual assault on the stanford campus. a woman says she was assaulted thursday night. police say the victim and the suspect knew each other but wouldn't elaborate. >>> a bizarre scene on a berkeley sea wall this morning. the driver of thi

kpix 5's jackie ward is here to explain where the republican majority's efforts now stand. >> reporter: just hours after they decided by a narrow margin to open debate on the gop healthcare plan to repeal and replace obamacare, it was rejected. some senators called the proposal a more restricted substitute than what they want and it was rejected in a 57-43 vote. this means gop leaders need to regroup and come up with yet another plan to present to the senate. a little more than a week after being diagnosed with brain cancer, senator john mccain returned for the vote, urging his constituents for bipartisan shipp. >> i voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered. i will not vote for this bill as it is. >> although hours later mccain did vote to repeal and replace obamacare. nine republicans voted against it falling short of the necessary threshold of 60 votes. the two republican senators who sided with democrats are susan collins from maine and alaska's lisa murkowski. >> what's happening in the senate today? >> another vote. this is a repeal-

kpix 5's jackie ward has the story. >>> coyotes are part of the ecosystem in many bay area parts butn one area one person might have have tried to poison one. >> reporter: dan with project coyote a nonprofit that works to protect native carnivores says feeding wildlife is never right. >> people in these neighborhoods really like having coyotes around and think they're helping and, in fact, they're just absolutely not helping at all. >> reporter: it was near this area just north of silvertree in glen canyon park where a woman says she found a large amount of what she thinks was chicken on the next door app saying she picked up what she could and wanted to alert others in case someone was trying to poison animals. dan says whether people want to provide food for animals or try to poison them, either way, they are not doing the environment a favor. and they are doing more harm than good if the food is poisoned. >> even if you get the particular species that you're trying to poison, other critters will dine on them. it goes all the way up to the ecosystem. >> reporter: food left out lure

jackie ward reports. >> reporter: good morning. the governor's critics say he is doing this for personal gain. but at the state capital yesterday he took a morbid route and said he will probably be dead before seeing the benefits of this. he says california needs to reduce greenhouse gases by 40% from 1990 levels by the year 2030. extending the "cap and trade" program is how he claims we'll get there. improving the air quality across california is one of the main goals but scientists say it would do the opposite. >> build the gas chambers for our children's future and our state's future. >> don't throw it out. >> four california representatives in washington are urging their counterparts back home to vote no on this. they are using it as an opportunity to speak against the state's high-speed rail project. from the office of gop house leader kevin mccarthy they said, california republicans in washington and in sacramento remain united in opposition to this boondoggle. previous attempts to fund the project through "cap and trade" rev

and jackie ward joins us now to tell us what's next for obamacare. >> it was a late-night in washington. that's for sure. president trump already calling those three voters out on twitter. here's what he said. three republicans and 48 democrats let the american people down. as i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode. then deal. watch. these are the three republicans who voted against the bill. of arizona senator john mccain, senator lisa murkowski of alaska, and senator susan collins of maine. so this is how it went down last night. the senate debated the so- called "skinny repeal" bill on the senate floor. that was introduced by senator mitch mcconnell. the bill would have only stripped away parts of the affordable care act. republican leaders said they were not trying to replace the aca, rather this bill would have been a placeholder to trigger negotiations. but in a 51-49 vote, the bill failed. >> this is, you know, clearly a disappointing moment. now, imagine many of our colleagues on the other side are celebrating. >> we are not celebrating. we are relieved. >> reporter: n

jackie ward has more. >>> reporter: for years, the oakland police department has had major issues in the sex scandal involving a minor. it seems to have been the last straw for the federal judge in san francisco. he is retiring next month and handing over his civil rights case with the oakland police department to judge william orrick. oakland officials are now required to hand in a report by september 15 on an investigator's findings on the investigation involving an underaged prostitute. jim tannin is the attorney for the plaintiffs and says the department needs to face consequences for what he considers a botched job. >> they must be investigated. they have to be held accountable. >> in 2015 an oakland preliminary committed suicide explaining in a note how officers were having sex with a minor. oakland police told the court about the suicide but not the note. in march 2016, the court found out about the note and ordered a new investigation by an outside law firm. they said opd's investigation was wholly inadequate and defective. judge orrick will have another hearing in three mont

jackie ward reports. >> reporter: climate change is something governor brown feels intensely about but his opponents say it's only for his legacy. he says california needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 40% to 1990 levels by 2030 and extending his "cap and trade" program is how we could get there. improving the air quality across california is one of the main goals, but scientists say this plan would do the opposite. >> builds the gas chambers for our children's future and our climate's future. >> california "cap and trade" system is copied by the biggest country in the world, china! don't throw this thing out! >> four california representatives in washington are urging their counterparts back home to vote no and are using this as an opportunity to speak against the state's high- speed rail project. from the opposite gop house leader kevin mccarthy they write, california republicans in washington and in sacramento remain united in opposition to this boondoggle. previous attempts to fund the project through "cap and trade" revenues have been disappointing which is why we must n

kpix 5's jackie ward reports. >> reporter: good morning.rom being contained in mariposa county. the detwiler fire has surpassed 25,000 acres and is threatening the town of mariposa. that fire is burning about 6 miles from the border of yosemite national park. right now, cal fire says it's just 5% contained. already, eight structures have been destroyed and another damaged. the california department of forestry and fire protection says as of last night, 39 square miles have been scorched. flames are now edging towards mariposa. a gold rush era counsel of about 2,000 people, mariposa cattle ranches are trying to evacuate their livestock from the foothills. >> we were unprepared. keeping our cows together in case that fire jumps the highway again. we are either going to start cutting fences and pushing them through different properties, just to give them a fighting chance. >> reporter: there is a hospital and jail nearby. right now, fire officials believe keeping patients and inmates where they are is safer than moving them. staff and patients

at sfo, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> now to the latest on the investigation. today donald trump, jr.eleased a string of emails that initiated his meeting with a russian lawyer. kpix 5's mola lenghi has been following the trail live at the white house with the latest. >> reporter: well, allen, the president's son said he tweeted these emails in an effort to be more transparent, but his critics say they could just be the smoking gun to the collusion investigation. in an attempt to clear his name, donald trump, jr., released an email chain that initiated his meeting with that natalia veselnitskaya, an email exchange between him and rob goldstone saying the lawyer had information from the russian government that would be damaging to hillary clinton. don junior replied, if it's what you say, i love it especially later in summer. one of the emails also revealed the meeting was part of the russian government's support to aid his father's candidacy. >> it was in black and white that it was part of a russian government effort to help trump discredit clinton. >> reporter: the russian lawyer me

jackie ward has that story. >> pacifica is one city in the bay area where you can legally buy and set off fireworks. but only certain ones. stands like this one are all over pacifica. each one are selling what are called safe and sane fireworks. fireworks that are legal or don't explode and produce an aerial effect. >> we are one of those places that are lucky to have a community that has fireworks. we get lots of folks that come into town, spend money in town and use it in our town. >> reporter: for the last two weeks, tom has been putting in 14 to 15 hour workdays here and he is doing it for the kids of the city. proceeds from the sales benefit the pacifica girls softball league. >> never turned away a girl who wanted to play for us. this helps do that. >> reporter: sales help out the pacifica's police department overtim budget used for over the weekend. >> we never had anyone say, no, we are good. they say that's great. we are helping support the police and fire. >> reporter: they are reminding through fliers that because these are legal to use, it doesn't mean all are. you may hav

jackie ward joining us live with their reaction. >> reporter: the democratic leaders from california are recognizing this as a win for their party! but they are also encouraging their constituents and colleagues not to let up in the battle. democrat nancy pelosi spoke a little while ago and admitted that the affordable care act has flaws!! >> right now, we go forward, um, um, recognizing the value of the affordable care act which last night was once again protected and we take great pride in that but realso know that there are, um, updates and, um, improvements we can make. >> harris said: this has been a battle over the lues of our nation. and tonight de es again that we shou country .. where health care is a right for all, not a privilege for the few." democratic representative ro khanna released this statement this morning, in part saying: quote .. "a disastrous bill to take away health care from hard working peopl >> reporter: democratic representative ro khanna said: clark, chairman of the san francisco g- o-p told me over the ph at .. it's very clear that the macare has placed

jackie ward shows us people all over the bay area are rallying to protect the affordable care act. >> reporter: at this rally in walnut creek, health care is on everyone's mind. especially after what went down in washington this week. sheila fish organized the event, not for her own well being, but because she fears for the millions of people whose health care is being threatened. >> i'm very much worried about the people on medicaid, you know, who can lose their coverage, and that could be 23 million. if they let it totally go, it's many million more. >> reporter: the people here at walnut creek today are out for a variety of reasons. one man i spoke to said half of his retirement is going toward health care coverage. >> i've got a plan, but the bottom line is i'm not paying $1,600 a month for myself and two dependents. >> reporter:rable he represent it is major -- he represents the majority of people i spoke to that says they believe the affordable care act has flaws, but they don't want to completely do away with what's already in place. >> do i like the affordable care act better

the city gave the green light but now, as jackie ward records, opponents say it will go against state law. >> reporter: it's a location that's already gotten a lot of attention in the heart of san francisco's sunset district at noriega and 32nd. today, a nonprofit that describes itself as a group that defends civil liberties but what the southern poverty law center called a hate group is officially getting involved. the pacific justice institute says where the city already approved to put a dispensary is illegal. >> no matter how strong of a lobby these marijuana dispensaries may have, they still must comply with the law. the law is very clear. >> reporter: he says the law states dispensaries must be at least 600 feet from anywhere a child congregates, that includes places like the school and church within the distance and he has the community backing his efforts, too. >> we have signatures from almost half of the property owners, the parents, in that community saying they don't want this center. >> reporter: the dispensary will be run by former oakland mayor jean quan and her husband

let's get to kpix 5's jackie ward who just arrived on scene. >> reporter: the fire is out. but san jose fire says their crews will be here for hours. take a look at what's still going on behind me. as you can see a lot of fire trucks and fire engines are still here. the fire started around 2:20 this morning and developed into a three-alarm fire. this two-story building on williams road is abandoned and boarded up. it used to be a dentist office. witnesses say they think they saw homeless people fleeing from the building and the captain of the san jose fire department says that the homeless population is a problem here in the city of san jose. san jose fire can confirm that fireworks did not cause this to happen. the fire

jackie ward is live with a look at how much more it's going to cost drivers. ckie-- >> reporter: just a little bit but still ann no increase is ever good news or welcome news by drivers. each driver coming through the tolls will have to pay an extra quarter to cross the bridge. fast track drivers will pay $6.75. pay by plate, $7.75. and they'll continue to get invoices maled to them. and this raise is all part of a multiyear toll increase program that the board of directors approved in 2014. the hikes help greatly in reducing a five-year budget shortfall. enjoy the rates while you can. they are expected to go up once again next year. >>> the president is pushing a new idea for healthcare. repeal obama care now and replace it later. mitch mcconnell was forced to delay the vote following the report by the congressional budget office that said that 22 million more americans would be eninsured. the new approach was drafted by a senator from nebraska in a letter to the president last week. >> if we do a combined repeal and replace over the next week, that's great. b

jackie ward is there. >> reporter: those firings started within a half hour of each other. that means it's been an extra exhausting day for dozens of bay area fifths. and they are -- firefighters, and their busy season is barely getting started. after july 4, calfire expect their days to get intense, but three fires back to back to back, lead them to think something is up. >> we're looking into it. it could be human caused intentional, or accidental. >> reporter: calfire says 250 acres were on fire at one point. now two fires are completely contained and the third is at 80%. >> the problem is the terrain, it's steep, there's limited access. there are some good roads as far as dirt looks, but it's steep for the bulldozer to cut the line. >> reporter: 25 minutes away in brentwood at the aquatic park, you can still smell the smoke. people say they're used to it at this time of year. >> you can see the smoke in the area. when you see dee diablo, you see the haze. >> it's kind of scary. because there's a lot of dry grass. >> reporter: especially after the wet winter. veg take ha

. >> kpix 5's jackie ward has that. >> reporter: one of those people whose live would drastically changeafter suffering three strokes, her first when she was 27, she worries what could happen if obamacare were dismantled. >> it is easy to be on the side and saying you are not sitting there and not worrying about this. you are not worrying how you are going to make ends meet and then pay for everything else. >> reporter: if affordable care act is repealed, olivia colt would be forced to make some serious life decisions. >> i would be a tickic time bomb. >> reporter: the owner of salt and honey, catering business in berkeley, has a blood disorder that she says only about 50,000 people in the country have, for the rest of her life she has to take medicine twice a month that is $90,000 a dose. before the affordable care act, olivia had to bankrupt herself just so she could get med cal, eventhone denied multiple times and went back and forth with the system for years. >> how am i going to stay arrive? because if i don't get this, it is a death sentence. no one should have to be forced into ma

jackie ward reports. watching all the action. >> reporter: short-lived. that was the key phrase there. just hours after they decided by an incredibly narrow margin to open debate on the gop healthcare plan, a plan to repeal and replace obamacare was rejected. some senators called the proposal a, quote, more restrictive substitute than what they want and it was rejected in a 57-43 vote. this means gop leaders need to regroup and come up with yet another plan to present to the senate. at ucsf benioff children's hospital in san francisco, dr. michael anderson, hospital president, told kpix 5 his patients and their parents are worried about deep cuts to medicaid. this reconciliation bill could bring it. >> many children's hospitals in the country see about 50 to 70% of their kids are on medicaid. you take a trillion dollars out of that system, those children's hospitals are really going to suffer. >> nine republicans voted against repealing and replacing the aca falling short of the necessary threshold of 60 votes. the two republican senators who sided with d