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"today in the bay's" joe rosato, jr.takes a look at proposition q. >> yeah, i have been out here going for three years now. pretty much lost efe, everythiny two-bedroom apartment. now i'm here. >> the here is san francisco's streets. on a good night he will get to lay his head in a tent pushing the gritty outside world away for a while. >> trying to survive. >> reporter: there are an estimated 3,500 people like diaz living homeless in san francisco. some 500 tent encampments have made them a very visible reminder of the city's dark shame. >> over the last year and a half the tents have that emerged in san francisco have really become the symbol of the issue that we face as a city. >> reporter: san francisco's supervisor mark ferrell says city residents ever fed up so he placed proposition q on the november ballot which will officially ban tents from city sidewalks and allow police to remove them. >> these tent encampments are incredibly dangerous places to live. last year 15 rapes, over 100 fires. >> reporter: the measur

nbc bay area's joe rosato jr. tells us what time has healed and how some wounds are still exposed. >> so we arrived here in the early evening and we could spell the smoke before we could actually see the fire. but i got up on the hill across the way and i stared into that darn darkness and there was nothing. >> reporter: peter scott has few mementos of life before october 20th, 1991. >> here's our house catching fire. it was a telephoto lens from a 35 millimeter. here's my daughter holding what's left of our silverware. the day of the oakland hills fire, flames marched up scott's neighborhood and laid it bare. >> it looked like a bomb had gone off. it was like a moonscape. >> reporter: the family had been way earlier that day. scott's elderly mother, francis gray scott, was at home, hobbled by a knee replacement. she was trapped in the fire and died. scott found her remains. >> when you see something like that and realize what this means to you, all of a sudden, you just lose words. >> reporter: scott, who was an

"today in the bay's" joe rosato jr. has more on how the healing and the wounds are still going on. >> so we arrived here in the early evening. and we could smell the smoke before we could actually see the fire. but i got up on the hill across the way, and i stared into that darkness. there was nothing. >> reporter: peter gray scott has fumo menew mementos of the before the fire. >> here is our house catching fire. this is my daughter holding what's left of our silverware. >> reporter: the day of the oakland hills fire flames marched up scott's neighborhood in the berk wieley hills and la it bare. >> it looked like a bomb had gone off. >> reporter: the family had been away earlier that day. scott's elderly mother, francis gray scott, was home. she was tropical disturbance ap died. scott found her remains. >> when you see something like that and realize what this means to you, all of a sudden you just lose words. >> reporter: scott, who is an architect, was the first to rebuild on the hillside. and though a quarter centur

tonight, joe rosato jr. will take another look back at the oakland fires. >>> anthony, we have rain in the forecast early next week, but nice weather before that. >> yeah. we had a rainstorm this past weekend. another one this weekend. a great trend as we get towards the official start of rainy season, this past month. a great sign of what's to come. clear skies this morning. no fog out there. a few clouds has been the trend all morning long, even from the rest of the bay, across san francisco in oakland, across the east bay and south bay. temperatures warming. 70 in napa, oakland, palo alto. good mix of upper 70s to low 80s. a little warmer than yesterday. 77 for oakland today. low 80s across the east bay and south and north bay. over the next few days things will change. get your pumpkins now because there is rain in the forecast as we head toward the upcoming weekend. it's the end of the weekend. if you're headed to half moon bay to grab a pumpkin, we're looking at dry conditions through friday. saturday