abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez is live at the store tonight. lyanne, this place will really be missed by a lot of loyal customers. >> that's right. and let me just tell you that i have officially consumed all the calories that i was going to consume for the entire month of december, dan. you know, there are donut shops and then there is chucks, a local institution here in san carlos who sadly is going away. >> i want people to stay healthy, long life, i can see them every day. >> it's hard to envision how consuming a donut a day can actually keep you healthy. but today there were plenty of orders for that one-of-a-kind chuck's donut. >> some apple fritter, some glazed donuts. >> old-fashioned chocolate and maple. >> it wasn't only about grabbing some old-fashioned goodness. people came to say goodbye to sam, a single mom from cambodia who seemed to embody the american dream. >> i closing and everybody come support me. i was shocked. >> but like so many mom and pop shops in the bay area, the rent got to be too high, forcing her to drop out. her

lyanne?, you know, two days ago, oracle said it was not having its convention in san francisco for the same exact reason. pier 39 says business has been in decline. san franisco has relied on its reputation as a beautiful city to lure tourists. pier 39 is a top destination. 2016 and '17 were big money making years, but that has changed. >> it takes years to build up, but you can lose it real quick. >> brian hayes owns two small shops and five kiosks at pier 39. >> a lot of it is attributed to te homeless. >> he says foot traffic is down. some businesses have responded by hiring external marketing companies to bring in tourists. simcoe owns five restaurants here. >> they tell us what happened to the beautiful city? the city that they loved by the bay, that they used to just love bringing their family here, and now they come and they see the homeless and the needles or they tell us how their car got broke into and they lost everything. >> sandra fletcher, president of simcoe disputes claims mad

reporter lyanne melendez is live to explain exactly how. lyanne?rter: well, basically these landlords have said we know these restrictions are coming at the beginning of the year but nothing can stop us or no one can stop us from increasing rents now or even evicting people. that's when local overnment stepped in. even before governor newsom signed the state rent cap bill last october 8th, some landlords were already handing out eviction notices like this one. isabel perez of daly city got hers september 19th. she told me her landlord gave her a 60-day notice with no just cause. her calls went unanswered. here is why some landlords acted so quickly. the rent cap bill says as of january 1st, a landlord anywhere in the state cannot raise someone's rent by more than 5% with an added cost of living increase with in total would amount to a 9% hike. the new law also states you can't evict a person just because. >> the eviction window was wide open and, yeah, we saw a lot of landlords spring into action there. >> reporter: so as the eviction complaints ca

lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> lyanne, thank you. >>> happening no the official release of the latest vision zero data for san francisco and the discussion at the city's pedestrian safety advisory committee, vision zero is the name of the initiative to bring traffic deaths down to zero. abc7 news got a sneak peek at the data yesterday. today some context from the vision zero epidemiologist with the city's department of public health. >> the overall severe -- number of severe injuries for pedestrians was about the same as it has been over the last few years. we saw that critical injuries went up a little bit to pre-2014 levels, which is something we want to watch. 2014 was the year that vision zero debuted in san francisco, and so it's an important piece of data as we move forward. >> listen to this. she tells us speed is the leading predictor of whether someone survives a crash. there have been 27 traffic deaths in san francisco this year. >> well, we are trying to build a better bay area when it comes to the challenge presented by the homeless. >> they feel like they're trapped in th

i'm live in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >> thank you so much. today democratic presidential candidate tom steyer was also in the bay area. the billionaire and san francisco resident was in walnut creek. he spoke an answer to questions and town hall spoken by the democrats group. he made most of his wealth by creating and running a hedge fund. his business accuman will help him win against president trump. >> he played a businessman on a reality tv show. if you look at his business, he's doing exactly as president what he did in his business, which is leverage up as much, get as much debt as you can, promise whatever you have to promise, there really is no truth in this world about promising. never think about paying it back, never intend to pay it back, and after everything falls apart, walk away. >> tomorrow steyer will be talking part in a town hall in napa. a cnn poll shows they are not polling above 5% against voters in california. poll voters are evenly split among joe biden, bernie sanders and lielizabeth warren. no other candidate reaches

lyanne? >> well, look at it this way. lawmakers spend month, even years listening to their constituents on issues that affect them, and of course all of us, right? well, they introduce these bills, and some do or don't get past. the governor must then sign them. so in a way on january 1, lawmakers get to see the fruits of their labor. >> by 2023, the state minimum wage will finally reach the $15 an hour mark. for now, as of january 1, it will fluctuate between $12 and $13 an hour, depending on the number of company employees. >> united we'll never be defeated. >> since we're on the topic of employees and wages, another new law, assembly bill 5, the so-called gig worker bill will require companies that hire independent contractors to reclassify them as employees. lyft and uber drivers have been the most vocal supporters. this now means they will be guaranteed a magic along with both employee and state benefits. >> probably will put me out of business. >> but not everyone is happy. a few months ago, greg manna told abc7 new

. >> lyanne melendez is live with details on his visit today. >> reporter: michael bloomberg came touce himself as the environmental candidate. in stockton bloomberg was looking for acceptance. this morning bloomberg picked an unlikely city to launch his campaign, stockton, in the central valley. but seeking the endorsement of mayor michael tubbs may end up working in his favor, as reporters quickly homed in on the issue of bloomberg's controversial stop and frisk policy while mayor of new york. his critics insist it unfairly targeted blacks and latinos. >> look, we tried a lot of things. my whole focus was on reducing the murder rate. in looking back, certainly in the third term, it got out of hand and maybe i should have paid more attention. >> this man went to a black church with many parishioners who probably encountered stop and frisk and said, i'm sorry. >> why do i think california would vote for somebody like me? because californians understand, nothing's simple, you have to have real solutions, and you have to have evolutionary and revolutionary change. >> reporter: bloomber

lyanne melendez is in the news ram with some others. >> here's one. the minimum wage is going up again to $12 an hour for businesses with fewer than 25 employeeis and $13 for businesss with more than that. by 2023 the minimum wage will hit the $15 an hour mark. not much to live on, and that's why the following laws are so timely. with the high cost of living, many people can't afford to live in some cities. the rent cap bill says a landlord can't raise someone's rent by more than 5% a year with an added cost of living increase. when you add it all up, it amounts to a more or less 9% hike. rent control advocates never thought it would become law. >> and so it's going to be a seismic shift in what we see. >> reporter: it will also protect tenants from unfounded evictions. a new law also makes it easier to build so-called granny flats on a person's property. lawmakers who supported the bill hope it will help address the housing shortage in some cities. >> families are returnwondering our children going to be able to live in communities they grew up in? w

. >> abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez has more on this issue. >> like this meter you see the coins stuck in there. >> oh, the coins? >> and just like that, this meter technician clears the coins that have been jammed. it appears to be a common problem in san francisco. here we are on grant avenue in north beach. i take out my wallet to get some quarters and quickly discover that nearly every other meter on the street was jammed. >> there is another one. >> in some cases the meter is jammed on purpose and the coins are later fished out. >> we do everything we can to put the quarters in or you'll put the money in and it's not registering. >> the san francisco municipal transportation agency says there are other options. here is what they told us last june. >> you should be prepared with a plan b, which should be a parking card, a credit card. >> let's say it's possible i don't have a credit card. plan b is to then buy a parking card. but where do i get one? sfmta told me there is an app to locate a store near you. it says the closest one is s & s grocery, 1461 grant avenue. that way.

. >> abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez has the story from the montclair village of oakland, which is found his dream home in montclair, only to be told they couldn't insure it. >> they just told us we're not insuring new policy holders in your area just because of the fire risks. >> ten months after sean coffey purchased his home in montclair, he lost his insurance coverage. >> the first year we got dropped it was proximity to brush. it's kind of hard to get it out of them. i think one time they alluded to a high fire score. i'm not totally sure what that is. >> now he pays $800 more a year for homeowners insurance because he was forced to get the california fair plan insurance policy meant for those unable to get insurance in the regular market. >> it doesn't give you a lot of coverage, and it is expensive. >> amy bock founded the nonprofit united policy holders to help people navigate their way through the insurance process. montclair and orinda both get more nonrenewal notifications than other places in the bay area. >> this is a statewide issue that is affecting both rural and ur

. >> lyanne melendez joins us with more on what you found. >> i found it during my time off, during thed cars that people are living in, i would say an entire neighborhood and i thought we have to show our viewers so that we continue this dialogue, even during the holidays. >> reporter: the streets in the tenderloin district of san francisco are looking cleaner. but supervisor matt haney said there is still much to do to take care of the homeless population. >> the question is how hard can we work and fight for more solutions so people do see a difference on the streets. >> reporter: the city has a lot of places that resemble an oasis like this garden center in the bay view district but outside of the structures we often see the unpredictability of a neighborhood. this is gerald ue

abc reporter lyanne melendez looks at what's going on. >>> sometimes your christmas gift just doesn'tael finney explains what to expect when you try to take yours back. >> now news to build a better bay area. from abc7. >> it was a large impact, a telephone pole. >> that's tremendously sad. so needless. >> three teenagers are dead, two others are hospitalized tonight after a collision so powerful, it knocked out a power pole. >> the good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. i'm ama daetz. >> and. >> and i'm dan ashley. >> some are wondering if speed played a role in this collision. abc7 reporter anser hassan is live in pleasanton with the answer. anser? >> ama and dan, foothill reopened about an hour ago. crews out here since last night. we were able to confirm the name of two of the victims. they are twin brothers, mark anthony and michael angelo urista. they both went to dublin high. they were just 16 years old. >> it was wrapped around the tree. i've never seen anything like that. >> reporter: sharon and her husband were the first to see the crash, which happened on this s

we're in the east bay right now, down around san lyanne dougee a very light returns and in the hillse east bay. the main activity sinks southward to the central coast. you can see the line of heavy showers moving on in there. but we have brighter conditions this afternoon. this is san rafael. this is san jose where you're going to see a few showers linger throughout the later morning hours. all in all, it is a much drier day today with 57 in concord and as we go through the afternoon, the fog lifts throughout the morning, and the showers are really a thing of the past. we'll talk about the week ahead and whether or not we see any rain coming up for this week. liz? >> lisa, thank you. >>> now for the investigation into whether the attack at the naval base in pensacola was an act of terror. investigators are loong int gun. they say he made a visit to new york city in the days before the attack. abc 7 news reporter stephanie ramos has the latest. >> reporter: this morning several classmates of the naval dergoi qstioning after unmen are friday's deadly attack. the saudi national, part of

available to tell us how much revenue if any the city now fails to collect because of these broken meters lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> if you park at a broken meter, parking is limited to the posted time limit, or four hours, whichever is shorter. but you should check the meter. if you see a meter with a bag over it, that doesn't mean it's broken. you have to check to see if it accepts coins or a debit or credit card. really? to me, a bag over it means not working. >> done. you're good. >> okay. rules are rules. >> why else would they have a bag over it? >> that's what i'm saying. >> i'm confused. not confused about the weather. look at this. up to 18 degrees cooler in napa. all of us waking up to a chill. 25 in calistoga. guerneville, 32 degrees. everyone else in the mid to upper 30s. possible frost around lafayette, san ramon, redwood city. mid to upper 30s from the south bay up through most of the bay, alameda, san francisco, daly city in the low to upper 40s. here's how quiet it is in san francisco. the beaches are not as rough today. serene on the bay. a winter chill if you're exercising.

. >> lyanne melendez joins us with more on what you found. >> i found it during my time off, during the holiday break. i discovered this entiren camp compromised of rvs and cars that people are living in, i would say an entire neighborhood and i thought we have to show our viewers so that we continue this dialogue, even during the holidays. >> reporter: the streets in the tenderloin district of san francisco are looking cleaner. but supervisor matt haney said there is still much to do to take care of the homeless population. >> the question is how hard can we work and fight for more solutions so people do see a difference on the streets. >> reporter: the city has a lot of places that resemble an oasis like this garden center in the bay view district but outside of the structures we often see the unpredictability of a neighborhood. this is gerald avenue, a section of this street is lined up with rvs and people living in their cars like rick britain. >> right after christmas and i see this, you're living in your car. >> yes. yes. like five months now and it is freezing out here too so you

tonight the store owner is saying good-bye to her local clientele and lyanne melendez is live on thes she also says good-bye to an institution. >> reporter: oh, my god, dan, let me tell you, i look at these doughnuts and i promise you that i feel like i'm gaining all this weight. when people found out that chuck's was closing, they came from places like oakland, pittsburg, san francisco to claim their last dozen. chuck's doughnut shop in san carlos has long lived up to its reputation as being one of the best on the peninsula. >> so i've got some apple frilters, glazed doughnuts. >> old-fashioned chocolate and maple. >> reporter: the owner started working here in 1985 and bought the place a few years later. a single mom from cambodia who seemed to embody the american dream, and someone you just don't say no to. >> maple old-fashioned. >> yeah, try it. >> oh, my god, delicious. but then she offers me this one and says -- >> french cooler. >> she says high in cholesterol, really? >> reporter: but like so many mom and pop shops in the bay area, the rent got to be too high, forcing her to