me back, bad. >> some places are adding officers just to keep an eye on uber drivers. >>> san francisco homelessen refuge tucked away. it in one part of the city they are turning public sidewalk into their own neighbored hood and we are showing you businesses in the area say they are paying the price. >> reporter: it is sidewalk city. 13th street now a haven for san francisco's homeless. >> obviously we are not hiding anything because we are right in front of here. >> tents on walkways, here on the street. >> it should be taken care of by the city and not allowed to just live here. >> reporter: nearby businesses say it say problem. they are paying for it in more ways than one. >> shopping carts cost $200 to $400 a piece. >> reporter: a contractor is working at this best buy maintaining the wheel locking system to keep the big box retailer shopping carts from leaving the lot. >> as soon as we get 50 the next day, i have 3. >> reporter: not just theft it is the living conditions. >> average citizen in san francisco only sees what is not working. >> reporter: what is going on? the head of the city'

according to san francisco's latest homeless count he is one of 6 thun 686 homeless people in san francisco6 homeless people in san francisco. >> i am not saying it is disappointing. i understand the challenge. it is serious. >> reporter: the percentage of older homeless people has grown. the mayor says the city is making some inroads with homeless youth, veterans and families. >> get everybody together and get all the support, we will end family homelessness in the next 5 years. >> reporter: they have become moving encampments into service centers. >> we haven't rebuild our public housing infrastructure. we are not making sure people have access to jobs, education. all these things that need to happen to abate poverty and homelessness. >> reporter: san francisco spends $167,000 a year on homeless programs. the city says it has gotten thousands of people off the street but new people take their place. >> i have to look at are there other cities that have a better answer. >> reporter: it is a problem that confounded the last 5 mayors over the past 30 years and counting. in san francisco, rob

. >> catherine : a new survey says san francisco's homeless population has gone up only a little overhundred homeless people in the city -- which is up about 4 percent from 20-13. 30-percent of the homeless population is now over the age of 51. the number of homeless young people actually dropped from 914 in 2013 to 853 this year. >> reporter: yesterday's fire was caused by a flare. they also say monday's fire was also caused by a flare. they are still investigating monday's fire. no time frame of when the word is dennis star and how much it's going to cost. >> reporter: it is sound and that the residents know all too well. >> : it's quite as aggressive and stressful. >> reporter: this time did take as semi i decade-old problems. >> reporter: he never and imagine that his former classmate was then that worries today. >> : he was on top of this class hard-working i never thought he would end up like this. he committed been at congressmen or an attorney. >> reporter: this is what someone said it's a major will waste of water. i took his complaint. >> catherine : the expensive clean-up a

recently, i attended the presentation by the homeless coalition on the criminalization of homelessness in san francisco how the uptick in different laws and how they effect san francisco homelessness population they have a documentary and interviews and give interesting information about the interaction for law enforcement as well as legislative initiatives and the homeless coalition is interested in bringing that first discussing it with the chief and the command staff and having a presentation so i hopefully it will make a time for them on our schedule. >> yes. thank you vice president and lastly i represented the commission in the voting on the metal of valor and participated in the commission role that will be brought to us chief i don't know if you know what that comes here for final approval. >> i'll found out and ask for them. >> okay. this sound great any further on this matter. >> sergeant call the next item. >> commission announcement and items considered for identification and possible action at further meetings. >> i have one the csi team august 5th is the time we're longing to schedule the

recently, i attended the presentation by the homeless coalition on the criminalization of homelessness in san francisco how the uptick in different laws and how they effect san francisco homelessness population they have a documentary and interviews and give interesting information about the interaction for law enforcement as well as legislative initiatives and the homeless coalition is interested in bringing that first discussing it with the chief and the command staff and having a presentation so i hopefully it will make a time for them on our

san francisco is more than one of 200 jurisdictions in the country. a bill now would block them from getting federal law enforcement funds. >> it is 4:42 now san francisco has long struggled to curb its homeless problem. homeless in one part of town are turning public sidewalks into their own neighbors -- neighborhoods. >> 13th street now a haven for san francisco's homeless. tents on public walkways, rvs on the street. >> they shouldn't be allowed to put up tents and live here. >> nearby businesses say this is a problem. they're paying for it in more ways than one. >> contractor is working at this best buy maintaining it's wireless wheel locking system to keep the shopping carts from leaving the lot. >> as soon as they get 50 shopping carts in the next two days we only have three. >> that's not the only concern it's the living conditions here. so what's going on? head of the city's homeless programs points to new construction which now expanding and forcing the homeless out to create their own neighborhoods. >> ultimately what you're saying is the dividing line between two different police districts. so people complain and then they'll go out and then people will scatter over. >> the city sa

feeding san francisco's homeless >>> tonight for the first time we are hearing from the 16-year- oldl who survived a plane crash that killed her grandparents. autumn veatch took off with her step-grandparents on saturday on a flight from montana to washington. hours later the small plane hit a mountain and caught fire. autumn's step-grandparents died instantly. she had minor burns but was able to hike for two days through the cascades. >> i mean, i don't have any experience living outside or anything besides, like, the little bit of survivor shows and stuff that i saw when i was a lot younger. and i really didn't remember anything. >> autumn's father says those shows saved her. she followed a river to get to the bottom of the mountain and two days later got to the road. she spent one day in the hospital with a burned hand. >>> authorities are looking into laser strikes targeting airline pilots last night. >> shooting laser four or five miles back off our left point. >> that just happened again. >> planes flying over new jersey were hit with lasers nearly a dozen times. the lasers can

a viral video demonstrates a unique way to feed the san francisco homeless. it's called the whopper dropper. a drone flies over justin herman plaza dropping burgers to people below. that's strange. its creator says he made the video more than a year ago. but it's just now getting noticed. a lot. >> it's amazing. you know, you could something out there forever and completely forgot about that video and all of a sudden one person picks it up and it goes viral. >> the whopper dropper creator says drones weren't getting nearly as much attention last year as they are right now. he says the faa would shut him down if he tried it today. but apparently somebody got a fewburgers. >>> today's national drone racing championships start at sacramento at the state fair. pilots will compete for a $25,000 prize. they navigate the course using goggles that show video from little cameras mounted on the quad copters. the unmanned drones zigzag at speeds of 80 miles an hour. that event goes from 10 to 4 at bonnie field at cal expo. >>> a federal judge has given apple store worke

feeding san francisco's homeless by drone. >> hey, good morning, everyone. morning anchoring, you know who you are, i am really going need your help. i will explain. >> we can hardly wait being the morning anchors. life now of the city, sunshine later today and then an interesting wrinkle for later in the weekend. >>> hey, good morning, everyone. good morning, anchors, boy, i need a huge assist from the anchor team this morning. i will explain. i not these giant highlights but i can only get you but so far. i need you to take the audience the rest of the way. i will set it up like this, giants were in the desert last night and this guy had to sit through a marathon. diamondbacks hosting owens. he takings matt cane for a huge ride. it is 4-1 arizona. cane, five innings, four runs, all of them earned. one on for hunter pence in the seventh. he tied the game at 5. fines went ahead 6-5 in the 1st. i have to go to the as right now. and for that one, here is sonny gray, the all-star had the long ball get him last night. oh, man, brian doze e. coli, springs away fo

. >> homeless in san francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 homeless census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue we've got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the navigation center. >> this pilot project is for people living on the street what makes it different the navigation center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. >> the full realization that people don't want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services don't meet them and not relevant they're not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses we've got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry we're standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medi-cal and all those things that are complicated for people. >> the other exciting thing city agencies c

a viral video demonstrates a unique way to feed san francisco's homeless.is called the whopper dropper. a drone flies over justin herman plaza dropping burgers to people below. its creator made the video more than a year ago but it's just now getting noticed. >> you could have something out there forever and forgot about the video and one person picks it up and goes viral. >> drones weren't getting as much attention last year as now. he says the faa would probably shut him down if he tried that today. >>> speaking of drones, today's first-ever national drone racing championships are under way at the state fair in sacramento. more than 100 pilots will compete for $25,000 prize. pilots navigate the course using goggles that show video transmitted from little cameras mounted on the quad coppers. the unmanned drones zigzag around the course at speeds of 80 miles an hour. the event goes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at cal expo at bonnie field. >>> federal judge has given apple store workers the go- ahead to pursue a class action suit against the company. it contends a

. >>> a new study shows san francisco's homeless population is growing and those people are getting older 6700 homeless people. 30% is 51 up from 17% in 2013. >>> tom selleck paying for the water he took from hydrants for his avocado ranch. the water district in ventura county accepted his offer more than $21,000. the district suing selleck and his wife earlier in the month after a private investigator found water was being taken from hydrants to selleck's ranch outside the drin -- outside the district. >>> traffic is busy in some areas. we start off with san jose where 101 traffic is very slow this morning because of this morning's police activity in east san jose. we heard from kiet do earlier this hour. this police action at the 2500 block of fontaine which is a frontage road east of 101. we'll go to the map and i'll show you the sensors. very slow traffic as folks check out all the police activity. it is backed up from beyond hellyer approaching tully road at this hour. now, the 580 commute is going to be extremely slow. we have had three separate accidents all of them in the stretch

. >>> a new study shows san francisco's homeless population is growing and those people are getting olders healthy. the latest survey found there are more -- 6700 homeless in town. that's up about 250 more than in 2013. 30% of the homeless population is now at least 51 up 17% from 2013. >>> summer vacation used to be an annual ritual but the great recession and slow recovery as well as the american work ethic is robbing a lot of people of much-needed time off. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger joins us with some summer travel tips. how much time off do most workers get, jill? >> reporter: you know, don't be jealous. a lot of employees in other countries enjoy as many as 40 days off in a year. in the u.s. time off is not legally required although most full-time employees here receive about 10 paid days a year. not counting federal holidays. that is the least paid vacation time in the world. even though we get so few days, half us are taking no time at all. we're squandering more than $50 billion in benefits and now it's not just about leaving money on the table. research finds tha

. >>> about 6,000 homeless people live in san francisco. roughly the same number as two years ago. ey released the homeless kont today which found nearly one-third moved to san francisco after becoming homeless somewhere else. roughly half of the homeless live on the street. the other are in shelters are care facilities. the number of homeless veterans is down and homeless familyies also down about 6%. >>> a new muni route will soon be hitting the streets of san francisco. muni is adding a new street car called the "e" line the embarcadero line. it will run from at&t park to fisherman's wharf. right now you have to get off the ferry building and on to another car. it will initially run on weekends only but will switch to daily service next year. >>> amazon prime day. social media called it a fail. but a look at the sales tells a different story. amazon now answering to their critics. >>> those liquid detergent pods are quick and convenient but could pose a danger to your family. a safety alert coming up. (scal): good day, m'lady! i am sir-can-a-lot, here to save you from another bre

job, education, all these things that need to happen in order to evade poverty and homelessness. >> reporter: san francisco spends $750,000 a year on their homeless program. that's more than the recreation program. it's gotten thousands of people off the streets but new people take their place. >> i also have to look at, are there other cities that have gotten a better answer than we do. i find they're looking at us. >> reporter: it's a problem that is confounded the last five mayors over the last 30 years and counting. rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> and temperatures got up there. we got low 90s even mid-90s. the fog coming in tonight. today may be the warmest day all week. we'll see low and mid-90s inland. around the bay lots of 70s and low 80s. what's happening out there now we've got a lot of fog that's pushing inland. we have fog in the alameda area and oakland. up and down the coast now. it'll get pretty far inland tonight. we have fog all throughout san francisco. obviously. and the winds are blowing on shore. we have temperatures out there. they're still in the upper 60s inland. significant winds as

the homeless prenailtal program serves poor z homeless families in san francisco and we have been doing it for 26 years. the focus is pregnant mothers and children 0-5. our mission is end the cycle of childhood poverty and that a tall order in san francisco when we have so many families that are homeless i can't afford to provide a place for their children to sleep at night. not to mention to feed them or keep them in school. i just would like to invite some of the supervisors have been to had homeless prenatal program and there is no substitute to seeing the program in action. congressman nancy pelosi has been twice and she said he are a model for the nation. we have a staff of 80, more than half former clients. we invest in the people we sunch and welcome any of you to knh and see what we do and learn how you can really make a dif wrns and that we are doing the best we can but without housing it is tough and without jubs it is tougher and want to encourage you to think about the entire city and not just your districts. thank you for your time >> thank you very much. are there any memb

. >>> a new report shows san francisco's homeless population is getting older and sicker., statistics show there are more than 6600 homeless people in the city. it's about 3.8%. more than two years ago and the survey released yesterday shows 30% of the homeless population is now 51 years or older. and the number of homeless people who say they have serious health issues has increased. the number of young people on the street dropped by 6.6%. >>> le this is new. -- is new. a new line will start to roll in san francisco. it's the e-embarcadero. it starts august 1st. the street car will run along the f market route from firerman's wharf to the ferry building. it will split off and use the n judah route to the embarcadero to the cal station along fourth and king. it will start with weekend only service and they next year, it will -- then next year, it will run every day. there are plans to expand the line the other way to fort mason. >>> there is a custody battle over a account cat -- over a cat. tiffany took the case to court after tracking the microchip to the cat. the cat w

opponents say a freeze won't help san francisco housing problems. >>> the homeless population is gettingicker. according to the san francisco chronicals it shows more than 6600 in the city. the number of homeless people who say they have serious health issues has increased as well. the number of young people on the street dropped by 6.6%. >>> your time is 5:56. a high speed chase ended, how that crash damaged several cars and also the items that were found inside the suspect's suv. >>> and a fire in pittsburg, the challenges firefighters face while trying to get the flames under control. >>> could uber lose its operating license? the reason they are being ordered to pay more than $7 million in fines. mornings on 2 continues. >>> good morning. it is friday eve, july 16th. i'm pam cook. >> and i'm dave clark. steve, how does it look today? >> a little cooler for most. >> okay. >> warm to hot inland but a little bit more fog today and also a slightly stronger breeze. i heard from pam and she said we have a little breeze. they did not have that yesterday. it will be in the 90s but that fog,

san francisco. i appreciate the conversation arounds the kools and education, but i also want to reiterate the point there are thousands of homeless youth within san francisco and need to do more to house them so they can go to school and be educated. i don't know how you can't bow sickened by the numbers and the thousands of evictions throughout san francisco of seniors and elders and families throun out on the street. it is clear this last year that the voters came out in strong support of prop k and demand more afford housing to be built. we'll speak out loudly again this year and we won't stand for people being throun on the streets while cabeal tv shows glorify million airs for producing luxury housing. we need to make a stand as a city we'll put public land in the communities hands. >> good morning supervisors dean preston executive director of [inaudible] strong support of the measure and thank you supervisor kim and avalos campos and mar and hopefully other supervisors that will state their support. also want to recognize the work housing organization is helping to craft. different legislation i think it strikes a good bal

can get things done, so other communities and cities can see what we are doing in san francisco, with the homelessness and mental health issues and stuff like that, and green street is just a product of our city. i just want to appreciate you have given us time to voice our opinion and let you know who green streets are and we're here to stay. thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> hi. my name is trudy garber and i'm a project manager with the trust for public land. i want to thank the commission phil ginsburg, london breed's office, alex, everyone here. so the trust for public land has been interested in the buchanan mall for over four years working with recreation and park for hayes valley and as you heard it's a challenging and often dangerous place, but has the [t-ufpbt/] to be a community space, vibrant, healthy, green and just a hub for community. it wasn't until we met green streets that we felt like it was the right time to start this project. they are a group that has deep connections with the mall. they really understand about organizing and the importance of community space. and they have

a eviction by the city of san francisco can render us all homeless should mean something to you. i thank supervisor jane kim for exploring options to help ybi residence in our district. we are supported by esprickz free san francisco and other advocacy groups and will be back thursday to voice our concerns. we invite you to join us for to hear our distress. please stop the eviction and take back the land for lunar and [inaudible] keep ybi 100 percent affordable and please save the ybi community from destruction by the luxury development. >> thank you next speaker please. >> before i make my presentation, because of the fact that president of the board and the united states hasn't reached out and handsed out a condalance to the [inaudible] i would like to give condleance to that family. i'm the man that pointed to 3 of your ovall board members yesterday that sheriff [inaudible] kept fran cisco chev erksez incancerated in the county jail after the charges were dropped which caused him to be placed in 850 bryant street. when charges are dropped a inmate is supposed to bereleased so f

> good afternoon commissioners i'm kim i'm a resident here in san francisco i first came to the city victim 6 domestic violence and homeless and ended up in the shelter system here in san francisco i found a in the shelters systems a hopcy a thing they call help it not sufficient having worked for over 20 years as a booking bookstore keeper i was able to get help and place to live in affordable housing if not for that i would either be homeless or dead i was suicidal i'm asking you pass this inclusionary housing for all how's in san francisco let the 10 minimal units be a room period no matter whether it holds a stove or community rooms i also respectfully request you consider a thirty percent commitment from and i know that's a high number i think 12 percent is also low what is affordability housing unit all can afford i know about the ami by one of you mention change and what reality is not always what is written on paper so reelsly ami didn't work being on disability i need low rent and settle for smaller place that is mine and one that makes $80,000 i can live on the spaim same block all see need san francisco is a lea

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commissioner and staff anding agent law office and kenneth freed box on the director on homelessness san francisco and francisco uggarte from sf island. lorena: a lead organizer for catholic arch diocese and lizey for cj for criminal and juvenile justice. the lawyers committee for civil rights coordinator and reverend smith and deacon wade from the episcopal church. this is to follow-up on to advance the racism and curriculum in police departments and other agencies and methods for officers to uphold civil rights and justice and free of conscious and unconscious bias. i also want to say the context that we are in as we'll hear in the next hearing is the growth of prisons and industrial complex as some call it with critical resistance to all of us or none that are in the chambers as well. advocacy to create a society that really having law enforcement that is serving communities and to reduce the reliance on the prison industrial complex. if not to eliminate it. as we've seen from ferguson to san francisco and oakland to the alex nieto to the grant cases. the problems with racism and bias and polic

it released the homeless count today found a third of the homeless moved to san francisco after becomingess somewhere else. half live on the streets and the other half is sheltered. the number of homeless veterans is down 16% and the number of homeless families is also down 6%. >>> what's your favorite program? up next the emmy nominations are in and a fan favorite is stealing the pot slight. ...a rabbit... ...a rabbit genetically modified and bred with a panther... ...with turbines attached... ...on ice... ...shaved... ...with a...what the?! with the fastest speeds to the most homes, the company that keeps making fast faster is doing it again. introducing multi-gig speeds from xfinity. the future of awesome. tonight at six - what college should you choose to "maximize" your chances of getting a tech job? a new study says the top school is right here in the bay area but >>> what college would you choose to maximize your chances of getting a tech job? you might be surprised? the answer on our 6:00 newscast. >> big day for hollywood. the nominees for this year's prime time emmy awards were an

to help to take you will say another step towards eradicating and eliminating families homelessness in san franciscoe know there are many families that also maybe not in the shelters life in sro's hotels 8 by 10 and kids trying to do their homework and it's multi generational there's a subsidy to know that families couldn't even be afternoon to make a transition to beautiful building on broadway this is what chinatownc. c is making our neighborhood healthier thank you gordon and novrm and many people that are involved here today (clapping.) we found out that willie brown will not make it after andrea our residents speakers the mayor you have 15 seconds to thirty second to cover the story back then how this become affordable housing you were here. >> thank you, norman it is quite a story and actually a story where the thanks go to the people of district 8 because the police amendment was going to be told me sold off and the money to build a new central station on this site but the good people of district 8 encouraged their supervisor mark leno no, not to sell it off and as a result not enough capital