after the tubbs fire, the flames erupted in 2017. the rebuilding continues. now there's this. u.c.keley researchers, eye group of researchers, are urgin. they say avoidabout. here's nbc bay area's pete suratos. >> reporter: while we're st low-risk part, that area was you can still see homes are being rebuilt in that area. so u.c. berkeley researchers released this report today saying the state shouldn't rebuild homes in areas devastated by wildfires. instead, incentivized buyouts for folks located on the east side of town where there is a history of wildfires and moving to the west side where they're saying there could be less risk. but i brought up this idea to a homeowner in the area who says it crossed her mind to relocate, especially after she lost her home in the tubbs fire. but she says that fire is an example of how unpredictable wildfires can be. >> the tubbs fire jumped the freeway and burned a neighborhood, coughy park. it wasn't anywhere near hills or trees. steps, researchers hope state lawmakers will c legislativization. pete suratos, nbc bay area news. >> we're just g

.>>> next, michael tubbs speaks exclusively to julian glover.ome appraisal he thought was to low delayed the sale of his home and he lost out of tens of thousands of team usa is ready for the an olympic games... so is jacob! he's got a flex 4k streaming box free with xfinity internet, and peacock premium included. with team usa highlights... live look-ins... athlete interviews and more, it's all of jacob's favorites in one place! woooooooooooow! woooooooooooow! woooooooooooow! entertainment starts at free with flex, included with xfinity internet. get ready for the olympics with xfinity internet for $19.99 a month for 12 months and get a flex 4k streaming box for free! switch today. this unplugged device is protecting our beautiful coastlines and more. put off chores and use less energy from 4 to 9 pm to help keep our state golden. >>> building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc7 news.>>> abc7 news continues to lead the charge on looking at possible discrimination in home appraisal process. are excessive reporting

in the tubbs case, the appraisal the former mayor and his wife thought was to low was enough to delayle of their home. >> you can be a victim of racism. it is not about how much you make. it is not about where you live. it is not about where you went to school. it is about your >> michael tubbs and his wife say they learned that lesson the hard way when putting their stockton home on the market in february. they have since relocated to los angeles. i spoke exclusively to the couple because in. >> i thought we were pretty good at this. >> they put the home on the market for $599,000. it is $1000 less than the home on the same block sold four weeks earlier. >> in a week we had two bids that were even higher than what we were asking for. >> ordered an appraisal the home was appraised for $540,000. that is $70,000 less than the offer placed on the home and $87,000 less than salo's estimated value listed at $627,000 in february. >> our time was wasted and so much stress was put on our shoulders. it was the same for them. their plans were completely thrown off. >> given the difference in th

>> reporter: gayle brown is a santa rosa homeowner who lost her home due to the tubbs fire back in 2017. she says getting people to relocate won't be an easy task. >> the tubbs fire jumped the freeway and burnt a neighborhood, it wasn't anywhere near hills or trees. >> reporter: take you back, live, out here to santa rosa and the researchers say it would cost california $600 billion to build homes in some of these high-risk areas so they hope state lawmakers will at least consider these housing strategies in the next legislative session. >> thanks, pete. let's bring in jeff ranieri, again, we want to talk about that fire danger. and, jeff, we are going to see this fire danger, the rest of the year. and really, it's starting to be year round, almost. >> yeah, certainly, you know, we have two bad rain seasons in a row. and it's just hard to catch up. so, right now, it's all about being on the defense. getting your house ready on those hot days, watching out for yourself and your neighbors. seeing anything suspicious and making sure to report that, as well. so, i wanted to focus this on wh

i think at some point from the cares act it made the case for mayor tubbs and the experiment that heshould be some, i think, continuance of those policies that helped some of the most needy people in our country. >> josh, the vaccine rollout has been extraordinarily successful. it's been a long 14 months, but we are snapping back in a big way. every day we hear about job openings and we talk to businesses that say we can't find workers. we know there is pressure states toen the enhanced unemployment benefit. half of our states are already doing it. should the government use the money elsewhere since we have snapped back so quickly? >> i think the point will be moot in two months, so i wouldn't worry too much about that. by september we'll see these extraordinary benefits start to wind down and there will be a luxury to not have to find a job to go out and look for one. the good news is we saw job openings rise by a million job openings month over month in data that we got yesterday. so there is plenty of room for people to come back to the workforce when these things run down. i don'

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they lost their home in the 2017 tubbs fire and are still in the rebuilding process. he's trimmed his trees and welcomes the county, taking the initiative to prevent any more devastation. drive up cross creek the next street over and dead trees all the way up, and that's scary because. if the another fire comes through all that dead fuel. honestly, it just feels right to reinvest some of that money and to trying to make sure that never happens again in sonoma county. now these funds require a 25% local match. sonoma county is paying that with pg and e settlement money, president biden said. there's about $1 billion in this program and other areas will start to receive their disaster preparedness money soon reporting live in sonoma county, greg lee ktvu fox two news that money will certainly be needed for us are, greg. thank you so much. well, the lava fire in siskiyou county has now grown to more than 17,000 acres. the forest service says that evacuations remain in effect while the fire is growing. crews continued to make progress, though, to keep the flames from burn

and that is, you know, wher they're tubb the commodification of pride, that is the biggest concern that black voters. when we go out and talk to plaque voters, they say the same thing about democrats and republicans. if you're going to want my vote or my attention or want a pat on the back, because you put a rainbow float on, you'll have to support me after the fact. and that is where this conversation is going, especially because these young kids are not scared to say what they want to say and that's probably a good thing, but it does change the conversation quite a bit about some of these things. >> i want to give you the last word for the topic of our next segment, which has to do with the presence of kinksters, fetishists, leathermen at pride. this seems like a perennial conversation which seems louder because of social media. before we move on to our next segment at our next guest, having grown up in san francisco and for me having lived in san francisco for 6 1/2 years before i came east, what is your sense of this debate? about keeping pride palatable, respectable to a mainstream

legal settlement for sparking the 2017 tubbs fire honestly, it just feels right to reinvest some of that money into trying to make sure that never happens again. and sonoma county, hopkins says as soon as this summer fire marshals will be going to homes in high risk areas to show residents how to create defensible space and, in some cases, help them pay to remove it. i hear from a lot of particularly elderly homeowners may be used to have an ability to manage their properties themselves, and now they see a lot of overgrown brush, and they potentially can't afford to hire someone to help, so our goal is to actually get fire marshals and inspectors out of their houses to tell them what they need to do, and then to provide them with the funds that they can actually accomplish those things the rest so the money will be used for things like creating green belts and open space around more dense neighborhoods in sonoma county to provide a natural firebreak at the national level, some of the fire mitigation efforts announced by the president this morning include setting aside money to make seaso

a huge deal ultimately, but this was an fountain grove neighborhood that, of course, is where the tubbsire burned almost 4 years ago, a devastating fire and quite frankly, if you're in that area, you have ptsd and any little smoke is going to really, really concerned. you this weekend going to be hot in the bay area in certain spots. certainly so crews are going to be on high alert and now we handed over to meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez. for more on that part of the story. recent yeah. thanks for that report. grant. let's take a look at just how dry it's going to get. >> fortunately. we're not tracking triple digit heat, but it is going to be a halt. want to start out your weekend forecast temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above average and look at what it does to the relative humidity. the moisture content. we're going to be in the teens to low 20th percentile range at times. 22% relative humidity and yacht bill 27% relative humidity in livermore. so little moisture content with temperatures in our north bay and east bay valleys warming up into the low to mid 90's. so fortunately not goin

nothing major at this point where they have to designate a name tubbs fire it is horrible as you know, once they designated name to a fire. but we do know that the summer months well into the summer months are still ahead of us and it's going to get hotter next week. we're talking 90's to triple digits and it takes one spark and places like this one could go up in flames. back to you. firefighters across southern california are preparing for a heat wave. and what conditions are in store there for the region. >> temperatures in some parts of southern california could reach 110 degrees due to the drought and the risk of wildfires officials are asking homeowners there to take steps to create defensible states. fit space to lower their chances of a fire spreading. >> any vegetation that's close to the house, trim it, push it for example, if you stockpile would. keep that away from the from the home. anything that could flammable and can catch fire quickly. >> pull it away. >> that heat wave in southern california is expected to last through next friday. let's talk about our forecast here