until i read all the evidence. from ktvu. fox two news. this is the fourth the oakland police chief sidelined after being accused of failing to hold officers accountable. welcome everyone to the four. i'm alex savage heather holmes. many are now wondering what happens. next crime reporter henry lee first broke this story yesterday, and he's here now with this afternoon's update. henry james , come change comes at the top of this revolving door of police chiefs is undermining confidence in the police department. chief laurent armstrong now finds himself on the brink of potentially being pushed out. oakland police chief laurent armstrong on paid leave as a result of botched internal affairs investigations of a sergeant accused of a double cover up never before in oakland , has a top cop in sidelined instead of being fired. outright admin leave rarely seen chiefs come back from administrative leave. pete dunbar is a former oakland deputy police chief. he

says the latest upheaval in the department could undermine public trust. i think the perception is what the heck is going on there, he doesn't flow like a normal typical organization does which again is frustrating if you're a citizen or business person in oakland because you want to highly functioning. police department, a scathing report by a law firm says the internal affairs captain ordered a subordinate to downgrade the severity of the case against a sergeant accused of a hit and run in san francisco. that same sergeant a year later fired his gun in a service elevator at oakland police headquarters, then toss the shell casing from the bay bridge. the report said the chief should be disciplined for failing to hold the sergeant and others in his command accountable. i am not taking a position on whether the chief should be terminated until i read all the evidence. civil rights attorney jim channon is monitoring oakland police reform efforts. it obviously is, in a good sign that he was put on administrative leave, but i think it's also significant that he wasn't fired. newly elected mayor xiang tao in city

administrator at risk and put armstrong on leave tower has the power to fire the chief only with the approval of independent monitor robert warsaw, who's overseeing the department's reform efforts. armstrong is an at will employee he could either be fully reinstated or fired in a number of different ways. the monitor being one the monitor could tell the city manager of mayor you're going to fire this person, and that's absolute. it's not a conversation. the police commission has that authority as well. there's a lot of work ahead and the community is expecting that same measure of accountability from us transparency. now all eyes will be on the federal judge overseeing oakland police reforms meeting set for tuesday and we'll see exactly what he says about the department's future. meanwhile, the sergeant accused of to cover ups is still on paid leave since last april. and despite all of this, the police union says its officers will continue to respond to their calls for help. mayor chang tao expected to address the situation. tomorrow in the newsroom. henry lee ktvu fox two

news. let's talk more now about the current situation with opd. joining us now is john alden, former lead investigator of the oakland police commission. thank you so much for being here in your role. you looked into police misconduct complaints independently of opioids own internal affairs investigation. a walk us through the process here. what is the police chief's role in reviewing internal investigations? well for cases like the one that's been described in the court documents . so far, these kinds of cases would not have any independent outside of usual by the police commissioner or the civilian review agency in oakland purely by internal affairs staff, usually a sergeant. and a captain of police. and then reviewed by the chief of police , along with the rest of the command staff at a meeting once the case is fully investigated. then the chief of police makes a decision about what to do on the case, whether to find that any officers committed misconduct or not, and if they did, what discipline to impose is there

any way you could see chief armstrong, explaining why he closed these particular cases without properly reviewing the evidence? well the material that we've seen so far from the federal court filings indicates that outside investigators concluded that chief armstrong did not review be investigative reports in these cases. if that's the case, that is a deviation from the standard practice in the city of oakland, and it would be very hard to explain. we don't have chief armstrong side of the story. and so that might give us more information. it would not be normal for a chief of police to not review the incidents and the material was developed when they're investigating. okay so given what we know at this point , what is the likelihood that this is, in fact, the end of laurent armstrong as opd police chief and who will ultimately make that decision? that decision ultimately is made by the mayor. the mayor has the ability to let the police chief

go if she decides that that's best. in addition to that, the police commission who led the police chief go if they think that the police chief has committed form of misconduct. there are several listed in the city charter. one of them would be, uh, gross neglect of duty. so if they concluded that these allegations are true and that the chief committed gross neglect of duty. they could let him go, but that would require a meeting of the commission and a vote. um in addition, the mayor and the police commission can act together to release the chief at any time without cause if they both agree, so there are at least three ways that any achievement are going to be released, and we'll have to see what the mayor and the police commissioner bad. that will probably depend on what material they develop as they investigate the situation. the fact that the chiefs been placed on administrative leave suggests that the city probably the mayor's office, perhaps the police commission taking a closer look at the facts behind

these allegations to see what they think. finally here, let's let's talk about the broader implications for the city of oakland. obviously, it's a city that's dealing with high crime rates. there is difficulty retaining and recruiting officers at opd. and, of course, you have the incredible turnover of police chiefs in the city. what do you think all of this means for morale within the department and public confidence of the oakland police department among people in the community? well i would think that anytime a police chief has let go friendly reason erodes both the morale of the staff inside the police department. and also the confidence of the public. that's just a natural event. anytime achievers. let go in a public way like this. that said. i think it also raises important policy questions for the city of oakland. um are there ways in which the police commission should be on top of events like this and a more robust way. um why wasn't this issue detected

earlier by the police commissioner or the mayor or others in the city? what could be done in the future? make that system more robust. and i think fundamentally, it does call into question why oakland still has at least some set of cases where we let the police investigate the police. there's been ample movement in oakland to move those investigations out of the hands of police and entirely into the hands of civilians, and i suspect that this event is going to create more pressure to do just that important questions to answer moving forward here. we appreciate your perspective. john alden leader, former lead investigator with the oakland police commission. thank you so much for coming on. thank you for having me pleasure. well, while oakland faces these renewed challenges with this to police department and addressing gun violence, and the east bay city of fremont is taking steps to reduce violent crime, but it's very first gun buyback of the year. fremont will pay $100,000 for handguns, shotguns, rifles. $200 for an assault weapon, ghost gun or similarly

classified firearm. now, nonfunctioning guns can be turned in, but no money will be given that gun buyback runs from 10 o'clock tomorrow morning until three in the afternoon. it is at the fremont fire tactical training center. it's right there on stevenson boulevard near eureka drive, not far from the fremont costco. now we turn to developing news. we're following elon musk took the witness stand this afternoon in that high profile. i'il securities fraud trial. just a short time ago, the tesla ceo left the federal courthouse in san francisco. after testifying about his 2018 tweet about taking tesla private christian captain was in the courtroom and joins us now with what musk told the jurors today, christian yeah , that's right. musk was in court today, talking about that 2018 tweet about taking the possibility of taking tesla private musk appeared in court at around 1 30 this afternoon late in the day for federal court and was on the stand for just about a half hour. some

investors say that tweet he sent in 2018, saying that he'd secured funding to take tests. the private cost them millions. on the stand today must testified. quote i care a great deal about retail investors. they are most loyal and steadfast. investors must also stood by his habit of tweeting information about the companies he owns, saying, quote. i think it's the best way to communicate with people the most democratic way of communicating with people. attorneys for the plaintiffs suing musk were questioning him asking him if he saw the impact that his tweets could have on the stock price. musk said. it's not that simple , saying one time he tweeted that the stock for tesla was overpriced, and he says the results were higher stock prices so again, musk was on the stand for about a half hours a day before a court closed for the day he's due to return back to court monday morning, and he's due to resume his testimony on the stand. okay christian captain live for us in san francisco. christian thank you for the update. from there. we want to get some more insight on

musk's testimony today in that same francisco courtroom, and to do that we welcome back to the show and lipton law professor at tulane university professor. thank you so much for taking the time. once again. you heard from christian there, elon musk on the stand today downplayed the significance of those tweets essentially saying they're they're not comprehensive when it comes to information about the company, saying investors should be really looking at corporate filings for that level of detail. how do you think that argument is likely to play with the jurors? well um i mean, i mean, it's obviously true. i mean, generally, you know legally, it's understood that statement should be understood in context that, you know, clap. casual statements off the cuff statements are understood by investors very differently than more extensive documentation. but in this particular case there were two tweets and then the investor relations department confirmed that the tweets were accurate. um so his entire case he's going to have trouble pushing back about those

aspects as well. okay. we also heard from his attorney really kind of saying, you know what? this was a split second decision and that he really didn't mean to do this. he did this, you know spontaneously. legally. is that a sound argument? it's complicated. it is in the sense that in order to be found liable, he has to have acted intentionally or recklessly. problem here is that the court has already determined he acted recklessly that was found. it's not technically something that the jury is being asked to decide. so the lawyer maybe trying to paint musk is a sympathetic figure, but it technically it's already been determined that he acted. he may have acted the spur of the moment, but he acted recklessly with sufficient. you know, level of intent to be liable. all right? so we heard from christian here reporting from the courthouse. elon musk is going to return to the stand here at this trial. looking forward beyond that, who are the other key witnesses that we expect to hear from? um there were board board members, and i

think there are other people bankers that musk spoke to about his plans to take the company private because his all argument is alright. funding may not have been secured, but it was really close to being secured such that no investor would care about that difference. i was close enough, and that's all that matters. so there'll be all kinds of questions about. well, how close were you? i mean, if it wasn't secured, what exactly was it? so those are the kinds of testimony we can expect to hear, as well as technical testimony about the effect of market really quickly before we let you go. how big of a risk is it to have elon musk? take the stand here. you know, he sort of has this personality we've seen in the trial him painted as to sort of versions of elon musk. one is you know this this visionary and the other being a liar. yeah well, i mean, there may very well be some risk, but he doesn't really have a choice. this isn't criminal trial where he can refuse to testify. please this is the he's the crux of the case. there was no question that he was going to testify. and at

this point for him, it's day that ends in y. this is like a third trial recently, where he's testifying, and there are probably more down the pike. he's getting very used to it. all right. we'll leave the conversation there. we appreciate the insight today and lipton from tulane university. great to see you. thank you again for coming on. happy to be here. all right. we turn now to the weather and it is going to be our first weekend without rain here in the bay area in a long time. i know we're celebrating. we are, but it's cold. but you were right, alex because it's the first weekend without rain this year. there you go. that's true. and then you were right. heather is yeah . and we do have a freeze warning that goes into effect tonight, but we have a dry forecast four year weekend, everybody, let's get to one is the next opportunity for precipitation right here in the bay. area. long range computer models suggest, and they're pretty much in complete agreement that we will be rained upon sunday. july july, right january 29th. and so we'll keep you posted on that prognosis. alright i'd live whether camera

clear skies beautiful conditions looking out towards the golden gate bridge, which you cannot see is all that cold air mass in place. tonight we see the purple . that's where we have the freeze warning that goes into effect, but the lime green on your screen. that's very important. we do have a coastal flood advisory. in effect. it's time for the astronomical king tides and remember when we do have those highest of tides during the morning. we also have the lowest of low tides, and that's when you'll see people out on the sea shore looking for little treasures that might have been washed ashore. please be very mindful and never turn your back to the ocean close to the ocean half moon bay 54. same around the central bay. it is 52 1 in creek and 51 in livermore. meanwhile the winds have picked up 10, mph and fairfield. we have had about a 30 mile per hour wind at sfo. these winds will begin to die down once the sun does set and more cooler air filters that now see this area right here. be mindful of that, because this is an area of low

pressure notice. it's deflecting of that. that's a huge dome of high pressure. that is what's providing us with a dry conditions, but with the passage of the cold front yesterday morning, we have a lot of colder air mass in place. in fact, tonight again with that freeze warning 31 degrees in santa rosa. so you know some of these other spots i could toddy windsor, gern, ville and hills, berg all dropped down to the upper twenties, also below freezing in the tri valley, mid and high thirties around the peninsula at 37 degrees. is right around hayward tomorrow's daytime highs, tapping off all the way up to 58 similar to today in santa rosa will talk about temperatures in the sixties when they will return and will even toss in that 49 forecasts. heather and alex, that's still coming up. alright looking forward to that, roberta. thank you. we are learning more now about the student from san francisco state university who was swept into the ocean in pacifica search and rescue teams in boats and helicopters spent all day yesterday looking for the young man off esplanade beach. that search ended shortly after nine o'clock last night. his friends

have identified him as hamza al saadi. he was a san francisco state senior and a member of the school's wrestling team. two teammates say that they went for a polar plunge in the ocean. friends described him as an amazing guy who loved the water. obey area leaders in washington , d. c in the invitation of president biden. the topics discussed at the annual mayor's conference. (vo) at wells fargo, direct deposits come up to two days early with early pay day. what if everything came two days early? (hero) have a good weekend! alright now... have a good weekend. (co-worker) but it's wednesday... (co-worker 2) see you monday! (co-worker 3) am i missing something? (hero) it's the weekend baby... see you later. (vo) like getting things two days early? when it comes to payday, you can with wells fargo. (co-worker 4) what are you doing this weekend?

of mayors to the white house. today several bay area leaders were on hand, including san francisco mayor london breed. mayor lisa gilmore of santa clara mayor matt mehan of san jose and oakland mayor xiang tao . this visit comes one day after a group of four mayors implored congress to make serving local communities have priority over party politics. the president touched on a host of subjects from calls to defund the police. two drugs being brought over the

border. we confiscated 379 million doses of fentanyl other way. 100,000 mostly kids have died from on the issue of public safety president biden said the answer is not to defund the police but retrain police officers to make sure there is more accountability. more questions today for the white house set press secretary concerning those classified documents that were found in president biden's former office and at his home in wilmington, delaware. the press secretary, was asked if the president decided to go to his home. and in rehoboth beach this weekend instead of his house and wilmington's because of the document issue, the paperwork dated from mr biden's time is vice president during the obama administration, a special counsel has been assigned to investigate how the documents ended up at those two locations. i'm just going to continue to be prudent and consistent and respect the department of

justice process as it relates to his travel, as you know, he often travels to delaware on the weekend. i don't just don't have anything else to share. yesterday president biden told reporters that he is cooperating with investigators and has no regrets about how the discovery of the documents was handled. the fighting in ukraine continues to ramp up as western allies remain deadlocked over whether to send more tanks to help stop a new russian advance is alex hogan is in ukraine and tells us this does come as more aid is pouring into the country from the united states. more military aid will soon be arriving in ukraine, us announcing its latest package worth about $2.5 billion at a meeting of defense chiefs in germany, but there's still no agreement on getting more main battle tanks to ukrainian forces trying to push back a russian offensive in the east. the u. s is pleading with germany to send leopard takes claiming that the american made abrams tanks would be too heavy and used too much

gas and would be difficult to maintain. germany wants to cover of the united states. giving main battle tanks before they do because they fear that it's an escalation in the mind of the russians. a decision on those tanks is expected soon from berlin. in the meantime, the pentagon is urging ukraine not to start a new offensive until all of the latest military equipment has been delivered. the tanks are close. our morale is very high. we feel less fear. when we start storming, we will be unstoppable. getting of allies comes as fighting is escalating along the eastern front, the kremlin claimed its forces took two more towns overnight in a back and forth battle. ukraine's western allies now predicting the water will eventually end with a negotiated settlement, not a decisive victory for either side. this year. it would be very, very difficult to militarily eject the russian forces from all every interview cranie in occupied or russian occupied ukraine and as more western aid

is pouring into ukraine, a senior kremlin official warning that if russian forces are defeated here in ukraine, it could trigger a nuclear war in kiev, ukraine. alex hogan, fox news. up next here on the four today are recent storms have taken a real toll on elephant seals, who normally give birth fish time of year along certain bay area beaches coming up, an expert will join us live to explain how those elephants, seals and their pups have

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oh two elephant seals along the bay area coastline. those storms overtook in tire beaches where pregnant females often returned to shore this time of year to give birth to their pups. some of those pups were likely swept out to sea before they could learn how to swim. those birthing areas are at the point reyes national seashore and it on your nuevo state park in san mateo county. for more on this.

we are joined now. by sarah qadi , researcher with point reyes national seashore. sarah. thank you so much for taking the time here. what how did these powerful storms that we saw sweep through the bay area over the past few weeks affect the pregnant elephant seals and their pups. yeah so, um, this storms were kind of different from our normal winter storms. they were coming from the south. which hits all of our beaches really hard in point, reyes, whereas normal storms only hit some of our beaches, um, and because it was just storm after storm and massive high tides, massive strong waves. um it was reaching up to the base of the cliffs on all of our beaches and unfortunately, elephant seal pups don't know how to swim for the first few weeks of life. and so when the water reaches up that high with that powerful, um , amount of waves, there's not much they can do so that perhaps get pulled out, unfortunately

and drown, just just awful to think about that is it? is it clear at this point how many elephant seal pups might have been lost during these recent storms? so it's hard for us to know for sure, but the good positive thing is that this happened early in the pumping susan. so a lot of pups had not been born yet. so we're getting into the peak of our season in the next two weeks. so at the time of the storms, we maybe only had up to 100 pups born and maybe 50 to 70% of those were lost. um but to look at the bigger picture, you know, last year we had close to 1300 pups born um so this would have been a small number on you know every pop matters, but luckily it would have been a small amounts . um that did not make it and many pups have been born just in the last week and are doing great. all right. well, that

that's good to hear, you know, i mean, it's hard maybe to say here, but do you think there's do you have any sense about whether some of these pregnant elephant seals may be delayed their trip to come ashore. maybe had some sort of intuition about . you know the way the waters were churning and the fact that these were pretty severe storms and maybe delayed that trip ashore. right yeah, we think so . it's hard for us to know for sure. but the number of females right now is low. um, so we think that some of them have delayed and are still coming in . um and then we just did a survey yesterday and we saw many , many pops born literally just yesterday, which also shows us i think a lot of females delayed and just came in within the last week. um so they have a good sense of this kind of stuff and you can change their behavior. i imagine they have a good intuition about all this. finally here. what what do you think can be done moving forward here is other steps that can be taken to better protect elephant seals and their pups during

future storms, because obviously this is not going to be the last of these severe storms that we see. right yeah, it's hard for us to do that much, except the beaches that are wide and really deep that they can get away from the high tide is just a cute protecting those areas. um the seals are going into kind of closed beaches right now, but if they can find this wider, more open beaches and then we can then further protect them. that's what's going to help. alright we really appreciate your time and your insight here . sarah kati with the point reyes national seashore. thank you so much for coming on. thank you for having me. plus lawmakers representing the bay area in sacramento just wrapped up an important policy summit assembly. but filtering has joined going to join us live next to talk about the group's budget priorities. stay tuned for that conversation and also coming up. we are learning new information about that. faa outage that left flights grounded all across the country. the cause of that system failure up ext

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heather. we've been planning for this moment for quite a while. what really happened is we had overly rosy projections from last year in terms of our revenue revenues a little bit more down this year. i don't think it's going to have a huge impact. it just means that there are certain priorities that we need to delay or spend in further, you know, further out years we've been working really hard because most of money we've been spending in terms of excess funds has really been one time spending. so i capital programs that we spend only once a year and so many of these are not ongoing commitments like education, like health care or many of our human services programs. we're going to get to those priorities in just a moment, but but i know you just wrapped up this this big two day summit with other state lawmakers from the bay. the area to discuss really those policies and issues that matter most to our area. and for you. there are several priorities. you already mentioned a few of them. there's the classroom funding. there is money for infrastructure

improvements. you've also got health and human services at the top of the list. addressing the housing crisis and homelessness , which really affects just about every community here in the bay area, and finally ways to improve government that is a lofty list. their assembly member i want to start first with the governor's education budget proposals. are you satisfied with the type of funding that you're seeing? well the governor's proposing record education funding which builds on our record here from last year, we are moving back into the top quartile in the entire country of education funding after being at the bottom of education funding for many, many years. we think that's a great start. on top of that. we've invested a lot of money in ensuring that there is learning recovery that there's after school programs that there's really we know that school doesn't end at two o'clock, oftentimes as a working parent. i know this. i can't pick up my child till five or six. six. so having those after school programs that really are better.

richmond are absolutely critical. so we really look at now the school day going from 8 to 5, and so that's a major major investment in terms of housing and homelessness. we know that's going to be a major major issue we just discussed. that was one of our major topics that we discussed in our bay area caucus summit. yeah and what were some of the ideas? some of the plans that came out of those discussions when we are looking at homelessness. what one thing is just, you know, what do we need to do to make building more easy? what kinds of funds can we can we generate to support affordable housing permanently? you know when i talked to some of our major subject matter leaders, they reiterate that homelessness is a housing problem. i know that there's this feeling that it's really about substance abuse or mental health. and while those are two very important issues homelessness is primarily a housing problem. we haven't built enough housing overall and we definitely haven't built enough housing for people who earned 30% of area median income, so people who earn some income but are the working poor,

and so we need to make sure that we're building more af buildinge housing and franklyiders as we r life easier by taking away some of the red tape. we have so many government programs so many different, um ideas that we've generated, but each of those is a different contract, a different application. different measurements. we need to do a better job as government sort of bringing those programs together . all right, you've got a challenging year ahead of you really appreciate you coming on to talk a little bit about this afternoon. hope to check in back with you to see how things are progressing there in sacramento on behalf of as people who live here in the bay area. thank you again, assemblyman. thanks heather. really appreciate you having me on take care. have a good weekend. you too. stocks rallied on wall street today after a rough week for the major indexes. the dow was up 330 points. the nasdaq gained 288 points in the s and p was up by 73 tech and communication stocks were behind much of the gains here. traders were also

encouraged by remarks by one federal reserve member who said he favors just a quarter point interest rate hike coming up in february. new evidence of the impact of rising interest rates on home sales. the national association of realtors says existing home sales slumped nearly 18% last year. it was the slowest year for the housing market in nearly a decade. sales of previously owned homes total just over five million in 2022, all right, we are now learning what caused that huge problem with the pilot alert system that delayed thousands and thousands of flights last week. the federal aviation administration now says that a preliminary review of the outage determined that a contractor unintentionally deleted files while working on that pilot alert system. the faa says it did not find any evidence of a cyber attack or malicious intent , and that it is still investigating the incident. alright this time sunday, the

49ers when we're taking on their arrival, the dallas cowboys and a huge playoff game at levi stadium. but if you want to go to the game well as you can expect, get ready to pay up big time for the upper level section. tickets range from $470 to 784 bucks a seat in this section for a regular season game now usually goes for about $75. we're talking about the playoffs. of course. what happens? yeah 100 section will run you between 500. to 1100 bucks regular season tickets. there are usually about 2 50 for lower level, lower level seats, prices start at $600 and go up from there. standing room only. tickets though, are going between 612 $100 right now. the most expensive tickets, by the way, are right there at the 49 years 50 yard line right near the field, 2000. 500 bucks, not including fees. but boy, that's a really good seat. yeah, that's a nice, nice place to see. someone's going to pay it. suppose it's 20 $2500. good seat

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with everyone and have all of the team get to know our organization. great way to give back. the humane society of silicon valley is an independent , privately funded nonprofit serving people and pets for more than 90 years. in 2017, it became the first organization ever to earn model shelter status, according to guidelines set forth by the association of shelter veterinarians. nice job by the niners. they're dropping by the shelter, and you can watch, of course, the big game coming up this sunday. it's right here on ktvu, kickoff, niners and cowboys. it's 3 30 in the afternoon. then of course, stay tuned for the point after with jason appelbaum and joe fonzi immediately following the game. alright well, next right here on the four the effects of the drought certainly being felt throughout the state. but according to a new study, low income households are really hit the hardest. the stanford researcher shining a light on in the equality coming up next i am so sure you're ready for the weekend. but are you ready for a

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this year. california is still facing prolonged drought conditions and reduce stanford study suggests routes can make water unaffordable for low income households. researchers found that when water providers and act restrictions to cut back on usage, those moves disproportionately affect low income customers, leading them to shoulder much higher costs. to get a better sense of why this is happening. we're joined now. by sarah fletcher, associate professor and researcher at stanford university. fema sarah. thank you for the time today. so when

utilities put drought restrictions in place, which we have often seen, you found that low income households see the bills go up, while higher income households see their bills dropped and we have a graphic here we want to put on the screen. you found specifically that low income households can face increased water bills of up to $70 per month, while higher income households face decreased water bills. of up to $40 per month. why are we seeing this play out? this is absolutely right. so what happens is that when droughts occur, water utilities have to take expensive measures to ensure they can keep providing water and these costs are passed down to households who their water bills and so depending on what type of measures the utility take, um this can lead to this unequal impact that we see on high income and low income households. and so when curtailt . what can happen is that high

income houses tend to use more water than low income houses. and so when curtailment happens , they have more room to cut their water use and the decrease that they see in their water bills due to reduced use of water outweighs the increase in their water bills from the increased price of water, but the opposite can be true for low income households that don't have as much room to cut back, and so the increase in water prices has a bigger bigger effect. okay, so we here in california have been facing prolonged drought for several years. what is your research show about what that's meant for water affordability here in our state. absolutely so water scarcity and drought in california makes it more expensive for utilities to provide water, and this really increases the costs. um and so they they have to find a way to pay for those costs and in the absence of state and federal investment to support utilities

in making those much needed infrastructure upgrades, they have to pass those costs on to their their water users, and that can make water more expensive. of and less affordable, especially for those those low income households. and i understand that you you have done some estimates to look at just how many households across the country are facing the issue of water affordability. i think we have some of the numbers here. it's anywhere between 10 and 15. of households in the country are facing on affordable water service. so what are some of the solutions here? what what can be done? uh even as we have these prolonged drought conditions in our state and in many other places, what can be done to try to make sure you have affordability with water and accessibility. absolutely this is a problem that impacts americans all over the country. and really, what we need is utilities need state and federal support to be able to make the necessary investments and their infrastructure to provide the

water services that we really need, especially during droughts . and we know as the climate is changing that it's just going to become more more difficult and more expensive to provide those water services. and at the same time, low income households need the support to be able to access water. um, one important development is that the federal government recently funded the low income household water assistance program, and a lot of water providers in california are now participating so people can reach out to their their local water provider. for more information about that. it really is an important work that you're doing there and important topic to study. really appreciate your time, sarah thanks again. thanks for having me. on the subject of water. let's go to take a look at our drought index, and this may be a little difficult to read or decipher. so let me try to explain it to you up on the front row there six months ago. you see a lot of red when you see a lot of red. that's not a good thing. that's an exceptional drought. take a look at the bottom row now where it says currently less red. so

that's a good thing and lots of people are asking me. does this mean that the drought is over? well no, but all the green hills. this is a look at mount diablo. it's beautiful outside lots of clear skies. it has been windy on the tip top about diablo. today i saw some wind gusts and excess of 40 mph. these winds are now beginning to subside. gently 12 mph, but the reason why i wanted to share the winds with you is because when they begin to die down, dial back. that's when the colder air just settles in and that's why we have a freeze warning and for tonight. right now wins at 13 sfo temperatures in the mid fifties. now look at santa rosa . that's the warmest temperature of seen all day at 60 degrees have been sitting right around 58 most of the day fifties. right now in the dry valley and where you see the highlighted purple area. that's where we had that freeze warning in effect tonight, pets, pipes and plants be very mindful of that, where you see the lime green. that's a coastal flood advisor. in effect , it's time for that

astronomical high tide, the highest tides taking place during the morning hours on the weekend, the lowest of low tides during the afternoon, and you'll see a lot of people out on the sea shore, looking for a little hidden treasures that have washed up on shore. never turn your back to the ocean. this is what's going on out there. we still have a series of storms. this is a long gated frontal system here, but it's going to bounce off our ridge of high pressure, taking his precipitation well to the north of the bay area, but we will have some runoff. as far as the clouds are concerned, so we'll call it partly sunny from time to time, but overall, it's a dry weather pattern that will persist all the way through sunday through your weekend. oh, did i say sunday? i heard there's a football game in town. yeah it's a 49ers playing host at the dallas cowboys. game time kick off 57 degrees, but that temperature really falls off very quickly as the sun does set at about 5 17 to 5 20 northwest winds at 10 mph your tahoe forecast blue skies each and every day average overnight low

19 the high generally around 43. it's going to be unseasonably cool right now it's 40 and blue canyon, but cooler air mass ushers in this weekend look at the temperatures below average. and at nighttime down into the teens. we're talking 31 degrees overnight, santa rosa freezing and morgan hill below freezing. livermore sam ramon pleasant in in dublin, 37. degrees in hayward and across the bay to redwood city. pretty consistent mid thirties around the central bay. tomorrow's highs going back up to 58. perhaps even 60 and santa rosa, everybody sporting fifties and here is your extended forecast. notice we're into the sixties sunday all the way through wednesday. in fact, i took a peek past wednesday all the way through friday. 64 degrees are outside number and make it a fun outdoor weekend. it should be a fun, roberta. thank you. as cases of covid-19 spike all around the world, one country is planning to downgrade . the severity of covid comes spring. the reason behind that change up next. also news of opd

s chief being put on administrative leave, prompting a lot of reaction from around oakland. and we're talking with more people tonight. coming up at five tonight, the concern from community leaders also coming up at five prayers in an east bay neighborhood where one home has already slid down a hillside and another homeowner is hoping there's isn't next. (vo) at wells fargo, direct deposits come up to two days early with early pay day. what if everything came two days early? (hero) have a good weekend! alright now... have a good weekend. (co-worker) but it's wednesday... (co-worker 2) see you monday! (co-worker 3) am i missing something? (hero) it's the weekend baby... see you later. (vo) like getting things two days early? when it comes to payday, you can with wells fargo. (co-worker 4) what are you doing this weekend?

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control and it seems other countries are still not welcoming us. there are now many tourists everywhere, so i want to wait and see in japan, the prime minister, saying he will downgrade covid-19 status in the spring, two levels equivalent to seasonal flu. that move would ease mask wearing and isolation roles, but currently the country is fighting its eighth covid-19 wave, the latest and largest group of covid-19 deaths attributed to elderly patients. deal with the eighth wave of outbreak with the utmost effort by enhancing infectious measures against the spread of the virus and securing medical care here in the u. s. cases are spiking in the northeast, but parents in connecticut are upset with the proposed bill that would allow anyone 12 or older to get a vaccine without parental consent . if my son decided to get a vaccine that i was not fever of what happens when he gets a reaction. is he going to take it upon himself to call his pediatrician and say what's

going on? is this normal? no. friday marks three years since the first case of covid-19 was confirmed in the us and that was in washington state in los angeles. christina coleman fox news. 2023 the year of the rabbit, and there are some big bunnies popping up in unexpected places coming up. we'll tell

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so is celebrating the year of the rabbit with a new tradition that actually started during the pandemic. jana katsuyama shows us the new statues that are benefiting artists and nonprofits. peer around the corner in san francisco, and you might just find yourself bumping into a bunny. meaning behind the rabbit is it's peaceful, harmonious. good luck, so we really tried to embody a lot of that this year. it's the year of

the rabbit and five of these statues have popped up around san francisco, each sponsored by a local company and painted by a local artist. we wanted them to be larger than life and something that people can enjoy interacting with. taking pictures with. stephanie mufson is one of the artists and the san francisco lunar new year parade. event coordinator. she says the idea for painted statues began two years ago when the parade was canceled due to the pandemic turned out to just become this really beautiful way of integrating the art into the community and having a way for artists to have another voice. rabbit greets writers at the new chinatown subway station, a sky blue for her sponsor, sky river casino outside chase center. another rabbit weights ready for the warriors new year's celebration on saturday, the clouds have the meaning of happiness. the bunny named bravery represents speed, strength and good fortune for the team, according to the chinese artist, e. young dang. painted it easy, grow very fast

and very strong and as they are very straight, deng says the holiday has deep meaning for him and many others far from home. new year's to me is the family time the world feeling artist robbins our helped paint the lucky supermarket rabbit that was placed at lakeshore plaza, and she designed the rabbit at union square. some coins because chinese people love money and who doesn't like wealth for the new year, right wealth. good luck and a connection to traditions held close to the heart. chinese new year to me is kind of like oh, welcome back home back into my chinese culture. rabbits will be on display through february 5th, and then they will be auctioned off. organizers are hoping that they will bring prosperity to the local community groups throughout the year. in san francisco. jana katsuyama ktvu, fox two news airlines chinese new year parade in san francisco is coming up on saturday, february 4th and for the first time since the pandemic, you can

watch it live right here on ktvu . we hope you'll join us on that day for the ktvu news at five o'clock. followed by the parade at six. ktvu fox two news at five starts now. we are going to rally around him because he has touched so many lives in this city. that's what we're gonna do. five fresh reaction pouring in from people in oakland amid an uncertain future for police chief laurent armstrong. we first broke the news yesterday at five about chief armstrong getting sidelined accused of feeling to hold officers accountable. good evening. i'm cristina rendon this evening. many are wondering what happens next. we have team coverage tonight of the department in turmoil, evan sernoffsky spoke to community leaders about their concerns with leadership, but we begin with our crime reporter henry lee, who broke this story yesterday. he's here to tell us what's ahead for chief armstrong, henry. greg chains comes at the top of this revolving door of police chiefs is undermining confidence in the police department chief laurent

armstrong now finds himself on the brink of potentially being pushed out. oakland police chief laurent armstrong on paid leave as a result of botched internal affairs investigations of a sergeant accused of a double cover up never before in oakland , has a top cop in sidelined instead of being fired. outright admin leave rarely seen chiefs come back from administrative leave. pete dunbar is a former oakland deputy police chief. he says the latest upheaval in the department could undermine public trust. i think the perception is what the heck is going on, there doesn't flow like a normal typical organization does which again is frustrating if you're a citizen or business person in oakland because you want to highly functioning. police department, a scathing report by a law firm says the internal affairs captain ordered a subordinate to downgrade the severity of the case against a sergeant accused of a hit and run in san francisco. that same sergeant a year later fired his gun in a service elevator at oakland police headquarters, then tossed the shell casing from the bay bridge. the report said the chief should