on something like this, the numbers are looking good and the most important data point may be the number zero. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: zero. that's how many people have died while in police custody since the community response team was created and mayor lamar hernandez thorp says that's exactly the result he was hoping for. >> the first month of my time as mayor of the city of antioch i had an in-custody death that led to this. another month in i had another in-custody death. we haven't had an in-custody death since we launched this. that's a mark of success for me. >> reporter: to mark the one year anniversary the mayor rode along with the team. the first stop was a strip mall that

generates multiple responses a day. most of the calls are nuisance calls created by homeless people in the area. >> we address the situation, hey, guys, can you turn the music down? can you leave it alone? it's either yes or no. >> reporter: but a business owner named tony approached to complain about lack of response from police and the meager size of the crisis team. >> two people cannot solve this problem. three people can't solve it. you need more bodies. you need help. i need help. you need help. he needs help. >> reporter: one of the purposes of the program is to relieve police of nonemergency responses and the mayor says that's another area of success. already the team is taking 500 calls per month freeing up officers to attend to more serious matters. >> initially we didn't know if these 911 calls would be coming in readily, but to our surprise, we're getting -- and they're starting to increase, so maybe to that degree, but we knew there was a need, but with our relationship with dispatch

is extremely important and again, 500 calls a month is pretty good. i expect that to increase. >> reporter: now the police were the ones calling in the crisis unit. on this day they asked for help on railroad avenue where they were trying to get a group of homeless campers to leave. >> we're trying to do everything we can to get them the care. >> reporter: the team first approached the campers just to talk and later offered them water and snacks. the idea is to act as a go-between calming situations down to prevent a more aggressive reaction from either the subjects or the police. >> they rely on us, the pd, as much as we rely on them. so it's a support issue everywhere. >> reporter: so it's been a good working relationship? >> yes. it's a great working relationship with the pd. >> reporter: the mayor believes the program is working, but the initial $1 million of funding, a grant from the federal government, is running out. >> funding will have to come from somewhere to keep it going. if it means we have to

restructure the budget, we'll do that. >> reporter: he says for now he intends to ask the city council to allocate the money to continue and expand the response team in order to prevent a crisis from becoming a tragedy. >> antioch's community response team is named for angelo kinto, a young man killed after police were called in to deal with his mental health crisis. four homicide suspects in antioch will plead guilty to lesser charges as a result of the scandal at the police department. in march of 2021 a man was killed and a second person shot in a drive-by shooting on aspen way. four men were arrested and charged with murder. those four suspects have reached plea agreements on lesser charges after federal and local investigators uncovered widespread racism and brutality within antioch pd, including in this case. all 12 officers involved in the arrest or the investigation were allegedly part of racist,

homophobic, and threatening text message chains. in august last year federal prosecutors announced charges against three officers for their use of force and their deployment of a police k-9. other officers within the antioch and pittsburg police departments have been accused of benefit fraud, steroid distribution and other misconduct. our chopper over a huge police presence this afternoon in one antioch neighborhood where a shelter in place has just been lifted. police are searching for a wanted man in the area of putnam street and gentrytown drive. this video is from a little less than two hours ago, officers in tactical gear and with their k-9 unit searching for 28-year-old carlos palacios but do not say why. i'm anne makovec following a potential escalation in the war between israel and hamas. israel's military says it is attacking hamas targets in the southern gaza city of rafah. earlier israel told as many as 100,000 palestinian civilians in rafah to get to an extended

safety zone before the israeli army comes in with "extreme force." the u.s. has objected to the invasion of rafah out of concern for the more than 1 million palestinians who fled to the city from other parts of gaza. president biden spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu this morning. >> the president was very direct and consistently so this morning that we don't want to see major ground operations in rafah that put these people at greater risk. >> concern about the war continues in the form of encampments at universities here in the bay area and today the president of san francisco state met with protesters one week after the tent encampment went up on campus. the students leading the negotiations are asking for the disclosure and divestment of csu funds to israel. the moderated negotiations are the first of their kind and the university's president says she says taking it seriously.

>> democracy is messy. it's ugly. it can be really conflict driven. if it can't play out on a university campus, then the u.s. is doomed. >> kelsi thorud was on campus all day and has more from both sides on these negotiations at 6:00. back in the middle east prime minister netanyahu's office said it will send mediators to discuss an agreement with hamas after hamas officials said they had accepted a ceasefire proposal earlier today but gave no details. a key player in those ceasefire negotiations making a stop here in the bay area today, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met with biotech experts this afternoon in menlo park. he toured a lab that creates key farm pharmaceutical ingredients. let's turn to our weather now. after a weekend of kind of weird weather, the national weather service is saying a moderate heat risk will develop

later on this week. >> let's check in with first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen. they're saying what, temperatures up into the 90s? >> we went from cold and rainy on saturday, now the 90s? >> the first weekend in may felt more like winter and the upcoming workweek is a taste of summertime, inland temperatures flirting with 90 degrees by the end of this week. even once those temperatures peak i don't think we'll set any records. let's look at forecast high temperatures for friday and compare that to record territory. we'll be a half dozen degrees short of a record in santa rosa, a dozen degrees short in livermore, pretty safe distance in between those forecast highs and record territory except for half moon bay, which is forecast to be a couple degrees below friday's record of 71 degrees. even as the heat peaks, the end of the workweek only brings that moderate heat risk to certain parts of the bay area, well away from the bay to get into the second category. moderate heat risk means most folks are

not going to have a problem, just anyone with severe sensitivity to warmer temperatures and more than anything, it's that weather whiplash from below average temperatures over the weekend to far above later this weeks that may have a few folks overreacting to the change in temperatures. wind advisory kicks in tomorrow evening for solano county, the rest of the bay area not included, but we're tracking some gusty offshore winds as the warmer air moves in. travel spending in california has fully rebounded from the pandemic. the governor's office announced the state generated a record $150 billion in travel spending last year. that's a record high. that hasn't been the case here in the bay area. >> waiting for the tourists to come and for the season to really get going. >> coming up at 5:30, we'll dig into why tourism is booming in southern california and why

the bay area has been slow to recover. business owners along san francisco's valencia street demanding the city change a controversial center bike lane they say has been hurting their bottom line for months. sfmta announced this year they will consider making changes to that experimental bike lane and now the valencia corridor merchant association is endorsing a switch to a protected bike lane that runs on the side of the street saying the change needs to happen quickly. in this statement the merchants wrote, "we have watched as dozens of our friends and neighbors have closed shop and know of a score more who are barely hanging on and likely to shutter in the coming months. as valencia represents the largest continuous stretch of independent merchants in the nation, it occupies a special space in the city and is worth saving." still ahead, a san francisco neighborhood known for drugs and crime is also home to 1,000 children. meet the volunteers providing safe passage for the city's most vulnerable. >> so this is really an

intervention of saying we need this space for kids. you may soon have trouble getting quickly in and out of your grocery store, the reason why a new bill could eliminate self-checkout machines. we'll meet a north bay holocaust survivor who was sent to a

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nine mountain view residents are searching for temporary housing after fire tore through the top floor of an apartment complex on the 2600 block of fayette drive yesterday morning. the mountain view police department closed fayette drive over three hours while fire crews put out the flames. the origin and cause of the fire is still under investigation. luckily, there were no injuries. the number of homeless tents in san francisco has hit a five-year low according to the mayor's office. the city says it has seen a 41% drop in

tents and structures since july last year. here's a closer look at those numbers. the city counted 360 tents and structures across san francisco at the end of april, down from 609 last year and also reported nine encampments of at least five tents or structures. the mayor says efforts to get people into shelter and cleaning up homeless encampments are factors behind that drop. san francisco has made a strong push in recent years to try to clean up the tenderloin, but change doesn't happen overnight. andrea nakano on the vibrant community that's had to find their own ways to protect the most vulnerable. >> reporter: wearing a bright safety vest with the words "safe passage" on the back, tatyana drives through san francisco's tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school. she is among several adults who escort dozens of children to after-school programs. >> we have a lot of things in

this neighborhood that are not safe that impact the lives of the people who live here. so this is really an intervention of saying, you know, we need this space for kids. we've expanded to seniors, people who need assistance, for residents to feel safe just walking through their neighborhood. >> reporter: long known for its brazen open air drug markets, mental illness, and homelessness, the tenderloin is also home to an estimated 3,000 children, the highest concentration of children in san francisco largely from immigrant families. >> i used to so worry about my kids and if something happened to the kids when i'm walking, what am i going to do? how am i going to face the families? but when safe passage come and they became a strong organization and become like expand, that was the best. >> reporter: a group of mothers started the effort in 2008 after a child temporarily went missing. >> safe passage is a program to

like protect the community, the kids, senior citizens, actually just protect the tenderloin community. >> reporter: the program safety stewards guide the students along the cleanest and calmest routes. >> now when i walk through on the street, i say thank you, safe passage, for just existing by staying in the neighborhood, by helping us. >> see you tomorrow. >> reporter: redirecting them to avoid people acting erratically or overdosing, sometimes stewards use their bodies to bock the children from seeing things they shouldn't. >> in better way by our presence, by our examples, by our positivity, by our positive connection with these people and i hope it will happen. i feel every year it's little bit better and better and better. >> now the safe passage program is part of the tenderloin community benefit district. the

nonprofit funded in part by tenderloin property owners and also cleans sidewalks, staffs parks and hosted community events. turning to our first alert weather, this weekend's spring storm that drenched the bay area with rain also set a new record snowfall in the sierra nevada. this is may. yesterday was the snowiest day of the season. the area recorded 26.4 inches of snow. that's 2.6 inches more than the previous record set march 3rd. that storm shut down both directions of interstate 80 on saturday because of the number of spinouts and crashes leaving some drivers stuck for hours. look at that. the highway finally reopened yesterday morning. paul, i got to wonder, it just feels so strange to have that kind of weather in may, but also have it be so warm, too. >> we had the below average

temperatures and now things flip around. we'll be way above normal. they'll stick around for a while. >> isn't may supposed to be kind of even keel, the showers bring the flowers and may gray? then you get into june. it's weird to have this kind of temperature flux. >> it's going to be an up and down pattern several days. if you didn't like the winter weather this weekend, we get to enjoy the opposite of that, summer-like temperatures settling in later this week and also dry weather settling in through the rest of the week and the rain chance over the weekend was the last significant one we'll be facing through the rest of the season. let's take a look outside now. there is the fog hanging out behind the buildings of downtown san francisco. the fog won't be widespread early tomorrow morning, but it should dissipate quickly, 58 degrees in san francisco, everybody else in the mid-60s, a cooler

than average day to start the workweek, but we're back to near average tomorrow and then wednesday as the climb will be officially underway. at the coliseum game time will be in the upper 50s, cooling down to mid-50s with some fog and low cloud cover trying to cross over the bay. temperatures continue dropping tonight, 40s by early tomorrow morning, mostly mid- to upper force 40s, which is normal for may. then everybody warms up to within a degree or two of average by tomorrow afternoon, low 70s for los gatos and morgan hill, some spots around the bay getting up to 70 degrees. along the coast upper 50s for highs by tomorrow afternoon, still waiting on the warmer air there. temperatures around the bay, mid- to upper 60s in san francisco and

oakland, low to mid-70s inland in the north bay. the warmth really kicks in wednesday. here's the ten-day temperature outlook for livermore. you can see the peak that happens friday and saturday, temperatures close to 90 degrees and then dropping back modestly but still above average through the weekend into the first half of next week. as the warmer air arrives, the air mass that brings it will squeeze up against the departing storm system and produce some gusty offshore winds. tomorrow the winds will be noticeable but not too strong yet. beginning to pivot. some of the strongest gusts in the 20 to 25-mile-an-hour range. the strongest winds coincide with the wind advisory i showed you earlier in terms of timing and placement, solano county getting stronger gusts, close to 40-mile-an-hour gusts even

before the sun comes up around vacaville. those numbers hover in place several hours on wednesday. the offshore winds will help warm temperatures up along the bay and coast. one more day in the medium category tomorrow and into the high category for pollen wednesday and thursday. here's the seven-day forecast. again, one of these things does not like the other and that thing is tomorrow's forecast, normal highs tomorrow and then way above normal as we head through the workweek and into the weekend. even when temperatures drop a bit sunday and monday, we'll still be 5 to 7 degrees above normal. thursday and friday look like the warmest days as we head into the weekend. temperatures retreat to the low 70s which isn't bad and along the coast close to 70 thursday and friday, again,

everybody depending on the wind direction. the offshore wind will allow coastal parts of the bay area to participate in this coastal warning trend unlike the last one that happened about a week ago. a resident reflecting on his remarkable village from a journey in ukraine. >> we came out and cried free, we are free! , dancing and crying and you can't explain it. police in mexico announcing arrests in the murder of a california man and two brothers from australia, what they're now revealing about a possible motive.

today is holocaust remembrance day. here's a look at the memorial site at the

legion of honor in san francisco. >> not everyone imprisoned and killed in the holocaust were jews. that includes one man who now lives in calistoga. >> nick hope was a teenager when nazis invaded his hometown in ukraine and sent him to germany to work in a factory. >> reporter ashley sharpe to the 100-year-old man. >> reporter: nick hope found himself at the gates of a concentration camp at the age of 17 in 1942. >> a new life, new start, new future. >> reporter: staring hell in the face, hope for a moment felt hopeless. >> and somebody says, okay, that's it. you'll never get out alive. boy, you got it

through the chimney, the smoke come out oddly, oh, boy. >> this is where my dad's barracks was in number 2. >> reporter: suffering both intense and impossible for three long months slowly starving in the main camp. then nick hope was sent to the substation for forced labor for the next two years. >> but thank my grandfather that teach me a lot of things that gives me patience, patience, any condition, patience. >> reporter: spring 1945, the end was near. >> i says okay, they've finished . no. i'm still alive. >> reporter: with american forces closing, in the nazis forced thousands of prisoners on a death march frantically out of the camps. >> two days we walk, walk in

the rain, and they fell down and that's it. you're finished. they kill you right away. all you heard is boom, boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: hope ran into nearby woods as shots rang out, a constant death sound until -- >> oh, brother, here the american tanks come and we come out and they cry you're free! we are free! and dancing and crying and you can't explain it. people just are free, free, but not all of them. >> reporter: thousands died on the march just before the war would end. nick was only 75

pounds, hospitalized for years in germany after. there he met his wife, nadia, a holocaust survivor, too, finding in each other a place to start over. >> just amazing story there. >> yeah. >> it turns out an army soldier who helped liberate the camp on that day settled in fairfield. >> it was eight decades later the two men learned they had been living just one hour apart for all these years. what a story. switching gears, most of california seeing tourism numbers rising, but not the bay area. why san francisco is lagging behind southern california. >> as you can see on a sunday afternoon brunch, it's not happening. >> and the reason why those quick and easy self-checkout lanes may soon be going away, the bill now making its way through the state capitol. and another shortage of your favorite spicy condiment may be looming, why production

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