But Wechter and other board-appointed members balked, noting that the standard civil oversight hiring process is to conduct a nationwide search with a published job posting, typically through the National Association of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement.

Some members were in favor of considering Henderson’s selection, including board member Julie Soo, who was appointed by the mayor.

But Wechter said Henderson’s attempt to bypass that process seemed inappropriate.

“This is in complete contradiction to supervisory best practice, which is to conduct a nationwide comprehensive search,” he said. “I think almost every other regulator in the country has done that. The people in the supervisory area are moving. So you don’t just want to look at your garden. So I was more concerned that he might do that.”

Henderson defended the move, saying he just wanted to expedite the process.

“I didn’t even give out my list, I didn’t even tell them who it was, but I was surprised they got it as I’m trying to put my person there and check on it,” he said. “What are you talking about? I’m telling you there are good leaders that I know are available across the country.”

The board finally voted for a statewide search in January 2023, but the hiring process was further delayed when the city’s human resources department encountered logistical problems as it does not typically hire department heads.

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Vicha Ratanapakdee’s family protested outside the San Francisco Hall of Justice on Friday as the criminal case against the man accused of brutally killing the 84-year-old continues to be delayed.

It has been almost two and a half years since a man, Ratanapakdee, affectionately known as “Grandpa Vicha”, was violently filmed on camera.

For Monthanus Ratanapakdee, Vicha’s daughter, waiting for justice was difficult.

“I haven’t had time to grieve with my family since the day my father was killed,” she said. “I must stand up to fight for justice for my father. I have to work for the community.”

Grandpa Vicha’s attack became a flashpoint during the pandemic. It was one of several attacks on the Bay Area AAPI community.

Monthanus Ratanapakdee said it was painful to see delay after delay in the trial of Antoine Watson, the man blamed for Vicha’s death.

A court hearing on the case on Friday was unexpectedly canceled.

Monthanus said San Francisco courts need reform and she believes defense attorneys are trying to delay cases for as long as possible.

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins released the following statement on Friday:

“We were ready to take this case to court, but the speed at which this case, like many others, moves through the criminal justice system is almost entirely controlled by the defense.”

Sergio Quintana has more in the video above.

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Memorial Day weekend is upon us, kicking off the busy summer vacation season, and airlines are forecasting that this could be their busiest summer ever. Industry projections indicate that despite relatively high airfares, U.S. airlines could carry a record number of passengers this summer, even though they’re still operating fewer flights than before the pandemic.

The coming months are likely to be a “stress test” for a national aviation system plagued by recent staffing shortages, antiquated technology, air traffic control problems, scheduling issues and labor disputes.

After widespread flight delays and cancellations last year, consumer advocates and some within the travel industry worry air travelers could face similar disruptions that will mess up their summer travel plans again.

If you’re among those hoping to jet off to somewhere fun this summer, here’s what you can expect.

Long lines and packed planes starting this weekend

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“This summer’s travel demand will be as strong as we’ve seen since before the pandemic and potentially the strongest ever,” says Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, which represents airlines, hotels and other travel-related businesses.

The crush of travelers starts Memorial Day weekend, with AAA forecasting that about 3.4 million Americans will be flying this Thursday through Monday.

Including the numbers of commercial airline flights and those on smaller general aviation aircraft, there will be more than 313,000 flights over the seven-day holiday period from May 24 to May 30, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. While that is just below pre-pandemic 2019 levels, the airlines may actually be flying more people by using bigger planes than they normally would on many routes.

The FAA projects that this Thursday will be the busiest day of the Memorial Day weekend, with more than 51,000 flights forecast.

Among the commercial airlines, United is predicting this Memorial Day weekend will be its busiest in more than a decade. Delta expects a whopping 17% increase in passengers from last year.

“The airports are packed,” says Steve Solomon, chief commercial officer of the Airlines Reporting Corp., which processes and tracks airline ticket sales. “So travelers should prepare to get to the airport early, allow adequate time to get through security screening, through the TSA, and expect to see a lot of people on really full planes.”

Solomon says Europe is especially popular this summer, with huge increases in the number of airline tickets purchased for the top ten destinations across the Atlantic, even though prices are up significantly.

“Summer 2022 was pretty rocky”

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If last summer is any indication, air travelers might be in for some turbulence before they get off the ground this summer.

“Things were very bad for air travelers last year. They were as bad as they’ve been in 25 years or more,” says Andre Delattre, national program director for PIRG, the Public Interest Research Group. The consumer advocacy group analyzed airline passenger complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Transportation.

“There were five times more complaints in 2022 compared to 2019 before the pandemic, even though fewer people were flying,” he says.

Airlines delayed and canceled a staggering number of flights last year — more than 210,000 were canceled, according to the flight tracking firm FlightAware. “Other than the early months of the pandemic, that’s more canceled flights than any year since 2001, when, of course, 9/11 disrupted air travel,” Delattre says.

A recent Government Accountability Office investigation found that the sharp increase in airline flight disruptions in recent years was largely caused by factors within the airlines’ control, including maintenance issues, technology glitches and staffing problems.

Even though taxpayers shelled out $50 billion to keep airlines in business and pilots, flight attendants and other employees on the payrolls during the pandemic, airlines offered early retirements and other incentives for workers, including experienced flight crews and ground crews, to leave.

Then air travel demand returned much more quickly than airlines expected. Many tried to cash in with aggressive scheduling, but the staff was stretched too thin to meet that demand, especially during severe weather, which led flight crews to time out without fresh crew members to replace them. With planes and flight crews out of place and too few replacements available, it would take some airlines a week or more to get caught up from one series of thunderstorms.

Add to that a new pilot training backlog, and shortages of mechanics, maintenance workers, gate agents and customer service staff, along with technology glitches and outdated scheduling software at some airlines, and it all cascaded into several periods over the last year in which hundreds of thousands of would be travelers were stranded, the worst of which was over the Christmas holiday, when Southwest alone had to cancel 17,000 flights.

Airlines say they’re better prepared now

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American and its rival airlines all say they’re much better prepared for this summer than last. They’ve all gone on a hiring spree, with passenger airlines adding nearly 4,500 employees just in March alone.

The industry now employs more than 486,000 workers in the U.S., nearly 10% more than they had before the pandemic.

Most airlines handled the recent surge in spring break travelers relatively well, and the cancellation rate so far this year is down significantly from last year. According to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics, airlines canceled 1.7% of flights over the first three months of this year, far lower than the 2.7% flight cancellation rate for all of last year, and 4.1% for the first quarter of 2022.

“We are as prepared as we can possibly be,” says Nick Calio, president and CEO of Airlines for America, the lobbying group representing the nation’s biggest air carriers. “We’ve got a lot more employees. We have reduced our schedules and adjusted how we’re flying,” in an effort to minimize flight disruptions.

But many industry experts warn travelers to be prepared for significant flight delays and cancellations anyway, caused by things outside of the airlines’ control.

The FAA’s air traffic control issues

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While the Biden administration is turning up the heat on the airlines to fulfill their obligations to passengers, the airlines are growing frustrated with the federal government’s own aviation shortcomings.

The FAA warns that a significant shortage of air traffic controllers overseeing the very congested New York area airspace could increase flight delays into and out of Newark, LaGuardia and JFK airports by 45% this summer.

In addition, the chronically underfunded FAA is also struggling to replace outdated technology. The failure of a pilot notification system in January led the FAA to briefly halt all flight departures nationwide, causing thousands of flight delays and cancellations that day.

Meanwhile, Customs and Border Protection staffing shortages in many airports has led to hourslong waits for international travelers returning to the U.S. to get through customs.

Geoff Freeman of U.S. Travel puts the blame for many of these problems not on the airlines, but on Congress and the federal government.

“These problems have come out of years and years of underinvestment,” Freeman says. “If the government doesn’t act now, the headaches won’t just happen during peak travel season and holidays, it will become our daily reality.”

Summer air travel tips

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Airline passengers who run into problems from flight disruptions to lost luggage this summer can find out more about their rights and the airlines’ responsibilities at the Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection. The site also links to a dashboard listing which airlines are willing to pay for meals, ground transportation, hotels and other expenses incurred because of significant delays and cancellations that are the airline’s fault. It also link to a site where consumers can file complaints.

Experts recommend booking flights earlier in the day as storms tend to develop later in the afternoon and evening. It’s also a good idea to check the weather forecast for your destination and any cities where you have a layover. The FAA has a site showing where severe weather may cause problems for air travelers each day.

Use the airline’s app to track not just whether your flight is on time, but where the plane is coming from and if there are delays there. Book nonstop flights, if possible, so you don’t get stranded on a layover.

Travelers who are checking luggage should also be sure to pack an extra change of clothes or two and medications and other necessities in their carry-on bag, in case there’s a significant delay or cancellation after you’ve checked in.

The bottom line for those of us flying this summer is to plan ahead, prepare for the worst — and hope for the best.

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San Francisco leaders have delayed the potential opening of a new 250-bed homeless shelter in Lower Nob Hill after local residents and businesses objected to the plans.

City officials had proposed entering into a two-year, $18.7 million contract with the nonprofit Urban Alchemy to rent and operate the shelter at 711 Post St., a currently vacant hostel building just north of the Tenderloin and a few blocks west of Union Square.

The shelter would have opened in early February if the Board of Supervisors approved the contract next week. But a board committee voted unanimously Wednesday to have the city spend another month vetting the issue amid outcry from residents near the building who said they were not adequately consulted and had serious reservations about how the project would impact their neighborhood.

The Post Street site has yet become another flash point in San Francisco’s fraught debate over how to make meaningful improvements to its homeless crisis with more than 8,000 people lacking permanent housing. The delay Wednesday comes on the heels of the collapse of a city plan to turn 131-room hotel in Japantown into permanent housing for homeless people after months of community backlash.

Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who represents the area, asked the board’s budget and finance committee to revisit the proposal on Feb. 2. Peskin said that the city’s community engagement efforts had been so far “abysmal” and that he wants the neighborhood to have more time to evaluate the plans.

“Meaningful and real involvement with the community has been all but absent,” Peskin said, who doesn’t sit on the budget committee. “It has been box-checking government at its worst.”

Supervisors have in recent weeks decried the insufficient shelter, housing and treatment options to get people off the streets in the wake of Mayor London Breed declaring a state of emergency in the Tenderloin. Supervisor Hillary Ronen criticized her colleagues for delaying the shelter in the wake of the emergency declaration.

“I do not understand how the members of the Budget Committee voted to declare a state of emergency in the Tenderloin & then a day later delayed the leasing of a 250 bed non-congregate shelter to serve that neighborhood. Is this a crisis or not? It is & we need to act accordingly,” she wrote on Twitter.

With the state of emergency, Breed hopes to address street conditions, overdoses and crime in the hard-hit neighborhood. The declaration has been controversial because Breed has signaled an intent to expand policing, but her administration is also trying to connect more homeless tenderloin residents with shelter and other services.

Breed’s office views the Post Street shelter as a crucial step in the city’s plans to address homelessness this year. Her administration wants the shelter system’s capacity to reach 2,100 beds by the end of June through a mix of adding new beds and reopening beds closed due to the pandemic. The city is about halfway toward meeting the goal. Breed is also working to create 1,500 units of permanent supportive housing for the homeless.

“Every day we delay this shelter is one where 250 people sleep on the street,” Breed tweeted after the committee delayed the Post Street contract. “We can’t let obstruction and process arguments stop us from helping people in need.”

Breed said city leaders and the public “all agree that the conditions in the tenderloin are an emergency” and “we need to act like it.”

Formerly operated as a youth hostel called the Ansonia Hotel, the Post Street building includes 123 rooms that range from singles to quads. Each floor has bathrooms and showers, and the building also includes community lounges, a commercial kitchen and a dining space.

City officials were drawn to the building’s configuration, which, if used to serve homeless people, would place it somewhere between a single-room occupancy hotel and a traditional congregate shelter.

“This is not a building type or opportunity that we often have,” said Emily Cohen, a deputy director at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.

But a vocal group of people who live or work near the site have said San Francisco leaders did not provide enough notice about the building’s potential transformation. At the committee meeting, several residents also said they thought the area had already shouldered its fair share of facilities that serve San Francisco’s unhoused population.

Still, some spoke strongly in favor of the potential shelter, viewing it as an urgently needed facility to quickly get 250 people off the streets in the middle of winter.

Supervisor Matt Haney, who chairs the committee, said he understood the range of viewpoints expressed by the community.

“I do believe that these type of facilities are ones that we absolutely need,” he said. “I also understand the need to effectively consult with the neighborhood and the absolute need to consider geographic equity as well.”

Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, another committee member, supported spending more time discussing the project with the community.

Though he said he’d heard from numerous people opposed to the shelter, Safaí didn’t think the city would repeat the scenario that unfolded in Japantown last year.

Safaí also questioned why the city hadn’t moved to buy the site instead of contracting with Urban Alchemy to rent the facility from its owner. He said he’d been in contact with the owner, who he said is willing to sell.

“It seems to me like there’s room here to purchase the building,” Safaí said.

It’s not clear how exactly the city will proceed with the potential Post Street shelter. Cohen urged supervisors to make the delay as short as possible, warning them that a month was “a really long time” to postpone advancing the contract. But Safaí, Haney and Supervisor Gordon Mar voted in favor of Peskin’s proposal to continue the item to Feb. 2.

Peskin said he would work with city staff over the next month and “see what we can come up with.”

JD Morris is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jd.morris@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @thejdmorris

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South San Francisco City Council last week failed to approve a 480-unit housing estate, citing concerns about wages paid to builders and plans to use gas-fired water heaters in place of electric alternatives.

The lengthy approval process, which began in 2018, will be postponed until at least December 8th, at which point the point will be submitted to the Council again. Council members expressed the hope that the developer, the Hanover company, would give in to calls for union workers to be hired and for more environmentally friendly electrical appliances to be included.

“This project has been going for three years and another two weeks won’t really hurt,” said Councilor Buenaflor Nicolas. “We have to give the opportunity to negotiate and work together more.”

The delay comes amid a controversial time for housing projects as state laws have been passed in recent years aimed at getting cities to approve more housing in response to sometimes clogged local pipelines for new developments and rising rents. Developers have increasingly relied on such laws to get their approval – sometimes through litigation.

The proposed developments would consist of two seven-story buildings for 100 Produce Ave. and 124 Airport Blvd. with a total area of ​​743,700 square meters. The first two floors of the building would be multi-storey car parks with 560 spaces.

The location is half a mile from the South San Francisco Caltrain Station and one mile from a BART station.

The seventh public hearing on the development took place at last week’s session, but for the first time before the city council. The planning commission previously called for numerous changes, ranging from design changes to the facade of the building to the use of systems in the surrounding landscape design, to concerns about traffic management and the demand for more cost-effective units.

The development is said to include 60 units below market price, with 40 units affordable for those earning 80% of the region’s median income and 20 units affordable for those with the region’s median income. Units in these categories suitable for a household of two would cost approximately $ 2,927 and $ 2,992 per month, respectively.

The affordability of the units does not meet the city’s requirement that 15% of the units are for those earning 50% and 80% of the median income of the area, but since the development was submitted before the requirement became effective, it is optional.

For the same reason, the settlement is also exempt from the city’s natural gas ban on new residential buildings that came into force at the beginning of the year. The developer noted that all other devices will be electric and the use of electric water heaters has not been fully written off.

“We will get cost estimates and offers for both projects and for the same price we will be completely electric,” said Scott Udal, development partner at Hanover. “I’m not leaning towards anything electrical, I am leaning towards the uncertainty and I am leaning towards the costs that would potentially rock this project.”

Udal said he was concerned about the increase in the cost of the project as the financial incentive to build homes on the site has decreased since the project was submitted to biotech and other industries in the area.

He went on to point out that Senate Bill 330, a federal law that came into force last year requiring cities not to delay projects, was inapplicable because the project was brought before the law. City Attorney Sky Woodruff stated that the law would not apply due to the project requiring zoning changes. But, said Udal, “this law was passed for a reason, and that is, housing projects are taking too long to get approved and facing too many hurdles, and we’ve cleared hurdles on this project.”

“Up until three to four days ago it felt like collaboration, and I worry that if we don’t move forward now, what is coming won’t be collaborative,” he said.

However, Councilor James Coleman said that despite several meetings with the developer in which he urged the use of electric water heaters and union work, and expressed concern about the below-market amount, he saw “very minimal” changes to the plan as a result.

“Climate change is real and action is required now; action was required yesterday,” Coleman said. “If these apartments are to be built, it has to be done in a sustainable way.”

Councilor Eddie Flores said he would also like to see the building be fully electric and said he was concerned that families in the community would be affected by the lack of union work.

“We definitely want something positive for the community at all levels,” he said. “I would like to see a little more time for the negotiations to proceed. Let’s talk it out. “

Addiego noted that the water heaters didn’t worry him as much as other council members, adding that the new homes are likely to prevent long commutes for those employed in South San Francisco – a net gain for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

“Sometimes you try to be perfect when it comes to natural gas, but we have to be a little bit sensible about how it affects us,” he said. “Architecture and design and what that entails is a project that I would not like to see get rid of, but the Achilles’ heel is the work situation.”

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Carl White expected to be greeted by a chaotic scene when he arrived at San Francisco International on Sunday for his flight home to the UK after taking his family to the Bay Area over the Thanksgiving holiday had visited.

But instead, the lines moved smoothly and there were few delays. The experience for most travelers was surprisingly stress free.

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“We’ll be here probably six hours before departure – way too early,” said White. “I’m just trying to avoid the traffic on the way. Although we didn’t really come across one. “

For White and Samantha Jayasuriya, it was their first trip since the COVID pandemic started in 2020, so they just didn’t know what to expect specifically on such a busy weekend.

“We definitely had some concerns,” said Jayasuriya. “We had a great time in the US and bonded with the family we haven’t seen in two years, so that’s important.”

Kendyl Stewart said she was pleasantly surprised when she went through SFO too.

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“I honestly didn’t have any problems today,” she said. “I was expecting stress everywhere and just headaches and crowds and really wasn’t encountered.”

But Stewart has been aware of COVID and remains cautious.

“I try to stay away from the people at the airport,” she said. “When everyone is at the gates, I try not to interfere in other people’s affairs.”

The news of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron preoccupied many travelers. Starting Monday, new restrictions for travelers from South Africa and other countries will apply at airports across the country.

Travelers say they will be following the same precautions they followed during the pandemic.

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“People are wearing masks, all measures are being taken, so it’s more or less okay,” said Konstantin Korodkii, who had come to the SFO from Russia on Sunday. “I think it’s similar to the Delta variant.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Top Democrats abruptly postponed an expected House vote on Friday on their $ 1.85 trillion ten-year social and environmental measure as the struggle between progressives and moderates re-emerged as the pillar of the president’s domestic agenda Distracted Joe Biden.

To give him the victory he needed, leaders were still preparing to push an accompanying package of $ 1 trillion in road and other infrastructure projects through the chamber and to his desk. But even the fate of this popular bill designed to create jobs in all states was questionable.

The messed up plans put a new face on a party that has been struggling for weeks to take advantage of its control of the White House and Congress by advancing its top priorities. That was difficult, in part because of the low Democratic majorities as bitter internal divisions are forcing House leaders to miss several self-imposed deadlines for voting.

“Welcome to my world,” House spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Told reporters, adding, “We are not a lock-step party.”

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Democratic leaders had hoped the House of Representatives would approve both measures on Friday, bringing double triumphs to a president and a party that recover from this week’s deflationary elections and want to show they can rule.

The party’s gubernatorial candidates were defeated in Virginia and squeaked through in New Jersey, two blue-leaning states. Democrats can hardly afford to be in disarray a year before the midterm elections, which could result in Republicans regaining control of Congress.

The president and first lady Jill Biden delayed their plans to travel to their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Friday night so he could try to break the traffic jam. He spoke to House leaders, moderates and progressives, said a White House official, who described the talks on condition of anonymity.

Instead of approving the Infrastructure Bill to give Biden a chance at a winning lap, a group of progressives threatened to vote against it. They have long been calling for the two bills to be voted on jointly in order to put pressure on the moderates to support the larger, more expansive social measure.

With the Democrats only losing three votes and able to prevail in the narrowly divided house, Pelosi said she would move forward anyway, saying she “felt pretty good” about the support.

Pelosi has refused to vote on bills for years unless she had any certainty that they would go through to avoid embarrassing defeat.

Democrats’ day shattered when, after hours of discussion, half a dozen moderates insisted they would vote against the massive package of health, education, family and climate initiatives unless the congressional bipartisan budget bureau first put forward its cost estimate for the measure.

Democratic leaders said it would take days or more. With Friday’s delay and legislators’ plans to leave town for a week-long hiatus, it could mean budget estimates are ready by the time the vote is taken.

Adjusted the party’s timetable for the final passage of the $ 1.85 trillion measure to reflect political reality, Pelosi said that once the CBO numbers are in, “we will have a Thanksgiving present for the American people” .

In a letter to her colleagues announcing the new voting plan, she wrote: “The agenda we are advancing is transformative and historic, and therefore challenging.”

The infrastructure move smoothly cleared the Senate in August with bipartisan support including support from Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The package would allocate huge sums to each state for freeway, mass transit, broadband, airport, drinking and sewage, power grids, and other projects.

But it became a pawn in the long struggle for leverage between the progressives and moderates of the Democrats. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Who heads the 95-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, said the bipartisan joint White House and Congress tax committee provided all the tax information lawmakers needed to draft the sweeping bill.

“If our six colleagues still want to wait for a CBO score, we would give them this time – after that we can vote on both bills together,” she wrote. That strongly suggested that at least some progressives would vote against the infrastructure bill on Friday.

Early Friday, when Biden met reporters to present a strong monthly job report, he said he would “make some calls” to lawmakers. He said he would ask them “to vote yes to these two laws now”.

The House’s approval of Biden’s larger measure would send her to the Senate, where she would face certain changes and more democratic dramas. This is mainly due to the demands of Sens. Joe Manchin from West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona to contain the costs of the measure and to curb or stop some of their initiatives.

Pelosi met with Hispanic lawmakers late Thursday who wanted the immigrants to stay in the US as much as possible. However, your chances of taking bold action are limited by the strict regulations of the Senate. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, DN.Y., said Friday that they had discussed other bills to move the issue forward and saw Pelosi as an ally.

Pelosi’s strategy seemed to be geared towards getting the most robust social and climate legislation possible, leaving it to the Senate to change or drop parts that its members disagree with. Because of Manchin and Sinema, the 2,100-page size was cut to about half the original $ 3.5 trillion.

Republicans reject the measure as too expensive and harmful to the people.

The package would help large numbers of Americans pay for health care, child-rearing, and home care for the elderly. There would be lower prescription drug costs as Medicare would be able, for the first time, to negotiate lower prices for some drugs with drug companies, a long-term Democratic priority.

The package would provide about $ 555 billion in tax breaks to promote cleaner energy and electric vehicles. The Democrats added important provisions in the last few days and re-established a new program of paid family vacations and work permits for immigrants.

Much of the cost of the package would be covered by higher taxes for wealthier Americans and large corporations.

Manchin has planned the new family vacation program, which is expected to include four weeks of paid time off, less than the original 12 weeks.

The Senators are also likely to remove a just-added immigration rule that would allow 7 million immigrants in the country to apply for up to two five-year work permits.

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The San Jose Research Lab warns of a “grim” fire season this summerResearch from San Jose State University is warning of a grim outlook for fire season this summer. Allen Martin speaks to Craig Clement of the Fire Weather Research Lab.

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City of Danville, police officer sued for fatally shooting homeless man with mental health crisisThe death of a white police officer by a white police officer armed with a knife who had a mental crisis at a busy intersection in Danville last month leads to a civil rights lawsuit by the man’s family. Devin Fehely reports. (04/06/21)

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Major League Baseball moves all-star game to Denver following Georgia’s new election restrictionsSkyler Henry reports that MLB moved the All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver in 2021 after Republicans put new voting restrictions in Georgia (4-6-2021).

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Tuesday evening weather forecast with Paul Heggen(04/06/21)

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Governor Newsom says government plans to lift COVID restrictions are in place on June 15Kenny Choi reports on progress in California allowing officials to project the lifting of COVID restrictions in mid-June (4-6-2021).

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Tracking COVID-19 casesWe ask Dr. Maja Artandi of Stanford Health Care on the spike in coronavirus cases in some parts of the country and whether there is a fourth spike in the Bay Area

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Standoff with Man with Knife delayed departures from Oakland International AirportEmily Turner reports authorities ended stalemate with man threatened with injuries at Oakland Airport (4-6-2021)

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Governor Newsom says the state has reached vaccine milestones and plans to lift COVID restrictions on June 15Reporting on Governor Newsom, Anne Makovec announces California’s plans to lift COVID restrictions in June (4-6-2021).

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OAKLAND AIRPORT STANDOFF (8:55 am): The stalemate at Oakland International Airport continues. Terminal 1 remains closedThe stalemate at Oakland International Airport continues. Terminal 1 remains closed

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OAKLAND AIRPORT STANDOFF: The Alameda Sheriff’s PIO Deputy Tya Modeste is updating the standoff situation at Oakland InternationalAlameda Sheriff’s PIO Assistant Tya Modeste is updating the standoff situation at Oakland International

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TODAY forecast: The latest forecast from the KPIX 5 weather teamWarming trend and no rain in the forecast for the next 7 days

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San Francisco Schools: The school board is expected to reverse the decision to rename 44 schoolsThe school board is expected to reverse the decision to rename 44 schools

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COVID: Vaccine is a shot of relief for many who suffer from long distance syndrome.Up to a third of coronavirus patients suffer from a mysterious illness known as “long distance syndrome”. Juliette Goodrich reports the vaccine was a shot of relief for some.

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“I’m not a racist:” SF bar owner faces death threats after patron beating underage Asian teenagersIn an exclusive interview, Betty Yu speaks to an SF bar owner who has received death threats on allegations of Asian hatred because a Filipino underage teenager was slapped in the face by a patron.

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NCAA: Homecoming celebrates the historic Stanford Women’s Basketball victoryThe Stanford women’s basketball team was still basking in the glow of their historic victory on Monday. Maria Medina has more about the meaningful homecoming for the cardinal.

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