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Killed and kpix 5s andria borba reports police decided to end the pursuit minutes before the crash. Reporter thats right. The crash happened two and a half miles from where i am oic didnt take long for the suspect to get there and run a red light. Late saturday night, officers recognized a stolen 1996 honda accord in this parking lot on duane avenue. They put spike strips under the tires to make an easy arrest. An hour later officers say the 32yearold got into the vehicle. As soon as he did that, the officers activated their lights and approached the vehicle to try stop and detain the suspect. As soon as the lights went on he sped through had parking lot. The spike stripes failed. Officers decided not to chase ing way too fast. Our officers within a few seconds of seeing his disregard of safety of anybody else, turned off their lights and decided newt initiate a pursuit. Reporter officers say perez blew through a red light at lawrence express way and broad sided a lyft with a 28yearold and one other person inside. As the ride share vehicle is making that left turn, the impact is on the rear passenger side door. Unfortunately where the female passenger was seated. Reporter she died at the hospital. Her driver also suffered major injuries. We are told that she worked for apple here in Silicon Valley. As for the suspect, she facing charges tonight of homicide, dui, evading officers and possession of a stolen vehicle. Back to you. All right. Thank you very much. Weir also learning more about a we are also learning more about a shooting involving an off duty San Francisco Police Officer in a el cerrito neighborhood. Today El Cerrito Police say the man who was shot used a rock to attack the officer. He was taken to the Hospital Trauma Center for treatment. He was later arrested for assault. The San Francisco Police Department confirmed the officer has been placed on leave following the incident. Just in, getting a look at the suspects in a smash and grab robbery that caused a panic in the great mall in milpitas. Police describe the suspects as black men wearing hooded sweat shirts. They escaped in a black 4door sedan. The robbery happened last night. Shoppers started running after mistaking the chaos for an active shooter. Two hours earlier in modesto another Jewelry Store was hit in a same kind of smash and grab. These are the suspects. Tonight investigators are comparing Surveillance Video to determine if the two cases are indeed connected. Based on the time frame of the modesto Police Department incident and ours, the possible could be there. Police think witnesses could also have tips on the suspects. If you have information you are asked to call milpitas police. The Housing Construction project in the south bay is now on hold over elevated levels of asbestos. Now as len ramirez explains, the work has stopped but neighbors are on edge. Reporter asbestos is occurring here in california but when Companies Start large Construction Projects they sign agreements to keep the dust levels down so the asbestos levels will be down as well but according to the city of san jose, they let the levels get too high so the city shut them down. The Home Development on Communications Hill was brought to a stand still two and a half weeks ago because the city of san joses air quality monitors caught unacceptable levels of asbestos. The asbestos is everywhere in the ground in the stat of state of california. Reporter he lived on the hill for two yours. When they arent doing what they are supposed to do, they let us down. Reporter the readings were above. 016 structures, which a measurement of a unit of air. Some of the readings were above the guidelines for air born asbestos. We thought it would be best to shut down the job site it form mitigation. Reporter today the only activity came from a few workers spraying down the dirt by hand and in some places workers layed down tarps to cover the dirt and how long will the shutdown stay in place . Until the city is satisfied we have a safe Work Environment for the workers and for the residents nearby. Reporter they sent us a statement saying the air is safety by federal standards. Exposures at Communications Hill are within the United States Environmental Protection agency acceptable range for the protection of human health. Neighbors are concerned they havent been given straight efforts. They werent vying things down until praying things down until today. That did not happen until today. The city of san jose will into monitor the air up here on Communications Hill but at this point there no time frame for when the construction site will be reopened. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Cal fire launched a project in the santa cruz mountain. Planning totrim trees and brh a importevacuaroute but n it is blocked from over grown forest on both sides. They hope to finish the work by the end of december. A live look right now. And it was smokin hot outside today. Inland areas felt triple digit heat. Another live look. San jose, beautiful evening. Our chief meteorologist paul deanno has been watching the temperatures. Still pretty toasty. It is warm inland. Hot in fairfield. 4 00 p. M. It was 102 degrees. Unlike any other place in the United States of america, in the same general area it was also 59 degrees. At the coast 43 degrees cooler over 42 miles. More than one degree per mile. 59 pacifica this afternoon. 102 fairfield. What does this mean . Increase in humidity and cloud cover and we will share a few degrees off the inland temperatures. Concord above average. High of 94. Oakland 4 degrees above average, 78. 72 in San Francisco. May have noticed in the south bay cloud cover working north. Those tropical clouds head to the north as an old Tropical Storm dissipated. The cloud cover will impact your tuesday. Your full 7day forecast coming up in 12 minutes. Thank you very much. Looking live now at sfo where major runway changes are on the way septembering september 7 a runway will be closed for repairs. 28 left. One of the run ways for international landings will be closed for 20 days. When sfo has a problem it effects the region and Oakland Airport will have to pick up the diverted flights but airlines at althe rlines did re schedule for the period of the runway closure. So there will be less pressure on the airport during that period. Sfo said in march it picked september for the closure to avoid the busier summer and holiday seasons. The repairs will cost 16. 2 million. And coming up, the warriors new home in the lime light. The inside of the chase center unveiled today with a mammoth score bord and a new locker room board and a new locker room. And in big sur, what grew this creature at a wildlife sanctuary. And a Tropical Storm leaving hurricane battered puerto rico bracing again tonight. The Warriors New Chase Center just about done. Kpix 5s Wilson Walker got a tour inside the arena before it opens up to the public. Reporter San Francisco has new arena and the warriors have a new home. It is actually spelled out on the court for you. I hope we accomplished what we set out to accomplish. The building is smaller. 18,000 seats compared to 19,000 at oracle. That is by design. Reporter this is built for basketball and concerts. Take a tour, and the impression is everything else. Chase center is a maze of hallways and porttles. All leading to the portals, all leading to the suits, boxes and yes, the court side lounges which let you duck into the tunnels below. It gets hard to tell. Lot of granite. Lot of marble. The rugs get thicker the higher you go. Reporter john king took the tour today. They are going for different kind of style moods. You want vegas you have that, you want midcentury you have that. Bake city betty. Reporter how will it feel . I am not sure we will know until we get people in there and that comes next week with the San Francisco symphony and metallical next friday night. In San Francisco, Wilson Walker, kpix 5. A company in Silicon Valley is helping with nasas mission to return to the moon. They first got a three dimension inside the International Space station. Made in space now has plans to 3d print solar panels on an orbiting space craft in 2022. And a rare sighting of a particular type of bear in big sur. This video shows a black bear feeding at a condor sanctuary. Workers in the Wildlife Society put out a cark fors the candures to eat but the bear showed up instead. They stopped putting carcasses out for the time being to on. A storm on slam puerto rico despite still grappling with the devastation from hurricane maria. Tropical storm dorian in the atlantic ocean, whipping 60 Miles Per Hour winds as it toward west toward several islands. The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by wednesday. Puerto rico residents arent taking chances. Many getting water and supplies ahead of the storm. This line was at costco this weekend. Outside of san juan. No challenges this time. Yeah. The official forecast has the center of the storm to the south of puerto rico but after two years ago nothing wrong with preparing. Could be a weak category 1 storm. Around here, we dont get hurricanes. Our waters are too chilly for that can happen. Fairfield 103. Concord 99. Moon day only 64. Lows tonight upper 50s to toy w especially in the east bay. Air quality unhealthy. Better air quality tomorrow. Today was the hottest day of the week. Temperatures beginning to fall starting tomorrow. That cloud cover moving through, tropical clouds. Well, regular clouds. Dorian is in the caribbean. This is the remnants of sTropical Storm in the eastern pacific. Tropical storm in the eastern pacific. The clouds moving into the valley. And clouds over San Francisco. That is why tomorrow it t as it will be more humid. It will get more humid tomorrow as well. Low clouds, we have those tomorrow. Not inland. Near the water. You can barely see it. A little bit of gray. It is there. We will have a veil of high thin cloud cover over the bay area tomorrow af t wednesday and a stronger onshore flow begins on wednesday because the weather is changing. A big riching of High Pressure to the south. Flow from the ocean. Lowpressure system off to the northwest. A counter clockwise rotation will enhance the flow from the ocean. As we get more of the onshore flow the temperatures drop back to average. Mild with fog near the water tonight. More humid tomorrow. You will notice the change and then temperatures drop by the middle of the week. San jose 88 degrees. That is six degrees above average. Normal is 82. Valley 95 and morgan hill, close to 100 today. Hot tomorrow, los gatos 93. Redwood city 87 degrees. Shaving a few degrees off inland highs. Fairfield 95. 8 degrees cooler than today. Berkeley 72. Napa 90. Petaluma 98. And cloverdale 98 degrees for a high tomorrow. Lake port 101. Your forecast, calling for sunshine to return. Less humidity on wednesday. 90s inland. Low 70s near the bay and sunshine continues through the weekend with temperatures near average. 60s near the water. 90s inland. That is your forecast. All right. Thank you very much. Very special Animal Sanctuary popped up in vacaville. A loving home to chickens with special needs. It is called the Funky Chicken riskue. Cute name rescue. Cute name. Every chicken there has a story. Benny cant walk. The founders created a wheelchair for him. She is a survivor of the camp fire and tyson a rooster that was once used for fighting. It is the same reason i think that people go through inor cattharof the most abused very lucky. They have started to rescue horses from slaughterhouses as well as cats and dogs in need. Very special place. Coming up a bay area tech heavy weight helping protect the lungs of the earth. Apple pledging to help restore the amazon. And a land mark ruling in the fight against the Opioid Crisis. A Pharmaceutical Company on the hook. Plus mixed messages on trade negotiations prompting china to push back against president trump. Find the brands you love from nordstrom. Up to 70 off at nordstrom rack. Thats fashion at a fraction. Shop anytime at nordstromrack. Com and get easy returns in store. Foggy out there. If you are getting home right now, apple ceo tim cook is stepping up to help with the fires ravaging the amazon forest. He said it is devastating to see the fire and destruction hitting the amazon forest. Apple will donate to help preserve its biodiversity and rezore the ozones forest across latin america. Cook donated 5 million in apple stock to a charity to help fight the fires in the amazon. They have not disclosed the name of the charity and help is coming frthis american super tanker. It is helping keep the fires at bay. It can be sent anywhere in the world in under 20 hours. Pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson on the recorded to pay up for fueling oklahomas Opioid Crisis. A judge handed down a 572 million judgment today to pay for addiction programs over the next 30 years. The judge ruled the deceptive marketing flooded the state with opioids. The Opioid Crisis ravaged the state of oklahoma. Johnson johnson motivated by greed is responsible for the disagrwi the jues decision. We liatt is flawed. Johns johnis aly hureds of similar lawsuits across the nation. President trump heading home from the g7 summit in france after days of rattling World Markets with his trade war with china. The president made claims officials were reaching out to raise tensions. They want to make a deal. They want it under calm circumstances. Very productive calls. China said it was unaware of the calls and added china hopes the u. S. Can back to a path of rationality. A front in californias battle against the trump administration. California is leading a coalition with 19 other states suing over u. S. Border patrol holding migrant families in detention in n deafimate ininately. The lawsuit indefinitely. The limits detention of children to 20 days. President trumps policy is set to take effect in two months until the court blocks it. Not permissible by our american moral standards. This notion you can indefinitely hold children in this state is unconscionable. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood strong today in her first public appearance since finishing pancreatic cancer treatment. She accepted an Honorary Degree from the universities of buffalo in new york. She said despite having three weeks of radiation she was not going to cancel. Doctors say she doesnt need further treatment and we will be right back. Alright, so this is how its gonna go down. You are gonna say youll get the best deal of the year on xfinity tv and internet and you even get this. Mike, youre on balloons. Sarah, youre gonna high five everybody. Ben, youre gonna be wowing them with your dance moves. Dont miss the xfinity best deal of the year. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Get amazing tv and internet during our best deal of the year with huge savings of 600 over two years. Plus a speed upgrade to 400 megs, free for 2 years. And ask about even more savings with xfinity mobile. Click, call, or visit a store today. Every parents worst nightmare. 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