Cities on the news burning. We made the decision to not give up. Reporter the 8 pm curfew garcia called extremely helpful to quell the violence has been lifted by city council. A move that is a difficult balancing act. If the city and continues to live under a curfew for any time, this is not a state of martial law, that is not what we are going to be come. We will use this in a targeted way if we use this again. We see those that abide by the curfew or decide to go home or decide to stay. When that happens and you have a large crowd and the violence erupts with an even larger crowd there is a possibility and innocent people get hurt. Reporter some of the protesters are right behind me, another group has marched around the city block several times. They have been out here for several hours in the sweltering heat. Mid90s this afternoon but they say they plan to stay here as long as they can because they know the curfew has been lifted. As for the mayor, he said this is a daytoday situation. If the data and intelligence calls for it he will call an emergency session with the city council if they have to enact a curfew once again. Live in san jose, kenny choi, kpix 5. Lets get back over to fremont where a small group of demonstrators has gathered at Washington High School. From there they plan to march about 2 miles to the downtown area to Fremont Police headquarters. Fremont police have boosted staffing just in case but at this point they are not anticipating any problems. The citys curfew will remain in place until at least tonight. Tonight right now a car caravan is making its way around golden gate park. This was the scene just about 30 minutes ago. As participants decked out their cars with signs and banners. I think participating in this event today is demonstrating that there are ny pall different ethnicities, all different backgrounds that care, that have a voice, and are choosing to use that voice today. The caravan will continue through city streets until about six on 30 this evening. After days of peaceful protests, the majority of the bay area has lifted evening curfews. As of tonight, San Francisco, oakland, san jose, palo alto no longer have curfews. The same goes for San Mateo County as well as alameda and contra costa county. Fremont announced its 8 00 curfew will remain in effect. Officials will reevaluate over the weekend. And emotional scene in minneapolis as friends, families, and active its gather for George Floyds memorial service. The crowd prayed together, sang Amazing Grace and shared a simple message, i can breathe now. Floyds family says it was both a celebration of life and morning of a man who died at the hands of police. Cbs reporter skyler henry reports from minneapolis where people are scared still gathering to honor him. Reporter good evening to you, it was an emotional day here in minneapolis is hundreds of not thousands of people came to the memorial to honor george floyd. What i can tell you is these people want to make sure that not only his memory lives on but also that they get the justice for george floyd they feel as though he deserves. Several celebrities were here, notable people including Martin Luther king the third were here as well. All of them paying respects to the man who lost his life last week. Reporter minneapolis took its First Step Towards healing as families, friends, and civil rights leaders pay tribute to george floyd. The reason why we are marching all over the world is we were like george, we couldnt breathe. Not because there was something wrong with our lungs, but you wouldnt take vinnie off our neck. It is time for us to stand up in georges name and say get your knee off our next. Reverend al sharpton eulogized floyd whose life was tragically cut short last week by the hands of police. A man cuffed, this is the time of dealing with accountability in the criminal justice system. Family members shared touching memories about the father of two. All these people came to see my brother and thats amazing to me that he touched so many people at once. When he would wrap his arms around you you would feel like everything would just go away. The family attorney hopes that floyds desk can lead to change. The other pandemic we are far too familiar with in america, the pandemic of racism and discrimination that killed george floyd. Reporter the service here at north service is just the first of several services honoring George Floyds life and legacy. Floyds death has set of massive demonstrations nationwide and around the world. There has been a rallying cry for Police Reform coastto coast. If it just quite found another man will be killed just the same. Reporter is it mourners gathered three more officers arrests were made. They will continue to call for their convictions. One of the things the demonstrators want to make very weird is even though these officers have been charged they want to remain consistent and see these protests all the way through until they are convicted for the crime they feel as though was committed. As for george floyd, his body will travel to North Carolina where the family will have a private service and you will be laid to rest in texas next week. Here in minneapolis, skyler henry, kpix 5. A judge has ruled there is enough evidence in the ahmad artery murder case to go to trial. Father and son greg and Travis Mcmichael appeared in a virtual courtroom today. A special agent testified the sun used a racial slur after he shot and killed ahmaud abery after he was jogging back in january. They reportedly boxed ahmaud abery in with their pickup trucks. You hear a shot and then you see Travis Michael moving backwards with mr. Abery. They were engaged in a confrontation at this point. They go off the screen and even hear a second shot where you see blood. Mcmichaels told police they were acting out of selfdefense and thought that abery was committing breakins in the neighborhood. All three of the men facing murder charges , federal hate crime charges could also be filed. A wind whipped fire that destroyed several homes is now being called arson. Kpix 5 spoke to people who lost their homes and that he has got the very latest on what spot start the fire. Don. Olice e looking for three arson suspects. They know who this expects are and have their names but now its a matter of tracking them down. The fire started about 100 feet behind us at this Wildlife Center there were you can see the yellow caution tape. The fire chief says it is arson even if their intention was not to burn down nearby buildings. Reporter is police look for the suspects families return to assess the damage. None of it makes sense. Firefighters say it burned three homes to the ground and caused major damage to four other homes yesterday on maple street. Richard lewis said part of his house is Still Standing but the damage is so severe it is a total loss. The attic was on fire so the firefighters did what they had to. Reporter is home of 17 years. Tears and disbelief. Its weird times right now, man, its bad. Reporter the fire to set the fire started about 100 feet behind the Wildlife Center. He said people were using a makeshift grill to cook and the fire got out of control when the wind started blowing 20 miles per hour. Im angry, this is not acceptable. Reckless burning is not acceptable. We need to be better than this. The chief says they have already recorded 49 fires insists on city so far this year. The same period last year, 24 fires. He worries about the fire season. This is the first week of june and we are not even to fire season yet and we are already losing structures. The fifth fatigue is high, there is covid19 pandemic, riots they have to prepare for, it feels like the worlds worst game, every week its something new. Reporter this is their fourth fire. They say the previous three were also intentionally set for the Main Building survived but they lost seven animals. Losing the animals is the hardest part. We can rebuild any of these buildings, you know, but losing animals that we had known and loved for many, many years is the toughest part. This is one of the outbuildings that was burned down. There were a couple outbuildings that burned down the house some of the animals. The executive director at the center says she wants to focus on the positive and move forward. As for the suspects, once they are arrested, they are going to face reckless arts and charges according to the fire chief. Livens the sun city, i and don lynn, kpix 5. Some relief close to the coast, inland they are feeling the heat there. We got the cooldown coming for everybody across the board on friday. Some good news there but right now it is still hot out there and inland portions of the bay area. Only 86 degrees in san jose but you were in the 90s earlier this afternoon. 95 in livermore, 98 in concord, 102 degrees in fairfield while along the coast 60 one half moon bay. 66 degrees downtown so there is relief along the coast and around the bay. These temperatures, even the hot spots, are exactly the same as they were yesterday. Most locations at least a few degrees cooler. Baby steps to cooler weather. You can see the marine layer beginning to creep through the golden gape gait offshore. We will take a look at how temperatures change tomorrow in just a few minutes. Still ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, vegas is back in business. Casinos take a gamble on a big reopening. How things have changed on the strip. Norlin states quarterback drew brees apologizing for comments on the National Anthem he says completely missed the mark. Megan, the heres what we want everyone to do. Count all the hugs you havent given. All the hands you havent held. All the dinners you didnt share with friends. The trips you havent taken. Keep track of them. Each one means one less person vulnerable, one less person exposed, and one step closer to a healthier community. So for now, keep your distance. But dont lose count. Well have some catching up to do. We are following this black lives matter march right now in mountain view. The group has just taken over the intersection of El Camino Royale and san antonio road. We will keep a watch on that one. The marches kicked off from Washington High School in fremont now on the move as you can see. The grouray outstht poli department. Aneyon those all evening long. The weekly snapshot of the u. S. Job market shows filings for unemployment claims remain high but the picture is improving. Last week nearly 1. 9 million americans applied for unemployment benefits. Experts are encouraged to see a steady downward trend in claims and shutdowns caused by the coronavirus. But they say it will still take years for the economy to fully recover. Tomorrow the Labor Department will reveal the latest unemployment rate. Meanwhile, the Senate Approved the latest paycheck Detection Program reform bill aimed at helping small businesses. The updated legislation extends the original eight weeks businesses had to spend the loan money to qualify for forgiveness to 24 weeks. It also lowers how much of the money must be used to fund payroll. President trump will now have to sign it into law. For eight minutes and 46 seconds today, lawmakers stood in silence or notes honoring the memory of george floyd. Congressman john lewis and the Congressional Black Caucus are now working on Police Reform laws. People now understand what the struggle was all about. Its another step down the very long road to freedom, justice of all humankind. While the demonstrations have remained largely peaceful, the Trump Administration is defending its move to keep activeduty troops nearby saying violent opportunists are infiltrating some of the protests. There are some groups that do not have a particular ideology other than anarchy. There are some groups that want , i y, a bout a civil war. We witches brew of a lot of different extremist organizations. The attorney general says foreign actors from the left and the right may also be inciting passions. At least 51 people have been arrested on federal charges. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is conducting its own parallel investigation into the death of george floyd. 2000 passengers who sailed on a carnival owned princess cruise ship have filed a Class Action Lawsuit against the cruise line and its parent company. They allege they were negligently exposed to the coronavirus on the grand princess cruise ship. It is the first lawsuit against the company in the wake of the pandemic. The ship sailed from San Francisco to mexico back in february. At least 100 passengers on board contracted covid19 and two died. The suit claims carnival and princess allowed intentionally infected individuals on the cruise to share confined space with other passengers. A spokesperson for carnivals Princess Cruises says the company does not comment on pending litigation but added quote our response throughout this process has focused on the wellbeing of our guests and crew within the parameters that dictated to us by the Government Agencies involved and the evolving medical understandof this new illness. After three months of a virtual ghost town, the Las Vegas Strip is rolling the dice on a grand reopening. What visitors to a sanitized sin city can expect. Reporter the majestic fountains at las vegass bellagio casino came to life again for the first time in months. Signaling the Gaming Capital is back in business. Its the best feeling in the world, you know back again, its great. Casino crews welcomed at visitors is a bellagios doors opened this evening. Crowds filled fremont street as some casinos that resumed business at midnight. Happy to be here, happy you are opening up. Reporter visitors will notice major changes. You will see a lot of social distancing, table 6 be a part, menus will be paper menus and will be sanitized between each and every use. Reporter gamblers will see cleaning crews on casino floors 24 7 sanitizing machines, dice, and common areas. Some play tables have a plexiglass to divide gamblers. They are encouraged to wear a mask before entering. Would like to take care of our tourists, we have to make sure the people that come here do not get sick so they can come back again. Reporter people can socially distance. I want ultimately for the long run for people to go home and save that was a great experience. The bellagio and mgm resorts got it right. Reporter acting ceo bill hornbuckle says the company is hoping to reopen all vagus properties before the end of the summer. Donna bacchus, cbs news los angeles. Paul, a little more relief in more ways than one today. Most notably the weather. Kind of cold off. Especially by the bay and along the coast. Further inland, my host my house in the trivalley was still warm in our air conditioner broke so i am happy to be working in the city. Lets take a look outhere right now, couple storm systems will combine forces to affect our weather pattern as we head into the weekend. We will already noticed some big changes tomorrow. They are not bringing us much of arrangements but they are bringing clouds, a stronger onshore breeze and that makes a big difference. Not seeing any cloud cover out there right now. Nothing but clear skies overhead. It is really sunny out there but we will see some clouds building in as we go towards early tomorrow morning. Freezing the maps at 5 am before the sun comes up in just a little bit of fog and low cloud cover along the coast and the bay. Its not going to be widespread but it will be out there for the first half of the day. Along the coast you have a hard time shaking that but the sun will still be out for much of the rest of the bay area. Temperatures will be cooler because of that stronger onshore breeze and increasing clouds for everybody as you go into tomorrow evening. Not much of a chance of any rain falling out of the clouds. Blue skies right now, temperatures all over the place. 66 degrees downtown, 78 in oakland and then we have 90s for santa rosa, livermore, and even upper 90s to concord. Up to 98 degrees. A stronger onshore breeze is with us for areas right along the coast near the bay but that will push further and further inland as we go through the day on friday. Cool temperatures across the board for everyone. Beginning tonight, this work morning we woke up with temperatures in the 60s and that is not the case friday morning. This is pretty close to normal for early june. Low temperatures dropping into the 50s all across the bay area. High temperatures are going to warm up only to near what is average for this time of year even a few degrees below average for a change inland from 98 degrees today to 75 for a High Temperature in concord tomorrow. San jose also stuck in the 70s. 60s around the bay. Lets them around along the coast. I think you will have to really struggle to get even to 60 degrees with that strong onshore breeze kicking in early in the day. Southbay low to mid 70s, few spots further inland in the Santa Clara Valley reaching the upper 70s, mostly mid70s up and down the trivalley. Warmer spots further inland, the delta and then eastern contra costa valley in the 80s, low to mid 70s for most of the north bay until you had further north in sonoma and napa county. Low to mid 80s for northern snow, and napa counties. Still warm this time of year but not flat out hot like today. The cooldown continues saturday and sunday, low 70s inland for saturday and sunday. Breezy conditions continue, only mid60s by the bay and upper 50s along the coast this weekend. More clouds and sunshine with just a slight chance of a sprinkle or passing shower. We will take a look at those very limited rain chances in more detail humming up at 5 30. Coming up, a quarterbacks apology after receiving intense backlash for his stance on kneeling during the nation new Orleans Saints quarterback drew brees is apologizing after backlash over his comments on why he refuses to kneel during the National Anthem. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of america or our country. But i think what you do by standing there and showing respect to the flag with your hand over your heart is it shows unity. It shows that we are all in this together. We can all do better. Breeze says in an attempt to talk about solidarity he missed the mark on issues we are facing now as a country. On social media he wrote in part i would like to apologize to my friends, teammates, the city of new orleans, the black community, nfl community and anyone i hurt with my comments yesterday. And speaking with some of you it breaks my heart to know the pain i have caused right other pro athletes waiting in saying the kneeling protest had nothing to do with the anthem or the flag. Many are calling him lost in his commentary. As intelligent as drew brees is, how is he still that nacve . Like all that going on, all the protest you dont understand white kneeling have nothing to do with the flag. Breeze acknowledges that he along with others have not done enough to truly understand the struggles of the black community. Some are praising him calling it true leadership. More local news tonight at 5 30, finding a new calling during the pandemic. It was totally unplanned but it made sense to do and it was something that helped a lot of other people. City and county workers stepping up taking on jobs they never imagined. The Movie Movement as Bay Area Health workers took a break from their jobs to take a knee. Their thoughts on the rus of racism. A Sonoma County family has a lot to celebrate. The father and daughter graduating at the you are watching kpix 5 news at 5 30. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on consumerwatch kpix. Com bay area. Petrackingthe prt on the mo through taview thjuste r georhi over three city blocks. In
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