Owner. I went in there looking for him. Reporter als regular ride to work was delayed, so he wasnt at his desk. The marin county firefighters believe the explosion originated on the second floor and are still looking into a cause. They believe it is not suspicious. All of the houses in the downtown area are on propane. None of them are on natural gas. Reporter this show as crater from the explosion that damaged five buildings with flames claiming flee more. With coronavirus restrictions lifting in the beach town, firefighters are thankful this didnt happen any later. It would not be the same event, for sure, and we certainly got lucky that there was nobody around really northwesterly the morning and we didnt have any businesses open or any tourists in the area. Reporter shoreline highway is likely to remain closed through the rest of the day and into the evening as firefighters mop up any hot spots here and begin the process of cleaning up and investigating. In stinson beach, kpix 5, andrea boar ba. The air force sergeant who allegedly ambushed and killed a deputy has been charged with the murder of a Security Officer in oakland. He is accused of gunning down Dave Underwood during a recent protest in oakland. Just one week later the sergeant was kill inned a hail of gun fire and explosives in the santa cruz mountains. We have the new evidence connecting the cases and leading to an accomplice. Reporter veronica, there is new evidence and there are photos. The fbi saying it was that white van that linked them to the crimes and now were learning of an accomplice. May 29 during the open protest federal Security OfficerDavid Patrick underwood was shot and killed and his partner seriously injured. We are holding him on the ground right here. Reporter june 9, 32year old Steven Correa is arrested after shooting and killing sheriff sanger damon guts weiler in an ambush. The fbi says the evidence linking the two crimes was this white 1992 ford cargo van, registered to core rowo. An ar15style rifle was recovered from the area where he was arrested. The complaint alleges that this ar15style rifle was the weapon used by him in the murder of Pat Underwood and the attempted murder of his partner. Reporter the fbi says he was with accomplice Robert Justice jr. , justice was the alleged driver of the white van the night underwood was shot and killed. The fbi says justice turned himself in last week and has come forward with information on the case. Specifically their plan to kill cops the night of the organized protest. We believe he and justice chose this date because of the the planned protest in oakland, provided an opportunity for them to target multiple Law Enforcement personnel and avoid apprehension through the large crowds attending the demonstrations. Reporter the fbi says his blood was found on a vehicle carjacked during the Santa Cruz County ambush linking him to the socalled boog lue movement. He was an active duty military Staff Sergeant at Travis Air Force base since 2018. He appears to have used his own blood to write phrases on one of the cars that he carjacked. The term is used by extremists to reference a violent uprising or impending civil war in the united states. Reporter again, both men are behind bars. He faces [ inaudible ] in oakland, juliet goodrich, kpix 5. Pg e took responsible for the deadliest and most destruction if wildfire in california history. The utility pleaded guilty to 84 felony counts of Involuntary Manslaughter for the 2018 catch fire that wiped out the butte county town of paradise. On behalf of pg e, how do you plead to violation 192b. , Involuntary Manslaughter, as a felony concerning the death of Russell Stewart asking ad in count 75 of the indict [ guilty, your honor. Guilty, your. Guilty, your. The company has agreed to pay a 3. 5 million fine. The ceo 5 00eninged that their pain and suffering was the direct result of pg es rick ety electric grid. We hope by pleading guilty, by accepting accountability, and making significant lasting changes to the way we operate, we can honor those who west were lost and help in community move forward. We have posted the full statement for you on kpix. Com. Shortly after peg pg e fell on its sword, we were shown the tiny piece of equipment that sparked the trapping. Tragedy. This is what killed killed the 83 butte county it citizens that eventually destroyed a tow, a lifestyle and lives. In a video presentation, the District Attorney mike ramsey detailed how that single steel hook on a nearby century old transmission tower failed in high winds the morning of november 8, 2018 allowing a high volt 5 00 line to fall and spark the deadly fire. The scathing report said pg e prioritized its profits over safety by skimping on critical maintenance and inspections. Kpix 5s Wilson Walker is going to have much more from butte county ahead at 6 00. We want to get you to some breaking news coming out of the south bay now a brush fire has stopped traffic on highway 17. This is a twoalarm blaze burning now. We do know that traffic is now backed up to summit road. The first reports indicate that this is a small fire but people are being warned to avoid the area. Minutes ago San Francisco fire crews in another story now rescued a person from a cliff ncesing scene after using rope to bring someone to safety. They got stuck on the concrete left behind at fort scott. The wind is picking up this afternoon and it will also be heating up over the next few days. Meteorologist paul heggen on what that means for fire danger. Paul . It will be a concern, especially for the inland spots. Right now it is breezy enough that is a concern for the fire souther of the city. 32 Miles Per Hour for the sustained wind in San Francisco. It is 20 Miles Per Hour in Half Moon Bay and fairfield. The winds are going to calm down overnight, but they will pick up especially farther inland inland. Were talking 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour before the winds start to relax. You couple that with the temperatures in the 90s, the humidity will be lower than 10 for napa, brentwood and that means the fire danger is going to be a distinct concern for wednesday and more hot weather down the line in the forecast as well. Ill break down all of the details as we head towards fathers day weekend. Thank you. A live look at the white house now. President trump has issued an executive order on Police Reform after weeks of protest over police conduct. Cbs reporter skyler henry has details for us tonight. Skyler . Reporter good evening to you. This is certainly significant because it is one of the first times that the white house is addressing Police Reform since that incident with george floyd a few weeks ago. Part of this executive order includes adding Mental Health professionals to go along with Law Enforcement officers to try to deescalate situations. Critics of this executive order are calling it weak. Lawmaker officials officials flanked President Trump as he signed an executive order in the rose garden. The order encourages the Police Departments to collect and track Excessive Force complaints. It has incentives for police to update their training certifications, and it employs Mental Health professionals to work with police to respond to some incidents. Today is about pursuing common sense and fighting, fighting for a cause like we seldom get the chance for fight for. Reporter the president also met privately with African American families impactedly racially motivated civilian violence, including the family of ahmaud arbery, who was gunned down while jogging in georgia. He was very compassionate. He did assure every Family Member that we should expect change. Reporter the president is looking to congress for more comprehensive action on Police Reform. Hours after the executive order signing, a senate panel convened a hearing on police use of force. Id like to ask the witnesses to tell us if they believe that the Police Department and the police in america are systemically racist. When we overconcentrate our communities, black and brown communities specifically with militarized policing what youre going to have a disproportionate use of force. Reporter senator tim scott will unveil proposals from the gop wednesday. Thousands are expected to vote on its legislation next week, but the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell calls that bill a non starter. Senator mcconnell says hell decide tomorrow whether to take on a defense bill or senator tim scotts Police Reform bill next week. Mean whiling, the House Speaker nancy pelosi is bashing the executive order. She says that it fails to address the Racial Injustice and Police Brutality that face africanamericans. Skyler henry at the white house. Thank you so much. Also new at 5 00, the administration is suing the former National Security advisor john bolton. The suit aims to stop bolton from publishing its book from his time at the white house. The books title the room where it happened is scheduled to be released next week. Still ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a potential break through in the race to find treatments for covid19. How a lowcost steroid could save the lives of patients seriously ill with the coronavirus. Tensions high as north korea blows up a building used to host talks with south korea. The new threat of military action. And some flash hasnt been picked up off the side of the freeways since the a widely available steroid is showing promise as a treatment for coronavirus. The drug may be able to cut the risk of death in seriously ill patients. Rachel kim breaks down the results of a new study. It is certainly early exciting data. Reporter the executive director of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in santa monica. He has been involved in covid 19 Clinical Trials and believes the results of a new study out of england is encouraging news. The researchers there found a commonly used steroid reduced the risk of death by a third among the sickest hospitalized patients. Ovenly it is the first drug to show actual mortality improvement and so it is a very strong signal so right now we dont have details on the study. What we do know is that patients who were on respirator support and required oxygen to treat their disease in a hospital setting appeared to benefit. Reporter in the study, the drug was given either orally or through an i. V. It was shown to be effective in dr. Oday sa becauseroiugre inflammation which could develop in patients as the immune system overreacts to fight the infection. What we have learned that covid is a very specific reaction, the site aconine storm may be in this case responding to the steroid. In fact, that may make things worse because we know steroids during early viral infections supress the immune system and can allow the virus to proceed. Steroids can cause increase in other infections. Reporter the survival benefit of the steroid is clear, it is inexpensive and widely available, should now become the standard of care in very sick patients. I think youre going to get increased use of this in sick hospitalized patients who require oxygen and ventilation. We wants to see the day fa clearly in much more detail than we are seeing it now, but it could definitely be a game changer. That is rachel kim reporting. Today a new model projects more tan 200,000 americans could die from covid19 by october 1. That is an increase of 30,000 just since last week. It was a good day on wall street today. Stocks rose after a record jump in retail sales. Here is a look at the closing numbers. The dow ended the day up more than 526 points. The nasdaq up nearly1 170. The rise comes as u. S. Retail sales soared more than 17 in may. Experts say the news suggests the economy nay be rebounding faster than anticipated. The female of a missing soldier in fort hood, texas is pleading with the fbi to take over the case. 20yearold private first class Vanessa Guillen has been missing for nearly two months. Her car and i. D. , and wallet were found in the armory room where she had worked earlier in the day. Her family says she was having issues with someone on the base before her disappearance. I feel that somebody at some point would have been able to notice something and the fact that nay theyre not speaking up only makes things worse. Reporter the protesters gathered chanting demands for information a reward is being offered for any information leading to vanessas whereabouts, and that reward has been increased to 25,000. North korea says it will redeploy troops to close sites near the board were the south. The sites that have been shuttered for years were your used for economic development. North korea also blew up a joint Liaison Office building built back in 2018 to help strengthen relationships between the two countries. North korea says it was pay back after a defector sent leaflets across the border criticizing kim uns regime. Without any diplomatic movement, experts predict escalation, including new north Korean Missile tests. Time now for a check of the weather. Our paul heggen is standing by. Things are really heating up out there. Yes. Temperatures tomorrow will be substantially above normal, especially inland portions of the bay area. Even around the bay were talking about toasty temperatures. The heat wave will be building. As it kind of compresses the atmosphere, the storm system that brought unsettled weather to the pacific rthwes losing its influence, and it squeezes the atmosphere and it means breezy conditions one again, especially for the north bay. Lit with an offshore wind and that is a very dry direction that is why were lana counties not a cloud in the sky. It is actually nice out there this evening if you dont mind that strong wind. It is only 64 degrees in San Francisco, but otherwise temperatures in the 0s across the board. Upper 70s in concord and santa rosa. Temperatures tonight only backing down into the 50s. This is where we are supposed to be for this time of year, very similar to where we started off this morning, but a much faster warmup as we head through the day form. Convenient san. Even San Francisco will warm up and that onshore wind will Cool Temperatures off as we head into the Late Afternoon and evening hours. 77 degrees for a high in the city, way above normal for this time of year. San jose is likely to reach into the upper 80s. Hardly a cloud in the sky for all inland locations and even along the coast, the cloud also be hard to find. Low 90s for concord. That is an offshore wind and that is a very dry direction which is why were concerned about that fire potential. The wind is not quite as gusty around santa rosa maxing out around 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. The temperatures reaching well into the low 90s. Temperatures across the board above normal. Near 0 degrees, even right along the coast. Upper 70s and mid 80s along the bay. At least upper 80s along inland spots. You will be into the 90s for the santa clara valley. The east bay locations, and with the gusty winds, 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour, gusts up to 35 Miles Per Hour, and the humidity, as i showed you, lower than even 10 that is why there is a regular regular flag red flag warning in effect. Well take a look at the hour byhour fire weather index. Plenty of heat upland next week. Around the bay, the warmest day will be on thursday with highs near 80 degrees and then a little closer to average as we head into the weekend. Veronica . Paul, it sounds good. Thanks. A live look at the san mateo bring right now. You may have noticed it on your commute. New evidence that bay area traffic is making a rebound after weeks of open roads. And ahead at 5 30, bay cities becoming wh breaking story in the south bay. Check out the results on our traffic maps there. All of that red there. Is happening by idlewest nile road and the good news is the progress of the wildfire has been stopped. There is bad news. Santa clara county is telling us that the highway will likely be closed for two hours as the crews continue to beat down those flames. We are monitoring it for you and we will bring you updates as we get them. In other news, litter along california highways, cleanup will soon resume. It has been on hold since the shelterinplace back in march. It is asking that you do your part to help keep our highways clear of litter and debris. Taking a live look at the bay bridge. It is up with of several spots where commute traffic is rebounding in a big way. Data from a new regional tracking tool found that as of friday, travel across the nine bay area counties had reached 52 of its prepandemic levels. People in Sonoma County are out and about the most with traffic at 84 of normal. The central south bay, which adopted more restrictions earlier and kept them in place longer, are at about half of that or less. The tool developed we the Bay Area Council of Economic Institute uses anonymous cell phone data to track travel patterns. It also found that traffic is spiking the most on the weekends as opposed to the work week. More local news ahead at 5 30. The Affordable Housing crises has been especially hard on bay area communities. Were losing culture and where youre losing a sense of community. In our exclusive series project home, we explore the hidden factors leading to increasingly segregated cities. Plus, the flap over pride flags leading to a management shakeup at a bay area farmers market. The shelterinplace order has placed an enormous financial strain and well tell you about the financial circumstances and how theyre managing to right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, more local news at 5 30. New fallout from this viral video. A vendor scolded for passing out flags at an east bay farmers market. The confrontation leading to a management shakeup. Bay area zoos have been running on fumes during the shut down. Their plea for financial help to keep feeding the animals. In our original series project hope, were taking a closer look at how systemic rasm