Familiar, that is because you have been asked to vote on Something Like this before, rent control is back on the ballot. This year, in the form of prop 21. Proposition 21 gives cities the ability to expand rent control, it would apply to housing more than 15 years old, it could also be applied to Single Family homes or condos if the owner has more than two per properties. Proposition 21 is a referendum on costa hawkins, 1995 law that drastically limit each states ability to enact rent control. Voters have the option to make changes to this back in 2018, with proposition 10. But that did not pass. This is a president ial year, right . We know the electorate will be several million voters larger than it was in 2018, it will be a more representative sample of the state of california. Reporter this is the campaign director, he says it will be different this time. And that covid is making people more aware of tenants living on the edge. Over 5 million renters in the state of california are at risk of losing their homes in the coming months. And that is on top of the fact that already a majority of renters in the state were paying too much money on rent. Reporter that was that of Analyst Office as prop 21 will result in tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue to the state every year, which is one reason why they oppose it. It decreases the value of Housing Stock, and decreasing revenue to cities and it decreases the quality of housing, while increasing the rent for that lower quality housing. Reporter he is a small property owner, and the president of the california rental housing is asian. He says in cities like San Francisco and san jose, where some form of french control already exists, landlords are keeping rent high in the pandemic, out of fear that they will struggle to raise them again when the market recovers. You see rent come down even more if there was no rent control, because at least and you could bring back rent to when the economy comes back. Reporter supporters include bernie sanders, congresswoman maxine waters, and the Democratic Party of california. Opponents are gov. Gavin newsom, the California Apartment Association and the california builders alliance. Real estate group spent 76 million fighting prop 10 back in 2018. So far, the nose side is out raising the yes side yet again. Supporters have spent just over 24 million, opponents over 44 million. He may make a few people today happy but overall, as a state, i think we will suffer again and as a community we will suffer again and it will create that policy. We all need this and we all needed to be able to confront especially the bad actors the giant corporation, for buying our Housing Stock in making housing in the state unaffordable. Reporter susie steimle, kpix5. He is jumping into a legal fight over legal rights mississippi. Today, he joined more than a dozen other attorneys, atty. Gen. , and filing an amicus brief. Support the child to the states vote by mail requirements, which the group claims could suppress votes, and deems unsafe due to the pandemic. In mississippi voters who want to vote by mail must apply to do so, and get that application notarized. In addition voters would also need to get the ballot notarized. Other requirements are also being challenged. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suddenly talking about the 20th amendment, suggesting that Congress Might try to intervene to remove President Trump from power. Tomorrow, come here tomorrow, we will be talking about the 25th amendment. I think that the public needs to know the Health Condition of the president. There is one question that he refuses, they refuse to answer, before he got the virus, and admitted to it, one was his last negative test . When was his last negative test . To make a judgment about the actions that were taken, after that. Congress is in session right now is any movement on pelosis idea seems extremely unlikely, so what might be the real objective here . We put that question to a uc berkeley constitutional law expert and that is ahead tonight at six. Following last night present Vice President ial debate, joe biden joined Kamala Harris on the west coast, in a rare joint appearance in arizona the pair fielded a not so rare question, whether or not they plan to pack the Supreme Court if they win in november. The answer, well, did not answer much. When the election is over, youll know my opinion. It is a great question, and i dont blame you for asking it. But you know, the moment i answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be about that. Other than, other than focusing on what is happening now. Following a stop in nevada Vice President mike pence also hit the trail in arizona, where he gave the crowd his own answer to that question. You do not figured out last night, they want to pack the Supreme Court. In defined the police. When he make you a promise. Under president donald trump, we are not going to defund the police, not now, not ever, were going to back to. As timely reminder of candy 2020, check out that centerfield scoreboard at oracle park. Encouraging people to get out and vote. And now that you have your ballot, we have resources on our website to help you vote smart. Go to kpix. Com for backgrounders on the california ballot measures. Still have the president make a very lofty pledge. You get the same medicine, free, no charge. But how feasible is it . We found out just how much only one of his treatments would cost the average american. Coming up new at six, companies that want to do business with the city of oakland will have to dig back into their past. How they will have to explain any ties to slavery. Plus this may not look like much right now but just wait until you see what google has planned for these centers. Why some are calling it a city within a city. What critics are saying about the plan for Affordable Housing proposition 16 takes on discrimination. Some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. They do one of the most deven in normal times. S, our Frontline Health care workers. And when these heroes lack the resources they need, that risky job gets ten times harder. Prop fifteen makes corporations pay their fair share. To invest in our communities, in our clinics, in the essential workers who treat everyone rich, poor, and inbetween. Whether its this pandemic or the next health crisis, vote yes on prop fifteen. For all of us. A short time ago President Trumps physician said he could be cleared for Public Events as soon as saturday. The president is touting the experiment treatments that he received in a twitter video. He said seniors should get the same treatment for free. I want you to get the same care that i got, i got incredible care at walter reed, credible doctors. And this medicine in particular, when medicine was unbelievable. You are going to get the same medicine, youll get it free, no charge. And were going to get it to you soon. It is totally safe. But it is powerful against this disease. According to an analysis, the regeneron treatment at the president was the dow Walter Reed Medical Center would cost the average american more than 100,000. Some democrats are slamming the president saying we dont have proof about his claims about the drugs, or that we will really have access. Language in saying im going to override the fda, going to override the science, i know what works, needless to say, we dont know if it works. And we have no reason to believe that it will be available. Check out these long lines to get a covid test in wisconsin. Now i covid hotspot. Some people waited 2 to 3 hours on tuesday. The sites hours had just changed and it was closed the day before. To say was also the first day that free flu shots were given out there. Meanwhile today we got an update on the progress toward a covid vaccine. Pending at the authorizations, we believe we may have up to 100 million doses by the end of the year. Enough to cover especially vulnerable populations. And, the project having enough for every american, who wants vaccine, by march, to april, 2021. The u. S. Is currently manufacturing doses for all six vaccine candidates supported by operation warp speed. President trump has repeatedly said he vaccine could be authorized as early as this fall. We might learn more about the scene from the nations top Infectious Disease expert. Another life look at that online fireside chat hosted by uc berkeley. Dr. Anthony fauci is expecting to answer questions for me diversity students as well as and staff, so lets listen in for a bit. Pediatric population, the elderly, pregnant women, women with underlying conditions, so you need a variety of vaccines that might be more relevant to one versus the other. The first question is the new platform such as expressing genes of particular components of the virus, they are very, very easy to adapt to scaling up quickly. You know, with the vaccine, rather than having grow the pathogen, then purify it, inactivated, or attenuated, the reason we went from a sequence, when the chinese put the sequence up on a public database, to starting the vaccine trial, not child, but five days, the amazing 62 days later, getting into a phase 1 trial, and six months later, getting into a phase 3 trial is overwhelmingly the world indoor record for speed, so if you want speed, you want a platform that you could do that in the way that we did it is we just took the well have more on his fireside chats later on in the newscast. Still ahead, jawdropping drone video of a surfer who came inches from a shark. How that joan helped him escape. Plus, how Time Magazine is honoring a frontline hero who made the ultimate sacrifice for her patients. We want to bring you the good news happening in the bay area, just go to kpix. Com together. Well find storie our home was burned to the ground in the tubbs fire. The flames, the ash, it was terrifying. Thousands of family homes are destroyed in wildfires. Families are forced to move and higher property taxes are a huge problem. Prop 19 limits taxes on wildfire victims so families can move without a tax penalty. Nineteen will help rebuild lives. Vote yes on 19. When you take a it all begins to unravel. Ann ravels no reformer, shes backed by big corporations whove poured hundreds of thousands into her campaign. And she opposes ballot measures to make the economy more fair for working people. Only dave cortese is endorsed by the california Democratic Party. Hes helping us battle the pandemic with a sciencebased approach. And expanding Health Services and child care to those in need. For state senate, Democrat Dave cortese. Traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. Time magazines top 100 list the worlds most influential people, among them, a new york nurse who contracted covid19 and treated the first patient to die in the virus in a state. Emergency room, she is no joke, a true warrior on the front line 2 days after karen for the first covid19 patient, became infected herself. After that patient it was a war zone. They went home to call recover from less than three weeks. I felt like it was a calling. I feel like i had to go. And i could leave my coworkers. She was surrounded by her family when time called, saying she was named an icon for all nurses, where been selflessly putting their own lives on the line to the pandemic. When i got the call, i cannot believe it. I was touched, and honored. I hope that photograph shows the strength and, of the nurses. Also World Leaders and celebrities, she says is a well deserved honor. She is there to help me with staff. She is ju like always been somebody that i look up to. She is the nurse that Everyone Wants to have. Amy has your back. She hopes to inspire others to share her positive spiritbe the good. And perhaps you, too, can glide through life surrounded by support and love. Connecting has been crating the time 100 list for nearly 2 decades, this years list, is a Record Number of doctors, nurses, and scientists. Heart stopping video now, and australian surfer was out on the water and did not even realize there was a 5 foot long shark right beneath him. A drone was above watching for sharks, and the Organization Running it, with warned him using allowed speaker. It was not until he watched the footage later that he realized just how close that sharks got. Did your fat bear week bracket bust . After a week of online voting, winter is lumbered forth from an elite group of 12 alaskan heavyweights. After gorging on salmon all summer and fall, no doubt about it this white body bear, the fattest of them all, the most appropriate edification number ever, this is bear 747. Narrowly beat out the nearest rival which was chunk, two in the fat bear week contest. The annual contest tracks bulging there as they prepare for their winter hibernation. I have finished amongst those bears and goodness they are more interested in fish and people. The better they are when they go to sleep, the healthier they are when they wake up so to bear 747 we offer a nice toast of salute. I bet they perform the term big punt a curvy. Of live look from the exclusive sales force cameras because of the smoke in the classifier our bay area spare the air alert was just extended now through saturday. Paul, how bad is going to get . It depends on which part of the bay area you are in, it is going to vary a little bit because the wind will shift around as we head into the onshore breeze. But it did not help the air quality whole lot and most efficient forecast is for mother airquality for most of the bay area, not quite unhealthy but not good, either. Unhappy for sensitive groups in the north bay. If you step outside at all today, you notice that strong breeze, and it is still out there right now, onshore wind running right around 10 to 15 miles an hour in most locations. You would think that would take the smoke, and push it further inland toward central valley. These of the wind at ground level. Farther up in the atmosphere, 2 miles up and that is where the wind errors appointing here, where that wind is blowing and taking the smoke from other fires around california. The august complex, the creek fire, you can see how much of the state still has wildfire smoke, is elevated in the atmosphere. Lets wind the clock forward, airquality conditions will change a bit because that onshore wind is going to deep farthe mis up s a of the sm go laofficial forecast, air Quality Management district is a little bit too pessimistic, i think you have good air quality for much of the bay area tomorrow except in the immediate vicinity of the classifier which of course is approaching high containment levels but continues to burn. That onshore flow continues into the first half of the weekend, still pretty good air quality on saturday but then the midlevel wind farther up, do shift and send more smoke toward us. From the august complex on sunday, it is going to be like this. The airport will go up and down until the fires are not just contains. They are extinguished, there out, and that will take a while. Rain chances for that to happen. Still see that hes and smoke and fog. Kind of jumbled together as will get over san jose with a high was only 72 today, that is fantastic. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s, some of the coolest that we have seen around here in quite a while, temperatures still mostly in 60s. 70 is the warm spot on the map, in fairfield. Everybody else is in the 60s. Future cash shows the fog and low cloud cover spreading back inland. Even a little bit of coastal drizzle possible, a bit more sunshine breaking through tomorrow afternoon and on the clouds filled back in as we had to early saturday morning, any hint of shower chances is mainly going to be confined to the north they and their we are talking about a trace of moisture overall. It will not amount very much whatsoever. Temperatures will stay on the cool side even of the forecast has been trending drier, low temperatures tomorrow morning dropping down into the 50s and then we only warmup to mostly the 60s and 70s once again. Low 60s on the coast, low to mid 70s for the santa clara valley, the warmest temperatures east of the diablo range will stay below 80 degrees. Low to mid 70s for the tri valley into nonessential bay, mostly in the 60s, couple degrees warmer than today with an additional sunshine. 70s for the north bay. The cooler air six run saturday, sunday will be bad but then we do heat of as we head into next week. Coming up we talk about the rain chances limited as they may be as we had to the next couple of days at 6 00. New at six, uncertain how to celebrate halloween this year . Well, San Francisco service is allowing people to deliver a pretty terrifying telegram. Plus, house Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested invoking the 25th amendment. When was the last time a president transferred power to the vp . Intergroup of local comedians trying to keep the community laughing, but they have to save an important venue first. College campuses certainly looking different this fall. Meet the young scholar who is proposition 16 takes on discrimination. Some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. They do one of the most deven in normal times. S, our Frontline Health care workers. And when these heroes lack the resources they need, that risky job gets ten times harder. Prop fifteen makes corporations pay their fair share. To invest in our communities, in our clinics, in the essential workers who treat everyone rich, poor, and inbetween. Whether its this pandemic or the next health crisis, vote yes on prop fifteen. For all of us. Many colleges finance that they will not be bringing students back to campus this fall. Madsen schmidt is back in school now, in wisconsin with hopes that she will eventually attend in person classes. It is a little nerve racking. Reporter she is packing her suitcase. Her freshman year, a priest medicine he graduated high school with College Credits under her belt. Freshman year was pretty easy for me because i already done community college. Instead, and empty campus, as students stay inside their dorm rooms learning online. With strict guidelines. More resurgence include social distancing, and to go meals only from the dining hall. Im doing okay mostly. The solitude is working for madison. She hopes in school would include in person classes with friends, when it is a to do so. So your friends ask you to hang out, and you tell them no. Students rising above, i michelle griego. A new push by the Oakland City Council to make companies disclose whether they have had ties to slavery, supporters say they will make it more transparent while critics say they will only create more division. Business closures, no laughing matter, but a group of local comedians are trying to say they venue that they say brings people together. Our top stories tonight, google disrupting more than the tech world, a first look at how its Massive Development plan will transform downtown san jose. Good evening, and ken bastida. I will is mccook. Len ramirez joins us from the station area, for a look at what some are saying will be a city within a city. Reporter thats right, we talk about masses plans, the plans that were released today, by google, show have a plan to transform this area around the station. The documents over 2000 pages, show detailed plans for the first time. Google has also addressed but has been one of the chief criticisms when it was announcing that it moved to san jose and that is the need to address san joses critical Affordable Housing crisis. The Lansing Google socalled Downtown West project footprint are dull, drab, and in many cases, already vacant and this is how they say they could look in the future, a busy vibrant hub of housing, office space, transportation, retail, parks, and plazas. This is kind of the first big unveiling of the scope and the vision for these 80 acres. Reporter he says the project will be transformative for the west side of downtown san jose, city within the city but with using the existing streets and infrastructure. Whether it fits and or dominates will be in the eye of the beholder some of thes