The entrances to the mall. The Santa Clara County sheriffs helicopter hovering over the great mall in milpitas sunday night, the mall the scene of a big scare during the 7 p. M. Hour when three men a Jewelry Store where they started smashing cases and taking jewelry. Everybody started running. We got to the nearest store and ran out. Reporter one woman was with her friend and her children. They started freaking out. So we told them were playing a big game of hide and seek, keep them calm. Reporter customers thought the noise were gunshots which triggered panic, controversy of people rushing out of the mall, police arriving a short time later placing the mall on lockdown. We just hear people running and they said there was shots fired. We were outside. We kept going. We stopped because i wanted to put her on my back and then they said shots fired again, so we just kept running again. The. Reporter police soon learned that the incident was not an active shooter. It was scary because i had my kids. I have asthma and and we heard shooting. I just we were running across the freeway to like get away from everything. We were trying to find a place to hide. Reporter late into the night the mall entrances were blocked by police while inside the mall officers searched for people who may have sheltered in place and remained hidden. Workers were forced to wait outside while the mall was cleared, a day of shopping suddenly turning into mass panic. There were a lot of jokes about shooting and stuff, but thats honksly honestly like ive never lived that, so right now its scary to me. Reporter in the last few minutes mall workers were told to meet at the home depot on this property. Perhaps theyre getting and retrieving their belongings. Police are still looking for the three men right now and do not have a description just yet. Andre senior in milpitas, thank you. A San Francisco woman says thieves stole her car battery from her hybrid prius. The car was parked on webster street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. Kpix5s Azenith Smith ktvus Azenith Smith is here right now. The batteries are worth 10,000 and she said this was a breakin of greater magnitude. At first she didnt know what was stolen. It turns out thieves pulled the back seats and took the car batter from her car. Had i been lucky enough to have the windows broken and the change taken, i would have been very happy. Reporter shes been a ific heights in the city but nothing quite like this. Finally a policeman came by and said theyd never seen anything like this. Reporter last thursday at 6 30 in the evening kaplan had her prius parked on webster street between california and sacramento. She returned the following morning to find her car disheveled. I looked down and the entire back seat was removed. I thought they had stolen the back seat because i didnt know and i couldnt open the car. The electrical system was completely shot. Reporter unable to open or start her prius, she reported it to her Insurance Company who told her thieves likely stole her hybrid battery underneath the back seat. Sure enough, she found wires cut. We looked up and the battery weighs 180 pounds. So we were completely amazed. I couldnt lift 0 i dont weigh 180 pounds. 18 reporter kaplan and her partner believe this was no run of the mill theft. The thieves were able to remove a small rear glass window without breaking it or cutting it. This has to be a much more professional criminal that would take a huge battery and then find a place to sell. It. Reporter a camera is mounted in the exact spot where the car was parked, but it was aimed in the wrong direction. Kaplan is now thinking about not having a car at all. She said what happened to her, its simply not worth it. People should not park on dark streets because must be how they know how to do it. They must have done it so quickly. She posted her ordeal on nextdoor and says people have reported similar thefts at Stanford University and she tells me the school is alerting students to not park in remote parently this is going on and we were just talking about. It possibly theres a market for this type of crime. Easy to steal those. They weigh 180 pounds. You have to have at least a couple people picking them up taking them out of there. Right. She believes it must have taken more than one person. It was in a rather dark area. She think it was a professional crew because they were able to pull the window from the back seat and the window was not broken. It was completely intact. They clearly know what theyre doing. Right. Thank you. A car burglary suspect is hospitalized tonight with life threatening injuries after a San Francisco police car crashed into a bus stop injuring both the suspect and an officer. It happened before 5 30 last night near geary boulevard and webster street. This is video from the scene. Police say two plain clothes officers chased two car burglary suspects on foot. The Unmarked Police car was responding when the crash happened. One suspect was critically injured. A second suspect was unhurt and arrested at the scene. The officer involved was also not hurt. In hayward tonight an emotional vigil for a beloved husband and father who was hit and killed by a car last week. 52yearold don grenet was one of two pedestrians hit by a car in hayward along busy a street last thursday night. He died at the scene. Tearful friends and family members attended the vigil. They brought flowers, cards and lots of support to his widow. She is thankful for the kindness but said what she really needs are answers. I just want answers. If witnesses can come forward and just cooperate with the police and find it out what happened, exactly what happened, why it happened, id appreciate that. Police have not released details about the crash. They did say the driver who hit grenet stayed at the scene cooperating with police. The second pedestrian hit, a 32 yearold man, was taken to the hospital with crucial injuries. East bay congressman Mark Desaulnier will be hosting a town hall. Previous topics included immigration and border enforcement. Tomorrow nights meeting begins at 6 30 inside the Multi Purpose room at campolindo high school. Firefighters in berkeley are making sure residents are prepared for a wildfire. Today they went over three big preparedness steps. Fire Officials Say to plan and prepare by registering for evacuation notices through the city and fire department. They also want everyone to make a plan to evacuate by foot or car. Lastly, people need to be aware and avoid dry areas and hills during red flag days. We have come up with an evacuation plan in berkeley. Weve trained on it. We need the public to be aware of it and we need to practice it. At todays preparedness drill residents got the fire alert, evacuated and then went tock shelter to talk about what worked and things to improve on. A similar preparedness training was held in Sonoma County yesterday. That area was devastated by wildfires back in 2017. A plane from Northern California is helping fight the raging wildfires burning across the amazon rainforest. The aircraft is based in sacramento and has been dropping fire retardant since it arrived in brazil friday. As fox news Jackie Heinrich tells us, the fires are generating strong reactions from around the world. Reporter brazils amazon rainforest is still on fire. The raging wildfires burning at a record rate and getting the attention of Global Leaders at the group of seven summit. There is a real understanding that we must agree to help the country as affected by these fires as soon as possible. Reporter the flames threatening the ecosystem in the country while accelerating Climate Change across the planet, the inferno devastating the land of People Living in the world eats largest rainforest. We are concerned with preventing it reaching other areas before its extinguished. Reporter the amazon producing about 20 of the earths oxygen is dubbed the planets lungs. The smoke from the fire is spreading along brazil to the east Atlantic Coast sweeping through nearly half of the country and beginning to spill into neighboring countries including peru, bolivia and paraguay. Contacts are being made by our teams to finalize very concrete commitments. Reporter pope francis expressing concern about the impact of the amazon fires on the worlds environmental health. The pontiff who is from neighboring argentina calling for an end to the fires during sundays Prayer Service at the vatican. Let us pray so that with the efforts of all they are controlled as quickly as possible. Reporter environmental organizations claim the wildfires were set by ranchers and loggers trying to clear the land for use. President bolsonaro blames warm weather and illegal forest clearing for the large fires. Its not on fire, the area the people are saying. Where the fires are is where the people deforested. Reporter president bolsonaro deployed military aircraft and troops to the region to help fight the fires. In new york, Jackie Heinrich, fox news. Everybody believes that hes unfit. He lies every time he opens his mouth. Why this former gop congressman says hes going to challenge President Trump for the republican nomination. And cracking down on sideshows, well tell you about an area that has seen an uptick in this illegal activity. Well get you going on the workweek ahead with temperatures a bit warmer tomorrow and a spare the air day. Your own data. In. Mix with unlimited, and switch it up at anytime so you only pay for what you need. Its a differe of wirelessk designed to save you money. Save up to 400 a year on your wireless bill. Plus get 250 back when you buy a new samsung note. Click, call or visit a store today. A crowd at a sideshow in fairfield may not have known they were being watched from above and it was caught on camera from a chp helicopter. It appears sideshows are no longer just a problem in oakland. Kpix5s ktvus andre senior has more now on how they were able to put the brakes on that show. An infrared camera capturing the unmistakable image of a car doing donuts in fairfield. Initially we received a call about a gathering of vehicles at the Fairfield Solano mall. Reporter this Highway Patrol officer telling me sunday the sideshow started after those vehicles left the mall. From there it was game on for the drivers, but what they didnt know was authorities the entire time and through that airship pd was able to locate and take enforcement action which did result in several citations and a couple arrests. Reporter the chp notifying Fairfield Police who moved in. Personally ill just think its dangerous obviously for the motoring public and pedestrians and different people out and about. Reporter friday nights incidents comes on the heels of a series of sideshows august 11th in Contra Costa County where the chp filed criminal charges against eight people following reports of vehicles doing donuts in the roadway just south of highway 4 near martinez. The troubling trend in the sacramento area highlights an issue that happens with regularity in the bay area. Here 200 vehicles took part in this july 4th sideshow near 42nd avenue and interstate 880 says oakland police, the department beefing up controls trying to stop the illegal activity which can sometimes come at a price to bystanders. Especially if you have to go to the hospital and get their family, kids, parents, whatever it be. How do you justify your anger . Reporter some side shows getting out of control like this one in april where there was gunfire and an ac transit bus was set on fire. Some people think theres a place for sideshows as a sanctioned activity. Give the kids a legit way to do this and get them off the streets. Reporter andre senior, ktvu fox 2 news. A vehicle rollover crash and fire near sfo today sent a driver to the hospital and closed down part of the freeway. The accident happened in san bruno at 3 30 this afternoon on eastbound interstate 380 near the airport and highway 101. The Highway Patrol says the driver of a Jeep Wrangler lost control and overturned near the center median. The driver was taken to the hospital, but the extent of not chp processed the scene. Another republican is planning to challenge President Trump for the pu nomination in 2020. Former illinois congressman joe walsh announced his decision to run this morning. He gained prominence in the tea party movement. Today he says hes stunned that only a few people in the Republican Party have stepped up to challenge the president. Weve got a guy in the white house who is unfit, completely unfit, to be president and it stuns me that nobody stepped up. Nobody in the Republican Party stepped up because ill tell you what, george. Everybody believes in the Republican Party. Everybody believes that hes unfit. He lies every time he opens his mouth. Former Massachusetts Governor bill weld is also running for the republican nomination. President trump on the defense today denying reports of tension among World Leaders at the g7 summit in esident ins getting along just fine with his foreign counter parts amid the Global Economic slump, President Trump sending mixed signals on china when asked if it was having second thoughts about escalating the trade war with beijing. I think they respect the trade war. I have about everything. Mr. Trump also touched on relations with north korea. He downplayed the countrys Ballistic Missile tests. So if youre inland today, you noticed a bit of a warmup along the coast. It was cooler in San Francisco, for instance, but inland these numbers came up 4 or 5 degrees. Tomorrows temperatures come up another 2 degrees, maybe 3 degrees inland along the coast and right around the bay temperatures similar with lots of upper 70s and low 80s in places like san jose and fremont. One of the things well notice is that subtropical moisture the next couple days, not so much tomorrow as tuition. This whole week well notice this kind of moisture streaming up. You get cloud cover and humidity. The humidity will make things tomorrow especially south of here seem pretty darn hot, kind of sticky. We dont get a lot of humidity inland on hot days. So when you do, you notice. It fog stuck at the coast because of the high pressure. There it is, the current follow around the bay because of the marine layer and cooler flow. You see inland temperatures, the sea breeze is not getting there. Right now you got 78 up in the inland valleys. Overnight lows tonight will be generally in the 50s, some low 60s. Theres the fog stuck. Thats sfo. Its not doing what it did last week where it inundated us. Tomorrow morning thats the fog forecast. You see it gets pinched. It goes through the gap at the gate and spreads out. Thats about as far as it goes. Tomorrow is going to be 90s in gilroy. Around the bay in the mid70s with some fog in the morning, certainly San Francisco and Stinson Beach and pacifica. By the afternoon youre in the mid70s in San Francisco, 97 the forecast for vacaville and fairfield. So these temperatures are a touch warmer than today. Id call that hot. Around the bay 80 in san leandro, 81 in hayward and the fiveday forecast pops in like this with temperatures, the warmest all week tomorrow and temperatures trend down a little bit, but well see a lot of warmth, a lot of heat in the bay valleys pretty much the entire week into next weekend. See you back here tomorrow. Sports wrap just minutes away. Here are joe and jason with what theyre working on. The giants pull off a mini sweep of the as. And well introduce you to alamedas keelan doss who is doing everything he can to show he belongs in the nfl and on the raiders roster. Its a full half hour of sports coming up at 11 30 on sports wrap. Still ahead here at 11 00 she spent a lifetime giving back inside and outside of the classroom. Meet the Hometown Hero who hasnt stopped helping students even in retirement. But first the chase Center SeasonTicket Holders got to check out their new seats today in San Francisco, the arena officially opening in 12 days, when metallica and the San Francisco symphony perform together. Warriors basketball starts october 5th in a preseason game against the lakers. You are watching the 11 00 news on ktvu. Back with more in a moment. In the east bay hundreds of children got brandnew backpacks and School Supplies to start the school year. Bay area rapper mr. Fab and his sister organized the backpack giveaway. They say the annual event in oakland has come a long way. What started out as 50 backpacks 14 years ago now provides backpacks for 1,000 kids. Were going to make sure that you have what you need to be successful in school and being successful in school means having all the supplies that you need and it helps children to focus on their learning and not have to worry about what they dont have. Donated by a wide range of people from athletes to entertainers. Students in the Fremont Unified School district go back to school wednesday, but a group of children has been busy all summer working in the orchard at garan Regional Park. Ktvus Claudine Wong tells us its thanks to a retired teacher who isnt slowing down in her effort to leave a legacy of kindness. Wheres the brown . Reporter all summer long every week lydia thomas has been here with children and paintbrushes and a mission, to leave a legacy of beauty and kindness. Art heals many things. This is designed to be all together and make it as a group and well have fun. Reporter thomas passion for this latest project doesnt surprise those who know her. She has spent a lifetime giving back. She wanted to be a teacher ever since she was a little girl. I wanted to teach kids from all over the world, but whatall over the world have come to me and i can say im a better person for it and i know that sounds really sappy, but its really true. Reporter in her 27 years as a teacher at Grimmer Elementary School in fremont, she said she also did a lot of learning. They but i learned to be a better human being and a better teacher through them. Reporter about 10 years ago she learned about a child who had been bullying classmates for years. But very under the radar and finally we heard about it and my principal, she and i were overwhelmed. I grieved. I went home and felt like something died because i thought we had a school that was kind and compassionate and loving. Judy and i promised each other that we would learn what to do because we didnt know what to do. Reporter from that promise came a kindness mural, a conflict Manager Program and this video of children teaching children about kindness. Good, positive footprint. Reporter three years ago she retired. Thomas said it was just time, but her wife says she never saw the joy of teaching dim. When she was still working, every day she went to school you would think it was her first day at school. Reporter even in retirement she hasnt stopped working helping grimmer students paint this music on this shed in the garan Regional Park apple orchard. I wanted to see what we did to the little shed and it was all from the heart. When people see it, theyll see how much we did to paint with it. Reporter so many years later it is still all about the children, so many of whom are all grown up now but who remember ms. Thomas. She teared up when she told me about a man just this summer who thanked her for a conversation she had with him m conversation that made a difference. He made me cry that day because as a teacher, you dont always hear that. Reporter Claudine Wong, ktvu fox 2 news. Such a sweet lady and to see 27 years as a teacher and still working to give back and what visual memories they all have. Those murals are beautiful. Just god bless people like that. They make a difference. We need more people like that. That will do it for us, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Sports wrap up next. Stick around. Well be right back with more sports. We are here to dis first o. Thirty minutes. Thirty minutes . Objection overruled. One hour. Sweeten the deal by doing the dishes and ill consider it. I wouldnt do it. I hate the dishes. One hour with the tablet, you walk the dog and do the dishes. If you insist. Congratulations. Only xfinity xfi lets you take control of your familys online time. Thats simple, easy, awesome. Xfinity xfi gives you the speed, coverage and control you need. Manage your wifi network from anywhere when you download the xfi app today. 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