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This morning. It doesnt have anything to do with the moisture we had yesterday pick these clouds coming in from the coast. Nifty six in the santa rosa now. 58 in San Francisco. Low 60s and oakland and livermore. The marine layer is at 1200 feet. Inland cities waking up with sunshine but many of us have cloud cover and drier air and cooler down by 5 degrees in most areas. It has to do with the onshore breeze that is blowing all the way through the delta this morning. When it comes to the fog, visibility is tough along the coastline. Half moon bay reporting less than a quarter of a mile but everyone else looking okay. Look at whats going on with the added relative humidity, the fog is back. A bit of an onshore flow going on as well. Right there at the czu complex fire, we got great humidity. Temperatures are good and the winds are light. Getting into the afternoon for air quality, unhealthy for sensitive groups. North bay in the San Francisco coastline and through the center bay and east bay, it will be unhealthy once again today. Afternoon highs cooling off slightly as we go into the next few days the afternoon highs and plus what to ask act in the bay area, coming up in a moment. Lets check on the highways now. We have traffic that is going to be mostly good. I want to put up the fire zone map again most of highway 1 approaching santa cruz has been shut down because of the fire zone. Highway 17 remains open. The bay bridge, there was a minor accident at the toll plaza. Not a big deal. Lets go back to the headlines. Lets continue our coverage of the Massive Wildfires that have been burning across the bay area for more than a week. This morning fire crews in the north bay continue to make progress in the fight against the massive lnu lightning complex fire. Its at 25 containment after running through nearly 550 square miles. Sarah is live with an update. Reporter good morning. Just within the last minute, cal fire did release a new update on the lmu lightning complex. It grew slightly since last night in the 7 pm update. The lnu lightning complex is now burned 551 square miles and is 27 contained. Up from 25 last night. 937 buildings are destroyed, 251 are damaged, and more than 30,000 are still threatened. Sadly, six people died in the spire including a pg e worker. The weather cooperated for the most part but firefighters did deal with some issues on the east side of the fire throughout yesterday afternoon. Overall, cal fire said they are turning a corner. There are some people who can go home after Evacuation Orders were downgraded to warnings in some mona sonoma and napa counties. A reentry point set up today for those living within the myers of fire zone in Sonoma County. Its not required to check in but it could be helpful. We have Information Available about the fire in the area as well as information that would help people to keep them safe. And if peopare expecting to return to errors that were burned, we are offering ppe for individuals to make sure they can go back onto their property safely. The reentry point is that 17499 bodega highway and is open from 10 am until 7 pm. Of course not everyone can go home but we have posted links to Sonoma County and napa counties evacuation maps to find out whether or not your address is in a list of zones allowed to go home. Had two ktvu app or website and click on web links. We just got that update from cal fire. The lmu lightning complex has now burned 551 square miles and is 27 contained. Many of the evacuees from the north bay fires are returning home to find nearly everything they owned is gone. Nothing survived. This was the scene as bob and his wife had returned to their vacaville home yesterday pick their friends and neighbors and other fire survivors are now helping them with food, clothing and other essential items. Growing up here, absolutely amazing. This man lost his own home in the napa county area. Share this video of the fire that strayed destroyed his home. It is now 706 and. Fire said they are making progress against the czu lighting fires because the weather is better and they have more resources. Overnight the fire grew to 78,684 acres thats 123 square miles. But it is now 17 contained. That is up from 13 most of the fire damage is in Santa Cruz County. 11 of the 330 homes and buildings that have been destroyed were in San Mateo County. We left with just the close on our back but we both grabbed a couple pieces of clothing. I did take some of my animals out at the time. 600 evacuees are sheltered at the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds. The spca is easy caring for animals including some miniature horses you see right here. There were more than 1600 firefighters in the air and on the ground. Of zik, a large incident like this encompasses numerous roadways and numerous structures within the interior that is very difficult to get to. Especially with the amount of trees that have fallen in the amount of debris in the road. Officials say the part is no longer threatening uc santa cruz or the city of santa cruz. The town of pescadero in San Mateo County appears to be safe this morning also. The scu lightning complex fires make up the Largest Group of buyers in the bay area. So far this group of buyers has burned through more than 562 square miles. Thats bigger in land size than any city in california. There said its top priority in battling this group of fires is the western front where most of the 20,000 homes and other buildings are at risk. Every part of this permanent is involved in an evacuation warning or Evacuation Order and we are working diligently to try to put the folks back into those neighborhoods. We understand that they priority. Ktvu newsgroup drove more than 70 miles from the city of patterson in Stanislaus County to livermore. Amid all the devastation, our crew did see some psalms some homes with Defensible Space around them still standing. Governor newsom said that the state is deploying all available resources to battle wildfires burning here in the bay area including mutual aid crews were coming up from Southern California. Santa cruz is seeing the same thing from many Southern California engines coming up from almost every department in the state. Instate mutual aid is providing more than 2800 crews and 709 engines to battle fires out of their own jurisdictions. 11 states are sending crews and equipment from as far as montana and kansas. We have another spare the air day and the alert is extended through tomorrow. All that smoke from the fires is hanging over much of the bay area for the seventh straight day and doctors warned about the possible Health Effects of the smoke. Especially for older people and people with weak immune systems. The longer you are exposed to this, the more it is stressing the body and the more problems we can expect to see. Be careful out there that the smoke so bad that stores are selling out of air Filtration Systems in the n95 masks. The cloth and surgical masks are not filtering smoke but you are advised to wear them in public because of covid19. Make sure you stay upto date with all the latest Wifi Developments here go to ktvu. Com wildfires pick youll find the latest on Evacuation Orders, reports about any new fires and how you can help fire victims. The first time i put on then n95 mask was a few years ago when there were north bay fires and now its part of everyday life. Lets talk about the changing weather. A little milder today and more comfortable. Yes, indeed. Good morning. We had some good clearing yesterday after the wave moved through picked the thunderstorm activity in the bay area didnt materialize the work that was great news and the change in the weather actually helped the firefight over the last 1224 hours or so. At this time, still looking at a little bit of lingering moisture that moved through the the sierra where you can see. This will push out and we will be drive moving forward. We are waking up with cloud cover though. Heres a look at future cast. Expected to begin to pull back by lunchtime where we are mostly cloudy along the coastline. Partly cloudy for the rest of us. In the second part of the day, some of the bowel south facing piece over the north bay are likely to see clearing for the second part of the afternoon. Temperatures this morning a bit cooler and most bought. We start out with partly cloudy sky and now we have since turned mostly cloudy around the base. Inland communities have a mix of partly cloudy and mostly clear skies. 58 in novato. 61 he wanted creek. 50 in San Francisco. Half moon bay 57 and they are reporting fixed flog this morning. A drive along highway 1 or the coast this morning, you will find it thick and you want to be careful before it lifts out oftheway is a look at san jose for the afternoon. Lot nice lunch time numbers right at noontime with 80 degrees and then as we get into the second part of the day, 85 expected for san jose. 67 in San Francisco with a Beautiful Day along the peninsula. Off the east bay shore, 76 in heyward. And for the northway north bay 62 over napa with hazy skies. Air quality is expected to remain unhealthy today. The extended forecast with temperatures dropping off slightly for the bay area wednesday. More so as we get into thursday. Thats where we bought him out. The time for the weekend, temperatures rebel folly. Upper 60s for the coastline and upper cities around the back pick mid 90s expected inland. Growing concerns about rapid covid19 tests and whether they are reliable. Coming up, the problem for researchers that are causing people to miss work. And republicans at their National Convention fiercely defending President Trump we ag so youre a small business, or a big one. You were thriving, but then. Oh. Ah. Okay. Plan, pivot. How do you bounce back . You dont, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. Powered by the largest gig Speed Network in america. But is it secure . Sure its secure. And even if the power goes down, your connection doesnt. So how do i do this . You dont do this. We do this, together. Bounce forward, with comcast business. I got it all from you im always pushing through i know well make it to the finish line i know youre waiting on the other side im like you ondemand glucose monitoring. Because theyre always on. Another lifechanging technology from abbott. So you dont wait for life. You live it. The pandemic is affecting campaign plans for San Francisco political candidates. The county Health Department declared the Campaign Offices are nonessential businesses. That surprise john avalos who is running for district 11 supervisor ricky said he couldnt explain why Campaign Office would not be considered essential during an election year. His opponents, supervisor asher is shutting down his Campaign Office. Phone banks, indoor Campaign Rallies and fundraisers are also not allowed. Knocking on doors and hanging Campaign Banners, they are allowed. Today the first lady will speak at the rnc. She will make her dress from the newly renovated white house rose garden. The first lady will be joined by President Trump who is taking part in every day of the committed pick last night the president s supporters offered a positive outlook of a second term. We are blessed to live in america. It is time to keep that blessing alive for the next generation. This president and this party are committed to that noble task. Secretary of state mike pompeo will also speak to date remotely from jerusalem. That is drawing criticism as state Department Policy prohibits engaging in partisan political activity. The state Department Said secretary pompeo will speak to the convention in his personal capacity. We hope you stay with ktvu as we bring you complete coverage of their estate through thursday. Live update starting at 4 pm and then at 7 pm, live on interrupted coverage of the speakers. Its here on ld around the coun by people who support the usps. The usl u. S. Mail, not for sale. The American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of letter carriers that they want to make sure the public has confidence of voting by mail and theyre providing all the necessary resources for the most Timely Delivery of election mail. Several rallies will be held at the area post offices today. The new postmaster general louis dejoy, defending changes he has made. The critics say it slow down mail delivery. He testified for the House Oversight committee yesterday. The democrats a the changes he tried to make to mail delivery would have been interfering with the november election pit he rolled back changes demanding that metrics leaving on time even if theyre not fully loaded. s bake 53 foot trucks traveling hundreds of miles completely empty due to your reforms. Here are the truck records. Thats not efficiency. That is insanity. Transitions dont always go smoothly. You should have a Recovery Process. Our Recovery Process is taking too long tradition have been resolved in a few days. Dejoy said the changes he made our aimed at bringing the Postal Service back to Financial Stability because he said its has lost money every year since 2007. A tough commute on 37 yesterday. But today is a redo of sorts. How do we look now . We look good so far. The only slow traffic we have seen that has been consistent is the bay bridge toll plaza. We see it slow there. Of course, this will last a little bit into the 8 00 our. Sometimes it clears out by them but this is a typical pandemic commute we have seen getting into San Francisco. The rest of the commutes have been lighter and kind of a quiet day. This is 280 in san jose and the traffic is moving along nicely. Lets check in with rosemary now. Hello. We are looking at mostly cloudy skies from the coast around the bay. Inland, partly cloudy. A little cooler and drier this morning. This afternoon, temperatures are expected to drop a bit as we continue a cooling trend lets start along the south as weight watch rain over areas like louisiana moving toward mississippi and alabama and stretching over to georgia. Here are the remnants of marco. We have pretty good rain falling over areas there on the west edge of montgomery, alabama. This will continue to move west with winds at 30 Miles Per Hour deterring down to 25 later today. Hurricane laura is on its way in moving through the golf trick you can see that as we get into the wednesday night, thursday time frame, could be a category three. It will strengthen with winds reaching 115 Miles Per Hour or so. That going on the wednesday night, thursday time frame. For us at home, we wake up with the clouds in place. A moist air in place with an onshore breeze staying with us into this afternoon. Notice this sheet of blues and yellows picking up through the delta. Typical for this type of pattern. And if you look at errors toward the Santa Clara Valley, the fires burning on both sides there. No matter which way the wind is blowing and the flow, we are getting smoke there and the air quality remains poor for the Santa Clara Valley today as well as the east bay. Temperatures in the upper 50s over San Francisco. North bay 59. Afternoon highs in the upper 60s from the coast toward San Francisco. 70s to low 80s run the back. Upgrades to low 90s for the warmer spots. 88 in livermore. Today, waking up with some patchy fog. Into the evening, hazy skies continuing with a den on wednesday into thursday before we rebounded to the weekend. Upper 60s at the coastline upper 70s run the bank. Mid 90s saturday and sunday for the inland cities. Covid19 instructions are impacting who can cross the border between the u. S. And mexico. Many say they have to wait hours to cross. A bizarre story. Involved tu to where this happened and who made the stunning discovery. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. Today, muni Rail Services shutting down again just three days after started back up again. It will be suspended for several weeks after part of the subway overhead wire failed and someone in the Systems Control Center tested positive. The suspended for five months. This is new video of the light rail cars out of service at the balboa park station. Rail service will be provided by bus again but there might be some delays. There are growing concerns about the reliability of rapid results covid19 test. Widespread testing is used to identify people who have the virus where self isolation has been the most effective way to stop the spread. Followup testing Shows Positive early test results have not been accurate. Causing people to miss work or school needlessly. Johns Hopkins University said antigen test can provide answers in as little as 15 minutes but they have been less accurate than other tests that can take days to process. To a bizarre story. A michigan woman has a funeral home staff to think for being alive. The staff was about to end ballmer when workers noticed it looked like she was breathing. She arrived at the funeral home after the Southfield Fire Department got a call about an unresponsive young woman. Paramedics said they performed cpr for half an hour without any signs she could breathe on her own pick the corner was called and the woman was declared dead and taken to the funeral home. Staff there so that she was barely breathing and called paramedics who took her to the hospital. There is now an investigation underway. Coming up, the fire bring in the Santa Cruz Mountains destroy southbay firefighters homes. He describes the moments the flames burned through his house. vo im all about family. My mothers name is jeannie and my name is robert. Thats how we came up with jrs. And my wife rita and my son robert the 4th all work here. My dream for jrs barbeque is that its still that Old Neighborhood spot 50 more years from now. Good morning, progress by firefighters battling wildfires in the Santa Cruz Mountains. What is helping them get the upper hand and the latest on the firefight. The flames in the Santa Cruz Mountains destroyed much of big basin redwood state park. What happened to the trees that are 2000 years old . Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Welcome to mornings on 2. Good morning. Lets talk about the weather. Things are smoothing out and is not quite as terribly hot. Air quality is getting a little bit better overall, its an improvement. Yes baby steps. Good morning. Temperatures are coming down. The marine layer deepened a bit. The cool pacific onshore breeze helping us out. Improving conditions for firefighters. With that said, hazy skies will continue today as it will take time to get a handle on all those fires and for the smoke to drift away and not come back. Slightly cooler with mid 60s to the low 90s across the bay area today. The cooling trend will continue before we warm it up to the bay area we can. And look at the Current Conditions in the extended forecast coming up in just a bit. Lets say, good morning. Right now traffic is doing pretty well and many areas. Who have slowing at the big bridge that is the slowest traffic with the rest of the commutes have been good. Look at highway 4 being a bit slow coming up over the hill getting up to the concorde area. No major issues and of course we have the closure in the Boulder Creek Scotts Valley area in the fire. But i was 17 is open and the toll plaza is backed up. Lets go back to the headlines. The bay area weather is better. That is helping firefighters battled the czu lightning fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is contained better but still about the same size from overnight. We have the latest numbers from those fires. Good morning. Firefighters wrapped up an update on the story just in the last hour. Their tone was very hopeful and optimistic. The said progress has been made. 79,000 acres burned in the czu lightning buyer with containment up to 17 pick yesterday it 13 . Thats the good news. This buyer has destroyed 330 structures with a majority of them homes and most of them in the Santa Cruz County region. Although 11 structures have also burned in San Mateo County. The fire lines are holding. You see santa cruz is not threatened by this buyer. To the north pescadero appears to be in good shape as well the pair has not reached felton in Santa Cruz County however it does continue to burn in the amount above it. The firefighters say the cooler weather and more resources has helped them. We are putting those tools to work and they are the critical tools we need boots on the ground and the dozers and hand crews. Yesterday was the first time when we were not saying smoke for the most part. That means we are flying aircraft. That is a huge element to us. T there are more than 1600 firefighters on the front lines of this buyer. Now that the fire lines are holding in the fires are under control, cal fire says they will go into some of the areas where the fire has burned through to get a better look at the damage. Firefighters where there are more homes and structures that have been destroyed in this buyer that they have not been able to go in and count just yet. Of the cooking, 1 data trying to escape the fire. 73yearold thad jones a resident of the last Chance Community in davenport. The Santa Cruz Sheriffs Office said they will follow today on seven reports of people who live in those evacuated zones near the fire who are still accounted for as for the evacuations is, theyre still in effect. 77,000 people had to flee because of the fire and Officials Say it is not safe for anyone to go back yet. Authorities are also searching for this man. He is suspected of stealing the wall of a cal fire commander and then drained his bank account. The surveillance images were release of the suspect who used the fire commanders credit cards at a shell gas station and at a safeway in capitola. The suspect has shoulderlength hair. He was wearing a San Francisco giants and had a black and white checkered facial covering. This morning we are hearing from a separate firefighter whose home burned in the czu lightning fires. Aerial sales is a Second Generation are further. He was going to the czu far as the but was pulled off the rig to make room for a driver and more equipment. It turns out, he and his partner had to evacuate their home and bonnie doon. He received a text from a friend who is battling the fires. He texted me and said we tried to get daniel rowe to your house and it is too hot. We couldnt make it. I knew then that the got a feeling i knew that it was gone then. They just bought the home last year and build a deck for his sisters wedding earlier this year because her original wedding venue was canceled due to the pandemic. He said it was not the dream wedding she planned but she was able to tie the knot. Fire crews in the north bay are making Good Progress against the battle against the lnu lightning compex fire. We just received new numbers shown its at 27 containment after burning through 551 square miles mandatory Evacuation Orders have been lifted in some errors. Fire says its still too early to know when everybody will be allowed to return home. Six people have been killed in this fire. Homes are threatened by that woodward fire. Evacuation orders. The fire burned through 2500 acres at the Point Reyes National seashore. Within 1600 structures are threatened. This fires at five descent containment. Everyone living near silver hills road, fox drive are being told to leave. Six people have died in connection with the wildfires in the bait area pick three of the victims were of the same family. 70yearold mary hit meyer left her home in napa lesters and came across a road block. She knew she went past it, she would not be allowed back to her home so she turned around to get her 71yearold boyfriend, leo mcdermott, and his 41yearold son tom. The flames got closer to the home so she decided to make a shelter in their bunker. But the fastmoving flames quickly took over. They went in there hoping they could write it out. And forsake him the fire was so intense that she is kind of like everybodys grandma. It didnt matter if you are biologically hers are not. She was really warm and welcoming just open to everybody. Her granddaughter said mister mcdermott had a tough exterior but was very endearing and said his son tom always had a smile on his face. The sc fcu lightning compex fires make up the Biggest Group of bay area fires right now. The authorities announced moments ago it grew six square miles during the night to more than 568 square miles thats bigger than any California City right now fire said its main priority is battling it on the western front where most of the 20,000 homes and other buildings are in danger. There are wildfire coverage on mine. Go to ktvu. Com wildfires to get the latest Evacuation Orders. Any reports of new fires. And find out how you can help fire victims. It appears most of the 2000 yearold trees in californias old estate park have survived. And Associated Press photographer took these photos yesterday during a hike along the troll at big basin redwoods state park. Busy most of the redwoods are still standing. The historic park had grants and camp grounds were destroyed by planes. That is amazing. Time is now 7 39 am. Lets talk about our weather. Rosemary has the latest on whats in store. Good morning. We are waking up with mostly cloudy skies this morning pick the marine layer depth at about 1200 feet. Slightly deeper than yesterday morning. We have a layer of smoke reporting at 2000 feet. Looking at sfo, you can see the smoke hue amongst the low clouds. Temperatures this morning are cooler with an onshore breeze blowing all the way through the dr. This morning. Upper 50s in San Francisco. Upper 60s in oakland and livermore. Temperatures down by 7 degrees with the inner east bay where we are waking up with partly sunny skies. In fairfield, the onshore breeze has an impact. It down by four in santa rosa. Napa reporting onshore wind at eight. Concorde reporting seven. When it comes to clone their let me show you how its really sick visibility fluctuating to a quarter mile and may be below that. Expect patchy dense fog along the coastline if you have to take an Early Morning drive. Air quality for the afternoon is unhealthy for sensitive groups. In the north bay, st. Tropez, San Francisco area and along the coastline and a spay and the Santa Clara Valley expected to be unhealthy once again today. Afternoon highs are clearing off andrew will look at the extended forecast, coming up. There is no information to bring you this morning about an unarmed man shot by police in wisconsin. The latest on his condition and the overnight protest and writes. And the search is on for hit and run driver that killed a bay area father. His familys plea for help as Police Released evidence that could lead to an arrest. During the pandemic and wildfires, still to come, how Sonoma County School Officials are handling these unprecedented challenges. Awesome internet. 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Every person should be able to make their voices heard and report on these calls to action without any fear of being unsafe. Jacob blake is still in the hospital in critical condition. His partner said they are three Young Children were in the car he was trying to get into when he was shot by police. Two of the Police Officers involved are now on administrative leave. In the meantime, police in portland, oregon again declared a riot as fires were set outside of the police union headquarters. According to several reports, police got there minutes after protesters set the fires. Several arrests were were made when protesters would not leave the era. Teargas was also used in an effort to break up the protesters. Many people in tiburon are rolling around a couple who owns a Clothing Store after a confrontation with Police Officers inside their own store picked the couple owns yama, a store that sells african inspired sportswear. Last week an officer came in the store and asked them to identify themselves. He did not say i am officer soto and this is what im doing and this is my intention and this is why im here. It was more, who are you and prove yourself. The couple said they are getting support from customers and retailers who are not black and say they work late, too. But please never question them. That to brian please say the incident will be investigated. This case drew a lot of National Attention now. The state Supreme Court overturned the death sentence for Scott Peterson for the murder of his pregnant wife. The ruling yesterday upheld the 2004 conviction of peterson for murdering Lacy Peterson who was eight months pregnant. Investigators say Scott Peterson killed his wife lacy then dumped her body into San Francisco bay on Christmas Eve in 2002. The court said the trial judge made a lot of errors in the jury selection by removing jury members who disagreed with the Death Penalty. Imagine that if you have all jurors that say, i believe in the Death Penalty, you are going to get a more conservative jury and that affects the verdict in the case. So you want those people on the jury so that you get a fair jury and we are talking about taking a persons life here. The court said the Stanislaus County prosecutors can try again to get the same sentence but our legal analyst says thats not likely because the Death Penalty is on hold in california. The opening bell on wall street rang in some big changes on wall street. Pam cook is here with todays dollars and a sense. Good morning. After nearly 100 years on the dow jones index, exxon mobil is being replaced by San Francisco based salesforce the 30s dock benchmark stock index will also add amgen and honeywell and remove raytheon and pfizer pick pfizer was kind of a surprise but changes are made to reflect the importance of a company and industry and investor sentiment. When the bell rang this morning, stocks were lower for the most part. The latest report on home prices shows an increase of 4 injured pick thats a bit of a sign of a recovery and perhaps more people are moving. Taking a live look at the big board, we have a little bit of a mixed picture now at this hour with the dow jones and the s p 500 down a little bit. We know the s p 500 started into record territory this morning right off the bat. The nasdaq was up and fluctuating a little bit now just barely moving now in the opposite direction. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg may have been one of the first to warn about the alleged threat of Chinese Internet Companies including tiktok. According to the wall street junior, zuckerberg told georgetown students less fault that the chinese owned app is not committed to freedom of expression and could threaten americas technological dominance. Zuckerberg also made that point during meetings with lawmakers last october while trying to fend off u. S. Regulators massive outage yesterday. People who wanted to use as him could not get onto the website. Once in, some could not enter their meetings. The problem started before 6 am and lasted more than four hours. Tech analysts say the problems seem to come to the authentication process. Systems are being built up to make them more resilient but at the same time we are becoming more dependent. Some of those will clash to some degree and hopefully we will see it more reliable but my guess it wont be the last time we have an outage on the systems. He points out that even after we are back in school, on campus and on the job, people are likely to use videoconferencing more often than before the pandemic. Kfc decided to temporarily drop one of the most popular slogans in fast food advertising history. Due to the pandemic. The Fried Chicken company is suspending the use of the iconic phrase, finger licking good, after 64 years. Kfc said the slogan does not seem appropriate at a time where Health Experts are telling everyone to avoid touching their faces during their coronavirus crisis. They are not alone, Many Companies changing advertising strategy to reflect the times and the pandemic. I am pam cook, that they look at dollars and cents. People across the border for work between the United States and mexico say they are frustrated by long delays. Since the beginning of the pandemic in march, both mexico and the u. S. Limited travel at border crossings to essential travel only for work, school or medical treatment. The Border Patrol said a recent survey shows that most people are not crossing for essential reasons. Now theres a crackdown at the california southern border crossings and thats creating huge delays. You are literally seeing a 5 1 2 mile line for Lane Processing in tijuana right now as i speak. The wait times are between 47 hours depending on the yo choose. These tougher travel restrictions are expected to remain in place for at least the next month. We are talking about whats happening out there on the roads. How do we look . We look okay. I like what i see compared to yesterday when we had a bad commute. Today we had a decent commute. I want to show you the traffic here is doing well. You can see traffic is moving along relatively well around the area. No major problems. North bend 280 traffic is looking good getting up to highway 17. Heres a look at interstate 880 and the traffic there is fine. At the bay bridge, a robust backup still. 750 a. M. 7 52 am. Good morning. Improving weather of the last 1012 hours. Helping the firefight around the bay. We will remain with hazy skies today. Another spare the air alert and east bay as well as the south bay likely to see the worst of the air quality once again. Heres a look at storm tracker. Moisture moved in through the bay area yesterday. No thunderstorm activity. Very active over areas of the sierra and in the cr this morning, still looking a little bit of moisture moving out of the state. For us at home, we will be partly cloudy at lunchtime. Along the coastline, i think we will be partly sunny to mostly cloudy for today work as we get into the second part of the income it with a bit of better clearing for the south facing beaches over the north bay as well as areas over santa cruz. This morning, the relative humidity is up around the coastline and halfmoon bait reporting visibility down to one quarter mile. Thats helping firefighters at their over toward the San Mateo County Santa Cruz County fire area. Is a look at temperatures in the. 65 in brentwood. Upper 50s in napa 58 in the city of San Francisco. Afternoon highs today with hazy skies in many parts of the bay area. Upper 60s in San Francisco and low 80s around the bay. For the inland cities, low 80s to the low 90s. 82 in napa. 91 in antioch. Temperatures will drop off a bit more on wednesday and more on thursday. Then we warm up in time for the weekend although you can see its a minor bump in the numbers pick upper 60s at the coast. Upper 70s around the bay. Midnineties expected inland. Muni in San Francisco after spending rail service is forced to shut transcend again. Coming up, the mechanical problems and how long a covid 19 outbreak could affect muni metro. But first, a new report that the coronavirus could survive freezing temperatures. After break, what researchers say how long the virus can live on frozen 2. Dont forget that you can have the new ktvu newsletter. Go to ktvu. Com email to signup for the service. Welcome back. New research on e as three week researchers from singapore and ireland added covid19 to salmon, chicken and pork then refrigerated and froze the samples work they tested them. Three weeks later, in all cases the food was still contaminated. This contradicts what the World Health Organization said that there is no need to fear the possibility of getting the virus from food or food packaging. This new study was not certified by. Review. Sfo is the first airport to host the coronavirus Rapid Testing site. They report is teaming up with Dignity Health and urgent care to test workers. Results from nasal swab test will return in about 13 minutes. Airport Officials Say they want to make sure test are going smoothly before the expanded the testing to travelers. Officials at sfo said the Rapid Testing is crucial is the Airline Industry slowly recovers. A man in North Carolina and his golden retriever have mastered the art of Curbside Pickup at their favorite restaurant. It is a chickfila in chapel hill. A shared video of nick and his dog ellie on facebook. Instead walking up to the restaurant, nick sent his personal assistant to go grab the food and then they walk home together. They are regulars at that restaurant. Ellie gets a treat from the trip as well pick the chicken nuggets, thats her favorite snack. Gaining ground on the massive ball of fire burning in the north bay. Summa back he was allowed back on but hundreds of other still forced out. Plus, air and Ground Support descending on the bay area. The counties and states lending a hand in getting into the fight to knock down those mimes. Also, smoke and hazy skies hovering all over the bay area took the warning from the doctors about the Health Effects of the polluted air. It is tuesday, august 25. I dont know if its fog or clouds or just smoke at their pick i went to bed last night and it looked good outside and i woke up this morning and it seems like a mixture of everything. It is interesting because last night was tough for us but here in the morning, i watched the air quality get a little bit better in the past hour or so. Lets bring in rosemary. It does depend on where you live and how close the buyers are to where you live. Yes. Time and time again, i will have people say that perhaps in the north bay, it feels a lot better today. Then somody the south bay will say im choking on sm this morning. Wind direction and flow, keep o the overnight hours. We will continue with a cooling trend. The onshore breeze is a little bit stronger and that is good news for firefighters. Although in the afternoon, i do expect the winds to be breezy and that could backfire on that fire spread and make it tougher on firefighters. Today, we will drop off the temperatures. We will remain with hazy skies. Have clouds and smoke as we call it smog in one sense. In the meanwhile, lets check in on that morning commute and i will come back with the afternoon highs expected to date. Right now we see that we are doing well out there. I dont see a lot going on. I do see 280 in san jose that is moving along very nicely. The freeway is. So is the 101 if youre driving. It looks pretty good with no major issues getting up to highway 17. Traffic also looks good on interstate 880. Is one, a breath of fresh air so to speak, compared to yesterday where we had a lot of issues. A rather large backup at that bay bridge. 800,000 acres have burned in the bay area and these fires are not fully contained yet. This morning, good news from out there on the front lines. Firefighters in the north bay to make progress at the lnu lightning complex. Sarah joins us live with the latest on this. It appears that acreage it did not jump a lot and containment is going up. We like to see that. Reporter definitely good news this morning. Good news yesterday as well. The containment size has gone up a bit. The acreage has gone up just a bit too, but nothing too notable. The lnu lightning complex burned 551 square miles and is 27 contained. Some yesterday, the fire was at 547 square miles and 22 contained. You can see the difference of numbers there pick we also know that 937 buildings were destroyed. 250 were damaged and more than 30,000 are still threatened at seven, six people died in the fire including a pg e worker. Yesterday the weather cooperated for the most part but firefighters did deal with some issues on the east side of the fire throughout the afternoon. Overall, where say they are turning a corner which meet some people can go home. Some Evacuation Orders were downgraded to warnings and parts of napa and sonoma counties including the myers fire zone. While there has been good evacu orders in effect. Sonoma county Officials Say ssi allowable to reenter and repopulate that area. We want to make sure there is no delay on our side and make sure people can do so safely and effectively. There is a reentry point set up today for those who live a with in the fire zone. 17499 bodega highway and is open from 10 am until 7 pm. We posted links to Sonoma County and napa counties evacuation maps and you can find whether or not your address is within the list of zones allowed to go home. Go to ktvu. Com and click on web links. It is not required to check in at the reentry point but officials will be there with Safety Information and ppe for people heading back home. Many evacuees from the north bay fires are now return home to find nearly everything they owned is gone. Nothing survived. This was the scene as bob and his wife returned to what was there back of wilhelm you stupid their friends and neighbors another fires of our users are helping them with food, clothing and other essential items pick growing up here was absolutely amazing. He lost his own home in the nappy counter area. He shared the video of the fire that destroyed his house. Joe fire announced that its making progress against the pie that is burning in both santa cruz and san mateo counties. Mainly because of all the extra Additional Resources that have come to the scene as well as rosemary has been talking about this, the good firefighting conditions when it comes to the weather. This fire prior to grew less than 200 acres last night. 123 square miles total. The containment jumped from 13 to 17 . 319 of the 330 homes and outbuildings destroyed were located in Santa Cruz County. We left with just the clothes on our back but i grabbed her and i grabbed a couple pieces of clothing. I had i did take some of my animals out at 600 evacuees are sheltered now at the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds located in watsonville. The spca is caring for animals including this couples miniature horses. In the meantime, there are more than 1600 firefighting personnel in the air and on the ground. The rugged terrain is causing difficulties fighting this fire. A large incident like this encompasses numerous roadways and numerous structures within the interior that is very difficult to get to. Especially with the amount of trees that have fallen in the amount of debris in the road. Positive news is that the fire is no longer threatening uc santa cruz or the city of santa cruz itself took the town of pescadero also appears to be safe. The essay lightning complex buyers make up the Largest Group of fires burning in the bay area. Authorities announced that these fires grew about six square miles overnight to more than 568 square miles that figure in land size than any California City. Cal fire said its top priority in battling the fires is the western front where most of the 20,000 homes and buildings are at risk. Every part of this parameter is involved in evacuation warning or an Evacuation Order and we are working to get folks back into their neighborhoods. That they priority. Our news crew drove the more than 70 miles from the city of patterson in stem of close loss county to livermore. All of the devastation, there were some homes with Defensible Space around them still standing. Governor newsom said the state is deploying all available resources to battle the wildfires burning across the bay area including mutual aid crews coming from from seven point appeared santa cruz is seeing the same thing with many Southern California engines coming up from almost every department in the state. Instate mutual aid is providing more than 2800 crews and 709 engines to battle fires out of their own jurisdictions. 11 states are sending crews and equipment from as far away as montana and kansas. Today is another spare the air day isalert is being extended all the way through mentioned, smoke just hanging over much of the bay area on this morning for what is the seventh straight day of unhealthy air. Doctors are warning about the potential effects of this. The longer you are exposed to this, the more it is stressing the body in the more problems we can expect to see. Stores are selling out of air Filtration Systems. The cloth and surgical macs do not filter smoke but urging people to wear them in public because of covid19. Stay uptodate with all the latest Wifi Development and visit ktvu. Com wildfires. Youll find the latest reports on any new fires and how you can help all the fire victims. Coming out of the oppressive heat that we had in the past week or so, rose merrick, at least the temperatures feel great. Yes. I would agree. Good morning. Temperatures are way better and continued to fall. We have a minor cooldown that will continue through thursday also, low clouds along the coastline and even patchy dense fog reporting near Half Moon Bay and inside the bay with cloud cover widespread. Looking at sfo, check out that view you could see the low clouds but you can see the haziness there as well. San francisco 58 degrees. Santa rosa mostly cloudy at 57. Low 60s livermore and oakland and san jose at 65. Cooler with an onshore breeze through the delta this morning. In the north bay, 6 degrees cooler. In the east bay, down by a pair of sevens. His debut that way and now a sustained breeze coming in from the north. Concord reporting a westwind at nine. Looking at the hills, not bad at all pick we have an onshore breeze where we got 15 Miles Per Hour and are planning. The areas of fog with Half Moon Bay at its thickest at a halfmile and had dropped below a quarter mile early this morning. It will begin to lift in the next hour. In the meanwhile, be prepared for really thick fog if you have to travel along highway 1. Eric polity today is unhealthy for sensitive groups. North bay, central bay, along the peninsula. For the south bay and the inner east bay is unhealthy with the index above the 150 mark. When i come back, a look at the afternoon highs and talk more about the cooldown and a slight warmup expected for the weekend. More on this in just a bit. Growing concerns about rapid covid19 tests and whether they are reliable. Coming up, the problems for researchers that are causing people to miss work. Also, republicans at their National Convention defending President Trump. Highlights from day one and whats on the agenda today. Want restaurants to open . And schools . Want the economy to get back on track . Youre not alone. And you can help make it happen. Stay 6 feet apart. Wash your hands. Wear a mask every time you leave your home. Choose to join the fight against covid19. Do your part. Slow the spread. The covid19 pandemic is affecting campaign plans for San Franciscos political candidates for the county Health Department declared campaign of system are nonessential businesses and that surprised john avalos who is running for district 11 supervisor. He said he could not explain why Campaign Office would not be considered essential during an election year. His opponent, is also shutting down his Campaign Office. Phone big scum indoor Campaign Rallies and fundraisers not allowed but knocking on doors and hanging Campaign Banners is permitted. Tonight First Lady Melania Trump will speak at the rnc. The first lady will give her speech from the newly renovated White House Road garden. Rose garden. He will be joined by President Trump is taking part in each of the Commission Pay less like the supporters offered a positive outlook for a second term. We are blessed to live in america. It is time to keep that blessing alive for the next generation. Of this president and this party are committed to that noble task. Secretary of state mike pompeo will speak today from jerusalem. That has drawn criticism estate Department Policy its engaging in partisan political activity. The state Department Said that he will be speaking in the question in his personal capacity. Stay with ktvu for complete coverage through thursday of the rnc. Starting at 4 pm today. And then live in and corrupted on entropy coverage at 7 pm. Today, rallies are being held across the country by people who want to show their support for the u. S. Postal service. Part of the campaign called the u. S. Mail not for sale. The letter carriers say they want to injure Public Confidence in voting by mail by providing all necessary resources for the most Timely Delivery of election mail possible several rallies are being held at a area post offices today the new post master general defending changes he has made that critics say have slow down mail delivery. Dejoy testified on capitol hill yesterday. They say that changes made would have interfered with the november election. He implemented then rolled back changes such as demanding trucks leave on time even if theyre not fully loaded. Imagine a 53 foot truck forced to travel hundreds of miles completely empty due to your socalled reforms. Here are the truck records. That is not efficiency. That is insanity. Transitions dont always go smoothly. He should have a Recovery Process. Our Recovery Process is taking too long. They should have been resolved in a few days. Dejoy said the changes he made it will are aimed at bringing the usps back to Financial Stability because it lost money every year since 2007. Lets check on that commute. The as are on the road and the dodgers are in town. This is one of those days where you had the evening commute, use a watch out for everyone in and around the ballpark pick it would have been packed but not tonight. It seems like so long ago that we were talking about that. Of course now, a different reality. This morning the commute is better. Than it was yesterday. We had several problems today getting into marin is much better on the Richmond Bridge. And also on 37, no crashes to report their. Heres a look at the Richmond Bridge also looking at the east bay commute that has been better than yesterday. Bay bridge is finally clearing up. This is what we like. In the 8 00 our things settled down quite a bit lets bring rosemary in with todays weather. Truck we are looking at a bit of a cool down with an increase in the onshore breeze and the marine layer is a bit deeper. All these helping the firefight going on around the bay area, lets look at the deep south where we have some pretty good rainfall and flooding rain expected over the course of tuesday. We are looking at anywhere from louisiana up toward georgia and mississippi. And stretching over toward atlanta, good rainfall. We have our eye on a couple of storms pick post tropical marco continues westerly and will continue to fall apart. Meanwhile Tropical Storm laura turned into a hurricane this morning with winds at 75 Miles Per Hour. Looking at the past, it will move ashore wednesday night and early thursday. Right now it looks like it will come in as the border of texas and louisiana. Early this morning, it showed it coming onshore is a category 3 and now it may get weaker a bit but it will continue to change over the next 2448 hours. We will be watching that. Here at home, the moisture we had over the bay area is pretty much gone. Sing a little bit of moisture from areas over the sierra stretching into nevada. For us, the clouds are in place along the coastline inside the bay. Visibility tough along highway 1 with Half Moon Bay reporting visibility of a halfmile. The coastline. Partly cloudy to clear around the bay area. This evening, maybe better clearing along the coast before the sun sets and the clouds return pick temperatures this morning upper 50s in Half Moon Bay. Midsixties in brentwood. Most areas are a little bit cooler and we have a onshore breeze through the delta this morning reaching to fairfield and beyond looking at the afternoon forecast in livermore, including pleasanton, dublin and danville, all of the warm spots expected to get into the upper 80s today. 80 expected for livermore, with concorde in the upper 80s. Northbay and around the bay low 70s to low 80s. 73 in oakland. The extent forecast with temperatures dropping off slightly tomorrow with a bit more on thursday where we bought them out. Backup in time for the weekend although it is not anything dramatic. Upper 60s at the coast in the upper 70s around the bay mid nineties expected inland. After expanding rail service, muni is now shutting down all trains. Coming up, how long the covid 19 outbreak could affect muni metro. And a strange story. A woman about to be embalmed turned out to be alive. Where this happened and who made the stunning discovery. Its not going away. Covid19. 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The family of a man killed by a hitandrun driver is now asking for publics help in trying to identify the person who is responsible. The crash happened thursday shortly after 4 pm in richmond. He was walking across the street with a coworker as they left a tire shop near roosevelt avenue. Richmond Police Released a picture of the vehicle saying hit the 41yearold. The family says they just want the driver rested. I believe its wrong to leave someone drying out on the street. Then left the scene and maybe if they had stayed that my father would be here with me. Trick here is another look at the suspect vehicle. The avalon has a sunroof and rear tinted windows. There is damage to the rear passenger door and the passenger side headlight and windshield. The man was married with three down again today three days after it started back up pick this time around it will be suspended for several weeks after part of an overhead wire field in the subway. The Transit Agency said someone in the Systems Control Center recently tested positive for covid19. The muni metro system resume saturday after being suspended for five months due to the pandemic. This video of the rail service out of service. Theres growing concerns about the reliability of rapid result covid19 test. Widespread testing is used to identify people have the coronavirus and self isolation has been the effective way to stop the spread. Followup testing shows that some positive early test results have not been accurate causing people to miss work or school unnecessarily. At johns Hopkins University said some antigen test can provide answers and as little as 15 minutes but they have been less accurate than other tests that can take days to process. Drug to a strange story. And michigan woman is thinking the staff at a funeral home for realizing that she is alive. The step was about to embalm the woman when workers noticed that it looked like she was still breathing. The woman arrived at the funeral home after the Southfield Fire Department got a call about an unresponsive young woman pick her medics say they perform cpr for half an hour without any sign she could breathe on her own. The corner was called and the woman was declared dead and taken to the funeral home. Stepped there so that she was just barely breathing and called paramedics who took her to the hospital. There is now an investigation underway. The fire burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains destroys a south bay fire parties home. You can hear the story from him as the planes approached the house. And two storms taking aim at the gulf coast and one is now officially a hurricane. What officials are urging people to do as hurricane laura is expected to cause devastating damage. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . Fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. You know, if you turn on your subtitles. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att firefighters are making Good Progress against wildfires burning in the ntrol on the lat firefight. Also, the flames destroyed parts of the basin redwood park. What happened to the 2000 yearold trees. We have been struggling for the past week or so to think of good insight activities because the air quality is so poor. Im happy to say that my little boys dug deep into their toy chest and now they are all about Remote Control cars. They hadnt played with them for a couple of years but i would take, Hardwood Floors and tons of batteries, rechargeable of course. It makes us smile. If you get books and stacked them up you can make ramps and do some jumps. Youre making me feel bad because i pulled out the cards and the chips and we have been doing a lot of blackjack and poker. Teaching the little ones some things that we shouldnt be teaching them right now. But its a math lesson. You can count to 21. I would say the same thing. Its all about the meth. Good morning. At any age if you give someone a battery run electric car and its on. A lot of fun. Outside right now, perhaps cars getting on the roadways. Lets talk about whats going on weatherwise. We have seen an increase in the rain layer slightly at 1200 feet deep pick also a layer of smoke at 2000 feet up. We are looking at an onshore breeze and temperatures cooling off. This is good news for firefighters out there. We continue with hazy skies and the poor air quality especially with a spin so they. More details, coming up in just a little bit. Good morning. We have a much better commute today and yesterday was rough but today is better. We are looking at the way into marine county. Its virtually empty here. A little bit of slang at the toll plaza. Here is a look at the bay bridge at the 880 freeway approaching the bay bridge. Thats also like. s are much better. Some commutes with accidents in the noncommute direction in contra costa county. North bound six idiot north main. That has some slowing as you approach walnut creek. Additional resources and Better Weather conditions helping firefighters make progress against a group of buyers in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Allie joins us live with updated information on the acreage. But also the containment. We want to hear good news. Remake it is good news. Firefighters struck a more hopeful tone at their briefing this morning when they told us about this fire overnight. 78,000 acres burned. The fire did not grow in size in the last 24 hours. What went up is the containment of the fire. Now 17 contain compared to 13 yesterday. The fire destroyed more than 330 structures took the majority of them in Santa Cruz County including 246 homes. 11 structures burned in San Mateo County. The fire lines are holding. Santa cruz is well protected by the fire lines according to cal fire and pescadero is no longer threatened by the fire. The fire continues to burn above the ridge of felton. The firefighters said they made progress because of cooler weather and that allowed them to put more resources on the fire. Now there are 1600 firefighters fighting this fire and they have been able to do an aerial attack on it. The error, that was the first time yesterday, where you noticed it where you were not seeing smoke for the most part. That means we are flying aircraft. Thats a huge element for us. Aircraft is a very important tool. We are in this for the long haul that this is a historic event for this unit. We have never seen fire like this in the history that we have any records for. The firefight is far from over. Although the fire lines are holding with most of this fire at me pick this still an issue with warmer weather in the forecast later this week. The hope is that they got good containment of this fire for now and they will continue that for the rest of this week. Firefighters warn that there are more homes and structures that have destroyed that they have not been able to go in and count yet. Part of the plan is to go in and do an assessment of the damage. We know that over this weekend when person died trying to escape the fire. Yesterday the Corners Office identified 73yearold ted jones here. The Sheriffs Office say theyre following up on seven reports of people in those fire are unaccounted for so they will be following up on that and trying to locate those people. For now, Evacuation Order still in effect. 77,000 people fled their homes from the fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties and people are not allowed to go back yet. Gaining ground on the czu complex pick thank you for the update. Authorities are looking for this man suspected of stealing the wall of a cal fire commander and using his bank cards per the suspect has shoulder length hair wearing black and white checkered face covering. Deputy spoke about the theft early this morning. That green San Francisco baseball hat, the hair and the general description of this person, their build. We are hoping that somebody sees that and says that looks like so when so. Investigators released surveillance images of the thief who did use the park commanders credit cards at a shell gas station and safeway in capitola. We are hearing from a southbay firefighter whose home burned in the czu lightning first. Darrell sales is a Second Generation firefighter with the san jose fire department. He was going to the czu fires last week but was pulled off the greek to make room for more equipment. It turned out, he and his partner had to evacuate their home and bonnie doon. He received a text from the buyers they are. He text me and said we tried to get down to the road to your house but its too hot and everything is on fire and we could make it. I knew then that it was gone. Sales had just bought the home last year and even built a deck for sisters wedding earlier this year because her original wedding venue was canceled due to the pandemic. He said it was not exactly the drink wedding she had planned but with his help, she was able to tie the knot. Brothers are the best, arent they . Fire crews are making progress against the massive lnu complex. New numbers that show its at 20 7 contained after earning 551 square miles. Some Evacuation Orders have been lifted. Cal fire say its too early to say when everyone can return home pick six people have been killed in this fire. Authorities in Westmoreland County issued Evacuation Orders for homes threatened by the wood fire. New video taken this morning. The fire burned 27,000 acres in the Point Reyes National seashore. What led to these Evacuation Orders. We issued Evacuation Order last night for three streets located south of inverness park, silver hills road, fox drive and noren way pick the reason for that was an abundance of caution because we had a strong smoke column that was throwing embers out quite a ways in front of itself and that was one area of concern. In all, the fire threatening 1600 structures and at five containment. A total of six people died in connection to all the fires currently burning right now and the bay area. Three of the victims are part of the same family. 70yearold mary hint meyer left her napa home tuesday and came across a road block. She knew she went past she would not be allowed back to her home so she turned on to get her 71 yearold boyfriend leo mcdermitt and his 41yearold son tom picked the planes got closer to her home so they decided to take shelter in their bunker but the fast moving fire quickly took over. They went in there and they hope they could ride it out. Firstly, the fire was so intense. She is kind of like everybodys grandma. It didnt matter if you are biologically hers are not. She was really warm and welcoming and open to everybody. Her granddaughter said mcdermitt was an enduring man and her his son tom always had a smile and face. The welfare coverage continues online. Go to ktvu. Com wifi is to find the latest Evacuation Orders as well as how you can help all the fire victims. It does appear that most of the 2000yearold trees in californias oldest state park have survived the Massive Wildfire burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A photographer took took photos essay during a hike along the trail at big basin redwoods state park. You can see from the photos, most of the redwoods are still standing. The historic Park Headquarters and many small buildings and campgrounds were destroyed by flames. The National Hurricane center said laura is now a hurricane and is projected to cause devastating damage along the u. S. Gulf coast. Communities in texas and louisiana are on alert for the arrival of the storm that could reach the state as a category 2 storm tomorrow. Marco has gotten weaker after briefly becoming a hurricane on sunday. Officials are urging people to use public shelters as a last resort due to social distancing and indoor capacity guidelines. Wipers out west and now a hurricane in the gulf, a tough time. So often though storms gain a lot of strength before they reach the state. Thats right. We had Tropical Storm or turn into a hurricane this morning and is expected to strengthen as it makes a path toward texas and louisiana. And pat, lets look at the deep south. You can save lots of rainfall stretching from new orleans across mississippi, alabama getting a good amount of rain pickett stretches over tour georgia and continues to the carolines. Flooding rain expected here this afternoon and as we take a look at post tropical marco, now a depression, moving to the west at 30 Miles Per Hour. The winds are 30 Miles Per Hour, i should take. Movement is west at 10 and continuing to deteriorate with the future showing about 25 mileperhour wind later today. Looking at her kim lare with winds at 75 Miles Per Hour becoming a category 1 to date and in the days ahead, it looks like wednesday and thursday it will strengthen to a category 3 and expected to get weaker to a category 1. This would change and we will continue to follow it but it could be anywhere from a category 1 perhaps a 2 may be getting weaker to a 1. For us at home, the big concern of thunderstorms rolled across areas of the Central Valley and into the sierra but for us we were spared for the most part. We were not getting any spare is a look at the advisory for smoke. We continue with hazy skies and smoky conditions in the east bay as well as the south bay. Unhealthy for sensitive groups. The sub cisco course line and again for today as firefighters continue to gain a handle on all those fires out there. A few of the temperatures this morning with most of his cooler. 58 degrees in San Francisco. Have been bay at 57 and fog along the coastline with visibility dropping to a half mile over areas of Half Moon Bay at times. In the inner east bay, 63 in fairfield with the onshore breeze blowing through the delta. Upper 50s in santa rosa and into the set we 65 over san jose. I come back, we will look at the afternoon highs. A cooling trend going on before we warm it up on the weekend. Details coming up. Struggling with Distance Learning during the pandemic and now also with the threat of authors, still to come, how Sonoma County School Officials are handling these unprecedented challenges. Nick, new information about the unarmed man who was shot by police in wisconsin. The lace on his condition and the alternate protests and riots. Superfast internet. Its a beautiful thing. Superfast internet with an xfinity flex 4k streaming device included . Even beautifuler. And now flex also comes with peacock. Ooh la la. This rare bird lets you stream tons of movies, shows, news, sports and more. And with flex, its all at your beck and call. Show me parks and rec see . The best really did get better magnificent. Switch to xfinity internet and get a flex 4k streaming device with peacock premium included for no additional cost. The father of the wisconsin man who was shot by police said his son is paralyzed now from the waist down according to the chicago suntimes, doctors do not know if the injury is permanent. Protest erupted on the streets of kenosha pond this shooting sunday night. Neighbors say 29yearold jacob blake was trying to get into his car when multiple times ove several businesses were targeted by writers who set fires and smashed windows. More than 100 Wisconsin National guard members were sent to kenosha overnight. Spoke folks across the state will be making their voices heard across wisconsin. Every person should be able to make their voices heard. A report on these calls to action without any fear of being unsafe. Blake is in the hospital in critical condition. His three Young Children were in the vehicle when he was trying to get into that vehicle when he was shot and back. Two of the officers involved have been placed on administrative leave. People and to run a rally around a couple who owns a Clothing Store after a confrontation with Police Officers inside their own shop near the couple owns llama, a store that she sells african inspired sportswear. Last week they were working after hours on avatar, an officer came into the store and asked them to identify themselves. He did not say i am officer soto, and this is what im doing, and this is my inre, who prove yourself. The couple said they are getting a lot of support from customers and a lot of retailers who are not black and sometimes they work late, too, but please never question them. The to brunt pleased department that the incident will be investigate. A big change on wall street as a San Francisco Company Takes a prominent role could lets get back to pam cook for this mornings dollars and cents. Oh, we dont have pam so we will try to reestablish pam in a bit. I can check the numbers for you before we go to traffic. There they are. Dow jones is down about 180 point positive day yesterday. Futures were up this morning but now currently down to pick the nasdaq is slightly up. Do you want to go to traffic . Sorry, we will go to weather right now. Thats what im being told. Rosemary, if we can get you back pick you talked about the hurricane there but here is the good news with firefighterswind smoke way but great for firefighters on the front lines. We have a catch22. We dont want the wind because we dont want it to fan the flames and spread the fire. But we do have an onshore breeze and for the afternoon, it is likely to pick up. Very typical for this time of the year. The seabreeze is bringing in the added humidity and cloud cover temperatures will cool off a bit so that is some good news. Thankfully the firefighters had a really good last 1224 hours. We will continue this trend. Heres a look at sfo where you can see the haze and the smoke. If they degrees in San Francisco. Of burke 50s in santa rosa. Low 60s in oakland. San jose at 65. Heres a view of how much cooler we are especially inland. Down by 11 degrees in fairfield. The ze is not too robust but strong enough. 2025 Miles Per Hour or so. Livermore reported temperatures down by about 7. Winds 20 Miles Per Hour through fairford. Concorde with an onshore breeze at nine. Visibility slowly improving over Half Moon Bay up above a mile. Patchy dense fog along the coastline lifting and clearing out of that area. Look at where we are seeing some of the conditions toward the czu fire area. We have 60 degrees to 93 humidity and winds are generally light. All that equals good weather for the firefighters there. In and around the bay area, inland will be another warm day and drive. 81 degrees expected by lunch time around livermore, pleasanton and dublin. In the afternoon, upper 80s and the forecast there by august standards, its actually nice. In the north bay, 82 over napa. Upper 60s in San Francisco. Inland committees will continue to cool slightly as we get into wednesday and thursday. Topping out in the low 90s. It wont last with temperatures backup in time for the weekend but nothing severe. Upper 60s along the coast and upper 70s around the bay. Mid 90s expected inland. It is now 8 52 am, coming up, preparing children for success in life through youth sports. In the next hour, we would talk live with twotime world cup soccer champion about the new book that ties into this topic. And at sfo, whats happening to fight covid19. And if you havent done this yet, you can have the perfect Morning Headlines when you sign up for the ktvu newsletter. Go to ktvu. Com email to sign up for this daily service. Happening today, a childrens picture book about Vice President ial nominee kamala harris. The publisher says the book tells the incredible story of a young daughter, of immigrants, who grew up to defend the rights of people everywhere. Happening today, the attorney general will not settlements with two School Districts over claims of discrimination. The Attorney Generals Office says the claims of all dissemination based on race and disability. The districts involved are the orrville elementary and high School Districts. The announcement will come at 11 00 this morning. Knew research on the coronavirus indicates that covid19 can survive on frozen or refrigerated meat or seafood for up to three weeks. Researchers added covid19 to salmon, chicken and pork. They refrigerated and frozen the samples and tested them three weeks later. In all cases the food was still contaminated. It is important to note the study was not certified by peer review. San Francisco International is the first airport to host what is called a coronavirus Rapid Testing site. The airport is partnering with Dignity Health to test workers. Results from a nasal swab test will be returned in about 13 minutes. Officials say they want to make sure tests are going smoothly before expanding testing to travelers. Officials say Rapid Testing is crucial as the Airline Industry slowly recovers. American airlines will be using a new coding called surface wise 2. It kills coronavirus on surfaces for up to seven days. The epa will allow American Airlines to use it on planes originally from texas. People across the border between the United States and mexico are expressing frustration at delays. Since the beginning at the pandemic in march, both countries limited travel at border, offerings to essential traveling. The recent survey showed a majority of people are not crossing for essential reasons. There is a crackdown at californias southern border crossings. We are seeing a 5 1 2 mile line into tijuana as i speak. Wait times are anywhere between four, six or seven hours. These type of travel restrictions are to remain in place for the next month. North carolina man and his golden retriever has mastered the art of Curbside Pickup. The chickfila shared video of nick and his dog on facebook. Instead of working into the restaurant, nick senses personal assistant to get the food. Then, they walk home together. Kfc has decided to temporarily drop one of its most popular slogans out there due to the pandemic. The Fried Chicken company suspended the use of the phrase finger licking good. The slogan does not seem to be appropriate during the y marks birthday of the National Park service. To celebrate, visitors will have to pay park entrance fees. In california, many National Parks are shut down because of the wildfires. The park service consists of more than 400 sites. Answering the call for federal aleve. How Northern California fire survivors can apply for disaster aid now