From the stronger gusts. Mount st. Helena, a wind win was out in the north bay hills. Mount diablo 57, and 53, and healdsburg hills 52. Even a wind of 20 Miles Per Hour could cause problems. That was the case in terms of the wind speeds. Oakland hills 38 high fire dang continues, that northerly flow ramping up. This continues, all of the areas in red, north bay towards the delta and east bay valleys and hills. This in plays until 11 00 tomorrow morning. 23 more hours, gusts could be approaching 30 Miles Per Hour and across the higher peaks, maybe approaching 45 Miles Per Hour, once again, the strongest wind event was last night, early this morning. Its incredibly dry out there. Take a look at the sampled sites. Temperatures are in the 70s and 80s. Relative humidity. We look at that to guffaws idea how much moisture is in the air. Look at atlas peak, down from 12 tomount st. Helena, and mount st. The winds have backed up and theyre completely calm especially in the higher terrain. Heres a live camera looking at San Francisco this afternoon. Theyre still in the clear, fog free skies and San Francisco on track to reach the 80s this afternoon. As far as the heat, the heat advisory started at 11 00 this morning, this in place at 9 00 friday. Forecast highs, 80s, 90s and could be flirting 100 degrees, in fact, well look at some of the sites right now. These are the 12 00 numbers. Concord 81, concord 87 and the coast in the upper 70s, its interesting, Half Moon Bay an hour ago in the 80s, probably in response to a strong offshore wind, a moderately strong offshore wind. Still temperatures in the mid to upper 70s, now, records to beat today, a few samples, we could and will have a few records report today. Probably for oakland and livermore in the san jose area later on today. Heat is a factor today and heat is a factor tomorrow. This weekend will bring in changes and well have more on the weekend outlook coming up in a little bit. Mark, thank you, we learn today the number of americans seeking Unemployment Benefits rose last week. The latest report shows 898,000 americans followed for first time job less benefits last week. This comes as more and more cities decide to backtrack on their reopening plans due to a number of cases of covid19. Were 10. 7 million short of recovering the 22 million jobs lost when the pandemic struck in march. 9million californians have sought benefits since the middle of wall street. The dow jones has recovered from from the huge drop at the opening bay. Its fighting its back to sea level. Its almost there right now. This pattern isich is down still almost a quarter of a per cent. Nasdaq is losing almost two thirds of 1 now. Theyre talking about the status of reopening schools right here in california. Just this morning, tony thursday tony thuman was talking about in person instruction. He says each School District happens its own priorities and that there is no one size fits all plan for reopening schools. Dozens of alameda child care workers rallies in oakland today to bring attention to the current child care crisis. The group gathered at and home child care base that theres new state pay cuts and decreased funding. Theyre facing increased cost as they try to support Distance Learning for children who dont have the technology at their homes or apartments. One third of child care providers have been forced to close because of the pandemic. This is part of a statewide day of action including other rallies taking place in san diego as well as los angeles. People across our state dropped, covered and held on during this mornings Great American california shake out drill. This is the coming ups largest earthquake drill and its an annual reminder on what we need to do with the big earthquake when it hits. My little boys did it as part of the classroom studies at the dining room table. The california earthquake authorities gave is takes place area 31 years ago. The Earthquake Authority says the Good Opportunity is to make sure rooms around your home is around the hazards. People are seeing whether your home can structural withstand an earthquake. Thats a good reminder here as we live here in earthquake country. President ial nominee Kamala Harris cancels travel plans throughout the weekend. What we are learning about people who have tested positive for the coronavirus. And the Supreme Court judge Amy Coney Barrett, its not barrett testifying today. Its those for and against her who spoke about the judge. People across the bay area are dealing with elevated fire danger today and there are thousands of people who had electricity cut off by pg e and about withstanding the Late Afternoon your friday. The winds, theyre not as strong as last night, but there is still a bit of a breeze. Fire danger, we have concerns, if you think about it weve been looking at the dry hillsides around june. Whenever we have a red flag fire warning in the month of october, we have to take it seriously. Thats a fact that we have today into friday. Im showing you the graphics, the red flag warning until 11 00 on friday. The key elements we dont like to see this time of the year the 80s and 90s, its not too bad. The winds are around 35, 40 Miles Per Hour, the wind are very dry, on the order of around 10. May be Single Digits in a few spots. The winds thankfully backing off a bit. Youll notice there is one more impulse moving in. Thats tonight, later on tonight, this is 10 00 and early tomorrow morning. The brighter colors do reflect the stronger wind spodes and theyre focused in the fairfield and winters and napa and portions of sonoma county. Friday, thankfully the winds will back off throughout the day. The heat advisory starts at 11 00 this morning and runs until 9 00 p. M. For the entire area. There will be 80s and 90s in a few spots and a few spots could be inching closer to 100 degrees this afternoon. Showing you a few sample spots right here, well show you the temperature and relative humidity, atlas peak, 12 , the winds have been backing off. Theres still a breeze toward mount st. Helena. Out of the northeast, thats wind gust up to 27 Miles Per Hour. That northeast flow wiping out the marine layer, wiping out the fog, clear skies and when that happens, if San Francisco even warms up into the 80s. Right now you can see widespread 80s across a good portion of the bay area. A few 90s is starting to show up as well for the 12 00 hour. At Half Moon Bay its 77 degrees. That seems warm. I was looking over the past few hours. Half moon bay 11 35 this morning, not too long ago, there was a northerly wind in place, that wind moved out of the west it, changed election and 11 55 dropping to 77 degrees. Dropping over 10 degrees just within that short amount of time. Its all in response to a change in the wind direction. Its still hot, though, towards the coast. Records to beat today will be close in santa rosa, oakland, and livermore and san jose will likely break records this afternoon. Why is this pattern happening. We talked about an area of High Pressure out in the pacific. Whats also happening, the jet stream winds here, you can see them, theres a little dip here in the jet stream. Thats a little disturbance that is kind of setting up to our east and that pleasure difference, that area to the east and High Pressure to the west, thats setting up the offshore wind event we were concerned in the last few days and right through friday. Its dry and breezy and high fire danger still in plays. Into the weekend it looks like well begin to cool things off. Its still fairly hot on saturday, but temperatures heading into the cooling direction this weekend and youll notice the change as we head towards sunday. Lots of sunshine this afternoon, lots of 90s, even the 80s, San Francisco downtown in the mid, maybe the upper 80s t santa rosa theres the 98 and widespread upper 90s, well inland. Were not talking about the micro climates, its the forecast for the entire bay area. Well hold on to this weather pattern and friday, and well bring you welcome change. Saturday looks inland and its cooling things off. The one thing i cant add to the fiveday is there are no rain chances at all as we look to the rest of the month. Things will change now and then. As long as we have this dry pattern, fire danger and fire season, were in the middle, the peak of fire season. Appreciate that. Statewide flex alert does begin at 3 00 this afternoon. Cal iso the power grid operator is asking californians to conserve energy to conserve electricity t goes from 3 00 p. M. To 10 00 tonight. Youre encouraged to precool your home if you have air conditioning before 3 00 today. You want to get it cooler and then afterwards leave your thermostat alone into the evening hours. Coming up at noon, more gun violence in the city of oakland. What were learning about a shooting that left two young men dead and how many homicides oakland has seen so far this year compared to all of last year. When was the last time your property tax bill went down . What . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, Small Business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. The process for confirming judge Amy Coney Barrett as the next United StatesSupreme Court justice is moving forward. The Senate JudiciaryCommittee Approved next thursday the day that the committee will vote. A vote from the full senate is expected the following week. Allie rasmus joins us live with the story. Reporter judge Amy Coney Barrett did not speak at the hearing today. Her question and answer portion of the hearing process ended yesterday. Instead today democratic and republican senators called witnesses to testify for or against her confirmation as the next u. S. Supreme court justice. Republicans called two members of the American Bar Association who said appellate judge Amy Coney Barrett is qualified to serve supreme just her integrity and temperament met the high standards for her appointment to the Supreme Court. Judge barretts views are far outside of the mainstream. For evidence you can look no further than her own words before this committee this week. She would not say whether voter intimidation was illegal. Democratic senators called citizens and a physician to testify too. She publiclily denied holding up the Affordable Care act. It would spell an end for the Affordable Care act. A mother said how she relies on the aca you, total claims is 1 million for their care. In the first seven years, our combined claims have surpassed 4 million. Without the protections of the Affordable Care act, my daughters would have hit their lifetime caps and now be rendered uninsurable. Republicans called character witnesses to testify on barretts police. One of her former law students explained how the notre dame law professor helped her get the technology need to get her study. Everyone who has interacted with her she is a woman of her word and she means what she says and she says what she means. Theyre unclear on her views on legal and political matters. Barrett was noncommittal about topics of apportion and deciding the outcome of this president ial election. I believe shell open a new chapter of conservatism activism like we havent seen for decades. I want every american to think long and hard who would you like to be on the court. Knowing the difference between the party preferences. That to me is more important today than its ever been. And republicans say they have the votes to confirm barrett as the next Supreme Court justice and they intend to do that before the president ial election day november 3rd. All right. Thank you. The california Supreme Court has sent the Scott Peterson murder case back to the San Mateo County court for a new trial. The decision follows revelation that is a juror in the case failed to disclose that she obtain a restraining order for harassing a woman while pregnant. They overturned his death sentence august after the trial judge dismissed jurors who opposed the death penalty. Police are investigating a shooting in east oakland that killed two young men and injured one more. Officers say they think a confrontation in the street is what led to several shots being fired at 12 45 yesterday afternoon at 84th avenue near birch street. The attacker hasnt been identified. The total number of deaths is to 78 which is three more than oakland saw in all of last year. About every night or so, every other night, you know, you sit in there and watch tv and we hear gunshots. We dont react to it. Its not acceptable in the middle of the day for shots to be fired in our community. 60 shots fired were recorded after yesterdays deadly shooting happened. There is no indication that the two cases are related. And theres a search for a homicide suspect has ended. 35yearold kevin mit was wanted for the death of his girlfriend. The officers found the mother of two with gunshot wounds at the Hilton Garden Inn in the parking lot saturday night. And they released body cam video for a sheriff who shot a man at a traffic stop. They pulled this man over for not driving with his headlines. He threw his cell phone and he walked towards the sergeant with one hand behind and he drew his away but he kept walking towards the sergeant even faster. Stop. [ shooting ] for receiving a deadly threat. He fired six shots at mr. Garcia, all six shots struck him. After reviewing that, we have determined that the deputy acted according to policy, and also according to his training. Garcia died the next day from his injuries and it was confirmed that he was not armed. He had a history of dui arrests and he had a blood alcohol of. 33 al 8 that night. The Sheriffs Department and the napa police are investigating the accident. Still to come at noon, no power for thousands of homes and businesses across northern california. The Public Safety power shut off and the effect were seeing in the bay area. Plus. 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Pg e started to intentionally turn off power last night to areas where there is currently extreme fire danger, warm temperatures, strong gusty winds and we have more on how people are dealing with what could be here a couple of days without electricity. Its windy. The trees are swaying, i live up in the hills. Oakland hills residents julie and Adam Bernstein had to drive down the hill to get power. The electricity was shut off last night. For the Public Safety power shutter off. This includes 28,000 in the bay area. I went Grocery Shopping yesterday. I forgot they were turning the power off. Everything is melting and getting warm. The event taking place today is absolutely necessary and its not a decision we take lightly. Todays weather event creates a safety issue. Strong winds and heat and low humidity are a recipe for wildfires. They deactivated lines like the Oakland Hills where there is extreme fire danger. Winds how old in livermore this morning. In neighborhood along johnston road in the dark. They set up Resource Centers impacted by Power Outages and this one in danville. Community Resource Centers are a place where customers can go if theyre affected by a psps and take care of essentials that they would do at home. Like charging phones if they need access to wifi. They expect to restore power by 10 00 p. M. Friday. Lets get to our meteorologist for the Current Conditions here. We noticed this morning that it wasnt too windy in our neighborhoods, but i remember yesterday you talked about two phases. The second phase is still coming . Yeah two pulses mooching through the bay area, mike and gasia, the first one last night and this morning, the second one wont be as strong. Its tonight and tomorrow morning. If you think about it, though, its not going to be as strong, today is hotter, its actually very dry outside. Everything is really receptive. If the fire has to burn unfortunately. Thats why we have the red flag warning in place. Mount st. Helena gusts to 65 Miles Per Hour. Mount diablo 57, and Oakland Hills 38 Miles Per Hour. And it is still breezy in a few spots right now. As a result, we have this, the fire weather warning, the red flag warning in place. All of the areas shaded in red, valley and east bay hills and u have gusts approaching 45 Miles Per Hour in the hills f current wind reports out there, you can see wind gusts out to 27 Miles Per Hour right around rows peak f oakland south, 31 Miles Per Hour and mount st. Helena showing you 30 Miles Per Hour, and the strongest whipped expected to be in the north bay. Especially the north bay hills, youll see this forecast model picks up on that wind, increasing tonight into early tomorrow morning, and then thankfully as we head towards friday, midmorning into the afternoon hours, not only the winds changing, but basically really backing up, but a change in the wind direction that will ultimately bring in more moisture and cooler temperatures. No rainfall, but just an increase of the moisture areas in the bay area. Lots of clear skies looking at San Francisco. A heat advisory in place for the entire bay area for 9 00 p. M. On friday. Forecast highs for the afternoon, once again, it will be in the 80s to 90s to 100 current numbers. Lots of 80s across the region, San Francisco 84, theres a lot happening at Half Moon Bay, the censor has been interesting, at 11 35 this morning, it was 77 degrees, 11 55 it was 88, and then, actually it was reversed, 11 35, 88, 77, its back up again. Its been moving around quite a bit. Its currently 86 degrees at Half Moon Bay. It is a hot afternoon, the heat advisory remains in place for today and into it tomorrow. The weekend will feature cooler temperatures and well have more on the weekend outlook coming up in a little bit. Mark, thank you. President ial nominee Kamala Harris is canceling travel in the weekend, this is after two people in the Biden Campaign tested positive for the covid 19. One is a upon staff crew member and the other is a director for senator harris. Biden for harris came into contact with the individuals. Neither needs to isolate, but theyre canceling travel for senator harris and her husband as a precaution. And President Trump and joe biden will be hosting different events on Television Networks at the same time. President trumps town hall will be in miami to be broadcast on nbc and joe bidens town hall will be in philadelphia and broadcast on abc. They were supposed to debate each other, but President Trump opposed it as it was going to be virtual. And President Trump is back on the campaign trail holding rallies in Battle Ground states and the president was in iowa. We did not come this far to overcome this and surrender our country back to the depraved washington swamp. Joe bidens campaign is responding to allegation was a conflict of interest after e mails released biden hunter introduced his father to a top ukrainian executive while the father was vice president. Joe biden carried out official us policy in the ukraine and engaged no wrongdoing. And biden criticized President Trump for not working with democrats. I had the ability to work with people across the aisle and theyre saying its all changed. Thats the old days. Joe biden and President Trump are set to debate on october 22nd, one more time before the election, in nashville. More states are seeing an increase in covid19 infections. Public Health Officials fear these numbers could rise more as we approach the holiday season. Hospitalizations have doubled in at least nine states within the past week as officials take steps to reinforce restrictions. The testing Positivity Rate in hot spot areas has risen above 60 . Hell withhold state funds from local governments not enforcing state orders. This is in the red zone. Especially when it comes to closing schools and religious gatherings. The centers for Disease Control says small indoor gatherings are driving much of the surge, raising concerns about upcoming holidays during the coming season. Have you to behave as were infected or others around you were infected. And the battle against covid19 continues for colleges. And the university of florida paused the Football Program after a dozen players tested positive for the virus. And they announced that nick sabin tested positive, one of the highest profile individuals in College Sports to do so. You have to respect this disease and the spread of this disease. So, i guess my message would be adhere to protocol of what people are informing us to do. Young people will have to wait until 2022 after receiving the vaccine after more vulnerable groups. Ktvu, fox 2 news. A church in Shasta County has been tied to 240 coronavirus cases in the last two weeks. There was controversy because a calling wearing a mask worthless. They had to reintroduce restrictions on bars and restaurants and other businesses. And theyre reopening maine street for traffic after closing it for shopping and during the pandemic. And smith explains that the move was unfair and dangerous. Reporter this remote owner opened his restaurant in march then the pandemic hit. Hes slowly recouping his losses. Its allowed his restaurant to fill on to the street, but half of his coveted outdoor seating will be gone. If they want to open the street, they should open both sides. Its unfair competition. They plan to open one direction of 2 lane highway. I dont understand why theyre opening one side of the street and keeping closed the other side. The move is unsafe for many pedestrians who he believes wont use the crosswalk, but jay walk where they park. What we try to do is balance different interests. The vice mayor said while they close the shops, restaurants became less successful and it made sense to open one side and not the other. We saw lots of activity from the businesses in utilizing that space that had been closed specifically some of the restaurants. The hair salon next to romas said the reopening will help not hurt their salon. I understand its not good for the restaurant us, indoor, differently anis helpful for us as for safety, the vice mary ann concrete barriers, will help stop traffic. And the owner of roma said its a set back for a difficult year. They hope they can build a patio in the adjacent street parking. I hope that theyll find and dinner shoes. Allison smith, ktvu fox 2 news. The search continues for a missing lemur for the San Francisco zoo. Why they believe the animal was stolen and a plea from the zoo to return the stolen animal and they believe its stolen. Im Benjamin Hall in london with the details on the surge of coronavirus cases. Proposition 16 takes on discrimination. Some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. I cantwhat . Ve it. That our new house is haunted by casper the friendly ghost . Hey jill hey kurt movies . Ill get snacks no, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on our Car Insurance with geico. I got snacks ohhh, i got popcorn, i got caramel corn, i got kettle corn. Am i chewing too loud . Believe it geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Im voting yes on prop 19. Nineteen limits taxes on seniors. It limits property tax on people like me. Nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. It says so right here. If 19 passes, seniors can move closer to family or medical care. I looked at moving but i cant afford the taxes. Will you help californias most vulnerable . Vote yes on prop 19. The Justice Department announced an indictment for a billionaire accused of a tax fraud scheme. Hes charged with tax fraud over two decades. Its the largest tax fraud case against an american. Hes part of vista equity partners. One involves tax fraud and the other investor fraud. Hes charged with hiding approximately 2 billion in income if the irs over a period of 20 years. In the investor fraud scheme, hes charged with manipulating Debt Securities by his own company it defraud investors. The indictment was unsealed in San Francisco, and hes scheduled to appear in federal court right there in the city this afternoon. A lemur named maki is missing from San Francisco zoo. Jennifer explains why this happened and why this animal is so special. Reporter the San Francisco zoo is home to more than 2,000 animals. Now, one of them is missing. Police say tuesday night, a burglar broke into the whitman family forest exhibit, and when staff took head count, one of the members of their family was gone. Someone stealing a lemur, thats terrible. Officers came on scene and found a forced entry to the animal enclosure where this lemur was housed. He was born at the zoo in 1999 before the lemur exhibit was built. He is part of the ring tailed species. Its illegal to have a lemur as a pet. Number 1, its endangered and the other aspect that the zoo staff is concerned about is the age of the lemur. Maki at 21 is well above the median age of 17 years. Staff say hes slow making him easier for the burglar to catch. Theyre worried because he needs special food to survive. Im not sure how they can feed this animal. Thats crazy, i think its endangering the lemur. Police say theyre analyzing Surveillance Video in and around the zoo and staff are hoping their lost lemur will be found. Hes an endangered and requi were asking the public to help get him returned back it the San Francisco zoo fix you see the lemur call 911 immediately and try to give a description of the suspects or vehicles with it. The zoo is hoping someone will help bring this endangered animal back home. I thought that was interesting talking about Half Moon Bay, mark. Upper 80s and cooled down and its going back up. I almost want to take a look at the censor and see if its working right. Earlier this morning, within 20 minutes, it dropped at 11 degree temperature. The wind can have a huge impact on the temperature and what you feel. Thats what were tracking into the afternoon hours. Its the offshore wind that really warms us up. If you think about that is the danger, kind of front and center. The red flag fire warning continues until 11 00 on friday. Were tracking the heat, 80s and 90s, winds up above 35 Miles Per Hour. Wind dry, possibly down to 10 . We have the foggy cloudy days in the bay area. We could have relative humidity close to 100 . Its very dry across the region. Were showing you what few sites out there. Mount st. Helena, its gusting 32 Miles Per Hour. While the wind is gusting, the moisture levels are 12 to 15 relative humidity. Another burst of wind tonight. The focus in north bay. Not as strong tonight into the morning. It is favoring the higher terrain. The winds do not pick up at all. If you go above 1,000 feet or so it could be a different stories especially in the hills of napa county. Throughout the day owwinds decr and we change into the week direction and that will usher cooler air this weekend. Heres a live camera looking at sfo, no fog to speak of. No fog, the marine layer has been wiped out. We have the offshore wind that clears us out and warms us up. A heat advisory until 9 00 p. M. On friday. Forecast highs both days, today and tomorrow, and a few spots inching closer to 100 degrees. Mike was talking about Half Moon Bay and its jumped up to 90 degrees. Well have to watch that out. Its essentially the airport and Half Moon Bay. Santa rosa 83. San jose 88 degrees, and well have records to report before the day livermore and san jose. Well have more records to report. This area of High Pressure has been amplifying offshore, building overhead, this is the source of the heat today and tomorrow with the high fire danger and temperatures in the 90s. What will bring the end to the fire season, rainfall. Unfortunately, when we look at the forecast model, were looking long term. Theres rain but no the in the bay area. Everything is going up and over us. As a result we have to hold on to this dry pattern and at least in the short term, this hot paper, we bumped you up into the upper 80s this afternoon. Widespread 90s and a few spots getting closer to 100 degrees. Still hot on friday and saturday we begin to cool things off. Its still warm around the bay for the inland spots. The real cooling goes monday into sunday. And well welcome the change in the later half of the weekend. Changes to the salvation red kettle drive this holiday season. How people are being encouraged to donate online. Taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. Breaking state employment laws for years. Now these multibilliondollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No Unemployment Benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. Fred dean has passed away after his battle with coronavirus. Dean was drafted by the san diego charmingers and traded to the 49ers in 81. He won two superbowls with San Francisco before retiring in 1985. He was inducted into the hall of fame in 2008. Fred dean was 68 years old. With the United States isnt the only country experiencing a surge of covid 19, a second surge is hitting again in europe. New lock downs have been ordered. Reporter the second surge of covid19 is hitting europe hard prompting new containment measures. Here in london, cases are doubling roughly every ten days. Officials have ordered a tier 2 lockdown. In addition to restrictions on businesses, millions of people will be unable to meet with anyone outside of their household circle in any unindoor setting. Responding to this pandemic requires difficult choices, some of the most difficult choices any government has had to make in peacetime. Things are not much better in france, a state of emergency has been declared and a 9 00 p. M. Curfew in areas including paris. And most places including bars and gyms are closed as the virus continues to spread. Its a member for the whole problem and world. Its unfortunate this is the new reality we live in right now. As the spread accelerates, some hard hit countries are reopening plans and theyre moving forwa highest number of daily cases worldwide and expect to soon pass the us as the country with the most infections. We have put everything in place, maybe more than what was prescribed. The british announced throw tiers for the system. Most of the country is on the second or medium tier. Talks over another covid19 package are scheduled for today. There is word for common ground. Steve mnuchin said he doesnt want a testing plan to get in the way and House Speaker nancy pelosi insisted that a streaming i can plan needs to be in place and it needs to be done safely and it needs to include widespread testing. Senate republicans have called the Steve Mnuchins 1. 8 trillion too expensive and House Speaker nancy pelosi says its insufficient. And wells fargo has fired employees accused of fraud and they found that the employees applied for relief money for the Small Business administration for themselves. The agency has warned banks to look out for suspicious deposits in personal accounts. Theyre ending the collection of data for the 2020 census, this is after the Supreme Court gave a grant toned the census early. The Census Bureau said 99. 9 of Housing Units have been accounted for in this census. Theyll examine the merits of a bridge toll increase. They were going to raise it by 1. Its being challenged by an antitax group. It needs twothirds support to pass. The california Supreme Court is examining the merits of this case as it considers a related tax dispute involving trash fees. The fee is a tax and, therefore, needs voter approval. The Salvation Army is announcing changes to the annual holiday fundraising efforts. The red kettles will be going virtue w there will be kettles around the bay area. Most of the fundraising will be done online. Theyre urging people to donate because the need is greater than ever before, but their visibility will be lower because of the pandemic. And lets go to the city of danville. Its wrappingis hearts among he theres a display downtown on hearts avenue. 16 hearts are going up for auction. Theyll go to a Public Art Fund and one heart will become part of the citys permanent collection. The Online Auction runs from 8 00 tonight through tuesday. All right. Thats going to do it for us this noontime. Our next newscast is coming up at 4 00. Dont forget the acls dodgers and braves. Our newscast can see on ktvu plus. More news on ktvu. Com. Dr. Oz starts flour. Up next operation warp speed. Why the head of the u. S. Vaccine initiative thinks the coronavirus could be under control by next yearsseason. So when is the vaccine safety . Then one of the cruelest crimes. What i thought was going to be this adorable punny turned into the biggest nightmare of my life. The fake pet scams that have tripled in the pandemic. Coming up next. Dr. Oz today, breaking news in our race for a covid19 vaccine. The head of the u. S. Vaccine nichity thinks the coronavirus could be under control by next years