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Fox two news at noon. Good afternoon. Im ali rasmus. Wells fargo is dealing with a technical problem that has resulted in some customers reporting their direct deposits disappeared from their bank accounts. Many wells fargo customers contacted the San Francisco based bank yesterday saying they could not access the money that had recently been deposited in their accounts. Its not clear how many people were affected, but wells fargo has issued a statement saying it is aware of the problem and that it is working to resolve it as soon as possible. The companys statement says, quote, a limited number of customers were unable to see recent deposit transactions in their accounts. The vast majority have been resolved and the few remaining issues will be resolved soon. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience, end quote. Well, after a days long evacuation, hazmat crews in san pablo continue to remove what remains of some hazardous chemicals found in a backyard shed. Bailey ocarroll has an update on when people evacuated. Can return home and how much work still needs to be done. For a third day in a row, fire crews hazmat crews and the bomb squad are here working to clear out the very last of these chemicals that were found in a backyard shed. According to officials, over 600 different chemicals in more than 800 bottles of Hazardous Material have had to be removed from that shed. The chemicals, some of which are explosive, were being kept illegally and an improper containers and bottles may many of them were not labeled a authorities were alerted to the situation after the homeowner, who was a late chemist, according to neighbors, his brother was clearing out this house in the shed. He took some of the chemicals to a recycling center and was asked where he got them. That prompted many homes in this area to be evacuated immediately. Many homes that were under evacuation were allowed to return yesterday, but a number of these homes along the street behind me are still under evacuation orders. Officials hope that they will be allowed to return some time later this evening as for why the homeowner, that man, the late chemist, was keeping all those chemicals while Officials Say they just dont have any idea right now, reporting in san pablo, im bailey ocarroll, ktvu fox two news. Were following developing news from africa. Thats where members of an East Bay Church group are trying to get back home. They were in the nation of niger doing volunteer work when a military coup happened. The pastor of Cornerstone Christian center in antioch says he and ten other volunteers are on a plane that is now stuck at an airport in new jersey. Capital. Pastor steve minor says the plane was about to take off when it was denied fuel. The plane was scheduled to fly to paris and then Dulles International airport in virginia. The antioch missionary group was in niger to run a summer camp for children there. Many european nations have already evacuated their citizens from that country. Reporter alex hogan explains the political turmoil unfolding in the west african nation. Nigerias ruling junta faces a sunday deadline to reinstate ousted president mohammed bazoum, or face military intervention. The ultimatum was handed down by the west African Regional bloc after armed soldiers staged a coup against one of the regions only democratically elected leaders. Negotiations between the groups , though, have been unsuccessful. Niger any aggression or attempted aggression will be met with an immediate and unannounced response by defense and security forces. The us, france, italy and spain are now racing to evacuate out citizens from the country. Theres a roller coaster of emotion. Meanwhile there are new concerns about russias expanding influence around niger. Other countries in the region have received military training from the Russian Private military group wagner. Last week, the mercenary welcomed the coup, saying, quote, they got rid of the colonizers. Western officials, though, say that theres no indication wagner was involved. That continues to be the situation. Obviously wagner does have a presence in africa. Its something that were continuing to keep a close eye on. Russias wagner group has reportedly offered to send soldiers to restore order in niger. In london, alex hogan, ktvu fox two news. New at noon. Police response times to San Francisco. 911 calls last month were the slowest recorded in the last six years. Thats according to police data reported in the San Francisco chronicle. Response times for the most serious incidents, including violent crimes, have gone up by more than two minutes in the past seven years, from 6. 7 minutes in 2016 to nearly nine minutes so far. This year. Now, for crimes with the potential for property damage, response times have increased by more than ten minutes since 2016 to an average of 35 minutes. A call in july. Police blames staffing shortages for the slower response times. Weve learned an eight year old boy shot on an oakland freeway is now paralyzed and will likely need medical care for the rest of his life. The family of asa luo says he is paralyzed below the neck. Bullet fragments are lodged in his spinal column. The child was riding in his familys car on 580 at grand avenue on friday, when people in two other cars next to them started shooting at each other. The little boy was caught in the crossfire and struck by one of the bullets. Police have not identified or arrested anyone for the crime. A community in concord is in mourning after a father and youth football coach was killed in an accident at lake tahoe this weekend. Ktvu Amanda Quintana shows us how hes being remembered. Remember me, though . I have to say goodbye. Remember me during a vigil at Clayton Valley High School Thursday night . Family and friends lit candles in memory of bill siu, the 37 year old concord native drowned saturday after falling off a jet ski while on the familys first trip to lake tahoe. Despite wearing a life jacket, his wife says the water took him under. Every part of me is him and its hard i look i sr eyes and their laugh and the walk. Everything bill was a father of four, but lost his baby girl to sids in 2016. His wife says losing their daughter prepared an army ready to step up again to support her and her three young sons. Bills touched so many peoples lives out of the 18 years ive been with him and i see it and people are writing for him and taking care of us because i dont have my other half anymore. And my kids dont have this amazing father. And so seeing all of you and you guys sharing what a great person he is to my kids, to his legacy. Brings me peace. The tragic accident rocking this community. People shared stories of bill , how he touched their lives and his love for serving others and sports. He was a trainer at a local gym and helped coach his sons team, the Clayton Valley junior eagles, to a League Championship last year. His family still stunned by this loss. I feel like a 18 wheeler hit me, hit me so hard. Bills mother is leaning on her faith, saying it was his time called just like she used to call him to come inside for dinner when he was playing as a kid. Thats how god is. He call everyone and no matter where you at or the game is not finished, you got to go. No explanation. A gofundme was set up for funeral expenses. Has raised nearly 80,000. Amanda quintana, ktvu, fox two news. Well, there are ceremonies today marking the somber 78th anniversary of the us atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. A silent vigil and protest took place this morning outside the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This yearly event marks the two days in august of 1945 that the us dropped bombs on japan. The widow of Nuclear Disarmament champion Daniel Ellsberg was among those at the vigil. They say theyre remembering the lives lost and are calling for the elimination of Nuclear Weapons. The issue of the increase in Nuclear Weapons, the increased threats both from russia now and the us is under untenable. Its evil. Its abominable. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of two sites in the United States where Nuclear Weapons are designed. A welltraveled stretch of interstate 80 in the east bay is scheduled to close again this weekend, starting at 9 00 tonight. The eastbound lanes of 80 from hercules to crockett will shut down drivers will have to take a detour using highways four and 680. The road is expected to reopen before the monday morning commute starts. This is the second of foreclosures for interstate 80. The next one is scheduled for the weekend of august 18th. A huge and historic Lottery Jackpot up for grabs. Just how much money is on the line for tonights Mega Millions drawing . Plus, neighbors in one San Francisco neighborhood are pleading with local leaders to do something. Well explain their concerns about drugs and organized crime in the tenderloin. And what city leaders say are the roadblocks to fixing those problems. And across the bay area, notable warm up coming our way in time for the weekend. A better look at the Current Conditions and what you c expect for your plainclothes officers were in the process of arresting someone when they say another man ike that man had a weapon and officers fired their guns. The man identified as 41 year old ryan bluford, died at the hospital. San franciscos police chief later confirmed bluford was armed with a gun. Its not clear what, if any, connection bluford had with the Person Police were trying to arrest when this all happened. San Francisco Police will talk about this case at a virtual town hall meeting that starts at 3 00 this afternoon. You can watch it by going to ktvu web links. San Francisco City leaders also had an inperson meeting last night to talk about crime in the tenderloin. Ktvu is Elissa Harrington. Was there and tells us what happened. We in the tenderloin want children to be able to walk bike, play, thrive and grow in a safe environment. Concerned Community Members called out city leaders at a town hall safety meeting in San Franciscos tenderloin thursday. The Saint Anthony Foundation Hosted the event and invited the police chief, the sheriff and district attorney, to take questions from the public and explain efforts to crack down on a var and organized crime. You have got to get a handle on this problem, not only a drug abuse, but homelessness. You go to walgreens, everythings locked up while the city has deteriorated. Nils banki, ceo of the Saint Anthony foundation, said conditions in the tenderloin are the worst they have ever been. He said they have seen a rise in violence, open drug use and just last month there was a daytime shooting half a block away. We had some people on our staff assaulted and volunteers dont want to come here anymore. Probably most sad is that some of our guests are too afraid to come and see us here. We certainly are more interested in the people who are selling and who are peddling death on our streets. District attorney Brooke Jenkins said. Her office has filed more than 100 motions for egregious crimes from repeat offenders, but said sometimes those efforts are impeded by the courts. Were going in filing these motions, arguing about the deadliness of fentanyl and about the dangerousness of this conduct. And yet and still the judges are ignoring it. Recently, the city launched a collaborative effort, led by sfpd and other agencies to disrupt and dismantle drug markets. The chp and National Guard have also been called to the tenderloin to crack down on fentanyl dealing. Were arresting people who are using in public. We were barely, barely did that at all last year. And, you know, we made hundreds of arrests and really, this collaborative effort is only two months in the making in San Francisco. Im Elissa Harrington ktvu fox two news. New at noon, the big ten has cleared the way for the university of oregon and the university of washington to apply to join the conference if their membership is approved, they will become the 17th and 18th members of the big ten. This year and the third and fourth on the west coast, joining usc and ucla. This will make the big ten the largest conference and Major College sports. Oregon and washingtons departure from the pac 12 pushes that into to the brink of near extinction. An Arizona State is also reportedly in the final steps of leaving the conference. Its in danger of having just four schools. Stanford cal, oregon state and washington state. 1216 is the time. Lets check in with ktvu meteorologist rosemary oroczo for a look at the weather. Yesterday i was talking with james here who runs prompter in the studio. Were talking about how in oakland we didnt see the sun at all. It looks like its a bit different today. Yes, its a pretty one out there. Allie, i know you will be off in just a little bit. And its going to be an enjoyable one for you over areas of oakland. Heres a view over San Francisco where we do have the clouds just kind of drift overhead, but more sunshine out there. We saw some earlier clearing and as a result, temperatures are warmer for most. Well take a look at those numbers in just a moment. We have just a very weak onshore breeze at this point. And when its very weak like it is, its not going to help our inland cities. In fact, today is going to be very much where we should be for this time of year. But by the weekend, saturday into sunday, it is going to heat up over our inland communities. The winds out there right now, a variable. We lost the reading there for fairfield, but its light and expected to remain fairly light into the afternoon even when we get the typical afternoon sea breeze, it will be along the coast inside the bay. Our inland cities not going to get to enjoy it. So much for the weekend. Temperatures are up by a few degrees. Oakland, sfo, you go inland, youre up by seven in concord and livermore. So youre definitely noticing the difference out there. Meanwhile in the north bay, petaluma and novato a little bit warmer. Napa just a tad cooler. 69 degrees right now in napa, 65 in the city of San Francisco. Upper 60s for the east bay shore are inland cities enjoying upper 70s for today with most of us are looking at upper 80s for the inland areas for the afternoon the futurecast model here as we get into the evening hours you have dinner plans do expect the low clouds to make a comeback inside the bay and for the east bay area as well as San Francisco and down along the peninsula will have those clouds there in time for sunset. And then tomorrow morning, we wake up with drizzle and fog along the coastline as well as the low clouds entering the bay. The east bay, as well as partly cloudy skies for the north bay and the Santa Clara Valley with a clearing late morning, early afternoon and temperatures heating up. This is what we do expect to afford today. Temperatures will be very much where 67 in San Francisco, 80 for the afternoon high in napa, 80 degrees. A san jose mid to upper 80 far inland cities, 88 expected for antioch, a better look at the big warm up coming our way for the weekend and how long its going to last in the extended forecast coming up. Well check back with you. Thanks, rosemary. Well, two store clerks took matters into their own hands to stop a man from shoplifting. Why this store customer who shot this video says he felt compelled to step in. And were excited to announce a new streaming app for your tv. You can now watch our newscasts live on amazon fire tv, roku, apple tv or android tv . Just search your device for fox local and choose ktvu fox two. You can also get instructions by going to our website ktvu. Somehow two stream with nurtec odt, i can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks all in one. Dont take if allergic to nurtec. Allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. Most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. Ask about nurtec odt. I want to warn you, some of the video you may see could be disturbing. At the start of this video, you see a man emptying shelves of cigarets into a trash can before two store clerks step in to try and stop him. One of the clerks pins the man down while the other beats him with a wooden pole. The man who shot this video on his cell phone says he was just a customer. But after employees hit, the man more than 20 times, he tried to get them to stop. Its enough. And then so they kind of stopped and i kind of was narrating the situation. Look, he doesnt have a gun. Hes all right. Are you done . Are you done . Are you done . All right. Now its time for everyone to go. He need to go and you guys need to stop. Stockton police say someone from that 7eleven did call police and filed a report. An investigation is underway. The oregon man accused of kidnaping, assaulting and imprison a seattle woman has ties to the bay area nagas. Zubair is accused of posing as an Undercover Police officer and kidnaping his victim last month. Investigators say he spent several years in oakland at a home on 61st avenue. He also lived in the city of antioch, where he was arrested for assaulting a minor. The fbi believes this man may have other victims. They dont yet know about. Saberi was arrested after a standoff with police in reno, nevada. He will soon be extradited back to oregon to face trial. Well, from the courtroom to the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump remains defiant about his latest indictment. As reporter Caroline Shively explains, trump is using his legal troubles to generate support ahead of other republican president ial candidates. So if you cant beat him, you persecute him or you prosecute him. Donald trump from a tarmac right outside d. C. On a rainy thursday after pleading not guilty to four criminal counts, accusing him of trying to overturn an election. Its not the first stormis weathered being indicted three times in four months. This is election interference at its finest against the leading candidate right now for president for either party. Trumps sure to shift his legal troubles into political capital, returning to the campaign trail 24 hours post arraignment, hes headlining an event for the alabama gop friday and then headed to the early voting state of south carolina. He took to truth social thursday, saying need one more indictment to ensure my election. And thats likely with another indictment potentially coming out of georgia looking at election interference, democrats think that should disqualify trump from returning to the white house. No one is above the law, not even the president of the United States. It has nothing to do with the timing of the election. But as the number of indictments grow, so does mr. Trumps popularity. Those big fundraising hauls are slowing down, though, and the legal fees emptying campaign coffers. Trump will also face trials for multiple cases in the thick of election season. 2024 will not be the year of being on the campaign trail, but itll be the year of the trump trial special counsel jack smith wants a speedy trial for the case. Looking at the 2020 election and for a verdict to be reached before election day. In washington, Caroline Shively, ktvu fox two news. Well, new at noon, three cities in california have been added to a federal program that tracks migrant families. The chronicle reports that families traveling to San Francisco, san jose and san diego after illegally crossing the border will be put under a home curfew between the hours of 11 at night and 5 00 in the morning. People in this program will be monitored with a gps tracker until officials can determine whether they qualify for asylum. Immigration advocates say the monitors and curfews are harmful and unnecessary. Federal authorities argue that the program is safe and humane. New Research Shows housing costs in the lake tahoe region are now three times higher than the national average. A study by the Mountain Housing Council found a majority of housing in lake tahoe between 50 to 75 are second homes. Thats reduced the available Housing Stock for full time tahoe residents and has forced many to move out. Many bay area residents bought a second home in the lake tahoe area during the pandemic in order to work from home from a scenic place. And that played a key role in driving up real estate prices. A fire burns dangerously close to homes in a south bay neighborhood, forcing families to evacuate. How firefighters were able to bring it under control. And their warning as we head into the height of fire season. Plus, a debate over autolicenseare raising concernsa plan to add that technology to roads and freeways warehouse ambience introducing togos new french dip sandwiches featuring fresh Artisan Bread piled high with tender roast beef, smothered with melty provolone cheese and served with hot au jus for dipping. Try the roast beef or pastrami french dips today only at togos or control. But they warn homeowners and residents in the area to stay alert. Cctvs zac sos reports on the ongoing danger. As we head into peak fire season. Over head and on the ground, crews descending on a fast moving grass fire in East San Jose as it crept perilously close to area homes. This is quite frightening, barbara burst, watching nervously from her house around 230 thursday afternoon as the fire, which started near clayton road and villa de la vista, rolled over the hillside and. The fire burning some 66 acres. I drove home and saw the smoke, so i knew this was going to be bad. Pamela kenyon prepared to evacuate her home and horses as the fire approached. Two years ago, we had the fire that went right up mount hamilton, so we get them here every once in a while, but nothing thats come this close. Evacuating a step, she says she thankfully never had to take. Crews able to get a handle on the grass fire before it damaged any homes or buildings. And how come . Aided by the work of more than 70 cal fire and san jose fire fighters, an aggressive firefight from our aerial resources and our resources on the ground, as well as in coordination with the Defensible Space of the Property Owners was a key element in no structure loss on this incident. And with more hot weather expected in parts of the bay area this weekend, cal fire encouraging Property Owners to take a second look at their yards in san rafael. Homeowners with italian cypresses on their property reminded to remove them or face a fine and an orinda. The city asking homeowners to cut down any bamboo or juniper trees that are within ten feet of a roadway. Just make sure that if youre going to do any work with any kind of equipment, youre doing that before ten in the morning. And if youre planning to haul a trailer double check your chains and make sure that youre maintaining your vehicles so that you can mitigate the possibility of a fire starting. That was zac sos reporting privacy advocates are raising concerns about the plan to bring automated license plate readers to oakland. Governor newsom has agreed to provide the city with 1. 2 million in state funds. That money will allow oakland to immediately install fixed license plate readers on freeways and many busy streets, including on international boulevard privacy groups are concerned how Law Enforcement agencies may use the information. My general concerns with alpr is that its literally mass surveillance in indiscriminately collects data on all license plates, driving by within view, historically, all across the country, for more than a decade 99. 99 of all Data Collected will never be used. And so were putting people into a criminal Law Enforcement database for no reason. Theres no justification. Supporters of the Technology Say it is an effective way to track down and even deter criminals. The cameras take a snapshot of a vehicles license plate as it drives by. If that plate is registered to a stolen vehicle, police get an instant alert to then follow up. A mistrial was declared in the Sexual Assault trial of san jose states former head athletic trainer, scott shaw had pleaded not guilty to six federal charges. He was accused of sexually abusing four female athletes during physical therapy treatments from 2017 to 2020. The mercury news reports the majority of jurors were in favor of conviction, but a single juror did not agree with that. And the group ultimately could not reach a verdict. The man charged with stabbing and killing two people in davis and seriously injuring a third victim has been found in competent to stand trial. A doctor testified at the competency hearing for carlos dominguez. He says dominguez was grossly impaired from mental illness, possibly schizophrenia. The attacks happened in late april and early may. The Yolo County District Attorneys Office said in a statement that they agree dominguez is not competent. He will be sent to a State Hospital for treatment. A lawsuit filed by the family of one of the victims of the 2021 vta train yard shooting can now move forward. A judge ruled in favor of the family of las kepler lane, one of nine people killed. The family filed a wrongful death lawsuit last year against vta, the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office and universal protection service. The suit claims those three groups failed to stop a disgruntled worker from shooting and killing his coworkers in that mass shooting last year, vta paid 8 million to settle the claims of families of the eight other victims. A San Francisco woman has become a hero to tourists whove been the victims of theft. She has made it her personal volunteer mission to return stolen luggage and the items inside to rightful owners. Andrea michaels goes up and down the alleyways of San Francisco looking for abandoned baggage. She says thieves targeting rental cars often dump ats left of the stolen goods on the street after they take all the valuables. She then goes through the clues inside that luggage to help track down the rightful owners. Theres always a medication bottle in there, and then ill call that pharmacy, or theres a theres a boarding pass. Michael says police would be too overwhelmed to go through the seemingly never ending stream of stolen luggage in San Francisco. So shes glad to help. Instead, she estimates shes reunited more than 50 people with their stolen luggage over the years, the city of lafayette has launched a new campaign in the effort to make streets safer. Slow down. Lafayette will use new equipment, including speed displays on city streets that will provide authorities with Traffic Volume and speed information to help them address traffic problem areas. Officials say lafayette has struggled with road safety. Back in 2021, a bicyclist and crossing guard were killed in two separate crashes there. The California State University system may not reach its goals for Graduation Rates. A new report from the Watchdog Group campaign for College Opportunities says only 62 of students earned a diploma within the last six years. Thats short of their goal of 66. Also, the report found that Graduation Rates for black, latino and Indigenous Students remains well below other students. Cal state east bay had one of the lowest Graduation Rates for first time students, while city leaders warn of a possible roadblock to plans to add a bike and pedestrian bridge linking alameda and oakland. They say the high cost of the project and lack of Public Interest may put it on hold indefinitely. But supporters of the pedestrian bridge point out there are currently only three ways for cyclists and pedestrians to get between oakland and alameda. The proposed bridge would link jacqueline and square to alameda, but the exact location has not been determined and well, you have a chance to become a multimillionaire tonight. A long shot, but a chance nonetheless. The Mega Millions jackpot grand prize is now a whopping 1. 35 billion. Its one of the largest jackpots in history. While no one went to tuesdays grand prize, seven tickets matched all five white balls for a 1 million prize. Two of those tickets were sold in Southern California. Tonights drawing is at 8 00. Well, today we continued our summer zip trips on the road for ktvu. The nine. We visited the city of los gatos. Our Sal Castaneda takes a look at what some of the restaurants have to offer in his taste of the town. Los gatos has beautiful views of the Santa Cruz Mountains and a lot of places to eat in a charming downtown area. If youre new to los gatos and hungry, id recommend starting on santa cruz avenue. You can easily walk up and down the street and find seemingly everything. I saw vietnam food right next to a sushi bar within a short walk from breweries, bakeries and bistros. The locals confirm there are plenty of choices. Oh, my gosh. A variety. You know, it just depends on what they feel like. Theres a really good pizza place down the road. Mexican food. This is a great place for brunch. This is a great place for brunch. Its the los gatos cafe. Just watching the kitchen. I felt as if id gone to short order cook heaven. As the dishes kept coming out of the window. Everything on their menu is actually amazing. Weve been coming here for 14 years. I would say choose one of the specials from the board and grab a table outside. Although the place welcomes turrets, we saw mostly locals on the day i visited and theres a reason for that. The food is very consistent, amazing staff. The service is very good. I just wish there would be open longer so we can get dinner too. From here. Next, im headed down the street to Willow Street pizza again. The los gatos weather is reliably good, so i saw most people sitting outside inside a wood fired oven is the key to making the pizzas. The pizza smells delicious. I know. You better get one. I will. I will. Trust me. Ive eaten my way through this place before. The key here is fresh local ingredients. So we make our dough inhouse. Its 100 double zero organic flour, and the pizzas are thin crust. Let me just go on record saying i like the pizza. Willow street calls the italian. So it took a portrait for social media of this beauty. Will a street also makes more than pizza in case you want pasta, salads and burgers and of course, cocktails if youre so inclined. Next, i walked over to old town, los gatos to visit a family owned restaurant thats been pleasing los gatos customers for more than 40 years. Steamers grill house since we started in 79. Here in town, locally, weve consistently strived to bring in the best quality and the best people for our staffing. Although steamers has many dishes on the menu, i got to try perhaps its most popular dish made personally for me by paul matlock, one of the owners. Its the housemade linguine with wild blue prawns, dungeness crab and mushrooms in a garlic lemon butter sauce just watching the way paul made this, i knew it would be a good dish and messy. Eating aside, i was right. So right. Finally theres a local bar right on santa cruz avenue called the black watch, which has been in the same spot since 1959. As it says, right on the sign. This place gets packed. But i came during a quiet time to have bartender Jennifer Anzalone make me the drink. The place is famous for the kamikaze drink carefully because these drinks arent weak. As we toasted together, jennifer told me this place is the ultimate local bar. Its like cheers. We know your drinks, your names, your friends, your family and we will continue our summer on the road for the nine with our next zip trip in the north bay city of novato. That will happen on friday, august 18th. Again on ktvu the nine will a Bay Area Company leads the way when it comes to new types of weather research. Well talk about the Drone Technology that is helping scientists better understand hurricanes and across the bay area we have a warm up coming our way just in time for your weekend. Well check in on the Current Conditions and line up those numbers for you coming up the long career, both on stage and on screen. He was best known for his roles in breaking bad and better call saul. He frequently collaborated with darren aronofsky. He appeared in several of that directors films, including life of pi. He also appeared at the berkeley Repertory Theater in 2014, starring in a tony kushner stage production called the intelligent homosexuals guide to capitalism and socialism, with a key to the scriptures. Science artists are getting a never before seen glimpse inside the eyes of hurricanes. Thanks to new Drone Technology. Its being built right here in the bay area. Meteorology mark tamayo is giving us a closer look at how it works. This hangar at the former Naval Air Station in alameda is filled with rich military history. Now it is the headquarters of a company that is making a futuristic splash in hurricane research. Saildrone is making these robotic sailboats that are rigged to collect high quality ocean data. 12 sail drones, the largest fleet ever, are now positioned to literally chase hurricanes in the western atlantic, caribbean and gulf of mexico. Trying to understand whats happening as the hurricanes approaching, as the hurricanes happening and as it passes through at the water level is something that noaa has never been able to achieve before. Mark tyler is the chief operating officer of saildrone. The Company Makes these unmanned surface vehicles that are customized to accomplish Different Research missions. Each of these aquatic drones carries an impressive payload of instruments that can measure an assortment of variables in the air and on the sea. These powerful vehicles get their first taste of salt water right here. Alameda is a great location for this. This location allows us straight access to the lagoon or behind me and the bay so we can do local testing with three of the different saildrone models were visible in seaplane lagoon. Each has a different design and purpose. They all rely heavily on the sun to power their research mission. The explorer is the smallest sail drone, and that is the model that sails into hurricanes. The complexity of everything from the salinity of the water, how much co2 is being transmitted between air and water, the currents, the wind speeds and the different locations around the world. Im walking at about 2 to 3 miles an hour and that is the average speed of a sail drone in the ocean. The offshore missions could last for several months. And over that time frame, researchers are watching the data in real time. Greg foltz is an oceanographer for the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. He worked on the first Experimental Mission with saildrone in 2021, came along and heard about it. Yeah i was really excited. I thought, if we can make this work, if we can get a saildrone into a major hurricane eyewall and get data back and it doesnt get severely damaged and sink, its going to be amazing. And it was amazing. First with Hurricane Sam in september 2021, the onboard camera captured the stunning visuals of the category four storm north of puerto rico. And last year, a saildrone had a rendezvous with another major storm in the atlantic. This footage shows 50 foot waves churned up by hurricane fiona. While the video is exciting, the data is the prize and is fueling research that boosts the understanding of hurricane development. Were finding some interesting things with the saildrone data, how the waves interact with the winds and can cause changes in that drag effect that slows down the hurricanes winds. And this is where it all happens. Mission control. This is yeah, this is mission control. This is our office. Those are the sail drones out right now. Exactly. Yeah. 36 each one of these little icons represents a vehicle. While the robots are out at sea, a team is watching from here. Julia paxton is a director of Mission Management. This is where most of our actually all of our missions are planned from here. So our Mission Management team serves as our group of navigators who collaborate with the customers to get the vehicles where they need to be, essentially planning and then executing. Her team works on various missions that range from seafloor mapping the carbon uptake near hawaii to the current el nino in the equatorial pacific. There is always a set of eyes on these drones. Pilots are not essentially turning the rudder or adjusting the wing or anything like that, but our our pilots are the humans who are sending the sets of navigation commands. The team is now gearing up for another hurricane mission and they continue to raise the bar. The idea of putting more vehicles out is not only to have a higher likelihood of sale and positioning one of the vehicles in the path of a coming storm, but also to have redundancy as well. So potentially to be sampling different sides of the same storm is a goal. Mark tamayo, ktvu, fox two news and they are doing that work right across the estuary from us in alameda. Rosemary luckily we dont have any Stormy Weather to worry about. Things pretty clear here. Yes, Mother Nature treating us to a Beautiful Day across the bay area. Live look here again, San Francisco where its just so pretty. Weve got the blue skies. We have just a little bit of fog kind of just moving right across the bay along the coastline. We do have more cloud cover and along the coastline, not going to be one of the spots that gets really hot this weekend. Its going to be our inland cities. No advisories, but definitely something to take note, especially in the afternoons when its really, really toasty in our north bay, east bay as well as areas over our south bay. We have a ridge of High Pressure that is strengthening our way from the desert southwest. We have High Pressure over the pacific. And with that, again, temperatures are expected to get near 100 degrees or even exceed by sunday, which looks to be the hottest day. And ill show you those numbers here in just a moment. We still continue with clouds along the coast. We showed you the fog right over San Francisco a little bit of an onshore breeze. And thats going to keep temperatures very comfortable along the coast, inside the bay, not too bad. Our inland cities going to really feel the heat up a little bit today. More so for tomorrow. Peaking on sunday. So morning clouds followed by the afternoon sun. We do have even the possibility of patchy drizzle and fog once again tomorrow. Look at here at the futurecast. Theres that High Pressure there that again, if you take note, as i put this into motion, youre going to notice it move closer to california. We also have High Pressure here off our our coastline. And this will be the pattern that we see for tomorrow and sunday. Theres sunday afternoon by tuesday, monday into tuesday, the ridge starts to break down. We begin to see some changes. In fact, heres tuesday morning. Notice that trough right there and it looks like a low there trying to develop. So that is going to bring our temperatures down, if you like. The heat, enjoy the weekend. If you dont like the heat, it wont last too long. Meanwhile, if youre going to tahoe this weekend, gorgeous weather here, low 70s right now under mostly sunny skies and for the afternoons saturday, sunday into monday, expecting 80s out there by the lake. So make sure you have the sunblock temperatures here at home, 65 degrees in San Francisco right now. Upper 60s for you. Napa upper 70s to about 80 degrees for our inland cities. We showed you in the last half hour, most areas are at least a few degrees warmer compared to yesterday at this time for some of our inland cities by about seven degrees and then into the afternoon, 67, San Francisco, 70 in oakland, 70s to low 80s around the bay will go mid to upper 80s for some of our hotter spots. Now lets talk about the hot weather in time for the weekend. Theres a look at saturday sunday when we are creeping well above it looks like mid to upper 90s even a few low 100 is expected by sunday. Meanwhile around the bay its going to be a toasty one upper 80s expected on sunday along the coastline is going to be quite nice upper 60s to low 70s Half Moon Bay pacifica and then the ridge begins to break down. We introduce a little bit of cooler air on monday. Feels way more comfortable inland on tuesday. Ali, thank you. Rosemary well, a Little League team from the east bay has high hopes to make it into the Little League world series. More on the challenges they face to reach that goal as the team travels to Southern California this weekend warehouse ambience introducing togos new french dip sandwiches featuring fresh Artisan Bread piled high with tender roast beef, smothered with melty provolone cheese and served with hot au jus for dipping. Try the roast beef or pastrami french dips today only at togos hawks womens soccer team and explains how some of the athletes who trained with that team have now gone on to play in the world cup. Kezar stadium near Golden Gate Park is home to the San Francisco nighthawks and amateur womens soccer team. Players range in age from 14 to 32. They come from all over the bay area. The team was founded in 1995 and has been nurturing talent ever since. The philippines will not be denied this time. Ball and with the goal, including Serena Bolden of santa clara, who scored the winning goal representing the World Cup Team from the philippines monday in a match against new zealand. We were screaming like crazy. I got chills all over. It was it was a really special moment, a proud and inspirational moment for members of this team. Many aspired to play professionally. Im really competitive, so yeah, i dont know. I like getting better. Theres always something you can get better at. Lucinda anderson of San Francisco says shes been playing soccer since she was four. Shes now 21 and attends brown university. She plays for the school team. And when shes home, shes a nighthawk. If i could play in the in the next world cup and a few world cups, id love that. So, yeah, im not going to shoot low. Im going to shoot high. Samuel adam of santa clara plays professionally in italy and is a member of the Egyptian National team, a nod to her dads home country. Theres so much more opportunity for us. And so i think its just to play as long as i can. I mean, as long as im healthy and able. Thats probably what i want to do until im well in my 30s. None of our players pay to play. Its all done with sponsors and donations. The teams gm says 20 of its members go on to play professionally. Believing in yourself, you have to believe that youre capable of doing it. The team motto is love the game. Success will follow. Totally do it. Thats my advice. Just get out there, play every day. Its an amazing community. I think this team is a testament to that. Recruitment starts in august. The gm tells me some players left to go pro, so there are spots open. The team starts the fall season, september 9th. Amber lee, ktvu fox two news and you can catch the world cup soccer action right here on ktvu tomorrow night. The netherlands will face off against spain coverage starts at 6 00. The as are still finalizing plans for new ballpark in las vegas. The nevada independent reports valley casino executives say the future of the tropicana is in a Holding Pattern until Major League Baseball owners vote to officially approve the as relocation. Nevada lawmakers have approved a deal to build a new ballpark right where the Tropicana Hotel now stands. Mlb owners still have to okay that move. It requires 75 of the 30 team owners to agree to the relocation. But once that happens, then we might get more details and we can move forward. I think that one of the key things to keep track of here is that right now with the company says this has been good for business for them. But once again, were just waiting on that final decision. An mlb team owners are expected to vote on the as move by the end of this year. As management says its confident it can finish the stadium construction in time for the 2028 season. As fans are planning another reverse boycott to protest owner john fisher and the teams proposed move to las vegas. But fans will have to pay much more for tomorrows tickets. The as are going to use dynamic pricing, which changes ticket prices depending on availability. Now we just checked the as website. The cheapest tickets cost 44. Lowest prices for some of the other games. In comparison were just ten bucks an east bay Little League team is just three wins away from punching its ticket to the Little League world series, the bollinger canyon, Little League, all star, 12 year old team just won the Northern California state championship. But before they go all the way to williamsport, pennsylvania, they have to get a win in san bernardino. Thats where they are heading. Thats where theyll compete in the Little League west region tournament. The team left san ramon yesterday with a grand sendoff from city hall. Its been a ride the last three years. Weve won the state championship. Of course, this year is the one that you can go further, but, you know, everyones stuck together. Theyre theyre theyre a family. They treat each other like brothers and just a great group. The teams first game is saturday. Theyll play against el segundo if the team can win that game. Plus two more, then theyll leave next sunday for the Little League world series. Some South Bay School kids will have new supplies when they go back to class a drive through back to School Distribution event is happening at the Sunnyvale Community Services facility on kern avenue. Families have preregistered for the event. The agency says they have seen a record breaking number of requests for help this year. They will be distributing supplies to 2500 children today so that those kids can be ready for the first day of class. This year, were anticipating having 2500 children participate and are ready to learn program. Each child will be getting a gift card for School Supplies, plus a box of new School Supplies. And all summer long we were able to distribute extra food to families who have school age children. Sunnyvale Community Services says last year it provided new back to School Supplies to 2100 children. Many are from families who could not otherwise afford those supplies and ktvu School Supply drive is underway. If you are able to donate, please scan the qr code on your screen or go to ktvu. Com School Supply drive. This year weve partnered with supply bank org to make sure bay area kids are prepared for the Upcoming School year. Help us out. Scan that qr code or go online. We want to thank you for watching ktvu fox two news at noon for the latest news and weather. Be sure to download the app. We will see you again for our next newscast at four. Pictionary is next audience cheering upbeat cheerful music [natalie] can you guess what this is . If you guess plumber, then youll be a great contestant on pictionary. 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