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Hes on. The temps are upper low which kicked his with us for the weekend is kicking out and left behind is a pretty big fog bank so low clouds but there it goes after lots of activity in the mountains, Northern California. So temperatures kind of settling into where close to where they should be, 6070s and 80s. Back to james, i believe. Yeah. Lets talk a little traffic, steve. See if we cant get you out the door this morning and thats probably not going to be too much of an issue for you today. We see a little crash entering the bay bridge there, but certainly thats not going to cause any delays as of now as we are still very early in the morning, although triple a does say expect to see a good bit of traffic later this afternoon. And of course, we still have that closure here along westbound 80. Well give you more details about that coming up a little later this morning. Time now, 401. A nevada Sheriffs Office continues to investigate the death that occurred at the burning man festival near reno. The Pershing County sheriff says the person died during the storm but not because of it. Festival organizers say emergency workers were called, but they could not resuscitate the person. Ktvu Bailey Ocarroll reports. Bad weather at the Festival Grounds has left as many as 60,000 people stranded, with no idea yet when they can leave. If an unusual late summer storm turned what was supposed to be a week away at burning man into this. This is eileen lelchuk snyders first time at burning man and now shes stuck in the nevada desert. The rain itself isnt. John gaines traveled from new york to attend the festival. Hes gone to burning man for the last 21 years. But he says hes never seen anything like this. Ive been through a couple of strong rains, but those were one time rains, created a problem and then it dried up and problem went away. The issue this year was multiple rains. And i dont know that the event has ever experienced that. Gaines made it out an hour and a half before the gates were closed. The rest of his group is still stuck. The only person in my group who got out, we have about 60 people out there. Theyre veterans. They know what theyre doing. They got food and water. Theyre not panicking more than a half inch of rain fell at the festival site on friday. More came down this weekend. Both john and eileen said people are making the most out of the situation action. Most people are still just chilling, as you can see around me, theres some empty campsites, but people seem to have been embraced it and are not. We worried about getting out of here . We know that its going to dry up in both echoed the same message that people are coming together. Therell be a lot of sharing. People proactively going out and saying, hey, ive got a couple of watermelons and some cans of tuna and some water. Do you need anything . They say helping others is no surprise. And a quick Online Search and youll see it everywhere. Dj and music producer diplo took to twitter to share his experience, saying he and Comedian Chris Rock walked five miles out of the festival before they were picked up by a passing fan. When i asked john how he thought festival organizers were handling the situation, he said well, and i asked him if he would return next year, which would mark his 22nd year. He said yes in part because his son, ethan may make it out for the very first time in the newsroom. Im Bailey Ocarroll, ktvu fox two news. Officials and festival organizers will decide later today when it is safe enough for people to leave. But organizers say they will hold the big finale of the festival tonight. The former front man for the bay area band smash mouth is in hospice due to liver failure. The bands manager says 56 year old singer Steve Harwell has, quote, only a week or so to live. Smash mouth was formed in 1994 in san jose. Harwell retired back in 2021 due to those health problems, including Heart Failure. Complicated by years of substance abuse. Chp investigating a shooting on interstate 580 that left two people hurt in oakland. That happened around 430 saturday afternoon in the westbound direction near seminary avenue. Youre looking at citizen video from the scene. Chp says two people were in a car when they were shot. They drove themselves to the hospital where they are expected to recover. Officers say bullets hit another car, but no one was inside or rather, no one inside was hit. Police have not yet arrested anyone for that shooting. Time now, 404. Governor gavin newsom signing a bill recently that some lawmakers say will speed up the process of building new Affordable Housing. Ktvu is Lamonica Peters is in san jose with more from the senator who sponsored the legislation. California senator dave cortez says lawmakers across the state know there isnt enough Affordable Housing and state senate bill 406 is just one of the many steps theyre taking to do something about it. The bill addresses the environmental studies that are currently required by sequa or the california enviro mental quality act. Theres just nothing worse than having a project all ready to go, ready to build, you know, ready to house people already cleared environment and then just to find out that the little bit of government Financial Assistance that youre getting is going to cause you to have to go through those hoops all over again. Requires state and local agencies to evaluate and disclose the potential impact of new projects on the environment. Senate bill 406 will eliminate repetitive Environmental Reviews once a project has been cleared. Ultimately allowing projects to move forward in a timely fashion. This second sequa clearance will no longer be a requirement after january 1st. Cortez says there are projects throughout the bay area, including in his own district, that have been slowed down by having multiple environmental evaluations. He says california lawmakers realize they need to do all they can to build Affordable Housing faster. You know, fast has not been fast enough for the people who are seeing their kids. You know, move out of state. You know, families kind of broken up. Senator cortez says that because of senate bill 406, he believes that the state will now offer more financial incentives to builders to build housing faster. Lamonica peters, ktvu, fox two news. There are changes coming next year for students who apply for federal student grants. The new changes are designed to make applying easier for families to understand. Students can soon apply for 20 colleges to their fafsa. The application will also have fewer questions. More students can have their Financial Information directly transferred from the irs, which they say could cut out a major delay in getting student aid. The new changes will roll out in december is a busy area for rock climbing in Yosemite National park has been closed because of the threat of a rock slide. The National Park says climbers reported a new crack in the cliff near royal arches thats not far from the ahwahnee hotel. After inspecting the cliff, the park closed much of the area, saying there could be a threat of a large pillar of rock falling down. Theres no word when that area will reopen in fall seven, your time this morning. As we know, many people hitting the highway on this labor day, which marks the unofficial end of summer. Heres a live look over at interstate 80 and emeryville just a few minutes past 4 00 this morning. Certainly no delays or anything to worry about if youre headed out the door in the next couple of minutes. Triple a this morning saying today will be one of the busiest days of the year on the nations highways as people return home this afternoon from their vacations. Caltrans closure of interstate 80 continues today. It has shut down the westbound lanes of 80 between interstate 780 and vallejo through crockett and onto highway four in hercules. Caltrans crews say they are completing the final phase of a major repaving project. The eastbound lanes still open this morning. The closure includes the westbound lane of the carquinas bridge. Its the first time caltrans has shut down the bridge for repaving since it first opened 20 years ago. All westbound lanes of i80 are scheduled to reopen no later than tomorrow morning. All right. 408 this morning. Steve paulson is in the Weather Center. Steve, we had a much cooler weekend than we wanted to. Whats today looking like back to normal . Hows that low . The upper low that we had which gave all sorts of thunderstorm activity up in the mountains, is now kicking out. You can see the boy was lit up for northeast california around in and around lake tahoe. Also northern Sacramento Valley. We were kind of on the cusp of it. We got some of the clouds and you can see that activity from redding and then northern Sacramento Valley. Reno had rain. South lake tahoe, truckee. Now that activity has pushed out 50 60s on the temps berkeley lab, 58. Ben lomond mountain, 55. Mt. Veeder 6256. If concord 32. We have breaking news, so ill have to fix that. But so if you dont like cold weather, stay out of concord this morning. It should be 62, 30 up in the mountains, though that low settled in, brought in some cooler air aloft, thats for sure. 36 truckee and South Lake Tahoe. Mammoth is at 38 degrees as well. The lowest kicked out the high will build in. Theres a little spin in the air right there. Right there. Thatll keep us from warming up too much. Once that goes through, after about wednesday, we should start to see gradual warming, but low overcast, cool to mild lows, fog, then sunshine. Nice to warm with a light breeze and temperatures with after the fog. Itll be sunny and 6070s and 80s. There james. All right Steve Paulson, thank you. Well, the return to the campaign trail for president ial hopefuls. How gop candidates are reacting to Donald Trumps continued to lead in the pool. Plus california still uses watchtowers to try to help prevent the spread of wildfires. Well hear from those who volunteer their time to keep those blazes from getting out of control. And theres a new hour of news coming to ktvu this month. First at 7 p. M, were debuting the west coast rap, a fresh regional take on the west coast. Biggest and most relevant stories of the day. Then at 730, its ktvu fox two news at 730 a local newscast newscast featuring the bay areas top stories newsmaker interviews and your local forecast as well as sports. It all starts one week from today here on ktvu Caleb Williams has transferred to wendys for the new loaded nacho cheeseburger. This burgers my inspiration. And i just hope to inspire you. Oh you have inspired us. Thought we were doing names on the headband. Get it together. Choose wisely. Choose wendys new loaded nacho cheeseburger. So many hotels. [yells] [yells] [yells] trouble booking the family vacay . Come on. Comfort has free hot breakfast for the whole fam they have waffles and splendid pools cannonball on north bay council, labor Day Breakfast up in santa rosa. The Napa Solano Central Labor Council will hold its holiDay Breakfast later this morning in benicia and congresswoman barbara lee will be among those taking part in a labor day march and rally thats happening in oakland. Its being organized by unions representing hospital workers. Theyll gather at Mosswood Park and walk to the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center to protest contract negotiations against the hospital. That labor to expire at the end of this month. Taking a look at the business that will be closed for labor day today, banks post offices, the stock market and most government offices will be closed today. Ups and fedex stores will not be open, but they will pick up deliveries. Costco stores and its gas stations also closed today. And most transit agencies will run on a holiday or sunday schedule. Be sure to check those out before youre out the door today. Labor day is a time to honor and reflect upon the importance and history of workers in americas economy, society and achievements. This ktvu tom vacar spoke to one of the nations leading work experts about two issues that continue to shake americas workforce. We have the shortages. We asked employment lawyer and former edd director Michael Bernick to compare labor day 2023 to 2022. Its really the Seismic Shift of the pandemic. Hes talking about remote work, which he says is not dying off, as many believed it would or should. Remote work is here to stay. Its only it hasnt really decreased significantly, at least in most parts of the bay area. The other soon to come Seismic Shift is the impact of Artificial Intelligence on jobs. Artificial intelligence wasnt even an issue. It is exploded. The main impacts over the next year will be how ai impacts and frankly impacts positively in most cases, existing jobs. Californias employment is now at 4. 6 higher than the national average, but still relatively low since last labor day. On average, wages have grown over 4. At the same time, though, now its below the wage growth we had in 2022. At labor day, which was 5. 2. And even more importantly, its been undercut by the continued inflation. Though californias job gains have slowed considerably, the golden state is still gaining jobs in 2022. We had over 50,000 jobs gained per month. Thats gone down the last month gain was about 28,000. And i think were going to continue to see continued slowdown due to the higher Interest Rates beginning to have their fuller impact as well as the depleted consumer savings tech layoffs continue from last labor day, but at a much slower pace. This one issue unchanged from last year, was and remains the lack of workers needed to fill lower paying direct service and nonunion blue collar jobs. Tom vacar ktvu fox two news. And new figures from the bureau of labor statistics show manufacturing tops the list of sectors seeing significant worker shortages with 550,000 jobs opening in july. Construction is next with about 336,000 jobs available. And the numbers show there are shortages of commercial airline pilots, High School Teachers and school bus drivers. Time now, 416 this morning. There are growing concerns about the threat of a major wildfire in california with the state now moving into the peak of fire season. And reporter erin heft tells us the recent decline in the number of fire lookout sites across the state is adding to those concerns. Up among the buzzards is sitting still inside the forest in Amador County stands the mount zion lookout. We currently have a 360 degree view. On a clear day, we can see up to 100 miles as a first line of defense when combating wildfires. The lake comanche Jackson Valley area staffed right now largely because of the work of rich martin. I believe that the human eye is the best tool up in the Lookout Tower northwest, we can see the pilot peak range, which is where another cal fire lookout is located, showing us the ins and outs of their day to day operations as the mount zion tower is one of two fire lookouts in both amador and el dorado county, staffed by 18 volunteers, some of whom have been the first eyes on some of our regions most devastating recent wildfires. You have called in fires from this tower before . Yes. What is that like . Its like you see the smoke and. Oh, my. Deborah abrams says its from here that she was the first to call in both the oak fire, which was at the time, 60 miles away. And also the alpine lumber mill fire through this little tiny line. And lining up the crosshairs that are right here. Also from here, she says shes helped track both the electra and caldor fires three and the miles. And then we look at the smoke that were going to call in standing at over 3000ft in elevation, giving a unique and extremely helpful perspective. This tradition of fire watch dating back to 1928 being carried out every day to help ensure the safety of the many communities. Northern californians call home. A driver of a pickup truck was rescued from the bottom of a ravine after driving over the edge of cliff five days earlier. Crews near bakersfield and kern county found the driver saturday after receiving a report of a badly damaged truck that plunged over cliff. Authorities say crews placed the driver in a stretcher and then used a rope lift to rather use a rope to lift the driver to safety. The person was airlifted to the hospital. Still no word this morning on the drivers condition. On 418. Your morning your time this morning. Steve paulson in the Weather Center today is going to be a lot warmer today, huh . I wouldnt say a lot warmer. Itll be more sunshine. Hows that . Thats a lot more sunshine. Itll be back into the temperatures will start to rebound a little bit back into some low 80s here. It was all about really the mountains, Northern California and the activities finally ending. But there were some pretty hefty totals. Blue canyon, some of the other areas had over two thirds of an inch to about an inch of rain. South lake tahoe, up to truckee and reno had some rain in and around the area, but the heaviest was just to the west as as the forecast projections predicted. Also up into susanville, quincy, chester and northern Sacramento Valley, its all gone, though. Its pushed out 50s and 60s on the temps here, 70 down in las vegas, which had heavy rain and flooding over the weekend. 30s in the mountains, truckee, south , lake tahoe, both at 36 and one, system is kicking out. Theres another little spin in the atmosphere right there, a little impulse that has to zip through thatll keep the fog going and really kind of keep us from warming up. Itll be gradual as we get past wednesday, but low overcast will give way to sunshine, nice to mild, to warm, probably a little bit of a light breeze, fog back to sunny and nice 60s, 70s and 80s. James thank you. Well, she was 13 years old when she was treated at ucsf for a liver transplant. Today, shes now studying to be a doctor. More on those who inspired by those who cared for her. Plus, new tactics for responding to Mental Health calls. What advocates say is driving these changes its an amazing thing when you show generosity of spirit to someone. And you want people to be saved and to have a better life, then you dont stop. We have been able to reach over 100 Million People impacted and affected, and at risk of hiv. The rocket fund takes all of the work that were doing, all over the world, and looks at the most effective ways, to get resources to them, to get services to them. The idea that we have saved five Million Peoples lives, its overwhelming. Its everything. 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Jardiance is really swell, the little pill with a big story to tell. 26 year old singer is remembered for his easygoing musical style and all the businesses he built based on his brand. The last time he was on stage, a surprise performance in rhode island back in july. A new report finds Cancer Patients are not always getting the care they need because of the volume of red tape they have to deal with. Researchers found patients who had to contend with a lot of paperwork that was about 18 more likely to experience delays in getting their care or find themselves unable to stick to a treatment plan. The study was carried out by the commonwealth fund, a Health Policy think tank. Some cities are trying new ways to help people who are having a Mental Health crisis. Theyre deploying paramedics or other Health Care Professionals to those types of emergencies instead of police. The Associated Press reports more than half of the largest cities in the us are creating the alternate live Response Teams. Supporters of the idea say Health Care Workers can spend more time with Mental Health calls than Police Officers can. Theyre very proficient in deescalating clients who are in behavioral or emotional crisis, and they have the time to spend. If that takes two hours, they can spend two hours an engine or an aid car cant spend that time. They have to get back in service. Medical workers can also help patients find longer term help. People who work in similar operations around the country say the biggest problem they have is finding money to keep those programs running so they can help more people. A Holiday Weekend can be an especially painful time for older people who are alone. And now a number of restaurants and nonprofit groups across the country are joining forces to help the growing number of Older Americans who are lonely and looking for that companionship. The dine out Program Allows them to enjoy a free meal with others and all of it started during the covid 19 pandemic. Since the pandemic, isolation of people 60 and older has gone up and up. Unprecedented amount, 200. Dine out program is in response to a very serious problem. The us Surgeon General says feelings of loneliness can be as bad for your health as smoking up to 15 cigarets a day. The Parent Company of banquet frozen foods is recalling 245,000 pounds of frozen Chicken Strips. Conagra brands say its discovered some of its Chicken Strips could contain pieces of plastic. The company says at least one person was reported injured after eating a Chicken Strip that contained some of that plastic. For 25 your time this morning and another rally against robo taxis happening in San Francisco. What this demonstration is designed to focus on. Plus, the second gop debate now just a few weeks away. The candidates who are most likely going to be there for round two. And you can have always the Morning Headlines delivered right to you by signing up for the ktvu newsletter. Just head over to ktvu. Com email and sign up for the daily service. Well be viruses. Bacteria. Air fresheners are no match for them. Introducing new lysol air sanitizer. It helps protect your family from coughs and sneezes and eliminates odors in your home. It even has three fresh fragrances to choose from. Unlike air fresheners, one spray kills 99. 9 of viruses and bacteria in the air because scent cant sanitize, lysol can. Welcome to the future of air. New lysol air sanitizer. This morning for safety. And House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy tours the devastation in maui with other lawmakers. As were hearing what they have to say about seeing whats left behind from ktvu fox two news, this is mornings on two. Just shy of 430 this morning. We welcome you back to mornings on two. Im james torres. Today is monday, september 4th. It is labor day. Lets talk to mr. Steve paulson here. Steve a lot of people still have their one more day of their weekend left. Well, today wont be too bad. Well be back to normal there, which means low clouds and then sunshine after the weekend of that low coming in. Most of the activity was north and east of us, but it was close here for some. And you can see the activity is now kicking out, but plenty of thunderstorms were popping up all over the sierra in Northern California today. Its fog than sun. 6070s and 80s. Lets get back to james. A little more traffic than i thought coming in. James, it might be that case this morning for you, steve here. It probably will pick up a lot more later in the afternoon. Lets take you and show you what were looking at today. Not too much activity going on the roadways here. Lots of green light conditions happening. Of course, its early. Were talking 430 this morning. But come later this afternoon, triple a says be sure to give yourself plenty of time if youre headed home from whatever vacation or just getting around town here because you will see some of those delays. Lets show you some real time traffic here. I think we got to look over at the macarthur maze or because we do not have that, but well talk more about traffic, including that carquinez bridge closure, which will last until tomorrow morning. Now, today, some workers in San Francisco use labor day to push back against the growth of selfdriving vehicles. Members of several unions say theyre going to rally outside the headquarters of cruise later today to try and push regulators to rescind rules allowing those selfdriving Car Companies to expand. They say the robo taxis are threatening the jobs of many bay area rideshare drivers. Tonight, a chp officer in the hospital after being hit by a car in downtown San Francisco. Ktvu is Alice Schwartz has the latest on the officer and the collision. It was 3 09 p. M. Here at third and harrison street in San Francisco. A chp officer on a motorcycle was thrown after colliding with a cadillac sedan. Its unclear how the crash occurred. Officer mark andrews of the chp told us by phone. First responders got to the scene south of market almost immediately. Emergency personnel arrive on the scene within approximately 1 to 2 minutes of the traffic collision. The motor officer was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with parents non life threatening injuries. Medical staff here at General Hospital are still treating him and were still unsure of what the extent of the injuries are at this time. The driver of the cadillac was said to be cooperating with officers that person was also taken to the hospital, although its unknown if they were hurt. According to officer andrews. I do know that there was another vehicle involved with the motorcycle, mike larkin lives in the outer sunset, but parked his car here earlier today to run an errand. When i got here, it had all taken place already. So im not sure. But there were there must have been at least 20 officers here or more here. Although larkin didnt see what happened, he said investigators wouldnt let him move his car as the officer landed right near his sedan. I came back about an hour or hour ago, and i could see theyd put the officer in the ambulance and i couldnt tell how how injured he was. But another policeman told me that hed been thrown in, almost touched my car. So he must have been thrown about 30ft. The area around third and harrison was closed to traffic for a block in every direction for hours while the california Highway Patrol, their Major Accident Investigation Team, gathered evidence taking pictures is part of their investigation. As for mike larkin, he says he drives slow, saying he knows it can be dangerous driving or walking in the city. Theres just a lot a lot to take in and people arent paying attention. A lot of people running lights and just driving too fast. But fortunately, neither the motorcycle officer or the other driver sustained life threatening injuries. There is Surveillance Video cameras at the intersection where the accident happened. No doubt that tape will be reviewed in the investigation. Alice wirtz, ktvu fox two news. Whoa a former High School Teacher arrested during a Football Game in brentwood. Video shared on social media shows 27 year old Carlos Hurtado running onto the field of Heritage High School during its game against Granada High School last friday. The School District says up until recently. Hurtado was teaching at heritage, but was then ordered to stay away from campus. Police chased after him when he was spotted. He was finally tackled by the granada football coach. There was no word why hurtado was banned from the premises. He was booked into the Contra Costa County jail on suspicion of trespassing and obstruction. A prison in minnesota remains on lockdown after inmates took over part of the facility. The stillwater state prison in bayport, east of minneapolis. Corrections officials there say about 100 inmates in one living unit refused to return to their cells. Authorities say all employees were removed from the common areas of the unit when that takeover happened. And extra police, firefighters and other emergency teams were standing by outside the prison as the situation unfolded. They say no one was hurt. The next republican president ial debate will be held near the end of this month and some of the candidates who were in milwaukee say theyve learned a little bit about how to handle their opponents from the first debate. But doug luzader reports the biggest questions remain about whether the front runner, former President Donald Trump, will join this time. The reagan president ial library in simi valley, california, looks serene enough, but toward the end of the month, it will be a battleground, and i am the only nominee on this stage to keep us out of war. We saw last month in milwaukee just how heated the gop primary fight has gotten. And many of these same candidates are preparing for the next debate in california, having learned some important lessons. I learned that the more you insult people, the more time you get. There may be some truth to that. And at the last debate, it was rising. Candidate vivek ramaswami, who took quite a bit of flak and gave it right back. You have no Foreign Policy experience and it shows. You know what . I wish you well in your future career on the boards of lockheed and raytheon. And a big question hangs in the air. Will former President Donald Trump take part . He sat out the last one, but he intends to keep his rivals and voters guessing. Do you anticipate at some point jumping into the debates . I might. Its possible. I like debates. I think i guess i won because of the debates. You know, theyve been very good to me. So i might. But at this moment, im leading by so much that it seems to be foolish to do it. Now, this next debate will be on september 27th. The fundraising and polling requirements to get on the stage have tightened since the last debate, so there may be fewer participants, but already a handful of candidates have qualified in washington, Doug Luzader Fox news 435 your time this morning. The gop president ial candidates are getting ready to return to the campaign trail after the Holiday Weekend. And of course, the second debate just a few weeks away. Florida Governor Ron Desantis had to put a brief pause on campaigning to tend to storm Recovery Efforts back in his state of florida, other candidates appeared on the sunday morning talk shows and were asked about former president trumps commanding lead in the polls if donald trump is the nominee. Yes i will support him. And if im the president , yes, i will pardon him because that will help reunite the country. But its not the most important thing im going to do as the next president. It is the table stakes for moving this country forward. I dont think president trumps going to be the nominee. I think its going to be me. But i will tell you that any republican is better than what joe biden and Kamala Harris are doing. I say with humility, im just simply the most experienced, tested and proven conservative running for the republican nomination today. But with, you know, with with regard to the polling, its just not what im seeing on the ground. A wall street journal poll shows trump leading with 59 of republican primary voters. Former nba star and cal grad and sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson is planning to open a soul Food Restaurant in oakland. It will be the latest restaurant location for johnson and his wife, who founded their restaurant chain fix and soul kitchen about four years ago. The east bay times reporting their latest venture is scheduled to open near lake merritt next spring. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy was on maui this weekend with other lawmakers touring the devastation from last months wildfires. Mccarthy says he and his family have traveled to lahaina before and was familiar with the layout of the town. He says he wants to ensure the island recovers from what he calls, quote, sheer devastate on how can we make sure we find all those who are still lost and how do we rebuild . Thats the important part of why were here. We want to make sure we do it in the right manner. We want to work with the community. We want to be respectful for the history behind this area. We want to be respectful for the lives that were lost. There at least 115 people are confirmed dead, 48 have been identified and their families have been notified. Officials say its unclear how many people are still missing for 37. Your time this morning, Steve Paulson in the Weather Center. It is labor day today. And i think a lot of people were really hoping for that sunshine over the weekend. Sounds like today well get that wish. Theyll get that. Yes the system has kicked out. So after the fog burns off, if you get it or not and itll be sunny and itll be nice today. Temperatures pretty close to average, maybe a little below. But it was all about the weekend in the northern Sacramento Valley, northeast california, and for sure, in and around lake tahoe of 50 and 80 and also around reno, there were some pretty good thunderstorm activity popping up here. And the forecast models give them credit. They painted some pretty good totals up there. Now, some of the Higher Elevations picked up more than this, but 48 hour totals, blue canyon, two thirds. Reno had 43 100. Caples lake, a third of an inch. South lake tahoe, 15 to 1 is not far away, though you could find more than that 5060s on the temps probably stuck here. I think were going to stay in this range. Theres the overcast. Is there 36, though . Truckee, south, lake tahoe 5060s until you hit the desert, of course. And 70 and also 80s. A little spin in the atmosphere right there over my shoulder will kind of keep the beat going here. But the high and mid level clouds are now far enough away that we can say itll be sunny after the fog. Six to 70s coast and bay low overcast, cool to mild lows, mainly 50s, upper 50s, low 60s fog and sunshine. Nice to warm probably lake breeze there and temperatures settling in here for a couple of days at least through wednesday. Then it does gradually warm but no sign of any big warm up here until after the weekend at least. But temperatures will jump up a little bit there james, steve, i think i approve. I think i like that. Thank you. Speeding up, building Affordable Housing. We hear from the local senator sponsoring a new piece of legislation and a unique foot race in San Francisco over the weekend. Well take a closer look at the event that brought runners by oracle park and into the ballpark as well. Introducing an all new way to watch ktvu news live on your big screen search fox local on your tv streaming device and download it for free access all fox two newscasts plus exclusive features like the ktvu video vault archives search fox local on your tv streaming device or scan the code for how to stream ktvu news Caleb Williams has transferred to wendys for the new loaded nacho cheeseburger. This burgers my inspiration. And i just hope to inspire you. Oh you have inspired us. 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Happening today, city workers will start closing streets ahead of the annual dreamforce conference. Crews will close Howard Street between third and fourth streets. The conference is expected to draw 180,000 people next week. This year, speakers include, of course, the ceo of the company, marc benioff. Actor and salesforce brand partner Matthew Mcconaughey conservation conservationists jane goodall, a former ucsf patient, now sharing her story about going from needing a liver transplant to now planning her career as a doctor. Shell be honored with a courage award at the upcoming dream fest concert, which caps off the dreamforce conference. Ktvu Cristina Rendon talked with her about how she was inspired by the medical workers she met while she was hospitalized. When i was ten, my dad was diagnosed with osteo sarcoma. Selah kitchener remembers her dad went through chemotherapy and was in remission. But three years later, he was rediagnosed with lung cancer and went into hospice care at home. At the same time, kellys health suddenly declined, too. She was just 13. He had a lot of medical mistrust and a lot of fear in the medical system, so he didnt really want me going to the hospital right away because he felt like he wasnt taken very well. Care of. And he thought that the same thing was going to happen to me. I bounced back and forth between a couple of hospitals not really knowing what was going on, getting misdiagnosed a couple of times and eventually did end up at ucsf and was diagnosed with end stage liver failure. As she waited a couple of months for a transplant, her dad died. Selah says two weeks after he passed, she received a new liver. Selah was the first patient to receive a solid organ transplant at ucsfs Mission Bay Campus shortly after it opened. Five months later, she was back on the Basketball Court with a new lease on life. Fast forward to now. The 22 year old is a usc graduate pursuing medical school. My Number One Dream School is definitely ucsf. I would love love to be a part of their team and have my whole full circle moment with them. I would like to probably be an obgyn. I think that theres a huge need in the ob gyn field, especially for black women. What inspired you about the care you received that made you want to pursue becoming a doctor . I would say just the parental role that my care team was able to step into with my dad passing away only weeks before i got my transplant. Since then, shes done advocacy work and proved a commitment to health equity. Its why selah will be honored with the colin powell medal of courage award at dream fest, the concert at San Franciscos chase center will feature foo fighters with all proceeds going to support ucsf, benioff childrens hospital. I am so excited to be a part of it. I feel like getting the award and all the events and opportunities i get to do is super validating that im on the right track and im kind of doing the right thing with everything that happened, i feel like turning around and giving back to the community is kind of the best way to not only like come out of the experience, but also help me cope with it. Cristina rendon ktvu fox two news. The Farmers Market in downtown San Francisco is now at a new location. The market had been at United Nations plaza for the past 42 years, but now its across the street at fulton plaza. Many vendors oppose the move because the old spot, they say, was larger. The city is converting the old location to a rec area with a skate park ahead of labor day. Elected officials and Union Workers gathered in the south bay to mark months of strikes across the state. They called it the hot labor summer. Strikes have happened involving nurses, teachers and of course, that hollywood writers and actors. Workers need more to be able to live in the ever more expensive california. And theres a lot of levers we can pull at the government level to help address these issues. Lifting up workers, giving them more economic power is one, but also making building more housing, making housing more affordable. So labor groups say unions play a vital role in protecting workers by fighting for a living wage and benefits like retirement, Affordable Health care, as well as housing , ensuring that were not settling for robots, driving our trucks and cars that were asking the actual people do that. Those groups say surveys show as much as 90 of young people support unions and Union Activities as the as host. The Toronto Blue Jays at the Oakland Coliseum this afternoon. This comes after the as defeated the Los Angeles Angels 10 to 6 yesterday to complete that three game sweep in oakland. No longer has the worst record in major league baseball. The Kansas City Royals have 96 losses so far this season that is just one more than the oakland as. How about the giants . Well, they will face the cubs in chicago later today after losing three in a row to the padres in San Diego Padres shut out the giants four to nothing in yesterdays series finale. San francisco scored only one run on saturday. The giants are now tied for the third and final wild card spot in the National League with the arizona diamondbacks. Miami marlins and the cincinnati reds. Two and two. 2000 tons of people lacing up for a unique race in the city by the bay. I was there as the race started right outside oracle park, and that route actually takes you inside the ballpark a few. One this years giant race is full of runners whove never ran the course before. As you age and you know its time to start getting off the couch, covering. Starting just outside oracle park. The race, either a5k or ten k takes you along the embarcadero, then inside the ballpark. A lot of fun. You know, a lot of good perks at the end. And just good people, good vibes. It took 15 minutes for the first runners to finish the race. The first woman part of a team called the Alaska Airlines allstars. Ive been a professional runner the last five years. The race emphasized a focus on Mental Health and awareness, as well as promoting women and girls in sports. Its why the all stars are made up of olympic and professional female runners. This is an incredible experience to finish in the stadium. I think it was my favorite finish line that ive ever run in my running career for sure. This is the 14th giant race next year. Organizers are considering adding an option for a Half Marathon. Reporting in San Francisco, im james torres. Ktvu fox two news. A Miami Marlins doublea affiliate is offering its entire ballpark to rent for its fans. The pensacola blue wahoos is renting out its stadium on airbnb for. 5,143 a night. They say it has two queen beds, four bunk beds and unlimited access to the ballpark. That includes the batting cage on field practice, ping pong and the entire meal menu. Electricity is still out to 7 of florida this morning because of hurricane idalia. The storm knocked out power to roughly 570,000 homes and businesses, all across the state. 39,000 are still waiting for the lights to come back on. Coastal communities, including the city of cedar key, where that storm hit especially hard. Idalia took down walls and swept away appliances as large as washing machines. Recovery and reconstruction, Officials Say, will take a long time. All of this is going to take a while, and thats kind of whats in mind. You say, well, gosh, the weather is pretty. Everythings nice. People can work. But of course, it wasnt just us. Excuse me. Its all up and down the coastline. So people are so busy with real with real plumbers and real electricians, that just takes a while. Whether our agencies are now taking a deeper dive into idalia to get precise measurements, including its size, wind field and wind speeds, the data will help meteorologists better understand idalia and future hurricanes and in the wake of the storm, florida Fire Departments are alerting tesla owners their cars can catch fire if the electric batteries are exposed to saltwater. There have been a couple of car fires linked to hurricane idalia, including in tampa. First, that tampa mans tesla was damaged by flooding and then it caught fire when he tried to get the car towed. Tesla has also warned owners not to drive its cars if they were submerged in water for a long period of time. Time now for 50 this morning. Lets check in with Steve Paulson once again to talk a little bit about that labor day forecast. It looks pretty good. Were getting back to normal hill, james, after a weekend of a lot of thunderstorm activity. Look it, i mean, it was lit up big time here. Started on friday, continued well into sunday. Everything has calmed down the upper low has kicked out. As we talked about northern Sacramento Valley as well. Parts of mendocino county, lake county, mainly northeast california, but in and around tahoe, truckee, reno and 50 and 80, even northern Sacramento Valley, there were some pretty good thunderstorm activity. Blue canyon, two thirds of an inch. Reno had 43 100. Caples lake, a third of an inch. South lake tahoe 15 100. But there was more are not far away. 5060 on the thames. Pretty good fog bank out there. So these temps are probably stuck 36 in truckee and South Lake Tahoe, a lot of rain and flooding in las vegas over the weekend. 50 and 60s up and down the coast here. Little spin in the atmosphere just due west of medford. You see that little system coming down thatll keep the beat going here. They keep fog and low clouds going and then itll be sunny, itll be nice. But temperatures kind of really not changing all that much through wednesday. It does look a little bit warmer towards the end of the week. Nice to mild to warm. Probably a light breeze, but temperatures were at about where they should be to slightly below for this time of year. Not a big change, maybe a slight dip on wednesday. Then gradual warming, but it looks pretty good here going into the end of the week there. James, looking forward to it, steve. Thank you. The last day of the interstate 80 closure. Well take you live to where it is expected to reopen. And no more than 24 hours. Plus a thief breaks into a Jewelry Store. The group effort it took to make sure the crime didnt get any worse soft music heather and i had an argument just like any other couple. I was lost and lonely. I had snapped. I had a gun, and i was gonna take my own life. Heather helped me realize that there was still life to live. For the better of myself and my family, my weapon is now safely put away. A moment of crisis can happen to anyone. Store your gun securely, locked, unloaded, and away from ammo. Lowes knows that falls shorter days. Call for bigger deals. Get the most out of your fall projects. By getting the most out of our deals now. And with lowes pay, its never been easier to shop at lowes. Labor day savings are here. Instore and online. Robbery. And you can see it here all caught on camera. This was sunday afternoon in the la county city of el monte. Family members say they fought off the wouldbe thief who used a hammer display cases. Why did your family fight back like you did . Because we were so much for it. We used to work day and night and just someone to come and grab your stuff. Its not fair. The family says they were attacked with bear spray. That suspect eventually ran out the store empty handed. Police officers say they are reviewing that video and they are still working to arrest that man for the astronauts returned to earth early this morning after spending half the year on board the International Space station. Spacex crews splashed down off the Atlantic Coast of florida. One day later than originally planned. The return to earth was delayed because of the weather conditions along the south east coast. The crew included two americans, a russian and sultan alneyadi, who was the first person from the arab world to spend an extended period of time in orbit. All the crew members agree the first things they wanted to do when returning, when returning to earth were take some hot showers and drink some hot cups of coffee in the east bay city of pittsburgh, just blocks from the downtown, you will find the lions den boxing gym. It is the only boxing gym in pittsburgh. And it also serves as a nonprofit. Ktvus Claudine Wong got the chance to talk to its gym members, coaches and their amateur fighters, as well as their pro boxers about the passion for the sport and how they are giving back to community. Jab the action is nonstop inside the lions den boxing gym in pittsburgh. Oh, so i come monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and usually like friday, saturday and sunday are my breaks off. But sometimes i come like on saturday or sunday to spar. First we jump rope, then we get our gloves and then our coach puts on mitts and then we do that and then we hit the bag. Its hard work, but this is also a family. Everybody kind of just we all love each other and they all love this sport. Some have big plans boxer you will also find talent to back up those dreams. We heard about seven year old kayden before we saw him on the mitts. This kid hes hes got everything that it takes to build to be successful in boxing because im in a poor boston. Its a passion that extends to coaches like kaylie and night shes two and was an amateur and shes one of the coaches here my dream is to become a world champ without boxing, it would be a super, super confusing world. You can see dreams coming true in pro boxer amari jones. Im a professional nine and 0 or 8 knockouts and i just fought may 20th at the mgm grand and i won by knockout, jones says when his family opened the lions den two years ago, they did it for the community and especially for the kids. We kind of opened up the gym to bring light on another on another opportunity for kids to get out. Kids suffer from bullying. Some kids just want to learn how to defend themselves. Some kids want to, you know, use it to, you know, make it or whatever they want to do it. But we just wanted to open up that door and to let them know that its there. This is the only boxing gym in pittsburgh, and its a nonprofit that gives back with toy drives and turkey giveaways. This gym is also a sanctuary. Pittsburgh definitely needed this place for former professional boxer james paige. It is another chance. Im born and raised here in pittsburgh, california. I was a former wba welterweight champion of the world from pittsburgh. Ive been honored by the city, the city hall and everything. He had his highs. I did this for the ring magazine back in 1999. I think this is me right here. This is me. I did a picture of me right here, me and Floyd Mayweather when we were young. But paige has seen some significant lows. He says hes fought back and. I made some mistakes in my life, but i got myself together and im been been on the straight and narrow for the last four, four, four, four and a half years. And we just doing the right things here at find and getting everything going in the right direction, keeping the kids off the street, helping the kids. You know what i mean . Training kids. My dream is to be a World Champion trainer. This is a place, they say, to give support and be supported. We have kids here that wouldnt talk when they first started, they couldnt jump rope. And now theyre sparring. So yeah, its a huge change. Weve seen kids. Its a place for the next generation of difference makers , ceili coaches, the all girls class. Yeah, i wouldnt say its a mans world, right . But its definitely a more men in this sport. So thats why im teaching them to teach them confidence that even though youre a girl, you can still fight. Just as just as better, if not even faster and quicker and stronger as men. This is a place for possibility. Know World Champion to be at the top of the world, you know, to, i dont know, just the sky is the limit. And if you put in the work, my hook and my cross and my job, those are all your best ones and my uppercut. The door to the den is always open, just not turning anybody away. We want to help as many people as we could. You guys ready . Lions den on three. One, two, three. Fighting in pittsburgh. Claudine wong, ktvu fox two news. People are taking care of each other. We have food. We have provisions. We have shelter. So its really just kind of a group effort to get through this and tell the roads dry up. Thousands stranded in muddy conditions at the burning man festival. What were learning this morning about an investigation into a death at that event and a popular spot in yosemite closed this morning. The reason for the closure during one of the busiest times of the year for that National Park from ktvu fox two news, this is mornings on two. Welcome to mornings on two. Im allie rasmus. Today is monday, september 4th. It is labor day for everyone out there and Steve Paulson is here to tell us about the weather forecast. I know over the weekend it wasnt quite as warm as some of us may have hoped for. Today should be back to a little more normal. Its just fog. And then after that, itll be sunny, ali. But we are starting off with a pretty good fog bank out there. 5060s on the towns probably stuck. Most locations have some form of low clouds. If not, itll be a day where you get more sunshine after that low is now moving out. So look for 60s, 70s and 80s on the temps. James, you now downstairs. Is that where im going . No, youre going to go back to me, steve. Were going to check out some of the maps out there. You can see a broad view of the bay area commute at this 5 00 hour on a holiday. Nothing really to let folks or warn folks about things looking good there. And also on the san mateo bridge, very easy drive getting over to the peninsula. Lets show you the Golden Gate Bridge. Not too foggy. Visibility looks okay there. And the roads are very clear. And nevada Sheriffs Office continues to investigate the death that occurred at the burning man festival near reno. The Pershing County sheriff says the person died during the storm, but not because of it. Festival organizers say emergency workers were called in, but they could not resuscitate the person. Ctvs Bailey Ocarroll reports that bad weather at the Festival Grounds has left as many as 60,000 people stranded and its not clear yet when theyll be able to leave. In unusual late summer storm turned what was supposed to be a week away at burning man into to this. This is eileen lelchuk snyders first time at burning man. And now shes stuck in the nevada desert. The rain itself isnt. John gaines traveled from new york to attend the festival. Hes gone to burning man for the last 21 years. But he says hes never seen anything like this. Ive been through a couple of strong rains, but those were one time rains. Is created a problem and then it dried up and problem went away. The issue this year was multiple rains and i dont know that the event has ever experienced that. Gaines made it out an hour and a half before the gates were closed. The rest of his group is still stuck. Its the only person in my group who got out. We have about 60 people out there. Theyre veterans. They know what theyre doing. They got food and water. Theyre not panicking more than a half inch of rain fell at the festival site on friday. More came down this weekend. Both john and eileen said people are making the most out of the situation. Most people are still just chilling. As you can see around me, theres some empty campsites, but people seem to have been embraced and are not worried about getting out of here. We know that its going to dry up in both echoed the same message that people are coming together. Therell be a lot of sharing, people proactively going out and saying, hey, ive got a couple watermelons and some cans of tuna and some water here. Do you need anything they say helping others is no surprise. A quick Online Search and youll see it everywhere here. Dj and music producer diplo took to twitter to share his experience, saying he and Comedian Chris Rock walked five miles out of the festival before they were picked up by a passing fan. I asked john how he thought festival organizers were handling the situation. He said, well, and i asked him if he would return next year, which would mark his 22nd year. He said yes, in part because his son ethan may make it out for the very first time in the newsroom. Im Bailey Ocarroll, ktvu fox two news. Well, officials and festival organizers will decide later today when it will be safe enough to allow people to leave. Organizers say they plan to hold the big finale of the festival tonight. 504 is the time. And the former frontman for the bay area band smash mouth is in hospice due to liver failure. The bands manager says 56 year old singer Steve Harwell has only a week or so to live. Smash mouth was formed in 1994 in san jose. Harwell retired in 2021 due to health problems, including Heart Failure complicated by years of substance abuse. The chp is investigating a shooting on interstate 580 that left two people hurt in oakland. It happened around 430 saturday afternoon in the westbound direction near seminary avenue. This is video from the citizen app at the scene. The chp says two people were in a car when they were shot. They drove themselves to the hospital where they are expected to recover. Officer say some of the bullets hit another car, but no one inside any other vehicles was hurt. No ones been arrested for the crime. California governor gavin newsom has signed a bill into law that supporters say will ease the states housing crisis. The law is supposed to speed up Affordable Housing projects across the state. The new law will simplify the Environmental Review process for new projects thats supposed to avoid any long term repetitive reviews, which can lead to delays. Theres just nothing worse than having a project all ready to go, ready to build, you know, ready to house people already cleared environmentally. And then just to find out that the little bit of government Financial Assistance that youre getting is going to cause you to have to go through those hoops all over again. Experts say californias Affordable Housing crisis is only expected to get worse in the years ahead. The states population is expected to grow by 10 Million People by the year 2050. Well, there are changes coming next year for students who apply for a federal student grants. The new changes are designed to make applying easier for families to understand. Students can soon apply for 20 colleges to their fafsa. The application will also have fewer questions. More students can have their Financial Information directly transferred from the irs. That could cut out a major delay in getting student aid. The new changes will begin in december. A busy bay area, a busy area for rock climbing in Yosemite National park has been closed because of the threat of a rock slide. The National Park service says climbers reported a new crack in the cliff near royal arches. Thats not far from the ahwahnee hotel. After inspecting the cliff, the park closed much of the area, saying theres a threat that a large pillar of rock could possibly fall. No word yet on when it will reopen. 506 is the time. Lets check in on the weather forecast. Steve paulson has you covered. I sure hope so, ali. Im doing my best here. We do have temperatures that will rebound a little bit here from a cool weekend here as that system dropped in today. Were going upper 70s and low 80s after all, 70s. Yesterday, Santa Rosa Redwood city, livermore, san jose, 82, 79, 82 and 80 degrees. Thunderstorm activity widespread started friday rain and then turned to thunderstorms. Northern Sacramento Valley, mendocino county. Parts of lake county, mainly northeast california and 53 and 80. There were some pretty good cells that were just blowing up, as we like to say here. But it looks much calmer now. But over the course of a couple of days, blue canyon, two thirds of an inch. Reno had 43 100. Caples lake, a third of an inch. South lake tahoe, 15 100. But not far away, you could find a lot more than that 50s on the temps to near 60 on these temps here. 3634. Truckee, South Lake Tahoe, even mammoth at 38, renos at 45. A hint of fall in the air. No doubt everything quiet little system spinning down just to the west of medford that will keep the pattern going for a little bit. Its not a very strong system, but it wants that impulse goes through after tuesday into wednesday. Then well start to see gradual warming. But theres not a big change here. Low overcast, cool to mild fog, then sun nice to mild to warm. So 60s, 70s and 80s. Not much change really. Just day to day changes through wednesday. End of the week does look a little bit warmer inland there, ali. All right. Thank you, steve. The return to the campaign trail for president ial hopefuls is how gop candidates are reacting to Donald Trumps continued lead in the polls. And california still uses watchtowers to prevent the spread of wildfires. Well hear from those who volunteer their time to keep those fires from getting out of control. And theres a new hour of news coming to ktvu this month. First at 7 p. M, were debuting the west coast rap. A fresh regional take on the west coast. Biggest and most relevant stories of the day. Then at 730, its ktvu fox two news at 730, a local newscast featuring the bay areas top stories, newsmaker interviews and your local forecast and sports. It all starts one week from today here on ktvu fox [upbeat music] get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. Contact your volvo retailer to learn more. Its just so inspiring to do research that impacts human lives. Stand up to cancer has been a critical partner in advancing research for cancer. So please help us fight in this battle against cancer. Yes. So that is right. One side is closed, but those workers have been working quickly to try to get that repavement done. And it is a big, big project. But it should be done by tomorrow morning. You can see that this side, this is i80 going westbound. That whole stretch is going to be closed. That whole side of the carquinas bridge, you can see a chp officer here just blocking it off so people cant come on this side. But its a three mile stretch that theyve been working on, closing down the highway over four weekends to try to avoid a big traffic impact. But those detours, though, have caused some headaches and we could see a big backup with people coming back from their Labor Day Weekend vacations. Now it is closed westbound and i80 detours take drivers onto 780in vallejo past benicia and then onto 680 towards concord. You can then reenter 80 at highway. For now. This weekend is the first time in its 20 year history that the carquinez bridge has been closed. Many of us know it as the carquinez bridge, but its actually named the alfred zampa memorial bridge, named after an ironworker that worked on multiple bridges here in the bay area. He actually fell off of the Golden Gate Bridge and he was in the hospital for weeks. But then he recovered and came back to continue his work on bridges. And this weekend, they say that they are really celebrate ing him because coincides with labor day. And so theyre really going to be celebrating him. Were actually going to be talking to one of his family members later this morning about his work and kind of what it means to be up grading the bridge and upgrading this whole roadway as well. Now while the bridge has been closed, caltrans has also been able to work on some of the lights that needed repairing on the bridge as well. But they say when drivers return to the roadway, they should notice a difference. It should feel smoother. So people should be happy, although, you know, road closures caused a headache, they should be happy once this is all over. Live on the carquinez bridge, amanda quintana, ktvu fox two news. Amanda thank you. Bay area lawmakers are scheduled to attend several labor day events throughout the area today to mark the contributions of American Workers this holiday at 730 this morning, Sonoma County leaders are among the guests at the 26th annual north Bay Council Labor Day Breakfast in santa rosa, the Napa Solano Central Labor Council will hold its holiDay Breakfast later this morning in benicia and congressman barbara lee will be among those taking part in a labor day march and rally in oakland. Its being organized by some unions representing hospital workers and theyll gather at Mosswood Park 930 this morning. And walk to the Kaiser Permanente. Oakland Medical Center to protest the ongoing contract negotiations with the hospital. The labor contract for many kaiser workers is set to expire at the end of this month. Lets take a look at the businesses that will be closed this labor day. Banks post offices, the stock market and government offices are closed today. Ups and fedex stores will not be open, but will pick up and deliver Costco Stores and its gas stations are closed today. Most transit agencies will run on a holiday or sunday schedule. Well, labor day is a time to honor and reflect upon the importance in history of workers and americas economy, society and achievements. Ktvu is tom vacar spoke with a work and employment expert about two issues that continue to shake americas workforce. We have the shortages. We asked employment lawyer and former director Michael Bernick to compare labor day 2023 to 2022. Its really the Seismic Shift of the pandemic. Hes talking about remote work, which he says is not dying off, as many believed it would or should. Remote work is here to stay. Its only it hasnt really decreased significantly, at least in most parts of the area. The other soon to come, Seismic Shift is the impact of Artificial Intelligence on jobs. Artificial intelligence wasnt even an issue. It is exploded. The main impacts over the next year will be how ai impacts and frankly impacts positively. In most cases, existing jobs. As californias employment is now at 4. 6 higher than the national average, but still relatively low since last labor day. On average, wages have grown over 4. At the same time, though, its below the wage growth we had in 2022 at labor day, which was 5. 2, and even more importantly, its been undercut by the continued inflation. Though californias job gains have slowed considerably, the golden state is still gaining jobs. In 2022, we had over 50,000 jobs gained per month. Thats gone down the last month gain was about 28,000. And i think were going to continue to see continued slowdown due to the higher Interest Rates beginning to have their fuller impact as well as the depleted consumer savings. Tech layoffs continue from last labor day, but at a much slower pace. One issue unchanged from last year, was and remains the lack of workers needed to fill lower paying direct service and nonunion blue collar jobs. Tom vacar ktvu fox two news. Well new figures from the bureau of labor statistics show manufacturing tops the list of sectors seeing significant worker shortages with 550,000 job openings in july. Construction is next with about 363,000 jobs available. The numbers show there are shortages of commercial airline pilots, High School Teachers and school bus drivers. There are growing concerns about the threat of a major wildfire in california with the state now moving into the peak of fire season for some of the recent. For some, the recent decline in the number of fire lookout sites is adding to those concerns. Now, at one time, there were more than 600 lookout sites in areas of high fire danger across the state. That number has now dropped to fewer than 200. Cal fire says these towers in the past have played a Critical Role in having volunteers to spot big wildfires before they get out of control. So we currently have a 360 degree view on a clear day, we can see up to 100 miles, i believe that the human eye is the best tool up in the Lookout Tower, northwest, we can see the pilot peak range, which is where another cal fire lookout is, is located. Cal fire says the recent declining number of Lookout Towers is due mostly to a dwindling number of volunteers. Its also pivoting to more web cams by 18 is the time. With that, lets talk about the weather and any potential for fire danger. Its been pretty mild. No, its pretty quiet here Going Forward , ali. Thats the good news here. And this you know, so, i mean, theres nothing, you know, that says any offshore event is on its way. In fact, it looks quite well into the next 7 to 10 days. Here we have a pretty good fog bank out there, but the upper low, which was responsible for our cloud cover and cool down on the weekend is now kicked out. So now well into Eastern Nevada and heading toward salt lake city. So that means we see temperatures bumping up a little bit, 70 yesterday, upper 70s, low 80s. Today, lots of activity in the mountains started friday, up 50 and 80. Northern Sacramento Valley, mendocino county, lake county, northeast california. And in and around tahoe, truckee and reno, there was some pretty good activity here popping up at that has all calmed down, but still, blue canyon, two thirds of an inch over the 48 hour total in reno, 43, 100. Caples lake, third of an inch, south, lake tahoe, 15 to 1 hundreds. But there were greater amounts than that not far away, 50s on the temps are low 60s probably stuck here on the temps is what were looking at although its cold in the mountains mammoth and also South Lake Tahoe and truckee all in the 30s here. Little spin in the atmosphere just to the west southwest here , just to the northwest excuse me of eureka. Thats just going to just going to zip on through. But thatll keep some low clouds and fog going so low, overcast that burns back. Itll be sunny, itll be nice. Mild to warm here. Temperature is pretty close to where they should be to even slightly below, which is 6070s and 80s. Really theres not much change through the end of the week. Maybe a little warmer towards the end of the week there, ali. All right. Okay. Thank you, steve. Well she was just 13 years old when she came to ucsf for a liver transplant. Now she is studying to be a doctor herself. Well tell you about the inspiration behind her career choice. 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The last time he was on stage was a surprise performance in rhode island back in july. A new report finds Cancer Patients are not always getting the care they need because of the volume of red tape they have to deal with. Researchers found patients who had to contend with a lot of paperwork were 18 more likely to experience delays in getting their care or finding themselves unable to stick to a treatment plan. The study was carried out by the commonwealth fund, a Health Policy think tank. More cities across the country are trying new ways to help people having a Mental Health crisis. Theyre deploying paramedics or other types of Health Care Professions to those types of emergencies instead of police. More than half of the largest cities in the us, including some here in the bay area like oakland, are creating the alternative Response Teams support says of the idea. Say Health Care Workers can spend more time with Mental Health calls than police can. Were very proficient in deescalating clients who are in behavioral or emotional crisis and they have the time to spend. If that takes two hours, they can spend two hours. An engine or an aid car e to get back in service. Medical workers can also help patients find long term assistance. People who work in similar operations around the country say the biggest problem they have is finding money to keep those programs running so that they can continue to help people. This way, a Holiday Weekend can be especially painful time for older people who are alone. And now a number of restaurants and nonprofit groups across the country are teaming up to help the growing number of Older Americans who may be lonely and looking for companionship. The dine out Program Allows them to enjoy a free meal with others. It began during the covid 19 crisis. Since the pandemic, isolation of people 60 and older has gone up an unprecedented amount 200. The dine out program is in response to a very serious problem. The us Surgeon General says feelings of loneliness can be as bad for your health as smoking up to 15 cigarets a day. The Parent Company of banquet frozen foods is recalling 245,000 pounds of frozen Chicken Strips. Conagra brands says it discovered some of its Chicken Strips could contain pieces of plastic. The company says at least one person was reported injured after eating a Chicken Strip that contained plastic. Another rally against robo taxis happening in San Francisco on this labor day. What this demonstration will focus on and the second gop debate just a few weeks away. The candidates who are most likely going to be there for round two. And now you can have the Morning Headlines delivered right to you by signing up for the ktvu newsletter. Just head to ktvu. Com email to sign up for that daily ser at cretors, we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. From his motorcycle during a crash in San Francisco. The new calls for safety this morning. And congressional lawmakers toured the devastation in maui. Their promise to help the area rebuild. From ktvu fox two news, this is mornings on two. Welcome back to mornings on two. Im ali rasmus. Today is monday, september 4th. It is labor day. And a lot of folks out there still have one day left of their long weekend. Steve paulson, what can they expect a little better than what we had over the weekend . I mean, the higher clouds are gone. The fog is still there, but 50 60s on the temps here. Once the fog burns off, then it will be sunny. Today, we are looking for that low, which is now in salt lake city. So much quieter from the mountains as well. Temps recovering from below average over the weekend, 60 near average 60s, 70s and 80s. Over to ali now. Update on any traffic, ali, we are going to show some of the roadways this morning, starting with this live picture of 880 north and southbound past the Oakland Coliseum here. It looks good, but a little north of this picture at the oak street on ramp, there is a crash blocking that on ramp in the southbound direction. And also taking a look at the macarthur maze this morning, things look pretty clear. No problems on that issue of freeway traffic, very light. Lets show you one more view of do we have another camera out there . All right. Just macarthur maze. Okay. So things are looking pretty good traffic wise. Well continue to update you throughout the morning. 530 is the time today some workers in San Francisco are using labor day to push back against the expansion of selfdriving vehicles. Members of several unions say they plan to rally outside the headquarters of cruise later push regulators to take back some of the rules that allowed those selfdriving Car Companies to expand. They say the robotaxi fees are threatening the jobs of many bay area rideshare drivers. A chp officer is in the hospital after he was hit by a car in downtown San Francisco. Ktvu is alice wertz has the latest on the officer and what happened with that collision. It was 3 09 p. M. Here at third and harrison street in San Francisco. A chp officer on a motorcycle was thrown after colliding with a cadillac sedan. Its unclear how the crash occurred. Officer mark andrews of the chp told us by phone. First responders got to the scene south of market almost immediately, Emergency Personnel arrived on the scene within approximately 1 to 2 minutes of the traffic collision on the motor officer was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with parents non life threatening injuries. A medical staff here at General Hospital are still treating him. And were still unsure of what the extent of the injuries are at this time. The driver of the cadillac was said to be cooperating with officers. That person was also taken to the hospital, although its unknown if they were hurt. According to officer andrews. I do know that there was another vehicle involved with the motorcycle. Mike larkin lives in the outer sunset, but parked his car here earlier today to run an errand. When i got here, it had all taken place already, so im not sure. But there were there must have been at least 20 officers here or more, although larkin didnt see what happened, he said investigators wouldnt let him move his car as the officer landed right near his sedan. I came back about an hour, hour ago, and i could see they put the officer in the ambulance and i couldnt tell how how injured he was. But another policeman told me that hed been thrown in, almost touch my car. So he must have been thrown about 30ft. The area around third and harrison was closed to traffic for a block in every direction for hours while the california Highway Patrol there Major Accident Investigation Team gathered evidence taking pictures as part of their investigation. As for mike larkin, he says he drives slow, saying he knows it can be dangerous driving or walking in the city. Theres just a lot a lot to take in and people arent paying attention in a lot of people running lights and just driving too fast. Fortunately, neither the motorcycle officer or the other driver sustained life threatening injuries. There is Surveillance Video cameras at the intersection where the accident happened. No doubt that tape will be reviewed in the investigation. Alice wirtz, ktvu fox two news. Well there is some public outcry in new york city as the nypd is warning it will fly drones over some Outdoor Events this Labor Day Holiday. Police say the drones can respond to situations more quickly than officers on the ground and can cover a larger area. Some of the Outdoor Events that could be patrolled this way include parades as drones have been used about 100 times in new york this year for emergencies and public safety, including a recent riot in which a social Media Influencer gave away some video game consoles in new york citys mayor says privacy rights will still be respected. We have to push back on the sci fi aspects of drones as no one is going to be monitoring. And you know what . Youre talking about your conversation, the fact that the police want to just drone into your backyard to see how many people youre having at a party, it really is a scary step for policing in general. We also live in a very vertical city. So is it safe to say that the police could now potentially use a drone to peek into apartments high up in the sky . These are all really questions i think the city council and the state legislature should really rein them in on. The aclu released a report this summer that finds more than 1300 Police Departments across the us use drones in some capacity. A prison in minnesota remains on lockdown after some inmates took over part of that facility. The stillwater state prison is in bayport, which is east of minneapolis. Corrections Officials Say about 100 inmates in one living unit refused to return to their cells. Authorities say all employees were removed from the common areas of that unit that was taken over. Extra police, firefighters and other emergency teams were standing by outside the prison as the situation unfolded. No one was hurt. The republican candidates for president are getting ready for their second debate. This one will take place right here in california. Round two is scheduled for september 27th at the reagan president ial library in simi valley. There were plenty of political fireworks between eight republican candidates during last months debate in milwaukee. Im the only non neocon on this stage. You have no Foreign Policy experience and it shows, you know what . I wish you well in your future career on the boards of lockheed and raytheon, former President Donald Trump has still not revealed whether he will take part in this second debate. Trump sat out the first debate and still has a huge lead over other republican candidates in the polls. The gop president ial candidates are getting ready to return to the campaign trail after the Holiday Weekend. The second debate we just mentioned just a few weeks away. Florida Governor Ron Desantis, though, had to put his campaign on a brief pause to tend to some storm Recovery Efforts in his state. Other candidates appeared on the sunday morning talk shows. They were asked about former president trumps commanding lead in the polls. If donald trump is the nominee, yes, i will support him. And if im the president , yes, i will pardon him because that will help reunite the country. But its not the most important thing im going to do as the next president. It is the table stakes for moving this country forward. I dont think president trumps going to be the nominee. I think its going to be me. But i will tell you that any republican is better than what joe biden and Kamala Harris are doing. I say with humility. Im im just simply the most experienced, out, tested and proven conservative running for the republican nomination today. But with you know, with with regard to the polling, its just not what im seeing on the ground. A wall street journal poll shows trump leading with 59 of republican primary voters. 536 is the time. And former nba star cal grad and ex sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson planning to open a soul Food Restaurant in oakland. It will be the newest restaurant location for johnson and his wife, who founded their restaurant chain fixins soul kitchen four years ago. The east bay times reports their latest venture is scheduled to open near lake merritt next spring. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy was in maui this weekend with other lawmakers touring the devastation from last months wildfires. Mccarthy says he and his family have traveled to lahaina before, and he was familiar with the layout of the town. He says he wants to make sure the island recovers from what he calls, quote, sheer devil station. How can we make sure we find all those who are still lost and how do we rebuild . Thats the important part of why were here. We want to make sure we do it in the right manner. We want to work with the community. We want to be respectful for the history behind this area. We want to be respectful for the lives that were lost. There at least 115 people are confirmed dead. 48 have been identified. And their families notified. Officials say its unclear how many people are still missing. Well, it is the Labor Day Weekend and Labor Day Holiday today. And at 538, we are looking at some of the roadways this morning, including this live picture of the eastshore freeway through emeryville. Many people hitting the highway on this labor day. It marks the unofficial end of summer again in this picture, you can see that eastshore freeway traffic looking okay. It could, though, change as the afternoon goes on. Triple a says today is going to be one of the busiest days of the year on the nations highways as people return home this afternoon from their vacations as caltrans closure of interstate 80 continues today, it has shut down the westbound lanes of interstate 80 between interstate 780 and vallejo and highway four in hercules. Caltrans crews are completing the final phase of a major repaving project in that area. Now, the closure includes the westbound side of the carquinez bridge. It is the first time caltrans has shut down the bridge for repaving work since it first opened 20 years ago. All westbound lanes of interstate 80 are scheduled to reopen before tomorrow mornings commute. With that, lets turn things over to Steve Paulson. Weve got our check of the traffic conditions now. Hows the weather looking, ali . On friday, if you are around marine world, american canyon, benicia, vallejo, you have my sympathy. It was brutal traffic because of that closure. Brutal traffic. I mean, its almost done. I think. I believe its supposed to reopen up at 5 a. M. Tomorrow. Gosh, i hope so. All right. Thank you. We do have our system that gave us the cloud cover, the unseen seasonably Cool Temperatures has now moved out there. Still pretty good fog back out there, but temps will bump up a little bit here. Santa rosa, redwood city, livermore in san jose, 80, 79, 82 and 80 on the forecast highs. So i think we bottomed out for a couple of days, but it does not look like any big warm up and much quieter up in the mountains, although i mean northern Sacramento Valley, mendocino county, lake county, northeast california in and around tahoe, truckee and reno, there are some pretty good activity now. There were some greater amounts in some of the Higher Elevations, but areas, you know, best blue canyon, two thirds of an inch. Reno had 43 100. Caples lake, a third, South Lake Tahoe, 15 100. But you could find more than that. Not far away, temps aloft are not that warm. 50 on the temps are right at 60 from altvater, a little northeast there, a little north wind at ben lomond. So the air aloft is slowly going to warm up after a significant cooldown. 5060 on your temps here, 34 in tahoe, 36 in truckee and 37 mammoth boy, that didnt take long. I mean, usually right after labor day, thats when the temps in the mountains start to drop off. But theyre already there. The low is now into salt lake city, up into idaho. But little spin in the atmosphere coming down from the northwest. So kind of keep us from jumping up too soon, too fast here on the temp, so low overcast. Then itll be sunny. Nice to mild to warm 60s, 70s and 80s. These are close to average to slightly below, but we will start to see after wednesday. It does look like some inland temps will start to bump up a little bit there. Ali all right. Thank you, steve. Well, one of californias most famous Tourist Spots could be closed for months. Well show you some of the damage from the recent flooding that happened in death valley National Park. And a unique foot race in San Francisco over the weekend. Well take a closer look at the event that brought runners by oracle park and into the park as well. 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The conference is expected to draw 180,000 people next week. This years speakers include the ceo of the company, marc benioff. Actor and salesforce brand partner Matthew Mcconaughey and Animal Welfare and conservationist jane goodall, a former ucsf patient, is sharing her story about going from needing a liver transplant to now planning her career as a doctor. Shell be honored with a courage award at the upcoming dream fest concert, which caps off the Dreamforce Convention in ktvu. Cristina rendon talked with selena kushner about how she was inspired by the medical workers she met while she was hospitalized. When i was ten, my dad was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. Selah kitchener remembers her dad went through chemotherapy and was in remission, but three years later, he was rediagnosed with lung cancer and went into hospice care at home. At the same time, kellys health suddenly declined too. She was just 13. He had a lot of medical mistrust and a lot of fear in the medical system. So he didnt really want me going to the hospital right away because he felt like he wasnt taken very well care of. And he thought that the same thing was going to happen to me. I bounced back and forth between a couple of hospitals not really knowing what was going on, getting misdiagnosed a couple of times, and eventually did end up at ucsf and was diagnosed with end stage liver failure as she waited a couple of months for a transplant, her dad died, selah says, two weeks after he passed , she received a new liver. Selah was the first patient to receive a solid organ transplant at ucsfs Mission Bay Campus shortly after it opened. Five months later, she was back on the Basketball Court with a new lease on life. Fast forward to now. The 22 year old is a usc graduate pursuing medical school. My Number One Dream School is definitely ucsf. I would love love to be a part of their team and have my whole full circle moment with them. I would like to probably be an obgyn. I think that theres a huge need in the gyn field, especially for black women. What inspired you about the care you received that made you want to pursue becoming a doctor . Yeah, i would say just the parental role that my care team was able to step into with my dad passing away only weeks before i got my transplant. Since then, shes done advocacy work and proved a commitment to health equity. Its why selah will be honored with the colin powell medal of courage award at dream fest, the concert at San Franciscos chase center will feature foo fighters with all proceeds going to support ucsf, benioff childrens hospital. I am so excited to be a part of it. I feel like getting the award and all the events and opportunities i get to do is super validating that im on the right track and im kind of doing the right thing with everything that happened. I feel like turning around and giving back to the community is kind of the best way to not only like come out of the experience, but also help me cope with it. Cristina rendon ktvu fox two news. 547 is the time now and the as host the Toronto Blue Jays at the Oakland Coliseum this afternoon. This comes after the as defeated the Los Angeles Angels 10 to 6 yesterday to complete a three game sweep in oakland. No longer has the worst record in major league baseball. The Kansas City Royals have 96 losses. So far this season, one more than the oakland as. The San Francisco giants will face the cubs in chicago later today after losing three in a row to the padres in san diego. The padres shut out the giants four to nothing in yesterdays series finale, San Francisco scored only one run on saturday. The giants are now tied for the third and final wild card spot in the National League with the arizona diamondbacks, Miami Marlins and cincinnati reds. About 6000 people laced up their Running Shoes for the annual race at the home of the San Francisco giants. We do. One they took part in the 14th annual San Francisco giant race at oracle park yesterday morning. The event featured a5k and ten k race for both runners and walkers along San Franciscos waterfront. The finish line is inside the ballpark. A lot of fun. You know, a lot of good perks at the end and just good people, good vibes. This is an incredible experience to finish in the stadium. I think it was my favorite finish line that ive ever run in my running career for sure. The San Francisco giants race has become the citys one of the citys most popular events. Organizers are now considering adding a Half Marathon next year. Well, electricity is still out to 7 of florida this morning because of hurricane idalia. The storm knocked out power to roughly 570,000 homes and businesses across the state. 39,000 are still waiting for the lights to come back. Coastal communities, including the city of cedar key, were especially hard hit. Idalia took down walls and swept away large appliances and washing machines. In some cases, recovery and reconstruction will take some time. All of this is going to take a while, and thats kind of whats in mind. You say, well, gosh, the weather is pretty. Everythings nice. People can work. But of course, it wasnt just us. Excuse me. Its all of them down the coastline. So people are so busy with real with real plumbers and real electricians, that just takes a while. Weather agencies are now taking a deeper look into idalia to get some more precise measurement, including its size. Winfield and wind speeds. This data will help meteorologists better understand idalia and other future hurricanes. As in the wake of idalia florida Fire Departments are warning tesla owners their cars can catch fire if the electric batteries are exposed to saltwater. There have been a couple cases of car fires linked to this, including in tampa. A man in tampa said his tesla was damaged by flooding. Then it caught fire when he tried to get the car towed. Tesla has also warned owners not to drive its cars if those vehicles were submerged in water for a long period of time. 550 is the time. No worries here about any sort of rainfall like that or any inclement weather in our really mild period. No, we had an unseasonably cool pattern on the weekend. Ali will gradually recover here, but theres no sign of any big warm up or heat wave or offshore wind event or anything like that. So, so far, so good for february or excuse me, for as we go into september here, because its been a cool pattern. It will gradually warm up 50s and 60s on your temps. 30s in the mountains truckee south, lake tahoe and also mammoth. All in the 30s. There the low responsible for our cooldown, the cloud cover and especially the thunderstorm activity north and east of us has now moved off towards salt lake city. So after the fog burns back, well have sunshine today and temperatures slowly recovering here, but theyll be close to average, maybe slightly below which translates into 60s 70s, anywhere near the water and then 80s through the interior. Not much change through wednesday. It does look a little warmer inland as we head towards the end of the week, ali. Thank you, steve. Well, a plan to build a new city in Solano County could face an uphill battle. Well hear from some local leaders who say more needs to be done to get neighbors on board with this plan. And a thief breaks into a Jewelry Store. The group effort it took to stop that crime from happening when it comes to making plans, you are the best. The same way you plan each detail for those moments, start planning to protect you and your loved ones from a natural disaster. 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Its not fair. The family says they were attacked with bear spray and the thief eventually ran out of the store empty handed. Police officers say they are reviewing the video. Still working to arrest the thief. Four astronauts returned to earth early this morning after spending half the year on board the International Space station. The spacex crew splashed down off the Atlantic Coast of florida. One day later than originally planned, and the return to earth was delayed because of weather conditions along the southeastern us coast. The crew included two americans, a russian and sultan al nahyan, who was the first person from the arab world to spend an extended period of time in orbit. All the crew members agreed the first things they wanted when they returned to earth were some hot showers and hot cups of coffee. A new report found that bay area residents that left for different states during the pandemic are now unhappy with their exodus, especially bay area. People who went to austin. Workers in the austin tech scene tell insider that even though austin is gaining a foothold in the tech world, talent remains concentrated in the bay area, one tech founder said. Austin is where ambition goes to die. Us Postal Service data shows that austin saw the fifth largest outward migration among major us cities. The final day of the 157th scottish highland gathering in games happened over the weekend. The Alameda County fairgrounds in pleasanton was turned into a festive place this weekend. The environment sends you back in time with people sharing scottish and irish history and highland dancing along with drumming to show you what it would feel like to be at a celtic party. Some of the worlds most some of the worlds top professionals competed in competitions throwing hammer stones, putts and distance weights. Organized heirs say that even though it seems like faraway history, its actually more recent than you would think. The renaissance was only 450 years ago. So only 400 years before me. And the signing of the constitution is only 250 years old, 200 years before our country. This lifestyle was was going on in europe and they were sending people like sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Walter Scott here. To bring back wares and things to trade. More than 60 clan and societies parties reported in this years games. Well happening today the annual hip hop Music Block Party known as hero day happening in oakland today. The music event is family friendly. It starts at 11 a. M. And it goes on till six or excuse me, 7 00 this evening. Theyll have more than 30 Live Performances on three stages by legendary underground and undiscovered hip hop and r b artists. High road is a nod to the album called 93 til infinity, and the oakland based Hip Hop Group called hieroglyphics, a San Francisco Movie Theater is honoring one of the most legendary movie makers of all time, martin scorsese, the four star theater in the Richmond District is showing a variety of scorsese films throughout the month in anticipation of the directors latest film, the theme is more than a gangster, and the theater staff is hoping to show how much variety scorsese has had in his career. The Farmers Market in downtown San Francisco now at a new location. The market had been at United Nations plaza for the past 42 years. Now its across the street at fulton plaza. Many vendors opposed the move because the old spot was larger. The city is converting the old location to a Recreation Area with a skate park. Well good morning. One more day of traffic problems between solano and contra costa counties. Were live with the impact of the long weekends closure of interstate 80 and what it means for tomorrows back to work commute and this labor day is one of the busiest in years for Union Activity and strikes. What that means for the Labor Movement as hundreds of thousands of workerm ktvu fox two news, this is mornings on two. Welcome to mornings on two at 6 a. M. Your eyes do not deceive you. Im andre senior in for dave clark. Im allie rasmus. It is monday, september 4th. Happy labor day to you. Happy labor day. Are laboring labor morning along with Steve Paulson to bring you all the news and weather today. Im just doing the weather you guys do the news. I know youre the scientist. Youre the we have our system is out of the picture. But the fog is back big time. Fog bank is in place. Were getting back to a kind of a quiet, normal pattern here. 50 60s on the temps after an unseasonably strong system, you can see thats finally left. But boy, did it produce some big time thunderstorm activity northeast. And also up over tahoe. But today its back to normal, as we say, 6070s and 80. All right. Am i going back to the news now . We can check on traffic, steve. Im going to send us out to those live Traffic Camera pictures. Youre seeing. This one, 880 this morning in oakland. Things very light out there. Be aware, though, in the southbound direction of 880 at oak street, part of that onramp is blocked because of a collision earlier this morning. Lets show you the eastshore freeway where you can see traffic moving smoothly. No major problems. Be aware that far north of this and that westbound 80 direction there is that closure affecting the carquinez bridge for one more day, Golden Gate Bridge traffic this morning never a problem. And you can see you can actually see the roadways out there this morning. Visibility looks to be okay, andre. Well, todays a final full day. Caltrans will have a stretch of interstate 80 shut down the westbound freeway near the carquinez bridge has been closed between vallejo and hercules for the entire weekend. The summer ktvu amanda cattand is live there now and says the project is getting close to completion and can tell us what drivers should expect. Amanda yeah, its very, very close. Andre just one more day. They are scheduled to be done tomorrow morning and caltrans has been working very hard to get some of the Major Repairs done. You can see a very empty westbound side here as you go onto the carquinas bridge. It is closed on this side. Hopefully just today being the last day. But its a three mile stretch that they have been trying to work on very quickly, closing down the highway over four weekends to try to avoid a big traffic impact. But the detours have caused some headaches and we could see a backup with people coming back from their Labor Day Weekend vacations that closure is on the westbound side this weekend. The detour takes drivers onto 780in vallejo past benicia and then onto 680 towards concord. You can then reenter 880 at highway four. If youre headed up toward sacramento, that side of the bridge and the highway is open right now, the pavement on i80 that were replacing, weve been spot repairing for over 30 years. So what were doing in one fell swoop is completely replacing that area so we dont have to go back for 40 years. This weekend is the first time in its 20 year history that the carquinez bridge has been closed. Many of us know it as the carquinez bridge, but its named the alfred zampa memorial bridge, named after an ironworker that worked on multiple bridges here in the bay area. He actually fell off the Golden Gate Bridge. He was in the hospital for weeks, but he came back after Getting Better to continue his work. So this Labor Day Weekend, he and other men and women that have been helping build and maintain our infrastructure, they are being celebrated today while the bridge has been closed, caltrans has been also able to fix some other things. They fixed some of the lights on the bridge and they say when people come back to this road after the headaches of it being closed and all of those weekends, they say people will feel the difference. They will feel that it will be smoother. So its all good in the long run. Live in vallejo, amanda quintana, ktvu fox two news. Amanda thank you. A chp motorcycle officer and another driver being treated for serious injuries after colliding in San Francisco at an intersection yesterday afternoon. Witnesses say the chp officer was thrown off his motorcycle and into the street at harrison and third streets. The driver of the car involved stayed at the scene and cooperated with investigators. We spoke with the chp representative who says First Responders arrived at the scene very quickly. Emergency personnel arrived on the scene within approximately 1 to 2 minutes of the traffic collision. The motor officer was transported to San Francisco General Hospital with parents non life threatening injuries. The driver of the car also went to San Francisco General Hospital, but we dont know how badly injured either. Driver was. There are surveillance cameras at that intersection and officers will look at video from those in their investigation of the collision on the chp is investigating a shooting on interstate 580 that left two people hurt. In oakland. It happened around 430 saturday afternoon in the westbound direction near seminary avenue. This is citizen video from the scene. The chp says two people were in a car when they were shot. They drove themselves to a hospital where they are expected to recover. Our officers say bullets struck another car, but no one inside was hurt. Police have not yet arrested anyone for the shooting. Well the vision of a new solano city. New city in Solano County is being met with skepticism from some local residents and officials. The group Flannery Associates backed by major Silicon Valley investors, purchase large swaths of land near highway 12 between rio vista and fairfield, but theyll have to convince locals before they can build anything. And that may be easier said than done, since some residents say theyre concerned about the secrecy involved in this project. Solano county leaders are weighing the pros and cons of the idea, which is still in the early stages. If its done correctly, i think theres a lot of opportunities for the county. We probably will get better medical access, we probably will get better stores, well get better restaurants, but were going to get a lot more traffic. Were going to get a lot more congestion. The better thing would be to approach our city leaders and work with us within our city boundaries, not to create a new city. I think that endeavor is a bit self motivated with their own end goal, which is to create a new playground for who they want there versus what the needs of our residents are. And our community members. Now the people behind the proposal say they will be sending a survey to every household in Solano County and say they will be opening offices in vallejo, fairfield and vacaville to hear from residents about their opinions. California governor gavin newsom has signed a bill into law that supporters say should ease the states housing crisis. The law is supposed to speed up Affordable Housing projects across the state and the new law will make sure projects comply with californias environmental laws. But will simplify them in order to avoid repetitive reviews, which can lead to delays. And theres just nothing worse than having a project all ready to go. Ready to build, you know, ready to house people already cleared environmentally. And then just to find out that the little bit of government Financial Assistance that youre getting is going to cause you to have to go through those hoops all over again. Experts say californias Affordable Housing crisis could get worse in the years ahead. The states population is expected to grow by 10 Million People by the year 2050. Coming up on 6 or 7 now, theres new concern about the deterioration of a historic san jose church, the first church of christ scientist opened back in 1905, but its now vacant. And on a list of endangered architectural city landmarks. A Real Estate Company bought the vacant property back in 2017 when scaffolding and a tarp went up. But the Development Project did not go forward. This building has been a blight in the neighborhood for years. The mercury news reports a construction crew decided on its own to remove the tarp to the delight of neighbors. But the city worries this decaying building is now further exposed and could crumble even more. The damage from Tropical Storm hillary could keep californias death valley National Park closed for months. The record breaking storm tore through the remote area near the nevada border last month. It dumped more than a years worth of rain in one day on one of the hottest and driest places on earth. The widespread storm damage has literally reshaped the landscape of death valley. It will likely force a long term closure of that park and the rain from Tropical Storm hillary also devastating for farmers and farm workers across part of the state , especially in Southern California. Agricultural groups say that statewide losses could end up in the billions. And you may see the impact at the grocery store. Some farmers say late rains badly damaged their crops and could they could miss the harvest season because of it. A busy area for rock climbing in Yosemite National park has been closed because of the threat of a rock slide. The National Park service says climbers reported a new crack in the cliff near royal arches thats not far from the ahwahnee hotel. After inspecting the cliff, the park closed much of the area, saying theres a threat that a large pillar of rock could fall. While there is no word when it will be reopened, water levels are looking good in the bay area. The sonoma Water District says the regions two main reservoirs ended last month, with the highest combined shortage levels since 1985. And they are the highest ever for the first time for this year. The water level figures for lake sonoma and mendocino in august follow last winters record breaking rainfall and they highlight a remarkable change from just two years ago when the water storage levels were roughly half of what they are right now. Well, for many people, labor day is the holiday that marks the end of summer and is celebrated with backyard barbecues or a day at the pool. But the holiday was first proposed as a way to honor workers and their contributions to society. Well, the first Labor Day Holiday was in new york city in 1882. It became a federal holiday 12 years later. But this year, many workers are using it to remind Corporate America of their value. Ups reached a new contract with the Teamsters Union before a strike was called the United Auto Workers are preparing to strike scriptwriters and actors are on strike, and American Airlines just authorized a strike because they believe they are being taken advantage of by their employer while fighting corporate greed, record setting revenues. As yet, we are still here without a contract, you cant make 21 billion in profits in half a year and expect members to take a mediocre contract. Work has changed. Dramatic since the first labor day, with worker concerns now including remote work and Artificial Intelligence, as well as some long term concerns like worker safety and of course, pay for companies. The biggest concern this labor day is finding enough workers to fill lower paying blue collar jobs that have workers and customers meeting face to face. All right. Lets take a look at the businesses that will be closed this labor day. Banks, post offices, the stock market and government offices are all closed today. Ups and fedex stores will not open, but will pick up and deliver Costco Stores and its gas stations are closed. Most transit agencies will run on a holiday or sunday schedule as well. An Old Fashioned way of spotting wildfires is starting to go away in california. Why cal fire has had trouble finding people to work in its fire watch towers across the state. We now know details about the cause of death for famed singer jimmy buffett. Over the weekend and what his family now says about his passing. And theres a new hour of news coming to ktvu next month. First, at 7 p. M, were debuting the west coast rap, a fresh regional take on the west coast. Biggest and most relevant stories of the day. Then it is ktvu fox two news at 730. Well have the bay areas top stories. Newsmaker interviews and your local forecast and sports. It all starts on september 11th here on ktvu fox two. Well be at cretors, we handcraft every batch of our delicious popcorn. Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. Relations between china and india remain tense over their disputed border that three years ago resulted in a violent clash between troops from both countries. A different Chinese Government official will attend. In xi jinpings place. Thats according to chinas foreign ministry. President biden says he is disappointed that ji will not be attending the summit. Mr. Biden departs for india for the g20 summit later this week. We now know the cause of death for famed margaritaville singer jimmy buffett. According to a statement posted on social media , buffett had been battling merkel cell cancer for the past four years. This type of skin cancer is very rare and tends to spread quickly to other parts of the body. The 76 year old singer is remembered for his easygoing musical style and all the businesses he built based on his brand. The last time he was on stage was a surprise performance in rhode island back in july. A new report finds Cancer Patients are not always getting the care they need because of the volume of red tape they have to deal with. Researchers found patients who had to contend with a lot of paperwork were 18 more likely to experience delays in getting their care or finding themselves unable to stick to a treatment plan. The study was carried out by the commonwealth fund, a Health Policy think tank. 615 now changes are coming next year for students who apply for federal student grants. The changes are designed to make the process easier to understand for families who apply. The application will have fewer questions. The formula used to calculate eligibility is supposed to be simpler. More students can have their Financial Information directly transferred from the irs, which could cut out a major delay in getting student aid. The new changes will roll out in december. Well there are growing concerns about the threat of a major wildfire in california, with the state now moving into the peak of fire season. For some, the recent decline in the number of fire lookout sites is adding to those fears. At one time, there were more than 600 lookout sites in areas of high fire danger across the state of california. That number has dropped to fewer than 200. Cal fire says these towers in the past have played a Critical Role in staffing them with people who can spot big wildfires before they get out of control. We currently have a 360 degree view on a clear day. We can see up to 100 miles, i believe that the human eye is the best tool up in the Lookout Tower. Northwest that we can see the pilot peak range, which is where another cal fire lookout is located. Cal fire says the recent declining number of Lookout Towers is due mostly to a dwindling number of volunteers to staff them. Firefighting efforts across the state have also been pivoting towards using webcams instead to spot fires. Well a driver of a pickup truck is recovering after being stranded for five days when their truck went off a cliff. Crews near bakersfield and kern county found the driver saturday. Authorities say crews placed the driver in a stretcher, then used a rope to lift the driver to safety. That person was airlifted to the hospital. Well, bad weather in the tahoe basin this weekend created Hazardous Conditions on the lake this weekend. And you can see in this video just how rough the water was. This is from the crew at the washoe county, nevada, boat called marine nine. It was called out to the area of hidden beach where there were reports of several people struggling in the water. Most of them were able to get out on their own. But two people in inflatable kayaks had to be pulled out of the water by First Responders. Wow it looks like theyre out on the open ocean. It does, yeah. Lets talk about the weather now here with Steve Paulson, whos keeping an eye on this labor day forecast. A lot quieter than we had on the weekend. We lose the high mid level clouds, but they had lake wind advisories, thunderstorms over the weekend. That has now pushed out of the area. So much quieter, much calmer, gradual warming, unseasonably cool, as you know, over the weekend, 73, the high in concord on saturday, 77 yesterday. Well go 83 today and kind of keep it there through wednesday. I think after that, well start to see some upper 80s, maybe near 90 by the time we get to the end of the week or to the weekend. But it does not look like any strong High Pressure system or heat wave or anything is on the horizon. Just gradual warming 70s yesterday 70s and 80s. Today on the forecast highs, it was all about the thunderstorm activity. Northern Sacramento Valley, mendocino county, lake county, northeast california and around lake tahoe. Up to reno, theres some pretty good activity that has since calmed down, moved out. So a much quieter if youre up there today. Blue canyon, two thirds of an inch. Reno 43 100. Caples lake, 36 100. And South Lake Tahoe 15 100. But wasnt that far away. You can find a lot more than that. 50 60s on the temps. I dont think these are changing. Pretty good fog bank in place but the mountains. Boy that didnt take long all back into the 30s. Now truckee, south, lake tahoe and mammoth at 37, 34 and 37, renos down to 43. The low is up toward salt lake city. Now. Little spin in the atmosphere just coming down right there. Little guy right there. But thats thats really all thats going to keep us from just keep the beat going here. So more sunshine today. The high mid level clouds are moved out, but fog then sun pretty good fog bank out there, some reduced visibility, but mainly its just a low overcast, 6070s and 80s, not much change through wednesday. End of the week, though, does look warmer, especially away from the coast. Steve, thank you. Some east bay restaurants say theyre fed up with the inaction over car breakins how theyre taking safety for their patrons into their own hands. And thousands of people laced up their shoes to jog onto the field at oracle park will take you along for this years giant race at San Francisco. You should have gotten a colon cancer screening, but, stuff came up. But, if you are 45 and older, its time to get checked. Visit ccalliance. Org to learn more. Dont let but, stuff. Get in the way of your screening. [narrator] every day, our lives are filled with choices, both simple and lifechanging. Whats not a choice . Addiction to opioids like fentanyl. But even with opioid use disorder, you still have a choice. By choosing treatment, you choose family, your career and your life on your terms. Choose change, california, and find medically proven Treatment Options at choosechangeca. Org. Backyard at Jack London Square say they have been having a major problem with car breakins. A manager tells us people who park along the street in the area are prime targets and often come back to their cars to find smashed glass and missing items. The restaurants owners say theyre tired of waiting for the city or police to do something, so they are now paying for private parking and private security. Customers using the lot say the new features puts them at ease. It makes me feel great. I was the first one in the lot today and i was just so happy and had a really good conversation with the security guard. And ill be back. We work really hard here to create a good experience and to have people who say that theyre never going to come back because of their car getting broken into. It changes. It goes from like a nice, pleasant lunch to like a horrible experience in downtown oakland, barcanova on broadway has started partnering with the marriott for Valet Parking for customers to try and keep peoples belongings safe. If you think of how much it costs to replace a window or you know or have your bag stolen or who knows what else at 20, i think its a small fee to pay to be able to go out and enjoy a meal. I often tell them to come as groups so they only pay 20 between three four people. Even with these added safety measures, both restaurants are reminding people to not leave any valuables or bags in their cars. The city of berkeley has a new Emergency Alert system. Ten sirens have been installed across the city, with plans to install another five next year. So the sirens wail and provide verbal messages to inform residents about an emergency in their area like a wildfire or tsunami there. Solar powered and connected to pgncs power grid. The city is also reminding residents to sign up for the Alameda County Emergency Alert text message system on the county website. The as hosting the Toronto Blue Jays at the Oakland Coliseum this afternoon. This comes after the as defeated the Los Angeles Angels 10 to 6 yesterday to complete a three game sweep in oakland. No longer has the worst record in major league baseball. The Kansas City Royals have 96 losses so far this season. One more than the oakland as. The San Francisco giants will face the cubs in chicago later today after losing three in a row to the padres in san diego. The padres shut out the giants four to nothing. In yesterdays series finale, San Francisco scored only one run on saturday. The giants are now tied for the third and final wild card spot in the National League and the arizona diamondbacks. Miami marlins and cincinnati reds. Well, some 6000 people laced up their Running Shoes for the annual foot race at the home of the San Francisco giants. We. One there you go. They took part in the 14th annual San Francisco giant race at oracle park yesterday morning. The event featured a5k and ten k race for both runners and walkers along San Franciscos waterfront and the finish line inside the ballpark. A lot of fun. You know, a lot of good perks at the end. And just good people, good vibes. This is an incredible experience to finish in the stadium. I think it was my favorite finish line that ive ever run in my running career, for sure. Well, the San Francisco giant race has become one of the citys most popular events. Organizers are now considering adding a Half Marathon next year. While some us cities arent too happy with the recent influx of cruise ships, while theyre now saying there are too many tourists and tens of thousands of people remain stuck in the mud at burning man. How long it could be before theyre finally allowed to leave. With chase freedom unlimited, you can cashback 3 on dining including takeout. Cashback on flapjacks, baby backs, or tacos at the taco shack. Nah, im working on my six pack. Well, good luck with that. Earn big with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. How do you cashback . You know, youve got it pretty good. Earn big with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. Streaming this much stuff was never this easy. Yes nice eye thingies. Theyre collagen boosters. Switch to gig internet on the xfinity 10g network made for streaming for just 25 a month when you add xfinity mobile. And add now tv for 20. You guys like this show too . Yes chef get way more into what youre into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. Are able to make it back home. And the city of San Francisco getting ready for its biggest conference of the year. What to expect as crews start work and close roads to prepare for next weeks dreamforce conference. From ktvu fox two news this is mornings on two. Welcome to mornings on two. Im ellie rasmus. Im andre senior in for dave clark. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday september 4th. Hopefully youre enjoying the day off if youre able to do so. So lets find out what the weather is going to be like today. So lets turn things over now to Steve Paulson. Good morning to you, steve. Good morning. It looks a lot more back to normal here after unseasonable cool weekend. Pretty good fog bank, though, out there and temperatures 50, 60 stuck. They havent really moved all morning long and the fog, once it retreats and well get back into some temperatures that will bump up after 70 on the weekend. And thats really strong low which is now left the sierra and Northern California. So 6070s at and 80. Lets go to ali now. An update on any traffic there, ali, there is some traffic to talk about this morning. Lets start with the maps. You dont see the crash icon here, but we are learning from the chp notes of a crash on westbound 580 at central in richmond. There is a car on fire. According to the chp notes, one lane open because of it. It happened just about 20 minutes ago. So we can expect the backup to Start Building again westbound 580 at central in the richmond area. Lets show you some of the other Traffic Cameras this morning. We can bring you a picture of highway 24 in lafayette. Things looking okay on this stretch of roadway. No major problems heading towards the caldecott tunnel and the bay bridge toll plaza traffic there is light, andre. All right. Well, no end to that messy situation in burning man right now. Festival organizers hoping the weather will finally ease up today and allow tens of thousands of attendees stranded in the mud to finally make their way home. Ktvu james torres is here covering the rush to get out of the Black Rock Desert in nevada. Good morning, jay. Hey, good morning to you, andre. Well, the weather in the area seems to call for a break in the rain. So officials are hoping that will dry out some of the muddy, murky conditions that weve seen over the last few days. This is just a look of some of what people are dealing with out there. Some tents, camps have been destroyed from this on unprecedented summer storm. And were hearing from the people who are there walking for miles to get out of the thick of the mud. And that includes dj diplo and Comedian Chris Rock, who says they went five miles out of the way to leave the miserable conditions. Officials have asked people to shelter in place as well as conserve their food and resources. They are allowing anyone who wants to drive off the grounds to do so, but theyre advising against it for the risk of people getting stuck. Mobile cell towers, mobile chargers, theyve all been installed in the area. And we spoke to one man who says hes been to the festival for more than 20 years. He says this one is for the record books. Ive been through a couple of strong rains, but those were one time rains, created a problem, and then it dried up and problem went away. The issue this year was multiple rains, and i dont know that the event has ever experienced that. We are hearing from Law Enforcement in the area who now report at least one person is dead. Officials say that death is likely not a result of the storm. So they are investigating the festival reports to have a decision on whether to open its gates by nine this morning. All updates which are pretty frequent, are on this website page. They have usually a date stamp, a time stamp on it as well. The most recent update coming from just last night, the festival also postponed its signature man burn for two days, hoping to get it done by tonight. Ali all right. Thank you, james. Well today, some workers in San Francisco are using labor day to push back against the expansion of selfdriving cars in the city. Members of several unions say they plan to rally outside the headquarters of cruise later today. They want state regulators to roll back rules that allowed the selfdriving Car Companies to expand. They say robo taxis are threatening the jobs of many bay area rideshare drivers well ahead of labor day. Elected officials and Union Workers gathered in the south bay to mark months of strikes across the state. They called it the hot labor summer strikes have been happening involving nurses, teachers, hollywood riders and actors. Workers need more time to be able to live in the ever more expensive california. And theres a lot of levers we can pull at the government level to help address these issues. Lifting up workers, giving them more economic power is one. But also making building more housing, making housing more affordable. Labor groups say unions play a vital role in protecting workers by fighting for a living wage and benefits like retired and Affordable Health care. And housing in ensuring that were not settling for robots, driving our trucks and cars, that were asking the actual people do that. Well, these groups say surveys show as much as 90 of young people support union and Union Activities. The Farmers Market in downtown San Francisco is now at a new location. The market had been at United Nations plaza for the past 42 years. Now its across the street at fulton plaza. Many vendors opposed the move because the old location was bigger and the city is converting the old location to a Recreation Area with a skate park. Former nba star cal grad and sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson is planning to open a soul Food Restaurant in oakland. Itll be the latest restaurant location for johnson and his wife, who founded their restaurant chain fixins soul kitchen four years ago. These bay times reports their latest venture is scheduled to open near lake merritt next spring. A report finds bay area residents that left for different states during the pandemic are now unhappy with their decision, especially if they move to boston. Workers in the austin tech scene tell insider that even though austin is gaining a foothold in the tech world, talent remains concentrated in the bay area, one tech founder said. Austin is where ambitions go to die. Thats a quote. U. S Postal Service data shows that austin saw the fifth largest outward migration among us. Major us cities. Well, there is a new development in the plan to build a 55 story residential skyscraper overlooking ocean beach and the San Francisco zoo. The original proposal was sent back to developers and rejected after it failed to meet San Franciscos height limitations. Now the developers have submitted a new application, citing changes in state law. Now the plan has the support of some of the People Living in the neighborhood, and we need more housing. We need more housing in every neighborhood in the city, including the avenues. Im super excited about the project that i hope they do end up building out there. However critics are still worried that this high rise project and the Way Developers have been dealing with the city, it gives them some concerns. A lot of their reasoning for this does not make any sense to me. Ive ive read through the application, ive read through the citys response to the application in the its hard to i think the city has had to exercise a lot of patience in dealing with this developer for considering some of the outlandish accusations theyve made. A spokesperson for San Franciscos Planning Department says the city is still reviewing this latest application. San francisco is losing another one of its well known conferences is google cloud. Next is usually held at the Moscone Center every year. But next year, attendees will be in las vegas. The company did not say why it is moving. The convention represented from San Francisco says the city is talking to google about the conference returning in 2025. Happening today, city workers will start closing streets ahead of the annual dreamforce conference. Crews will close Howard Street between third and fourth streets. This conference is expected to bring about 180,000 people to San Francisco next week. This years speakers include the ceo of the company, marc benioff, actor and salesforce brand partner Matthew Mcconaughey and Animal Welfare conservationist jane goodall, a former ucsf patient who was in need of a liver transplant, will be honored at the next weeks dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Sheila kitchener was the first patient to receive an organ transplant at ucsfs Mission Bay Campus. Shortly after it opened, she was just 13 years old. Sheila was back on the Basketball Court just five months later, following her successful operation. She is now a 22 year old usc graduate and is planning a career in medicine. My Number One Dream School is definitely ucsf. I would love love to be a part of their team and have my whole full circle moment with them. I would like to probably be an obgyn. I think that theres a huge need in the obgyn field, especially for black women. Wow. Big ambitions. Sheila says she was inspired to become a doctor by the ucsf medical team that care for her nearly ten years ago, 637 now. And the former frontman for the bay area band smash mouth is in hospice due to liver failure. The bands manager says 56 year old singer Steve Harwell has only a week or so to live. Smash mouth was formed in 1994. In san jose. Harwell retire in 2021 due to health problems, including Heart Failure. Complicated by years of substance abuse. Our time now is 638. It is labor day, but some of us here are labor, including Steve Paulson, whos tracking the forecast for today. That is correct. We get rid of that upper low, which gave us not only the rain up in the mountains, thunderstorms, cool temps for us saturday, 73. Hard to believe as you go into early september. Yesterday 77. Well bump it up a little bit here for the next couple of days, 83, 85, 84. The forecast says it does look warmer towards the end of the week, but for santa rosa, redwood city, livermore and san jose bumping up from 70 yesterday, 80, 79 to 82 and 80 on the forecast highs today was all about the mound started on friday, 50 and 80. Then the thunderstorms took over Northern California, northeast up towards mendocino county. Also in the lake county had a little bit out towards the Altamont Pass as well. Look at all that thunderstorm activity, most of it on the lee side. But there was plenty going on. All quiet now. Everything has kicked out and temperatures will start to be on the cold side. But the rainfall was not too shabby. I mean, there were some one inch amounts in some of the higher peaks, but blue canyon, two thirds, reno, 43 100, caples lake, a third of an inch. South. Lake tahoe at 15 100. 50 and 60s on our temps mainly 50s pretty good fog bank out there but look at the lows. 37 truckee South Lake Tahoe is down to 34. Reno even 43 Mammoth Lakes at 36. So its cold in the mountains already from that low, which is now just north of salt lake city. For us, were back to a more of a normal pattern here, which means fog, low clouds giving way to sunshine, probably a light breeze. But 6070s 80s should cover most of the spread here on these temps and theyll stay in this range for the next three days. Then it does look warmer away from the coast towards the end of the week. There you to thank you steve. Well, only six days until the 49ers begin their nfl season. The missing key to the defense who still hasnt reported to camp just yet. And a gender reveal turns deadly. Coming up at seven. The possible reasons behind this accident during what was supposed to be a happy celebration, ian and a health scare for one of the members of legendary bay area rock band metallica, the illness involving frontman James Hetfield thats caused a concert to be canceled [upbeat music] get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. 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The niners are hopeful hed be ready next sunday against the pittsburgh steelers. But general manager john lynch, he has been looking at possible replacements. Its. I had no idea this many kickers out there. Ive got more texts from people who, you know, kicked at one point in their life. Pop warner, two very accomplished kickers. Jake. Moodys tracking well, his recovery is going well, but well be prepared for anything. The other kicker in training camp, zane gonzalez, is now on injured reserve with a significant groin injury. The niners have signed former Jacksonville Jaguars kicker matt right in case moody cant go, ryan has kicked for four teams in three seasons. Well, there are some public outcry in new york city after the Police Department there said it would fly drones over Outdoor Events this Labor Day Holiday. Police say the drones can respond to situations more quickly than officers on the ground and can cover a larger area. Outdoor events that could be patrolled this way would include parades. Drones have been used about 100 times in newark. This year, including during a riot that broke out recently when a social Media Influencer gave away video game consoles. New york citys mayor says privacy rights will still be respected. We have to push back on the sci fi aspects of drones. No one is going to be monitoring. You know what youre talking about, your conversation, the fact that the police want to just drone into your backyard to see how many people youre having at a party, it really is a scary step for policing in general. We also live in a very vertical city. So is it safe to say that the police could now potentially use a drone to peek into apartments high up in the sky . These are all really questions. I think the city council and the state legislature should really rein them in on the aclu released a report this summer that found that more than 1400 Police Departments across the us use drones. All right. So electricity is still out to 7 of florida this morning because of hurricane idalia. The storm knocked out power to roughly 570,000 homes and businesses across the state. 39,000 are still waiting for the lights to come back on in coastal communities, including the city of cedar key were hit especially hard. Adelia took down walls and swept away appliances as large as washing machines. Us recovery and reconstruction will take a long time. All of this is going to take a while and thats kind of whats in mind. You say, well, gosh, the weathers pretty, everythings nice, people can work. But of course it wasnt just us. Excuse me, its all of them down the coastline. So people are so busy with real, you know, with real plumbers and real electricians, that just takes a while. Whether agencies are now taking a deeper dive into idalia to get precise measurements, including its size and field and wind speed, this data will help meteorologists better understand idalia and future hurricanes. Now in the wake of idalia, florida Fire Departments are alerting tesla owners that their cars can catch fire if the electric batteries are exposed to salt water. There have been a couple of car fires linked to idalia. First, a man in tampas tesla was damaged by flooding and then it caught fire when he tried to get the car towed. Tesla has also warned owners not to drive its cars if they were submerged in water for a long period of time. Well, some european and us cities that were so happy to have cruise ships return after the pandemic now say they are getting too much of a good thing. People in barcelona and amsterdam are proposing bans on cruise ships saying they pollute the water. Venice and honolulu residents have complained about how their hometowns rely too much on the cruise ships and tourism from them. And starting next year, juneau, alaska will only allow five large cruise ships in port each day. But people are concerned that these cruise liners will just bring in even bigger ships. Some of those are pretty enormous. They are massive. Yeah. When you see them pull up. Yeah. When you see them pull up, youre just like, wow, youre just this big compared to a floating city, a floating city. All right. Steve paulson, he is a man talking weather this morning to see if youre going to have that barbecue. What is it going to look like . You can itll be a little better here today. The upper low, which gave us all the cloud cover and seasonably cool temps, a win has now moved out and pretty good activity, though, up in the mountains over the weekend that is for sure. As this system finally left. Is this going to work or not . I dont know if it is. I dont think it is. Ali, you better be standing by because the computer has a mind of its own. This morning. I will be standing by for you, steve. I got you. Itll be after the fog and low clouds. Itll be sunny and nice today and itll be a little bit warmer. So 6070s and 80s. All right. So well take that. That sounds great. Thank you, steve. Well, paying extra to fly without children will tell you the airline that is testing out child free zones on its planes and how much it is charging for that more cities, including here in the bay area, taking an alternative approach to dealing with people with Mental Health crises. The growing trend of using First Responders that are not police to help them. And a quick reminder that you can now stream ktvu news on your smart tv. You can watch live newscasts and stories on demand on your amazon fire tv, roku, apple tv or android tv. Just search for the fox local app and then select ktvu. [narrator] every day, our lives are filled with choices, both simple and lifechanging. Whats not a choice . Addiction to opioids like fentanyl. But even with opioid use disorder, you still have a choice. By choosing treatment, you choose family, your career and your life on your terms. Choose change, california, and find medically proven Treatment Options at choosechangeca. Org. Officials say about 100 inmates in one living unit refused to return to their cells. Authorities say all employees were removed from the common areas of that unit. Extra police, firefighters and other emergency teams were brought in. Theyre standing by outside the prison as the situation continues. No one has been hurt. Family members who own and operate a Jewelry Store in Southern California say they successfully stopped a smash and grab robbery. And it was captured on camera. This happened sunday afternoon in the la county city of el monte. Family members say they fought off the would be thief who used a hammer to smash some of their display cases. Why did your family fight back like you did . Because we were so much for it. We used to work day and night and just someone to come and grab your stuff. Its not fair. The family says they were attacked with bear spray. The thief eventually ran out of the store empty handed. Police officers say theyre reviewing the video and working to arrest that man. More cities across the country are trying new ways to help people having a Mental Health crisis. Theyre deploying paramedics or other Health Care Professionals to those types of emergencies instead of Police Officers. More than half of the largest cities in the us, including some here in the bay area, like oakland, are creating this alternative response team. Supporters of the idea say Health Care Workers can spend more time with Mental Health calls than police can. Theyre very proficient in in deescalating clients who are in behavioral or emotional crisis pts and they have the time to spend if that takes two hours, they can spend two hours an engine or an aid car cant spend that time. They have to get back in service. Medical workers can also help patients find longer term assistance. People who work in similar operations around the country say the biggest problem they have is finding money to keep the programs running so that they can help more people. The gop president ial candidates are getting ready to return to the campaign trail after the Holiday Weekend, the second debate is just a few weeks away. Florida Governor Ron Desantis had to put a brief pause on campaigning to tend to storm Recovery Efforts in his state. Other candidates appeared on the sunday morning talk shows and were asked about former president trumps commanding lead in the polls if donald trump is the nominee. Yes, i will support him. And if im the president , yes, i will pardon him because that will help reunite the country. But its not the most important thing im going to do as the next president. But it is the table stakes for moving this country forward. I dont think president trumps going to be the nominee. I think its going to be me. But i will tell you that any republican is better than what joe biden and Kamala Harris are doing. I say with humility, im im just simply the most experienced, tested and proven conservative running for the republican nomination today. But with, you know, with with regard to the polling, its just not what im seeing on the ground. A wall street journal poll shows trump leading with 59 of republican primary voters. And House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy was in maui this weekend with other lawmakers touring the devastation from last months wildfires. Mccarthy says he and his family have traveled to lahaina before and are familiar with the layout of the town. He says he wants to ensure the island recovers from what he calls, quote, sheer devastation. How can we make sure we find all those who are still lost and how do we rebuild . Thats the important part of why were here. We want to make sure we do it in the right manner. We want to work with the community. We want to be respectful for the history behind this area. We want to be respectful for the lives that were lost there. At least 115 people are confirmed dead, 48 have been identified and their families are notified. Officials say its not clear how many people are still missing. Four astronauts returned to earth early this morning after spending half the year on board the International Space station. The spacex crew splashed down off the Atlantic Coast of florida one day later than originally planned. The return to earth was delayed because of weather conditions along the southeast us. The crew included two americans, a russian and sultan al nahyan, who is the first person from the arab world to spend an extended period of time in orbit. All the crew members agreed the first things they wanted when they returned to earth were hot showers and hot cups of coffee. 656 is the time and a Holiday Weekend like this one can be especially painful for older people who live alone. Now, a number of restaurants and nonprofit groups across the country are teaming up to help the growing number of Older Americans who may be lonely and looking for companionship. The dine out Program Allows them to enjoy a free meal with others. It started during the covid 19 crisis, but since the pandemic, isolation of people 60 and older has gone up and unprecedented amount 200 at the dine out program is in response to a very serious problem. The us Surgeon General says feelings of loneliness can be as bad for your health as smoking up to 15 cigarets a day. Pleasanton was transformed into a festive place this weekend at the Alameda County fairgrounds. The 157th scottish highland gathering happened over the weekend. The environment tried to send visitors and fairgoers back in time. People shared scottish and irish history, participated in highland dancing and drumming. Some of the worlds top professionals competed in sports, like hammer throwing and distance weights. Organizers say that even though it seems like long time ago history, its actually more recent than youd think. The renaissance was only 450 years ago. So only 400 years before me. Then this signing of the constitution is only 250 years old, 200 years before our country. This this lifestyle was was going on in europe. And they were sending people like, sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Walter Scott here. To bring back wares and things to trade more than 60 clan members and societies participated in this years games as a San Francisco Movie Theater is honoring one of the most legendary movie makers of all time, martin scorsese. The four star theater in the Richmond District is showing a variety of scorsese films throughout the month in anticipation of the directors latest film. The theme is, quote, more than a gangster and the theater staff are hoping to show just how much variety scorsese has had in his career happened today, the annual hip hop Music Block Party known as hero day, happening in oakland, the music event is family friendly. It starts at 11 00 and goes until seven in the evening. Tonight there will be more than 30 Live Performance djs on three stages by legendary underground and undiscovered hip hop and r b artists. High road is a nod to the album called 93 til infinity, and the oakland based Hip Hop Group called the hieroglyphics, one of the main bay area freeways remains closed today for repairs. A look at the progress on interstate 80 and when it is expected to reopen. Thousands of people trapped at burning man. The conditions that have some wondering if theyll be able to leave today or if theyre still stuck in the desert. And today is the federal Labor Day Holiday. A look back at the history of this day and some key business and government closures youll need to know about from im ktvu fox two news. This is mornings on 230 on the road. Nobody on the beach are feeling in the air. The sun was out every i think people will be on the road later today and also on the beach. It is labor day. Youre taking a live look at the sun shining over the fog bank. I think we would be seeing the San Francisco skyline here if that fog cleared. But it is a beautiful picture on this monday morning. Welcome to mornings on two. Im allie rasmus. Im andre senior. Thank you for joining us today. Of course monday the fourth labor day. A lot of people trying to get outside and do a little barbecue, get together w