Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski discussing the situation. We understand the world is a bigger place than the baseball field and when events of the world are overflowing on to the baseball field, we dont have control over that, and thats when we have to adapt and thats when we have to make our choices on how we want to handle situations. I think the thing that was most enlightening about yesterday is how many good, highquality conversations happened around the clubhouse. Four of five of them where people were sitting around talking about really important social issues and really looking for ways to make changes and being creative of how to protest. Talking with a source connected to the nba, the players are going to use their platform now to push owners to make political change, not just donate money and hope for the best. Theyll also push for police reform. One item on the agenda thats going to be more immediate, they want nba owners to open up their arenas to use as voting locations to make it easy for everybody to cast their ballots in november. The warriors tweeted this impactful video today showing what players like steph curry, klay thompson, and damion lee wrote on social media, giving the black lives Matter Movement their support and saying, enough is enough. Former president barack obama sharing his support on twitter, writing, i commend the players on the bucks for standing up for what they believe in. Coaches like doc rivers and the nba and wnba for setting an example. Its going to take all our institutions to stand up for our values. Well, a lot of people are standing up by demonstrating in the streets and cleanup is dert nightsla protesvee in oakland. Reporter more windows at mud lab cafe had to be broken in order to clean up the windows that were broken during wednesday nights protests. No coffee this morning, unfortunately. Our machines still work but its a little hard tocustermiith all glass. Reporter coowner Jill Holloway says eight windows were smashed during the protests of the shooting of jacob blake. She says she understands the bigger picture, the fight for social justice, but she says such attacks hurt Small Businesses, many of which are minority owned and operated. This cleanup will cost them several thousand dollars plus lost revenue. My Business Partner is black. All the people that work with us are women. So, you know, were trying to be a really positive part of the community. Actually t through the window. Reporter r. J. Martin is a Financial Advisor at edward jones. I actually wasnt that upset. If this is what it takes for everybody in america to love each other, im okay with it. Im okay with it. I just wish they knew who was behind those windows. Reporter tina is the office manager. She says the property manager watched security footage, which shows the protest was peaceful except for a few who allegedly trailed behind. It was a small segment of people outside of the group that was protesting that came into the damage. Reporter after everybody had walked by . Yes, they separated themselves from the group. Thats what they saw on the camer cameras. Reporter the staff says these are tough times but they refuse to be distracted from the real issue. The cleaning, the repair is a minor inconvenience. The greater conversation needs to be at the protection and what can we do to advance this conversation to make sure that black and brown bodies are safe. Reporter in oakland, abc7 news. Now, if youre dealing with issues of racial or social injustice, we do want to help you find an ally. Go to abc7news. Com takeaction for a list of local resources. Now to the fires and we are seeing some improvement thanks to more favorable weather conditions. The czu complex on the southern end of the peninsula and Santa Cruz County now at 21 containment. That massive scu lightning complex burning east and south of the bay at 35 containment. Thats a 10 improvement, and in the north bay, containment in the lnu lightning complex fire unchanged at 33 . So heres a look at where the czu lightning complex is burning in santa cruz and san mateo counties, more than 81,000 acres so far destroyed. That fire at 21 containment. Cal fire warning of trees falling on homes, cars, and roads. They tweeted out these pictures today. Some evacuation orders have been lifted, including for scots valley and paradise park, and most evacuated residents in San Mateo County are also being allowed back. We have doubled up patrol efforts and security checks moving forward. We want to make sure that we have additional personnel in this area to insist with a safe return home for those neighbors. 445 homes have been destroyed, mostly in Santa Cruz County. Officials say damage inspection is at about 60 completion at this point. Abc7 News Reporter stephanie sierra tracking all the progress for us live in ben lomond. Stephanie . Reporter were seeing a lot less smoke in this area and its making it easier for inspection teams to comb through these neighborhoods and really assess the damage. As you pointed out, that process, 60 complete at this point, and weve seen a lot more activity today than we had the past 48 hours. And several of those crews, in fact, are set up right behind us in front of the ben lomond fire department. They were helping a family who lives just a few miles from here who just learnedhe hrnedown. At the corner of acorn and leafwood in bolder creek, theres very little left. This address was home to mandy and matt for 17 years. I honestly dont want to go through the rubble. But its something that im going to have to do. Reporter the two built their life together in this purple tiled house. Its a lot of memories. I dont know, its just raising our kids and having puppies and kittens and jumping on the trampoline and all the, you know, friends of our children coming over and playing and having sleepovers and dinners and all of it. Its just its just a lot. We were just a regular family doing regular now. We just got here. Yeah, that was our house. Reporter only a few tiles remain. Their home, destroyed. And this isnt the first time. Our first home burned down right there, and so thats our rebuild. Reporter its those stories of loss that surround these hazy skies in the santa cruz mountains. One house gone next to another untouched. Im so sorry. Reporter seems unfair. But they dont see it that way. Even though its really hard to lose our home, im just very grateful that were safe and that were together. Reporter holding on to each other, embracing. I know i know from experience that well find treasures in there that will mean a lot to us. Reporter what memories may be left behind. Were back with you live in ben lomond with a look at how conditions are continuing to improve. There is little to no smoke as we drove through many of these neighborhoods. Its making it tempting for d yont b a long waitinga. Buts safe to do that, cal fire really reinforces that link they have posted online that is an interactive map that allows residents to identify what areas will be reopening next, those neighborhoods are highlighted in green, and we have that link posted over on our website. Were live in ben lomond, abc7 news. Stephanie, thank you. The lnu lightning complex is 33 contained at this hour. More than 368,000 acres have burned. Some evacuation warnings have been lifted but fire is still raging in other parts of the complex. Cal fire said this morning they were focused on areas south and east of middletown in lake county. Our highest priority operation is a firing operation in this location. Key to getting this fire taken care of is getting a very short, very difficult piece of line fired and theyre working on that right now and trying to make progress. 30,000 structures are still threatened, more than 1,000 have been destroyed. A beloved Animal Sanctuary in vacaville called the lucky ones ranch was among the Properties Destroyed by fires in the lnu complex, but rather than focusing on what was lost, the people who own that ranch are celebrating survival. Abc7 News ReporterLaura Anthony has their story from solano county. Reporter when youve lost so much, lucky is a relative term. Somebody put a heart on the bricks. Reporter its been a week since the lnu complex destroyed the beloved Animal Sanctuary and petting zoo, the lucky ones ranch in vacaville. It was also home to 9 11 dispatcher and her Police Officer husband, vince. He was away at work when she called him to say the flames were getting way too close. I just went into my dispatcher voice and i said, you need to come home, code three now. Code three. Come on, annie. Reporter with the help of a local rescue group they got almost all of their animals out, including threelegged sheep, annie. Today, annie and more than 1 00 of her companions are safe and well on a fairfield property a local teacher offered as a temporary home. Just to know that we rescued all the animals out of there and got everyone safely out of there with the exception of a cat that is still missing. I believe shes a survivor and well find her. Its amazing. Reporter here, the couple can tend to their menagerie of animals, many of them disabled or blind, each with its own story, once discarded by someone else, only to be welcomed into this family. Weve got tom over there. Reporter the Group Includes todd, who was missing for four days until he was discovered wandering alone. Now a week later with nearly all their animals accounted for, tao and vince are really starting to know they are the lucky ones. Were going to rebuild and get even better and were going to be able to reach out to more animals in need and make sure that we live up to our promise to the ones that we have right now that, you know, it reporter in fairfield, Laura Anthony, abc7 news. Those animals are adorable and definitely very lucky. The scu lightning complex burning in seven counties to the east and south of the bay has seen some big improvement overnight because of lower temps and light winds. This fire is massive in size, 368,000 acres, as we mentioned, 35 containment. Despite that, cal fire says thousands of homes are still threaten threaten threatened and Widespread Evacuations remain in place. You can follow the fires statewide with our exclusive wildfire tracker updated with the latest information that comes in from cal fire. See where the fires are spreading. 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You can imagine that you kind of really need both, not really one or the other. Reporter dr. Peter chinhong is part of the Research Team at ucsf. Like many centers, theyve used a onetwo punch of remdesivir along with another agent to both attack the virus and deal with dangerous inflammation it can trigger. Remdesivir, which is really a virus drug, or theres a nationwide trial using another drug class studied in hiv, cancer, and other diseases. Its called interferon and it triggers a different kind of combination effect to go along with remdesivir. I love the idea of getting at it from different angles, because i feel like the virus is very smart. Reporter this doctor is an Infectious Disease specialist with stanford and also a believer in the cocktail approach. She says the team is about to take the concept a step further, adding a virus fighter known as a monocolonial antibody to the remdesivir mix, creating a one, two, three combination. Direct antiviral plus an s a antiinpolicem antiinflammatory plus a monoclonal so my bet is on this triple threat but well have to see which cocktail really works. Reporter a flurry of punches, all in hopes of knocking out a virus that is so far proved to be an elusive opponent. In San Francisco, dion lim, abc7 news. Many of the various trials we mentioned are still actively recruiting volunteers, and we have more information on that at abc7news. Com. 49 Silicon Valley leaders, many of them ceos, took out a page right out of our building a better bay area initiative. They created a 73page action plan called building a Better Normal after the pandemic. Heres abc7 News Reporter david louie. Reporter empty tech Company Parking Lot make it clear this is the normal for now, employees furloughed, laid off or working from home. In downtown san jose, only 6 of 1,600 businesses are open. 59 ceos and leaders of community, labor, and nonprofit groups have created a 73page action plan to rebuild the regions economy. Key issues theyve identified are uniform covid19 testing to allow companies to reopen, help for laidoff workers, addressing Housing Needs and help for Small Businesses. Forget the National Debate over how much testing to do. Testing and Contact Tracing have to be done by everyone to make return to work safe. What were encouraging is a partnership between the larger businesses and corporations to kind of partner with the medium and small space businesses out there in the community to help them stand up to protocols and procedures. Reporter Small Businesses from restaurants to Tech Startups need capital to get back on their feet and to create jobs. Its recommended a Small BusinessInvestment Fund be created by a publicprivate partnership. While the cities cannot themselves necessarily put in money, but they can certainly convene all these entities and put some sunshine on the effort and say, look, we do need to supply more capital and create opportunities more for publicprivate partnerships. Reporter and help is needed for low income workers, job training because the economy has changed, and renewed efforts to prevent evictions and to build affordable housing. The consensus is, work is now changed. And some jobs will not be coming back, so we actually have to be thinking about reskilling displaced workers not just for the next six months, 12 months, but for the longterm. Reporter who pays for this and setting longterm and shotter term priorities are left to more discussion. David louie, abc7 news. All right, were going to turn our attention now to the weather forecast. And yes, we continue to get that marine layer, spencer,elpful ith big picture, kristen. The deeper marine layer yesterday brought us some cooler air and some elevated humidity. The wind has been a little bit unhelpful from time to time but it has served to cleanse the air a little bit. Lets take a look at whats going on right now, give you a view of our air quality, which is improving in the coastal as rt b air quality but poor air quality further inland. Lets move south just a bit where you can see lots of green dots, good air quality at napa, fairfield, concord, oakland, San Francisco, and san rafael and moderate at santa rosa and vacaville. Little bit farther south, lots of green dots around the bay shoreline, redwood city and fremont but down in the south, poorest air quality, unhealthy with red dots in san jose and still could use some help there. This is a look at the wind flow generally on shore, out of the west for the most part or northwest, and we have mainly light wind speeds up in the north bay but brisker wind speeds just about everywhere else. Heres a look at current temperature readings, bluer sky than we have seen more much of this week. It is 61 degrees in San Francisco. Oakland, 69, mid 70s at mountain view, san jose and gilroy at 59 at half moon bay. And its a nice view from emeryville, also showing what appears to be cleaner air than yesterday at this time and we see a little building marine layer offshore right there. Temperature readings, 77 at santa rosa, san rafael, 75, mid 80s at concord, fairfield and livermore. Looking toward mt. Diablo, these are our forecast features, isolated drizzle during the overnight hours. Brief warmup occurs tomorrow, and we have spare the air alerts through sunday so the air quality is only slowly improving areawide so for the next three days, friday, s