Abc 7 news contributor and chronicle insider is here with his perspective. First though lets hear from abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz breaking down the debate. At least we had a debate tonight. We did. A total 180 from the debate a few weeks ago. The candidates were still as contentious and combative but did allow each other to speak in part because the mics could be muted which led to a healthy debate on several topics starting with coronavirus. The two sparred on how to reopen the country. If you have a restaurant you need plexiglas dividers so people cannot infect one another. You need to be in a position where you can take testing rapidly and know whether the person is in fact infected. You need to be able to trace. These are businesses with no money. Putting a plexiglas up is unbelievably expensive and its not the answer. Youre going to sit there in a cubicle wrapped around with plastic . The candidates also sparred over health care and national security. The president went after bidens son hunter biden and then biden in turn went after trump for not releasing his tax returns accusing him of hiding something. It did get pretty personal. One of the most contentious moments came over a debate on immigration and a conversation about the children separated from their parents at the border. Lets talk about what were talking about. What happened . Parents were ripped, their kids were ripped from their arms and separated and now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents and those kids are alone. Nowhere to go. Nowhere to go. Its criminal. Catch and release is a disaster. A murderer would come in. A rapist would come in. A very bad person would come in. We would take their name. We have to release them into our country. Now a very memorable moment came during this section about race. The president again repeated something he said before that he is the least racist person in this room. I am the least racist person. I cant even see the audience because it is so dark. But i dont care whos in the audience. Im the least racist person in this room. Abraham lincoln here is one of the most racist president s weve had in modern history. He fuels fuel on every single racist fire. Every single one. Very personal you can see. The debate ended with a conversation on Climate Change and with final words from the two candidates about how they would speak to americans who did not vote for them on inauguration day. As you saw fewer interruptions and clashes tonight and we did get to hear from the candidates. We really did. Thank you, liz. There were no plexiglas dividers between the candidates tonight though they were in place earlier as you can see in this video. Both candidates recently tested negative for coronavirus. President trump and joe biden were joined on stage by their wives moments after the debate wrapped. The president was the only one to not wear a mask. Joe biden put his back on after making his final comments. His wife jill and First Lady Melania Trump both had their faces covered. The first lady canceled a rally yesterday not feeling well as she recovers from the coronavirus. Lets bring in abc 7 news contributor and chronicle insider phil mattier and we want to get you at home involved as well. Go to abc 7. Com vote to take part in our live poll happening now. Wed love to hear from you. Phil, first question. We saw joe biden elevate his game tonight. We saw President Trump elevate his game based on the last debate. Who do you think won tonight . I would say that it was a draw. That is going to get some conflict out there but lets take a look at this as we go into the election. The joe biden that showed up tonight was much more concise, much more on point, more empathetic in talking to the american people. He did not make any of the blunders on get the knockout punch from donald trump that would have hurt his campaign. As it stands right now, the polls are to be believed, he is ten points ahead. On the other hand, and this is the other hand, donald trump was also much more contained than he had been before and at the same time laid out a case for his own reelection. Something he do in the first debate. If he had showed up in the first debate as he did tonight he might not be ten points ahead. In the end it is up to the judges, the voters, to decide who wins. It reinforced both sides base to get them out there and that might be the ultimate decider in this race. Interesting. Lets talk about the fact this is the first debate where microphones could be muted. Kind of nice. What was your take on that . I thought it was embarrassing. The idea we had a president ial debate where you had to mute the microphones, come on. Starting from that is not a good place to be. It controlled both sides. It gave joe biden two minutes to say what he wanted to say. It didnt change the bottom line. No matter what the topic eventually it came to a question of character. I think biden was out of the gate making that case that donald trump lacks the character to continue on in office and trump was trying to do the same with him through his questions about bidens sons business dealings and everything else. Everything swirled around but came out in the end as a character attack which again shows where we are as an electorate. I am not too crazy about that either. We had heard maybe trumps advisers were telling him to be a little selfdeprecating and i think we saw that in how he went after biden when biden tried to make comments about people around the dinner table he would sort of mock him for being a politician. We were seeing that strategy which was interesting and new. Overall this was the last debate between the candidates. Is it going to move the needle . Do ung it would help if there were more debates or people pretty much know who theyre voting for . I think people know who theyre voting for. Tonight we got ttheir personalities on display. We got to watch them calm, we got to watch them heated. I would have liked if just once we could have heard the words you know you might have a point there. You know i agree with you on that but maybe we could do it better this way. That is not where were at. Were at extremes on both sides, pull out the worst, try to make the other side sound as ridiculous as possible, and not at all try to bring it together. And the shame and the challenge is whoever gets elected that is what theyre supposed to do is bring together, say to somebody, yeah. You might have a point maybe we can hear that out. Great job on the analysis. Thanks, phil. Questions are swirling about a comment President Trump made recalling when he stopped chinese travelers from entering the u. S. At the start of the pandemic. He zeroed in on the reaction from joe biden and House Speaker nancy pelosi. When i closed, he said i shouldnt have closed. And that went on for nancy pelosi said the same thing. She was dancing on the streets in china town in San Francisco. Abc 77 was with nancy pelosi when she visited china town 22 days after the Trump Administration started enforcing a ban on travelers from mainland china. She visited the historic Fortune Cookie factory as a way to show support for businesses. This happened roughly three weeks before the citys shelter in place order. California governor gavin newsom was following the debate and tweeting. He posted, quote, california isnt dying. Were keeping aflians alive and healthy so we can open our economy safely along with a chart showing californias per capita case rate below that of many other states. The governor also tweeted, quote, we are in a pandemic. We need the Affordable Care act. All registered voters in kaufl are receiving mailin ballots. All vote by mail ballots in california come with prepaid postage. 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No one has been hurt in this incident. Oakland police say the man is a suspect in the double homicide that happened monday on 84th avenue. Former 49er Dana Stubblefield was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison today. In july he was found guilty of the 2015 rape of a mentally disabled woman who had gone to his morgan hill home to interview for a babysitting job. Stubblefields attorneys say they plan to appeal. Berkeley police are searching for police after a young mother pregnant with her second child was killed in an outrageous drive by shooting last night on prince street in South Berkeley as the victims mother, young son, and siblings all sat in the car with her. They say 22 shots in her car. Reporter less than 24 hours after her 19yearold daughter was gunned down in front of her in a drive by shooting, she stood with her 10monthold grandson surrounded by her surviving son and daughter after the family was caught in a hail of gun fire wednesday night. I would not be able to see my baby walk in the house, give her son kisses, or anything. We just need answers. Reporter two months pregnant serenity henderson was driving. Her baby son and teenage brother and sister were in the back seat when two cars suddenly boxed them in. It was a black car. That pulled up behind us and a white car pulled up on the side of us. The white car pulled up on the side of us and they just opened up fire. Somehow no one but serenity was struck. Like its neighboring cities berkeley had seen an alarming uptick in shootings in recent weeks including increased use of weapons capable of firing dozens of shots in a matter of seconds. I mean, these people never bother nobody. Todd walker is close with serenitys family and is a funeral director in the east bay where services for young people like her have been all too frequent. Like now, shooting innocent people right now. Theyre just shooting because they feel like dont nobody care. They really feel like dont nobody care and thats sad. They didnt even care about her baby being in the car. We just want answers. She never bothered nobody. She never hurt anyone. In berkeley, abc 7 abc 7 abc7 just awful. We are working to try to build a better bay area, which feels monumental after a story like that. Which means putting the spotlight on issues of racial or social injustice. The Santa Clara CountyDistrict Attorneys Office has begun dismissing select cases including San Jose Police officers who made hateful comments on social media. After reviewing nearly 250 minor cases dating back to 2005, the Santa Clara CountyDistrict Attorneys Office will dismiss more than a dozen that were directly handled by a small number of San Jose Police officers who were accused of making racist remarks on social media. We determined that 14 of those cases we needed to dismiss because we could no longer stand behind those convictions. Reporter the move comes after the officers were exposed by a blogger earlier this summer. Santa clara county public defender molly oneill commended the da for taking this step but hopes more dismissals are on the way and also wants an audit saying, quote, when you have officers freely posting vile, racist comments on a public website, there is clearly a deeprooted problem with the culture of that department and when you have such a racist culture you simultaneously have decent officers silenced by the very nature of that culture. Advocacy organizations such as the council on American Islamic relations say the public should speak out when they see something that is inappropriate. We need that data to continue to make progress to advocate for reforms and really to hold those who abuse their power accountable. In a statement San Jose Police chief eddie garcia said, quote, the scrutiny officers are receiving regarding inappropriate behavior is warranted, and in this instance, i understand the das Office Decision to seek dismissal in minor cases. He added any officer tound to have acted inappropriately would be held accountable. The police union has come out against the das decision saying, quote, we will not stand for any of our officers to be used as the das political football. We will fight if need be in the courts to protect any officer from being a political pawn to further jeff rosens raw political ambition. The poa added two of the four officers under investigation have been cleared of wrongdoing and are already back at work. Despite the criticism the District Attorney says this is a matter of building trust. Trying to make sure that Everybody Knows they are entitled to and will receive fair and equal treatment under the law. That is my solemn pledge. In san jose, abc 7 news. If youre dealing with issues involving racial and social justice go to abc7news. Com take action for a list of local resources to help you find your ally. The bay area got a break from the weather and pg e. The Utility Company canceled the planned power shutoff in the bay area today but did proceed with turning off the power in other parts of northern california. We are not completely out of the woods. A new power shutoff could start on sunday and that is all dependent on the weather forecast. Were watching yet again to see what might happen with pg e and the power shutoffs. Those winds sunday night into monday are potentially going to be damaging here locally. So lets take a look at the winds right now and then well talk about whats coming. Right now they are gusty picking up from earlier today. Mount diablo, mount helena 24mileperhour out of the north, noeft wind. A very dry, downsloping wind which tends to dry out the already critical fire conditions we are facing right now. The atmosphere dries that out. Excuse me. Red flag warning until 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Low humidity and dry fuel so any winds that do start the fires will spread rapidly. A live doppler 7 showing you fog along the coast. The air quality right now good to moderate as you will notice. We are seeing some impacts from fires around the state. Tomorrow afternoon. Today was cooler. Tomorrow afternoon will be very similar. Mild weather. Low 60s to the low 80s. As you check out the fire weather watch 11 00 a. M. Sunday to tuesday. This is the biggest concern. Gusts 40 to 60 miles an hour. 70 plus at the higher terrain. That means critical to extreme fire weather conditions possible in the bay area. The accu weather seven day forecast cooler pattern for the weekend. Watching the winds sunday night into monday bringing extreme fire weather conditions here locally and then cold mornings will follow. Change is coming. All right. Thank you. 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