Reopening those Public Schools in San Francisco or whether they will continue Distance Learning like we saw in san jose this week. Were live in San Francisco, kenny choi, kpix5. The bay area is taking a deep breath today for the first time in 30 days, no spare the air alert. The unhealthy air forcing it to close. Minutes ago, the parks it is closed all roads and park entrances, the smoke expected to stick around to the weekend. Now paul, is the air here in the bay area going to stay clear, though . It will. We will see our by our variations and airquality, just within the past couple of hours. And along the coast. Still good air quality, moderate we can handle, we want to go back into the unhealthy air quality. It has been confined to the immediate is in the and downwind which is north of the large fire still burning. You can see all of it still spreading out, just covered in the thick wildfire smoke so this point. Switch over to the satellite perspective you can see the smoke plumes are still rolling off to the fires. This little cloud cover actually hanging out over parts of the sierra this evening. We will take a look at the forecast as we head into the weekend and talk about maybe how some of that milk will try to sneak back in from the north. Dramatically video, california firefighters willingly go up against on the front fire lines is everybody has left. A crew made this video, documents and the battle the creek fire which is blowing a lot of that smoke in yosemite. Another stunning shot showing a crew driving down residential streets. It is engulfed in flames on one side, virtually untouched on the other. They say they stay, they fight, as long as they save the can before driving through a wall of flames and getting out. Crews are working to contain containment. Names have scorched over 280,000 acres, search and rescue crews are still taking the fire debris at least 15 people have died at last check. That fire was 36 contained. And right now over 17,000 firefighters remained on the frontlines of 26 major wildfires statewide. A record breaking 2. 9 million acres have burned across california this season, and it is only september. They say they expect to have four containment on the cz you lightning complex by sunday night. The blaze broke out nearly a month ago in san mateo and santa cruz counties, so far flames have consumed more than 86,000 acres. Meantime, Santa Cruz CountyOfficials Say due to the cz you complex fires, the county has extended prohibitions on price gouging to october 18. Price increases will be limited to no more than 10 . New at five, fire samenian intentionally set . Police and fire investigators looking into at this evening. The flames broke out a Community Building adjacent to st. Gregory the illuminator on commonwealth avenue. That structure as you see Still Standing but many of the windows boarded up, there was a pile of charge debris out in the street. The building was the site of the Original Church back in the 50s, it now houses the church library, offices, and sunday school classrooms. In the past have had priest living here and we are lucky that it did not, they do not have anybody at to come you know, the upper level. This is the second damaging incident at an armenian facility in San Francisco this summer. The casey the Armenian School was tagged with graffiti back in july, now at this point investigators have drawn no connection between the two events. First and jobless claims in california are down but experts we spoke to a that is not me businesses are hiring. The Labor Department shows an estimated 230,000 californians filed firsttime claims last week. That is down from 243,000 the week prior. The former Employment DevelopmentDepartment Director says even with partial reopenings, though, the job market is very tight. Todays claims suggest that we have had partial reopenings, or limited reopenings. We are having no significant rehiring impacts. And instead, what we see is, again, each day, more business closures including closures permanently, and furloughs now turning into layoffs. Looking life of the Golden Gate Bridge right now, many workers who helped run the bus days and varies between the northbay and sanford is go could soon be out of a job. Andria borba potential layoff notices sent to workers. The bridge district calls these layoffs temporary, saying that these jobs will be brought back once ridership onieunds. Asking for reprieve of a. One point is in larkspur and ridership is down around 97 due to the global pandemic. The day we got on there was five people on it which is sort of sad, there is like nobody writing it. Reporter the Bridge Authority job written on the Golden Gate Bridge but the ferries and the golden gate buses, hasnt 60 day layoff notices to 185 employees. Wild pitch traffic has rebounded to about 65 of normal, we are still losing money on the transit operations, and have about 30 of a typical funding for bus and Ferry Service. The president of the Transit Union 1575 size layoff notices could not come at a worse time for his members, who have been working on the frontlines for months. People looking at losing the job in 60 days before thanksgiving, christmas on their heels. And losing your health benefits. During a Global Health crisis that weve never seen in our time, so. Reporter he says the district has the cash to save jobs until at least after the holidays. Reporter there is grant money that can be used, there is Emergency Fund money that can be used. These layoffs are generational, and you know, what is Emergency Relief Fund there if you are not going to use it during all of this going on at the same time . Reporter they said they will run at a 51 million in care zachs funding in october and are losing money on bus and Ferry Service due to low ridership. The board deemed that keeping those reserves in place and allowing us to move forward with those Critical Infrastructure projects that can save lives, was a top priority. Do we know that these layoffs are definitely happening . Reporter this is the initial warning that they are required to get by the federal government, if theyre going to lay off more than 50 people at one time. They have to make more votes on this before this can go forward with these layoffs and this all depends on whether or not more federal funding comes to save and backfill some of the money at these transit agencies the Golden Gate Bridge. Campaign 2020, lets collect as much wisconsin. Little less than an hour from now, President Trump will be the supporters who helped him carry that state in 2016. It is his third swing to the key battleground state of the past month. Some very different messaging they are taking to voters as we take down to election day. Just 47 days away now, and that is why both the president and the democratic nominee are spending the evening into at thacould be among the most critical to determining this election. Now the president left dc a short time ago facing a backlash and an official event this afternoon, he made a direct appeal to his base. The president elegance what he called the radical left during a white house history conference. Later he has a central wisconsin, regina helped him narrowly when the street the state in 2016. The latest Battle Ground tracker poll shows democratic nominee joe bidens lightly ahead there. The president really comes as he continues to raise backlash over the lack of masks and social distancing at his Campaign Events and after he publicly contradicted his own dr. Robert redfield to the senate panel wednesday he believes the use of facemasks is as important as a vaccine and he predicted a Covid Vaccine would not be widely available to the public until the middle of next year. He made a mistake when he said that, it is just incorrect information. Were any task force meeting, he said maybe this covid thing is a good thing, i dont think to shake hands with these disgusting people. Reporter a new political ad, a former stafford Vp Mike Pence who attended Coronavirus Task force meetings for the president was more concerned with winning reelection and covid19. Vp pence pushing back. He reads to me like one more disgruntled employee. And now has decided to play politics to election year. With the handling of the pandemic and its conflicting messages remain a key focus of the biting campaign. He said to the American People it is a hoax. Reporter democratic president ial candidate, harris sadelph, toward local d latino voters. And the fact that latinos in the Hispanic Community at three times as likely to contract the disease, twice as likely to die from it. Reporter former Vice President joe biden also been a key battleground state of pennsylvania later for a town hall in his birthplace of scranton. And he will be taking questions directly from voters they are, now, tomorrow, both the president and biden will travel to another key states, minnesota, the same day that early voting there begins. Still ahead, and streaming on cbsn bay area, scary moments at a Southern California trump rally, the confrontation that led to someone pulling out a knife. An unexpected moment in court for a bay area man accused of killing an Italian Police officer. His emotional plea to the tends month at a trump rally in Southern California, things to violent turn when a suspect reportedly under the knife attacked a trump supporter down in Orange County. Reporter Michelle Deeley on the offduty officer who stepped in. And then he just took his hand like this way back when he was going to punch me, and hit me right across the face. Broke my earrings off. Reporter eighty four upon his nose punched and bruce at the end of wednesday nights donald trump rally, and vallejo by a man who Officials Say had a knife. He is a gun, he has a gun. He has a gun. Reporter a retired Police Officer got involved in pulled his gun as the suspect tried to run. According to Orange County sheriffs deputies. He does not leave me alone. And so then hes coming up and he took his cigar, whatever it was filled with, marijuana or whatever come he put it on my brandnew trump sign. They are not giving away trump signs, okay . So that made me a little upset and i said what are you doing come you cant do that. Reporter after the blow to the face, she managed to keep her balance, but another rally or was not to the ground on pacific park drive by the same suspect deputies say as she tried to help the others. A third victim in her 70s was taken away by ambulance with a neck injury. The violence is allegedly caused by 33yearold alvin gary shaw, who officially say came armed and was fighting with trump supporters. Very serious, this could have been a very serious incident. In this case, this was just two groups have disagreed. Theyre using e amendment rights we set that she remained peaceful. Reporter he was arrested for elder abuse, assault with a deadly weapon, and assault and battery. An emotional apology and a room, courtroom today from a younger man to the family of the Italian Police officer he is accused of stabbing to death. 20yearold finnigan lee elder in blue said that he will never be able to forgive himself but hopes that one day the family of mario can pick of the newlywed officer was stabbed 11 times in the skull with the Americans Last year. Shortly after elder, 19year old gabriel in white were involved in a botched drug deal. Pittsburgh man in his 20s is dead and a woman injured after an argument in a Grocery Store parking lot. Police say just before 3 am, the two were walking through the foods call lot on atlantic avenue, when a car approached them into man got out. That suspect started to argue with the man, then shot both people and ran away. The car took off in the opposite direction. The man later died at the hospital, and the woman is being treated for her injuries. On the storm watch, the remnants of Hurricane Sally are still dumping rain and parts of alabama, and georgia. At least two people were killed, hundreds of thousands of homes, and business is, are still without power. Check out the stone video, the flooding in gulf shores, alabama, with the store made landfall yesterday. Category 2. It turned roads into rivers and shredded buildings. Take a look at this massive gap on a florida bridge. A barge holding a construction crane broke loose, smashing to the bridge in pensacola, the impact caused a large section of theyearold span to collapse. Two trees came crashing into this coastal alabama home, a man and his oneyearold were inside. They survived. In atlanta that massive oak tree came down on a home, that did kill a man. It in florida, the National Guard has rescued more than 370 people stranded by floodwaters and paul, sally moved on at weekends but another storm, teddy, i guess is out there. There is another system that just got classified as tropical depression the gulf of mexico, and that to become wilfred and then we are out of letters. Have to moved to the greek alphabet. Lets take a look at what is happening right now, this is what is left of sally, still moving up the North Carolina and virginia commonwealth farther out in the Atlantic Ocean that is teddy, very well organized storm. Major hurricane to the only place will potentially impact is bermuda and it looks like it is going to make a pretty close past as we head to sunday afternoon. Still is a major hurricane, it will mo we can rapidly as we had the rest of the weekend and into early next week. Returning to local weather, there is the fog sneak past the towers were downtown but it is not to take just yet, at least over downtown along the coast has been present for much of the day. 65 in downtown, 72 in oakland, 76 degrees in san jose, otherwise low to mid 80s, pretty normal territory for this time of year, temperatures a couple degrees cooler than they were this point yesterday, anywhere from identical in santa rosa to five degrees off of yesterdays pace in fairfield, oakland, sfo, and that half moon bay. Temperatures tonight will drop down to around 60 degrees as the fox present to the inland thousands again, and a little bit of drizzle possibly resulting in measurable moisture right along the coast but in terms of actual rainfall that will stay in the pacific northwest, we will check that out, qucbec 5 30. The fog backs of tomorrow afternoon, should be a nice day with cooler temperatures and spreads back in as we head towards saturday morning before it retreats once again. Sunday is looking like a nice day, its a little bit on the warm side. Starting off the coast the mid 50s but most part the lower half of the 60s in the and then we warm up gradually at first because of the influence of the clouds and fog the only up into the low to mid 70s, warmest by lunchtime, damages diminished warm up a bit more, slightly below average, actually, for high temperatures tomorrow which is a bit of a change. Only 80 degrees for highs in concord the mid70s and was a with mid 70s for the northbay as well, upper 60s and low 70s around the bay with mid 60s along the coast. We start warming up as we head into the weekend, the storm system that brings us that cooler air for tomorrow is going to try to send some more smoke to us by saturday and and a, it still is a question mark in terms of high judgment how high up it will be come that something will talk more about coming up at 5 30. We hope the storm names dont get to omega because then i dont know what were going to do them. Coming up, one tackle football could be back on the field, the ambitious new date facing a mountain of hurdles. It was just a get together with friends. No big deal. Everybody felt fine. But now im super sick. Everyone is sick. I just wish we had been more careful. It would have been easier than this. So wear a mask. Do what you can outside. Stay six feet apart. Because some things you just cant take back. Do your part to lower the risk. And feels the basis desperate baseball season just started but look at the calendar, october right around the corner in good news, playoffs both bay area teams. Very good shape of the giants have a little work to do. Dennis odonnell joins us now, with the latest on San Franciscos playoff chances. Dont get ahead of yourself too far can we still have a few games to go, right . The giants are certainly in a sprint to the finish line, they will play 11 games in the final 10 days of the gular season, searching for that playoff spot. Apparently, baseball is not the only good thing you could catch out there. He thought this was strike three, went to the umpire about it, maybe a little too. But they tossed seven shutout innings, and wilberforce delivered. A big to outhit in the second, he drove into with his first triple since 2017, sentences go takes a 574 lead. They beat 64, seven straight win at oracle park and move ahead of philadelphia for the seventh in the national league. San jose mercy nereporting have targeted october 31 after start date which would put them in position to participate in