Protesters. All the Wisconsin Network protesting the shooting of blake were going to show you what happened here in oakland so take a look at your screen. You can see this is actually at the whole foods you see the windows broken out here this is not the only business that was vandalized overnight and also see several cars set on fire now according to Police Numerous fires were set dozens of windows broken and multiple businesses were vandalized. Now its important to note that the protest started peacefully. But things escalated as the night went on we know nearly 600 people took to the streets. They were asking for justice for jacob lake and also asking for Police Accountability along with fundamental change nationwide now we also know in addition to those cars and those buildings that were vandalized the Alameda County courthouse was also set on fire and numerous other businesses were set on fire as well. Now oakland pd says there were no officers injured during any of those protests that took place overnight here in oakland, however, arrests were made for now reporting here in Oakland Reyna harvey kron 4 news. The sports world is also reacting to the protests and making their voices heard by not playing. They started with basketball and the Milwaukee Bucks boycotting the games. Yeah and also the San Francisco giants to kron 4 news, the first to report that he postpone their game against the dodgers yesterday. And this is video of the team meeting together on the field before as you see here walking away from the game, the giants officially postponed the game about 30 minutes before first pitch and his manager gabe kepler with what he had to say before the organization announced they werent playing. My individual actions are to come by both peaceful protesting with meaningful positive action to promote real change. And again i i just dont think my place is to force anyone into doing anything but rather to share and consistently share what i believe. Conversations and try to change things where i can. And in Milwaukee Brewers as daryn mentioned were the First Major LeagueBaseball Team to boycott their game yesterday. Number of other pro sports followed suit yeah, actually it all started with the Milwaukee Bucks they were reacting. To the shooting of jacob blake in kenosha wisconsin. Their players took a stand by not suiting up to play John Lawrence has the latest the National Basketball association is protesting the Police Shooting of jacob blake lesson. 3 cops one guy theres got to be a better way to him getting shot in the back 7 times some basketball stars like lebron james have been sounding off on social media. But on wednesday, the League Following the lead of the Milwaukee Bucks decided to put its postseason on hold its all the nba together and that came together within just a couple hour time period showing the great leadership of the nba understanding the magnitude of the situation shortly afterward other pro sports organizations, including some Major League Baseball teams followed suit as a white player on this team is how can we show support something tangible that we can do to help. Our Black Brothers on this team, former president barack obama among those applauding the move tweeting its going to take all of our institutions to stand up for our values but cnn sports analyst bob costas says this walkout could lead to a backlash. Some will resented some will say im not going to watch anymore. Ive had it up to here they said senate with Colin Kaepernick they said it with black lives matter President Trump tweeted wednesday that he will be sending the National Guard to kenosha to restore law and order. Im John Lawrence reporting. And a teenager has been arrested for that shooting that killed 2 people who were protesting the death of jacob blake in kenosha wisconsin. On the 3rd night of protests, there was a 4th night again last night james yeah and take a look the suspect now 17 yearold Kyle Rittenhouse these are pictures from his social media account. Rittenhouse turned himself in to Police Wednesday morning after the deadly shooting there in conocian hes charged with firstdegree intentional homicide. Meantime the officer who shot jacob lake on sunday identified as Rusten Sheskey hes a sevenyear veteran of the Kenosha Police force, Wisconsin Attorney general revealed that blake said that he had a knife at the time of the incident. Police were initially responding to a Domestic Violence call involving blake. He remains in the hospital in milwaukee and his family says hes paralyzed now from the waist down. And 5 05 and more breaking news that were covering right now in power for hurricane hammering the gulf coast at any moment you can see already overnight the strong winds and rain and damage done to homes in louisiana. Darryl forges is in beaumont texas with the latest. A big time stars coming through here, its all for right now thats all i got to get worse with light of the worsening yet. Hurricane laura made landfall early thursday morning in southwestern louisiana, as a category 4 hurricane bringing with it 150 mile per hour winds. Putting it in tie with a hurricane from more than 160 years ago as the strongest to hit the state as the eye of the hurricane head towards lake charles mayor there fear that too many people decided to stay behind im just very concerned about. The not only the survival aspect of the storm itself, but also the aftermath. Forecasters continue toward of a storm surge of up to 20 feet and devastating winds for those in lowers path youre going to hear the word on survivable. To. Describe the storm surge that we are expecting. The governor predicted parts of louisiana will be completely submerged as lower moves over the state bringing the storm surge up to 30 miles inland. More than 1. 5 Million People were under Evacuation Orders in louisiana and texas ahead of the storm, social rescue crews are on standby for those who didnt. I was his friend and im making here and i my family make it out safe. And beaumont texas, im darryl forges. Now we want to get a check of the weather and that forecast there for the gulf coast with john trouble yang guys that storm made landfall last night at 01 00am in Cameron Parish southern louisiana and resulted in some pretty decent storm surge right up and down the coastline, although not as high as it could have been which is your first bit of good news out of the system that was going to be plenty of news thats not so good including these very strong winds made landfall last night as a category 4 hurricane weakening now to category 2 status as it continues to push inland across the state those southern parishes of the state are still looking at some incredible storm surge including around lake charles, the most populated impacted city and storm surge stretching as far as 30 to 40 miles inland as that c works its way up into the very low lying by is on the southern end of the state has this category 2 system works further northward it will continue to weaken, but dump plenty of water with it as well some very strong winds all the way into the midwest. So if you have travel plans out this direction youre likely to see some interruptions as that storm continues to push inland as for conditions here locally we have some smoke and some fog mixed in together that is having a big impact as youre stepping outside this morning very dense fog in portions of the north bay as well as along the coastline will have an impact in visibility at times this morning in Napa Santa Rosa nevado and in San Francisco. So as the oakland and hit other hillsides of the east bay, some of that fog is it the cleanest either especially not in the north bay where we have unhealthy conditions this morning. You do have respiratory conditions. This is something you want to know as you are going to be venturing outside to worse or quality than yesterday for some parts of the bay. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with oakland at 59 alameda dublin at 57 degrees. We are seeing a slightly cooler start to the morning than yesterday so its got a brisk feel to it out there. Go ahead throw that jacket on this morning and look forward to a pretty comfortable afternoon just around the corner. James all right john thank you, lets turn our attention to the wildfires that are burning now 3 extremely large fires burning. In parts of the bay area with crews making progress. So heres the update, according to cal fire the lnu lightning complex fires, the north bay fires. Now 33 contained the scu lightning complex fires in parts of the east and south bay, 30 contained and the czu august lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Now 21 contained so making some progress. We have Team Coverage of the czu lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties in this map shows you the area burned by those fires covers will tran is live at the Cal Fire Base Camp in Scotts Valley with the latest this morning. Well. Talk about progress james and area. Yes were now at 21 containment up 2 per cent since yesterday but what theyre doing is theyre stopping from the fire from exploding in terms of acreage right now were sitting at a little bit more than 11,000 icy 81,000 acres and yesterday at this time we were around 80 so its still burning but a lot of the acres that are added on to now are controlled burns to the port were james darya great news to pass along that campus of u c santa cruz, the Evacuation Orders have been lifted so theyre going to systematically. Bring people back on to campus they protected it for days now the fire never touched it to the point where they felt safe enough now to allow people to return to the residential areas of you see santa cruz. Some of the other areas, including Scotts Valley, the unincorporated areas, my current location, people could be returned to their home in days, maybe a couple of days from now felton that could be a week out so we getting closer as far as evacuees, returning to their locations and were talking about 77,000 people had to be evacuated. There are neighborhoods that are so decimated that theres nothing to return to and theyre still telling people do not sneak past checkpoints because you can kick you could get hurt you could get killed and you are taking away resources from the authorities or still very much. They have their hands full battling this fire which has been burning for more than a week now we get a chance to track down some evacuees. Heres what they had to say about the progress. You get to a point where its just moves came like its gray like like all the pictures of the moon and. And this is gone. And then another 100 feet 200 feet, theres this house is perfect as a car in front of it is perfect. When you can see where the firefighters did the hard fight. Absolutely theres no rhyme or reason to a fire your house could be destroyed the house next door perfectly intact minus a couple maybe some smoke problems inside your house, the smell of smoke, other than that everything about your house is fine theres no rhyme or reason about that this morning guys were still sitting at about 24,400 homes are still threatened with the fire burning but they do expect great conditions once again to take to the sky. Do all those water drops and theyve been averaging about 250,000 gallons of water every day. I will treat out new information at 6 oclock they will have a News Conference and hopefully the containment numbers will go up. Well try to find out the very latest on when people the evacuees will return. I do know in areas like bonnie dune its still one of the worst areas as far as the fire. James darya theyre saying weeks out for those people who live in by need to move back to you or i am going to be a long road. Thanks a lot. Well, yeah well dont forget for the very latest any time of day. Kron 4 dot com a great resource for you can also download the kron 4 mobile app and well send alerts to you the minute they come into the newsroom. So again check that frequently. 5. 13 is the time to take a quick break coming up here on the kron 00 04am morning news, the cdc has updated its guidelines on coronavirus testing and some Health Experts including governor newsome here in california say they dont agree with it, well tell you what its all about. Plus a man has died in the l a new lightning complex fires were going to hear from his family coming up right now, we could all use some comforting words, so here it goes melty, melty, tasty, grilly, juicy, sizzle. Mmm, that should feel better. The sourdough patty melt is back. Make it a combo meal for just 5. 99. Melty, melty. And packed with my toasted sourdough bread. Freshly grilled onions, 100 beef. And two slices of melted cheese. All that with fries and a drink for only 5. 99 . Woah, is there an echo in here . Get my sourdough patty melt combo, back on my menu for 5. 99. The cdc has a change the guidelines that it has about coronavirus testing the agency now says people exposed to the virus may not need to be tested. And the cdc no longer recommends testing people who dont have symptoms. Even if theyve been in contact closely with someone who has the virus. According to the previous guidelines, viral testing was appropriate for people with recent exposures or suspected exposure even if they didnt have any symptoms. The agency says people without symptoms who also have not been in close contact with someone whos been affected. Dont need to take a test now and many Health Experts are shocked by this new recommendation, including santa clara countys Health Officer doctor sara cody. I first heard about this change in guidelines. I actually didnt believe it for it seemed entirely bizarre in that it under pets are very basic tenants of how we control an Infectious Disease. Testing and having individuals know their status is foundational to our ability to control an Infectious Disease and certainly our ability to control covid. The nations top doc you know on the Coronavirus Task force doctor Anthony Fauci he says he had nothing to do with the cdcs change and their recommendations about testing. He was having throat surgery when the cdc made these changes. Fauci says now he is worried about the new recommendations. Governor Gavin Newsome worried about it as well he says he doesnt agree at all with the change in cdc guidance. Instead hes promising to increase covid19 testing here in the state fact a lot of california leaders signed a one 0. 4 billion dollar contract with a major Diagnostics Company to start processing an extra 150,000 tests per day which would in effect double the states current daily Testing Capacity to about a quarter of a million tests every single day. Happening tomorrow in the east bay, certain Contra Costa County businesses are going to be able to reopen and start doing business outdoors this said theres been a gradual a downward trend in cases there and in positivity rates and hospitalizations so theyre going to loosen the restrictions on businesses including personal care services. That dont involve close contact with a face to face contact and where you wouldnt be wearing a mask so they are going to allow. Outdoor nail salons massage parlors Gyms Fitness CentersHotels Motels and Short Term Rentals things that dont involve close contact and where you can still wear a mask that theyre going to start losing those restrictions down. Well lets get a check of the forecast here at 5. 19 find out from john what we can expect today as were still im still enjoy cooler weather and cleaner air but hes got different, i dont know what to expect in the afternoon it was great and i open all the windows and then before i knew it was smoking and its so funny because other north bay viewers of the messaging me this morning being like it was so nice yesterday and now youre waking up in the north bay and its just awful up there. The air quality a marine and sonoma counties is the worst across the bay area right now. And that shows you just one shift in wind direction relaxing of winds means that smoke can settle in different places across the bay, so by no means are we in the clear just because weve had a few hours of good air quality from time to time you just got to enjoy those good moments when we get them and prepare for the not so good moments because we still do have plenty of smoke being put up by these wildfires. You look outside at the east bay right now berkeley here showing some very foggy conditions embedded in that fog is ample smoke up in marine in Sonoma County so do be mindful of that as youre venturing outside this morning, a High Pressure ridge since to our east and we are in the midst of a nice little cool down thanks to this dip in the jet stream. Tomo