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Amendment. A warning from white House Speaker nancy pelosi today, the democrats could once again be talking about removing President Trump from office. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman Speaker Pelosi made that comment today during a news briefing make it clear she is planning to talk about the 25th amendment tomorrow that outlines president ial transfer of power procedures. Catherine heenan the host of inside bay area politics is here with this warning from the speaker. Good afternoon catherine yeah, i new on all of this and were one less than a month away from the election. Nancy pelosi have been talking to reporters about covid19 as she was beginning to wrap Weekly News Conference she suddenly said this. What are we talking about here. Tomorrow by the way. Tomorrow. Come here tomorrow, well be talking about the 25th amendment but not to take attention away from the subject we have now. You think its time to invoke the 25th amendment. Ill talk about that tomorrow. Attachment to monitoring that today except to tell you. If you want to bet that well see you tomorrow but to take me back to my point. Mister president. When was the last time you had a negative test. Before you tested positive. Why is the white house not telling. The country. I also refusing to elaborate just them but in an interview shortly afterwards she suggested the president might be and what she called and altered state because of the drugs the medicine hes taking to treat covid19. She added there are those who say when youre on steroids or have covid19 there may be some impairment of judgment and now shes introducing a bill to establish a commission on president ial capacity and the president responded this afternoon tweeting that pelosi is the one who should be under observation of course its one thing to talk about a constitutional measure to remove the president from office its another to actually do it, pelosi would have to convince Senate Republicans to go along with this and the Vice President would have to sign off on all of that considered highly unlikely at least at this point just well be watching that tomorrow. Thank you catherine and following last nights more traditional debate between Vice President mike pence and senator Kamala Harris, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are declaring their partys candidate. The winner. The vp debate could now be though one of the last showdown between the campaigns before election day President Trump said today that he will not do the next debate because it will be virtual washington correspondent Raquel Martin has the story. It was better than the first first president ial debate Ohio Democratic senator Sherrod Brown says given the low bar wednesday nights Vice President ial debate was a success nor such of debate but theres only one candidate hit their mark the whole market the debate last night was not taking responsibility for the coronavirus brown says Vice President mike pence did not answered the questions continued beige and trying to change the subject to her says right calling it the biggest failure of a president modern times but republicans solve a different problem here is quinn said they stand up to china on fox news, missouri senator josh hawley accused senator Kamala Harris of hiding her agenda. Theyre going to try to rig american democracy just like they rigged the American Economy now the rest of the debates are up in the air after President Trump rejected the commission on president ial debates proposal to hold the next showdown virtually all of a sudden now they want to try to change the rules erin perrine with the Trump Campaign is accusing the commission of favoring joe biden it just doesnt make sense will have had nate multiple negative covid test before he would have arrived at the debate. Brown says the Trump Campaign is being unreasonable President Trump is is it is very willing. To infect his own employees, hes known now as washingtons number one super spreader the final debate is currently set for october 22nd, it in washington Raquel Martin. The second debate scheduled for next week was originally going to be a town hall biden says. If he will now hold his own town hall to directly talk to voters that says planned President Trumps Campaign Says that they want to keep the town hall format and asking for the october 15th debate to be rescheduled. Vice president mike pence has just canceled his Campaign Events and is traveling back to washington d c. The Vice President s spokesperson says that pence has not tested positive for the virus and quote no one is sick. This is of course after his debate last night with california senator Kamala Harris and it is one week after the president announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus this is a story that is developing were working on getting more details and well have the latest for you on kron 4 news at 5. Now to an update on a breaking news story we brought you here yesterday on kron 4 news at 3 officials with the San Francisco Fire Department the San Francisco Police Department and cal osha are now investigating the death of a firefighter, 42 yearold jason cortez died after an injury during a training drill yesterday, fire officials have not yet released details about the accident or what kind of Injuries Court has suffered the investigation is ongoing cortez had been with the Department Since 2007 and was assigned to the tenderloin fire station in court as his honor the Fire Departments flags will remain at halfstaff indefinitely. Also conquered man died early thursday morning following a chase with contra costa sheriffs deputies while working with chp on a hit and run collision in bay point wednesday night. Deputies noticed a green prius driving out of control and believing that that car was involved in the crash. Deputies tried to pull back her over but deputies say the car took off and then crashed into a guardrail at highway 2. 40 twos interchange with westbound highway 4. And when the driver got out they say that he jumped out of the car and jumped off an overpass this is according to the Sheriffs Office. That man has now been identified as 31 yearold control irving the Contra Costa District Attorneys Office the Sheriffs Office and chp are all investigating the circumstances surrounding irvings well go now to our wildfire coverage and talk about the glass fire which is still burning right now in napa and sonoma counties and has burned over 67,000 acres, it is 66 contained. Crews expect to have the fire fully contained at about 2 weeks. The glass fire has destroyed more than 600 homes and it still threatens more than 13,000 structures. And as firefighters continue to make progress in controlling the glass fire. There are new supply and support stations for all the people who are turning to the once evacuated areas kron fours reyna harvey is in santa rosa. She has the latest. Were here at park this is one of the support stations. Here for families returning to their homes for the first time many of them, youre going arrive at this location, pull up in your car you can stay in your vehicle or youll be able to also walk out make sure you have mask. And theyre going provide you with some of these items take a look this is bucket of items are going to families youve got gloves. Youve got mass you got protective goggles. Also resources for many of the people returning to their homes for the first time and what to expect. Now this is not the only location. Youre going to to visit to give resources here at sky park theyre also to honor locations take a look at your screen were looking at maria creel high school thats it. 6975 month the seal boulevard in santa rosa. Also over at the sonoma valley, Regional Park there said 1, 3, 6, 3, 0 sonoma highway in glen allen. Now we talked to residents here in the area who had to evacuate. And this is what they said about these resources that families will be able to get take a listen. Yeah, thats pretty important because. Thats the last thing they think about is a small things but when they come back, and they dont have them then they realize you know. What they really need so to help them out in hours. I think we should do give anything or everything we can to help people get back get the normal we need. Yes, a lot of families are going to be able to benefit from these resources. Workers here will be here until 7 oclock thats the latest you can come and pick up these items and get some resources. For now reporting here in santa Rosa Reyna Kron 4 news. Lets talk about our Weather Forecast now as we take a live look outside at San Franciscos embarcadero kind of a gloomy day out there today lets get a check of the forecast with kron fours meteorologist Rebecca Strom and his feeling like fall in looking kind of gray out there. Yeah, really is just the were both internal max right perfectly dressed for this type of weather were seeing a huge cool down around the bay area. And in fact behind me you can see our live camera overlooking hour speed zone thus are camera on top of the berkeley hills. You can see little bit of haze though the skies and were seeing that much around the bay area bringing the air quality to extend their spare the air alert sent through saturday as a matter of fact we could see anywhere from moderate to pour levels over the next couple of days. But that cooling trend set to matters on around the bay area. Now we did have a possibility of rain in the forecast we still do, but it looks like almost slim to none the chances now continue to diminish as we get the next couple of days. But we are monitoring a storm system thats coming out of the Pacific Northwest that could bring a little bit of showers late in the weekend maybe into your weekend. But again the look slimmer and slimmer as we get closer to the weekend. But the good news is though the cooler temperatures will be here regardless so its going to be a cool weekend. For the first part at least getting into saturday. Temperatures outside right now a lot more mild than what weve seen over the last couple of days, were talking not just to the low 70s and when youre looking at 73 degrees in the livermore valley, 72 in pittsburgh. Were mainly in the low to upper 60s along the east bay shoreline downtown oakland, youre coming in at 68 right now downtown San Francisco 61. The north bay novato youre at 70 degrees in napa currently at 69, so definitely a lot cooler than what weve been seeing over the last couple weeks and its a lot of thanks to the deep marine layer that were thats going to come through much of the bay area into the overnight hours keeping those temperatures even cooler for us. But tomorrow afternoon highs were going to peak out about the 70s once again. So its going to be a nice cool friday afternoon for you livermore youll be at a high of 7367 if youre going to be in fremont downtown san jose youll be at a high of the 7163 that will see in half moon looking ahead though things are going to start to bump up a bit but for the 2nd half your weekend, its still going to be really nice were going to talk about to about the upper 70s inland. Were going to see 70s around the bay and then 60s at the coast, but as we get into next week. I am tracking dry conditions and a little bit of a warmup will have all those details coming up in my sevenday around the bay forecast just team. And lots more coming up here on kron 4 news at 3 we have an investigation into the rolling blackouts in the bay area. We now know what is to blame. And thus we want answer this it now limon economic green and if we continue to see our numbers decline. We can. Police concerned well explain how officials are now trying to and Santa Cruz County the National Guard has now been called in to help a Skilled Nursing facility cope with a deadly outbreak of covid19 as kron fours rob fladeboe reports for us right now 9 people have died and dozens more residents and staff. All have the virus as well. Its again its still too soon to tell of where its starting. Who is it brought it into facility Jennifer Herrera of the Santa Cruz County Health Department telling kron 4 news on thursday that another 5 residents of the watsonville postacute center here on Auto Center Drive have died after contracting covid19. Bringing the total deaths at the facility to 9. Is that how the current residents and weve had some additional additional positives of residents and staff over the past 3 weeks. I have 3 weeks since the outbreak began 3 weeks ago 46 residents and 15 Staff Members have tested positive for covid19. The california National Guard has been brought in to provide staffing support says herrera. We have this outbreak wants the u. S. To keep staff have been affected and are isolating themselves are not able to serve patients that are there the facility is locked down protocols and isolation quarantine testing and screening are now being stepped up to help contain the spread of infection. Weve also been ice the heart with them with recommendations on how to contain the spread, looking at their facility in creating zones of where to call for people who covid positive so that residents can shelter place and. Nicely in place, although covid case numbers are in decline watsonville postacute accounts were not quite half. The 19 deaths so far in Santa Cruz County. Mirroring trends across the country, Nursing Homes and similar facilities remain at elevated risk for covid19 as a result of those most at risk from the virus living in close quarters. I think this really shows to just how quickly covid friend in a lot things like a stone or some facility. In watsonville rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Lets track now the latest coronavirus numbers across california and the bay area so far the state has recorded more than 842,000 cases with more than 16 1000 deaths across the bay area there are now more than 104,000 reported cases and more than 1500 people have died. In the east bay, the Mount Diablo Unified School district is starting now to discuss how it might reopen schools during a virtual meeting, a number of teachers and parents voiced their concerns surrounding the reopening prior to the meeting the district sent surveys out to families over the weekend. Some said that they just dont feel safe returning to school while others say theyre anxious to get back into the classroom. The one thing that has been very true this year is life has been disrupted. And to me reopening schools is simply another disruption force in my opinion that zoom because were not to be able to move around but not the name given govern him things im not going to able to see i have to stay far away from them i cant see their work right now they can hold things up so. I know theres a big push know the socialization is important know that being online is very hard for a lot of these kiddos. If we cant go back the way that were supposed to be there. I no understand going that early. No decision was made at wednesday night meeting in regards to reopening other districts in Contra Costa County are considering january as a possibility Mount Diablo Unified School district will continue to have meetings before making a decision. A new state report says that poor planning. Paired with extreme weather caused rolling blackouts during an august heat wave the report says that california was just not prepared to deal with the high temperatures that soared into the triple digits recording some of the hottest august stays in 35 years. The states power grid order electricity to be cut on a rotating basis affecting more than 800,000 homes and businesses over 2 days that was a first since 2001. Governor gavin newsom demanded an investigation into the blackouts but the states 3 major Energy Agency say they work just lots of contributing factors into why the power was turned off. All right, lets switch gears a little bit here and talk more about our Weather Forecast as we take a live look outside of the bay bridge, a mix of smoke and fog and just gray gloomy skies out there today it really feels like fall in our meteorologist Rebecca Strom is here now with a look at our much cooler forecast good afternoon good afternoon just tenia the cooler forecast is here and were definitely seeing its over the next couple of days and into your weekend. But all the cloud cover here behind me you can see its been a little bit hazy as well a