49 towers needed to be replaced entirely. The journal says a 2017 internal presentation by pg e, estimated their transmission towers were 68 years old with the oldest towers being 108 years old. The Life Expectancy was 65 years. Pg e neglected and failed to make up grades. Since the campfire in the past year, pg e worked to intensify the inspections on transmission lines in the last year, pg e inspected 222 substations, 50,000 transmission structures, 30,500 miles of power lines and 700,000 distribution poles. We brought in more than 2000 qualified linemen outside of california to help us with all of the inspection work in terms of doing the inspection as well as being able to do the repair. The journal says detailed inspections include workers physically climbing the towers to inspect them. It hasnt been done in decades. We are waiting on a response, we reached out to them this morning as of air time, nothing has come in to our newsroom. We will keep you posted when it does. To san pablo, polisible for shooting. The man was shot and killed before 9 30 near stanton and giant road. Police believe the shooting was targeted and there were no other victims. No arrests. If you have information, please call san pablo police. San Francisco Police are investigating the 23rd homicide this year. A man was shot and killed in the bay view a second victim is recovering at the hospital. Hospital. Reporter i spoke with san Francisco Police about this shooting. They dont know a motive but continue to interview witnesss and trying to track down Surveillance Video to peas together a timeline. There might have been a verbal altercation. Everything is early in the investigation. Reporter officers were called to the scene around 11 30 last night and found two victs,en in their 30s or 40s, suffering from gunshot wounds. It happened on jennings street near a homeless shelter in the bay view neighborhood. One of the victims ran inside bleeding asking for help. A few people did provide aid but say he died a second victim was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. This is the 23rd homicide of the and comes days after a teenager was killed in the mission. The community, the family and the victims and the officers, we take this very seriously, we dont like to see this violence occur in the city. We are investigating everything. We are trying, we will look at all possibilities as to why this is happening and respond asnecessary to help decrease this activity the city. Reporter police are search for the shooter. They dont have a suspect description but say he may have been driving a sedan. San franciscos received a state grant to combat human trafficking. The 9. 3 million grant is from the California Social Services department. It will provide services to youth who are survivors or at risk of human trafficking, specifically commercial sexual grant and it 10 partnering organizations who help to deal with the challenges we know sadly so many of our young people face around Sexual Exploitation. There cases of Sexual Exploitation reported in 2017 in San Francisco. The Grant Application was coauthored. The public defender for a man accused of raping four women in San Francisco says police illegally obtained his dna. The attorney for cruz says police gathered dna evidence by testing him for alcohol intoxication during a traffic stop last july. The chronicle reports the deputy public defender is arguing the search was illegal because there was no search warrant. Cruz had no alcohol in his system at the time of his airs. The hearing in this case is set for monday. Misare looking for the people who ran down a man in the parking lot of San Franciscos legion of hon no, a group of people were in the parking lot breaking in to cars. The victim and his son were walk when they saw two men in gray hoodies breaking in to their car. The victim started taking photos of the men. They spotted him and jumped in to a bmw and rammed in to him. It sent him onto the ho and in to the windshield before he fell to the pavement. What originally started as a burglary will likely turn in to an attempted murder case. They are asking anyone who sees the car to call them. A silver or gray bmw four door with at with at at tinted windows. The man is in the hospital and expected to survive. The son wasnt hurt and staying with his father at the hospital until his mother arrives in the bay area. Investigators are looking at videos and photos and a controversy camera from a muny bus. A drive crashed in to a patrol car while at the scene of an earlier crash. A car lost control and crashed in to the Grace Baptist Church at 98th and walter avenue. Three people were hurt but expected to be okay. The drive of another car hit a Police Officer inside a patrol car. The officer was directing traffic at to the crash scene. Oakland council will shut down a street considered a source of crime. There are several Homeless People living on 37th avenue. Councilman said shut down the street would force them out and create a safer environment for workers and neighbors. Late last night the meeting went in to the rly morning hours, business operators expressed mixed reaction to the plan. We definitely support this closure just for the safety of our associates. We have associates that work in the back that work in a lot of activities unloading trucks and had significant opportunities with safety and just the morale of the associates. Once it is blocked off, we have no access. We believe if there are more vehicle traffic around our business, it would deter crime. If its closed off, it is like a sanctuary for crime. The Council Approved the temporary closure. Law requires people be given 24 hours notice before anything is done. The council give more tail. Details are being worked out. Mental Health Therapists at keizer are on the picket line. The second time since december therapists staged a protest to highlight what they call severe under staffing at keizers Mental Health clinics. The oneday strike lasts until 3 30 outside of the keizer medical offices on gary boulevard. Keizer sent a response saying sit committed to working with the therapist to address increase in demand for Mental Health sertaking another look at guidelines for Police Shooting investigations. How a proposed bill aims to reduce thous of force among officers. Developing news in washington, the labor secretary is responding to his involvement with jeffrey epstein. Why he says he is not stepping down. Weather outside, after overcast this morning, blue skies showing up. Talk about a warming trend. We will have that forecast coming up. Developing news out of washington dc, embattled labor secretary Alexander Acosta is speaking out about calls for his resignation. He got 13 months in prison for prostitution charges, not sex trafficking. The deal was made by acosta when he was the miami u. S. Attorney. The deal is criticized by many as being too lenient and democrats including House Speaker nancy pelosi and senator Charles Schumer are calling for acostases are you are egg nation. Acosta spoke to the chief of staff on the case and says he is not stepping down. I keep reading about articles about my relationship with me and mr. Mulvaneny, he called me this morning to say if asked that our relationship is excellent, too, any articles to the contrair are in words, bs. Im here, im defending this case. Thats my job. Epstein is facing sex trafficking charges in new york. According to prosecutors, the case involves girls as young as 14. Uks ambassador to the United States announced resignation this morning after President Trump blasted the diplomat for making critical remarks about his administration. Reporter britains ambassador is stepping down. Saying the Current Situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as i would like. Derricks resignation after secret cables leaked to press revealing he called the Trump Administration inept, clumsy andysfunctional suggesting britains incoming government change the way it does business with the white house. The reality was in light of the last itw to be affective would kpno long the ambassador, calling derrick whacky and a stupid guy relationing with the uk remains strong. We have a special and strategic relationship with the united kingdom. Its bigger than any individual, its bigger than any government and stood the test of time and will continue to do so. Reporter teresa may will have a chance to choose the replacement before she steps down at the end of the month. Bernie sanders is focusing on San Francisco hoadusin for h president ial campaign. You share a kitcn s sanders touring a up to neighborhood. Sanders visited an Affordable Housing development. The 21st century bill of righ include guaranteed health care and living wages and fair housing. A 56 year old map was found pinned under his jeep which fell off of its jack as a result of one of the ridge crest earthquakes. A form of small earthquakes hit oregon. Several dozen quakes hit thebeit 2. 1. Seismologist say they were too small to feel. Happening today alameda is holding a Community Seminar on how to limb the damage tom equations. Much of the damage from recent earthquakes in california resulted from e lick call and Plumbing Systems and furniture and contents inside homes and businesses. Safety experts say Property Damage can slow down evacuations, delay rescues and ignite fires. The training goes at the county office of Emergency Services in dublin. Across the bay, the men low park Fire District is demonstrating earthquake capabilities. Me low fire formed one of the top urban search and rescue task forces. The demonstration starts at 1 00 fire station at the oak road in downtown men low park. Usgs is celebrating the opening of a new campus. Moving from menlo to be kated with the nasa aimed research instruct her amount Ribbon Cutting was held 2 hours ago as the first face of employees make the move. Th o agencies to collaborate. For most of my career, we have been living the reality of limited federal resources. If we can use those resources most efficiently and collaborative we get more out of what we got. Moving all the usgs employees and equipment is expected to take several years. Lets talk about the bay area weather. We had a gray damp start to the day, mark. Look at us now. Outside now, we have a little bit more blue across portions of the bay area. We are seeing out of the past few minutes, this picture changed dramatically, the clouds clearing out. Partly to mostly sunny skies. The weather system to the north. The circulation towards the pacific northwest, cooling off the bay area, impact with our local pattern, producing drizzle as well. Coast side over the past few days, around the bay, still a few lingering clouds to talk about this wednesday afternoon, scattered around the bay, closer to oak land and hayward and freeland. We are heading in that direction for clear right now. Current numbers, no excessive heat for today. That could be changing a bit towards the weekend. Santa rosa, 75 degrees. San jose 71. San francisco last check reporting 64. See in the pacific, this big l, area of low pressure, this has capping our temperatures, it has been the same pattern over the past week or so. Scattered low clouds from this morning, mixing out this afternoon. We are watchingnext few days, this area of hi and a warming trend that begins especially for tomorrow, saturday should be the hottest day of the period inland. This is a mild coast side warm around the bay, hot temperatures inland, seeing the microclimates and the inland neighborhoods by saturday could approach the mid90s. That should be the hottest day of the week. Later on today, few lingering clouds especiaastside, not in the clear, the fog could resurface tonight in to tomorrow morning. This is thursday morning. Clearing back to near the coastline. No major changes for tomorrow. Temperatures will begin to warm things up a little bit in your thursday forecast. Highs talking about 60s towards San Francisco and pacifica. Santa rosa 81. Antioch and brentwood 80s. San jose 75. The fiveday forecast, temperatures, we are talking about inland heat, thats the case, nothing too major for tomorrow. Friday we begin to sneak in to the lower 90s inland around the bay low 80s. Beaches in to the mid to eknlan u. S. Womens National Soccer team is celebrating its win at the g their win to call for equal pay. Because ill never be a sidekick. Our an understudy. Ill never be benched, subbed, or picked last. Because ill be a little busy. Leave the bench warming to your tennis bag. Join net generation. Wall street welcomes signs from the Federal Reserve the central bank is prepared to cut Interest Rates for the first time in a decade. Dow jones spent the session on the entire side of things. S p up by a half, nasdaq is up by twothirds of a percent. Fed chief made the comments about Interest Rates this morning. He is testifying before congress. Delivering the fed semi annual monetary report to congress and says a weekend economy boltsterred the trade. The central bank boosted rates four times last year. Malicious apps downloaded to 25 million android devices. This according to research by Cyber Security firm check point from a campaign called agent smith and distributed through the Google Play App store and third party stores ow out of china. Hackers could activate the malware to display unwanted ads and access personal data. Google deleted the apps pes use ad Blocker Software and always update their devices when prompted. To the u. S. Womens National Soccer team, they are bein welcomed home as would champions today. They took part in a ticker tape parade in new york city. The parade ended in a celebration at city hall where meagan spoke to thousands of supporters. This group is incredible. We took so much on our shoulders to be here today to celebrate with you today. We did did it with a smile. The netherlands on sunday. Reporter new york city ros soccer team to honor their world cup victory. Tons of shredded paper showering the team along the stretch of Lower Manhattan known as the canyon of heroes. Celebration of their historic world cup win on sunday the womens team defeated the nether lands 20 in france. The squads fourth victory. The parade followed by a ceremony at city hall, with the team being presented with keys to the city. The players have become the face of a fight for closing the gender pay gap as they push for salaries equal to their male counter parts, earning praise from President Trump despite putting heads with cocaptain after the tournament mvp said she would not visit the white house if the team won the cup. They are the only female squad to ever receive the honor of the parade through the canyon of heroes. Planning for a future without natural gas. How a cityis considering a ban in new homes. Learning about a controversial plan to remove mice, federal regulators are withdrawing their proposal. K its my special friend, antonio. 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My client itemized where Law Enforcement and officials have gone in approx30 times. Almenna will be on the witness stand for the rest of this week under cross examination. We hope you stay with ktvu for the continuing coverage of the ghost ship fire trial. Henry lee is in the courtroom, find his blog on the trial online at ktvu. Com. Many people in livermore are mourning the loss of a promising High School Football player while Police Search for a man suspected of shooting and killing him. There is a memorial at the taco bell on stanley boulevard where Emmanuel Mosby was shot to death. That could have been me. Its sad to hear. Its devastating to the town. He was great person. Police say the shooting happened after an argument. They identified the suspect as 21 year old george taez. Authorities are providing information on an american scientist with the bay area tie that died in greece. Authorities recovered the body of susan eaton that disappeared last week. She was a molecular biol