As it heads towards the u. S. Mainland. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. The good news is that Hurricane Dorian only caused limited damage today as it passed the Virgin Islands and then puerto rico. The hurricane did knock down trees and caused scattered Power Outages across the northern caribbean but there is no official flooding or excuse me no major flooding and officials in puerto rico say they are breathing a huge sigh of relief tonight. Chief meteorologist bill martin is here now with a look at the storm. Dorian is now a herrick and as you know. Checking out the last 10 hours or so as it moves by puerto rico and they dodged a bullet here. This went right between the islands, not a lot of damage at least so far on san juan, puerto rico. But we are looking light in thi the forecast for dorian as a category one for it to turn into a category three as we get to the weekend here and look at the focus of the storm. Category two as it moves in through the bahamas and then you see it pop straight into a category three just offshore. By sunday, somewhere in the afternoon hours its a major hurricane, category three just off of miami. Heres the hurricane plot, numerous models are the most widely used and this is the convergence. This is what the models are saying. One that is not, but the rest of the guys are saying around Daytona Beach from miami and Daytona Beach, thats monday or sunday night into monday morning. People in puerto rico had feared the worst after Hurricane Maria killed some 3,000 people and caused catastrophic damage just a few years ago. Ktvus Paul Chambers talked with a Restaurant Owner late today who is from puerto rico and has family there. What did he tell thankful that Hurricane Dorian caused the omitted damage to the island. Some say this was a good test for residents who are much better prepared after back to back deadly hurricanes two years ago. Heavy rains and high winds from Hurricane Dorian swept over the island of st. Thomas. The storm caused flooding and Power Outages in the Virgin Islands and neighboring caribbean countries. Forecasters thought dorian would make a direct hit on puerto rico but the National Weather service says it went north with the center roughly 60 miles from san juan. The threat of the hurricane had people on the island and loved ones near the bay area bracing for the worst. I spoke to my mother this morning. And shes nervous. She said everybody took all the water from the supermarket. Reporter jose ortiz is the owner of a restaurant in oakland. Born and raised in puerto rico, ortiz has a lot of family on the island. These are pictures from two years ago. When a group of volunteers visited the u. S. Territory and handed out supplies. Shortly after Hurricane Maria and irma whipped across the island. Everybody is feeling nervous. Because they already went through Hurricane Maria and through hurricane wilma and they lost everything. Now not only physically but mentally. Reporter when news broke that dorian was headed towards puerto rico people began stocking up on supplies. Just two years removed from irma and maria, ortiz says people of puerto rico have learned a lot. All the while trying to rebuild their country. We still got people that probably dont have electricity, they dont have the roof over their house. Theyre still using the blue tarp. Reporter ortiz says five shelters were opened in his hometown. As for the hurricane forecasters expect it will strengthen as it heads but the expected ost part it missed puerto rico. Thank you. In the east bay tonight one person was hurt and two structures were destroyed in a vegetation fire in eastern Contra Costa County just after 5 00 tonight on a ranch. East Contra Costa CountyFire Protection district says a mobile home and a barn were destroyed. One person suffered minor injuries. Fire Officials Say power lines were down in the area. That ranch is located in the 12,000 block of byron highway near marsh creek road. We are told the fire was contained to the ranch property. Now to the race for the white house, today candidate Kirsten Gillibrand dropped her bid for the nomination. I wanted you to hear it from me first, after more than eight incredible months and im ending my president ial campaign. I know this isnt the results we wanted. We wanted to win this race. But its important to know when its not your time. The 52yearold new york senator did not qualify for the third primary debate because of low polling and difficulty raising money. She now says that she plans to endorse another candidate. Gillibrand was appointed to the senate in 2009 to fill the seat vacated by hillary clinton. She centered her race mostly on womens issues. So far 10 candidates have qualified for the debate on september 12 including front runner joe biden, cory booker, pete buttigieg, julian castro, kamala harris, amy klobuchar, beto orourke, bernie sanders, Elizabeth Warrren and andrew yang are also qualified for the debate in houston. New at 10 00, the Transit Administration announced today it is giving 125 million to help extend b. A. R. T. Into downtown san jose. The b. A. R. T. Silicon valley phase two project was the first to be chosen as part of a Pilot Program designed to fasttrack infrastructure projects. That project is a 6. 5mile extension of the b. A. R. T. System from the soon to be completed station down to downtown san jose to the city of santa clara. B. A. R. T. Police are reporting progress in their effort to hire more officers. The Transit Agency has faced criticism from riders who say there is a lack of officers patrolling train cars and stations. B. A. R. T. Says that is all changing. Crime reporter henry lee has the details. Congratulations. Reporter three new Police Officers were sworn in marking a hiring milestone in the department. B. A. R. T. Has hired 40 officers so far in 2019. Thats the same number of officers who joined the force in the last two years combined. We know that ridership is asking for more presence on the trains and we need to give that to them and the way we are going to attain that is by hiring more people. Reporter the department has been criticized for not doing enough to tamp down on a Violent Crime but in hiring new officers the Department Says its starting to turn a corner. All three officers transferred from other agencies. Officer Joseph Alvarez no relation to the interim chief was a former officer in benicia. It takes a lot. Doing a different kind of policing. When i was investigating the department they are big on Community Policing as well so thats something im excited about. Repo case in point, on tuesday night a man was carjacked of his mercedes suv at the walnut creek b. A. R. T. Station. The victim saw two officers at the station on an unrelated matter. And those officers arrested two suspects who are still in the parking garage. B. A. R. T. s been on an aggressive hiring spree. A new labor contract brings offers her salaries closer to the average for other bay area Law Enforcement agencies. B. A. R. T. Offers new cops a 15,000 hiring bonus. Pay them benefits, definitely a plus. Retirement system and then b. A. R. T. Is financially stable. Reporter b. A. R. T. Still has 34 officer vacancies, new officer mcgill llamas from union citygoal is going to be t out there, be proactive. You know, make sure to make our rounds throughout the station, try to get people to feel safe. Reporter b. A. R. T. Is looking for a Permanent Police chief, that interim chief is a 22year veteran of the department. He wants to be considered. In oakland, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Now to richmond and a remembrance tonight for a brother and sister who were killed in a car crash over the weekend. The accident happened on i5 as their mother was driving the family to Southern California to see their relatives. Ktvus Debora Villalon is at the school where they were honored tonight. Debora . Reporter a brother and sister 10 and 13, both attending here since preschool. The community is stunned and supporting the family. The playground at Richmond College prep was awash in white. It seemed all 500 students and their families might be here to wrap their arms around one. A family of five a few days ago, now three. His sister who was 13. What do you say to them . There are no words. Reporter it was saturday midmorning when the contreras family suv crashed on i5 in kern county. Chp says mother maria driving drifted into the center divide, overcorrected and rolled. The three adults and a middle sibling all belted and survived. The two children on belted were ejected and died. People consider the parents conscientious and wonder if the kids took their belts off to sleep on the long ride. We dont understand. How that happened. But we are here together and we want to show everybody how much we really love them. Whatever feelings you are feeling, you are not by yourself. Reporter the pain is raw at this school. The eighth grade room, her desk is a memorial with expressions of grief for a girl who is a leader and wanted to go to harvard. Students learning how fragile life is. They say that we are talking about her trip on friday. And they said well see you on monday and i think that hit them hard too. You just dont know. Book out a say jesse isworking. Reporter the spot saved for jesse, its only the third week of school. Kids settling in and then confronted by this. One note titled i wish they didnt go. There not forgetting him. We are not forgetting him. Hes not gone. And i think thats really special. Reporter Gofundme Pages have been established to help with burial expenses. Children shared the mic and memories as diego listened. He attends the school too. Students plan to support him even as they console themselves. I told him youre going to cry, cry. If you want to go home, go home. You want to run on the playground, do that. And embrace each other. Reporter chp and kern county tell me theyve three fatal collisions involving bay area drivers from fremont, San Francisco and now richmond this month. Each time it was a solo rollover crash. Each time occupants who were belted in survived, those who were not did not. The contreras children are the third and fourth deaths in august. Reporting live in richmond, Debora Villalon, ktvu fox 2 news. Livestock running loose in a bay area neighborhood. Coming up, the problem people say theyve been dealing with again and again and how it may finally be resolved. Im looking into the forecast as we get closer to the weekend, talk about what you can expect for your next couple of days working into saturday and sunday. That gives people who live in their rvs a safe place to park is already being called a success. We hear from families who are receiving help. New at 10 00, a program that gives people who live in their rvs a safe place to park overnight. The program just started a fegh area cities were on hand to see how it works. Ktvus amber lee is in East Palo Alto now with more. Amber . Reporter currently the program has 16 rvs parked in this lot. The goal is to transition people who live in their rvs into stable homes. This is the kitchen and a little stove. Reporter judith ortiz lives in her rv. 2yearold nephew and her sister. She works at a restaurant but says she couldnt afford the apartment she was living in when rent increased from 1200 to 3,200 a month. It has been a little bit hard. To get back in business. Get back on my feet. Reporter to help her and others living in rvs get back on their feet, project we hope a nonprofit and the city of East Palo Alto started rv safe parking in may. Transforming a once vacant lot into a community of rvs that house mostly families. There are toilets, showers, along with washers and dryers. People can park here from 7 00 p. M. To 7 00 a. M. There is also a Security Guard on site. You talk to them and not at them, then you begin to establish level of trust. Reporter paul baines is founder of project we hope. He is also chaplain for the East Palo Alto police department. He says those relationships along with partnerships with other nonprofits have helped transition people to stable housing. In just three months, dozens who had been living here in their rvs have moved into homes. The early success of this program has led leaders from other bay area cities to see this program for themselves on this night. Bain is working with oakland and san jose on similar rv programs. This 11yearold and her family are scheduled to move out of their rv in september. It feels good. My own room. Im going to have quiet so i can do my homework. Graders has living out of an rv has been difficult and scary when they had to park out on the street. People were doing drugs. They were drunk. They had glass. They were throwing things around. Reporter ortiz says shes awaiting her turn to move out of her rv. Whats in the past is in the past and you have to work for now. One day at a time. Reporter in addition to help in finding housing the Program Offers dinner each night and services such as a job placement. A city councilmember and leaders from other cities say they want to replicate this program. Frank . Amber lee in palo alto tonight, thank you. San franciscos Planning Commission is set to vote on a similar plan to convert a city parking lot into a secure lot for People Living in rvs. The lot is located near the balboa b. A. R. T. Station. It would provide parking for 33 rv owners all of whom would be screened. If approved it would likely go to the full board sometime in september. The latest Homeless Count showed sharp increases in many bay area cities and counties but in san diego county, the number is lower by 5 . Earlier today ktvus Heather Holmes sat down with san diegos mayor Kevin Faulkner for some of his policies similar to the efforts in the bay area, others include a tougher approach including citations or even jail time for people who refuse to go to a shelter. Variety of Different Things that will happen in terms of enforcement, citation and others. We are serious about it and again it is not compassionate to let somebody sleep in a tent city or sleep on the sidewalk. Thats a very clear message that we are saying in san diego as we are making these changes. Its the right thing to do. Reporter despite the decline, san diego still has some of the highest numbers of homeless residents in the country. Checking in on those temperatures out there, cooler today certainly than it was yesterday. Temperatures last couple days actually have been trending down. Today has been cooler by another five or eight degrees. Tomorrow about the same. 79 in vallejo, 83 in napa, at antioch and fairfield, 84 so down about 10 degrees in many places over the last few days, 10 to 15. Theres the system, hard to see but you can see the thunderstorms from it. All that activity, that system that went up the coast and brought us that slight chance of a thundershower in our northern communities did show up well north of us but there were thunderstorms as you work your way north out into the northeast part of the state. Now thats dying down but we are left with a lot of fog and low clouds from that weakened High Pressure and temperatures are reflecting that. Right now, the green is the sea into fairfield, 10 degrees cooler tonight in concord than last night. Eight degrees cooler in livermore, sfo you because its low clouds at this point. The story pretty much the same as today, slow 90s in the very hottest inland spots but mostly mid80s. Back here with the five day. Professional racer and the host of Mythbusters Jessi combs was killed in a crash while trying to break a land speed record. It happened yesterday while she was driving a 56foot long jet like car in a desert in oregon. Holmes was widely known in racing circles as the fastest woman on four wheels. She broke a womans record six years ago with a run of 398 miles an hour. Before her death she was quoted as saying it may seem a little crazy to walk directly into the line of fire, those who are willing are those who achieve great things. People say im crazy. I say thank you. Jessi combs was 39 years old. A neighborhood deceived by bulls. With big horns. How the livestock may be getting loose and why neighbors might finally see some relief. Information about todays police standoff. We now know why u. S. Marshals and secret service were focused on a home in fairfield. Six people are in custody after a daylong standoff in fairfield that ended with a s. W. A. T. Team releasing tear gas into a home. Federal Authorities Say they had information a fugitive homicide suspect was inside a house on shenandoah court. The u. S. Secret service and u. S. Marshals called in help from the fairfield s. W. A. T. Team. Officers arrived and evacuated the neighborhood. Over the course of that standoff, six people were taken into custody. Fairfield police said it was a slow prolso called out our Crisis Negotiation Team to attempt to