Christien kafton has been talking about officials and joins us live from San Francisco. Reporter more than 300 inmates are housed in jail here inside 850 bryant. The question is if the building is shut down becse it has been deemed seismically unsafe, where do those inmates go . No one argues the point that 850 bryant, San Franciscos hall of justice since the 1960s has got to go. The building declared seismically unsafe in the mid 1990s still houses the criminal court and the jail on the seventh floor. San francisco is debating what to do with the 300 inmates that the jail holds now that the mayor has called for the inmates to be rehoused july 2021. We have to close the jail. It is far past time for the city to have a clear plan and timeline to do so. Reporter San Francisco supervisor call for a hearing to begin planning on what to do with the inmates the jail houses. At this point no one has a plan for where to put them. The retiring sheriff said since board of supervisors in 2015 rejected a 250 million proposal to build a new jail there is no plan for the 300 inmates. The options are limited including sending some inmates out of the county to santa rita jail in Alameda County or renovating a jail in san bruno the city already owns. Both ideas post logistical and physical problems rip the sheriff stressed that she would like to see the deputies and those incarcerated out. I dont understand how we are going to do it in terms of getting it closed without having someplace to put people. Reporter activists showed up to the hearing gathering beforehand saying the answer is not building more jails. Instead they call for more communitybased programs aimed at crime prevention, drug rehabilitation and helping offenders reintegrate into society. 80 of the people in the jail are there pretrial. Release those people to their communities. Release everyone to the communities they are from. Reporter the supervisor closed the hearing saying this is part of what he hopes will be ongoing conversation. He hopes to hold hearings to figure out what the plan would be to move the inmates out of the jail. He said at this point since there is no plan he says in his words that is troubling. Live in San Francisco, ktvu fox 2 news. Seems like they need to come up with a plan quickly. 2021 will be here before you know it. San jose police are investigating an accident by one of their own. A down utility poor pole cut power to a neighborhood. It was near west alma avenue and monterey highway. Jesse gary is standing by life with more on the story. Reporter good afternoon. Pg e crews have been on scene trying to repair the damage since 10 am. You can see them there stationed behind me. Westbound lanes of alma avenue are blocked all the way to south seventh street. Crews hope to restore service this evening but that will come too late for businesses here who have had to incur financial losses due to an accident involving a San Jose Police officer. A San Jose Police suv nearly split into after the driver crashed into a utility pole in the 100 block of west alma avenue. This cell phone video shows the scene shortly after impact. Police officials who declined an on camera interview say around 1 am friday morning the officer was driving west bound on alma. He lost control, hit the curb on the Center Median and then careened across both lanes of traffic and collided with a utility pole. Two Officials Say 62 customers lost service including Business Owner heidi. Are you losing money . You lose a lot. Who will repay it to me . Do i ask p g or the Police Department to pay . How do you think . Reporter i dont know. Mac i dont know, too. I hope they will fix it today. Reporter the Police Department declined to say how fast the officer was driving at the time of the accident but have not indicated he was on an emergency call with lights or sirens. Th of damage to e traveling above the posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour. We do make mistakes. If you make that mistake you want the impact to be minimal. Nikita is a Program Director for walk san jose. Just because it is the middle of the night and no one else may be out, you still have to be extremely careful about your speed. Reporter pg e crews hope to restore service to this section of the alma neighborhood sometime around 7 pm. San jose police have not identified the officer who was behind the wheel but say he was not injured in the accident. We are live, jesse gary ktvu fox 2 news. Back to you in oakland. What a mess that accident cause. Thank you for the report. A man suspected of injuring a bart passenger with a box cutter is behind bars and undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. Bart Police Received reports of a destructive passenger at 9 45 am. Witnesses said the man was making threats and carrying a weapon. The train was headed to antioch. When it stopped at the west oakland station officers confronted the suspect and say they had to use a taser to subdue him. Even after the suspect was tased he was apparently still uncooperative. So at that point they had to use a rap to control the suspect. They were able to do that in a safe manner and taken into custody. At some point he was holding a box cutter and was making threats. What happened is he was flailing with the box cutter inside the train anhe cut the left hand of an adult female who was aboard the train. That injured passenger is expected to be okay. Officials are still trying to identify the suspect. They say he is not cooperating with police. Officials say they may haveto use the suspects fingerprint to learn his identity. Senior management at Nustar Energy is defending the account after accusations that employees abandoned the facility during tuesdays fire and could not tell firefighters what was in the tank. Here is more now. Reporter went First Responders arrived at Nustar Energy tuesday afternoon they were met with a raging fire and a locked gate. That is according to Contra Costa County supervisor. The other issue that is concerning is a number of the personnel left the facility and did not activate the Fire Suppression system before leaving. Reporter they spoke with the fire chief and after firefighters did find a worker, that person could not tell them what was in the tanks. He said this lack of medication rings up Major Concerns about how prepared Nustar Energy was for an emergency. We are fortunate that the fire was controlled. It could have been a lot worse. People could have died. It could have spread to neighboring tanks and properties which is why it is so important to understand these issues. Reporter Nustar Energy is telling a different story. The executive Vice President said all our employees are familiar with the products in the tanks, the combustion happened so quickly and so unexpectedly that there was some confusion about what tanks were impacted. There are only four products they store, diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, and ethanol. They denied employees abandoned the facility. She said employees are trained in an emergency to report to their points to account for the safety of all visitors, employees and contractors. In this cake case the muster point is outside the gate across the road. They have served a search warrant to access digital files and security footage. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. More fighting in syria spite the hours old ceasefire brokered the u. S. There were no impeachment testimonies on capitol hill. President trump had plenty to say about it. Specifically the stunning remarks made by his acting chief of staff. Pleasant weather around the bay area although running cool for this time of year. I will have a look at what you can expect for your bay area for the weekend coming up. After a busy week on capitol hill today was no interviews in the impeachment inquiry that did not stop the president from weighing in on the investigation. Ray bogan is in washington with the latest. President trump is defending his acting chief of staff after surprising remarks he made during a televised news conference. President trump defended his acting chief of staff after Mick Mulvaney said there is political influence in foreign policy. Some reported his remarks as an admission of quid pro quo. Mulvaney said his comments were misconstrued. The president turned the tables as he often does and critize lawmakers conducting the impeachment inquiry and his political rival joe biden. He has tremendous problems with bidens son and ukraine and it is inappropriate. Reporter the president was referrg toeorgias testimony from thursday. The state Department Official testified in 2015 he raised concerns about Vice President joe bidens son serving on a Ukrainian Energy company board. Did i make a mistake . Maybe in the grand scheme of things. Did i make a mistake based on an unethical situation . Absolutely not. Reporter President Trumps corrupt administration is melting down because of the scandal he touched off i trying to get ukraine to lie about joe biden. Hunter biden may be corrupt but can you pull that to joe biden . That is a difficult question. Reporter adam schiff is being accused of hiding documents from republican lawmakers. Nine republicans wrote to him today demanding those documents be released. In washington, ray bogan fox news. This week saw a lot of movement in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump and we will have in depth coverage on this weeks episode of the issue is and our host Alex Michelson joyce as joins us now. Eric is on the Intelligence Committee which is one of the key committees looking into this impeachment issue. We asked him about where to go from here and whether he believes he has seen enough to vote for impeachment. Based off of what you have heard so far, is there any way that democrats dont impeach President Trump . The president will get a fare hearing and that will be the case even though he has confessed to it and Mick Mulvaney has cosigned that confession. Just to lay out what we are looking at, we have a crime of possibly extortion and bribery and soliciting a Foreign Government to help your campaign. It doesnt seem to be that there is much dispute about the crime. You have the president on that call record asking the ukrainians to investigate his opponent and leveraging aid to the ukrainians unless they did that. Yesterday mulvaney confirmed that. And we have a coverup. Crime, confession, ongoing coverup and efforts to prevent congress what is going on. He is entitled to a fare hearing and he will get that. We are going to move as expeditiously as possible because the stakes of an upcoming election and National Security implications. Reporter he wouldnt say whether he specifically would vote for impeachment although it seems like he is headed that direction. There has been a debate over whether there needs to be an official impeachment inquiry whether Speaker Pelosi needs to hold a vote saying whether we are going down the impeachment road. He essentially said that is not necessary and that is something that the president is trying to do that. He will put up roadblocks. They seem to be going full speed ahead on the path they are on now. I know you spoke with the congressman about a number of issues including those recent pg e power shut off. What did he have to say about that . More than 1 million californians in the dark. The area most hardhit by that is the San Francisco bay area. He said that this is outrageous and not sustainable. Everyone it pg e should not be getting bonuses while this goes under way. That money should be used to try to upgrade the power system and there needs to be more expeditious regulation of what is going on because it cant continue for month after month of people being in the dark. The congressman joining a chorus of people echoing that same sentiment. You can catch the issue is sunday morning ahead of nfl football. It airs on sunday right here on ktvu. Turkey continues its military offensive in northern syria. The fighting came hours after mike pence announced he had brokered a five day ceasefire in that region with the president of turkey. The cracks in the ceasefire are renewing criticism a President Trumps controversial decision to withdraw american troops from syria. That criticism continues to come from both sides of the aisle on capitol hill. The decision to abandon the kurds violates one of our most sacred duties. It strikes at american honor. What we have done to the kurds will stand as a bloodstain in the annals of american history. President trump pulled back 1000 american troops from that region earlier this month. Critics say the u. S. Has now abandoned the curd fighters. They have for years been fighting sidebyside with american soldiers to defeat isis. It is friday. Lets take a look outside and see how the weather is shaping up as we move into the weekend and bring in meteorologist rosemary roosevelt. We have cool weather out there. Mild in many spots. Running below average for this time of year. Still some clouds that havent cleared from this morning. We do have partly cloudy skies around the bay area. Low clouds along the coastline. Mid and highlevel clouds streaming across the bay area. Temperatures cooler than where we were yesterday. Santa rosa at 70 degrees in San Francisco at 59. Mid 60s in oakland. Upper 60s in livermore and san jose. Especially if you have the cloud cover and the breeze. Heres a look at the 24hour temperature change. We are a little cooler in napa and as well is the east bay shore. San jose down by one. As we get into your weekend, tomorrow expected to be a lot like today and then sunday will be a little warmer. Heres a view of the cloud cover there. Hard to decipher the mid and highlevel clouds. We will go partly sunny, partly cloudy for the rest of the afternoon today and then tomorrow more in the way of cloud cover. Here is a view of the system bringing rain and snow to washington and oregon. Northern california expected to get in on this. Maybe some sprinkles for tomorrow morning. We also have an advisory for high surf that last until 9 pm tonight. Some breaking waves 1020 feet. They are starting to calm down. That advisory remains in place for the next several hours. Future cast for the evening hours will call for partly cloudy skies. Tomorrow morning noticed the cloud cover in place. We do have that rain line dropping a little lower and by about noon we could see it in areas of the north bay. Take a look at the afternoon over the central and soh bay. Maybe a few sprinkles. There we are clearing it out already as we get into the evening hours. When i come back i will have a look at the temperatures for tomorrow morning as well as the afternoon highs. In the extended forecast warmup. More on this in just a bit. There has been another spike of vaping related deaths over the past week. What Scientists Say is behind the latest uptick and what studies are being conducted to try to learn the source. The roller coaster continues tonight on fox as wwe smack down its your screen at 8 pm. Then join us for the 10 pm and 11 pm news right here on ktvu. Blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we need is somebody to lean on the vaping crisis continues as the number of related deaths climbed to 33 this week. 1500 people have recorded vaping related illnesses. Juul announced it has stopped selling fruit and dessert flavors which critics say were marketed to kids. The cdc said 79 of patients are under the age of 35. The agency is continuing its investigation into Vaping Associated illnesses and has recommended users stop using these and other products. This is not being caused inhalation of what people assume is water vapor. This is caused by inhalation of toxic chemicals causing almost a chemical burn. Toxic chemicals and several states have been cracking down since the first death were reported. Activists are calling for policymakers to do more to keep the products from wreaking reaching children. We are joined by hannah knowles. She wrote an article for the post breaking down these vaping numbers and there seem to be a couple issues at hand. The battle with juul and other ecigarette makers and the extreme illnesses that have been recorded here. There are two threads that are contributing to peoples concern around vaping. On the one hand there is concern about the flavored vaping products. A lot of people are saying those are helping to addict kids to nicotine. There is this related but separate issue of the deaths and the illnesses which officials there seems to be some confusion when you hear the reports there is difference between the issue of flavored tobacco and the deaths . What was the question . He wrote this article to clarify on the two distinct issues. The marketing that some say is being done to teenagers and the deaths that are being reported here that are being linked to thc. The authorities are homing in on the issue of thc. They will still emphasize that there is no single product that has been linked to all of these deaths or illnesses. Some of the patients say they only vaped nicotine even though most of them are saying they used marijuana products. Even those they are focusing in on blackmarket products and stuff that is bought off the street. They are still testing a wide net in terms of what they are looking at. One of the folks you spoke with did say i think 79 of the illnesses or death may be attributed to the thc products. Also they seem to have a pretty good idea that this might be a black market thc product issue. For sure. That is why they have issued thei