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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm July 13, 2024

Into our Service Territory around wednesday and thursday, mainly in the sierra foothills and northbay. Operation center is not just a bunch of computers. Actually have a lot of people in the field. 26 crews that practice the 3ss. Safety, including suppression of fires, switching, between sparks can happen and they are on standby to put those out if they happen, and finally, seeing, reporting back the actual conditions on the grounds of these folks here, who then alerts the Emergency Operations center. Reporter it is here that the decisions are made where and when to have shutdowns. Check this out, cal fires history of fires in the last quarter of the year, seven of californias worst fires occurred in the last quarter. 14 of the 20 deadliest fires also came in the last quarter, and 17 of the most destructive wildfires also came in the last quarter. So, whether the last shutdown was poorly handled, the risk is all too real. We learned a lot from the last Public Safety power shut off and we are committed to making improvements. One of the things we are doing is showing up our Contact Centers and website, making them stronger so they can handle the larger volume of inquiries. Reporter pg e says local communication will be better coordinated as will contact with customers who have medical issues. This time after the weather passes, pg e is trying to find and obtain all kinds of new infrared goggles and scopes to conduct inspections at the knights. Normally during a Public Safety shut off, we would have to wait until daybreak to have our crews do the inspections. Having it at night could potentially speed up the restoration time. Reporter that specialized kind of equipment is readily available from local and state fire and Police Officials as well as the California National guard, which has plenty. Now, coming up at 5 30 of course is the press conference that will be given to the public by the ceo of the company as well as the chief meteorologist. We will learn a lot more than. Reporting live, ktvu fox 2 news. Tom, i know it is early, that meeting coming up at 5 30, we will carry it live when it happens. Do you know anything we can expect from that meeting in about 30 minutes . Reporter no, the chief meteorologist will talk about weather and other scenarios, i am sure. They do a lot of modeling, and they have to do a lot of modeling because the wind comes over the various mountains and into the various valleys in different ways. I suspect that will be a lot of this. I think this is also an indication of how strong pg e is by its lack of communication during the power outage a week ago and they are trying to do everything they can to talk about this upfront and before it happens and during. I think that is exactly what is going on. Tom reporting for is live in San Francisco. Thank you, tom. In Southern California, crews have spent the day battling a fastgrowing wildfire in rugged terrain. The flames workout this morning about 4 30 and quickly started climbing the hill toward the neighborhood of two point some people sped away in their cars, others ran from the flames. Some people started spraying their homes with garden hoses. The evacuation orders have been issued. Firefighters are attacking these flames from the air in the ground. So far, no structures have burned. The cause of this fire in Southern California is under investigation. California is under a fire watch right now. What we can expect here in our area. We have a fire weather watch in effect in the next few hours. We will see will be a red flag warning and some of these high elevations as we go on to the next couple of days. Mainly about 1000 feet up in the hills, right . That is where we get the winds, that is where the red flag warning is in effect. I mentioned this last night, here is the jetstream. There is the ridge. See this area here, the troughing area, that its cooler weather. Remember we had the whole pattern over us last week. That is when temperatures were mild, not below average, but the fire danger was way down. Now, we got his ridge of High Pressure over the top of us. It is the classic, stander, fall weather pattern completely to be expected. Even though all of this stuff is going on with pg e, we see this often during the year, especially this time of year. Four, five, or six times, this is not based on the model appear to be an extreme event. If you see a red flag warning, that is not out of the normal. That is very normal. Putting into perspective, with all of this news, it makes you thinkno, this is a different set of protocols going into effect because of the pg e situation. This red flag warning looks like it will show up wednesday into thursday morning and be in the hills. It should not, based on what i am saying, be an extreme one. When we come back, we will put it together a little more. I wanted to chime in and let you know we should be okay on this. Just within the last six minutes or so, the deadline has passed for victims of recent wildfires to file a claim to seek composition for the losses. We spoke with some folks who waited until the last minute. Reporter time has run out. The deadline has just now passed. All day long, fire victims have been coming here to this pg e claim center to get their claims in under the wire. The city full of wildfire victims were coming in and out of this pg e claim center in santa rosa monday to beat the 5 00 p. M. Deadline. Claims filed after to could be denied. 100,000 people are eligible, possibly among them is ben stone, who lost his home in coffey park two years ago. I really was not aware of it. I saw in the paper yesterday and thought i have got to get on this. It just was notit did not seem to do a lot of promotion this was available. Reporter stone, like many fire victims learned his insurance will not cover the entire cost to be rebuilt, so he filed a fire claim with pg e to make up the difference and become one of the utilitys critters in its massive bankruptcy case. Two years ago, brings back memories. You have to keep going and go forward. Reporter under court order, pg e has set aside at least 8. 5 billion for california wildfire victims. The losses are homes, businesses, injuries, and even emotional distress. My wife and i escaped with nothing but our dog, our son, and a couple of bags full of clothes. Her neck he is rebuilding his home in coffey park. He also filed a claim and says his family is still healing. There is pain and suffering. My child had nightmares. Still to this day, we dont know the longterm effects that may have. Reporter in a statement, pg e said pg e remains to do a service under the people we serve. Pg e believes the chapter 11 process will support the orderly, fair, and expeditious resolution of the claims, including the wildfire claims. The claim form is three pages long and does not mandate victims, with a monetary damage amount that could be determined later. It is a claim, and i feel that pg e is responsible. Reporter pg e says it hopes to have these claims resolved over the next few months and fire victims could start seeing checks by june of 2020. Andre . Excuse me. In santa rosa, thank you so much. There are two weeks to go until voters head to the polls in San Francisco. At the day draws closer, the mayors race is now the focus of controversy. A billboard ad picking mayor london breed, commissioned by one of her opponents is drawing wide spread condemnation. Political reporter greg lee here to explain the outrage. Reporter this billboard went up quietly over the weekend but received a Quick Response over elected officials and communities. The campaign has expressed cuff frustration that they have not received more attention. They are the focus of many in San Francisco. This billboard in San Francisco s selma district, sparking controversy and drawing for calls to be taken down. A add pay for San Francisco may oriel kennedy, Ellen Lee Zhou, shows a woman smoking and counting a wad of cash while a man carries away a little girl with a message, stop slavery and Human Trafficking in sf. We have so many people who are homeless. We have so many drug dealers, family, our quality of life. Yes, they make 50,000 a year. Reporter she says the woman in red is incumbent mayor, mayor breed. She accuses the mayor of doing nothing. Mayor breed says the billboard speaks for itself. There is definitely ways that the policy and decisions i make could be criticized without making things sadly, personal. Reporter across the city, elected officials and Community Leaders condemned the picture calling it racist and sexist. We have a particular responsibility to call out the shameful and dangerous threat to our democratic process. We need to focus on the issues. This is blatant racism and a blatant call to use those kinds of images when you have no argument and you have no issue. This type of political discourse has no place in San Francisco, no place in america. Reporter these leaders sending one message to Ellen Lee Zhou, take down the billboard and apologized to mayor breed. Ellen lee zhou, a conservative, says democrats have brainwashed people who believe the ad is racist. She stands by the message. I do not, i will not, my campaign, committee will not remove this freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Reporter during the News Conference today, the speakers said they believe this rhetoric is the result of some of things President Trump says. Ellen lee zhou session respect for the president is doing fs she is being bullied and targeted in this election. The election two weeks from tomorrow, Ellen Lee Zhou and london breed not the only two candidates in the race. That is six total. That was one of the things that Ellen Lee Zhou complained about. She wanted more attention. We will be profiling each of those six leading up until the election. Greg, thank you. Berkeley hit again by laptop thieves. This time, the suspects going a step further, taking the electronics by gunpoint. Plus this. San franciscos newest top cop had her first full workday, but not without controversy. We will have details for you coming up. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. And to them we say too bad. Because at kaiser permanente, we believe that everyone deserves the right to thrive. Officials have identified the body of a man found in china camp state. Officials say that sks velasquez was found by morning. That person said they spotted the 22yearold bleeding on the side of the road, needing medical attention. Investigators say the victim was not shot, they have not released a cause of death. The Sheriffs Office is asking anyone who may have been in the area of China Camp State Park overnight on friday to contact them. A popular cafe near uc berkeley again hit by laptop thieves. This time, a gun was involved. We are live near the campus. Henry . Reporter andre, laptop theft unfortunately nothing new here. Just last night, this well known spot across mikell campus was the scene of an Armed Robbery. Julio rodriguez is a longtime customer at cafe estrada. He knows all about the laptop thefts at this popular cafe near the uc berkeley campus. He says an Armed Robbery over the we can hit a new low. Ive seen the situation escalated over seven years. Reporter at about 10 30 sunday night, a group of teenagers grabbed a laptop from a customer sitting in the cafes patio. The robbers took off in a bmw. Witnesses told police one of them was armed with a handgun and extended magazine. The weekend before that, there was not and grabs of the same cafe. This is cell phone video showing Good Samaritans trying to stop a laptop thief outside the cafe last year only to be attacked by an accomplice. A laptop snatching here and there, some guy got punched in the face, now some one got robbed at gunpoint. Reporter although the cafe has highquality surveillance cameras, videos like to show how easy it is for thieves to grab laptops and run. I asked if shoot students should keep the laptop at home or go to the library. The people working on their laptops are not at fault here, it is the people treating this like a soft target and coming in seeing laptops, that is my now. We did see plenty of students fixated on their laptops. Some had their backs to the streets. I had no idea about that. That was yesterday . Each year, new students come to cal and flock with their laptops. Many are unaware of the risk. I feel like i should not be out here may be by myself, maybe with a group of friends, i would feel safer. Light in the past, ive come here a lot they stay open until 12, which is later than most coffee shops. Reporter this coffee cafe is also as we saw it bunch here earlier during the Ruth Bader Ginsburg talk here. Undercover operations with cops posing as customers have also led to arrests. Andre, these cops can be here 24 seven. Live in berkeley, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Those kids are looking at their laptops and studying, not paying attention, these crooks are taking advantage of that. The Santa Clara County board of supervisors is set to approve new Affordable Housing developments in san jose tomorrow. Can county Center Supervisors announced today that one of the Affordable Housing projects will be built on a vacant lot on alder avenue and the other on mesa drive. The first project will consist of 130 units, of which 64 will be set aside as permanent Supportive Housing or formally homeless households. It will include 45 apartments for people who are homeless. They have sites like this right in downtown san jose, basically. It is perfect. Absolutely perfect for the kind of investment we want. The developments will be paid for with funds from the 2016 voter approved measure a Affordable Housing bond. It calls for building 4800 units of Affordable Housing within Santa Clara County over 10 years. San francisco newest District Attorney was born in over the weekend. Today was her first day on the job. Christian kaplan caught up with susie. Christian, she is the interim District Attorney. She is still facing some opposition to her appointment. In fact, there was a process right here on the steps of the hall of justice about her appointment. If you take a look, you can still see some chalk markings those protesters left in front of the hall of justice. Susie is saying she is going to work to win over those protesters of those who arent behind her at this point. She says she already has an agenda for the next two weeks. There is so much work that could be done from this office to build a safe city. I am excited to get to work. Reporter interim San Francisco District Attorney, Susie Laughlin plans to make the most of her time in office and has already made the most of her priorities. Mayor breed announced laughlin will get filled up remainder of the current das term as he retires from office. Protesters say approaching laughlin, who was on the November Ballot to the position two weeks before the election is unfair. She says she plans on working to win over her critics. I will be here for as long as the people will have me. What i will say that anybody is trust. If you have your trust in me already, im grateful for it. If you i need to work to earn your trust, i will work every day to earn your trust. Reporter the mayor saying it is her response ability to make sure the position is filled, sang the District Attorneys office is too important to leave vacant. To make sure someone is running a very important apartment who has worked in that department, who is capable of running the department is so critical to the success of that department. Reporter for her part, laughlin says for her short term she will be focusing on safety and accountability. She wants to see neighborhood prosecutors getting District Attorney investigators and attorneys to work sidebyside with police and Community Leaders working on solutions to neighborhood issues. She sees the forthcoming announcement about San Franciscos ongoing problems with auto burglaries. Weve had 70 auto breakins happening every day. Weve got to do better by people in the city. Expect some announcements from this office in that regard. Reporter the most recent polling was very tight in the race for District Attorneys office. You see the current leader in the polling right there, with a very slim lead among those who have made up their mind. The polling also said some 40 of san franciscans have not yet decided who they are going to vote for for District Attorney. There is still a lot of room for some wiggle in this race. Now we are live in San Francisco, tristan captain, ktvu fox 2 news. We are getting a better look at the damage left behind by wildfire. A fastmoving tornado ripped through the Northern Edge of the city, tens of thousands of people without power this evening. Coming up on ktvu news at 6 00, we just learned the cost of the fire in morocco from earlier

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