President s pardoning. Good afternoon to you. The president has Constitutional Authority that experts say mr. Trump is doing so at a irregular time and only to those with fame, money, power, or all the above. The one Common Thread seems to be some personal connection to the president. Typically that is what people try to avoid. Tuesday President Trump followed through with recommendations and pardons seven people including the former 49ers owner, eddie debartolo, jr. This man has done so much in the community and so much in nfl football. He purchased the team in the 70s guiding the 49ers the glory in the 1980s and 90s capturing five super bowl titles along the way. I am happy about them and their careers and what they gave me as a fan. In 1998 he was convicted of bribing louisianas governor in hopes of getting a riverboat gambling license. At the end of the day his cooperation got him a lighter sentence. Eddie debartolo, jr. Avoided a prison sentence and was fined 1 million. He sold the team and has not been back in footballs good graces. Traditionally the president s inner circle makes appeals on a wide range of recipients. Tuesdays list of seven is different. Trump seems to only pardons wellconnected people. When you put it in a broader context of the pattern of the pardons that trump gives out, it is striking. The glaring like a very Diverse Group can cheapen the power of a president ial pardon. It calls into question whether or not youre just doing favors. You dont want to have that be part of the mix. It is part of the mix. Seven former convicts have been wiped clean and some fans are speculating that eddie debartolo, jr. Will try to get back into the nfl possibly by purchasing another nfl team. Were live in santa clara. Ktvu fox2 news. Do we have a sense of how long this effort was initiated by eddie debartolo, jr. And if it went through friends of President Trump or straight to the white house or how long this sentence may have been going on . The conversation about trying to get a pardon was back into the late 90s and early 2000s. President bush did not grant him a pardon and neither did president obama. As far as when President Trump got looped into this possibly in the past couple of years when he came in contact with mr. To bottle up through his television show. Not exactly sure when the pressure was ratcheted up a little bit. Experts say it is people that know the person seeking pardon. The president will rely on his team to make recommendations. Okay. Thank you so much extract President Trump has commuted the sentence of the former illinois governor. He is serving 14 years for corruption for trying to sell Barack Obamas senate seat afteelected president. President trump was leaning toward commutation saying he thought he was treated unfairly by prosecutors and former fbi director, james comey. He is expected to walk out of prison as soon as the night. Another search is underway in marin county for a hiker that went missing. The hiker was last seen in san rafael. This is the third hiker to go missing since friday. A palo alto couple has not been seen or heard from since late last week. The couple is in their 70s and last seen friday at their short term rental. We spoke to the missing mans son and he is hopeful they will be found alive. Reporter the past two days have been difficult for the couple. His son tells me this entire ordeal seems unreal. They and authorities are hopeful they will be found alive. They wouldnt leave their stuff and their car and just vanish. Its like someone pick them up and remove them. His father used to be an experienced backpacker. They were last spotted on friday near the rental. The family worries they may have been abducted orsibly hit by a car. Your mind starts to go wild and theres no evidence to suggest any of that. Reporter the operation has been scaled back. 40 volunteers are focusing on the area around the rental cabin. The thought is the couple didnt travel far. Todays search will be more narrow but the specific area where we will go the doorto door and asking to search peoples properties. In addition to that, we have used other gps tracks that we had yesterday to narrow down our search and try to make sure we get all spots covered that maybe the gps tracks did not get into yesterday. Reporter they are trying to look at a financial paper trail that the bank is not provided any help. For now they will use volunteers, dogs, and boats. It is amazing that people care that much. We havent been able to get up here until today. Thank you to all the volunteers and of course, the sheriffs department. In inverness, ktvu fox2 news. The number of deaths and people infected with the coronavirus continues to rapidly rise. According to the World Health Organization new cases has increased by 1900s. Moser in china where the number of confirmed cases is over 72,000 with 1870 deaths, an increase of 98 thats since yesterday. Outside of china where governments are taking control of the virus there are 824 viruses and 24 countries with three deaths. We have a equipment to 21 companies and will ship to another 106 countries in the coming weeks. By the end of this week, 40 countries in africa and 29 countries in the americas will have the ability to detect the virus. Here in the u. S. There are 15 confirmed cases and 60 people being tested. We have learned that nine patients quarantined at Travis Air Force base after being exposed to coronavirus on the cruise ship in japan were taken to local hospitals. Seven in Solano County and two to napa county. One of those patients in napa has a confirmed case of coronavirus. Other evacuees got to go home today after spending 14 days in quarantined at Travis Air Force base. There were some emotional family reunions. Reporter emotional with unions after an uncertain time. I have no words to describe. Reporter his family is back in his arms. He was in shanghai are busy as well as wife and daughter went to visit family. I think god that they pick them up. They were on the first flight of evacuees that landed at Travis Air Force base. After a 14 day quarantine, they are allowed to leave. She and her two young daughters or three of 180 people that finished their mandatory quarantine period and were medically cleared by teresa lins family was released. She says her uncle was scared when he was in china. He was panicked. He and his family appreciate the u. S. Government made the arrangements. The cdc says its important to know these people being released pose no health risk to the community. They are finally going home. Something they have been waiting weeks to say. I think god. Reporter ktvu fox2 news. Experts say the coronavirus hitting apple will affect its rivals. Apples warning it will fles goa apple recently chinese factory closed and because of that outbreak. Supplies of phones will be hampered. Analysts say other mobile Device Companies have similar device the federal government over immigration policy. More on the Trump Administrations announcement to deploy Border Patrol agents to sanctuary cities. The giants are not laughing. More on a series of tweets by a former giant that has him off the guest list of the 2010 world series reunion. It was a warm day with a record High Temperature at the oakland airport. It was cooler today. What will it be like it when will we see some rain . As a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. At liberty butchumal cut. Liberty biberty cut. Well dub it. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Economically powerfully influenced my values. Bernie sanders hes fighting to raise wages. And guarantee health care for all. Now, our country is at a turning point. Hard working people, betrayed by trump, struggling to survive. In this moment, we need a fighter. Bernie sanders. We know hell fight for us as president because he always has. Im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message. Aubrey huff the former San Francisco giants 1st baseman will not be included in a reunion this season. The decision comes after controversial social media post. Those posts are unacceptable and run counter to the value of the giants organization. No teammates are speaking up on his behalf but he calls his tweets locker room humor. Scott, its good to see you. In the eyes of the giants organization, where do you think they feel like aubrey huff crossed the line . It across the line in about an areas including racism, sexism, homophobia, advocating kidnapping, and so forth. Things that were so crazy and outrageous. I think one thing is that he is positioning this as a political thing. I am from texas and i support trump so people in the bay area dont like me. It is racism and homophobia is not politics if he tweeted out i support President Trump. He would be invited in a second. The main owner of the giants, Charles Johnson is a right wing person who supports right wing political causes including some that are controversial. There were some hateful comments that were put out to social media. How does a decision like this get made within the organization and how did the giants decide they dont want aubrey huff. Larry released a statement and apparently this went to the board. The giants have a board of five or six people including Charles Johnson son. Three or four other Decision Making people around the team. They kick this around when stuff started hitting the fan five or six weeks ago. They decided that we just cannot have this. It is not about politics it is about lets go load up two plane loads of muslim women and bring them back here and have our way with them. You know, aubrey huff says look, this is locker room humor. What do you say to his argument with this is the same kind of stuff the Baseball Players including the giants probably are joking about in locker rooms across the country. Locker room humor goes on all the time. Black guys and there were certain things that guys understand but if we take that onto social media and put that in front of millions of people, that is a whole different thing. We can explain that we were just joking. When he holds up a target workers two sons should this target in the head and says im teaching them to shoot people in the head in case Bernie Sanders was a president ial election, the humor is lost on a lot of people. You spoke about it frequently joked about kidnapping women and bringing them back to this country. He talked with the morning host on 95 seven that particular tweet. We want to play a clip. Well, first of all, it was earlier in the morning and i hadnt had my coffee yet. The whole iran thing was going down. We were talking about war with iran and i thought to myself, there is so many beautiful iranian women i would imagine would love to escape that place. Instead of saying go there and rescue for what ever reason in my mind in the morning i said kidnap. The wrong choice of words. That is not what i meant. So you hear the wrong choice of words. You dont hear a lot of contrition necessarily. Do you think that aubrey huff is going to learn anything from being excluded from this particular event . I think the only thing that he will learn is that it will reinforce his feeling that hes being persecuted for his political beliefs. I dont think he will learn anything. He will be driven further into this weird cave. Is there any way for him to win back over the giants ownership to get in their good graces . He shows no sign of backtracking. I do not see that happening. Always a pleasure, scott. Thank you for coming in. Struck local lawmakers are introducing a new law to help whole people accountable following wild fires. We will introduce the accountability and wild Fire Prevention act of 2020. It would expand enforcement options that fail to comply with the requirements that could put the public at risk. We brought this bill forward because our state is facing dire circumstances and by given local jurisdiction the power to force existing safety regulations and we seek to stop the next disaster before it starts. The bill would allow the attorney generalor local da to bring action against Utility Companies like pg e. The first of two workshops is underway at the commission w plans proposed by Utility Companies. Corporations will present their plans and answer questions at the workshop. Pg e will provide details on their Safety Program which includes Lessons Learned from the 2019 wildfire season. It will outline programs to prevent catastrophic wildfires extract pg e is reporting a fourthquarter loss of 3. 6 billion. That this morning the utility reported a loss of 7. 7 billion for 2019. The cost of compensating Companies Impacted its earnings. The utility says it is. A Beautiful Day again today. Today it is nice and similar to yesterday but not as warm. Today we saw lots of 60s. Air quality is good in the bay area right now. With the winds we saw the other day and with clear skies weve got visibility looking back toward mission peak and you see plenty of blue sky. Upper 60s right now in the inland spots. The winds are blowing out of the north and a little bit of north northeast and north northwest depending on what you were looking at. Normally we get some rain in february. San francisco gets under 6 inches. As we stand, it is not happening. Any rain. As we go into this week it is even more dry and perhaps even more drive. We have to really count on march to bring us the rain or snow up in the mountains. As we go forward, lets hope for some rain. Highs today for in the 60s and low 70s. Highs tomorrow will be the same. This pattern across the country has been productive for everybody but us especially in the southeast. It had massive flooding in the mississippi area as this Atmospheric River writes up into the southeast part of the state. If you have flights heading to new york, boston or the carolinas or even memphis, ohio, all of those areas are getting hit with rain. We are getting severe clear no our way. Slightly cooler. When we come back we will look at the longrange model and the five day forecast. It looks like it will be dry. Coming up, the first day of deliberations ago the Harvey Weinstein trial. What the jury asked for today. Here is a look at the nice primetime lineup on fox. And all new episode of the resident followed by Gordon Ramsays 24 hours and then join us for the 10 00 news anti 11 00 news all right here on ktvu. Vo four years ago, donald trump beat the democratic establishment. And then he outlasted democratic insiders in washington on impeachment, romney the president is guilty. Vo now, if we dont do Something Different this time around, hell win again. Thats the hard truth. We simply cant afford to nominate another insider or an untested newcomer who doesnt have the experience to beat trump on the economy. We need to think different. Tom steyer is a progressive businessman who left his company and is using his time and money to beat big corporations and address climate change. He can expose donald trump as a fraud and failure on the economy. Tom steyer hes running on the economy. He running on the idea that democrats cant grow an economy, are a bunch of socialists, you cant afford to vote for him. My job is is take on mr. Trump and kick his ass on the economy. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. The jury in the Harvey Weinstein sexual accord started deliberations today and asked the judge for clarification on a legal question. The jury wanted to Legal Definition of the five charges including forcible cans potion, in the 3rd degree and criminal sex act. The jury asked whether it could find guilt and some charges but not others. In a second not to the judge the jury asked for a blueprint of the apartment were one of the alleged assaults took place. Jeff bezos posted on social media he will be spending 10 billion to fund scientists, activists and nonprofits who fight to protect the environment. He joins a list of billionaires who have dedicated substantial funding. Tomorrows democratic debate will have at least six candidates on stage and one of those will be michael bloomberg. In the latest national npr the poles josies at 19 . He is ahead of joe biden. Wednesday night will be the first time he will take the stage. He is expected mr. Bloomberg like anyone else has a right to run for president. He does not have a right to buy the presidency. Although he will be on the debate stage, he will not be on the ballot in nevada. The Nevada Democratic party plan to use the same app as the Iowa Democrats but scrap that plan after the disastrous results. Nearly 200 miles of Additional Border wall are expected to be dealt more quickly than expected according to the department of Homeland Security that announced it is waiving some federal laws to speed up the project. Heres the story. Reporter trump is getting help from the department of Homeland Security to build more border wall faster. Dhs is waiving 10 laws that require open competition for contracts and justifying the Congress Gave the secretary the authority to do this in 2005. Mostly waiving environmental regulations. It will expedite the construction of fencing in california, arizona, new mexico, and texas. The chairman of the committee reacted with the statement,