We want to get together with some developing news with firefighters on the scene of a destructive fire that thankfully is now under control. Start to the a 15 this morning in oaklands chinatown but quickly went to five alarm. This is that 7th and webster street. It appears to have started as a Dumpster Fire and then spread to the twostory building. It has restaurants and stores there on the ground level and the building runs along two thirds of that block. Everyone made it out safely and firefighters were able to keep those flames from spreading to the neighboring buildings. In this densely packed area. It did say that we have the personnel that we were able to get out of the building to the fire under control. To that many bodies. Ted cruz going through the bottles, which for us, that is not a normal fire, we normally go through one or two bottles and tanks and had firefighters going through four of them this morning before they go no injuries were reported in the cause of the original dumpster or garbage fire is under investigation. Lets give your live look right outside now and this is sunny oakland. I have not said that in a while. Today is still the 30th straight spare the air day for the bay area. More than double the previous record, lets hope it ends there. Because, we are seeing some of the best conditions that we have had really in a month or so. We certainly are. Lets bring in mark now for an update. It is a nice Welcome Change with the air quality here in the bay area thanks to more of the westerly wind that is setting in just up offshore. A lot of your visually notice the changes and also, showing up on the sensors as well. Remember last week at this time, we have the dark skies that was basic and i to the middle of the day. Right now, we are showing the sensors. We are showing your bunch of green sensors here over the bay area but if you look out for this year, they have unhealthy air and also a in the Pacific Northwest here, lots of unhealthy air, so the fires are producing a lot of smoke. That smoke is not drifting in right now, at least not the thick smoke. The current air quality observations, look at the green reports indicating good air quality. This is great to report. San francisco and oakland, livermore down to the south. Nsa has good air quality. We have moderate levels closer to Santa Cruz County this afternoon. Look at the live camera. Seems like a dream just a few days ago. This is live camera looking out toward the golden gate bridge. Lots of clear skies and a patch of fog there trying to sneak on across the span. With a bit of hazy skies, so it is not perfect air quality, but compared to last few days, it is a great improvement. Heres the forecast for today. The alert continues through the day. Not seen an update on the air Quality Management district yet. We will see if i could inspire this throughout the afternoon. But for today, moderate levels, unhealthy for sensitive groups, and heres the forecast model and we are showing you this by 10 00 tonight. Still some pretty good air quality here in the bay area. You will notice this. We have this off to the north and also to the east of the region. What we are talking about is the nice change, other parts of the state in the country up to the north, not the same story. We will have more on this and update changing weather patterns as we go through the weekend. Maybe some rainfall to the north and we will have more in the forecast, coming up in just a little bit. We are following a developing story out of oakland, where police say they continue to search for the person who hit two Police Officers with the car, dragging one of the officers for about 10 or 15 feet. This happened this morning when the officers were responding to a car crash. We have the story. Reporter a starter with what appeared to be a car crash near 12 and castor in oakland at 7 00 this morning. Neighbors call the police when they saw a white Mitsubishi Outlander against the tree. There was no damage, so we thought maybe he had odd. Two local Police Officers arrived to check on the driver who was passed out. Is a check on his wellbeing to see if he needed medical attention, the driver started to wake up quickly and put the car in reverse, knocking both officers down. One of the officers was dragged 10 to 15 feet. Reporter the unexpected seen startled neighbors who saw the officers. I was scared for them and i was glad they were able to get up and walk around. I am sure theyre going to be very sore. Reporter both officers are recovering in the hospital. The did not have details on the extent of the injuries. In another developing story, this is a Police Department is investigating after six people were shot during a candlelight vigil near san jose state. Two of those people died. We have an update now from the department. Reporter it was an active scene from last night into this morning. Investigators spent hours around south eighth street piecing together evidence and trying to figure out exactly what led to the shooting. It was a chaotic scene outside his house before he saw what was going on, this is what he heard. Heard the shots and then i heard a girl screaming in agony. It sounded like a few people, then i heard some yelling. And then, the car went off. The police for a says six people were shot at 10 00 last night. Two victims died, but four are expected to survive. It happened during a candlelight vigil just a couple blocks from san jose state. One person getting shot at an event like this is one too many. The department as if the person being memorialized is somehow connected with the shooting or if it was a random or targeted attack. If there was a Public Safety threat, we would immediately put that out. Right now, that is not the case. Reporter police say they responded to the shooting call at the same area but did not find anything. Now they are looking for a possible connection between the two. The situation is overwhelming for neighbors. This is not the type of community we want to live in. This is not the example we want to set for our kids. Reporter as for the victims, they say that to five are men and one is a woman. The two people who died are both adults, marking the 27th and 20 homicide of the year. Investigators are working to figure out who pulled the trigger and wipe. The looking for the community to get some answers. This is a tragic situation. We have two people who are deceased. People who are family, so we really need the publics help. Lets get it right over to sacramento right now. Governor gavin newsom is front of the microphone for the news conference. With the challenges of dealing with the pandemic and dealing with this unprecedented emergency related to wildfires in the state. That is the crisis on the streets of the state of california. I want to remind people very briefly that we are making a historic investment in housing for the homeless here in the state of california. I have long believed and held a bias that shelters may solve sleep, but housing and Supportive Services foundational he can help address more permanently the issue of homelessness. As a construct, we were able to advance this year and effort the referred to as project home key, working with legislature with the leadership and we were able to set aside some 600 million this year in the budget to purchase hotels and other housing for the homeless. For the first time, to arguably in the states history, provide a portfolio of support to the cities and counties, the likes of which we have never had in the past. I just want briefly to update you on some of the progress. This audacious goal, investing some 600 million into the space, needs to be completed by the end of the calendar year. We are moving with surgical aggressiveness in terms of advancing these efforts with a kind of focus and energy that we have not in many years. As a consequence, we are now sending it today, our first awards, drying down from that 600 million, some 76. 5 million to procure some 579 units, 10 different projects across 7 jurisdictions in this state. The reason i highlight these jurisdictions is that a number of them are novel. Another them, like mendocino county, like you said the list, this is the firstever project of its type within that county. The project areas like tahoe and lake elsinore, they have goals with this First Tranche of distribution to functionally get to zero, the number of homeless in their communities. We have progress focusing on foster youth in particular. Many of whom have been emancipated or dropped through the cracks in the foster system. Pittsburg, california, we recently were at a motel 6 site that is being used currently to provide access and opportunity through a program called project room key, to exercise the ability to purchase that hotel out right so that we can provide a permanent cohort of supports for homeless in that community. That is a needs to be highlighted because i need to highlight the mayor for his stewardship and his leadership, working with the big 13 mayors as he is now chair of that organization. He has been exceptional and credibly supportive of this effort and advancing this cause, not only within san jose city, working with county leaders, but moreover, working with other mayors throughout the state of california. Including working with local leadership in kern county. I say that because this issue of homelessness impacts the entire state of california. It is no longer a coastal issue. It is not concentrated in just a few dense urban environments in the state, having traveled to most parts of the state of the past week, i reminded over and over as we drive and see those underpasses, and we drive down streets and sidewalks stream with camping equipment and people out there intense, the work we have to do. I would be remiss if i did not highlight this. Many of you tuned in to get an update on the wildfires and covid, but i want folks to know our commitment, our resolve to addressing this issue. It will not happen overnight. We cannot overpromise in this space, the state of california has a responsibility to support cities and counties. The city of california for decades, was not focused as much as we would have liked on this issue, so we are trying to make up for that and we are trying to take responsibility and move forward deliberately and in this project home key, we think is one of the more meaningful efforts in advancing that cause and again, i want to thank all of our partners, including the cochairs of the workgroup that we put together on homelessness, mayor steinberg, and the supervisor thomas for all their up landing outstanding support as well for advancing the cause. A cause of many of you came to get updated on, although i recognize is the experience we are all having with historic wildfire season. I thought it was start with this template of understanding. This is a chart that goes back to 1980. Look over 40 year period, you are seeing temperatures between june and september the state of california increase from roughly 71 degrees to about 74 degrees. What i might not seem significant, 3 degrees, it is profoundly impactful. Average temperatures in the state of california during the summer months increasing over the last number of decades. It is a direct cause and effect to the experience that we are currently having with the climate induced human activity induced climates induced wildfire season. I made this Crystal Clear two days ago when President Trump was out here in the state and expressed similarly when we were with senator harris yesterday here in the state. Will recognize our responsibility. Our mutual responsibility. The federal government, the state government, private landowners, all of us, doing more and doing better in terms of our Vegetation Management efforts, air force management efforts, we stipulate that as selfevident and of course, that is being advanced in ways that we have not seen in the past. By partnerships with the u. S. For service to more than double the total number of acreage on an annual basis where we are doing the kind of prescribed burns, doing the kind of thinning that has an environmen addresses some of the fuel loads in our dense forests. But the fundamental fact cannot be denied, represented in this charge and the reality of average temperatures significantly increasing and you see that trend line. That is not going in the right direction. It is going in a direction that only underscores our sense of urgency to address head on the issue of climate and Climate Change and to double down on our efforts here in the state of california, a commitment that i have made very publicly over the course of the last few days, frankly, over the course of many many years and many different capacities, including my capacity as a former mayor, where we lead the state in many categories. California leads the nation, but we have more work still to do hearing a series of those announcements over the next few weeks and months. This will be as we advance the cause, a cause that we hold dear in the state of california, and a cause that knows no political party. Particularly as it relates to leadership in the state from Governor Brown to governor schwarzenegger, going all the way back to governor reagan who established in 1970, many of the tenants of the California AirResources Board and other tenants that have become National Models in environmental stewardship. We to reconcile the fact that there are no democratic thermometers and a republican to thermometers. There is fact and there is reality, as well as observed evidence. It is not a belief system, it is an acknowledgment. The facts of the facts. Is not a question of ones belief comments whether not you will acknowledge the facts as they are presented. The facts are in evidence, and we certainly acknowledge them and we acknowledge our responsibility to do more in this space. You can see from this chart the challenge that we have in front of us. Heres a charge looking back over the last nine years. This is here in the state of california. I reminded people after a very tough wildfire season last year, with the kincade fire in Northern California, as stressful as it was, the fire near the Reagan Library itself, last year, it generated a lots of International Headlines and it was a relatively mild wildfire season in contrast to the last decade. You can see that in this slide, just those two first bars. 3. 4 million acres. 3. 37 millionburned so far in this calendar year. Last year and the entire calendar just 277,000 acres. I dont mean just, because that is a substantial number of acres that were burned by wildfires but in comparison to this year, it is modest in size. 2018, you will see the third bar. Once. 975 million acres burned. 85 lives were lost, that was one of the most destructive and devastating from a structural perspective matches the acreage perspective. Gives you a sense of the challenge that we are facing and the challenges that we will face moving into the future and it will requires to be more flexible. Less ideological, and more committed to the collective cause of organizing strategies to keep people safe and to maintain our adaptability and our resiliency, so that we can work through this challenge and this climate induced crisis. This emergency that we are facing, not only as a state and as a nation, but as a globe and as a world. As it relates to californias historic wildfire season, let me break them down in terms of the total number of fires in a more easily observable terms. Fisher at this time in the state, we had 5136 fires only birded 152,000 acres. Again, this year, 3. 4 million acres, close to 8000 fires. I will remind you that it was a month ago yesterday thats we started to experience the impact of nearly 14,000 lightning strikes. It was a month ago yesterday that we can mark that we have now burned just in the last 31 days or so, 2. 8 million acres and, have had the tragic loss of 25 lives and thousands of structures. Again, unprecedented number of lightning strikes. Of course, august was unprecedented in terms of heat. Record level, record recorded heat in the state of california, including 130 degrees down a death valley, which, at the analyze it more closely, might be a world breaking record. 130 degrees in the state of california. The hottest august in our history. There battling some 25 major fires, what we would refer to as comp expires were fires, 1100 in the last 30 days. A fire starts and they converge together into larger complexes. We have 30,000 people that have been evacuated and again, over 3. 4 million acres have burned to date. Still battling these wildfires over 17,000 firefighters, mutual aid system that comes not only with the the state, but 83 engine set of come from outside of the state, including some 60 engines from the state of texas. What i want to thank Governor Abbott for his extraordinary support. He has been incredibly responsive for now months here in the state, but in particular, hes really helping us with that creek fire, which i will talk about a little bit more in a moment. Just gives you an indication and example of the mutual aid system that knows the politics and that spans not only to states along the west coast, and places like texas, but includes new jersey, governor murphy picked up the phone and he sent three engines from new jersey. We have firefighters from israel, and had the privilege of speaking with the Prime Minister two who has sent out under the mutual aid system, 100 firefighters to support them in addition to the other states. 25 fatalities to date and what we know, based upon our analysis as we get back in and we repopulate areas, 4200, which is why we say plus, because we display the number to grow, but 200 structures so far have been destroyed because of the latest fires. Lets talk about progress on some of these more active fires. Many of these fires have happened in the last 30 days. We were out yesterday with senator harris in fresno in the county. The creek fire has generated a lot of attention for good reason. This is an area where we are experiencing uniquely challenging conditions. Visa 220,000 acres have burned. 18 current condition. The challenge with the fire in particular, is the fact that we are battling this fire impacted specifically a fire that has been impacted by the droughts that we experienced between 2005 with intensity through 2015, arguabl