Sky fox. To demonstrators, you cant see it from this picture but demonstrators are gathering at the bay bridge, Golden Gate Bridge and the dumbarton bridge. Is possible, underscore possible , that the protests might cause problems for the evening commute we will continue to follow the story and keep you up dated the moment we get new developments. Heres a live look from the plaza in oakland. To demonstrators are expected to gather there at any moment. There are a handful of people there now. It looks like there are some poster boards there with pictures. Im not exactly sure what those pictures show. Im guessing though, it is probably people who were killed in incidents with Police Officers. We are working to get more information on that. As we do, we will bring it to you. Again, the protest is set to begin around 5 00 tonight. In louisville kentucky a kerf a curfew will remain as people prepare for protest. Thousands people for the protesting side are expected to show up. 125 demonstrators were detained in louisville. December unlawful protests and physical clashes with police. Africanamerican held a rally called our lives matter. They are speaking out in the Breanna Taylor case and hope to raise awareness in violence against black women. We have their story. Reporter at this rally in front of the mural at oakland city hall, the motions were raab. I knew the outcome would be what it is i knew that but my heart is ripped from my chest. Im sick and tired and im hurt because this is my people. Like a family member. Reporter 200 people came to stand and support what they claimed was a lack of justice for Breanna Taylor and a gathering called our lives matter. The aim was to bring attention to violence against African American girls and women by the police. This is a place to come together where we can hold each other with pain like only we understand. Reporter a louisville kentucky grand jury decided against indicting Police Officers in a shooting death. One of the officers was charged with recklessly firing his weapon but not with homicide. You know our lives matter. What we need to garner is the power to demonstrate that our lives matter. Reporter taylors shooting may be the most emptiness, black women are 13 of the population, they account for 20 of women shot and killed by police in the last five years. We walk every day with a bullseye on our back. Most the came were not africanamerican women but were upset, nonetheless. This is another case with not one iota of justice. Reporter also access to education, quality jobs and a level playing field. We come together saying enough is enough is enough is enough is enough. Protesters vandalized the Thomas Fallon statue on west julian street. It commemorates the raising of the u. S. Flag in 1846 when california was still part of mexico. And type police phrases were sprayed on the side of the monument. Beside that, most things were peaceful. Some of the reasons why the protest did not spiral out of control. Reporter protesters tried tos torch the statue in downtown san jose overnight but the a only burned near the base of the artwork commemorating the citys 10th mayor. The San Jose Police department claimed they declined to say how the arrests were made. These acts sit in contrast with how the majority of protesters express themselves. In san jose is been tough for families who have lost their loved ones due to Police Violence to get any kind of accountability. Reporter earlier wednesday evening, people descended on San Jose City hall. Signs and chance echoed around the country after a kentucky grand jury really did not indict Police Officers. There was dissent. One of the changes could be on how San Jose Police respond to protests in large crowds. Restrained actions during demonstrations. There is multiple injustices over and over again. Its easy to get fatigue or habituate where you develop learned helplessness. Reporter Santa Clara University psychologists say a litany of expressors from covid to fires to the economy may have people overwhelmed in the late of the latest protest. Its like drinking from a fire hose of stressors and problems. That will play a role in how we i jenner energize ourselves and base this. Things are intensifying as we move closer to the november election and the aftermath of the election. There are no arrests and no injuries. There was a change in policy for drug offenses in contra costa county. The District Attorney said she will no longer prosecute suspects for minor drug offenses. They will be diverted to social services to get the help they need. More on this new policy. Henry. Reporter the goal here is to ease the pressure on the criminal Justice System and the low level alleged criminal that drugs affect themselves. And not everyone in Law Enforcement is on board. They take a tremendous amount of resources. Reporter the da says its time to stop prosecuting people for minor offenses. Not only have our focus on violent client crimes but entry point into the social Justice System. Reporter they will instead be referred to social services so they could be treated. At these early stages, we increase our foot print towards incarceration. For focused on reforming the criminal Justice System. Minor court cases have clogged court dockets. They have stopped filing charges on all but the most serious drug charges. This could be a health issue rather than a criminal or legal issue. For these das are doing the right thing i decided to make a impression that Diverse People out of the system and a more meaningful life. Reporter not all Law Enforcement officials agree with this approach. The role of the District Attorney is not to create the lot. Reporter steve said he will continue to prosecute minor drug cases even though those are rare. He too supports treatment. We are still a believer the criminal Justice System is an avenue to bring that about. For he was not notified about the policy change. The chairman said he supports treatment when it works but people that have had their homes broken into, the met vast majority of those crimes have been committed by lowlevel drug users. I care about the vick comes more than the criminal. When does this new policy take effect . Immediately. The da said the policy is in a trial, pilot stage for a while. Are there any concerns about the social Service Agencies that will have to take these new people now who are not prosecuted for the minor drug offenses that will come your way most counties already have in place a structured social Services Healthcare agencies and other stakeholders that are able at least able on paper to handle the cases. Henry lee, reporting live. Thank you. Were checking on the weather. Coming up on friday. Weather is looking good. Towards the end of the weekend we get into fire concerns and quality issues. We will take a look at that and the fiveday forecast. So to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. aher. The latest on the coronavirus. According to numbers released today there are more than 790,000 cases of covid19 here in california. There are 3200 new cases confirmed yesterday and more than 16,000 people with the virus have now died in our state since the start of the pendant. United airlines is launching new first of a kind program. They are offering a rapid covid test from San Francisco to hawaii. Those who test negative wont have to go through hawaiis 14 in quarantine. If it works for hawaii, it might work for other destinations also. The program could be expanded internationally in the next coming months. Reporter United Airlines is breaking ground when it comes to air travel. Is the first offer rapid covid tests preflight with all their flights for me San Francisco to hawaii. There is a mandatory quarantine. There. We decided to give her passengers an opportunity to get tested prior so they could be negative when they arrived. Reporter united is offering two ways to get tested. One is a rapid way at a kiosk. The other is a mailin option 72 hours before travel. This is just a beginning. We will do this and other hubs and other locations as the International Market starts to open up. I believe this is something critical for us to have before people board planes. Reporter advocates say they have been pushing for this. What united is doing for hawaii i believe will allow us to travel quickly around the world. Reporter the Airline Passenger experience association thinks it will go a long way towards Building Customer confidence. They will get from point a to point b safely and they will get to their destination and get back home. If theres bad news with covid 19, id like to have it before im on the flight. Reporter it makes that weeklong vacation possible again. Travelers say they are already on board with the idea. I think of you want to stay ahead and you been doing all the things you need to be doing, wearing your mask, socially distancing, washing your hands, getting the tests, gives you the additional peace of mind. United work with officials in hawaii to make sure testing is meeting theres standard for the quarantine. Of the Program Launches on october 15th. In San Francisco, the mayor is speaking about what went right and what rant wrong during the coronavirus response. The mayor said the city fell short when it comes to reaching the Latino Community and for that reason there was a disparity in the number of latinos who contracted covid 19. There is an investment to help increase testing, contact tracing, education and outreach in the Latino Community. We have to be aggressive and deliberate about what we should be doing with this community to change what that disparity is. The significant investment we are about to make with specific things, will lead to the success we know we need to combat this virus. The help is much needed. Statistics show that at least half of the cities coronavirus cases are in the Latino Community. We are a few days away for President Trump naming the next nominee for the u. S. Supreme court. On capitol hill the debate over who he will pick to replace just the skins. The president suggested yesterday if there are questions surrounding mainly in ballot, he may not accept the Election Results. It could end up at the Supreme Court, further fueling Justice Ginsburgs replacement. How important that statement is. The American People should be convinced, this president is a danger to our constitution. President trump will announce his Supreme Court pick saturday at five p. M. From the white house. Were looking at first things first, thats the air quality. Thats been on the tip of our tongues for quite some time. The air quality good in our bay area. We have a westerly flow. As you know there is dense fog along the coast. Theres clearing as well. You see yellow up here. Thats not a horrible. South down towards the big sur mountains, most of the smoke has moved off to the southeast. Much nicer day. It tomorrow will be nice as well. Weather story will be about the fire concerns that come up saturday night and sunday and then monday morning. Probably red flag warning in the hills above 1000 feet. And nothing unusual. You expect that this time of year. Wind speeds for the time. , they will be up but not 60 miles an hour. They are like 25 or 30. It is not a highend red flag or whether fire alert right now. We will keep an eye on that. Now we get going with another nice day. Friday looks nice and saturday looks good. Clear outside right now. You do see, it appears like a little bit of smoke. I did mention around bakersfield, in that eastern, southeastern edge of bakersfield, where the valley wraps up, Southeast Quadrant down there is holding a lot of smoke down there. If you have friends or family down there, the smoke is trapped there, its not flushed out. It will get there but theyre having trouble getting it done. You can see across and so often we talk about air quality. If you can see, a day like today you know the air quality significantly better than it has been. We are going in the right direction. Pattern all week has been really helpful in getting the smoke out of here. You can see the rain in the pacific northwest. Thats a fullfledged weather system. Thats a lot of moisture. Thousands of miles of moistures dreaming off the pacific in the vancouver area. We are seeing surf off the coast a did 10 feet. 36 hours into the fall. And it looks like fall. Give that system another month and is down on the top of us dropping significant rain. Is 2 1 2 inches of rain. The plan for tomorrow more of the same. Fire concern saturday night. Pac12 football is ago this season. University president s chancellors and executives held a Virtual Meeting to play a sevengame College Football season set for november 6. Thats a reverse for decision back in august 2 postpone the decision in the spring because of concerns about the coronavirus. The pack 12 was the lone holdout among the conferences. I attribute it to my imagination. Playing on the pirate ship or the shoe are watching puppet shows. Local Authorities Say the thought of childrens fairyland closing in oakland is unthinkable. They are helping the park raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help it reopen. Childrens fairyland and okun is getting a big boost of support. Thanks to film makers. Fairyland was in danger of closing because of the pandemic. Reporter almost everyone has the memory of childrens fairyland in oakland. When i was little kid we used to have the keys. Reporter including oakland born filmmakers. When i think of fairyland i think of narnia, are alice in wonderland and the worlds i spent in as a kid. Reporter they are teaming up again to write the next chapter are of the fairyland story. Saving the park for future generations. When we heard they were struggling and even the slightest chance it might not be around, that could not stand. I attribute my capacity for imagination to time spent at fairyland. The dragon ship, shoe, things like that. This is a 70th year which is another reason to celebrate. We have a sneak peek at story time. In a Digital Library for families. People in athletes coming in and reading stories. Reporter executive director are said public donations have help but it was a rough summer for their small staff. Reporter we have lost almost 4. 5 million. Its our busiest time but it seven days a week. We lost a lot this summer. Reporter it served as an inspiration for disneyland, and east bay treasure that means so much to so many. Theres nothing like it. Reporter they want to bring the magic back. When you see the whale and the key and you are immediately transported back to a particular kind of joy and wonder and awe of your childhood. Come have fun with us on saturday night. Coming up tonight, mail stolen again and again. It happens every couple of weeks. Coming up next, weve learned that prosecution of crime has hit a 10 year low. A lot to keep known drug dealers out of the tenderloin of San Francisco. How the City Attorney plans to do that, coming up. Time and time again thieves are targeting bay area mailboxes. They steal everything from unemployment checks to your personal information. Are investigated reporter shows whats doing this and whats being done to stop it. Reporter precision like clockwork rolling out, mail is on the move. Intended for final destination. But sometimes, intercepted by thieves. Its really frustrating. Reporter like the routine deliveries come the routine cries over missing mail. It makes me feel a little unsafe. Reporter time and time again using a counterfeit key, this guy gets inside this oakland Apartment Building. He make sure the coast is clear and then opens and empties mailboxes but accidentally locked himself out. s buddy comes to the rescue with a second copy key. Both caught on camera stealing stuff. In one week, four neighboring buildings were hit up, sometimes more than once. Different thieves using different keys to help themselves. I think you are working too hard. Clifford does not live near downtown. Still, even his dead ins street has crooks stopping by. At least every couple weeks, someone got their mailbox okun into. More surprising is what he recently discovered. There is a big bag in there, three big bags stashed behind this trailer. And in these compost bins. When i felt the bag, i felt it mightve been newspaper or something. That was 150 pounds of stolen mail. After chriss from oakland to hercules to a growth. Containing Important Information from investment firms, irs and healthcare companies. Neighbors turned over the bags to u. S. Postal inspection service. Investigators will log each piece of mail to try to connect the dots. We will identify where the males are from and prepare letters to customers and let them know weve recovered their males. Even one of those letters were founts , proving they broke into the same Apartment Building again. Victims have tried to warn others, posting signs and pictures, many not confident that anyone will be held accountable. Mail theft is a federal crime, punishable up to five years in prison in 250 in fines. Cases can take years. Prosecutions have hit a 10 year low. The minute something is taken its reported. Reporter californians await their blank mailin ballots. Allmale is important to us. Election mail, every piece of mail. For a job postal workers take seriously. Especially amid three years of increasing incidence and less confidence in the postal service. Investigators hoping to catch culprits and close the cases. Postal inspectors have a 10,000 standing reward for arrest and conviction of a mail thief. One thing you can do is sign up for a Service Called informed delivery. Ive done it and is great. Every time you have mail coming to your mailbox, youll get an email letting you know heres whats going to arrive. All mail is important. Election mail and every piece of mail. Should we be worried about ballots being safe in the mail . Ive been fielding those questions all day. We will hit on that tonight in the 10 00 news and see the process, see how the vote by mail system works. Its not new to california. What is new is a special tool you can sign up for and actually track your blank ballot as it makes its way to your mailbox and after you fill it out and send it back, you can get notified every step of the way, including when youre vote is actually cast. That will be tonight at 10 00. So far this year, theres been a 70 spike in Overdose Deaths in San Francisco, compared to last year. The city is targeting known drug dealers with the thought of keeping them out of the tenderloin. Now we are here to say how the plan will work. Reporter the City Attorneys office is using the civil injunction, suing people from coming into the tenderloin if they have been caught. Part of the tenderloin district has been notorious for open drug sale and use. To now there is a new tool for keeping drug dealers out of the city. My office has 28 known drug dealers and filed injunctions to prevent them from coming in. They dont live in the tenderloin. Reporter the injunction is only for those outside of San Francisco who come in and sell drugs. There are criminal penalties that can accrue. The fact of the matter is, if someone is going to suffer a financial penalty of a significant dollar amount, that dissuades individuals from engaging in conduct. The injunctions give another tool in our toolkit. Violators face up to it 6000 fine and a misdemeanor arrest. Officers can seize money from narcotics sales as well as other contraband. Reporter this is one tool for the tenderloin. Its going to take help for the homeless is, drug treatment, support of low income families that live in the community. Reporter the citys Attorneys Office started to injunction gang activity. They targeted black and brown people and targeted civil liberties. This is not based on affiliation or status but based on going after individuals who have been known to engage in criminal conduct. Reporter city leaders want to see how effective they are in the tenderloin. They look forward to reporting them in other parts of the city. There will be an interaction between flu and covid that we dont fully understand yet. Coming up next, dr. Say getting a flu shot is one of the most important things you can do right now to protect yourself this winter. 800,000 americans added to an evergrowing unemployment list. Negotiations over another stimulus bill for key american industries. The unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. A warning for what some are calling a twin pandemic, combination of the coronavirus and the flu. The doctors are encouraging you to get a flu shot sooner than later. Here are stark numbers that everyone will want to consider. Reporter heres a scientific shot of information that can sober a lot of people. According to the centers for disease control, and the u. S. Over the last nine years, flu deaths are 37,000 a year with far less getting a flu shot. People now might be more more motivated. Only one third of americans get the annual flu shot. Reporter a major pharmacy chain, meyer, told super cup news, it will increase in the season. What about in a more temperate climate in california. Safeways manager said its too early to tell. We are preparing for a. We are doing a number of things to make it easier for our patients and customers in the store to get flu shots. Reporter and less than a Year Coronavirus deaths have claimed 202,000 years deaths in the u. S. Flu can be in this instance a deadly underlying condition to covid. Reporter six sick people must be tested for what they really have a common cold, traditional flu, or covid19, slowing down the process. By getting the flu shot you get one of the variables out of the equation. Reporter 67 of respondents to this poll saying getting a flu vaccination is important to preventing covid19. When we enter the fall and winter on the heels of flu season, we must make sure we do more. Getting the flu shot can be an ultimate form of protection. Reporter backing a National Flu Shot program complicates flu shot use. The fact is political posturing aside, this flu season looks to be a epidemic. Costing human lives. In contra costa county, Health Officials are offering free flu shots all residents in the month of october. Contra costa help services is setting up locations. Of vaccinations are available for everyone over the age of six months. No appointment is necessary. We posted a link on our website ktvu. Com. Weekly jobless claims are down from last week. Or actually up about 4000 from the week before. California stop accepting new applications for two weeks it revamped the system. In the weekly news conference, House Speaker nancy pelosi said republican should support a new bill for relief. More money for businesses, restaurants and airlines and other key priorities. A senior democratic aide said that Speaker Pelosi has directed the chairman to have a scaledback version of the bill for a starting point for new talks. The dow rose 52 points, nasdaq added 39 and s p gained nine. Tech start dock help turn it around today. A challenge maybe in the forecast. Well talk to cal fires assistant Deputy Director about the weather watch forecasted this weekend. Im looking at your mri. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Im sorry baby. I dont want you to play with that. singing twinkle, twinkle little star. How i wonder what you are. How are you doing . Schedule a video visit with your doctor. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Firefighters and butte and puma counties are making progress. Is burden for 36 days. Is burden more than 340,000 acres. It killed 15 people. And burned many structures. As of tonight, containment is up to 78 . Of the biggest wildfire in california state history continues to burn in fresno. The creek fire has burned more than 200 thousand acres and 34 contained. 3000 firefighters are fighting the threeweekold containment fire. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Now there are 18,000 firefighters battling more than two dozen major wildfires in california. While they are making progress, this up coming weekend will provide another challenge. A weather watch begin saturday morning. Gusty winds, low humidity and high temperatures. Assistant Deputy Director joins us now hes at the creek fire in fresno. A look ahead to this weekend, how concerned are you . The fact that we will have gusty winds, the combination of winds, high temperatures and low humidity is definitely something we are preparing for. These are the conditions that elevated our fire risk during labor day weekend. We saw several fires burn explosively. We are continue to prep and monitor the weather closely. It may not just hamper the efforts on our current fires but if a new fire does break out, these winds will allow the fire to grow at an explosive rate. When you say you are prepping and getting ready ahead of this weekend, what is some of the things that crees and resources and firefighters do . I apologize. To do we have you back . Im sorry. Whenever we have weather conditions, we look at those elevated weather conditions. We will move resources into the area. Right now the weather watch is in a section of Northern California, stretching from just above reading all the way down to the bay area and into the sacramento region. We will preposition resources to other parts of the state. We have over 18,000 firefighters on the current fires right now. Huge resource deployment already. Preposition resources is a common step will take during fire watches. Increasing additional staff. Many of our firefighters will be held on duty any reserve firefighters, we will bring them on to make sure we have plenty of resources. The key will be a Quick Response to new fires. We can prevent it from becoming a major fire. Daniel you are at the creek fire, north east of fresno. Of the shaver lake community. Much has been lost. What is the biggest challenge, the biggest fires burning in the state right now, what is the biggest challenge with that particular fire this fire continues to burned in an easterly direction, further into the wilderness and Sierra National forest. Theres good parts and bad parts. One, is burning away from populated areas. That is to lift a number of the evacuations in foothill communities in fresno. The fire burns into remote and wilderness area where its difficult for us to get our equipment into. Being able to easily access that fire line makes it a challenge. We rely heavily on aircraft and helicopters. Today, firefighters have continued to make very Good Progress in fresno county. I was there where a couple weeks ago they did heroic work, saving hundreds of homes. Just seeing how fast that fire burned within the first day, 45,000 acres, nearly 10 miles. Within one day, shows how explosive these fires are and why its so important this coming weekend, everyone be extra cautious so we can prevent sparking another creek fire. Its very busy time for all of you. We appreciate your time being with us. Checking in on the weather. Of the fire is something to talk about. The fire is huge and there are fires in Northern California as well. Cal fire, a lot of them are directing the fires, knowing women wind is calm, there will be burn back over already burned areas. A lot of managing of the fires and strategy like a chess game. Cal fire is really, really, really good at it. Thats the headline, a chance for red flag warning potential for saturday night into sunday morning. Ill show you some winds there. In the meantime, friday through all day saturday it will be a beautiful day. Today there is fog at the coast, as you know. This is the guy that kept us cool or mild, this is the system that has kept fire danger down. Now is the system that when it leaves, the high will jump back in. When the high jump sin its offshore when. This is not unusual. The forecast models predict a fairly average red offshore wind event. Thats how it looks right now. You can sometimes really see these coming. Of the models do a nice job of them if they will be robust, 60 mile an hour wind, you see that coming typically. We have a ways to go but let people calm down a little bit. Especially folks are in burn areas, is scary. This will be an event but it looks as though its a low grade event, saturday night and sunday morning. Right now we are rid of the smoke. Temperatures running about the way they were yesterday, a degree or two cooler in some places. This fire event is about these winds. More about the heat and the dryness. Here we are, friday afternoon, a north wind. Now we will go all the way, look at the contras, nothing big yet. Now we are into saturday afternoon, it starts to ramp up. I will ramp it up to 4 00 a. M. Where is the biggest wind . North and east bay, we know the pattern. Read lag warning areas above the 1000 feet. East bay is not getting hit that if you look at the values in napa and clearlake. Still not good but not as nasty as it could be. A lot of folks get very concerned, we all do at this time of year. Were looking at the models and ill see you back in a bit and ill see you back at 10 00 and 11 00. If you see a bunch of reds and yellows, you go okay. But right now things look pretty okay. Ill see you back in a little bit. I want to give you another look at the plaza next to city hall. Demonstrators are gathering following the ruling not to charge any of the officers for the specific death of Breanna Taylor in louisville. Its hard to see but in the distance you can see some of the poster boys. Those are all pictures of people who were killed by Police Officers in california over the last five years. We will keep an eye on this protest. We will have more for you coming up on channel 2 news at 6 00. 100 million doses of the vaccine by the end of the year. Thats the goal. Coming up next. More news about the new age group with the most cases. Explore floor and decor your way, and comfortably shop over a million square feet of in stock flooring our expansive store is fully equipped with safe distancing guides, so you can browse our wide aisles and be amazed with our even wider selection. Or easily order online, and pick up all the products you need for your flooring project curbside so come discover the perfect floor at the perfect price in whatever way is perfect for you. All in one stop visit floor and decor in person or online. The spread of the coronavirus is speeding up with more than 40,000 infections yesterday across the u. S. Concerns are intensifying on how fast the vaccine may be available. Reporter there are under 7 million confirmed cases in the u. S. , part of the coronavirus search. Infections and deaths are on the rise in to dozens dates. Help could be around the corner. Both pfizer and the dharna should have enough data to submit their vaccines for approval by late october. Health officials are working with six Different Companies with the goal of manufacturing 100 million doses by the end of the year. All six of the vaccines we are working with our industrial scale. We have millions of doses of vaccine already. Im optimistic about where were headed. Reporter there is growing concerns and corners will be cut in the rush to produce vaccine. The first batch may not be as effective as later versions. Underscoring the need of folks continuing to wear masks and social distancing. It means there will probably not be as good but they will not be unsafe. Reporter a new report from Brown University shows moe k12 schools have largely avoided big flareups that have been expected as in Person Learning resumes. We have masks and clean and we have are windows oh been. Its good. Reporter the virus is now disproportionately affecting a new age group, 20 to 29year olds, accounting for more than 20 of all cases. Republican leaders are vowing to uphold democracy after President Trump once again, questions the validity of Election Results and refuses to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power after the
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