Devastating wildfire. How a bay Area Organization is trying to help those who lost everything. And cutting the cord with and how the bay areas largest city is looking to create its own Utility Company and what it would have to do to get the approval. My from jaclyn square. This is morning time to the nine and good morning. Todays tuesday, august 15th. Were looking live at the bay area here. A little bit of congestion or i would say congestion, cloud cover coming over the bay. You see the san mateo bridge in the background. We have to continue to follow the news out of hawaii where its now been one week since the deadly fires broke out in maui. And crews are continuing to sift through the ruins of lahaina. The confirmed number of deaths has now climbed to 99. And keep in mind, hundreds of people are still unaccounted for in a city where about 12,000 people did once live. As jake kerr, alexis tells us only about 25 of the burned out area has been searched so far. A week after the deadliest wildfire in modern american history, crews are still sifting through the ruins here in maui. The confirmed number of dead climbed to 99 monday with hundreds still unaccounted for. In lahaina, a town where about 12,000 people lived before the wildfires. The numbers there are staggering. More than 2200 structures destroyed, 86 were residential, meaning thousands are now homeless. And its not clear when residents will be allowed back in. The search for victims has been complicated by the condition of the remains. Its going to take time. Its going to take a lot of time as they go through all of the territories in lahaina. They have to be very careful. As of now, only 25 of the burned out area has been searched and some residents are starting to demand answers from local officials complain about a lack of communication and basic resources to help fight the fire. Its a kind of disconcerting feeling when the fire guys show up and they dont have water. Its got to this point where its like, who are these people watching us . Do they even properly care for us . Meanwhile, much needed aid continues to pour into the area, but some residents say its not enough and they wont be able to move forward until theyre able to return to lahaina. Were just camping it out over here like just waiting for them to give us the okay to go back in and help clean up, you know, just do whatever we can. Hawaiis goveor says the goal is to have at least 90 of lahaina searched by this weekend in maui. Jake alexis, ktvu, fox two news. Well, maui is going to need help from people and organizations all over the us. One Bay Area Group is raising money and collecting items all week. Ktvu is james torres joining us with details about the large drive that is happening in San Francisco. Good morning, james. Claudine, good morning to you. Well, we started here this morning about three hours ago. Weve got a number of donations from a number of people whove come through early this morning. But this large container, 40 foot container behind me, this has been here since sunday morning. And itll stay here until friday night. So you have plenty of opportunity to bring out any donation if you feel like you would like to. Joining me this morning is mr. Olson. Stacy, youre a volunteer here. You took a week off of work just to volunteer for this effort. Youve got some connections to hawaii. You said youve got a polynesian background. I imagine this has to mean a lot to you. Oh, yeah. Its you know, it hit home, you know, like just for anybody that knows about how to go without, you know, and, you know, just its just a, you know, heartfelt moment for those people and those families that lost a lot during this, you know, tragic time. So, yeah, shout out to all the Polynesian Community thats helping me. And, you know, help in any way to kind of bring them back together in any way that we can to show our support. Lets talk about this donation drive. I mean, the last three hours, weve seen people whove come in from all over the bay area, north bay, south bay peninsula, bring in boxes of donations. What does this look like over the last couple of days . I mean, its a its an ongoing thing and its like just says a lot about the community that, you know, shout out to all of those people that came out that were willing to support and donate anything that they can, you know, a kind gesture could go a long way. Speaking of donations, i know we want to start limiting clothes. We want to start limiting water at this point. You guys are communicating with dockworkers over in hawaii. Theyre giving you a better sense of what it is that you actually need at this point. What are you kind of low on that youre hoping people can maybe put a little more focus toward . Well, yeah, like toiletries, maybe Hygiene Products for male or female baby accessories like bottles, diapers, wipes, anything that can help, like anything. Yeah. And your volunteer a whole week of your time. Hes taking a whole week off of work for this. You know what . Why does this mean so much to you . Because, you know, like anything with family, like, for me, its just a family oriented. Ive been a family oriented guy and anything that, you know, especially the Polynesian Community, if you know anything about the Polynesian Community, we stand strong for each other no matter what. You know what i mean . So were not physically, you know, time and space separates us, but were together in spirit. So, hey, i appreciate your time. Appreciate you being here talking with us this morning. Again, youve got plenty of time to bring whatever donations you may like to donate here. This container will be here until friday, 8 p. M. Then it will be shipped to hawaii, shipped back to refill it, and the organizers here say theyll keep doing that until they feel like they dont need to do it anymore. You also have a chance to donate money and dollars to their efforts as well. All of that information is posted on our website ktvu. Com. Were live this morning from San Francisco. Im james torres, ktvu fox two news. James thank you. Donald trump is facing another criminal indictment. His fourth indictment this year. The Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney in georgia accuses trump and 18 other people of conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the 2020 election to try and keep President Trump in office. The indictment alleges that rather than by abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election result. Trump has denied wrongdoing. Joining us now for inside is david levine from the university of California College of law, San Francisco. David, thank you so much for joining us. Of course. All right. So, david, were talking about a 98 page indictment here. 41 charges, 19 people first. Id just like to get your thoughts when you when you heard the details finally come down last night. Well, im calling this one the midnight pain from georgia. Since the midnight pain from georgia, since they released it so late. Its interesting, the contrast with what jack smith did when we were talking a couple of weeks ago, jack smith with that indictment in washington, dc, went narrow. He only went after mr. Trump. He peeled away some of the more difficult parts of the case and he just went in with this narrow, sharp case. Now, fani willis has decided to go broad. 19 defendants, 41 counts. Its a different strategy and a rico case. On top of that, what do you think her reasoning is . Something this is a law thats commonly used to go after mafia groups that is being used with the former president of the united states. Now, what are your thoughts on that . Right. Well, its been around a long time, more than 50 years. It was indeed passed to help defeat the mafia families. Rudy giuliani, who is a new defendant in this case himself, has used the criminal rico case against mobsters in new york. And mr. Trump has had a civil rico case against him already. In the Trump University case. So what happened is, while the original target were mafia families, it has never been limited to that. So any sort of a criminal enterprise. So what you need is an agreement among people to engage in this goal. And here in this particular goal, it was to overturn the election, overturn the election, and specifically in georgia. And it allows you to go in a very wide way. And in georgia in particular, its a very pro prosecution statute, the way it was written, not every state has it and not every state is quite as generous to the prosecutor as this one is. And fani willis is an old hand with this. She has used this many times before. She has interesting that you just mentioned a moment ago, rudy giuliani, its been around rico has been around for a long time. But he really pioneered it when he was he was attorney going after the five families, the mafia, five families in new york, and really was successful in that case. It became, well known during his time. And now the irony is he is getting charged under the rico rico act here right . Any drawbacks, though, for fani willis using rico to go after to build her case against trump and the 18 other people involved . It isnt so much rico itself because rico is very powerful and the specter of a five year mandatory minimum sentence is going to weigh heavily on a lot of those defendants. But really, its the whole structure is that she said last night she wanted to have a trial in six months and she wanted to try everybody together. Well, imagine 19 defendants with all of their lawyers in one courtroom. Its hard to believe that that actually could be done in any sort of an efficient way. So i assume were going to see it morph. But thats what i see is the danger of the way she did this is that its so amorphous. You you could lose sight of what the goal is. But isnt it when their case when the mafia, they tried everyone at one time with at the same time. I seem to remember a case like that many, many decades ago. It can be done. And in gang cases it can be done. Theyve been done here in the bay area as criminal gang cases. It is possible, but its kind of unwieldy and in a situation like this where youre telling several stories, youre telling the story of electoral interference, where mr. Trump had made that famous call to mr. Raffensperger. You have interference with equipment down in Coffee County a couple of hundred miles south of atlanta, and you have the fake electors. Its a complicated story to tell. So it could be done, but it would take a long time and it could be unwieldy and i should say here, if we could put up the statement from President Trump, he says, quote this politically inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my Political Campaign, where i am leading all republicans. I also want to ask you this one question here. Youre talking about the Coffee County case here. We had a lower level person named scott hall. He was caught on camera messing around, apparently with a voting machine. Its not clear that theres a direct connection between scott hall and President Trump. But does there have to be a connection in these rico cases like that . Well, it doesnt have to be a direct connection that mr. Trump does not have to have telephoned mr. Hall but its a to b to c to d, there are Text Messages between people in georgia and people connected with the campaign. So there are connections that would be adequate if proven to connect everybody up in this enterprise. Its because these get complicated. You never have one meeting like in a movie. Everybody is sitting around a table deciding youre going to do this, youre going to do this , and so that it isnt necessary to prove that all you have to do is show the connections, show the people where generally on board and that they committed the requisite number of acts in georgia, its only two. We can we can dive deeper into this, but unfortunately, weve run out of time. We could say the grand jury, fani willis, she wants everyone, all 19 people to turn themselves in by next friday at noon, there are arrest warrants issued for them. President trump all the way down to this. This guy that was in coffee park, scott hall. All right, david levine, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. There is still a lot more to talk about. Meantime, talk to you at noon as well here you can find extensive coverage of this indictment on our website, ktvb. Com or live online coverage includes a link to the full indictment that you can read for yourself in full. All right. Breaking free from pga. Coming up on mornings on two, the nine, the south bay city thats looking to create its own Utility Company. Then breaking barriers and bridging gaps in the Health Care Industry will introduce you to the east bay program thats equipping young minds with the tools to embark on careers in the Health Care Field. And mornings on to the nine is hitting the road on a zip trip to novato for free during this north bay citys favorite restaurants and bars and spotlighting one of nevadas treasures in which one womans dream has helped transform the lives for many children throughout horse therapy. 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Like many bay area cities, san jose gets its power from pg and may or mehan says one of the things the city council will debate today is if creating a city operated utility will eliminate some of the delays in new Construction Projects which could also lead to saving money. What were looking at in the short term is interconnection rates. How quickly can new housing and jobs get connected to the grid so that we can continue to facilitate Economic Development in san jose . Pkg is seeing a greater demand for power and the state is putting up new transmission lines in the south bay. If the plan is approved, san jose could ask to tap into those lines. Mehan says the city must also consider that cost. He doesnt want to put an economic burden more on san jose taxpayers. Pga has not commented on that proposal. Well todays plans strike by thousands of San Jose City workers is on hold representing lives from the city. And the two unions have been meeting regularly. One of the unions tells us it has reached conceptual terms that will go to the city council today for review and approval. Workers, including libraries, emergency dispatchers and will shelter text engineers and airport employees, have been working without a contract since the end of june. The workers are demanding better pay, parental leave and improve staffing. Californias robert is among 22 state attorney generals opposing a recent settlement in a case involving socalled forever chemicals in drinking water. Thats the name given to potentially hazardous compounds that can exist for many years. The small city of stuart, florida, played a major role in a 10 billion settlement with the Company Three m back in june that followed a nationwide legal battle involving more than 100 local communities that claimed three was contaminating water supplies. With its forever chemicals in this case, the evidence was pretty overwhelming that by no later than 1983 and knew this chemicals were toxic. The epa has determined exposure to these chemicals can cause cancer or other Serious Health problems. Bonta is among the state attorney generals who is calling on the federal courts to step in and reject the settlement. Well, President Biden is scheduled for a visit to lake tahoe starting friday. The white house says the president is due to arrive friday on the nevada side of lake tahoe and be there until the following thursday. The white house hasnt said whether the trip is for business or for personal reasons. All right. Lets get over to Steve Paulson for a look at your weather forecast. Steve, a friend said to me yesterday afternoon, with the humidity there, like it feels like earthquake weather. And i know thats not a thing, but we had an earthquake today. So, jamie, maybe it was some kind of sixth sense President Biden better take some rain gear because it looks like its going to be a big show up in the mountains her