Like our cretors cheese and caramel mix. Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. Gave the region 24 hours to evacuate as it prepares for a possible Ground Invasion. And tonight, a somber sabbath at a weekly ritual for the Jewish Community. People at bay area synagogues lighting candles in honor of the victims of the war in the middle east. Were going to continue living. Were going to be optimistic, and were going to bring joy and were going to bring love. And thats the only way. Thats the only way you fight back. Light shining through the darkness of a very deadly week in the middle east. Good evening. Im cristina rendon. And good evening. Im alex savage. For more than 3000 people are now confirmed dead in the conflict between israel and hamas. And tonight, calls for peace at bay area synagogues. Ctvs joey horta joining us live tonight from San Francisco where a ritual is taking on new meaning. Joey yeah, thats right. The candles are lit now and the faithful are praying tonight. Theyre also pulling their money together to support their brothers and sisters, as they call them, in israel. And tonight, for the first time, were hearing from a bay area man who was in israel during the attack. One wick at a time. A small group of jewish faithful gathered to light candles at the congregation. Chevra olam in San Francisco as they do each friday before sundown. Its right to usher in sabbath for every ounce of darkness that exists in the world, we have to double down and bring in more and more light. For rabbi shlomi, zaki and his congregation this friday is diffe who was either, god forbid, murdered, injured. Candles are now lit in honor of the terror attack victims, those who cannot light them on their own. This is the weaponry thats given to the jewish people to fight against the darkness is lighting shabbos candles outside an sfpd patrol car and a Security Guard stands watch at the door. Part of the beefed up security. A lot of this is psychological warfare that they a day of rage and demonstrations and they wanted schools to close down, but instead, the place of worship remains open and the People United food can bring people together. Arnon oren of el cerrito catering the synagogues fundraiser to send money back to israel, which is where he was during the terror attack. Luckily out of harms way, its hard to put in a word, its the cold blooded killing thing. You cant and its hard to comprehend. Many describe the attack as the deadliest on jews since the holocaust, which claimed the lives of orens great grandpa. Parents through the light and through goodness, you can come out of this dark time. A message jews around the world are sending out once again, relying on their faitho rise above and unthinkable tragedy. Were going to love harder than all the haters out there. Well, those proceeds that were pulled together here tonight will be sent back to israel. Meanwhile, the candles here will keep on burning. Were told. Were live in San Francisco tonight. Joey horning, ktvu fox two, christina, alex, back to you. All right, joey, thank you. The war in israel and gaza has prompted strong reaction in the us and all around the world. Demonstrations took place today in major cities from coast to coast. In los angeles, dozens gathered at what they called a rally for peace. Many speakers there standing in solidarity with the people of palestine in new york city, thousands rallied in times square in support of palestine as well, condemning the airstrikes in gaza. Up north, tensions flared at a propalestine rally on the university of washington campus in seattle. A similar situation at Arizona State university, where hundreds of activists on both sides of the issue clashed on campus. And here in the bay area, hundreds of proisrael demonstrators gathered today at Civic Center Plaza condemning hamas. Many of the demonstrators had a personal reason to speak out. One woman says she learned saturday morning from whatsapp posts that friends of hers had been killed. And now she has word that some have been captured by militants. News for my friends who had survived started to arrive. Goleta and my friends children were taken hostage with our elder mom. My friends, knowing sigi mom was taken hostage, bring them home. More than a dozen Jewish Community groups are condemning the kidnapings and calling for the Immediate Release of the hostages. As that rally in front of city hall was winding down. Another smaller rally was picking up steam. A group of jewish activists chained themselves together outside the Federal Building in San Francisco, voicing their opposition to the israeli bombing of gaza. Organizers say theyre concerned thousands of innocent palestinians are going to be killed if there is a Ground Invasion of gaza. Theres a growing number of American Jews. Theres lots of American Jews who dont agree with the violence, genocidal response to the tragic killings of israelis. That is being rolled out by the israeli government. The group wants the us to stop supporting israels military and to deescalate it and call for a cease fire. They also want help set up for humanity corridors for palestinians and palestinians in northern gaza try to leave that region after Israeli Forces warned a ground assault in gaza is imminent. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama joining us live now with the major developments today. A lot of developments. Christina and alex , President Biden and top us military officials repeated their pledge to support israel. The president also called for humanitarian aid, though, to innocent civilians, saying the majority of palestinians had nothing to do with the hamas attacks. It was a day of desperation for many palestinians trying to flee their homes in northern gaza. Roads leading south were clogged with cars and trucks, many fully loaded with people and their possessions. Israels military moved tanks and troops toward the gaza border in preparation for a ground offensive. Some Israeli Ground troops reportedly conducted limited raids in gaza friday, searching for hostages being heldy hamas. The Israeli Military issued a warning, telling more than 1 million civilians to leave northern gaza within 24 hours. By saturday. Those who want to save their lives, please go south. We are going to destroy hamas infrastructures. Hamas headquarters, palestinians face a humanitarian crisis with a shortage of food, water, fuel, medicine and power at a hospital in gaza, ambulances arrived where peoples bodies were laid out. The morgue facilities overwhelm formed a total destruction of private building, public buildings and infrastructure. To what we see, this International Support for israel is no more than encouraged for israel. The United Nations called an immediate evacuation of all palestinians impossible. A convoy of United Nations vehies was seen heading south as the u. N. Secretary general called on israel to provide immediate access to gaza for humanitarian aid and called on hamas for adherence to international laws. Civilians must be protected and also never used the shields and all hostages in gaza must be released immediately. On friday, family members of hostages taken by hamas called on United Nations to help. We urge all civilized people to work to free hirsh and all the other hostages. Us President Biden met friday over zoom with families of the 14 american is still missing with a pledge. Were not going to stop till we bring them home. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer says that he plans to lead a bipartisan delegation of us senators to israel this weekend. And alex and christina, were getting late word that israel will they might be easing back a little bit on that saturday deadline in to try and get more people out of the area. Theyre recognizin that it could be difficult to manage that many people. Yeah, certainly an urgent situation there in northern gaza. Joanna, thank you. And coming up tonight at 1030, the war between israel and hamas has touched a nerve for many on the stanford campus. Well have more on the discourse that has some students feeling fearful. New at ten, the man convicted of shooting and killing a Hayward Police sergeant lost an appeal of his conviction. Hayward lice Sergeant Scott lunger was killed during a traffic stop in 2015. Seven years later, his killer, marcus gerada, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for first degree murder. In his appeal, estrada argued that his attorney was ineffective and pressured him to make a plea deal to arrests have been made in connection with the tragic drownings at a south san jose daycare center. And as ktvu south bay reporter jesse gary shows us, a mother and daughter who owned and operated that center are now facing child neglect charges. Friday, nina farzad and her mother shaheen turn themselves into san jose police. The pair faces charges for child neglect resulted in two girls drowning and ltle boy being injured. October 2nd in a pool in the backyard of the happy, happy daycare and the 1000 block of fleetwood avenue in south san jose. One neighbo who wants to conceal his identity says hes shocked by whats happened. Its terrific. Yeah, its terrible. I dont think any parent would want to have to deal with that or live through that. So its tragic. Investigators say nina was left alone with as many as four children as her mom. Shaheen went to a doctors appointment at a Child Care Provider who also worked at the daycare, was also not at work that day. A fence gate around the pool had been propped open the night before by shaheens husband, and no one checked them. Next morning, when children were dropped o around 8 00. It was a very busy daycare. They had customers every day id see people coming and dropping their kids off. Nina sent three young ones to the backyard while she was in the kitchen with no direct line of sight on the kids. One, two and a half year old boy and two girls younger than two were found floating in the pool. Nina was able to revive the boy, but the two girls were pronounced dead. San jose Police Detectives say the pair willfully caused and permitted the children to be injured and harmed and that injury and harm resulted in death. I mean, its terrible. I mean, i like i said, my heart goes out to the parents. My heart goes out to my neighbors. Im sure that theyre very disturbed by what happened. And i know that nobody would want that to happen on their watch at all. A gofundme account has been established for payton cobb. One of two little girls who drowned in the pool in the back of the daycare. Nina and her mom have an arraignment date scheduled for december 6th at the hall of justice in south san jose. Jesse gary ktvu, fox two news. A slice of hollywood in marin county. Tonight we go live to the mill valley Film Festival next. Anna barry weather lots of clouds out there and even a few sprinkles. A few scattered showers with the showers. Stick around in your weekend forecast. Well have the update coming up. Also, its all about Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson tonight at a new event in San Francisco. And coming up tonight at 1045, a gardener on the peninsula is changing lives one scholarship at a time. His foundation that stted small but continues to grow thanks to some Generous Community members say. Im very, very blessed and very grateful to god for helping us , fo helping othe for the festival, which wraps up over the weekend. Ktvu. Zac sos joining us live tonight after attending tonights red carpet. Hey zach. Hey. And i can tell you part of what makes this festival so successful year after year, according to organizers, is that an amazing acce that you get to top filmmakers and smaller venues and based on what attendees had to say to me this year, it did not disappoint. It from the red carpet to the intimate to screens, sequoia devotees of mill valleys annual Film Festival once again lining up friday. We look forward to it. Every year, a festival that holds an extra special place in the hearts of these two. Its where reagan met patty. Our first date was going to the Film Festival ten years ago. Ten years ago . Yeah. And still finishing each othersentence. Liz and shes a good picker. This last one we just saw with julianne moore. Oh, my god. It was the best one so far. Its amazing. Weve seen amazing, amazing films. Yeah, i spent. Were they born or were they made made december among a long list of acclaimed films showcased over the events 11 days. I just know i can do it. And i couldnt do it without you. Also playing friday. Nyad which tells the story of renowned Long Distance swimmer diana nyad. I think that it was a great depiction. Bonnie stoll, nyads coach depicted by jodie foster in the film. But notably, absent this year from the festival. The actors now on strike in their place. The filmmakers. People love the directors becauseheyre so excited to be amongst the people that access part of what makes this festival so special. Its little small town marin and you get like big hollywood people here. Just the chance to see a movie that i hadnt heard of before. They have everything from documentaries to true life story, and most importantly, see on the big screen. I feel like i get much more involved in the story at aime when movie theaters continue to shudder nationwide for these film fans, there just is no substitute for a good festival. It just kind of got to be our kind of our thing of that, you know . Totally. Well pick this over any of the others. And if you still want to attend the festival, tickets are Still Available for select films. The festival runs through monday. Alex yeah, it looks like a lot of fun. A great chance for people to interact with the filmmakers as well. Zach thank you. All right. Speaking of films, theres a film that you might have heard about here Opening Weekend for taylor swifts concert film, the eras tour, and it is on track to break records as no surprise. Entertainment and film experts are expecting ts to be the biggest concert film in history. Its poised to beat out Michael Jacksons this is it, with a Current Record of 262 million, cinemark says domestic presales for the film are already ten times higher than any other movie event for the company. Amc, which has struggled since the pandemic, is also seeing a major boost in sales, and the movie is also helping smaller venues as well. The orinda Theater Owner and operator, derek zemrak says for the weekend alone, he has sold more than 200 Presale Tickets per concert will probably bring in probably 5 to 600 people. You know, to the ruined theater that normally wouldnt come to the theater nationwide, the eras tour movie is expected to bring in more than 100 million in Box Office Sales this weekend alone. New at ten, the Golden State WarriorsKlay Thompson is the inspiration behind a new event in San Francisco. Outdoor food truck event off the grid hosted its first ever klay con at fort mason. Tonight, the entire night was about celebrating klay and his antics off the court. There was a paper plane building station as well. Its something that the warriors guard likes to make during his post game press conferences. Weve been doing these themes and this week a 14 years in the making, ive wanted to host klay con. Hes quirky character. So San Francisco and were excited to be able to share it with everyone. There was a klay lookalike contest as well with the top prize being lower level tickets to a future dubs game at chase center. I think we saw a lot of captain clays out there. The captain clays are out there. I mean, i love this idea. Klay is. Hes a bay area treasure. We should be celebrating him every every single night. He always likes to go on his boat, on the water. Yeah, i know. You have to have good, good weather for that, right . Thats the best way to commute to work. Maybe dock up right there at fort mason for that. Thatd be nice. There you go. All right. Speaking of, you know, getting out on the water, i mean, were looking at a pretty nice weekend here, but were talking about the chance for some showers, maybe. Yeah, the chance. I noticed a few of my little weather walk tonight. I encountered a few raindrops out there. So, yeah, just a few sprinkles. A few light showers painted parts of the bay area sit. This is not a widespread rain event, but as you can see behind me, a lot of clouds rolling into the area and a little bit of some green showing up on the radar tonight as well. So here is the plan. Tomorrow, the possibility of some drizzle or maybe a few sprinkles to start out your weekend. A sun cloud mix into the afternoon hours and then on sunday should be partly sunny. Just a touch warmer. Heres a satellite and radar just over the past few hours and not all this green reaching the ground, but still reports of some drizzle or a few sprinkles in mill valley earlier today. Also out toward out toward oakland and a little bit of coverage right now, as you can see, showing up in portions of the north bay. Once again, not all of this reaching the ground, but we still have some green. So we still have the possibility of some