White nationalists are planning events in San Francisco and berkeley. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im dan ashley. The president returned to trump tower in new york city for the First Time Since taking office. Shame, shame, shame. He was greeted by more than a thousand protesters who chanted and waved signs. The demonstrators were in part inspired by this weekends violence in virginia. Meantime in charlottesville, the suspected driver in that deadly attack made his first court appearance. News reporter Elizabeth Hur is in charlottesville. Reporter today the suspects bond wadened. So he remains in jail. As for the investigation, President Trump say r says what happened here it was evil and those responsible will be held accountable. Facing mounting pressure. Racism is ebola. Reporter President Trump finally giving the violence in virginia a name. Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. Including the kkk, neonazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups. Reporter nearly 48 hours after the chaos in charlottesville and amid growing backlash from critic whos felt the president s initial response did not go far enough. Violence on many sides. On many sides. Reporter and now the president says the department of justice has also launched a civil rights investigation. This as we learn new details about the 20yearold suspect arraigned on murder charges. James alex fields jr. Seenere marching among the white supremacist groups according to police, later rammed his car into a group of counterprotesters killing heather heyer. Abc news learning the fbi is investigating to determine if this attack was a hate crime. Those who knew fields in the past not surprised by the allegations. He felt that you know, whites were superior. He pro claimed himself as a nazi and a white supremacist. Reporter the police chief admits he has regrew about this weekend because three lives were lost, heyer and state troopers burke bates and jay cullen killed in a freak helicopter crash. Heyers mother is determined to make sure her daughter did not die in vain. She stood for something. Im going to advocate that lets make that a Strong Movement as my chide was a strong child. Reporter and Community Members paying respects here at this memorial say they too are moving forward, stronger and more united than ever. Elizabeth hur, abc news, charlottesville, virginia. And late tonight, under armor ceo kevin plank announced he is stepping down from President Trumps Manufacturing Council say issing his Company Engages in innovation and sports not politics. Plank tweeted i love our country and company. I am stepping down to focus on inspiring and uniting through power of sport. Earlier today merck ceo Kenneth Frazier stepped down from the council saying he felt a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. Well, back here, white nationalists are planning two ral eyes in the bay area. The right wing Group Patriot Prayer has been granted a permit for a demonstration on saturday august 26th at crissy field. A separate right wing event is planned the next day at berkeleys Martin Luther king Civic Center Park where more than a dozen people were arrested during dueling protests last april. Counterprotesters are expected of course at both upcoming rallies. Protest in other words durham, North Carolina toppled a confederate statute outside the courthouse tonight. It the monument was put up in 1924 and indescribed with the words in memory of the boys who wore the gray. It began when severe protesters threw some sort of rope around it. Eventually pulling the statue of the soldier to the ground. After it fell, many of the protesters kicked and stomped it. Police monitored the situation but kept their distance. A berkeley restaurant thrust into the spotlight for an employee outed for having been in charlottesville. Now says that is employee was not fired. He resigned. Abc7 News ReporterMelanie Woodrow is on that story. Reporter popular top dog restaurant is responding to a flurry of social media activity letting people know former employee cole white wasnt fired, he resigns. We do not endorse hatred or illegal conduct. It is not part of our culture. This past weekend, restaurant was flooded with messages as someone identified white as having been at the rally in charlottesville. I dont know why someone who kind of supports that would be in this very liberal city and town. Reporter top dog says it spoke with white saturday. During that conversation, cole chose to voluntarily resign his employment with top dog and we accepted his resignation. Californias rnc National Committee woman. If you are holding flags and chanting heil hitler salutes in a public place, its karma that it turns out people can identify you from modern technology. Reporter sunday a concerning blog post prompted someone to call Berkeley Police reported what they believed was a credible theyre the to top dogs three locations. There was enough going on in the threat we felt it necessary on our part to assign officers to those locations. Reporter officers were not assigned to top dog today but they will provide surveillance why on their beats. Melanie woodrow, abc7 news. North korea says leader kim jongun was briefed on his militarys plans to launch missiles in the water near guam. The north Korean Peoples Army said last week it would finalize a plan to fire four Ballistic Missiles near guam by midaugust. It is now midmorning august 15th in north korea. Kim reportedly praised the military and said he would give the order for the missile test if the u. S. Continues its extremely dangerous actions on the korean peninsula. James mat distold reporters today that if they shoot at the United States, hell assume theyve hit the United States and if they do that, then in his words, its game on. Today the two suspects accuses of killing a photographer at San Francisco famed twin peaks plead could not guilty. Police say fantasy decuir pulled the trigger and la mon tai mims are just been rereleased from jail from jail. Five days later, photographer ed french was robbed, shot and killed. Its the timing that has this family especially furious. The judge is as responsible for my brothers death as the people that murdered him. Mims was released based on his low Risk Assessment score. The nonfrost in charge creating those scores is partly funded by the San FranciscoSheriffs Office and says theyre looking into any possible discrepancies. As many as five shots were 880 in san leandro. The driver was hit in the ahead and hospitalzed. Three other people in the car were not hurt. The gunman not found. The chp is considering the possibility of road rage, maybe a gang connection. 880 was shut down for six hours and reopened just before 9 00 a. M. We are learning new details about a like county man now in custody accuses of firing shots toward caltrans workers. A california Highway Patrol officer and state parks officer. Authorities say joshua green also threaten blow planes out of the sky. During the incident we had several aircraft above. One of the communications that we had was by way of a family member. And he said that if the aircraft didnt get out of the air, that he would blow them down. Green did not do that or hit any officers when he walked out of his home with a gun this morning near highway 29 and kole creek road. A neighbors recent construction project blocked browns access to highway 29. So he built his own makeshift road on public lands. Today caltrans put up barriers to restrict access to that road. The sheriff says no one was injured when they took him into custody. San francisco has joined forces with the state of california in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration. The federal government says the city and state must comply with a new set of conditions when it comes to immigration or rick losing millions in Law Enforcement grants. Heres abcs 7 News Reporter lee and melendez. Shield ourselves. Reporter a warning tonight from the californias attorney general on Trump Administrations latest attempt to target its sanctuary status. Were intent on stopping anyone who would try to deny us the dollars that we have earned, the dollars we have paid for to provide the resources to the men and women who wear the badge. Reporter the Trump Administration has set new conditions for Law Enforcement to follow in order to qualify for grants. First, allow federal immigration agents access to local jails to question suspects. And secondly, provide agents a 48hour notice of impending release of anyone wanted for questioning. San francisco joined the state in filing its own lawsuit. We are not going to devote our limited Law Enforcement resources to that task. Reporter republicans are behind the latest attempt to curb illegal immigration. I think it would do San Francisco and the state of california good if they would actually cooperate with the federal government in this regard. Reporter if San Francisco does not comply, it stands to lose 1. 5 million while the state would not have access to about 28 million in grants. Law enforcement agencies count on those grants to buy extra equipment or fund programs. That goes to Fund Everything from diversion programs to adult alternative courts to social work intervention trying to insure that at risk youth are Getting Services that they need. Reporter the lawsuits come as many agencies prepare to apply for these federal grants. The deadline is august 25th. In San Francisco, lee and melendez, abc7 news. All right. The clock is ticking for a bay area nurse and her husband who face deportation tomorrow. Coming up next, youll hear their direct message to President Trump and their hope for a lastminute miracle. Also, the miscalculation by b. A. R. T. That left it with thousands of extra clipper cards. And hundreds of thousands of dollars in the hole as a result. Lisa argen is here with a preview of the forecast. Stubborn fog kept our valleys as much as 15 degrees below average. When well get back to august averages next in my sevenday forecast. And students moved into the dorms at uc berkeley today which means theyve moved out of their what should i watch . Show me sports. Its so fluffy look at that fluffy unicorn hes so fluffy im gonna die your voice is awesome. The x1 voice remote. Xfinity. The future of awesome. The clock is really ticking mou for an oakland couple set to be deported despite more than two decades in the bay area as productive members of society. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris are both working behind the scenes to get a reprieve for nurse Maria Mendoza sanchez and her husband. But so far nor luck. News reporter Laura Anthony has the story. Hopefully that he can i can touch his heart. Reporter with just one day to go beforemyria men doe gaza must leave the country, the nurse appealed directly to President Trump. One parent to another. He sees his son, his 12yearold son, same age my son, he can think what will it be, you know, to rip him away from his family. No ban, no law. Sanctuary for all. Reporter maria and her family do not deserve to be torn apart. Reporter the couple held jobs, paid taxes and stayed out of legal trouble for two decades. They have four children, three of them u. S. Citizens. I. C. E. Issued the following statement, the courts consistently held that neither of these individuals has a legal basis to remain in the u. S. While i. C. E. Continues to prioritize its enforcement resources to focus on individuals who pose a threat to national security, Public Safety and border security, i. C. E. Will not accept classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. At least i was able to show the kids that when you work hard for something, that you believe in, as long as you continue doing the right thing, you know, hopefully something good will come out of it. Reporter their attorney has asked i. C. E. For a stay of deportation to give senator feinstein time to introduce a bill in Congress Next month that would allow the couple to stay in the United States. In oakland, Laura Anthony, abc7 news. Well keep toing that case. From tshirts to piles of confetti, there were lots of souvenirs from the warriors victory parade in june but b. A. R. T. Is Still Holding on to kind of an unusual keepsake. As News ReporterJonathan Bloom explains its one that cost taxpayers a lot of money. Reporter as the celebration in the streets of oakland made its way into the b. A. R. T. Stations below, the platforms were every bit as crowded as b. A. R. T. Expected. The warriors victory parade was the fifth busiest day in b. A. R. T. History, well over half a million riders took barkts a lot of those folks used clipper. Reporter when it comes to the onetouch reusable transit cards, there was one thing they didnt expect. We knew we wanted to have a lot of cards available. We werent sure how many we would sell. Reporter they bought 40,000 preloaded clipper cards and sold about 1,000. Its like better safe than sorry but they were way too staff snrk congressman mark dee season yea says hes not surprised and as b. A. R. T. Tries to move riders to the Payment Method of the future, they should look at the past. Theyve struggled over ten years to get bay area riders to adopt to the clipper ward. Reporter if theyre looking for ideas what to do with the cards, they need to ask their riders. Give them to some people that can use them like me. Disabled, i dont have a job. Strip the money out of the cards and then use the cards as part of their stock. Reporter b. A. R. T. Could sell back the virtual cash on the cards but not planning to. Its not like theyre going to expire. They have the value. Theyre locked in. Thats not going anywhere. We have time to sell these cards. Were confident we will. Reporter they sold another 1200 at the pride parade and plan to sell more before the 50 cent surcharge on paper tickets starts in january. The cards have 11 on them but cost 15 including a 1 Convenience Fee they paid to have them made in a hurry. Will you pay extra to not wait in the line. Yeah. Reporter Jonathan Bloom, abc7 news. You start another week. Lisa ar sen is in tonight with the forecast. Kind of cool in lots of spots today. Especially inland. Youre right. Normally we should see highs in the upper 80s around livermore. 72 at the airport. As we look, you can see the culprit is the fog. In fact, its been over in livermore for much of the day highway the north bay cleared. We had the stubborn fog along the san mateo coast. Never cleared there. Were looking at it back again surging in. We had. 008 at half moon bay. Tomorrow more mist and drizzle along the shoreline. We are looking at this pattern beginning to lift as soon as tomorrow. Its going to be gradual. Theres a look at the fog footprint. We had a couple hundredths around monterrey and salinas. This is gert that is becoming a category 1 off the coast of the eastern seaboard here. It copies to strengthen to about 85 miles an hour. Then the track takes it to the north and east. Boy, its been a soggy summer for much of the northeast. Because of this system, some high waves and more rain out there. A look outside, there is fog. The deck is tall. Were not looking at the dense fog right at the base. So it will be gray again tomorrow for much of the morning in San Francisco. But afternoon clearing. Partly cloudy. Oakland at 60. 59 in half moon bay. Delays still over two hours, two and a half hours at sfo. 36 in santa rosa. The winds have been quite breezy in concord. Over 20 mice away. Very windy the upper elevations. Warming tomorrow especially inland. The golden gate bridge, the deck overcast for sure. Cloudy overnight with morning drizzle. Below average temperatures again tomorrow. Were coming up a few degrees, inland gradual warming. August has been cool. Remember july was so hot. Drizzle along the coast. Yourer 50s. A lot of kids back at school. Your forecast showing we will have drizzle mainly along the san mateo coast. Less fog in the north bay. More sunshine for you on the peninsula. Should be a brighter day. Lets skip ahead to wednesday. The milder afternoon in the mid 80s here and then by thursday, back to where we should be near 90 inland. Look at friday. Very little change. So its looking pretty comfortable as more kids go back to school next week. In the south bay then, a few clouds around. Partly cloudy. 77 in san jose. Numbers in the mid70s here from redwood city to san mateo. San francisco stuck 64. Partly cloudy. In the north bay, upper 70s, sunshine for you in santa rosa. 69 in oakland. Its a little cool for august. No doubt. 80 in concord. Yesterday or today i should say, you