North bay. We will talk about the that coming up in your forecast. We introduce you to a world war ii hero from the bay area. His entire life is about service to the community and he is fun. The 107yearolds dedication dedication to help those in need. Time for a look at this mornings top stories. Millions who have decided to write out Hurricane Ian are hunkered down as the storm approaches. Hurricane ian knocked out the entire power grid in cuba. Two and half million residents are under mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders. Coming up, we we will have a live report from tampa with the latest. Deping stineasanthill whe polic been in a standoff since last night with a suspect at the Nordstrom Rack near sun valley l valley mall. These are live pictures of what is going on and and you can see police presence. You can see they are working on on a barricade. Shoppers were forced to evacuate the store last night and as police surrounded the place. We will have updates as we get more infn more information. Oaklands police chief says he will do whatever it takes to make the city safer after the nh the ninth homicide in just over a week marking 96 homicides so far this year. Now the chief wants to deploy more officers to to the biggest trouble spots in east and west oakland. We are going all hands on deck to address gun violence in the city of oakland. Seven days a week, increasing staffing. Bringing officers in on their off days in order to pressure we pressure we are providing safety. According to the Oakland Police officers association, present officers have already been working maximum overtime hs overtime hours. Police officers that are serving, diligently serving this this community, they are tired. They are tired. Every weekend, y are on deployment but pound for pound, they work harder than any any other Police Officers in america, in extremely difficult environments. The chief says he is fully ae of the stress this plan will put put on the department. Thank you so much for joinin. Joining us. Weve got to get to jessica to talk about our weather at home. That hurricane is massive. It it is 155 miles an hour, 157 miles an hour would make it a category five hurricane. Lets start off with a live look of that marine layer blanketing this Colorful City in the bay area. We are waking up with a marine layer, this morning. We will have sunny skies into the afternoon. It will roll back in in the evening hours. Right now, now, we are sitting at average for just a little bit. The cooler conditions are thanks to that onshore flow, winds pushing pushing in from the pacific giving us a coastal breeze. High High Pressure will start divingn from the south and that will warm us up. It will heat us up for the east inland hills and we we will see drier conditions. That will happen thursday and friday and then we get right back down to average over the w. The weekend. We will talk about that and the hurricane update, as well. It is getting busy out there on the roadways. First up, a Traffic Alert in brentwood between byron highway and cellars avenue. It is completely completely shut down due to an injury crash. Use brentwood, instead. That Traffic Alert in the city of brentwood at marsh creek road between byron highway and cellars road. Three lanes are blocked due to an injury cr. Injury crash. This is southbound southbound into walnut creek. Probably your best bet if you wt to avoid some of those bright l. Bright lights. At least get to the freeway south of where that trouble spot is. A show of solidarity in the south bay has hundreds rally in support of protesters in iran. It is part of a growing call for for change after the death of ad iranian woman arrested over her. Her headscarf. They chanted, carried signs and made their presence known. On winchester and Stevens Creek near santana roads tuesday evening, some protesters carries carried photos and others carried signs that said free ir. Free iran. I only lived there until i was seven years old and i have not been back to visit. I cannot cannot imagine what that life wd be like, here. And to have the freedom to come here and protest, today, and not feel like anyone is going to come and and kill me or shoot me. This is for the women around the world for them to be free, from any brutal government. Reporter the death toll killed in protest is growing in iran as unrest spreads. She was taken into custody two weeks ago ago accused of wearing her headscarf to loosely. She was tortured after her arrest and tortured at the Police Station for half an hour. Her cousin tells cbs news her cousin says the protesters want regime change in iran in order to live. Live freely. The bay area protesters are speaking out in y in solidarity. We want the public to know wt is going on in iran and the government of iran is fully res. Fully responsible. And we are asking for justice. We want the people who are behind this to b. Be arrested. Reporter in the south bay, betty yu, kpix 5. Meanwhile, the biden adminisn is imposing sanctions on irans Morality Police and taking stepo support Internet Freedom as the iranian government imposes online shutdowns. In San Francisco, fleet week gets underway on monday. Kpix 5 is proud to be this year sponsor sponsor as we celebrate our servicemembers. He introduces us to a world war ii hero who has been a lifelong hero to the Sonoma County community. [ music ] reporter celebrating this mn this man and his 107th birthday. He still has the groove and a lot of energy. He only gave up g three years ago. That was a terrible thing iny life, i gave up my porsche. I had a black porsche. Oh, my that puppy was a great, great, great automobile. Oh reporter mentally sharp, healthy and relatively mobile, e started using the walker this year. I asked about his secret to longevity. Will, first was martinis. They helped. But i have been just lucky. Reporter lucky, he says, because he survived world war ii. He flew 35 combat missions as a navigator in the b17 bombers and had a lot of close s close calls but his service did not end with the military. He served on local college and hospital boards for aids. Santa rosa leaders say the lifelong philanthropist helped raise mils of dollars for local charities. E had a lot of connections since he was a stop trigger and finally retired in his 90s. His entire life is about service to the community and he is fun. People like to have something something positive ssitito cel. To celebrate. Reporter he says, no birthday wish, just thankful. Thankful for time. The only question we can ask you is what do you want for your your 110th . I will be lucky if i celebrate tomorrow. When you get get to this stage, some nights you are not feeling well and yo, well, this is the end of it, the it, the end of the road. And then you wake up in the morning and you are feeling good. Well, maybe i will go a few more. Reporter friends and supporters say he can do it. I hope to see you again next. Next year. Reporter they will be back o dance to his next milestone. That is so nice. Reporter kpix 5. We will be bring you special fleet week coverage through next next week on air and online and we have also posted an Event Schedule on kpix. Com. Guys, take a look at this. This is the worlds first all ec all electric commuter playing. It took its First Successful flight and flew at an altitude of 3500 feet for eight minutes. The electric plane uses technology very similar to an electric car with 30 minutes of. Of charging. It can fly for one hour at 287 miles an hour. The Company Hopes to have customers in the cockpits by 2027. Wow yh yeah how do you feel about t . About that . I have a hybrid car, i support it. I think that is awe i think there will be a lot of k with it when it comes to propulsion and avionics. That will take a lot of work to get a a long flight. So theres a lot to come but i think it is impressive, already. I am sure it will be developing over the next couple of years before they roll it out. Electric vehicles turn into planes, also. We will see how that goes. Stopping the spread of monke. Of monkeypox. The push to get more people vaccinated in san fo San Francisco. Later in the morning mix, a moment that makes our brains light up california, mountains, oceans, natural wonders, diverse and creative people. But when the outofstate corporations behind prop 27 look at california, they see nothing but suckers. They wrote prop 27 to give themselves 90 of the profits from Online Sports betting in california. Other states get much more. Why is prop 27 such a suckers deal for california . Because the corporations didnt write it for us. They wrote it for themselves. My name is douglas. Im a writer director and im still working. In the kind of work that i do, you are surrounded by people who are all younger than you. I had to get help somewhere along the line to stay competitive. I discovered prevagen. I started taking it and after a period of time, my memory improved. It was a gamechanger for me. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. On our bay area b, the Health Health department is touting efforts to stop the spread of m. Of monkeypox. The department vaccinated more than 1400 people people at the folsom street fair fair on sunday. The city was given a total of 10,000 to distribute at large lgbtq even. Lgbtq events. More large events events are coming up including the castro street fair on sunday. It is now time for weather and traffic. Lets begin with jessica burch. She is walking over now because she has been busy tracking that hurricane. It is impacting a lot of floridians. Rainfall and the eye eye of the hurricane is about to about to make landfall, this morning. This is what i am focusing on. 150 mile an hour wind gust. It takes 157 miles ar an hour to get to a category fi. Category five. They are getting a lot of rainfall and storm surge. They are getting about 16 16 inches of rain in orlando. Here, our rainfall total for the year is usually about 25 inches. Inches. So this is a very strong strong storm. We are expecting High Pressure to build in from the south and that will change the weather. Daytime highs, right now, they are just sitting sitting around average and a little bit cooler along the coastline. That onshore flow, that Pacific Breeze that is pusg in is helping us stay nice and cool into the afternoon hours. We will see that on the coastline and the east inland hills. The sacramento valley, that will heat up more. We are g 70s and the forecast for thursday and friday. Notice how we go right back down to average average as we wrap it up this weekend and head into the week. For our friends in the inland east bay and the north bay, we are heating up just a little bi. Bit more. Nothing too crazy by any means. It is just going to feel warmer and drier. Into the weekend, things get right back n to average. We will keep you upd here in the weather center. If you are getting ready to get out, this morning, we have a a bit of a hotspot to let you know about. In the brentwood area, there is a Traffic Alert in effect and you can see that e coming up on the mapping system meeting that road is completely shut down. A two car crash. This this is marsh creek between byron highway and cellars avenu. Cellars avenue. That is completely shut down and this is is justin from chp, one person did die. That closure will be out there for quite some time as time as the investigation is underway. There is a lot of activity in and around the area. Area. Use brentwood boulevard as as an alternate. Hopefully, that that will save you some time, this morning. Or maybe wait some some time before the roadways c. Roadways clear. A little slow and go through walnut creek butt crash is clear. Still backed up all the way to 242. Youve got those bright lights coming off f the highway it is slow as you are heading into the altamont p. Altamont pass. A strange experience for pass on one American Airlines flight. Airlines flight. The spooky sights and sounds over the pa s. Pa system. [ music ] [ music ] you are listening to as it was by harry styles. Kevin ive fought wildfires for twenty years. Heres the reality we face every day. This is a crisis. Eed irem equipment, better Forest Management to prevent wildfires and reduce toxic smoke. And we need to reduce the tailpipe emissions that are driving changes to our climate. Thats why cal fire firefighters, the American Lung association, and the California DemocraticParty Support prop 30. Prevent fires. Cut emissions. And cleaner air. Yes on 30. It is time for the morning mx morning mix as something we always talk about is food. We are so hungry by the time this 6 22 time rolls around. If you do get yourself mesmerized by videos of mozzarea of mozzarella slowly stretching from a slice of pizza or maybe t maybe that sauce drizzled over your favorite food, it turns out it can all be explained in science. That specific part of our brain lights up when we see images of food. Some people responded more to process foods rather than unprocessed ones. This means, if you see a tiktok video of breaded chicken, delic, chicken, delicious, deepfried perfection or a mountain of fris of fries cooked in truffle oil, researchers hope to learn more t when the brain develops these rs these responses and if animals react in the very same way. Are we hungry now . I was just impulsively putting things into the cart and and i looked down and realized, i need to get at least the same amount of vegetables to counter effect the sugar. Were you hungry when you went went to the store . They say never go to the store when you are hungry because you will buy the whole. Whole store. I am craving pizza. Like, i want pizza right now. Harry styles continues to break records on the hot 100 chs with a single reaching its 15th. 15th week. It is just us [ music ] the single from his album, hs house, became the longest running track on the u. S. Singles chart by a british artist. He broke the record previously held by sir elton jo. Elton john. Uptown funk and candle in the wind each spent 14 14 weeks in the charts top spot. Top spots. No surprise. Harry styles is the guy, right now. Isnt he . And didnt he have a concert in new york . He did. As a matter fact, gae fact, gayle was on. That clip was special. I lik. He has been to the bay area. There is a lot. He is picking up steam aroun. Around here. It is not quite halloween but halloween but those spooky sights and sounds are already in in the air. Airlines flight were shocked whn they heard moans and groans over over the pa system and while some may have been a little freaked out, one passenger found found it to be funny. It sounds like someone is stg is struggling gastrointestinal e gastrointestinal he. He comes od says, there is no reason to be. This does not affect the flights which is great. The airlines said the Maintenance Team thoroughly insd the aircraft and it is determined the sounds were caused by a mechanical issue. That seems to be the thing. Something was going down. There is more to that story. I am already not a fan of pl. Of planes. It was funny. And it would freak me out, to out, too. Governor newsom making a pitp in the bay area, today. What right now on kpix 5 news at 6 30, taking a live look at fors fort myers in southwest florida. Florida. We are keeping a close eye on Hurricane Ian before it makes landfall sometime today. As of now, it is a category fou. Four hurricane. Time for a look at this morns other top stories. A developing story in Pleasant Hill where police have been in a standoff since last night with a suspect at a Nordstrom Rack store. You can see live pictures of the area. A a lot of police are still there, there, working on a barricade. Shoppers were forced to evacuate evacuate the area, last night. A marathon 14 hour session with the board of supervisors wrapped up at 5 00 this morning. Morning. The board heard from airport workers and management hoping to find a solution. About about 1000 food workers will be on the picket lines for the Third Straight day, pushing for better wages and healthcare. Travelers out of sfo will have limited food options until further notice. Governor newsom is taking one housing crisis, today. He will e will be in San Francisco set to sign a package of bills. The package will accelerate the construction of new housing and create new jobs. Speaking of, your wednesday morning forecast. It felt cool when i went out the door, this. This morning. It is going to be a breezy day. We are waking up to a beautiful sunrise. The tower camera overlooking that a bridge where we are expected to get up up into the 60s just in San Francisco. That is below averag. Below average. That onshore breeze will stay consistent as we get into the afternoon hours and that will keep us below ave. Below average. San jose, right e we should be. As we take a look at the local area, it is pretty much the same trend across the board. Even though we are expecting conditions to stay normal, we warmup as we wrap up up the week. High pressure builds in from the south. We are are getting to the upper 80s and and low 90s and even up into the the north bay. We will talk about that. We are starting out with a tc a Traffic Alert in the Brentwood Brentwood area. Chp reporting that one person did die in a two two car crash and now the roadway is completely shut down in both directions. This is marsh creek road between byron highway and cellars avenue. We will get a look at the bay bridge coming up. San francisco celebrated theg the groundbreaking of its firste Housing Project for teachers. The building is on 43rd avenue. It will provide 135 new homes for district employees, educators and their families earning between 35,000 and 150,000 will be eligible. Construction is expected to be finished by 2024 but