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Device, restitution payments and three years of probation. Paul pelosi was not in court and chose to appear through his defense counsel. Supervised drug injection sites may not be coming to cities like San Francisco and oakland after all, governor gavin newsom rejected to bill designed attempt down on fatal overdose deaths, but as ktvu is, james torres explains, one barrier city may still move forward with launching the idea in the city anyway. In his veto letter, governor gavin newsom says he rejected the idea of launching pilot programs for supervised injection sites because without strong local leadership, it could fail and cause more trouble than its worth. I respectfully disagree with some aspects of the veto letter suggesting that either local leadership or aspects of this were not well thought out. City attorney david chu says he supports an injection site in San Francisco. And encourages any local nonprofit interested in taking on the challenge to run one to do so. Its a model similarly done in new york under the Biden Administration, the United States department of justice has not asked the new york sites, which are nonprofit run to stop their operations. And, in fact, the Biden Administration at this very moment is considering guardrails for local jurisdictions. That are looking to operate Overdose Prevention programs that are consistent with federal law. Gary mccoy that we operate these sites. Its our prnering with organizations like glide and the to get a site running in San Francisco ideas. Like locations and funding all need to be worked out. Its a matter that hits close to home as a recovering drug addict. You know when you were in the middle of that time of your life, do you think you would have entered a safe injection site . If it was available . I absolutely would have entered a safe injection site. If it was available. The bill is now dead for this legislative session, but will likely be reintroduced next year. Governor newsom says hes open to hearing more conversation and expects the legislature to come back with a better version of the bill choose, says he expects lawmakers to keep introducing the idea until it becomes law over 1600 people have died on San Francisco streets since 2020 , which is more than the number of folks who died during the covid pandemic. Im james torres ktvu. Fox two news teachers in San Francisco plan to rally before tonights School Board Meeting to call on the district to hire more full time teachers. The rally started 5 30 in front of the District Office on franklin street. Teachers will then attend the School Board Meeting right after 6 30. We plan on telling the school board to invest money in recruiting and retaining quality teachers. The union says the District Needs to wisely spent about 50 million in ongoing city funding. And one time 70 million state fund. Its back to school today for students in Livermore Livermore valley joint unified school district, one of the last large district in the bay area to return to the classroom. The district has a total of 18 elementary, middle and High School Campuses in livermore students returning this year are not required to wear masks. District is following statewide covid protocols. This means masks are strongly recommended, but optional and major market selloff yesterday prompted new concerns about the state of the economy and whether inflation will remain persistent for the rest of the year. Blanchard reports from washington. Monday was a rocky start for the stock market the worst day since june as investors began what will be a big economic week. At the opening bell tuesday. The market little changed from the day before friday. Not only will the latest Economic Data show us where inflation stands, the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell will likely give an idea of whether more Interest Rate hikes are coming. Lot of headwinds and a lot of warning signs. But when we look at the inflation components they are coming down and just a week away. Student loan payments will restart after a more than two year pause during the pandemic. Advocates of loan forgiveness a restarting payments on top of record high inflation will cripple some families. Progressives are pushing to cancel all student debt rents with student loan debt, said that if payments restart, they wont be able to meet their families. Basic financial needs the white houses weighing for giving 10,000 and dollars for many borrowers. However critics say its not fair to those who work to pay off their loans or chose not to attend a four year college and say the problem is skyrocketing education costs. If you gave every kid in america, 1000 to go towards their next semester of college, the price of college goes up. 1000 senator rick scott introduced his college act, which would put universities on the hook for unaffordable tuition and failing to help students prepare for jobs that could pay off their loans. In washington. Lauren blanchard, ktvu fox two news. Well take a peek at whats happening here on the dow jones wits had a brief pop early on in the session but is now down by about one third of 1 losing over 100 points. Smb is right back at sea level after earlier gains, the nasdaq has ever so slightly on the plus side. San francisco Public Health officials expect another 1600 miles of monkey pox vaccine in the coming days. This means 8000 high risk people can be inoculated against the virus. The white house also announced it is making an additional 1. 8 million doses of the vaccine available across the country this week. Health experts say this could help more people get their second dose. Wood spe able to offe everyone from know on oh, as soon as they nd dose, um, at some point as more vaccines become available, according to the cdc , there are now more than 14,000 confirmed monkeypox cases in the u. S and more than 2600 of those cases are here in california. In the fight against the coronavirus. Speiser is asking the fda to authorize new covid booster shots at target macron variants, the Pharmaceutical Company and german partner biontech say the so called dose contains with the so called by by a violent dose contains the dominant variants of the virus, along with the original coronavirus strain. Now, back in june, the fda s Covid Vaccine makers to tailor shots to target the omicron b 8. 4 and be a 0. 5 sub variant. Pfizer hopes to have approval to roll out the new vaccine in the fall. Cal fire says this fire season so far has not been as bad as what we had. Last year, the agency released new numbers showing a big difference in the number of acres that have burned through august. 15th this year just shy of 200,000 acres have burned compared to 1. 5 million this time last year. There have, however, been about the same number of fires overall 6600 last year 5600 this year means firefighters have been able to keep fire smaller, on average. A large portion of the number of acres burned from last year. Come from the dixie fire. That fire alone ended up burning nearly a million acres. Lawyers for donald trump have asked a judge whom then President Trump previously named to the bench to appoint an independent arbiter to review documents seized during the mar a lago search. Jenkins has the latest developments. Former President Trump is taking his case against the Justice Department to court. Trumps attorneys asking a federal judge to pause the fbis review of the documents seized from his mario lago estate until a special masters appointed to conduct an independent review of those materials. We need an impartial that means not republican, not a democrat, impartial special master to go in there, take a look at what they seized. Give back to the former president what is rightfully his things that are clearly declassified in the filing, the former president , saying, in part, we are further demanding that the doj be forced to turn over a real without plants. Inventory of my property. We demand that all items wrongfully taken from my home. The immediately returned in response, the doj sing the august 8th search warrant was authorized upon the required finding of probable cause that probable cause still unknown federal judge rejecting the Justice Departments request to keep the entire affidavit sealed. A redacted version is expected. Be released later this week. Well we want to know is what happened and what was presented to the court. The doj, arguing that unsealing portions of the affidavit in this case could compromise their criminal investigation. At the white house. Griff jenkins, ktvu fox two news to come at noon, more companies are having workers returned to the office. But more and more people are hoping to work from home. The petition now created by some apple workers, as that Company Calls for return of at least three days a week to the office. Plus you cant walk very far like i can. You know . Y welcome about 30 yards at a time devastation in texas. The cleanup now underway following major flooding in dallas and the preparations for even more rain through the week. And our bay areas. Summertime pattern continues with temperatures and just as warm as yesterday. Ill have a look at what you can expect for the afternoon plus the cool down as we headed toward the weekend coming up. Dawn is flipping the way america does dishes. 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The faa and National Transportation safety board are investigating. The cleanup is just beginning for the dallas area. One day after floods swept through the city as lily and mew reports, residents are bracing for more rain throughout the week. I have never seen it flood like this people across the dallas area are sweeping out water and mud from their homes after torrential rains hit the city on monday. The National Weather service has more than nine inches fell in 24 hours. Thats normally about a summers worth of rain for the city. The floods catching many off guard pull up, try to help and i thought i was like a tiny flood. And i pulled up and it was like knee deep. And were just like pulling the water out of the house. Dallas county judge declared a disaster and requested state and federal assistance for those whose homes suffered significant damage. Some residents say it will be a long road for them to rebuild. Of course, i have written problems and even by sealing two bedrooms has fallen down, you know, and you know, its sad, its difficult. The flooding left at least one person dead. A 60 year old woman who was killed when the water swept her car off of a bridge. Dozens of other people were rescued. Dallas Authorities Say they received hundreds of calls for help as a flooding rushed into homes and onto highways. When you cant walk very far like i can, its really scary. You know, i only welcome but im 30 yards at a time. Further west. Heavy rain also hit arizona. Evacuation orders were put into place after storms caused a river to overflow, submerging the small town of duncan. Heavy rain will continue to threaten the south on tuesday, putting some nine Million People under flood watches. Lillian woo ktvu fox two news well, even though wildfires havent been so bad this year, and air quality advisories in effect for the bay area today as smoke from the six rivers fire travels up north in Trinity County and could impact the area. Some haze could be seen over mount diablo just before sundown last night. Beautiful site Officials Say they dont expect the air to be unhealthy to breathe. But you may see and smell some smoke blue skies for most of us right now, and along with those blue skies come increased temperatures rosemary and gasia andre into the nineties once again for the afternoon. Yesterday santa rosa broke a record at 100 degrees, one of the hottest spots that i could find. Across the bay area yesterday. Meanwhile outsider doors at this hour a live look from ktvu across the oakland estuary towards that city by the bay temperatures in the seventies for San Francisco for today, and if you look well beyond San Francisco. I know its hard to see way back there. But you can see the low cloud cover and the marine layer. Maybe over here towards the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see it a little bit better, but a very compressed marine layer and that has kept the coastline very comfortable as well as areas of San Francisco. Get away from that influence. And temperatures are warm around the bay and hot in limb. Checking on the air quality is still good, good to moderate expected for the afternoon. Today again, we do have that possibility of some smoked a drifting our way coming in from the north. Heres a look at the 24 hour temperature change for most of us feel a lot like yesterday. Fairfield youre up by five, but everybody else within a degree or two. So filling again. Very similar. 85 the in brentwood right now, the afternoon high expected to go another 10 degrees above that 81 in santa rosa, so filling a better hopefully not getting anywhere close to that 100 degree mark today 69 in San Francisco, 70 and hayward right now and 78 over san jose. Low clouds just along the coastline and perhaps just a little bit creeping inside the bay and thats really about it. We havent lost the onshore breeze completely, but it is really weak out there. Fairfield. Northwest breeze at this time coming in at three mph so napa reporting a southerly breeze at nine. Pull back just a little bit. Theres that north flow as you can see the arrows coming from that direction, and so thats why we have that possibility of some smoke coming into the bay area for today are afternoon highs and 94 for santa rosa, still well above the seasonal average. Meanwhile, San Francisco right on target at 70 for today, 76 in oakland, 94 in livermore, 84 over san jose. Better look at some of these numbers here along the host 68 per pacifica. For the east bay 80 degrees in fremont, and then we go inland, and its another scorcher for any 96 expected for you 96 expected in fairfield temperatures will begin to cool off and the weekend looks pretty good. 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