Who are dumping that water and retardant on all the fires burning across the state. Nice work. We know that the season is just getting underway here in california. And with that little brief talk of weather, the fiveday forecast right now. Steve paulson out on assignment. Getting warmer inland. Very cool by the coast though. 60s and 70s on the weekend. If you are headed out for the weekend to the beaches, keep that sweatshirt with you. And with that welcome to the 9, everyone. Alongside sal castaneda, gasia mikaelian. Hello. I am mike mibach. Thanks for joining us. Yeah. I think steve is going to preview what we can see if we go to the Oakland Hills when it comes to the Perseid Meteor Shower. Steve is going to talk more about that. Yeah, those of us who live near the bay may not be able to see it. You have to get out to the areas where there is no fog. We begin in the city by the bay. San franciscos acting police chief Toney Chaplin is meeting with some of the citys political and religious leaders. You are looking live right now from inside the Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. You can see the chief talking there. The meeting got underway 40 minutes ago. They are discussing reforms that have been put in place in response to the recent Controversial Police shootings in San Francisco. The acting chief says his department is making a lot of progress. This didnt just start yesterday. This has been a long 24month at least process that we have been going through. It started with the former chief greg suhr. I am trying to push this across the finish line. You guys have covered the news yourself. You have seen the successes we have enjoyed recently with some of our folks that are in altered mental states. Things that may have ended in shootings maybe two years ago, we have resolved successfully with minor injuries to the subjects. Acting police chief chaplin made it clear he hopes to be carrying out these reinforce reforms as the Permanent Police chief. Five Community Meetings have been scheduled so the San FranciscoPolice Commission can get public input. The first three meetings are set for monday, wednesday, and thursday of next week. The Commission Wants to hear what qualities people are looking for in a police chief. Then the commission will receive a summary of the information next month before any potential candidates are interviewed. Joining us this morning here on the 9 we welcome the president of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Thanks so much for joining us. You grew up in San Francisco. So ill start with this. We just heard acting chief chaplin say things have gotten better over the past 24 months or so. From your perspective, is it getting better, and how so . I think that it is getting better. I wouldnt say that its been over the past 24 months. I think over the past couple of months there have been four incidents in our city. One with a gun. Three folks with a knife where there was deescalation tactics that occurred. And so those particular individuals were taken into custody without any harm. And so thats the good news, is over the past couple of months, you know, i think its because of the public outcry. The demand to basically take the extra time in order to deescalate a situation thats really, i think, had an impact on whats happening with the Police Department in San Francisco. What do you think is important to finding a new chief . Someone who is going to come in with a different philosophy from what greg suhr had, for example . Well, from my perspective, i think greg suhr, native san franciscan, he definitely cared about the department and cared about making changes. He faced a lot of challenges in the process of doing so. I think we need to take it to the next level. Clearly, there are racial biases. Clearly, there are challenges with the current membership of the department. I think its important that we weed out individuals who come with that bias that basically impacts their decisions and so it escalates into a particularly bad situation on behalf of individuals that they are sworn to serve and protect. So i think the new chief is going to need to bring a different attitude, but it has to be naturally who that person is that helps impact change in the department. Its been nearly three months since greg suhr handed in his resignation. This morning we just told the viewers we heard Toney Chaplin would like to be the permanent chief of the department, and we also heard a couple faith leaders say he has the right spirit for the job. Would you support Toney Chaplin as being the chief of the department . I am just getting to know Toney Chaplin. I think he is a great person. I think that hes doing all the right things. Communicating with the community. Meeting with his captains. Meeting with his commanders. Telling them what his expectation are in terms of how they interact with the community. Thats definitely the kind of quality that i want to see in a chief. Someone who communicates and who is clear and is not using excuses, but doing the right things. It sounds like you would support him . So far, he is doing a good job. One of the criticisms is this takes a long time. The department is in limbo. They dont have the permanent guy or gal. The department cant move forward while this process is taking seemingly a long time. Actually, thats not true. The department is moving forward. There are implicit bias trainings. There are deescalation tactics trainings happening as we speak with not just the new officers to the department, but current officers. So this acting chief is not acting. He is chief as we speak in terms of moving the department forward. So regardless of what happens in the future, right now the department is moving forward in the right direction. Again its not happening fast enough, of course, because, you know, one death is one death too many. So what we have to do is make sure as elected officials, as folks who are legislators, make sure we put the policies on the table so they can follow them. More importantly, we have its root leadership. Looking ahead head to the five meetings where the public is invited to say what they want about what they want to see in a police chief, do you find its the same people showing up to the Community Meetings and there are people you want to hear from, but they just dont attend . I think that is going to thats always been a problem. Yes, the same people. Probably activists who care about this issue, who stay on top of issues. Thats one group of people. There are other groups of people. I will tell you that i have noticed, especially since last year, there have been a Different Group of folks who are not traditionally politically active that have been not only showing up to the commission meetings, showing up to the board of supervisors demanding change. People are sick and tired of being sickened a tired and they want to see change now. You talk about the board meetings. A lot of progressives. A lot of moderates. There have been meetings where you had to put up your hands and go, stop, lets be courteous to each other. If you were to grade the board right now, would you give them a a, a b, a c . I think the board could be doing a lot more. I say we get a b minus right now. Thats good. I will tell you why. We put ballot measures, malia cohen has led this effort. There was just a ballot measure in june that was passed overwhelmingly by voters that says, you know, every time a Police Officer pulls his gun, there needs to be an investigation. And that wasnt occurring before. You had to make a complaint to the office of citizens complaints. Currently, in november there will be a ballot measure for Police Accountability to take occ out of the Police Department and have its own independent budget as well as investigation powers. Things like the Text Messages and the other things that are occurring in the department, there is some oversight, there is some transparency, some accountability. So the board of supervisors is puttingle policies on the putting policies on the table. We have to make sure the Police Department is following those policies and following the will of the voters, which is why were taking many of those things to the ballot. Do you get along . Sometimes. [ laughter ] i said b minus. London breed, president of the San Francisco board of supervisors. At ktvu. Com we have a complete list of the Community Meetings with dates, times and location. Then on monday here on the 9 we will be joined by San FranciscoPolice Commissioner dr. Jill marshall ahead of that first big public meeting. Lets switch topics and state the fact everyone knows. The bay area is very expensive to live in. Certainly housing costs are a big part of that. A few people would take the step, one woman named kate downing, she kit her job at the palo alto planning and Transportation Commission saying she and her husband who is an engineer could not afford to live here anymore and she posted her Resignation Letter on line. She wrote, it is clear if professionals like me cannot raise a family here, then all of our teachers, first responders, and Service Workers are in dire straits. She called out city leaders on their lack of action saying this council has ignored the majority of the residents and charted a course for the next 15 years of this citys development which substantially continues the same housing imbalance this community has been suffering for some time now. She says she is sharing a home with another couple and her familys share of the rent is 6,200 a month. Her family is now moving to santa cruz. While some are moving away, i have heard a lot of people moving to sacramento and beyond, others are staying in the bay area and doing what they can to make it work. Our ktvu question is, what are you doing to make it in the bay area . So many responses coming on this. We will share a few. Lisa took to ktvus facebook page. She is from menlo park. She writes, we sold all of our belongings and moved into a motorhome and live in an rv park and even that is ridiculous expensive and we are still barely making it. Lindsey from san jose wrote, i work two jobs and i have worked two jobs as long as i can remember. Once minimum wage goes up, Everything Else will go up. That is probably when we will have to leave. I have grown up here. As nice as it would be to stay, in a few years, it will no longer be a feasible option. On twitter, i didnt. With a 30 year state job, homeless. Took six months to find a home. My 23yearold son in different city. A lot of difficulty out there. We appreciate your responses. We will have more at 9 30. Let us know what you think and use the hashtag ktvuthe9. Coming up next, more controversial comments from donald trump. His latest attack on president obama at a rally in florida. Dozens of alleged gang members arrested in the east bay. Henry lee joins us on the set of the 9 to explain more about the shootings that are reportedly connected and the plans to help keep criminals off the streets. An unprecedented natural outburst seems to have taken over the country. 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We saw the helicopter land here on east hills dale. This is near goal street. It landed in the memorial day of the street. It landed in the middle of the street. It is now en route to Stanford Lucille Packard hospital. The boy is one and a half years old. The battalion chief told us that it appears that this child fell from a threestory window. They are still investigating. Police are now handling that investigation. He didnt think it was a balcony. He thought it was a window. We are still trying to figure out what happened here. The parents, they need to interview them, but they are also with the child who is being air transported to the hospital. But all that they can tell us was that the child was unconscious. They found the child on the ground who had fallen from that threestory window. The parents, of course, were besides themselves and very worried. The child was unconscious but breathing, sort of coming to. We were told we dont know the extent of his injuries right now. Just that he is in very serious condition. We are assuming that police are going to stay here, probably interview some of the neighbors to investigate what happened here. Thats all for now. Back to you. Janine, i know its early, but did they tell you if the window had been opened or did the window have a screen on it before that child fell out . Reporter no. At this point, you know, thats going to be handled by police. The battalion chief didnt know. He wasnt the first on the scene. So he was still wavering back and forth whether it was a window or a balcony because right now these Apartment Units that we see have both. It looks like a sliding glass door and a balcony. Unknown which it was. All right. As you get any new information, get back to us. Thank you. A series of raids in Contra Costa County has led to the arrest of two dozen alleged gang members. Ktvu Crime Reporter henry lee says officers say the streets are safer with the 24 suspects now in jail. There was 19 locations hit simultaneously, and then we rolled back and hit two more. Reporter these men and women are now in jail, arrested during a raid authorities called operation omega red. The fbi and police say they have ties to the norteno street gang and are tied to attacks in Contra Costa County last year. These are bad guys. What theyre doing are bad things. Reporter during raids last week some 300 Police Officers raided two dozen homes. They seized 18 guns, methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana, two cars, and this boat which was kept in storage by gang members. They also seized 15,000. The defendants face charges that include conspiracy to commit murder and assault, drugs and weapons violations, witness intimidation, and human trafficking. The chp says some of the suspects are responsible for several shootings on highway 4. More arrests are possible. The message is you may get away with it for a short time, but we have active investigations that are ongoing. We have people that are cooperating with us. Youre not going to get away with it. Reporter with mass raids like this one, other gang members often fill the leadership void. Cops seize money, drugs and guns all the time only to have suspects return to the streets. We asked if these arrests would have any impact. We want to get the shooters off the streets so they stop shooting each other and retaliating. So we think if we get the right people, it makes a huge difference. Reporter and to get to the right people, the police say they worked together. Every city has their own set of issues, and we are all dealing with a lot of the same people. So by working collaboratively, getting these individuals in custody, we will reduce crime. Henry, now that these people for jail, are they going to stay there, or are they going to be back out on the streets within a matter of time causing, you know, danger . Yeah, thats a big question. These guys were arrested and they are prosecuted in state court. Now, unlike other cases, even though the fbi was involved, in other cases sometimes they are facing federal time and they are stuck in prisons far away from home. In this case, contra costa d. A. Is handling it. Its a matter of we dont know if they are going to come out and plead to a lesser charge or come out and do it over again. The cops are saying they are now in jail and freeway shootings have dropped a lot since may and june. Lets talk about the freeway shootings. We saw a number of them on highway 4 and also on 80 in the richmond pinole area. Is there any connection there . They have arrested the 24 suspects, but they say several are responsible for two or three of those 36 shootings. They are being careful. I want to note that there are other suspects were arrested before this big raid. If they do stay in jail, you got to consider this to be a pretty big dent into their operations . Yeah, the only question is i have covered massive raids like this for years. A lot of times the people who are arrested are replaced. Other gang members take the place. But the cops are saying we have got the shooters now and well keep on doing this as long as the violence continues. These are considered big fish, if you will . Oftentimes we ask police are these the big fish or the lower tier . They say these are the bigger fish . Yeah. Of the 24, two are alleged ringleaders of this gang. Do you get the sense that now that they have caught these people and they are on the police radar, maybe the people who step up and take their place will be