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To speak at saturdays rally, but the event was stopped soon after it began. Police say three officers were sprayed with pepper spray and several people participating in the rally were injured, including the organizer who was punched in the face and lost his front teeth. Abc 7 news iteam reporter dan noyes was there this weekend and has been speaking with both sides in whats turned into a national controversy. He joins us live. Dan . Reporter ama, the march on saturday was supposed to be an event at twitter headquarters. To protest the company banning some altright accounts but police had to shut it down just after it started. I interviewed Phillip Anderson at the daily city airbnb where he was staying just hours after a sucker punch knocked out his two front teeth at the rally he organized for this past saturday. What are we becoming that people are going to knock the teeth out of my mouth and punch me in the face and yell black lives matter at me. White people, okay . It doesnt make any sense to me, but thats what happened. Reporter anderson is a 25yearold immigrant from ethiopia, deported as a child by a texas family. Over the past year his farright activism and his suppor for President Trump brought him to the portland riots. Im not going to go home. I will not be intimidated. It must stop. Reporter and to the white house. He planned a march for this past saturday from u. N. Plaza to twitter headquarters. The entire event was literally just about big tech and their racism and oppression against me, banning me over 14 times, shadow banning my current account. Reporter but his flier for the event featured prominent leaders of the proud boys, a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center and mentioned in the first president ial debate. What do you want to call them . Give me a name. White supremacists. Who would you like me to condemn. Proud boys. Proud boys, stand back and stand by. Reporter andersons flier drew the attention of the bay areas antifa movement. Social media posts called for an aggressive response to the rally. Why did you come here . The whole point right here. We dont have the right to peacefully protest. Obviously. Okay . We dont have the right to free speech. You werent buying it that it was just about free speech. Yeah, he can say what he wants and i can come say what i want. Thats what free speech is. I want to say, youre not welcome here. Please leave. Reporter San Francisco public shcool teacher max tolds me he was not antifa or part of saturdays violence but was there for the counterprotest. What i saw was individuals from the fascist side instigating and coming in and inciting so they could be portrayed as victims. Reporter before the event in response to a wave of criticism online and Death Threats according to anderson, he announced on social media that the proud boys would not attend. Like, im not, like, no one here is a proud boy. No one at the event was a proud boy. Reporter but just two weeks ago, anderson described himself as a member of the proud boys on twitter. Explain to me how were racist when the proud boys have dozens and dozens of black members, including myself, by the way. Reporter the counterprotesters vastly outnumbered andersons small group. He was attacked before the rally even began. Theyre trying to kill me. You knocked my teeth out for no reason. Youre not even willing to listen to me. You call me a white supremacist when im black. Youre making no sense. Reporter the crowd pushed against the barricades and the Police Ordered the rally to stop after ten minutes. They escorted anderson and others and kept the crowd at bay until their van arrived. This is wrapping up. Walking down Market Street. Reporter i saw people in black spraying antiproud boys graffiti and chasing an asian man in a red shirt. He was able to make it around the block to the police. They attacked this trump supporter, dousing him with pepper spray. He suffered a leg injury. The sfpd three Police Officers had to be treated. Counterprotesters shut down Market Street and now Phillip Anderson is being criticized by the proud boys leadership. So i hear youre running your mouth, phillip, and thats cool. Reporter joe biggs blasted anderson for poor planning and pledged a full proud boys rally for San Francisco. You had no attendance. You had nobody show up. And the few that did were sorely outnumbered by the enemy. Reporter once again Phillip Anderson has been suspended from twitter, facebook and instagram for violating their standards on promoting his event in San Francisco. On sunday the sfpd made an arrest in this attack, charging 35yearold Adora Anderson of whatsonville with mayhem and a hate crime enhancement. A gofundme account to help anderson fix his teeth is now at 28,000. He says hell use the extra to plan another rally. For the iteam, dan noyes, abc 7 news. Ama . Dion . Dan, thank you so much. San Francisco Police release new details and video today of a deadly officerinvolved shooting. 21yearold cesar vargas was shot and killed the night of october 10th. Police say he tried to car jack a women. Surveillance video shows him jump on the hood of her car. She also tells police he held a knife to her face when she opened the door. Witnesses say vargas got in the car and it moved a short distance before he got out and ran down Market Street. Thats what youre seeing there. Now, body camera video from the two officers who arrived at the scene show vargas running. They yelled for him to stop and drop the knife. Mr. Vargas took steps backwards and sprinted towards one of the officers with the knife in his right hand. The two officers shot vargas and he was pronounced dead. Police released pictures of the knife they found at the scene. The two officers are on administrative leave as several investigations are under way. A group called defund sf pd now as officials held the virtual town hall. Organizers say they streamed the event to facilitate conversation among community members. Happening right now, a memorial is taking place for a fallen San Francisco firefighter. This afternoon we saw a procession of police and firefighters firefighters escorting the body of jason cortez to saint ignati ignatius church. This is a private event. The service is expected to wrap up at 9 00 p. M. Cortez joined the San Francisco Fire Department back in 2007. He died during training accident earlier this month. A celebration of life is planned for tomorrow morning at oracle park. That event is also private. Fire risk is increasing this week. A red flag warning will take effect tonight. Today the weather in San Francisco showed no hint of the danger ahead. Because of the upcoming fire danger, pg e says power shutoffs are likely. Starting on wednesday in parts of the east bay, north bay and south bay. As we take a live look outside now, abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian is tracking the conditions. And spencer, where are these highrisk areas . Well, ama, right now its mainly the north bay, but could be expanded to other parts of the bay area. Whats developing is another offshore wind event. Although they dont look impressive right now, they are starting to get gusty, and as those winds become stronger, of course, they will be downsloping, drying out, warming up and increasing the risk for fire. So we have a red flag warning in effect from 11 00 tonight until looking at 8 00 a. M. Wednesday. And wind will be generally out of the northnortheast and gusts up to 40 Miles Per Hour or higher. Parts of marin county, sonoma county, napa county and lake county. Now, we also will probably have an upgraded warning for this area. Right now we have a fire weather warning watch going into thursday for virtually all the Higher Elevation of the bay area. Parts of this watch as i mentioned may be upgraded to a red flag warning. Dion . All right. Spencer, thank you. Lets turn now to our efforts to build a better bay area. We are looking out for your health during the coronavirus pandemic. Weve been tracking new cases in the bay area since march 1st. This graph shows what we where we are and that we are down considerably from the peak set in midaugust. But our downward progress, that appears to have plateaued. However, we are bucking a National Trend with the surge of coronavirus cases reported across most of the u. S. Mainly in the midwest. We are bracing for what could be the beginning of a third wave. Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra joins us now live to break down the very latest totals. Stephanie . Reporter well, dion, if we look back nearly a month ago, 25,000 covid cases were reported nationwide each day. And now that daily average has doubled to 50,000 cases. And even though california isnt seeing as much of a spike, the governor was quick to point out today we could be there soon. A third wave of covid19 is moving quickly and broadly across the u. S. But if you look closely at california, the r effective number or rate of spread shows in the last ten days covid cases have declined slightly from 0. 99 to 0. 96. In other words, spread is considered stable. Its not surprising to ucsf lead epidemiologist dr. George rutherford. Were doing the right things. Weve decreased the effective reproductive number. Were limiting transmission. And its all going in the right direction. Reporter especially here in the bay area. State data indicates the rate of transmission in San Francisco, contracosta, san mateo, solano and napa counties is declining. While spread is stable in marin and santa clara counties. Sonoma county is the only one reporting a slight increase. But as rutherford pointed out weve been here before, right . We were doing great at the end of may and it got away from us. We dont want that to happen again. Reporter californias Positivity Rate has declined slightly over the past two weeks, but the governor made it clear today the 14day averages for both hospitalizations and icu admissions dont always give te full picture. If i put up a sevenday slide, that slide would show a positive increase, not a decrease. The same would be true of the icu admissions. If i put a sevenday slide, it would show an increase of 5. 4 . Reporter this means the incoming wave may just be beginning across the state. Not a good sign with three major holidays right around the corner. This is not a time for complacency. Holidays are very tempting. You want to, you know, go visit your friends. You want to go visit family. Its a time to hunker down. Hunker down and wait until a safe vaccine is approved. When that happens the essential workforce, health care workers, First Responders and highrisk populations will receive priority. The number of vaccines will be very, very limited. Reporter and not only limited but once vaccines have been approved, each company will have different storage requirements and distribution plans. So the process will take some time. But the state has launched a Vaccine Steering Committee that will be working through the logistics. Live in the newsroom, stephanie sierra, abc 7 news. Now, stephanie, from what we understand, both moderna and pfizer have these stretch goals as you can call them to have a vaccine ready by november, possibly december. Do we have an idea of how many doses could be ready by the end of the year . Well, the governor did say today bestcase scenario both companies will have a combined total of 45 million doses for the entire country by the end of this year. And that may sound substantial, but emp sighed today once you break it down the supply will be very limited during those beginning phases. All right. Stephanie, thank you so much. The message is pretty universal when it comes to coronavirus. Wear a mask. Next, meet the man handing them out for free. But i cant say i expected this. Because it was easy. To fight these fires, we need funding plain and simple. For this crisis, and for the next one. Prop 15 closes tax loopholes so rich corporations pay their fair share of taxes. So firefighters like me, have what we need to do the job, and to do it right. The big corporations want to keep their tax loopholes. Its what they do. Well, i do what i do. If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. The fallout continues after the desecration of 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman finds now the incident is becoming politicized. Just two weeks before the election and theres no escaping politics. Even in the parking lot at marin civc center. Well, i think law and order has to be has to be appreciated. No justice, no peace. Reporter so this march into the building heading for the District Attorneys Office and all in reaction to this, one week ago, the pulling down of a statue of father Junipero Serra in san rafael on Indigenous Peoples day. They want the five people arrested to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It was vandalism. It was illegal. Wanted to open up a dialogue, a dialogue with the church basically, and it kind of just got out of hand. Reporter lucina was there but not charged. Shes native american ancestry. Since the incident ive been threatened. My life has been threatened. My family has been threatened, do you understand that . Reporter back outside the d. A. s office, marchers waited to an audience. They want law and order and consistency. If a mosque was attacked, these people would be prosecuted to a hate crime, but because its a catholic church, they dont even want to prosecute. Reporter but today the archdiocese of San Francisco says it does want to prosecute. In fact, it held an exorcism right here to rid the spot of its evil. Is she willing to speak to us . Reporter as for the protesters, they never did see the district attorney. A spokesman delivered a statement saying theyre waiting for all of the evidence. Did you expect anything more . No. Reporter with the saint stuck in the middle. In san rafael, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. Also in the north bay, a marin county nonprofit is working to make sure everyone has a face mask, especially those who might be struggling to make ends meet. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard shows us this effort to help build a better bay area. We are giving them away to the community. Wonderful. Reporter Douglas Mundos spent monday afternoon reaching out to his district giving away free face masks. Mundo was executive director of the Multicultural Center of marin, a nonprofit serving thousands of families. Thousands of masks donated to his organization and other groups serving the community. He says its a big help. Sometimes, you know, buying a mask, it costs money from 5, 10, 15, 20 or more. Reporter these masks, 50,000 of them, are a gift from the Marin Community foundation. The nonprofit says it wants to protect essential workers in this community. Many of them doing essential work but they have a hard time financially. So our determination was to make these masks available. Reporter another effort, marin together a Publicprivate Partnership between the county, san raef, keizer and equip has set up these bins with mask and covid information inside envelopes. Theyre free for the community to come pick up whenever needed. Reporter the county says the canal district once had a 30 Positivity Rate for covid19, but over the past few months that number has decreased to 6 . We have seen the numbers reduces in marin county and also in the canal neighborhood and we hope that this will continue to improve that as well. Reporter Douglas Mundo plans to distribute more masks this week. In san rafael, Cornell Bernard, abc 7 news. Were about to see not one but two waves of fire danger headed our way. If your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. Looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Ha these drops probably wont touch me. Xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. What is that . Xiidra, noooo it can provide lasting relief. Xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. One drop in each eye, twice a day. Dont use if youre allergic to xiidra. Common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when applied to the eye, and unusual taste sensation. Dont touch container tip to your eye or any surface. After using xiidra, wait 15 minutes before reinserting contacts. Got any room in your eye . Talk to an eye doctor about twicedaily xiidra. I prefer you didnt xiidra. Not today, dry eye. Im jerome gage. Im a fulltime lyft driver. When this pandemic first started, i bought my own ppe because uber and lyft didnt provide it. These companies have been exploiting drivers like me for years. Now prop 22 denies us basic rights like Unemployment Benefits and sick time. Uber and lyft are billiondollar companies, and they still wont let drivers get access to Unemployment Benefits. Thats just wrong. Tell uber and lyft to stop exploiting their drivers. Vote no on prop 22. A 7. 5 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami scare in alaska today. You can see some of the shaking in the video posted on facebook. The quake was off the alaskan peninsula. Nearly 600 miles southwest of anchorage. There was a tsunami warning for parts of alaska which has been downgraded to an advisory. There are no reports of any damage. All right. Now taking a live look at the golden gate bridge. Oh, at least whats left of it. That is not covered by fog. Ama, i square it was quite a spectacular sight just a few moments ago. Thats still spectacular. As spencer said, just the tippytippy top. Those are weather terms, tippytippy top. Official weather term. Youre right. Well, now if you ask me about the weather i can say i do have the foggiest notion. Lets take a look at whats going on outside. Apart from the coast, mainly clear skies from the bay and inland. The wind is not terribly strong. Pretty calm at the surface. Certainly a bit stronger in the Higher Elevations which has prompted high fire concerns. In fact, a red flag warning for high fire danger for some of the Higher Elevations of the north bay will go effect 11 00 tonight and remain in effect until 8 00 a. M. Wednesday. Marin, sonoma and napa counties. We already have dry fuels so the danger of fire increases. Heres a nice view from sutro. 68 in oakland. Low to mid70s in Mountain View and san jose. 55 at half moon bay. Here is a view of the setting sun from emeryville. And we have other readings right now with a low to low 70s basically at santa rosa, novato and napa. At the golden gate, a different perspective on the fog at the golden gate. These are our forecast futures of fog near the coast and bay overnight. Surprise, surprise. High fire danger for most of this week, actually. At least high fire concerns. And a cooler pattern develops thursday into sunday. Overnight well see that fog we just showed you expanding a little bit and pushing out locally across the bay, but not very far. Were not looking at a lot of inland fog and then during the daytime tomorrow, partly sunny, partly cloudy, some low clouds will linger at the coast but while see sunshine as well. Low to mid50s tonight, so a cooler night than weve had in recent days. And tomorrow look for a mild to warm day, upper 60s on the coast. Upper 70s to 80, right around the bay shoreline. Upper 90s in the inland areas. Here is our accuweather sevenday forecast. Tomorrow and wednesday will be fairly mild days. Both days under red flag warning. Late wednesday night into friday morning, well have hot weather advisory. That may be upgraded depending on how conditions change between now and thursday. But for now, no warnings for thursday and friday. Cooler pattern develops on thursday, although still could be some bursts of gusty wind over the Higher Elevations going into the end of the week. And over the weekend, things cool down even more. It starts to feel more like fall. Our temperatures in the mid70s inland. Upper 60s around the bay and low 60s on the coast. Ma and dion . All right. Thanks, spencer. Well, the state has given the south bay millions of dollars to come up with a way to house the homeless. But the money comes with a deadline and with enough trepidation that could stop the project before it starts. A plan to save you money on home garage door opening it is his passionlove. It is his fault he didnt lock the garage. Dont even think about it been there, done that. With liftmaster® powered by myq®, know whats happening in your garage from anywhere. Im voting yes on prop 19. Nineteen limits taxes on seniors. It limits property tax on people like me. Nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. It says so right here. If 19 passes, seniors can move closer to family or medical care. I looked at moving but i cant afford the taxes. Will you help californias most vulnerable . Vote yes on prop 19. You can take a day off fromy worrying about your packages. Ohhh yeahhh just connect your myq® app to key. Ohhh yeahhh get free ingarage delivery with myq® and key by amazon. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Bigger, fiercer wildfires ravaging california are having an impact, lasting well beyond the flames. Today for the first time the state department of insurance held a hearing on how those wildfires are affecting Homeowners Insurance. One Consumer Group says it has led to an insurance crisis. California insurance commissioner Ricardo Laura heard from consumer advocates, wildfire experts and Insurance Company officials. The hearing focused on Homeowners Insurance availability and affordability. Laura says the state is seeing shrinking Insurance Options for some of californias most vulnerable residents. And he heard about other insurance issues following our very latest wildfires. We heard evacuees were cut off after just two weeks from their Insurance Benefits that cover living expenses, even when their homes were still inaccessible or had no water or power. Laura says he wants wildfire victims to get a 60day grace period for Premium Payments and an immediate advanced payment of at least four months of living expenses. State regulators say one way to keep fire rates down is a communitywide approach. 7 on your sides Michael Finney looks at how one local city is doing just that. Michael . Ama, dion, i know youre both homeowners, so this strikes really close to home, as it does for most of us here in the bay area. Now, you could be doing everything right at your home to keep wildfires at bay, but if your neighbors arent, you still pay more for insurance. Well, in mill valley, theyre hoping to come up with a plan to change that. Battalion chief michael st. John goes on a home hazard inspection with longtime resident maggie lam. Shes in the middle of a highgrowth area where the risk of fire is higher. St. John wants to minimize that risk. All we can do is improve conditions. Were not going to be able to eliminate the fire threat to the community or this house. Reporter maggie says shes spoken to neighbors whose insurance has been cancelled due to the high fire risk. She doesnt want to be next. Im very concerned about losing insurance. And thats why i it was very helpful to have chief st. John come and give us guidelines about what we can do. Reporter simple guidelines like sweep agway leaves from the home. In a fire leaves and vegetation can fuel embers to spread the fire quickly. Keep trees from hanging over your home. Close up vents with proper meshing to avoid having fire enter the inside of your house. Replace vegetation with potted plants. Placing gravel near your wood deck is another easy preventive measure. Its right up underneath the deck. So making sure all of that stuff is clear is really important. Reporter many homeowners dont realize theyve been assigned a fire risk score. Tese scores are given by private companies and there are no state standards. The department of insurance would like to see more transparency in these scores. Deputy commissioner michael solar says the department wants Insurance Companies to give homeowners an opportunity to lower their scores by minimizing their risk. Its the idea that you there are things that you can do to your property that can bring down the risk of a fire catching your home on fire. It can bring down the damage that it can cost. Reporter joel, who just retired from the department of insurance, couldnt agree more. I mean, its more its about making sure your home is as protected as it can be. Reporter the battalion chief says homeowners who make the proper correction will get letters certifying theyre in compliance. He says that can lead to a reduction in their insurance rates or even reinstatement if they have been cancelled. Hoping thats incentive enough to people to do whats right. Over time were hopeful that people that will influence peoples behavior. The city of mill valley just recently agreed to hire more of these inspectors to hopefully help more people save money. The department of insurance think this is all a very good idea. Dion . All right. Very useful, timely information. Michael, thanks. In santa clara county, a promising plan to quickly house a large number of homeless people. Appears to be in trouble as city leaders in milpitas push back against the proposal. Reporter tonight a possible setback in the fight against homelessness in santa clara county. The overarching theme is theres not a process for residents to make their voices heard. Reporter last month the county was awarded 29. 2 million as part of the States Project home keep program which aims to purchase and rehabilitate hotels, motels and vacant apartment buildings into permanent housing for the homeless. County leaders want to convert this into 132 units of Supportive Housing with move in as early as next spring, but the mayor says residents are concerned about the speed of the project and are also worried about the length of the lease. The residents ive spoken to do not want to commit to a 55year relationship only after a 90day dance. Reporter under assembly will 83 signed into law this summer, projects like these can project local zoning and planning roles. Milpitas resident sharaj says he isnt against building housing for the homeless, but questions the proximity to nearby parks, schools and neighborhoods as well as the milpitas down center across the street. He wants the county to press pause on the project and concerned those currently unhoused in milpitas wouldnt necessarily get first dibs on the units. Unless we address all of those concerns, i dont want something to come into our city where we start blaming the county and the county blames us and its just going haywire. I dont want that to happen to the city of milpitas. Reporter but time is running out. If the county doesnt move forward with the plan by midnovember, it runs the risk of losing the allocated money from the state. Betray bramson from destination home which is a partner on the project says it would be a shame to see the proposal fall apart. The apartments would be a Community Asset and a resource. And we just know we need to do everything we can to get people inside as quickly as possible. Reporter the county, which currently has around 10,000 homeless residents, is expected to make its final decision some time this week. In milpitas, abc 7 news. For decades California Property tax law us have remained the same, but proposition 15 could change that. Wel i do motivational speakingld. In addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. Ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. People say to me periodically, man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. We are 15 days away from the election and speaking of 15, do you know how youre voting on proposition 15 . It would would raise taxes on commercial properties. Supporters say it would help fund schools and social services. Opponents say its the largest tax increase in state history. Abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz gives yo you a closer look. Back in 1978, proposition 13 was the taxpayers revolt against paying high property taxes and doing anything to change it was considered touching the third rail of politics. Prop 15 would change it. Proposition 15 increases property taxes on most commercial real estate worth mon than 3 million. It does not touch private property tax. Private property taxes and smaller businesses would continue to be assessed on their purchase price. Prop 15 would assess taxes on commercial and industrial propertial market value, and thats called a split roll. Ever since prop 13 was approved. California has looked for some way to increase property tax revenues without initiating another taxpayer uprising. The states fiscal analyst estimates the initiative would generate between 8 and 12 billion every year. The money would go to schools and local governments. Opponents say the tax increase will raise our cost of living by being passed on to everything we buy and any businesses who rent property will have the tax increase passed on to them. Prop 15 is a state constitutional amendment that would be phased in over three years, if approved. Now one initiative not getting as much attention as the others is prop 24. It would allow consumers to prevent businesses from sharing their personal information. And limit the use of sensitive personal information like your exact location, race, ethnicity and health information. Former democratic president ial candidate andrew yang is the chair of the yes on 24 advisory board. He spoke with our own kristen zee today about the measure. Im incredibly excited about prop 24. Americans sense that Tech Companies are playing fast and loose with our data, making billions of dollars and we need to change it. We need to get control of our own data. Opponents of prop 24 claim it will actually reduce consumers privacy rights and makes it harder to stop tech giants from selling their information. A red flag warning starts tonight in the north bay. Next, spencer has a look at the high f abc 7 news was in oakland today where we saw a straed stream of people driving up to drop off their ballots. Poll workers are getting creative with coronavirus safety measures. You can even see there a man using tongs to take peoples ballots and place them into the ballot box. Now, all registered voters in california are receiving a mailin ballot for this election because of the pandemic. All vote by mail ballots in california come with prepapered postage. You can return your ballot at any time, up to and including election day, november 3rd. The envelope must be sealed, signed and dated. It can be turned into your countys election office, a ballot drop box, vote center or any polling place. A ballot with a post mark no later than november 3rd can be received as late as november 20th and it will still count. You can track your ballot as well online through the secretary of states website. And youll find a link to that at our website, abc7news. Com election. The commission on president ial debates has announced a rule change to avoid the frequent interruptions seen in the last debate. The question is a lot of new Supreme Court justices the question is the radical left. Oh, you know that well. Well, for thursdays debate, President Trump and former Vice President joe biden will have their microphones cut off while the other delivers their opening answer to each of the debate topics. The open discussion portion will not feature a mute button. Live debate coverage begins at 6 00 p. M. On thursday. You can watch it all on abc 7. Well, some of the bay areas biggest Tech Companies, twitter, criticized after the 2016 election for not doing enough to stop disinformation. Now some say their changes have gone too far. Abc 7 News Reporter spoke to experts about what big tech is actually allowed to do. Reporter just weeks before election day social media giants are facing criticism from conservative voices. Some users claim new rules are censoring their free speech, but twitter and facebook say thats not the case and they claim section 230 of thecommunication decency act protects them. Who can be held liable is whoever produces that content, right . So what section 230 really did at its core it really opened up the internet and allowed free speech to flourish. Reporter but conservatives claim freedom of speech is being violated. They point to last york post article about alleged communication between joe bidens son hunter biden and a Ukrainian Energy company adviser. The article was blocked from distribution by both twitter and facebook. As i understand it, their rationale was not necessarily related to the content of that post, but that the way that the information had been gained through hacking. Reporter after backlash, twitter said it would update its policy. Facebooks communication lead responded, well, i will intentionally not link to the new york post, i want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by facebooks thirdparty Fact Checking partners. In the meantime we are reducing the distribution on our platform. Are these social media platforms also opening themselves up to legislation by choosing what type of content is distributed . Absolutely. Again, theyre effective monopolies using a public resource. And once they decide that theyre going to push their own views to the exclusion of other views, i think it calls out for government regulation. Reporter constitutional law professor Matthew Coles says section 230 works as a shield to protect these private companies. Section 230 was designed to allow them not to be liable if they made decisions about blocking people, and thats precisely what theyre doing. Reporter now tomorrow the Senate Judiciary committee is expected to vote on whether to subpoena facebook and twitters ceo to testify about alleged anticonservative bias. In San Francisco, luz pen yay, abc 7 news. All right. Lets take another live look outside. Some lights out there. Gotten really dark, though, in the past couple of minutes. You see the fog moving in on the golden gate bridge. We looked at this a half an hour ago and barely any bridge left there. So cool to look at. I can stare at it for a while, dion. Ill just be here mesmerized. It is pretty spectacular. Literally cooling down in the bay area, especially from the heat we had the last few days. Speaking of heat, we still have another high fire warning, red flag warning for high fire danger from 11 00 p. M. Tonight to 8 00 a. M. Wednesday. For the Higher Elevations of marin, sonoma and napa county and lake county until wednesday morning. And there is a fire fire danger fire weather watch in effect. Easy for me to say. Fire weather watch for the remainder of the bay area and that will be going into effect Late Wednesday into friday. So were not out of the fire danger yet. Overnight, well see mainly clear skies. A little fog at the coast. Low to mid50s. Sunny to mild or warm day. Low 80s around the bay. Low 90s inland. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. The red flag warning, again, through wednesday, but dont forget, fire weather watch may go into effect on thursday. The good news is well be cooling down at the end of the week and that cooling will continue into the weekend. Ama and dion . All right. That sounds good. Thank you, spencer. All right. Lets kick it over to Chris Alvarez in for sports today. Coming up in sports, a victory monday for the 49ers. The latest news and notes from coach shanahan today. Plus, george if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. Looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Ha these drops probably wont touch me. Xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. What is that . Xiidra, noooo it can provide lasting relief. Xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. One drop in each eye, twice a day. Dont use if youre allergic to xiidra. Common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when applied to the eye, and unusual taste sensation. Dont touch container tip to your eye or any surface. After using xiidra, wait 15 minutes before reinserting contacts. Got any room in your eye . Talk to an eye doctor about twicedaily xiidra. I prefer you didnt xiidra. Not today, dry eye. When was the last time your property tax bill went down . What . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. The pain is always around the corner. O now abc 7 sports with Chris Alvarez. In the nfl, nothing quite like a victory monday. The niners pick up their biggest win of the season. If you havent heard this clip from George Kittle at Jimmy Garoppolo steps to the podium. Listen up. Woo were live, bro. Woo well, the peoples tight end George Kittle a little fired up after last nights win and rightfully so. San francisco snapped the twogame slide. They won their first game at home and got back to the style that made them the nfc champs last year. I asked coach shanahan if he saw that clip of george letting out a big woo. I didnt see it, but i can i feel like i did just by hearing you imitate him because i know exactly that sound. George is awesome to have around. I mean, everyone knows hes one of our best players. Hes also him and bourn are probably our team mascots, just the way they act and their personality each day. But, i mean, george was fired up. Hes got to chill out a little bit. Hes way too aggressive when he celebrates with me. I cant handle too many more hits. Him mcglinchey and laken are the worst. But, no, hes like that with everybody. He never changes. You think even on a bad day hell be worse. He always finds a way to be upbeat and positive. Hes a true wwe walking nfl football player. Tough news here. Running back Raheem Mostert suffered a high ankle sprain in last nights win over l. A. On this play here. Probably got him twisted up. Shanahan says theyll see how the injury progress goes, but likely head to the i. R. Which means hell miss three weeks on i. R. A long shot that Tevin Coleman will be back this week. They are banged up in the running back room. Andy reid and the defending super bowl champion chiefs trying to avoid a second Straight Loss playing in rainy buffalo. Chiefs down 30. Patrick mahomes finds tight end travis kelce for pay did. 11yard score. He rolls on in. 73, chiefs take the lead, second quarter. Chiefs down 107. Mahomes looking and finds kelce again. Mahomes throws for 225 and two scores both to kelce. Chiefs wins 2617. For the third time in the last four seasons the dodgers are back in the world series. Of course giants fans quick to point out l. A. Hasnt won a title since 1988. This will be a world series unlike any other. Playing tampa bay in the baseball bubble in arlington, texas. There are fans limited. So thats kind of cool. Clayton kershaw going to start game one for l. A. For all hes accomplished on the field, hes still missing one thing, a world title. I was throwing, you know, sim games, may, june, in dallas, thinking about, man, are we going to play a season . Is this going to be a wasted year in everybodys career and things like that. Is this going to be a wasted year for the dodgers and the team that we have . So, yeah, i think to be here now and be four wins away from getting to win a world series i think is a really, you know, its a testament to a lot of people to make the season happen. Its a testament to the players, you know, even for Major League Baseball that we were able to get to this point. And im super thankful for that, you know . Im i really am. Getting another chance and opportunity at this for sure. World series begins tomorrow. Hey, did you see this . Match three now has a date. Stephen curry partnering with Peyton Manning taking on Phil Mickelson and Charles Barkley for the charity golf match set for the day after thanksgiving, friday, november 27th. Theyll play at Stone Canyon Golf Club in arizona. The proceeds are going to go to historically black colleges and universities. You saw this earlier in the year, Peyton Manning, tom brady, they were all part of it. They raised a lot of money for covid relief. Theyre going to do that. Steph curry part of it. Im all tired out with my woos. I dont think i have anything left. Woo we got to make a video and send it to george. We have it in us. Just bring out the energy. I think dion and i might have to practice. I dont know if thats going to happen. I hope im not breaking the microphone. I know im yelling. Nunn w no one was ready for that. Be sure to join us for abc 7 news at 11 00. We explore the current strain on san jose Fire Department dispatchers as they deal with the pandemic, protests, wildfires, and so much more. That story at 11 00. California plans to do its own Coronavirus Vaccine safety review. Bay area Health Experts explain what that means for distribution. And coming up tonight on abc 7 at 8 00, its dancing with the stars fauld by emergency call at 10 00 and stay with us for abc 7 news at 11 00. Thats it for us. For all of us here, woo am i even close . Dion, come on. Dion. With triple cheese and bacon or chili cheese. Try my sauced and loaded fries. Its pretty delicious. I got it all from you im always pushing through i know well make it to the finish line i know youre waiting on the other side im like you ondemand glucose monitoring. Because theyre always on. Another lifechanging technology from abbott. So you dont wait for life. You live it. Seasoned curly fries, with triple cheese and bacon or chili cheese. Try my sauced and loaded fries. Its pretty delicious. Try my sauced and loaded fries. This is jeopardy here are todays contestants an analyst from chula vista, california. A Software Engineer originally from peoria, illinois. And our returning champion an attorney from San Francisco, california. Whose 2day cash winnings total. And now here is the host of jeopardy alex trebek thank you, johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. One week ago today, we started our program on a high note. We wound up with our very first 5time champion of the year. But then on thursday and friday, things went south. We had two killer final jeopardys which resulted in just 8,000 in winnings for our current champion. But thats all behind us. New day, new week. Good luck. Lets go to work. Now the categories for the three of you. First off. Followed by. Then. M in quotation marks. That little will begin each correct response. And finally. Kristin, start. Lets have the american flag, 200. Kristin. What is a circle . Yeah. American flag, 400. Nancy. What is the starspangled banner . Youre on the board now. Ill take novel for 200