Investigated as hate crimes by the San Francisco police. We spoke about an hour ago to the National Committee of america who says these are not isolated incidents. Fearful and more determined. We already Heard Community members receivining threats, businesses and individuals. Reporter nobody was here at the Community Center or the school at the time shots were fired. If you have any information, you are being asked to contact the San Francisco police department. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. Making the move from purple to red, Solano County is getting ready for the status to change. Right now only napa changing to the less restrictive tier. Red tier includes hair salons and movie theaters and gyms, all at reduced capacity. We have to show you this graph. The gray line which you see here is the number of coronavirus tests. This blue line right here thats the positivity average. So look at this, you come all the way over here. This is saturday, on saturday 179,000 tests conducted. The Positivity Rate, look at this. 3. 1 . Thats a state record even as california is kconducting more tests, we haveless positive cases. Yesterday is 3. 1 , thats the lowest it has been. The governor says that pairing with a high number of tests and low Positivity Rate shows that california is making good progress. A disturbing close brush with wildlife caught on a cell phone video. What the big cat was doing raising some flags. Nbc bay areas robert handa is live. Reporter this is in pacifica where this Mountain Lion was seen roaming around. It did not stay here. Reporter timothy was watching his kids riding bicycle when realizing he was not the only one when he saw this Mountain Lion sitting. The lion leaped over the fence and into the drive way but continued to focus on the children. I was fearful for the kids, i was like no, no, get, get. I was chasing at it like get out of here. Get reporter a neighbor shows me this Security Camera calling the lion proximity to the kids intense. Not even 20 yards away from a cat that big. I have seen them around before. We have a lot of wildlife here but never this close. Reporter the area has been tracking this Mountain Lion and called it a people observer. It is one of many animals who lost their usual habitat to the you will see activities here and there but nothing abnormal or scary or threatening about its behavior. I love Mountain Lion. I think theyre beautiful but it is different when theyre at your yard. Reporter it is hard to pinpoint why a group of lions suddenly show up in your neighborhood. For whatever the reasons, neighbors here plan to take a lot of precautions. Nbc bay area news, robert handa. Thats the fire burning in yuma and butte counties. Theyll be going into burned out homes trying to find anyone missing. 15 people have lost their lives in that fire and burned more than 294,000 acres. It is now the fifth largest fire in states history. As sad as can be, we are able to give families closure so they know the position of their loved ones. The team helps with the campfire which burns in butte county as well. 85 people lost their lives. So far this year, more than 3. 6 million acres have burned. Thats 20 times more and the 150,000 acres burned of all last year. More than 6,000 structures and homes have been destroyed and sadly 26 people have lost their lives. Two weeks, how long claims have been paused. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro talks with one bay area woman now in the midst of unemployment claim nightmare. Reporter theirnearly 600,00 kal californians filed for unemployment. When lisa young of antioch was laid off she received 50 letters from the unemployment department. The problem is not a singing one addressing to her. It turned out someone else filed several claims using her name. They told me i had to clear this up before i can file a claim. Reporter the letters she received were addressed to different people and some contains edd cards and presumably of access to funds. In the meantime, shes burning through her savings. I have to go get food boxes and apply for food stamps which something i have never done in my life. Reporter today Governor Newsom acknowledged that unemployment fraud is an issue. One thatll be addressed the next few weeks after the state puts a pause on processing new claim and i am policemenimpleme system. You will have rieequirements under this automated i. T. System to do selfies and provide verificatio verifications. I would love to drop all these mails and sent it out. Why these people are getting money and i have panothing. New details about the plans to honor late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. On friday she will be laid to rest at the u. S. Capitol. Thousands are expected to travel to pay their respects. President trump has already announced his timeline to replace her. Hell reveal the justice pick by the end of this week. The president says he wants the senate to vote for his nominee before election day. We won the election, we have an obligation to do whats right and thats quickly as possible. Democratic candidate joe biden is urging his former Senate Colleagues to delay the vote. Raj mathai, ellen is back, her comment a short while ago about the claim of a toxic Work Environment on her show and her own behavior booin tehind the s. Well hear from her, next. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, i have some good news and hotter temperatures sneaking back in, well be telling you that in about ten minutes. When we welcome our west coast viewers, the cdc is so in confuse as it backtracks on covid19 guidelines again. What to believe . Well have that and more when we see you tonight on nightly news. Im looking at your mri. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Im sorry baby. I dont want you to play with that. singing twinkle, twinkle little star. How i wonder what you are. How are you doing . Schedule a video visit with your doctor. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Well, shes back only this time in broiled controversies. You may have watched her. Ellen degeneres kicked off her 18th season of her talk show and addressed head on criticisms directed at her over the summer. Raj is joining us now with the back story of this controversy. This has been growing this whole time through this pandemic, raj. Reporter it has, you mentioned 18 years of ellen. Shes now 62 years old, a staple of daytime tv. Today not too many jokes. Not too many jokes, instead we heard of a lot of apologies and selfreflection. We have had a lot of conversations about the show, our workplace and what we want for the future. We have made the necessary changes and today we are starting a new chapter. There it is in front of a virtual audience. She delivered a sevenminute monologue and addressing the problems over the years and multiple charges of racism and intimidation in the workplace. Last month she let go of three producers. I am that person that you see on tv, i am a lot of things, sometimes i get sad and mad and anxious and impatient. I am working on all of that. I got into this business to make people laugh and feel good. Thats my favorite thing to do, that and jenga. I love that game. And now i am a boss of 270 people. 270 people who help make this show what it is. 270 people [ applause ] i am so grateful for that. Reporter ellen is back and among the changes, d. J. Twitch is no longer the d. J. Of the program, hes a coexecutive producer there. Ellen signed to do the show through 2022. A couple more years left on her contract. An exclusive interview with governor jerry brown. Hes candid of the danger of this Political Climate and what happens if President Trump is reelected. Thats coming up at our 6 00 news. Well see you then guys. Governor newsom calling it the roots of our wildfires season, climate change. During a meeting with President Trump last week, the president insisted the root is of poor management. Tonight Steve Patterson speaks with experts from the left and the right. Reporter this the worst fire season we have. It is going to take the policies of people who are concerned of those two things to make this situation for people that live on the west coast. Steve patterson also speaks to fire victims who have rebuilt their home making their homes more fire resistance. Clean up along Union PacificRailroad Truck and monterey road. Illeg Illegal Dumping and graffiti and garbage and trash, that clean up is expected to take about more than a week. San joses mayor is tackling the homeless problem. It is not easy but there is congress. Many approach is and seeing how we can begin to move the needle. The mayor says he has two funding for affordable housing. The city is working hard to find new solutions for the growing homeless crisis. Demand is high for the portrait of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. The portrait of ginsburg was commissioned by an art patron in 2018. The picture was so welldone. The gallery has prints that are available, and they are selling it for 1,800. She uses her heart to promote music and justice inequality. Celebrates people who make positive changes by nonviolent means. You have to understand that Ruth Bader Ginsburg snugglfits right that category. A statement was issued about the passing of rbg. Rbg spoke truth to power and gave teeth to truth. She could be counted on for non partsh partisanship. A tribute to her. All right, lets bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. We saw the sun. It is so nice out there. So some good news ahead. Let me go ahead and start it off with the reason why we are see that blue sky returning. I dont think anybody is disappointed about this. Great news, we have the storm track, just to the north and thats some high power wind, 20 to 30,000 up in the atmosphere and it is really powerful. It is helping to push that smoke off towards the east away from the bay area. Well get a better look at the smoke and you can see the smoke forecasting model. Some of it is blue to green color, showing up on the right hand side of your screen, some of that lower yellow haze at least until 11 00 p. M. Tonight. You can see it is all off to the east as we have the jet stream. Basically tomorrow looks excellent. We got a great forecast coming our way. If you are up early, you got the dogs to walk or the kids or exercising, we have some nice, crisp and cool air, 58 in the south bay and 55 at the trivalley. Nice to start off the week with conditions like this after what we have been through the past eight weeks. 57 for the east bay. San francisco 55. We do begin with some of that fog near the bay in San Francisco but by the afternoon tomorrow, sunshine returning and down here for the south bay is going to put us some really great weather. Seasonal averages down at san jose at 81 degrees. East bay, 80s for the valleys. Closer to the bay, 73 at oakland. More 70s right over the peninsula. 79 in palo alto. 77 in redwood city. Our usual ocean breeze staying in place, that keeps us at 62 from the marina and down to the mission. Some nice good air for you and that continues to the north bay as well. Forecast for napa, 84. Sonoma, 82. Mill valley, some of the best weather of the way i see it is 76 degrees. San francisco well continue with some good air over the next couple of days and fall officially begins tomorrow. 6 30 in the morning. To feel like fall the next few days take notice here. Once we hit sunday, hotter air starts the move in, up to 81 degrees. 85 by monday. For the in land valley, we are looking at some comfortable weather, clean air through thursday and friday with mid80s and we are going to heat things up once we hit sunday, we are going up to 100 degrees. Next monday 101. Looks like that heat will start to fade by next wednesday on september 30 oeth. Coming up, well take a look at the long range forecast and well show you what could be in the cards for rain. Janelle and jess, nice to get some of that blue skies at least the past couple of hours. How many more of these super hot weekends we can expect since we are near in the end of september . We really should start seeing this fazing out. There is some promising news of some rainfall ahead. You know this could be the last stretch of this and i know a lot of us good riddance and goodbye to all that. The museums in San Francisco reopening for the first time in months. Not without changes. Well share it with you next. A race with a new twist because of the pandemic and the black lives movement. The annual sf aloha kicks off this weekend. It is never just focused on asian communities but rather communities of all backgrounds. We are here in San Francisco, japan town, we have been opened z and inclusive. Today we serve hundreds of youths and youths of every ethics. We are such a diverse population, we felt it is a moem whe moment where we want to make a statement for the black community right now and what they are going through. This years proceed will go to the black girl code and youth scholarships. When you register you will get the traditional tshirt and medal. Okay, San Francisco taking another step in the next phase of its new normal. Aquariums and zoos are able to reopen but with reduced capacity. The touch pool implementing one way entry and exit point and setting up sanitation stations. Schools grade are allowed to resume after submitting health plans as well. Looks like Governor Newsom is getting more help from his friends at sesame street, his friends reminding us to all wear a mask. Wear a mask. It is not difficult. Even a threeyearsold could do it. Elmo is so cute. This is the third psa series featuring big bird and elmo which you saw there. It is going to remind people that covid19 is not going away. I want to see the cookie monster. Hes probably wearing a mask as well. Two big wins at the emmy last night, well tell you about it. Another day, another chance to bounce forward. Lets do this. By making internet speeds fast and reliable. So you can keep up with your customers. By ensuring those speeds have wireless internet backup. So if the power goes down, your connection doesnt. And by covering all your connected devices with serious security. So we can handle this. And this. While you get on with this. And this. Be fast, be secure. Bounce forward. With comcast business. Get started with a powerful internet and voice solution for just 64. 90 a month. Call or go online today. Coming up at 6 00, it is nice to eat outside during the summer but what can happen during the winter . Some stars from oakland won big from last nights emmys. She won best league in a drama and she made history becoming the youngest actress to win in that category. She tweeted out her congregat n congratulations to both. I actually watched the emmys. They did it so different this year. Thatll do it for us. Nightly news with lester holt is next. Well see you at 11 00. Tonight the fierce showdown to replace Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg, President Trump saying hell name his nominee friday or saturday Senate Republican leadership rushing to confirm before the election, just 43 days away against ginsburgs final wishes democrats calling the gop hypocrites after they blocked president obamas nominee before the 2016 election. Two republican senators siding with the democrats. Can they get the two more they need and who will the president pick the two women at the top of the short list. Will one of them make it the most conservative court in a century . Plus, the plans fo