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Reporter its not just isolated to the four officers under investigation. Was this is a culture of racism that is baked into the structure of the San Jose Police department. Reporter he says is time to clean house from top to bottom. Truck fire every officer, dismantle the department and invite the community to have a larger conversation of what Public Safety for all means. I think without overhaul there is not going to be a change. True the president of the naacp incident, valley says this has eroded any trust in the Police Department. Voice decertification needs to happen because they will take a lateral or transfer. Reporter they say the city should also reexamine the criminal cases that involve the affected officers. With these Police Officers are just racist inside her head. They have vocalized their racism online explicitly. Without shame and even engaged in threat of violence. The mayor says he wont dismantle the Police Department. Hes pushing for reforms that will make it easier to fire bad cops. Reforming the arbitration process to ensure that is more accountable and more transparent. And i also call for essentially eliminating the internal affairs department. The Police Department is asking the interested up fbi to investigate the scandal. Once thats then they can look at Additional Solutions to fix the department. Kpix five. In a statement the San Jose Police Officers Association said it has zero tolerance for such behavior. Police chief eddie garcia at it while i have no control over what former employees post online, i can voice my outrage. After hearing about these comments made online, any current employee involved with getting activity online will probably be investigated and held accountable to the fullest extent in my power. A troubling scene in oakland. This pride weekend after the lgb q center was vandalized. A man on the bike pulled up to the center around 10 p. M. This morning and smashed the little of the golf club. They were able to take him away. And build the center says it is rattled by the incident, members work out a few hours later replacing the windows. Meanwhile the police are looking for the vandal. The coronavirus is throwing a damper on surfaces go pride as the even marxist university. Marxs 50th anniversary. Reporter as a pride weekend usually means a big business for bars and restaurants here in the castro. But this year is much more subdued. Take a look. While the district isnt totally deserted, there are far you are people and parities at parties that we would normally expect. Popular bars are boarded up this year. And it is really a common sight around 18th and castro. This is not how many people imagine they would be celebrating the 50th anniversary of pride. With it mostly becoming a virtual event. Pride cannot be a party this year in the traditional sense, but i did speak with a number of people who still wanted to come out and get in the spirit in the age of the coronavirus. This is actually one of my favorite bars to go to. And its one of the most busy bars here. And is boarded up and its really tragic actually. It is surreal that we are walking on the streets and seeing these places close is still trying to celebrate with my friends. But yet with everything going on you have to have a sense of understanding. Reporter some restaurants in the castro are open for outdoor dining. So there are people taking advantage of that in the neighborhood. Tomorrow there will be many Virtual Events planned to celebrate pride as well as a march new city hall. It will also be in protest of racial injustice. With no parade this year, organizers are hosting a virtual celebration instead. The online gathering featured performances and speeches highlighting this years theme generational hope. The last 50 years pride movements will continue into the next 50. And it will march on in our work to bring awareness to our culture and support deliberation of all of our people. You can celebrate tomorrow from 2 p. M. To 7 p. M. This afternoon a new pry tradition was born. Olympic style torch was carried from Oakland City Hall to San Francisco. It was meant to symbolize the healing of a sometimes contentious relationship between the lgbtq and African American communities. The group on bikes led the torch procession across the bay bridge. This symbolic uniting of the bay area is hopefully a step forward away from that, towards a united community. The position is now headed for twin peaks where the Pink Triangle will be illuminated with 2700 l. E. D. Nodes. In the past, hundreds of volunteers assembled it out a small piece of canvas. Obviously that cannot happen this year. So instead organizes partner with aluminate, the same team behind the bay lights project. To spotlight San Franciscos symbol of hope, resilience and pride. Lighting is set for nine p. M. Tonight. It will be so bright it will be visible across the bay and into space. And thats a place to take a picture of it. The growing number of bay area counties are pulling back on the reopening agenda as coronavirus cases new highs. Wilson walker reports from Contra Costa County where a lot of businesses are wondering what is next . Reporter after several weeks of what like progress, yesterday really did feel like a setback. Multiple counties deciding on or considering a pause in their reopening. So what should we make of that question my wife and i were talking about it. And it does seem like a setback. Only because it seemed like we were on the verge of when we were first, like we were about to open. Reporter they are thinking the reopening timeline. And that means another possible setback for ralphie martinez. He thought he might finally be back in business come 1. For thats just not jim business, that is the business that cannot operate with this whole thing. Reporter this is what we were warned about. Every opening that might come in starts and stops or worse. What the message is for everybody, if you dont want to have this backwards, please make sure you wear your masks and stay home if youre sick. Keep social distancing, and you know, and wash her hands. Those are the four things we need to have you do. Reporter here in Contra Costa County a decision on whether or not to pause the reopening schedule will come on monday. Wilson walker reporting. A covid19 outbreak essay quitting is exploding this reason. At least 613 prisoners have now tested positive. State prison officials floated the idea of transferring dozens of inmates in san quentin to north current state prison. But, the present plan is not on hold. Honestly feel like the way out of this is to reduce the population drastically. And i would hope that with i hope that would come through early releases. But it also me stopping transfers. We should not be cindy the infection around the state. At least 40 guards have also been infected. But as bad as outbreak is within the present love, at this point, the Health Officer does not anticipate it will spread beyond them. They are a medical facility as well as a prison. And so they do have the capacity to manage Infection Control on site. So we are not particularly concerned about this out rake outbreak. Meanwhile the va is dealing with an outbreak in its Community Living center in livermore. 10 residents and nine employees visually tested positive. One veteran died. Others were transferred to the palo alto va hospital for treatment. The agency said that all residents and staff of the livermore facility are being tested every 3 to 4 days. And it is tracking employee movements within the facility to prevent further spread. Additionally, any employees who exhibit symptoms are not immediately being isolated. To solano county, firefighters have contained a 12 acre grass fire broke out about 2 p. M. Just above 680. No buildings were threatened or damaged. The firefighting aircraft had to be temporarily grounded when somebody flew a drone into the area. Dorky in Contra Costa County the search is on for a boater who disappeared in the delta. The 29yearold was reported missing last night in the waters off discovery bay. It is unclear how he went overboard. Other people in the boat called for help when by ear. But so far there is no sign of him. And still become a peaceful protest takes an explosive turn in a Southern California intersection. Plus the California City now requiring police to carry cameras on their guns. In a driveby protest to disneyland. Workers are demanding for they will go back. And coming of the forecast, it has been about three days since the sun has signed the golden gate ridge. Tomorrow it is going to. But that is part of the big change. It is the stronger winds ushering in that change. And the drop in with new video on a Southern California where is george protest took an explosive turn. It was taken earlier this month in riverside. It actually shows someone getting out of the car it lighting a firework in the middle of the crowd. When nearby protesters shows what is happening they threw the firework back in the car. The 20yearold man who additionally initially through the firework was arrested this week. And Anaheim Disney work is first tested outside resort today demanding a safe reopening. For someone to go back to work. Thats for sure. I would go back right now if they sent, we want to make sure jobs are secure. We want our jobs to be safe. Disney announced this week that the happiest place on earth will remain closed indefinitely. Stroking several bay area counties look to slow down the reopening, the city of hayward is slowing down this street instead. The idea is to support out door diving and encourage shopping downtown. The closing be stray from video market street. In main street from a deceased race until 10 tonight. In todays Pilot Program is successful, the city plans to try to get on saturday, july 11. A windy little ride it will be. I want to talk about that change. Sunday is going to fill different across the bay area for many hours. First of all, it is going to seem a lot windier where you are. And it is also to me a lot cooler depending where you are. I am going to outline this in the second. As far as the daily show of the marine layer sucking in the golden gate and the bay, even that is going to change tomorrow. Said this pattern shipped. It is great over the bridge right now. But if you look down in san jose there is not a cloud in sight. And this is the way that it is been for the past few days. You are going to see a temperature difference today. 30 degrees spread from the city to livermore. Near 90 today in livermore. If we take these daytime highs, first thing i want to show you is how much cooler these numbers are going to be tomorrow. And it is kind of a mixed bag. But i am going to point out the highlights. Look at ukiah, 18 degrees drop. To get up to 97 in ukiah. If you go inland, livermore, san jose. In fact we just highlight those. Your numbers are really going to drop your livermore, you are only going to make it back down into the mid70s tomorrow. Same thing with san jose. And that will be a noticeable drop. Im going to show you everybodys highs coming up in the second. But if the temperatures are different tomorrow, he is one of the aspect that is going to be different. Its one thing to show the show the clouds. The look of the back page. See how this is getting pushed out of here. It is the middle the last few days but tomorrow is not going to be able to be rebuilt. Because of the stronger winds coming in. If you look at the current lands right now is a sustained way in. 32 in the delta. If we look at the gusts is gusting to 40 appear. Ft. Fairfield. In fact it sold when advisory appear for the delta. And that doesnt expire until we get to tomorrow evening. But initially with the wins will be like across the entire bay area. The focus is can be tomorrow. As e get into the late afternoon. Im going to play this from 10 a. M. To 3 p. M. Watch the screen light appeared look of the gusts appear. That is where we are going to see some of the intensity pickup. Its only going to be noticeable throughout the afternoon. Because once you get into the evening things will die down again. But for tomorrow many of us it will be windier than what you have experienced in the last few da because its not going to be the typical seabreeze we have had for the past three days. These are going to be driven and by a weak storm to our north. It will add more energy to the winds. But just for one day though. Morning lows, no story here. Going back down to the mid50s. The skin everybodys daytime highs here. Mid70s for much of the south bay tomorrow. We will see the temperatures top out in the low to mid 80s. Numbers for the east bay in a, only going to 71 in oakland and 78, in ukiah. Some of us really do notice a drop tomorrow. It is a oneday change. Because once we get to monday, the wind turns off. The temperatures climb back to do 90 again. And we stay in the mid70s. For the bay. So tomorrow its kind of like the real headline in this forecast. I write lets talk about sports. Stroking soccer reopened for business today. Plus the brothers grab. Ivan into moray. One is an mba dollar. Another in grad school of business. And both bow down to mom. Soccer up top and ladies fi the nation alteam sport on u. S. Soil to reopen play. It happened today when they took a knee in utah. North carolina courage and the Portland Thorns with black lives matter tshirts. The 18 challenge cup tournament. Carolina and blue tied at one. Samantha me with sintering kit, lynn wins for fresno. North carolina, the twotime defending champions one. Heres phil mickelson, travels tournament second lot round later. Only thing is this is the third row in connecticut. Strongest part of his game failed a bunker shot. Got away from them at the 13th hole. He fell 6 shots off the lead. Meantime a lot of guys with low today Dustin Johnson in the ninth. Those parsippany layouts. How about the lowest round of his pga career. 961 nine under 61. Brendan dodd scored epic 61 of his own. Todd leaves leave the field and hes on track for his fourth pga win. Paint swapping in the poconos. In car cam view. Lets go to the finish. No one better in pennsylvania than the ford car driven by Kevin Harvick who picked up his third win of the season and first in 39 career starts. Bubba wallace finished 22nd. Drivers will be back tomorrow for another run. Baseball, the Big League Team our 40s away from its Second Spring training. Meantime, this, is turning in one surfaces go jersey for another. This is u. S. Evan. Robert emery. The catcher on outofstate ignatius k sign a deal with the giants this week. He was batting 400 when the pandemic cut short his season. His favorite, shortstop richard williams. Dressed up as him probably in 2002. He used to go to considine on union and mason. I grew up one of the hill so i got to know the owners of the restaurant pretty well. They will call me when any of the giants players were coming in. I would go bother them when they were having their dinner. Get autographs or get a picture. Reporter meantime its only a matter of time before mba bollers play for will with no crowds. 16 the 302 players tested positive for coronavirus. As teens begin the process of resuming the season in Orlando Florida next month. The league released the schedule yesterday for all the 22 teams participating. Sunday night on our game day show, like the sly and the family stone 1971 hit its a family affair. Over in the east bay community. What does the mba, uc Berkeley High school of business at a giving mother have in common . His se of ip. Professional basketball number 25 Ivan Rabb Oakland native now bears second round pick of the memphis grizzlies. Keep paving his nba journey. Now the New York Knicks in westchester county. But this isnt really a basketball story. Still not a basketball story. 14 is younger is a star at school of business at uc berkeley. Any given day birth both are drawn into the cajun kitchen in east oakland. Run by the most valuable member of the family. Mother tammy. So what does tammy do to feed the east bay . What do her sons do to support mom who works six, seven days a week. And what does the name davons cajun kitchen staffer anyway . All that i had on game day after late local news tomorrow night. Coming up in our next half hour a sharp drop to report in california coronavirus cases. Plus mississippi lawmakers moved to permanently lower the statesde and on this pride we celebrate one teen whose bold journey began with a single step. I was like dont worry. Im your mom. You know you can tell me anything. I was finally able to spit out the word trance. And tune in tomorrow for our three hour special. Pride 50 generations ago. It airs on our sister station cable 12. We will also be streaming in live starting at if i could go back and redo anything and probably would have been to slow down the opening of bars. X is a time machine or vaccine, several u. S. States are left with no choice but to look forward to and uncertain future. Stroking five months after the first case of coronavirus was diagnosed in the u. S. , the nation is confirmed more than 2. 5 million. Rookie california accounts for more than 200,000 of those cases. And here is the good news. Just 241 new cases were reported today. Down for more than 5700 yesterday. The state had been averaging more than 5000 new cases a day over the past week. Southern california remains that in the hotspot. About one third of the cases reported yesterday were in los county alone. For the south Imperial County is under pressure to reimpose stayathome orders. Weve got to pay our regular taxes, we have to pay our regular rent. We have to pay everything normal. Our bills keep on coming. Meanwhile whitney wild reports of the states that were reopening are already starting to clampdown again after posting record spikes. Reporter florida, georgia, idaho, tennessee and utah. On friday these five states recorded their highest single day Coronavirus Infection numbers since the pandemic began. And saturday florida reported 9585 new cases. Topping the previous records that the day before. Now mayors in the state announcing several popular beaches will be closed for the fourth of july weekend. As we expected huge crowds to be at the beach. It would have been very hard for us to control our social distancing. And having people abide by the rules. We dont want to spike on top of the spike. Reporter nationwide 32 states sausage is a case numbers over the past seven days. This has pushed 11 states to make the tough decision to pause or rollback their reopening. If i could go back and redo anything, it probably would have been to slow down the opening of bars. People go to bars to giggles and to drink enter socialize. And thats the kind of thing that stokes the spirit of the coronavirus. Reporter and according to a new antibody survey, the actual than previously thought. Medical experts say they are not surprised. Was we are still at a point where we are not able to get tests to everything a person we would like to. A federal judge in los angeles has ordered ice to release Migrant Children hill with their parents Detention Centers because of coronavirus. Children who have been held for more than 20 days must released on july 17. They must be turned over to their parents if they are not in custody. If parents are in custody or unavailable for another reason, children can be released to another suitable sponsor. They can also be sent to a noncognitive city that has been deemed free of covid19 with the permission of parents or guardians. A stunning report for million New York Times claims russia secretly offered to pay penalties to taliban linked militants to kill u. S. Troops. It alleges that u. S. Intelligence found that a assassination attempts and other covert operations offered rewards for successful attacks last year. 20 americans were killed in combat last year in afghanistan. There is no word if any of those killings under suspicion. Some islamic militants reportedly collected some of the bounty money. Sources told the times, President Trump was briefed on the report back in march. The white house discussed response options. Russia, for its part, has denounced the article as fake news. Mississippi lawmakers have officially launched an effort to redefine the state leg. We need to have a fl is unifying. We need to have one that we can all attest to the that we love one another. Lets move Forward Together and show the nation once and for all that we are one nation under god. The 1894 flag is the nations last of each of the confederate battle flag. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the last attempt to change it in 2001. Today the state has voted to introduce a bill to lower that flag permanently. A Creative Commission to recommend new designs. It will be up to voters to choose the winning look by november. Milton glaser, the designer of the i heart new york logo has died. He also cofounded new York Magazine in 1968 and served as president and design director until the late 70s. In 1977, he decided that. I heart ny logo to promote tourism in new york state. His concept sketch is part of the metropolitan museum of arts permanent collection. He is survived by his wife. He ofraes yesterday on his 91st birthday. They already where cameras on their bodies. Now, officers and one California City will have to start hearing them on their dance. 2020 couldnt possibly be complete without a biblical plague. New video of millions of locusts swarming entire cities. Were all doing our part by staying at home. That could mean an increase in energy bills. You can save by using a fan to cool off. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or closing your shades during the day. Stay well and keep it golden. Heres what we want everyone to do. Count all the hugs you havent given. All the hands you havent held. All the dinners you didnt share with friends. The trips you havent taken. Keep track of them. Each one means one less person vulnerable, one less person exposed, and one step closer to a healthier community. So for now, keep your distance. But dont lose count. Well have some catching up to do. New Police Body Cam video shows protesters in virginia launching fireworks at itpest ght ring a a ment to federal general robert e lee. At least one of the pyrotechnics brought out of control and struck an individual. It is unclear if that person was seriously hurt. And around the country protesters have condemned Police Brutality and called for social justice. Now one Central Coast city is listening. Felix cortez is allowing Police Officers to use cameras on guns. True King City Police are nancy thursday morning they are now requiring all officers to carry camera mount to firearms. It is just one more way we can be even more transparent. Reporter adding this new technology is another tool for them to utilize. To be more accountable. The cameras ifly designed to capture officer involved shootings. The cameras and audio automatically activate once the gun leaves the officers holster. Leaving little room for mistakes. And capturing a view not seen by betty kamps or a dash cam. With a show exactly what an officer sees. We feel this is an essential point of view that is missing for most officer involved shootings today. Reporter and the world is watching with officer involved shootings make national headlines. Like the recent shooting death of ray chartres brooks but the police. Gun camps can help hold suspects or police accountable. And thats a critical piece of information. That a jury is now demanding to see. In litigation and in criminal proceedings. All 17 officers including the polihave camera equipped firearms. This Technology Cost the department about 12,000. Here in the bay area of the city of santa rosa is asking the community on input from police reform. On tuesday the city council is holding a Virtual Meeting open to the public. Which will begin at 4 p. M. In the afternoon. City councilmembers will be talking about the citys Community Empowerment plan. A program enacted after protests over george for that. That conversation will continue at 2 p. M. Wednesday afternoon with the mayor and vice mayor. City leaders also will be reviewing the Police Departments response to recent protest. Meanwhile, thousands of marijuana convictions are about to be dismissed in sonoma county. They were brought to the district attorneys attention through the clear my record act. The statewide Program Allows prosecutors to view and assess individual cases. To see if they are eligible to be dismissed under prop 64 which legalized marijuana in 2016. A total of 2700 marijuana convictions will be dismissed. California lawmakers have crafted a 202 billion dollars spending plan. To close the state historic 54 billion deficit. It temporarily raises taxes on businesses. While slashing funding to courts and colleges and state worker salaries. K12 schools and Health Programs are spared. But, republicans deeply in the minority in the California Legislature warned that the budget only delays the cuts by borrowing and putting out painful decisions. The state have been running a surplus before the covid19 crisis hit and tax deadlines were pushed back. The governor is expected to sign the budget is is monday. Stalking still to come, we celebrate pride with a Bay Area Team whose lifechanging journey started with the simplest of requests. And the socalled godzilla dust bob has made it across the ocean and is not in the gulf coast. Summer in the city. And you can just now barely see the building a breeze. Tomorrows weather pattern though, is going to resemble more of a phone situation. It would get rid of the clouds but is also the pick up the wince. And i am going to spotlight who a belgian businessman is putting a new face on the covid 19 pandemic. Specifically your face. He is using Photo Software and a mobile app to customize masks with the wares actual features. So you know who youre talking to. It was a creative solution to keep the revenue rolling in until he can get back to his day job. Offering portable photo booth for professional events. Nasa has a new way for you to safely stare at the sun. Let me just preface this by saying you should never look directly at the sun with a negative naked eye. The space agency compressed 10 years of images into this one hour time let video. It features activity like solar erosive and planetary transits. And what you are saying here, we are only able to show you a month and a half of timelapse activity. But if you want to stare at all 10 years, the full video is online. Stalking we have new video out of new delhi india where swarms of locals have been filling the skies. Its gotten so bad the local government is asking people to bang utensils together to ward off the fast moving swarms. India is battling its worst visit locus outbreak in decades. Some of the most populous states are using fire engines to spray insecticides and keep them at bay. Argentine also think a vasi windshield wipers were no match for this wall of locusts crashing against a car. The swarms are on the move. They came in from paraguay and are now on their way to southern brazil. What next . A giant gray color dust cloud. Hovering over houston tonight. In fact, is shrouded most of the gulf coast. The most significant dust cloud in 50 years. The first blow off the sahara desert, drifted across the atlantic, and there it is in houston. For most people the dust is a nuisance. But for others with breathing issues, the exodus can cause complications. Definitely two things will protect us from the dust. Wearing a mask would definitely help. At the same time, staying indoors will help. It doesnt sound like is the effect that west coast. Instead it is forecast to be moving north and east throughout the weekend. Impacting areas from texas to florida, as far north as the canadian border. Lets switch to happier times. I was feeling like let my people go there. We are going to get off the biblical theme. And im going to show you our work as it is going to be windy tomorrow. And when you hear that in the forecast you might go its been with the everyday. Tomorrows winds are different. Tomorrows winds are going to be a little stronger and they are coming in from a different pattern. Look at the scene over the golden gate ridge just like the last three days, we are just barely able to see the top of it. Tomorrow, that changes. We are going to see more blue skies here. Plenty of blue sky if youre inland. If we take a look at current numbers out there its 70 in concord. 68 is the cisco so it is not lar spread the tinnitus. We did a little bit of cooling to the here we are 12 degrees cooler iird. Out 10 de many inland spots. With to do this again tomorrow. Drop many inland locations about 10 degrees tomorrow. Even though the weather currently like it has been for the past few days. Until you look here. 40 mile an hour gusts in fairfield. This is enough for a win advisory. If youre going inland through the delta. But thats a pattern involved here that sets a stage for why tomorrows winds will be noticeably stronger for some of us. Not the typical sea breeze we but happy for the past few weeks. If you look at the big picture, the first thing you notice is all the stuff going on over here. In fact if i pull out the right colors you will see thats a very different looking satellite. Theres a lot going on through the entire west. As of following the store right here. See the spin . That is why tomorrows going to be windy. Is also why we are going to cool down another 10 degrees tomorrow. So this is different, thanks to the pattern. And if we spotlight the center of the there, look at how it is moving the atmosphere. We are caught in the middle and as it is going to be for the onshore flow. Its not just a sea breeze, is an onshore flow being driven by a weak storm. Thats why tomorrows winds are different. If we wanted in the future cast, by tomorrow late morning into the afternoon, watch what happens. The map is going to light it. And that we are seeing gusts near 50 along the coast. Thats the extreme. If you are on the coast tomorrow its going to be very windy. But even here the city, the peninsula and efforts of the delta, expected to get noticeably windier tomorrow afternoon. And as far as the temperatures are concerned, the morning lows arent all that different. The daytime highs for most of us will be all they do for tomorrow either unless you are far in. Livermore youre going to be about 12 degrees cooler tomorrow. Ukiah will be much cooler tomorrow. Send jose will be about two degrees cooler tomorrow. So there it is in sevenday forecast. It is really just a oneday thing. Because those winds died down by monday. In the temperatures or backup by monday. Theres another 90 degree they coming from the inland locations. From the bay where state away in sevenday forecast. Stuckey well on two different matters. The 50th anniversary of pride is underway this weekend. And while there is no parade this year, there ministers to shoot. Elizabeth cook has one of them. His name is jack. Hes just 15. Liz and the peninsula and is sharing his story with us as a way of celebrating pride. Hes dorky early onset when something was wrong. I could never look at myself in the mirror. I didnt recognize that person. I just didnt see someone who i felt like was me. Reporter jack was born a girl. By age 8, he discovered a word that explained it all. That word was transgender. You can identify as Something Different than the gender you were assigned at birth. I took a year and a half to two years without coming out to my rethink abthatan think about isthisreally the word that works for me. Reporter one day in the car he turned his mom. I said can i cut my hair . , was like what question are you sure you can cut your hair. Can i change my name . Mark is like okay thats a bigger step. We can talk about that. And i were boys close . It was the sunday before school was starting and i had a whole new world for school. She was like, at that point it was so hard for me to say the word. It would always get caught in my throat and it was so difficult for me to spit it out. So we got home. I was like i want to tell dad. I was like could you be there with me question mark she was lucky what to tell you that you will know the way he said it was i need to tell you something and i want you to hear me out. And no get a say. And it was all this kind of ingg anwas ke dont worry. Im your mom. You can tell me anything. I was finally able to stand out the word trance. I think i cried and it was really intense. And horseback question, maybe hes too young to know. My husband said he was a vegetarian for a while and that he wanted to be this. It was those one of those times . Four years later here we are. He is a brave person. Really brave. He did undergo a lengthy and costly medical process that included multiple visits with therapist. He recently began hormone therapy. One day, jack is undergoing surgery for a complete transition. Im so lucky to have parents who are accepting. Because it shouldnt be a privilege, it should be a right. I worry about d. I worry abo going to become. Or the love that we have for him. But i worry about how the world is going to treat them. Jack and his mom have attended pride in the past. They are pleased to be a part of our coverage. Now when jack was in the mirror what does he see . What myself. I guess what everyone else saw. Elizabeth cook kpix five. Jacks story is just one of many we will be featuring in our three hour special thats call five to come in generations of hope. It airs tomorrow on our sister station. We will also be streaming it live on kpix. Com starting at 5 p. M. For now thanks for watching. We will see you back here at 11 p. M. Tonight. Have a great evening. light instrumental music in this exciting new design series, well be revealing some of the latest innovations fr arod california. This is a series about problem solving and design thinking. From large corporate cutting Edge Innovations to mom and dad inventions that will surprise and inspire. Welcome to california by design. dramatic music im here at adobes San Francisco campus where weve gathered a group of californian and International Design Industry Leaders tasked with the job of judging each innovation