Circumstances they would be relishing in the pomp and circumstance of opening that. Instead, covid19s threat to baseball now seems very, very well. I know that the players in our clubhouse have sensitivities and concerns that match those around baseball. In our country right now. That said, i think they are also pretty focused on and excited about opening day. Reporter look at the vessel, there, called bons voyage. This is my staple now during covid19. Are you guys ready . There you go he should have caught it on the flight. Guys, Opening Night tonight. Back to you. Thank you, a live look from outside the ballpark, and what would normally be a sea of fans dressed in their orange and black, more like a ghost town down there, number coming up in 6 00, the neighborhood businesses, taking a big hit this baseball season. New drone video just into the kpix 5 newsroom of a fivealarm blaze that burned through half a dozen San Francisco buildings. And, covered a large swath of the bay area in smoke. It took nearly half the citys total Fighter Force to get control of the flames. Olson walker has the latest from the scene, near 13th and folsom. What can you tell us right now . Reporter as you can see behind me they are still putting water on what is left of what has burned. About six buildings, we are told, have been lost. They are predominately commercial buildings. Although one apparently did house three people. This was a fire that started around 6 30, and it got going very fast. I just came out of my bedroom, and saw this. I was on the second floor, so looking right at it and it was crazy. Black smoke, it was apocalyptic. Reporter right outside of the window, a column of smoke that towered over the city from a fire that was quickly on his way to fivealarm the Fire Department was incredibly responsive. It appeared to be out of control from the beginning. I got here on a second alarm, it was fully engulfed. We actually had transformers falling on the ground. I had to back everybody up, we had to reposition. Reporter the deputy chief of operations had 160 firefighters and 60 pieces of equipment on hand for this, but what he really needed was more water, once crews drew pass the capacity of neighborhood hydrants. We started using the High Pressure system, we used our jones street tank and we went up to the other tank and we are flowing water all the way from twin peaks down here. We have 100 million gallons going. Reporter in the path of the fire was the Sheriffs Department Field Operations building, their ammunitions storage was pulled out as a precaution, but the flames were stopped before the fire could burn the entire length of the block. Our members have done an incredible job out here. And, this is what we trained for. Reporter this was a major fire, requiring about half of the citys on duty firefighting force,a remiofwhkind ofsources e to stop one large fire that is spreading quickly. Really, really fast. I put my phone, cell phone against the window. And, the phone warmed up. Reporter remember, by the citys own estimate a magnitude 7 earthquake could start more than 100 significant fires in the city. Something to think about. One firefighter was injured, taken to the hospital. He is going to be fine. We are getting a briefing in just a moment, here, from firefighters about what they have learned over the last couple of hours that they have been poking around in here. We will have the latest for you on that investigation. Coming up in 6 00. Wilson walker, kpix 5. Thank you, not to get an idea of how much destruction was done, here is a google satellite image of what that lock used to look like. And this was the view this afternoon from chopper 5. But, the image is sidebyside and there was a black hole where the building used to be. Chief meteorologist paul heggen can show his condition steadily improving . The farther the smoke blows away the more it gets mixed around in the air. Just a little ways down wind, it drops to just the plane plain old unhealthy category. Things did trigger the unhealthy category around oakland, but down to the lower categories, moderate, for concord and pleasanton. And, the current air quality has improved in most locations. Still, moderate around the site of the fire, moderate in concord, but the more the wind has been blowing around the more it has helped to distribute the atmosphere. We dont expect airquality issues tomorrow, green across the board for wednesday. We take a look at how the fog is going to behave as it goes back and forth tonight and tomorrow coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, we first brought you the breaking news of that fire live updates from the Fire Department on cbsn bay area. You can stay uptodate by streaming on kpix5. Com and on digital platforms. A fire forced lane closures along both roots, that fire is now mostly out. As for the traffic backup, we are still seeing some pretty significant delays along eastbound 4, northbound 24 northbound willow pass as well, please avoid that area if you can. Drivers are told to avoid the area as crews doused the flames on a steep hillside. Crews from fremont, alameda county, and calfire put out the fire. A solemn Memorial Services right now happening in gilroy marking to the year and day and hour the gilroy garlic shooting. We have the details on this. Reporter the community is certainly coming together here at Christmas Hill park in the city of gilroy. The scene of the deadly mass shooting this time last year. But, in speaking with people throughout the Community Today you really get the sense that the community has been coming together ever since this terrible tragedy. A memorial now stands near the spot where one year ago today, shots rang out at the gilroy garlic festival. A palm tree and garden is a tribute to the three people who were killed when a gunman cut through a fence and fired an Assault Rifle into the crowd. Gilroy mayor says the city is trying to move past that terrible event. Today we raised the gilroy strong flag to represent the strength and the resilience each and every one of you has shown this last year. This flag represents our collective spirit, and desire, to rise above senseless acts of violence. Reporter days after the shooting, this gilroy silk screener started putting gilroy strong on tshirts. I believe within two or three days, we had already raised about 10,000, just between us. Reporter it is part of the overall 1. 9 million gilroy has raised for the victims. Ongoing tshirt sales at the garlic shop are raising money to support survivors. There are lots of people who have ptsd who did not realize it. They are 20, 30, 50 feet away and they did not realize how much they were affected until some people, six months, a year after. Reporter it would be easy for a town to just turn the page, but not here. Most shops still show some display of support. Photos of the victims are still on full display. 25yearold trevor irby, 13 yearold keyla salazar, and 6 yearold stephen romero. We want them to know, you know, we are praying for them, their families and everybody who has been affected. Reporter gilroy strong means the community is going to come back with the garlic festival next year and beyond. We cannot wait for 2021 in hopes that the festival can come up and we can do it again. Reporter the memorial is just Getting Started here, although there are many empty seats because a lot of people are taking shelter under the shade in this sweltering day, here in the city of gilroy. Many of the people in attendance are Law Enforcement personnel, First Responders who came out here and rendered first up. Some of the officers including Gilroy Police officers, who shot it out with the 19year old gunman. The gunman did take his own life. Contra costa county says it cannot take criminal action on the people not compliant with the health orders. They will impose fines on people disregarding the orders. For noncommercial violators, the fine will range from 100 500 but witnesses face up to 1000 fines. The state wants to get a better picture of who coronavirus is affecting and how. It is requiring labs and Healthcare Providers to report data on patients Sexual Orientation and gender identity as well as race and ethnicity. Officials say the goal is to learn all they can about the virus. To use this data to effectively see how interventions are working and what more we need to do in california to not just address covid19, but also to close disparities. California saw 6000 new cases in the last 24 hours. It is the lowest level in three weeks. There were 73 new deaths, which is less than the four team day average of 99. Hospitalizations are up 2. 4 . Today the u. S. Attorney general spent nearly 5 hours in the hot seat before the house judiciary committee. He fiercely defended officers response to protesters in portland. Since when is it okay to try and burn down a federal court. Is that okay . Is that okay . Now . No, the u. S. Marshals have a duty to stop that and defend the courthouse, and that is what we are doing in portland. Democrats accuse reed of using federal officers to help the president look tough on crime, saying that they came in after protests began to wind down. There is also an Intense Exchange on the issue of racial bias against police. We agree there is systemic racism in the police department. Generally in this country. You seem to have a difficult time understanding systemic racism and institutional racism. On the idea of defunding police, attorney general barr and House Republicans defended President Trumps policies, barr said he is more concerned that police be adequately funded. Still ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, the Vice President gets ready to announce his vp. But he may have been beaten to the punch. The social media post making waves. Why the president s son was just put on a twitter timeout. A potential medical breakthrough, how scientists are getting closer to [narrator] did you just reward yourself for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Rewarded get a free delivery perk when you order. [group] grubhub. An extra 15 credit on car and motorcycle policies . Wow. Ok thats 15 on top of what geico could already save you. So what are you waiting for . Idina menzel to sing your own theme song . Tara, tara, look at her go with a fresh cup of joe. Gettin down to work early following her dreams into taxidermy oh, its. Tax attorney. I read that wrong, oh yeeaaaah geico. Save an extra 15 percent when you switch by october 7th. Give it up for tara new at 5 00, the white house announcing it will not accept new applications for so called dreamers, the Trump Administration says it will also limit renewals to one year instead of two. In 2017, President Trump tried to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, known as daca. The Supreme Court rejected that plan, but the administration is looking for other ways to end the obama era program. It protects some 700,000 people from deportation. The state of california is now suing the president over the census, specifically how the administration plans to use the numbers to decide representation in congress. The white house plan would exclude some californians. At least one congressional seat would be at stake, if that population is omitted. State attorney general says that would deny california from having its full representation in congress, and funding at a local level. It would try to deny californians their taxpayer money that they contributed to the u. S. Treasury coming back to their communities. For our schools, for our highways. For our firefighters. For our First Responders. For our parks. California join cities of oakland, long beach and los angeles in that lawsuit. Twitter is restricting donald trump jr. s account after he shared posts that violate the misinformation policy. It featured a doctor making false claims about coronavirus cures, and said masks are not necessary to prevent the virus spreading. The clip was published by right wing media outlet right partners. Twitter says the account will be restricted for at least 12 hours. To campaign 2020, Presumptive Democratic president ial nominee joe biden says he will pick a Vice President ial running mate by next week. Political says this text was published by mistake and has been removed. Also today the former Vice President detailed the proposal to advance Racial Equity in the u. S. It is about rising to this moment of crisis, understanding peoples struggles. And, holding a future, worthy of their courage, and their ambition. He has shown that he cant beat the pandemic, and keep you safe. He cant turn the economy around and get back to work. The Racial Equity plan would devote 30 billion to bolster small businesses, the housing plan includes up to 15,000 refundable tax credit for first time homebuyers to combat racial inequity in housing markets. Time to check the weather, a little blew in noe s, miniries, ise sky over head. It was spread back out as we head through tonight, spreading pretty far inland like this morning we will start off with widespread fog and low cloud cover. Even drizzle along the coast. But, that will give way to the blue skies returning downtown. Not along the coast. Near normal temperatures wednesday and thursday, before we start to warm up on friday, and a much more noticeable warming trend especially for inland portions over the weekend. Temperatures well in the 90s but not today. 60s around the water, 61 downtown, 61 in oakland, 70s and 80s inland, mid to upper 70s in san jose and santa rosa. The warm spot in the upper 80s in livermore and in concord but not quite up to 90 degrees, livermore touched 90 this afternoon. The fog is already beginning to spread farther and farther to the east. It is going to spread pretty far inland, futurecast indicating narrow visibility into the east bay as we head into tomorrow morning and into the Santa Clara Valley as well. The valleys of the north bay are seeing somebody too. It backs up as we head through the day on wednesday, not off the coast. Race guys overhead once again, right along the coast but for the rest of us the blue skies should return pretty quickly. Temperatures tonight dropping down into the mid to upper 50s in most locations. Very similar to what temperatures have been over the past several nights. Cool spot in the valleys of the north bay, low 50s there. Low 50s right along the coast. Noticeable breeze tomorrow, but it is not going to be an overly windy day. By bay area standards. Wind gust in the 15 to 20 mile perhour range by noon, but those are the strongest wind gusts, not the sustained wind. It is breezy out there right now but tomorrow it looks like it will be just a notch lower on the windy scale. 20 to 25 mileperhour gusts by tomorrow afternoon and evening. The fire danger is always something we have to monitor. With temperatures remaining near or below normal, that does help to elevate the relative humidity a bit. We will take whatever help we can get. Temperatures in the low to mid 60s and 70s around the bay, barely above 60 degrees around the coast. Lebron throughout the day, mid to upper 70s around the south end of the bay, low 80s for san east in solano, contra costa, alameda county, mid to upper 70s for the north bay, napa should be a couple degrees warmer topping out in the low 80s. We to warm up steadily as we head to the end of the work week which happens to mark the end of july and the first weekend of august will feel like it. Low to mid 90s in the inland area. Low 70s around the bay, over the weekend with mid 60s around the coast. Sounds good, thank. The simple blood test could be a game changer for diagnosing alzheimers disease. An original report at 5 30, we discover some san jose gyms are open for business in defiance of the shut down. The mixed messages about violations. Before we go to break we want to share your giants pride on this home opener day. Here is a look at some super it aut. You can make a difference today. By completing the 2020 census. Th by completischools. 020 census. Public transportation. And most importantly, our representation in government. It gives us an opportunity to be heard. Its easy. Its only 10 questions. So do you part. Go to 2020census. Gov and complete the census today. What are you waiting for . Some very good news on the medical front, a newly developed blood test for alzheimers disease is now within reach. Elizabeth cook with what could be a huge breakthrough. Reporter during this pandemic, casey county was worried, her mother was hospitalized and delirious. Could she have alzheimers . It was something that was really scary because she was really confused. She didnt recognize us. Reporter the delirium passed, her mom was fine but it hit home. That is something that is, you know, awful. It really is a very difficult process. It is a process of ruling out. Reporter this 56yearold knows firsthand. She became forgetful. They were looking at head injuries that i got as a kid. They were looking at potential side effects of being postmenopausal. Reporter after a year of multiple tests including an expensive p. E. T. Scan, she was finally diagnosed with alzheimers. Now, a simple blood test may take the guesswork out, a new study published found the experimental test is highly accurate at distinguishing patients with alzheimers from those who have another condition. This is one of the major breakthroughs, certainly of the decade. Reporter this doctor is an expert in alzheimers disease. The test uses a method to detect and measure certain proteins, associated with the degenerative brain disorder. It is very important, it is not a treatment, not a cure. That is what we really need. We need treatments and cures and ways to prevent alzheimers disease. But, we cant treat a disease unless you can diagnose it. Reporter she is hopeful blood tests like these will help to accelerate research into treatments and cures. This is a game changer. I mean, we are going from, you Walking Around in the dark to having the lights turned on. Reporter she agrees. This is something that could potentially save a lot of lives. And be a good fix for family members all across the u. S. Reporter many other blood tests are now in development and experts believe we may see this test in the clinic in just a few years. By the way, the study was funded in part by the Alzheimers Association walked, but the coronavirus has taken a big hit on that fundraising. More local news at 5 30, including a kpix 5 original report. All gyms are supposed to be closed, but we found some in san jose, open. And, operating in plain sight. Family, pleading for answers. How did a men end up on fire on the side of highway 101. The confrontation, hours before. New research outlines six distinct ty lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att youre watchingws right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, more local news at 5 30. We begin right now with a live picture from gilroy, that city, coming together to remember lives lost and those injured in the garlic festival shooting. A special ceremony just underway, within the past 15 minutes. A family pleading for help, solving a mystery in a south bay. How did a men end up on fire on this highway of 101 . Despite a rise in the covid 19 cases and death across the bay area, we discovered some gym owners in san jose are defying orders and operating in plain sight. Good evening, i am veronica de la cruz. I am alan martin. When we started asking questions we learned there are mixed messages about shutdown violations. Maria medina with an original report. Reporter hi, i am maria with kpix 5 i
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.