Hall of fame pitching great, tom sieber has died from complications of dementia and coronavirus. He was 75 years old, best known for being one of the stars of the miracle mets in new york in 1969. Sieber and his wife own sieber vineyards. We will have more on his death coming up tonight at 11 00. Also right now on kpix 5 news at 7 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a Police Officer in san leandro facing manslaughter charges after shooting and killing a man with a bat inside walmart. Good evening, i am elizabeth cook. Sandra oconnor was there two hours ago when the District Attorney laid out the evidence. I spoke with the grandmother Stephen Taylor over the phone this afternoon. She said i know you cant see me, but can you hear me smiling . She was thrilled and relieved these charges were filed. Also, i chatted with kat brooks who is with the antipolice project. Her response was whoa, she was frankly shocked that these charges were filed. Get back down, drop the bat, man. Drop the bat. Drop the bat. [ sound of gunfire ] shots fired, shots fired. Reporter the shooting happened april 18th. Police got a call of a man waving a bat and may have been suffering a mental episode. When the first officer arrived, he ordered taylor to put down the back back. When taylor does not comply, a taser was deployed twice, followed by a fatal gunshot. Today, the Alameda County District Attorney Nancy Omalley announcing her office has filed manslaughter charges against the Police Officer Jason Fletcher for killing Stephen Taylor. A thorough review of the statement of witnesses and involved Police Officers physical evidence and a review of multiple videos of the shooting shows that at the time of the shooting, it was not reasonable to conclude mr. Stephen taylor posed an imminent threat of death or Great Bodily Injury to anyo in the store. Reporter police chief jeff tutor have now referred all comments to the District Attorneys office. The family and its attorney are planning to speak formally about this tomorrow. In san leandro , kpix 5. New details now on the salon visit that nancy pelosi claims was a set up. Kpix s kenny troy has the Intense Exchange with the House Speaker. Reporter the House Speaker says this salon behind us is the one that owes of her an apology, but is taking ultimate responsibility in what she believes is a set up. This video of Speaker Nancy Pelosi inside a San Francisco salon was supposed to be close to not wearing a mask has become a distraction and fodder for her political opponents. I will not let this subject take away omfa that we have 180,000 plus people who have died from this virus. Reporter she visited the elementary school, urging those senate to pass the h. E. R. O. E. S. Act, which aims to open school with visit billions of dollars in funding. The subject quickly turned to a recent visit at a salon. As it turns out, it was a set up. I take responsibility for falling for a set of. Reporter we asked her to explain what she is now calling a set up. It is my understanding you reached out to a salon. Thats all im going to do. That is all im going to answer. Do you have any questions about the fact that people are dying . Orteen sed si on say she noy to e the salon to take in one customer at a time. The salon is saying they are able to do this, and they are not, they should not have said that and they should not have been open for me to go there. We trusted a neighborhood salon that ive been to for years. She went there knowing that it was closed and they were going to do her hair on the side. For sure, she should have an apology. It is unfortunate that this conversation has kind of blown up in the way that it has and distracted us from the real issue. Reporter we reached out to city officials about this incident and whether the salon would be issued a citation. Kpix 5 has learned from a ct source that because they believe this is a first occurrence, neither the speaker or letter e salon will be issued a citation. In San Francisco, kenny choi kpix 5. We just received a statement from the lawyer representing the stylist. He says quote, the fact that the owner is not objecting to Speaker Pelosis presence at the salon and from a simple surface level review of the owners political leanings, it appears the owner is furthering a set up of Speaker Pelosi for her own vein aspirations. Before live views over San Francisco tonight, the sun did actually come out over San Francisco today. Not too much smoke either. Chief meteorologist paul heggen is here. Paul, the bad air will be around for a while it sounds like. It is just a matter of how bad it is going to be. It will fluctuate hour by hour, daytoday. In general, there will be some smoke around the bay area for the next several days and possibly even weeks. The trouble spots today, the usual locations we are tracking in the north bay. In the trivalley and santa clara valley, this is 1 00 this afternoon. Watch the dots change a little as we head throughout the day. We saw improvements in air quality gradually. Again, it is not great, but at least it has been trending in a better direction, especially in the center santa clara valley. That is some of the worst air quality around the entire bay area. Not just a spotty atmosphere, also heat the building. Labor day, we will get up to triple digit territory. This is not the hottest day in the sevenday forecast. We will check tomorrows air quality outlook in just a few minutes. With the weather heating up this Holiday Weekend, lots of people are going to want to hit the beach. As we take a live look at pacifica, at 7 00, two popular destinations have very different strategies this time around. Reporter that is right, elizabeth. I am here in pacifica, where if you want to come to the beach this Holiday Weekend, youre out. Chlike the of ising it is o ty as an impending heatwave collides, anyone looking to cool off will have to cross the beach of the pacifica off their list. The beaches and beach parking lots are close from sunrise saturday morning to sunrise tuesday morning. Pacificas mayor says it is about keeping the vulnerable in her community said. Some people will travel from far away to come and congregate in groups outside of their families. We were initially stopping those folks from coming in congregating with folks they might not normallyhave. Reporter half of the bay is taking the other approach, saying other agencies on the city coastline marshaling enough people to close the beaches was another problem. The mayor says he worries about the city getting flooded with beachgoers squeezed out of other cities. I could not find the right answer, just straight up. I could argue both sides of what to do and probably other sides as well. Reporter king people looking to cool off now to abandon all coronavirus best practices once they hit the sand and hit local businesses. If people wear masks, wash their hands and take care of the social distancing guidelines. We are hoping we can get through this weekend without increasing the spread of the virus. Reporter beachgoers in pacifica were resigned to another beach free holiday. I think it kind of sucks in a way because we want to be with our friends and family. I think it is a bummer, unfortunately. It would be nice to have it opened for everyone. Reporter now, it is only wednesday before this threeday Holiday Weekend we have coming up. We have not heard yet if we will have more countywide closures like we saw on the fourth of july or if the state will mandate closures at beaches like we saw again on the fourth of july. Again, it is only wednesday. Things could change your life in pacifica tonight, kpix 5. Get ready to run through the neighbors lawn sparklers or something i suppose. Rnplan [ laug ] sound good. [ laughter ] up next, the bay area businesses taking a big gamble tonight by taking their operations outdoors. If there is a safe, legal way for them to operate outdoors, nobrainer. Absolutely. Why is the ucs decision so important, it is very important because the uc sets the tone so much for the rest of the country. What the uc system just got rid of after using it for admissions after decades. Reporter one famous musician is at it again. Just how high up did he go . Coming up new at 11 00 tonight, wireless carriers aggressively expanding their 5g networks. Just how safe is that technology . The debate heats up again in palo alto as residence discover a 5g tower on the street and a 4g tower on a roof. My parents and other residents have never had this disclosed to them ever. 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Now checking in on the progress fire crews are making as they battled fires around the bay area. The scu and the l in you complexes are roughly 75 contained. Crews finally at the Halfway Point of putting out the cz you fire. Crews have been able to more closely the damage now. Cal fire says more than 1400 structures were destroyed in the lnu fire. 228 were damaged. Meanwhile, nearly 1500 structures have been destroyed by the czu complex in Santa Cruz County so far. That is more than were destroyed in the county in 1989, during the loma prieta earthquake. Lets take a live look at outside and check on the conditions in san jose in the south bay tonight. Things are gradually improving, but still you can see some of the haze and smoke out there. You can actually see the hills in the distance. That is a bit of a change from the past several days. Hey, weve got to focus on the positive news wherever we can find. The air quality is not great, but at least it is getting a little bit better in time for a heat dont to develop and push that smoke on the ground level. This area of High Pressure weighing down on us. It is still in the process of strengthening. It has not reached peak intensity just yet. It is not in the prime position to send that hot air towards us neither. It will be. Sunday and monday look like the peak of the latest heatwave with triple digit temperatures likely in land. Near the bay and on the coast, does not look like the offshore wind will develop and lead to a labor day heatwave of three years ago in 2015. We can be thankful for that. The more yellow dots on the map then orange this weekend, but still for sensitive groups it will be a little thick in the north. On the east side of the bay we had some of the worst air quality to start that he gets noticed toward san jose. Looking toward downtown, we are seeing that marine layer making its way and plenty of smoke. Temperatures are in the 60s and the sun is not even down yet. It goes down in about 16 minutes. Temperatures will continue dropping down. It will be 72 degrees in concord. Temperatures will drop and low fog will spread inland through tonight. A similar pattern through the past several days. It backs up near the coast, but not off the coast by tomorrow afternoon. Gray skies overhead for at least one more day, probably friday as well. Temperatures start off in the mid50s to around 60 degrees. Hour by hour thursday, a slow warmup. The fog is still in place and temperatures start jumping a little where the fog is cleared out, only in the 70s by lunchtime. Not bad at all for early september. High temperatures similar to what we had today, a couple of degrees warmer inside, mid to upper 60s around the bay, mid to upper 70s for most of the santa clara valley. Same thing for the north bay, mid to upper 70s. The pollen count is going to be in the medium high category tomorrow. Same thing as we head into the weekend. If you are sensitive, the wheat pollen, grass pollen and now elm pollen is in the atmosphere too. Here is our excessive heat watch on saturday. The peak of the heat will be sunday and monday with triple digit heat likely for inland portions of the bay area and even around the bay. Temperatures will be well into the 70s saturday and into the 80s for sunday and labor day on monday. Our temperatures back off a little as we head mac toward the middle of next week. Ill have more on that forecast at 11 00. Here is a look at your top headlines. A live look at the white house. A bombshell report from the New York Post claims President Trump is ordering the feds to start defunding certain cities, specifically those that solve major civil unrest and clashes with police. The report says the funding cuts would affect new york city, seattle, portland, and washington, d. C. The report also claims according to the trump administration, Public Officials allow lawless protests and cut Police Funding amid rising violent crime. Joe biden and President Trump turned their attention to the battleground states today from wilmington, delaware. Biden tore into the president s response into the pandemic, saying federal disaster money is needed to safely reopen schools. In wilmington north carolina, the president again gave the impression the pandemic is nearly over. President trump still does not have any real plans of how to open our schools safely. He is offering nothing but failure and delusions. We are rounding the turn, vaccines are happening, therapeutics are happening. A famous magician is at it again. Check out David Blaines latest stunt. He has strapped himself to dozens of helium balloons today to see how high he can fly. He performed this latest stunt called ascension in the arizona desert. Blaine was in the start sky for about an hour. Dont look down. He floated up about 25,000 feet before then skydiving back to earth. He actually had to become a licensed hot air balloon pilot to do that. I was wondering if anytime during the flight he was like, i should have stuck to that hot air balloon. At one point he was probably going, what was i thinking . He missed the landing spot, but he came back safely. [ laughter ]s daughter appreciates that too. Up next, if you went to college, you most likely took it. The Admission Test that no longer matters for certain california colleges. I think it sort of reproduces the same classes issues with university admission. Also, some of the most complex outdoor operations we have seen to date. Where it is happening in the bay area. Later, the niners hate seeing this, the in san jose, going all in on getting back to business. We were there as tenants was set up in the parking lot at bay 101 casino incident has a in san jose. The cards will be sanitized or even set aside for 7 days after each dealer rotation. The chips must also be disinfectant. As for players, they must keep six feet away. If there is a safe, legal way for them to operate outdoors , nobrainer, absolutely. I think it will add a different dynamic. Like Everything Else in the world, we are adapting with it. I think it is becoming the norm. I dont see it throwing a damper on the experience or affecting things. I think it will be just finerk t. And s. A. T. Tests are out at cal and other ucs after a ruling yesterday. Some students have complained the tests are unfair to people who cant afford prep courses. One College Advisor says students who want to go to uc should take as many ap courses as possible and pursue outside interests and hobbies. Why is the uc decision so important . It is really important because the uc set the tone for so much of the rest of the country. Colleges will have to hire a vast amount of readers or start looking at applications in more depth. I am all for getting rid of the s. A. T. Requirement. I think it sort of reproduces the same classist issues with university admissions. In november, voters will weigh in on whether to bring back affirmative action at public universities in the state. Up next, okay, niner fans, we hate seeing this. Yes, it is Patrick Mahomes behind the mask. The rest of the Kansas City Chiefs all have their super bowl rings. 255 diamonds, 10 1 2 carats. If youre keeping score at home there. Head coach, andy reid, plans to cash in wearing his ring around town. You wear it for special occasions or if you want a free cheeseburger. You show them the ring and you might get one. Mahomes did not want his longtime girlfriend left out. He proposed at last nights theremin and gave her a great big diamond. There is we made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. An army family who is always at the ready. 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