Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, take a live look outside from our camera on top of the kpix 5 area, looking at the bay bridge. It is thursday, september third. I am anne makovec. I am i am len keise. Mary lee has you covered. Good morning, we are looking at unhealthy air, one of the worst spots for parts of the north bay this morning. You can see those red dots hitting the heai it is unhealthy for most of the bay area and the rest of the bay area we have that spare the air alert and we are going a record 17 days in a row with a spare the air alert in effect for our region. Looking at temperatures, they are below average, mid 60s in San Francisco, upper 60s in oakland, 77 in san jose and 84 for concord. We will talk about the hot Holiday Weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. As we take a first check on the roadways on this thursday morning, it is a biggie start. There is a big rig accident. There are delays along 880. On the northbound side, around the 23rd avenue, the right lane is blocked. Chp is going to the scene. We have slow and go conditions through that area and it looks better through eagle and. They have a busy right out of tracy into the Allatoona Pass and coming up, i will have a look at the drive times for those hot spots. Back to you. Today, we expect to hear from the family of a black man shot and killed by police at a San Leandro Walmart in april. The officer has been charged with manslaughter. Jason fletcher was called to the store after workers confronted Stephen Taylor for allegedly trying to leave without paying for some things. Body cam video shows him ordering him to drop something before officer fletcher deployed a taser, followed by that fatal gunshot. It did not amount to voluntary manslaughter. It is at least seconddegree murder. The District Attorney Nancy Omalley would not discuss why her office opted for a letter manslaughter charge. She did say the crimint wad ter thorough investigation. Officer fletchers options, captured with his failure with other deescalation options, rendered his use of force unreasonable. Officer fletcher was expected to be arraigned on september 15th. We reached out to his defense attorney but we have not heard back. State lawmakers are concerned thieves are committing widespread fraud against the unemployment system. A growing number of people have been receiving dozens of letters from the ed and their concerns that they are using random addresses to file false claims. A Bipartisan Group is demanding an emergency audit. Im not going to make a claim that it is an inside job but i am getting close. Let me tell you why. We have got to find out whether or not the ring is inside or outside. The edd claimed it is aware of the problems and is working with investigators to prosecute scammers. The hairstylist involved in Nancy Pelosis controversial visit to a San Francisco salon is backing the house speakers claim and says the salon owner said the whole thing up. Jonathan denardo said erica are approved the appointment during a conversation, they say that she made several comments, criticizing the house speaker. Video surfaced of pelosi getting her hair washed and blowdried indoors monday when salons were not allowed to reopen. The salon, they were able to do this and they are not, then they should not have said that they should not have been open for me to go there, but we trusted a neighborhood salon that i have been to for years. In one interview with fox nose, erica kious denied it was a setup. She had called the stylist. Department was already booked. There is no way i couldve set that up. If she is in there comfortably without a mask and feeling safe, then why are we shut down . She said she had been violating the order for months before the house speakers visit and said it appears that she is furthering the setup with Speaker Pelosi for her own aspirations. Now checking in on the progress fire crews are making as they battled those wildfires around the area. The scu and the lnu complex fires are more than 76 contained. Crews are nearly at the Halfway Point of putting out the czu fire theyve been able to closely access the damage and cal fire says more than 1400 structures were destroyed in the lnu fire and 231 were damaged. Nearly 1500 structures were destroyed by the czu complex in Santa Cruz County so far and that is more structures than were destroyed in the county in the 1989 earthquake. Some bay area schools are giving the green light to allow students back into the classroom. Creekside in san jose is one of only two individual schools so far to get the okay in santa clara county. They also gave the green light to three other school districts. Dozens more are being reviewed. In san mateo county, 14 private and Charter Schools saw their waiver is approved. We have had parents calling us today, saying we are so excited. Were looking at things like testing protocol for teachers, and their Contact Tracing protocols and their Face Covering policies. The countys office of education must give the okay if they meet the state requirements and the other way they can reopen as if they are in the states red tier for at least two weeks. Starting friday, you can get your hair cut indoor rain Alameda County in hair salons and barber shops will reopen inside with modifications under their new reopening plan. Malls can also reopen at 25 capacity. To campaign 2020, joe biden has attacked President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic again as americans are being urged to stay socially distanced this Labor Day Weekend. Laura podesta has the latest. Reporter Colorado College is switching to Remote Learning after multiple infections forced the students to quarantine in their dorms. The alternative was quarantining. In miamidade florida some could not get online due to cyber attacks. Some of them came from outside of the country. Joe biden blamed President Donald Trump for the struggles of schools are having. No real plan for how to help parents, how to help them feel secure for the children. He is offering nothing but failure and delusions. In north carolina, President Donald Trump remained optimistic, saying that the battle with the virus is nearly over there. They gave a letter from the centers for Disease Control and prevention asking the governors make plans to distribute potentially hundreds of millions of vaccine doses. The letter that the target november first, two days before the president ial election. Please, wear your mask. With Labor Day Weekend approaching, Health Officials are concerned that americans will repeat the mistakes of memorial day when large crowds lead to spikes around the country. A stay socially distanced, it means at all times including the family members. You may not have seen it for a few weeks. Dr. Deborah birx says College Students who have been in crowds without masks just think twice before going back home. Laura podesta, cbs news. A look at the white house now, a bombshell report from the New York Post claims President Donald Trump is ordering the feds to start defunding certain cities. Specifically, those that saw major civil unrest in clashes with police. They say the funding cuts were for seattle, washington dc, and others. They also claimed that according to the trump administration, Public Officials allowed a lawless protest and cut funding. A Police Officer recovering this morning after being shot during a training exercise. Police were in a tow yard in stockton, using it as a Training Ground when a shot rang out. They were not sure right away whether the suspect was on the loose or what was going on, so police descended onto anderson stone yard in the front officers in training already there. We are trying to get that now. It turns out a rookie officer accidentally discharged their weapon, hitting a training officer. The officer is going to be okay but i do not think things look that great for the rookie. Still coming up, streaming on cbsn bay area, one mans crusade t buffals. Y he wants to change their p. Ea area and kpix 5 you need to delete the old app and download the new one. Lilyveryone he use is oe andough bdwidth ideoth at t fiber. Hbed. Club. Et 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 one bay area city is betting big on outdoor gambling but will customers want to go . We wanted to ask about the casino in san jose. The card games are going to look different. Cards will be sanitized or set aside for seven days after each dealer rotation. Chips must also be disinfected and asked for players, they have to keep six feet apart and some tables will have clear barriers. One mans crusade against buffalo wings now. We are breaking down Different Things in the money watch report. Reporter wall street turned in one of its best days since july on wednesday. The dow rallied for the 54 points and the nasdaq jumped 116 and the s p 500 gained 54. The Balance Sheet is expected to soar to a record. According to the congressional budget office, the deficit is going to pop up 3. 3 trillion. That is more than triple last years balance. The watchdog says the economic downturn has added more than 2 trillion to the federal ledger. The potential for unrest around the election is a concern for mark zuckerberg. In one interview with cbs this morning, gayle king talked to zuckerberg and they said that they want to make sure that candidates do not ill beincount they might not decide on november third because of the delay in counting malin and absentee ballots. And the nebraska man is waging war against boneless buffalo wings. In one video that has gone viral, ander christensen asked the council to rename the appetizer, arguing that it does not come from a wing and he wants them known as buffalo Style Chicken tenders or spicy mugs. They have responded with a wanted poster for christiansen for slander. I am diane king hall. He has a point, right . They want to make sure the power grid does not buckle under the strain of the hot weather forecast. They have been ordered to delay the routine maintenance, generating as much electricity as possible during the heat wave. With all that heat, many people will want to go to the beach this how late we cant but do not go to pacifica. They are using it. Further south, Half Moon Bay is keeping its beaches open. It is just about 4 46. Some beaches are open and some are closed and the open ones are probably twice as crowded. What do you think . Oh, yeah, for sure, especially it will be so hot over the Holiday Weekend so were looking at extreme heat expected as we go through saturday, sunday, and for labor day. Here is a look with our Mount Hamilton camera from the lake observatory. You can see the hazy start our day. We have foggy conditions as well as that smoke in our air. Temperatures are in the upper 50s to low 60s. It is 60 in concord, oakland is 59, 57 in San Francisco, 61 for san jose and looking at 57 for santa rosa. Checking air quality conditions, many locations are good to moderate but the trouble spot, one of the worst spots, is in parts of the north bay. Taking you through the peninsula down through the south bay, those yellow dots indicate moderate air quality for the east bay and the tri valley looking at moderate air quality this morning as well as for concord and walnut creek and bell and around the bay, San Francisco to oakland is starting off the day with moderate air but you can see two our north, from larkspur and other areas indicate unhealthy air this morning, so that is the worst of it as we start off hour day. Now lets show you our spare the air alert that remains in effect were talking a record 17 days in a row with that spare the air alert for us. This is the longest stretch of spare the air alert for the bay area. We have never seen this before. The new record today, 17 days in a row and that breaks the old record of 14 days in a row in 2018 during the camp fire. This heat dome is building for us and the ridge of high pressure, were talking triple digit heat for them inland, so it is going to get stronger as we look to saturday, sunday, and labor day. Because of that, there is next at the heat watch in effect. So daytime highs for the south they are looking at 77 in san jose and for the east bay, topping out at 83 around concord and pleasant hill, mid 60s in San Francisco and for the north bay, mid to upper 70s. As we look at temperatures slightly warmer for tomorrow, we are heating up for the Holiday Weekend with that triple digit heat inland. Lets check in with gianna for look at traffic. Good morning, i want to take you straight to san jose, where a very active scene is still happening. It happened just before 2 00. Crews are on scene because of this crash involving one vehicle. It was taken earlier but San Jose Police are there. That area is completely shut down. Apparently, this vehicle went into a tree and then caught fire. Fire crews were able to get one person out of the vehicle. That person was then transported to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. In the meantime, there is a traffic closure. It is still active for the investigation. Eastbound lanes will be closed. Try to avoid that area if you can. There is still a lot going on through there. And then we have a crash around 23rd avenue involving the big rig and two other vehicles. It is slower and there are slow and go speeds on the southbound side of 880. Looks better through oakland but that is not the case for 580. We have brake lights out of tracy westbound to 205 and it extends all the way to north flynn. It is a busy start for the super commuters. And then a broken down vehicle is on the san mateo bridge, slowing things down just a bit. That is a look at your morning drive. 10 minutes before by the clock, this is a stunt that seems like something straight out of a dream that david blaine did. He strapped himself to dozens of helium balloons to see how high he could fly and there you go. He performed the stunt called ascension in the arizona desert. He was in the sky for about an hour and he floated about 25,000 feet before skydiving back to earth. Straightahead, the giants have the day off. They need to regroup. I have that and the nba getting heated. We also are talking about Oklahoma City and the rockets. They had a win or go home situation. It was game seven. Here is a live look outside on this thursday. We like to call it friday eve. Remember, we want to bring you the good news happening in the bay area. Go to i am michelle griego. We will hey, my twitter is blowing up dear jack box, bring back the spicy chicken strips, still waiting for the spicy chicken strips, so many about spicy chicken strips. Wow, i hear you. So im bringing back my juicy 100 allwhite meat spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99 is it the juicy 100 allwhite meat . Or because you can spice them up or cool them down . Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back really bad. Get my spicy chicken strips combo for only 5. 99. We are looking at the roadways. It is a busy ride. We have a crash involving a big rig and a couple vehicles. Chp is clearing lanes and we have delays in both directions. Especially on the southbound side. Coming up, a major crash in san jose. I will have details on that. I have baseball laptop with the giants. They are in the top eight to make the playoffs. With a 22 games left in the regular season, guess who is my by half a game . I am not sugarcoating it. Yesterday hurt. They had a 61 lead and they threw it away at the rockies. We have mike who swung on and is gone. He had his eighth homer. The giants jumped up to a 61 lead but this is coors field. This is where leads go to die. He has a clutch hit and they are down 65. And then they have 76 game. The rockies won 96 and that is why the giant trail colorado by half a game for the last playoff spot in the national league. The giants hope the diamondbacks the picture for arizona is coming on saturday. They are winless with and an e north of nine. They will play against the padres. And this is james harden and his rockets playing against Oklahoma City. The loser went home. There are 90 synods left and talker has a shot to put the rockets up by one. Same score, five seconds left, one worker blocks it. Effort and hustle and houston advances 104102. They will next face the lakers. Then this game against milwaukee, they are down to six with seconds left. It is a threepoint game now. He was fouled. That is three free throws. And that next possession, jimmy missed a quarter chopper. He was blocked. As time expired, they cannot believe it. Butler did it. He had a pair of free throws and they won 116114 and now have a 20 bestofseven series lead on the top seed in the east. And now some soccer. He is down south taking on la fc and they are up 30 and the ball was deflected off san jose. That is how it went last night for the earthquakes on the losing end of a 51 game they are 02 since the restart. That is what i have this morning. I have more later on in the day. Have a good one. We will see you soon. Coming up, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a big change for admission at uc schools are looking at an expert about what your child needs to do to set themselves apart. A Police Officer has been charged after shooting and killing a 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 live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, and officer who shot a man at least bay walmart is now facing charges. The criticism that the charge might not fit the crime. One school is about to be the first in the bay area to go back to in inperson learning. Bad air extending its recordbreaking streak, 17 days and counting of hazy skies. Mary shows us the new forecast that has that smoke lingering for months. Thank you for starting your thursday with us. Its 5 00. Lets get to gianna with more of the major streets that are shut down in san jose. A police are in scene, investigating the serious accident that happened before 2 00. This is san jose and some video from there. They are helping this person in this vehicle. The vehicle hit a tree and caught fire and they had to help that person get out of the car. It is the east capitol freeway around seven trees boulevard. Traffic will be impacted in that area. One person was transported to the hospital with life threatening injuries and that Investigation Continues in san jose. Tried to use alternates instead of that area. Now, let me show you 880. If you are taking 880, we