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Plus sounds so support the Gilroy Community continues its healing process and remembers the victims who tragically lost their lives one year ago today during the garlic festival shooting. Good evening, everybody thanks for being with us tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 well get to the situation in gilroy momentarily. But our top story tonight that massive fire. The damaged at least half a dozen San Francisco buildings and displaced at least 100 workers early this morning. We have Live Team Coverage from the scene of the fire which is still active to reaction from d out by flames. How smoke from the fire affected folks in the surrounding areas. We begin with Taylor Bisacky is live in the south of market district, where one point roughly half the citys entire firefighting resources. Were helping out with this fire taylor. Well right now firefighters are still battling the hot spots inside one of those buildings and if you take a look here behind me at the scene here behind me its still very active. And youll notice that the fire engine that was dousing the buildings earlier recently stopped and theyre focusing their efforts on the bart filled sales building and thats a Building Materials company. So its probably why its been a little bit more difficult to put out this fire with everything inside. And while this fire isnt contained yet. Its looking a much better than what we saw earlier today this is what neighbors saw earlier this morning, the flames engulfed 6 commercial buildings. One of those buildings housed 3 people through an article Coalition Housing project. Those residents are now displaced in addition to the number of workers who had jobs at these buildings, some of the other businesses include a partial sales venice auto body and the catering business a talk to those Business Owners all of them of course heartbroken after watching their businesses crumble in the fire firefighters say theyll be out here for days putting out these hot spots. Multiple hot spots within that area. Im chuckling because it in my mind i cant. Fathom how many are in there behind me thats all we have a lot of pipe up we have some ground monitors up. And him lines to address those as they do occur. Every remember unfortunately, the pier 45 fire where we encountered almost the same dynamics of the flare ups of the hot spots which took days to extinguish thats what were encountered with. Today. Now i also want to mention that earlier today, several people brought up a mattress fire that started last night from one of the homeless encampment behind these buildings on erie street firefighters say that that fire was put out by 1130 last night so at this time they do not believe its the cause however Business Owners here that the encampments could have started the second fire and are still curious. But of course we dont know because its still undetermined but. So far in the early phase of this investigation. We are told that firefighters believe that the point of origin of this fire was the back of the bar field sales building. We also heard earlier that a firefighter was injured in this fire, thankfully they have since been released from the hospital and are doing ok now live in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Thank you taylor that fire erupted in an area of the city that is both industrial and residential. Kron fours Maureen Kelly continues our Team Coverage with reaction from Business Owners and residents were forced to evacuate because of the fastmoving flames. Heres video that shows the flames shooting up alongside the central freeway people showing up to work nearby captured images of the huge wall of flames and the massive column. 6 black smoke. People who are just waking up had to scramble to get out in case the fire moved in their direction as quite scary. So we just decided to grab our personal belongings same bottom stab at great, so we did evacuate very quickly. One man was asleep inside his business along with his dog when the fire broke out. I looked to the sky building and theres a column of black smoke about 3 or 4 feet wide grab my dog run around and within 20 minutes, the entire block was in flames is building was flooded by the water used to put out the flames, its devastating for the business course along with everybody in covid in business down many for a lot of businesses this is you know to something that. You know what you know for being locked down for so long, you know Something Like this is just another you know you just got to take it in stride. You can see the remains of heart failed sales of Building Materials company that had stood in this spot for decades literally side because the building was such an icon for this neighborhood was i just said. A solid, you so yeah, its just its crazy. The fire also damaged the sheriffs departments Field Operations building. Deputies had to move weapons and ammunition stored there that Green Building you see behind me is rainbow grocery. They were not damaged by the fire, but they did evacuate their staff early this morning. And our remaining closed until wednesday morning because they feel like all the firefighting activity and the heavy smoke in the air makes it unsafe for their workers and customers Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. Then the smoke from that fire led to an air quality advisory for parts of the bay area. Yeah i was pretty smoky out there are current fourteam continues with meteorologist reese rodriguez, his more on that advisory mabrisa yeah there was a poor air quality advisories, specifically for those of you in the east bay, not only dealing with smoke from that structure fire in soma. But nearby fires in Fresno County and even in Lassen County so we did have some pretty moderate amount support air particles better improvement things to those westerly winds pushing that smoke and ash away from the east bay but still tracking moderate amounts of poor air particles throughout the San Francisco peninsula. Specifically near the south of market neighborhood where that structure fire took place and also downtown San Francisco. So please limit your Outdoor Activity as much as you can especially those of you with any pulmonary or respiratory issues fortunately tracking. Calmer winds speeds we did see gusts upwards of 25 Miles Per Hour less for downtown San Francisco. Now down into the teens sustained winds at 15 Miles Per Hour. Calmer conditions throughout tonight and back in the Single Digits by your wednesday morning so fortunately going to help out firefighters battle, those flames and we are tracking another round of no sky july for the rest of your workweek forecast until we warm up this weekend more coming up in my full forecast outlook in a few minutes going to keep back to a breeze and by the way we first brought you this story this morning with a push alert you can download the kron 4 mobile app for free to stay up to date on breaking news. Other news now there ar than 4. 3 million confirmed covid19 cases in the u. S. In california continues to lead the nation. In total cases now more than 466,000 of them. The state with the second highest case count is florida. The Sunshine State recorded more than 9,000 new cases. Yesterday giving it a total of more than 441,000 cases Major League Baseball dealing with a covid outbreak and now a teams future. Yeah it could be in jeopardy a car for sports director jason dumas joins us now live in studio with with more wow. Yeah, you know its a crazy story and justice. A lot going on Major League Baseball seems to be figuring out solutions as they go but essentially there was a covid breakout within the Miami Marlins clubhouse over the weekend and they continue to play their they continue to play their series with the phillies in. Was a bad idea by monday 17 players and members of the staff had tested positive for covid it wasnt until then that the team decided to consult with Major League Baseball and shut things down but this in effect just the marlins of course the phillies also had to pause its season since they came in direct contact with the marlins and that affected the yankees or slated to play the field in yet the orioles and the nationals had to adjust on a whim as well all in all the marlins wont play again before monday at the earliest. The phillies wont play again before friday at the earliest, the yankees will now play the orioles on wednesday and thursday they werent scheduled to do so and the nationals will have the weekend off because they were taking on the marlins. A lot going on i know the one simple part of this story is the fact that the giants are no part of it no positive test on the roster and gave kepler is trusting in his medical staff the medical staff us has led us well so far. Weve got weve got strong leadership in that regard and i think weve done a really nice job of following health and safety protocols but theres no theres no question that this adds. Kind of an additional layer of sensitivity and give us an opportunity to keep talking about it the testing was was very well organized. I feel like we have plenty of time to get to everything that we need to get to in the day as i look throughout our in our dugout we were we were masked a listen to what they were mass effect of appropriately and well i i always think theres room for improvement as it relates to our physical distancing. I thought we did a fine job and we just have to keep getting better. So good news there. The giants seem safe and healthy now in other news. They are currently down 5 to one to the pod raised early on and well have highlights of that game when it finishes, but thats all after now back to you guys. A beautiful sounds on a somber day an emotional tribute tonight on the one Year Anniversary of the gilroy garlic festival shooting. These are Gilroy High School Chamber Singers performing the song. See you again kron fours l sogomonian joins us now with more on todays remembrance events l a. Credit was an entire day dedicated to honoring the victims their families and the community will remain orlando. Last colletti moment of silence this morning for Trevor Irby Keyla Salazar and stephen romero, who were all killed in that attack along with 17 other people who were hurt. Then in a display of resilience to gilroy strong flag was raised high over Christmas Hill park in tonight, a virtual ceremony called rising together was live streamed for everyone to see thats where the Gilroy High School singers performed the song we played a clip of just a bit earlier. The Santa Clara County District Attorneys spoke about the strength and resiliency that gilroy has displayed after that horrific attack. Those 60 seconds were a time of evil, but that minute and the minutes hours days weeks and months that followed showed gilroys defiant answer to evil. Our answer to evil was courage. Service empathy and finally resilience. Our answer to evil is standing with us today in body and in spirit. Our answer wears badges and stethoscopes our answer wears crosses and gilroy strong tshirts and bears the healing wounds of the heart and of the mind. Our answer. Is that a year later. We are back and evil is not. Powerful words from the District Attorney there and just to highlight how much the community has supported one another in the aftermath of that tragedy. And the year since the shooting the gilroy Strong Movement has raised 1. 9 Million Dollars for the victims and their families live in the newsroom. Ella sogomonian kron 4 news. Coming up on kron 4 news at age is only a matter of weeks until classes back in session in San Francisco. We know that students are not going to be on campus but some details are still in the works Effective Immediately if you violate a health order and one east bay county. You can be fined that we have details on where this is urgency ordinance went into effect and how much it will cost Rule Breakers we hear a lot about restaurants retail and hair salons but what about gyms well have more on what we made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. After shopping around for insurance, they called usaa who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. That was the easy part. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it a look now at covid numbers in the bay area Alameda County is still the hardest hit in terms of cases more than. 10,600 of them. It also has the second most deaths only Santa Clara County surpassing in that regard every bay area county has more than 2000 total cases except for napa county which has just more than 800. Small gym owners in San Francisco are demanding the mayor and City Health Officials turned over the data they are using that is keeping them from reopening know San Francisco independent Fitness Studio Coalition Says dozens of gyms in the city are just days away from filing for bankruptcy or walking away from their leases for ever. First michelle kingston has more on their struggles to stay afloat during the pandemic. I can literally have one client and one trainer in this giant jim one square feet. I observed all the covid safety purpose why is that not safe. And so far the city has been able to tell us that. The San Francisco independent Fitness Studio Coalition Says there are questions about why they cannot reopen have not been answered by the city date character owns a next 3 fitness in is Offering Services online and now on the sidewalk doing what he can to try to stay open. But the reality of it is that even with all of our Business Online we overnight lost 95 of our business. And with a loss of 95 of the revenue you cant pay the rent ducati fitness is also struggling their 14,000 square foot facility once trained 200 clients a day now theyre working with the very small fraction of their clients outside but its not enough well honestly with no end in to the closure period. We have were forced to trying to figure out a way to do something outdoors this small gym owners say they will follow all guidelines but just need to know what they need to do. And are asking for the city to respond to the request for records and the data that is keeping them from reopening, im not exaggerating when i say this industry is not a creature. Weve not been able to reopen in any substantial way since march. And landlords are coming now looking for rat. The citys been so focused on keeping restaurants open keeping retail open and struggling to get hair salons reopened they are ignoring an entire business sector that the speed of very vibrant part of the surfaces on City Health Officials say because of the rise in cases and hospitalizations theyve had to pause reopening which. Of course also includes reopening gyms in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news Effective Immediately people and businesses caught ignoring state local Coronavirus Health orders are now subject. To a ticket and fine in Contra Costa County in a unanimous vote today, the Contra Costa County board of supervisors decided to give. Law enforcement the authority to cite and fine offenders who are caught in the act. If a higher percent of individuals or mass and businesses and forced it. We would have the surging numbers were have some of the other counties are doing much larger higher. And should be reasonable here. What they consider reasonable. Well for individuals, the fines range from 100 to 500 depending on how many violations you receive for businesses, those amounts range from 250 bucks up to 1000 as of today, several businesses in Santa Cruz County must stop all indoor operations after the county was placed on the states covid19 watch list over the weekend. This includes. Personal Care Services like hair and nail salons indoor malls places of worship and non essential offices, these businesses are allowed to continue operating outdoors beaches an indoor Retail Stores will remain open San Francisco schools are set to resume in just weeks. Today district leaders released more details about their plan for the fall kron fours dan kerman shows us what the new school year might look like when schools in San Francisco begin the fall session on august 17th. Classrooms will remain empty as will playgrounds all due to covid19 the San Francisco unified school board met tuesday to discuss what schools will look like a combination of print base learning kits and actual online instruction. But with the virtual doors opening up in less than 3 weeks parents remain in the dark about numerous things for working if youre looking 2 and a half weeks out if i have to request a schedule change from my employer. If you or me and privilege enough to work from home and make your own schedule you still have to plan around whatever yours your childs schedule is and so today we just know that School Starts in 2 and a half weeks we dont know what time it starts. We dont know how much time theyre going to have to be in front of a screen. We dont know when assignments are ready the School District says theyre still working out details with the teachers union. And hope to share specific soon in the meantime the district is also looking ahead to when students will be able to return to the classroom. Even then things will be different of the districts 54,000 students only 15,000 will be able to attend safely each day priority will likely be given to the youngest students prek through second and those with disabilities. Still parents hope there is a way everyone can get some time in the classroom. Perhaps theres an opportunity for all students to return even just a little bit. Im under the hybrid model so that not nobodys really in Distance Learning completely if and when schools can open. And the social distancing and health and safety the number one priority when students do go back to the classroom. How do you group them because you cant take them all at once you have some go in the morning and some in the afternoon you alternate days or do have some go for a week or a month and then you have others go for a week or a month. Again that 2 still has to be decided. Dan kerman kron 4 news. And on the news today at the federal government has been helping businesses pay employees during the pandemic but one miami man allegedly took that money and went on a spending spree. And up next why the cdc says robots could be the key to providing faster and a lot of talk lately about covid testing. Delays right but tonight, theres a new technology to help with one specific test antibody tests can help researchers estimate what percentage of americans have been infected with the coronavirus which in turn can help People Better monitor and respond to the pandemic and now the cdc has unveiled these Laboratory Robots to help get results from the tests more quickly a robot contest more than 3600 samples of the day compared to one human scientist who can only test about 400 samples and that same time period. California is changing the way that its collecting coronavirus data focusing more on how the virus affects not only race and ethnicity. But also orientation and gender for months now lgbtq groups have urged the state to provide data just on how coronavirus is affecting their community and the announcement comes amid growing concerns over the virus has impacts on minorities, especially the latino community. The latest data shows latinos account for more than half of californias coronavirus cases and nearly half of all the state death is. Coming up on the news at a Congressional Republicans have proposed their trilliondollar covid19 stimulus package why a local congressman is calling their plan insulting and that proposal would drastically cut Unemployment Benefits for millions of americans but california state lawmakers say that they have a stimulus plan in place to cover those losses. Im Trevor Shirley in washington where Congress Continues to investigate what happened at Lafayette Park almost 2 months ago just moments before President Trumps photoop at a churc the president s arrival was complete surprise as we have not been briefed that he would enter or sector the events i witnessed locketts were in the evening of june 1st were deeply disturbing to me and fellow National Guardsman based on my training and experience at no time. I feel threatened by the protesters or system to be violent. National guard major adam dimarco testifying before Congress Today recalling that controversial clearing out of protesters from Lafayette Park in washington d c. Major demarco called the actions by Us Park Police that day against demonstrators, a quote, unnecessary escalation of the use of force. This happened back on june first but our washington correspondent Trevor Shirley reports the man in charge of the park police says officers did what they had to. A major adam dimarco of the Dc National Guard says he still cant believe what he saw in Lafayette Park on june 1st it was my observation that the use of force against demonstrators in the clearing operation was an unnecessary escalation, but acting chief of the u. S. Park Police Gregory Monahan said violent protesters forced his agency to act 50 u Us Park Police officers were injured between may 29th and june 1st California Democratic representative tj cox said tuesdays hearing was about more than just a violent end to a single protest is whether or that the park place yourself really have a duty and obligation of fealty to the constitution but republicans like arkansas representative Bruce Westerman called the hearing a political show i wish that. Congress could work. Renewing hope in america rather than continuing to drag issues like this through the mud lawmakers also wanted to know the park was cleared out specifically so President Trump can walk through the area. To get to a photo op at a nearby church. There is 100 0 okay relation between our operation and the president s visit to the church and the Justice Department denies that officers used tear gas on protesters. But dimarco says he knows tear gas, but i could feel irritation my eyes and nose based on my previous exposure to tear gas and training several lawsuits have been filed against the u. S. Park police and the d o j over what happened in Lafayette Park, reporting in washington, im Trevor Shirley from. On the peninsula disturbing discovery has landed a redwood city man behind bars tonight, 36 yearold gives money ramirez. Was arrested yesterday, hes accused of raping. His daughter on multiple occasions, this came after the 12 yearold victim shared her Horror Stories with police ramirez is facing multiple charges, including lewd and lascivious acts on a minor and unlawful intercourse with a minor. Senate republicans said the white house of unveiled their coronavirus stimulus plan their latest plan this one is called the heals act now comes the hard part both parties have to negotiate their differences. Our dc correspondent joe khaleel reports. Now the republicans have their own bill negotiation toward a bipartisan stimulus package is under way republicans put forward a trillion dollar proposal for kids jobs. And health care senator Mitch Mcconnell says the gop plan provides Liability Protection for businesses more than a 100 billion dollars for schools and more testing money every single thing we put forward as a way to get more relief and the peoples have but democrats say the gop plan falls short compared to their own 3 trillion dollar plan republicans seem to say that people dont want to work they want to take on employment stay home and that that isnt sold the Democrat Eric swalwell says republicans proposal to reduce the extra Unemployment Benefits from 600 to 200 a week will slow the recovery. We want to keep a steady flow. Of Unemployment Benefits by white house economic adviser larry kudlow says 200 is a more appropriate amount that would include workers back from returning to the workforce 68 of recipients benefits that were about their wage. The republican plan doesnt include money for hazard pay for frontline workers or money for state and local governments which makes up a full trillion. And the democrats plan we cant come to their assistance this means job losses or state and local government so long run says she and other democrats hope republicans will come around on more stimulus spending for communities and work groups in washington, im joe khaleel. In the stimulus plan proposed by republicans a new round of Unemployment Benefits would be cut by 400 San Francisco Assemblymember Phil ting believes the state could step in and supplement those benefits at the state level and heres how the outline for the california legislatures joint economic stimulus plan would fill in the gaps in Unemployment Insurance it would also cover any shortfalls if the federal government does not extend that 600 per week payment. We also are often their program you could pay taxes in the future money to a so we can use a lot of money too. In march of california and the tax credit we could get more Small Businesses who dont qualify for sba loans. Assembly member team who is the chair of the Assembly Budget Committee Says several proposals are currently in bills working their way through the legislative process. The hope is some of the package will be done by the end of next month. And that or 4 zone were getting a live look outside right now the you can see the Berkeley Hills apparently a way off in the distance kron 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez joining us now with a. Look ahead at the rest of the week, im of recent yeah, very heavenly side out there and the same for those of you in soma we are noticing the return of our know sky july so starting and ending the day. With that thick layer of cloud cover and temperatures out there right now cooling down in the mid 50s along the San Francisco peninsula coastline, widespread 60s as you make your way inland. But 70s for parts of the tri valley is like concord n livermore upper 70s for you but antioch 84 degrees out there right now still very warm temperatures even at the 8 oclock hour in current wind speeds out there right now fortunately noticeably calmer in the Single Digits to low teens and stormtracker 4 tracking that fog bank off the coast and it is going to make its way inland during the overnight hours very typical summer pattern that were used to here in the bay area could see trees out apache coastal drizzle but better clearing by your wednesday afternoon so for your midweek forecast overnight lows. We are going to wake up to slightly cooler temperatures for your wednesday morning widespread mid 50s. Antioch those 64 degrees and tomorrows daytime highs very seasonable mid 60s for downtown San Francisco about 3 degrees below average but right where you should be for those of you in oakland and throughout the east bay shoreline low 70s for your wednesday afternoon highs with widespread low to mid 80s as you make your way inland, san jose 83 degrees santa rosa degree cooler at 82 upper 80s for those of you in concord and livermore so youre going to be out of the 90s but exactly where you should be for this time of year, but the one warm city once again antioch warming up into the low 90s so taking a look ahead at the next 7 day outlook very little change from wednesday through friday. So we are going to be on Cruise Control for the rest of your workweek forecast. But we will notice the fewer clouds this weekend so that marine layer is going to be nonexistent thing so that extra sunshine warming up into the 90s inland with widespread 80s throughout the east bay shoreline and 70s along the coast until we cool back down to near average highs early next week, thanks to the return of our fog dust believe it or not has august starts saturday. This weekend back to you grant vicki, thank greece is still ahead tonight at a donald trump junior finding himself in trouble with twitter. Why the president s son had his posting privileges temporarily taken away intentionally fueling confrontation with demonstrators and thats what a south bay congresswoman says the Trump Administration is doing by sending in federal troops to disrupt a peaceful protest and after the break where with the grandparents officers in florida step in were living in uncertain times, but as californians well get through this together. 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Dramatic video out of pensacola florida tonight. Police officer saved a 3 yearold little girl who was unconscious. Her grandparents say they found the toddler floating in their pool. When officers arrived the girl was not breathing and she didnt have a pulse. One of the officers began chest compressions and tell the little girl finally took a breath. There are gained her pulse and that girl was rushed to the hospital and has made a full recovery doctors say that if she had gone any longer without oxygen. She would not have made it. Both officers say they have young kids of their own and they couldnt help but think what if it was their own child. Ive got a 3 yearold girl, same age and a 4 yearold son. And if his home. And ive got a 7 yearold 11 yearold my own so. They immediately went to my head. The officers say they were able to get to the child quickly because they were already responding to a call just a few blocks away so everything kind of Work Together worked out well, no word on how the grandparents seemingly lost track of that small child or if theyll be facing any negligence charges. Next today, the Paycheck Protection Program is supposed to help out businesses hurting during the pandemic but one miami man is accused of using those funds on Luxury Living not his employees and in sports, the first player in Major League Baseball to kneel during the National Anthem is. Back in the majors jason dumas star sports director has the details on breaking news in lafayette tonight, these bay its tragic a 10 yearold boy has died after. Getting hit by a car happened just before 1 oclock this afternoon on mary would drive near the Lafayette Community park police say the blues riding his bicycle when someone driving a delivery vehicle hit him. The boy was taken to the hospital where he died the driver stayed on scene and was interviewed by police as soon as we learn more there well let you know. The twitter account of donald trump junior has temporarily been restricted. Thats because the president s son is accused of violating the social media sites covid19 misinformation policy. Trump junior posted a video featuring a doctor making false claims about coronavirus cures and stating that masks are not necessary to prevent the virus has spread. According to twitter some of his account functionality including the ability to tweet it was limited today, the clip he posted went viral yesterday and Twitter Facebook and youtube all removed it from their platforms. A man in miami has been charged with fraud after Authorities Say he used part of the Paycheck Protection Program loan, the ppp loan supposed to be to help businesses on personal luxury expenses things like lavish hotel stays dating websites bought a lamborghini according to authorities gina benitez reports. And thats david hynes last week telling her 7 news cameras, how silly you felt for getting hit with a 100 fine for miami police for not wearing a mask in public. But thats chump change minds. Compared to the nearly 4 Million Dollars hes accused of getting. In federal personal paycheck, protection loans. Given out to those whose businesses are hurting by the pandemic the department of justice says hines committed fraud a Law Enforcement source confirms this is the same david hynes interviewed last week when fined for violating the mask mandate. I think areas here is a serious allegation. Instead of funding peril himes spent the ppp money on personal expenses that dating websites luxury jewelry and clothing retailers. And miami beach resorts. Hines also allegedly spend ppp funds to buy a 2020 lamborghini sports car for some 318,000. The complaint says hines got it out of North Miami Beach dealership with what were supposed to be loaned relief funds. Coincidentally he talked about ppp loans been ticketed last thursday in miami every single business is kind of cases. The government the treasury they had 2 trillion dollars for ppp loans for Small Businesses 85 with the major corporations. He said nothing though about the loans going to swing key hotel or retail spending but the government says he spent more than 4 grand at socks in the fountain blue plus 7 plus grand up thus a tie hes charger with bank fraud and other offenses. To National News now though Trump Administration is still trying to figure out how to do away with dhaka thats the deferred action for Childhood Arrivals Program that keeps people who came to the u. S. As children from being deported. The program wont be accepting new applications. Thats according to a Senior Administration official the administration is reviewing dhaka and renewals will only be extended one year as opposed to 2 years. The announcement comes about a month after the Supreme Court blocked President Trumps attempt to end dhaka altogether. New tonight were learning the Trump Administration has started talks with the governor of oregon about reducing the presence of federal agents there to. Control protesters in portland. A senior white house officials says that would happen if the state stepped up its own enforcement. This comes after democrats in washington today faced off for hours with us attorney general bill barr over the use of federal Law Enforcement officers nationwide kron fours washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports. Democrats say the federal Law Enforcement show of force in portland is purely political the president wants footage his campaign is. And you appear to be serving up to him. Has ordered House Judiciary Committee chairman jerry nadler accused attorney general william barr of trying to silence Peaceful Protesters you did lafayette square. You expanded to portland. And now youre projecting fear and violence. Nationwide california congresswoman zoe lofgren says the administration is intentionally fueling confrontations divert attention from this catastrophic failure in dealing with the covid19 as a nation democrats say the duty to police us cities should be left up to local governments, the attorney general says local field to maintain law and order portland. The courthouse is under attack bar and republican lawmakers say protesters in portland have not been peaceful set fires for own things used explosives. Injured police and perhaps permanently blinding 3 federal officers with lasers have you ever seen. So many people. And killed. Peaceful protests, the attorney general says federal officers deployed to other u. S. Cities are unrelated to the protests in portland. He said those officers are dealing with violent crime, including murders and shootings in washington. Alexandra le mon. Time for schools. Well the giants and as are in action tonight. Both for home to both games are still in action, lets check out the score in San Francisco first and the giants they are currently beating the a beating the Colorado Rockies 5 to 2. And then though and then. The as are beating the Colorado Rockies, 5 to 2 the giants are losing to the padres 5 to 3. Now former as catcher Bruce Maxwell is back with Major League Baseball. Maxwell is best known for being the First Major League player to kneel during the National Anthem. This is maxwells first job here in the state since the end of the 2018 season when a cut him, maxwell believe his actions cost him a job telling espn. I got pushed out of the game because it took a knee during the National Anthem, it eats at me, but good for him hes back in the league and look who is back at the Practice Court today in the nba bubble, new Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson syan just completed a fourday quarantine after taking an absence outside the nba bubble to deal with a family emergency because william had tested negative twice. He only had to do the shorter quarantine this time around which means he will be eligible to play on thursday when the pelicans start their season will restart their season. I could say against the utah jazz, diane was limited in practice today, head coach alvin gentry said williamson will be reevaluated after tomorrows practice. Then hell decide if he will play in thursdays seeding games so full thursday, the nba is back it seems like forever since we last saw a game. Now that is all i have for sports back to you all right jason next today, they say absence makes the heart ponder. One been separated by a bo dating during a pandemic. About this couple who lives. Across the u. S. Canadian border from each other theyre trying to prove that their love is essential hill while the Border Closure has kept them apart for months now. They say that their bond has actually grown stronger. Madison carter reports. Last august when breanna and and met on hinge the dating apps Location Services told them they lived pretty close to each other but we live in each others neighborhoods. As we chatted for 2 hours and then you realize that we live Different Countries well crossing the border became a weekly occurrence for the couple until its closure in march or worst case scenario. Planning was like oh, maybe you wont be together for a month or month and a half. We never really expected to be going on this long our relationship has sort of. Been super down to zoom calls that like internet and says the image quality married couples are considered essential, but not serious partners or even fiance is. Many said this is taking a mental a lot of little small things that i think we dont think about how hard they are. Being able to give your partner hog or squeeze a shoulder. Theyre having a bad day are just cooked meal this couple soon found out theyre not alone. A Facebook Group for separated families and couples listed dozens of stories just like theirs. So green a pitch to podcast to share their stories. I really think that we need to tell these peoples stories and and share the fact that these people that you know this law is essential and its just as valid as anybody else like many couples the distance has made this one closer than ever think the Border Closure has. Startups i sped up or relationship time i mean just look at. Where we want to be and how we can piece together a last year that i think other guys might have i done so. Yeah the covid thing putting a stress on. Relations and International Relations i guess in this case that was Madison Carter reporting for us tonight by the way you can google the couples podcast to hear more stories like theirs. It is called. 1091 meters to love you ever been Long Distance vicki. Relations relations when youre getting awful personal here should know. Haha for use at a sociallydistant appoint the fan you what the prime time news continues though at the top of the hour. 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