Football hall of fame in 2009. If you follow the saint marys mens Basketball Program you have definitely witness your fair share of upsets and if you follow the journey of their senior point guard tommy kusi that might surprise you too. Kron 4 Sports Reporter colin mill shows us how he went from walk on to the team leader. From a High School Junior who never played Club Basketball to starting division, one point guard you could say tommy koozies basketball rise has been fast and furious, ive always loved the game since i was a kid. Without many College Offers cousy accepted a walkon spot on the Saint Marys College mens basketball team. I just fell in love with the place i mean that the guys the way they treat each other was just you could tell there was a special culture here. And i really want to be a part of it because he says when he arrived on cam missions will be much improved improved enough that red flag warnings expire and we can at least take a step back from the highest a fire danger which we had been in the midst of which is really good news to get this weekend started right now were in the 60s 70s and even 80s to start the morning with berkeley 80 degrees say only net 82 some of our breezy areas are those areas that are seeing a slightly warmer start to the morning than what you would typically anticipate at this time. Now this wide range of temperatures does eventually set us up for daytime highs that are going to be showing much of a wider range, were all hot today, coastal areas in the upper 80s in some cases a couple holdouts, an upper 70s. As we look at those bayside areas another day with solid 90s and our inland areas back to the upper 90s in many cases, couple triple digits on the map ill be showing you the details on that still to come in your forecast back to you robin all right, thank you for the update john now lets update your friday morning commute, you know a lot of folks take friday off right so we normally dont have. You know heavy traffic like we do monday through thursday, so well see if that happens today, right now its early it is quiet in this hot spot free the trip into San Francisco remains nice and smooth. I dont see any problems across the upper deck or in downtown San Francisco so come on and nows your chance with no big problems all right lets check more bridges, 92. This is a trip across the san mateo bridge and yeah we have some early birds out there. If you need to get out there to right now it will be a great commute for both sides east and west between the peninsula and the east bay, but its already picking up in the commute direction which is westbound on the right side of your screen. We have more folks rolling out to foster city and sam, a tail so just be prepared for that as we continue through the hour. Its definitely gonna get heavier as expected. All right all to the golden gate. Were checking traffic on one oh one couple of trucks rolling through the toll plaza there on the right side heading out of San Francisco but on the left we have south 1 one thats the commute directions so far is nice and smooth. So roughly 25 minutes or less for the southbound trip novato to the toll plaza on the San Francisco side well check more traffic coming up a little bit later. Well happening now pg e has started restoring power to some bay area neighborhoods, thousands are still waking up with no power this morning. Check this out, heres a look at the current pge Public Safety shutoff outage map and the outage to spans from the north to the south and then to the east bay as well its affecting a lot of folks you can find the latest on the power shut offs on our website its going to get specifics about your neighborhood and Community Just check it out at kron 4 dot com. Well to the east bay now people in oaklands montclair village started getting their power back on last night after spending the majority of the day without electricity. Now this round of shut offs were not easy for anyone no air conditioning hot weather all of this combined with Distance Learning kids are struggling with that and working from home people were just desperate to find relief at local malls coffee shops, only to find that they were out of power as well. And i can live us. You know chain to take things one day at a time the game. We didnt have internet. We had a couple of things both of us had work. Things that had to get tasks it had to get done. We drove around we came down here to start back see it can we actually ended up in emeryville a barnes and noble they had Free Internet at the book star. Well pge was set to restore power this morning. Well to the north right now people in calistoga west of the napa river. There are still without power this morning, the lights have been shut off since wednesday night and the power is expected to be restored sometime today at the earliest but people in that area just have been through so much theyve been through this so many times before but and they were prepared for it pg e cut off the power over concerns of of of course extreme heat and gusty winds and the forecast turned out to be correct. When gus over 45 Miles Per Hour wind speeds over 25 Miles Per Hour in our weather stations or pg weather stations on not lena did record 65 mile per hour wind gusts really which is a big big hassle. Now we have to go through all of this if this leads from like another like glass and suddenly better to have power for 2 days and be gone for like a week or so. Well the power is still on the east of the napa river which includes most of downtown calistoga and that is thanks to a new microgrid of generators are happy to have that. Well new this morning, the Trump Administration has rejected californias request for a major disaster declaration following several large wildfires through quest was issued for 6 different wildfires, including the creek fire in fresno county. Well the state will appeal the administrations decision and this was the second of 2 disaster declarations requested by the state and about a month, the first one the first request was approved. Well after being convicted of killing his wife and son 17 years ago, Scott Peterson may soon be making a new appearance in court. The California Supreme Court ruled that there. Could have been jury misconduct. So one of the former jury members are rachelle nice she was actually pregnant at the time of the peterson trial and involved in a Contentious Court case and lied about it. Legal experts say this ruling could be a Pivotal Point in the case in a giveback for possible retrial. Says was they had to fill out your question years and one of the questions in the flesh in the questionnaires have you ever been a party in a lawsuit have you ever been involved in any litigation. He ever been a crime victim. And so to those saying she said no. And what was disclosed was she was a party to a lawsuit she filed a request for a temporary restraining order i mean entire system. You know is based on the premise that we are going to tell the truth and so this is juror flat out lie. Well if it is determined that there was jury misconduct a new trial could be granted. A man wanted for homicide in milpitas was found dead inside of a hotel room in moore said county. Police were actually searching for 35 yearold kevin get mad for his connection with the killing of a 40 yearold san jose woman. Well on wednesday evening, they found him at a hotel in moore said after receiving no response authorities decided to enter the room and they found get met dead inside his death is being investigated by the reset county sheriffs office. Well getting closer and closer to the election. We are now 19 days from the november election and kron 4 courses or local election headquarters. Last night President Trump and democratic challenger joe biden they held competing town hall said you watch the candidates were grilled on coronavirus the Supreme Court health care and the economy. Jennifer mcgraw reports. The president and former vp going head to head on different stages, competing for viewers during prime time, joe biden sitting down with Abcs George Stephanopoulos and answering questions about how he would have handled the pandemic in started with criticizing trump is a president ial responsibility to lead. And he didnt do that he didnt talk about what needed to be done because he kept worrying in my view. About the stock market at the same time trump saying he was ahead of the game by enacting the first travel ban bullfighting was 2 months behind me and he told me is that a fall victim racist and Everything Else trumps town hall on nbc was dominated by testy exchanges with today show anchor Savannah Guthrie after she pushed him on a variety of issues, including condemning conspiracy theorists known as he went senator ben sasse said quote she would not is real leaders call conspiracy theories, conspiracy maybe right. I just dont know about you you to know i dont know you i dont know back to biden he was asked if safe would he take a vaccine for covid yes, i would take a night encourage people to take it then asked if he would mandated he said yes, but it would be hard to enforce adding this slide. Whats happening is there is no plan to figure out how to distribute it lastly if biden wins. Take care of those who voted against as well as those who voted for me for and some presents to weve got to heal this nation and from the cited voters trump saying with his leadership and for years weve had the strongest economy a vaccine is on the way and this next year is going to be better than ever before. Well that was Jennifer Mcgraw reporting the final debate before the election is next thursday at Belmont University in nashville, tennessee. Ill be watching them an author eyes, ballot boxes scattered all across the state are still up this morning. The California Republican party did not comply to the attorney generals order to remove them. Now thats despite accusations of the boxes being misleading and illegal state republican officials have said that they will remove the official label on the boxes but they wont stop them that they claim that their ballot boxes are no different from the the ballot harvesting done. The secretary of States Office says that they are exploring other options and that they reserve the right to ensure the law is followed. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news Palo Alto Police are searching for 2 men tied to a crime spree. And that has surprised some neighbors well talk about why they are calling the incident. Unusual. Im going try to washington coming up the white house and congress remain at odds on the next covid relief bill how they plan to move forward ahead. And well also be tracking your morning commute and tracking your forecast, heres a live. Look at 92 i told your traffic is going to get busier you need to get on out there now before it gets too heavy its already filling in on the san mateo bridge and temperatures are on the rise so john trouble is tracking that friday forecast. Well also let you know what to expect for the welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, the time is for 14 good morning, everyone and good morning friday, nice to see you again t g i f everyone thanks for staying with us were checking in on the forecast because thats been very important this week temperatures are going to be pretty high and hot for a lot of us without the pg e power shutoffs john the winds have been a concern i saw a lot of debris across the road of the freeways this morning and i definitely notice some some slightly windy conditions coming here, yeah, definitely still windy and those winds can resulted some branches falling down so do watch for that as youre driving on into work this morning. A couple issues that you may find out their resulting from the consistently steady winds that we saw kick into gear on wednesday night lasting all day yesterday and still present with us this morning too your view outside from berkeley still Crystal Clear theres definitely no fog or cloud cover marine layer nonexistent across the bay as were still in the midst of offshore winds. This thing hasnt changed much are big pictures that up there as the High Pressure still sits in place. Most of us are still on the breezy side, especially up in the north bay across the east bay, even right along the coastline in half moon bay. Wendy is tough spots in calistoga and sonoma where winds are still gusting into a 30 mile per hour range as they will throughout the course of the morning ahead of us by the time we work our way towards the noontime in after which point look at how we were really take our foot off the gas pedal as far as winds go much calmer afternoon. Winds spent by that point and actually a pretty calm finish to the day. As winds calm down we take that 3rd factor fire danger away well keep the heat in the dry conditions, but no more winds and that means red flag warnings expiring today at 11 00am heat advisories will still remain in effect through the day today as were still going to be looking at upper 90s to triple digits. Inland and mid to upper 90s for some bayside areas even just how hot will temperatures get where youre out well look at San Francisco today both Mission Financial districts in the 90s well sunset in Golden Gate Park solidly back into the 80s even 80s right along the on terror. The exception today at 77 definitely are cool spot. Millbrae and burlingame in the midnineties foster city at 94 redwood city at 92 well Mountain View at 97, south bay temperatures also mid to upper 90s for your highs sonny bill most gatos just shy of a 100 degrees free might union city and hayward in the 90s solidly while pleasanton also back up near 198 walnut creek and concord 99 today. Well san leandro at 97 theres going to be some records broken this afternoon. So no much triple digit highs for you today while Fairfield Vacaville in antioch each at 97. Santa rosa and petaluma also quite close to a 100 degrees. Now after today temperatures tomorrow, not going to be as hot. And were also not going to be windy and that means fire danger is diminishing continually into the weekend by sunday were much cooler 80s. Inland 70s by the bay thats the way well keep it for the rest of the forecast after that point. Robin all right. Thank you john, im looking forward to drive through that whether be much much cooler. All right, lets check in on the traffic now the traffic is cool or height. We dont have any hot spots are major issues right now heading into San Francisco. You are good. Its clear through that whole smooth on the upper deck and trouble free right on through downtown San Francisco and thats how we like to start the morning drive so come on in under 10 minutes for your drive time, lets check more bridges shall we. Heres 92 your trip across the san mateo bridge little busy. Every time we check gets busier and busier with more folks packing up and rolling to the peninsula. But no big problems right now its still easy no major issues into foster city or send tail so that drive time from hayward to san mateo definitely under 30 minutes with no big trouble spots connecting to one oh one or 2. 80 well check in on more bridges and more freeways coming up a little bit later. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell announced earlier this week the Upper Chamber will vote next week on a smaller relief bill worth 500 billion dollars. Washington correspondent Morgan Wright reports on the outlook of that bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says he plans to bring a 500 billion dollar targeted covid relief bill to the senate floor next week by a nose has not only where jermont senator Patrick Leahy says the bill doesnt do enough to provide relief. Nothing on taking care of people call it does not guarantee their Health Care Bill would include funds for unemployment assistance schools and more money for Small Businesses but fall short of democrats demands. Rhode island senator Sheldon Whitehouse says democrats want a deal but need a consistent negotiating partner the republican side. Its all fractured and arguing with itself and that makes it really hard for democrats republican senator john kennedy wants democrats to do more than simply reject their offer. Vote to proceed on that bill. And then well start amending it. It was passed something. President trump says congress should go big on their next covid relief bill. But treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin doesnt expect any agreement soon getting something done before the election and executing on would be difficult the white house has introduced its own one 0. 8 trillion dollar offer but only House Republicans appear to supported i think the American People would want anything to have to go for House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy says House Speaker nancy pelosi. Is holding relief factor own members the democrats have asked her to take this deal reporting in washington, im Morgan Wright. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is breaking ranks with President Trump on wearing masks. Actually says that he was wrong to not wear a mask at the white house and is now calling on all political leaders to advocate for face coverings so christie tested positive you may remember for the virus shortly after President Trumps diagnosis. He was at the white house for the announcement of judge Amy Coney Barrett has the president s Supreme Court nominee. He also helped the president prepare for his first debate against joe biden he spent a week in a hospital in the intensive care unit. So now hes changing his mind the bottom all right coming up next on the kron 00 04am morning news. Can dogs help slow the spread of how theyre being trained to sniff out the virus with surprising actress. And welcome back everyone well youve heard of bomb and drugs sniffing dogs but what about dogs that can actually sniff out coronavirus its wild right. Well dogs are being specifically trained to smell if someone has covid19 are so smart and they could be used at large the news all across the country brian entin explains. These basset hounds and beagle puppies are adorable but theyre not pets theyre being raised to do an important job during the pandemic what were doing were training dogs to bodys response to covid 1900 uk runs sent a company near Sarasota Florida training dogs to detect the coronavirus these are sweat samples so therefore by 4 guys pads that are placed under the armpits of the person who is positive for covid. The covid human sweat sample is put into one container and regular non covid sweat samples are put in other containers. We say some apart. Heather sets up the training and then brings the dogs and one by one. The dogs are trained to sit when they smell the virus in human sweat and while a few of the dogs were bit distracted a few every one of them found the covid sweat sample, the trainers say the key is using a variety of samples from different people with covid so if i were to train the dogs with samples from one person i would only be training that dog to find that person im not really training that dog to find covid. So you have to use a lot of samples and then the dog has to figure out whats the common denominator in all the samples. And then they realize ok thats the common denominator thats what i get rewarded for your bio says they have 24 adult dogs and 26 puppies that they are training for covid once they turn about a year old thats when the training starts training takes roughly 6 weeks they smell 10,000 times more than what we do. So its kind you can compare it to a dog could smell a drop of her few and an olympic size pool, the International Airports in helsinki finland and Dubai United Arab emirates are already using covid sniffing dogs. Heather says she is in negotiations with professional sports teams and concert venues in the United States to use her dogs for the dogs, its nothing but a game of hide and seek. So you had the sample, they know that surcharge voter they go find it. Well thats amazing that was brian in sun reporting. If the dogs actually alert someone. A rapid covid test will then be used to confirm you know whether or not the person actually has the virus. But so far dogs have a 98 accuracy rate wow. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news have a lot talk about specifically juan homeowners concerned about the glass fire. Still burning in napa county why she says crews are making more fuel for wildfires right near her home, well talk about that coming up next as we head to break were checking in on the traffic the bay bridge toll plaza still looks good its wide open come on and and the weekend is right around the corner, happy friday, everyone, the weather is going to be pretty nice pretty toasty and hot for some of us of course that means critical fire weather too so well talk about that coming up after the break stay with us. Welcome back everyone the time now is for 29 good morning once again and thank you for staying with us lets check in with meteorologist john trouble because we need to know how friday and the weekend is going to shape up hey john hey robin its going to be a much nicer weekend in the past couple of days have been and even today about to be a really really hot one out there. The good news in this forecast is winds becoming less and less of a factor and that actually really all starts today. Despite the heat thats going to be sticking around looking outside at San Francisco, im in skies are Crystal Clear no big surprise there. We havent had any fog nor marine cooled air. Pushing in across the bay area that is equally as true today, so dont expect much cool weather but also dont expect any gloom are great conditions as for our red flag warnings were on the tail end now expiring today at 11 00am now even though were keeping heat and dry weather around the 3rd factor which are those winds really diminish after 11 00am this morning still breezy across the north bay in the east bay as of right now you will gradually see winds calming down throughout the course here morning and post lunchtime today look at what happens a pretty stark