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Power outages. Alex savidge is in San Francisco now. Tell us more about the Power Outages. Reporter well, last nights light show fun to watch. Now a lot of people waking up in the dark across the bay area because of the storms. At last check, about 1800 homes and businesses without power. A lot of them right here in San Francisco where we are this morning. Were out in the sunset district. And you can see this particular outage is here near the intersection of 35th avenue. And crews have been out here since last night, working hard to get the power back on for this neighborhood after lightning took down one of the power lines on the street at about 9 30 or so last night. People in this neighborhood, they pulled out the flashlights this morning to get ready for work or for school with no lights. All of these outages, various outages across the bay area were caused by last nights thunderstorms. You see that lightning lit up the San Francisco skyline and lightning reported all over the bay area. The National Weather service says there were 7,000 Lightning Strikes across the bay area last night. Not all of the Lightning Strikes hit the ground. One woman who lost power at her home because of a Lightning Strike says it was truly a wild night. Crazy. It was crazy here. We could see it all night long. We havent had power since 9 30 last night. Where are you off to. To work. To get some power. Reporter near Golden Gate Park, last night lightning hit a tree that fell on to a parked car along 24th street at fulton. Thankfully no one was hurt there. Check out the lightning above at t park last night before the giants game with the dodgers. The storms actually delayed the start of that game. They didnt get first pitch or didnt really play the game until after 11 00 last night. And the game finally ended at 2 10 this morning. The giants came out on top with an electrifying win last night. Pardon the pun. Steve, you talked about it yesterday, the potential for some of these powerful thunderstorms with lightning. And now youre talking about possibly a similar show here in the bay area. I would think so today. Yes. One more day. Maybe even wednesday morning. Then after that, it will be gone. Alex, i would agree that today could get interesting. We need heat to get going. All quiet over the golden gate right now. Take a look at the golden gate last night. Lightning show before the ggb. Thanks to jim tang. He sent this out on twitter. I stole it i mean i boroughed borrowed, im sorry. Currently 65 with partly cloudy skies in daly city. Last nights rain total,. 19. I would say sfo were the leader of the pack on the rain. Those were the most that i saw by far. Things are quiet right now. But they are beginning to develop rapidly here. This is from last night. There goes the came up from the south bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, right through the peninsula and right into San Francisco and of course marin county. Even up north, parts of Mendocino County. Things have calmed down. The low is really close to us now. Even though it is cooler today, it will be warm enough to generate enough lift. Already beginning to develop the cloud cover. 60s, 70s on the temps. Running noticeably cooler. Two to nine degrees. Livermore is off nine compared to 24 hours ago. It is not in the 90s unless youre well inland. There is an on shore breeze for some. Enough of a southeast breeze around 10,000 feet that will funnel in a lost the moisture. I think things are going to pop here quick. You can see Development Taking place. It is cloudy. Maybe that will hold off more shower activity. Dont be surprised if we get more thunderstorms later. 70s and 80sand a few 90s on the temps. Sal, what do you have on the traffic . Good, bad, moderate. It is moderate, steve. There were a lot of people that went through Contra Costa County because of issues on 80. Westbound as you drive through lafayette, traffic is going to be slow here in lafayette. It gets better by the time that you reach orinda and the oakland side. Also slow traffic on 680 and highway 4 in Contra Costa County. People are avoiding 80 because it was slow due to earlier crash. The crash is gone but the slow traffic remains from highway 4. The east bay commute is slow. A lot of people heading to the bay bridge toll plaza. We will see it backed up for 25 minutes. San mateo and dumbarton bridges are moderately heavy. In the south bay, a lot of early slow traffic. 101 and 85. A little bit on 280, but it is kind of slow, especially on 101 heading up to 280. 7 06. Back to the desk. A shelter in place has been lifted after a power line went down. It happened at 10 00 last night on san ramon street. People were told to stay inside until the crews arrived. The branch that fell was about ten feet long. It looks like it dropped a large branch and took down the power lines. Took it off of this pole and several other poles, laying it on the sidewalk and several cars. Firefighters say they were busy all night long responding to a number of calls about Lightning Strikes and small fires. Happening today, local lawmakers are taking action, hoping to stop distracted pedestrians from looking at their phones while walking on busy streets. They are hoping it will spread statewide. Allie rasmus is in redwood city to tell us more about this. Reporter this is a popular area with pedestrians, a lot of coffee shops, restaurants. People walking around. We havent seen anyone staring down at their phone as they cross the street here. That is the behavior that one county lawmaker is worried about it. They are worried about it nationwide. We know about distracted drivers. Distracted pedestrians are a problem too. Youre introducing a resolution today to encourage the state to enact some sort of law about this. How big a problem is this. Certainly it is a big problem. We know through federal data that distracted walking is becoming an issue. People are moving to their cell phones in rapid numbers. We know the incidents of people getting hit while on their cell phone is an issue. You havent heard of any particular crashes or injuries of anyone here in San Mateo County happening. But you have described this kind of problem firsthand. That is an understatement. I have seen people walking across the street, whether watching a movie on their phone or texting. This has really become an issue. Those naysayers who say wait a minute, this is sort of a nanny law, i would suggest to they will, lets look at the seatbelt law in the 80s. A lot of people were opposed to seat belts. What this law does is about Public Safety and protecting people and making them aware of their surroundings. Were in redwood city right now. Technology all over the place. For us to keep up with 21st century phones, we have to have 21st century solutions. You referenced one other city that enacted a ban on people looking at their cell phones as they cross the street. Honolulu. But here in california, youre restricted in terms of what sort of ban you can enact city wide. Correct. Tell me about that. What honolulu were able to do they enacted that law. However, we cant do it on a county basis. I have talked with our county council. We are governed by the california vehicle code. Because we brought up the issue up, there is a local Assembly Member looking to push this forward and hopefully it gets signed by the governor sometime next year. This is to send a message to state lawmakers, hey, we want you to do something about it. All politics is local. With law thats come about in the legislature, usually they start at a local level and then the legislators put those forward. It is a common sense approach. Im sure that the legislature will adopt it. Reporter thank you. That resolution will be introduced at a meeting happening at the county board of supervisors in San Mateo County at 9 00 this morning. We will stay on it and listen and see what happens with that. Check back in with you later. All right, allie rasmus. Thank you. Coming up next, homeless encampments in San Francisco. An ordinance that cracks down on tents. Apple getting ready to unveil its latest iphone from its new campus. We took legendary, and made it liberating. We took safe, and made it daring. We took intelligent, and made it utterly irresistible. We took the most advanced eclass ever, and made the most exciting eclass ever. The allnew eclass coupe from mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. The time is 7 12. This morning were looking at a new ordinance in San Francisco with the goal of getting Homeless People off the streets and into housing. Proposition q bans tents and structures on city sidewalks. The city has to give 24hour written notice and offer shelter or housing or their possessions may be seized. A total of 152 notices have been issued during a sixweek Pilot Program this summer when beds were available at a Navigation Center in the mission district. Over 92 of the people were taking us up on the offers. So it never needed to be enforced and property never was seized. If we can get one more person, one more family out of their tent and into housing, thats the success were looking for. Supervisor mark ferrell authored the bill. He hopes to see more money and resources allocated to the homeless. 4,000 are living on the streets. The question of the day is how should cities handle homeless encampments . Let us know what you think. Vote on the ktvu twitter page or on ktvu. Com. You can also leave comments for us on the ktvu facebook page. The time is 7 13. President trump tonight will host a dinner in what appears to be a lastditch effort to get tax reform. Doug luzader has for on the possible bipartisan compromise. Reporter the president maybe serving up compromise at the dinner tonight. There are plenty of other distracts in washington. It is not clear that enough lawmakers have the appetite for this right now. The president s Campaign Style push for comprehensive tax reform may win over the choir but it will be more difficult today at the white house as he breaks bread with a Bipartisan Group of senators ranging from conservative republicans to moderate democrats. We want to get a complete tax reform package. Thats the goal. Reporter thats the goal. But the reality in congress could fall short. For the republicans, theres one absolute total ill parity. That is to pass a tax cut by thanksgiving. Trump has reason to worry that they wont be able to do it. Reporter that could help joyce the economy. But the president will have to deal with members of his own party that are angry with the shortterm deal that he struck with democrats to fund the government through december and raise the detassel ceiling. Because of that, he may have a better relationship with Democratic Leaders in congress. Were glad that the president accepted it. For the good of the country. Now we have more to get done. Reporter if republicans are pessimistic about striking a deal, there is good reason. It has been 30 years since we have seen comprehensive tax reform. In washington, doug luzader, fox news. Lets head over to sal castaneda. Traffic was in full swing when i left the house this morning. It is going to be busy out there. A lot of the commutes have been affected now by minor anything from minor to moderate incidents along your way. Lets get to the slowest commutes. That would be the entire east bay commute has been affected by a couple of crashes on the way on 80 westbound between hercules and richmond. It will be slow. I wouldnt say it was as bad as last week when we had hour delays, but we might get there. I will keep you posted obviously. Were also looking at 880 southbound between hayward, fremont and union city. Slow traffic there. And also on the dumbarton and san mateo bridge, it is slower. People are asking is this the new fall pattern . It is, with the caveat that it will get better when september is over and people adjust to their schedules. Some people will not want to commute after commute hours after dealing with it in september. They will make adjustments and that will make things a little easier. San mateo bridge, westbound looks like there is a delay on the causeway. Lets bring in steve with todays weather. Early this morning we asked the question, how long do spiders live. Did somebody respond . No. More people are watching now. How long do spiders live . Somebody tell us, please. Did anything happen last night in kind of quiet. Oh, what a show. And the pictures have been flying in. Were already starting to get clouds building up rapidly. The low responsible for sending in the band of thunderstorms yesterday is much closer now. Lightning over tibberon about yeah. Something like that. At 6 30, thanks to christie. She sent that in an email over marin county, the gold especially gate. Fantastic pictures came in. Even over the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was good for us. I think we could see another round today. Starting to get interesting to the south and southeast. And the low responsible for it will not move through until tomorrow. Got a break here if you need to do something do it early. Clouds are building up fast here. Lightning strikes to the north up in Mendocino County and fort bragg, a couple of them right there. Things are quieter. They wont stay that way for long. Already developing rapidly around Santa Cruz Mountains, santa clara valley. That is the key. You need it out to the valley. There was a monster system near merced last night. Once we get to sunset that, dies off. The systems will pop up later. 60s and 70s. Not as hot as yesterday. It was hot yesterday. That added a lot of fuel to the atmosphere. 60s on the temps. 59 hillsberg. Delta breeze, yes. Starting to pick up. Not too crazy yet in vacaville but fairfield. Picked up yesterday and died and temperatures went up to 100 degrees. Calm, calm, calm, west southwest in san jose. Not much yet. I expect that to pick up. The upper atmosphere is active coming out of the southeast around this low, which is much closer as we talked about. The clouds are beginning to pop up here. Early in the day as you know. This low will continue to give us a round of i think thunderstorms. Certainly later today and down bursts. 70s and 8s and a few 90s on the temps. After tomorrow, then its a cooler, breezy pattern on thursday. Thank you, steve. The time is 7 19. Safety concerns at san jose airport. What will be different the next time that a fire alarm goes off. Also, justice for people of the equifax breach. Why people cant ignore the risk to their credit. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is now 7 21. A false alarm at san jose airport over the weekend is raising safety questions. It went off by accident sunday at the airport. Some people say they couldnt get out through the emergency exit doors. An airport spokesperson says newly installed exit doors in terminal b locked down during the alarm as they were supposed to do in an emergency. They say there were many other emergency exit door thats were working. But some people were confused. They say there wasnt enough direction about where to go. The airport now plans to change its emergency policy. Y policy. Anxiety inducing. I wouldnt like that at all if youre stuck and there is no direction how to unhinge yourself from it. We determine there had is another set of information, signage, what have you that we need to convey to customers in the event of an emergency in terminal b. The incident only lasted 15 minutes. And airport Officials Say no one missed their flight because of it. Today were getting details of many lawsuits over the huge data breach at equifax. Apple will have a big effect on wall street today. Pam cook is back with this mornings money business. S p 500 opened in record territory. That could do with apples unveiling. It shot up just about half an hour ago. Analysts optimistic that the new options and the cell enabled watch that were hearing about and upgrades to apple tv will have a big impact on apple stock and bring the tech up with it. Taking a look at the markets right now, they are up across the board. Here is a look at the dow. 41 points on the upside. 22098. The nasdaq and s p 500 also up slightly as well and we will continue to check the numbers. Getting back to business in florida. Cruise ships will leave today as irma moves north. Three cruise ports in florida that closed before the hurricane made landfall will reopen today. Many major airports in florida also reopening this morning. But with limited service. We did hear live this morning though about 60 of the gas stations in tampa and other areas in florida are out of fuel. Hopefully the tankers will be able to come in as well with the cruise ships. More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against equifax following that massive data breach involving 143 million americans. Many of the lawsuits accuse the company of misleading consumers about its ability to protect its data. One of the complaints was filed out of san jose. Now, the data breach happened back in july but consumers were not notified about it until last week. The information stolen includes Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and birth dates. The information that has been compromised is the exact information that you would not want a criminal having because thats exactly what they would need in order to be able to steal your identity in order to create, you know, fake credit cards, get a car, finance a car, or even a mortgage. Now, if youre not sure if youre affected, equifax has a tool that lets you check to see if your Social Security number was impacted. And we have a link to that site on our website, ktvu. Com, under our web links section. Right on our home page there. So be sure that you go and check. And if you are impacted, the company equifax will give you free credit monitoring for a year. Nordstrom is opening a new Concept Store that does not stock actual clothing. Instead there will be personal stylists at the store that can place an order for you. People will be able to buy clothing online and pick them up at the store. And the store will focus things like manicures and tailoring. There will also be a bar. The new store will open next month in los angeles. It goes with my story about retail and the mall. Theory involving to what the demand save todays consumer. Is nordstrom doing well financially. Nordstrom is doing well. The analyst was talking about something that they have that some people may not be be aware of. Paul ryan who is a good dresser and likes anotherstrom, you can look online and reserve stuff in your dressing room. If you only have a little amount of time, it is ready for you. You run in, try it on and go. That something that other retailers may want to try as well. That cuts out the personal shopper thing. It combynes your online you know, the quickness and ease of online and trying on something. I like it. Okay. Well try it. One day, me and you. Yep. Thank you, pam. The time is 7 26. The wait is over. The tech world watching as apple hosts the first event at the new cupertino campus. We will take you there live and show what you is going on. Reporter irma has moved along away from florida, but leaving a path of destruction and homeowners frustrated in its wake. I will have the latest on the cleanup coming un. It is crowded, especially on the east bay commutes. We will show you what 680 looks like and what some of the north bay commutes look like. If you enjoyed the thunderstorm activity yesterday afternoon and evening, you will probably enjoy some today. It will be close. Were in the window again. People love my breakfast burritos. And my french fries. Wait what if i put them together . a burrito stuffed with scrambled eggs, creamy guacamole, bacon and crispy french fries. Ill call it the california breakfast burrito boom. Someone got that, right . Scrambled eggs. Guacamole. Bacon. French fries. Youll call it the california breakfast burrito. Boom. Good work everyone. Another winner. Introducing my New California breakfast burrito. Only at jack in the box. The time is 7 30. It is so quiet now. But my goodness, that is going to change mid morning. Where is that. This is our first look at the new apple campus in cupertino, that space ship they keep talking about. Wow. Apple is inviting members of the media ai dont think with our jessie gary, to unveil its new product, believed to be a new iphone, marking ten years since the first was unveiled by steve jobs. We expect tim cook to make the announcement. It is a serene place right now. Wall street is already reacting. Yes. Right here at home. It is a busy tuesday, september 12th. Im gasia mikaelian. Good morning. Im dave clark. And the weather were talking about put on a spectacular light show last night. The National Weather service announced just minutes ago here it recorded 1200 cloud to ground Lightning Strikes across the bay area since last evening. The thunderstorm even delays the giants game against the dodgers. It ended after 2 00 this morning. Ktvu viewers sent us great pictures and video of Lightning Strikes where they live in the bay area. The bolts of lightning lit up the sky. These take every over the Santa Cruz Mountains. In milbrae, a chimney was broken off. The photos from central county fire also looks like a fence was damaged as well along with that chimney. And then lightning made a big cypress tree look like kindle. This was in moss beach near half moon bay. The picture taken by peter finch was posted on facebook. By the way, peter says no one was hurt. Boy, we were glued to the window. I know. Steve, we were hearing thunder and seeing lightning and watching the rainfall. Yes, we were. Not bad. Yeah. Thank you, gasia and dave. More today. The skies have gone from mostly clear to mostly cloudy quick here. The low is just to the west southwest of santa cruz. It is much closer compared to yesterday. A little afternoon heating should do it. Sat on the roof to watch the or the roof to watch the thunder and lightning as it rolled across San Francisco. More today, sp . I think so. Im inclined to think there will be more towards the valley though or eastern areas more than coast and bay. It is close. Everybody is in there. Pacifica, daly city and sfo took the bulk of the rainfall. Hayward,. 11 of an inch. Mountain view at. 06. Not too bad. There goes the first band. Things have calmed down. Watch as the cloud cover develops rapidly here. I think we will get lines coming out of the valley quick as well. For the morning, that is your best opportunity to take care of anything. By this afternoon, things get active. Watch in the last few frames, you can see clouds move up from the south southeast around Santa Cruz Mountains and santa clara valley. 60sand 70s to the north. Decent breeze that will pick up big time tomorrow. Its not howling yet. Overall, not much of a breeze to the south at all. This low is so close that it will be here through tomorrow morning at least. It will keep active weather in the next 24 hours. 70s, 80sand a few 90s. Sal, spiders typically live for five to six months. But attarantula can live up to 20 years. I will ask what the theory of relativity is and have it explained. In 140 characters or less. Exactly. Good morning. We are looking at the traffic. We have one of our crews driving on 680. I like to call it we have our driver. But that may confuse people. My driver who drives me around to nightclubs. To the clue. It is a crew with a camera on the dash driving safely along 680. [honking] it is better now than it was. He started in pleasanton, heading to san jose. And you can see the traffic is moving along a little better here. And our signal is coming in and out. It looks good. Lets move along and take a look at another picture. That would be a picture of the area in general. So 680 as we just showed you here the driver, the crew was right about there. I saw them earlier when it was right here. You have slow traffic as you know. 580 is slow in the Altamont Pass. 880 slow from 238 all the way down to stevenson boulevard in fremont. We have a lot of slow traffic this morning on highway 4. Some people took 680 instead of 80 because of earlier delays. That caused a Chain Reaction of slow traffic through the area. And 80 is still very slow driving into berkeley. At the bay bridge toll plaza, we have a 15 to 20minute delay before you make it past the metering lights. At 7 are 35 00 at 7 35, back to the desk. Thank you, sal. We want to show you how dangerous the roads were as Tropical Storm irma hit. A big tree fell down right in front of the car. The driver slams on the brakes but the car still crashed into the tree trunk. The door opens. The driver was shaken up. But the driver is okay. People run up. In the meantime, in florida, many who evacuated ahead of the storm, theyre going back home. But the power is still out for millions of people. Some of the areas are still flooded. Reporter Lauren Blanchard has the latest from florida. Reporter the flooding could have been worse but the state is going to take a lot of time to rebuild. Residents across florida taking stock of the carnage. We got hit pretty hard. We got lots of wind and broken trees. Irma is still soaking parts of southeast while the Sunshine State begins the cleanup. No telling how long the flooding will last in places like jacksonville or hundreds of miles away in fort myers where the waters are still rise. It is just flooding. It wont stop. It keeps coming up. Reporter reporter the florida keys, redens clashed with police after being denied reentry into their neighborhoods. Right now we dont though where to go. The issue is as the hurricane passes, we put our faith into these hurricane passes and they are worthless if we cant get in. Reporter residents turned away despite waiting for hours. Officials need to keep the streets clear to work on restoring power to the millions of floridians without electricity. We dont want people driving around, running into trees, power lines, gas leaks. Reporter many of the residents in the area are able to get back into their neighborhoods today. The miami, orlando and tampa airports will reopen with limited service. Rvice. The time is 7 37. Apples annual fall unveil is happening later this morning. Today is also apples first event at the companys new space ship campus in cupertino. Ktvus jessie gary is at apple park right now. Good morning to you. Show us what is going on out there. Reporter dave, good morning to you. I dont know when the last time we did this. Its got to be ten years. Good morning to you and gasia. Were at the space ship. And, you know, the big unveil is talking about the phone. But had is the real big unveil, the space ship, the new headquarters for apple. Youre looking at the steven jobs theater behind me. It is all glass and just a straight floor behind you. There is not much there. Thats because the big show is down below. A couple of stories down. We will enter and go down a couple of stories for the big unveil. Lets look at the video if we have it. As i said this is at the space ship as were affectionately calling it. It has been under construction for the past few years. You see video of it as it was going up in cupertino. Now it is up and ready. This is the first major launch here at the space ship. The big item that were expected to see today, the new iphone x. Price tag possibly as much as 1,000. It is suppose today rival all of the new phones on the market. Maybe wireless charging, et cetera, et cetera. Will you pay 1,000 for a phone . I guess thats the big question. We will let you know all of the bells and whistles in this new phone coming up in the next hour. Were waiting to get our credentials so we can go into the theater, which is behind me. Again, the show is down below. We enter and go down two floors and we will see the products unveiled. We will have another update in an hour. Live outside of the space ship, jessie gary, ktvu fox 2 news. How much of the campus have you seen . I imagine theyre taking you from point a to point b, right . Reporter boy, gasia, i wish i was face timing earlier. I drove in here, parked, and it was a mad dash from the parking structure im on level three. Up three levels and over here. I didnt see too much other than trees and landscape and that kind of thing. Now the theater behind me. It has been a mad dash so far. I will try to take a began der around. But security is everywhere. You cant go anywhere unless you have you cant see it, but my wrist band. You cant go anywhere. All right. Reporter it is controlled. Have fun at the space ship. Jessie gary in cupertino. Thank you. The time is now 7 40. Still head, were following the latest concerning Hurricane Irma. We will talk to someone who lives in florida that evacuated and is now going back home to see the damage for the first time. And with so many people questioning police use of force, ktvu gets an upclose look at how San Francisco officers train for the split second decisions. Sam just snagged it from you canhomegoods. Is frenchie. It reminds him of bennie. Only quieter. You cant have this frenchie. But new finds are always arriving. So you can find something so you, for less. At homegoods. Uc berkeley has opened an investigation into a video that has gone viral showing a Police Officer taking money from a hot dog vendor. In the video you see uc berkeley Police Officer sean giving the vendor named juan a ticket for operating without a permit. It is what happened next that has many people upset. After the officer ends up taking cash from that vendor. The vendor pulled out his wallet to get out his id or whatever he had. And within seconds, the officer yanked it out of his hand. Then the officer took out the cash. The University Says the officer was following instructions to crack down on illegal vendors outside of campus events. In the meantime a gofundme page has raised 52,000 for the hot dog vendor. Another petition is calling for the officer to be removed from the uc police force. The time is 7 43. The Berkeley City Council will consider a controversial proposal to let Police Officers use pepper spray again. For the past 20 years, Berkeley Police have been banned from using pepper spray for crowd control. The police chief greenwood said every major Police Department in the country lets their officers carry pepper spray. He says his officers are hampered in their ability to handle volatile demonstrations. The chief says he wants officers to have options other than Police Batons or rubber bullets and tear gas. There is a concern that the protests may get out of hand for thursdays speech from conservative writer benecia pir owe at uc berkeley. The San Francisco Police Departments use of force policy have come under fire after a number of deadly officerinvolved shootings. Since then, sweeping policy changes have been made. Tara moriarty was invited to be part of the training that officers get at the Police Academy. Reporter splitsecond decisions. San francisco Police Department. Reporter its what officers do on a daily basis. This video simulator helps train those going through the Police Academy and serves as a refresher course for the rest of the department every two years. People dont realize how quickly things evolve. It can be a static and compliant subject to attacking you in a moments notice. Reporter after a string of deadly officerinvolved shootings two years ago, the department of justice reviewed policies and made more than 270 recommendations for change. Theyre letting me have a chance to see what it is like for officers in those life or death situations. Th situations. Okay. Okay. Put it back in. Put it back in. Im armed with a replica baton, pepper spray and gun. Within 7 seconds, the situation becomes potentially deadly. What is going on . What is happening right now . She has a gun. I grab my gun and hide behind a mock telephone pole. Put the gun on the floor and we can talk about it. I dont need you here. Put it down. Good work. Historically in the infantile stages in my time in the deportation, we would would converge on suspects a lot quicker. Now creating time, creating distance, putting things between us, were able to communicate with subjects and get them to comply quicker. Since january to august 31st, we had 11,082 calls specifically for mentally disturbed persons. And about 17,700 calls related to well being checks. Reporter so the big question is, could i ever cut it as a cop . Absolutely. Absolutely. With the right training and 7 months at the Police Academy, absolutely. Reporter San Francisco, Tara Moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. The training appears to have a positive effect between january and march of this year, the department reported more than 800 use of force incidents. That is down 16 from the year before. The time is now 7 47. Sal is right over there, busy watching our commute. How do we look. Were looking okay. There are some areas where the traffic does break free after youve been in traffic for a while. For example, 680 through fremont getting into san jose, theres that area where all of a sudden people try to make up time here. Ive been watching this thing even when we werent on the air. And i did notice a chp officer speed by with lights on. Im not sure if he was going to catch someone who was speeding. But our photographer driving south on 680 should be at the 101 interchange with 280 soon. And i will show you with the maps here that traffic is going to be moderately heavy. So its slow out of pleasanton. But this whole area that we have been covering is looking good. This is where he was driving. When you get to 280, slow traffic there. Lets talk about 680 where it has been really slow on 680 before the benecia bridge. And also on 680 after through concord. People heard about 80 being slow and they were avoiding it. That put more pressure on 680 this morning. 80 is recovering from earlier issues. I want to talk about northbound 101 at anza. A motorcycle accident on northbound 101. This will affect you on the way up to the airport. Use 280 instead. Instead of 101. Again, a motorcycle accident blocking lanes on northbound 101. Southbound 101 in San Francisco looks like there is a stalled truck here right in front of the ups building. Southbound 101. And as kevin pulls it back, you can see it is having a little bit of an effect on 80, the central freeway, and on westbound 80 coming out to the 101 interchange. So 101 the central freeway and 80 slow because of the stalled vehicle. Nowas 7 48, lets bring in steve with the forecast. Thank you, sal. Plenty to talk about after last nights great display. We could see similar today. Already clouds beginning to build up here. The low responsible for funneling in a lot of the moisture is moving closer. West southwest of santa cruz right now. Do you see a day similar to yesterday as far as thunderstorms go . Less lightning . More lightning . What n. What areas . No pressure, russell. Lets see. Yes. Less. Inland more so than coast and bay. Why is that . Because the low is farther to the south and the flow came up from the valley and came right back over towards san cute mown Santa Cruz Mountains and San Francisco. Anybody could be in on it today. Craig says last night from russian hill. Crazy light show in the city all night. Was there lightning in the city last night . Yes, there was. Thank you for all of the  photos. We have a lot to post here today. The most rain was at rock away beach. Daly city,. 19. That was the most that was the bulk, around south San Francisco over to sfo. Fremont. 12. Hayward hills. 11. Oakland airport,. 07. And many. 04s. Mill valley, kent field, palo alto in there. So not bat. Not bad. The average rainfall for the month of september in San Francisco is. 21. Were about halfway there. We see a little break here. Clouds are beginning to build up quick. If we go cloudy, that is not good. Much yesterday it cleared and got hot and we got a lot of lift. Then the moisture was funnelled up here by the low. Thats what happened last night. Now you can see the moisture beginning to pick up again. This is the area to watch. I think more so here. Yesterday it was down around monterey at this time. Most of this moved off shore. The cloud cover is streaming northward. The key is the low. I will show you that in a second. 65 half moon bay, 71, brentwood. There are a few 50s. East bay temps, 60s and 70s. The dew point around 58 to 65. That is plenty to get things going once we start to warm up. Again, you need the sun breaks to help with the lift here. Not off shore in vacaville, but on shore at travis. Not much of a breeze yet. In the south, it is very calm. Yesterday was very windy. That is not the case so far. The low is right here. Yesterday it was down here. As it lifting in ward, it could send in bands. I think it tends to favor areas inland. Unless it backs off a little bit. That could put moisture just about everywhere. 70s, 80s and 90s, that is warm enough to give us another round of Thunder Showers and maybe some of the downdrafts like yesterday morning. Much cooler thursday as the low kicks out. Never know. Never know. Thanks, steve. The time is 7 52. You heard about distracted driving. About what distracted walking . Efforts on the peninsula to get pedestrians to put away their cell phone when youre in a crosswalk. Plus, relief if you live near a cal train station. What is being done about the trains blowing their horns. Been trying to prepare for this day. And im still not ready. The reason im telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that. Youll never be ready for. Your little girl getting married being one of them. Happening today, El Cerrito Police will give the pub lake chance to weigh in on guidelines for officer worn body cameras. A public forum will be held to discuss the issue and review the policy. Under the proposed policy, officers would use body cameras to record traffic stops, suspect arrests, searches for fugitives, dealing with potential suspects with Mental Health issues and whenever they use a police k9. It starts at 6 00 tonight at city hall on san pablo avenue. San franciscos rec and Park Department will rename sharon meadow in Golden Gate Park after Robin Williams. He was a big part of comedy day in sharon meadow that has been held for 25 years. They pushed to rename the park after robin. This years comedy day is this sunday, when park officials will publicly anoun the renaming Robin Williams meadow. Sharon meadow was named for william sharon, a u. S. Senator from novato that donated to Golden Gate Park. Starting to the the Transit Agency is reducing the horn noise coming from trains traveling through certain stations. The stations through san bruno, belmont and san carlos. Conductors will continue to blow the horns but it wont be continuous. Visual and audio messages will advise customers when a train is approaching. Tonight a telethon featuring some of the most popular entertainers in the world to raise money for hurricanes harvey and irma. It includes george clooney, Matthew Mcconaughey and jamie foxx. 17 networks now taking part. It will be live streamed on facebook and youtube and other social media channels. A lot of the celebrity wills be answering the phones, taking donations. Michael dell is going to underwrite the entire telethon. All of the money goes to hurricane victims. He will also match the first 10 million of donations. Dell computer is headquartered in round rock, texas, right near austin. The hand in hand telethon will be broadcast from los angeles, new york, nashville. You can watch it right here tonight on ktvu fox 2 starting at 8 00. Our time is now 7 57. Boy, the lightning really lit up the bay area skies last night. We will have the latest on yesterdays storm and the Power Outages that left many people in the dark. And we continue to follow the latest surrounding Hurricane Irma. We will talk about someone who lives in florida who was evacuated and is hoping to return home to see the damage for the first time. At Stanford Health care, we can now repair complex aortic aneurysms without invasive surgery. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for varicose veins. And if we can precisely treat eye cancer with minimal damage to the rest of the eye, imagine what we can do for glaucoma, even cataracts. If we can use dna to diagnose the rarest of diseases, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. Imagine what we can do for you. Good morning. A dazzling electric show before the bay area last night as thousands of Lightning Strikes lit up the night sky. We will tell you about the Power Outages caused by the powerful thunderstorms. Irma has moved on, mostly away from florida, however leaving a path of destruction. And frustrated homeowners in its wake. Im Lauren Blanchard with the latest on the cleanup. This is ktvu mornings on 2. Good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is tuesday, september 12th. Im mike mibach. Im gasia mikaelian. This is what everyone is talking about this morning. Lightning strikes lighting up the night sky across the bay area yesterday. Unfortunately the Severe Weather has left many people in the dark overnight and into today. We will have more on the problems from the storm coming up. First we bring in Steve Paulson with more on whether or not we will see this uncertainty continue. Yes. We will today. Excellent. Yes. It is fun. It is different. Yeah. September, it happens. Not that unusual. We do have a little bit quieter pattern right now. Things are beginning to pop. Im leaning more on inland areas today versus say the coast or the bay. Thats what happened last night. Anybody is close enough today. The low is right there to the west southwest. That was last night. Things calmed down. Watch heading up to sacramento and the valley. Right there. Its going to happen. Its going to happen. Its just a matter of where the placement is. Today i think more to the east. We had thunderstorms from Santa Cruz Monterey up to fort bragg. It was impressive. Things are developing out to the valley. Thats the key to watch out there to see if you can get development. South of monterey, things are developing. 60s and 70s on the temps. Cooler today compared to yesterday about one to five degrees. The afternoon highs will be cooler. But the amount of moisture in the air, the dew points are high much thats the low right there. It is closer to us compared to yesterday. But you can see the flow coming around that could easily produce more Thunder Showers. 70s, 80s and a few 90s on the temps. 8 02. And the traffic is it is getting busier. If youre in the south bay on the 680 as it turns into 280, you have slow traffic. We can show it to you. Our crew on 680 south transitioning to northbound 280, you can see that traffic is beginning to slow down. There is a plane going to san jose airport. Were on the 280 portion of the flight not of the flight. Of the commute, driving up through. The traffic will be busy getting up to highway 17. Lets move along and look at other commutes. The east bay commute has been slow, especially 680 and 80. 680 through Contra Costa County is backed up way back on 680 well before the benecia bridge. It will be tough to get through. 80 is also slow. And we also have northbound 101 clearing an accident from anza, near burlingame here. Thats why traffic is so slow on northbound 101 through san mateo. Southbound 101, that stalled vehicle remains. Southbound 101 right here at the ups building. It is causing a delay and may affect the bay bridge coming in. Here is another look at 280. I wanted to show you. We showed you the ground picture. This is a picture from one of the tower cameras. Thank you, sal. There were 1200 cloud to ground Lightning Strikes since last night. It left a lot of people without power unfortunately. Alex savidge is live in San Francisco with ongoing Power Outages there. Alex. Reporter yeah. Good morning to both of you. A lot of people around the bay area getting ready for work or school with no power. At last check, pg e reported 1800 homes and businesses are in the dark. A lot of them right here in San Francisco. You can see behind us on this block, crews are busy trying to restore power to this neighborhood near 35th avenue after lightning struck a power line here last night. Mom. Mom. It blew up. This is the dramatic cell phone video taken by 17year old caitlyn. When the lightning struck a power line causing the power line to explode and plunging the neighborhood into darkness. There were nearly 7,000 Lightning Strikes reported across the bay area last night. A thousand or so of them hit the ground. The sacred heart senior who watched the transformer blow up last night said these storms were some of the most frightening experiences of her life. I was so scared. I had no idea what to do. I was fearing for my mom. Like none of us knew what to do. Our power is out. I just had no idea. I thought the world was ending. Reporter the storms caused a lot of problems near Golden Gate Park. Lightning hit a tree that fell on to a parked car at 24th and fulton. Thankfully no one was hurt there. Check out the lightning above at t park before the giants game with the dodgers last night. The storm actually delayed the start of the game. It finally ended at 2 10 this morning. The giants came out on top in that one. After a game that stretched into the Early Morning hours, you can bet that the players were zapped. Steve told us about the thunderstorms, the potential for them yesterday. Now were talking about more unsettled weather coming in later on today. And crews busy throughout the region. Pg e crews are trying to restore power to a lot of neighborhoods. Probably will be for the next 24 to 36 hours. Thank you, alex. Many people who left florida because of Hurricane Irma are starting slowly to go back home. At least seven deaths are being blamed on irma plus one death in georgia and one in south carolina. The governor says several bridges in the keys dont seem to be seriously damaged. But more time is needed to finish inspections. The power is still out for millions this morning and the cleanup has whyet to begin. Lauren is live in tampa, florida this morning to bring us the latest. Lauren. Reporter yeah. Hi, mike and gasia. Irma may have come and gone but the damage is extensive in many cities. Some of those evacuated residents are finally able to go home. This as fema is ramping up its response. Up and down the florida coast and beyond, flooding problems continue as anxious residents began returning home in some areas to get a firsthand look at the devastation left behind by irma. Fema is now out in force throughout the state, promising a strong response. It is all about communication. Clearly identifying how to support our state and local partners. That is exactly what is taking place today as we start to turn the corner. Reporter more than 6 Million People are still without power in at least five states. And in some hard hit cities like jacksonville, rescues are still underway as the flood waters continue to rise. What i dont want people, i dont want them to be complacent. Reporter some evacuation orders are being lifted, including in the florida keys where the storm made landfall. Homeowners now doing what they can to clean up their neighborhoods. Many thankful that the damage isnt worse. Im thankful that were all here alive. Im thankful that our community is out and trying to assess the damage. Pretty scary. You dont know when its going to hit, when your house is going to flood. Reporter and here in tampa, gas is still in fairly short supply. This as people are trying to get back home and fill not their cars. Good news for the residents here. The port is expected to open in about three hours. And there are fuel tankers ready to go as soon as it does. Mike, gasia. Lauren, you hear in storms like this, a lot of people are injured in the cleanup effort, not from the initial storm itself. Is that something that officials are worried about there . Reporter well, obviously officials want everybody to be as safe as possible which is a big reason that they are trying to keep the damaged areas closed off to the public. Thats when people get hurt, when theyre driving over debris or trying to pick up debris or worse walking over or around downed power lines. That is why authorities have kept a lot of people out of the really hard hit areas like the florida keys. But of course theyre also warning people as they go back into the damaged homes to be on the lookout for things like power lines and that kind of thing. There is a positive for sports fans in florida. The bucs announced they will be hosting the Chicago Bears this coming weekend. Lauren is live in tampa. We appreciate the report. A family from lehigh acres in florida, which is near mother myers, on the west side of the state, went to orlando to ride out the storm. Jeremy, tell us what youre seeing where you are, jeremy. We came in last night, early evening. And it really looked like i mean i put on facebook it looked like we were in a war torn area. Power lines were down. We drove over two power line thats were down. Its a good thing that the power is out. Because im sure they dont want us driving around. But we had to get home. Were concerned about the area and concerned about our house. And we had to get home. Experiencing this type of hurricane, what was that like for you. It was unbelievable. You know, you the they tell you we moved down here eight years ago. They tell you when you come down here to be ready and prepared for it. But nothing will prepare you for what is happening. We we left as soon as we possibly could. My wife and i both have full time jobs here. And they gave us an evacuation notice. And we packed our stuff, grabbed our kid and drove to orlando where luckily we had family that had a fortified condo that literally took the beating. We listened to the winds howl all night, push on the sliding doors. We were on the top floor of a sixfloor building. We heard transformers blowing up all around us. At least five explosions. When we came home, thats what we expected and what we found. It is ravaged. The city of lehigh where we live, there are no stores open. Im sitting in the walmart parking lot and it says we are closed until further notice. Wow. There is no power. They dont expect for us to get power for another few weeks. Theyre more worried about naples and the cove line. Theyre not worried about us out here in the sticks. I was told that youre a high school teacher. Is that true . Yes, sir. What do you families do . Is there any damage to schools there and are students going to be bussed to other School Districts . Has there been talk about this part of the story . Well, yeah. Were were actually shut down for the entire week. The school distree of lee county says they are not opening anything for the entire week. We might go back on monday. What i heard yesterday is we are planning on open the district offices on monday of next week. But right now all of the schools are closed. In fact, theyre using i dont know, probably a dozen at least a dozen when we left were opened up as storm shelters. My high school was one of the primary ones. We have 3,000 people inside of our building for the four days that the storm basically came in and leveled everything. And i believe there are still people there. But they did open the shelters and let people go home if they wanted to. Yep. All right. Jeremy, an incredible firsthand account. Thanks for joining us this morning. Im glad youre okay. Thanks, mike and gasia. Appreciate it. Of course. X is going to mark the spot for apple today. What you can expect from the newest iphone to be revealed today. Weve all heard about distracted drivers. What about distracted pedestrians, people looking down at their cell phones while crossing the street. Find out what one san mateo lawmaker wants the state to do about it. Been trying to prepare for this day. And im still not ready. The reason im telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that. Youll never be ready for. Your little girl getting married being one of them. A county supervisor along the peninsula wants state lawmakers to do something about distracted walking. Allie rasmus is in redwood city to explain here. Allie. Reporter downtown redwood city is where we are. It is a high traffic area for cars and pedestrians with a lot of coffee shops and restaurants, theaters, all in one immediate location. There are several crosswalks around us in courthouse square. San mateo supervisor david says there needs to be more awareness about the dangers of looking down at your phone while crossing the street. He is introducing a resolution to encourage state lawmakers to take up the issue of distracted walking and make it a statewide law to ban looking down at your cell phone while crossing the street. Any law about this would have to be a statewide law. The county cant do it at a city, county by county area because of the california vehicle code. But there is also a question about how would you enforce Something Like this . Well, he says that its all about increasing awareness about the issue. How do we put a Police Officer on every corner . Is that feasible . Probably not. But maybe theres an opportunity when an officer sees someone or there is an accident that takes place, the first thing they say, look to your left, look to your right, is it safe to cross. Maybe thats a lesson that we should revisit. Reporter and the city of honolulu passed a ban on looking down at your cell phone while walking, crossing the street. And it goes into effect next month. People in that city can be fined for distracted walking from 35 to 99. The supervisor would like to see similar fines tied to distracted walking laws passed here. Again, any laws on this topic would have to be statewide. And thats why he is introducing the resolution at the county supervisors meeting to encourage state lawmakers to take up this cause. Back to you guys. We will continue to follow that story. I was walking outside in Jack London Square and with your head down. With my head down for a instant. And i tripped on the sidewalk. I have never done it again. We have train tracks around here too. I havent done it since then. If you do a yard sale on the pavements, it has different results than when youre skiing. Pay attention. Yeah. I want to go out for some reason, my toll plaza camera may not be working. Let me see if i can load it up again. I want to show there you go. The toll plaza is backed up. We havent talked a lot about it because it has been very routine today. This is what you expect when you go to the toll plaza. Getting there has been slow. Now things are getting a little better. We have the typical slow traffic that you see on 580, 880. If you look at the east bay map, anywhere that you look is red. A lot of slow traffic. 680 is finally improving a little bit. It has been very slow. People were avoiding 880 avoiding 80. That is still slow from near the carquinez bridge. Were talking about the peninsula. That earlier motorcycle accident we had, 101 near anza has been removed. However the damage is done. It will be slow getting up into the airport area. I would suggest as an alternate route use 280 instead. 8 19. Lets bring in steve with todays weather. Thank you, sal. Take a look at last nights rain totals. Lightning was the big show. But there was okay rain especially over sfo and daly city and pacifica. Mount hamilton,. 16 of an inch. Oakland airport,. 07. Mountain view at. 06. And this is sent to us from sandra. Red sky in the morning in dylan beach. Yes. We had similar yesterday. And jenny is out in pleasanton. Morning from pleasanton. A bit of light rain. That is true. However, take a look oh, right there. Up near tracy in patterson. Things are developing already. If youre in stockton and tracy, keep an eye on things. Were getting an early start, and im not surprised here, as the low is close to us already. Maybe lines beginning to form a little bit. Cant find anything close to us yet here. But i think they will develop. Everything has cleared out for now but picking up rapidly here. Certainly to areas to the south. And then beginning to move in. Now, there is a little bit of fog south of big sur. This is cloud cover pops up across the Santa Cruz Mountains and santa clara valley. No downdrafts or anything like we had early yesterday morning. But you see the low is very close to us. The circulation around that. Now, if it backs off a little bit, it might send more bands to closer to the coast and bay. As it stands right now u the best opportunity is to the east. Anybody is in line for some of that today as things start to get juiced up here. Plenty of moisture. Not as hot as yesterday. But 70s, 80s, and a few 90s. Thunderstorms will take us into wednesday morning. Then a cool, breezy pattern thursday and friday. Night sunrises and sunsets. Yes. Thank you, steve. Homeless encampments in the city of San Francisco. We gauge the effectiveness of an ordinance that bans tents on sidewalks. Do you want to do a monster check . Yes. No monsters. How about the drawer . No monsters. Nightly monster checks are how grant makes home his. And homegoods is what makes it all possible. Amazing finds. Always great prices. Make home yours. [fbi agent] youre a brave man, your testimony will save lives. Mr. Stevens . This is your new name. This is your new house. And a perfectly inconspicuous suv. You must become invisible. [hero] ill take my chances. The state of california is suing Trump Administration over the president s decision to end the daca program that protected young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children from being deported. M being deported. We dont bait and switch in this country. We dont tell people one thing and then the next put them in harms way by having them come forward and do what is right. State attorney general says president trumps cancellation of the program violates due process and will hurt californias economy. Last week new york and 15 other states filed a similar challenge but he decided to file a separate suit because california is home to about a quarter of the nations 800,000 Daca Recipients. President trump has Given Congress six months to address the fate of those enrolled in daca. At its meeting today in the south bay, the santa clara board of supervisors will consider 200,000 in funding to help Daca Recipients to renew their applications. The deadline set by the Trump Administration is october 5th. There are more than 1700 Daca Recipients in Santa Clara County eligible to submit renewal requests. We are taking a closer look at homelessness in the bay area. This morning were taking a much deeper look at a new ordinance in San Francisco that has the goal of getting Homeless People off of the streets and into housing. It babs departments and structures on city sidewalks. City has to give a person 24 hours written notice and offer shelter or housing or their possessions may be seized. A total of 152 proposition q notices have been issued so far during a Pilot Program this summer when beds were available at a Navigation Center in the mission district. Over 92 of the people were taking us up on the offers. And so it never needed to be enforced and nobodys personal property was seized. If we could get one more person, one more family out of their tent and into housing, that is the success were looking for. A supervisor who authored the bill hopes to see more money and resources allocated to the resources. Some 7500 people in the city are classified as homeless, 4,000 are living on the streets. We homed the first part of a twopart series on homelessness. It will be aired this thursday at 8 00 p. M. On ktvu plus and on ktvu. Com. Part two of the special, bay area homeless, searching for a solution, is going to air this sunday at 9 00 p. M. Were going to talk to a number of city leaders all getting together and working toward getting people off the streets. Our question of the day is about homelessness. Were asking, how should cities handle homeless encampments . 38 say clear them out. 62 say provide them with resources. Let us know what you think by voting on the ktvu twitter page or on ktvu. Com. And we appreciate comments on facebook. Dramatic video of First Responders at work during Hurricane Irma. How firefighters were able to rescue a baby from a flooded home. Anticipation building up to the Product Launch today by apple. More on what is expected to be announced, including the new iphone. Still busy out there. Especially the east bay. We will let you know more about what to expect as you drive to work. Well, it looks like things are beginning to develop pretty quick here, especially by the Altamont Pass. That is the focus today, marin land than coast and bay. We will have an update coming up. Im gasia mikaelian. Good morning. Im mike mibach. We will get to sal in just a bit. First lets check in with steve. The giants won just about six hours ago. What time was that, mike. I think it was six and a half hours ago. 2 10 this morning. You were not there. No, i was not there. They brought out the tarps and thought it was dry. Then theres another cell. Wasnt a little cell. Here we go, off we go. Not bad for us. Today i think things will develop quick here. I have been talking about out to the east. That is a better opportunity for inland areas. Coming up from merced, patterson, over the Altamont Pass, tracy, oakley, maybe brentwood and antioch. Doing exactly what i thought might happen. It is early to get things juiced up. Everything coming out of the southeast. The low is closer towards us. Last few images coming up on 40, merced. So i think things are getting ready to go here. Wont take long. Again, a little bit more heat out to the valley. And the low which was farther south is closer to us. The flow around that looks to be more for inland areas than coast and bay. It is close for everybody. You can see that from last night. Then it went off shore and things calmed down. Already getting good buildup. 60s and 70s on the temps here. The low is not going anywhere until wednesday morning. Until then we are in line for more thunderstorm activity. And you can see some of that activity is developing rapidly. So 70s, 80s, to a few 90s today. 8 31. Sal yeah. We have news about a closure in San Francisco, steve. I want to get to it right away. This is a live picture of San Francisco on o farrell street. This was a shooting that was first reported early this morning, about 6 00 in the morning. Where a couple of vehicles were involved. There also was a crash associated. Police first heard the shot spotter activation on the 700 block of farrell street. There was an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound and was taken to the hospital. We dont know his condition. There may have an a collision involving a couple of the vehicles. However, we dont know if the man who was shot was in which vehicle. But right now, they still have the street closed between mason. You know that is one of the side streets there. And still looks like they have been here for hours. It looks like they will be there for a while longer. The tow truck is on the scene. They may be able to get this open in the next hour, were hoping. Lets take a look at some of the other things we have for the morning commute. Traffic will be slow at the bay bridge this morning. If you are driving for about a 15 to 20 minute delay before you drive to the metering lights. The east bay commute has been jam packed. We can blame earlier crashes for that. People are trying to find their way around 80. That puts pressure on all of the other freeways. Highway 4 is still slow as well. So please give yourself extra time. Northbound 101, they cleared a motorcycle accident. I would use 280 northbound unstead of 101 out of the redwood city area. Lets go back to the desk. Mother nature putting on quite the light show last night. The National Weather service recorded 1200 cloud to ground Lightning Strikes across the bay area. The thunderstorm delayed the giants game against the dodgers. That game ending just after 2 00 this morning. Ktvu viewers sent us pictures of Lightning Strikes where they live in the bay area. These bolts of lightning lit up the sky over the Santa Cruz Mountains. Lightning made a large cypress tree look like kindling in half moon bay. This was taken by peter finch on pearl avenue near highway 1. He posted this one to facebook. Lightning struck a tree in san mateo, causing a live power line to come down. It happened around 10 00 last night on ramona street. People were told to stay inside until pg e crews arrived. The branch that fell was about ten feet long. It looks like it dropped a large branch and took down the power lines. It took it down off of this pole and several other poles. Laying it on to the sidewalk and several cars. Firefighters say they were busy all night responding to several calls about Lightning Strikes and small fires. New dash cam video from georgia shows how dangerous the roads were as Tropical Storm irma hit that particular area. A large tree fell right in front of that car. The driver slammed on the brakes but the car crashed into the tree trunk. The driver was shaken up but okay. There was record flooding in jacksonville, florida. Want to show you video released this morning of a rescue. A baby pulled out of a flooded home. An ambulance took the child to the hospital. Jacksonville authorities are warning people today to not drive through standing water. Irmas damage could exceed flooding records set during Hurricane Dora in 1965. Governor greg abbott accepted mexicos offer to send help after the devastating hurricane harvey. Yesterday the foreign minister released a statement saying because of the september 7th earthquake and hurricane katia, the country is not in the position to offer aid to texas. Nearly 100 people died in the earthquake. But despite the loss of assistance, texas was grateful for the offer. A telethon featuring celebrities, including george clooney, will raise money for victims of hurricanes harvey and irma. So many celebrities are participating. 17 networks are now taking part. It will be live streamed on facebook, youtube and other social media channels. A lot of the celebrities are going to be answering the phones, taking donations. Michael dell is going to underwrite the entire telethon. All of the money will go to the hurricane victims and he will match the first 10 million of donations. Dell computers is head quarted in round rock, texas, near austin. The hand in hand telethon will be broadcast from los angeles, new york and nashville. Watch it here on ktvu fox 2 at 8 00. Apple expected to announce a new. Reporter phone at the Product Launch event. It is not just the phone that has people interested. Jessie gary is live at the cupertino headquarters. Reporter you can expect steve making his way in. He is on the other side of the glass elevator, taking pictures with people as they line up to move inside of the theater. The show is down below. You go in and down a couple of floors. Thats the reception, the lobby area that youre seeing with the glass and then the straight floor, a little slippery because of the rainfall overnight. Okay. So this is a big deal. We have talked about this all morning. Lets bring in caroline of greater strategies. Iphone is the big 900 gorilla in the room. Do any of the other products matter at all or just iphone x all day. Thats what people will watch for. The rumors have been so strong, especially over the weekend. So we now want confirmation on what this top of the line. Reporter phone is going to have. I think the other products, there are rumors around a new apple watch with Cellular Connection and a new apple tv will be complimentary and matter to the people invested in the apple ecosystem. What we want is the new iphone. There are rumors that there could be Production Supply problems. Yeah. Youre talking about a lot of new Technology Going into this highend model. Especially from the screen perspective, you know, samsung is the provider of the screen. And apple and samsung will use up most of the capacity that they have to produce screens. So we might have to wait a little bit longer. Onger. Lets talk about the x or the 10, whatever theyre going to call it. 1,000. Really . Are people actually going to pay 1,000 . Do you think people will say i dont think so. You have both. I think you will have some people that think that the 7 that they have in their pocket today is all that they need. Lots of people or the 5. Or the 5. [laughter] but, you know, you dont think about the 1,000 when you go and buy in installment plans in north america. You have the ability to pay an amount every month. And youre talking about going from maybe 40 today to 55, 52. Its not 1,000 when it comes out of your pocket in one go. Are you really getting the utility, the return for the buck, the 1,000 from a phone or are you better off putting that money towards a computer. Absolutely the phone every day. Think about how much you do with this device today. It is always with you. Thats the first thing. It is highly mobile. You take pictures and listen to music, you do social media, you check your emails. You talk on it. Sometimes you talk on it as well. Sometimes it is a phone. They have been doing this launch here at the space ship for the first time. This is the first event at the new headquarters. Does this make any kind of footprint with wall street, with investors or just a nice back drop. It is cool that were here, but thats it. I look at this as the next phase of apple. Giving tribute and homage to steve jobs. We have at the steve jobs theater after all. It is also moving on. It is moving on to the next phase of apple. So aside from the actual phone that were expecting to see today, it is more focused on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and services and content. So thats where, for instance, the apple tv comes in. It is about the wholly co system, not just about the hardware anymore. 1,000 for the phone. No problem. We will have to see. We are going to join you again at 9 00. And then the unveil is at 10 00. After our 9 00 hit, we will move inside and have more for you at noon today. Live outside the steve jobs theater on the new apple campus, jessie gary. I have been down there a couple times doing stories about the campus and talking to folks out there. Just from the look behind him right there it looked like a 5 billion campus. Excited to hear what he thinks once he goes inside and comes on tout. Absolutely. The time is 8 40. Following massive fallout after that huge breach involving equifax. Next, the new lawsuit filed against equifax, including one here in the bay area. Important meeting today over the safety of selfdriving cars prommed by a fatal accident in a tesla model s. All eyes on cupertino as we await the announcement from apple later this morning. Pam cook is back with this mornings money business. We saw jessie gary down there. Waiting to see the tenth anniversary iphone. A lot of talk about the apple watch. It is expected to have cellular capabilities so you wont need to have your phone on you. There is talk of a heart monitor built into the phone. The anticipation of all of that taking stocks up this morning when the bell rang. All stocks owe oat indexes, all three went up. The s p 500 moving higher into record territory. Taking a look at the numbers right now. Theres a live look at the dow. Up almost 70 points. 22,126. About a third of a percent. S p 500 and nasdaq as i mentioned both up as well. The s p 500 getting close to 2500 at this point. Investigators with the National Transportation safety board are meeting today to determine the cause of a crash last year that killed a man using the auto pilot features on his tesla model s. Now, the 40yearold man was killed when his car slammed into a big rig. The initial report said the car was going 74 Miles Per Hour in a 65 Miles Per Hour zone. The driver was using the cars Cruise Control and lane keeping features. It is the first known fatal crash of a car operating under automated control systems. More than 40 lawsuits have been filed against equifax following the data breach. Many of the lawsuits accuse the company of misleading consumers about its ability to protect their data. Now, one of the complaints was filed out of san jose. The data breach happened back in july. But consumers were not notified until last week. The information stolen includes Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and birth dates. If youre not sure youre affected, there is a tool that lets you check to see if your Social Security number was impacted. And we have a link to that on our website, ktvu. Com. That is under our web links section of our home page. Be sure to check that out. And if you are impacted, equifax will give you free credit monitoring for a year. You may have heard that some nba teams are signing deals to add Company Logos to the jerseys. You can add the Golden State Warriors to that list. They have announced their multi Year Partnership with an online retailer headquartered in tokyo. They have a base in southern california. The badge there it is. Thats what it looks like. It will be featured on the golden state uniforms year round. The threeyear deal is worth 60 million. But i did a Little Research on this. Im surprised they chose that. Its not one that im familiar with. You know i do my shopping and my research. It is an ecommerce site like alibaba. Not easy to contact the company. Maybe thats what they want. I guess. It is interesting thats the company they chose. But yeah. Thank you, pam. Appreciate it. Lets check in with sal right now and a look at the Tuesday Morning commute. Hey, sal. Good morning, mike, gasia. Still have a lot of slow traffic. When there is slow traffic, people look for alternates. 44 minutes. Not the worth that i have seen but a lot of slow traffic getting down to the bay bridge toll plaza. You will see the traffic is slow all over the east bay. I think 80 has been slow. 680, people are using that instead. It is backed up from the benecia bridge to walnut creek. Marine from 37 down to central san rafael. And northbound 101 getting up to the airport, i wouldnt use it. I would use 280 instead. The south bay all completely slow getting into the valley. And you can see 280 on the right is slow northbound. At 8 47, lets bring in steve with todays forecast. Thank you, sal. Clouds already building up. Out to the valley things are popping quick. We will show you that in a second. First lets get to melissa. Beautiful sun vise over mission peak on my birthday here in fremont. Happy birthday, melissa. I remember seeing ten people in mission peak. That was back in the day before it got very popular. That is a great hike. Happy birthday, melissa. In beautiful fremont by mission peak. What is going on . Brentwood, look at that, antioch to oakley to Discovery Bay and even around the Altamont Pass by tracey and maybe out to stockton. Were getting buildups. Santa cruz mountains, the low is trying. It is trying. The better opportunity looks to be east to me. Certainly over the sierra. For us, eastern santa clara hold on. Eastern Santa Clara County and up into napa and lake county. More so than areas closer to the coast and bay. Everybody is in there. The cloud cover is already rotating in here. We had the line that came in yesterday and last night and developing rapidly. 71 in half moon bay. 70 at sfo. You can get that easterly breeze or the offshore breeze. It can be just as warm off of the coast. Watch for a development to fake place take place. We are in this for another 24 hours. Maybe longer. This will keep the pattern very active and dont be surprised if more thunderstorms, the better the more breaks you get in the clouds, the opportunity for that. This is a dynamic system. 80sand 90s for many. And the lift provided by the low could equal anybody getting thunderstorms. Severe weather possible. Better opportunity out to the valley. Cooler on thursday and takes us into friday. It looks nice the rest of the way. The month is looking cooler. September, here we go. Thank you, steve. Arming berkeley Police Officers with a new weapon. The proposal that is sparking a lot of controversy. [fbi agent] youre a brave man, mr. Stevens. Your testimony will save lives. Mr. Stevens . This is your new name. This is your new house. And a perfectly inconspicuous suv. You must become invisible. [hero] ill take my chances. The minneapolis Police Officer who shot and killed a australian woman in july could be charged. The investigation has been finished. They have turned the case over to prosecutors for review. He shot and killed the 40year old after she called 911 to report a possible Sexual Assault near her home. The county Attorney Says he is expected to decide on charges before the end of the year. The Berkeley City Council will consider a controversial proposal today to allow Police Officers to use pepper spray again. For the past 20ersa, berkeley Police Officers have been prohibited from using pepper spray for crowd control. But Berkeley Police chief Andrew Greenwood says virtually every major Police Department in the country allows officers to carry pepper spray. His officers are hampered in their ability to handle volatile demonstrations as we have seen in the city of berkeley. There is concern that protests could get out of hand for thursdays speech of shapiro at the cal campus. The use of force policies have come under fire after several deadly officerinvolved shooting including woods back in 2015. Since then the department has undergone sweeping policy changes. Sfpd invited Tara Moriarty to be part of the training that officers undergo at the academy. Reporter splitsecond decisions. Ond decision San Francisco Police Department. Reporter its what officers do on a daily basis. This video simulator helps train those going through the Police Academy and serves as a refresher course for the rest of the department every two years. Most people dont realize how quickly things evolve. You can go from being a static and very compliant subject to attacking you in a moments notice. Reporter after a string of deadly officerinvolved shootings two years ago, the department of justice started reviewing sfpds policies and made more than 270 recommendations for change. Theyre letting me have a chance to see what it is like for officers in those life or death situations. Ions. Okay. Okay. Put it back in. Put it back in. Im armed with a replica baton, pepper spray and gun. Youre responding to a call of a subject who wants to commit suicide. Within seconds. The situation becomes potentially deadly. What is happening right now . Oh, she has a gun. I grab my gun and hide behind a mock telephone pole. Put the gun on the floor and then we can talk about it. I dont want you here. Dont lift the gun. Put it down. Good work. Historically in the infantile stages in my time in the department, we would converge on subjects a lot quicker. Now creating time, creating distance, putting things between us, were able to communication with subjects and get them to comply quicker. Since january to july 31st, we had 11,082 calls for mentally disturbed persons. And about 17,700 calls related to well being checks. Reporter so the big question is, could i ever cut it as a cop . Absolutely. Absolutely. With the right training and 7 months of the Police Academy, absolutely. Reporter from San Francisco, Tara Moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. Between january and march of this year, the Police Department reported more than 800 use of force incidents. That is down about 16 from the year before. Keeping Robin Williams legas alive in San Francisco. Renaming part of Golden Gate Park after the actor. Uc berkeley has opened an investigation into a video that has gone viral showing a Police Officer taking money from a hot dog vendor over the weekend. It happened outside of Memorial Stadium on saturday. You see the officer giving the vendor named juan a ticket for operating without a permit. But it is what happened next that has many people upset. The officer ends up taking cash from the vendor. The college says the officer was following instructions to crack down on illegal vendors outside of campus events. In the meantime a student led gofundme site has produced more than 52,000 for the vendor. A false alarm at san jose airport is raising questions about a potential safely problem. The fire alarm accidentally went off sunday at the airport. Newly installed doors locked down during the alarm which they are designed to do in an emergency. There were many doors that were working but people say they were confused and there wasnt enough direction about where to go. The airport now plans to change its emergency policy. People living near cal train stations along the peninsula will see changes. Starting today the Transit Agency is reducing the horn noise coming from trains traveling through certain stations. The stations include san bruno, belmont and san carlos. Conductors will continue to blow the horns but not continuous. Visual and audio messages will advise passengers on when a train is approaching. San franciscos rec and Park Department will rename sharon meadow after Robin Williams. He was a big part of comedy day. Organizers of the show were behind the push to name the park after the beloved comedian. This years comedy day will be held this sunday, the 17th. Thats when park leaders will announce the naming of Robin Williams meadow. Australias richest man joins us live with his plan to use the Food Industry to boost american manufacturing. Plus, the ceo of the Antidefamation League conducts a new study about White Supremacists recruiting on college campuses. Thunder and lightning all night long. 7,000 reported light thing strikes. 12 of those cloud to ground. From the northeast to the south bay, everybody had a taste of this electric late summer storm, including myself. I know i took the children outside. Welcome to the 9, everyone. They dont remember seeing lightning, especially my son. He gets scared ou