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This system held together. 50s for the temperatures but cooler air is moving into the north. I expect these to drop. Healdsburg, 46. Occidental, 49. Low 50s in san rafael and point reyes and bodega bay. West at sfo. Northwest at half moon bay. This will scour out all this haze and smoke and get rid of it. The sierra is dealing with a Winter Weather advisory until 11 am. After that it will start to calm down. You can still see this unstable air taking aim at areas in the north. The further north you go, the better opportunity for more showers. We are on the cool side of the system. 60s for your temperatures today. Good morning. Here we are on friday. We made it. Traffic is doing pretty well if you are driving on 580. We dont have anything major on the altamont pass. Trafficking is moving along well if you are driving on westbound 580 and eastbound 580 through the altamont pass. There have been no major problems as you drive out to the dublin interchange. We are also looking at the commute on interstate 880. Traffic continues to move along well. At the bay bridge toll plaza it is light. We now know the name of the San Francisco Bicycle Police officer who was run down but a suspect in an suv and is now in Critical Condition with a severe head injury. He is officer elia lewintankel , a fiveyear Police Department veteran, well respected and has been recognized for Outstanding Police work several times. As Jana Katsuyama reports, the family and friends are closely watching over him at zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Reporter police chief william scot emerge from the zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital where 32year old officer elia lewintankel is in intensive care. Is he continues on his road to recovery, its important and uplifting to remember that he is a fighter in every sense of the word. And this fight is not over. Reporter the officer was injured in wednesdays incident when i suspect tried to flee. The chief said the family is staying positive and they have hope. He read a statement. If he was writing this he would want to state that he is like every other cop working in San Francisco. He goes to work every day to protect and serve his community. He does this with heart and passion. Reporter officer officer lewintankel chose to be assigned to the tenderloin last year. And wellliked officer who received a purple heart in 2015. He put his life in danger to help others. He exemplifies what the department is about. Reporter police say he started law school and had a passion for the martial arts, teaching other officers and training in San Franciscos japantown. We are in complete shock. Reporter the head instructor and friends said the only learn to thursday morning it was he who was hit. He stuff. He needs to stay tough. He has a tough heart and a lot of great. He loves it so much i hope that he has a speedy recovery so he can come back and start training again. Reporter the road to recovery for this brown belt is likely to be difficult. Its critical, his condition. It did affect the brain and the neck and spinal as well. All the family is coming in and i am praying for them. I think they deserve our prayers right now. This is not the end of elias story. Please send him positive energy and love. Tara moriarty had a jailhouse interview with the man accused of running down elia lewintankel. 50yearold marquise johnson told her that he did not know that the officer was hurt until after he was arrested. You hitting the officer on the bicycle, that was not intentional . No. It was an accident . And you do not see him . I did not. Its like a person trying to get hit with a stick moving out of the way. Do you have anything to say to the family . My heart goes out to him and i extend my condolences and apologies. I dont know what else to say. Johnson is facing 13 charges including assault with a Deadly Weapon and attempted murder. Johnson reportedly is homeless and told us that he suffers from ptsd. He thinks that as a result of a 2014 excessive use of force incident with police. On our website, ktvu. Com, you will find raw video of that jailhouse interview. The Alameda County Sheriffs Office questioning two people in connection with a carjacking and san lorenzo. James figaro junior started his pickup truck outside his home yesterday morning and went back into the house. When he came back out, a man jumped into his truck. Figaro i tried to stop him but the man ran him over. I think our victim had good intentions to try to stop a person from stealing the car and unfortunately the suspect was intent on getting away and causing harm. Two people were taken into custody for questioning after the lead deputies on a chase through east oakland. Police are hoping someone may have captured the incident on their home surveillance cameras. If you have any information, contact the authorities. Now to the wildfires. Some people who evacuated in the Santa Cruz Mountains are being allowed back into the neighborhoods. A steady stream of cars we entered the loss embrace neighborhood yesterday. Firefighters say cooler temperatures and higher humidity allowed crews to get the upper hand. This has burned about 320 acres and is 35 contained for people returning home theyre grateful to be back. How happy are you to come back . Its great. We are very, very happy. The flames a very small right now. Fire activity is great released than what we saw the first couple days of the fire. The fire destroyed four homes and other structures in total. It continues to threaten the 300 other homes. In the north bay, some evacuees will be allowed back into their neighborhoods today to see the properties. The coffey park neighborhood and the orchard park and journeys and mobile home parks will have controlled entry into their areas beginning at 10 am. Firefighters are getting close to fully containing the tubbs fire. It is 92 contained. The north bay fires have combined to destroy at least 6900 homes and caused at least 1 billion in damage to insured properties. About 15,000 people are still evacuated but that is down from a high of 100,000 people last weekend. Hundreds of people went to a Public Meeting last night in santa rosa. It was supposed to focus on the process for allowing people into their neighborhoods today but many in the crowd questioned fire officials about the lack of notice they received when the fires started. We get these amber alerts. A fouryearold in oakland was kidnapped. Look out for him. Something like this was not quite important enough . This was a catastrophe. It was a catastrophe where we cannot let everyone know as quick as wed like. After people had a chance to speak out and express their frustrations, officials started sharing information about how people will be allowed into their neighborhoods today. Many of those going back say they know it will be very emotional. It still going to be devastating to go in and see everything your belt come all the remodeling we did, the life that we have there, the memories we have there. Has been in that house for 20 years and everything is gone. We are trying to figure out how we will go forward from here. The people in this crowd, even those who lost their homes expressed gratitude to first responders. They gave them a standing ovation. It is incredible when you see that neighborhood. What a sense of community. Speaking of those thanks. There was one message, an emotional reunion between a he brought her and 35 others to safety on the night of the fires. Reporter the financial cost of the wildfires is well over 1 billion and that is an early number that is expected to rise. I will have the details straight ahead. Good morning. We do have traffic that is off to a nice start if you are in San Francisco along northbound 101 approaching the 80 split. The rain has ended for most. Snow is still in the sierra. 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That is the early figure of how much money was lost because of the wildfires. Reporter the golden state is trying to get back on its feet nearly 2 weeks after massive wildfires broke out almost simultaneously. California is doing its best to get back to normal. Even something as simple as mail delivery is a sign that life goes on. People who lived in these houses asked the post office to keep dropping off their mail if their mailbox was still standing. Over 40 people have died and in the deadliest series of fires. Californias insurance commissioner spoke thursday about the loss of insured property. The grand total of these insured losses to date is 1. 045 billion. Just over 1 billion in insured losses cleaned today. Reporter that figure is based on claims submitted to the eight largest insurers in the affected areas. More than 4000 partial residential losses, 5500 total residential losses, 600 commercial property and 3000 vehicle losses. The commissioner stressed the current amount is preliminary mostly because many people are still in the immediate recovery mode and have not thought about the insurance process yet. Given and number of the challenges people are having with getting into areas and also given the enormous scope of these fires i would anticipate these numbers will rise. Reporter the california governor issued an executive order this week speeding up recovery efforts. President trump and republicans in congress are celebrating this morning. Last night the Senate Passed a 4 trillion budget bill. It lays the groundwork for a huge tax reform plan pushed by president trump. Any 5149 vote, the Senate Passed the budget plan. It paves the way for republicans to add their tax reform plan and pass it with a simple majority vote. Democrats will not be able to block it with a filibuster. Republicans said they are confident they can push through tax reform as early as thanksgiving. 4 16 am. Lets check in with the sal. How does it look so far . It looks it looks pretty good. Its friday. I was having trouble hearing you. I think it looks pretty good. The commute looks pretty good. We are hoping for a lighter day. On fridays we sometimes get a lighter day. The wet weather may affect the commute. Highway 17 has stayed open throughout the firefight in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Traffic is moving along well all the way into the san jose area. Also looking at the commute on interstate 880 in oakland. Its moving well. You can tell its wet out there. Im not seeing any big slowdowns or increase in the number of collisions because of the wet weather. At the bay bridge come wet but very light so far. Our system has moved out. There is no in the secure and some cold air moving into the north. Some ring totals were really good. The energy is still coming down from the northwest. We are not completely done for the most part the front has come through. The majority of the energy will stay to the north as the cold air moves in. Our system gave us a northwest wind and some of the rain totals are impressive. St. Helena, three quarters of an inch. Mount diablo, three quarters of an inch. Most were around a quarter of an inch. Really impressive for the first system to come in from the north. A good sign . I hope so. 50s for the temperatures. Upper 40s for some. Some cool air will move in as the system clears out. The skies will also clear. Low 50s for many including blackhawk and vallejo. Martinez, 51. Wind west, northwest this will turn eventually more west and northwest. Snow continues in the sierra. The first cold front for them as well. 32 in truckee. 53, sacramento. There is a Winter Weather advisory until 11 am. The Energy Continues to rotate into the north, maybe clipping northern sonoma county. You see this area of low pressure right there. That is swinging in. These clouds will take aim toward southern california. The rain will and. Partly sunny, partly cloudy with a northeast breezes. We started warm up on sunday into monday. I wish i could say there were more on the way but that is not the case. 60s for everybody. Tomorrow will be a cold morning. Breezy and sunshine with warmer temperatures into early next week. I am loving the air out there. Necessary for air quality. It will be much improved. The bay area cities making a pitch to become amazons second headquarters. We have details about the deadline to submit the bids. It was an important one. Achieves and raiders had a primetime performance at the coliseum. Welcome back to mornings on 2. The raiders beat the Kansas City Chiefs 3130 any wild game at home in the coliseum. He passes this off and it is caught for the touchdown derek carr and the offense were firing on all cylinders early with that flea flicker to amari cooper. Later in the first derek carr finds cooper again. A 45 yard touchdown. Later in the second derek carr ran up the middle. Marcus peters comes in with a late hit. There goes Marshawn Lynch. He ran onto the field and pushed and official. He was kicked out of the game. Lets jump ahead to the first fourth quarter. The raiders are trailing by 6. 23 seconds left. Crabtree is back in the game. 3 and 10. Carr back to pass and it is caught incredible derek carr through it up for jared cook. It was ruled a touchdown but after further review they say his foot was down at the half yard line. The raiders get several shots at the end zone and thanks to a series of penalties on both teams, to finally, the raiders got into the end zone. One more time to the side touchdown crabtree no flags here. Michael crabtree did it. Giorgio tavecchio drove home the winning extra point. The raiders improve their record to 34. A lot of football insiders expect Marshawn Lynch will be fine. He could be suspended for making contact with an official on the field last night. Scott reese has more on this from the oakland coliseum. Reporter its a good thing the raiders won this game because it makes the Marshawn Lynch sideshow that much more benign. He was ejected in the Second Quarter for leaving the sideline, coming onto the field and making contact with an official. He reportedly left the stadium before halftime leaving his coach and teammates to answer questions after the game. I was disappointed he ran out because i knew we had a 15 yard penalty. I did not get a chance to have a conversation about it. I told him he cant leave the bench like that and that was about it. I saw him come out there. Chris long did that thing to his brother a couple years ago. He was trying to protect his cousin. They are really close. They are like brothers. He needs to learn. He will learn from that and move forward. Reporter lynch is not exactly want to face the media and the best of times. Add to that affect the raiders are often the next four days and it could be some time before we get an explanation for what went down at the coliseum. Its a painful one for the giants but the dodgers are going to the world series. 1 away and thats a drive to rightcenter field. Hernandez sends one steep and that paul is gone its a grand slam hernandez hit three home runs including that grand slam. The dodgers beat the cubs 111 last night to win the National League championship series. Bubbly was flowing inside the clubhouse. The team celebrated with a champagne victory shower. The last time the dodgers went to the world series was in 1988 when they beat the oakland as. A group of dodgers fans got carried away in the celebration. They gathered at a Street Corner and blocks traffic and set off fireworks. Crowd by firing in pepper spray pellets. No word of any injuries or arrests. I was rooting against both those teams. But one of them had to win. Still ahead. A Commuter Shuttle Service has been shut down temporarily. What chp says it found during inspections. Concern at several east bay high schools after two Football Players were arrested for sexual assault. Next, the email sent to parents from school officials. Good morning. Because it is friday, this is for pam cook. Live pictures of the beautiful bay bridge and the bay and the view, just for you, pam. That is a nice view. We do have many nice of you niceties out there. Thank you for joining us. Friday, october 20. Im dave clark. Im pam cook. Thank you for joining us. I was noticing that the flight was blowing quite a bit. Out of the northwest and west. That will help air quality and the rainfall was really good. Sometimes these first systems come in and fall apart. This one did not. Milpitas, clayton and point reyes at 0. 35. The city picked up. 35. San jose, just shy of a quarter inch. Sfo picked up 0. 21. There were some bigger amounts. Near st. Helena, three quarters of an inch. Mount diablo picked up three quarters. Santa rosa, 0. 21. Our system has moved through here. There is some energy in the sierra. A mix of rain and snow at higher elevations. Some cold and unstable air will move in to the north. That will stay around cloverdale and lake county and northward. Some of that could sneak down a little. Over all we are getting clearing in the cool air will work its way in. 40s and 50s for the temperatures. Upper 40s and low 50s