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This morning. We have the details from washington, dc. Reporter hi, washington, dc is absolutely reeling tonight as information and details come out about this indictments involved in the investigation of the Trump Campaign and the russian government. Paul manafort and rick gates pled not guilty to all 12 charges brought against them by rob mal mal. There is no evidence that Paul Manafort or the Trump Campaign ka clueded with the russian government. The Campaign Manager made hi First Court Appearance hours after surrendering to the fbi, these are the first indictments. The white house maintains that there is no connection to the charges. We have been saying since day one that there is no evidence of trump russia collusion. The president said there was no collusion while also trying to deflect attention to the democrats ties to the russian government asking why arent crooked Hillary Clinton and the democrats the target. A spokesperson for gates said the fight is just beginning, all of this is coming as we are learning that a former trump aid, gob pap pap pled guilty George Papadopoulos pled guilt. Both men agreed to home detention. We know that George Papadopoulos has pled guilty and is presumably cooperating with the Robert Muller team but as far as the other two, what happens next, will they go to trial . Reporter this is a complicated indictment. There are 12 counts involving a foreign government. If this goes to trial, probably the earliest you could see it is mid next year, they are going to fight this because if they are found guilty, they will spend many years in jail. It does not look like a plea is it likely unless they decide to flip. Therapy. What do the indictments tell us about the case, we have james taller, professor, how significant are todays developments. Historically significant, watergate significant, abscam significant, this is a big deal but its just the beginning. Talk about the significance is of that. The white house keeps saying that there is no there, there, that these charges do not prove collusion. If you are the accused, of course you are going to try to distract and point to other potential suspects, if anything, is egging Robert Muller and his team on to keep looking into the collusion. Do you see any proof the collusion. Collusion, conspiracy, cooperation, even the Trump Campaign is saying that collusion is not a legal problem. We do not have hard proof but we have a young man, gob pap pap who has been convicted. He has a clear connection to collusion. What more significant here, George Papadopoulos and his plea deal, and him admitting that he lied. Or Paul Manafort. Paul manafort is big because he was the Campaign Director but George Papadopoulos is big because he has pled guilty and he has been a cooperating witness for the past three months, we just found out about this today. He Robert Muller is on to the next thing, that may be michael flynn. If anyone should be afraid, its donald trump jr. George papadopoulos has been cooperating. He references emails with russians and he talks about higher ups within the Trump Campaign, you would think as part of his deal to stay out of prison, he is naming other people. He is naming people. There is a real direct connection, President Donald Trump and Sarah Huckabee sanders have been trying to distance the administration from these individuals because they are offenses were knot connected to President Donald Trump but if you look at the indictments, they go through 2016, that covers the campaign. But when we talk about Money Laundering and illegal lobbying, that does not have anything this do with russia. These are for incidental, i was surprised he was not charged with rico charges. But through the ongoing surveillance, they picked up his conversations. Its like the soaf i cant mafia. Sneptly americans are detected in the surveillance of russian spice. There have been fears among the democrats that President Donald Trump would try to fire rob Robert Muller. That would be a mistake, you could get immediate action from even the republicans to weaken the president in terms of his ability to govern. Thats what is happening now, if the Republican Leadership was committed to taking over, trump would give them the opportunity to do so. He is a weak president , he is loud and he acts strong but President Donald Trump, in the historical stream of things is one of the most weak president s in modern history. If you want to read the indictment, we have posted it on our website, ktvu. Com. Click on web links. Now to the devastating north bay fires we have learned that another person died from injuries sustained in the fires, kressa shepherd was a junior in high school, she and her family were overcome by flames when they tried to escape the fires, the parents suffered serious burns and are still being treated at separate hospitals. Cal fire said they expect to have all of the major north bay fires fully contained by tomorrow. The tubbs, pocket and nuns fire are each nine mine percent contained. The atlas fire was fully contained friday. The fires which started three weeks ago destroyed thousands of homes and caused billions of dollars in damage. Schools in santa rosa were open for the First Time Since the fire, we have more on how the district is helping the communities transition to the classroom. Reporter returning is an noacial thing for the students. Many were forced to evacuate. Three weeks later, they are returning to class at santa rosa high school. This was one of 11 schools in the city that reopened this morning for the First Time Since the fires, 13 other schools resiemed classes friday. There are counselors on the campus to talk with students having a tough time. At least 80 students here no longer have homes. Its going to be emotional today. There is going to be a lot of talk about it. I did knot lose my home but its going to be hard for the people that did, they lost their books and homework, its going to be hard for them to adjust. Its going to be different, is all that people are going to be talking about. I feel like its going to take a while for the school year to get back to normal. Students also returned to class in the Mark West Union district. Students in santa rosa missed three weeks in the classroom but ate representative for the schools said that the schools will not be adding extra days to the calendar, they will find other ways to make up the lost instructional time. Thank you alex. Some crucial testimony in the trial of the undocumented immigrant accused of killing kate steinle. The bullet that killed her hit the ground then hit her in the back. The suspect is charged with Second Degree murder. The defense is arguing that he found the gun and it fired accidently. He was shot and killed when he confronted people spinning doughnuts on neighborhood streets in the east bay, coming up, the description of the two vehicles involved. Being a police officer, i do not get shocked much but thats unsettling. Dozens of young people, some armed with tasers ran through the crowds at californias Great America ran through the collecting phones and money. I have a look at the weather. In the extended forecast, we have rain and sierras snow we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break. The search continues for suspects after a mob attack against visitors at Great America saturday night. Some members of the flash mob used tasers to steal purses and backpacks, we have new details on this shocking case. Reporter you have been saying that all day, who ever heard of this. You are in an an Amusement Park and kids are running around with tasers robbing people. Great america is closed for the season but its reopening november 24 for winter fest. The park is going to review their security procedures to insure that there is not a repeat of saturdays crime. The trouble started when great measuring was packed with people for the 10th annual halloween fest. It was a huge crowd for an event like this. It just overwhelmed the park a bit. Reporter the crowd of 20,000 enjoyed the themed atmosphere but they they became targets. Young people some armed with tasers ran through the crowd and stole backpacks and purses. One woman was punched in the face. He was really fast, he grabbed the stuff. Reporter sources close to the investigation tell fox two, in response to the crime spree, the park turned up the park lights but still people ran for the exits. Its unsettling to hear stuff like this. The Santa Clara Police said the department is reviewing cell phone video from saturday night in hopes of identifying the guilty. One juvenile was arrested and one adult was arrested. Its shocking that kids are doing this to one another, stealing phones like this. Reporter Great America did not let its spokesperson speak on camera but the park said, there were incidents that required assistance from on property santa collar Police Officers and were crickly addressed. The quickly addressed. The safety of our guests is our top priority stfnlt they are going to reporter they are going to hire additional Santa Clara Police officers to patrol the site before the park reopens for winter fest next month. Thank you jesse. Five people have been arrested following a side show in san jose over the weekend that also injured an officer, this was part of a crack down by san jose police, Morgan Hill Police and the california highway patrol. One driver was arrested for driving recklessly, the driver left the scene and has yet to be identified or arrested. When you are out on a public street doing doughnuts or exive speed, you run the risk of losing control of the vehicle and crashing in to other pedestrians. This is video, the five people arrested are charged with reckless driving. The Contra Costa Sheriffs Department is asking for help after a deadly shooting this Discovery Bay yesterday morning. Deputies responded to a car doing doughnuts. Moments later they received reports of shots fired a few blocks away, by the time that they riffed, a 40 year old man was dead. We have not located any party and the victim appears to be someone Walking Around his neighborhood. Neighbors told deputies that the man who was killed confronted the man in the speeding car. The car was a Dodge Challenger or ford mustang. The police are asking people in the area to turn other Surveillance Video to help identify the drivers. Its cloudy and cool and breezy out there. Temperatures ranging from the upper 50s to the upper 60s this afternoon. Look over the east bay, you can see the tree on the left. The winds will remain as we get into the evening hours, its 57 degrees in half moon bay. Upper 50s in san francisco. 60s around the bay into the inland areas. Heres a look at the on shore breeze, 21 Miles Per Hour in oakland. Fairfield, 26 Miles Per Hour gusts. Clear skies as we go to the evening as well. Drizzle out there. We have a possibility of some drizzle into the overnight hours, a bit of better clearing expecting for halloween tuesday, heres the future cast, blue over the pacific. You can see blue popping up over the higher elevations. The Coastal Range can get going with this. Tomorrow morning drizzle and patchy fog, partly cloudy skies, then aas we get into the afternoon, the clearing back, for the evening, clearing out there and with that we get the cooler weather, lower 40s to start the morning in santa rosa, upper 40s pacifica and around the bay, for the afternoon, lower 60s to lower 70s, temperatures come up slightly. 78 for the inner east bay, 69 for san jose, when i come back i have a look at what you can expect for your evening forecast. We have bay area rain and sierras snow to talk about. Shes one of the newest modeling for cover girl and she lives in the area, we going to talk to her about her new campaign and also her push to help rescue animals in wild fires we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break. Welcome back to ktvu news, all of the news, weather and information you need to know throughout your day. A bay area woman is now one of the newest models for cover girl. They have the slogan, i am what i make up. It features six powerful women including selena a morena. We are Like Neighbors in Sonoma County. Yes, you even came out and mullinged a cow on the milked a cow on the ranch. Yes. Tell me what you did to help animals during the fires. The night that the fires started, everyone was trying to figure out what to to help. I got a phone call that there were horses on bennet valley road. I went with a truck and trailer to try to get them out of the fire, there were 15 other trucks and trailers that had the same idea. We got stopped by the cops. They would not let us up, so i started to get peoples phone numbers, i said we cannot have 15 trucks showing up at the same time so i wanted to coordinate to get as many animals out. Of the fire as we could. You kind of became a dispatcher . Yes. At 3 00 in the morning, our phones started to blow up. The fires started to get bigger and bigger, then i sent people out, who is closest to these animals because they are in the fire, i was on my phone by noon the next day still dispatching people to help the horse. Horses. You had a name for the team . Yes, there were girls pulling horses out of the fields, i started to call my team teed badass. Thats what they are. The authorities do not want to let just anybody go into these areas, they do not know who they are, so you are getting involved in setting up a system so that the police will know that this is a legitimate rescue operation, not just someone trying to steal some cattle. We wanted to get every animal, cows, sheep, horses, we came across a lot of roadblocks. One of the big things is getting the word out that there are groups that will get your animals out. We also wanted to get linked in with officials. It was so difficult to get the access to get the animals out. Sometimes you get blocked and the fire comes through and there is nothing you can do for the animals, you hope that a fence burns and they can get out. Sometimes the owners just open a fence before they flee. I demonstrated why you are the kind of woman that cover girl is looking for, you are a powerful woman. You met aieisha curry . Yes. I am just out here doing what i do. I am a motorcycle racer by day normally. I was joking around last week, i said what i make up. This week i am an animal rescuer. I love their new slogan. You can be feminine and tough at the same time. Yes, i am a motorcycle racer but i can still be who i am. I can still be out here doing all of the Different Things that i love including doing my make up and hair and having fun being female. How did they find you . I do not know but i am glad that they did. They were brain storming because they wanted something different, they came across me and the more that we talked the more we figured out that we fit. I love that company, they have been phenomenal. When the fires started he was supposed to be helpingout with the campaign but my county was burning, they said do what you need to do and let us know how we can help you, they are so genuine, our campaign, i have a bunch of racers that are part of the campaign, i have the people that run the races and i got all of them involved in the commercials. Cover girl wants it to be super genuine. So all of the Sonoma County boys are in there with i . Yes, i wanted to get them on tv too. What is next, you are koon kerring ail of these barriers there. As big as possible. I like to go conquering all of these barriers there. As big as possible, i like to go as big as possible. I am putting together a team. I have an amazing crew chief and we are working on all of the sponsors. Having known you for a couple of years, i know you can do what you want to do, i wish you all of the best. Thank you, you can do anything that you put your mind to. Remember her name. You are going to be hearing about her a lot. Shes a rock star, its cool to have her in the studio. Coming up, the former chairman of President Donald Trumps president ial campaign was indicted. We talk with a bay area congressman about the charges. Also the unique way that bay area Law Enforcement is raising money to help in the fight against Breast Cancer we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break. Welcome back to ktvu news, all of the news, weather and information you need to know throughout your day. President Donald Trumps former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort pled not guilty to felony charges stemming from the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election, he is accused of acting as an unregistered Foreign Agent and laboredderring money. His lawyer said his lobbying activities ended two years before he served as President Donald Trumps Campaign Manager. There is no evidence that Paul Manafort or the Trump Campaign clueded with the russian government. He was seeking to further democracy and the help the ukraine come closer to the United States and the eu. A third man, Trump Campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos pled guilty to charges of lying to officials. He has since been cooperating with investigators. Lets get more reaction from east bay congressman congressman eric swalwell. He is joining us live from washington, dc, is this in fact evidence of collusion . Good evening, russia attacked our democracy and today we have seen the clearest piece of evidence that mums of President Donald Trumps team were working with the russians, we have established a working relationship. You have a senior Foreign Policy adviser traveling multiple times over the europe at a neutral location to meet with russians to receive dirt on Hillary Clinton. I hope this is a wake up call for my republican colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee who have done a pretty good job of looking the other way or burying the investigation, we should be serious in our efforts to understand the connections. I understand that George Papadopoulos has not appeared before the house or Senate Committees investigating this. Do you expect that he will now that this has happened. I understand this is a surprise to your folks on the committee, that he had already pled guilty. I cannot go into who we heard from or who we are seeking to hear from but the time line that George Papadopoulos provided to the fbi fits with other communications that trump team members had with the russians. In the fall of 2015, an associate of Vladimir Putin is writing to President Donald Trumps lawyer saying, lets do a real estate deal and then get President Donald Trump elected president. Then there was a meeting with donald trump junior, Paul Manafort and juror curb curb, then carter page travels over to russia. You have a number of contacts and now its all starting to come into focus and make more sense. You mentioned the context but as of yet there is no evidence of an actual meeting. I will bring up what President Donald Trump says, he said that there is proof, that being the dossier funded by the Democratic National committee, that had russian sourced information and money was exchanged for the information, this after democrats are claiming to have nothing to do with that. Are you looking the other way for that. Its important to look at the dossier but more important is what is alleged in it. Its collusion or cooperation, two people meeting in a foreign land to help a campaign, thats a working relationship. I think we have to focus on whether or not we have a National Security concern in the United States where a president ial Campaigns Team was working with a foreign adversary, we should know who paid for the dossier, thats also important. Where do you want this to go next. I was struck by the fact that George Papadopoulos was contacted three times by the fbi, he lied the first two times, then he cooperated with them. That tells me that many of the witnesses we are meeting with under the House Intelligence Committee, unless we confront them with all of the resources and all of the relevant documents, there is a good chance that they may be like George Papadopoulos, they may not be telling the truth. I hope that this is a wake up call, this is serious, one in the Trump Campaign was travel tog a foreign land to work with the russians. Thank you congressman eric swalwell, a member of one of the house committees investigating the Trump Campaign. Former Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl took the witness stand to apologize to the soldiers who were wounded searching for him. He choked up and said he never expected anyone to be hurt when he walked off his post in 2009, he described five years you can held captive by the taliban, four in a cage. A federal court is barring President Donald Trump from changing the militarys policy on barring transgender people. Today a federal judge said trans members who filed suit have a strong case that the decision violates their fifth amendment rights. There is an unjunction to keep the policy from going into effect while the court case goes forward. Coming up, how local Law Enforcement is raising money to help the fight against Breast Cancer. We have rain in the extended forecast, thats coming up we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break. Welcome back to ktvu news, all of the news, weather and information you need to know throughout your day. Police officers across the bay area are wearing pink patches and raising money in the fight against Breast Cancer. We have information on why pink is the new blue. Reporter tell me about the pink patch project. This all started back in february of this year. I was given a patch from another department and i wanted to look into it. I had a sister that passed away in 1989 from Breast Cancer, this of course caught my eye and i started to do the research with the agency in urbandale, they started the pink patch project, all Law Enforcement officers are well welcome to join, officers can wear the pink patch on their uniform to raise awareness for Breast Cancer and all cancers and to have a conversation with the community and get people involved in raising awareness for Breast Cancer. Do you believe that this tends to humanize Police Officers. You remind the public that you have feeling and are fallible. How important is it to remind people that there are chances that you face. Absolutely its showing that we are human, that we are all hit by this tragedy, it opens the conversation with others to let them know that we are not just in this uniform. We all feel and hurt just like anybody else. We are not different. It also brought up conversations between other iefers who have lost family members or they have family members fighting the disease as well. We have a number of Alameda County Police Chiefs that joined for a photo. Heres what one had to say. I no in the San Leandro Police department, its impacted us in the past few years with employees that had Breast Cancer, its a way to show our support for the Cancer Community and to give back and to help the cause. If you want information, anybody can email us. Thank you. We have some rain heading our way, right . Yes, we are happy to receive that rain, its coming later this week, its not going to impact halloween but it could impact the weekend. We have a mix of sown and clouds out there. Partly sunny to mostly cloudy for most of the day, a bit of drizzle outthere. The pattern is going to continue for the next few days, partly cloudy, breezy and cool at times. Then friday things get more interesting with a possibility of wet weather moving in and lasting throughout the weekend. This is the future cast model. This is going to the weekend. Then we look at hal woon. As we go into tuesday, notice we are partly cloudy and dry for halloween, then wednesday through friday, a change is expected. We are now into friday afternoon and over portions of Northern California we are have the rain falling. Now into saturday afternoon, you can see we have rain over the bay area, rain and snow over areas of the sierras as well. Into sunday we could have a possibility of a few scattered showers even a possibility of scattered showers monday. The wet chains are coming and they are going to stick around foi for a few days, the sierras could see a foot of snow all the way down to the passes and below. Thats a very good amount of snow with 2 feet possible for the higher elevations. Temperature wise, upper 50s in san francisco. Lower 60s in livermore. North bay, upper 60s in santa rosa, thats where we have been the whole day, upper 50s to 60s. Fairfield, gusts above 20 Miles Per Hour. The clouds are with us through the evening hours, you see the grain, that indicates that patchy drizzle is a possibility. Tomorrow morning, partly cloudy skies with a bit of drizzle then mostly clear skies for halloween, temperatures wise we have lower 40s in santa rosa, upper 40s to lower 50s around the bay, a cool start then in the afternoon, lower 60s to lower 70s expected. 78 for santa rosa, as far as the evening unions, the sun sets at six. Heres a look at your extended forecast, little change when it comes to the temperatures over the next few days, then as we get into the weekend, in addition to the rain we have cooler temperatures, upper 50s to lower 60s in the forecast, its hard to believe we had such hot weather last week and now a transition to cooler weather. Its going to be chilly wearing that wonder woman outfit. I may need the cape. Thank you. Coming up, netflix makes a decision on house of cards after those allegations against kevin spacey we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break go this way. I say, ill go my own way with anoro. Go your own way oncedaily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that Work Together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. Anoro is not for asthma. It contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. The risk is unknown in copd. 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Brent which is the internant benchmark also hit a high, up 21 cents to 65 a barrel. Oil prices have rallied on renewed optimism that opec will continue with production cuts. The dow fell today and the nasdaq and s p was also lower. Netflix announced that they are going to pull the plug on house of cards after it was announced that kevin spacey made sexual advances against a 14 year old boy. The actor said he does not remember it and that it was a long time ago. Netflix was trig about ending the show already but cast and crew members were ohm told this morning. Spacey apologized. He said he has had romantic relationships with both women and men but is now choosing to live life as a gay man. More reports of war time preparations in north korea, thats coming up we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break the wall street journal reports today that fbi agents are now investigating a 300 Million Contract to rebuild the puerto rico power grid. The contract, which was scratched yesterday, was between Montana Energy holdings and the Power Company on puerto rico. The deal was signed two days before Hurricane Maria hit. Soon after it came to light that the company had ties to zinc he, they canceled the contract. North korea is threatening nuclear war. And air force commanders warplane was sent to the region with the show as its commitment to the allies. Reporter so based news said there are unusual and notable exercises conducting on the east coast of that country with like out drills that have been seen and not seen for a long time. They could be in response to threats of tactical strikes to north korea by the United States. This as the state news agency of the regime of the president north korea drops is more satellite launches in the so called Satellite Program that is widely seen as a cover for band missile test. Outlaw behavior is out secretary matus describes the recent activities of north korea. As he met with his counterpart in seoul south korea, he said the United States would defeat any attack that north korea made. He met with regional colleagues in hawaii as the Nuclear Weapon capable b2 bomber fool around various regions of the pacific over the weekend. The aim was to keep the aircrews and the aircraft at a high state of readiness and proficiency. Perhaps it was also to send one more message to north korea. President donald trump starts is very important trip to the asian region at the end of the week. [ event concluded ]. A political bombshell as charges are filed against President Donald Trumps former Campaign Manager. Reporter we have been saying from day one that there is no evidence of a trump and russian collusion, nothing in the indictment today changes that. President donald trump insisted again that there was no collusion between his campaign and russia. Todays indictment on Money Laundering and conspiracy charges of the first arising from special Counsel Robert Mueller special investigation into possible coordination between russia and President Donald Trumps presidency. I reported is in the newsroom with more on the indictments. And washington is spinning after the first indictments were announced in the investigation with a potential connection between the Trump Campaign of the russian government. Paul manafort and rick gates pleaded not guilty to all 12 charges brought against him by special Counsel Robert Mueller. There is no evidence that they colluded with the russian government. Reporter the two made their First Court Appearance monday afternoon just hours after surrendering to the fbi. The tinnitus of the first by Robert Mueller into his long investigation into possible ties with russia and the Trump Campaign. We have been saying from day one there is no evidence that trump and russian collusion happened, and nothing today has changed that at all. Reporter the president tweeted his reaction by saying there is no collusion and was asked ask why there was no looking into the clinton russian collusion. A spokesperson for gates said this fight is just beginning, but all of this comes as we are learning from President Donald Trumps aide that he pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the fbi about his communication with someone connected to the russian government