Of others. Weve been able to raise tens of thousands of dollars worth of gift cards, to get to far victims. The fire survivors celebrate business together, in coffey park. The 10 00 news on ktvu fox 2 starts now. Good evening everyone i am alyana gomez. A north Bay Community showing what it really means to get in the holiday spirit. Hundreds of residents who lost their homes at coffey park and santa rosa when the devastating fires broke out in october may have gained something more valuable tonight. A true sense of community. We are live in santa rosa with what some people call the miracle at a coffee part. Reporter ali on a good evening to you and in the 1940s classic miracle on 34th street a little girls wish for a house on christmas comes true with santa claus leaving his cane in the corner as proof of christmas magic. In this real life version of the houses are all gone but the lights behind you celebrate signify the joy of the season and made this neighborhood live again. And santa rosa out of the darkness there is light fueled by neighborly love. It is heart rate breaking. The spirit is very nice to make all of this happened, it makes you happy. Reporter hundreds of people have come home for the holiday to the place where no her own stayed. But today coffey park has the old feel of christmas. You know it is all about cleaning up the devastation that they went through and giving them a chance to start over again. Reporter october 8 the north bay erupted in flames, fanned by gusty winds and fueled by dry brush. 250 homes burned with losses estimated that nearly 10 billion. More than two months later, building has begun but many souls are still scarred from the loss. When this Community Burned down there was a lot of distraught people, they were emotionally torn. Their spirit was lost. Reporter constriction contractor glenn gulati along with half a dozen other contractors spent 50,000 to transform desolation into a saturday night does destination. I worked with other contractors sidebyside and we decided to bring a Little Christmas cheer and a little happiness to the local community. Reporter for one night there was life and light, snow slides and santa rides. It is just a community and we are all getting together and you can feel the love in the community and it is really nice. Reporter even those who didnt lose last october are giving in any way they can to those who did. Its the right thing to do. We were all affected by the fires one way or another. And i just want to give back. Reporter still faithful . There is hope that coffee strong is not just a saying its a state of being. It has redefined neighborhoods. Reporter the Christmas Block Party is ending right about now, people are packing up and leaving but the lights that are on behind me and in front of me, they will be illuminated for about another hour. Live in santa rosa tonight, Jesse Gary Fox news two. Jesse this is a truly uplifting story, thank you so much. Neighbors in the Oakland Hills are particularly concerned about high winds and fire danger that it poses. People living along snake road were worried overnight hearing news that the winds were picking up and especially considering that the fire broke out monday night and burned several homes. I am not as worried. My wife is scared. But we all have to be careful. Its a lot more real now than it was before. Firefighters say it is best to keep an eye on your property and your neighbors to make sure there is a clear space around your home. For now on the wind gusts, the red flag warning in effect until two tomorrow morning. Were going to turn with to our media are all just. For places like San Francisco, winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour. Some of these strong gusts, mount diablo, 69 miles an hour. The Oakland Hills 47 Miles Per Hour. You can see from 41 to 45 Miles Per Hour from Half Moon Bay to fairfield. The wind will be ongoing and may strengthen a bit tonight and early into tomorrow morning. As a result red flag warnings are still out for the northbay hills, east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains. It is in place until 10 am sunday. Strongest winds will be between now and 10 am as we head into sunday afternoon they will gradually back off. That will be a good thing as we head into the afternoon hours for your sunday. Checking in on some of rosacea observations, in Sonoma County winds out of the north around 12 Miles Per Hour. A few more reports, Oakland Hills gusting at 23 Miles Per Hour. It is very dry out there and that is a concern as well. Relative humidity only 21 . The mount diablo wind observations backed off as well. Then in the Santa Cruz Mountains also watching this area, they have the same red flag warning as well through scotts valley, winds gusting between 13 and 23. The main event is tonight into early tomorrow morning, as Southern California has high fire danger as well. The winds strengthened to ourselves for tomorrow but in the bay area decreasing winds during the afternoon hours. Over the next 12 hours we still have the wind advisory and the red light warning red flag warning and we could be talking eventually about showers in our friday forecast. More in a few minutes. All right thank you a lot. The winds today created problems for some boats in sausalito. The winds in Richardson Bay kicked up high waves, knocking over at least one boat. They say several vessels broke free from their moorings last night and today. With the high wind condition it is accompanied by sizable waves and the waves and the wind dragged these boats, these vessels into other vessels. One vessel did sink and cause the fuel leak and fire Officials Say multiple people had to be rescued from the water and bowed but everyone made it safely to shore. Powell station is now open after a person was struck and killed by a train earlier today. Bart officials close the station for three hours and reopened around 1 pm. At this time bart is not releasing information about the victim. They will only say foul play has been ruled out in the persons death. Hundreds of weapons are now off the streets thanks to San Franciscos annual gun buyback event. People turned into hundred 80 guns and 28 other weapons today including a Rocket Launcher and a cannonball. The event was hosted alongside the Violence Prevention Group united playaz and aims to get guns off the street. I think right now you see that a lot of people want to stop the violence. They are tired of senseless gun violence and you see they are coming in in droves. United playaz says they host the event during the holidays because that is when gun violence increases. The gun buyback was important to the late mayor ed lee and so this event was dedicated in his honor. A private funeral was held today for the late San Francisco mayor r and tomorrow a public celebration of life will honor him as well. It is set for 3 pm in the rotunda of city hall. Doors open at two and large crowds are expected. The twohour Program Includes members of the San Francisco symphony, San Francisco colorguard and glide charge ensemble. Speakers include diane feinstein, nancy pelosi, Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom and the mayors daughters tonya and rihanna. You can watch that memorial here on ktvu. We will bring live coverage tomorrow at 3 pm. Protesters clashed in San Francisco over sanctuary city policies. Hundreds gathered in union square as what started in a march against sanctuary city. They plan to march into your 14 where kate steinle was killed counter protesters in favor of sanctuary cities showed up prompting conflict between the groups. Police were able to keep the protests peaceful and no one was arrested. Now for the push on tax reform, the house is expected to pass a vote. The senate is expected to follow. The vote comes as President Trump endorses the bill saying it will help all americans. This weekend republicans say they have the votes to push through the tax reform bill after unveiling the final version. It keeps seven tax brackets. The Corporate Tax rate is slashed from 35 to 21 . It also reveals obama cares individual mandate while retaining a deduction for medical expenses. Five of the seven tax brackets are reduced from todays rate but it is also expected to add 1. 46 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. The standard deduction would be nearly double and so would the child tax credit. Filers who itemize would lose some deductions, others are kept. That is going to sting for people who use those deductions in high tax states. Republicans are calling this strong no class tax relief but the democrats say the wealthy get the biggest cuts and remind us those individual tax cuts eventually expire while the business tax cuts permanent. I am very excited about this moment. It has been 31 years in the making. The tax reform bill is a disaster. It helps the wealthiest most powerful corporations and individuals and it hurts the middle class. The house should vote tuesday with the senate a day later. The senate would normally go first but theyre hoping to give the extra time for senator john mccain to get back to work. The president has said he wants a tax bill on his desk by christmas and it looks Like Congress will deliver it to him a few days early. In washington caroline shively, fox news. An aboutface, secretary of state Rex Tillotson says diplomacy may be off the table when it comes to north korea. Plus later in sports saturday night football the nfl joe fonzie later in sports on who is looking to take control in the afc west. And next, the thomas fire burning in ventura and Santa Barbara county is now the Third Largest fire in modern state history. Fire crews say they are making progress. Well have an update when the 10 00 news continues in 90 seconds. When the story deserves to be told, to investigates. When the topic demands more attention, when the subject is that important, journalists dedicated to finding answers and getting results, to investigates on ktvu fox 2 news. Strong santa ana winds could fuel the wildfires still burning in Southern California, but firefighters made some progress overnight on the largest fire, the thomas fire in ventura county, it is now 40 contained, up from 35 last night. It has burned more than 267,000 acres since it started nearly 2 weeks ago. Meantime there were new evacuation orders from residents and Santa Barbara county, will car has more from mendocino. Reporter the raging wildfire now californias Third Largest ever. More devastation possible from a resurgence of the harsh santa ana winds that have fueled the deadly fire. Its pretty crazy. I stepped outside about midnight and woke up to the roar of the fire coming through about 3 am. Reporter new evacuation areas issued in Santa Barbara county, the thomas fire has now destroyed more than 1000 structures including 750 homes in coastal communities in Southern California. You the crackle and the pop and there was all these loud sounds. It was right behind our house. Reporter the fire claim to second life thursday, firefighter Corey Iversen died working with his strike team on the eastern flank of the nearly 400 square mile flames. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and a twoyearold daughter. He is part of our family but he has his own family and the biggest thing is we think about his wife and his children. And just give all the support we can to them and also to his department. You also think about your own family, just to make sure you make contact with them. Reporter more than 8000 firefighters continue to battle the fire from both the air and on the ground. Around the clock as they try to do everything they can to protect these communities. In montecito california, will car, fox news. Now to a dramatic rescue in the Berkeley Marina today, as coast guard crew save the lives of two boaters after high winds put them in harms way. It happened around 11 this morning, a Good Samaritan called the coast guard giving details of two sailors stranded on the ruins of Berkeley Pier after their boat was pushed up against the pilings there. The coast guard responded with cruise and a boat and helicopter and they were able to hoist the boaters to safety. And we are talking about winds having a lot of effect on boaters but also the people in the hills are concerned. Yes, even on the surface you probably noticed the wins if you are near the bay it is very blustery, the fine and northerly wind kicking up and its going to stick around over the next 12 hours but thankfully we have a better forecast for tomorrow. Once again, strongest winds for tonight and it is tomorrow morning. We have a red flag warning tomorrow as we head into your sunday but at least we have decreasing winds. The forecast model is suggesting for tonight and into tomorrow. So here we are tonight, the service twins gusting over 20 Miles Per Hour and a lot of these locations and then into sunday morning still up there but you will notice the brighter colors which represent the stronger winds on the scale, they kind of fade away into the afternoon. The wins to back off especially by even after 10 00 tomorrow morning. Tomorrow afternoon should not be too bad as the wind scale back on the gusty conditions. Southern california had a trace of a few showers for today in the sierra. They picked up a light dusting of snow fall last night into early this morning. Here we go with the storm track, way up to our north, just a few high clouds over the bay area right now. We will check in on some of the current went these out there if you cant pick up on these panels, and its blustery out toward oakland gusting over 20 Miles Per Hour, same out toward fairfield, Travis Air Force base. Gusting at right around 18 Miles Per Hour and a bit of a breeze toward livermore and sfo. You can see all the chop on the bay waters, on the bay, a bit blustery for tonight. We will hold off the forecast tomorrow morning, most areas starting on sunday morning will be in the 40s to ride around mid to low 40s and a few spots in the upper 40s to start out the day. Mostly clear and breezy, we talked about the wind forecast for tomorrow. Eventually we could be talking about a few showers. I will show you this graphic once again. Let me get to the next graphic because we do have this, finally the chance of a few showers. The last rainfall we had, december 2, its been two weeks of this dry stretch but that could be changing in our five day forecast. Will have more on that coming up in a few minutes. Secretary of state rex tillis in making a strong statement to north korea at the United Nations. He backed away from statements earlier this week that talks could move forward even if north korea continued its nuclear test. Instead he doubled down on the White House Position that north korea must put a stop to its threatening behavior and earn its way back to the negotiating table. Brian yunus has more. Reporter new fears this week that north koreans leah leader ken jeong in could fire another missile to mark the six Year Anniversary of his fathers death, the regime has launched 20 missile so far this year including firing a new type of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile last month. Experts say it is capable of reaching the united states. On friday secretary of defense jim matus told reporters he does not believe this new icbm is a capable threat against the us right now. Though he stressed forensic analysis of the test is still underway. Meantime secretary of state rex tillis and spoke at the United NationsSecurity Council friday saying north korea needs to earn its way back to the bargaining table. Its an attempt to clarify the administrations stance on talks with the north after announcing earlier this week the us was willing to restart negotiations without preconditions. As i said earlier this week a sustained cessation of north koreas threatening behavior must occur before talks can begin. North korea must earn its way back to the table. The Pressure Campaign must and will continue until the nuclear isolation is achieved. We will in the meantime keep our channels of communication open. The secretary of state urged the world to continue pressuring and sanctioning north korea in the hopes that it will cripple their economy leaving them no choice but to come to the negotiating table. He also called on russia and china to do more to isolate north korea. Tillis and reiterated that all options remain on the Table Including military action. Republican senator Lindsey Graham said this week he believes time is running out and if nothing changes there is a 30 chance President Trump attacks north korea first. In new york, brian yunus, fox news. Coming up a criminal tries to channel santa claus but ends up on the wrong side of the law. Why it was all too easy to take this wouldbe thief into custody. And next for the first time on capitol hill a Sexual Misconduct allegation is pointing toward a female politician. The latest on those allegations coming up after break. [ music ] it feels good to be back. The Sexual Harassment scandal making its way through congress is now affecting a potential lawmaker, a woman running for office. Andrea ramsey of kansas dropped her bid for a house seat over a 2005 lawsuit from a former male subordinate accusing her of Sexual Harassment area we have the latest from washington. Reporter this one is a twist because in this case the accuser is a man and the alleged perpetrator woman. She is andrea ramsey, a candidate in kansas is third Congressional District race, a former employee were ramsey was an executive found filed a complaint over 10 years ago alleging he was fired after rebuffing ramseys sexual overtures. The eeo said they could see no wrongdoing that ramsey has now withdrawn her candidacy and in a statement she said he is claiming in the allegations that i fired him because he refused to have sex with me. That is a lie. Ramsey then fired a shot at the Democratic Party coding its rush to claim the high ground in our conversation about harassment. As a firsttime candidate i am disappointed and disillusioned by the political process. She grows a she joined a growing course of accused. One politician argues that he ran in an office that was too permissive. But the charges are untrue. He has apologized and claims not to remember any of it and he is stopping short of resignation. Ive spoken on the subject, he wants to go through the ethics process, that is his right to do. And of course in recent days three other members of congress have announced their resignations after accusations of sexual impropriety. In the aftermath of accusations against President Trump, the hill reports that attorney lisa bloom conspired with Media Outlets to arrange payments to trump accusers to tell their stories. One declined an offer of 750,000 to pay her mortgage. Now back to you. A new report says the Trump Administration has banned the centers for Disease Control from using seven words and phrases in official documents for the agencys 2018 budget. According to the Washington Post the forbidden words are these, diversity, transgender, fetus, vulnerable, evidence based, and sciencebased. The report says for the latter two phrases the white house suggests an alternative sentence, the cdc bases its recommendation on science and with communities danders and wishes. No reason was given for the band. Police in San Francisco arrested a man who tried to break into a business santa style but it was a total fail. Police say 32yearold jesse burrow tried to get into a business trying to use the chimney. He realized he was stuck and was able to move just enough to call police and police were able to rescue him and arrest him for burglary. A murder mystery is taking place in canada, a billionaire and his wife found dead inside their toronto mansion. Officials need to figure out if it was a homicide or murder suicide. Reporter this is pharmaceuticals billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife honey. He is a wonderful man. For the country, what he done for the country in society and the community. I am very very sad. Reporter both were found dead inside their toronto mansion friday. We discovered two bodies of people inside a home here. Reporter the Canadian Press reporting Barry Sherman killed his wife, hung the body and then hung himself. Despite those reports police say nothing has been ruled out as they try to put together this popular couples final hours. The circumstances of their death lead us to believe there may be suspicious circumstances. Reporter Barry Sherman running a prominent pharmaceutical company, and they are estimating the couples worth of 3. 2 billion. Giving back to their community, they were major donors to hospitals universities and jewish organizations. Many of his employees coming to the couples home saturday to pay their last respects. At work, people looked up to him. People are in shock and crying. We are genuinely heartbroken. Reporter the deaths have shocked canadas business and political elite and a flood of condolences have come in. Fox news. Still to come, receiving the gift of joy, that is what took place for more than 1000 kids in San Francisco today. One organizations generous us generosity brought the spirit of the Holiday Season alive for those children in the bay area. And the northBay Community also in the spirit of giving holding a shopping event for residents still recovering and rebuilding after the wildfires broke out. We will have more when we return. As we approach the holidays volunteers in the northbay held a special Holiday Shopping event for the victims of the northbay wildfires. Donated clothing and home goods were set up in a parking lot at Maria Carrillo high school in santa rosa today for those displaced are financially hurt by the fire so they could shop for what they need or wanted. We have the story from santa rosa. Reporter inside one of these cardboard boxes, Stacy Sincheff found something that made her smile. This is homemade. I make these so it was really nice. Because all of mine are gone. Reporter she lost her home in coffey park and everything she had crocheted when the fire spread to her neighborhood. I will be living here when my trailer gets ready, i have a small trailer that i bought. Because i cant afford rent. I found somebody that will let me stay on his land for 500 a month. Reporter she says the blanket will bring a personal touch to her new home. More than two months after the northbay fire displaced victims are starting to rebuild their home lives. For the last week of october we were in two different hotels. Luckily we were we found an apartment. Reporter but others are not as lucky. Right now i am on the streets. Reporter all of the items come from thousands of donations into the Sonoma County relief. We been able to raise tens of thousands of dollars in gift cards to give to fire victims. Reporter grateful for the continued help, fire victims still get emotional making these trips for donations. We have received donations, gift cards and you know we just we have to start all over but we are thankful that we are okay. Reporter when asking for fema cards or identification, we are just trying to help and we dont need the redtape area and we are trying to help people out so we are going off the honor system. And said they asked anyone who showed up today to register for a wish list. They are also looking for people to adopt families for christmas and you can do that by going onto Sonoma County fire relief. Org. And santa rona santa rosa i am lee martinez. More than 1200 kids received gifts today during an annual giveaway. Underprivileged children left with my wolf Smiling Faces after getting dolls, action figures, stuffed animals and other toys. They donated more than 8000 toys, including one person who donated 120 razor scooters. They have been doing the giveaway for more than 20 years now. The Salvation Army is looking for 400 more frozen turkeys to give to families in need of christmas dinner. If you are interested in donating a turkey the agency asked you to bring it before wednesday. You can bring it before between 830 and 430. Nearly 1000 families will receive food and toys this year thanks to the Salvation Army. Coming up fatalities reported in the middle east during protests in the middle east. The violence comes on the heels of President Trump declaring jerusalem the capital of israel. And the weather is the middle of december, we are still talking about red flag events. Also rain chances that show up in the five day forecast. There is more filed today from President Trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. Four palestinians were killed and dozens wounded as they clashed with Israeli Forces on the west bank. And as raley soldier was also injured. Kitty logan has more from london. Reporter there were more clashes in israel today following the deaths of four Palestinian Protesters on friday. Tensions have been running high since the announcement by President Trump to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. The trouble flared shortly after the funeral of one of those protesters, the announcement by President Trump has angered many palestinians. They regard East Jerusalem as their own capital of any future state. Israel has welcomed the us decision. Israeli Security Forces also clashed with a group of Palestinian Protesters in jerusalem today. While the demonstrations havent been on a large scale yet, they show no sign of diminishing. Eight palestinians have been killed in violence since this latest wave of protests began. There were law were also funerals held in gaza today for protesters killed on friday. The protests have been worldwide. Today there was a demonstration in a german city of frankfurt. They voiced disapproval of the us decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital. Many in the arab world say this move will damage the peace process. Palestinian officials are now saying they wont meet with Vice President mice mike pence when he visits israel on wednesday. They are planning a large demonstration instead. In london, kitty logan, fox news. [ music ] and and whether its the middle of december and we have higher fire danger, and also we could see snow, a light dusting in the sea area into this morning. An extreme range of weather elements out there today, as far as the red flag warning it is in place for northbay hills to east bay hills in the Santa Cruz Mountains until 10 am tomorrow. All the areas in red you have high winds gusting. Maybe approaching 50 Miles Per Hour. You can see on the satellite radar Southern California picking up some light showers earlier today but not much in the way of significant rainfall. We were looking for the rain right now, we have a few scattered high clouds out there. Essentially over the next few days we could be talking about some rain chances. Pairing numbers with the wins, temperatures are not extremely cold. Lots of 50s out there, san jose 53, livermore 54. We will check in on some of the current wind speeds. Not all these panels are showing strong winds but a few toward fairfield gusting to over 20 Miles Per Hour. Sfo up there as well and livermore sustained at 14 gusting at 23 Miles Per Hour. Outside right now looking toward the San Francisco bay and the bay bridge, you get the idea we have a lot of chop on the bay waters. Still a bit of a wind out there. If you are around the bay today, you saw a lot of whitecaps in the middle of the bay. All the wind coming in and out of the north area the wind will gradually back off as we head into your sunday afternoon and so for sunday afternoon for the 49ers we expect mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s. Around 65 degrees later in the day. Mostly clear skies for the raiders and temperatures will be in the upper 50s. Youll want to bundle up for that game because temperatures will be cooling off rapidly to sunday evening. This weather system dropped in and developed over the pacific a few days ago. Moving over and into the east of the bay area, it really set up the wind event for today. The wind as we talked about still up there tonight into tomorrow morning. This system heads toward south so with that we will scale back the wins tomorrow afternoon. Then it looks like more sunshine monday and tuesday, the storm will catch to our north, but finally after two weeks of dry weather, we finally have a chance of a few showers. Not a lot of rainfall but you see what happens tuesday, still dry, and then we will take this into wednesday, especially wednesday morning. This could be the day. We could be tracking scattered rain showers in the bay area and maybe a few hundredths of an inch for san jose, San Francisco and santa rosa. We need a lot more rain higher than these numbers but this is a Welcome Change since it has been so dry here and it looks like its going to be dry beyond that chance as we had were thursday and friday and into the upcoming we can. Forecast ties for tomorrow, lots of 60s out there. Strongest winds will be tomorrow morning and then we scale back onto those winds throughout the afternoon hours. Here is a look ahead, your five day forecast. All he on i am excited to welcome back a rain cloud. That is our chance, we will take it. Fear skies into thursday. Not a lot of rain but after how dry it has been, its a nice little change and maybe that will kind of change things up in the atmosphere. We make every little bit helps. All right mike thanks so much. Thats it for us, sports are coming up next, we have football today on saturday night. We have championships on the line for some local bay area schools. Joe fonzie is going to break it all down next. Toyland, toyland little girl and boy land while you dwell within it you are ever happy there daddy, its christmas childhoods joy land never let go of your dreams. The mercedesbenz winter event is back. Lease the glc300 for 449 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. [ music ] fox news sports starts now. Good evening Everyone Welcome to this saturday night sports rap, the raiders looked at great interest at the game play tonight in kansas city, a battle between the two teams at the top of the afc west. Philip rivers and the chargers against alex smith and the chiefs, kansas city on the board first with a field goal and then smith throws to tyree kill and gets them in stride, that will go for 64 yards and a score, 100 gain and an end zone shoeshine. Chargers made a game of it to start the third quarter, rivers to Antonio Gates for 10 yards and a score to chargers and front 1310. The chiefs answered right back at going 69 yards in 12 plays, smith rolls out then waits for kareem hunt to break open with 1713, the chiefs ahead for good. This was a big problem for rivers in the chargers all night. He throws to Tyrell Williams but the passes picked up by marcus peters, who takes off on a loaf of bread run and 62 yards to the sixth before he stopped. That was one of three interceptions of the night for rivers. Kansas city now very much in the playoffs driver seat with a 3013 when. Heres what it all means in the standings. At eight and six the chiefs on front of the chargers by a game. The raiders play tomorrow, one more when in their remaining two games in the chiefs will clinch the division. In detroit the lions were still battling for a playoff spot while the bears were longago eliminated. Fans of both teams still engaged. The lions got in