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This morning, we have new aerial video to show you of this firefight. This is burning in a remote part of the merit island preserve on the southwestern tip of the preserve. It is not threatening any buildings or homes on merit island. It is an air are i cant that is step with heavy brush and veg taig, its been difficult to access some of the fire. It has burned 7 acres since 3 00 this morning. The fire is a percent contained according to firefighters so its not spreading out of control, just accessing it has been difficult. They do have hydrant service on merit island, the challenge for firefighters have running fire hoses to get access to the flames, firefighters tell us this fire was started by someone who intentionally cut power poles causing lines to come down and spark the fire. Can you clearly see someone tried to saw into the sides of the power pole there and caused the line to droop, the fire investigator believes someone who did this may have been trying to steal copper wiring inside this pole in order to recycle it. They found saw blades along with the drooping power lines. Its frustrating to say the least, we are a busy department and to have criminal activity such as this treating a digsal fires and fires that are this tough to tackle. Reporter now if you are in vallejo you will smell some of the smoke and see the smoke from the fire. We smelled it crossing the bridge this morning. This fire is not affecting traffic on highway 37, highway 37 is on the opposite side of merit island from where this fire is burning. You might see smoke on 29 through vallejo and the bridge, we continue to follow this story and update you as new information becomes available. For now live inherit island allie rasmus. The bay area is under a heat advisory, expected to heat 90 degrees in downtown San Francisco today, close to 100 degrees further inland. And there is a red flag warning for the upper elevations of sonoma and napa counties, today is another spare of the air today. Sarah, you are with pg e shut off power for 400 customers. Good morning, dave, thats right. We are at a gas station off highway 128. Power has been out here for hours. It was supposed to open around 6 00 this morning and now it is 7 00. You can see the closed sign right outside. Now the manager here had to turn away a lot of people who have come here to get their breakfast, their coffee and because it is affecting business. He is hoping that the power comes back on soon. Now, pg and e cut service after 44 00 to had you ever beens of people in napa county and Sonoma County. Pg e meteorologist. Pg e warned 55,000 customers in nap a lake and Sonoma County to prepare, only about 1400 here are affected. The gas station manager here says he has had to turn customers away. Affect a lot. We done have a i mean we have open inside. Gone. I dont know how many hours more we need to wait for power were there are 49,000 Northern California pg e customers total waking up without power. The majority of the outages are in the sierra foothills, windy conditions will last until noon today, depending on the conditions inspecting lines and turning power back on. It could take hour to days to get service back. As for school, Unified School District plans to be open today if the outage isnt affecting schools. San to rosa city schools says if the power goes out theyll stay open 0. Out for days after theyll close. Now really the best advice is to check with your school, check with the district before you take the kids to school. As for businesses around this area, highway 128 and this gas station is one of many businesses in this area that is dealing with this outage,. 7 05. Lets bring steve paulson. One more day, northern end of the napa valley, very warm. 70s, 80s. Southern end is cooler today. It has to do with the wind. If there is still a breeze up near Southern Lake county, northern napa county, its warm. South in end not as much of breeze or no breeze at all so its cooler. Jamie is out in livermore, 63 with a beautiful sunrise. A band of high clouds going along the coast providing that band of clouds, i will show you that in a second. Forecast yesterday, checked in ated 8 officially, today its 101. Tomorrow 84. Friday 07 for you. That much of a spread. It will hot, heat advisory out, red flag only for the north bay hills until 11 00. Vallejo up 2 officially. Hayward 91 to 92. Records today are possible, most likely oakland airport, closed for san franciscand san jose. Most of the records set 2016 although San Francisco was 1954 and it was 93 forecast high of 92. Official forecast is 90. Strong load in the baja area, filling that with a northerly breeze, that is a band of clouds zipping by, going parallel to thcoast, giving a nice sunrise. Everything says hot today and cooler weather will kick in tomorrow, 90s and 100s today. A huge drop into the 9 east by the weekend sal is here, the east bay commute as usual one of the slowest out there, steve, lets take a look at what we have now with the commute on how way 4 which has been well, not good at all, westbound highway 4 an earl why are accident near willow path road, thats been clear to the side but the damage is done a lot of slow traffic here. You may notice that if you are in concord the traffic delay was less. Now people are beginning to get through, but. Pleasant hill to walnut creek it looks okay, 4 is moderate. Fur driving on 680 slow, south bay Silicon Valley commute is beginning to get busier. 280 northbound on the right you can see that traffic is looking good. Steves favorite thing is watch be the train set that we have. Cal train. It looks good. Isnt it, steve. You know and i know sal that we like that. All right. Lets go back to you. Time 7 08 new this morning the chp busy investigating a deadly crash in fairfield, it was a multi car crash that happened on highway 80 near air base parkway one person was killed, this also involved a big rig. Now it happened overnight about 12 30. The road has since been cleared. We have no other information but we know the investigation continues. And investigation is under way after someone was hit and killed by a Union Pacific train in hayward. It happened just after 6 15 last night near huntwood avenue in south hayward. It caused problems for some of the other train traffic in at care including the capital corridor and track drain. We dont have no other information yet about the victim. A group of demonstrators will hold a rally for the environment, calling the event strike for Climate Justice part of a week long world wide from 7 00 to 5 00 tonight. On montgomery street. They are concerned about the wildfires burning in the amazon rain forest. Layer today California Attorney general will announce a lawsuit accusing the white house of threatening from saving the environment. California battles the Trump Administration over bay area salt clouds on the shore of redwood city, challenging the epa after a decision to strip protection of salt ponds. Thing a gras biscuit cargill asked the epa to rip the protection because the Company Wants to develop the area. 7 09 there is enough evidence to order an almeda county share sergeant to stand trial on charges that he secretly recorded interviews between four teenage suspects and lawyers. Sergeant james russell, you see him here in the brown suit, is facing four felony eaves dropping charges for allegedly recording confidential discussions inside of an Interview Room last year. The judge also refused to reduce the felonies to misdemeanors. Sergeant russell has been on paid leave since the allegations first came out. Now to the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. A few moments ago the white released the transcript of the couldnt very shall phone call between President Trump and the new ukrainian leader back in july. E Associated Press reports while the Justice Department found no violations, a Watchdog Group leaves the conversation may have violated Campaign Finance rules. Doug luzader in washington where the feud is at an all time high, doug. As promised the white house released the transcript of the telephone conversation between President Trump and his counterpart in ukraine, something democrats have been clamoring for. What exactly did President Trump say to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, a transcript of that call was released, democrats are not in the mood to wait. No one is above the law. Speaker of the house nancy pelosi vowing to pressure from her left, she is all in at least investigating the possibility of an in peachment. The actions reveals dishonorable facts of the president s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our National Security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. The democrats say the evidence shows rival joe biden and his dealing with ukraine that may have benefited his son, and that the president may have threatened to withhold military aid, hearing from a whistleblower who raised the issue. The president in new york said the impeachment effort could back fire. Also that is a positive for me, it could say who needs it, its bad for the country. Donald trump will leave congress no choice to issue impeach. Biden said congress may have to move forward now, with the speaker announced is not a full on impeachment, not yet. That leaves congress in an odd middle ground. And adding to the intrigue, President Trump has been meeting with ukrainian president at the United Nations later today back to you guys. Doug, thank you. First it was avacados, now tomatoes are going to cost more, more border checks could cause shipment delays and higher prices. A look at this, caught on camera a realtor attacked at an open house, where this happened as the victim speaks out about her experience. Welcome back. 7 91 59 a brazen and violent attack in los angeles on the Real Estate Agent was caught on camera because that victim was thinking fast. You see that, the realtor was attacked and groped by a man she had been showing a house to in the in seen know neighborhood of la. The man came to her open house last week. She brought the man outside to the porch area in view of the home surveillance camera and asked him to leave. That time i was kind of nervous and i was like a little shaky, i said, okay, we are in the middle of the house right now, i want to get him outside by the door. She was battered, she was bruised but the screaming eventually that was enough to scare that man into running away, he has not been arrested or identified so far. Lets take you live now to the palace hotel in the United Nations, we are going to hear from President Trump after a transcript of the controversial phone call was released well listen in. And administrator mark green, thank you all for being here, thank you very much. I want to extend my profound appreciation to every representative with us from across the western hemisphere, each of you is part of a Historic Coalition of 55 country that recognized the legitimate Constitutional Government of venezuela, we are especially grateful to be joined by representatives of the people of argentina, brazil, lumbia, chile, ecuador, peru. Disaster has been going on for a long time and we are helping a lot. We are helping a lot. Let me also recognize two leaders from the government of venezuela legitimate interim government, president ial commissioner for Foreign Affairs jewelry borges. Please stand up. Great. Great, thank you very much venezuelas ambassador to the United States carlos, thank you, carlos. Please. Thank you. And everyone in this room now as the situation in venezuela is a tragedy of historic proportions, the maduro regime does not care about the welfare their own people, they care about their own power, its what they want is power and money. They want the money, too. Not just power. Socialism has destroyed what was once among the most prosperous countries anywhere in the world. You go back 20 years ago and you look one of the wealthiest countries in the world relatively speaking. And now they dont have water, they dont have food, they dont have medicine, they dont have anything. Today venezuela president s statement here, he is speaking in new york at the outside the United Nations, this address by the president we are going to monitor it to see if he does in fact talk about the transcript released and the controversial phone call between the president and the head of the ukraine. This of course comes not even a full day after House Speaker nancy pelosi announced she is going to be launching a formal impeachment inquiries into the president a lot of controversy swirling over this issue. The president has yet to touch on it, but again, were monitoring this in the news room and let you know if he says something on this account. We are also going to get to about you need to go, sal is watching our commute, sal. Good morning, dave and goss suit states i cant, we have a lot of slow traffic this morning if you are are driving on highway 4 through antioch, we are looking at slowing out of pleasanton on 680 and 880 between hayward and fremont, a long delay, commutes are slow. It hadnt been so slow the peninsula, very routine traffic there and the south bay commute is beginning to fill in a little bit. We have had too much slow traffic well, i wouldnt say not too much slow traffic, i would say too many incidents. There is downtown san jose, right here is the bay bridge also backed up for a typical delay. 7 20. Lets bring steven. We probably should, so, thank you, sir. Appreciate that. Today will be hot, after that start a cooling trend. Its warm for some. Up in pope valley, napa county. We are at 81 degrees. First time ive seen a high so early in the morning, end withs are blowing pretty good here. There are 79 what our observation shows, close enough. Another observation 68, look at whitaker 66. Bodega bay, delta, still a northeast above the caldakot, Black Diamond 6700 feet up in the hills of clayton area. North of 28, here is your forecast highs today 90 and 100. I think 998 so that is probably no problem. For oakland iranian, San Francisco, san jose gasia, cooling starts tomorrow. Lets hear it for thursday. Battling California Wildfires with additional help from inmates, how the program works. Also what local Health Officials say the flu season is starting earlier than usual after two people died from the virus in the south bay. 7 24. The ceo of juul labs is resigning, replaced by an executive. Tobacco giant that earned a third of the ecigarette maker. Facing a potential ban in the United States, on most of its products after the Trump Administration proposed banning most flavored ecigarettes. Juul is supporting San Franciscos proposition ca ballot measure sponsored by juul that would remove a ban on vaping products in San Francisco. This news comes as they are calling off talks of a merger. Last month they were in discussions to become a Single Company, more than a decade after splitting into two as lawsuits mounted. Shares of both companies are up. Department of health is telling people to stop using all vape pens and cigarettes applying to all products no matter the substance being smoked. The warning will be in place until state, federal and local officials can find the root cause of lung illnesses linked to vaping, anyone having difficulty breathing should contact their doctor immediately. At least 90 people here in california have been hospitalize odded for vaping related respiratory problem. Two have died. The Santa Clara County board of supervisors is one step closer to banning the sale of vaping products, considering options for banning the sale and distribution of e cigarettes, a final vote expected november 5th. Officials are telling people to get their flu shot as flu season begins to ramp up. The Public Health Department Says two people have died from the flu. One was an adult with an underlying chronic illness. The other a child who traveled over seas. Health professionals say the flu season is starting earlier than usual. What we know is that we dont usually see flu deaths in september. Today we are reporting two flu deaths. Whether this indicates an early season, we dont know. The cdc says 80 of people who die from the flu were not vaccinated. Health professionals recommend everyone six months and older get the flu vaccine. Apple released its new phones and streaming service, google is trying to keep up. Coming up what the tech giant offers and how much it will cost. Triple digit heat, the south bay is swelter be. How you can keep cool if you dont have ac. In the human brain, billions of neurons play in harmony. For people with parkinsons, some neurons change their tune, causing uncontrollable tremors. Now, abbott technology can target those exact neurons. Restoring control and harmony, once thought to belost forever. The most personal technology is technology with the power to change your life. 7 29, take a look at your screen. Its already golden and warm here in oakland and its not middle part of the morning yet. Another hot one in oakland. Steve paulson, says oakland could break a heat record today. It is wednesday, september 25th, im dave dave. Im gasia mikaelian. Wildfire merit island preserve in vallejo burned 7 acres, 50 contained right now. Its burning in a remote part of soutrn tip of the merit island preserve far from homes or people. Investigator told ktvu it was started by malicious damage to two power poles out there. Investigators say someone intentionally cut into the power poles cause power lines to go down. Authorities are not sure but they told allie rasmus whoever did this may have been trying to steal copper wiring attached to the power pole vallejo fire Department Says the crews are having a tough time getting to the flames because of the steep terrain. Once we get to southern most of the island its straight up, multiple reports from our crews coming across the radio, they are running into shear cliffs. The fire started about 3 00 this morning. No word of any injuries. We are going to check in with ktvu allie rasmus to get a live report at the top of the 8 00 hour. Very hot there, very dry. Lets bring in steve paulson, people are concerned about winds as well. They are more isolated today. No wind advisory or red flag for the east bay, its in the north bay now. It stopping at 11 00. After today it will be the southeast part of the country. Highs are going to reload as strong pressure digs into the low west, we will be the recipient of a big time cooling trend, chloe is up in clear lake, 7 under partly cloudy skies. High clouds coming through expecting high today of 101, 102. Clear like should be around there as well. Big differences in the temps, 50s, 60s, 80. Clover dale, 91. Bow craig ga bodega bay 73 degrees. 97 by the Concord Pavilion, that is coming down northeast coming down from Black Diamond. Danville, Black Diamond 1600 feet up above clayton. Oakland 13 miles per hour. Temps up today, hayward and san carlos in the 90s to near 100. City see one projection of 100. At the airport that is likely, also for oakland, San Francisco and san jose, they will be right there or within a degree. Starting tomorrow a cooldown. 7 32, sal is here and he is going to tell us, i believe, oh, i go to the desk, go back to the desk. Thank you, steve. Santa clara county says the cooling centers and shelters will be open through the day. Senior center this morning with details, good morning, rising interest christina. Reporter good morning to you gasia, opening around 8 30 this morning. Also they dont have air conditioning, it is going to be a hot day and it is really the heat isnt your thing then today is not going to be your day, heat waves come with a concern of heat stroke or maybe heat exhaustion. If you done have that air conditioning again, try to stay inside. Try to go to a mall or a library and of course stay hydrated, drink plenty of fluids, if you cannot get to one of those cooling centers your best bet find an alternative where can you stay school. And Health Officials yesterday warned that high temperatures can be dangerous in certain parts of the city where multistoried buildings are, they dont have air conditioning, people live inside. We live in heavy buildings that are made of stone that heat up and then that heat traps in the building. And it goes higher than the outdoors. So indoor temperature can be 5 to 10 degrees hotter than the outside. Reporter San Francisco is offering free admission to 7 city pools today. Here in Santa Clara County 40 cooling centers or shelters open, many are extending their hours to provide some relief to the public. It was a cool start to the morning, so last check it was already approaching 70 degrees. So we know its going to get hotter as the debut on, Christina Rendon. Preparing for todays heat, San Franciscos rec and Parks Department is waving the admission fees at 7 city run swimming pools, people go to San Francisco to get away from the heat but that was not a good idea yesterday after temperatures reached 90 in the city and will do it again today. That type of heat can be a big concern for people who used to it. Many people are finding out their homes are not helping them stay cool. The design of some of the buildings and materials used in them can hold the heat in for hours, or even days, look at that face. We live in heavy buildings that are made of stone that heat up and then that heat traps in the building. And it goes higher than the outdoors. So indoor temperature can be 5 do 10 degrees hotter than the outside. That of course many San Francisco homes dont have air conditioning. If this is reminding you stay hydrated and check on your neighbors who may be vulnerable in the heat. Firefighting program on the Central Coast is preventing wildfires while giving prison inmate has chance to give back. Its a miracle paying out. I never want to blow t we love being here. The state department of corrections and rehabilitation has 42 conservation camps in california where trained inmates help fight firefighters. Working on the lopez fire where inmates call it a chance at redemption. Main focus is us going out, giving about back to the community, helping the community and showing the community, guys can be rehabilitated. When i am released into the community i would like to participate as a cal fire fields reduction bruise. A lot of them feel good about what they are doing. They like to give back. The inmates in the program get paid a dollar an hour, time taken off their sentence for each day on the fire lines. Time is 79 36, sal is back, weve been busy because theyve been busy on the roads this morning. Yes, busy commute for sure. Especially Contra Costa County a couple earlier thing that made it slow oar. You can see the traffic is slow approaching the richmond bridge. Then we see highway 24 contra cost ka county looking all right. 80 westbound has really filled in, it went from 25 minutes about an hour ago to double that time about 53 minutes driving from the car keen has bridge san mateo and dunbar ton commutes are slow. And just a lot of slow traffic, what hadnt been too bad is the peninsula heading south. Daily 7 37 lets go back to the desk. Transcript of a phone call between President Trump and the president of ukraine. According to this memo President Trump prodded ukraines new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the u. S. Attorney general to investigate the Democratic Political rival joe biden. President trump raised unsubstantiated allegations that biden sought to interfere with the ukrainian prosecutors investigation into his son hunter biden. The president of ukraine is one piece of a whistleblower complaint made last month. The complaint is central to the impeachment inquiry announced yesterday by House Speaker nancy pelosi. President ial candidate. William castro is campaigning in the bay area talking about affordable housing, in oakland street hill district, tour a homeless encampment. Under then president barack obama. Castro released a plan that includes investments and homelessness nationwide by 2028. October 15th in ohio. She qualified for the debate by receiving donations from 130,000 people and 2 support in 4 recognized polls. There will be 12 candidates on the stage. Gabbard strongly opposed to impeachment. Time is 79 39, more than 300 men and women just graduated from the new york fire academy. 21 are children of firefighters who died on duty, 13 had parents who died after the 9 11 terror attacks. They responded. They know the dangers of being a firefighter but they decided to do it any way. Some say being a firefighter brings them closer to their fathers. 79 39 here, general motor strike now in its second week having an impact. The problems dealerships are now facing and why it could mean a longer wait to get your car fixed. A popular Discount Store is keeping up with the times and going digital. How you can score bargain deals online without chopping through the wax. Lets go to the news now, as you look ahead to the 8 00 hour. Coming up in the next hour a long lost confident has been discovered, you may have travel today it without knowing, how it was discovered. Chatting live with two time super bowl winning quarterback john elway, a day that stanford, nfl today and medical condition he is dealing with, we are back after the break. 7 43. Google is releasing its own green platform, launching a Monthly Subscription Service Called play pass, 350 apps and games that cost 1. 99 a month first year. It will add health, fitness and photography apps. Rolled out to Android Device this is week. Looks like disney is adding some digits to its menu to attract vehicle an, offering 400 plant based meals as both Walt Disney World and orlando and disney land anaheim. First offered at disney world next week, disney land next spring. 7 93, a Scottish Company is recycling plastics and using them to pave the roads. They take consumer plastic products, turns them into a product that replaces part of the asphalt. The road looks exactly the same. Take a look. The companys founder wants to get rid of plastic waist and make roads more durable and last longer. Things that people throw away that are destined for landfill, we process them and use them to replace the black oil that you get in road. Now the new materials already being used in united kingdom,. 7 94, rare thing to have your ac going when you are driving to work in the morning. Sal, i bet a lot of people are doing that. They are. Cooling the house. Take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, i want to show thaw traffic here at the toll plaza is okay. Backed up what it normally would be. You will see that the traffic is going to be okay once you make it on to the bridge. This is a look at the san mateo bridge and things are beginning to normalize, its getting slow and that is why we havent had any serious crashes, people are going too slow to get into high speed collisions. Busy traffic so what we are seeing here is slowing. Northbound 101 very slow from san bruno to San Francisco. People have been going the other way. That would not be accurate. Its slow from into San Francisco. 7 45. Lets bring steven now. All right, sal, thank you, sir. Midweek weather news is a hot one today but cooling will start tomorrow, red flag north bay littles, even though good gusts up there for some, that goes until 11 00, a warm 66 from my Early Morning swim, that is warm. Feel the clouds coming by as well. Seth, concord creek. Around that area so that is producing mild temps, 73 maraga, blackhawk 67. Martines. 72 north ily breeze, 13 miles per hour. 890s, 100s way above average.  start to go down tomorrow. Oakland airport has the best opportunity to set a record. Close for is of is, within a degree. Highs to the north, lows to the south and fills it with the wind. The wind is north, northeast, 73 in berkeley. Napa airport 55. That is a huge drop compared to yesterday. That is the band of higher clouds right along the coast clipping us and the airflow is out of the north, northeast. The fog will come streaming back, fog up in eureka. But not today for us, september heat i think by tomorrow though much cooler is on the way, we may drop a gooded 15 to 20 degrees for some. 90s, 90s, lo100s being driven, so hold on to it one more day. 70s by the weekend. All right. Steve, thank you. 7 47 the stock markets dont seem to be affected by the impeachment inquiries of president turn and one the reasons may have to do is weather nike. Pam cook has dollars absence. Good morning, nikes stock up almost 6 after reporting better than expected earnings and success in new products including the new joyride running shoe market share at nike is up, ceo says they have seen double digit growth in china the past five years. Helps off set the uncertainty of the Political Climate with the impeachment inquiries. Dow jones up almost 1090 points, a third of a percent. S p 500 and nasdaq still dipping a little bit. S p 500 flat so far. The nasdaq down to 7975. Tomato lovers might get squeezed, a new deal between the u. S. Commerce department and mexican tomato growers and ex porters could affect prices. The checks are designed to prevent low quality tomatoes coming in. It means shipment delays an inflated costs as well as 200 million for space for tomato inspections. Ion members are keeping up the fight for better waynes, healthcare and job security. Close to 50,000 workers are leaving dozens of gm factories and parts warehouses across the country. Most of the time we do have a stock of marts saved for oil changes and things like that. As we go on, and we are not replenishing our part that we have in stock right now, then it may cause an issue. Many dealerships are hoping to have an enough parts in stock to last through the strike. Analysts estimates General Motors could lose 90 million for every day the strike continues. Marshalls joining the digital world, announcement official loss of official website, more than 1000 brick and Mortar Stores across the country. It will now offer a broader selection online adding luxury designer goods at a discounted price, marshalls. Com features a swipe to shop element. Meaning customers can swipe left for products they dont want. Kind of kind of like a dating app, now they do. Business news, dollars and senses lets go back to dave. 7 49, now a 9th person has die from a virus linked to mosquitoes and new concern bus it coming up at 8 00 well break down what eastern equine encephalitis is, known as eee how you can avoid that virus. Find out how you can apply for a job at mcdonalds using alexa and google. First, they are big, they are furry, and congress may help california kill them to save the delta, well tell but a plan for stopping a rodent called nutreum. The juul record. They took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. Five million kids now using ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with Misleading Health claims. Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. Say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Fight toe get rid of an Invasive Species threatening Central Valley waterways and crops are getting help from the state. The problem is a rodent, they can destroy wet land habitats and jeopardize the water supply but now armed with 10 million and money from the state, department of fish and wildlife is launching a program dedicated to new tricks to get rid of the rodent. Our goal is to get out here and find them and eradicate them before they become fully established. The problem they dont stay in low densities and once they become widespread and extremely high numbers, they will create major damage on to levees and vegetation. Now the new attention and the funding dedicated to dealing with the problem with allow the department of fish and wildlife to hire 46 and dedicated staff. 79 54, oakland city leaders are debating adding bus only lanes along parts of broadway. Oakland Public Works Committee is sending this idea to the full city council. More buses run on broadway than on any other street in the east bay. And adding bus only lanes will cut the commute times for passengers by about 30 . Dedicated bus lines would run on broadway between 11th and 20th streets in downtown oakland. Well the city leaders have now approve add new ban for oversized vehicles parked on residential streets, this new ordinance would rush rvs and campers out of neighborhoods. On tuesday night city leaders announced a vote 4 to 3 outlawing parking for oversized vehicles, on all residential streets. Voted to ban parking on streets with bike lanes. The only places rvs could park, wider, industrial and commercialized streets. Second highest concern for residents the first one being waist and felt. Second highest when we surveyed the residents we had 1200 responses in january was obstruction of sight. Rv blocking their views of oncoming traffic, 200 people live in oversized vehicles in Mountain View near city parks and homes. The ban would go into effect june 30th of next year. They will start a petition for a referendum to ask voters to repeal the ban. In Mountain View. Came is 79 55 the former Google Engineer charged with stealing trade secrets claims is he innocent. Federal prosecutors say anthony levendowsky stole thousands of files about googles self driving car program, he quit his job at google, formed his own self driving car company, which was later required by uber. He says is he innocent, he said that outside court yesterday. He is due back in court at the end of october. The wife of shark tank star kevin oleary is facing criminal charges for a deadly boating accident in canada, charged with careless operation of a vessel. Investigators determined she was driving a boat last month boat during a d into another nighttime outing on lake joseph in ontario. She was going about 17 miles an hour. The driver of the other boat has been charged for not using proper navigation lights. Two people on his boat were killed. Two other were hurt. Police say miss oleary was not drinking or taking drugs at the time of the crash. If she is found guilty she faces 18 mondays in jail and a possible 1 million fine. Well comedian dave chapel will be in San Francisco tonight and tomorrow performing. He has shows scheduled tonight and tomorrow at the punch line comedy club, both shows are sold out. Best known for his sketch series on the Comedy Central channel. He ducked out of the public eye for several years but he came back with a new netflix special and a standup comedy tour. And a new episode of our bay area people pod cast is now out. Yes, thats true. This week. Sal castaneda talked to the actor from the show 13 reasons why, austin aaron, a native of napa talked about giving up a facebook scholarship to pursue an acting career. He also talked about how his own struggles with anxiety helped him connect with that hit netflix show. Searching for bay area people wherever you get your pod cast. Ma tells new line of gender neutral dolls will be available in Stores Starting today. They come with feminine and masculine options, with a focus on breaking gender norms and stereotypes. The creatable world dolls feature a combination of outfits and hair styles giving kids the create iity to design their own gender inclusive characters. It challenges at its nature the buy narrow principles we have been taught to accept, these are for boys and these arfor girls much when have you a line that asks to you think about why you think that way, its going to shall challenging, ultimately we are leading people in the right direction to explore a nonbuy narrow way to create self expression. Costing about 25 a apiece. Second season of foxs hit series last singer premiers tonight. Nick cannon will be hosting the show as celebrity panelists try to guess the identities of the stars performing in front of them. First season we were sitting there like is this career suicide . It lead to concern. For a few seconds. Based on a show by the same name in korea, my no, maams favorite show in korea, i dont know if i should do this or not, mark my words, this show will be so huge in america. I dont think i have ever pleased her more as a son. Now you can catch the season 2 premier of the masked singer starting at 89 00 tonight right here on ktvu fox 2 followed by the 10 and 11 00 news. A battle for firefighters on merit island. We are live at the scene with more on the firefight. Another round of high temperatures hitting the bay area and triggering pg e power shutoffs, hear who is without power and how long the shutoff with last. Democrats making a major move on impeachment. We are going to break down the details. It is a busy wednesday 25th im mike mibach. Im gasia mikaelian,. It looks like it will be close, you guys, certainly around oakland, San Francisco and san jose. Others as well. They will be within a degree or two. Again a lot of this is wind driven. Its already almost 80 degrees. Wind advisory, red flag warnings u heat advisory up. Clayton, i have heard of it, i can hear the ac on early, temps at 7 30 are 77, 75. And i saw 79 by the concord. There is 77 there. So we are getting a north early breeze, he will cerito 73. I think warmer than that today, george, i see 73 in berkeley. One observation that city is already 74 and berkeley 96. So thats high to the north and low to the south, a difference in the Pressure Gradient and the end result of a northerly breeze or northeast. Cool temps, warm temps for some, upper 70s to near 80 in the northern napa valley. Happened of higher clouds, some of those are clipping us, dipping by a little bit. But High Pressure after today will get knocked out and reestablish itself out of the southeast, september heat today, hazy, sunshine a cooler pattern is on the way, it will start some tomorrow but today 80s, 90s to near 100 here is sal. We do have traffic that is slow. As you might imagine it would be this morning. We do have a very long delay on the east shore freeway, its taking one hour to drive from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. Minor crashes, stalls and slow traffic that is a long time yesterday the average time is 40 minutes or so. This morning a much longer commute. Bay bridge add another 20 minutes before you make it into San Francisco. Oakland traffic is beginning to slow on 880 northbound, highway 4 and 680 has always been slow from the get go. Southbound 680 new problem newish problem 680 near highway 84 has traffic slower than normally is. Peninsula we have a lot of slow traffic getting into San Francisco from san bruno and south city. Lets go back to the desk. Breaking news weve been covering. The fire at merit island in vallejo has doubled in size. It continues to burn part of the preserve. Allie rasmus has been talking to firefighters, what is the latest right now . Reporter well we are on merit island near the university campus, and the fire is burning on the merit island preserve which is 2. 5 miles away from where we are. Here is an aerial view of the south end of merit island as weve been mentioning. Can you faintly make out some of the smoke from this fire. This is what the fire looked like before sunrise, area steep so its not spreading out of control but again hard for firefighters to get to lot of flames. They do have hydrant service on that part of the mare island preserve. They are going uphill to get access to the fire. This fire was started by someone who intentionally cut into two power poles causing power lines to come down and spark the fire. This is video from the vallejo fire department, you can see where someone tried to 0 saw into the power pole. Run by mare island energy, they told firefighters about a problem theyve had recently. They report today us theyve had an occurrence lately of individuals attempting to steal copper lines. They are criminal in nature, to contain properly assign resource that we have, it does take away from our ability to address other calls. Reporter so there will be some sort of criminal investigation following the discovery that someone intentionally cut the power poles to spark this fire. Will you likely smell smoke or at least see smoke from the fire. This isnt affecting traffic on any of the near by highways. Highway 37 ison the opposite end from where this fire is burning on the preserve. Right now there is 20 to 25 fire trucks and crews responding to this fire. Theyve brought in a water truck and bulldozer from cal fire to assist them. Live in mare island allie rasmus. The bay area is under a heat advisory expected to hit 90 degrees in downtown San Francisco today and close to 100 degrees further inland. Red flag warning for sonoma and napa county, today is another live with us this morning in the north bay and sarah, pg e shut off power for 1400 customers there . Reporter thats right, mike. If you take a look at this pg e outage map, everything in purple is what is affected. This isnt part of north bay, we are in the middle of it at this gas station off of highway 128 in calestoga, the sign says its closed, pg e cut service after 4 00 this morning to more than 1000 people in the north bay. Now specifically west side to the napa county line and north of lake bariasta part of the Public Safety power shutoff program. Meteorologists monitor weather conditions and shut off fire when there is high fire risk. Washed 55,000 customers to prepare to lose power and expected it go out at 8 00 last night. With changing weather comes a change in plans. Only 141400 are affected here, its still an inconvenience. Gas station is normally very busy, there is no one here because of this outage. So you cant do anything . Nothing. Yeah, pumps, everything shuts off. Reporter now we did talk to the managers inside this gas station and they tell us they are losing a lot of business and concerned about all of the products that they have inside. Now pg e says the windy condition also last until noon today and depending on the conditions that is when the utility will start inspecting lines an turning power back on, it could take hours to days to get service back. As to School District and santa rosa civic schools plan to be open today. Check with your school and the district to see if your schools are open. In calestoga,. New this morning President Trump spoke moments ago about the rerelease of the transcript with his phone call with the president of ukraine. If you take a look at the democrats, they went down to see the president of ukraine and asked him for all sorts of things and dont go with the republicans and stay with us like its a political war, they shouldnt have done that, that should be an impeachable event. The democrats just came out, they went down there a group of people, some i was dealing with the gun issue and they when down, put tremendous pressure on ukraine. The president himself came out with a statement saying there was absolutely no pressure put on him and there wasnt. What do you want to see is i want to see other countries helping ukraine, not just us. As usual the United States helps when nobody else is there. I want to see other countries help. Just so you understand, its the single greatest witch hunt in american history. Probably in history. But in american history. Its a disgraceful thing. According to the transcript President Trump prodded ukraines new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and u. S. Attorney general to investigate Democratic Political rival joe biden. President trump weighs unsubstantiated investigation of his son thunder biden. The conversation between President Trump and ukraines president is one piece a whistleblowers complaint maid last month, scheduled to be impeachment inquiries announced yesterday by House Speaker nancy pelosi. We posted a full transcript released this morning on the ton call at ktvu. Com. New this morning the chps investigating a deadly crash in fairfield, the multivehicle crash happened on interstate 880, one person was killed answer crash. Also involved a big rig. This collision happened overnight around 12 30. Throadway has been cleared. And investigation is under way after someone was hit and killed by a Union Pacific train in hayward after 6 15 last night near hunt wood avenue in south hayward. It caused some problems for further train traffic in the area. Police have not released any information yet on the victim. Happening today, a group of demonstrator in San Francisco is rallying for the environment they are calling the event strike for Climate Justice part of a week long world wide protest, demonstration is happening now until 5 00 this evening outside of brazilian consulate. They are concerned about the wildfires in the amazon rain forest. Californias attorney general basara will announce a lawsuit against the white house, as california battles the Trump Administration over salt pond. Environmental groups gathered. They are challenging the epa after a decision to strip protections for 1400 acres of salt ponds. Thing a gras business cargill asked the epa lift. Enough evidence to to stand trial on charges that he secretly recorded interviews between four teenage suspects and attorney. James russell. Seen in the brown suit here faces four felony eaves dropping charges for allegedly recording confidential discussions in an Interview Room last year. Reduced the felonies to misdemeanor. Sergeant russell has been on paid leave. First avacados, now tomatoes may cost more, why some fear new border checks could cause shipment delays and higher prices. A realtor attacked at an open house. Where this happened and the victim speaks out about her experience. An attack in los angeles on a Real Estate Agent was caught on camera outside of an open house. The woman says she was attacked and groped by a man in the neighborhood of la. The man came to her open house last week acting strange and inappropriately. He showed up on sunday while she was showing the house to someone else, she actually brought the man outside to the porch in view of the home surveillance camera and asked him to leave. I have a buyer for you. I was nervous and i was like a little shaky so i said okay, i want to get him outside by the door. The victim says she received browse and that her screams were enough toscare the man into running away. Now Los Angeles Police say a person of interest was detained last night but no details immediately provided. Investigation is under way after a series of breakins where the burglar spent some time inside the homes they targeted. A burglar snuck past a sleeping resident. He made himself a sandwich, smoked marijuana when the rom when the residents roommate came home and found the apartment in diswhy way, he assumed it was his roommate. I knock on the bathroom door i hear a voice that is not his. Excuse me, im knocking on it again. He jumps back into the shower. Officers arrested 23year old dennis cruz charged with burglary. The intruder had a conversation with the homeowner before she ran out the front door. He was able to get away but a camera caught images of the intruder. He has tattoos near his eyes, read loss, love and lone wolf. A new report from the un shows the oceans are under severe strain this climate change. This could affect hundreds of millions of people especially those living along the coast. Dropping oxygen levels and rising acidity is contributing to the drop in fish populations, sea levels could rise p 3 feet in the next 80 years. Estimates, they say the planned bart extensions may not open until the year 2030, targeting an opening day for 2026, vga is bracing for the possibility of the opening slipping by as much as 44 years, design delays could contribute to the later opening. Phase one of the Silicon Valley project and North San Jose is expected to open by the end of the year, phase 2 extend bus service. Given this mornings heat, its not too long ago we were driving to work through rain. Last week, two weeks ago, Something Like that we were driving to work through the rain. No rain today. Well talk to steven a minute. We have hot sunshine and slow traffic. Bay bridge very typically slow, coming through. 880 and 580 are also slow into oakland. I show you pictures were see some improvement. Highway 4 and 680 we havent had any many crashes, interstate 80 as we look at interstate 880 its slow as well, on the peninsula it has been slow. This is the busiest day of the week when it comes to just good Old Fashioned slow traffic. The weather has been the last knew days, steve. Last monday and wednesday, sal. Got you. Seems like a month ago. Doesnt it though . Yes, it does. But i mean, we are shifting gear from some rain, warm to hot to really hot and then much cooler. With some snow in the syria over the next 92 heres. Spare the air today, red flag north hills goes into 11 00. Even though good breeze, look Concord Pavilion 79 degrees. 79 in danville. 76 alamo. Look at the difference, put that one down in the weather, that is a rarity. Usually not that much a difference here. 80degrees in polk valley. 71 in bodega bay. Vallejo 77 which is 10 warmer than american canyon. This is all wind driven. And even 776 at the berkeley lab, Oakland Hills very warm as well. Temperatures will be near 90s, 100s, even for some on the coast. The little band of high clouds coming along parallel to the coast, wonder where those are coming from. 60s, 9 east a lot of 60s and 70s right now. You can see the band sliding along there. Most staying offshore. If it was over us it may not make a difference. Still north, northeast breeze, if you can hang in, cooling will start tomorrow and much much cooler as we go into the weekend, dropping into the 70s, there will be some snow in soot rear if you are going to tahoe area over the weekend could get snow down to 5500 feet. One extreme to the other. 80s, 90s, 100s today. Possible record highs today. Tomorrow i think the fog starts to work back and temperatures are dropping big time, you guys. Steve, thank you. Bad he willing California Wildfires with additional help. Inmates, how the program works. 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Comes as altria and Phillip Morris are calling off talks of a merger, they were in discussions to become a Single Company more than a decade after splitting into two, both companies are up this morning time is 8 23 California Department of health is telling people to stop using all vape pens, applies to all products no matter the substance being smoked the warning will be in place until they find the root cause of the lung illnesses linked to vaping, advice anyone having difficulty breathing should contact their doctor immediately. At least 90 people in california have been hospitalized for vaping related respiratory problems. Two have died. Board of supervisors is 0 close to voting options to banning the sale and dust bus of ecigarettes,. A San Francisco supervisor is calling for an Emergency Response plan to combat the deadly drug overdoses. Introduced a resolution calling the overdose problem involving opioids a Public Health crisis. His emergency plan would include adding more outreach workers and make the overdose reversal drug narcan more readily available for Emergency Responders in San Francisco. We need to make sure that treatment stops are available. If somebody wants to get off drugs and we dont have anything for you, thats dangerous and reckless. Supervisor cite add report showing 259 people died in San Francisco last year from drug overdoses. Fentanyl Overdose Deaths increased 150 last year. Sent at that clara county Health Officials are telling people to get their flu shot. The countys Public Health Department Says two people have died from the flu. One was an adult. Another a child who traveled over seas. What we know is that we dont usually see flu deaths in september. We are reporting two flu deaths. Whether this indicates an early season, we dont know. The cdc says 80 of people who die from the flu were not vaccinated. Health professionals recommend that everyone 6 mondays and old 0er get the flu vaccine. Just as apple releases new phones and streaming service, google is try go to keep up with rival, what tech giants new play pass offers and what it costs. Triple digit heat expected across the bay area, south bay is swelters, how you can keep cool even if you dont have ac. We do have traffic that is still busy here on interstate 880 as you drive north into downtown oakland. Well tell but this and other commutes when we come back. Well, another day, hot temperatures, record setting, by tomorrow cooling, well show you those highs coming up for today. Cooper did you eat all of your treats . Help i need somebody help not just anybody help you know i need someone the juul record. They took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. Five million kids now using ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with Misleading Health claims. 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Strong low down in baja, arizona, areas as wealth that is a big difference of Pressure Gradient, there is 90s and 80s already. Those are already 70 degrees and look los altos hills. I see one projection for 100 in san carlos. It will be close. Higher clouds right along the coast and otherwise tomorrow well start a cooling trend. Not today. High pressure will win out. September heat and hazy sunshine today with temperatures way above average, but much cooler weather is on the way, begins tomorrow. 80s, 90s and 100s today, sal. It has been busy on the peninsula if you are driving from san bruno to San Francisco or daly city. Kind of a backup, we havent had a lot of crashes, i dont think other people are talking about it, i have had one tweet saying hey what is going on. Another area as freeway, very slow traffic from it 238 all the way down, that whole stretch is slow. Traffic is slow as well. The bridge traffic has been all right. The bay bridge backed up for about 0 minute delay. 880 into downtown oakland is slow. San mateo bridge things are improving heading out to the peninsula. Back to breaking news wildfire at the mare fire. Burned through 7 acres, about 50 contained. The flames are burning in remote southwestern tip of the preserve far away from homes or people. Someone intentionally cut into some power poles causing those power lines to go down. They say they dont know for sure but tell our allie rasmus on the scene, whoever is responsible may have been trying to steal copper wiring. Have lay mow fire says the crews are having a hard time getting the fire out because of the rough terrain. Ktvu Christina Rendon outside the barbara lee singer center. Reporter good morning to you, mike. These doors opened not too long ago, part of their morning routine to come here, later in the day when its supposed to get hot around noontime more people will likely start to show up around cooling center. And it will an hot day today. The last day of this heat wave here. And there is always a concern for heat illnesses, heat related illnesses like heat stroke or heat exhaustion, you might want to try air conditioning, they are all around the bay area, if you dont have the option of going to a cooler center, maybe try a mall or a library and yesterday in San Francisco, Health Officials warn, yeah, it is going to be dangerously hot, when we spoke to people out here this morning, they say they really dont mind it. It actually doesnt bother me too much. I live in tracy, im used to the heat. When i come down here its like a breath of fresh air. So even in the 90s, even in the 90s. Reporter and going back to San Francisco, Health Officials warning that it can get dangerous only because there is so many multistory buildings next to each other, they dont have air conditioning, people live inside them arent accustomed to the heat. Be careful, drink plenty of fluids and stay hydrated. San francisco offering free admission to seven city pools, that is something to keep in mind. Here in Santa Clara County more than 40 cooling centers and shelter that will be open today. Heat advisory from 11 00 to 79 00 today. If have you to be outside wear your sunscreen, stay hydrated. I just checked my phone the temperature is 70 degrees. We havent reached the peak of it yet. Christina rendon, ktvu. Talking about San Francisco preparing for todays heat, San Francisco recs and Parks Department is waving admission fees at 7 city run pools, that did not happen yesterday after temperatures reached 90 in the city and as steve mentioned earlier it could happen once again today. The design of some building and homes in the city cahold heat for hours if not days. We live in heavy buildings that are made of stone that heat up, and then that heat traps in the building and it goes higher than the outdoors. So indoor temperature can be 5 to 10 degrees hotter than the outside. It is San Francisco and this heat is kind of rare for the city, therefore many homes dont have air conditioning. Officials are reminding people to stay hydrated and check on neighbors who might be vulnerable in the heat. Firefighting program on the Central Coast is giving prison inmate has chance to give back. It is a miracle, we loving about here. State department of corrections has 42 conservation camps in california, trained inmates help fight and mitigate fires. Crews are working on the lopez fire where many inmates are calling it a chance at redemption. The main focus is us going out, giving back to the community, helping the community, and showing the community that, you know, guys can be rehabilitated. I would like to participate as a cal fire field reduction crew. A lot of them feel gooded about what they are dog, they like to give back. The inmates in the program get paid a dollars an hour and time taken off that sentence for each day. City leaders approved a new been for oversized vehicles parked on residential streets. On tuesday night city leaders voted 4 to 3 to outlaw the parking of oversized vehicles on streets 40 feet wide or less, all residential streets. They also vote today been parking on streets with bike lanes. The only places are these parks. The second highest concern we have, waist and felt, the second highest one when we surveyed the residents we had 1200 responses in january was obstruction of sight. Residents called it a safety issue, blocking view of on coming traffic. 200 people live in oversized vehicles in Mountain View near city parks and homes. The ban would go into effect june 30th of next year, rv drivers say they will start a petition for a referendum to ask voters to repeal the van. 0. A 37 year President Trump visors and top reporters say the impeachment probe will help his reelection chances in 2020. Those are semi or lukewarm about the president are going to find it unjust that democrats are soar losers, three years they are still trying to supersede the peoples views and get this president remove from office. Short time after nancy pelosi announced the improvement inquiries, the gop launched Online Fundraising drives soliciting supporter toss donate to his official Impeachment Task forced and raised move than a million dollars. This issue will galvanize both republicans and democrats. I think its both mobilizing and substantive. On the mobilizing somebody everybody is going to need this to raise money off of substantively, we are at a point where these accusations against the president are extremely serious. Says the inquiry puts pressure on moderate republicans facing reelection if they have to vote on impeachment. Yule jan castro will 0 speak on more 0 affordable housing. Also to our homeless encampment. Released a plan that includes investments to end homelessness nationwide by the year 2028. 8 39 here, General Motors stretches in the second week having an impact on a few members, well detail the problems some dealerships are facing and why it could mean a longer wait time for you to get your car fixed. How can you apply for a job at mcdonalds, we are talking about using alexa and google. Good morning, we do have slow traffic if you are driving along 880 north, well tell but this coming up. Well, its all about the heat today, temperatures near record levels for many. Well take a look at forecast highs coming up. Auto dealers are concerned the effect the gm strike will have on their business, keeping up the fight for better wages, healthcare and job security. 50,000 workers are leaving dozens of gm factories and parts warehouses across the country. Most of the time we have a stock of parts saved for oil changes and things like that. 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I think a lot of people celebrating this. Thank you. Time now 8 47 back to Sal Castaneda,. Good morning, mike, gasia. Trying to get to San Francisco, even once you get there bay bridge, its a typical backup, show it to you quickly here. Its a 259, 20 to 25 minute delay once you get into San Francisco talk about that. 8880 then 580 are slow in the east bay. San Francisco City streets financial district there is a protest going on and that has backed up a lot of different streets in San Francisco. And you can see that california, i will tell you that california is a good area to avoid if you are wonder why its slow, that is the reason, this is a look at the east bay that commute is slow. Northbound it 280 not a good commute right now getting up to highway 17. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. We have temperatures already near 80 for some. Mainly Higher Elevations and also wind driven to the north. It will be another warm day, whiplash means whiplash five days of extreme heat. Pictures from the resort with snow on the ground, that is true and maybe down to 5500 feet. This is a cold system coming in that will replace near record his today, 90s to 100s. Vallejo depending what part, 96 to 98. San carlos, but that high doesnt like that so its sending in the offshore direction tries to fill it with wind. 60s, 70s, 80s for some. Its really warm temps for a few, pretty consistent toward the santa clara, cupertino and santa clara, at least they are all mainly in the 60s, there are some upper 9 east, 80s, band of high clouds around 20,000 feet. Majority are offshore but close enough and some of those are clipping us, but the direction is in the upper atmosphere and surface north, northeast so hot wednesday but a cooling trend, i mean a big one is on the way starting tomorrow, fog coming back and everybody gets in on it friday and temperatures slide in on the 90s for some. Now this will give the sierra some rain, not today. September heat and high elevation snow. I think maybe something for us to watch, windy and cooler now doubt about it, there is going to be tremendous lapse rates and moisture enough to cause to trigger some thunderstorm activity that is saturday. Something to think about as we head toward the weekend. Today though high fire derek again for one more day. The fog is itching and raring to go. Here comes the system for a major cooldown on the weekend. Look at that change, thank you, steve. Remembering the fires that devastated the north bay, still to come on the 9, the film after the fire follows the Community Forever changed by the flames and explores where people go from here. Also up next a 9th person has died from a virus linked to mosquitoes sparking new concerns we are going to break down how to avoid this particular virus. I dont care where youre from, were all just people. We want people to feel like they spent time with family. We want to create a place for more than just ourselves. 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Researchers say they have discovered a hidden continent on earth, being called greater adria buried under Southern Europe 140 million years ago stretches from northern italy to the adriatic sea. Airbnb is looking for five adventurous volunteers, airbnb is launching a Research Mission to learn about antarctica, joining scientists to understand how plastic pollution spreads across the world. Theyll collect snow samples, exploring the but theee of the continent. Airbnb is taking applications until october 8th masks singer it premiering tonight. The first season we are sitting there like is this ka roar suicide . Is that one of your concerns . After a few sessions. Based on a show by the same name in korea, which is my moms favorite show in korea. Like what do you think, mark my words this show will be so huge in america. The season 2 premier of masked singer starting at 8 00 tonight. Followed by the 10 00 and 11 00 newscast. Packed house last night at chase center. 499ers are ready for the action. About a few players were on hand to watch wwe smack down including jimmy ga garapollo. Coming to fox 2 next friday night. Communities rocked by tragedy after historic fewser to through the north bay. Well talk with the director of the new film after the fire. Catching up with john elway, talking about game winning plays, college days at stanford and the medical condition is he dealing with. And who doesnt like free burrito, hurry up now and how they are celebrating 10 years in the bay area. Morng welcome to the 9 im Sal Castaneda along with mike mibach and gasia. You mentioned that you were using your air conditioner on the way