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Friday, pam. Its friday, november 8. Im dave clark. Im pam cook. Thank you for waking up with us. And steve is here on this friday morning. Is a friday . I thought it was saturday briefly when i woke up this morning. I hate that feeling. Sometimes you get out of whack. And our weather is out of whack. We are dealing with fog and thats it and theres some thick fog. Coast and bay are extremely cool and its a scary drive home carlos said from work last night. Twin peaks was covered. I believe it. My friend mike called me and said he was in the city and he said it feels like summer. Fog is pouring in and its cold and we had higher clouds coming in so the combination really put the ceiling on a lot of these temperatures yesterday on the coast and bay. There were some upper 70s bulan otherwise it was 50s and 60s. Visibility is not that great and it will get worse. Zero visibility or quarter mile up to five or six in san jose but i think that will change in san jose. Water temperatures in the 50s. The water is cold enough. 60s and 70s but if youre near the coast, is 50 or 60. Three days in a row for the city. Livermore is way above. Livermore and concord and down to gilroy, st. Helena and calistoga. Temperatures on cool on the coast and warm inland. We are looking at fog again. Yes we are and i think that sometimes it doesnt slow people down. People slowdowns and sometimes others dont and we have a wreck so this morning we are off to a decent start. I dont see anything serious on the Solano County commute. So far its okay heading west coming in from barefoot and vallejo and driving down to hercules. No major issues. Traffic continues to move along well if youre driving on 680 from the cordelia junction. And the rest of the east bay commute is off to a good start. The east shore freeway, the carquinez bridge to the mac maze, 60 minutes and at the bay bridge toll plaza is light. 4 34 am. Many events and ceremonies are planned today in the city of paradise and butte county. The camp fire started one year ago today. 85 people died in that fire and more than 11,000 homes and businesses were destroyed. The rebuilding efforts have  been difficult. The city of paradise has issued only 300 building permits. Elissa harrington will be live in paradise later this morning covering some of the ceremonies and events taking place today and during the 8 00 hour we were interviewing melissa schuster. Also it was a year ago today that the deadly woolsey fire in Southern California broke out. Three people died in that fire that burned more than 97,000 acres in ventura and la county. More than 1600 homes and businesses were destroyed and like the victims of the camp fire, those survivors , survivors, homeowners and Business Owners are still struggling to bounce back and rebuild because of red tape and because insurance claims were rejected. They nickel and dining literally put us out of business. Six months later our landlord said i have someone else who wants to go in here. Were still working on our insurance claim. We had to move. The woolsey fire happen hours after the borderline bar mass shooting in Thousand Oaks were 12 people were killed. Investigators said Southern California edison equipment started the woolsey fire and that Utility Company could be on the hook for billions of dollars in damages. Today the people of napa county are asked to help their neighbors and Sonoma County recovering from the kincade fire. The fire was of fully contained but destroyed close to 400 homes and businesses. At one time the kincade fire forest 180,000 people to evacuate. The Napa County Farm Bureau is hosting a donation drive from 3 00 this afternoon until 7 pm. Items in need include towels, sleeping bags, toiletries and Gift Certificates for clothing and gas. Tonight the city of healdsburg will thank the community for their perseverance and First Responders for their hard work the chamber of commerce and Visitors Bureau are hosting what they call a celebration of gratitude. The event is at the plaza the f halloween plans for many families, the downtown businesses will hand out county to trickortreaters. The 71 year old woman is in the hospital after a violent carjacking. This happened last month near the Oakland Coliseum and left her with shattered bones and other injuries. Henry lee talk to her daughter who says she is heartbroken and very angry. There is no excuse for doing Something Like that to my mother. Shes a nice person. Shes mellow. She doesnt deserve this. Reporter amandas mother, bonnie caya, is in the hospital after being run over by a carjacker near the Oakland Coliseum. My mom is laying there fighting for her life. She was in icu for two weeks. Reporter this happened on oakport street. Her son was living in a van but because of street work he had to leave so bonnie rented a u haul truck to help them move october 21. But she was confronted by a man who got into the uhaul and began struggling with her. Her son heard the commotion. My mom screaming so he went running out toward her and the guy got nervous who was in the car kicking my mom. She was holding onto the steering wheel. Reporter the carjacker through the uhaul into reverse and smashed into another truck coming down the street. He met my mother sub thank god the guys stop so i can get my mom. When that happened my mom started to let go and he thought she would be okay to let go and it wasnt okay because the guy threw it in drive and ran over her. Reporter her hip and pelvic bones were crushed. She had to be transferred to st. Francis hospital in San Francisco for specialized care. She has big taping wounds on her body to where now she has to have skin grafts and they have to keep cleaning up the wounds. Reporter Oakland Police responded to the scene and took a report. The suspect was arrested after found in the car jack uhaul. The family does not know if police found cayas purse or her sons belongings which were in the truck but one thing is sure missing. This guy his name is jack jack. Reporter her brother jack russell mix was a uhaul and was carjacked. Knows where he familys anguish is twofold. Please just return jack jack. My brother is beside himself with worry not only for my mom but for his dog. The dog is his best friend. Reporter the investigation is ongoing and anyone who sees this missing talk, jack jack, is asked to call the local Law Enforcement agency. Henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. In San Francisco, they are still counting election day votes and ballots in two very close races. The race for San Francisco District Attorney is getting tighter after factoring in ranked choice voting. Suzy loftus still leads the race with 50. 3 of the vote compared to Chesa Boudins 49. 7 . However loftus is ahead by only 879 votes. And the district 5 supervisor race, incumbent vallie brown has 49. 9 , trailing her opponent dean preston, who has 50. 1 . The Election Department says right now there is a difference of only 35 votes between them. The San Francisco Police Officers association is demanding a stronger apology from city supervisor sandra lee fewer after the supervisor led an obscene chant against them. This happened during an Election Night party for District Attorney candidate dautch on tuesday. The poa air campaign as against boudin accusing him of being soft on crime. Supervisor if you are released a statement apologizing to officers who were offended at the poa said she needs to do more. Others said they understand her frustration with the police union. She backpedaled and said she wasnt referring to the Police Officers, the men and women of the department. But thats exactly who she is referring to when she used that vulgar language the other night at the campaign headquarters. I was on the stage and i was feeling in the selection that the poa sent spent an obscene amount of money to the great disservice to the public, to the great disservice to the police department. Spread fear and lies. The police union spent 600,000 on the ads against boudin in the days leading up to the election. A search in San Francisco continues for a gunman who shot and wounded someone in broad daylight on market street. This happened just after 10 00 yesterday morning at market and golden gate avenue outside the golden gate theater. That shooting sent people scrambling in the area for cover. A bullet shattered the window of a nearby business. Our news crew also saw bullet casings on the ground out there. So far authorities havent said much about this except that the shooter is still out there on the loose. A witness described what he saw and heard gunshots as soon as we opened the door. Everything was still pretty fresh. People were in a panic. Running. We could see the victim. The police are checking your buy stores, trying to see if there is Surveillance Video to help identify the shooter. The victim is still in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. The National Rifle association has withdrawn its lawsuit against the city of San Francisco. The nra filed the suit after the board of supervisors labeled the gun rights lobby as a terrorist organization. The c infringing on its freedom of speech rights. The group said in a statement that it was dismissing the lawsuit though because it had achieved his goal. Believes the group back down on its frivolous lawsuit. Changes are coming to the leadership of. We tell you why the company has been struggling to turn around their sales. Looking for turn around are the warriors. The team hopes to recover at tonights game against minnesota. Good morning. We do see the traffic is going to be okay here on interstate good morning. We do see the traffic is going to be okay here on interstate 880 in oakland and driving all the way up to the bay bridge. Its a summertime pattern in november. We are looking for rain but we can find that. We do have a lot of fog temperatures are cool by the coast. To the outside world, you look good, but you dont feel good. With polycythemia vera, pv, symptoms can change so slowly over time you might not notice. But new or changing symptoms can mean your pv is changing. Lets change the way we see pv. You track and discuss blood counts with your doctor. But its just as vital to discuss changing symptoms as well. Take notice and take action. Discuss counts and symptoms with your doctor. Visit takeactionpv. Com welcome back to mornings on 2. Australia battling with the government there with an unprecedented number of brushfires. More than 90 fires are raging out of control. Australias drought is feeling the fires and really dry, wooded areas forcing several towns in eastern australia to be evacuated. There is no official word on injuries yet but the flames raced through a Koala Sanctuary last week and hundreds of koalas are believed to be dead. The u. S. Is accusing iran of intimidating nuclear inspectors after an inspector from the United Nations was blocked from entering the countrys main enrichment site. Iran said the inspector had been stopped from entering the Nuclear Facility after she tested positive for traces of explosive materials. She was briefly detained. This comes as iran continues to escalate its Nuclear Program in the students and educators will gather at the clock tower in downtown santa cruz at 3 00 this afternoon and plan to demonstrate against a possible decision by the u. S. Supreme court that what and the Dreamers Program. The Trump Administration is trying to end that Dreamers Program while states including california have sued in an effort to save daca. We are learning more about plans to add housing at the stone 10 galleria mall in San Francisco. Rob ross reports of the project and the challenges ahead. Reporter at San Franciscos stonestown galleria these days, shoppers coexist with construction. Whole foods is replacing macys and and 11 screen Movie Theater in the basement are on the way but it appears this construction project are only the beginning for the 40 acre mall on the western end of San Francisco. Brookfield properties, the owner of the mall, is proposing to build what San Francisco desperately needs. Housing. The only way we are going tog is by creating more housing at all income ra and a place like this on the side of the city would be a natural place to look to do that. Reporter brookfield said theres plenty of space at stonestown for housing. 28 available acres including this parcel where these old Movie Theaters now stand. And portions of parking lots could be in the mix for new homes but there are no details to report yet brookfield said it doesnt know how many units it should build or what they would look like but there is room for hundreds of homes if not more. The developer said the homes would be a mix of market rate and affordable. For the past few months the developer has been meeting with neighbors to get a read on what they would like to were hearing a lot of support for senior housing. Housing for families. Theres obviously a lot of demand for Student Housing in this neighborhood. But the form, shape, density of that takes, again, is, were at the beginning stages of the learning process. Reporter one neighbor, that stonestown ymca likes the idea of new housing. It gets harder and harder for families like mine to be able to survive in the city. Part of for my staff to afford to live in a place where they work and the community they serve. Reporter challenges would come with the Housing Development including traffic. The developer said he hopes to have a housing plan to present to the public sometime early next year but any groundbreaking could be at least four years away. In San Francisco, rob ross, ktvu fox 2 news. The warriors are on the road looking for their third win of the season. And Dangelo Russell could be back for tonights game against Minnesota Timberwolves after hurting his ankle earlier this season. Tonights game against the timberwolves begins at 5 pm. The San Jose Sharks escaped with a 65 win last night against the wild it looklike the sharks would cruise to an easy victory after jumping out to a 40 lead but then the wild stormed back and scored three unanswered goals. The sharks did hold on and one pump, 65. Tomorrow night the sharks will host the nashville predators. 4 49 am. We went to check in with sal. Does a lot of fog out there. Hopefully people are driving carefully. There is a lot of fog out there and weve had the fog pretty much all week so i think some people may be getting used to it. Lets start with the tracy commute and dive deep into that. You can see traffic is just a little bit slow right were 205 and 580 meet but thats about all. You can see after that into livermore it looks pretty good and there have been no major issues. Northbound 880 and there have been no major issues. Northbthe its big backup i want you to know its there. And if youre driving further, northbound 880 looks good driving up to downtown oakland. And when you get to the bay bridge toll not much going on here. Just a little bit of a delay in the cash lanes and of course the fog is there. 4 50 am. Lets get to it. A foggy morning. This is a really unusual november pattern. Especially for the coast which was stuck in the 50s yesterday. And San Francisco which ekes out a 60. That probably happened for a minute and a half. Foggy morning easy and mild. If youre in the you could get upper 70s near 80. Any reign . Not looking good for 710 days but in a sea of weather negativity, i remain positive that the pattern will change. Dont you worry. So much negativity and weather. Its ridiculous. For some last of the first rain did not show up until the 21st. So, or not seeing anything we havent seen before. People have shortterm weather memories. It is a dry pattern and we could use the rain but theres none forecast for a while. At least through next week and probably out to the 20th. We will see. All the forecast models are pretty much in sync with that. It is brutally cold for many for this time of year. To see teens in minneapolis and des moines in kansas city, even all the way down to jackson, mississippi. That is pretty cold boston and new york at 33. Thats just really cold air plunging in and until that breaks and that part of the pattern breaks, we are kind of stuck. A few high clouds came in for the north and northeast yesterday and the fog underneath that was slow to burn off the petaluma, a quarter mile petnup an airport, a quarter mile. Sfo, two miles. Send carlos, two in hayward, three quarters of a mile. Livermore has come down to four. San jose went from 10 to 1. Water temps are cold. 55 degrees for us. Theres just, theres hardly any breeze and temperatures inland are not that warm. This is an unusual pattern. The city cannot get above 60 for the past two days. 40s and 50s on your temperatures now and i doubt these change very much. 41, alamo and san ramon. 42 in clayton. 50s el sobrante, and el cerrito. It can be thick over the carquinez bridge. Some of the bridges are really thick. Fog will be slow to retreat and then we have a sunny and hazy day inland. The stormtrac stays to the north. Its a quiet pattern for us but its a foggy pattern which is a little unusual. This no rain pattern continues for now. 50s, 60s and 70s. Upper 70s well inland. If not in the 50s if you closer to the coast. No big changes. Were stuck right now. The camp fire in butte county that broke out a year ago today. The people there are marking this somber anniversary. Coming up, hull city leaders of paradise are trying to improve their emergency plans. Also, a flower farm in Half Moon Bay is closing after more than a century in business. How this could have a Ripple Effect on Half Moon Bays economy. Next, the lighthouse at point reyes reopens today. The work to restore this Historic Building to its glory. Welcome back. Wells fargo bank hit with a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was drugged at a bar inttsb the woman claimed Antonio Perez bought drinks for her to celebrate her promotion to lead teller last year at wells fargo in San Francisco. She claims that during the evening perez allegedly slipped date drugs into her drinks and forced himself on her in his car and then raped her at his home. I woke up in the middle and he was already rapping me. He was kissing all over me. He was her supervisor that he trusted and he used that authority to compel her to go out and ultimately used it to raped her. Wells fargo did not comment on this lawsuit which also means perez as a defendant. Perez is awaiting trial on charges of criminal raped. Someone new may jump into the 2020 president ial race. Were this morning former new york mayor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg is preparing a possible run. For months hes been saying he would not get into the race although he was willing to spend millions of his own money to defeat President Trump. But now want to bloombergs advisors say bloomberg believes the current pool of Democratic Candidates may lose two President Trump next november. Blue bird is expected to file the paperwork in alabama because of todays early filing deadline. Jeff sessions says he is campaigning to run again for his senate seat in alabama. Jeff sessions represented alabama as a senator for 20 years before he was appointed as President Trumps first attorney general. He stepped down a year ago yesterday at the request of President Trump. Sessions recused himself from the Mueller Investigation because of his involvement with the trumpet 2016 campaign. Several other republican candidates are challenging democratic senator doug jones for that senate seat. Democratic president ial candidate Elizabeth Warren will open a Campaign Office here in oakland. Organizers with the group, california for war and, say the office will be at ninth and alice in downtown oakland. The team says their goal is to bring supporters together and show them different ways they can get involved with the campaign. The grand Opening Event is set for this sunday afternoon at 1 pm. Happening today, a former twitter employee is due to appear in court on federal charges, accused of spying for saudi arabia. U. S. Prosecutors say the saudi government recruited two twitter employees to look up the private information of thousands of twitter accounts. One of them is a u. S. Citizen and is still in custody. The other is a saudi citizen and is believed to be in saudi arabia with a third man also facing charges in the u. S. They are charged with acting as agents of saudi arabia without registering with the u. S. Government. Authorities say the two of them were rewarded with a designer watch and tens of thousands of dollars that were funneled into secret bank accounts. After 13 months of, a special renovation work to historic point raise lighthouse open today. The National Park service spent 5 million restoring that 150 yearold lighthouse. It was commissioned in 1870 and through the years the salt air, the extreme wind and moisture help to deteriorate. The extent of makeover included restoring the length of the lighthouse, replacing the roof and also creating inaccessible pathway. Visitor center will open a 10 00 this morning. The lighthouse tours begin at 12 30 pm. A new Christmas Tree is now outside the state capital after the first one was damaged. Cruz put up the new tree yesterday on the steps of the capitals in sacramento. This tree is from a forest in shasta county. The original tree was delivered tuesday but was removed when a crack was discovered. Crews will spend the next few days trimming and decorating the Christmas Tree. One year ago today the deadly camp fire raged out of control destroying the town of paradise and changing thousands of lives forever. We are talking about the ceremony is planned for today to help the survivors. More fallout from the deadly orinda Halloween Night Party shooting