Trying to reassure riders that the Transit System is safe. More on the investigation, and also the response from b. A. R. T. , rob. Heather, b. A. R. T. Police say the victim of that stabbing, oliver wills was just trying to help a fellow passenger. As you said right now, general manager, robert powers is inside the b. A. R. T. Station, listening to the concerns of commuters. B. A. R. T. Police say theyre still interviewing witnesses about tuesdays stabbing. Our detectives are currently reviewing more station video that they were able to retrieve, trying to track the movement of our suspect. B. A. R. T. Police have also stepped up patrols. They rode trains and were visible. Passengers say they were happy to see their increased presence, finally. Im sorry for what did happen yesterday. Its unfortunate. However, i think they should have stepped up their game a long time ago. Reporter authorities have released the name of the stabbing victim. They also released this mug shot of 39yearold jermaine brim, who is now in santa rita jail. Police say the stabbing happened during a ten minute fight on a b. A. R. T. Train. Brim removed a shoe from a sleeping passenger, and williams tried to stop him. 6 months ago, San FranciscoPolice Arrested him for negligent discharge of a firearm, and possession of a concealed firearm in a vehicle. I have authorized additional overtime for sworn officers and for cfos to be out in the system on nights and weekends, and be in the additional presence of the system. Reporter jermaine brim is scheduled to make his First Court Appearance tomorrow. Also, were starting to hear from friends of victim, oliver williams, and were putting that together for 5 00. When we hear b. A. R. T. Talking about stepping up patrols on the system in light of what took place, are we getting any nor detail on what exactly that is going to look like . Are we talking about officers onboard every train . What will that look like, do you think . Reporter well today, there were officers on trains. They were on the platforms, and they go from, they ride the train for a short distance. I think they have it zoned off, each one covers a geographical area. Also you just heard the b. A. R. T. Gm say theyre authorizing more overtime. So thats going to be for nights and weekends. So we should see more officers on the platforms. Live for us in oakland this afternoon, thank you. Now to the latest on the planned power outages. The utility says it was able to scale back the outages to a total of 48,000 customers because the red flag weather was not as severe as expected. Customers lost power this morning in solano, sonoma, napa, lake, and mendocino counties. Pg and e says it hopes to restore power to all customers by tomorrow night. Tom vacar is joining us in sonoma county. Tom, the winds have been picking up this afternoon. You are tracking some of those gusts right now. Reporter its been at least steady at 10. In some cases, the gusts have been 25 miles an hour. And were at 900 feet, so were up there, but were not at the real tops of the mountains, because access is limited. This downsized shutoff that weve had is a good thing, so long as in the areas where theres not a shutoff, another fire doesnt erupt. By noon, in western santa rosa, a lot of quiet neighborhoods were already without power, including dead Traffic Signals that became 4 way stops. Besides hearing the occasional gust of wind that blew leaves around, we heard a steady hum. Yeah, you do need it. Weve got kids, weve got refrigerators, weve got to power our phones so we watch the news from time to time to see whats going on. Reporter pg and e has done a heck of a lot to clean up its pollution, but with all of these generators going off, a lot of that progress will get wiped off. Necessity became the mother of invention for a close by neighbor. We just powered the refrigerator, the tv, directv, because cable went out also. Reporter while we were here, a crew from Telecom Giant at t was hooking up, and chain locking down generators at various of their power boxes to keep the internet system going in blacked out neighborhoods. Its a horrible inconvenience. I know that. Its a Financial Impact to many people throughout the county, and we certainly cannot continue this in this vain, long term. Reporter many people are way past just being tired of this. Some folks consider the extremely dangerous alternative of seeing what the winds will bring. So i think the power shutoffs are a great thing. I think somebody said youre doing it with a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel, but i would rather have the power off, than another fire. Reporter so its about 12 to 15 miles an hour now. We want to get down to some brass tax. That is this. It is now near the end of november. But looking at the history of cal fire in pg and es territory, this season wont officially end, or at least end with the big fire until the 4th, when the thomas fire occurred on the 4th of december of 2016. Remember, this is not necessarily over yet. Reporting liver, tom vacar, ktvu, fox 2 news. We are keeping our website updated with the late west. You can find it on our home page at ktvu. Com. All eyes, of course, on the winds, especially up in the north bay. Mark joining us now. You are tracking some really serious gusts. Yeah, those winds, it looks like most areas, they peaked earlier today, but we still have some breezy to windy conditions across portions of the bay area. Mount st. Helena, a gust to 73 miles an hour. Hillsberg hills, 43 miles an hour. We still have this. We still have the red flag fire warning, because those northerly winds have been increasing over the past 12 to 24 hours still. Especially for the higher terrain in the north bay hills, and the east bay hills up above 1500 feet or so. So the warning is in place until 7 00 tomorrow morning. The winds could be going up above 30, right around 40 miles per hour. The ridgetops, we could have gusts topping 50 miles an hour. Mount st. Helena has backed off to 30 miles an hour. Mount diablo, still pretty breezy. At ben lowman, about 7 miles an hour. Heres the satellite, with each offshore wind event, theres always a storm to talk about. That storm yesterday was over the sierra, and it scooted down towards Southern California. Thats the source of surprise rainfall in the bay area last night, into this morning. Right now, some of the winds, its dry out there at the surface. Winds gusting to 31 at fairfield. Winds around 17 to 14 miles an hour. Outside right now, here is our live camera, showing you this. Still a bit of of energy in those flags. Those winds continue to pick up out of the north. The winds will continue for tonight, and backing off as we head into your thursday forecast. Especially by thursday afternoon. So improving conditions for tomorrow, at the least for tonight into early tomorrow morning, we still have that red flag fire warning. Well talk more about your five day forecast coming up in a little bit. Communications companies were taken to task today over their performance and response to last months pg and e power shutoffs. Just hours ago, the California PublicUtilities Commission asked questions, and hear the comments. They failed to maintain services during emergencies. They were also criticized for not keeping state Emergency Managers informed. Many of them blamed these issues on the lack of notice. Commissioners explained, that response was just not acceptable. Stunning that you go, well, we just learned a lot in the last three weeks. Where is the preparedness for resiliency . Thats a concern . 2 investigates recently profiled the 700 cell towers that went down across california during a recent shutoff last month. Coming up today at 4 30, were going to speak with state senator, steve glazer, about the bill hes introducing that would require backup Power Services for cell services. Details on a deadly shooting this month. 38yearold eric reisen of alejo was shot after getting into a confrontation with the officer. After exchanging words can, reisen retrieved a gun from his car and approached thomas. Thats when thomas fired a shot, in response to an observed threat. Reisen raised a gun, and thomas then shot the man. An attorney for reisens family says he was shot in the back as he walked away. The investigation is ongoing. Next here at 4 00, while the impeachment hearings continue, democratic president ial hopefuls take to the stage. Well have a preview. The evidence you have brought forward is deeply significant, and troubling. There was stunning testimony today in the impeachment hearing. The u. S. Ambassador to the European Union testified that military aid to the ukraine was conditioned. Bombshell testimony today during the fourth round of impeachment hearings. Gordon sondlands much anticipated testimony today, further dividing. Reporter we also have to mention two other witnesses are on the stand right now. Pentagon official laura cooper testified. Ukrainian officials knew about the hold in military aid as early as july 25th. The focus today onambassador sondland, who provided the most compelling testimony yet. Was there a quid pro quo . As i testified previously, in response to the white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. Reporter providing explosive new information. Sondland testifying the phone call, and white house meeting the president asked for was conditionant on investigations the president wanted. Into the company barisma, which sondland said he learned meant hunter and joe biden. Secretary perry, ambassador volker, and i, worked with mr. Rudy giuliani on ukraine matters at the express direction of the president of the united states. We did not want to work with mr. Giuliani. Reporter at issue, the democrats believe President Trump pressured ukraine to investigate the bidens by withholding military aid. Ambassador sondland said he believed giulianis orders came from the president. President trump never told me directly that the aid was conditioned on the meetings. Reporter republicans on the committee continued to call the inquiry a circus. Targeting sondlands recollection of events. You dont have records. You dont have your notes, because you didnt take notes. You dont have a lot of recollections. This is the trifecta of unreliability. Isnt that true . Reporter sondland contradicted other witnesses by saying there was no illegal of diplomacy. He said senior officials knew about the pressure on ukraine, including Vice President mike pence, mike pompeo, and former National Security adviser john bolton. Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret. Reporter this morning, President Trump defended himself recanting what he said in a september call with ukraine. I want nothing i want nothing i want no quid pro quo it is worth noting noting ambassador sondland was appointed by President Trump. He also gave a Million Dollars to the president s inauguration. A lot to sort through after todays testimony. Joining us is the constitutional law prefer at uc hastings. How damaging is todays testimony . Potentially, its very damaging. Mr. Sondland says of course there was an arrangement that ukrainians had to do certain things in order to get the meeting, and to get the money. The other thing, mr. Sondland said everyone at the top of the state department and the white house knew what they were doing. They didnt go rogue. This wasnt some separate operation. It was the mainstream operation. He said there was no irregular channel. This was just the regular channel. The way things were done. A lot of push back from republicans during todays testimony. Essentially, what they keyed in on is that they said to ambassador sondland, look, did the president ever explicitly say to you this was a quid pro quo . We just heard the president saying he said no. Theyre sort of saying to the ambassador, you assumed that this was the case. How affective do you think that line of questioning was . I think it isnt really. Because after all, look at what we have. We have the transcript. Everybody says read the transcript. The transcript says, i need you to do me a favor, though. Theres a connection. You have the president telling people, mr. Giuliani is my guy. When you put it all together, mr. Trump did not say to sondland explicitly i want you to say this, was unnecessary. You use circumstantial evidence all the time in cases. To some degree, a very strong direct case. But you know republicans are going to push back even further, and say sondland, just another unreliable witness, they say leaning way too much on second hand accounts. In parts. But sondland is also saying i talked to the president. I talked to other people. You can point to bits and pieces where sondland said yes, i surmised, i saw this. But hes there with the group. He is integral to the whole thing. For him not to know every single piece, you have other people to shore it up, and theres really no other competing narrative. Its not as if youre saying theres a totally different story here that really hangs together and it competes with this narrative. Yes, you can point to weaknesses. You can say this is not perfect, its not all tied up in a bow. If you went to jury with this, its a very strong case at this point. You think theyve proven bribery at this point. They probably have shown all the elements, piece by piece. What you need for bribery is you have to have a solicitation of a thing of value. The thing of value was the announcement about the so called investigation into the bidens. You had to have had some exchange in that way. But clear that youre trading a thing of value, for a public act. The publwould be the meeting in the white house, and the release of more than 400 million that congress had already authorized, the Defense Department had already certified, and thatswhat you would have. So you probably have the elements. Its not necessary for an impeachment case, because remember, were not at the criminal standard. We dont have to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt. But for an impeachment case, its all there. Today was not a good day for secretary of state mike pompeo, and for mick mulvaney, because they were suddenly brought into this in a very public way, by ambassador sondland. Of course, weve had push back from both of them since then, saying we dont know what youre talking about. I think what speaks volumes is the refusal of the white house to allow the central figures to go in and testify. If they all had a strong story to tell, to explain why all of this was on the up and up, they would all be there. Mr. Pompeo is a very smart man. Again, they always say, first in class at west point, and he went to harvard law school. Its a pretty good law school. He knows the game. Head of the cia. If there was something good to be said, they would all be there. We appreciate your insight as always. David levine from Uc Hastings College of law. Eight former and current santa rita jail inmates have now filed a lawsuit, accusing the alameda Sheriffs Office of forced labor. The suit also accuses the Natural Food Service company, arrow mark of profiting off inmate labor. It allows inmates to volunteer to prepare food, or to clean facilities. The program is a way for inmates to get out of their cells, and have access to a better meal. Attorneys say the program isnt volunteer based, because when participants are sick, or dont want to work, deputies threaten them with extra jail time. The purpose of our jails and prisons is not to provide profit for private companies, such as arrow mark. Part of this case is to point out that arrow mark is engaging in what we call an unfair business practice, by taking advantage of free labor to compete unfairly with other food service companies. A spokesman for the Sheriffs Office says the allegations are inaccurate. He says deputies do not force labor, and that if inmates get sick, they can take time off, or quit if they want to. Arrow mark said it cannot comment on pending litigation. Democrats are gathering in atlanta for what could be a pivotal debate tonight. Im alison barber with details coming up. Be sure to tune in tonight as the masked singer resumes at 8 00. 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Ten candidates making the cut, but it could serve as a turning point for the tone of the gain. Moderates have been gaining momentum in recent weeks with former president obama warning the field not to veer too far to the left. That could help candidates like pete buttigieg, who is now considered a frontrunner in the early voting states of iowa and new hampshire. So many urgent issues that have become crises in our lifetime will not have taken a vacation during the impeachment process. Theyll be waiting as urgent priorities on the desk of the next president. Reporter it could also be a make or break point for candidates looking to stand out in the crowded field, including senator kamala harris, who gained attention earlier on for her attacks on joe bidens civil rights record. But she struggled to be their top priority. What we need on that debate stage, as the nominee, is somebody who has the ability to go toe to toe with donald trump, and i believe youre looking at her. Reporter the next democratic debate is scheduled for december 19th in los angeles. So far, only six candidates have qualified. Reporting in atlanta, georgia, im alison barber, fox news. Up next here at 4 00, a state lawmaker is working to ensure Cell Phone Service remains active during planned pg and e power shutoffs. Were going to talk live with state senator steve glazer about his bill after the break. Sarahs last tuition payment, sent off. Feeling good . Oh yeah. Now im ready to focus on my project. This is why we plan. You never cease to amaze me, maya. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. Case in point, if you saviget xfinity internetle. And mobile together, big savings on your wireless bill. Write this down, this is important. Amy, this is actually a life saving class. What a nice compliment, thank you save on fast internet and the best Wireless Network together. What can i say, i love what i do. Thats simple, easy, awesome. Get xfinity internet and mobile together and save hundreds on your wireless bill. Youll get unlimited talk and text and no activation or line fees. Switch today. When the power goes out during dangerous fire weather, like we had today, often cell service goes out as well. More than 700 cell phone towers went down across california. Now lawmaker is introducing legislation designed to make sure people can still make important calls during these preemptive power shutoffs. This bill would require Wireless Companies to have backup power for their cell towers for up to three days. Why are you introducing this legislation . First, theres no requirement there be battery backup for cell towers today. No requirement. The Cell Phone Company will say they have battery packs, might last a couple of hours. But after a period of time, it all goes down. Today, were not relying on land lines in our homes to stay in touch, and to hear about alerts. We rely upon our cell phones. So those towers have become a lifeline for people throughout our whole region. The power of those towers go down and the backup batteries go bad, everybody is more vulnerable than you can imagine. Do you think theres any scenario, where because there were cell phone towers that went down during an emergency, that the people didnt get those important critical alerts maybe to evacuate . Well, ive heard from many constituents in contra costa county, where the cell phones did go down, and they had to evacuate without knowing whether they needed to evacuate, and i heard their stories. Luckily, we only had a few power events in lafayette, places in east county, and vallejo, so it was, to the extend it could have created a greater endangerment, but its not just wildfires. Those cell phones are the lifeline for people. We need them to be up and running for at least three days, which is what my legislation is going to call for. We are been looking further into this issue, and when we looked for responses from the major cell phone carrierers, they in essence, down played the effect of these cell towers going down during the planned shutoff. How do you expect the Wireless Companies are going to respond . Do you feel like these companies have been forthcoming enough in this process . Its our job to create some safety standard at a minimum, and then hope that they at least meet that, and do even better. So there is resistence. They had to answer to the Public Utilities commission today about how many towers went down, and the potential consequences of that. Its my job as a representative to put pressure on these companies to meet at least a minimum standard. I know there will be resistence. There are other components to this legislation as well that youre introducing. So the one component is to make sure that theres backup power for all cell phone towers. But another part of what youre putting forward here is going to help folks with lifesaving medical devices. We heard some of these stories during some of these planned shutoffs recently. How are you going to help those folks . When the power goes down, that electricity powers some important critical life elements for people. Oxygen. If you have an electric wheelchair, and you cant move your mobility is dependent on power. My legislation is going to call for the utilities to provide power backs to these most vulnerable people. Theres over 100,000 people that need electricity for their life benefit. Right now pg and e is doing very little there, and they need to do more. Wireless companies, they are not required to inform the county, or the state about cell towers that go that needs publi commission. I think there needs to be broader transparency, for how they do their work. They need to be accountable for it. Your legislation, you will be introducing it in january, at the beginning of the next session. State senator, steve glazier, thank you for coming in. We have the latest. Its right there on our home page at ktvu. Com. A few demonstrators are still refusing to leave a hong kong campus as part of a pro democracy protest there. Those inside say theyre not giving up the fight. Fox news Jonathan Hunt reports from hong kong with an update on that standoff, and a show of support from congress. Reporter police in hong kong are dismantling makeshift barricades, with a small group of protesters remaining inside, following a four day shut down. Theyre all that remain from the hundreds who took over the campus of the weekend. The latest in a series of pro democracy protests that started back in june. Police have tightened their siege of the campus to prevent anyone from escaping, and are urging the last holdouts to give up. We understand some people are on the campus. We appeal to them to give up their weapons. Reporter this last group seems determined to wait the police out, calling themselves front line protesters who would never simply surrender. If you go out and surrender, its like youre showing you agree with the government and police. Like youre given up the fight. Reporter the escalation in violence comes as the u. S. Government sharpens its response. On tuesday, a bill would allow the u. S. To impose sanctions on chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses, prompting a strong response from beijing. The u. S. Should immediately stop interfering in hong kong affairs,. Reporter police have arrested a thousand people so far in connection with the university protest. In hong kong, Jonathan Hunt, ktvu, fox 2 news. Extending californias paid family leave program. Coming up next, i talk with a state lawmaker on the changes that are coming to the program, and the additional changes that shes pushing for. 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Get a quote in 3 minutes at easyaspie. Com. Two california lawmakerrers are taking a critical look at the barriers of the states leave program. That provides six weeks of partial wage replacement to care for newborn or a seriously ill family member. Next july, a couple of weeks of paid family leave will increase from six to eight weeks. Senator Hanna Beth Jackson argue that this program is not realistic for many low and middle income families. For now, im joined by Assembly Woman gonzalez. Its a partial income replacement. Even minimum wage workers only get 60 of their salary if they go out on paid family leave. So most of us who have had children, know thats the time when life gets most expensive. Its hard to get by on minimum wage, but to get by on 60 of that, if youre a working mom, its going to be tough to simply say, well i can stay home, getting 60 of what im used to getting. The other barrier is not all jobs are protected leave. If you work for a job with under 20 employees, you dont have the guarantee your job will be there when you go back. Although you might want to take that leave, you might rather have your job upon return. So how can the program be better . So there are examples throughout the united states, and in other countries where we can have income replacement get closer to 90 of a woman or mans income, i think that thats an obvious way to ensure that lower wage workers can actually take it. Then we can ensure that every job is Still Available to that worker if they go out on leave. Thats something weve been battling for for a while. Simply a federal program that allowed for workers that had a company with over 50 employees could have job protection. We want to bring that number down to ensure every worker has job protection when they go out on leave. Is there in fact, funding available from the state to do that . Thats one of the things we have to talk about. Actually, the paid time office is paid by the workers. Theres 1 taken out of our paycheck. These low wage workers are paying into it, but not able to actually gain the benefits from it. Theyre subsidizing higher paid workers leave. That 1 is taken out of our paychecks if we make over 117,000. One way would be to increase that for higher income earnings to make sure that 1 continues to get taken out. We could look at employer contributions. Theres no employer contributions in california to this point, or we could look at government subsidy of the program. Those are all things we need to ensure that actually low income and middle income women and men can take it as well. We expect to find out more about those findings next mobility. What are you hoping to see in this audit. The big Key Takeaways for people and this program. I just hope that we see as we extend the number of weeks available, which we want to do, we need to do six weeks. We need to get to 12 weeks. That we ensure it is equally accessible for all workers. A woman who makes 40 to 50,000 a year who cannot get by on 60 of her income should also be able to access family leave. Also those workers who dont have job protections now, that has to be part of the protection as well. All right, Assembly Woman gonzalez, thank you so much. Appreciate your time. Thank you. All right, a blustery, kind of cool fall day around the bayer area, as we give you a live look there at north bay. Thats where we do have red flag warnings still in place, mark, right now. Pretty decent winds out there. Still in place in the north and the east bay. Remember, yesterday, i was standing right here, saying there was no rain in sight. I recall. That was not the case. Nature can humble you sometimes. That was not supposed to deliver rainfall here in the bay area it certainly produced. These numbers are not high. Keep in mind, the bulk of this was falling within a 10 to 15 minute period. So its actually pretty impressive. Some pretty intense downpours. The real rainfall today though, has been to our south. Down toward los angeles and san diego. The bulk of this storm center is focused in Southern California, and in the sierra, they actually picked up a little bit of some snowfall. A Winter Weather advisory in place. This was sierra tahoe earlier today, around 2 inches of snowfall. So the Winter Weather advisory, a few more hours before this expires this evening. Heres the satellite, showing you this. Look at the circulation down towards Southern California as we come in closer to the bay area. We just have clouds that moved across the region earlier today. Right now, most areas are in the clear. As you know, we talked about in the first segment, it is very windy out there, especially for the higher terrain. Current numbers, santa rosa, 68. We have oakland 70. San jose, 66. And Half Moon Bay in the mid 50s. 55degrees. Well check in on some of those winds a the surface here, and still a bit breezy towards santa rosa, napa. Fairfield winds going up above 26 to 31 miles an hour. In oakland, winds only 3 miles an hour. The winds at least on these panels, not nearly as strong. There is a little bit of a breeze across portions of the bay area. In fact, were showing you these flags towards San Francisco bay to show you still, it is windy out it there, and also a reminder that the big game is coming up this weekend with cal at stanford. Overnight lows, we are expecting temperatures in the 30s and the 40s. Definitely a bit of a chill in the air first thing tomorrow morning. Here is the weather set up. This area of low pressure was actually out over nevada yesterday. It moved to the south. That was the source of the shower activity. The Southern California rainfall. It remains in place for today, tonight, and into early tomorrow morning. The good news, this pattern will change for tomorrow. That system moves out to the east. Decreasing winds, mostly sunny skies, and temperatures in the 60s. Heres the forecast model. In fact, as those winds back off, we could be tracking some fog down toward monterey bay, and some patches could be approaching our coastline throughout the day on your thursday. At least we will have improving conditions for tomorrow. Temperatures for tomorrow, you can see lots of 60s out there. Around 60, to 65, to 66 degrees. These temperatures will check in right around 3 00. San jose, 65, and Half Moon Bay, 60. Heres a look ahead to your fiveday forecast. Weekend should be dry. Do you guys want good news or bad news first . Im the good news gal. Maybe some rainfall next week. Maybe by midweek or so, Something Like that. Maybe tuesday night. Then the bad news, we could have another offshore wind event on monday. At least on the horizon. There could be more rain. This would be rain that we have forecast. Were far from finished with the fire weather. Thanks mark. Well taking on a huge challenge while battling a life threatening illness. Still to come, how one womans battle with cancer led her to start a new business with one of her strongest supporters. In todays bay area people, a story about two cousins who came up with a business idea while one of them was in the hospital. Heres to your health. Thank you. Reporter cousins james lynn and kenny begley will tell you, theyve always been close ever since they were kids. We were very free spirited. Now were grown up adults, and were adulting. Reporter now theyre both married with families. Last year, the news came. I found out then that i had leukemia. Cancer. Reporter chemo started immediately. As did the search for a bone marrow donor. In the hospital, an idea formed. We thought, lets do a company with a real purpose. Reporter so they took jennys fashion expertise, and her dream of starting her own company, and partnered it with jamess career in medicine. The lulu lemon of hospital scrubs. 97 of people in the hospital have to purchase their own scrubs. Theres no real regulation to them. Scrubs used to be very unisex and boxy. Made out of the same material as like cheap bed sheets. Meant for disposability. Were taking a different angle. Ours are really super comfortable. Reporter this is our woven collection. Reporter even though jenny was fighting cancer, she sayses the timing was perfect. I have to do it now. I have to seize the moment. From the hospital room, i started going on my computer and you know, contacting all the factories, and started working. I was asking nurses, and techs, whats important in scrubs . How about when i bent over, that im not showing any crack. I dont know if i should say that. Reporter the company known as perilla was born. The herb reminds them of family. Its often used in korean cooking. Through all of this, jennys battle continued. She relapsed in may, and needed another donor, and another transplant. But she was lucky to get it. For minorities, the donor pool is really small, so the chances of finding a match is pretty is small. Reporter its about donating a portion of profits, and raising awareness. Its about a new look on life. I just look at my kids a little bit different, so making sure that i spend quality time with them. Reporter while they dont know where this will take them, these two trouble making cousins will tell you, theyre looking forward to the future. Side effects include giddiness, increased productivity, addiction. May lead to more purchases. You hope. Reporter claudine wong, ktvu, fox 2 news. The vatican hosting an event at the United Nations on the persecution of christians. Im lauren green. Ill have the details coming up. Religious leaders gathered today at the United Nations to talk about global persecution. Reporter the vatican hoping to draw attention to persecuted groups by hosting an event at the u. N. Called listening to survivors of religious persecution. A call for religious freedom. Todays event gives us the opportunity to listen to the stories of those who have experienced firsthand what happens when this respect r religious freedom, and for believers, and their houses of worship break down. According to the pew research center, there were reports of harassment in 187 countries. Their research finding christians, and muslims are typically targeted. Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, but it doesnt get the attention. Most people would be shocked to hear that. Reporter one of the guest speakers explained life as a christian in pakistan. It is not allowed to drink from the taps of water used by muslim students. Reporter all of this as pope francis arrived in thailand. The pontiff is expected to hold two masses while hes in the majority buddhist nation. I feel very excited, and very blessed to have this opportunity. Reporter here at the United Nations, Great Britain is looking to introduce a resolution on the persecution of christians and other faiths. At the United Nations, lauren green, fox news. Another night in the dark, the power was shut off once again today. Tonight, tens of thousands of customers are without electricity. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. Im julie haener. This afternoon, pg and e said it was able to scale back the outages to a total of of 48,000 customers. Thats because they say the windy weather was not as severe as expected. The customers lost power this morning in solano, sonoma, napa, lake, and mendocino counties, and five other counties mostly in the foothills. Pg and e says it hopes to restore power tomorrow night. Tom vacar joins us now. Reporter were actually well above calistoga road now. At 4 00, we were at about 900 feet, and the winds were gusting up to 25 miles per hour. Now were up to 1250 feet, and what we have is winds that are fairly light, with gusts of maybe 15 to 20 miles an hour. That may be simply because the winds are dying, or because weve had a little bit of a break in all of this. But the reality of this situation is, with this downsized, and i do mean downsized shutoff, the fire starting in some place that hasnt been shut off. Reporter dead Traffic Signals became four way stops. Besides hearing the occasional gust of wind that blew leaves around, we heard a steady hum. You do need it, weve got kids, weve got a refrigerator. Weve got food, weve got to feed them,