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Mornings on fox 2s Alyssa Harrington has been monitoring the story, she is here to tell us about the damage between healdsburg and burnsville, alyssa . Good morning, the communities along the Russian River our friend, many are under Evacuation Orders, fire officials are now concerned that the flames could move down the hill into the communities. One of the largest towns has been in direly evacuated. Ontario is under Evacuation Orders. I want to show you the video from overnight of the walbridge fire burning in sonoma county. We saw homes burning along Wallace Creek road near millcreek road in the healdsburg area. The complex fires started monday, and the incident was just a cluster of several fires that burned in five counties. 250,000 acres have burned, the largest fire and the bunch is the hennessey fire which is north of the lake. The fire was and can out of control at 192 acres. Firefighters hope to get relief from the coastal fog. We are no longer in a red flag warning. We got coastal influence last night, so humidity came up. We are hoping that now that we have had a shift in the weather pattern that it will work in our favor. Tens of thousands of people remain under evacuations in napa, sonoma and lake counties. The complex fires are among many burning throughout the state. Fire agencies say they are stretched thin. Additional engines are heading to california from out of state to help. Four people have died and the fires, and several others have been injured. Reporting live, Alyssa Harrington, mornings on fox 2. The fire damage at santa cruz counties keeps growing, from the august lightning complex fires. More damage than what we have seen in decades. New video from overnight, look at this. This is from Boulder Creek, homes engulfed in fires. We will go right now to the News Conference from cal fire, it is beginning now. Lets listen in. My name is deputy chief johnson, with the santa cruz unit. We will have time at the end for questions and answers, and we will do like we normally do, run through the lineup throughout the incident. If you need to report live or take phone calls, please go outside. With that, a quick update on the fire progression and activity overnight. The fire is 50,000 acres. We are still sitting at zero percent containment. We have 50 structures that we can confirm have been destroyed. That number will go up. We anticipate that to get into the triple digits as we go out there and verify what has been destroyed. We also have about 64,600 people who have been evacuated from the evacuation areas. 64,600. We now have over 1000 personnel, firefighting personnel at scene. With that, i will pass it over to the Operations Section chief who is running the operation on the ground out there. Incident Management Team from calfire team number three. Good morning, overnight we had experienced, once again, more significant fire behavior throughout the fire. We saw a little bit of a marine influence of moister air that came into the incident, earlier in the evening. It was shortlived. And, when it receded back, the fire conditions had increased significantly. It is much more on the western edge of the fire, but on the eastern edge of the fire, it stopped providing us the relief that we would traditionally see with a similar marine layer coming into the area. With that, we experienced once again more active fire on the eastern part of the fire. This impacted a number of communities everywhere from Boulder Creek to dan lowman, and further south. I am sorry to say that there was more structural damage in the fire. The fire conditions, lack of resources, we are doing the best we can. There were a number of fantastic saves by our First Responders, the Law Enforcement brothers and sisters are assisting us and being successful in that endeavor. One of the things that continues to hamper us is that we have evacuations in place for a very good reason, not only for Public Safety and the safety of First Responders, but, with that, when people do stay behind, and they try to take matters into their own hands with suppressing fires, it creates a bigger issue for the First Responders. Those that stay, last night we had three separate rescues that polled very few resources away to have to rescue individuals, they put themselves in peril. They are not firefighters. They are trying to do the right thing for property and neighbors. It is a bigger problem for the First Responders. It took the firefighters away from the firefight to rescue them. It put First Responders and firefighters into some danger, to rescue them out of that situation. We ask you, if you have evacuated, if you have been evacuated, please evacuate. Do not put First Responders into that situation. Thank you. Speaking next, from the Sheriffs Office, chief deputy clark. I want to touch on what we did in terms of our progress a, and a couple of other things for people that are displaced with regards to a bit of a timeframe, because people are wondering, as well as patsy, or animals, what is going on . Starting with last night, we continue through the evacuation, the city of Scotts Valley. Again, i mentioned yesterday that the population of the area is about 12,000 people. We are nearly done with that this morning. Again, the area is everything west of highway 17. We are nearly done with that. We used 76 people to do that last night. Once we got done with that, for us, it is transitioning to a certain extent, to where all of our folks are going to be dedicated to security, so long as the fire does not change and we have to somehow move into a different area for a future for potential evacuations. Later today, as soon as the evacuations are completed and Scotts Valley, we will move 93 people, spread out, 93 officers and deputies spread out throughout the valley, through Scotts Valley in order to do roving patrols and that sort of thing and make sure that peoples homes are safe and we are keeping an eye on anyone who would decide that they want to come up here for the wrong reasons. I am just going to reiterate what the chief said. Theres no reason to come back into an evacuated area. If cal fire is doing the best they can, to stop the fire, but coming back into the evacuation zone, like you heard it draws them away from their job and draws us away from potentially looking for people and evacuating people, that we would need to. Last night, we got a couple calls with regards to suspicious vehicles. Again, we have people that are up there looking for those folks and looking for anyone else that might be driving around and looking to burglarize a home. In terms of timeframe, i want to bring this out. I can imagine that if you are displaced by the fire, you are maybe wondering how long will i be away from my home . I dont want to give also, because, it is a dynamic situation, the fire is not contained. What would i tell my loved one . It could be potentially weeks, depending on what the fire does. I throw that out there, in the sense that if people are wondering how soon can i get it back, it could be weeks. That is all dependent on what the fire does. The last thing that i want to touch on real quick is your animals. Maybe someone wants to come back into an evacuation zone because maybe they forgot a paddler or maybe there is Something Like that. I have to go back, i have to go back. Animal controls phone number. What we can do is potentially assist animal control in going up ban doing a rescue on a pad. Id like to give you that number. 8314711182. That is with regards to animals. Thank you. As far as bringing into counties, speaking from the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office is detective mike switch. For San Mateo County, overnight, we had Law Enforcement officers going door todoor, making announcements of evacuations. Thank you to the north mutual aid partners who assisted with that. As a recap, the evacuation zone is every town that is west of 35, all the way up to highway one. We saw a lot of cars leading last night, and, we appreciate the people who did that. We just want to make sure that we have personnel are able to direct resources accordingly and save properties as much as possible. We were singing a lot of cars coming in, and we are asking everyone to avoid coming into these coastal towns and using the route so that we can leave them open for those who are trying to get out and the First Responders. The Half Moon Bay high School Evacuation point is full. Where asking everybody, especially people with rvs, trailers or large animals to go to the san mateo event center. We also have spot fires throughout this entire region, in south county, and fires on both sides of highway one. We also want to let everyone know that our hearts are with everyone who has been impacted by this. We understand what you are going through. These are our neighbors and our friends and our families. We are with you on the mission area we want to let you know that we are doing everything we can to protect our communities. Thank you. Next up is a unified incident commander, for the incident itself. Incident Management Team three, billy c. Good morning, obviously, we reported out at 48,000 acres. 64,000 residents have been evacuated. Obviously, last night, i had talked about the fire growing 700 acres to 1000 acres an hour. Overnight, the humidity that we did receive, it tempered the fire a bit, but dont let that fool you into a sense that something is changing on this incident. Once the marine layer pulled out, there is free burning which challenged all of our minds out there and burned a different direction, and hampered control efforts and evacuation efforts and rescue efforts with personnel on the line. Again, today, all of those person i will be actively engaged on the line. We will increase personnel by 100 since last night. It is still not enough. We are going to continue to bring additional personnel and resources in here and we will continue to engage in this firefight. We will be taking the little wincing, and hope they dont go into a big one. Thank you. Our final speaker for the san mateo cruise area cal fire unit. Good morning. As it has been said, this is a dynamic situation that we are dealing with in san mateo and santa cruz counties. I reiterated last night that to this is a historic event, we have fire burning in areas that may have never burned before at all. As the fire continues to grow, as we get resources into contain the fire, we need to make sure that those who are evacuated he the evacuation notices, leave the area if you have not, as it is stated. To take the vital resources that we have, which are very limited and commit to those to rescue those who stay and try to assist the communities. We have firefighters out there doing perimeter control, being taken away from that effort, in order to affect those rescues and make sure that everyone is safe and has left the area. I cant stress it enough. Everyone needs to leave the area and stay out of the area, and let us get in there and do our jobs. We are doing everything we can. We have committed every available resource that is available to us from our fire agency and the calfire agency as well. We basically have put everything we have on the front line in order to contain this fire. Has resources come in, we will be assigning these as the team sees fit to the areas that have the greatest impact and need. Please, leave the area, he the evacuation notice, if youre anywhere in the area were in front of the fire, and has not received an evacuation notice and, take this as an upfront note, prepare your self and be ready so that in the event that we have to evacuate you you are ready to go. Thank you. With that, we can answer questions about the incident. How do you decide with structure to defend . We had a live update from calfire, the situation with the wildfires. I will recap it briefly for you. Calfire says that 50,000 acres have burned , 60,000 people have evacuated it, the fire is zero percent contained. It is still out of control. It happened with 1000 firefighters on the fire lines, they got moist air for a little while last night, it helped but it is not enough. The eastern part of the fire is still a big concern. There is still a lack of resources for them, and that is a major concern. Another big problem is that there are people that will not leave when they are told to evacuate. Last night they had to rescue three people which had pulled them away from a firefight, so this morning they are saying if you have been told to leave, leave and do not try to get back in. A couple of other quick points later today, and Santa Cruz County, they have evacuated 12,000 people in the Scotts Valley area. They want to send and 93 people to secure homes and property in order to make sure that they are taken care of. One final point, they are saying that there are people who have been evacuated you want to know when can we go back home . And theyre saying it could be weeks before the evacuees can go back home, this is not contained. That is the very latest from calfire. We will be watching their report throughout the day for you and bring you more information as quickly as possible here on mornings on fox 2. Park officials at big basin at redwood state park in the Santa Cruz Mountains say they will spend the next few days here assessing the damage from a wildfire that tore through the park. The fire did extensive damage to the ranger station, campgrounds and ancient force. The historic headquarters built in the 30s has been reduced to ashes. People love the parks redwoods and say they hope the giant trees have survived. Obviously, if they were big enough and hot enough to take the structures, then there is no way to tell, we are just crossing our fingers until we had a chance to get in there and take a look. Big basin as trees that are 50 feet around 10 as tall as the statue of liberty. It is californias oldest state park. President trump is once again criticizing california officials as the wildfires burn around the state. And pennsylvania, at a campaign event, President Trump accused leaders in california and them properly managing inflammable debris. He suggested that it led to the fires, and suggested no federal aid coming to california. Massive fires again in california, maybe we will have to make them pay for it, they dont listen to us. We say you have to get rid of the leaves and the debris, and the fallen trees. At the santa cruz civic auditorium, which is an Evacuation Center, the governor made an unannounced visit. He wanted to see what resources are used to fight fires. He also responded to President Trumps remarks. To threaten the state of california, 40 million americans live in the state of california. He talked about defining our efforts on wildfire suppression, he said we had not raked and athletes. You can make that up. The governor says that he has asked for mutual aid from oregon, washington state, texas, colorado and montana. The spare the air alert will remain in effect for the next few days due to the raging wildfires across the bay area. We want the latest map of the bay area air Quality Management district. You can see recent breezes have cleared parts of the bay area. Yesterday at this time we did not see yellow at all. This is an improvement but not great. The air is still bad enough to remain under alert for all of us. The wildfires continue to bring smoke and dangerous particles to the air. The ashes settling in many parts of the bay area, adding to danger. Even people who stay inside say they cannot deal with the smoke. I cannot sit at home, the smell is in the house. It smells like fire in my [null]. There are fires in eight of the nine bay area counties, and impacting quality, and will continue to do so at least through sunday. Air quality experts want everyone to stay out of sunlight and avoid outdoor activities. The mass and cloth facial coverings due to the pandemic are not enough to fully protect us from the smoke from the wildfires. Health experts say that and 95 masks on the best defense against the smoke in the air. They can be scarce because they are typically reserved for medical professionals. Things are changing minute by minute. We are thankful that you are here with us on mornings on fox 2. If you have to go you can take us with you in the form of the ktvu fox 2 news apps. You will find the weather conditions outside, where you live with hourly temperature forecasts. The weather app is great as we try to stay on top of it with you. That is very comforting. Sal, it is a friday morning. We often have friday light. Did you fix everything out on the roads . We still have things going on, dave, 880 s. And we have slow traffic, the second of two accidents here. 880 s. , when one is in union city. One was near winton avenue. We have had so traffic this morning. Dont let it surprise you. San francisco clears out northbound 101, and vermont, that has made traffic slow, coming into San Francisco, theres a backup at the toll plaza. Crowding on the bridge. Lets bring in rosemary with todays weather. Good morning, sell, change in the weather when it comes to the cloud cover. The marine layer is deeper along the coastline and inside the day, giving you a look at as fao where you can see there is gray sky out there. That is a change from yesterday. 57 degrees, mid50s in santa rosa. Oakland report 65. Good morning san jose at 63. The inner east bay, the only spot where we are seeing cooler temperatures. A little bit of fog out there as well. Half moon bay reports a mile of visibility, a mile and a quarter. We are seeing it just inside the bay. The winds are generally light, coming out of the northwest and the south at times. Concord is reporting from the south at 10 miles an hour. For your afternoon, we will continue with the unhealthy air , the fire surrounding us, and we will see the draft, away no matter which way the wind happens to be blowing at the moment. Unhealthy for the central and south bay. Unhealthy for sensitive groups over the north bay. I want to roll you through the weekend. We will show you for the coastline, remaining partly cloudy to previously sunny. Everyone else will have sunny skies, hazy conditions. Heres a look at saturday. Notice what happens over the weekend. We see clouds coming in from the south. That will be the remnants and moisture that come from a Tropical Storm that is off of Baja California. I could bring the possibility of thunderstorms to our area. We will be watching that. For today, hazy skies. Warm conditions. 80 degrees in oakland. Mid to upper 90s for our inland east bay. Temperatures are slightly warmer for tomorrow. Slightly cooler as we get a cooling trend underway that will be lasting through tuesday. Back to you. 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They agreed to pay a total of 400,000 in fines and perform hundreds of hours of community service. The two were arrested last year on charges that they pay half 1 million in bribes to get daughters into usc as crew team recruits, even though neither was involved in this work. The the Golden State Killer is expected to be sentenced to multiple life terms in prison, without the possibility of parole. After three days of victim impact statements, Joseph Dangelo will learn his fate in court. Many of his survivors and family members of those that he had killed say they spend decades thinking that they would never see justice. You heard our family and so many other families that, now that part is over. You no longer live in the shadows. We all know who you are. I am so thankful that he will spend the rest of his miserable life and prison. As part of the deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, he pleaded guilty in june to 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of kidnapping with robbery. Next, the secondlargest wildfire in our state is burning and growing in santa clara and alameda county. We will bring you an update on the fire in just moments, has crews are working to get it and several other fires contained. We just heard about more evacuations in Santa Cruz County overnight from fires that are burning there. We will look at the new information that was just released by calfire. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att from ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on fox 2. A quick peek at the opening bell at the new york stock exchange, the 2000 mark was it yesterday. They have good increases in recent weeks, but the major indexes are on pace to decline after the nasdaq set another record eye. The bell is rung. We are just starting the final trading day of the week. Well have more coming up in dollars and cents. Here not running late, i am running early. I am in early as pam cook is enjoying a morning off. It is good to see you, i am dave clark. Rosemary, i just ran outside. I did not stay out long. The sky is gray, and the air is filled with smoke. I did not want to risk being out there too long. Rosemary . How is the forecast . Yes, happy friday. The same goes on outside my door. I have my cloud cover due to a deeper marine layer and the onshore breeze with us. I also have a smell of smoke in the air. The sun is rising now. We will have hazy smoky skies for most of us. The central southbay, essentially, with unhealthy air quality expected for today. Unhealthy for sensitive groups in the north bay. Temperature wise, not a lot of change. We will remain in the upper 60s at the coastline to midto upper 90s for the hotter spots. We have a check of Current Conditions and your afternoon highs as well as the weekend coming up and a little bit, and we want to get on the highways and see what is happening. Good morning, sal. We have traffic that is slow in hayward, if you are driving south, from san lorenzo, to union city, you will see slowing heading south, because of a couple of early crashes on the books as they clear them out. Give yourself some time. Same with northbound 101 at vermont, there was a crash involving an overturned vehicle. They are making good progress, and the backup has lessened in this area. If youre driving into downtown San Francisco, at the bay bridge, the backup is better. It never was not long. There was a slight backup there still. Lets go back to the headlines. The latest on the wildfires here in the bay area and across the central coast, one is in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties. You are now looking at the brandnew video from overnight. It is incredible. We have mornings on fox 2s allie rasmus here with the latest on the lightning complex fire. Good morning. Good morning, dave, we heard from calfire, they had an update that wrapped up to go on what the situation is with the complex fire in santa cruz counties. 50,000 acres have now burned in the fire, and 64,000 people in the two counties have had to flee their homes because of the fire. This is why. This is the video that you referenced. From overnight you can see homes in the community of Boulder Creek, this was taken along acorn drive and the overnight hours. Calfire says 50 structures, mostly homes have been destroyed by the complex of fires and they expect the number to go up into the triple digits once the day goes on and they had a chance to see the extent of the damage. The latest Evacuation Orders from the fire last night had included the community of felton, paradise valley, and all of Scotts Valley, highway 17 and a you see santa cruz campus. San mateo county, where the other end is running, the town is under Evacuation Orders including the hyundai and the fire grew by 2000 acres overnight. That is good news. The fog overnight had helped. The firefight is far from over. Overnight, the humidity, it tempered the fire a bit. Do not let that fool you into a sense that things are changing on this incident. There was three burning activity out there again which challenged our minds and burned in several Different Directions. That habit are control efforts and evacuation efforts and wrist everyone on the line. We have fires and areas that may not have ever been before. As the fire continues to grow, we get resources into contain the fire. We need to make sure that those that are evacuated heat the evacuation notices. We are taking the vital resources that we have that are limited, and we commit those to rescue those who have decided to stay and assist the communities. I have a generator running so i can buy my water to put out fires, and i go out with a shovel and a rake and i try to save houses around me. If they catch on fire, the chances of my house catching on fire are much more likely. The last minute you heard from defied Evacuation Orders to stay behind and protect his home. That is where fire officials are imploring people not to do. They said, overnight oedipal resources away from fighting the fire, and stayed behind. Sheriffs Officials Say they add extra officers to the evacuated areas in order to make sure that no one is burglarizing homes. People want to go back because they may have left behind pets or animals. You should just contact animal control for help with that. San mateo county officials have opened a additional Evacuation Center because the one at Half Moon Bay high school is full. We have Evacuation Centers and Evacuation Orders for this particular fire on our website, www. Ktvu. Com. Reporting live, allie rasmus, mornings on fox 2. To the south and east bay, cal fire and local agencies continue work against the lightning complex fires. This is a big cluster of fires located in steep terrain. This fire is touching five counties. You can see the smoke it is putting in the air. We will bring in mornings on fox 2s Frank Mallicoat. You are here to update us on this gimmick Frank Mallicoat . Reporter that counties include alameda, santa clara, san joaquin, and stanislaw county. You mentioned a big cluster of them spread out through the counties. They combined 246 square miles burned so far. Here is a map to give you an idea of how big and widespread the fires are. Calfire had to break it into three different sounds. The deer sound, the canyon sounds like, much of the area is steep and rugged terrain. 157,000 acres have burned. Only five percent containment. No homes have been destroyed by 20,000 homes are in harms way. The two First Responders suffered nonlifethreatening injuries and the field. Evacuation orders have been issued in rural parts of all five of the counties. They are doing everything that they could to save her home. The concern is that we are right in the middle of these two pieces of the lightning complex. We had an Evacuation Order at noon time. We have never really heard anything since. From anybody. There has been confusion about the scu fire, since it is a group of 20 separate fires. There is a mapping system that has been set up, and users can punch in their address to figure out there evacuation zone and any information about the fires that are in their area. Whittling to the information, just go to our website, www. Ktvu. Com, check out the web links section for that. That is the latest. I am Frank Mallicoat for mornings on fox 2. Fire crews are ready above is san jose, saving the telescope on mount hamilton. The operator of the observatory posted this timelapse video that showed flames coming dangerously close to the 132 yearold telescope. Firefighters managed to beat back the flames early yesterday morning and they remain outside the observatory, watching out for new threats from the fire. The bay area wildfires have turned deadly, and in Solano County a mans body was found and and the destruction of the body caused by dynasty fire, he was from vacaville that lived on Pleasant Valley road. Also, calfire reported that three people died in napa county, on state route 128. We do not know their names, or any other information. In the north bay, more evacuations because of the states Biggest Group of wildfires. The l and you lightning complex fires have burned 336 square miles. It is zero percent contained. The evacuation zone includes the amount area and the community of middletown and the lake county. So far, 480 homes or outbuildings have been destroyed. 30,000 more are in danger. A tow truck driver took heroic action during the early hours of the fire forcing evacuations and vacaville. The driver posted this video that shows him going door to door early wednesday morning, telling people to leave homes due to the approaching wildfire. He also used his horn to wake up residence and yell to the fire is here over and over. He decided to take the action after he learned that firefighters would not be able to reach the certain parts of the vacaville area. The allimportant Weather Forecast is here. Rosemary is doing hour forecast. The air is still hard to breathe outside of our studios. I am sure it is the same everywhere else. Good morning to you, we had fires burning on all sides of us until firefighters can get a handle on some of the fires, we will continue to have the smoke drift into the bay area, moving through not only today but through the weekend. Through the week, looking at sfo, we are looking at weather conditions slowly improving. Yesterday the onshore breeze had returned to bed and we had the marine layer that is now in place. A live look at sfo, you can see the club returned as well. Half moon bay reports visibility at a mile and a quarter. We have a little bit of fog there, and crossing into the east bay, with that said, temperatures are warmer in many spots with the additional cloud cover. The inner east bay, where we have more blue sky or some sunshine, you cannot call it a blue sky these days. It is definitely a little bit cooler. 65 over areas of concord. 59 in San Francisco. Getting into the winds there, you can see they are generally light around the bay area. Nevada was reporting calm. Oakland reports five. Concorde reports 10. We havent been northwest a brief bio out there, and southwest flow. Again, that will continue to move the smoke in these Different Directions depending on the way that it is going at the moment. I now before central and south bay. Unhealthy for sensitive groups over the north bay. When i come back we have a look at your afternoon highs and your weekend, and just a little bit. Back to you. The warriors want to bounce back after last years disappointing season. Where the warriors had landed after the draft lottery. Americans are falling behind financially because of a pandemic, and the percentage of people who did not pay rent in august is next. Had a smoke in the air, the gray skies, it can hurt pets as much as it hurts you. What you should do to keep your pet safe and what to look out for. You can have the Morning Headlines delivered right to you by signing up for the brand new mornings on fox 2 newsletter. Go to www. Ktvu. Com, and sign up for the daily service. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att welcome back to mornings on fox 2. San francisco will stay on the coronavirus watchlist for now. San francisco failed to meet two of the six thresholds needed to get off the watch list. San francisco had 123 cases per 100,000 tests during a 14 day period. Estates threshold is 100. The city only has 17 percent of intensive care beds available compared to the states threshold of 20 percent. California reported 5000 new coronavirus cases yesterday, and once again, it was below the one day and 14 day averages. Californias total is 653 virus cases. 120 more people have died of covid19. The death toll is now 11,836. The number of hospitalizations and the number of intensive care admissions are also going down. A Richmond Police sergeant has died of covid19, Sergeant Virgil thomas started his career as a Police Officer in albany and nevada. He served for 24 years with the Richmond Police department. Sergeant thomas worked with a Neighborhood Services team, the Training Officer program in School Resources unit. He coached youth baseball and softball, and Sergeant Virgil thomas was surrounded by his wife and four children. San francisco supervisor gordon marr has tested positive for covid19. The symptoms are minor and will service constituents remotely. He said his family is being tested as well. Supervisor mark says he does not he contracted the virus. Supervisor mark joined the board last year, he has representing the sunset district. All beaches will be closed for the upcoming labor day weekend, Officials Say the unprecedented move is meant to help slow the spread of covid 19. Meters will be closed from september 5 through the seventh. The closures are subject to input and ratification by each of the jurisdictions that our elected leaders. All agencies including state parks will be assigned teams to help manage at the beach closures. Uber and lift operating this morning, after threatening to shut down service. A state Appeals Court issued an emergency stay, letting the company treat drivers as independent contractors, until mid october. The law requires gig drivers to be classified as employees. Yesterday, drivers protested outside of the headquarters of uber in San Francisco. We cannot allow companies to get excused from following the law, and then also get advantage over their competitors. That is what uber has been doing for years. Drivers say they would rather remain classified as contractors, and support proposition 22. The November Ballot measure shows that they are going to be exempted from a b5. Americans that cannot pay their rent, the number keeps growing during the pandemic. The latest survey of u. S. Landlords found that 13 percent of tenants still have not paid rent for august. Researchers have found that that is a lead due to the pandemic. The situation may get worse as the 600 in weekly jobless benefits has ended at least for now. A San Francisco restaurant is closing prominently amid the covid19 pandemic, after 22 years in union square, the restaurant will close because of unprecedented circumstances. The restaurant was known for many things including the four course tasting menu and oyster and seafood bar. The James Beard Foundation cancels next weeks award for the chefs and restaurants. The event was scheduled for september 25. This is the first time and the foundation 30 year history that the famed culinary awards are being canceled. Instead, the foundation will celebrate online, previous arteries. We are all talking about the smoke, still in the air. Sal is watching the roads for how traffic is doing. How do you look, sal . It looks okay. We have traffic that is open on all of the roads that were the other day 80 westbound and eastbound three of fairfield and cordelia. We see traffic moving through there, i can put it on the map for you. There is not much of a commute per se. It does not look like friday as much of a commute. Other than the fire closures, which are not a major commute roads, the major commute was the good if you have to get to work, except for 880 s. Heading into union city. We had a couple of different crashes. It is slow, dont let that surprise you. Dont burn bridges are looking okay. The accident northbound 101 in vermont, theres not much slowdown. You dont have to worry about driving into San Francisco, and the bay bridge backup has dissipated. Earlier, there was one there but it seems to be gone for the moment. Here is rosemary. We are noticing the changes in the picture as we approach the bay bridge. We have cloud cover out there. Partly sunny, highly cloudy around the bay area, temperatures are a little bit warmer at this time, then where we were yesterday morning. Heres a look at a system that provided us the cooldown yesterday. Had has deepened the marine layer. We are also keeping track of this this system here that may impact us as we get into the back end of the weekend. It is Tropical Storm genevieve, making a path and hugging the Baja California coastline into southern california, off the coast line. As we get into the sunday timeframe, that could bring a little bit of moisture our way. Once again, similar to what we have experienced this past weekend, bringing the thunderstorms. Heres a look at future gas, we will call for partly cloudy along the coastline. Mostly sunny, as we get into saturday and sunday, notice what happens. We have the clouds drifting our way from the south. That is the moisture that i am talking about from what is currently Tropical Storm genevieve. We will continue to monitor that for today, at this hour temperatures are warmer with cloud cover out there. 59 degrees in San Francisco. Low 60s and hayward. 60 and napa. 64 and brentwood. Livermore it will be a warm day going into the low 90s once again. By lunch time, 83 degrees are expected. Low 90s as we started 2 00 or so, lasting through the stretch of the hottest part of your day. It into the north a, 91 in san rafael. 81 is expected over areas of hayward. Your extended forecast is temperatures being slightly warmer for tomorrow, slightly cooler on sunday. It begins a cooling trend that will continue all the way through tuesday. Back to you. Several homes just south of salinas, destroyed as a massive fire grows. We will tell you why farmworkers out there have not stopped working despite all of the smoky air. Is that they area deals with the covid19 pandemic, wildfires cause more problems. How doctors warn about how the wildfire smoke will affect people with the coronavirus. First, we will tell you about the San Francisco streets that will be car free when these changes take place. Superfast internet. Its a beautiful thing. Superfast internet with an xfinity flex 4k streaming device included . Even beautifuler. And now flex also comes with peacock. Ooh la la. This rare bird lets you stream tons of movies, shows, news, sports and more. And with flex, its all at your beck and call. Show me parks and rec see . 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Russian hospitals is disputing whether he was poisoned and they refuse transporting him to germany. Though the hospital has now let the german doctors at least come in and see him at the kremlin denies any involvement. He is a pop dealer Opposition Leader and often a critic of. Iran and members of Un Security Council are pushing back from a request from the u. S. To fully restore International Sanctions against iran. Secretary of state mike pompeo accuses iran of seeking Nuclear Weapons and not allowing inspectors into its nuclear sites. The United States wants the u. N. To reimpose sanctions on iran even though President Trump withdrew the u. S. From the 2015 nuclear deal. This comes after the white house lost a bid to extend an arms embargo against iran which expires in october. Our message is very simple. The United States will never allow the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes, tanks, missiles and other conventional weapons. Other countries including france, germany, u. K. , china and russia say the United States has no legal right to ask for a return to sanctions. If returns for a sanction will kill off the 2016 nuclear deal with remaining countries. Iran said the u. S. Lost its right when it withdrew from the nuclear deal. Here at home, the city of San Francisco closing parts of 18th street in the castro to coors on sunday so more businesses can serve their guests outdoors. Two of the normally busy blocks of 18th street will be closed to cars between 2 pm and 7 pm under the shared spaces pilot permit program. It is aimed at giving restaurant space to serve customers that doors. The Merchant Group said they will try to keep that Program Going all your. Tomorrow several muni lines will run again after being suspended for five months because of the pandemic. Some of the restored lines have modified, have been modified to support essential workers and people running errands. Several lines are also adding more frequent trips after being cut back. The golden estate warriors will have the number two overall pick in the nba draft. The second pick goes to the golden estate warriors. That means that the number one pick in the 2020 nba draft goes to the minnesota timberwolves. The timberwolves had an equal shot at the number one pick without warriors and the cleveland cavaliers. The warriors second overall pick could be a big asset for the team. They may pick a young player or try to make a package and pick other assets to trade to get an nba veteran to help them have another shot at a championship. The nba draft is set for october 16. The destructive wildfires burning in the north bay have turned deadly pit the latest on evacuations as the fires leave a trail of destruction behind. Plus the fire spreading across the bay area forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and no state officials are trying to help evacuees. What you were told what you need to know if you were told to pack up and go. What you need to do to help keep your family and pets safe and the symptoms you should look out for. Good morning. It is friday morning, august 21. And rosemary is here with our forecast. Still some smoke in the air around most of the area. Good morning, unfortunately we will not get rid of that smoke anytime soon. Fires burning on all sides of us in the bay area so even though we are getting some of that cleaner cool pacific air into the bay area, we are likely to remain with the unhealthy air through today with a slight improvement tomorrow. And then as firefighters get a handle some fires, it will improve as well. Poor air quality expected over the central and