The flag at the white house was lowered to half staff following the announcement of ginsburgs death. The vacancy on the high court has sparked a highstakes political battle in washington, d. C. Over naming a replacement. We begin our coverage in washington, d. C. An Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is dead at age 87 as the nation reflects on her legacy questions are already stirring about her replacement. That death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is sending shockwaves around the world. The president was informed after a political rally in minnesota. She just died . While. I didnt know that. Youre telling me now for the first time. She let an amazing life she was an amazing woman. Ruth Bader Ginsburg sten for all of us. But there is no doubt , let me be clear, that the voters should take the president and the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider. Reporter ginsburg, and icon of the liberal wing of the court, now front and center of a political fight brewing. With the president ial election just over 40 days away in control of the senate in the balance, questions turned to whether President Trump will try to name and confirm a new justice before the next congress, or potentially next president , is in place. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell released a a vote on the floor of the United States senate. Democrats quick to respond to that possibility. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer quote, the American People should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice. Therefore this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. And prs Justice Ginsburg weighed in on her replacement, dictating to her granddaughter quote, my most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installed. Justice ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by president bill clinton in 1993. She was the second woman appointed and served more than 27 years. In her personal life she battled four separate cancer diagnosis. In 1999 it was colon cancer. A decade later she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In january of 2019 she missed being in court for argument for the first time in 25 years to recuperate from surgery to remove a cancerous growth from her left lung. And 2020 she announced she was undergoing chemotherapy for liver cancer. A large crowd gathered tonight outside the Supreme Court to pay honor and tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her legacy. At one point people sang Amazing Grace outside the court building. Mourners have also left flowers on the steps as a show of appreciation and respect. The flag outside the court was also lowered to half staff soon after ginsburgs death was made public. Supreme court chief Justice John Roberts has mourned ginsburgs passing, saying our nation has lost interest of a historic stature. We at the prince Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice. Hundreds of people also gathered in San Francisco tonight honor Justice Ginsburg and pay tribute to her fight for womens rights and liberties. We have the perspective from a couple law professors who knew the late justice. Reporter one of those professors was writing a book with Justice Ginsburg and looked to her as both a friend and a mentor. For those at the vigil who never knew her or had met her, they say she represented someone who was battling for equal rights for all under the constitution. The crowd came with candles carried like precious memories of a life well loved, letting the corner of marketing castro streets in San Francisco. Hundreds of people shocked by the death of rest Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg came to remember her. There is no figure, i think, as important. Or that i can think of as Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and what she has done to transform this country. You see it today an outpouring of grace. People who didnt know her are as devastated as those who did know her. Reporter amanda taylor, a professor at Uc Berkeley School of law, new Justice Ginsburg well. First at the Supreme Court and later as a friend. Been working on a book together about Justice Ginsburgs life. What we envisioned was a book that, will her legacy for fighting. Because of her the legal landscape in this country changed. There arent a lot of people you can say that about. An dean of the Uc Berkeley School of law argued cases before Justice Ginsburg. When it came to issues like pay equity for women, access to contraceptives, access to abortions, protection from discrimination and sexual harassment, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the voice on the court. A voice also capable of a deep and caring friendship as one of the courts most outspoken liberals with her friend justice antonin scalia, one of the most outspoken conservatives. Theirs was a relationship that was built on trying to understand the other side and debating issues of the day, important issues of the day in a civil and respectful way. Reporter tyler says she hopes amidst the political partisanship that part of Justice Ginsburgs life and her legacy of fighting for women do not get lost. I think that resilience and dedication, that really defines who she was. Thats how i hope everyone will remember her. Reporter tyler says just last night Justice Ginsburg was honored with a metal from the National Constitution center. Someone that has left a Lasting Legacy in our country, thank you. Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court by president bill clinton in 1993. She was an Appeals Court judge at the time and was viewdata is a moderate. Today clinton said quote, we have lost one of the most extraordinary justices ever to serve on the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburgs life and landmark opinions moved us closer to a more Perfect Union at her powerful dissents her mind as we walk away from our constitutions promise at our peril. San Francisco Mayor london breed called ginsburgs death heartbreaking. She says that justice was a fearless advocate for womens rights and progressive causes. She has been one of the most progressive voices on the Supreme Court pushing an agenda of justice for all, which is what this country is founded on. It is a huge loss, it is a huge loss. It also just underscores the importance of the selection right now. Democratic Vice President ial nominee senator Kamala Harris said , for all who believe in the power of the law as a force for change, Justice Ginsburg was and will always be a titan. She was a defender of justice in our country and a legal mind for the ages. Our coverage continues at ktvu. Com, where you will find more on the life and legacy of Justice Ginsburg. Coming up, time to go back to the movies. See where theaters have reopened and the changes now in place. Plus, a vigil tonight in an Armenian Church in San Francisco. The show of solidarity following what Church Leaders say was an arson attack. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. New information tonight on a driveby shooting in richmond that left a man dead and two others wounded. Police say that three victims were standing outside of a corner store on Fourth Street in mcdonald avenue when someone fired at least 10 rounds. Police a 25yearold damonte butcher was pronounced dead at the scene. 50 rolled man and a 30yearold woman are in stable condition at a hospital the night. Richmond police say they are following leads. Today shooting was richmonds 15th homicide this year. A prayer vigil was held this evening in San Francisco to show solidarity with the Armenian Community after what some suspect was an arson attack early yesterday. We have how clergy and city leaders came together against tate. Reporter a downcast but defiant crowd stood under broken windows in the courtyard between their church and the Community Center tarred thursday morning. If and when Something Like this might happen reporter Church Leaders say arson investigators found at least three locations in the building where fire was deliberately set, echoing a july attack at an Armenian School across town where walls were covered with hateful and racist graffiti. The congregation believes both our hate crimes stemming from longstanding tension between armenia and azerbaijan. We would like to see the physical extinguishing of the community. We know thats not possible, but that message was very clear. Reporter the church itself was not hit in the Community Center is intact. Inside fire burned through classrooms and offices for the church and many armenian organizations. What kind of person would do this . I know its hard. Reporter mayor london breed told the gathering and spiritual love is under attack only love can drive up the hate. The fact that we are all here in solidarity is what makes us stronger. Reporter this interfaith vigil brought clergy from other churches in support. And is now religion that we practice today that teaches us to love our enemies, turn the other cheek. We beseech you, les our community. Reporter amid the price can promises to identify those responsible and prosecute them. This is unacceptable, intolerable and it must end. Reporter elected leaders call it an attack, all san franciscans. A city that prides itself on tolerance and end conclusion. When im looking at that tv camera, that person is a coward. Reporter is prayer heals their spirit leaders say strength will overcome the harmon hate out there doors. We will not cower, we will not hide, we will not fear. The latest over data from the state shows new cases of coronavirus are slightly above the 14 day average. 3600 and cases reported from yesterday. The two week moving average is about 3400. There have been almost 770,000 cases of covid19 since the start of the pandemic. There were 91 new deaths reported yesterday. The death toll statewide is now approaching 15,000. San francisco is hoping to move from the states read tier the less restrictive orange tier in the coming weeks. That would allow limited and were 90. The mayor says virus rates are low enough the city can begin planning its next steps. That of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association says restaurants and staff are learning to adapt. You got the takeout delivery, then the outdoor dining, if you can do that, then you add the incremental indoor dining. Instead, my numbers are like 45 to 50 of normal, maybe you get to 65 normal. You are still underwater, but moving in the right direction. The mayor and director of Public Health stress that any timeline depends on residents and businesses following the Public Health orders. Schools in Santa Clara County could be able to redo them in Person Instruction as early as wednesday. Schools will be allowed to reopen if the county remains in the states read tier. Schools are required to follow social distancing guidelines and Group Students into small cohorts. The cohort is establishing that social bubble in a school environment. Schools, through the opening plan, are encouraged to establish a small cohort where that group of students would Stay Together in a social distant environment to do there in Person Instruction. The decision on whether to reopen will be left each school district. San jose unified says it is already at pending Distance Learning through the end of the year. 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Schedule a video visit with your doctor. And get quality care with no copay. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Its important californians have health coverage. If youve lost health insurance, covered california can help. For your health insurance. Just visit coveredca. Com today. San franciscos First Official drive and even you brought a soldout crowd to ft. Mason tonight. The new movie screens offer people to enjoy a night out with proper social distancing. Millions played at 6 00, matrix played at 9 00. There were food trucks for a bite to eat. Organizers say they wanted to make use of the ft. Mason campus during the pandemic. Tickets for september sold out almost immediately. People just dont have a lot to do. So many things where are used to, this is something we are not able to do. Drive ends have been making a comeback during the pandemic, a throwback from one generation, depending on experience or another. Were able to reopen in marin county today. For the first time in months films are showing on the big screen. As ktvu and fox 2 news found out, they do, more restrictions. Reporter it was reopening day for the First Time Since the pandemic shutdown, six years ago marin county has allowed theaters to open again inside, but with restrictions. This mandrel with his friend from Alameda County or dealers were close to marin to catch the day of the Action Thriller tenant. Im an avid moviegoer. Definitely excited about that. Reporter because marin county has red tears, there are strict regulations or preventing the transmission of covid19. I think that in a lot of measures to prevent the possibility of the spread. I think as long as everybody is compliant with the rules and spacing it should be pretty good. Reporter the measures include limiting theaters to only 25 of capacity, with seating spread out all customers and staff Must Wear Masks and practice social distancing. We do feel like we are going to be able to operate safely in this current environment. Reporter senator mark, the chain that owns the northgate theater showed us a video of what it called the cinemark standard. We are also sanitizing all Services Every 30 minutes. To ensure the highest level of these protocols are adhered to, we have instituted a safety monitor during each theater shift. You cant make a Movie Theater riskfree. While the moviegoers here feel safe, a word of caution is coming from a uc berkeley Infectious Disease specialist. Youre taking people from district rest of this community and bringing them here to congregate for a prolonged period of time. I think thats the worst thing you could do. Social distancing and wearing wear masks probably i missed the popcorn more than anything. Reporter San Francisco and santa clara counties are also in the read tier, but have not yet improved any reopenings of Movie Theaters. In bay area whether after little bit of a drop off the numbers for the day the weekend forecast features warmer temperatures, but a gradual warmup heading into both saturday and sunday. In fact lets jump into the graphics for you and talk about your saturday. We start out the day with fog and low clouds, hazy skies and the afternoon hours. Sunday will be a little bit warmer. Unfortunately we do have this again after somewhat of a break , the spare the air alert for tomorrow. Some smoke adrift in from the north. Thankfully we are not expecting the levels like in recent days. Still, unhealthy for sensitive groups in the north bay and east bay. The forecast model not picking up a change for you at all. Little bit of haze in your saturday forecast and theres a chance they could be extended into sunday as well with more smoke moving into the region from the north and even from the east. As far as current numbers out there right now our camera looking toward sfo low clouds and fog, current numbers, most areas in the 60s. Nice to see rainfall showing up in the Pacific Northwest portland and seattle. There were rainfalls for south as eureka today. Overnight lows, maybe a little bit of drizzle coast side around the bay. But the clouds and fog are a factor first thing tomorrow morning. The clouds will clear back to the coastline into the afternoon hours. Just a little bit of a minor bump of the numbers for your saturday forecast, all because this guy is going to move out of town and fade out as High Pressure is developing onshore. This will set up the northerly flow that can help push some of the smoke closer to the bay area so that we can forecast, as we have been talking about. 60s, 70s, the warm spots and low to mid 80s toward concord, livermore and antioch. Heres a look ahead, send in the warmest day of the weekend and the last few days of summer. It looks like we say hello to fall on tuesday, tuesday morning. Temperatures will probably feel like fall as we head into tuesday and wednesday. Sounds good mark, thank you so much. A warning about panties tonight after a woman was attacked on the marin county beach. The Community Better on the leg and she went to a hospital. It happen tuesday at tennessee valley. The women told park rangers the coyote was acting aggressively. The rangers say they have had a growing problem with coyotes approaching people in search of food. Starting today, by fighters and others can enjoy a mostly car free route from the east end of golden gate route to the ocean. The goal is to create a protective path for cyclists from the Ferry Building to ocean beach. Sports director mark cabanas will tell us if the as punch their ticket to the Third Straight playoff game. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. To wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. Caring for each other because we are all in this together. So wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya . Ugh. I can say this about the first game of this version of the bay bridge series, the as are in. They are going to the postseason. For the giants, if they want to get there and have to get a whole lot better because this thing was pretty onesided in the bay bridge trophy is going with the as. It started early, although you we have to show you when giant highlight. Tommy la stella with a little pop fly down the third base side. Brandon crawford with a long way to put that in. That is your loan giant highlight and it came on defense. The rest of the night belongs to the as. Thought to jake lambasting, i like to say that. An rbi single, Johnny Solano couldnt get it [ laughter ]. He struck out three times, it didnt matter. Because he writes this one out to right field. A three run shot coming as 14 in the as lead 40 and at a 6 0 final. The as clench their way in the postseason, their magic number for punching the west is now just two. You been watching the nba playoffs in the bubble in orlando. You know there have been plenty of surprises in denver is right near the top of the list with miami heat. I can see pulling this thing off against Anthony Davis in the lakers, jamaal bernie. Vinegars found out to tonight, up 18 in the third. Anthony davis sensational tonight. 37 points, 10 rebounds, this guy was never indepth. But i wanted to show you this, rondeau always seems to come alive in the postseason from behind the back here like he was playing horse. He has nine assists, 126114 the final lebron james little bit tonight. Janice onto combo ends up winning of for the second consecutive year. 49ers, man this will make a great story if they can come back and return of the super bowl. The early part of the year nothing but trouble and he continues today as they get the news regarding their own world tight end George Kittle is going to miss sundays game against the jets. Which, by the way, youll be able to see on channel 2. Hes out with a sprained knee, sustained last sunday against arizona and George Kittle definitely going to miss this particular game. All right, friday night at the videos, let us check this out. A homerun was hit tonight by albert full host. Thats not so unusual, except for the fact it happened to be the 661st of his illustrious career, which puts him one past willie mays, number 661, kudos for good measure. Also hit another one later in the game. I wanted to show you this, alan con. Is the author of a book called steve come back, bible and he shows you why. He can teach you how to had a steve back like nobody can. Definitely got it down to an art form. Music to a lot of fighters ears. I can tell you that is not as easy as it looks right there. All were checking out and a little real estate news. Derek jeter put his house up for sale 20 29 million in orlando. Let me borrow some money, mark. Good night, everybody. Not to bug him. He said that he needed some time to stop the car tires screeching all scream why would you do that . i think thats shorty. Shorty and i have been best friends for as long as i can remember. He and his wife, darlene, moved to costa rica a few years back for, uh i dont know why. 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