Site, you know, like massive amounts of debris falling from construction or a couple will thought it was a bomb. Two men by the shoeshine stand and the cab driver were taken to a nearby hospital with critical injuries. All we can give out at this time is they were in critical condition. Each one of the victims had a different level of consciousness around them. At this time were just hoping that they have a good recovery. Reporter officers meanwhile are still trying to find out why the taxi driver went over the curb this afternoon. Again, if you can avoid this area and this is the Market Street area near the intersection of sansome and sutter, do so. Things are moving very, very slowly tonight. Ara coing live in San Francisco, od budman, nbc bay area news. And right in the midst of rush hour. We have new details about a former stanta clara county correction officer accused of assaulting an inmate in 2013. He inml be arraigned next month y d faces seven years in prison. The alleged incident took place after dispute between the inmate and another officer. The inmate was taken to the t plan by other offices when tre bottoeted kicked and punched the short who suffered a fractured bone in his face. Well, a swift plan of action new plaose this evening. Bottom line, the city needs to solve a severe shortage of police officers. Its purned about an hour ago the city council behind closed doors initiated a new plan. Nbc bay areas robert handa is at city hall for us. Onbert, it is beyond politics. It is all about Public Safety at this point. What are the details . Reporter thats right. We reported it was just yesterday that the city, the Police Department and the police union met for the first time, and now the city council has already been taking the emergency strategy behind closed doors and discussing it with police chief eddie garcia, and the First Official step was taken to try to get it to a Public Meeting and vote. It was very quiet at todays Public City Council meeting. The intense action took place in private. The council needed to city if it wants to give police chief eddie garcia Emergency Powers and circumvent state law to make drastic changes to staff such as shifting supervisors and more detectives into patrol units. With new shifts set to the start september 1st, the department is 87 officers short of the 500 cops needed for patrol. The council, were told, will put the Emergency Action before a rules Committee Wednesday in order for the council to have a Public Meeting and vote on tuesday. In the midst of the closed session, the mayor pushed for immediate action. This is critical so we can get more officers out there on the streets in the neighborhoods in the short term to hold us to november. Hopefully we will get voter approval of measure f at that time and we can have a more aggressive, permanent solution. Reporter the poa was not expecting such quick action. The union said it supported a Quick Response such as this, but pointed out it is a bandaid approach. We are not able to fill the spots in patrol division, which means 911 calls dont get answered. It means if we need help we dont have it. So an emergency is what we have, and i think calling that is appropriate. Again, todays action means the proposal will go to the rules committee chaird by locardo tomorrow, and if approved would go before the city council at a meeting next tuesday where a big crowd is expected. Tive in san hoe sage, robert handa, nbc bay area news. People who live in a building on the edge of oaklands chinatown say they are laving in unacceptable conditions and theyre being harassed. Now theyre asking for help from an Alameda County judge. Live in oakland where the tenants are taking their complaints to court. Jodi. Thats right. Those tenants came to court where a judge seems poised to take some sort of action. Now, the tenants live in a building with with just three toilets and two showers to share between an estimated 50 people. Their attorneys say it is simply unacceptable. If you can imagine 33 households sharing three bathrooms and one kitchen, theyre waiting in really long lines to be able to use basic household facilities. Reporter thats what attorneys representing more than a dozen chinese immigrants say their clients have been subjected to for the past six months. They say the the new owners of this singleoccupancy room building located on the edge of chinatown removed one of two common kitchens, tossing out the tenants personal belongings during the demolition. Their decorations were torn from their front door, basic things in common spaces like shoes and floor mats were also taken away and thrown out. Reporter the buildings owners also installed surveillance cameras in the hallways where residents say they have to walk through to get to the bathroom and shower. Nina castro own as store across the street from the building and is outraged. Even though they speak little to no english, that doesnt give people the right to abuse people, abuse their basic human rights. The need to use the restroom, the need to be able to cook your food so you can feed yourself. That shouldnt be something that happens here in america. Reporter the ten apts have filed a lawsuit and you now a judge says he is going to visit the building toek tomorrmorrow e situation for himself. We tried to reach out to the building owner, but his attorney or their attorney told us in court no comment. Again, the judge will tour the building tomorrow. He has the power to order the bathrooms and the kitchen restored and the surveillance cameras removed. Reporting live in oakland, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Jodi, thank you. Familgic accident at the russian river. De of ung girls who were sisters drowned after their car plunged into the water. Their mother lost control of the familys pickup truck and skidded into the river just wtside of jenner. You can see the truck right there. Nbc bay areas Mark Matthews is now. T north coast town hearing from the witnesses and first respoernds. Mark. This is where it happened. You can see the skid marks on the ground as the truck went into the river and the oil slick now on the water. Witnesses say the 32yearold mother of two was taking her children to school this morning. She had just gotten a job at the Elementary School as a teachers aide. Witnesses said the ford f250 was traveling about 35 miles an hour, there was heavy fog in the area, the roads were slick. One of the witnesses, harry kenny, who was out bird watching. It went gurg will and went down and a lot of bubbles came to the surface, and then a woman came up shortly after that screaming, my babies, my babies or Something Like that. Reporter the woman was able to kick out a window and escape the sinking truck but her two children, four and seven years old, were belt into the back seat as it went down. 30 minutes later a park ranger with dive equipment recovered the bodies from 20 feet down. These children we lost today are about the only children who actually live in jenner. The rest are kids who are grandchildren who come to visit, but out of our small Little Village there our two children, part of our family here. Reporter this has been a tough one, admitted the officer, for everyone at the scene. Tonight we are waiting to hear from the core nors office which is yet to elise the familys tening te. In jenner, nbc bay area news. To safe for now. At least a wild fire burning on the Central Coast is no longer threatening the iconic hearst castle. Chimney fire is 35 contained. Tills will continue to stand and h outside of the hearst ancite in case of flareups or change in wind direction. Conditions still hazy here in the bay area because of the chimney fire and other fires burning across the state. A live look at san jose and San Francisco where you could see, in theally in san jose, those hazy conditions. Jeff ranieri joins us with more. Jeff. I thought what i would do is push into tomorrows forecast for the air quality, and it will be at the good levels in the north bay primarily due to a stronger onshore push of cooler, cleaner marine air. Still at moderate levels for east bay, peninsula and also for the south bay. I want to go ahead and switch into some of that cleaner, cooler air thats moving in right now. You can see it from our belvedere camera looking back towards San Francisco on our weger underground sky camera network. That is a marine level thick at about 2,000 feet. We have stormranger going at the current moment, positioned on twin peaks shall and it is picking up some of the drizzle in the atmosphere. I want to zoom in a little closer to this. Again, nothing in terms of heavy rainfall, but the green on here is indicating some drizzle near the Richmond District, also back here towards western edition and then approaching Market Street, light towards the mission as women. We are seeing spotty drizzle will throughout the Golden Gate Bridge. If you are commuting from north bay into the city you want to watch for some areas of wet with weather where you will will have to have the windshield wipers on. If you havent heard about stormranger, again, it is our new storm tracking tool. We will get a live view of it right now. Not only is there a doppler but theres an xband ray dr as well, a camera and weather station. We will have more on this right st bas the drizzle continues to manl in San Francisco. You can see it in that camera lens. Thanks, jeff. Fterary b. A. R. T. Ride for commuters in east bay. Man on board swung his golf club on the train around 1 30 this afternoon. He got off the train shortly after at the west oakland station and continued to smash the windows at the station. Police officers finally were there to arrest him. Trains were delayed about 30 minutes. Delayed but almost ready. The final work crews need to do before officially opening the bay bridge bypass. Reporter stanford implements a new band on hard alcohol on campus. Im marianne favro. Why critics say it will create more problems. Injured workers, treatments zend. It was devastating. And when they appeal they lose most of the time. It is hard to believe any system could be that onesided. We investigate a change in workers comp credited with driving down medical costs. Why critics say it puts money over people, using denials and secrecy. Wednesday at 11 00 on nbc bay area, we investigate. Two new bills aimed at re defining Sexual Assault of an unconscious person are headed to the state the there are two new bills aimed at redefining Sexual Assault of an unconscious person. Theyre headed to state assembly four, both sparked by a highprofile Sexual Assault case involving brock turner, former stanford swimmer. The current can law treats Sexual Assault of a conscious person as a more serious crime. The proposed ball plan to close loop holes. A new policy at stanford, a partial ban on hard alcohol. University Officials Say it is not directly related to brock turner case. Nbc bay areas marianne is on case. What are the concerns there . Reporter critics believe the new band will motivate students to drink hard alcohol in their dorm rooms in secrecy, and they feel it could lead to an increased risk of Sexual Assaults. New school year, new rules about drinking on campus. Stanford undergraduate students can no longer drink hard alcohol at oncampus parties. The new band comes nearly five months after former stanford swimmer brock turner was convicted of three counts of sexual asaul. The attack happened in january at a Fraternity Party on campus. Some students believe the band will only lead to risky behavior behind closed doors. Now that theres an actual ban, i feel like a lot of students will be, you know, trying to get hard alcohol just, you know, more secretively. Reporter stanford law professor Michelle Dauber predicts the the ban may increase the risk of Sexual Assault. It may have the unintended consequence of driving that behavior into dorm rooms with closed door rather than in public, and that students may have actually increased risk of Sexual Assault. Reporter dauber says stanfords ban supports the idea alcohol is to blame for Sexual Assault, something brock turner himself talked about in court when he blamed his actions on binge drinking and a Party Culture on campus. We need to understand that the relationship between alcohol and Sexual Assault is that alcohol helps an offender commit a Sexual Assault by making the victim more helpless. It does not turn normal people into offenders. Reporter stanford is not the First University to enact a hard alcohol ban on campus. Dartmouth college did one last year. Reporting live at stanford, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. An all gender bathroom bill is on its way to the governors desk. It would require california businesses and State Government buildings to make single occupancy restrooms to be identified as gender identity neutral. Tinge said if signed into law it would be the most inclusive restroom access law in the country. Already two years behind schedule, theres word today that the bike path on the eastern span of the bay bridge is delayd even further. It takes rider from oakland to the island. Caltran said it would be done by september, but now being pushed back to october. Construction crews need more time to pave and stripe the roadway. We need to be patient for another month or so in october when the land side improvements on teshure island are completed so people have a place to go once they get on to the island. Crews are also building parking lot on Treasure Island for cyclists who want to park there and pedal east across the span. Okay. Jeff ranieri joins us now. We have new technology thats detecting things we usually dont see. Exactly. It is pretty impressive. Right now we have our stormranger located at twin peaks tonight, and because of the High Resolution xband and the doppler, we can show you the drizzle we are dealing with. You can see the fog in the distance. As it zooms in on the left, you have the Doppler Radar dome which is about 15feet above the truck, and of course that is sending the signal back here towards the station on what exactly we are seeing. Now, since this is closer to the surface than traditional Doppler Radars which are so much higher in the atmosphere, it is giving us a much better scan. As we go ahead and get a look at some of the other benefits with this stormranger, just in case youre being introduced to it for the first time, it, of course, is mobile. So we move it to where we want to direct the story and where that weather is happening. Improved storm accuracy because, again, it is going to be so close to the weather elements affecting you right down on the ground instead of higher in the atmosphere, and faster data arriveal. Instead of a three to fiveminute lag time we are getting the data a lot faster than we normally would would traditional methods. Rain, drizzle will, hail and smoke from fires are some of the be able to track. We have the red sweep up right now, you can see it. Thats how were indicating that stormranger is up and going. Theres a little built of clutter near the radar, which is pretty typical. But as we zoom in and get a closer look, we definitely know were tracking some of the drizzle, now starting to approach San Francisco back towards the Mission District and also near the Richmond District and right over towards the marina, and any commuters traveling here from the north bay across the Golden Gate Bridge into the city tonight will want to watch out for the drizzle as you may need the windshield wipers for a little bit. You can see some of the screen showing up right now. Again, thats midlevel moisture in the atmosphere. Look for the red sweep and you know we have stormranger fired up. Current temperature at the truck, twin peaks, 67 degrees out throughout santa rosa right now. So it is also dropping due to the fog moving in as we head through the Early Morning hours temperature thes will be down in the 50s. As far as tomorrows forecast goes, we keep the fog in San Francisco and 63 degrees. A rm whatter 87 in east bay. Right back here towards the south bay well have 85 degrees. Now, when it comes to our latest technology and stormranger, of course we want to storm in here so we can track that incoming rain. Looks like were still going to have to wait a bit for that on our longrange outlook we may see the pattern shift by midseptember to allow showers to move in, but were looking ahead towards la nina, 55 to 65 of that happening which could bring an average rain season. Two years later we take a look at how far we have come since the big earthquake, the recovery and damage that still remains. Thats next. A little later than scheduled. But many students in lake county are back in school. The clayton fire that kept Lower Lake High School closed for a happening now new on our web with site, many students are back to school. The clayton fire that kept Lower Lake High School closed for a week is 96 detained. When Hillary Clinton couldnt host the fundraiser, star studded names stepped in. We posted it on our page. Dy i am sircanalot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. Wake up those eggs with glorious spam see what spam can do. At spam. Com the Oil Companies pollute our air. Putting their. Profits ahead of our kids health. Now theyre trying to weaken californias clean air laws. Im tom steyer. Weve had a million kids get asthma. We need to send the Oil Companies a message. Tell your legislator to stand up to the Oil Companies and protect our clean air laws. Dont let the Oil Companies put their profits. Ahead of our kids. Devastating 6. 0 earthquake a tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the devastating 6. 0 earthquake that shook napa county. More than 600 buildings were damaged with with a price tag of almost a billion dollars. So what has been repaired and what is still broken . Here is nbc bay areas joe rosado jr. Weve been worshipping on this site continually for 140 years, had not missed a single sunday until the earthquake. There was a stained glass window in the road. The bell collapsed and fell down. Reporter the First Presbyterian church of napa has witnessed plenty of ups and downs over the last century and a half. This is an original 1874 brick . But it never experienced a shakeup like the 6. 0 earthquake that rolled through two years ago. All of the walls had cracks in them. Our weather vaen is still bent. Reporter in the aftermath of the destruction, reverend david stoker pulled together his flock along with the crumbled bricks and mortar of his church. Weve been meeting in the gym next door. Reporter with no earthquake insurance, they repaired money for repairs. A year ago came first sounds of redemption. It is pretty significant for the community when they can hear the church bell ring again. Reporter though scaffolding hangs outside, the bells sounded as the congregation moved back inside the sanctuary for First Time Since the quake. When you go through a tough time like this, the church pulled together. Reporter napa looks nothing like it did in the days and months after the disaster. Most scaffolding has disappeared, boarded windows are gone. The damage to historic county courthouse remains one of the looming symbol also of the quakes wrath. The walls have a lot destruction and some were nearing collapse and had to be braced. Design team has gone through and mapped the cracks on every wall and every space. Reporter plans for the buildings redesign are due next spring. Restoration is expected to last until the summer of 2018. It is tragic to see the damage, but its really reassuring to see it survived really well in a lot of ways. Reporter survival hasnt come easy. When the quake ravaged the napa victoria, building inspectors said the home would have to be torn down. It was heart wrenching. Reporter but jamison fought to save hur house, hanging signs and launching a campaign. 165 is what i actually got. Reporter it was a visit from senator Diane Feinstein that helped her secure a loan. It is now returning to its former glory. I was determined to make this house stand up. I love this house. I would not let it go. It is retrofited. Reporter time, hope and hard work have a way of healing the broken, the lost. I think our town is stronger for having gone through the earthquake. Reporter joe rosado jr. , nbc bay area news. Whats an injured worker like you supposed to do if he cant get the treatment he needs . For me, it was reaching out to the media. I had nowhere left. A chp officer hurt on the job turns to nbc bay area to expose the problem. Im liz wagner. Coming up next we investigate the statewide system that injured workers say is stringing them along. Hundreds of students are leaving Charter Schools for district schools. Ill show you where this is happening and why. Dia. Right now at 6 30 the Livermore School district is dealing with an influx of hundreds of new students who are leaving the citys two Charter Schools. The exodus comes as the Charter Schools face a list of allegations including charging illegal tuition and mistreating its students. Nbc bay area Laura Malpert is in livermore for us this evening. These are serious claims against the school. Reporter thats right, raj. Administrators tell us it was a long time coming, so they were prepared for the influx of students but they say they had no idea it would be this many. I think a lot of the parents in our community have grown frustrated and concerned about the activities of the Charter Schools. Reporter chris van shack with the livermore unified School District is talking about the new hundreds of students at district schools. Always of yesterday weve seen an influx of almost 500 students since last june. We know of at least 80 of those coming to us from the Charter Schools