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Drinking in america. Police all across the bay area are already preparing for what could be a rough night. Kron 4 spoke to officers with the San Francisco Police Department. Phillip, what are police doing to keep people safe . Reporter well, pam, first theyre telling people like the ones here at the 21st amendment brewery in San Francisco to plan ahead. Leave your car at home if youre going to drink. If youre going to drink, designate a sober driver. Reporter thats the bottom line coming from the San Francisco Police Department. Sergeant newman says thanksgiving typically results in heavy binge drinking and an increase of impaired drivers leaving bars and parties and then getting behind the wheel, especially patrons who dont feel drunk but are above the blood alcohol level to drive. We see accidents results from buzzed drivers. Reporter check points will be set up across the holidays. The San Francisco Police Department is one of many Law Enforcement agencies in a period of maximum enforcement from now to new years day. That means that officers are on the roads looking for intoxicated drivers from alcohol or prescription drugs. So many different alternatives. You can designate a sober driver to drive. You have muni and bart and taxi services. Sergeant newman says to keep your distance from and report any drunk drivers immediately. Just keep an eye out for signs of impairment. Not only is it an infraction to drive with your lights off, its reason for us to pull you over. But a sign that maybe youre not fully aware of your surroundings based on some type of impairment. Reporter across the nation, more than 700 people died in dui related crashes last year. Even if you plan on having one drink, Police Say Stay off the road. But enjoy your holiday. Getting out of sfo for the holiday has been smooth. The rough weather in the midwest and the east coast has not created delays at sfo and that is expected to continue until the weekend. Tonight accident a teenager that was set ablaze on board a transit bus is at home with his family just in time for the holidays. This is video of the boy arriving home. He was finished a threeweek stay in the burn unit at the hospital. Back in early november, he suffered serious burns when police say a 16yearold passenger on the same bus sent the gender neutral teens skirt on fire while sasha slept. Sasha said what color skirt he wanted to wear on the way home. It doesnt change howell express himself. We are hoping that something good will come out of this. That this kind of intolerance will be people will realize that you can wear unusual clotheingand it doesnt mean that you have a right to attack them. The attacker is a 16year old Oakland High School student who is being charged as an adult. The university is taking a lot of heat for the way it has been dealing with the alleged torment of a black student there earlier this month. But an indepth study done years ago shows students of color have been dealing with similar incidents from professors, coaches and other students for many years. Alyssa reed has more. Reporter it took six years of interviewing and research to complete this 100page report about racism on the campus. What is inside are comments from students and faculty about their experiences and suggestions about how the school can address the issues. ;4 g6having a zero toleranc policy for anything that symbolizes an attack on a gender group or sexuality, thing like that, this is bigger than just a blackishu. Reporter word that a black student was being terrorized for three months and him finally reporting it to authorities last week sparked on campus. They wrote the n word on a drier ace board. He fought them off the first time and sustained bruising. But the second time, i guess they finally were able to get it around him. They locked him inside of his dorm room and they broke the lock off the door when they did that. Reporter the silent protest was in part expressing their feeling for too long voices were ignored. The report was completed two years ago. And the school disbanded the Committee Last year. This fall the commission was created. A rep believe thats it represents more ethnic groups across the board. The committee has met once and will meet again next month. A rep says that there are ongoing efforts to address the issues at hand. Were told there are also two task forces targeting African American student success. Were taking a live look outside at a nice quiet san mateo bridge. We will see increasing clouds over the next day or so. Right now temperatures are hanging around the 40s and 50s range. 55 in San Francisco. 54 in richmond. 55 for hayward. 53 currently in fremont. Weve had a brief respite from the cloudy sky. That will change. We have the system starting to move in. It will bring rain showers. However, the showers will stay south of monterey. It will tweak the temperatures a bit. We will talk about that in a bit. A sad anniversary in San Francisco as hundreds come out to remember and honor mayor george and harvey mills assassinated more than three decades ago. A family lose everything to an earlymorning fire but on the eve of thanksgiving says theyre just happy to be alive. More in my story. And one of the most iconic churches in San Francisco is preparing to help the less fortunate this thanksgiving. I love watching tv outside. And why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. With qualifying bundles. To thoseworried. Ited. Poked and prodded. Taken risks. And lived in a state of what if . Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. New tonight at 11 00, prosecutors in Contra Costa County will not file charge charges against the person that sparked a fire that burned more than 3100 acres in the state park back in september. It started in unincorporated clayton where a person was target shooting with a rifle. One of the bullets struck a rock, causing a spark and starting the september 8th fire. The fire prompted the evacuation of close to 75 homes and caused more than four and a half Million Dollars in damage. Still ahead tonight, residents of one alameda Apartment Building are now trying to rebuild their lives after a fire. Im jeff bush in San Francisco. Hundreds gathered to celebrate the life and remember the death of harvey millman. The raiders get to spend thanksgiving in dallas. We will join them there. And also catherine web, i think she ate that hamburger and all of the stuff dribbled down and made her a hero. Catherine web later tonight. Find out how you can serve a thanksgiving dinner with fewer than 350calories. Thats tonight after the news. A followup to a story we brought this morning. This Apartment Fire is out tonight but several families have been left without a home. Firefighters say a man set the building on fire and he admitted to it. Jr joan is in alameda tonight and talked with a neighbor of the arson suspect who has lost everything. But the water damage and the smoke and the fire from the ceiling and the walls, its just its taken everything. Reporter kennedy is talking about what her apartment looks like almost 20 hours after it went up in flames. Holes in the roof, black soot everywhere and walls missing. Its a whole another picture now that i can actually see it for myself. First i thought maybe some of the stuff was salvageable, but its not. Reporter her story has been well documented. We talked with her wednesday morning, minutes after she jumped off this balcony to escape the flames. Her neighbor is the man accused of starting the fire. As to why he may have done it, its unclear. But she says he has mental problems and hasnt been taking his medicine. That suspect lived in this apartment right next to her and her son, one that is now destroyed. She says her apartment looks similar to this one. Thesely baskets are all that were salvaged out of the apartment. Right now, she is trying to stay optimistic. I got my album collection that ive been collecting since i was a teenager. Some of it has water damage. But i dont care. Its nostalgic. Reporter all of the apartments were affected by the fire. As bad as everything looks, she is thankful. I love my little apartment. I really did. But its all replaceable. Like i said, we all got out. So were just we will go on from there. Its all going to work out. Reporter this evening you can see the fence that now surrounds this Apartment Building that caught fire. Twila says her cat is still nowhere to be found. She is hoping that he is hiding in the neighborhood. As for the suspect in the case, he is behind bars. Kron 4 news. This date marks the 35th anniversary of the assassination of harry milk and george mascone. Many memorials were held in the city. San francisco politicians celebrated the lives and service of the two men that forever changed San Francisco. What arose out of those hears of struggle, particularly with the leadership of the mayor and supervisor harvey milk was the beginning of embracing and understanding diversity. Reporter San Francisco mayor ed lee reflecting on the legacy of the two men who died at the hands of a gunman, a gunman who was once a colleague of theirs. I dont think i would be standing in front of you all today as the mayor of San Francisco but for the leadership and sacrifice of mayor mascone and supervisor milk. Reporter Affordable Housing was an issue that harvey milk had championed. End homelessness now. Stop evictions now. Reporter the assassination of milk and mascone changed the political land scape of San Francisco forever and the two men will always be remembered here in the castro. Im jeff bush in San Francisco, kron 4 news. Ahead of glides annual thanksgiving tradition. Each year glide Memorial Church serves a full thanksgiving dinner with all of the fixings to more than 5,000 people. That includes, hams, turkeys, sides and desserts. Volunteers were busy preparing the feast. For 50 years they have been serving people. He says that thanksgiving is one of his favorite days of the year. Thanksgiving is a day of hope frankly speaking. It should be observed that way. The food of course is number one. I mean, you get that turkyand that gravy and stuffing together and you really have got something going. So thats a great day for us. All of us. No matter where people come from. Its a great day. More than 1,000 turkeys and hams have been donated to glide. And organizers say more volunteers are always welcomed to serve the thanksgiving dinner guests. Not a lot of fog, no low clouds. We have high clouds starting to build. That will continue through thanksgiving. Temperatures similar to what we saw today. For black friday, we are looking for fewer clouds and slightly warmer temperatures. That continues into the weekend where we have the sun coming out as well. Tomorrow morning, temperatures were looking for 51 in San Francisco. Getting down to 50 in oakland. 45 in fremont and down to 8 na pleasanton. For turkey day forecast, partly cloudy skies. Not terribly overcast. And again, black friday, we are looking for mostly sunny skies. Wood burning discouraged. Continues a spare the air day but the air Quality Management district is requesting if you can avoid burning wood, please do so. Now, we have good high temperatures on tap for tomorrow mid60s for the most part. 67 for sunnyvale. 67 in the valley. 66 for santa clara. 64 in fremont. For the east bay, mid60s here as well. 66 in walnut creek. 65 in castro valley. 65 in richmond. San francisco financial districts getting to about 63 tomorrow. Only 59 in r7ec 62 goes for san mateo as well. A good looking weekend both saturday and sunday. Plenty of sunshine in store. Then temperatures fall off the cliff. Getting cooler next week. Hybrids, high tech cars take center stage tomorrow night on kron 4 as we bring you a special preview of the San Francisco International Auto show at 8 30 tomorrow night right here on kron 4. In sports, a milestone for a coaching legend. Gary is next with sports. 5cwc5c5c5c5c5c5ccycy5c5cwc5c5c5c good evening, everybody. No quitting the warriors this evening. Dallas, texas here we go. Monte ellis only scored four points but they didnt need him to score big. They have a winning team again with monte leading the charge. Mavs at one point up 17. Ellis did have 10 assists. Stephen curry led the warriors on a 130 run. 4th quarter and the mavs lead it down to 4. Curry had 8 assists. Dirk still shooting that turn around jumper after all of these years. Ellis, curry, the mavs win 103 99. The warriors celebrate thanksgiving tomorrow. And sam was laughing earlier instead of you get to celebrate with how many men, pam, 50 men in football. Now you get to watch 12 guys in basketball. Wipe it because kevin the body guard wants to show you Something Special. Jason kidd less than 10 seconds left after a laker free throw. Tried to ice the shooter literally, dropping a deal of ice on the floor. Kidd said hey, i got bumped by a player. Nonetheless jason in his rookie season. The lakers win it 9994. Another notch in the history books. She became the fifth womens coach to win 900 games. Those are exclusive highlights. My gosh, it looked like the kron kitchen. Here we go with the cal men. Congratulations tara. We go to the maui invitational. Mike montgomery is up. Its fine to strut around when youre winning but they have lost two in a row over in hawaii. A nice night for cal. But dayton wins 8264. Dropping the bears to 52. Sharks and kings, they tell me Something Special for a regular season game tonight in san jose. Joey thorton drives the sharks the advantage with the game tied at 2 in the shootout its thorton. And then its up to ante to send everybody home and he does. They win. The kings pick up a point. Sharks get 2. The sharks host st. Louis on friday. Became a National Name by dating the quarterback. Talked all about her. She was asked as an auburn graduate would she root for her school remember this, pam. Not as well as you do. I see james getting excited. She has five or six years on the alabama quarterback. But she said today, and youll be happy to know, she is rooting informer her boyfriend to win on saturday, not what did i say what did i call dan . Did i call dan by the wrong name. You said james. Im so sorry. Weve been friends for about 20 years. Catherine now i have ruined the whole thanksgiving. Catherine webb was asked are you rooting for your boyfriend or your homeschool. And she is voting for her boyfriend. And i apologize, dan, but pam could have as a friend let it go. I dont think there would have been a stampede on the station. You didnt have to say it. I felt so bad calling a good friend of mine you would have been mad that i didnt tell you. The 49ers are playing on sunday. The raiders play tomorrow. And dan, youre a good friend. Im going to go online tonight and apologize. On kron4. Com. Or your mobile app or check it in the morning at 4 00 a. M. Happy thanksgiving. The black friday shopper who was pepper sprayed. My eyes are burning. Just burning and screaming and yelling. It was like a little war zone. What they are doing this year to make sure it doesnt happen to you. Then, new aleck baldwin melt down. Reporter did he really kick a cancer patient out of his makeup room . And princess taylor swift. Plus, hot mom at it again. Wait until you hear what shes saying about these plussized ladies in lingerie. And then flu shot mystery. Did a flu shot lead to the death of this te