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Of homeland security. We know him and respect him and admire what he has done. At homeland, what he has done has been nothing short of miraculous reporter his military background could bring much needed order to the white house. He appears to be wasted no time. At the end of the day the chief of staff must be a strong leader. Thats what is bringing to the table. Reporter President Trump insists everything is smooth sailing in his administration treating highest stock market ever, best economic number in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, border secure, supreme court, no white house chaos. Reporter kelly has a packed agenda as the president pursues Health Reform and a hostile north korea. For more on this latest white house shakeup, david mcewen joins us now. David, for you surprised to learn about the removal of scaramucci . Obviously, the general, general kelly had to put forth his best step in get control of the white house and the white house agenda. Theres been nothing but chaos since the Trump Administration began. That has continued nonstop. If you think about events over the last 10 days, youve had the interview by scaramucci, healthcare go down, a series of missteps by the white house. This is a first attempt by general kelly to assert his authority and put the Trump White House back on footing where accomplishments will head into the full term. What does this tell you about trumps faith in general kelly that on his first day on the job, general kelly wants scaramucci out and President Trump fires him . One lesson is that no one is bigger than the president. You cant get too big for your britches at the white house or you will be reined in. This is an opportunity by general kelly to rain heard over white house that has had unfettered access to the president. Any of these folks have been able to get into the white house and into the oval office unfettered. This is a way to rain and on that and get control over the agenda and over what is happening within the white house itself. This is a presidency shot from the hip and if you will, somewhat of a reality tv show. They want to rain that into a degree. What you think about possible changes to the rest of the . Do you see that happening at all quick thats something we want to watch. If something happens with the fbi or russia, that will affect what the chief of staff wants to do. If attorney general sessions silver to homeland security, who will fulfill that role and what role do they have relative to bob mueller in the fbi investigation. All of this will run downhill as we move into the fall term and its something to watch. The white house is trying to get some discipline which is something its lack for the last 192 days. Weve seen whats been going on, what you see happening in the next six months quick you need a legislative accomplishment. Whether thats an infrastructure bill or whether that looks like healthcare reform, you only have until after the august recess. You have until the end of september to get something done. Your into that 2018 midterms and that starts at the end of september and more than one full year before the midterm elections begin themselves. Thank you so much for your time and for your perspective. Senate republicans are planning to tackle tax reform despite trumps pressure to keep working on the repeal of obamacare. Republicans are pitching ideas for tax reform. They hope to make the tax code simpler and to embrace a strategy that will benefit middleclass families. Members of the house of adjourned. House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke about tax reform yesterday on a sunday talkshow. Regulatory relief, working on labor supply, welfare to work. Tax reform. You can get to 3 Growth Without tax reform. If they do the same thing, they will fail on tax reform. They will fail on infrastructure. Instead on those issues, work with us. Lawmakers are headed for a difficult month when they return in september. In addition to this pending legislation, there will be four weeks to come up with the spending plan to prevent the government shutdown. Healthcare advocates are touring the nation to show support for obamacare. He made a stop in sacramento today. Drive for our lives gathered on the north steps of the capital. They spoke out against the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Several shared stories about how it helped them get through a medical crisis. They are calling for a bipartisan fix and are demanding and into the political posturing. What we are working on his left up the issue of healthcare in our nation. We the people need to protect medicaid. We need to make sure our people have access to healthcare and that we approve the Affordable Care act. Obamacare is collapsing and needs to be replaced because up as an unfair financial burden on middleclass families. Soaring premiums and deductibles or people putting people in the poorhouse and others have lost access to their preferred doctors and healthcare plans. A vietnam veteran who saved lives in a vicious today battle is the newest recipient of the middle of honor. He was prepared to lay down his life so that his brothers in arms could live theres. President trump presented the highest military honor to James Mcluhan during a white house ceremony today. He was a 23yearold medic when he rescued 10 wounded and stranded soldiers despite being seriously injured. The 71yearold native from michigan said it was the love that he and his comrades had for each other that kept him going on the battlefield. A 15 Hour Police Standoff to follow the deadly shooting in San Francisco has ended. Police said it started before midnight when they were called to the area of 15th street near castro and found an elderly woman with a gunshot wound. The suspected gunman went inside his home and refused to come out. People who live in that area were ordered to shelter in place. An Evacuation Center was set up at Mckinley Elementary School for those kept out of their homes. The female shooting victim did die of her injuries. About 15 hours after it all started, the man was taken into custody. Police say he had shot himself. The individual surrendered suffering from what appears to be a single gunshot wound to the chest area. He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital where he is being treated. This is a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Police have not identified the suspect or the woman who died or revealed the relationship between the two. A man is in custody and accused of recording a couple having sex and then trying to extort money from them. Henry lee is in the newsroom with more on the case. Reporter the suspect allegedly demanded 5000. He said he would post the sex tape of them online. The couple to go to fremont police. Reporter a 33yearold man was arrested on suspicion of extortion and invasion of privacy. Fremont police say he lived with his wife at this apartment complex and rented a room to another couple this past spring. The couple moved out and then got emails from an unknown sender who claim to have a sex tape of them he said he had a sex tape of you and if you dont send me money, we will send it out to your family members and they name specific places where these family members lived. Reporter police say he sent them screenshots from the video showing them in their apartment. The suspect threatened to post the video on facebook and tech the couple unless he got 5000. The suspect gave the couple another way to make the video go away. The suspect said you dont have to pay me the money, but to the female victim, if you want to spend the night having sex for me i can give you the video back. Reporter they had to make sure the suspect was in a hacker. They pretended to be the female victim and got evidence that led back to him. They say he recorded the couple from a laptop that was made to look as if it was blacked out. This couples privacy was violated and they were threatened to a point where it would have damaged their life forever. People in the neighborhood were shocked. This is really scary, actually. Definitely we need to be more careful. Its really expensive here and its sad you dont have privacy and someone tried to ask them for money. Reporter the Alameda County da is reviewing the case before deciding whether to file charges. The suspect is free on bail. What about the suspects wife . Did she have a clue . She is not implicated at all. They did have to make sure you figured out who the suspect was. For now, she is clear of any wrongdoing. Was the suspect friends with these people . That he no them beforehand . That he just advertise in the happened to be the people they rented it out to quick it seems like the letter. This couple responded in these two couples live in the same room together. One thing led to another and we have this criminal case. They were in the same room quick two couples sharing as two couples sharing one room. A surgeon from ucsf goes to court accused of unlawfully prescribing an opioid. He is implicated in the death of a San Francisco woman a big letdown for open as found as sunny gray is treated. Up next, details from billy gray himself. We are tracking the heat. There will be a heat advisory for parts of the bay area. We will talk about that when we see you next. The oakland as have agreed to trade their top pitchers sunny gray to the new york yankees. The decision came at noon today, one hour before the trade deadline. Joe, sunny gray was scheduled to pitch tonight. Now he is packing up his locker. Reporter you are right. He was supposed to pitch yesterday and the ace took about of the rotation because the teams they were talking to asked to delay him one gay one day. You are right, since he did not start on sunday, he was scheduled tonight. I guess its about pride for the giants and the as in the bay bridge series. Both teams are in last place. If you talk about the 80s at the beginning of the year, three of their most popular players are gone. The latest is gray. He was the subject of trade rumors for some time. The as pulled the trigger with the new york yankees for three prospects. Two of those prospects in the best Case Scenario and outfielder and a pitcher will be in camp or healthy enough to play until next year spring training. The other is a shortstop going to aa. Sunny gray, a guy who was an allstar two years ago, struggled with injury. He pitched quite well recently. The general manager has been asked to explain the philosophy. If you keep trading for the future, when will the future be here quick this is part of our process. We are in last place. Sunny was a great player for russ. At this point, we need a lot of great players. We need the younger and hopefully the next cycle is one that we main chain and we think thats a goal here. I think this time with potentially a new stadium, there will be a new stadium. Now the whole model changes. I think that thats why this is taking place in theres an actual timetable that theyre looking at. They want to start keeping guys, its always been a bit of a shell game here. Reporter that is the as plan. The giants are searching for what their plan is. They had their worst loss of the year last night at Dodger Stadium when they blew two opportunities. The dodgers won an extra innings. Travis farmer was a tworun double that gave them the ninth walk off of the season. Farmer was addressed by his team play teammates. Bruce bochy is searching for answers as well. Its not easy. Your team gets in a slump, a year like this year, it has been mentioned that we forgot how to win. This team hasnt forgotten how to win. Granted, it hasnt gone very well. They are fighting and that is all you can ask about ask for. Reporter it has been said that baseball is the wallpaper, the background of the summer. You can be a baseball fan and come out to the game. You might see something youve never seen before. That will be my suggestion tonight if youre a fan. Just have a good time at the ballpark. Thats a good way to spend it. I like that, joe. Inc. You. New at 6 00, School Officials are failing to buy american for school lunches. The audit reviewed six major School Districts including San Francisco and found they were buying foreign source foods. The federal by american requires food process in the United States as much as possible. We think of opportunities to find the lowest cost food item. But we also have to consider the health and safety aspects. We have to consider the effect on the local economy. Education Officials Say the program is vague but agreed to implement improvements. The longdelayed commercial salmon season is ready to kick off tomorrow. Fishermen are believed to finally set out after a couple of tough years. Reporter today on fishermans wharf, fishermen celebrated the opening of the salmon season. We have the most beautiful fish. We are really excited to start fishing tomorrow. Reporter it will be a short salmon season to catch the california king salmon for a beleaguered shell shocked fleet we have three disasters. Last year salmon season, at the like thats the declaration for this year salmon season, and a season for crab from last year. Sea these past three years ive never seen in my 40 years. A collection of bad things happening. One after the other after the other after the other reporter only 20 million has been earmarked maximum for fishery Disaster Relief nationwide. Californias fishing industry and Fishing Services industries alone need 100 million in relief. The impact to fishing communities and individuals and businesses and families are absolutely sobering. I see it up and down by district. It begins at the Golden Gate Bridge and goes all the way to the oregon border. The Disaster Relief you speak of is vital to make sure community will be able to harbors seafood for the future. Reporter what this is really about is the nagging problem that california has faced forever. Who gets water . How much quick the salmon dont have enough water in their spawning habitat in the rivers to actually complete the whole process of spawning in low water and drought years lack of enough water going down rivers is insufficient to maintain healthy fish populations which may well said many fishermen down. Shut them down to the billionaires in the Central Valley to get subs today with more water and more subsidized water because they drove the groundwater over the last four or five years while we had season short and quick we have these water wars. More a more water gets sucked out of the delta and out of these rivers. It collapses ecosystems and the collapse of the ecosystem of San Francisco bay. Reporter 25 years ago there were more than 44 commercial salmon bows. Today, and there are just over 400. Ktvu fox2 news. Welcome back. Its pretty warm out there today. Salmon runs are very important to the state of california. It is part of what people come here to see. We want to keep it healthy. Just my little sidebar there. 85, napa. 82, san rafael. Highs tomorrow, a bit warmer. The National Weather service has issued a heat advisory for the hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the east bay and out in the livermore valley. For tomorrow, and right to your bay area on thursday. Not just for us. It will be down right hot in the inland valleys. Fog along the coast and nice around the bay. Inland will be sweltering. From redding down to bakersfield. Temperatures will be a full 10 degrees warmer than knees when i come back, we will talk about your longrange forecast. Still to come, to Central Valley Police Officers were covering. A suspect grabs an officer officers gun. And oscarnominated actor is gone too soon. What we are learning about the death of legendary playwright, actor and author, sam sheppard. Follow up to police have arrested a man on suspicion of setting fires. He was taken into custody over the weekend. Four counts of arson. He was arrested in connection with four small fires early last friday morning. The most serious involved a car set on fire. An officer on routine patrol on saturday recognized him from a surveillance photo and took him into custody. To Central Valley Police Officers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Police say the officers responded to a report of a man taking into an apartment in los banos and merced county. When the officers arrived, they got into a fight with the suspect. The suspect was shot. All three were airlifted to a hospital in modesto. One of the officers is said to be fighting for his life tonight. The other officer is in stable condition. The suspect ended up dying. Sam shepard, one of the most influential people in cinema has died. He received an oscar nomination for his role as chuck yeager in the right stuff. He appeared in films and on stage. He was raised in california and had strong roots here in the bay area. In 1975 he was playwright in residence at the magic theater in San Francisco. A produced 24 of his plays including mount tam. Sam shepard died at home in kentucky last thursday of complications from als. He was 73 years old. Still to come, a bay area surgeon under investigation. Next, the opioid he is accused of illegally prescribing. Good news a report about a train. It was stolen in the east bay. How social media helped reunite it with its owners