Side for the last week is on its way to las vegas. It has a slot next to the pool. Gusting up at 36, and it will be cooler, a howling breeze. 50s and 60s on the temperatures for the coolest day for a while. Cloverdale 53, 54 san rafael, petaluma at 57. Thunderstorms over this year for another day as this low head towards nevada, southern california. 60s, 70s, 80s and if you low 90s. It is 4 01 am. You have had a busy week, my friend. Good morning. It has been busy but im hoping today will be quiet. Lets go out to the tracy commute, westbound 580 looks okay on 205 and 580, off to a nice start. This is why the people get up early, to have a nice commute. We are not disappointed with the traffic into livermore and dublin, light traffic. Looking at interstate 880 in oakland, the traffic in front of the oracle arena looks good and also an uncrowded bay bridge toll plaza. The San Francisco city leaders did not want it but the National ParkService Granted the permit to allow Patriot Prayer to hold the rally at the crissy field this saturday afternoon. The rally organizers claim that the accusations against them are irresponsible and unfounded. Reporter the crissy field wideopen spaces now officially the place for the saturday controversial Patriot Prayer rally. The National ParkService Superintendent issued a long statement, we cannot deny a permit to anyone claiming to exercise their First Amendment right. We can deny permit application for Public Safety concerns that Law Enforcement cannot manage the be a the event. Later the Patriot Prayer organizer joey gibson spoke. We will have a bunch of speakers, black speakers, hispanic, and it is really diverse. I think its irresponsible for them to call me a White Supremacists this day. I think that tempers are too high and emotionally charged on both sides. I think it is scary for the community. I understand both sides and i do think people should have freedom of speech, but in a city like this with diverse city, we should look at security and wellbeing of the city. Reporter mayor ed lee denounced the permanent approval and the Patriot Prayer calling on people to ignore the event and to attend a peace rally at the city hall instead. I asked the residents of the San Francisco bay area to honor our request to not dignify people that are coming in here under the guise of Patriot Prayer words. Reporter gibson said that the mayor and other politician words are unfounded and says his goal is to bring people together a crissy field on a grassroots level. A lot of conservatives dont like my message sometimes because i can go left, and that depends on the situation. I am progay rights, against the drug war and my main thing is printable. Having a conversation is one thing but this is a high profile media event that will attract people that want to do more than that. Reporter ktvu fox 2 news. The group Patriot Prayer is not on the Southern Poverty Law Center list of hate groups. The San Francisco police chief has been assaulted by hundreds of Police Departments from all over the country with suggestions on security plans that he will use. There are businesses that say they will be closed and they say that priority is for everyone to be safe. Saturdays are great day for birthday parties and all kinds of events but we are mostly concerned about customer safety so its for the best we close down saturday. I have lived in this city for over 20 years and ive never seen anything like this. I am worried it could happen again, but i hope for the best. I hope everyone is careful and safe. The parking lot at the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed at 9 00 tomorrow night through saturday night and several roads will be closed. The event zone is open only to the pedestrians at the mason and lyon street, and the main post is offlimits to the pedestrians and the cars. The Park Services banning dozens of items from the rally including guns, other weapons are items that can be used as weapons, large signs, backpacks, bicycles and shields. To get more information about the rally you can get everything you need to know on our website. The white nationalists rally in charlottesville, virginia, and christopher pad well turned himself into the Virginia Police after warrant had been issued for his arrest for illegally using teargas but he says he used it in self defense against the counter protester and he was featured in a news documentary about White Supremacists and he talked about wanting to be more violent and he posted a Youtube Video crying about the warrant for his arrest. The Grassroots Movement aimed at healing, one america founded by muslim, jewish and christian leaders after the president ial election and they form the group because of divisions all over the country along the political, racial and religious lines, and they said they promote unity through dialogue and community service. The state Supreme Court is expected to announce the decision that would speed up the process of carrying out the Death Penalty and they approved proposition 66 which set the fiveyear limit on the appeal to the death entity but opponents say it is unrealistic and it was challenged in court right now and the Death Penalty can last 25 years or more. There have been 13 executions since the Death Penalty was reinstated in california in 1978 , and the last one was 11 years ago. Three years ago today napa was hit by a 6. 0 earthquake damaging thousands of businesses and homes across the napa valley causing almost 1 billion in damage. A grandmother had died after the television toppled down on her. The city of napa is still restoring Historic Buildings that were heavily damaged including the old courthouse and post office. Coming up later we will talk live to the owners of one vineyard that recovered from the big earthquake. The second largest jackpot in the powerball history has a winner, one Winning Ticket for the 759 million was purchased in boston Area Convenience store, watertown, massachusetts. In california three tickets were sold that matched five out of six numbers and two in the bay area. They were sold in daly city, Newport Beach and milpitas. We can only hope and during. It is 4 09 am. Bart riders are jumping into action and what they did to save the life of a man in the path of the approaching train. Uc berkeley professor resigns with this post with the state department, and the message he sent to the white house in a letter. Looking at the bay bridge, traffic is light at the toll plaza so far. We have more on your commute into San Francisco. It looks cooler today before all systems are go for the warm up, temperatures coming down a little bit today. Ay. My sweethearts gone sayonara. This scarf all thats left to rememb. What. She washed this like a month ago the long lasting scent of gain. Now available in matching scents across your entire laundry routine. Welcome back to mornings on 2, it is 4 12 am. President trump calling for National Unity during a speech in reno for military veterans. It was a sharp contrast to his tuesday night combative speech in phoenix. Reno he said he wanted to ease the tensions after the deadly conflict in charlottesville. We are one people with one home, and one great flag. About 1000 protesters showed up outside of the Convention Center in reno but the demonstration was mostly peaceful. Uc berkeley professor serving as the signs on boy for the u. S. Department of state has resigned because he is opposed to the policies of president trump. Daniel kammen said it was spurred by the decision the president truck and he says he is troubled by the trump response to the violence in charlottesville. The first letter of each paragraph spells impeach. The message is hidden but he says it was intentional. One of the key jobs of the president is to find ways to pull people together but it is pretty clear that charlottesville was a very distinct clear group of neo nazis, White Supremacists, and to do not call that out without having to go back and forth about both sides, etc. , that made no sense to me. Daniel kammen says when it comes to impeachment he is not speaking about it in legal terms but says that the president s actions are causing harm in the u. S. And abroad. The white house is moving ahead with the proposed military transgender ban and new guidelines are expected to released any data the pentagon. The wall street journal reports the directive would give the military six months to get ready for the ban and it would stop minding funding for the gender medical treatments, and it outlines the guidelines to remove the transgender servicemembers. The president sparked a backlash when he tweeted that transgender could no longer serve in the military due to the tremendous medical cost and disruption it creates. Forcing the cancellation of the concert and ending with the rest of the 22yearold man, spanish authorities notified officials in the netherlands of a possible threat at the concert. A man was driving the van that was carrying gas canisters when it was stopped but they say they found nothing else suspicious in the vehicle and that the driver couldve been drunk. They said they will question him farther but are not commenting on what type of threat against the concert was made. The governor of texas is declaring a state of disaster for several dozen counties and Tropical Storm harvey is approaching and it could turn into a hurricane. It is now in the gulf of mexico but expected to drop a lot of rain and causing a lot of flooding in Southeast Texas over the weekend. The areas are already starting sandbag operations, and there is a run on the Emergency Relief Supplies for bottles of water, batteries, and some parts of texas could see 10 to 15 inches of rain over the next couple of days. When the hurricane comes to the gulf coast area everyone leaves but the infrastructure cannot handle all of that traffic. Luckily we dont have to worry about that type of National Disaster here, and we have other issues in the traffic world. You are correct. Alexandra. That is what my name is short for. But i do like the name allie. Good morning. People are getting on the road early through san jose and morgan hill, and it looks pretty good heading up into the valley. There are no major issues. This is why people get up irby early to get on the road before the main crowd. Here is 280 with a live look over downtown san jose north down, looking good up highway 17. Nice drive up to the west valley. Looking at interstate 880 northbound, traffic moving well in both directions. The east bay commute is also off to a nice start. Lets bring steve in for the weather. Just call me stephen. But i did not know your name was alexandra. It is a lovely name. Actually texas could see over 20 inches of rain from Tropical Storm harvey. It looks like it will head inland around Corpus Christi. The problem is that it will be a very slow mover. The 7day outlook has over 20 inches of rain from Corpus Christi to houston. That is some texas size rain on the way and it looks like it will hang around for a long time. Our low, i like that pattern. As it projects out it is increasing the fog in the onshore breeze, and setting the stage for the High Pressure to build in. Mainly we have and offshore breeze and it turns back around the low and up toward monterey. For us it is on shore city and the fog is filling in rapidly at the sonoma and mendocino coast. The fog is making a good push over inland areas and moving big time. Santa cruz, Santa Cruz Mountains and 25 gusting up to 39. That is an extra hold on the hairspray day. 50s, 60s in oakland from alameda, and everyone is pretty close. Lakeport at 60, brentwood 64, san jose 63, oakland at 63. East bay low to mid 60s and a lot of 50s. Danville, blackhawk, livermore 57. Martinez 56 so everyone is pretty close. Thunderstorms over the sierra but decreasing as this flow moves out. We may have one more day but this is focused more central and southern. As this low kicks out High Pressure is on its way tomorrow. Today is cooler with 60s, 70s and 80s which are slightly below average but getting ready to go above average. Tomorrow is the transition day before it gets hot. Not everybody but inland could get toasty sunday and monday, maybe some cooling by tuesday. It is still august. Coming up, the breaching of the divide by bringing people together, policing and use of force town hall meeting. Who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. From far away. But they honly see his wrinkles. Hes gotta play it cool to seal the deal. Better find a way to smooth things over. If only harry used some. Bounce, to dry. Yeah he would be a less wrinkly, and winning at life. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. 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Reporter the Barbershop Forums came about because of the vision of three men, two Law Enforcement officers and the community organizer. Both of my sons were on the platform with oscar brent when he was murdered. I became an organizer and through organizing i was so angry at the police. I was not feeling it, but then i met bobby and mike. We need to Relationship Building we started with the Barbershop Forum to build the base. We want to focus on the solution and not just come here to point fingers at each other but what can we do together to make the communities better. Reporter over the pass eight months these sessions have grown from the small barbershop in san leandro to the seventh and Largest Forum yet. Thank you all for joining us. This is a huge crowd. Reporter over 200 people showed up at the Training Center in east oakland with the panelists ready to answer direct questions from the citizens, police chief, city officials and the District Attorney of Alameda County on hand to explain the policies. The most emotional topic was officer involved shootings. There is a paradigm shift going on in Law Enforcement that just because you could legally use the threat of force does not mean that you should. Reporter saying that the department has reduced its use of force by 70 and explaining how the investigation into the officer involved shooting takes place, and for the first time as a group those making the decisions were put in the hot seat directly answering tough questions from the public. Did they drug test these officers that do the shootings . We do random testing. I have not been here for shooting yet but apparently we do not do that as a practice. Why is it okay for the Police Officers to open and close the body cameras . We do not have it on 24 7 because we interview children for sexual assault, and that must be manually activated and we dont put the camera on them. Reporter one man shot and killed by the police, and family questioning how this can be independent of each other during the investigation when they work sidebyside. What you claim these investigations are done independently when they are actually done sidebyside . They will observe or participate in the statement taken by the officers that are involved in the shooting. After that there is no sideby side. My is not the issue of how the investigation took place but why the shooting took place in the first place. Reporter for some the issue boils down to are you a racist . Reporter ktvu fox 2 news. It is 4 26 am. Last night in berkeley tom petty canceled the concert saying that unfortunately due to the laryngitis tonight berkeley show is been postponed until monday, august 28. All tickets will be honored. That message never reached a lot of people that showed up at the Greek Theater last night. If you have a ticket and cannot go to the monday concert, you can get a refund. That is tough because people make plans, hire the babysitter and all of that. Coming up on mornings on 2, the source of complaint in the bay area neighborhood, a Grocery Store that closed more than two years ago maybe sitting empty for years to come. High School Football players and lake county, the coach and sheriffs deputy died in the line of duty. Seed to the oat to the o, to the bowl to the spo n bowl to the spoon, to the mouth of the boy in the room room for that goodness. Inside him to bloom good goes around. And around. And around seed to the oat to the o, on the first day of school schoolin your sister on why. And just how to be cool cool if she hangs, you can show her whats go d good goes around. And around. And around good goes around and around she pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. But once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. I use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. You are free to go. Tide and downy together. This is ktvu mornings on 2. On a thursday morning you have to have the right kind of music. A little bit of rick james. Here live pictures looking across the bay area, the bay bridge and the estuary. Here we have a little bit of rick james early this morning. Welcome back and thank you for joining us here on mornings on 2 on this thursday, august 24. I am dave clark. I am allie rasmus in for pam cook. We will talk about texas because houston, i think we have a problem. They have projected rainfall of over 20 inches. I saw one projection of 40 but i think that would be aggressive. Tropical storm harvey expected to reach hurricane strength and on its way to Corpus Christi is how it looks. From Corpus Christi to houston it will rain and rain. If you have travel plans down