Efforts at latino outreach. And not letting up. Breonna taylors mother tells us why a 12 million settlement does not equal justice for her daughter who was killed by police. First here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The flooding has already begun. This storm is 500 miles wide and wind is not the biggest concern, believe it or not. Its the water. Sally, expected to bring historic flooding to the gulf coast. Nine feet of storm surge. This is not survival. Smoke from Deadly Wildfires in the west has drifted all the way across the country. The air outside right now is at historically polluted levels. Nancy pelosi wants an investigation into a complaint alleging detained immigrants are undergoing questionable hysterectomies. Why . I had no answers as to why. Town hall meeting. Why would you downplay a pandemic . I didnt downplay. I actually, in many ways, i upplayed it. Israel and two arab states signed deals establishing diplomatic ties. The city of louisville, kentucky, a
Back on march, 1620 20 the bay area was the first region in the country to issue a shelterinplace order in response to the covid19 pandemic. But this is written. A 100 years from now everybody is going to remember that day that the that the 6 perry counties plus the city of berkeley lock things down it stopped. Literally thousands of deaths, although california is trending in the right direction for slowing the spread of the coronavirus doctor George Rutherford professor of epidemiology at the university of california San Francisco says now is not the time to stop being vigilant. I mean you can catch yourself on the back a little bit. I mean we clearly did a great job in march and april and into may. Little away from us in june as you know he is referring to the pandemic surging in the wake of the memorial day weekend. He cautions the return of that behavior could prompt another surge over the next 6 months which has some major holidays. We have a very clear example of how we can mess
Reopening those Public Schools in San Francisco or whether they will continue Distance Learning like we saw in san jose this week. Were live in San Francisco, kenny choi, kpix5. The bay area is taking a deep breath today for the first time in 30 days, no spare the air alert. The unhealthy air forcing it to close. Minutes ago, the parks it is closed all roads and park entrances, the smoke expected to stick around to the weekend. Now paul, is the air here in the bay area going to stay clear, though . It will. We will see our by our variations and airquality, just within the past couple of hours. And along the coast. Still good air quality, moderate we can handle, we want to go back into the unhealthy air quality. It has been confined to the immediate is in the and downwind which is north of the large fire still burning. You can see all of it still spreading out, just covered in the thick wildfire smoke so this point. Switch over to the satellite perspective you can see the smoke plumes a
Site taylor. Well it happened at the Community Building next to the church and you can see its now boarded up but inside its looking a lot worse. I talked to neighbors earlier they told me that they heard a loud shattering noise in the middle of the night and soon after thats when this building caught fire Church Leaders believe that this is a hate crime. They say its politically motivated. Members of a San Francisco Armenian Church woke up to this destruction thursday morning, a suspected arson fire ripped through the first and second floor of its Community Building next to saint gregory the illuminator or median church make me feel that upset. If whitman them a building damage should doesnt do any good to anybody you know financial the destruction on to on chairman of the churchs board of trustees believes they were does to these some kind a hate crime involved in we had a similar situation of keys evie school. And we think this is somehow a continuation. No one was really a veteran
Back to big story. Were following tonight, todays visit to california by President Trump is not only highlighting our Deadly Wildfires but also the strategies used to prevent them. Catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics is here with more on that catherine yeah grant and soon as we did hear it again today of course governor newsome. Focusing on Climate Change almost exclusively and President Trump focusing on Forest Management. Newsome pointing out correctly most forest land in the state is federally owned still should our leaders be addressing both concepts more thoroughly Climate Change and Forest Management. I asked our political analysts. Over 45 of californias 33 million acres are controlled by the u. S. Forest service and therefore its measured budget has all gone to fighting fires. So trump can blame this all in california. And you can remove Climate Change from the equation. The droughts are killing all vegetation that are tinder for fires. We didnt have fire tornadoe