Happened as he was climbing near or onto the third story of the Training Facility. We are trying to make sure that his family is the numberone priority and that they are given all the time necessary to mourn this along with all of his brothers and sisters at the San Francisco Fire Department. Reporter dozens of firefighters and Law Enforcement gathered outside the hospital where he had been taken after the fall. While little is known about exactly what happened, firefighters were able to tell us a lot about the life he lived. Jason is not only a fellow firefighter paramedic, hes a friend to all. Hes an advocate for public safety. Hes a father of two children, a husband to an amazing wife, and a child to a retired San Francisco firefighter. Reporter they say he rose from a paramedic in 2007, working mostly at station 49, that he attended fire academy, graduated as a firefighter paramedic assigned to station 3 in the tenderloin. Late today a powerful image as a procession for the fallen
President ial debate. This time we heard mostly uninterrupted from both Vice President pence and senator Kamala Harris. They squared off at the university of utah in salt lake city. Now the candidates were separated by 12 feet and plexiglass dividers. Senator harris requesting the additional safety measure because of the Vice President s potential exposure to the president. As we all know has contracted the coronavirus. The two answered questions from coronavirus to taxes with some occasional interruption. Joe biden has been very clear. He will not raise taxes on anybody who makes under 400,000 a year. Im speaking. Im speaking. The important thing is you say the truth. Joe biden said twice in the debate last week that he will repeal the trump tax cuts. We begin our Team Coverage with jay gray in salt lake city. Jay . Hey there. Good evening, jessica. Good evening, raj. You could tell this would be a. Different debate than the president ial debate last week. Psych the covid protections
We do, for sure. It has been so long since we have blue skies. I think everyone is ready for that. We are going to go a record 28 days for the spirit air alerts for the bay. You saw that live look of how smoggy it is. We have, we have that smoke this morning. Checking the airquality conditions, all the red dots indicating that unhealthy air. For the middle peninsula down the south bay. All waking up with unhealthy airquality. To conquer, walnut creek, around the bay, San Francisco, unhealthy air through larkspur, san rafael, the northbay, santa rosa, windsor, petaluma. All of us starting off our day with all that smoke once again. We have the spare the air alert, all of us as we look to the afternoon still dealing with those unhealthy airquality conditions. Because of that smoke we are looking at temperatures, seasonal if not below average for this time of year. Mid 80s for concord, livermore, 70 in oakland and mid60s for San Francisco. Im tracking the return of our seabreeze. I will l
Be put on pause. Reporter but listen to how only yes, mayor london breed was paging a positive picture of the covid situation in San Francisco. Praising people for Wearing Masks. It is why we are seeing lower numbers here in San Francisco for the number of cases, and as we see, the numbers increase in the state of california. We still see San Francisco doing okay. Reporter so what happened in the past 24 hours to change her mind . What changed overnight . Well, what changed overnight, sadly, we got 100 new cases. When you look at the data, there has never been a time where weve seen that level of a surge since march. Reporter according to the health department, the city reported 103 new cases yesterday. More concerning to its director is the rate of new cases. It has nearly doubled since june 14. So weve always talked about the curve, right . Right now in terms of new cases, we are in a very steep curve. That curve is not flat like it te medai d t b data and science. Businesses like th
South. Its closed some of thats going through the Santa Clara Valley. Santa cruz mountains over towards santa cruz, monterey. I dont think it will amount to too much, but its in the mix there. So 68, mostly cloudy south, partly sunny, north, 6070s and 80s. Sal is here on a friday and im i got to get out of the house right now. My commute is its pretty good you know we do have a new crash reported on the san mateo bridge on westbound 92. We can go right out there. I dont see anything yet, but chp is on the way to a crash westbound bound near the high rise. And well see if chp does indeed find something when it gets there. You can see also that the traffic is going to be okay. In fact, a lot lighter than usual at the bay bridge toll plaza. Another update in just a few. But now at 701, lets get back to the headlines. We begin the latest this hour with the latest information on the wildfires in maui. Officials confirmed the fire killed at least 55 people. That number, however, is expected