Every day, ikea is designing sleep sanctuaries to save our sleep. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Tourists who came to coin tower had more than a nice view to see. The Christopher Columbus statue was vandalized. After wrapping up a beautiful weekend, lots of sunshine. We are tracking a cooler week ahead. Well have the numbers coming up in the accuweather forecast. Governor newsom reviews the toll system. Im kate lawson in San Francisco. What the russian hill neighbors want to do next. Abc7 news starts right now. Now news to build a better bay area from newsom. Good evening, im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. The christ fur columbus statue was vandalized over thease. Abc7 News Reporter luz pena with why the explorer is seen as a polarizing figure. Reporte this vie telegraph h. We came here for the tower, the view. Reporter but many got more than just a view Christopher Columbus statue standing feet away from the tower was vandalized. Red paint covered the face of the controversial colonist. Genocide and kill all colonizers. What are your thoughts on being vandalized . I think its a very symbolic action that makes sense given how controversial of a figure columbus is. Native americans, he, you know, represents a lot of violence and the genocide towards their people. Reporter this tourist saw this action as a disrespect to the italian navigator. He was very important, and hes a National Hero in italy. Reporter supervisor aaron ay kin represents north be weekend is not celebrated. Instead today ais italian heritage idea. Also a year ago they voted to make columbus day the Indigenous Peoples idea. This is a despicable piece of behavior. These are events that happened 500 years ago. Reporter San FranciscoPolice Confirmed they are investigating the act of vandalism. There are surveillance towers and the cops are going to see what they can find off of those videos and somebody can be apprehended and charged. They will be. Reporter in San Francisco luz pena, abc7 news. You might recall the controversy over another columbus statue. It sat inside San Jose City hall for years. But in 2017 an online petition emerged demanding that it be removed. The city Council Agreed and it was removed to the italianamerican heritage foundation. Th spe tried toarefter speed way, he or she ran a red light hitting a car. The suspects vehicle then careened and slammed into a third car head on. The other driver is said to be in grave condition. Police say drugs and alcohol are suspected. Residents near world famous lombard street have long complained about the flow of tourist and traffic in their neighborhood. But this weekend governor gavin newsom put the brakes on a plan San Francisco came up with to reduce the congestion. Abc7 News Reporter is live on lombard street to explain. Kate . Reporter well, eric, its after 11 00 at night. And cars are still driving down lombard street. One of the crookedest streets in the world but also the busiest. So San Francisco city hall tried to come up with a plan for fee and reservation system. But Governor Newsom said the Pricing Program caranhae. But not Governor Newsom who rejected a bill saturday that would havencrc a reservation ane system 5 to 10 down the world famous crooked stretch. I thought i was actually in place and i thought we were going to be charged toll or some sort. Reporter she lives in san jose and was prepared to pay. For the residents here, great for them its probably going to discourage all this crazy stuff. Reporter but acosta agrees that the Pricing Program would create social equity issues. It would keep people who couldnt afford it away. The issue is not the fee. The issue is limiting the number of permits sold to the capacityt epteve i anortation chairill neighbors association. Hes disappoint governor rectedhe rervns, n tonehb. On ouiv away a you would still have a viable program because you would limit them. Reporter San FranciscoAssemblyman Phil Ting introduced the now vetoed bill but says he will be sitting down with officials next week to discuss plan b. With ehope that we can all find a solution that works not just for the city but also for the state. Reporter Catherine Stephanie also said that shes not giving up. She said i will keep working with our state representatives in San Francisco to address the governors concerns in new revised legislation to alleviate the safety and Environmental Issues on lombard street. So steve also tells me that his Neighborhood Association is trying to come up with Traffic Enforcement alternatives to try to make the area around lombard street more liveable and driveable for all of the russian hill residents. Well, for the weekend as a whole blue skies and plenty of sunshine provided the perfect backdrop for fleet week action. And the navys blue angels did not disappoint during their performance this afternoon. The team did get a late start delayed for a few minutes because of fog. But the show went on as planned. Those who stopped to watch were thrilled. Service members who were in San Francisco this week say they are just as excited to interact with the public. Its a time for the navy and marine corps to show francisco. We are just happy to be here. Tours of some of the military ships in town for fleet week continue tomorrow before they set sail on tuesday. Theres been a Big Development abroad. Syrian kurdish Officials Say they will work with the countrys government in damascus to fend off turkeys offensive. The major shift comes hours just after word of pulling troops out of sirra. Kurdish led forces shrugged off damascuss rule. Back home the bay areas Kurdish Community is rallying this weekend in protest of the turkish aggression and the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from Northern Syria. Abc7 News Reporter cornell bernard followed the protesters as they marched through San Francisco. Reporter bay area kurds were making their presence known in union square. These people and their supporters are outraged about whats happening in their homeland. All of us are feeling pain and sadness right reporter tg president trumps decision to pull back u. S. Troops from Northern Syria and turkeys brutal assault on u. S. Backed kurdish troops and civilians. We are watching genocide unfold before our very eyes and nothing is happening. Air strikes of this point is mostly targeting civilians and hospitals and there is no justification for that at all. Reporter the same pro Kurdish Group staged another protest at sfo on saturday next to the Turkish Airlines ticket counter. Bay area anthropologist visited the syrian territory this summer. I have seen people being killed by isis. So the victory over isis is absolutely farfetched nonsense. Isis hasnt been defeated. Reporter the group then took their protest to the street. The Trump Administration says its ready to impose severe sanctions on turkey. This group says thats fine but not enough. They want a no fly zone in Northern Syria. They also are urging people to boycott turkish products. In the south bay we are awaiting word from the San Jose Police department on the itd of a body found inside a parked car last night. The family of tech executive erin valenti halted its search after hearing of the discovery. She heads up a company in utah and missed her flight home from a business trip to the bay area in monday. Her parents told our Media Partners they fear she may have had a manic episode. All ofasli its planned outage did not go as planned. How it tried to apologize to customers today. And there wont be any lunch shaming at california schools. The bill signed by the governor that is going to have a huge impact on students and their health. And im meteorologist drew tuma. We are tracking the fog rolling back in tonight. We are leading to a cooler tha pg e took out a full page ad in todays San Francisco chronicle that includes an apology and a warning. The headline reads when faced with dangerous weather we chose safety. The utility says its sincerely sorry for the hardships caused by the outage, but it also says there could be more power shutoffs in the future. In Southern California people are being allowed to return to their homes as firefighters make progress on the saddleridge fire that. Fire is blamed for at least two deaths while destroying more than a dozen homes. Marci gonzalez was there asevac their homes survived. Reporter tonight the destruction left behind from those ferocious California Wildfires coming into focus. Powerful winds blowing burning embers into houses. Firefighters doing all they could to keep those flames from spreading. But there were dozens of homes they could not save including monica and drew silvers. I wish they would have been earlier to save mine. Its not their fault. They are fighting the fires where they are fighting them. But it was pretty crazy how fast it came. Reporter those fast moving flames here in Los Angeles County destroying nearly 8,000 acres and nearly everything the silvers owned. Their wedding rings, childrens keepsakes and their entire photography business. All of the props, all of the equipment. We dont have a place to work. Reporter tonight with all evacuation orders lifted and thousands returning home, the silvers say they too feel lucky. The stuff doesnt matter. Reporter and firefighters are still out watching for hot spots while investigators look into whether powerlines may have started this fire. Marci gonzalez, abc news, los angeles, california. With help from a napa third grader, Governor Newsom has signed a bill banning lunch shaming. The new measure guarantees that all students in california have a statefunded meal of their choice even if their parent or guardian has unpaid meal fees. Ryan cocote brought National Attention to the issue when he used his allowance to pay the fellow food Service Bills of his fellow students. I saw this girl was in line and then she was going to get lunch and she got her lunch and they said, yeah, you have to give it back, and then she was sad. So she went in the back of the line and then kids started laughing at her so she went in the corner and started crying. News room has also thanked ryan for his efforts saying i want to thank him for his empathy and his courage in bringing awareness to this important issue. It was great to meet you, and thank you and i hope i can meet you again. Weve been up, well i have anyway been celebrating with everybody, everybody whos worked so hard on this bill to get it passed. So one state down, 49 to go and then we go federal. Well, good on you, ryan. You see him right there with Governor Newsom. Abc7 news is committed to building a better bay area. And we are focusing on a variety of issues that affect our way of life. They range from homeless and housing and transportation and the environment and that includes recycling. We have seen a number of centers in the bay area close recently. But help could be on the way. Governor newsom has signed a bill to start a mobile recycling pilot program. 5 million will go towards cal recycle which will be run by the state. One of the largest operators replanet shut down its operations in august and let go of hundreds of employees. Additional funding in the bill will help repsych ailing centers around the state stay open. I was going to check on the forecast now what you have to look forward to, heres drew. For some of us, eric, maybe its a 3day weekend well find some sunshine before we see cooler temperatures kind of rule much of the week ahead. Live doppler 7 along with satellites showing cloud cover is giving way to clear skies inland. But still that fog is banked up right along the coast line. So the picture outside, look at that, the exploreatorium camera. It will be a cloudy start for a lot of us tomorrow morning. Could even have some drizzle right along the coast line first thing monday morning. So what we are expecting over the next couple of days first in the near term we are tracking that fog that you see right now along the coast spilling in and around the bay shoreline. That will linger for tomorrow morning. The afternoon will feature a lot of sunshine. Temperatures pretty close to average but even midweek we will find those numbers dropping even more. Well go below average wednesday and into thursday. So no intense heat coming our way the next four to five days. It certainly is cool in spots right there. Look at the north bay. We are at 47 down in santa rosa. 54 right now in the city and in oakland. 58 in san jose and livermore, a little bit cooler at about 52 degrees. Wr finding that mar kwleen mar n coming on back. Ther was a storm system that moved into the pacific northwest, brought rain to seattle and portland today. It is a trough that is situated right along the west coast and that is keeping temperatures on the cool side but also bringing back our marine layer. Look at that cloud cover along the coast spilling in and around the bay. We will have some chilly spots first thing tomorrow morning starting out in the 30s like napa and santa rosa. Elsewhere we will be in the 40s. San Francisco Holding at about 50 degrees. We do have a full moon out there where you can see it. Lets track that fog for you first thing tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. Patchy fog in and around the bay shoreline pulling back to the coast pretty slowly. So by midday we are seeing a lot of sunshine away from the coast but close to the coast line we have some fog for much of the day. Highs in the micro climate starting in the south bay tomorrow, a lot of sunshine for san jose. 74 cupertino. Along the peninsula we start out with cloud cover giving way to sunshine, 67 redwood city. 71 for mountain view. Downtown tomorrow it will feel cool, only 63. Thats below average for this time of the year. 65 for San Francisco. Oakland tore up to 70 with afternoon sunshine. 74 union city. And inland tomorrow 79 concord, so the accuweather 7day forecast morning fog tomorrow, steady pattern as we head into tuesday. A little bit cooler midweek wednesday and thursday we are dipping below average for this time of the year. Sunny and pleasant on friday. The weekend, eric, starts out kind of breezy on saturday and the winds calm down on sunday, temperatures slightly below normal for this time of year. Slightly below normal is fine. Thank you, drew. 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