But first plexiglass in the fda is now requiring at pick in the first round of the your wireless. Your rules. Place for tomorrows vice least two months to make sure the drug tests dont result in nhl draft. Only with xfinity mobile. President ial debate after why it caused a lot of buzz and any adverse two month divisions over dividers. Tears on social media tonight. Sports is next. Okay, it is not it is a debate before the debate. Should plexiglass be senator kad Vice President mike divider has decided. Tonight voters are hungry for information for the Vice President ial candidate to deliver. The balance and measure but insightful and sharp. Reporter trumppence supporters are expecting Vice President pence to deliver a solid performance at the one and only vp debate tomorrow. To have an actual impact laying out their policy. Reporter bidenharris supporteecics about how democra will handle critical stage is b seating and plexiglass between pence and harris. The candidates say they are ready to go. Stakes in this election have never been higher and the choice has never been clearer. And i look forward to the opportunity. I plan on talking about our vision for the there is so much at stake, but there do. Getting out the vote for biden and harris, Cynthia Hernandez is hoping the event wont be a repeat of the chaos of the first president ial debate and the candidates actually discuss the biggest issues facing the country. Climate change, you have to acknowledge it. Like were not were in california. Were not going to last much longer without a actual Green New Deal or call it something else. You know, figure out how everyone can get onboard. Reporter the chair of the San FranciscoRepublican Party is expecting substances as well bh. Itd be nice to cover how were going to pay back all this debt weve incurred. Now you can watch the Vice President ial debate rightnd ana team. Coverage begins at 6 00. President trump remains in isolation at the white house residence. No photoop but plenty of tweeting. Late tonight he dwrektd this ouse speaker nancy pelosi. Saying hes ready to sign a stand alone bill for stimulus well, finally tonight an checks if one is sent to him. This appears to be a reversal east bay woman checks off a from his tweets this morning. In earlier tweets the president bucket list item. She welcomed ellen into her instructed republicans to call off stimulus negotiations until after the election. Home. The newer bill would have she was diagnosed with a provided another round of payments to americans plus enh terminal disease five years ago unemployment benefits, covid and one of her top goals, to testing and help for small businesses. Meet ellen. Well, a different tweet the average andy is the producer caught twitters attention today on the show as you know and a after mr. Trump compared covid19 to the flu resulting in regular on the shows comedy twitter flagging that tweet as segments. Ellen pulled outusic that misleading. The president falsely claimed that the flu killed 100,000 people some years. In the past ten years the cdc keeps her going every day. Says the flu has killed an now thats a beautiful sight to see. Thats going to do it for us. Average of 35,000 people a year. Thank you for being with us. The nations top health stay safe and healthy. Official, dr. Fauci, responded well see you tomorrow. To the president s claim in a oneonone interview with nbcs kate snow. You dont get a pandemic that kills a Million People and it isnt even over yet with influenza, so it is not correct to say its the same as flu. Now, this comes as more people in the president s inner circle test positive. Trump advisor stephen miller, the latest person to contract the virus. At least 18 people who work in the white house including the president have now testedpositi. In spite of hispresident trump looking forward to the debate i next week. However, joe biden says the debate should be called off if the president is still covid positive. Now, when it comes to voting Santa Clara County hit a milestone this week. For the first time in history the number of registered voters hit the 1 million park. That number reflecting 83 of all eligible voters in the south bay. The county also says its a significant increase compared to july 2016 when only 60 of eligible voters registered to vote. We have a complete voter guide that goes beyond the president ial ticket and breaks down the ballot for every voter in every county. We also have information on where to go to cast your vote. Nbcbayarea. Com electionguide. Youll find it there. Just into the newsroom a call for help at a special City Council Meeting in vallejo. The city now asking leaders to declare a Public Safety emergency. Not only has the pandemic hit the city hard, but vallejo is currently on track to have one of the most deadly crime ridden years in nearly three decades. Police say they need more officers to ensure the Public Safety. Several officer involved shootings have depleted funds and have shaken the Publics Trust in that department. Well, tonight a former Police Officer on the peninsula is charged with two crimes. Prosecutors say he smashed a handcuffed mans head onto a windshield and then tried to cover it up. Its a story our Investigative Unit has been following for two years now. Nbc bay area ian cull has the latest. Reporter after reviewing the video were about to show you the santa clara a retired polic officer. Charges dont go far enough. Reporter Surveillance Video shows Police Pulling alvarez from his palo alto home february 2018 on suspicion of driving with a suspended license, and then hes slammed against a car. At one point the supervising officer appears to mock him for being gay. Officers never filed a use of force report. And tonight Sergeant Wayne bu ne it took so long, two or three years to get charged. Theyre finally doing some justice, and i was happy. Reporter the city settled the civil rights case paying alvarez more than a half Million Dollars and every officer in palo alto must now undergo lgbt sensitivity training. It was considering sensitivity training but says more cases take longer than others. They undermine the trust of officers that do their job the right way for years who have builtup trust in the community. Reporter alvarezs attorneys point out the charges are misdemeanors and contend they should be more severe. Not only should this have been charged as a felony, it should have been charged among a number of officers. But at the end of the day its better than nothing. Reporter in a statement the Palo Alto Police chief says in part the Palo Alto Police department appreciates the important work of the District Attorneys Office and supports the district attorneys recent decision involving a former palo alto Police Officer. If convicted wayne bu neat s faces up to two years in jail. We should note we have not been able to reach any attorney for mr. Benitez for comment. Tonight the owners of a napa county winery are giving thanks. The winery was saved not by firefighters but by family and employees who took a stand. Nbc bay area cheryl herd with a harrowing story of defiance. Reporter on sunday the Barnett Family realized that their home and winery was in the path of the glass fire. They quickly decided they needed to leave, but then they came back to try and save what they worked for 37 years. There were times like this could go south very quickly. Reporter Jonathan Cline remembers gripping a 2 inch hose and fighting a fire that was so close to burning down the Family Business in the hills of st. Helena. Coastline and his wife were married here. Came right over here and went down the vines. Reporter his motherinlaw fiona and her husband built Barnett Vineyards in the 80s from the ground up. It looks so normal and you peek over the edge and see what started moving toward the vine my goodness, its getting really close. Reporter panic set in. Pipes started melting, electricity cut. The saving grace, the pool in the backyard. We dropped the pumps in there and with 500 feet between myself, joe and johnny, between the three of us we ran it out to the vineyard that was on fire coming up. Reporter the barnetts extended family, employees and even a neighbor who lost their home and winery helped save theirs. Fiona calls that a blessing. Its fortunate we still have a winery and house. We have a lot of people to thank for that. Reporter cheryl heard, nbc bay area news. That glass fire is now 54 contaped which means more people rosas skyhawk neighborhood are praising firefighters there. I am really happy they at least saved as many houses as they could. They saved my house. Like if you go in my backyard its all wet from the firefighters. Like theres no real way that i can like appreciate them, and we want to send them letters, too. And as part of a little thank you therapy dogs visited firefighters at base camp to help relieve some of their stress. Cal fire says many of its firefighters have been working nonstop since midjuly. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Ill show you how much fog to expect for tomorrow morning, and the brand new update on our rain chances coming up in about 7 minutes. Also ahead, were they really necessary . The series of to rolling Power Outages during that august heat wave. And then remembering a rock and roll legend. Tonight the bay area people who knew Eddie Van Halen share their stories. If youre filing an Insurance Claim after a disaster like this theres absolutely no rush to take the first offer from the insurance company. In california you have the option of hiring a public adjuster, someone who can come out to the remains of your home and provide their own assessment of how much your home and belongings are worth. Then you can compare that against the Insurance Adjusters claim and begin to negotiate. Its your right under california law. Proposition 16 takes on discrimination. Some women make as little as 42 of what a man makes. Voting yes on prop 16 helps us fix that. Its supported by leaders like Kamala Harris and opposed by those who have always opposed equality. We either fall from grace or we rise. Together. Proposition 16 provides equal opportunities, levelling the Playing Field for all of us. Vote yes on prop 16. Tonight rock and roll has lost one of its alltime greatest and most innovative guitarests. Eddie van halen died today from throat cancer at the age of 65. Van halen created the sound that sold more than 85 million albums from the 70s through the 90s. Reporter Eddie Van Halen made a guitar sound like no one ever had before and when the band burst on the scene in the late 70s it was eye opening and ear opening. We live and breathe music. Its my life. It really is. Its not my job. Its all i do. Reporter Eddie Van Halen was a guitar hero in every sense of the word. Working with Eddie Van Halen was an incredible honor. Its one of the high points of my career. Reporter nick peck was music director in the bay area when he worked with van halen when developing the video game, guitar hero, van halen. I remember being two feet away as he sat there doing his hammers on one of the neck of one of his custom guitars hed built in his own wood shop and i thought there it is, i just saw the fireworks that made the 1980s music scene right in front of me. Reporter he also provided the iconic solo for Michael Jacksons beat it. Theres a million guitar players in the world, and theres only a few of them that are distinctive that really make a mark. And he was one of them. You could think of joey garcia, carlos santana, Eddie Van Halen. Reporter eddies son wolfgang saying tonight he was the best father i for. Exwife and actress tweeted a chain of broken hearts. Very few people, though, actually find something in life that theyre good at and that they love to do. You know, in that respect, damn lucky. New at 11 00 tonight selling power while ordering rolling black outs. A new internal order found the agency was selling power to other states while managers were ordering rolling black outs in Northern California last month. The independent system operator found that a series of errors led to bayhe state had more power available than it did. That mistake led to managers scrambling to find more electricity. It also discovered some power plants were down for scheduled maintenance. And tonight were getting a new look at the devastation caused by the czu fire. What youre looking at is drone images of the santa cruz mountains. In all nearly 1,000 homes were destroyed in the czu fire last month. Sheriffs department used the drones to create before and after images. This is Riverside Grove neighborhood in Boulder Creek before the fire. This is what it looks like now. Most of the homes, leveled. In bonny dune before the fire a neighborhood filled with homes surrounded by trees, now homes on the western side ravaged by flames. Homes on the other side, saved by firefighters. Bay area counties will have to wait a little longer before moving into a different covid tier. San francisco remains the only one in the orange tier which is moderate. States top Health Leader says hes not modifying guidelines on how to deal with the virus at this point. We still continue to emphasize that remaining physically distant, doing things outdoors when possible, wearing your Face Covering throughout your interactions as much as you can as the key strategies to reducing transmission. Now, californias Positivity Rate over the past 14 days stands at 2. 7 . New at 11 00 a popular bay area Bowling Alley holding on after help from the community. Its been around since 1957, but its been closed since march because of the pandemic. Customers launched a gofundme account and within a few days raised nearly 50,000. Giving it a enough money to survive until the end of the year. We decided if it takes more, then were going to do what we can until were literally broke. Because it means too much to too many people. Its too big. And i would feel horrible for people to put in what theyve already put in and let it go down. Now, last month San Mateo County moved into the states red tier. And although gyms, restaurants and movie theaters can open at limited capacity, Bowling Centers remain closed. All right, lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Here we are heading into midweek and were going to start to see some changes in the weather. We definitely are. Some cooler weather coming in, and thats going to be the primary thing that definitely helps us with our fire danger. And were managing to hold onto a bit of our rain chances. So lets begin with tomorrow morning, and the biggest change well see as you step out the koor to walk the dog, run some errands or just get some exercise on is some widespread cloud cover. Here of some spotty drizzle. Know about that now so you can get that light jacket out. And by the door its going to be pushing into the inland valleys as well. Again, lot more extensive than were used to. Although it will be hazy with some areas of smoke from the fires off to the north. Temperatures with the fog rolling in will be cooler to start. Down to 56 in the south bay, 55 in the trivalley. Also feeling that chill across the east bay, San Francisco and the north bay. Look at the north bay, close to the 40s tomorrows we get a couple of systems moving closer to california the next couple of days. Tomorrow i think will be sizable. Itll put us back to 77 in san jose. Out of the 90s finally in the east bay. We have lots of low to mid80s inland, and you go over to oakland. Were at 68 degrees. More of those 60s right here across the peninsula. 68 in san mateo and anywhere near the coastline. Half moon bay back to reality, 58. After that record setting heat last week, its going to be a good change for you. Right through San Francisco 50s and 60s return. Winds picking up here out of the west and from marin, napa, sonoma counties 70s on the fire lines and that will continue to help that Fire Fighting effort. 75 in santa rosa. It is dry tomorrow. Temperatures drop, but we really would like to get some rainfall in of these rain chances away. What we have is two different paths. The first one is moving more off to the south, and so is the second one. So the consensus really is that our rain track is drifting away from us off towards the south. So were managing to hold onto doesnt look great nces albeit based on those paths. So a chance of some scattered rain on friday and also on saturday. 60s here in San Francisco. Inland valleys youll be very happy with these temperatures after all the upper 90s and 100s. 71 on saturday, 76 on sunday, some 80s next week but doesnt look too hot. The best thing on saturday and sunday even if we cant get big time rainfall the air quality should be good level said both of those days, and thats something i think all of us can enjoy qu