San Francisco Police officer hit by the car of fleeing suspect. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze in for ama daetz. We know the name of the missing officer and identity of the man accused. Chris nguyen is live where the police chief just finished speaking with a clear message. The family is stressing that the police chief is stressing that the family is asking for all the positive prayers. Family members, closest friends and some colleagues. And people who have William Scott shared encouraging words. A fighter. This is not over. Reporter remains in intensive care after undergoing emergency surgery. Including attempted murder, reckless driving and hit and run. This after he led officers on a chase through the pan handle, where he reportedly jumped suv and ran off. Johnson eventually taken into custody in the tender loin. This isnt the first time hes been injured on the job. Five year veteran received purple heart award in 2015 being hurt protecting life of someone else. Police chief reading brief statement from the officers wife. This is not the end of his story. Please send him positive energy and love. He deserves it and he will no doubt get through this. Reporter again the chief saying that he didnt want to go into the details of officers injuries, just stating they were very severe. But he does say that the department as well as officers families are truly grateful for all the well wishes and support theyve received from that community of live in San Francisco, chris nguyen, abc7 news. Lot of people pulling for that officer. Other top story, welcome sight for many in the north bay, rain. Lisa amin glooejian tweeted this a short time ago. And live look from mt. Tam camera, its dark and dreary, rain coming down, somewhat windy as well. Sudden change. Spencer christian is tracking it. Sudden and welcome change. Live doppler 7, lets get to it. Wider view of the bulk of the rain. Pockets of light rain and scattered showers across much of the north bay right now. One on the storm impact scale. Light intensity. Light to moderate rain, maybe brief downpours. Gusting and minor debris flows in the areas of the burn scars. By 9 00 much of the bay area will be receiving relatively steady rainfall. By 11 00 p. M. Blanket the north bay, into San Francisco and peninsula. Pushing to the east bay. 1 00 a. M. , east and south bay, then tapering off. Rainfall totals from quarter inch in south and east bay to half inch in wettest north bay locations. More details in a few minutes. Tonight were hearing about new disturbing allegations coming out of the north bay fire zone involving fema aid identity theft. Michael finney is live at Assistance Center in santa rosa. You hate to hear about this happening. Reporter i know, can you imagine . Lose your home and business and identity thieves move in. More than rumor. Talked to two. You lost your veterinarian practice . I did. North county Animal Hospital in santa rosa. Applying for fema aid when they told me someone else filed using your Social Security number already. Reporter dumbfounded . Good way of putting it. Speechless for first time in my life i think. Reporter what did they tell you . Social security number, the property and fire, thats amazing number of jigsaw puzzles. They asked me do you know this phone number . No. Have you been to fema already . No havent been to fema already. Not even online. No. And they said someone else used your social. So they sent me to legal aid and Social Security administration. Its really great we have all the local agencies right there because it was just walk across the room to the different agencies. That was good. And they are going to investigate it. Even the fbi will be investigating this because of the federal nature of the offense. Were you allowed to apply or did they just put the whole thing on hold . Put on hold. I cant apply for fema until they get it straightened out. Reporter im sorry. Thank you so much. I hope things start going better for you. Cant imagine two hits like that. Shes got the veterinarian practice were talking so much about, heard great things about it was burning monday. If you applied to fema and they told you youve been victim of identity theft, get a hold of 7 on your side. Well be open and up in lake county talking to people. If you have this issue come find me. Up there tomorrow. Reporting live from santa rosa, Michael Finney. Thanks michael. Terrific resource for people up there. Evacuees still waiting to get back into neighborhoods after the fires are frustrated and looking for answers. Cal fire held a meeting to respond to the concerns. Wayne freedman is live. Reporter two meetings today. Second is going on in santa rosa right now. First one in sonoma about 1 00 this afternoon and yes, lot of people are frustrated. One of the elements would be road blocks like this. Roads are open, fires are over and think, gee, why cant i go back to my home . Today they got answers and began to get some help. Normally busy touristy downtown sonoma looked like ghost town, blame recent fires. Only one location drew a crowd, sad one at that. Bought retirement home. Been there 14 weeks. Reporter filled with people like blanche. Showed us pictures. It burned fast. Five minutes. Reporter could you get anything out of there . Nothing. Reporter blanche, her husband and all the fire victims came looking for answers. Theme has been and continues to be patience. Reporter preefing from local and federal agencies Small Business administration and fema with applications for relief on site. Wont know if they qualify unt unless they register. I want to know why i cant go hope. Reporter roads suffered so much damage that infrastructure are gone. Guard rails, trees smoldering and could fall down. And neighborhoods not safe. Blackened regions blocked by orange cones and red lights. California office of Emergency Services offered to clear burned homes and structures down to bare dirt but with 7,000 of them, will take months. This operation is a marathon, not a sprint. Reporter so begins the task. Its a beginning. We have hope. Reporter in sonoma, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Public battle is brewing between Sonoma County sheriff and acting director of u. S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agency. At issue unverified report that undocumented immigrant set the devastating wildfire in sonoma valley. Man is currently in custody facing arson charges. Sheriffs office saying its highly unlikely. I. C. E. Said once again left vulnerable. Sheriff response. I. C. E. Attacked Sheriffs Office in the midst of the largest Natural Disaster this county has ever experienced. I. C. E. s misleading statement stirs fear in some of our Community Members who are already exhausted and scared. Opening statements began in man accused of shooting and killing kate steinle in 2015. Juan francisco lopez, undocumented immigrant killed the woman on pier 15. Claims shooting was accidental. Six women and six men selected to sit on the jury. San francisco is diverse community, people from all walks of life. Weve got them on this jury. This is the right group of people to hear this case. It will be in their hands to decide whether or not tlar in agreement with us. Prosecutors declined to comment. Justin herman plaza is no longer. Narrowly approved move to change the name today. Voted 43 to remove the name of the controversial former head of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency from the park. For now Embarcadero Plaza until a new name greed upon. Critics say Justin Herman drove poor people from homes. Using good fortune to help others who have lost so much. Two north bay schools plan for difficult road ahead. Over lake tahoe. This time continuing our coverage of the north bay fires. In santa rosa where School Administrators are trying to give students and families a sense of normalcy. Two schools beacons in neighborhoods l standing when almost everything around them was reduced to rubble. Laura anthony is live at one of the schools. Reporter standing on the play structure at rooebly, still intact, so is the school but this is the neighborhood just behind it. Larkfield, completely destroyed. Homes owned by families with children who attend this school. They are two schools Still Standing amid the charred ruins and hundreds of homes destroyed by last weeks fires. Perhaps survived to serve as oasis for students and families who lost so much. We went into Riebli School and shaeffer, theres no community left. Reporter uncharted territory for him and his staff. School is standing but community is gone that they serve. Each superintendent faces challenge of reconnecting with that community. Reporter plan is clean up and reopen october 30th. Probably run the gamut of emotions the first week. Excited and happy, then moments where the feelings come up and theyre able to express feelings they might not by able to express right now because still in shock. Reporter kits and backpacks with supplies provided for kids who lost everything. Coordinator for the school district. Before the fire worked with dozens of students and families, now hundreds in district lost their homes. She and her family among them. What it does, highlights privilege. For me, losing home is inconvenience. It does not compare to what families were experiencing before the fire and will continue to experience. Reporter abc7 news. There was help for people in north bay who lost jobs because of the wildfires. Open house job fair under way at olivers market in santa rosa to find work. Plenty of positions available in food services, cooks, servers and customer service. Dont need to bring a resume. Printed paper applications, doing interviewing and job offering on the spot. Olivers is holding another job fair next thursday. Looking for something before then, apply to the store in santa rosa. Hard as this has been, heartwarming thing is people rushing to help. Michael finney and team have been out there helping people. Live again tonight. Reporter were in santa rosa. Meeting with people all day long, helping a few and surrounded by insurance companies. Where were set up, tents and awnings. Insurance companies are here. Nice wonderful people. Been interviewing them part of the time. Theyve been nice. Clients and them are getting along. Is that going to last . To answer that question, amy vox with united policy holders. You guys are on the consumers side not insurance side of this. Right. We want people to have good experience with Insurance Claim and company but we do know from 25 years of doing Disaster Recovery support there is a honeymoon period in beginning where people feel everything is going well, then lot of people, when it comes down to the dollars and big dollars that people need to put their house back, that that honeymoon period often is over and people will say, gee, feels like its adversarial relationship. Were here to help fix that when it happens. Its business relationship, not friendship or adversary correct . Thats right. Lot of our messaging is around helping people get into realistic mindset of what a loss or total loss is. Its business negotiation. Not all the ads youve seen about warm and Fuzzy Feelings of good neighbor, an insurance policy is a contract drawn up by lawyers. And you need to treat it as such. Amy bach, thank you very much. Shes been here at Disaster Relief center for a week now . Since it hoped pretty much with oakland, berkeley fire survivor volunteers, sharing some of the lessons they still hold very strong in their hearts of what worked for them and problems they want to help these folks avoid. Reporter excellent. Go to our website. Well have a link to united policy holders. Ill be back, Michael Finney in santa rosa. Weather anchor Spencer Christian with the forecast. Rain arrived in some spots. Live doppler 7, you can see massive moisture to the north. North bay, a few light showers and rough surf. High surf advisory in effect until 6 00 tomorrow evening. Along with stormy weather, a chance of wave heights reaching 25 feet. Be careful along the coastline. Talk about the rain, live view from rooftop. Skies are cloudy, 59 degrees. 57 in half moon basement emeryville. Moisture developing here as well. 57 in santa rosa, one of the coolest locations. Low 60s. Live view at golden gate, looks damp on the pavement there, drizzled a bit. Forecast features, rain continuing with brief downpours. Morning showers linger and breezy and cool remainder of the day. Much warmer sunday. Storm impact scale. Approaching storm is one, light intensity, tonight and early tomorrow morning. Light to moderate rainfall but chance of isolated downpours. 15o 30 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. Gusty at times tonight. 10 00. Strongest along the coastline but after midnight, stronger winds pushing inland just a bit. Then settling down after 7 00. 9 00 tonight rainfall spread to most of the north bay and by midnight, rain having hit all of the north bay, pushing eastward, trailing southward into the south bay. Swinging eastward, produce snowfall in the central sierra. Winter weather advisory has been issued. Expect three to six inches of snowfall above 6,000 feet. From 11 00 tonight to 11 00 tomorrow morning. Wind gusting to 65 miles an hour. Rainfall in bay area,. 10 to. 25 most locations. Overnight lows and highs chilly. Sharp drop in temperatures, but bouncing back to upper 80s and low 90s inland. I don southwest is promoting its first unmanned flight since the airline began in 1971. Different kind of unmanned. All female crew from flight attendants to the pilots. Tweeted this photo collage showing all eight of the women staff that flew from seattle so San Francisco. Isnt that cool . Boeing 737 max so nicknamed themselves 737 max 8. We take earthquakes seriously in the bay area when you see the mayor of San Francisco taking cover under a table. Small table for the mayor. Joined in the drill with the elementary school, preparedness event called california shakeout. Assembling kits and got a grade from the mayor and other officials. You did excellent job today. This is a great school and want to make sure all of you are safe during the earthquake. Thanks for having me here. Later the kids learned about resource to bring home to parents. 72. Org. Thats city website full of information on emergency preparedness. Kids did a great job. Next why homeowners dealing with loss in north bay may have tough time rebuilding quickly. And attorney is looking into whether understaffing played role in e good evening. Tonight an attorney is looking into whether understaffing played a role in evacuation of two buildings at assisted living facility as wildfires raged in santa rosa. Department of social services is also investigating the buildings evacuations. Melanie woodrow broke the story last week. Live in the newsroom with the story only on 7. This lawsuit claims that Oakmont Senior Living was understaffed. One of the plaintiffs was a resident at villa capry. Oakmont has not responded to our request but one of the owners is talking about evacuation in email sent to residents families. Santa rosa firefighter shared this new video with abc7 news taken around 4 30 a. M. Last monday. As he and other firefighters drove to Oakmont Senior Living. Kathy allen, motherinlaw is a resident, still rescuing people. Didnt know how to get everybody out of there. Later burned to the ground. Attorney filed proposed Class Action Lawsuit against them. Alleged oakmont duped residents and Family Members, assessing caregiver needs and charging accordingly but not adjusting staff levels to meet the needs. Former oakmont employees and current and former residents confirm there is seld seldom enough staff to meet the needs. I saw your report and i was wasnt super surprised. Were paying good money. Real good money. Estimates more than 9,000 a month for motherinlaw who has dementia. When she arrived morning the fire, three caregivers, Andre Blakely helped rescue from the building. Estimates half of the residents stayed there. I think we did a wonderful job. For all the residents, four of us. Worst thing ever happened to me in my life. One Family Member shared email. My own mother was living at villa capri, she told me she was comforted and impressed by how calmly and smoothly the evacuation was there. Credited to staff, neighbors, residents, families and authorities who worked together. Quote, all 430 residents are accounted for safe. Safety always has been and always will be first priority. Stebner says her firm is bringing the cases for reform. Especially with your reporting. Hoping its a wakeup call. Not filed a response but filed a motion to move the case to federal court saying some members of the potential class have moved out of state. Melanie woodrow, abc7 news. Tour companies and winery owners in napa want the public to know now that the fires are mostly contained they are open for business and most of the valley remains intact. Damage limited or nonexistent in some spots. Hasnt stopped people from canceling. Lost 30,000 from cancellations and half dozen of his employ autos haes have no work. Canceled three tours. For us thats huge. Porter vineyards, employees stopped the fires one road shy of the vineyards. Half the grapes were harvested before the fires. They need visitors now more than ever. Michael finney and our team have been helping people affected by fires all week. Trying to connect people with resources they need. Live with more. Michael. Reporter the resources are certainly up here in wine country. Pretty easy everybody. Everyone is doing fabulous job here. Quite a few people here. Well be breaking down in a couple of moments, be up in lake county tomorrow. Join us at the Senior Center up there. People are now beginning to say how long is it going to take to rebuild my home, sadly longer than most would like. Keith wood heads up north Coast Builders exchange. We have more lost homes than general contractors . Up to 6,000 lofrt homes and less than that in Sonoma County. We have a real problem. All the contractors were busy before the fire and now add on largest building project in Sonoma County history. Weve got a real problem. What do you do if youre homeowner . Weve set up a table. Trying to match up with contractors that are available. Poll the licensed contractors to ask for capacity for more work. Find people available, marry them with the homeowners. Problem is if men and women in construction are already busy, we have problems finding contractors for the home builders. Reporter about 15 seconds left but need to know, should you ever hire out of county contractor . You can. We may need that. Make sure theyre licensed. Any problem youre going to have is more likely to be severe with unlicensed contractors. Avoid them at all costs. Reporter were going to be in lake country, Senior Center. Join us there. Michael finney reporting live. Contra costa county have arrested two accused of sexual assault. Disturbing allegations and how the schools are responding. Reporter arrested two teenage boys for assault. Victim from nearby all girls private school. Suspects are Football Players. Did see the head coach on campus around the time the school held assembly to discuss appropriate behavior in response to the allegations. Sent a letter to parents saying it happened weeks ago offcampus. Said in part were proud of the courage our student has shown in coming forward and well continue to support her. Its shocking to get news like that but stand behind the school 110 . They handle everything with grace. Not first time de la salle has been in center of assault case. Former Football Player rape in may. Called disturbing. I dont know how it keeps happening and not being addressed and kids not being punished if rightly so. Reporter letter said in part. We expect and demand respect for all persons. Ignasio valley would not comment. District called allegations serious and said theyre working with law enforcement. Abc7 news. Final pitch to amazon. Billion dollar bidding war fo today is the deadline for cities across the u. S. Hoping to be amazons second headquarters. Lot of communities licking their chops. Jonathan bloom with look at two proposals from the bay area. Reporter amazon has a warehouse in tracy, book store in san jose and supermarkets all over but in San Francisco five cities have come together to make a bid for bay area. Innovation capital, we have the talent and universities that amazon is looking for. Reporter could have offices in San Francisco and fremont and sprawling campus in concord. Blank slate. Oodles of empty land near b. A. R. T. Station. Promises housing for ployees are coming. We have traffic problems, were working to address them investing in b. A. R. T. Reporter another bid from san jose. Rather than a blank slate, campus painted with color. Young talent that wants to be in urban centers. Reporter where amazon has a small lab, san jose is making offer. Opportunity to be part of revitalization of the Downtown Core in bay areas largest city. Reporter renovating buildings but keeping character. Everyone in sill convalley is trying to fake it. These buildings are authentic. Reporter wont offer. Subsidies. Been vocal we shouldnt be using public dollars to lure companies into our city. Reporter thinks san jose is best fit without cash incentives. Investing in transportation. Do everything to support the growth but not my daughter is. Studying to be a dentist and she gave me advice. She said. Dad go pro with crest prohealth. 4 out of 5 dentists confirm. These crest prohealth. Products help maintain a. Professional clean. Go pro with Crest Pro Health crest prohealth. Really brought my mouth. To the next level. My dbut now, i take used tometamucil every day. Sh it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. Try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. As the smoke clears, north bay residents who lost their homes may be facing additional problems. Slow rebuilding and issues. Talked with experts about the challenges. Reporter on top of rebuilding, victims who lost homes may be facing another challenge. Could be difficult if they lost jobs in tourism, wine industry. Missed mortgage payments maybe. Hope that they recognize and federal government recognize and provide relief based on moratorium of mortgage payments. Reporter also warning of shortage of construction workers red by bonuses to restore hurricaneravaged florida and texas. Pam foley has advice. Maybe create a forbearance on the loan to postpone pay. S or collections. Start that conversation as soon as possible so lender is aware. Reporter attendees of the realtors conference acolleagues who suffered losses in the north bay. Also actively engaged in fundraising for fire victims, including their colleagues in the real estate inj one offered a house to fire victim. Youre homeless, in your 80s, breathing all that smoke. Yes they can stay as long as they want really. Reporter in santa clara, david louis, abc7 news. Clouds are here. Little bit of rain is falling as well. Storm on the way ranks one. Light intensity. Some brief downpours. Gusty winds. 15 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Heaviest rain in the north bay before midnight. By midnight, swinging down through San Francisco on to the peninsula, east and then finally south bay before start of the morning commute. Overnight lows from mid40s to low 50s elsewhere. Tomorrow is cool. Breezy at coast, 50s. Low to mid60s at bay and mid to upper 60s inland. Breezier and cooler tomorrow, milder saturday, then a sharp warming trend on sunday. Monday and tuesday, inland highs in upper 80s to low 90s. Quite a change coming our way. Thanks spencer. Check this out. Date night for the currys is a little different than yours probably is. Shared this video of the couple on stage at johnnyswims concert. Steph and aisha helped belt out home described as bucket list moment. That was not advertised right . I would have gone. On to sports. Larry beil. Steph hit the high note. Maybe a five second solo. We have surprising results on Draymond Greens mri. Results, his knee and who starts good evening. Earlier today Draymond Green was lifted as doubtful for the new orleans game but went through a full practice and upgraded to probable. Today mri showed no structural damage in greens game. Hurt. Could see how valuable he was in the fourth. Warriors missed his defense. If he doesnt play, warriors expected to start jordan bell against flowers and cousins. Lot of expectations here. Lot of people have us repeating. Big thing we have to carry on shoulders throughout the playoffs but i try to play every game the same. Not motivating me more or less. Trying to win just as much as before i walked in. Its important for us to develop our young players. Not afraid to throw any of them out there crunch time. Thought it was good experience. 49ers owner back from new york where nfl officials discussed what to do about protests in the national anthem. York supported kaepernick but today said he didnt think the former star was being blackballed, denied employment in the league because of the protesting. Its difficult for me to say that with colin being here a long time. Obviously theres a lawsuit going on. Hard for me to get into details or share my opinion, but i dont believe theres base to that claim hes being blackballed. Raiders are playing the chiefs in thursday night football. Oakland dropped four in a row, its mustwin game. Amari cooper sighting, but chiefs leading 2014 and raider defense is being shredded by alex smith and company. Highlights at 9 00 and 11 00. Cal bears off biggest win in years, upset Washington State but lost best defensive player. Devonte downs is done for the season. Arizona wildcats coming off backtoback wins against colorado and ucla. Scored 45 or more points in four of six games this season. Cal hopes to continue their momentum but started with huge victory over wazzu. So many things we can learn from. They had really good energy. Arizonas defense is opportunistic. They create issues up front in terms of movement, way they change up coverages in front. Be another challenge for them. But i really like their energy and focus at practice. Now got to go out and execute. Stanford has a bye and bryce love is top heisman contender. So whats Christian Mccaffrey last year and didnt take home the hardware. His numbers are off the charts. Why isnt love getting more love in National Recognition . Stanford head coach david shaw said pac12 after the dark has a lot to do with it. People can get offended and upset, game times matter. Bryce has been outstanding and great in any game. Ran for 300 yards against Arizona State but it was early game and his name got to be said for the next seven or eight hours until people went to sleep on the east coast. Hearing about the game. As opposed to at night. Get offended if they want to. Most people turn the games off halftime on the east coast. See half of them and then youre in bed. Pac12 made deal with the devil. Wanted tv money and games have to start later for television sake. This is what you get. Speaking of the devil, dodgers are going to world series, leading the cubs, Elimination Game for cubs. Dodgers with Kiki Hernandez hitting home run, hours away from going. Join us tonight. Your dog is trying to communicate with you. New study of canine facial expressions. And tesla defending a vehicle after Consumer Survey offers less than glowing reviews. And coming up at 8 00, its the great pumpkin, charlie brown, then toy story of terror, scandal, how to get away with murder, and abc7 news. Im kristen sze. Im kristen sze. Im dan ashley, for last man standing was recorded in front of a live studio audience. Hey. Hmm . Who keeps putting empty boxes back in the pantry . Her. Her. Hi, guys. Hey, uh, so, i am gonna need someone to watch boyd this week after school. Heres a radical thought what about either of his parents . No. Listen, ryans driving a long haul to reno, and i am swamped at the new restaurant
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