A brush fire explodes in size not far from the bay area. People being told to grab what they can and get out. And its an interview you will only see on kpix five. The das office defending a controversial move in the investigation of a Vallejo Police shooting. To try to find someone who hasnt had some controversy or people disagree with them, you wont find anyone. Coming up with a plan or we will, the words from these teachers threatening to take action if the district doesnt release a backtoschool plan. Palo alto closing down streets to help with Outdoor Dining, why some businesses are not happy with this plan. We start with a fastmoving fire at 11. The sites fire has exploded to more than 1000 acres, video from the front lines showing planes dropping retardant on trees in the area as flames whip through the hills. Evacuations are underway. At least a dozen structures are being threatened. That time lapse captures the moment the fire started. Fire crews have said they made no progress. When will be a factor driving fires now. They could get stronger tomorrow. This is a developing story and we will continue to follow it on air and online. For the latest join us at 4 30 a. M. Monday. Demands for action tonight as another inmate at san quentin is confirmed to have died while being treated for covid19. According to prison officials, Orlando Romero was pronounced dead today. Now becoming the 11th death row inmate to die from covid19. We cannot say that we have a moratorium on the Death Penalty if people are being murdered in prison by covid19. Outside the prison protesters gathered demanding Governor Newsom cuts the population in half to slow the surge through the prison system. Kpix spoke exclusively to those on the other side of the prison walls , to hear their first hand stories, had two hour website kpix. Com. The appointment of a special prosecutor to oversee a Police Shooting investigation is drawing criticism. Joe vazquez spoke with the District Attorneys Office about the decision. The public has lost confidence in our local criminal justice system. He is the chief District Attorney, we introduce we asked to interview the da as she will be recusing herself from the latest Police Shootings. Thursday night, abrams announced the Willie Mccoy Police case would be reviewed by a special prosecutor named michael ramos. Why him . We are talking about someone whos been a prosecutor for 29 years. He has a white background. He lost an election so hes a consultant now. We thought that was someone who could provide a thorough and fair review. We googled mister ramos and it didnt take long to find recently a judge found he improperly deleted Text Messages in a civil suit. We did a long piece on him in the kevin cooper case. There is evidence that shows Mister Cooper might be innocent. There will always be controversial decisions and cases. To try to find someone who hasnt had some controversy or some people disagreeing with them, you wont find anybody. Deleting emails improperly, thats not just some controversy that someone disagreed with, we dont know the surrounding facts of that case but i think thats totally separate and above made. He told me ramos would investigate the mccoy case but did not make it clear whether he would prosecute the case if it got to that point. Ramos has not been asked to be special prosecutor for the other shooting. That investigation has not been completed. There have been dozens of Police Shootings in vallejo. You know, its an interesting question, we look deeply at the shootings. There has been a lot of them. That is why we are in the position we are today. Why doesnt the District Attorney just resign . If you cant trust that he can prosecute every case . We will always continue to fulfill our obligation to review cases objectively. It doesnt call for resignation. We didnt choose anybody. It is the District Attorneys obligation to prosecute these cases. So you didnt commit to Police Shootings but the District Attorney has chosen not to do what the public has trusted her to do. You are getting us in a catch22 saying we have the obligation because the public trust us but the public is demanding that we have an independent review. So that is what we are trying to do. San mateo could be the next bay area county to impose fines for those violating health orders. Fines are being proposed for people and businesses who dont wear masks. He said he will hear from folks who are concerned about their freedom. Your freedom is killing people. Your freedom of not wearing the mask, and not social distancing and going to these large parties, and gatherings, you are killing people. The penalties could range from 1003000 dollars. He will propose the fines at the next supervisors meeting on tuesday. San mateo would join other counties with all fines already enacted. These areas are closed off to promote Outdoor Dining but this effort to help some businesses doesnt seem to be helpful for everybody. We have more on the outdoor food fight. Reporter the closure of part of University Avenue here has attracted a number of diners to restaurants but, its the restaurants on the side streets that are saying they have been left out of this deal. I hope they keep it. I think its great to sit outside and enjoy the fresh air. As part of the summer Streets Program the city of palo alto closed university, to car traffic all day every day. To allow for more Outdoor Dining at these retailers. I think the city was admirable in their idea to do it. But they have to realize that helping some and hurting others might be kind of a risky take. This patio owner says business dropped up to 20 at her emerson Street Restaurant and bar after the university closure. The side streets have relied on the fact that there is traffic coming down the Central Street on universal avenue. Without that they have suffered. This mexican eatery was empty. Both owned by rob fisher. We were just starting to get traction on the side streets with opening up the outdoors. And they go ahead and shut down University Avenue, and our sales plummeted. They also built this extension into the street at their own expense. Roughly 35,000. Hes now circulating a petition to reopen university and plans to present it to the city council. We need them to listen to the business owners. If they dont listen to us and we all start going out of business what will the town be like . Its a tough one because you think you are doing one person a favor but it has a domino effect. Betty i know you mentioned university is closed every day, do you know how long they plan to do that . Thats true brian, summer streets is expected to run through august 16 but the city said the community will have a chance to read way in. They could shorten it. But they are open to listening to businesses and residents. Thank you betty. While many businesses are making changes to abide by social distancing, some are completely changing their business strategy. Coming up, how they are adapting to survive the pandemic. And these teachers threatening to create their own backtoschool plan if a distancelearning deal is not approved soon. A raging inferno continues to burn in Southern California. The groups fighting the massive apple fire. And we will have the forecast and more news when we come back. Awesome internet. Its more than just fast. It keeps all your devices running smoothly. With builtin security that protects your kids. No matter what theyre up to. It protects your info. And gives you 24 7 peace of mind. That if its connected, its protected. Even that that petcamera thingy. [ whines ] can your internet do that . Xfinity xfi can because its. Simple, easy, awesome. [ barking ] for the ultimate inhome wifi, click, call or visit us today. Oakland teachers are warning the school district, if they dont have a deal on Distance Learning by tomorrow, they will make their own plan. Students are set to return in over a week and its unclear what they will be returning to. The state requires districts to provide 180 days of instruction. What it hasnt laid out is how much of that instruction must be done live, and how much can be delivered through prerecorded content and paper packets. The district is holding teachers to their regularly contracted workday, 375390 minute. The union wants to cut it to 300 been its across the board proposing teachers spend an hour a day with in the first week and use the rest of the time to plot out lesson plans for the year. The union is also seeking wellness time, opportunities for teachers to engage in stress relief activity. A spokesperson said while there is no hard deadline the goal is to finalize the agreement before classes start on august 10. Parents are trying to prepare, join us tomorrow morning at five and six as we launch the kpix 5 Home Learning guide. We will be tackling some of the biggest questions you may have with tips and advice direct from the experts. For the latest updates from your district just had to kpix. Com. Businesses including hair salons and gins stopped operating in san mateo county. Cities are seeing some of the highest closure rates in the country. San francisco and san jose are in the top four cities with the highest closure rate in the country. Some businesses are trying to open up in different ways. Closing signs one after another. Its a lot quieter on union street. The mac was most disturbing is a lot of these closures are not just temporary but permanent. More than 5000 businesses in San Francisco temporarily shut down or closed permanently. Los angeles with more than 11,000 and new york with 9500 more. Without the possibility of opening a storefront, this creator and designer launched a new business last month doing everything online. I cant meet designers face toface i cant have a launch party. I felt like i had to shift everything. Partly inspired by centuries old korean ceramic. I love painting and investigating ideas. She received her first order last week. People are spending so much time at home so they want to take on these home projects. They can go online, most Retail Stores cant go online. There is a small subsection of businesses in the bay area who can go online and make it work. Its a different picture for other businesses that need to doors to reopen. Businesses furloughing are now trending up as well as businesses that have been in business for years. According to a yelp report, more restaurants have closed permanently then businesses. An outofcontrol wildfire in Southern California has forced thousands of people from their homes tonight. Firefighters are bracing for another busy night. Right now the apple fire is burning in the San Bernardino national orest, it has already destroyed a home in two other buildings. About 8000 people have been a back waited, making matters have been evacuated. They must have their hoses set up to draft water because theyre sitting in place. They have done a good job in the home has been saved. The firefighters are doing a fabulous job keeping everything under control. They were on it right away. At last check the fire has burned more than 20,000 acres. There is 5 containment which is the first evidence of any containment of that massively growing fire. Help is arriving as we speak, to strike teams made from cruise fire crews were deployed. And this Tropical Storm is sweeping up the east coast tonight. Heavy rain and strong wind. This snow slowmoving storm is strengthening and has knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. Crews are working overtime ive lived here since 86, this is nothing. This will blow right through with a little wind and rain. That is one heck of a experience. Isaias is expected to be near hurricane strength when it reaches the carolinas tomorrow and is projected to make it as far north as new england. We will get you caught up on that in a moment. But darren is in on the morning show tomorrow so that why am here tonight. I wanted to show you the wind at the sites fire , not much of the smoke should make it to the bay area. Smoke from fires that far north can get transported into the bay area but not so far with this one because of the upper pattern, pretty much pushing the wind to the east across i5 and out towards the sierra. Later in the week it could be a factor. In the meantime, isaias is spending time on the jacksonville coast. With Tropical Storm strength at the moment. As to where it goes from here it will skirt the eastern seaboard on the track its been on all week. It should not regain hurricane strength but it will remain a Tropical Storm all the way up through boston and beyond. Into main . Thats pretty weird. The story will be not so much the wind but 510 inches of rain and it could be a big problem. We are in the 60s around the bay area, low clouds that will retreat from the shoreline and back in on monday and tuesday morning. More extensive low clouds coming in by tuesday because of whats happening. Low pressure in the gulf will increase. The low will throw a trough over california so we will cool off after midweek. Its unusual but what isnt these days. Back to the 80s for wednesday and thursday. If youve got clear skies right now you can go out and see the moon, look to the right of the moon and you will see this bright star which is in fact the planet jupiter. In between jupiter and the moon a fainter yellowish star, saturn. 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