Just a few days. What does it mean for the oracle deal . Allegations of retaliation and a coverup at san jose state. We have the details on ofcials reportedly involved. Some schools preparing to reopen in San Francisco. How far teachers will have to go to protect their students. Kids need to be in school. This is what it is about. The new evacuations from the bobcat fires several communities under threat as the blaze creeps closer. It is friday, september 18th. We are keeping an eye on air quality. There is more fresh air on the way. That could change a bit as we go into the weekend. Definitely, breathe at all in. That clean and fresh air across the bay area because changes as early as tomorrow with the return of our smoke. We have good air quality and this is so great to see, once again as we start up our friday. We will continue with good to moderate air quality through the day. It is a foggy start and there is some patchy drizzle all because of that strong onshore flow kicking in. It is the reason why we have that clean air. Temperatures are in the mid50s to mid 60s. Now lets show you our temperatures. We have that through the day and temperatures are little bit cooler compared to yesterday and below average. 67 in San Francisco, 72 in oakland, and mid70s for redwood city and san jose. 77 for napa. We will talk about the smoke returning to the bay area and show you what to expect for your weekend coming up. Lets check in with gianna for the latest on the crash on the maze. There was one trouble spot involving two vehicles, one blocking the left lane. It is still out there. This is westbound 80 into the maze and right before the toll plaza and it looks like there are some brake lights off the east shore freeway and the west town 580 approach. What that means for your drive is traffic is lighter than usual with most of those cars squeezing for your that accident is. Until they clear those lanes, there will not be much of a problem. It is still pretty slow and go through the Allatoona Pass. We have brake lights and the Golden Gate Bridge is dealing with some fog. More on that in my next report. U. S. Downloads of chinese social apps like tiktok and wechat will be banned. President donald trump is expected to announce later today whether the government will approve a deal for oracle to take a Minority Stake in tiktok. It is unclear if the announcement means there is no possibility of the deal going through before that sunday deadline. Diane king hall will join us from new york with more details on market reaction. Also, the u. S. Forest service says a firefighter has died battling the wildfire sparked by fireworks in a gender reveal party in San Bernardino county. The agency says the firefighter died thursday. It is not clear exactly what happened. Top allegatiof xual misconduct then retaliating against the whistleblower and said they tried to tell the truth. We have more on this developing story. These are some serious allegations involving a pattern of misconduct involving the top leaders at the university. At the center of it all is a man by the name of steve obrien, former deputy Athletic Director. Obrien acseuniversity president mary and Athletic Director marie tuite and several others for covering up local allegations that includes more than a dozen allegations against the director of Sports Medicine, for and properly touching female swimmers when they came in for treatment. Obrien claims they retaliated against whistleblowers and went he did not, he was fired. They released a statement saying we allege mr. Obrien was fired for exposing san jose states coverup of the alleged Sexual Assault and said he was fired for uncovering widespread retaliation. They released a statement saying although we disagree with many of mr. Obriens assertions, it is a practice at not to comment on personal matters. We will hear from a justice studies professor named sang hea kil. She calls obrien hero. His statements are very accurate, to point the finger at the president , that is a great source of where much of this corruption is getting the momentum. Obriens lawyer has filed one claimant preparation to sue the university for damages in excess of 25,000 per in downtown san jose, kpix 5. Some schools are getting ready to reopen we are looking at how one private schools preparing to hopefully reopen in october. The San Francisco school city inspectors are going through a checklist and they are making sure Hand Sanitizer is available along with other protective equipment and cleaning supplies. Tours for students are six feet apart and the Health Department says it has learned a lot since march and educators were more worried about cleaning services. We have told them that they can do routine cleaning but it does not necessarily need a quote and quote deep cleaning but that they do need to focus more on face coverings, physical distancing, and more picks a the San Francisco school will be one of the first in the city to bring students back and there will be a lot to learn about including a silent lunch and that means there will be no talking during lunch break because masks are off when the kids are eating. Kids need to be in school. This is what it is about. The light bulbs need to go back on for their social and Emotional Health as well as their learning. We are almost as ready as we can be. More than 70 private and parochial schools are in the process of requesting to reopen in the cities. San francisco Public Schools have not yet announced any timetable for reopening. Then there is this to consider. A new paper estimates 42 of teachers and other School Employees fall into one high risk category for severe complications from covid19. That includes obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and being 65 or older. The paper was published yesterday in the medical Journal Health affairs. California is now home to one of the most expensive paid family leave laws in the country. Governor gavin newsom signed a bill requiring companies with at least five employees to provide up to 12 weeks of partially paid leave. Workers averaging 24 hours a week can take that time to bond with a new child or care for close relatives, spouses, or partners. It past , it is because of the woman buffy wicks, who brought her newborn to the floor after Anthony Rendon denied her a proxy vote. He later apologized. California might be bone dry but in the mountains, they are already preparing for the possibility of damaging mudslides. This deep burn scar terrain is at extreme risk of getting one. Santa cruz county has crews out assessing trouble spots. Theyre looking for ways to protect hillside homes and divert large debris flows. For mudslides to fire watches, neighbors are done waiting and hoping that they will not face another firestorm. The city could not come up with the funding for fuel reduction along skyline boulevard below Joaquin Miller park so neighbor secured a 10,000 grant from the California Fire Foundation to protect the critical escape themselves. It is a really large, expensive timeconsuming project to take care of. The risk seems infinite however if you do things like this coming through and making it so the Fire Department can do its job, and you cut the risk immensely. In southern california, flames from the bobcat fire are racing towards the several areas prompting new evacuations. Flames and smoke at cason orange glow across the sky similar to what we experienced last week. It almost looked like mars for firefighters are protecting historic observatory on mount wilson while some have been forced to evacuate with little warning. I am telling her we need to go now. They said we need these pictures. How much time do we have . Three major wildfires are getting close to full containment. The scu complex and a is 90 contained and nearly 400,000 acres, that is the Third Largest wildfire in california history. In the north bay, the lnu complex is also 98 contained and the czu is close behind at 97 as crews continue to mop up and control hotspots. The time is 6 10. Yosemite National Park is now off limits. What forest park rangers are doing to close it for the weekend. Checking karen air quality conditions, looking good. Only across the bay area. The changes for our weekend. I will let you know about the possibility of the return of th we saw the cloud of smoke and my heart fell. I knew wed lose our home. And we did. Over 24,000 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in the past few years. Wildfire victims need help so im voting yes on 19. It limits property taxes on wildfire victims so families can move to a replacement home without a tax penalty. You never know what youll be faced with. Please, vote yes on 19. Another day, another chance tlets do this. Rd. By making internet speeds fast and reliable. So you can keep up with your customers. By ensuring those speeds have wireless internet backup. So if the power goes down, your connection doesnt. And by covering all your connected devices with serious security. So we can handle this. And this. While you get on with this. And this. Be fast, be secure. Bounce forward. With comcast business. Get started with a powerful internet and voice solution for just 64. 90 a month. Call or go online today. They are offlimits. It is easy to see why but what is not easy to see is everything else. Wildfire smoke has pushed the parks air quality into hazardous territory. It is expected to stay that way through the weekend. They will reopen once conditions are safe. Stanford university will hold a webinar with new evidence on the Health Impacts of wildfire smoke. Topics include microplastics and smoke plus changes in immune cells in children because of wildfire smoke exposure. The Virtual Event starts this morning at 11 00. Lets get another check on the roads with gianna. Happy friday to you. Have sl and go conditions but overall it is pretty friday light. Our busy a spot as the Allatoona Pass and the bay bridge. And these are our slow and go conditions towards the 680 dublin interchange. It is sluggish and we are seeing some slow speeds away from outhouse to grant line but overall your drive times are about 36 minutes from 205 towards 680. The good news is the rest of our major freeways are not showing any delays. East shore freeway and highway 4 and 101 are all in the clear. The commute out of San Francisco was light towards the peninsula. Lets go to the bay bridge. Traffic is moving at the limit. We have a crash with injuries just east of here near the maze and that has been cleared. Everything is off the freeway. Things are moving easily. When your past this portion we have some slow and go conditions as you work your way out the incline. Be prepared for that as you work your way into the city. You can see on the sensors it is a little slow towards the tunnel on the west out commute into San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge is a little foggy, so keep that in mind if you are taking that right across the span. Overall, the drivetime on southbound 101 from the Richmond San Rafael bridge into San Francisco is only about 30 minutes, so traffic is moving pretty nicely. No delays across the san mateo bridge between 880 towards 101. That is look at your morning commute. We have more wet weather in the northern part of our state and california could use the rain. They could for sure. This is so great to see and you can see for far Northern California and the oregon california border into eureka, we are tracking the rain on high def doppler because of Washington State oregon, catching that rain this morning and that is good news for firefighting efforts in oregon and washington as they are dealing with their own massive wildfires and also i want to show you this, you can see for the foothills and Sierra Nevada and right around the fresno area, also catching that. This is actually because of what is left of the tropical system karina. It is great to see that on high def doppler as we start off our day. In the bay area were looking at foggy conditions and patchy drizzle and then we have clean air, thankfully so. Here is a look with the Treasure Island camera. It is a very pretty view with mostly cloudy skies temperaturt will see good to moderate air quality and that is the case this morning. We love seeing this. 19 for an aqi value in San Francisco and that is good to stay. 18 in oakland and san leandro, 28 for an aqi value in san jose and then fixing for an aqi value in healdsburg and santa rosa and 16 in berkeley. So all of it is looking good for the air quality as we start off our day. It will continue with the clean and fresh air across the bay area for this afternoon. That strong sea breeze is bringing that clean air. There is a low pressure system bringing that rain to the Pacific Northwest and even through par Northern California. Now through the weekend, we are tracking some changes. Take advantage of that fresh air for today because we are going to see offshore winds to the weekend and that could push smoke from wild fires are burning to our north into the bay area by saturday and for sunday and the smoke model shows that smoke pushing into our region as we go through tomorrow and sunday. So those daytime highs this afternoon, looking at below average, cooler compared to yesterday, so mid70s in santa clara and san jose and 80 for concord and Pleasant Hill and upper 70s for the trivalley and 67 in San Francisco, 72 in oakland and mid70s fo rush to work, grab a drink, hurry home. [cell phone beeps] stop dont be on your phone. Let someone else take the wheel. Make a little eye contact. Make a plan. Its a busy world out there. Were all in it together. Go safely, california. Your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. Well, dr. Farrell, it feels really good. Thats good. And. Im sorry. Baby, dont touch that. 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