Hello, i am sara donchey. We will get to that story in a minute but first we start with really scary day in the south bay. This is a Police Officer worst nightmare. A san jose Police Officer is in critical but stable condition tonight after she was shot on a domesti violence call. We learned the suspect never shouldve had a gun in the first place. Police say 44yearold Gabriel Carrera is a convicted felon. They said his wife called 911 saying he was drunk and trying to break down a door to hit her. Police said he immediately fired on th officers responding to the Midtown Plaza condo complex, hitting one of them while her partner dragged her to safety. Carreras barricaded himself in the apartment and would not com out. After four hours police ha had enough and deployed what looks like teargas. I was just standing and looking at what was going on an i heard a big old boom. I thought i was a little tired because my eyes started watering. And then i cut the aroma of ammonia coming over me i was like, wow i knew it wasnt just me. So whatever tha was was we later saw a man in this video you see here, which is a little bit far away, but we believe that that was carreras being loaded into an ambulance. Obviously a very chaotic scene there. Police have not named th officer who was shot. We do expect them to eventually. They did give us one piece of information. They said that she is a 10year veteran of the Police Department and certainly a lot of people are hoping she makes a full recovery. Tonight in San Francisco these are the mementos you woul expect at a vigil. Flowers and balloons, but also something yo dont usually see. Warning signs marking the spot where a little girl was hit by a car an killed just a day ago. Fourth and king street is a major artery in the city and is constantly busy. It is right on the corner of caltrain your oracle park, and just passed it is a freeway on ramp. We saw a car get dangerously close to a man in a wheelchair and minutes later cars were stopped in the crosswalk inching ahead as people were walking by when they still have the walk signal our betty yu talked to Pedestrian Safety advocates who say the street needs major changes to prevent another tragedy like this. People moved by this tragic death have been bringing flower and candles to honor her life and call attention to this accident. The white stroller memorializes the victim as she crossed king street with her parents. On wednesday we learne the driver of this gray mercedes, identified as karen Carter Hannah has been arrested for vehicular manslaughter. Police said she killed the fouryearold and left the father with lifethreatening injuries. She was making a righ from the center turn lane. It is horrible. Our heart goes out to the family. We can imagine what they feel like today. Reporter sfpd said to respect the familys request fo confidentiality. They are not identifying the victims. We kno they are not from the area. Jod maderos runs walk sf, Pedestrian Safety group that wants design changes made to th intersection at fourth and king which she says has been identified as one of the citys most dangerous. We are about to watch a man in a wheelchair. Reporter sfpd officers were warning people to slow down as they turned onto the 280 on ramp. We saw countless examples of cars and trucks inching toward pedestrians. You just feel like you are taking your life in your hands, especially reporter bettina, a lomesay her way to avoid the intersection all the time. It i where pedestrians, bicycle riders and often ball game patrons converge. This is madness how fast wa that one going . I go out of my way if i do come through here i want it to be at a different time of day. Not at rush hour. What do you want to see happen here to prevent another tragedy . Maybe they have to look at this right turn here. Reporter jodi said the crashes more than an accident. An accident is like spilled milk. An accident is something that is decided on. The driver made a choice to go through tha intersection. Wh are the charges the driver is facing now . Namely vehicular manslaughter. We talked with a criminal defense attorney who explained how someone could be charged if the were negligent behind the wheel with criminal law we always expect some sort of intentionality, some sort of criminal mindset, even if it i i got drunk before i got in the car. I did not mean to hurt somebody, but you sure meant to get drunk. That is what we expect in a criminal case. But vehicular manslaughter is the exception. I have had these cases where it is a matter of, you hit someone who is crossing the street because you are adjusting the radio. That can b enough if they die. The driver could face misdemeanor charges, which, if convicted, mean she could spend up to a year in the county jail 110 people are now confirme dead after the maui wildfires. Tonight, maui leaders are facin tough questions about what they did and did not do when the fir started. Hawaii has one of the largest siren Warning Systems i the world, but the 80 alarms on maui were silent. A reporter ha a Heated Exchange about this with a local Emergency Management today. Do you regret not sounding the sirens . I do not. And the reason why so many people said they could have been saved if they had time to escape. Had a siren going off, they would have know that there was a crisis emerging. As we know, so many bodies were found in the ground you want to give you the answer . I do, but i want to get it out there. Let him finish his answer im sorry obviously a lot of emotion talking about this for so many people. The sirens are primaril first anomalies and are designed to encourage people to seek higher ground. Officials were worried people wouldve gone toward the fire instead of away from it. Regardless, some of the sirens werent even working. To my knowledge, i never experienced them in use for fires, but the sirens, some wer broken and we are investigating that. Some lahaina residents saw what was left of their homes today. It is hard. It is hard to take in. We grew up here. This is home to a lot of us. Over 20 years i have stayed in my house. There is hope. Lahaina will get back. A lot of people are looking for signs of hope, and good new where they can find it. That could be the survival of this 150yearold banyan tree that i believed to be the largest in the hawaiian islands. People in maui have been turning to our state for help. They have been reaching out to people in the town of paradise for advice on how to rebuild. Tonight, one campfire survivor is raising money for fire victims on maui. She lived in maui for 16 years. Just like for everybody else, the campfire was devastating. They are a community that is very strong. We can help them financially an help them to rebuild and the wa they need to rebuild. I think i is very important that we let them tell us what they need. So much pain when it comes t the story and so much loss. You can find more information on ho you can help the victims on our website, kpix. Com. Back to the bay area and the south bay. Firefighters hav been getting a handle on a wildfire that grew to 70 acres in three hours, at one point causing a huge traffic backup i morgan hill. It started at coyote creek golf drive. At las check it was 40 contained, but cal fire says they have been making progress on this fire. This guy did not seem to care that he was being recorded a freeforall for thieves caught on camera close to a bus tourist spot in San Francisco. Writing an atv on the beach would be a blast. One group of local scientists says they are doing it to fight climate change. How they are working t stop a beach from disappearing and preventing a huge mess in the process. Some california transit officers could soon be armed with a controversial takedown tool that looks like something spiderman would use. A few thunderstorms in the bay area as we get into the weekend and also early next week. We have the details when we cover the forecast. Thank hehe snores lilike an angrgry. Youuve never h heard an angry rhrhino. Baby i heaear one every nighght. Everyry nig. Okokay. Ill w work on thah. Sasave 50 on n the sleep p nr limited ededition smarart be. Plplus, free h home delivevy whenen you add a a base. Shopop now only y at sleeeep number. Salolonpas lidococaine flex. A susuper thin, flexible p h with maxaximum ototc strengthth lidocainee ththat contoururs to the b by to relelieve painn riright where it hurts. 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It is one of the most studied beaches by the agency because of how quickly i is changing. Using atv equipmen and gps devices, the machines collect data. We have to keep track of where we have been to make sure that the line density is adequate to give us the data we need. Reporter the data is used t generate 3d maps that show how the beach is being pushed back. This data will help us to understand how great we are doing with these models and how they can be finetuned and improved moving forward. Reporter this helps counter erosion impacts on neighborhood and facilities like this waste Treatment Plant at the south en of ocean beach. Crews have buil massive sand berms and rock walls to protect the aging structure. If erosion were to cause the pipe to rupture there would be raw sewage. This data helps the to know, do they need to do mor emergency measures to try to protect the pipe . Reporter scientists predict a possible moderate to extreme el nino winter, causing massive flooding and other problems. El nino is the big bully. Reporter the last el nino winter of 2015 and beginning of 2016 is in the top three in 150 years of recordkeeping. The concern is what could be around the corner after strong impacts from just a year ago. We got hit pretty hard last winter, so we are starting from a relatively depleted state. So areas that would have wanted more buffer will not have them this year. So there could be issues in some places. Reporter Mother Nature cannot be controlled, but scientists like hoover are doin what they can to predict the next move and impacts. Usgs teams also do surveys from the air using planes and satellites, but the work they d on the ground tends to be more accurate. Brian hackney joining us tonight talking about our weather we have not had to tal about big wildfires thankfully in our general region, but it looks like there is one burning way up here. You know what started that . Lightning. Lightning and that lightning was unwinding over a lot of the sierra and we have our own problems with the potential of that in the next few days. We will discuss that. First we talk about what is happening in this, the socalle head fire at Klamath National forest which is about a third o the way from yreka to the coast so it is to the west of i5. Temperatures have fallen to 80 degrees. This has burned 4000 acres and was started by lightning. Lightning will be a factor for us. The smoke will b a factor for santa rosa. The models are showing that by early, early friday morning the smoke from that fire will just reach northern Sonoma County and no sooner does it do that than it retreats to the north. So just a brief flirtation with the smoke that will first go south and the winds will push i north. We have lowpressure tha is really churning up a southerly flow off the Central California coastline. Good new and bad news 1st. It will keep the smoke out of the bay area but will continue to pump moisture our way as we go into the weekend. So this low gets closer to the coastline and the southerly flow will bring more moisture over the sierra. We ha thunderstorms that were down in the south bay north of the observatory and kind of moved off towards pleasanton and livermore. Mostly dry now with chance of a thunderstorm in nap earlier tonight. That was about it. Tomorrow, though, we repeat the performance and over the next seven days we actually hav an enhanced chance on monday an tuesday of showers moving into the bay area because of a newlyformed tropical storm. Tropical storm hillary will juice up the atmosphere. When i does we stand a chance of our own thunderstorms, but that is monday and tuesday. We will follow that. In the meantime we have areas of fog tonight. It i dense across the golden gate bridge. Temperatures really com down by the time we get into friday. Convective clouds in the afternoon, maybe a pop up shower. The weekend looks mainl dry and mild. More cloudiness coming in monday and tuesday of next week. Here is how it looks you can see low clouds floating over the city. Temperatures right now are still warm in concord. Even at this hour geez, it is 20 after 11 79 in concord, 63 in oakland and 75 a livermore, so warm in the east bay. Temperatures tonight are o the balmy side, mid60s overnight in the east bay. For temperature highs tomorrow, not as warm. Just in the mid80s in the south bay. One but not as warm. Pittsburgh, 93, 94 at antioch. Up in the north bay we are looking at 80 from novato, 82 in petaluma and still plenty warm up around ukiah at 101 degrees. Extended forecast look like this. More clouds coming i on friday. Temperatures come down around San Francisco and oakland. In the north bay the numbers really come down on friday into the upper 70s. San jose will be in the low 80s. Next week on monday and tuesday more clouds come in. Temperatures remain warm, so that is the thunderstorm threat in the early part of next week. Again, for everybody, the one bit of good news, it will be cooling down as we head towards friday. But here is vern glenn speaking of cooling down, ahead in sports, where did the giants stand with 41 regular season games left . In st. Louis it was about location, location, location and this was beforere the as d every y business deserveses a great d deal. Thats w why comcastst busins is l launching t the mobilele made freeee event. With o our businesess internet, new and exexistig customers s can get one yeyear of unlilimitd mobile foror free. Its ourur best inteternet. 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