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Is getting a lot messier tonight with the San Francisco salon owner where she got her hair done denying that she set up the House Speaker. The San Francisco salons may only cut hair outdoors under new rules that took effect on tuesday. This appointment took place on monday. Today, the white house blasted pelosi then protesters gathered at her San Francisco home. A lot of new developments today. We started coverage with kron fours Justine Waltman live for us in the newsroom with the east salon owners response just eat. Well can the law known or she had a really emotional while sharing her side of the story today at points erica kiosk was crying and having a hard time speaking. She says for nancy pelosi to claim that she is the victim of a setup is totally outrageous. So heres the video that was played during the White House Press briefing today. And it shows the speaker to smock with wet hair and no face mask as she walks through the San Francisco salon on union street thus a loner the salon owner says nancy pelosi or her people. We requested the hair appointment at home. But instead the stylist Jonathan Dinardo invited her to the salon do claims. Chaos has been pressuring stylist to work at the salon during the shutdown which started in march, there was a lot of back and forth between all 3 sides here as for who asked for and then approved the appointment but bottom line the owner today explained why she released the video. The point of releasing this video was and is if a woman in a highrisk age group who spends much of her time on tv warning about the dangers of covid19. Feel safe and comfortable in santa ana San Franciscos salon and can be responsible for being cautious and mindful, why cant the rest of San Francisco and the rest of america do that too. That was my point. Someone who breaks a rule to feed themselves or their children. Its very different from mrs. Pelosi who supports rules that even she acknowledges by her actions are not necessarily to ensure safety. I just wanted all silas. Including to be able to work and also an including mine. And to be able to reopen safely in for indoor services. The salon owner is denying that she set up the House Speaker nancy pelosi and the pelosi owes her and the country and an apology and tonight. Weve also heard from the stylus involved the law firm that represents him says that Jonathan Dinardo has been receiving Death Threats and he stands by his prior comments and he wishes to move forward, and also that he and other stylist at the salon have all now quit. Live now in the newsroom. Im Justine Waldman kron 4 news justine thank you more than a dozen women showed up outside nancy pelosi, specific eyes imagine to protest today, the demonstrators were wearing curlers in their hair and draped in plastic. As if they were at the beauty salon they hung blow dryers in the tree outside and express their outrage over pelosis trip to the union street salon on monday and the shutdowns effect on businesses in the state. She has done has slapped the face of not just the salon owner, but every woman every man everybody who is employed in the state of california has lost their jobs lost their livelihoods many of whom are my friends. This speakers hairdo also got top billing at the White House Press briefing today press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany was flanked by 2 monitors which played on a loop. The now infamous video of pelosi with wet hair and no mask inside the salon this came the day after pelosi herself fired back at the release of the Surveillance Video to fox news saying she was set up. President trump also weighed in on twitter writing quote, crazy nancy pelosi says she was set up by the beauty parlor owner when she improperly had the salon opened does anyone want to speaker of the house who can be set up so easily pelosis deputy chief of staff reach trick re tweeted the president s remarks and added does anyone want a president of the United States who is more focused on this nonsense rather than crushing the virus and saving american lives. Our coverage of this controversy continues at kron 4 dot com. There you can watch the salon owners entire News Conference read the full statement from the stylus lawyer and watch reaction from both sizes all at kron 4 dot com. Other news tonight as early as next week 15 Warren County schools will reopen for in Person Learning this is the list these trip transitional kindergarten through 6th grade schools were clear to open on tuesday september 8 Bayside Martin luther king Junior Academy is one of 3 Public Schools allowed to reopen on that list. The majority allowed to reopen or smaller private schools in moran and they were cleared based on 30 different recommendations or orders for the safe reopening of schools. Each school will be required to comply with its Site Specific Protection Plan that was submitted as part of its application. The big story were following tonight in the north bay theres increasing concerns over Public Safety in vallejo the Vallejo Police union is issuing a warning that delay ho is on track to set a new murder raid saturday. The number established 16 years ago. Well forced to reassess it was live in the tonight, she has details to reason. That was back in 1994 when they were 30 murders here in vallejo now and september 3rd weve had 21 people that have lost their lives and the police union now issuing a warning and they say that there needs to be more done to stop this problem. Here in vallejo it was back in 1994 where there were 30 murders there has not been anything like that in years until now on september 3rd there has now been 21 murders and the police are concerned that more steps need to be taken to make sure that the public stay safe. Is the first ever 2021 which are the most at the city of laos. To 6 1884. That is Peter Hoffman and attorney that represents the Vallejo Police Officers Association how are Police Officers feeling about the knowledge of of whats going on in the setting. Allies would be probably the best way to put it in over match. When we look at the Staffing Levels. We currently have of agency rate of about 19 . A 100 sites for officers. And the city is now currently budgeted 430. Big when he came on board in january said that he thought the number should be 180. That means were operating at less than 60 efficiency or what. The chief said that we needed to keep the citizens safe. Earlier this week, the mayor announced that he has asked the california Highway Patrol to come. And help out it is a it does give temporary solution we need the resources. The city needs the resources. But its not a longterm solution. The longterm solution is getting our Staffing Levels to where they need to be so that we are not requesting a toy for day to day operations. So again it was back in 1994 when they had 30 murders and now as of this state 21 murders. Also the Vallejo Police department has been in the middle of a controversy in the past couple of months involving some officer involved specifically the Fatal Shooting of Sean Monterrosa now that is being investigated with a separate agency and that case is not included in the current count of 21 homicides. Heres leo theresa back to you guys all right reason thank you very much well get ready. A heat wave is coming to the bay area this weekend. And the states grid operator has issued of flex alerts that comes less than a month. After the state implemented its first rolling blackouts in almost 20 years as kron fours machine michelle kingston tells us. The genie is asking customers to try to conserve energy to avoid those Power Outages. Well its a Beautiful Day here today but were just a few days away from triple digit heat expected here in Contra Costa County this weekend. As with all heat waves in the bay area, pacific gas and electric is urging customers to conserve energy triple digit temperatures are expected during the upcoming Holiday Weekend in a flex alert has already been issued and with that were asking our customers to be prepared for possible heat related outages on sunday and monday the California Independent system operator manages the power grid as of right now they do not anticipate rotating Power Outages in pg need does not foresee initiating a Public Safety power shutoff however, this could all change. We see heat related Power Outages when the temperatures are triple digits for an extended amount of time because equipment just cant cool down fast enough and we also see Power Outages in areas that arent used to having tripled it digit temperatures over an extended amount of time for example, coastal areas. Where maybe the equipment just you know isnt used to having that heat for an extended that money he for a long period of time for now the Electric Company is urging customers to be aware of the flex alerting conserve energy this weekend they ask you avoid using electrical appliances and devices from 03 00pm to 09 00pm on saturday sunday and monday and to adjust thermostat to 78 degrees or turn it off if youre not home on plug in the power strips not in use and put off household chores like vacuuming laundry in dishwashing kids every little bit helps any chances that you can conserve energy reduces the chances of the California Independent system operator from calling for those rotating outages because the more we can conserve that will beef up the supply and reduce the chances of those rotating outages in Contra Costa County michelle kingston kron 4 news well lets take a live look outside tonight and see how things are shaping up this is the bay bridge toll plaza, no traffic really but boy can still kind of sense as smoke in the air which was been hanging around all day today app and thats a big problem you want to open your because its been warm and its going to get hotter, but with the smoke right. Lawrence on a good idea. Yeah trouble i think head into the weekend all these temperatures going on were talking a record heat. Around the bay area clear skies for the most part right now tomorrow going to be last fairly mild day compared to what were going to see and then temperatures really going to get cooking in fact a very hot weather expected throughout the Labor Day Weekend likely going to see records fall out there, especially inland maybe in and around the bay, a hot and smoky that is going to be the big problem thats going to be a scorching heat, many spots well over a 100 degrees inland. And then even inside the bay, i think well see some 90s in some triple digits. So you want to open those windows but you get the hot temperatures High Pressure overhead and that tends to bring very stagnant air and that means well it is going to be pretty smoky around the bay area too. These numbers keep cranking these up just about each day as i look at this forecast now maybe some places not only the 90s were talking maybe a 110 degrees maybe even a 112 up toward vacaville, so certainly some hot temperatures will break those numbers down coming up in a few minutes they doors coming up on 4 news at 8 oclock millions of americans will reign financially. Where congressional lawmakers stand now heading into the Holiday Weekend safe and successful those are the 2 biggest concerns for covid19 vaccine tonight, one Pharmaceutical Company is claiming a much quicker timeline for a viable battles plus Bay Area Health experts issuing words of warning to all of us avoid making the same social distancing lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att now just days away from Labor Day Weekend and while you may have plans to get together with friends. Health officials are warning if people are not careful we could see another spike in covid cases kron 4 sanaz has more on what officials are saying. Labor day weekend may be the unofficial end of summer but Bay Area Health officials are reminding you that its not the end of the pandemic coronavirus cases continue to grow across the country, including right here in the bay area. The more than 85,000 confirmed cases across the 9 bay area counties and more than 1100 deaths covid19 is still very much a reality for us all Labor Day Weekend is a time when people gather with friends and family to celebrate which means there will be barbecues brunches and for some people there will be alcohol which could be a recipe for an increase in covid19 numbers seagulls go back you know what we went through in march and april and the amazing job that we did here in california. And we all let our guard down a bit you know memorial day 4th of july and we certainly saw an increase of cases after that. So were just getting out of that period now, but if we want to keep our businesses open. We want to keep our schools open. We got to take responsibility on ourselves and this in this holiday is going to be a good test for all of us if we can if we can keep doing what weve been doing. Thursday morning Santa Clara County Health Officials discussed the importance of staying safe this weekend saying covid is still very present in the community. Theyre also reminding people to stay safe in the extreme heat thats headed our way this is kind of an interesting weekend because theres also a heat advisory. And so we want folks to know to be careful of the heat. So you know last year so make sure that you stay hydrated. Youre outside you know in some cases it may be actually safer to just stay indoors. Away from the heat. Now if you do plan on getting together with friends and family are advised to keep your group small dont share food or drinks with one another and remember to wear your mask and wash your hands, reporting in the newsroom Sanaz Tahernia kron 4 news. All hair salons and barbershops in Alameda County will be allowed to welcome clients. Indoors. Barbers and stylists across the county were allowed to return to work this week. As long as the clients are outside receptionists of the salon says there are no problems booking clients. We sent a mass email text me and so on has been excited. Its been a while its been almost 6 months and we can not good we cant wait to get everybody in. Shop such as the salon will be allowed to move indoors again starting tomorrow morning there will be restrictions everyone has to wear a mask in the shop can only run it. 25 of capacity. Alameda county joins a growing list of bay area counties and are allowing indoor operations at hair salons and barbershops include Contra Costa County moran napa sam, a tail. Santa clara county Solano County and Sonoma County. Infectious disease expert doctor Anthony Fauci is warning americans that there has been a rise in covid cases among young adults in certain states. And he says it is more important than ever to take precautions to avoid a surge after this labor day Holiday Weekend tonight, one company developing a vaccine says a safe drug might be right around the corner. Nick watt reports. Pfizer now teasing it might know if its covid19 vaccine is safe and effective as early as the end of next month with the promise no corners will be cut. Thats unlikely not impossible. I think most of the people feel is going to be november december. The cdc now telling state officials to print to distribute a vaccine also as soon as the end of next month. Just speaking these days before the election so to stokes those fears that the government isnt being duly diligent. A charge. The white house denies. The goalie ministration is to get a vaccine out as quickly as it is safe and efficacious to do. And on treating covid19 doctor fauci says more data is