Welcome back on 4 is your local election headquarters and were now just a half hour away from the first and only Vice President ial debate tonight Vice President mike pence and Vice President ial candidate senator Kamala Harris will be debating at the university of utah in Salt Lake City as an added safety precaution there will be plexiglass barriers between the candidates and the moderator and unlike last weeks debate between joe biden and President Trump the candidates will be more than 12 feet apart and sitting instead of standing. It is among the most anticipated vp debates arguably ever and senator harris and Vice President pence have been gearing up for a while from 4 Sanaz Tahernia talked to a political expert about tonights debate in he has she has more on what we can expect. The stage is sense for the first and only Vice President ial debate. Vice president mike pence and senator Kamala Harris, well go head to head in a debate thats expected to be like no other. Its an election where you can actually imagine the Vice President had to step in. And weve not seen that in recent history. It will be a historic debate for several reasons President Trump is 74 years old joe biden is 77. Making these 2 candidates, the oldest men to run for president senator Kamala Harris of the first woman of color to participate in the general election president ial campaign debate. An incumbent Vice President mike pence are also taking the its a chaotic time from the president s covid19 diagnosis. The back and forth between the white house and congress about a stimulus package. The racial and civil unrest, happening nationwide and the open seat on the Supreme Court bench. Following a fiery president ial debate and President Trumps response after testing positive for covid19 tonights debate may be a bigger challenge for pence. Senator harris is going to be there to continue to prosecute the case. But the most important pressing problem in the country has the virus. And that failure of this administration to deal with it and that will be her brain or failure of covid i think for Vice President pence tonight to to reset the stage he not only has to answer for that president s behavior starting last week in cleveland through walter reed and then back to the truman balcony. But he also has to show how does he stand apart from that i think thats a really hard task for press. Tonights debate will take place at the university of utah in Salt Lake City. There will be 9. 10 minute segments and each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond in each segments that means more topics can and likely will be covered the 6 that were discussed in last weeks president ial debate. The debate is scheduled to begin at 06 00pm can watch the entire debate right here on kron 4 for kron 4 news tahernia reporting. Today politico is women rule Community Held a virtual roundtable ahead of the Vice President ial debate tonight, it features senator Kamala Harriss sister maya harris, the roundtable was filmed here in San Francisco, you are looking at video from the event. Women rule by politico is a group of professionals that create opportunities for women to advance their leadership skills and to network with others online and in person, Christine Pelosi who previously worked with Kamala Harris when she was district attorneys San Francisco was among those on the panel. What a historic occasion tonight, the first time a woman of color will be in a Vice President ial debate. What the audience will see tonight will be something that i saw that services go courtrooms. 20 years ago, which is a woman who is very well prepared who is very caring and concerning about people she. Represents peso shes going to make the bay area proud shell make the bay area proud. The group discussed the state of the 2020 president ial race and the importance of tonights debate. Stay with us to debate is set to begin at 6 oclock and you can watch it right here on kron 4. Well follow that debate with indepth analysis with inside bay area politics host catherine heenan. And now its time for us to check on our 4 zone Weather Forecast our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by with the latest or yellow fall feel out there today. Thats for sure the clouds moved on shore find the pullback in lot of part of the day, but again the coastline get ready to move back on shore right now for the Golden Gate Bridge looking nice out there some patchy fog not too far away the sea breeze is blowing that is going to carry some thick fog in the bay area overnight tonight in fact weve got some those winds to 20 Miles Per Hour sfo out of the west 10 in the San Francisco, 16 into fairfield in 14 of the southwest in the napa valley so certain that onshore breeze on the way lays out there too so little smoke in our skies patchy dense fog developing tonight with some drizzle along the coastline tomorrow, mostly sunny. And just a little bit cooler and then slight chance of showers coming this weekend. But just a slight chance that the best chance to come on saturday most that will be Golden Gate Bridge on northward as we see that system pull through you see right here starting to just develop its going to split here sag to the south. But unfortunately looks like it wants to drive all the way down to Southern California leaving us behind high and dry with some mild conditions for tomorrow. A drizzle. Yes, early a couple pop ups along the coastline and the fog moving well in the bay overnight tonight into tomorrow morning, maybe a little damp along the immediate coastline as we head toward the afternoon we start to clear things up just a little bit as a few clouds continue to rotate overhead that being said tomorrow the numbers plan on those being down somewhat youre going to see a lot of 70s inland, 60s and 70s around the bay and cooler 50s out of the coast. Thank you lawrence coming up thousands of new jobs coming to an east bay city will tell you all about the new Amazon Fulfillment Center going up in was at 5. 45 despite the rising number of covid cases on capitol hill. Republicans are moving full steam ahead to try to confirm judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Courts and we know about the effect the wildfire smoke may have had on this years great harvest, but what about this years historic wildfire season is not only affecting the local wine industry. It is also posing threat to the entire west Coast Cannabis crops, something we may not have thought of Industry Experts say some growers are already dealing with loss of crops because of the fires and on top of that. Growers are worried the lingering smoke and ash in the air could affect the quality of their cannabis experts say consumer safety and lab testing. Well also become significance concerns as cannabis grown in our areas hit the market. Or have a Legal Industry and the entire supply chain is being affected by these fires whether youre personally burned out by the fire or your crop has been affected by either the smoke the ash damage or the fire retardant that is sprayed to try to mitigate these fires and all of those affect your ability to then take these flowers to market there are ways to remediate the flowers through an Extraction Lab but make no mistake. This is affecting every part of the supply chain. October is considered harvests month for a cannabis growers coming up on kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight, well hear from a grower about now theyre working to try to save their crops for your money and was on is moving into a building in Contra Costa County thats being turned into a new order Fulfillment Center the huge project is called the Contra Costa Logistics Center and is expected to create thousands of jobs and oakley. The site located off highway one 60 just before the ante on ridge will have 5 buildings and a total of 2 million square feet. The Amazon Fulfillment Center is the first tenant in that complex and it will occupy 150,000 square feet of the building before other buildings will be completed within the next couple of years and more companies will move in providing more than 2000 jobs to the community. Republicans say confirmation hearings for judge Amy Coney Barrett will still go on despite safety concerns from taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. Breaking state employment laws for years. Now these multibilliondollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No unemployment benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. And National Years a coronavirus outbreak in washington dc will not stop the republicans from confirming President Trumps Supreme Court nominee judge Amy Coney Barrett, the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings will Begin Next Week with some lawmakers attending virtually our washington correspondent jessi to nor has the latest. Were going fall, louisiana, senator john kennedy, a republican on the Judiciary Committee says democrats are going to do anything they can to block the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before its all over. They have color rosemarys baby the democrats on the committee are urging the Justice Department to provide any missing materials from a questionnaire barrett completed specifically a 2006 newspaper ad she signed sponsored by an antiabortion group but kennedy says its just one of the ways Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer plans to derail berets confirmation is going say were all gonna die we hold that sharing with us senate on recess due to safety concerns schumer says holding a Committee Hearing right now is just too dangerous. He said in a statement nothing should go forward without a thorough testing procedure in place my god im going to be there. Kennedy and fellow republican tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn plan to question barrett in person next week. The members will have the option to participate virtually this is fort very successfully for us blackburn was at their its nomination ceremony thats now seen as a super spreader event after nearly a dozen attendees have tested positive for covid19 i have several test i have tested negative the hearings start monday with a confirmation vote expected one week before election day. In washington, im jessi to north. In other News National news tonight their children the ex officer charged in George Floyds death is out of prison after posting a Million Dollar bond show been had been behind bars since may 31st the former minneapolis officer was recorded kneeling on George Floyds neck for nearly 9 minutes that video sparked protests all around the world is not immediately clear where chauvin got the money to pay his van. He is charged with seconddegree murder thirddegree murder and seconddegree manslaughter. A trial date has been set for next march and tonight jacob blake is out of the hospital the 29 yearold black man has spent the last 6 weeks recovering after his shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer in kenosha wisconsin that shooting was also caught on camera inflaming racial tensions and sparking another round of protests. Blake suffered appears spine a shattered ribs, punctured long the damage liver and several holes in his stomach. His attorneys says hell continue his recovery at a rehab center in chicago. Well take a look at this there is some good news with these baby plants sprouting again and Big Basin Redwoods State Park part of the area was burned during the czu complex fires youll recall. Its definitely an encouraging sign for scientists who are tracking regrowth in the far as their the czu complex was contained about 2 weeks ago it burned more than 86,000 acres ice taking a live look outside at the embarcadero in San Francisco, when you things have calmed down as far as the heat wave is concerned but. Boy talk about crazy weather. Lawrence, the gulf of mexico churning the gulf so active this year in the Hurricane Season here we go weve got delta now just push across the yucatan peninsula does weaken somewhat and disarray compared to where we sat last night was a category 4 still a very dangerous storm system will likely strengthen as it makes its way across the gulf right now sustained winds of 90 Miles Per Hour member yesterday was all the way up to a 145 this will re strengthen moves away from the interference of the land mass there and slowly churning out. In the middle of the gulf and there you go by thursday were talking about a category 2 unfortunately, this looks like it is bearing down again on louisiana, its going to take a northeasterly turn and possibly just off the coastline as a category 3 coming on maybe as a major hurricane as we get into friday, certainly theres going to be a lot of change in that forecast between now and then but right now makes its landfall apparently on louisiana could see a storm surge there as high as 11 feet that would be devastating especially near the coastline. All right were looking at some changes coming our way the next couple of days, weve got a few more clouds on the way tonight temperatures going to cool down a little bit as we get into friday. Theres a cold from the want to get close them look like its going to get here now i think a better chance of a few light showers mainly north of the Golden Gate Bridge on saturday by sunday, its back to those offshore winds some blustery winds, especially in the north bay fire danger will be elevated on sunday into monday. Thank you lawrence and we are awaiting a News Conference as we continue to follow breaking news a San Francisco firefighter killed in a the unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. Breaking news and joining a lot to firefighter killed earlier today. The florida party. For the past 2 years. He has worked at station 3. Engine 3 which is the busiest fire engine in the country. So that should tell you something about him. He was a gogetter. He cared about people you loved his job. He loved the people he worked with us and he loved his family. And our job in the Fire Department right now is to hold one another up. To take care of his family. And to complete an investigation. Prayers thoughts prayers, everything for jason. For his wife for his 2 kids for his entire family. Thank you very much. All right youve been listening to a live News Conference to see if the chief is going to Say Something else she paused for a pam wasnt sure if theyre a moment of silence for the fallen firefighter, but. Yeah, taking questions here. Ive known because hes been in the department for 13 years, ive run many calls with him when i was out in the field. When he was a paramedic on an ambulance. Always a straight up guy. Hardworking kinds. Could clone him. You know i i would just a wonderful human being. You know it and part of it is that that he had friends here at San Francisco general as well where he was brought today who loved him who knew him from. When he transported patients here on the ambulance knows how many lives he saved how many peoples lives he changed. He was a really wonderful human being. We have to train. And we train. I just like we would go to work at a fire. And im unable to say anything else about the accident other than it was tragic. Absolutely tragic. Her broken. Also her broken for the folks who are there with him today. But everybody went right to work and we did everything we could for him. Im just proud of everyone in this department. And the way they step up in and show up. Im also very appreciative of our mayor and she came today to the hospital to pay her condolences means a lot to the family and to our fire family. Also want to the Police Department the sheriffs department. Everyone is just showed up for us today. And we cant be more grateful, especially at a time like this. So we train every single day. I cant give you any details about this true. But we all treat every single day we come to work. Because we have to be really good at our jobs. And incident is under investigation. So i cant really say more than that about San Francisco firefighters are stand today after a training accident took the life of one of their own jason cortez 42 years old. Father of 2 Young Children killed in a training accident. Earlier today and this is a statement being made by the leadership of the Fire Department that says San Francisco fire chief Janine Nicholson whos been speaking not giving any specifics on exactly what happened that took the life of the firefighter. This morning during some kind of a training more information of course well be forthcoming coming at the appropriate time dont forget as we move on the Vice President ial debate by the way we should mention of that News Conference is streaming online at kron 4 dot com. If you want to continue to watch that. The Vice President ial debate starts in just a welcome back to stage is set for the first and only Vice President ial debate of 2020. We are minutes away from the start of what could be another fiery debate, the Vice President ial showdown coming less than a week after President Trump tested positive for the coronavirus youre now looking live as we wait for the candidates to take their seats they will be seated during this debate, not standing. Extra measures are being taken to keep the space safe. The desks for the candidates are spaced about 12 feet apart with plexiglas between them staff also took guest temperatures and asked people to sanitize their hands. Wearing a maze of a face mask is also required and any guests who refuses to wear a mask will be removed all of those reasons and more making for what may be the most meaningful. Vice president ial debate in recent memory and on a number of levels in fact senator Kamala Harris alone