Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm 20170905 : compa

Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm 20170905

This holiday holding a Neighborhood Watch party. All the neighbors came out and weve been checking in on each other the whole weekend now. Reporter theyre collective gaze isnt for criminals but rather the menacing smoky cloud rising above the ridge. The fire started burning between 6 30 and 7 00 saturday night. Many here packed up and prepared to leave. Just in case increasing winds started blowing trouble toward their home. You hate to see the house go up. But its just a house. And were okay. So you know, you keep thinking of houston and the other fires that are going on and you say, okay we can do this lord. Reporter 200 firefighters are waging an unrelenting assault on the flames from the air and from the ground. Steep rocky terrain is making it difficult for bulldozers to dig containment lines around the fire. So firefighters from calfire and local departments from surrounding counties have gone back to basics. Were basically building containment lines. Right now were hitting it very hard with helicopters. The priority is always going to be life and property. Reporter no homes have been damaged and they hope changing winds wont change that. I have dog food ready to go, kennels. Packed clothes in a bag just in case. Reporter after a night and day of Fire Fighting efforts they still dont have any containment on this blaze but theyre hopeful if weather holds that will be possible this evening. Right now the cause is still under investigation. In gilroy, jesse gary, fox 2 news. The cooler weather and higher humidity is helping firefighters make progress on the large la tuna fire in southern california. Active flames are no longer in sight. But the fire has burned more than 7,000 acres just north of downtown l. A. Its also destroyed three homes. Its now 30 contained. That fire there is the largest fire by acreage in the history of los angeles county. And now local leaders are taking steps to prevent other problems that could develop in the burn zone this winter. Im determined to make sure we defer landslides. And now to the coverage of harvey. Fema announced that 54,000 victims of Hurricane Harvey are now staying in government funded hotel rooms across texas alone. Ellison barber is in the houston area. Reporter in houston neighbors are trying to help. Neighbors this is a donation site for the profit common threads. Theyve been around working in this community for over 10 years but right now theyre working extra days and collecting more doe neighs than normal. Our house came through fine and so we decided we wanted to show him that you give back and you contribution to your community. Reporter from people in houston sharing resources on a grass roots level. To International Neighbors like the canadian. Relief supplies are now arriving in mass to the gulf coast region. We have in there some hygiene products, blankets, pillows. Baby formula, baby crib, Baby Blankets etc. Reporter but in places like hard hit west houston a large number of neighborhoods remain under evacuation as the u. S. Army core of engineer is now easing pressure. Draining down water in two reservoirs. From raw sewage to Hazardous Material contaminants being spread by flood waters to mountains of debris being cleared from damaged homes. Its going to contaminate this area. What if they call this a condemned area now. And weve been here for 17 years. You cant, you cant go back in there. You will get sick. Reporter rolan crosby texas People Living near the Chemical Plant outside houston are now being allowed to return home. Fire crews conducted controlled burns at the plant sunday to neutralize potentially volatile chemicals. Were continuing to maintain air quality testing. Reporter at this point, Texas Governor greg abbott says harvey may have caused 180 million worth of damage. In houston, im alysson barber. They plan to vote this wednesday on a 7. 9 billion Disaster Relief bill to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Now to washington where President Trump is expected to announce tomorrow he will end the deferred action for Childhood Arrivals Program or daca. The Obama Era Program has granted work permits to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived in this country as children. Now the fate of those dreamers hangs in the balance. Ktvus rob roth talked to people who are really to mobilize against any changes to daca. Reporter at Frank Ogawa Plaza. I am the daughter of two immigrants who jumped borders, walked deserts because they believed in a better life for me and my siblings. Reporter she told a sympathetic crowd that shes been protected by daca. Ive been able to work and help my family. Reporter that could leave 750,000 people currently protected under daca vulnerable to deportation including munos. I have my children here. I have my children here and we would organize and fight for my ability to fight and stay in this country. Reporter in a separate rally, political leaders said President Trump is providing uncertainty. Give them six months when he ended the program when the sunset in six months and then forced congress to come up with a compromise. With this type of congress, what does that compromise look like . Appalled that our nations leaders would see so little opportunity with these kids. I mean when you look at these children, what they have to know is they really are the embodiments of the dream. Reporter saying quote we have their backs hash tag here to stay. Apple ceo tim cook tweeted, 250 of my apple coworkers are dreamers. I stand with them. But not everyone is standing with them the republican attorneys general of at least 10 states mostly in the south and midwest have threatened to sue the federal government if it does not eliminate daca. If President Trump does end daca a protest is scheduled for tomorrow night at 4 00 p. M. In front of the seven building in San Francisco. Activist groups are already organizing. The city of San Francisco paid 10,000 to set up a fence around alama park when a conservative group said they wanted to hold a conference there. City leaders made the decision after the group said they were going to have all their speakers attend a News Conference in the park. Authorities were concerned that would lead to a face off between Patriot Prayer and counter protesters. No word yet on how much it costs to bring in the hundreds of Police Officers who were also at ala many, o square park. New at 5 30 tonight, hundreds spent this labor day fighting for better pay. The message they want to send to employers. Were learning more about the man who died after he ran into the famous burning man epagy. And more on the nurse that was arrested for not allowing a man to have his blood drawn. The temperatures are going to be like the rest of the week. Ill have your full forecast. Ill see you back here. Police in San Francisco have arrested a man for attacking several asian women. Police are leased this Surveillance Video showing one of the assaults. They say all of the attacks were unprovoked and that all of them were against asian women. No word on the conditions of the victims but one did suffer a broken nose. We have new information tonight about the man who died after running into the famous burning man. 41yearold Aaron Joel Mitchell ran into the burning structure saturday night. Rescuers tried to save him but the epagy was collapsing. Mitchell was eventually pulled out and taken to the burn center but he died yesterday morning. His parents say the last time they saw him was in august when he went to oregon to see the Solar Eclipse then to the burning manifest burning man festival. A video shows a nurse calmly saying she is not allowed to take blood from a unconscious man. Today hospital administrators praised her saying she acted professionally while the officer did not. Yes absolutely she had done everything she possibly could to make that situation work and she wasnt rewarded for that. The nurse was released and no charges were filed. But she says she feels betrayed. The hospital says it responded quickly with new policies. Police will not be prohibited from patient care areas and will have to speak to supervisors as for the officer involved he was placed on administrative leave. A lot of people have been heading to beaches on this labor day weekend. Alex sadvige reports. Rescue groups are warning about dangerous rip currents. Being out here and so nice. Reporter trying to escape the heat from back home. The vale family made the drive out to ocean beach in San Francisco today. The kids splashed around in the surf but they did not venture too far out after a warning from mom and dad. Were not letting them go any deeper than this. And yeah, you just cant, you never know. You cant turn your back on it. Were trying to be as safe as possible. They didnt want you to go in too far. Yes. Why was that . Because they thought i would get pulled into a wave all the way over there. Reporter already this Holiday Weekend at least a dozen people have been rescued at ocean beach after getting into trouble in the water. On sunday, this father and son were pulled out by a rip current and rescue swimmers had to come in and help them get back to shore. A good reminder about just how dangerous the water can be. Just like anything else. Its familiarity and comfort. Thats why we want to get them started young and used to be able to read the water and understand what theyre getting into. Its going to be dangerous if you dont know what youre doing. I think because of the hot weather its pwraeting people to the water. People who arent really used to it. Reporter the warning signs are posted everywhere on ocean beach. Still many people decided to take a dip. Officials say swimming here is not a good idea. You always think youre Strong Enough and you can do it. But Mother Nature as we know, you know harvey and all the other natural disasters, sometimes we dont expect the worse until it really just hits us. Reporter 10s of thousands of people packed ocean beach over the weekend and as you can see they left a lot of trash behind. This morning crews from the National Park service were out cleaning things up, preparing for what will likely be a very busy labor day here at the beach. Of course the rescue swimmers will be on stand by to help anyone who gets into trouble in the water. They are urging anyone who goes into the ocean to not get into the water above their knees. In San Francisco, alex sadvidge. Ktvuchannel2 news. We go to alex sadvidge youre a surfer. Youve been in the rip tides. Ive never been in one. How does it get you. It hits the beach and comes back up. Usually cuts some channels and those are the rips. So you swim parallel to that rip. Perpendicular to the rip and you come out of it. Heres the thing. Are rip tides unusually bad this year . No theyre unusually bad with no air conditioners, 750,000, 800,000 people live in San Francisco proper. They run out to the beach. Now youve got many thousands of people at the beach. And so there are rips out there but really the focus would be just so many people and theres only a couple of life guards. Not that many amounts. Oes beach is bad rip current beach. But the rips werent really that bad. Its really about people getting away from the heat. Think about100 miles per hour. Theres smoke out there now. Temperatures have dropped significantly. And we are in a situation you see this this is from Tropical Storm down off it was further south there was a Tropical Storm. Now its just a cloud cover. But it has moved to the north. Its created a humid environment. Its created showers in northern california. We have showers in parts of the east bay around berkeley. Showers in novato and petaluma. Certainly significantly cooler out there. The smoke is around. It was a spare the air day today. It should not be and probably will not be a spare the air day tomorrow. As the winds are going to change just enough. That smoke will move further to the north. These are the current temperatures. Watch the difference between now and yesterday at this time. 20degrees cooler. Big drop off today. Its a little cooler yesterday. Temperatures have really come down. The smoke from the showers. You see the way the wind is moving right now. Saopl of these fires, we will drain some smoke. 15 fires burning in the state right now. It will not be as focused as it was. Spare the air days and with the smoky conditions. You see the winds prevailing here too. You see the on shore flow at the surface. Creating a cooler environment thats good. You want the winds moving toward the west. It feels like houston today in the bay area. It really does. Humid, hot, especially and yesterday too. Its just been an unusual weather pattern. It is now sort of breaking. The smoke starts to go away. Theres tomorrow morning. That looks like were going to see a little bit of fog tomorrow morning. And cloud cover burns back. Look at the forecast highs for tomorrow not too bad. The numbers look very reasonable. Much cooler, fire danger takes a little bit of a rest. Air quality gets a heck of a lot better. Well talk about the chance of a potential thunderstorms or shower for this evening when i see you next. People in Santa Barbara are cleaning up after a fast moving weekend storm known as a microburst caused a lot of damage. You can see the rain and wind came in quickly umbrellas were fine. People ran for safety. But what youre not seeing in this video are the overturned boats. The downed power lines and downed trees. Luckily no one was hurt. Bracing for another hurricane. How people from the caribbean and florida are now preparing for a category 4 hurricane. From florida to North Carolina people are preparing for irma. Some are worried it will affect parts of the east coast if it makes landfall. People spent the day stocking up on supplies. Officials are telling residents to have enough food and water to last three days for every person in the household. Right now its too early to tell. But its a good time to be prepared. In North Carolina the red cross is putting a hold on sending volunteers to send in texas because they could potentially be facing their own disaster from Hurricane Irma. Hurricane watch now has been issued for puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. It is still too early to tell when and where irma should make landfall. The Water Rescue Team that is part of the menlo park Fire Protection agency is watching to see what happens with Hurricane Irma. In north korea, government claims they successfully tested a Hydrogen Bomb is stirring reaction from across the world. They held an emergency meeting to discuss how to respond. North korea conducting its sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb test. Joining warning of a National Military response from the United States. On monday, the u. N. Council holding an emergency meeting with the u. S. Pushing for a tough new resolution. 24 years of half measures and failed talks is enough. Reporter but getting world powers to agree could be difficult. China and russia both calling for the u. S. To tone down its rhetoric. Claiming military while also leaving military options on the table. We continue to push forward with this plan for diploma diplomacy because you cant give that up. Mean while the south Korean Military responding with a series of live fire military exercises. Simulating an attack on north Koreas Nuclear site. Experts say, its unlikely the south will stop its drills until kim jongons missile programs are shut down for good. When kim becomes confidence in in his arsenal, he is going to then try to take over south korea. Reporter they will aim for a vote next monday. In london, benjamin hall, fox news. Labor activists rally on this labor day calling for a minimum wage of 15 an hour. It was a busy weekend for b. A. R. T. Police. Details on the crime theyre investigating, next. My name is Valerie Decker and im a troubleman for pg e. I am a First Responder to emergencies 24 hours a day, everyday of the year. My children and my family are on my mind when im working all the time. My neighbors are here, my friends and family live here, so its important for me to respond as quickly as possible and get the power back on. Its an amazing feeling turning those lights back on. Be informed about outages in your area. Sign up for outage alerts at pge. Com outagealerts. Together, were building a better california. Been trying to prepare for this day. And im still not ready. The reason im telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that. Youll never be ready for. Your little girl getting married being one of them. Hundreds of Union Workers spent this labor day marching for workers rights in oakland. Henry lee is in the newsroom now with why supportedders say boosting pay will ripple through the work force, henry. Frank and julie. Protesters took to the streets of oakland today to rally on behalf of low paid workers struggling to make ends meet. Its become an annual tradition, a rally outside

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