Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 4pm 20171019 : compa

Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 4pm 20171019

Surgery in right now is in intensive care at San Francisco general. Live at the hospital with more on the officers condition. Reporter as you mentioned the officer remains in intensive care. We understand his family is by his side. Support continues to come in from bay area agencies all offering their support to him and his family. We will show you a picture of him. He is pictured with his wife. He has been with the Police Department for five years. Police tell us he actually chose to be assigned to the Tenderloin Police station last year. He was on a bicycle be yesterday when he was hit by a fleeing suspect in an suv. He went immediately into surgery. The 32yearold remains in critical condition. His family is by his side. The mayor stop by the hospital to offer support. It is critical his condition. Because it did affect the brain and the next spinal. Also, all the family is coming in. I am praying for them. They really deserve our prayers right now. Reporter in his five years with the department he has been recognized numerous times for his Outstanding Police work. He received the purple heart award in 2015 after he was injured on the job. He also recently started law school. He teaches jujitsu. And he also is a volunteer in the tenderloin district. Support continues to pour in for this officer. We also understand his family is by his side. We dont have any word on whether or not he has children. We dont we know he is married. His wife is by his side in the hospital. Very critical injuries. Other officers stopped by and they are concerned. He is well liked and respected in the department. They are pulling for him and sending prayers his way. Earlier today tara sat down with the suspect for a jailhouse interview. He told her yesterday told her he suffers from ptsd. She will have the full interview coming up in our 5 pm hour. In Sonoma County a Community Meeting just concluded. Residents received information about when they can go home how the massive amounts of damage will be cleaned up and how they can get the help they need. Tom was at the meeting and have some of those answers. He joins us with more. Reporter when you pull into sonoma this is what you will see in front of the famous building. The love shown to the First Responders people who have just been thrilled with the kinds of service they have seen the dedication from their Public Servants and people who came literally for many other states to help. As to the meeting, a little bit of a different story. There are still neighborhoods close. There are still some roads close. What happened is a residence put questions to officials who have to answer them. We will get into the meat which is getting you the information you need. Reporter 200 people showed up to get the latest ask questions and collect necessary forms to begin recovery. With Sonoma County fire 80 contained. Officials expressed concerned about when everyone can finally go home. We had a close call with a 16 foot wide tree that almost struck two firefighters yesterday. These are the situations where we do not want to allow the public back into these dangerous areas. We know it is a frustrating experience. Youre not getting the answers you need. Youre not getting back to your home if you have been in and evacuation area. We ask that you dig deep to that last moment of patient you have. Officers are showing a tremendous amount of empathy to the people we serve. Im proud of the men and women who do that every day. We will love to get them get them back out to patrol. Reporter residents found the meeting useful. The help they got filling out forms the invaluable. I believe it has been helpful. People want to know what is going on. If they are in the thick of it they dont know what is going on around them. Reporter they made a headline where they announced it would clean up the thousands of lots were homes burned to the ground provided the homeowners provide written permission. Government contractors can clean up quickly and completely since privately hired contractors to be few and far between. Once we have authorization we can mobilize our state and federal forces to come in and begin the process of returning a safe and clean side back to them for rebuilding and recovery. Reporter the federal department of housing and urban development announced it will impose a three month moratorium on foreclosures on fha homes. Assist in forbearance and loan modifications. Several types of mortgage insurance available. And assist those who lost homes or apartments to find alternative housing. That will be a tall order. It will be a long process. The wildfire burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The bear fire is 300 330 acres. For structures have been destroyed. 300 more are threatened. Some of the families who have been evacuated are being allowed to return home. Finally after three full days of fire here in the Santa Cruz Mountains some good news. Some of the Evacuation Orders are being lifted. Some residents are allowed back home. Fire crews started this mornings briefing talking about the progress they have made so far. They have been working hard. We just picked up where you guys left off. Starting up here and division alpha, the fire is back down to holding on those roads but the only fire was in the alpha bravo it held up on that deer creek road. It will stay there. But mac all of that is good news for evacuated residents. Reporter skyline boulevard area are allowed back home. Area south of bear creek road also seeing the evacuations lifted. Areas under Evacuation Order still there creek canyon road. Deer creek road. Dons road and surrounding areas. Cal fire says residents although they might be allowed home still need to be on high alert. There is still active fire. We want to remind residents even though Evacuation Orders have been downgraded there is still a possibility and chance under certain circumstances they will have to be reordered were in a new area order to leave at any time. Reporter the weather brings good news and bad news. There is the possibility of some rain in the forecast which would help firefighting efforts. The bad news that could mean some 1 before those rains. Wind. It could help propel the fire load inverse. Firefighters are hoping for the best out of the weather. Storm that rain is going to start coming down in a couple hours. I saw a report from santa rosa. Nothing showing up just yet. Enough moisture to generate a few scattered showers. We are expecting more heading into the evening. A big change in the short term forecast. Rainfall expectations 1 10 of an inch to maybe a quarter of an inch. Cooler forecast to friday. The sierra they have a Winter Weather advisory with snow levels coming down to 6000 feet. Santa cruz mountains look at the cloud cover. A lot of moisture. We are not talking about low humidity. You can see the fire zone out to 17 to the west of 17. Current conditions are great. You can see 69 relative humidity. Wins around 35 miles per hour. The system tonight there is a breeze which will be a concern. The bigger factor will be the clouds and the eventual rainfall working back into the bay area. The rainfall to the north to eureka and kate mendocino. As i mentioned, it is not being picked up on the radar right now. Light rain reported in portions of Sonoma County towards santa rosa. Enough moisture is not being picked up by the radar. Enough to wet the roadways. Those amounts of rain about 1 10 of an inch in san jose. Nearly 1 4 of an inch in santa rosa. San francisco 1 10 of an inch but this is more than a few sprinkles. The bulk of it moves in later on tonight. Especially after 9 pm into the early portion hours of friday. The rainfall forecast around the fire zones you can see the numbers showing up. If we take this into friday the numbers will be adding up. This will be great news for the fire crews battling the fires. You can see the numbers adding up. Right now we have some clouds. Layered cloud cover this evening heading into thursday evening. Here is the forecast model. 9 pm the main focus will be up in the north bay. 11 pm moving through the heart of the bay area. Quickly moving to the south early tomorrow morning. Friday a slight chance of a shower until 6 am. The rest of the day partly cloudy skies in cooler conditions. Tomorrow the coolest day of the week. Warming by the weekend. We will have more on that. Cal fire released an updated map that shows in detail which homes were damaged and were burned down. And which ones are still standing. The red means the homes were destroyed. Yellow means the home was damaged. It gives you an idea of the scope and how big this was. We will start in southern Sonoma County. Some of the homes were either damaged or completely gone. Working our way up lynn ellen highway 12 through kenwood and south to run a park in santa rosa. As you might recall most of the homes were in coffee park and fountain grove. A little to the north of santa rosa. Look at the enormity of that. You can just see complete neighborhoods completely devastated. Some of the yellow you can see where the homes that were just damage. For the most part these neighborhoods are completely gone. As you go north you can see some of this. You can zoom in and see the actual homes themselves. This home right here is no longer there. Just incredible. Is a great tool to get a better idea just how big these fires were. As you can see, how much work they have to rebuild and including some entire neighborhoods especially to the north and northeast part of santa rosa. To High School Football players from Contra Costa County arrested on suspicion of Sexual Assault. 2. White nationalist Richard Spencer holds a raleigh. We have details coming up next. All all call you will oakland decided on a new fire chief. The mayor announced the employment of darren white who is serving as the interim chief. He is an oakland native with 30 years of service which includes 20 years with the oakland fire department. He will assume his new duties immediately. They will hold a ceremonial swear in tomorrow at 1 pm. The wife of a sheriffs deputy might be going to trial for dui in a crash that killed a three yearold. She agreed to waive her hearing. That means she could go straight to trial on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence. She was under the influence of Prescription Medication last year she crashed into a car on the shoulder of 680 in san ramon. The car had run out of gas. The impact killedyearold elijah done and injured his mother. She waived her right to a preliminary hearing this morning. She waived her rights to have the evidence presented against her and a judge independently evaluating the evidence. Reporter she could go to trial in this case. To High School Students arrested after a Sexual Assault investigation into east bay. The students were arrested last night. The suspects to Football Players at the lasalle and Ygnacio High School were arrested on suspicion of rape. The victim is a student at concordes condo a high school. The alleged assault happened a week ago. Uc Berkeley Police investigating a Sexual Assault in a dorm room. The victim was assaulted saturday at a hall under ran avenue. The victim met the suspect at a fraternity party. Investigators are looking for witnesses. So far they do not have a description of the attacker. Stemming fbi nationwide sting of six contract workers led to 120 arrest across the country. The sweep started a week ago and locally Authorities Say four pimps were other were arrested. 12 men were cited for soliciting prostitutes. Police rescued two victims of sexual trafficking including a 17yearold. Those victims are getting help from the Victim Services program and other agencies. Affordable housing advocates voicing opposition to a controversial developer. The oakland Planning Police and listen to critics and supporters of haber and jacobson construction. They have come under criticism for ignoring request for repairs. To build new residential buildings. What is going on is they want to convert the people of oakland to a different class of people. This kind of project is to designed to do that. We need to fight it. Supporters other developers also spoke. They said the company is building badly needed housing for the bay area. While offering affordable rents. Scrutiny of regulations for live work Properties Come after the city promised to better address housing issues for artists in low income people following last years warehouse fire. The white house chief of staff says he is brokenhearted over the controversy after four u. S. Soldiers were killed in niger. Will i no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. Wondering, what if . I let go of all those feelings. Because i am cured with harvoni. Harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Its been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. And is proven to cure up to 99 of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. Certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if youve ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. Tell your doctor if youve ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni can cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Common side effects of harvoni include tiredness, headache and weakness. Ready to let go of hep c . Ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. John kelly defendant mr. John over how the president had a car mr. Trump over how he handled a call to the family. The controversy has grown. And touched off an investigation into that mission that claimed the lives of 4 soldiers. Is started with the deaths of four u. S. Soldiers. President trumps call to the families. It has grown into an investigation of the broader u. S. Mission in africa. It stuns me a member of congress would have listened to the conversation. That was sacred. Reporter john kelly speaking out in defense of president trumps call to the widow of a fallen american soldier. He has been criticized by congresswoman Fredreka Wilson said he was disrespectful. Thats not let this last thing that is held sacred. This try to somehow keep that sacred. Reporter congress is pushing to learn more about the mission. Have you been briefed . Reporter john mccain tells fox he wants answers in the attack that killed 4 and wounded 2 servicemembers two weeks ago. Today defense secretary James Madison said a full investigation is underway the pentagon. Anytime we commit our troops anywhere it is based on answering a simple first question. Is the wellbeing of the American People sufficiently enhance by putting the troops there . Reporter senators want to know why Armed Services committees have not been briefed. At todays White House Briefing general kelly was quick to point out investigation does not mean wrongdoing. This is about finding answers. The senate will vote on a controversial resolution tax reform plan. The president met yesterday with members of both parties to the Senate Finance committee hoping to gain support for his tax proposal. Most republicans are on board. It will be hard to get support from democrats. It doesnt do enough for middle class families and will mostly help the wealthy. The vote would allow republicans to pass tax reform legislation without democratic support. Trump is no longer supporting a Bipartisan Health plan. The Alexander Murray proposal would restore reimbursements to Insurance Companies for obamacare discounts. Those payments were cut off by the president last week. Leaving lawmakers to wonder where he stands on the issues of the subsidies. Press secretary told reporters some changes could one him over. We want to something that doesnt just fill out Insurance Companies but provides relief for all americans. This bill doesnt address that fact. The proposals coauthor patty murray said the president is proving to be an erratic trading partner as he kicks policy issues to congress and sends conflicting signals about what he really wants. A speech by Richard Spencer drew a crowd of protesters at the university of florida. The event was mostly peaceful. 3000 signed up for a rally on the campus. Hundreds of Police Officers and bullet proof vest were called. Spencer who was called appeared in charlottesville in august. That gathering led to a rally in riots in a fatality. Hecklers veered spencer throughout his speech. We are stronger than you and you all know it. That is why you are gaining us here like some kind of mob. In order to prevent me from saying something. At least one person was taken into custody. The university did not invite him to speak with but was obligated to allow the events. Is spent more than 500,000 on security. States helping out other states. How wineries are stepping in to help those who lost everything in the north bay fires. The lawsuit against pg e do they have a case . We will break it down with the legal analyst after the break. Will go santa rosa family is suing pg e clai

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