Moment. Harassment on the job whether we are puck works, cleaning up an Illegal Dumping sight. Reporter hundreds of local Union Workers gathered outside the plaza this afternoon to begin the strike. They marched to 14th and madison at the Islamic Cultural Center where mayor schaaf will be giving her address in 30 minutes. Three city is operating at the same time as the recession and the mayor is touting the growth that the city is seeing. The workers are feeling the brunt of the growing pains and bargaining isnt going well and they have been at this for six months. They want to see action, too. Most workers are part time with no health benefits. We are told the majority of the workers if not 50 50 are now part time whereas opposed before 2018 it used to be more than half of the workers so mayor schaaf did say that she respects the right to protest. Yeah. We have been bargaining in good faith for a long time for five months. And i am very optimistic that we will reach a resolution. This is part of the process. I think when you get close to resolution, is when emotions go up. But i am hopeful that oaklanders will still come to the state of the city address tonight. Reporter we can expect the mayor to talk a bit about her plans for homelessness and talk about the new fire chief and plans for the Fire Department moving forward. And also, many people hoping to hear more about the as stadium. So we are going to head inside and tune in for mayor schaafs address in 30 minutes. Guys . Alyana gomez in downtown oakland. Alyana, thank you. Our coverage of the state of the city will continue at 6 30. Well go back live to hear from mayor schaaf when she begins her address. Yosemite National Park officials have closed two roads ahead of storms coming this weekend a forecasto bring snow sky owing ga pass east side of the park is closing along with the scenic Glacier Point road above the valley. Both roads will be closed until monday when officials will reassess the road conditions. Here in the bay area, rain is on the way. Chief meteorologist joins us now on the timeline for that. Chief meterologist bill martin joins us now. Rain on the way, snow for the mountains. Yosemite what a great time to go. Even after this snowfall next week, this will be a really nice time up there, leaves are changing. The weather is changing around here. I every as we go into santa rosa tomorrow morning, some sprinkles develop. To the rest of us a slight chance of a sprinkle in the evening hours late tonight. And then they just kind you see how light this stuff is. This is friday morning into saturday morning. So under a half inch of rain. Some areas could see more. Thats not as bad bit of rain. That takes you through friday into friday night into Early Saturday Morning nearly a half inch of rain in some places. Heres how the rest of us look. Youre looking at nothing basically by tomorrow morning. 02 enough to slow your morning commute. A little more, enough to slow your afternoon commute but none of it is standing water on the roads. At least at this point. As you get into saturday, you will see the rain totals toggle up quickly because saturday will be the main impact from this system. As we go forward, were watching this system here up in the area. As it drops down, its got cold air. Thats where the snow comes from because these things have personalities, right . This guy is coming from the north and pulling in some of this subtropical moisture. In the main event, really, from where i can see is going to be the lake tahoe area. Thoughts they will have an opportunity for substantial snowfall and winter conditions with the cold air coming from the north. Friday afternoon give yourself a little extra time. Tomorrow umbrellas, drive slow. People in the north bay are getting ready for the change by taking steps to try to limit the ash filled runoff. Ktvus tom vacar tonight on the efforts to use absorbent barriers to try to protect the environment. Reporter the wattle guys of petaluma two shifts a day are racing against time and elements to protect water and streams. Wattles are barriers and dams made of straw and other materials that can help keep toxic ash in its place and heavily filter what gets through. Ashes from a forest fire are pretty much ashes but ashes from a house fire often contain a whole bunch of toxics and one of the things that the cities and county want to make sure of is, that none of that gets down in the drains. These drains go out into habitats. Without them, heavy metals and lead and mercury and asbestos may get into nearby streams. Some of which are. Very important to migrating salmon and such and if we allow the materials to get into the creek vie those short pipes, we are gointo be cleaning the creeks out for generations to come. Reporter pretty much everywhere you look in the burn areas, you will see the barriers placed or being placed around the storm drains even in unburned areas lower down slope from the incinerated neighborhoods. We have had, you know, 40 years of experience in the storm water business and we felt that we could help the community and were in a unique position to do that. Reporter here in burned out coffey park, bags at the side of the grains contains gravel to block debris flow as do the green plastic barriers directly in front of the drains. The orange plastic barriers hold organic material that fine filters particles that get through the gravel. For wildlife, recreation and general safety, this is essential. In this characters we are having special wattles made of compost materials that will add additional filtering. Its made of organic material, add additional filtering to further reduce the pollution runoff. Reporter thats why its so critical to clean these home lots as soon as possible. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. More news on the fires. Three families from Mendocino County filed lawsuits today accusing pg e of gross negligence for not properly maintaining power lines by cutting back vegetation around those lines. San francisco attorney Mary Alexander said pg e should have foreseen the danger and cut off power to specific areas to prevent fires. Cal fire has not officially determined what caused the deadly fires. In response to the legal claims, pg e says it is focused on helping communities rebuild and recover. Security is being tightened at the site of the tuesday terror attack in new york city that killed eight people. Today crews installed concrete barriers at intersections along the west side highway bike path. 29yearold sayfullo saiprov is now facing federal charges in connection with the truck attack. A new York Police Department official said today that saipov appears to be the only suspects. Meantime, the white house is pulling back on suggestions that the suspect may be taken to guantanomo bay prison for trial. As i understand it, the determination of someone being declared an enemy combatant is above my pay grade. Members of the house of representatives also honored the victims with a moment of silence. Bill de blasio praised the students of Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan where the attack happened by going back to class and refusing to be deterred by terrorism. Its amazing to hear kids in their teens thinking about their responsibility to respond to an act of terror by standing up, by being resolute. One of their teachers was injured in the attack but has already returned to school. Many of the students say they heard the gunshots and some of them even witnessed what happened. Tonight President Trump is stressing Immigration Reform is needed to make america safe. He is calling on congress to terminate the governments diversity visa Lottery Program. As we report, the president says the program presents significant vulnerabilities to national security. Reporter the debate over Immigration Reform heating up. The Trump Administration pointing to this weeks deadly terror truck attack in new york as proof the current vetting system is not working. Its an issue of national security. Reporter President Trump now calling on congress to end the governments diversity visa immigrant Lottery Program which allowed the new york attacker to enter the country legally. On thursday, the president met with several gop senators to discuss Immigration Reform. I think you can do away with the diversity visa lottery system because we did away with it before. Reporter Jeff Sessions called for a meritbased immigration system. We dont use random chance in college in addition and we dont roll a die to hire people. By the same token a lottery tells us nothing about who might be entering our country. Reporter this week President Trump blamed Chuck Schumer for the bipartisan visa Lottery Program. I have always believed that immigration is good for america. I believe it today. Reporter this as democrats and muslim advocacy groups say the president is wrong to push for the removal of the visa lottery. This Lottery Program does not show any unique or particular threat in higher way than any other part of our Immigration Program does. President trump should be bringing us together and focusing on the real solutions, Anti Terrorism funding which he proposed to cut in his most recent budget. Reporter President Trump said Congress Must end chain migration so we can have a system thats securitybased. At the white house, im kevin corke, fox news. A stay tuned says she was attacked for telling students to top using the n word. Dialing911 and it just keeps ring. The areas with the biggest dispatch delays. New at 6 00, 24 hour fitness agreed to pay more than a Million Dollars to settle a legal claim brought by its members. The fitness chain based in san ramon will pay 1. 2 million in penalties after it failed to honor agreement. The complaint said thatthey promised low renewal rate in exchange for higher up front fees but at renewal time they didnt get the promised rate. The settlement also allows some members to renew their memberships at that promised lower rate. A San Francisco attorney representing families in the ghost ship warehouse fire says pg es gross negligence contributed to the deaths of 36 people last year. Mary alexander says the utility installed smartmeters at the converted warehouse even though the artist collective lacked permits and there was trouble with their equipment because of the large drain on electricity. They failed to do anything about it to investigate it, to and they are a contributor because of their gross negligence for those 36 beautiful young people whose live were lost. The company filed a motion asking the court to throw out the case. But it was denied. Pg e said today it has no evidence its to blame for the fire. The company is cooperating with the investigation. A Dublin High School student says she was attacked at school for asking classmates to stop using a racial slur. Now as ktvus henry lee reports, theres criticism about how the school handled the incident. Reporter the victim a black student at dublin high said she was attacked on campus a week ago. She said she overheard a group of students using the n word and when she told them to stop, a male student who is white hit her in the mouth. I seen her lip was busted and i think that that is absolutely unacceptable and he should definitely be expelled. Reporter School Officials say disciplinary measures have been taken but they would not elaborate on much else. The word on campus is that the student has been suspended. Consequences in this case were assigned to the students that were involved in the incident and, in fact, we continue to work and were having conversations with the families of all the students involved. Reporter School Officials may expand their program on campus where the student body is 13 black. We have no tolerance for behavior for racial language, for harassment; certainly for physical violence. Reporter the incident has reignited conversations about race at school. I was really shocked that a girl would get hit in the first place. I feel like she was just defending a racial slur that shouldnt be used at school or anywhere. Its just overused. I would say 85 of the people that do use the word are not black. So its rude and insensitive. Reporter adding to the tension on campus a bomb threat led to the early dismissal of students. Police searched the campus with a dog and drone but gave the all clear within a couple of hours. Police say the bomb threat was made by someone upset at how the school handled this incidents. An arrest is imminent in the attack and police have leads in the bomb threat. Henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. 2 investigates uncovers dispatch delays in the bay areas biggest cities. When you call for help, you expect to talk to someone right away. Investigative reporter brooks jarosz joins us now and brooks, you found that sometimes the phone keeps ringing. You know, answer times are constantly tracked and with more and more calls its getting harder and harder for dispatchers to keep up. And on top of that many cities are facing Staff Shortages. 2 investigates dug into call answering times for every city and 911 center in california. Theres a state standard that says 95 of 911 calls should be answered within the first 15 seconds. If you have an emergency, you expect help right away so that 15 seconds can seem like an eternity. We found San Francisco, oakland and san jose, biggest cities, are missing the mark. In fact, data shows from 2016, all three arent even answering 85 of the calls in 15 seconds. On top of that dispatchers are overworked forced to work extra hours weekly. In oakland its been that way for more than a year. You can work up to technically up to 18 hours a day. In one day . In one day. But most of us work a minimum of 10, up to 16. Doesnt that affect how you respond to people on the phone . It can. Definitely it can definitely affect your ability to do a lot of things. Because once start becoming fatigued, theres a potential for errors. Have you become fatigued . Absolutely. What is that like . Its a fight. We want to know what these things are doing to get dispatchers relief and we asked what plans are in place to speed up answer times that. Full report is coming up on the ten oclock news. We even go to the state and ask whats being done to make sure cities achieve that 15 second standard. That full report is coming up on the ten oclock news. This is something they have been struggling with for years . Yes. We wanted to know from the police chief whats actively being done, because we have been talking about it and this is tracked constantly but theres been no real change. Are there state standards on a minimum Response Time on a 911 call . Well, this is the state standard. So 15 seconds is what they are supposed to be achieving. Now, some of the problems, again, Staff Shortages and also increased call volume and more people are actually pocket dialing which is also another problem. Interesting. All right. Well get more from you tonight on the ten oclock news. Thank you. Coming up tonight, more fallout for oscar winning Actor Kevin Spacey. The new sex assault allegation against him and how is he responding. A little later in sports, a rookie sensation in the nfl out for the season. Mark will tell us about the quarterbacks unfortunate injury in practice today. Also ahead, it may not cross your mind until an emergency arises. Coming up after the break, the massive recall of a certain fire extinguisher and why it may not work when you need it most sfx tinny headphone music sfx feet shuffling life can change in an instant. Be covered when it does. With a health plan through covered california. We offer free expert help choosing the best plan for you. And all of our plans include free preventive care. Financial help is available, so check for yourself to see what savings you qualify for. For Health Insurance starting january 1st, enroll by december 15th. Because you never know when life. Will change. Get covered today. In cross. , Police Arrest the man in colorado, Police Arrest the man wanted for a deadly shooting at a Walmart Store where three people were killed. Police say the man was taken into custody after they spotted him driving by his apartment in rush hour traffic this morning. Scott ostrems home is 20 minutes from the Walmart Store where the shootings happened and police were there waiting. He didnt run. He was in the vehicle. Fortunately we had a traffic light that was there and there was traffic backed up because obviously we were in the middle of traffic time so thats certainly helped us. Police say at this point, they do not have a motive. And theres no indication why that particular Walmart Store was the target or if he knew any of the victims. We have a massive recall to tell you about involving almost 38 million fire extinguishers. They were manufactured by kidde. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission says the plastic handles and the push buttons can be clogged and fail to work. So far one death and 16 injuries have been linked to the problem. The recall involves 134 different models of kidde fire extinguishers made between