Well as everyone else. Thats almenas attorney. He says quote very hopeful the jury will be empathetic. Ktvus amber lee was in the courtroom late today when Derick Almena broke down in tears. Reporter ghost ship Master TenantDerick Almena wept after taking the stand in his own defense. He said hes been in solitary confinement for two years. Im just so sad he said. Asked by his attorney if he had any remorse, almena said there are no words. Asked if he had contrition, almena said i feel death, the loss of life forever. Beautiful, beautiful people. Almena said he believed the warehouse was safe and was told it was safe. Otherwise he said he wouldnt stay there with his family. Sarah said his client connected with the jury. I thought he started beautiful because everyone, you know, expects him to be arrogant and selfcentered. And contempt with pause before he answered, and the emotion that he manifested and the fact that he shows and through his dee mean nor and answers he does have contrition. Reporter all this is with his own attorney. Its not clear how do under cross examination by the da. When you put on a client, its like having a baby. You dont know, you know, whats going to happen. You dont always know, you know, what the cross examinations going be. Reporter also on the stand was darrell leche, a contractor who live at the ghost ship. He heard an argument before the fire. He saw seven people dressed in dark clothing running away. So we say that these are the people who started the arson. And we say these are the same people who were at the taco stand bragging about it. Reporter on cross examination leche acknowledged hes a convicted felon. The da insinuated leche never told investigators about the arson angle. Leche testified firefighters had trouble battling the blaze when they arrived. He said that the Fire Department did come in the backyard. They didnt have enough hose to get it in the building. And then they did try to go to the second floor in the front and their ladder got hooked on the wires. And they couldnt reach it. Reporter almena will be back on the stand on tuesday. After his attorney is done asking questions, be grilled by the da. Henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. And stay with ktvu for continuing coverage the ghost ship warehouse trial. Find henrys courtroom blog online at ktvu. Com. New at 10 00. A young boy is in the hospital tonight after falling from a second story window in brentwood. It happened about 6 45 this evening at a home on princess way. Police say the child is just 18 months old. He was airlifted to Childrens Hospital in oakland. No update yet on the boys condition. Unfortunately it appears he landed on concrete. Police say they are investigating how the child fell out of that window. Now to the race for president and one fewer challenger in the crowded field of democrats. East bay congressman Eric Swalwell dropped out today. Swalwell campaigned for three months but never gained traction in the polls. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama here now, and jana, another is expected to enter the race. Eric swalwell says pivot to running for reelection to congress. It appears tom styier could announce a president ial run as soon as tomorrow joining an already large field. Today endsgn. Reporter congressman Eric Swalwell said he was proud to run but did not see a path to the white house beyond the july democratic debate. We wanted to be honest with ourselves and with our supporters. If there was a viable chance i would not be standing here today. You know, day one was running to win. Reporter and winning a spot for the september debate will be difficult for many in the crowded field. Theyll need 130,000 individual donors instead of 65,000 and will need to poll at 2 instead of 1 . He wasnt faring well in the polls. He didnt have the money. Its campaign hasnt reported finance reports in over two months. He didnt have much name recognition from the outset. And so i think he had a number against him. Reporter those factors will likely force more candidates to drop out. But one californian, tom steyer, who has gained National Attention for leading a grassroots effort to impeach President Trump is reportedly preparing to join the race as early as tuesday. I fully intend to win this election. Reporter california senator Kamala Harris campaigning in South Carolina said shes all in after openly challenging front runner joe biden on comments about working with southern segregationists. Biden apologized over to weekend. I regret it. Im sorry for any pain or misconception. Reporter polls show Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders above the 2 thresh hold. The real party activists, i think a lot of them have picked their candidate or narrowed their choice of candidates. But i think the average person has not. Reporter robin is chair of the Alameda CountyDemocratic Party and says its still a wide open race, noting that jimmy carter and bill clinton were tht ran. For the most part i think people are just waiting to see the separation of the weak from the top and eventually who are going to be the big, strong candidates for the primary. Reporter the next debates are july 30th and 31st in detroit. And today the host, cnn, announced it will air a live drawing next week to divide the 20 qualifying candidates into the two debate groups. Swalwell said he had expected to make the cut for that debate but didnt think he would qualify for the higher threshold in september. Jana katsuyama, ktvu fox 2 news. A New Washington post poll shows President Trump with the highest Approval Ratings of his presidency. 44 of those surveyed say they approve of the way the president is handling his job. A majority 5 still say they disapprove. Joe bide season the only democrat who gets higher numbers than mr. Trump head to head. 5 say they would vote for biden. 43 would choose mr. Trump. Jeffrey epstein has been indicted on sex trafficking charges. The 66yearold was arrested over the weekend and appeared in court t not guilty. He is accused of sexually abusing young girls at his homes in florida and new york between 2002 and 2005. Some of them were allegedly as young as 14 years old. Who provided epstein massages while they were nude or partially nude. Children who were asked to engage in direct and indirect sex acts for money. Children who were enticed to do all these things at the hands of a man more than or nearly three times their age. Epstein is already a registered sex offender after pleading guilty in 2008 to soliciting minors for prostitution. He used to run in pretty elite circles. His friends include President Trump, former president clinton, and britains prince andrew. Today a spokesperson for mr. Clinton says he knows nothing about the quote terrible crimes linked to mr. Up to prosecutors in the south y have decided the Fatal Shooting of a suspect by San Jose Police in 2017 was legally justified. The Santa Clara District Attorneys Office released body camera today to demonstrate why it made that decision. Drop it. Drop it. Drop it. We froze the video right before police opened fire, ultimately killing 35yearold francis dela cruz. The video shows dela cruz holding an ax and advancing on officers when he was shot after repeated commands to put down the weapon. The video also shows dela cruz continuing to advance with the ax after being shot twice. Officers then shoot to him. An autopsy found dela cruz had methamphetamine in his system at the time. New information tonight on n francisco. The victim has been identified as 15yearold dayvon hann. He was found shot to death early this morning at 24th and capp streets in the mission district. Police say they responded quickly following a shot spotter activation and when they arrived on the scene they saw a driver speeding away. They attempted to chase the car but they couldnt catch it. Police say this appears to be a targeted shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call police. In santa rosa, the homeless crisis is coming to a head. Police are expected to sweep homeless encampments in the next few weeks, and tonight a planning meeting was held. And the City Council Chamber was filled with people emotional on all sides. Debora villalon live in santa rosa with what authorities are planning to do here, debra . Reporter frank, encampments have been cleared here before. People are given warnings and options and then forced out. Critics say no matter how its done, sweeps are the wrong approach. Im held hostage in my home. Reporter residents of downtown santa rosa see a surge of Homeless People in their neighborhood. Attracted, they say, by a Service Center thats a magnet for lax rules. The needles, defecation, trash in front of our homes its ridiculous. We need safety within our neighborhood. Reporter those concerns filled City Council Chambers as agencies laid out plans to sweep the morgan street area along with other trouble spots including a park that police say is plagued by drug use and deal and a walking path that runs more than a mile along santa rosa creek. Outbursts by homeless advocates punctuated the meeting. People were unable to share views directly and had to submit questions to the panel. Well, we dont have enough services. We dont have enough beds. Reporter activists argue if the city wont provide camp space with sanitation and security, alone in their ad hoc communities. They can help each other in case illness, with each others belongings. They cant do that if theyre moved from bush to bush. Its cruel. We cant have People Living on our sidewalks and on our trails. Reporter officials have cleared established camps before. Some existing for years and posing a health and safety risk to the squatters themselves. Lets see if we can do a push for getting some people into services. Reporter as before, police say campers evicted now will be warned in plenty of time and outreach offered. And our commitment is before were taking enforcement action to be able to offer a place to stay. To have a bed there. Reporter or transitional housing, identifying needs, a provider, a path. This is not just a one size fits all. Everyt persons journey is very very different. Reporter two campers said they wont resist being moved and are open to help, open to getting indoors. Its safer. You know what i mean . People been getting killed over here left and right. Stabbed and shot and stuff. I dont know. Work with us and talk with us. And thats just one side and one side. We should come together and try to come to some type of agreement. Reporter more than 600 people moved from homelessness to permanent housing in this Community Last year. The city is spending more money and more energy on the homeless issue than ever before. But tonight we heard what is really needed is housing and landlords willing to give an impoverished person a chance to rebuild their life. In santa rosa, debora villalon, ktvu fox 2 news. Coming up. A bay area man speaks out after being gored during the running of the bulls in spain. What he was doing at the time and how hes doing now. Pretty cool one out there today. Temperatures well below the average. Coming but its goingll have the details. Plus, power shutoffs, when the risk of fire is extreme. Coming up, why one bay area mayor says peegz should not be allowed to pull the plug without more input. Still nervous about buying uhoh, la new house. Meones is it that obvious . Yes it is. You know, maybe youd worry less if you got geico to help with your homeowners insurance. I didnt know geico could helps with homeowners insurance. Yep, theyve been doing it for years. What are you doing . Big steve . Thanks, man. There he is. Get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and renters insurance. A bay area man is making a miraculous recovery after being gored in the neck during the annual running of the bulls in spain. 46yearold attorney Jaime Alvarez of San Francisco said he ran most of the course ahead of the bulls. When he reached the end of the route, he went to take a selfie at the bullfighting plaza and he said that he and others thought that the entire herd had already passed by. But that wasnt the case. There was a straggler. And i turned and it was like a truck or a car just hitting me in the side of my head. And i put my hand behind my neck and i saw blood and i felt the i could feel my neck was opened up. And i was stunned. Alvarez works for santa clara public defenders office. Doctors told him it was beyond miraculous that the bulls horn didnt hit a major artery. He did, though, suffer a broken cheekbone. San jose mayor taking pg e to task over i danger. As andre senior reports now, the mayor wants local governments to have input and that decision should not be left solely to pg e. As everyone has been scrambling to try to get ready, no one has really had the opportunity to ask the larger question which is is this the right way to be making decisions like this . Reporter sam liccardo on monday criticized a move that allows pg e to cut power to possibly hundreds of thousands of people during extreme weather conditions when its equipment could spark a wildfire. The issue for the mayor and his staff is the decision is made by pg e. Investigators found the utilitys equipment caused more than a dozen fire in recent years, including the camp fire in butte county that claimed 85 lives and destroyed roughly 15,000 homes. Poogz faces billions in liability costs, prompting it to file for bankruptcy. While the utility has a threshold that be reached before cutting power, liccardo contend there needs be to oversight because of what could happen in a city as large as san jose. Problems include traffic lights going out, people losing air conditioning in summer heat, and cellphones unable to dial 911 when power is cut to cellphone towers. I think what we are worried about here in san jose are the many safety risk that is a large regional outage would, you know, cause. I do believe that this, if we dont fix this problem, it could be an existential threat to californians. Reporter at the same time the mayor was speaking about his concerns, lawmakers in sacramento were debating a bill that would set up a 21 billion fund that would help pg e and its counterparts in Southern California deal with liabilities from wildfires. Represent the best protection of rate payers and Holding Pg E Accountable thats been put on the table. Reporter executive director of the Utility Reform Network is in sacramento. He says the utilities themselves are responsible for putting up half the money in the fund. The other half from a monthly tax already charged on utility bills. That bill was passed by a legislative committee and is expected to be voted on by the full senate. Sam liccardo says hes hoping to purr see a legislative answer to getting pg e oversight before theyre able to go forward. Im andre senior, ktvu fox 2 news. Pg e held a Community Forum in oakland tonight to answer questions about their plan to shut off power during the fire season. Many customers are concerned about the possibility of going days without power if pg e decides to cut electricity during extreme weather conditions. Tonight several people with disabilities expressed concern about when and how long those Power Outages might last. A long power outage, you know, someone like me, i cant sleep unless i have oxygen. I have concentrators running at night. And other people depend on electricity for wheelchairs or other devices. So it is a risk by its someth our customers and the communities we serve. So we want these customers to be prepared ahead of time. The goal of the program is to prevent devastating wildfires like the one in butte county last year that killed 85 people and destroyed more than 14,000 homes. State investigators determined that that fire was cause bid pg e equipment that sparked during a windstorm. It was a cool one today. Most certainly temperatures well below where youd expect them. These were the highs from today and they looked like lunchtime temperatures for most part. Another cool day tomorrow. But not as cool. So those 79s will turn into low 80s, 81, 826789 still below the average. The warmup is slow and coming. In fact, it is. Look to the west and that tthe c northwest. And thats one of the triggers for the continued cooling tomorrow or mild weather tomorrow. Once this passes in about 36 to 48 hours, the temperatures will come up more markedly, especially on thursday and friday. Its not a heat wave. Its not going to get hot, but were going to go back into the hot spots low 90s. Not upper 90s, so kind of a mild week ahead. Fire day career taking a significant break and the air quality is excellent because of this pattern. Theres the fog, its already everywhere. And its going to be there tomorrow morning. A slow burn off, temperatures a degree or two warmer. Youll barely notice. Ill see you back here at the long range. Holding b. A. R. T. Accountable. At 10 30 we sit down with b. A. R. T. East new Inspector General. Her plans once shes on board. And the cleanup from two powerful earthquakes in Southern California and the desis on aid from the Trump Administration tonight. Tonight. Show me the crown. Show me homecoming. Baby sloth videos on youtube. Amy, do you uh mind giving someone else a turn . Oh. Yeah i made myself a little comfortable here. I got a pizza for amy yes, thats me xfinity lets you search netflix, prime video, and youtube with the sound of your voice. And i dont have my wallet, so. Thats simple. Easy. Awesome. 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