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Inside eight El Paso Walmart posted a racist manifesto aimed at hispanics. Today there are more calls for congress to take action. Welcome everyone to fox 2. Im alex savage. Im alyana gomez. Heres the latest on this weekends shootings. Authorities in el paso announced two more people have died after being shot on saturday. The death toll now stands at indictment in dayton ohio, a gunman killed 9 people inside a bar before being shot by police. We have the latest from authorities were trying to figure out what fueled the violence. The wounds the patients have received had been devastated consistent with what was reported as a high velocity gunshot wound. Reporter the death toll in saturdays mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart rising on monday. A gunman opened fire on the shopping center, killing 20 and injuring dozens more. The suspect but dont capital murder charges is being investigated for domestic terrorism. Some members of the Community Say they will not allow the attack to dampen their citys spirit. El paso was a city of love. A safe city. A city that is fun. Reporter in ohio, a man wearing a bulletproof dust vast and armed with an ak 57 type firearm killed 9 people. The gunman was potentially in possession of up to 250 rounds of ammunition. Among the victims and ohio, the gunmans sister with many police wanting to know if she was targeted in the attack. It just seems to defied believability that he would shoot his own sister but it is also hard to believe he did not recognize that was his sister. Reporter the mayor of dayton says she is determined to make sure that this is not what the city is noted for. Cities are defined by how they come together after tragedies. Reporter this morning in the wake of tragedies in ohio and texas, President Trump addressed the nation, condemning White Supremacy and called on the country to focus on combating Mental Illness. In el paso, texas, Garrett Tenney, fox news. Authorities say semi automatic weapons were used in the Mass Shootings in el paso, texas, dayton, ohio and in the word. The gun man in dayton was armed with an ar 15 stole rifle he legally purchased online. The police chief there says if all of the magazines he had with him were full, he would have had a maximum of 250 rounds. El paso police say the ak47 style rifle used in the attack there was also purchased legally. California has restrictions on highcapacity ammunition magazines but the law is being challenged in court. The gilroy shooter, also brought his gun legally in nevada. President trump condemned the shootings over the weekend as crimes against all humanity. During a speech he gave at the white house today. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and White Supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Investigators are looking into whether the gunman in texas was deliberately targeting hispanics. The president , today, call for stronger background checks but did not mention any other gun control legislation. He partially blamed video games and Mental Illness for the attacks. It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. It is not up to mentally ill monsters. It is up to us. This morning the president tweeted about the possibility of linking background check legislation to immigration reform. He did not mention that during his speech. He also directed the Justice Department to enforce the Death Penalty for hate crimes. We are here tonight the governor of ohio was shouted down during a vigil in dayton last t. Mike dewine was talking to the crowd when people started yelling, do something the republican governor said he would support a red flag law to take guns away from people considered a threat but no bill has been that has been written as of yet. Joining us for reaction is east bay congressman, Mark Desaulnier. Congressman, dishonor, thanks for coming on. Thank you for your reaction. Let me get your reaction on what the president said today. He called for broad gun measures and putting the focus on Mental Illness. Anything that gives you optimism that we as a country could work out a solution to this problem . There is always hope but given his rhetoric and even his report of the National Rifle association and american gun manufacturers and given his tendency to say one thing but when it comes to policy, not to follow through, i am very skeptical. We did hear the president , today, condemning White Supremacy and bigotry which it appears, was potentially with the motivation for the gunman in texas and also pledged resources to combat domestic terrorism. In your mind, what more do you think needs to be done to identify and stop domestic terrorists before they can kill . We have to change the tone of our politics. That is one thing to be conservative and be liberal and have that historic debate but heretofore, we have gone through periods of time where we were responsible in our debate for president of the United States whether republican or democrat and members of congress realize that we, what we said in the public sphere had an impact on people in different ways so we have to change the tone and that would start with the president of the United States being more respectful and more oriented to truthful statements, in my opinion. Reporter we did not hear the president during his speech today acknowledge any of his own antiimmigrant rhetoric that he has put out there during speeches in the past. Do you believe that, maybe, President Trump is turning a corner . He is ready to tone things down . I dont think so. I think it is part of his personality. I think he is a racist, personally. That is my perspective but again, there is always hope. I am one who believes in redemption so with this president , i want to try to protect people who need to be protected as best as possible, having been to the border and having seen how he used that situation to make it worse. I am cynical. You think he bears some responsibility for what unfolded in el paso . Absolutely. We all have to be mindful and particularly, the president of the United States and the belief that he has that words matter. Lets talk about the issue of gun control here. Obviously we have renewed calls for tougher gun laws in this country here but of course, this has happened following every mass shooting in this country for as long as any of us can remember but there are calls for members of congress, like yourself, to return to washington for an emergency session to take up legislation requiring universal background checks, among other things. This is a bill that passed the house back in february. How likely is it, do you think, that we will a, c lawmakers return to debate the issue and b, get something meaningful past . Just on the process, the house would not need to go back because we have already passed this. Democrats, we passed this, mike thompson, a leader on this from the bay area, it is his bill so it is up to Mitch Mcconnell pick you should, absolutely, put the bill on the floor, put it in the committee and have a debate. So people can hold their senators responsible for their position and their vote. That is what makes a legislative body work. His refusal to either have it have a vote and aaron is very condemning. I would be willing to pass a bill that i am coauthor of that would be assault weapons. These weapons are not made for hunting or anything really conducive to Public Safety. They should be in the military. We have passed that bill in the state legislature here in california. It helps but it needs to be national, as we saw in the case in word. That young men went to nevada to buy one of those legally and brought it back into california illegally. Is there any chance, do you think, that any enough pressure is put onto the Senate Majority leader that he potentially calls lawmakers back to dc or you dont think that is going to happen . I hope you will. I pray to god that he does. We owe this debate to all those people who have lost their lives in the incidents and others. Every day, people lose their lives and maybe they dont have to. When you look at other countries and even when you look at this country, you look at states that have evidence based research, violence prevention legislation like california, statistically, we are safer. The more open it is like nevada and texas, statistically, you are more likely to die or be injured by the gun violence. So we need to have this conversation. Before you go, we are hearing from the president and a number of other republicans following these shootings and speaking out in favor of these red flag laws which would, in essence, allow family members or numbers of Law Enforcement to limit someones access to guns if they are deemed a potential threat to the public. Do you think that Something Like that should be part of a broader solution . Yes. And im a coauthor of a bill that would do just that so i believe in red flag warning legislation. I think that is part of the evidencebased research. That is a good sign that some of my republican colleagues are willing to have a debate about that but i think we should go further and look at other policies that have been well researched and still protect the Second Amendment rights of people. All right, we have to leave the conversation there. That is congressman Mark Desaulnier from the east bay. Thank you so much for weighing in today. We appreciated. Thank you. Former president obama, today, released a pointed statement on these shootings over the past weekend. He said in part, we should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiment. Leaders who demonize those who dont look like us or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as subhuman or imply that america belongs to just one certain type of people. 8chan went dark today after a San Francisco company banded from its server because of its role in the el paso shootings but why it is probably not the end for the controversial online forum. Plus pg e is trying to prepare for this years fire season. We will have a look inside one of its Operation Centers and tell you about the technology being used to monitor wildfires. And a mild pattern out there again today. High clouds and fog along the coast. Temperatures generally on the mild side. Back here with the forecast. Heres your buick sir. Actually, thats my buick. Your buick doesnt have a roof rack this is my buick. How are we gonna fit in your moms buick . Easy. I like that new buick. Me too. I was actually talking about that buick. I knew that. Did you . Buicks fresh new lineup is full of surprises. Current eligible nongm owners and lessees get 20 below msrp on most 2019 buick encore models. New sichuan hot chicken. For a heart breaking limited time only at panda express. Tonight, a website associated with one of the gunmen in this weekends deadly shootings is under attack. Interviews Christien Kafton is live in separate cisco where the site was knocked off the internet because of a Bay Area Company that severed ties with the controversial website altogether. Christian . That is right, the Internet Security company, kyle fuller has severed ties with 8chan, the controversial websitwhere anything goes and respeech is pushed with limits. The accused gunman in this weekends deadly mass shooting in el paso reportedly posted a racist manifesto on the 8chan website. Critics say the site has become one of the darkest places on the internet were racism and hatred flourishes and that security company, clouds clear today severed its ties with 8chan. A nonprofit defending Digital Privacy and free sheets speech, says 8chan was vulnerable to attack. This is one of the main products that cloud flare offers the protects a website against denial of service and the website being taken down because there is a directed effort to request to them that they cant handle the volume for it. A search yielded error messages today. 8chan administrators posted on social media that since cloud flare severed ties, they expected 24 to 48 hours of downtime. Cloud flares ceo released a statement reading apart, we just sent notice we are terminating 8chan as a customer. The rationale is simple. They have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths. If you have a problem with drawing the line, where is it drawn, what is acceptable. What is political debate even if it is distasteful and what is this line that were crossing. We have a difficulty drawing the line and then we have a problem saying who draws a. Cloud flare is not the only Internet Security company in town. Reportedly, 8chan is now scrambling to find another Internet Security company to go with as well. Meanwhile, 8chan provider says it is considering severing ties with the controversial website. Christien kafton, ktvu fox2 news. Wet weather in the bay area. A Beautiful Day out there today. We are going to stick with this same deal for a while . My guess, this pattern will stick around. A beautiful live shot and you can look to the left and see a little bit of fog creeping into the golden gate bridge. Beautiful air quality day. A nicelooking day on the bay and in the bay area but but temperatures because of this week with Pressure Center offshore, it is running a little cool but look at this, down around vegas in phoenix right in this area, you have the big heats. We are out here with a trough in the west coast impacting us. It has been really for most of the summer which means a cooler, milder pattern and as i said, the cal fire, you are living this pattern because temperatures are generally running cooler than you might expect for this time of year. Here are the high clouds coming in over the top from the sense of topical moisture moving in this direction, like this, over the top and here are, here is the fog right among the coast and there is plenty of that, too. It is ringing the coastline so with that said, we have a mild day in store or continuing today. Tomorrow, the next couple days will follow suit and a little bit of a warmup for the weekend but i will get more specific when i see you here in the few minutes. Bill, thank you. A 72yearold woman has died at a young girl is in the hospital this afternoon after a house fire in san jose. The fire started just before 7 30 this morning at a home on green more drive. First responders rescued two people from the burning home but the grandmother was pronounced dead at the scene. A 12yearold girl is not being treated at the hospital for what are being described as critical injuries and a 22year old man who was the womans grandson had to jump out of a firstfloor window to escape the flames but thankfully, only suffered minor injuries. Firefighters say when they arrived, the house was engulfed in flames and heavy smoke and that made it extremely difficult to rescue the people inside. A lot of times what happens is when you are inundated with smoke, it suppresses your respiratory drive and makes you unconscious at the time so it depends on how heavy the smoke is and what area of the room youre in. If you are asleep, you may not even know. Authorities say the fire appears to have started in the back of the house but the investigation into the exact cause is ongoing. Pg e and is trying to prevent a repeat of the past devastating fire season. The utility invited the media into see the many improvements made in its wildfire detection and control program. Kate abuse tom baker was at the event today at pg e headquarters in joins us from miranda there a power substation. Tom . I will tell you something, we would almost be doing something right including pg e because the amount of acreage that has burned this year compared to last is incredibly small. Having said that, the Wildfire Safety Operation Center of pg e is still a work in progress. Staffed 24 hours a day, the Wildfire Safety Operation Center is a technological treasure trove of fire Detection Capabilities that is fed by endless streams of data provided by a rapidly growing array of sensors on the ground, in the year and even in space. Backbone, weather cam respite stations. This includes the wind direction, wind speed, humidity levels, on a realtime basis. The 490 weather stations that we have installed, and we are also leveraging some of the publicly available weather stations and that information is used to help forecast the utility, potential for a fire risk. When the risk is too great, Public Safety power shutoffs will happen but the technology is aimed at using better information to lower the number of potential shutoffs but always airing in the side of safety first pick even in space, infrared sensing satellites can see fires as they happen. Day or night, clear, cloudy, or smoky, across pg es entire territory, half of it high fire risk. We now have two brandnew satellites that goes east and west to deduct fires about every 5 minutes apart. This tool does also incorporate fire detections from polar orbiting satellites, the modus, aqua and satellites. One thing the pg e system does not incorporate are working arrays of fire centers around power lines and other equipment that could, if it fails, cause wildfires. All around two elementary schools, the rn to moraga Fire District has installed fir

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