They object to her based on her background on the Police Commission and say the appointment is unfair. There are people running to become the district attorney. One of them is that women. By appointing her they are giving her the privilege to get elected over the other ones. Reporter one protester did manage to make it inside. The mayor defending her move to put loftus in place saying the office is too important to leave vacant. I dont want to leave the District Attorneys Office unattended. So that is really why we need to make sure that we have somebody who understands the office and knows what to do from day one and that is suzy. Reporter other candidates are speaking out saying the move could backfire. I dont think it will give an unfair advantage. I think the backlash will be swift and sizable. We have been getting new volunteers and donations from people that i dont know who they are. Nancy saying she is seeing a surge in interest and donations. Will it help her . I dont know. There seems to be backlash around her appointment. It speaks to the political cronyism that is rampant in San Francisco policy. Reporter there are two more debates. One for october 15 the other for the 21st. You can expect a lot of interest in both. Fox 13 news. A group of former students file a lawsuit alleging the San FranciscoSchool District violated the law when it covered up a mural at George Washington high school that some say is racist. The mural shows images of slavery, white settlers and a dead native american. The lawsuit contends that the school board decided to cover up the mural without completing an Environmental Impact report. They said in a statement the mural is a protected culture ascetic, historic and educational resource in a landmark high school. The Master Tenant of the go ship warehouse will be tried for second time. Prosecutors announced they are bringing manslaughter charges against Derick Almena after the first trial ended in a hung jury. More now from henry lee. Our case is stronger. We are confident. Reporter Derick Almena is going to trial in the deadly ghost ship warehouse trial. A month after the jury hung on his fate and committed max harris, they will retry him as early as march. We want to go to trial. We dont want to negotiate. We dont want to involve ourselves in any kind of plea agreement. Reporter in a jailhouse interview on thursday, he predicted he would be tried again. They are going to refile just to make me go away for a little while. Because they cant deal with this. It is too hot right now. The judge set a new trial dates for march 30. The judge said because he has shown disrespect for rules they denied the motion to reduce bail on 750,000 to 50,000. I felt that this was a bail motion that had merit. Mr. Almena never intended to hurt anybody. Before fridays hearing all men as wife and friends gathered to light candles, burn incense and meditate hoping to send him good energy. Allison showed up in court to support her husband. It is really important for me just for people to know that there are people all over the world praying for our family. And that they want to see him come home to his children. Reporter for families of the ghost ship victims who will never come home they say they are pleased he will face trial again. I suspect i will be stronger when the next trial begins and i will be there as an advocate for my daughter and that is important to me. Reporter to jurors who were booted for misconduct were held in contempt by the judge. The judge said they did not have to pay any fines or go to jail. Next year a new jury will have to be enlisted. It is day three for 12,000 Santa Clara County workers who walked off the job this week. Staffing and pay continue to be sources of contention between two sides. As jesse gary tells us, the work stoppage is impacting those seeking healthcare. Reporter Santa Clara CountyValley Health center in gilroy is a clinic caught in the middle. The local 521 staffers are picketing outside which disrupts services inside. When i see someone we personally know we are doing our best to ensure them that services are shut down but if they need help, we are here to help strikers are demonstrating outside the east valley clinic in san jose. A total of 150 workers their jo forces some patients to go elsewhere or come back another day. I come here because it is closer and they have good doctors here. Reporter wednesday the 12,000 members stopped working after ongoing labor talks reached an impasse. Members benefits, pay and Staffing Levels are stumbling blocks for resolution. We want to be able to contact more people and serve the county better. It is not happening. Reporter on thursday the county executive points the finger at one of the major issues behind closed doors. He said the county offers a 3 raise each of the next five years equaling 625 million. Smith said the union seeks raises 23 times that amount. They painted themselves into a corner and no matter how long a strike last, it doesnt increase the amount of money that taxpayers pay the county. Reporter the county is prepared for the strike to last weeks adding they have walked away from the negotiation table. They will continue their rolling strike shutting down different county sights each day until this is settled. Ktvu fox 2 news. Now to the latest development in the impeachment trial. They subpoenaed the white house for documents. The president has resisted democratic attempts to produce witnesses. House investigators want documents from Vice President mike pence. An aide to pence may have been on the july phone call between President Trump and the president of ukraine. State lawmakers spent hours behind closed doors hearing testimony from the man who brought the complaint to congress. We are joined alive now from washington on the latest. Reporter the white house is the latest target of the impeachment inquiry. Three chairmans say they have been forced to subpoena the white house with the september 9 election. President trump is trying to put pressure on nancy pelosi. I really believe that they are going to pay a tremendous price at the polls. Reporter the white house planning to send a letter to nancy pelosi saying it wont cooperate with the impeachment inquiry until she holds a formal vote on the house floor approving the investigation. Pelosi said she is not required to do so. Lyrically it could put some red district democrats in a tough position. If he is demanding a vote, reporter the Inspector GeneralMichael Atkinson spent hours behind closed doors with lawmakers. Republicans claim Intel Committee chair adam schiff has handled the inquiry appropriately. They are fact witnesses in the same investigation that they are now running. Reporter we are also getting a look at what kurt volker told lawmakers yesterday. He said at no time was i aware of or took part in an effort to urge ukraine to investigate former Vice President biden. And i have known biden for 24 years and the suggestion that he would be influenced in his duties as Vice President by money for his son simply has no credibility to me. Reporter the president is expected to send a letter to Speaker Pelosi next week saying the white house will not hand over any documents until the full house vote is held on the impeachment inquiry. Friday the white house said a vote is not necessary to conduct the investigation and a demand like that would be outside modern precedents. Thank you so much. Diane carol best remembered for the sitcom julia. The actress and singer broke racial barriers in the late 60s as the first black woman to start in a nonservant role in a tv series. The show ran for three seasons and peaked at number 7 in the nielsen ratings. During her career she earned a tony award and an Academy Award nomination. Carol died of Breast Cancer at her home in west hollywood. She was 84 years old. Coming up, oil drilling in the bay area. The move taken today by the Trump Administration that opens the door for the possibility. Strong winds and the forecast for the bay area and that means another possible pg e power shut off. We will hear from fire survivors in coffey park about the fears that these conditions trigger. The weather pattern is changing as we head into the weekend. The hottest day of the weekend and when we could eventually cool things off in the five day forecast. Safety concerns as the new joker movie hits the big screen. We will tell you about the security measures being taken it bay area theaters. We will take a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge where the commute out of the city is backed up. We are hearing reports of Police Activity on the right side pedestrian path. Ktvu news that 6 will be right back. Announcer Time Magazine reports the new american addiction. How juul hooked kids and ignited a Public Health crisis. Other news outlets report juul took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Markets ecigarettes with kid friendly flavors and uses nicotine to addict them. 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Juul is following big tobaccos playbook. And now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn ecigarette protections. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. People in the north bay are bracing for another weekend of power outages. Pg e elevated their shutoffs. Dry conditions and gusty winds from inland has once again caused the National Weather service to declare a red flag warning for elevations above 1000 feet in sonoma, napa, and marin counties. Red flag conditions will continue overnight until sunday morning. Steady winds of 1020 miles an hour be accompanied by gus guss mac of up to 30 miles an hour. That is below what is needed for a Public Safety power shut down. Nonetheless the utility is pondering it as conditions change. Right now we have bumped up the potential status to elevated. It was that not expected amount has been bumped up one level to elevated. It does not mean we are planning on initiating a Public Safety power shut off right now. Those conditions make any wildfire coming from any source to spread rapidly. Be on guard. Reporter any red flag warning is a concern to Robert Toledo whose family lost everything in the fire. Concerns exacerbated by sirens, winds and smells. Fear and you kind of flashback about that evening. And it is the same thing when you smell smoke. If i smell a grass fire around here i get nervous. I start to look around. Reporter one big change. Everybody is closeknit. It is such a tight community now than before. I think it is wonderful. Reporter Paradise Ridge winery will be the First Business actually reopening within the central fire area. Definitely when the winds come up i get the feel that i have the night of the fire. The smell of smoke is an issue for her and others. I do feel a nervousness to people more around me. For me i think i am more stoic about it. If it happens there isnt so much we can do. Reporter at the insistence of the families 87yearold patriarch, come early december its new tasting room and offices will open to the public replacing the sounds of construction with christmas bells. For the most part i feel like we are better prepared. Reporter after the weekend is over there is the distinct possibility we may go through this again on thursday in the w turns out. Toms a car, ktvu fox 2 news. It is year where we have warm dry conditions in the bay area. We have storms to the north that are developing and they go up and over Northern California and that generates winds we are concerned with. We will talk about that warning in a second. Highs from this afternoon pretty warm. In the comfortable range. San francisco 59. A few more 80s toward fairfield and antioch. All the areas in red will be under a red flag fire warning. You can see those wounds increasing over the northbay hills especially above 1500 feet is that northeast wind. Thankfully we are not talking about winds over 50 miles an hour. But this time of year cause for concerns. We could have winds gusting to here is one of the forecast models. These numbers up the surface not moving too much all weekend long. Mainly that offshore wind. These brighter colors especially for higher terrain moving later saturday night and sunday morning. Winds could be going up above 20 miles an hour and that is where that warning is in place. Right now we have mostly clear skies over a good portion of the bay area and current numbers still fairly warm. 70 in oakland. Santa rosa 72 in san jose in the upper 60s. Beautiful this evening. Looking out toward the oakland estuary in San Francisco. Fog free conditions. Overnight lows in the 40s 250 degrees. Mostly clear skies. A bit of a chilly start tomorrow morning but a nice recovery into the afternoon hours. Upper 60s to the upper 80s. Coming up a closer look at your forecast highs for tomorrow and we will talk more about the rest of the weekend with your full forecast in a few minutes. New at 6 the Trump Administration is looking to california in its efforts to boost oil and gas production. The interior Department Gave approval to 14 drilling leases near existing drill sights in san benito, monterey and fresno counties. This is the first time federal land in the area has been opened up for fossil fuel extraction. The move opens the door for new leases in bay area counties. Environmental groups are threatening to sue. It is the toughest sentence so far in the College Admissions candle. Still ahead how long a napa valley wine maker will serve in prison. A woman tries to leave a school with the child that wasnt her own. My family members insist she is not a threat and just needs help. In the human brain, billions of neurons play in harmony. For people with parkinsons, some neurons change their tune, causing uncontrollable tremors. Now, abbott technology can target those exact neurons. Restoring control and harmony, once thought to belost forever. The most personal technology is technology with the power to change your life. Was in an accident. When i called usaa, it was that voice asking me, is your daughter ok . Thats where i felt relief. Were the rivera family and we plan to be with usaa for life. See how much you can save with usaa insurance. A winemaker from napa has been sentenced to five months in prison in the College Admissions candle. Agustin huneeus admitted to paying 50,000 to rick singer, the mastermind of a nationwide College Admissions conspiracy. He agreed to pay 250,000 to get his daughter accepted into usc as a recruit for water polo. Along with incarceration, he has been ordered to pay a 100,000 fine and serve 500 Hours Community service. Scary moments at a school. A woman posing as a teacher trying to a child. Her family is speaking out saying she is not a bad person and needs help. Heres the story. Reporter relatives of the woman arrested in this neighborhood yesterday have not been able to see her or get information about where her case goes from here. They are clear they want everyone to know she is not a monster and is just in desperate need of help. What are your hopes now . She is in a terrible situation. I apologize for what happened yesterday. She is a very good person. It happened because of not medicating herself enough going to therapy. It leads to this tragic example. Reporter arthur is pointing to the one failed example of what happened when his unmedicated wife went to the School Across the street from her house yesterday and he says in a deluded state tried to leave with a little boy she was convinced was her son. The mother of a 22yearold daughter and 17yearold son now behind bars for trying to kidnap the small child from cooper elementary. She was calling that child brian. Her son name is brian. He went to that school years ago. Too emotional about the arrest to speak on camera today. She stopped taking her medication. And the brother and sister are trying to intervene and help her. There are a bunch of reports of doing a welfare check and an intervention. She will keep her distance. Reporter they have had multiple contact and police were not contacted about her familys request for help. As a registered nurse her ex husband said she resisted medication because she was intimately aware of the side effect. She doesnt want to take it because she cant recognize her own child. Reporter at she is still in jail. A facebook video shows a neighbor coming to their door looking for her son brian. Fox news. Fox two news at 6 30 starts next. Increased security measures across the country as the new movie joker opens in theaters. I dont think it is that necessary and i am kind of glad they are taking extra steps to ensure our safety. What theaters in the bay area are doing to step up security. We will take you to tonights home opener in the shark tank. Students, parents and teachers at one east bay school rally for safer streets following two deadly collisions near their campus. Here are your top stories on this friday night. How investigators want documents from Vice President mike pence. President trump said he plans to formally object to congress about the house impeachment probe even though democrats have the votes to proceed. San Francisco Mayor appointed suzy loftus as interim district att