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Comes two months after San Francisco offered to pay 2. 5 billion for assets in San Francisco. It was an idea championed by mayor london breed. She is not part of the coalition of mirrors now to make the Company Public owned. The Mayors Office told me tuesday they sent the utility this letter responding to the issue raised in the initial rejection letter. That statement goes on to say they have discussed the ideas that the mayor is discussing with his office and they believe the approaches are not mutually exclusive. Johnson does not believe breaking up the company is a good idea. Pg es infrastructure received a d . The company cuts power to add lines to keep the equipment from starting fire which is another issue for governor newsom. P janney said changes are coming. In 10 years we will be done and there will be fewer every year. Reporter some local libidos some local leaders believe that there are more options. Lets take the profit motivation out of it. P janney needs to rely on junk bonds to finance its future is not a pg e that california can rely on. The latest developments, following a report that shows pg e and 1. 3 million lobbying between july and september, twice as much as the previous six months in efforts to increase gas and electric bills in 2020. Ktvu fox 2 news. P janney has agreed to extend the deadline to file wildfire claims against the company for wildfires in 2017 and 2018. Pg e said they will push back the deadline to december 31 so more victims can participate. Attorneys argue that tens of thousands of people who are eligible for compensation have not yet filed. As many as 100,000 people could be in line for more than a share of 8 billion set aside for those claims. Happening now bart is recovering from major delays through the trans bay. There was a train car running through the tube from San Francisco toward the east bay with its brakes on. They brought that train back to the city and Service Resumed at 4 30 pm. It resulted in major delays in the east bay. You can see huge crowds. I got on that mission in 16th and i had to get off because the train was stopping and more people kept coming on. I was swooshed into the corner. Finally i said i have to get off and wait it out. Im not sitting in here like a sardine. It doesnt feel safe. Other commuters said it is inconvenient and they are accustomed to occasional delays in the bart system. A handful of communities around the bay area have election day. For candidates are running for the spot of da. Greg lee is in the city with why theres so much interest in that race. Reporter we are at firehouse number 6 in the city, one of the many pulling places voters can get to before they close at 8 pm. A lot of money has been spent on the das race. What makes it most interesting is this is the first San Francisco da race in more than 100 years where there is no incumbent. For candidates are running for San Francisco District Attorney in one of tonights most heated races. It was in controversy last month when mayor london breed appointed suzy loftus to interim da after george gastown resigned. Loftus said her experience at a former prosecutor in the das office and president of the Police Commission sets her apart. Reverse the dangerous policy on diverting duis. Really brought together neighborhood prosecution teams to address neighborhood issues that are affecting peoples sense of safety. Reporter chesa boudin describes himself as a candidate for change. The deputy defender is calling for justice to form and a plan to help crime victims. He led the race with fundraising. Our job is to change the culture and make sure we are focusing our resources not only on punishment but on preventing crime and healing the harm. Reporter nancy tung is a career prosecutor. She spent 11 years in the San Francisco das office and worked in the state attorney generals office. She said she would be tuff on crime and put in a place that she described as Immunity Center justice to improve the quality of life. Make sure they are reaching into the community and that we are much more proactive instead of waiting for problems to come to us. Lets help the community solve those problems. Reporter leif dautch has served as state attorney general for seven years. He is focused on accountability, curbing car breakins in the homeless crisis. He said he would turn Juvenile Hall which is scheduled to close to the end of 2021 into a Mental Health center with 150 beds. It is about holding city hall accountable for the homelessness crisis and property crime academic and making sure Law Enforcement is held accountable if they engage in misconduct. Accountability has been the theme for us. Reporter we have seen a steady flow of voters. Ranked Choice Voting is being used for todays election. Depending on how close this race and others are we could potentially see that play a factor and could draw out how long it takes to declare a winner. Live in San Francisco, greg lee. There are six candidates on the ballot for San Francisco mayor, london breed is hoping to win her first full term since being elected to fill the remainder of at least term. Also on the ballot, wilma pang, paul ybarra robertson, robert jordan, and ellen lee zhou. A citywide ban on the sale of vaping products is on the ballot. Wrote tobacco groups spent millions of dollars promoting prop c. Juul once to pass the measure as well but they ended their campaign funding. A no vote would allow the citywide ban to go into effect in january. Voters with awful also decide to put a tax on rideshare. They would put a 3 1 4 tax on single rides and a 1 tax on pool rights. It would generate 30 million a year and it needs a two thirds majority to pass. The money would go to transit improvement and Pedestrian Safety projects. There is a new tool to fight deep fake videos as we get closer to next years president ial election. Uc Berkeley School of information is dedicated to improving the usability, reliability and credibility of information found online. They joined other experts from around the world to create an app called reality defender 2020. It is a real tool that people can use to detect deep fakes. Digitally altered images known as deep fakes have become so sophisticated that by using Artificial Intelligence candidates can appear to say or do just about anything. New developments in the connection with the impeachment inquiry. Newly released transcripts show an ambassador at the center of the probe changed his testimony. Ray bogan is in washington with the details. Reporter on monday the attorney for the Eu Ambassador sent house impeachment investigators revisions to his testimony. Today we learned what he had to say. The transcript suggested the link between military aid and ukraines cooperation with the Public Statement into a corruption investigation. He said i said that resumption of the aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement. He called trump and asked what you want from ukraine . He responded i want nothing, i want no quid pro quo. Anytime there were direct conversations with the president there was no link. Any linkage that has been alleged obviously is based on many times second or third hand information. Reporter the chair e progression of efforts by the president and his agent, Rudy Giuliani to use the state department to press ukraine to announce investigations beneficial to the president s personal and political interest. Lawmakers release the transcript of the former u. S. Envoy to ukraine. Kurt volker testified he warned the ukrainians about dealing with the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. He said in august because of conversations with giuliani i wanted to make sure i was cautioning the ukrainians dont get sucked in. Reporter as the inquiry continues impeachment investigators are requesting testimony from Mick Mulvaney friday morning. In washington, ray bogan fox news. Mike pence will be in the bay area a week from tomorrow. The Vice President will make stops next wednesday in santa ana and monterey before heading up to mountain view. The next day he is scheduled to tour the Nasa Ames Research Center and deliver remarks to nasa employees. Coming up at 6 30 pm new details about last weeks deadly Halloween Party in orinda and what we are learning about a possible motive and ties to gang violence. Plus calls to better protect students from speeding or distracted drivers. The action being taken in one east bay city. We are looking at the forecast for the next two days. We will let you know what the fog is going to do and how much warmer it could get. A fiery drug Cartel Ambush in mexico claiming the lives of three american mothers and their six young children. What we are learning about the eight children who escaped. A live look of the tuesday evening commute on interstate 880 in oakland. Sounds weird to say this but that is the oakland arena next door to the freeway, not the oracle arena so, as you can see, saving can be quite simple. Case in point, if you get xfinity internet and mobile together, big savings on your wireless bill. Write this down, this is important. Amy, this is actually a life saving class. What a nice compliment, thank you save on fast internet and the best Wireless Network together. What can i say, i love what i do. Thats simple, easy, awesome. Get xfinity internet and mobile together and save hundreds on your wireless bill. Youll get unlimited talk and text and no activation or line fees. Switch today. Do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on new details involving a man who was shot and killed by san jose police. Francis had a long criminal history and a warrant out for his arrest and many past runins with Law Enforcement. His shooting incident happened thursday afternoon near independence high school. Investigators say officers ordered the man to drop what appeared to be a weapon but he refused. He appeared to be drawing that weapon when an officer opened fire. Today the police chief said he had been placed on many previous psychiatric hold and they also said he wanted to commit suicide by cop. This incident and loss of life are examples of the tremendous need for additional Mental Health services, drug treatment and intervention in our community. Police officers are too often placed in these situations. I speak to all my officers after these tragedies and i know it is difficult for them as well. The weapon turned out to be a replica gun. The School Year Just started but already at least six students in alameda have been hit by cars. Paul chambers talked to parents today about their concerns and how the city is planning to take act reporter it is a concern for any parent making sure their child gets to school safely. I unified confirms that half a dozen students from three different schools have been struck by cars. There have been six kids who were not as lucky and that is so scary to me and i feel horrible for those parents. Reporter one of those incidents happened at the section of love elementary. Everyone saw the ambulance. People were walking their kids to school and were shocked. My son and i walking home a month ago had a really close call where car was about an inch from hitting him. Reporter no one has been seriously injured. The district is working with the city to address these incidents. There to School Crossing signs but parents say more is needed. We have four major corners for our 550 students in only one corner has a crossing guard. The city said their immediate plan is to have a team of experts study the intersection to see if there are traffic and engineering issues. Also they expect to see a Higher Police presence in those areas. They are going to see people in the crosswalk and they are going to be ticketing before and after school hours at random schools. City Council Members are planning to discuss a zero vision policy which will reduce all serious fatal accidents. Paul chambers, ktvu fox 2 news. A cleanup is underway on a four acre lot in west oakland that had become home to People Living in tents, cars, buses and rvs. It is on wood street in west grand avenue. The area became a dumping ground for abandoned vehicles and trash. The city was concerned about unsanitary conditions and increased fire danger so city leaders came to an agreement with the Property Owner to have that lot clean. Homeless advocates say it is unfair the city to force those living on the lot to relocate without providing them somewhere else to go. Today the city of oakland is trying to displace 100 residents without any alternatives. The plan is to have the sight cleared over the next two days and repaved before it turns it into a safe rv site. Fencing and electricity will be added. You probably noticed we havent had much in the way of rain around here as we reach into early november. You can see from the calendar behind me that is where we stand now. It has been dry. The models are pretty good and they are keeping dry through the 16th and maybe through the 19th. A lot can change between now and then but as you know the longrange models are dry but a lot can change. Next week looks pretty good. The highs today on the warm side. 84 in fairfield. Highs tomorrow be pretty similar somewhere the same. 64 in San Francisco and much cooler on the coast because all the fog. The fog will keep hanging out. It pulled away for a while today and you got some breaks at ocean beach and then the fog comes back in. There is really a flat pressure grading and the atmosphere is very stable. That is why the fog is there. You see fog in a stable atmosphere. You are also not seeing offshore winds. Fog is an indication of stability and that is why we see it often in the summer when the atmosphere is very stable. There is all the fog. You can see it along the coast up to the Golden Gate Bridge and shooting across toward oakland. When you wake up tomorrow morning fog inside the bay. Tomorrow morning will be like this morning. His ability is pretty low visibility is pretty low. The ranch fire burning south of redding has grown to 3600 acres since it broke out on sunday. It has grown in a remote area 180 miles north of San Francisco. No structures have burned and none are threatened. The fire was 15 contained. More than 1000 firefighters battling the flames. Some of the smoke from the ranch fire has moved into the bay area because of northerly winds. There is no spare the air alert today although an error advisory is in effect. Officials say if you see or smell smoke in your area it is best to stay indoors. Looking at the shot for the bay bridge you can kind of see the haze in the air. Today a jury found a danville man not guilty of animal cruelty after video of him kicking a dog went viral. We want to warn you him of the footage is disturbing. A couples home surveillance camera recorded 38yearold adam kicking and growling at their dog last december. They hired the man to walk their dog through a dog walking up wag. After the incident was exposed, the man was kicked off their platform and Police Charged him with one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty. He has maintained his innocence. Still ahead new details about last weeks deadly Halloween Party in orinda that left five people dead. What we are learning about a fight between two groups that may have started that deadly shooting. Independent truckers staging a weeklong protest over a state law that they say will force them out of their job. 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. A 19 year old woman has been charged with felony carjacking in fremont. Naomi allegedly assaulted a food Delivery Driver in a parking lot on sea bridge drive october 28. Investigators say she and another man at the victim with rocks and slammed her face into the pavement before stealing her car. She was taken into custody on sunday in daly city driving the victims car. Fremont police are still looking for the man who was with melendez at the time of the carjacking. Investigators released this Surveillance Video of melendez and the other suspect just before the carjacking. The man is in his late teens or early 20s with short hair. He was wearing a yellow tshirt with a dark sweatshirt tied around his neck, dark pants and white thinkers. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with an armored truck robbery in oakland. Two men armed with rifles robbed a Loomis Armored car outside a wells fargo back in june. It happened at foothills where shopping center. Police say they were able to arrest both of the alleged geta after serving such search warrant. All three suspects are facing numerous felony charges. Ktvu news at 6 30 pm is up nex

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