Republican National Convention began with a surprise president ial pardon. The rnc says the theme was land of opportunity as the president , his family and closest allies made the case for four more years. I will continue to give all americans, including former inmates, the best chance to build a new life. Reporter President Trump partisan convicted bank robber john grant who founded the nonprofit, hope for prisoners. The president also hosted a naturalization ceremony. You followed the rules, you obey the laws, you learn the history, embraced our values and proved yourselves to be men and women of the highest integrity. Reporter while the president made surprise appearances, the first lady is tuesdays main star. Just as you are fighting for your families, le in this administration are fighting you. Reporter the secretary of state giving his speech from jerusalem, touting historic changes under President Trump. This president has led bold initiatives. Reporter democrats want an investigation to make sure pompeos speech during a foreign trip didnt break campaign law. This administration is going to politicize the state of israel and use it as a political wedge. Reporter according to the latest real clear average of politics and polls democratic nominee joe biden is out of President Trump by 7. 6 percentage points. Stay with ktvu tomorrow and thursday for the final two nights of the republican National Convention. We will have live updates starting at 4 00 and an interrupt and coverage of speakers at 7 00. Now to the wild tires in the bay area as fire crews report more progress. The scu fire that is burning in parts of seven counties and 15 contained. In the Santa Cruz Mountains the czu fire grew by less than 1000 acres and containment is up to 19 . To the north fire crews are getting a battle handle on the lnu complex of wildfires. Containment there has grown to 27 . Thousands of people had to leave their homes in the north bay and are now returning as evacuation orders have been lifted. We have how cal fire is gaining some ground. Reporter cooler weather, changing winds and the arrival of so much more help. But as some evacuees go home, others wont turn the page so ugly. This is what i have left. Reporter at Lake Berryessa the spanish live villas are gone. Almost 40 mobile homes incinerated. Artist marcia ritz is heartsick she lost irreplaceable work, but knows she is lucky. We got on a pontoon boat with about nine other people and sat out in the water for about four or five hours. Reporter the couple was at the marina helping move boats when the lake became their only escape. It was arendts what we were seeing. Fire everywhere. Reporter for thousands of people in the fires path this was a day of reentry and relief at dodging disaster. But at 27 containment left complex remains a threat. This air attack is aiming to steer the hennessey fire away from middletown, backfiring operations in midlake county and outside walbridge they will button up the blaze is reverent possible. This will be a long firefight and a long period of time with smoke in the air. Conditions are in our favor and we are going to mack mize them when weve got them. Reporter with reentry attention turns to recovery. If you lost a home we are so sorry. If you did lose your home it is incredibly emotionally overwhelming, please report your loss to your Insurance Company immediately. Reporter every county plans local assistance centers, one stop shops to navigate for steps after losing everything. No wonder people die from the heat, because it was so intense. Reporter watching from the water, marcia ritz captured the flash, the fireball, as her mobile home and others went up. That she is undeterred about weak life, her store at Spanish Flats survived and she wouldnt live anywhere else. It is a wonderful place to be. Its awful this has happened and it will come back. But it is going to take years. Reporter ritz was so busy in her store with the fire approaching she never saved anything from her house. She tells us she is more concerned about her neighbors, some of the Mobile Home Park residents are low income and uninsured. The scu lightning complex fire is the second largest fire in california history burning from the diablo range in the east bay to the central valley. It is still growing today. It began as 20 lightning sparked fires and has spread across 365,008 is. The fire is burning in parts of seven counties, including sandvik derek, alameda and contra costa. People who live in the fire zone in the Santa Cruz Mountains can go online to see a house by house view of the damage. The map was created by the santa cruz Emergency Operations center. It shows preliminary damage assessments for many neighborhoods. The icons range from green for no damage, yellow for minor damage, orange for major damage and then the red icons are homes that are destroyed. The site also includes links to help residents recover. Cal fire says there is more progress to report tonight in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the scu fire complex is now 19 contained. They are planning to set backfires in the coming days in the felton area. We have another line we are establishing probably thursday. Cal fire says they currently have good containment lines around davenport in the city of sanford santa cruz and the campus. The Santa Cruz CountySheriffs Office says it has located two people who were reported missing. The Sheriffs Office says five people are unaccounted for. One person is confirmed dead in the fire. It took several days for investigators to recover the remains of 73yearold thad jones. He was reported missing last week on his home from last man. There will be an autopsy determining the cause of death there. According to the santa cruz sentinel, jones was the vietnam veteran who survived in 2009. At that time he was practicing silence after meeting with a monk who did the same and had not spoken since 1976. More fallout tonight stemming from an incident between eight and Alameda County sheriffs deputy and the president of the toronto raptors. And encouraging coronavirus numbers here in california, but is the state ready to reopen more businesses . For the sweaty faces. And the hidden smiles. The foggy glasses. And the muffled laughs. A simple piece of fabric makes a big statement i care. Wear a mask. Lets all do our part to slow the spread. New details now involving the highprofile shoving incident during the nba championship in oakland last year. As of tonight more then 8800 people have signed a change. Org petition demanding Deputy Alan Strickland be fired. Body cambridge camera shows footage. Strickland said in his report that ujiri didnt have the right credentials and he punched him. Ujiri has had strickland was the aggressor and the confrontation only happened because he is black. The Alameda CountySheriffs Office responded saying quote, a snippet of video was released by attorneys. It does not depict the entire incident in detail. There are different angles and High Definition images that tell the complete story. So far neither man faces charges. More layoffs in the Airline Industry to tell you about tonight. Delta says they plan to furlough more then 1900 pilots in october. Airlines have been hit hard by a sharp drop in travel and funding from the c. A. R. E. S act is set to expire at the end of september. According to an sec filing delta received more then 5 million in grant money and unsecured loans from the government bailout. The state of california reported 4400 and antivirus cases today. That is a number we have not seen since the end of june. Unfortunately 105 people died yesterday. The rate of positive cases averaged 6. 3 over the past two weeks and 5. 7 during the past week. Both are trending below the states desired role of 8 . The numbers seem okay and held experts are urging caution as officials decide where and how to reopen. Reporter the states covid case numbers are improving, according to California Health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galli. Weve been watching for a decline in hospital numbers and icu numbers. Reporter california has seen a 19 decline in hospitalizations and an 18 nicu Covid Patients compared to two weeks ago. The drop in coronavirus cases is also going to be encouraging, but the state should not rush to reopen according to a clinical professor of merit help at uc beckley university. We will be opening them up when we have even more cases then we had in june. Dr. Schwartzberg says the reopening last may showed not enough californians to precautions to stop the spread. At a rally tuesday in San FranciscoSmall Business owners called on Public Officials to give their directives about what help the measures might allow them to reopen safely. Even once we come off the watch list we have no idea when we are going to reopen or how we are going to reopen. The city is not communicated with this at all to give us very their direction. Reporter any reopening when coincide with the influenza season that is months away. The state will need to ramp up testing to 200,000 or more test per day, nearly double levels. And californians will need to do their part. The reason it didnt work is because people werent social distancing or wearing masks. There is nothing magical about stopping this candidate. We know exactly what we have to do. It is just getting people to do it. Reporter dr. Schwartzberg says the research is clear, wearing masks, social distancing and getting a flu shot this year are key factors in helping the state get through this pandemic were quickly. New at 11 00, we could use a little more laughter right now. The comedy club tommy tease is stepping up to the challenge. They will be reopening this friday and holding comedy shows outside. Shows will be held in the parking lot at the location on hopp yard road. Attendance is limited to allow for proper social distancing and masks are required for all guests. They have sold out for this weekend, but more dates are being added. They are known for feuding disaster victims all around the world, now they are feuding First Responders and evacuees in the bay area. Up next, a look at the world being done by worlds test kitchen. And the air quality not so great today, about the same tomorrow, but it should gradually get better. The spear the air alert stays in effect through friday. And he was protecting homes from flames while his own home was burning down. Coming up, we will introduce you to another firefighter who lost his home in a bay area wildfire. 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On tuesday they were preparing food for firefighters battling the czu lightning fires and santa cruz. We do a sandwich, piece of fruit and something cold, a salad or something. Wheel is provide hot items. We are doing paella as well. Reporter the nonprofit was started by celebrity chef and restaurant to rest joscandres. Here he is arriving to provide food to those affected by the massive explosion in beirut raven on earlier this month and those affected by Hurricane Dorian last year. Providing food in a disaster zone is a monument to his feet and a logistical challenge, which the group overcomes by partnering with local restaurants in disaster areas. When we respond we come in and look for an empty restaurant , an empty event space that is a kitchen, things like that. Or we will build out our own. Reporter for the lightning complex fires lightning was shut up where volunteers prepared food for First Responders and transporting the meals to the front lines. Kind of hitting all of the fire stations over there that currently need support. Theyre not able to get the base camera throughout the day. Reporter members of the group were risking their safety for those putting their lives on the line. Rural central kitchen has already responded to the lnu and scu lightning complex fires. Volunteers are made up of shafts or restaurants across the area who have made it to where their kit is set up. They also prepare food for people forced to evacuate from their homes because of the wildfires. Smoke from the fires is causing the bay area spare the air alert to be extended. You can see the hayes from our live cameras earlier today. Smoke from wildfires poses a health arezzo air quality officials have extended the air the air alert through at least friday. Our chief meteorologist is here with more on what to expect in the forecast. The extended their quality alert because there are big fires to the south of the bay area, big fires to the north and the winds are generally coming out of the west northwest or southwest. The prevailing winds will keep the smoke coming our way probably through friday, thats way the extension and alert. These were the highs from today, nice day, not that warm, but a little bit cooler then yesterday. Cant really see the smoke out here, but there is smoke in the atmosphere as you go a little further inland. We have a nice brisk sea breeze and that helps clear it out. Certainly along the coast. A lot of those winds you can do onshore winds there back into the hills and up towards the bay area. The fog will be there in the next few days. If your fire danger stays relatively moderate and we get on with the pattern that includes kind of donkey air in the mornings and then a little bit better each afternoon youll probably notice the inversion lifts in the afternoon getting warmer and the air quality gets bigger. The smoke gets mixed out, the same amount, just a bigger air quality amount instead of getting squished down like in the mornings. The forecast overnight lows, 50s to low 60s and again a few weeks ago we had all the record heat and really significant run of weather related stuff. Once that smoke goes away, which it looks like it will be on friday, we might be getting back to a more typical weather pattern. These are the forecast highs for tomorrow and you see temperatures in the hotspots. Fog at the coast, warm inland, mild around the bay and cool at the coast. Does that sound familiar . The five day forecast, there it is. The warmest day this week will be friday. Again that airquality runs through friday. The mornings are about the nastiest time. I will see you back here tomorrow night. A veteran firefighter has lost his home in the czu lightning complex fire. It happened is 49yearold david serna was away helping battle the river fire in monterey county. This is a picture of the property he rents with his wife before the fire in happier times. It has now been reduced to a pile of smoldering rubble. Is not giving up coming has a job to do. He plans to return to work at the end of this week. I know i am not the only one who has lost my home and everything else, but the amount of support that i am receiving and continuing to receive is just amazing. Have been offered housing so they plan to relocate as soon as next week. A wild one at the ballpark just ended in dramatic fashion. If youre a giants fan you want to stick around. First, it appears most of the oldgrowth the wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. So youre a Small Business, or a big one. You were thriving, flourishing, but then. 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