Strangers. Probably not today. We will see. Maybe things will change in the next couple of months. We will see. Lets change the topics here. A call to address the covid19 pandemic and other disasters like hurricane laura. This morning were joined by cathy from the traveling nursing staff to tell us about the demand and tell us about how this works. Cathy, good morning. Does the agency hire people from here in the bay area . Good morning. Thank you for having me. Certainly we hire nurses from all over the country, and some live in Northern California and taking their skills among all of the counties whether its in california or other parts of the country. Reporter all right. I was areas. Reading a little bit about the theres nothing like jumping on that and seeing it going. Theres a good way to get the agency, sounds like these nurses exercise and just a good sport. Are highly qualified and ready to go between 24 and 48 hours, you know, speakingover sports, what a day that we had in the and theyre, you knifer, this is nba yesterday. Any sort of thing and does that a historic moment as the teams walked off the court. Preclude hiring the nursing we will have more on School Graduate that is may not that aspect of the story, but have a lot of experience. Is that something that you do not first we have to start in do right off the bat . Yeah, certainly we think of the new grades having a place in kenosha, wisconsin where the protests continues. The delivery of care in the they were peaceful last night. Hospitals. Unfortunately, what mike we do in putting nurses in the brings us the latist developments from wisconsin. Channeled chant. Reporter protestors hilt the disasters and covid forest streets for a fourth straight fires, they really need to be the best of the best. Night. This time there was they have to have very good assessment little to no violence. Skills and have to be flexible both and have to think on the feet. Police and others keeping the they have to be able to lead the distance. The demonstration teams and so unfortunately, the started after 29yearold jacob new grads just do not have that blake was shot in the back seven times. Community leader say basis of the knowledge coming in that they will keep up the pressure until they start to see to working in a disaster. We love when they get two or three a real change. Its the same old thing. Years of experience and we love the to put them out with the teams, same conversation. Thats why but not that. It would not we have to stop. Grad can work in a local reporter it was a contract hospital, and then after getting their feet wet so to speak for a from tuesday night when two were couple of years get hired. Killed. The suspected gunman is do now in custody after being you hire from all over the captured on video opened fire country . What kind of people with a rifle. Apply to be on your team . The shootings prompting the governor to double the number of National Guard troops here and impose a yeah, fast staff has been in 7 00 p. M. Curfew. The people of the community the industry for three decades. Deserve to have the opportunity were coming upon three decades. They come from all over the to grieve and to work to heal this community. Country and all shapes and sizes reporter in the meantime, the investigation is moving forward. And all diverse backgrounds. The state department of justice say that they found a theyre married with children, knife in the car that blake was single, you know, anything that trying to enter, but theres no way to tell if he was holding it you can think of. What gets them to join the team is the before he was shot. Diversity of care situation that the mayor and the council kicked the can down the road one is they get put in. Year at a time. Were putting them in situations that i think probably because they suspected no one would really notice. Theyre using the skills and reporter the shooting had learning and passing that to the protest from the milwaukee other care givers. Covid is an experience. The nurses are athletes. Learn asking how the patients in kenosha, wisconsin present and these nurses are with fox 2 news. Hundreds of people took part moving around the country and in a march and demonstration helping those staff nurses in last night in oakland to support the care of such a complex jacob blake, the young unarmed man that was shot by the police patient. Calthny, it sounds like theres a need for what the in wisconsin. Ktvu is joining agency does. Thank you for us now, and ali, this began as a joining us here on mornings on peaceful one, and later on 2. Thank you very much. Coming up on mornings on 2 things changed. The 9 00. Having to shell out a s. It started out peacefully as you mentioned, and protest overs lot of money for the gathered in support of the black lives matter movement. Renovations. Thats how much theyre expected to pay for the they called for justice for Jacob Oakland arena. Blake. The march started around 7 30 in evening. The demonstration was passionate and peaceful for the first couple of hours. After listening to several speakers at the plaza, protestors made the way down broadway to the Oakland Police department. You could hear the fire crackers being set off along the route. People marching were met by barricades and officers in riot gear when they met the police at the headquarters. From our view and many others, it does not appear that they used the tear gas. Theyre under the court order not to use tear gas on protestors. Police did issue this morning at the barricades. Any unlawful act such as vandalism, trespassing or violence will not be tolerated. At some points after this, there were acts of vandalism. Think went off and set fire to a business or tried to set fire to a business at 8th and broadway. That fire was put out. By 11 00, bart closed the 19th street bart station was of windows being shattered and windows in the uptown area, and according to the Oakland Police, protestors or a group of people set fire to the outside entrance of the Alameda County courthouse near the lake. Firefighters put out the fire, but there was visible smoke and fire damage and the buildings glass doors were shattered. Now, going live to the picture of the whole foods market. Its boarded up after last nights destruction. Store managers say thatheduled. Thats one of the dozen of so businesses cleaning up after last nights events. Now, we did hear that several people were arrested according to the Oakland Police. They have not specified how many yet, but there were no reports of any protestors or Police Officers injured. Reporting live with ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you. We will tur in the bay area. The lnu lightning complex fires are onethird contained. They grew 12square miles overnight. The states largest set at 576 and a half square mile in the area. They stretched all the way to the counties, and more than a thousand homes and businesses have been destroyed. Some people that were evacuated from county because of the lmu are allowed to return home in a phased reentry process. Theyre first required to visit the Center Located at the mission church. The czu lightning complex fire burning in Santa Cruz County did not grow much overnight. It remains 21 contained. The crews were able to keep up with the fires. Despite not being able to fly the firefighter aircraft yesterday, the weather is expected to be better for the air attack. With get warmer, drier and we will see a bit of a north wind produced and pushing on that line. Its going to give us a good test. Thats going volume date for us that line and it willing able to hold. 646 buildings have been destroyed. Cal fire has allowed utility workers in the area where the fire is out. Theyre working to restore the fire and power and insure that theyre back in the neighborhood safely before theyre allowed back. That could happen and possibly by this coming sunday. Now, at 576square mile itselves total burned. Cal fire is conducting the controlled burns to help with the containment lines. Authorities are alerting people that they may see the large columns of smoke, and thats going to come from the controlled burns. We can get the latest news on the fire and evacuation orders and containment by going to ktvu. Com wildfires. Now, to the gulf coast. Were learning that two people were kill in the state of before prepared and meet louisiana after hurricane laura brody as slammed in to the state. Jonathan is joining us live now the icon. Bro day has launched from the state of louisiana with a career and landed a pretty big the latest on hurricane laura, and if you could, jonathan off sponsorship and now the worlds the bat describe the conditions for us right now . Reporter yeah, certainly. Here in lafayette, the winds youngest sponsored extreme sport have died down and the rains athlete. Have eased up for now. From the 15 daniels throwing theyre worrying about the river behand in the end zone. Me. It behind me. The crowd and the noise and it does quiet well during the hurricanes, but there was a the big plays and College Football to smaller sports and flood unrelated to the activities. Were taking a closer look at how the pandemic has influenced the way that we hurricanes during the 1,000year get out and play right here in catastrophic rainfall back in the bay area. 2016. While traditional this hurricane is an sports, hey, they have had to entirely different beast t. Adjust to the new rules, theres water levels came up dangerously plenty to enjoy. High. Theres no catastrophic outside of baseball, outside flooding in town, but local of soccer, outside of football, officials are keeping a nervous on on it because theyre this is something that you can concerned of the rain in the also do. Just focussing on how can i make myself better in other ways extended fore coast. And be a better leader to these state officials are urged to stay guys . Indoors until all threats are tomorrow were ex employering clear. Take a listen. It does not do how working out has changed since we sta fitness. Any good if youre going lose your life. Property can be replaced, but dont forget to join us tomorrow your life cannot. For the final zip trip of the summer season. Flooded streets, down trees, we hope that you wires, power out ages, those are tune in tomorrow 9 00 here on mornings on 2. Personal the things outages. Fitness. My goodness the bikes those are the things that we have to in the garages now and the gyms wrestle with. Theyre having to wrestle with a chemical fire in the town at home and the pelatons. Everything has changed. I dont think that i will ever go back of lake west north of lake charles along interstate 10. To the gym. Well, you can run outside and theyre deal being a chemical fire at an industrial plant. Do a lot of things outside that they have shut down the traffic people did not do before, but in both directions on that theyre doing it now. Stretch of i10 and also issued yeah. Absolutely. I am proud to a smart phone warning to say that my 13minute mile is residence in the area to stay in doors and to close their windows now a 12. 5minute mile. Were all doing what we can. And to turn off their air we will talk about it more tomorrow. Conditionings, so that they have go less exposure to the outside air online to ktvu. Com and the ktvu as the hazmat crews and news app. Firefighters deal with the Wendy Williams will ongoing chemical fire in join us next. Lets sit and watch together. Ouncer live from new york city, its the Wendy Williams show. Louisiana. Back to you. Even the word unsurvivable being used bym wondering where you are, did you get a sense that a lot of people did pack up days ago and got out of town. Did you feel like a now, heres wendy majority of those that lived there rode this out . [cheers and applause] yeah, most people did on the coast heeded the warnings and packed up and moved to higher grounds. Its estimate that had nearly 150 residence stay in the general area where the storm made lands fall. [cheers and applause] fortunately, the governor of louisiana John Bel Edwards says that it appears that the storm surge in wendy thank you for actuality was about half of what watching was being forecasted. Yesterday they were expecting wall of [cheers and applause] water the size of a two story yes building. May have been half of that. Still, thats a pretty substantial storm surge. Its backed up the rivers that feed in to the gulf of mexico including this one. Its take s a longer time for the rain over the central part of the state. Louisiana for us. Thank you. We heard jonathan murk talk about the storm surge, and not as high as they thought. He mentioned the governor of the state, and i did see a line saying that the damage is extensionive and due to the water and not just that but the winds that there were experiencing in the state. Yeah, what is interesting is that we will see a hurricane peak, and then it usually weakens before a landfall. This was actually intensifying a bit. A category 4 and category 3 is a real serious deal. The category 4 is borderline category 5. Just to put this in to perspective and a historical perspective, this is for the state of louisiana the 7th major hurricane to hit the state. The recordings go back to 1851. The sustained winds of 150 miles an hour ties the record wind speed of the hurricane called last island. I guess how they named them back then. Is theres the landfall and then the winds of 10050 miles an hour. A category storm and here is the progression. The Storm Surveys throughout the day and the rah ports of a few of these here and the reports of the flooding and flash flooding as far as the rainfall showing you the rainfall accumulation. Is this location is 4. 5 inches of rainfall. Right now its not a category 4 storm. The winds are 175 miles an hour. Here is the track as you can see. We move the maps around later on today and tomorrow and weakening in to a tropical depression and going to the north and east. That will be a Nice Development to let everybody begin to recover for this portion of the u. S. Weforecast coming up in jua little bit. Thank you, mark. Coming up on mornings on 2 the 9. Today is the final day of the republican convention. In a minute the wrap up of last nights convention. The change of the covid guidelines thats causing some controversy. The changes made by the cdc that the governor says that california does not intend to follow. Big interresult at the state capital where the lawmakers learned that a member of the state senate tested positive for covid19. Thats Brian O Jones of san diego. The news was confirmed through the facebook account just yesterday. A floor session was also cancelled as a result just days away before the lawmakers go home for recess. Meaning that theres a bigger back up on addressing the bills that are time sensitive. One of the recovering, and we dont know what is going to happen and if the federal government does not act. The august 31st date for recess is a hard deadline. Thats unless theres a special session. Something that the office say that is he does not plan to do. Today marks the fourth and final day of the Republican National congress veinings. While today President Trump is expected to have the last speech, last night it was the Vice President who had the spotlight. Reporter ray bogan reports on the latest in the 2020 president ial race. Reporter the Vice President decide today deliver the nomination acceptance speech from one of the nations historic sites. What happened there more than 200 years ago inspired the star spangled banner. I expect the nomination to run and serve as Vice President of the united states. Reporter on wednesday, it was the Vice President s turn to make his pitch to the american people. Where joe biden sees american darkness, we see american greatness. Reporter the third night of the rnc followed the theme land of the heros and including this moving moment. The gop nominee for the 11th congressional district. Be e radical for liberty. Be e radical for our republican for which i stand one nation under god with the liberty and justice for all. Reporter on social media joe biden delivered a counter message to the congress veinings with a video message addressing the resent Police Shooting in kenosha. Lets you night and heal. Do justice. End the violence sxshs end systemic racism in the country now. Reporter this afternoon bidens running mate Kamala Harris is expected to deliver a speech of the handling of the coronavirus and the president formally accepting the nomination from the white house south lawn. Tonights line up includes appearances from new york city mayor rudy giuliani, Mitch Mcconnell and the president s daughter ivanka trump. In washington ray gogan with fox 2 news. Stay with us for the live coverage of the final night of the convention. We will have the president s speech and the speakers leading up to that uninterpreted starting at 7 00 p. M. Election officials here in california are getting a boost. The governor signed an executive order yesterday extending the deadline to early next year for the county officials to count and verify the signatures on the petitions if were the november 2022 ballot. Because of the pandemic, some initiatives scheduled for this november had to be pushed back for the election in two years. Happening today, county and Community Leader in santa clara are talking about the expanded outreach efforts as we approach the deadline to be counted. They say that 25 of the santa clara households have not respond today the census. The deadline is september 30th. We plan to learn more of to idea to send out at todays 11 00 news conference. We will have that for you at noon. Coming up on mornings on9. S rescuing fellow first responders. In minutes the story of firefighters rescued as they battled the wildfire in the north bay. Plus, concerns over wildlife had during the bay area fires burning what is killing the elk. Across the street from me i wouldlook at the window, and the was a wall of flames coming at me. The farm says they want to plant more trees and thats going to take 10 years to grow. Last weekend and according to that, this rescue is way more difficult than it looked. Lyfting up and out of there and t