A nominee friday or saturday. Senator majority leader mitch mccolonel elhas already vowed to hold a vote. Elections have consequences. Its called you pick people for the Supreme Court. Reporter the president previously said hell pick a woman. The choice has become a central focus of the election and could give the president a boost, especially with conservatives. I think that there is a potential advantage this gives the president , maybe even those running for senate. It is going to be, you know, buckle up. Speaking to those republicans out there, senate republicans, who know deep down what is right for the country and consistent with the constitution. Reporter democratic president ial nominee joe biden spoke directly to those gop senators, pleading with them not to follow mcconnell. Biden centered his argument arout round the issue of healthcare and the Affordable Care act. When a vacancy occurs if the last year of the first term, you can see Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president , whoever it might be make that nomination. That was chairman of the Senate Judiciary in 2016, saying hell approve trumps nominee. Its impossible to not politicize this, but these guys have to grow a spine. They absolutely is to stand up and commit to the word, the commitment that they made. If the shoe was on the other foot and the democrats were there in the house and in control of the senate, you know, i would put i would take it to vegas right now and put money that they would be doing the exact same thing. Reporter it would take four gop members breaking ranks to block the nomination. Two have said they oppose a vote before the election. Democrats could target other vulnerable republicans in close races. I think its a calculation. I think theyre going to hold the vote until after the election to let their members, who are in tight and competitive races, take a pass. If president trumps nominee is confirmed, it would giving conservatives a 63 advantage on the nations highest court. Jessica janner castro levinson studies the Supreme Court and said the lifetime appointment could impact major issue necessary the country for decades to come. Think about all of the issues they will be weighing in on. Voting rights. Access to reproductive rights. First amendment rights. Healthcare rights. The rights of immigrants. If the president names a nominee ontry, that would mark 39 days until the election. Historically, the average Supreme Court justice approval time is 79 days. Here is a look now at the balance of power in the u. S. Senate. The senate split, 53 republicans, 47 democrats, and since republican senators Lisa Murkowsk and its Susan Collins of maine have said the process should wait until at threshings, all eyes are on mitt romney of utah and Chuck Grassley of iowa 20 see if they will go along. Democratic groans said they have shattered Fundraising Efforts over the weekend. The Progressive Group act blue said they saw more than 91 million in donations from 1 and a half million dollars. Including 6 million in one hour on friday and 70 on saturday, smash peg previous one hour and one day records. In new yorks financial district, a collar was faced on the fearless girl statue in honor of justice ginsburg, and today the New York Stock Exchange paused for a moment of silence to honor the Supreme Court justice, her death and how it may impact the president ial election was one factor that contributed to a big selloff on wall street today. Stocks did make a comeback late in the day. The dow ended 509 points lower, just under 2 . It had been off by more than 900 points. The nasdaq lost 14 points and the sapp s p was down 38. Now to the latest on the coronavirus. The centers for Disease Control and prevention caused more confusion today after removing new fileddance on their website. The cdc removed a post from last friday that said that the virus is spread mainly through small airborne droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or breathes. The agency said the information was a draft version, and was posted in error. The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States is very close now to 200,000. And more than 6. 8 Million People have been affected. Thats according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins university. In california, the number of deaths has surpassed 15,000. California is the fourth state to top that number, joining new york, new jersey, and texas. More than 788,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in california. California residents who need to file for new Unemployment Benefits will now have to wait two weeks. A review of the states Unemployment Agency has found major problems which has led to a backlog of claims. Tom vacar tells us how the state plans to fix those problems. Reporter the edds massive backlog of claims has been growing by 10,000 applications every danot accept new Unemployment Insurance applications for two weeks, so it can install a new system to speed up the whole process. This will process about 90 automatically, of all of the new applications. Reporter thats one of many suggestions made by the governors edd task force. Our report, which we have provided to edd, is over 70 recommendations. Reporter prior to this report, edd was taking senior claims processers off processing to teach thousands of new hires,000 process claims. What the task force soon found out was that by taking experienced people off of their other work, that was having a Significant Impact in terms of increasing the backlog. Reporter upgrading what can only be called an ancient Computer System a high fast track priority, in uploading documents, the system cannot read some of them. The Computer System that goes back to the old cobalt system of the 1960s and 1970s. Reporter one example . The old system cannot see the color red, the color that show yours drivers license and expiration. That need to be upgraded, frankly need to just simply be sprewn the waste bin of history. Reporter the major priority clear up the systems backlog as well as human economy is technically possible. We will be clearing backlog every single day between now and january. Substantially address the backlog over the next 90 days with the goal to have substantially addressed it and not impact any people that are apply fog are the first time. Reporter and make no mistake, the root cause of all of the edds problems have been since the pandemic began, was, is, and will be for the foreseeable future the overwhelming tidal wave of claims, the likes of which the system never saw, even during the great recession. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. The state of california is putting a lot more money into their project home key, which buys motels to house the homeless. Announcing the second round of awards, and, again, this is happening in historically short period of time, and it shows a resolve and a commitment, a sincerity of effort, and a Long Term Strategy to address homelessness in the state in a way the state of california has never done if the past. Governor newsom said 2 236 million in grants will be used for the projects second round. Some of that new money will go toward turning more than 500 motel units in San Francisco, oakland, and santa clara, into permanent housing for the homeless. And city officials in oakland are considering a new policy that would address where Homeless People can set up their encampments. The proposed is set to go before the city council in october. Cristina rendon tells through is concern from homeless advocates and support from residents who say it is a step in the right direction. Reporter Officials Say as oaklands homeless encampments keep globe city trying to find a balance to support the health and safety of the unhoused, while addressing concerns from some residents and businesses. The bottom line is that the status quo that been working. Reporter the city is considering a homeless encampment policy that provides high and low sensitivity areas be designated in 0 oakland. They would be cleared within high sensitive areas, including within 50 feet of a school, house, business, or public park, and within 5 feet of a shelter. Homeless people would abe allowed to camp in other parts of the city considered low sensitivity areas, enforce system depriorityized, but standards are created to ensure laws arent being broken. This is an attempt to strike a balance in the needs of supporting our unhound, treating them humanely, while at the same time creating some consist any and structure to how we support our encampment. Reporter emme entation is unclear, but the proposal was created after receiving over 800 responses earlier this year to a survey. At a zoom meet, the committee continued to hear both support is pushback. It would leave them with effectively zero options with where they can live. We need to have proposed places where people can go. We support having them move to a safer area, not lake her it. Reporter right now observations Community Cabins are at capacity, and encampments are being cleared because of the pandemic. I think the reality is that we are in a city where we are going to have to love with homelessness. We dont have the resources to solve this overnight. Reporter the issue through will go to the city council in october for more discussion and Public Comment before any decision is made. Cristina rendon, ktvu fox 2 news. Still to come here, hated Crime Investigation after another incident targeting San Franciscos Armenian Community. The latest incident involves gunshots at school property. Also, police in the east bay asking for the publics help after vandalism at a church. What one man did after he walked on to church property. And the air quality is getting a little better this morning, and well have a five day forecast when i return. And taking a look at traffic conditions on the san mateo bridge tonight. You would never even know its the commute. Look at that. Practically empty in both directions. Ktvu channel 2 news will be right back. New information acts of San Francisco where hate crime investigators are underway after another incident targeting the Armenian Community. Police say someone fired a shot at a sign for the Armenian School on brotherhood way. This follows a suspected arson attack last thursday that gutted two floors of an Armenian Community center in the Laurel Heights neighborhood. Christien Christien Kafton is here now with the same school hit by graffiti earlier this summer. San Francisco Police say officers on patrol in the area near the kzv Armenian School heard gunshots, and immediately searched the area but did not find the shooter. And found a bullet hole in the sign in front. Police are investigating this as a hate crime, the latest in a series of escalating incidents targeting the Armenian Community. That same school was the target of vulgar and threatening graffiti in july, and then just last week, the fire at the Community Center next door to the church. Church leaders saying investigators told them that there were three separate locations where that fire was started, and now this latest shooting at the school over the weekend. The Armenian Community, politicians, and agent is leaders, all gathers at the church on friday night to discuss the escalating incidents. They would like to see the physical extinguishing of this community. We know thats not, but that message was very clear from this target that they chose. The San FranciscoDistrict Attorney on hand to say the targets of any ethnic gruel is unaccept be in the city. An attack on the Armenian Community is an attack on every single one of us here in San Francisco. I and the entire San FranciscoDistrict Attorneys office stands ready, able, and willing to hold accountable all those who committed these cowardly hateful and criminal acts. Reporter fortunately so far no one has been injured in any of these incident opinions investigators are looking for anyones who information about these incidents or who may have captured them on camera. Again, San FranciscoPolice Looking for that kind of information. In San Francisco, Christien Kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. Police in Pleasant Hill are asking for the publics help tonight in identifying a man who they say vandalized a church. A Security Camera recorded that man as he walked on the property of Grace Bible Church last week. Police say he broke a gate and ripped out some decorative fencing, causing about a thousand dollars in damage. One of the pastors of the church said it looked like the man was just having a bad day. Because hes opened the gate like anyone normal would, just kind of walk through and maybe come knock on the door or something, and he looked at the gate, and then just started wrenching it. The pastor believes this was an isolated incident. He said the man is welcome to return service. Okay. We started has gone on. Here is the current air quality. Just a broad brush of the state. Yellows, not great, but not as bad as it was when we had reds, purples, and a lot of oranges. Now were looking a at lot of yellow. The winds this morning were like this, bringing fire, smoke down from those northern climbs. This will take a lot of that air and push it that way. So thats the plan. Air quality should improve quite a bit. North bay is not too bad right now. Green in San Francisco. I like seeing green. And then down towards santa cruz, as you would expect along the coast with that onshore flow, air should be better for all of us tomorrow. In the last three and a half four hour weeks all of that smoke . That stuff has been pushed out as that air off the pacific starts to push in. This trough that we talked about at 5 00, well talk about it more now, but that trough that is well, thats not put thats beta. Its a tropical storm, and its raining a bunch. But let me get to that trough. Now, this bad boy, this is setting us up with kind of a mild week ahead. Its going to be warm, but mild, but its also ejecting the smoke also plays a part in the heat as we get toward this rest of the weekend. Well see you back here with all of that. All right, bill, thank you. The east bay Regional Park is reopening camping and boating with some reinstructions. More sharp lines and park trails have been opened to the but some park federalties have been closed for six months to avoid overcrowding. Park flies that reopen facilities include quarry backs, lake santa barbara, and volcanic regional preserve. The aquarium of the bay reopened today at pier 39 after being closed for six months. Officials say new Safety Measures have been put into place to keep everyone healthy. Tickets have to be purchased on line. It is home to more than 20,000 marine animals. The aquarium will be opened between 11 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Every day. It offers Online Learning programs with live cams and podcasts. Coming up after the break, a multimillion Dollar Settlement for the family of a man who was killed by plus a police in walnut creek. What the family is doing try to prevent something similar from happening to another family. He was in a Mental Health crisis, and a Mental Health crisis should not be a death sentence. If youre at home thinking about your financial plan. So are we. Prudential helps 1 in 7 americans with their financial needs. Thats over 25 Million People. With over 90 years of investment experience, our thousands of Financial Professionals can help with secure video chat or on the phone. We make it easy for you with online tools, esignatures, and nomedicalexam life insurance. Plan for better days. Go to prudential. Com or talk to an advisor. A bay area couple is speaking out after reaching a multimillion Dollar Settlement with walnut hill over the Deadly Police shooting of their sons who having a Mental Health crisis. 0 our Crime Reporter henry lee tells house they ho