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24 hours. And the 14day Positivity Rate is at 2. 6 . Santa clara and alameda counties are moving in the right direction. They are now in the orange tier of the states covid19 restrict list. This means places of worship and businesses such as movie theaters can reopen for ibdoor service at 25 capacity. Or a maximum of 100 people. Whichever is fewer. Its a really important limitation that weve put in place to help try to reduce the density. To help try to reduce risk for community. And we will be out there with our Enforcement Teams ensuring that theres compliance with that local requirement. And with the local directives. The two counties now join San Francisco as the only three bay area counties in the orange tier. The state has issued guidelines for halloween and once again the coronavirus, meevens a holiday unlike any weve seen before. Californias secretary of health and human serves is discouraging trickortreating and halloween parties. Reporter yeah, frank. Its not entirely unexpected to have that admonition. But it is disappointing to families and people who love halloween. The department of health saying those holiday traditions mixing people together and big parties, or having kids reach into the bucket to grab their treat, its simply too risky in the age of coronavirus. Lal wean is just weeks away. Usually a time for parties and trickortreatering. Trickortreating. This year the health and human serves secretary is strongly recommending against parties and urging families to stay home. Ringing door bells, digging into buckets of delicious candy create a risk of spreading covid19. Reporter the state saying its relying on people to do the right thing and keep interactions to a minimum. Does that mean that trickortreaters will become enforcement . Absolutely not. We dont want to turn certainly what is a celebration and a time of joy and something that is difficult or contentious. Reporter the state recommending alternate activities this year that dont involve interacting with groups. Celebrating at home. Here are some fun ideas. Creating a Haunted House or a candy hunt. Having a scary movie night. Painting faces and carving pumpkins. Reporter dr. Galley also saying that the States Coronavirus numbers are generally trending in the right direction, but going into the winter months, more people want to gather for parties from halloween to thanksgiving t holidays. Things will get more challenging. The key he says will be holding off on those gettogethers as much as possible or at least keeping those gatherings to less than three households at a type he is encouraging people to get the flu shot, and of course continue wearing those masks and washing hands frequently. Contra costa county could move into the orange tier in two weeks if the Current Trends continue. The Health Director told the board of supervisors today that people are adhering to guidelines. It would allow bars and breweries to serve outdoors without having to offer meals. They could move from 5 to 50 of capacity. Cases in california are heading in the right direct. More than 30 states are seeing a rise in infections. The pandemic is continuing also to impact europe. Officials considering even more lockdown measures. Reporter Officials Say week be seeing the start of a fall and winter coronavirus surge. At least ten states searing an increase in hospital zagdzs, including new york. Where the number of patients has doubled since last month. Cases have started to level off in hotspot areas after officials enforced new lockdown measures. I fundamentally believe that we can stop this problem. Were seeing in brooklyn and queens. Before it grows. There is absolutely still time to do that. Reporter europe is reinstating some covid19 restrictions after seeing 700,000 new cases last week. Italy, france and britain have placed limits on businesses and large gatherings in highrisk areas. Officials are warning folks to act now before stricter measures are put into place. A number of new cases, the Positivity Rate, admissions to hospitals, admissions in icus. Cases of older people. All the indicators are that things are going in the wrong direction. Reporter meanwhile, a 25yearold nevada man has the first documented case of covid19 reinfection in the u. S. The findings were published in atlantas infection diseases journal. The man first tested positive in april. Then again in june when he was hospitalized with more seer symptoms. Severe symptoms. Further analysis suggested he was infected by two different strains of the virus. The studys office says exposure to covid19 may not guarantee immunity in all cases. One man was injured in an explosion last night in gilroy. Now a day later, the area is still closed. And it could be several days as the investigation continues. The blast took place on the 1,700 block of mantelli drive between rancho hill drive and learned way. One man was injured. Were not sure at this point what kind of explosives, whether they were fireworks or more serious type of explosives. Reporter Gilroy Police along with the Santa Clara County sheriffs bomb unit continue their investigation into mondays explosions. Around 2 00 in the afternoon, neighbors say a loud blast rocked this quiet hillside community. One woman didnt want her face shown says 53yearold daren darryl was injured in the accident. He is a good guy. He wasnt trying to hurt anybody. Hes not a terrorist he want just messes around with loud explosive things that sound worse than it is. But he didnt mean any harm i think that. Reporter police say a 53yearold man was driven to a nearby hospital with a traumatic hand injury. Detectives say the blast occurred in an outbuilding behind this house. Depending on what we find, if theres illegal items that he used, then well go from there. But at this point, its very early in our investigation. Theyre initially going to try and figure out what the scale of the device was. Theyre gonna turn around and do a quick sweep to try and find what the outer perimeter of the debris field is. Reporter dan goodrich is a san jose state Senior Security scientist with expertise in explosive devices. Theyll reconstruct the device. Theyll literally pick all of the pieces they can find out from the debris field. And itll bring them back together again, and theyll recompose the device. Reporter it will take added time to do the investigate because there could be more explosive devices around the property. Gill away police say the man injured in this explosion has not been charged with a crime and that the Bay Area Joint Terrorism Task force has been notified of the explosion. In san jose, jesse gary, ktvu, fox2 news. A woman is dead after an suv crashes into an Outdoor Dining area in san jose. Coming up at 5 30, state leaders say theyre now trying to come up with ways to make Outdoor Dining safer. Plus round 2 in the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearing. The topics that senators pushed her on, coming up. Thousands of bay area homeowners better prepare. Pg e is warning of a power shutoff because of the warm, dry windy weather in the forecast. Well tell you where coming up. Woman 1 get your votebymail ballot . Woman 2 you can stay healthy and fill it out from the safety of home. Surfer or you can fill it out anywhere. Man 1 its easy to mail it back. You dont even need a stamp. Man 2 or you can use an official drop box. Woman 3 you can even drop it off at the polls. Man 3 then, track it to confirm your county got it. See . They got it woman 4 mail ballots are the simple, safe, and secure way to ensure that your vote is counted. When was the last time your property tawhat . L went down . Never. Are you kidding me . For years, the residential burden has gone up. While the corporate burden has gone down. Prop 15 reverses that. It closes corporate loopholes and invests in schools, small business, and firefighters. And when the big corporations pay more, your tax bill goes down. Thats right. A savings of a hundred twentyone dollars a year for the average home. Give homeowners a break. Vote yes on 15. Im not willing to make a deal. Not with the committee, not with the president , not with anyone. Im independent. Reporter on the first day of direct questioning before the Senate Judiciary committee, Supreme Court nominee judge Amy Coney Barrett refused to commit to rule in any particular way, should she be confirmed in the nations highest court. She also distressed that no one within the trump administration, including the president , has asked her to. I have had no conversations with the president or any of his staff on how i might rule in that case. Reporter on the healthcare law. Thats why we keep bringing this up. Real people that we run into all the time. I assure you that i am not. I am not hostile to any statute that you pass. Reporter roe v. Wade. On the distressing not to get a straight answer. Do you agree with Justice Scalias view that roe was wrongly decided . If i express a view on a precedent one way or another, it shows i might tilt one way or another in a pending case. Reporter and a sdpoeblt that a dispute over the 2020 election could wind up at the Supreme Court. Im concerned that what President Trump wants here couldnt be clearer. That hes trying to rush that nomination ahead so you might pass a decision, a vote, in his favor in the event of a disputed election. I certainly hope that all members of the committee have more confidence in my integrity than to think that i would allow myself to be used as a pawn to decide the election for the american people. Reporter in round 1, senators are alotted 30 minutes. At least one of them, democratic senator, shelby whitehouse, didnt ask a single question. Instead calling into question the donors and organizations now supporting barretts nomination. I think this gives you a chance for you and i to tee up an interesting conversation tomorrow. Reporter judge barrett was asked repeatedly today whether she would rule like one of her key mentors. But she said if confirmed, youll get justice barrett, not justice scalia. Thousands of people could have their power cut in the coming days because of the fire conditions. Pg e has told people in 21 county, including some in the bay area, that may may have to shut off power beginning tomorrow. Reporter consider this, frank. 4. 1 million acres already. Two thirds of which are on federal land. Thats important because we are smack dab in the middle of the worst part of californias fire season. Public safety power shutoffs could begin as early as wednesday afternoon and last through friday morning in some areas. Napa, sonoma, solano, alameda, contra costa, san mateo, and santa clara are the bay area counties out of 21 counties under warning. Whats amazing, in all 21 counties that have a combined population of 8. 8 million, less than 50,000 customers will be potentially shut off. Because we have the technology on the line. We have Better Weather data coming in. To precisely shut off those customers. Reporter the most targeted customers are given 24 and 48hour notices. Many people will want to check for themselves. Pge. Com pspf updates. You can enter your exact address, check in youre listed. Reporter but says pg e the weather is always subject to change. Our metroologists and analysts at the Operations Center are look at the data, are analyzing the weather data minute by minute. And it could change. Even up to the very last minute. Reporter for now, however, legendary weather forecaster and professor, jan null is not surprised. This is not a real bigtime diablo wind event for us. Thats probably part of the metric. Better than but he says the sooner we get rain, better off californias firestorm suno, maam will go away. Diablo winds here, santa ana winds from Southern California, often go into early number. The thomas fire in Southern California was on december 4th. That was about a tenday strong wind event. Reporter cal fir mcclaine who retired in april was called back almost immediately to handle the crush of media and Public Events going on ever since. Not at all. I never thought of it. Wasnt event a hin of it. Reporter now at the top of the ktvu web page, go to web links and we posted the link to peg approximatings outage check my address tool. For those directly affected, pg e promises that it expects to restore power to them within 12 Daylight Hours of the wind dissipating. Thats quicker than its been in the past. Wrap jan and i go way back. Jan used to be at the National Weather service and San Francisco state. He taught me in my 302 class, california weather. But what jan said, this is not a real bust offshore wind event. But what we know now, any wind event in these fire danger months is going to get attention. Its the new norm. And i mentioned this last night. So much in the past, days like today were celebrated. Oh, my gosh its beautiful at the beach. Indian summer. Fall weather in the bay area. Ever since the Oakland Hills fire, and more recently coffee park and other fires, its not that way. Were on pins and needles. The gusty winds the come in tomorrow night and thursday morning. Its a northerly flow. They funnel through those canyons. You can see the red flag warning in the hills of the santa cruz mountains. East bay and north bay. But the north bay is right down to the valley. Petaluma and san rafael. Youre gonna notice a little bit of wind down to sea level. Humidities are low, winds are up. It is not a longduration wind event. Lets illustrate. Here we are tomorrow night. Wednesday night, and then watch. See the red area . Around napa. Look how quickly it goes away. Lets zoom in on the red flag warning. Most concerning zone. This is the napa area, middletown calistoga. 8 00 am wednesday. Wednesday evening, watch what the contours do overnight. Boom. Thats the sweet spot. 12 00 am, 1 00 am two, am. As we go into this wednesday night, thursday morning, thats the sweet spot. Calistoga, napa, the rincon valley, santa rosa, you guys are gonna get the wind. Other areas in the bay area, east bay, above 1,000 feet. Santa cruz mountains above 1,000 feet. And its always scary, you know . None. Us like this anymore. Because it puts us all on edge. But i always wanted to put things in perspective for you. This is not a code red red flag warning. This is a red flag warning part of a moderate one. Not shortlived but not longlived. Its not gonna be three or four day. Its gonna be about a 24hour period. And then we should be out of the woods. So if something were to start, were not gonna be followed up with the worst. There is the live camera shot. A little bit of smoke in the area. That august complex fire not putting up a lot of smoke right now. Its got a bunch of containment on it, over 70 . So we are seeing better air quality. When i come back, lets take a look at the forecast models. We just talked about fire and looked at a live camera. When i come back, well look at the fiveday forecast in temperatures. Its precious to us. Thats really all we have left of the people that we love. A memorial billboard for two officers who were killed in the line of duty is destroyed. Coming up next, the response from family members and the police union. Coming up at 6 00, a big victory for the trump administration. The ruling handed down by the u. S. Supreme court late today regarding the 2020 census. It is San Franciscos most soughtafter public school. The big change being considered. The unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on Public Safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. But i cant say i expected this. Because it was easy. To fight these fires, we need funding plain and simple. For this crisis, and for the next one. Prop 15 closes tax loopholes so rich corporations pay their fair share of taxes. So firefighters like me, have what we need to do the job, and to do it right. The big corporations want to keep their tax loopholes. Its what they do. Well, i do what i do. If yould like to help, join me and vote yes on prop 15. A memorial honoring two Vallejo Police officers who were shot and killed in line of duty has been destroyed by vandals. Now the families and colleagues of those officers are speaking out. Henry lee joins us now with more on that and what happens next. The president of the Vallejo Police union is making a rare public statement, denouncing the vandalism as disrespectful of two men who made the ultimate sacrifice. Reporter this is what the sign looked like. Both men were shot and killed in the line of duty. The sign is now gone after vandals pulled out the post and split the sign in half. Sadly, i dont think we were too surprised with the state that were in right now. Reporter jamie is one of officer capoues three daughters. Her father was shot and a bank robber in the backyard after a chase. Those memorials are very precious to us. Its really all we have left of the people we love. Reporter officer azwar was shot while serving a warrant. Its truly disgusting. Reporter he said he understands the anger at police in general, and officers in vallejo in particular. Critics have been lashing out at the department over controversial deadly shootings by va officers. To trample on anybody whos deceased, let alone a Police Officer who was serving his community and dies in the line of duty, i dont understand fathom what goes on through peoples minds. Reporter the police union and chief have been at odds over

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