Starts now. This is ktvu fox two news at noon. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Im andre senior. Im ali rasmus. We continue to follow a developing story out of hawaii. Wildfires are raging on the island of maui. Flames have ripped through the Historic Town of lahaina on the islands west side. Thousands of people have been evacuated as the high winds from Hurricane Dora fueled those fires. Thousands are without power as the governor issues an emergency proclamation. Amanda quintana spoke with people at the airport heading out this morning. One couple said theyre not sure if their home will still be there when they land. The house burned down. We have nothing. We have a two cars. Thats it. And what we have right here, chemo and stuff. Kirkman were vacationing in the bay area when they heard about the fires in their hometown of lahaina. Fred street. Alina luna we live right up a line and we have a house and our dog are stuck in the house. We dont know if our house is up or we dont know if our animals are alive or not. So were heading back now. All they know is what theyve seen on the news video showing massive flames taking over the popular tourist town, home to about 13,000 people. They say their house is in the middle of all of this smoke. Its never going to be the same. No apartments and stores have burned down multiple burn patients have been flown to honolulu hospital, at least one in critical condition. And the coast guard says they had to rescue a dozen people who jumped into the water to escape the flames. 911. And phone service is also down. The lahaina fire is just one of the wildfire burning. This drone video shows the intense wall of flames from fires in kihei. There are also brush fires on the big island while most things can be replaced, it gets pictures of everything. Yeah everything about it. Even have any pictures of my kids growing up. The kirkmans main worry is about their dogs. Nori and bruno. Thats our babies, right there. Their daughter just couldnt get into the town to rescue them. We told her to turn around, get out of there, or go by the ocean. So you can jump in. Keeps the car good job for the Hawaii Department of transportation is asking people not to visit maui in order to keep roads open for emergency responders. But wednesday morning, bay area families were on their way for summer vacation. Well figure it out. Were just going to rally some unaware of the fires. People who live there are okay. I feel like if were staying in like a very populated and like dense, populated area, i feel like were most likely going to be safe even if its without power. Others simply not worried. Not much. We can do about it. So i think if theres a serious concern, we can always head back out, go to a different island. Therell be a potential to get somewhere safer if we need to. But hopefully that doesnt happen and it doesnt come to that. Two flights took off for kahului this morning. Theres another one scheduled later today. But the department of transportation is trying to urge visitors to stay away from maui in oakland, Amanda Quintana ktvu fox two news, california senator Dianne Feinstein was briefly hospitalized after she fell yesterday at her home in San Francisco. Her spokesperson says her hospital scans were quote, clear and she went back home shortly afterward. Senator feinstein, who is 90 years old, has had several Health Issues this year. She was absent from the senate for nearly three months when she had shingles. Feinstein announced in february that she will not seek reelection next year, but intends to serve out the remainder of her term. Well, a three alarm fire in San Franciscos inner sunset neighborhood badly damaged three buildings. One is a long standing family run business. Ctvs baylee ocarroll spoke with the owner of that business about their next steps and what the community can do to help. I was looking forward to going to work today. Its be quite honest. This sucks. Like that. Like, randy blair coowns progress hardware with his father. The hardware shop has been a staple on irving road for 75 years. Weve been here longer than the San Francisco giants. But everything changed when flames tore through the decades old shop just after 8 00 last night. Theres a lot of smoke, a lot of smoke damage. But the back room is just gone, he said they hope to be able to reopen in 12 to 18 months. In the meantime, hes unsure what their next steps are, but says hes thinking about their employees. Its gonna be tough. Yeah, a lot of decisions to be made. So for this to happen now, its just kind of like its a hiccup. Its a big hiccup, but well get through it. Those who live nearby, like longtime inner sunset resident greg doers, say theyre already missing progress. Yes, i would say to everyone, if you want to help progress hardware, the way you help it is when they come back, you shop there because they have everything you need and theyre right here and right now. The fire also tore through an Apartment Building around the corner that he called home for years. It has some issues. I hope those issues get resolved. Im sure there are good people of good faith that are going to do something about it, he says. Unfortunately he wasnt surprised to hear about the fire. The red cross was on scene and said seven of the 24 units in the building were badly damaged. The cause of this fire is still under investigation. Thankfully, though, some good news. No injuries to report in this fire. Reporting in San Francisco, im bailey ocarroll, ktvu fox two news. Vallejo police will hold another town hall at the end of this month to explain why officers may not be able to respond to some 911 calls. Police held a Public Meeting last night. Now, if the Vallejo Police department was fully staffed, it would have 132 sworn officers. But it is far short of that number. The department has 50 vacancies right now. There are only 30 officers in the Patrol Division for the entire city. Police say they will not be able to respond to every home alarm call. Only those that are verified. Residents say the Staffing Shortage makes them feel very unsafe. I have two neighbors who had home invasions and were on the phone with 911, and were told no one was coming. Concerned about hearing that, put it out in the streets because that was criminal criminals like, oh, its open season and little mouth. Police say theyve received more than 10,000 alarm calls in the past two years. 98 of them turn out to be false alarms. The chief says each call requires 2 to 4 officers to respond, and that wastes valuable resources. We just dont have the ability to respond to everything. So we have to figure out how to respond a little more smartly. Verified calls are defined as those coming from witnesses manually activated panic alarms, silent robbery alarms and video alerts that show a crime in progress. New at noon, as kids prepare to return to school in the south bay, a new effort is underway to get drivers to slow down the valley. Transit authority this morning announced a county Wide Campaign called slow down, keep families safe. San jose mayor matt marin and other vta Board Members gathered near Homestead High School in cupertino for the vta announcement. The Campaign Includes multilingual signs, billboards and other measures with strongly worded reminders to get drivers to slow down. This is really about behavior change, whether its changing the built environment or its doing more enforcement or its just educating people at the end of the day, we just need to raise that awareness and get people to realize that every time they get behind the wheel, we make choices conscious or unconscious about how safe were going to be. The campaign is similar to san joses vision zero effort to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries. But on a countywide level. Well, School Starts tomorrow in the San Jose Unified School district, and a lot of students there will have backpacks and school supplies. San jose firefighters this morning distributed new backpacks full of supplies to kids at washington elementary. This is the third year firefighters have supported students at the school. All the backpacks were purchased by san jose firefighters and donated for the giveaway. Each has a firefighter logo on it. The firefighters say the event also inspires Young Children to want to be firefighters. Kids look up to firefighters and i know were role models to them and maybe we can inspire them one day to be a firefighter. Two in their community and help out the community they grew up in the school year. Firefighters are donating 1000 backpacks to kids in need in san jose. Well, a Record Number of freshmen have been admitted to schools within the university of california system. The nine undergraduate campuses accepted more than 157,000 students this year. Among them, 88,000 students from california. Thats a new record. The u. S. System also set a record for the number of underrepresented students in the systems history. Latino students made up the Largest Group of california residents admitted at 38. All right. So just one ticket won. The record breaking Mega Millions jackpot of 1. 5 billion. And that very lucky winner is in florida that Winning Ticket was sold at a Publix Grocery store in neptune beach, located about 16 miles east of jacksonville. The lump sum for the jackpot is more than 757 million. And there was one ticket that matched five of the numbers, minus the mega number in california that was sold in the city of hilmar, which is just south of turlock in merced county. Concerns about gun violence in oakland, what were learning about two separate shootings in the city yesterday, and the newsletter from mayor shengtao about possible ways to address crime. Plus a secret memo is revealing more details about the trump teams plan to overturn the 2020 election results. Im Madeleine Rivera in washington with more on that document. As former President Trump fights the charges and at bay area, whether the cloud the cloud cover from this morning trying to clear back to near the coastline. We get a break from the heat today and well have more on your forec t co ng troubles mount. Hesied a 350,000 fine on the company for a delay in complying. Madeleine rivera has the latest developments from washington. You know, every time you get indicted, i like to check the polls because one more indictment that i think this election is over. One more former President Trump cracking a joke about his legal problems, even as they become more serious a Court Protective order may come as early as friday in the special counsels january 6th case, trumps team is proposing less restrictive rules than what federal prosecutors want over what details can be publiclyivat america can scrutinize the actions of the judiciary. And just because the target here is donald trump doesnt mean we should upend due procehe New York Times reports a secret memo lays out the plan to submit a false slate of pro trump electors. In the document, lawyer kenneth chisora admitted he was proposing a bold, controversial strategy that the Supreme Court would likely reject in the end, some republicans believe trumps criminal charges threaten his electability and could ultimately cost him the republican president ial nomination for an incumbent republican president to only be getting low 40 or high, 30 in a place like new hampshire, that means 60 of the people dont want them. Trumps campaign is moving full steam ahead. Hell be at the iowa state fair this weekend, but its unclear if hell attend the first republican primary debate two weeks from now in washington. Rivera ktvu fox two news new noon. Political leaders from california and nevada are once again stressing the need for urgent action to deal with the impact of climate change. California senator alex padilla. Representative nancy pelosi and nevada governor joe lombardo are attending this years lake tahoe summit. It attracts tribal and political leaders from both states, as well as federal officials. This is the 27th annual summit, and this year its highlighting lake tahoes future and its environmental improvement program. But i think its important for you to hear some very important points today on behalf of the state of nevada to include the state of california, because because this is all about partnership, right . Its about bipartisan partnership. And thats the complete intent of what were trying to achieve to ensure that we maintain tahoe into the future for todays generation and future generations. This years keynote address was given by former House Speaker nancy pelosi. She talked about combating the Climate Crisis and efforts to save and preserve lake tahoe, which she calls the jewel of the sierra. Well, from the blue waters of lake tahoe to the blue skies here behind us at the oakland estuary, mark tamayo has a look at the forecast washington during heat waves. Te elderly also trying to deal with those rising costs. Advocates groups say some seniors dont have enough money to spend and the extreme heat is forcing them to make tough decisions about what they buy. Seniors sometimes on a very fixed income, have to decide, am i going to go buy groceries or get this medication , or am i going to be able to pay for these Household Expenses and still no relief in sight. Forecasts are expecting high temperatures across much of the south for all of this month. Its the latest from dallas. Casey stegall, ktvu fox two news meteorologist mark tamayo is here at mark the map behind you really tells the tale here of just how hot it is and where the intensity of the heat is happening right now. Yeah, thats right. Andre no cool colors on this map, right . Were not showing you any dark blues or anything like that. That me show you in the wintertime. Take a look at the current numbers across the country right now. Its 101in dallas. 102 in phenix, lots of heat focused. If you heard that Previous Story in the south as you head up to the north, not as hot, but still, it is a fairly warm, as you can see. Well, chicagos actually okay. 78 degrees in new york. New york city right now is checking in 86. Now, here in the bay area, we had some heat a few days ago, but temperatures cooled off quite a bit to yesterday. And were kind of settling within this range for today, tomorrow and even into your friday before we eventually warm things to back up by that time frame. Showing you this a satellite. As we check out the low clouds and fog that were over the coast and over the bay earlier this morning, now trying to clear out just offshore. As you can see, we still have some lingering patches closer to pillar point, right around half moon bay, right around the Marin Headlands. Closer to Stinson Beach as well. But we are seeing increasing sunshine this afternoon for your wednesday. Take a look at the current numbers. Statewide South Lake Tahoe is a pleasant 74 bakersfield in the 80s and san diego and los angeles close to 80 degrees. Take a look at our current numbers out there. Its actually looking okay. So the cooldown that really kicked in yesterday, were kind of settling in that comfortable range right now. San francisco, 69, santa rosa in the upper 60s and some 70s for concord, livermore and in san jose. Heres a live camera looking out above San Francisco where you can see some blue sky up above. We had some cloud cover this morning trying to clear back to it near the coastline. So heres whats happening in this area of High Pressure. Is backing out of the picture. So were not talking about any major heat. In fact, we get a break from the heat as this guy settles in from the north. We have the remnants of what was once Tropical Storm eugene. Were watching out for this as this this linked up the moisture kind of links up with the upper level pattern to bring in some high clouds with tropical moisture for thursday and friday. A few high clouds. It could feel a bit humid around here and the possibility of some showers to the south of the bay area and also out to the east fl probably just pick up a few high clouds. We definitely have to keep an eye on the radar to see if any of that activity approaches the region. From the south. Here we are this afternoon where we could have some patchy cloud cover near portions of the coastline for your wednesday and then into your thursday could see a big batch of high clouds kind of moving in from the south and then once again into your friday. So friday we could have some maybe mostly cloudy skies with some lower clouds and then some higher clouds as well. For today, though, well bump up the sunshine once again. Still some patchy overcast near portions of the shoreline. No major heat, no heat advisories, no triple digits, not much in the way of 90s. Were just thinking some 60s, some 70s and some 80s. This afternoon. And if you like today, i think youll like the forecast coming up for your thursday. No big changes headed our way for thursday and a friday, although it could be a bit humid around here. Looks pretty good into saturday to start off the weekend. We will bump up those numbers on sunday. Warmest locations could be back up to the 90s and if we were to extend that into next week, maybe the inland neighborhoods back up into the mid to upper 90s. So if youre not a fan of the heat, make the most of today and tomorrow because were looking okay and if youre inland make sure you get to a poo