All together. Reporter two zones outlined. A list of banned weapons are circulating. We are going to be closing the parking lots on the south end of the bridge and all visitor amenities on saturday. Reporter that includes the welcome center. First time that we have closed the visiting center. Reporter politicians have raised concerns about the potential for violent clashes. The Park Services says they are coordinated with other agencies. Actually we dont want to do battle on land with these people. I want to protest peacefully and ruin their photo op. Reporter we are being told today that protesters and counter demonstrators will enter at separate areas. Reporting from San Francisco. Christie smith nbc area news. Federal agencies and sfo Police Department will be keeping a close eyes. And the Public Defenders Office will be on patrol making sure the Police Officers are not violating any civil liberties. They will be wearing safety vest. Berkeley protesters got a formal message from the city today. Dont come to berkeley. This is a formal letter. Organizers say they are going to be there with or without the permit. Jodi hernandez is there. This doesnt have a good track record either. Reporter police are gearing up for this event as you mentioned. The city of berkeley has denied the groups permit. And they will not be allowed to gather here on sunday. The city manager said the group failed to provide an explanation of security arrangements. And didnt provide photo of event organizers and didnt submit applications at the deadline. You have to fight for where you stand. Reporter berkeley city halls this morning to blast the handling of the rightwing rally. What i say to the city governments that are allowing them to come, do everything in your power to stop them. We are going to chase these people out of the east bay so they stay away. Reporter the mayor says he has made it clear the Group Planning the rally is not welcome. He says the city is prepared. We are going to facilitate a peaceful First Amendment event. So whether you are altright or antiffa. Reporter a similar rally led to violence. They say they will have a Large Police Presence and will confiscate items that could be used as weapons if they dont relinquish those items, it is a citable arrestable offense. Reporter they dont expect those that they will be rallying against to do the same. They are going to be bring weapons, we are going to bring posters. Reporter again, the city has denied the permits for the group to gather here on sunday. But the city acknowledges they cannot stop them. We are expected to get more details on how police plan to keep folks safe tomorrow. Reporting live in berkeley, i am Jodi Hernandez nbc bay area news. Thank you. We will continue to follow these rallies on air and online. The san jose Police Department wants a new look. Making a big push for attract more officers from the Lgbtq Community aa community. Reporter no way of knowing how many current officers on the force are lgbtq. This aims to change that and to lure officers of all kinds. It takes hard work and dedication. Reporter the first of three promotional videos show the heterosexual family. A second similar vehicle shows a lesbian showing the same and the third, shows a gay couple saying good for the day. San joses police chief hopes the video and ads to encourage people from the lgbtq to consider wearing the badge. Once you qualify in the general aspect of being a Law Enforcement officer. I need you to have a willingness to serve and a willingness to sacrifice with your fellow officers. I think it is brilliant. Why wouldnt you want somebody who is qualified to protect your neighborhood if there is particular crime. And why should you care whether that person is straight or gay. Officer James Gonzales is featured in the video. Officer gonzalez and the chief will be out this weekend in this patrol car looking for a few good men and women who might want to wear the uniform. Supervisor yager hopes it will help. And helping those on the force now to come out. Thank you. In the east bay now, he says he meant no harm but it did concern a lot of people in this town. A pickup truck was spotted through san lee andro. You can see it here with a noose. He said he understood it could be offensive and he took the noose down. Groups rallied outside the jail they say they are upset the Sheriffs Department wants to arm deputies with tasers. The tasers will promote a violent culture. They didnt take a taeser to take michael tie reezs life. To take another tool to empower individuals with current policies that are already in place, i dont see why a policy to be made in order to get tasers would fix anything. The three Correctional Officers are found guilty of murder this past june. The students made their voices heard, and School Leaders are using. San Jose State University is cancelling another class scheduled to be taught by a controversial professor. This centers around Sexual Harassment allegations. Reporter students were able to get rid of a professor they didnt want, but they also lost classes that many need. Selena sassina and valerie lamb were two graduating students who announced they would drop classes rather than have this professor lead them. As we reported last night, the college took one class away from him. And today it took the remaining one. As a female student i am relieved at this point to hear those classes are out of his hands. Reporter the problem the replacement classes being offered are either not the ones being needed or dont fit in the schedule. What we are seeing today is that the professor will not be teaching these two courses. He will remain part of the department for now but there is an ongoing discussion. Reporter the college says it is looking to reorganize the entire department. Of course they conveniently leave out they are the ones that destroyed all the kinds of things like services, advisement and arrangement and so forth. Reporter the two students we talked to were a part of the group that met with police today. And they say that the meeting we want well and expect things to go smoothly. And also indicates that the controversy on campus isnt over yet. We just want to let you know that robert did break this story on twitter this morning. You can follow him at rhanda nbc bay area. The animal that u. S. Agents seized at the california border. Plus. I walk this block. A daring and random attack puts a San Francisco neighborhood on edge. And the hunt for that guy in the video. I am meteorologist jeff ranieri. Brilliant blue skies in la fayette. Plus Hurricane Harvey moving closer to texas. Active investigation to find out why . A woman attacked in the middle of the day and not an active investigation to find out why. What you are looking at is Surveillance Video from a day care video. Shows a man blind siding and attacking a woman in San Franciscos portal district. Sam brock has been speaking to women. Reporter without warning, this man grabs this woman and whips her to the ground. The audacity of the man to push her down and come back and hit her. Rose orrana is reacting a second round where the man comes back. I walk this block all the time. It seems like you cant walk by yourself. Reporter San Francisco police are pursuing leads. No word yet on the suspects they are trying to track down. It happened in the district of a heavily asian community. Hillary ronnen who represented this district. Asians are disproportionately impacted by the crime. The victim is a woman. This woman, page, has lived in the neighborhood for years. She says she was always recently victimized by attack. So she changed her mind set. At that point, i said i am going to take uber if it is going to be late or have a stun gun and a mace. Reporter to protect yourself . Yeah. Reporter now supervisor ronnens chief of staff say there has already been an event. They will have another one to talk specifically about this attack. Dumped from the white house and he could end up in berkeley. Former chief strategist steve bannon might pay a visit to berkeley. The plans to bring in milo yiannopoulos, ann coulter and steve bannon next month. Coulters appearance was also canceled. A meeting to possibly change the name of a popular place in San Francisco. Justin herman plaza. He says justin oversaw slum clearance projects. Supervisor peskin wants the name to be changed changed embarcade. The driver bought this cub for 300 in mexico. That man is set to appear in two weeks and the cub is headed to the san diego zoo. Lets bring in jeff ranieri. The fog is going to move away from the coastline with increasing temperatures for San Francisco. Micro climate forecast tonight on this thursday evening. A lot less in the way of fog and low clouds throughout here in the east bay hills. We will see low clouds returning. Still a cool 63. And dropping down to the 50s once we hit the Early Morning hours for tomorrow. We are more of a patchy fog situation for the interior valleys. By the afternoon, everyone should be under partly cloudy to mostly sunny clouds. 93 in concord is my warmest. Comfortable in napa at 86. Poo palo alto at 81. Okay. Lets get you into the extended forecast. Next sevendays starting to see things heat up a lot for the interior valleys. 97 in saturdays. And 99 on sunday. At least, no 100s at this point. Getting back to the weekend, a super popular event is going to be in oakland. The china town street festival both saturday and sunday. Upper 70s to low 80s. 10 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. San francisco giant race ends at at t park. Finish off these events in low 70s. Tracking the hurricane heading towards texas. See you shortly. Thank you, jeff. I am scott budman. Lots of devices and lots of books. A first look inside amazons new physical Silicon Valley store. Crackdown. The Transit Agency says they issued three citations today happening now, bart announced more citation. The Transit Agency said it issued three citations today. On twitter sears says it is having more stores. Sales continue to decline. Struggling against competition with walmart and amazon. Book store oepned in san jose today a lot of hype to buy books the Old Fashioned way. Amazon going ret tloe. A real life bookstore opened in san jose. A lot of hype. Books. You go in and you get them. Not online. Will this all work . Scott budman there. What is the real story, do you know . Reporter here is the goal. If amazon can sell books at a physical store, it is likely they can sell physical things in stores like groceries. Thanks largely to amazon, physical bookstores are almost as rare as a woolly mammoth. A a few minutes here, she was sold. A lot of people still love the book. Reporter amazon moved into santana row as something of an online brick and mortar hybrid. There are real books here which you can physically buy at a checkout counter or scanning with your smartphone. It is great being able to hold a book. When you give them a present, you dont get, oh, you get this download. Reporter how do you respond to someone who says it is ironic that amazon has a physical bookstore. It is not ironic at all. We love books. Reporter another bookstore in town, so pull up a chair. I like to have something in my hand to touch and feel and read. This is wonderful. Reporter we asked a couple of Small Businesses of what they thought of amazon coming to town. They say they welcome them because of all the extra foot traffic. They plan to open another store in walnut creek by the end of the year. Thank you, scott. We rarely say this, whole foods is reducing their prices or so they say. Amazon says it will immediately lower prices at whole foods and integrate its famous prime service. And a spokesperson says it has no plans for layoffs at whole foods or use automation to replace cashiers. Shots fired and hostages taken at a South Carolina restaurant. How it ended and the gunmans potential motive. Why the white house insists everything is okay. Even though the president launches a new attack on some top names in the party. White house. The president via twitter lashing out at top republcians right now 6 30, business as usual at the white house. The president via twitter lashing out. Our janelle wang joins us now with the growing tension. The president taking to social media calling out republicans by name escalating this feud within the gop. The president even taking it up a notch threatening a government takedown if he doesnt get his way. In a political war of will and words President Trump firing shots against his own party. Two top republicans. Writing they didnt do it. Could have been so easy. Now a mess. This, after another swipe at mcconnel after health care. The relationships are fine. There is going to be policy differences but also a lot of shored goals and that is what we are focusing on. Reporter threatening a Government Shutdown if funding is not approved for the border wall. And we are committed to making sure the American People are protected. Reporter today, the gop leaders eager to show a united front. This administration and this congress is interested in getting america growing again. For me, it is important for the president to succeed. If he succeeds, the country succeeds. Reporter facing a full plate including debt ceiling, tackle tax reform, some in the party question his tactics. Why having this conversation fighting with Republican Leaders who are trying to move his agenda items. Reporter an internal battle. Trump supporters sticking with the president. A new poll says is that President Trump has a higher Approval Rating than congress. The monuments will stay, at least, for now. President trump wants the department of interior to reduce or eliminating 27 monuments wide. Some could be made smaller. Part of that review, you can see them there on the map. Parts of which are napa county. Recommendations after the 120day review goes to President Trump for final ruling. The white house is prepared to enforce the president s military transgender band. Those recommendations include barring the recruitment of transgender people and cutting off transgender medical treatment for people already serving. Coverage of the Trump Presidency continues online. We devoted an entire section, go to nbcbayarea. Com for the latest news. A gunman storms into a restaurant and takes people hostage. A disgruntled employee went into the restaurant in charleston. A small number of them held them for three hours. Shot and killing a chef. Police then shot him. This is not an act of terrorist, it is not a hate crime. It is a disgruntled employee. Thankfully none of the hostages were injured. An important ruling over Death Penalty in california. Having a five year period for appeals to be heard. Justices say that five year period cannot be made mandatory. Nearly 750 inmates on death row in california. Dueling rallies outside the San Francisco hall of justice over a judges ruling in an abortion case. Accused of secret filming people without the consent. The judge ruled videos violated state privacy laws. The two activist who made the videos are being unfairly pun nished. Planned parenthood has power which is why they are facing the charges they are. New at 6 00, celebrating a milestone for womens right. Marking womens equality day. Five people were given the wonder woman award for their work addressing the needs of women and girls in our community. The keynote speaker a Foundation Executive and activist who was held as a political prisoner in argentina in the 1970s. Starting at our county and every single city within it. And we are proud that we have strong support. Also making the 90 seventh anniversary. That nasty brawl that took place at the fremont banquet hall. Back in may, San Jose Mercury news is reporting that a lawsuit has been filed against the owners of the royal palace. Claims the business deliberately under staffed its Security Force in order to save money. A stabbing at a popular San Francisco park. A group of men tried to rob another man and take his bicycle all at del del lor res park. Now since that shooting, San Francisco police have upped foot patrols. Hopefully you werent stuck in this. A bit of a back up this morning. A tractor hit a gas line at a construction site. Shut down vta service. Pg e says the gas leak was capped about an hour later. We have learned that a motion has been filed to sell the rights of the contest. Currently organizer is bankrupt. Hoping to sell the contest and the events permit. The window for mavericks opens. A multimillionairover night. As i am driving here, i am thinking this cant be true. She is the sole winner. Chose all the winning numbers herself. Based off her familys birthdays and lucky numbers. She has chosen the lump sum. She has already notified her boss she is not going back to work. One ticket came from a gas station in milpitas and another from daly city. Every second matters when it comes to this car wash. How a bay area man found out the hard way. A big change for Family Friendly event in the south bay. Begi