other vita employees. a little more than a year ago. former vita employee sam cassidy killed nine coworkers before taking his own life at the light rail yard on north first street at younger records show, cassidy fumed his hatred for vita for months before investigators say his emotions lead to deadly actions . lost room was not immediately fired for creating the perception of an unsafe work environment but is on paid leave in this day and age, and this is time. any comments that are relating to any tendra violence , whether it be at a school of workplace of church. all of these things have to be taken into serious reflection upon being saying about the statement , vita general manager carolyn bennett says it is unacceptable for any vita employee to make violent threats against this agency. and such behavior will not be tolerated is following the required administrative procedure to deal with the june 17th incident and a decision on mr lost employment status will be made following a disciplinary hearing. on a go fund me page lost from denies making the violent threats and is raising funds for his legal defense, the number of his coworkers or other people in that organization would be would be somewhat apprehensive to his returning to the workplace. washroom says stress over the hearing contributed to his actions. he admits the equip about being on the news was wrong, but he says he never mentioned anything about a gun. he is charged with making criminal threats will be back here at the courthouse august 29th. he is free on bail , but he's wearing an ankle monitoring device, and the sheriff's office has seized all of his weapons. outside the hall of justice here in san jose. just a gary ktvu fox two news went back to you, jesse, like the gentleman in your story said you can never be too careful this day and age. right? thank you. governor newsom has signed a new law that holds gunmakers liable for gun violence. this law allows state local government and californians to sue gunmakers. it was co authored by san francisco assembly member phil ting. the legislation allows lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers of firearms for the harm that is caused by their products, governor newsom says with the new legislation, quote the gun industry can no longer hide from the devastating harm their products cause attorney general rob bonta issued a statement about the new gun law that says in part quote there is no reason that the gun industry should be the only industry exempt from responsibility for the harm that its products cause, especially when it's products are responsible for the deaths of thousands of americans each year in california, we refused to settle with thoughts and prayers as innocent lives are lost, we demand and will deliver urgent action now. police in santa clara released new details today about an incident early this morning in the emergency room at the santa clara kaiser hospital, police say just before five am a suicidal patient told staff he wanted to die committing suicide by cop. police were called. they secured the area put the emergency department on lockdown and called in crisis negotiators. did you notice any everything was calm and everything was routine. now that's very scary with what's everything with what everything's going on these days every day, there's a couple of mass shootings that sounds like that negotiator managed to calm the patient who surrendered peacefully. that person is now receiving mental health services . police later determined the gun the patient had was a realistic looking replica. the er was reopened by seven a.m. san francisco's new district attorney, brooke jenkins, toured the city's tenderloin neighborhood today, getting a firsthand view of open air, drug dealing and drug use. she's been on the job now for two full days , and jenkins says she's already reviewing cases and that her office will prosecute drug offenses. ktvu christian captain . joining us now live and you joined the d a. on her tour today of the tenderloin. and what is she promising christian? yeah the d a is already saying that her office is working to hold lawbreakers accountable. she says that her office is currently reviewing plea agreements that are currently in the works to make sure that they're still appropriate. tuesday morning, san francisco's new district attorney, brooke jenkins, walked through the city's tenderloin to see for herself drug deals and use in the streets. she says her pledge to take action to stop open air drug sales and use is already underway for office now reviewing plea deals that have been offered, but not yet accepted on drug cases to see if those deals should still be on the table. i am aware of the data that only three offenders were required to plead to drug sales charges in the year. 2021 i am committed to making sure that we restore accountability with respect to drug dealing in san francisco. the d, a. also saying her office will work on rebuilding relationships with law enforcement agencies as part of a broader effort to combat drug sales and use working with the other agencies that are going to be necessary to solve this problem right to start working with sfpd with their narcotics unit with the tenderloin unit with the u. s attorney's office. randy shaw from the tenderloin housing clinic, led the district attorney on her tour and said for too long, the city has allowed the tenderloin to descend into squalor as long as it was contained. he says he hopes jenkins will take the steps needed to clean up the tl. we need a police district attorney who will prosecute drug dealers. these dealers know if they get arrested, they're going away. they're not coming back on the street. the next day, we need to be recognized. we need to be part of this we affected were down here every day 18 hours a day, seven days a week. del seymour says he's frustrated, he says he runs three businesses in the tenderloin. and so far, he says, he's reserved his judgment on whether the new district attorney will help the area will see politics gets involved with ah, situation until politics should never be part of treatment of the tenderloin, but it tends to always get there. some residents in the tenderloin say they hope the new district attorney will pursue medical interventions for drug users in the area rather than jail. people who are using still are using still come out, you know it's addiction is a disease they have to address the disease. as for how this new d a says she'll know if she's succeeding, she says success in this case cannot be measured with convictions or jail sentences. she said she will look to the community to tell her if they are seeing positive changes. we're live in san francisco christien kafton ktvu fox studios will wait to see if this shifting approach works in the tenderloin and across the city, christian. thank you. opioid makers, allergen and teva have agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle a federal lawsuit brought by the city of san francisco. under the settlement announced today, the drug makers will pay san francisco $34 million in cash and provide $20 million worth of narcan, according to city attorney david chiu. the drug industry fueled an overdose and addiction surge in san francisco that created a public nuisance. the san francisco case is one of only a handful against companies over the opioid epidemic that have gone to trial. new details. now investigators in contra costa county say a teenager suspected in an armed robbery at a grocery store parking lot is linked to another similar crime. 18 year old leon fountain of anti r pleaded not guilty to charges of armed robbery outside the trader joe's store in danville on july 1st. prosecutors say fountain also entered a not guilty plea to a robbery just one week prior in walnut creek, they say fountain and a minor used an illegal ar 15 style rifle and other guns to steal people's rolex watches. san francisco leaders today called on the federal government to provide more monkey pox vaccine, saying there needs to be more aggressive campaign against the disease views henry lee joining us now, with the latest on this effort, henry alex. san francisco officials say the u. s response to monkey pox so far has been abysmal. they say they're ready to administer the vaccine. they just need more of it. this is abysmal. the hissing is appropriate. san francisco supervisor rafael mandel man who was gay, stood outside city hall , saying the monkey pox vaccine supply is sorely lacking. he called on the feds to take action against the virus that is disproportionately affecting gay men and bisexual men and trans folks in san francisco and across the united states. are once again being failed by our public health institutions, says san francisco was on the forefront and tackling covid. now the city wants the battle monkeypox suggests as aggressively unlike covid-19, monkeypox does not seem to spread effectively through respiratory droplets. yet here we are, with cases rising vaccines sparse well. monkey pox is not as transmissible as covid . nor is potentially deadly. thank goodness monkeypox can be serious doctor grant colfax, the city's top public health official says it's not clear why the cdc and health and human services seem to be dragging their feet. we are literally begging our federal partners to provide more vaccine so we can get it into the arms of people who need it most the city has received about 2900 monkey pox vaccines from the state, most of them this week. the city wants 35,000 vaccines from the state and more from the feds. these small and inadequate allocations of vaccine make it nearly impossible to beat the curve of new infections. the virus primarily spreads through direct contact with infected sores, scabs, body fluids and sexual activity because this crisis affects the lgbtq, plus community, our community the community that last so many during the aids aids epidemic in the eighties and nineties. they're now about 136 confirmed . monkey cox monkeypox cases in california with about 40% of those in san francisco live in the newsroom. henry lee ktvu fox studios, henry. thank you. san francisco's aids foundation will hold a virtual monkeypox town hall later tonight. this will include key information about the virus, its impact on the community, and, of course, questions will be welcomed. that online event gets underway at six o'clock tonight. in contra costa county that public health officials there have confirmed the first case of monkeypox. they did that earlier today and in santa clara county . we know that public health officials say the number of probable cases of monkeypox is now up to nine. last week that county reported to probable cases. county health officials say they're working with local medical providers to increase their awareness of the symptoms of monkeypox, how to prevent transmission and appropriate reporting to state and local health authorities. we have some breaking news right now to tell you about adam plaster county, the sheriff's office is on the scene of a fatal head on crash. it happened on four still road and portofino drive. the chp says a man died at the scene. he was the only occupant of his car . a woman and three children between the ages of 10 and 15 were in the second car involved . authorities say they all suffered moderate injuries and were taken to area hospitals. this really suggest that the state is denying people who should be getting rental assistance, and they need to fix that. a judge orders the state housing department to stop rejecting rent relief applications. new at 5 30 ktvu brooks jarocz looks at what this decision could mean for struggling renters plus president you know, you got everybody riled up. told everybody head on down. so we basically just following when he said the january 6th committee showcasing how they say former president trump used social media as a call out to far right extremist groups. a notable drop in temperatures felt across the bay area this afternoon. we'll check in on your current conditions and show you how long this trend is expected to last coming up. plus an out of this world event more than 30 years in the making. nasa releases powerful new images, giving us a clearer picture o check out this time space wormhole i creat how's it work? let me see your togo, and i'll show you. 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it's attorneys rudy giuliani and sidney powell pushed the president to continue what the committee calls the big lie. and she says, well, the judges are corrupt and i was like everyone , every single case that you've done in the country you guys lost. every one of them is corrupt. even the ones we appointed hours after the meeting president trump tweeted that it was quote statistically impossible for him to have lost adding big protest in dc on january 6th be there will be wild. they called that his siren called to extremists. donald trump's 1 42 am tweet electrified and galvanized his supporters. the committee heard directly from one of the protesters. so why did you decide to march to the capital? basically the president. you know, you got everybody riled up. told everybody head on down. so we basically just following when he said former president trump has denied all wrongdoing . the committee is expected to hold at least one more public hearing in washington. lauren blanchard, fox news yosemite fire and aviation management announced today. nearly 650 firefighters are now battling the washburn fire that wildfire has grown to more than 3200 acres and remains 22% contained tonight. this evening. teams are fighting to save some of the biggest trees in america. fox news giovanni luigi joins us now live with an update on the firefight. giovanni. how are things looking? julie what? i can tell you that these hot temperatures are making it difficult for firefighters to actually fight this fire, smoke flaring up right behind me. it's a much different scene compared to a few hours ago when the smoke started to die down a little bit started to pick up in the past few hours, but firefighters are trying to protect the sequoia grove. hundreds of the tallest trees standing here in america. some of them have been standing for hundreds of years. for the fourth day in a row. the washburn fire is getting bigger . it's true through more than 3000 acres of forest filling yosemite national park with smoke more than 500. firefighters are working to keep the flames from torching the sequoia trees. in the past decade, fire officials say close to 20% of them have been burned . national park service's so aggressively fighting this fire, so there's so many resources on this fire is to be able to protect these special places for future generations. so this is one of the areas but the fire burned through and you can see cruiser still working to put some of those burning embers out, and firefighters have also been using a technique to fight fire with fire. buy back burning fire crews were able to gain control over some parts of the fire, and firefighters set up sprinkler systems to protect these giant trees. one thing you do have is you do have we have a multiyear drought here in california. so obviously you've got you have drought, stress trees. you have droughts, just vegetation and those types of things, and so that's always going to be that's always going to cause for wider fire spread and also resistance to suppression. this week temperatures in california making this firefight more difficult. and tonight, hundreds of people remain evacuated and still no word on what possibly caused this fire. but we do know that it was not caused by weather conditions, so fire investigators are still trying to figure out who and how this fire started. truly. giovanni for people who have not been there. yosemite is just an incredible place to visit. can you just explain, clarify if such a massive park are some of the entrance is still open and others closed. yes so the southern insurance is still closed. as of this morning, it's on highway 41. the northern entrance is still open to tourists are still in the park. so if you are planning on going to the park, you're going to want to go through the northern insurance. but smoke could impact your visit. it's all through the area and through the entire park. julie can see it there in the distance. alright, giovanni luigi reporting for us tonight on the washburn fire, giovanni. thank you. pull around the bay area. we have seen a dramatic change in our weather pattern. a low clouds onshore breeze, temperatures falling off by 10 even 20 degrees this afternoon, there is a live look towards the san francisco and the low clouds and the onshore breeze helping us out with relative humidity as it is up this afternoon. here's a view of storm tracker to a little bit of patchy fog out there, although it's tough to see from this vantage point. with the radar beam is too high, so we will continue with the possibility of some drizzle out there this evening and into tomorrow morning and the low clouds along the coastline will be moving back across the bay as we get into the evening hours, and tomorrow morning, i do expect it to be widespread and filled in. here's a look at the onshore breeze right now through fairfield. 25 mph conquered, reporting 12 oakland 18 napa 23 . we're going to continue with this pattern for the next several days, so we don't like to see a whole lot of that wind out there this time of year, but that wind is strong enough that it is really making an impact on our temperatures inland down by 14 degrees right now in livermore down by 16 and conquered. down by nine in santa rosa. meanwhile sfo with some clouds overhead, a little bit warmer than where we were yesterday at this time 64 degrees right now in san francisco, low seventies over novato, inland cities a warm day for you here, but yesterday areas like brentwood. hit 100 degrees, so 90 degrees is a big improvement if you don't like the heat along the east bay shore 70 in oakland and in the south bay right now, 78 over san jose. here's a look at the future cast the low clouds along the coastline as we roll into the evening hours, it moves back across the bay into the north bay. that's nine o'clock there and then into the overnight hours. notice how it fills in. we've got some low cloud cover all the way into the south sacramento central valley area due to that onshore breeze that will be blowing throug