postal service mail carrier carl bracey was the driver. police were looking for a stolen white chevy impala with tented windows. the police officer believed the suspect was armed. bracey was driving a white chevy malibu. >> i never had a gun pulled out on me but to have several guns is devastating to me. >> reporter: san rafael police chief dianna bishop. >> he made a mistake. this kind of mistake is rare, but it happens. >> reporter: the person who reported the vehicle stolen didn't know his license plate. attorney john burris is representing bracey in a lawsuit filed by the police department. he said the officers on dispatch should have found more information who they were looking for before stopping bracey. >> very disturbing. all you really had is a black man in a car. >> reporter: the vehicle's tented windows prevented police from seeing bracey's ethnicity. >> we were three quarters of the way through getting you out of the car, it came out there was stickers on the side and became apparent it probably wasn't a match. i apologize for

claims the police wrongfully detained a black male man back in august that suit that alleges that karl bracey a 21 year veteran of the u.s. post office was on his way home. still in his uniform when he was pulled over by police and ordered out of the car at gunpoint the officers believed that brace he was a suspect of a carjacking and had him detained in caps for several minutes before he was allowed to leave the camera fell police chief has defended the officer's decisiol bracey and since taking a leave from his job and says that he's now under psychiatric care nurse. on the peninsula popular hiking trails in south san francisco are still closed after a 4 alarm fire broke out nearly 2 weeks ago. you may recall back on october 16th, the wildfire raced across sign hill burning part of the famous south san francisco industrial city signed fortunately it caused only minor damage but the city says the trails they need repairs until it's done the area will remain closed off there's no estimate as to when the work is going to finish up. 2 teenagers confessed to starting that fire. >>some good news

attorney john burris is representing bracey in a lawsuit file against the police department. the officers on dispatch should have found more information what they were looking for. >> it's disturbing because all you have is a black man in a car. >> reporter: san rafael's police chief said the tented windows prevented them from seeing ethnicity until he got out of the car. >> when we were three quarters of the way getting you out of the car, there was stickers on the side and probably apparent it. >>> a match. i apologize for the day. >> no problem, man. >> i really think i got out of there is because i had the mailman uniform. i was just another black man trying to go home from work. >> reporter: police chief bishop has also called bracey to apologize. >> i know neither my words or the words of my officers will erase this event or impact on the driver. >> reporter: melanie woodro, abc 7. >> as if you want to help, go to abc7news.com take action to find your ally. >>> sheriffs detectives are waiting on the results of an autopsy to determine how a female inmate died this mornin

by police in august the federal civil rights lawsuit claims that police wrongfully detained karl bracey for being a person suspected of a carjacking will brace he was. he has actually worked for the post office for 21 years and says that he was on his way home in his mail carrier uniform when he was stopped. this lawsuit says that breezy drove a different car than the one described in the carjacking alert in the south bay san jose city leaders partnered with the community to raise black lives matter batters at city hall today. >>mayor sam liccardo was joined by members of the community organization use hype to celebrate the unveiling of the batters, the city hopes they'll be seen as a symbol of civic engagement and an acknowledgment of all the important work that still needs to be done. kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season if you're scoring at home hard to believe just 5 days away now from election day. the presidential candidates are out on the campaign trail in the race to the finish line more than 69 million americans have already voted that's according to

politics it's a bracey reminder to all of us that we have to take those wires seriously biden's events are generally small and strictly adhere to virus control recommendations including mask wearing and distancing in tuesday's debate trump mocked biden for wearing masks and questioned his intelligence because you know what there's nothing smart about now is caution seems to be the smarter approach robert oulds al-jazeera . show is a primary care doctor he says trump's medical team will focus on monitoring his vitals and major organ systems we know that kobe had 19 in particular can attack the kidneys and obviously attacks the lungs it's not clear because this administration historically has been very open about sharing any medical information with regards to the president and they've continued that trend with this current crisis and that we know very little about what he's experience and other than that he has a local great bieber and is experiencing some but he i can tell you that earlier today i watched online his address to the nation in regards to announcing that he has the diagnos

and i prayed that they will make a quick and full recovery this is not a matter of politics it's a bracey reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously so trumps infection marks a devastating blow to his re-election bid u.s. health authorities say people must self isolate for 10 days after a positive test that brings us up to october the 11th but before that in 5 days his vice president mike pence is set to debate his democratic rival tamala harris pence has tested negative it's unclear whether he'll also self isolates president trump who is now in hospital could miss the 2nd presidential debate in 13 days and his 3rd face off with joe biden that's a week later on october 22nd we are of course just $32.00 days out from the big day the election on november 3rd so let's bring in richard goodstein he's joining us from old bridge new jersey he's a democratic political consultant and former bill clinton and al gore adviser thanks very much for your time with us. weigh in for a 2nd on the day's developments and what do you make of everything that's happened . look. this is put

i waved you and i prayed to make a quick recovery this is not politics it's a bracey reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously so what could happen if trump gets to 6 or perform his presidential duties while he could temporarily transfer power to the vice president mike pence under the 25th amendment of the u.s. constitution pen's has tested and they get it for the virus but if he falls ill as well then the baton is passed to nancy pelosi is the senior democrat and she's also speaker of the house of representatives well if trump dies or is too sick to stand in the election the republican party will then need to choose a new nominee but early voting has already started and his name might still stay on the ballots let's talk about this with matthew dickinson he's a professor of political science at middlebury college he's also he also wrote the book better harvest f.d.r. presidential power and the growth of the presidential branches joining us from a firm on thanks for your time with us on al jazeera so obviously the health of the president is most important right

>>wrongfully detained karl bracy for being a person suspected in a carjacking bracey has worked for the post office for 21 years and says he was on his way home in his mail carrier uniform when he was stopped the lawsuit says bracy drove a different car than the one that was described in the carjacking alerts and the south bay, san jose city leaders partnered with the community to raise a black lives matter banner at city hall today. mayor sam liccardo was joined by members of the community organization you type to celebrate the unveiling of the new banners. the city hopes they will be seen as a symbol of civic engagement and to acknowledge all the important work that still needs to be done. market street in downtown san francisco has been closed to private cars since january but there are now new safety concerns about the market street project because of the pandemic the project has a lot less money to make market streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. supervisor matt haney says the changes are notable. >>now just in the last couple weeks they've presented a redesign which chang

before he was allowed to leave the sand with al police department has defended the officer's decision bracey has since taken a leave from his job and says he is now under psychiatric care. time now to check our weather around the bay area our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow has the details all the way through the weekend large certainly another nice day today lot of sunshine around the bay area be enjoying it. >>and this weekend. we've got some changes too in fact usually we start to talk about rain at this time of year not all about the sunshine and just how warm it's going to be tonight though we are starting to see some changes in the atmosphere a little fog beginning to move it along the coastline. some of that is going to push inside the bay. i think it's going to be some of the ethic kind of ghostly fog out they're perfect for this time of year up toward the golden gate bridge right now it is mostly clear at this hour in a little bit later on we'll see some of that fog beginning to move on through but otherwise not a bad night. one thing we've we have that he's in the atmosphere to

year-old postal worker karl braces white malibu and then mistook it for the stolen car officers pull bracey over at gunpoint handcuffed him and searched his car race he has since filed a claim against the city of samara fell. >>a murder suspect is in custody tonight after leading oakland police on an hours long standoff the scene unfolded here to business on high streets about 1130 this morning police say an armed suspect stormed an office building and helped one man hostage. specialty teams were called in including negotiators to try to defuse the situation. the suspect eventually released a hostage and then surrendered after nearly 5 hours police say the suspect is wanted in last week's shooting that killed 2 people. >>to the east bay the homeless population is actually growing in pleasanton it's been the case even before the pandemic the police department it has an outreach team, it's dedicated to try and find long-term solutions are kron four's felipe took off explains. >>environmental concerns recently led the city of pleasanton to remove the homeless encampment beneath an overpass the

and i pray that they will make a quick and full recovery this is not a matter of politics it's a bracey reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously the world health organization steve says he wishes both the u.s. president and the 1st lady a speedy recovery overnight we heard that the president of the united states of america do not and 1st lady milena term tested positive for coffee at 19 i want to start today by wishing them bows a full and swift recovery. with them donald trump is not the 1st world leader to contract the virus brazil's president jr ball sonera tested positive back in july and the british prime minister boris johnson was moved to an intensive care unit in april after contracting corona virus he's tweeted to west trump and his wife a speedy recovery that zimbabwe has more from london. i think we all want to send best wishes to the president and the 1st lady and i've done that this morning as you can imagine and i'm sure that they'll both stage a very strong recovery british prime minister boris johnson was one of the 1st world leaders to send a mess