i was not being obedient. >> reporter: but the prosecution needed more than elissa's story. what rebecca could tell them. >> they said, "we can prove that your sister was raped, but it's your testimony that links warren to the crime because you were in the prophet's family. you were schooled by him, and you understand the training and the culture of this." >> reporter: and so rebecca came to court and saw warren jeffs for the first time since she left short crick. and before she spoke, before she took the oath, she made a statement. not in words. in what she wore. >> we were not allowed to wear the color red growing up. and warren had gone into extensive preaching about how evil and dark and immoral the color red was. so i thought, "hmm, how could i send him a message that he never broke me?" so i chose to wear the color red. >> reporter: rebecca testified how warren jeffs created, condoned and encouraged a culture ripe for abuse. >> he would tell me that under no circumstances do you ever, ever, ever tell your husband no. >> reporter: for two weeks, warren jeffs watched in

i'm elissa harrington ktvu, fox two news. all right, alison, thank you for that, and our team coverage continues right now, with ktvu. meteorologist rosemary oroczo. they're just not letting up out there. the winds still gusting. you're right. and mike claudine? i do expect the winds to become even a little bit stronger through the next few hours before they finally led up the dividers advisory in place at about eight o'clock this evening, giving you a look here and found to north and northeast flow that is set up over the state of california and particularly for us. it's been a windy one. we have had red flag warnings in recent weeks, but this wind event is widespread. take a look at what's happening in napa where the winds are gusting to 32 mph fairfield. the winds are gusting to 37 in concord gusting to 31. so in recent weeks we have seen those winds really develop and push through but has been primarily in our hills. today everybody is feeling it. let's take a look at areas near the central and south bay where the winds a

i'm elissa harrington ktvu, fox two news.an investigation continues in morada into the death of a tree trimmer, who fell off a tree yesterday morning at a home on commuter ricardo right near the morag, a country club, the name of the tree trimmer. has not been released. even the on and off. rain didn't keep students from having outdoor school lunch at beach elementary in piedmont, the school set up tents and the students brought umbrellas to stay dry while eating on the patio. it's all part of safety protocols due to covid, of course. parents say they were notified by the principle that school leaders will be tracking whether data and will consider adjustments to eating outdoors, which could include students eating inside in shifts. i actually prefer them to eat outside, then the idea of getting them inside. i think it's safer. and this morning we got dressed up in more layers, and we put on raincoats just in case it was going to be rainy during lunch. parents got a letter from the principal, urging students to bundle up and

i'm elissa harrington ktvu, fox two news. and it was another busy morning on the road for law enforcement. traffic crashes really added up this morning, including this incident involving a big rig tipped over on the tennison wrote on ramp on northbound 8 80 in hayward. this was one of several dozen crashes on bay area highways and freeways. we saw about three times as many crashes today. as we see on a typical drive friday. you can track the rain right there on your phone when you download the ktvu weather app. will have access to interactive radar and an hour by hour forecast. with thee department found himself targeted by he was at a gas station. surveillance video shows that et one man dead and the captain seriously injured ktvu sally rasmus has an update from oakland police and why the chief says that key piece of video evidence is crucial for the investigation. the surveillance video makes it pretty clear this was a brazen daytime robbery. why the retired police captain was targeted and what exactly led up to? this isn't

ktvu elissa harrington as the story. this was the moment things turned chaotic at the end of thursday night's earthquakes match against mexico's cruz azul of fan rushed the field and took a swing at one of the earthquakes, players. cell phone video showed other team members hold the man back. he was taken off the field and arrested tensions than spilled into the parking lot once said individuals taken into custody and taking away a large group of folks followed. and were upset by the fact that that individual is taken into custody later on. some of those same individuals were seen in parking lot starting to get into all education and fistfights, officer steve aponte with san jose police said. there were already some officers working inside the stadium during the game. dozens more from around the city were called when violence erupted outside. at one point a firearm was discharged. um in that melee, one person was struck with a grazing wound, which is later determined to be non life threatening. two others were taken to t

i'm elissa harrington ktvu, fox two news.no one knew and family members of an oakland man shot and killed by an fbi agent or demanding the release of the agents, name and surveillance video from the scene. a rally was held this morning outside oakland city hall for 31 year old jonathan cortez. he was killed last month outside a store on fruitvale avenue. the fbi says cortez was armed and posed a threat to federal officers who were serving an arrest warrant. the fbi has not said if cortez was the target of the warrant. according to the anti police terror project. fbi agents also showed up at cortez is funeral last week and, in their words harassed mourners. the fbi showed up to the funeral. to intimidate, harass and threaten members of jonathan cortes. it's family. that's right. the fbi after murdering jonathan showed up to the funeral. showed up to the funeral. in an attempt to criminalize this community and provoke a response. the fbi says the shooting is under a thorough and objective investigation by its inspection divisio

elissa slotkin represents the district we are.e said she's for the bipartisan deal, but wasn't sold on the reconciliation deal. she said she wants the final deal to be transformational in terms of its investments in not just infrastructure but also child care and the auto industry, but she also wants it targeted. wants to make sure the middle class is not bearing the burden here. that's exactly what the president is going to be saying in a short time in his public remarks, making the point that this plan that he put forward in the campaign, he ran on, and is now putting forward before the country is making sure the middle class gets a fair shot. >> that's the slightly blurry video that you're looking at now. no offense intend today the cameraman, the pool camera who is shooting that. that's a live picture of president biden who is holding that meeting before he comes out and makes live remarks. mike memoli, as always, enjoy the construction equipment. thank you. we're going to keep an eye on all of this and head back there in a mi

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ktvu elissa harrington shows us cell phone video that shows a man trying to punch one of the players.hursday night's earthquakes match against mexico's cruz azul of fan rushed the field and took a swing at one of the earthquakes, players. cell phone video showed other team members hold the man back. he was taken off the field and arrested tensions than spilled into the parking lot once that individuals taken into custody and taking away a large group of folks followed. and were upset by the fact that that individual is taken into custody later on. some of those same individuals were seen in parking lot starting to get into all indication and fistfights officer steve aponte with san jose police said. there were already some officers working inside the stadium during the game. dozens more from around the city were called when violence erupted outside. at one point a firearm was discharged. um in that melee, one person was struck with a grazing wound, which is later determined to be non life threatening. two others were taken to the hospital of firearm was recovered at the scene. eight p

elissa slotkin is able to get elected.bill and the president is saying that's the way to keep her in office, right? >> yes, and also to get there to prove elements of the agenda are broadly popular with the public. and polls show it, expanding medicare, expanding child care. these are broadly popular issues, i think by going to a centric democrat district proves that point. >> and so many of the conversation up to this point has been focused on messy sausage making. democrats are trying to shift the narrative, talk about what's in the package. they have to do more than just sell it. they have to actually pass it. and pass on so americans can feel the votes and what they're feeling and democrats are learning their lessons from obamacare which want, frankly, popular for years. so democrats are working under that. >> exactly. the white house put out a memo which combines what they hope is in the final agenda if they pass it and the infrastructure bill. just for you here in michigan. $17.3 billion to repair highways in the inf

after stepping off air force one today, he shook hands with congresswoman elissa slotkin, a democrat who narrowly won her seat in a district twice carried by donald trump. the white house is trying to show investing in things like infrastructure have broad support across the country. >> to support these investments is to create a rising america. to oppose these investments is to be complicit in america's decline. >> reporter: jake, this speech was reminiscent of a campaign speech that president biden would have given a year ago here in battleground michigan. but the challenges remain the same. those two senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. president biden, just as he was leaving michigan, he said he's been in new conversations with both of them. he's trying to urge them to say what they like out of this bill and they'll add it up from there. but that top price tag is still too much for either of them to swallow. >> jeff zeleny in michigan, thanks. >>> coming up next, we'll talk to the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan who now admits the war was a strategic failure.

on the democratic side, it's people like elissa slotkin and abbey spanberger and in other places we'reks like evan mcmullen who's running as a center right candidate against mike lee in utah. so that sort of coalition campaigning is what we're trying to do and it did work to beat donald trump and we've got to stick to that model. >> i hope it works, miles. it's worked in other places. i wonder if you can tell me anything about the campaign strategy, how much money you have, political ads, tell me what it looks like. >> yeah, well, look, right now, we're trying to raise a war chest. we're trying to raise a $15 million to $20 million war chest to target towards key congressional races and these are races that i would call tip cases. it's not every race in the country. it's the races that we think can decide majorities in the house and in the senate. now, why is that important or significant for a group of republicans to do? because what we're saying is kevin mccarthy should not be the speaker of the house of representatives. if he is, it will become a haunted house, and that's one of the

ktvu elissa harrington tells us more. this was the scene along, bollinger, kenyon wrote in san ramon, a motorhome on its side, shutting down lanes of traffic in front of city hall. the