let's get to joe vazquez at the golden gate bridge for us. >>> right now, it is traffic as normal. actually, you can see them moving pretty quickly here and i say normal, this is normal for the covid era but we are watching for the possibility of a traffic slow down. that is the plan being put in place by some bay area protesters. they took the social media today to encourage people to pick a bridge at 5:00 and then drive very slowly. so that means not just the golden gate bridge here, but also, possibly the bay bridge ad the dumbarton bridge could become major traffic jams between five and 7:00. here at the golden gate bridge, let me show you this. one of the lanes is partially blocked. it is called off by the chp, to use as an emergency lane. are they doing this protest? to say they are content to the breanna taylor decision. there upset the police officers are not held more accountable and it is one of several protest being held today here in the bay area. >> we are the ones that are being evicted. we cannot make a living wage, being left to languish as whites premise he wages w

. >> kpix 5's joe vazquez spoke to the leader of that church who says the drugs are part of the religious >> reporter: the surveillance video shows a drug raid in progress. oakland police move the security guard out of the way, bust open a safe, and seize valuables. drugs and cash. >> they get a lot of product all together in the range of about $200,000 worth of stuff. it was mainly mushrooms and cannabis product and a little bit of cash. >> that product belonged to dave hodges and his church called the church of ethioogenic plants. hodges believes police went overboard. >> not only do they have well over 20 oakland pd officers out there, but they had eight firefighters to come break into our safe. really i'm surprised they didn't burn down the building. >> reporter: oakland police say this was an illegal business that was selling hnoni shrooms an cannabis a conducted the raid based on a neighbor's complaint. police are not saying whether they believe this is a legitimate house of worship. that will be up to the courts to decide, but, quote, this is the first for profit religious establis

kpix 5 joe vazquez on the new plan in place tonight. >> for most of the bay area, finding out the rules for reopening requires checking with the state and the county. now here in contra costa county, we've only gotanthosic the colth order to match the restrictions imposed by the state. doing away with any county restrictions. >> we're at the point where the state system is pretty good and having clarity for businesses so they can look in one place to know what they're allowed to do and what guidance they're allowed to follow was really helpful. >> reporter: what will change? starting wednesday, personal care services that involve close contact with the face can operate outdoors. tv and movie production can resume. professional sports without live audiences can resume. even though there are actually no professional sports here. if contra costa keeps its numbers low, the county could move from the purple to the red category within a which would mean restaurant, dining, and a whole host of other indoor activities. >> i think governor newsom has a great team behind him and they've done thei

joe vazquez, kpix 5. >>> on the subject of the nfl, the air quality held just below the threshold the 49ers needed to kick off their season in santa clara. game would have been postponed if the air quality index hit 200 or higher. it did not. >>> on top of the smoke, the pandemic is also making the season look drastically different of course. on a normal game day, levi's stadium packed with cars and tailgaters and people inside the stadium. but it saturday empty today. more than two weeks ago the 9ers opted to play its season opener without fans to comply with covid safety guidelines. >> it's different. it's weird. drove by the stadium today. nothing but smoke. >> it would have been nice to be able to go to a game this year but we all got to be safe. we all got to be smart about what's going on. úthe 9ers didn't win in the season opener. dennis has got all the highlights coming up on game day after the newscast. >>> president trump is campaigning in the southwest, focusing on a rally in nevada tonight. despite health orders, thousan of supporters gathered inside a las vegas warehouse.

joe vazquez is live and east bay hills where there is now a plan in place. >> reporter: you know, we got a little spoiled over the last few days, with moderate to mild temperatures and beautiful skies as well. it that is about to change. as you mentioned, triple digit heat, possibly up to 100 degrees or more in walnut creek and areas of the far east bay. and wind, high wind, if you know that means, fire danger and there is special concern here in the hills of oakland and berkeley, especially in the parts were folks have been setting out fireworks late at night. also on the other side of the tunnel, contra costa county, authorities say they are keeping a close eye, so far this year season, they have dr. bullet, and they say they want to keep it that way. >> the important thing for people to remember is that the conditions are right for wildfires, we are only just getting to the part of the season that typically is the most dangerous, it looks like it is mother nature, coming in right on time, this weekend, with what looks like will be fire weather. we need everyone to be alert, and ca

joe vazquez, kpix 5. >> school board meeting is still going on. we will date if there are any decisions on the back-to-school plan tonight. >>> active fire watches in many cities. the main drag through calistoga and st. helena, virtually empty. the only traffic flowing along highway 128 consists of emergency vehicles and people heading out of the area. >> i have never seen st. helena this empty, especially the main drag. ke a ghost town. aside from the cars going up and down the main street here, it is dead. >> we have much more fi coverage. later on, the northbay wineries that survived the flames that may not survive the aftermath. >>> switching gears, let's take a live look outside of ourselves or skimmer. you see that typical san francisco fog blanketing the city, there. >> it is beautiful, really. to see fog and not the alternative. >> smoke? the fog moving inland has helped out the fire crews a little bit. it is a good news-bad news a situation the smoke obscuring visibilities and making it tougher to battled the fire from the air, but from g

joe vazquez shows us how a man armed with a can of wd-40 sparked a panic. >> reporter: the surveillance video shows just how quickly it happened. the man walked into this shop and said some customers hair on fire.>> he said something right before he sprayed and it was kind of like an evil chuckle. >> angelique ask does not to show her face said she and her friends had stepped into the teahouse in berkeley were standing in line.>> it was literally a sneak attack. >> suddenly a man chased other people into the store, walked into the door, immediately spray wd-40 on three and then set a fire with a small torch. >> the man was still trying to light the torch again so victims customers decided to restrain him. >> he got me a couple times and then i got him back. he started bleeding, he pulled out a knife, i got him to the floor, i stepped on his hand and his wrist, pulled him up and disarmed him from the knife. >> victims eight it was never clear why the man attacked them. before the cops arrived the attacker surprised everyone and pulled out a ask. >> he was holding it and just staggering a

joe vazquez on the concern that the crimes could escalate. >> reporter: the shots rang out on brotherhood way at 2:20 5 am saturday. one bullet grazed the school. another shot hit the exterior of the building. >> i am very upset and angry. i have a lot of nieces and nephews that come here. this is ridiculous. >> reporter: at this point, police are not saying who they suspect did this or why, but they are calling it a hate crime. >> this leader in the armenian american community says he wants the fbi to investigate. >> we would like to see federal help come into this because it is a hate crime and escalating as we speak. it started with graffiti and went to arson. now it is a shooting. the next one will be someone getting shot. >> he is talking about two previous attacks. just last week an arsonist burned down the community center. back in july, vandals drew graffiti all over the walls of this very same school. to be clear, nobody has claimed responsibility but the armenian american community members we talked to believes it has something to do with military to tensions on the border. >> w

. >> kpix 5's joe vazquez is in san francisco tonight. >> reporter: as of right now, no one in san francisco is allowed to go in a hair salon and get their hair done. but, we have now learned nancy pelosi, the house speaker, did just that, yesterday. the surveillance video shows house speaker nancy pelosi, walking inside the east salon, without a mask. that is according to the owner of the salon, who told foxnews, pelosi got her hair done, here, yesterday around 3:00 in the afternoon. that appears to be in direct violation of san francisco's health orders. this afternoon, we tried to speaker pelosi, but she got in a car and drove away. the business offered for the speaker to come in on monday, and were told they were allowed to have one person inside the business at a time. the speaker complied with the rules. >> it is infuriating but not surprising. i feel like people need to get their hair done and they are going to at any cost. >> reporter: priscilla is the owner of a different salon, nearby. >> i feel like at this point, it shows that we should be allowed to open. i think that is the bot

kpix 5 joe vazquez live in the oakmont neighborhood of santa rosa. >> i'm in oakmont village. this is a retirement community here in santa rosa. thousands of people had to evacuate from this area late last night early this morning. most of the homes here and properties are fine but it's a complete loss, except for these brick columns. there's almost nothing left here. victims of the glass fire. >> reporter: tonight as firefighters douse hotspots, you can still hear the hissing of open gas lines. you can see the danger of downed utility lines. remnants of a traumatic day in sonoma county. >> it looked like a big wave coming over the hill. a wave of fire. it was crazy. >> reporter: the glass fire went sideways overnight. whipped by high winds, three separate fires became one, now called the glass complex. they combined into a giant blow torch, shooting flames east to west over the hills from napa county. the fire reached santa rosa in the early morning hours. the houses were burned to the ground. vehicles destroyed. fences melted. evacuations forced about 68,000 people from thei

joe vazquez has the story.>> reporter: students in palo alto's public school district could be some of the first in the state to go back to school, that's if they were to follow the plan debated at the school board meeting today. which is to start sending the younger students back in the next couple of weeks. but not everybody thinks that is a good idea including the head of the teachers union. >> it feels like we are rushing to open to meet a self-imposed goal date of october 12. we really don't want to be first in this. we want to be safe. >> parents are basically getting ready to pull our resources and file an injunction and potentially further action including a recall campaign against the board. >> it continues to involve the right now the plan involves a hybrid at home and at school, students will begin returning to class a few grades at a time beginning with kindergartners and first readers on october 12. half of the students would attend school for two and half days and then take the rest of the week off while the other half rotates in. the others will begin as human morning me

joining us, we will stay on the story and bring you the latest as it develops, reporting the news, joe vazquez, back to you. >>> our bad air just broke a record, our spare the air alert is extended to thursday and it is the longesstrendanheway. >> as if the bad quality air isn't enough, tomorrow is another spare the air alert tomorrow the 16th spare the air day which breaks the old record of 14 that was set just a couple years ago. as the smoke from the campfire blue down into the bay. current air quality levels not quite as bad as they were yesterday but still the worst air quality has collected in the santa clara valley around san jose, parts of the tri- valley, it has been improving air quality for the city and the bay area over the last several hours, and at least parts of the north with the same hotspots around san jose. we still have poor air quality conditions in many areas. the orange dots indicate the worst air quality on wednesday, we are seeing a few more yellow dots on the map which isn't great but it is still one step lower on the ladder in terms of how we rank these things. overa

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