and samuel tilden accepted the decisions.r, hayes was inaugurated in a peaceful transfer of power. >> i think if either hayes or tilden had been of the personality that was aggressive or intense, really wanted this presidency for very selfish reasons, i think the whole ten or would have changed. >> today, president hayes is remembered less for what he did in his single term in office, than for the election that threatened to once again tear apart the country. are visitors bringing up the elections of 1876 more? >> they are interested in how . >>> columbia, maryland honored one of its own, a world war ii veteran who never stopped reaching for new heights. chip reid has her story. >> reporter: millie bailey said she always wanted to go sky diving and recently checked that off of her bucket list at the age of 102, tell me what it was like to jump out of that plane? >> it was great. at one point, the wind had gotten pretty strong, and i was tumbling and ifelt like i was by myself and i wondered where the paratrooper had gone. >>

>> if tilden is not counted in, we could have another war. oath of office anyway. he refused to do so. >> and there were a lot of people, particularly businessmen and others, who said, we don't even care who is elected, but get this settled. >> reporter: but congress was divided, and the constitution offered no clear direction for resolving the impasse. so in january of 1877, a 15-member electoral commission was formed, the eight republicans and seven democrats, who would determine which candidate won the states in dispute. >> by some coincidence, all of the electoral votes allocated to hayes by a vote of 8-7 in each case. >> reporter: that's right, the commission voted along party lines. but it is not over yet? >> it is not over yet. >> reporter: the tilden camp cried foul. with inauguration just days away and the nation on edge, both candidates met in washington for secret negotiations. >> ironically, they took place at warmly house, a major hotel owned by a black man, probably the most well-to-do african-american in the city of washington

that includes tilden, claremont canyon, sibley, and several others. they will be closed from tomorrow through monday. we have a survival guide to help you prepare for the potential shutoffs on our website, that is at kpix.com. >>> a fire watch now update, an update on the pope fire burning in a remote area of napa county. crews are gaining ground overnight on the fire burning in a grassy woodland area east of england and st. helena. the blaze scorched the 7 acres and is now 70% can range. cal fire says crews are now focusing on extinction smoldering hotspots. >>> the u.s. just reached a harrowing milestone, recording its highest one-day number of covid-19 infections at more than 83,000. it comes as 41 states court an increase in average new cases, 15 states also showed record hospitalization including, or, rather, indicating more precautions are indicated. >>> we are not talking about shutting down, we are talking about doubling down on some of the fundamental public health measures that we need to adhere to. >>> health officials discouraged birthday

right now firefighters have beefed up staffing and are focused on the berkeley hills near tilden park and grizzly peak where wind could topple fire lines and cause fires. >> we have evacuated our operation center and basically the eeoc helped support all the departments or divisions working this incident. we have also up staffed our fire riggs, fire engines. >> reporter: special forestry cruiser patrolling the hills to make sure downed trees don't block the only roads in and out of the area. while some have opted to leave the area as a precaution, tonight others like jim sweeney have decided to remain at home. >> i decided, again, i didn't think the odds were really much -- that scary. >> reporter: because of the high fire danger, pg&e shutoff power to dozens of homes in the berkeley hills. around 8:00 tonight. and could potentially shutoff power to potentially 800 customers in the area overnight. firefighters are also working with ham radio operators who are out there in the berkeley hills. they are looking for hot spots. they are looking for trees that may have come down and blockin

>>from tilden park to wild canyon reserve. >>and this red flag warning has breezes said stays in place until friday, so we're waiting to see if officials will decide to reopen the parks for the weekend. and we have continuing coverage on the fire threats and the high temperatures on our website kron 4 dot com. also on our kron 4 mobile app and the kron on app you can sign up for weather alerts in your neighborhood and give details on these planned power safety shutoffs that should be happening tonight. other news now governor newsom's administration and leaders of the employment development department gave an update on its massive backlog of unemployment benefit claims our capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala explains some of the lingering concerns that lawmakers have with the agency. >>leaders of the state agency tasked with processing millions of unemployment claims during the pandemic gave lawmakers an update on its issues wednesday, a group working to improve the employment development department told members of the senat

>>i think we're going to go tryout tilden it's up the street from here. i think we're just going to see if they're open if not then we'll probably just go home. and i enjoy it, you know just having a nice straw around a park. >>you i have the answer for that for you in a second we're going actually put this up on your screen. this is a list. all the parks that are closed today, you have anthony chabot regional park claremont canyon regional preserve huckleberry regional preserve leona canyon open space regional preserve reinhart redwood, regional park robert's regional park sibley regional preserve off and here it is tilden regional park, their clothes along with kennedy girl regional recreation. wildcat canyon, regional park. i mean i just read you that list it let other any options other than. >>any of these other ones you would have gone to maybe just walking around the house now you have probably bro just down the street thank you for that. >>so as you know all those parks. are going to be closed for the next few days hopefully into the weekend, this

the goal was to keep people out of places like tilden park to reduce fire danger and lower other risks as well. cal fire is staffing up, pre-positioning crews to help local agencies in areas that are under threat. and the oakland zoo on the list of places that may shut down over the next couple of days because of the power shutoffs. the zoo says it was told by pg&e it will likely have to close today and tomorrow, tuesday, a final decision will be made early this morning. we'll let you know when that is. >>> in napa county several school districts are closing because of the psps shutoffs and the threat of fires. the only school district only for in-person hybrid learning is in the napa valley school system. >>> and four school districts closing, the kenwood and montgomery districts announcing all schools are closed meaning no in-person learning and no virtual classes either. students are asked to do their own learning at home. so, parents, if they say they don't have work, they're not telling the truth. meteorologist kari hall is constantly updating her forecast on social media througho

those include lexapro, tilden, and claremont regional parks. it gives you easy 24/7 access to cbsn bay area, and kpix5 newscast . >>> new at five, a massive bust in oakland, please recovered all these guns, and they arrested several suspects tied to a surge of violence. dolling reports on how the pandemic could be putting more young life at risk. >>> recreation centers have either scaled-back, or closed. into many after will and athletic programs have been canceled. they said that is partly to blame for the killing of six kids this year. last year, that number was zero. >> these juveniles have no structure, no intervention support, mentoring from those adult relationships. the early release of prisoners due to covid for the increase in homicides. she says so far this year, 80 homicides in oakland, same period last year, 58. >>> through our shot spotter, program, and can hear the activations. we can hear 67 shots fired. >>> a muscular say many happened in east oakland. they say with the help of community members, they arrested five people. respo

>>firefighters from station 7 jump into a fire engine to patrol the streets around tilden park.>looking for signs of smoke and to safeguard against anything that can cause a wildfire. there are 2 engines on patrol during the day today is part of the protocol when fire danger is high they're red fire weather flag is flying with the warning in effect until 3rd and will add a huge and to begin patrolling starting at 06:00pm the weather pattern looks like that we're going to have an increase in win tonight. >>through the neck through the morning and so trying to maximize our units on the ground and at night time people are sleeping may be less attentive for people to call 911 in addition to keeping an eye out in order to get ahead of any blazes that may break out. >>berkeley fire is reminding residents to sign up for a c alert alameda county's emergency notification system. >>they're also asking people to review their household evacuation routes for getting out both by car and by foot pack or refresh a go bag for everybody in the family and because of covid-19 be sure to add masks a

hayes election of 1876 in which tilden went to bed thinking he won. he got far more votes and in the electoral college, he was one short. and the question was, where would florida go. and florida then sent two sets of electors, one republican and one democrat. washington didn't know what to do with it. and so they set up a commission on whose electoral votes to count. they picked five house members, three democrats, two republicans, they picked five senators, three republicans, two democrats, and they picked five supreme court justices, two democrats, two republicans and the only independent on the court who realized that he could cast the deciding vote so he quits, resigns from the supreme court. there is no other democrat or independent on the court. they appoint a republican and hayes wins because of the vote of one supreme court justice picking the votes from florida. of course that would never happen in our lifetime. [ laughter ] hayes has a difficult time as president and vetoes quite a number of things passed by the democrats in congress and it

he was a democratic candidate at the time, important prosecutor in the new york city, samuel tilden, a democratic nominee for president and was able to bring down the tweed ring. >> we know about the hayes tilden dispute. >> caller: thank you, my question originates from the american president series during the grover cleveland episode. the historian was asked what cleveland thought of william jennings bryan and he said that grover cleveland hated william jennings bryan and then he was cut off and he wasn't able to finish. i was curious what did he hate him for and if in fact is that true? thank you. >> you want to take it? >> i'll start, michael, and you can follow up. he didn't like -- grover cleveland was a hard-money, democratic president. he didn't bryan's position on the silver issue. he didn't like the income tax that bryan has championed in the house and helped pass. but it was the silver issue and breaking with the cleveland administration's repeal of the sherman silver purchase act that most got the ire of grover cleveland. >> cleveland was representative of the old democra

trespassing could be arrested or fined, among the parks that will be closed our claremont can you, and tilden park. >>> pg&e announced they had reduced the number of customers impacted by the shut offs by 80,000. the company says a new total is 386,000, users, most of the bay area will be affected, that means a total of 100,000 customers could lose power as early as 2:00 p.m. tomorrow. >> we are seeing a dangerous combination of factors with this forecast, high winds, extremely low humidity, record dry fuels on the ground, and severe to extreme drought in certain areas. we also know a number of customers have been affected this wildfire season by shut offs of more than once, multiple times, some just last week, we want to thank you for your understanding, as we work to keep our communities and customers safe. >> pg&e says it expects most power to be restored by monday night or tuesday morning, sara zendehnam has more on the shut offs and tells us the one bay area county that won't be impacted. >> reporter: if pg&e moves forward with this public safety power shut off, it would be the fifth one

. >> this due to extreme fire danger including tilden, clermont canyon, lake should bow and others. they are expected to over open together today. the zoo plans to post an update on its up date. people with reservations today and tomorrow can use their tickets later. >>> the sierra bracing for freezing temperatures. looking at truckee, lake tahoe could see temperatures plunge to the teens and areas like truckee in the single digits. >>> snow in colorado. snow is falling at rocky mountain national park transforming the area from red flag fire weather to winter in a couple of hours. warmer and drier weather could return midweek. >>> it is 6:15, let's check the wind and the fire danger. mary. >>> michelle we are looking at the strongest wind event we have seen so far this wildfire season. with the wintery conditions in colorado, it is impacting our weather and the bay area. the cold weather is bring in a northeasterly wind. you can see the camera shaking in the wind as we look east at the babe bridge and east bay. temperatures in the mid-50s to near 60 degrees. the wind disgusting near

something, and i have heard it a couple of times about really ticks me off these 545 missing immigrant tilden. i don't -- immigrant children. i don't know if people are aware, but during the obama administration, there were thousands of immigrants lost due to protocol who they didn't find them again. they were put into the hands of the human traffickers. there was the marion, ohio incident and many immigrant children that were sexually hurt because of the lack of protocols of what was going on in the obama administration. i just wanted to straighten that out and i wanted to straighten out the people just don't get it about illegal immigrants. often, and one person i followed many years ago was terry anderson, who explains immigration hurt black americans. i just wanted to put that out there. it is available. there were many things on tv almost 20 years ago on dateline states weree border having issues of hospitals closing, losing jobs, they were depleted, financially depleted because of the inflow of illegals. host: is immigrants in play as a topic in this year's elections in arizona? guest:

. >> east bay regional park so close to including clermont and tilden. not just because of the fire danger but to minimize the risk of people getting hurt from falling branches and trees because of the strong winds this morning.allie rasmus, fox 2 news. >>> there have not been any major fires in the northbay today. firefighters to remain on alert. our cameras did catch pretty strong when conditions this morning in windsor. firefighters have been busy putting out small fighters including some in santa rosa and others in healdsburg near twin hills. one man there said the wind was blowing hard because the fire started. >> the wind was whipping and everything was getting blown around pretty hard. obviously maybe a branch come down or something and knocked the power line down. >> cal fire and local fire departments have pre-positioned and added resources to be able to handle the red flag conditions in the area. >>> trees and limbs will be cleaned up that came crashing down because of the high winds. take a look at these pictures where tree branches came down.

east bay hills to be closed until 11:00 friday morning due to the red flag conditions they include tilden park in berkeley and wildcat canyon in richmond and simply volcanic regional preserve in oakland firecrackers were turned away this morning. >> i didn't have any warning so i'm disappointed but i understand that have to be closed because people are careless and throw cigarette on the ground and we don't need any more fires. >> east bay regional parks fire department says it will be staffing several park fire stations along with calfire, which remains on high alert. for more on the red flag warning as well as we did heat advisories coded chief meteorologist for the latest on conditions. >> conditions are definitely more red flag warning but not a high end red flag warning various levels and this is right in the middle in terms of extremes. just because pg&e says they will knock out power in a certain county doesn't mean your house will go out there's a lot of variables and pg&e will play to that as they, and i will give you an idea of what we are looking at. exactly what they are looki

fire mitigation work is underway here in the east bay hills, i'm off of grizzly peak boulevard in tilden park and the east bay rgional park district is knocking down dangerous fuels that are potential fire hazards and if you drive up and down grizzly peak boulevard. you'll also notice that 9 turnouts have been completely blocked off to the public taped off and they're discouraging any parking or stopping there anytime initially last month, oakland police department joined other agencies in town stating that there have been problems with the legal bonfires and fireworks in the area they were going to prevent the public from stopping in those areas from 9 at night till 00:06am in the morning will now those 9 turnouts that have been identified by local cities as danger zones have been completely blocked off in the meantime east bay regional park district. we'll continue its fire mitigation effort here in the hill. you see that this hillside is already been done and it's essentially bear on this side you can see they're still tall brush. they're going to eventually get down to what it looks

parks affected include anthony chabot, roberts, sibley, tilden and wildcat canyon. the east bay regional bay park district will staff several fire stations along with cal fire across alibailameda and contra counties. we have a helpful tool where you can put in your address to see if you will be affected. it's on our website right now, abc7news.com. >>> it is a high stakes day on capitol hill as judge amy coney barrett faces her second day of questioning. the senate judiciary committee will grill her on abortion, health care and the possibility of a disrupted election. jobina is joining us from the live desk with details on this. >> thank you. today's hearing starts in about 30 minutes. the senate judiciary committee is expected to approve barrett tomorrow setting up her likely confirmation by the full senate before election day. during a marathon 11-hour hearing yesterday, judge barrett declined to say how she would rule on hot button issues like abortion, health care and gay rights. on abortion rights barrett called several cases super precedents which she believes

they include tilden park in berkeley, wildcat canyon in richmond and redwood park in oakland. feast original parks fire department says it will be staffing several park fire stations. >>> some people say they never got a warning pg&e was going to turn off the power tonight. >> i think it's incredibly incompetent of pg&e not to be more effective in notifying the public. >> people in the montclair neighborhood in the oakland hills enjoyed as best they could tonight before the roads went out. many restaurant and strainers that anticipate losing thousands of dollars in business during the power shut off. >>> new information on the shooting in oakland this afternoon that killed two men and wounded a third. police say it appears a street confrontation is to blame. ktvu's amber lee is outside oakland police headquarters after asking about gun violence in oakland. >> reporter: police said the triple shooting comes on the heels of another incident in the same neighborhood last night. a shot spotter recorded more than 60 shots fired. neighbors tell me they are concerned for their safety

. >>> several public parks and east bay hills will be closed tomorrow including tilden, cannon, sibleyand a few others. they will be closed tomorrow through monday. >>> so what do you do if your power shut off? keep freezers and refrigerators closed, if you use generators or outdoor stoves and grills, do stay away from windows, because of the exhaust and fumes, also drive safely and slowly, since traffic signals may not be functioning properly. we do have a survival guide to help you prepare for the power shut off on our website, kpix.com. >>> camping 20 turning coverage was under two weeks before the election, president trump and former vice president joe biden are on a busy weekend campaign schedule targeting states that are key to winning the white house. michael george has the latest. >>> president trump voted at the library in west palm beach, florida, not far from his mara lago estate, then headed to the battleground state of north carolina. at a rally in the town of lumberton, the president said coronavirus cases are surging because of increased testing. >> that is all i hear ab

those parks include claremont canyon, wildcat canyon, tilden and lake shabeau. the park district also says it responded to a few fires. for updates on the power juttoffs and potential fire conditions, head to abc7news.com. we are constantly updating our website with the latest outage maps, forecasts and info about how you can stay safe. >>> a fire is burning out of control in the irvine area of orange county. 70,000 people have been evacuated. two firefighters have been critically injured. suffering second and third-degree burns. the fires has burned at least 4,000 acres since it started around 6:45 this morning. officials say they're dealing with erratic winds and have had to ground air support. >>> now to the coronavirus. deaths on the rise, according to data from john hopkins. average deaths per day across the country rose 10% over just the past two weeks. dr. deborah birx said today that covid-19 hot spot bismarck, north dakota has the worst protocols that she has seen and she's toured nearly 40 states. the dow dropped 650 points today as virus cases surge,

regional reserve reinhard redwood, regional park robert's regional park sibley regional preserve tilden regional park kennedy grover on stand right now and wildcat canyon regional park, it feels like the list goes on and on no because that red flag warning they're closing this part that is going to be in effect at least until friday. we know that also one of the staff members that works here at the park this morning. when they arrived they were unaware that the park it was close us if they don't typically closed for red flag warning so you see they're taking extra steps to make sure that if anything was to happen is over the next few days they would have some sort of plan in place that means closing the park. they're also having extra fire personnel in place at many of these parks. so again we hope nothing happens again for a lot of people they're hoping this weekend will be able to get back into the parks. so we'll be monitoring this very fluid situation for now reporting here in east bay reyna harvey kron 4 news all right folks will have to find some alternate spots to go to thank you

extended closures of 11 regional parks citing the extended red flag warning the close parks include tilden reinhard redwood and wildcat canyon the district says the past weekend's winds down 14 power lines in or near the closed park areas. the oakland zoo is closed today and could be closed tomorrow as well the closures because of the pg n a planned power shut offs in the area. so officials say anyone who bought tickets for the annual boo at the zoo halloween event can use those tickets on wednesday or thursday. backup generators are in place at the zoo to supply power for any animal related habitats or facilities which need it make sure to download the kron 4 mobile app and our streaming news service kronon for the latest weather developments in your neighborhood and for all the updates from pg and e on restoring power you can find both those apps in your app store tonight and both are free. we are now just 8 days away from the november, 3rd election kron 4 is your local election headquarters this. >>election season. contra costa county says that roughly 310,000 mail in ballots have been

regional perserve lionheart redwood, regional park robert's regional park sibley regional preserve tilden regional park kennedy grow regional recreation and wildcat canyon regional park. now the east bay regional park district fire department will be staffing several part fire stations along with cal fire over the next few days just in case, we know that red flag warning is in place starts this morning and that last until friday so we're going to have to keep an eye open to see if these parks are going to close especially over the weekend because he's a very popular over the past few months the families who just needed to get out of the hells again we'll bring you that update later on in the morning now reporting here in the east bay reyna harvey kron 4 news reena thank you we'll check back with you throughout the morning. >>and a reminder to stay tuned to kron 4 for the very latest updates on this high fire danger day to day and for the next couple days kron on is our 24 7 news. app it's free to download and that's our way of sending you live news streaming all day long so it's always yo

regional preserve lionheart redwood, regional park robert's regional park, simply regional preserve tilden regional park. kennedy girl regional recreation and wildcat canyon regional park. now we know that that red flag warning is in place over the next few days hoping that into the weekend we may see some change so we might see opening back up then but as of right now there are no plans to do that we also know that the east bay regional district park fire reserve they're going to be putting firefighters in place and many of these locations just in case because they're trying to stay prepared. for now reporting here in the east bank harvey kron 4 news, you know we definitely have to say prepare to be cautious. thank you reena. >>well the time now is 6 '08 stay tuned to kron 4 and kronon for the very latest updates as it comes as it pertains to this high fire danger, the red flag warnings possible power shut off. kron on is our 24 7 new streaming service we're always here in the newsroom sending out the very latest information to you so if you haven't already download the app today it's fre

was actually a democratic candidate at the time, an important prosecutor in new york city, samuel tilden, later on a democratic candidate in 1896, who later prosecuted tweed and was able to bring down the tweed ring. >> and we'll go to rob next in sacramento, california. go ahead, please. >> caller: thank you, my question originates from the american president series during the cleveland episode. the historian was asked what grover cleveland thought of william jennings bryan. he said that cleveland hates bryan and then he was cut off and wasn't finished. i'm wondering whether that was true. >> michael. >> i'll start and you can follow up. grover cleveland was a hard money, democratic president. he didn't like bryan's position on the silver issue. he particularly didn't like the income tax that bryan had championed in the house. and had helped to pass. but it was the silver issue and breaking it with the cleveland administration's repeal of the sherman silver purchase act that most got the ire of grover cleveland. >> yeah, cleveland was representative of the old democratic party. the demo

something, and i have heard it a couple of times about really ticks me off these 545 missing immigrant tildendon't -- immigrant children. i don't know if people are aware, but during the obama administration, there were thousands of immigrants lost due to protocol who they didn't find them again. they were put into the hands of the human traffickers. there was the marion, ohio incident and many immigrant children that were sexually hurt because of the lack of protocols of what was going on in the obama administration. i just wanted to straighten that out and i wanted to straighten out the people just don't get it about illegal immigrants. often, and one person i followed many years ago was terry anderson, who explains immigration hurt black americans. i just wanted to put that out there. it is available. there were many things on tv almost 20 years ago on dateline states weree border having issues of hospitals closing, losing jobs, they were depleted, financially depleted because of the inflow of illegals. host: is immigrants in play as a topic in this year's elections in arizona? guest: yeah

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