messages. natalie brand tells us china is also threatening to retaliate. >> ryan, it's now wednesday morning in taiwan, and speaker pelosi is expected to soon meet with the president and senior lawmakers there. the speaker has said that america's solidarity with taiwan is more important today than ever. and from white house officials to republican leaders here on capitol hill, they agree speaker pelosi has every right to make this trip. in the first official visit to taiwan in 25 years by a high-ranking u.s. government official, house speaker nancy pelosi landed in taipei tuesday morning. pelosi penned an op-ed about the trip, saying in part in the face of the communist chinese party's accelerating aggression, our visit should be seen as an unequivocal statement that america stands with taiwan, our democratic partner as it defends itself and its freedom. speaker pelosi also notes the

congressional delegation's visit in no way contradicts long-standing u.s. policy, which does not support taiwan independence, but does support the island's democratic practice and right to self-defense. >> no reason for china to take what is a perfectly legitimate and consistent travel by the speaker of the house and turn it into some pretext for amping up the tensions or creating some sort of crisis or conflict. >> reporter: the house speaker's trip has bipartisan support here on capitol hill, even as it's increased tensions between the u.s. and china with beijing issuing a series of warnlings, calling the visit provocative. >> at the end of the day, you do not want the chinese communist party dictating to senior american leaders where they can and cannot travel. >> reporter: ahead of the congressional delegation touching down, taiwan's presidential office reported its website was hit by a cyber attack. isaac stone fish is an expert on

the region. >> they don't believe beijing wants to start world war iii over pelosi's visit. i think what we'll see is increased hacking against taiwanese and potentially american assets, increased pressure against taiwanese and potentially american businesses. >> reporter: john kirby, the national security council coordinate says they are monitoring the speaker's travel, taking appropriate measures to ensure the safety of this congressional delegation. as for u.s./china relations, he said president biden wants to keep the lines of communication open. he doesn't want this to spiral into a crisis. but kirby also noted that a lot of this will depend on china's actions in the coming days and weeks. on capitol hill, i'm natalie brand, kpix 5. >> coming up at 6:00, we'll have reaction from the local taiwanese community to pelosi's visit. meanwhile, the tensions between the u.s. and china is weighing on wall street. stocks slid today. the dow dropped 402 points.

the nasdaq fell 20, and the s&p 500 closed down 27 points. while pelosi son her high stakes visit, her husband paul is said to be arraigned in napa county tomorrow morning on misdemeanor drunk driving charges. back in may, pelosi was taken into custody after he allegedly drove he's porsche into the path of a jeep. pelosi's blood alcohol level was 0.082. the district attorney's office says pelosi was not ordered to appear for the arraignment and may choose to have a lawyer appear for him. major development in days this sent shockwaves through a santa clara county. an appeals court has overturned the convictions of three former deputies for the jail beating death of inmate michael tyree. it all stems from change to state law. len ramirez followed that original case and explains why the convictions were overturned and what that could mean for future cases. >> well, strong reactions here in santa clara county to the overturning of the three convictions of the correctional

officers in the michael tyree case. the district attorney's office says it is still reviewing the appellate court's decision, but the attorney representing the family of michael tyree says the case should be retried. >> at first i was shocked. >> reporter: attorney paula canny represented the sisters and daughter of michael tyree, a mentally ill inmate who was beaten to death in his jail cell, allegedly by three correctional officers in 2015. >> there is no question that the three defendant correctional officers acted terribly, that michael tyree suffered horribly, and that he died as a consequence of their action. >> reporter: a jury convicted officers matthew ferris, jerry lubrin and rafael rodriguez to second-degree murder, and they were sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. but in 2019, sb 1437 became law, which changed how people can be convicted of murder. under the new law, they now must be the actual killer or have the

intent to kill. in the officers' trial, it was never proven who among the three dealt the fatal blows. the new law is retroactive. so the appeals court overturned all three convictions. >> people were being prosecuted for murder who didn't intend to kill and who didn't have implied malice. and what the court said is that's too wide a net, and too many people are being convicted of murder without that kind of intent that's needed. >> reporter: district attorney jeff rosen's office said it's reviewing the courts a decision. but the family's attorney says the case should be reprosecuted. >> i want justice to be served, and i want the person who is legally responsible, not just in my opinion that all three are morally responsible for michael tyree's death. any one of them could have stopped the other in saying what are you doing? >> reporter: in san jose, len ramirez, executive. >> many people convicted of murder in california are now

asking for their cases to be reexamined under sb 1437, according to one report, most of the appeals are denied. chopper 5 over a grass fire in richmond that burned alongside both sides of collins avenue this afternoon. those flames are now out. but crews watching out for those hot spots to make sure there are no flare-ups. no word yet on what exactly sparked this fire. and the death toll is rising in california's largest wildfire, burning north in siskiyou county. two more bodies were found in the mckinnley fire burn zone, raising the number to four with so many people still unaccounted for. some rain yesterday helping firefighters kohl the spread, but it's still burning out of control. that fire started in the klamath national forest close to the oregon border. jonathan vigliotti has more from the neighbors impacted. >> reporter: the race to get people to safety and to locate the missing is under way in the fire zone. >> there is so much loss of the families here.

>> reporter: teams are searching through destroyed property to locate residents who may have decide in the flames. >> the fire exploded so quick will i in this neighborhood, it engulfed entire homes. everything that you see here just destroyed. >> reporter: the bodies of two people who officials say waited too long to evacuate were discovered in this vehicle after it was engulfed by the fast-moving inferno. when they did try to escape, their driveway gate apparently wouldn't open. >> it shows how swiftly these fires move. >> reporter: courtney crider is a spokesperson for the siskiyou county sheriff's office. she says nearly two dozen people are still missing, and that number could increase. >> what we're trying to do today is get a better reference of people that are either unaccounted for or unfortunately fatalities. >> reporter: with thunderstorms moving into the region, the damp conditions are helping firefighters. but the massive fire still burns out of control. the lightning strikes could be disastrous. >> the one thing we've learned

about thunderstorms is that we can't predict what's going happen. >> reporter: of the thousands of evacuees, many are staying at nearby evacuation centers, including 81-year-old harlene schwander, who lost nearly everything but her life. >> my house is gone. all my furniture, all my clothes, shoes, coats, boots. everything is gone. >> reporter: and there has been a lot of loss. we counted easily dozens of homes that were destroyed by these flames. while the rain has helped suppress this fire somewhat for fire crews, there still is concern for high winds in the forecast, along with a possibility of continued dry lightning. and after yesterday's pop-up storms, there is a little more where that came from today. we caught some light showers falling in san francisco earlier this afternoon. and a viewer sent us this video of the rain from his home in bernal heights, just enough to get that deck wet. so as we see, a little bit of that rain starting to fall down here. and up north, a little bit. is that helping anything with

that firefight? >> the moisture helps. the higher humidity levels they had yesterday help. but they don't want any additional cloud-to-ground lightning to allow the fire to spread. so we'll start with conditions around the mckinney fire which are more challenging today. we'll zoom into the side of the fire, put the numbers on the map. temperatures significantly hotter. 93 degrees. the humidity now below 30%. and the winds are stronger. all of that is bad news. the winds now sustained. only 6 miles per hour. but gusting up to 16 miles per hour. there have been some pop-up showers and thunderstorms mainly on the oregon side of the border. the rain certainly is nice, but lot of it evaporates on the way down. and it is more than outweighed by the threat posed by the traditional cloud-to-ground lightning. a few showers skirted up the coast over san francisco and kind of fell apart as they made their way across san pablo bay and into the north bay. that activity is similar to what we might see the next few afternoons. a couple of rogue showers here

and there. trace amounts overall. the greatest threat of traditional shower or thunderstorm activity is going to stay in the mountains of northern california and in the high sierra. that's where those cloud-to-ground lightning strikes could cause some additional problems over the next several days. for as long as this monsoonal moisture is here. take a look at how long that's going to be the case in a few minutes. >> thank you so much, paul. the biden administration just named an official coordinator for the federal monkeypox response, but they're still holding back on declaring a national state of emergency. anne makovec joins us now with more on efforts to fight the outbreak. >> big progress yesterday. the governor declaring a state of emergency. but there is still a lot of frustration as the number of cases and the lines for the vaccine continue to grow. a line for the monkeypox vaccine stretched down the block early this morning outside zuckerberg's san francisco general hospital. they gave out 650 doses. some people were there before 4:00 a.m., and many said the government needs to do more. >> more vaccines, and testing

everywhere. >> reporter: today the biden administration announced robert fenton, who ran the covid vaccination effort for fema will coordinate the federal monkeypox response. that as california and illinois declare a state of emergency over the virus following new york's lead. >> i'm glad we have a state of emergency because the issue has always been how quickly we can get the resources testing, vaccine, treatment that we need in the e.r. to contain this. >> reporter: declaring an emergency gets rid of some of the red tape to help fight the outbreak. for example, it authorizes more people to administer vaccines. but that's only part of the problem. while the administration is distributing 1.1 million doses, officials in california and new york say they don't have enough. >> the order is now allowing more people to administer vaccine. but you need more vaccines to start with. >> reporter: in just ten weeks, the u.s. outbreak has grown to 5,800 confirmed cases. delays for vaccines and test

having been a real problem. >> for me personally, it took two weeks to get my test results. and that was something very, very frustrating. >> reporter: many of the infected are men who have sex with men, but anyone can catch monkeypox. it spreads primarily through skin-on-skin contact. while rarely fatal, it can be extremely painful. the world health organization declared monkeypox a health emergency over a week ago, and that activated its highest alert level. sara? >> anne, thank you. the monkeypox clinic will open for walk-ins from 8:00 a.m. to noon or until supplies run out. we're tracking shipments here to california, and we have a lot more information about testing on our website, kpix.com. and sara, on the covid front, a big spike in hospitalizations in just one month. the average number of people hospitalized jumped 145% in july. the number of deaths did remain stable with an average of 40 per

day. the latest positivity rate is close to 15% which hasn't changed since the start of the month. officials say should be under 5% to effectively control the spread of the virus. still ahead on kpix 5, streaming on "cbs news bay area," how a new law could help people buried under a mountain of death from traffic violations. a cross-country trip ends in the bay area. even more impressive, the cyclist accomplished despite a challenging medical condition. also, a blast from the past for the warriors. new uniforms are paying tribute to dubs history.

new signs the job market is starting too cool off. the june report shows the number of openings dropped from 11.3 million to 10.7. that's the lowest its been in the last nine months. still high, though. for some perspective, there is twice as many openings as unemployed workers. and for the second time this year, robin hood is laying off

part of its staff. robin hood's ceo says the company will reduce its head count by about 23%. the menlo park based company has seen a decline in users as fewer people engage in retail trading. the second quarter report showed net revenue is lower than this time last year. robin hood laid off about 9% of its workforce in april. stock in the mobile trading company has lost steam since going public in july of last year. better news for uber. even with higher gas prices and soaring inflation, the company making a strong rebound from the worst days of the pandemic. uber says it made $8 billion between april, may and june. that's more than double for the same time last year. uber says the number of consumers and drivers using the platform are at all-time highs. it recorded 122 million users each month, up 21% from the previous year. airbnb exceeded wall street estimates for its earnings. like uber, it benefitted from customers spending on travel. revenue jumped almost 60% from last year, up to $2.1 billion.

that's the company's most profitable second quarter to date. geico is closing all of its physical offices in california. so if you have insurance business to take care of, you're going have to do it online. until recently, the company had 38 offices across the state. but those are closing. and according to "the sacramento bee," hundreds of people are going to be losing their jobs because of that. the company told the bee in a statement we continue to write policies in california and we remain available through our direct channels for the more than 2.18 million california customers currently insured with us. the state's department of insurance is looking into this. they say to make sure consumers are protected. oakland is getting $6 million worth of funding from the state to help slow down the rate of crime. earlier this morning, mayor libby schaaf talked about how that money will help the city. >> but because of this $6 million grant, we are adding new strategies to address the family dynamics, to redesign physical

spaces for safety. >> the funding came from the state's violence intervention and prevention program and will benefit the city's ceasefire initiative, a group that's focused on reducing deadly shootings and incarceration numbers. historic flooding has devastated eastern kentucky where the death toll is rising as high as the water. flooding has claimed at least 37 lives. rescue efforts are still going on there. >> coming up out of the tree, 80 feet below. >> so that's some new video capturing a crew in a national guard helicopter lifting people to safety. the desperate search for survivors continues in remote and hard-to-reach areas. some people are finding their homes and prize possessions covered in mud. governor andy beshear has met with volunteers, displaced families, local officials. floodwaters have wiped out entire neighbors. hundreds of people are still unaccounted for right now. the governor has issued a warning that dangerous heat in the forecast will add new suffering to people who have lost so much. it's so hard to see this repeated again.

we've seen it before. >> yeah. >> i saw that during harvey. it was just devastating. >> it's not just the water. it's what the water leaves behind. >> absolutely. >> the debris, the mud, the mold. it is a cleanup process that takes months, if not years. >> the insurance nightmare that ensues. >> they're having the opposite problem that we have around here where everything is so dry. we did get a few more splash and dash showers today. once again thankfully without any cloud-to-ground lightning associated with those few showers. it's unusual for early august, but it's a consequence of the monsoonal moisture still in place. the showers made their way up the coast over san francisco and have now fallen apart. a couple rogue sprinkles possible. but mainly a mix of clouds and sunshine. futurecast doesn't include anything new developing as we head through the rest of tonight other than fog pushing into the inland valleys. it looks like tomorrow's shower chance is going to be confined toe mendocino and lake counties as opposed to any locations farther to the south, as long as that monsoonal moisture is hanging out nearby. there is a chance, each if it's lower than 10%, of a couple of

pop-up showers. i don't think we're going to see anything becoming strong enough to drop any cloud-to-ground lightning, but just those few showers can kind of catch you by surprise. it's because that monsoonal moisture is being fed up towards us there. is this area of disturbed weather over the pacific. but some of the moisture is sneaking up towards us from the remnants of what was a hurricane, frank. some of the tropical moisture making its way in our direction. the bulk of it is still around the remnants of that system. but it's just enough to kind of boost the amount of water in the atmosphere overhead. we contract that with futurecast. the amount of moisture in the atmosphere showing up in the brighter colors on this map. you can see it kind of hanging out as we wind the clock forward. as we hit the end of the workweek and head into the weekend, the brighter colors disappear. it does look like we're going see a reduction in the amount of water in the atmosphere by the time we head into the weekend that would limit even that isolated chance of a pop-up shower, and it would reduce the chance of thunderstorms in the high sierra. they're going have to deal with that again tomorrow. the lightning density forecast isn't really lit up. but there are going to be some

thunderstorms that develop in the mountains of california and the high sierra. same thing by thursday afternoon and the same again on friday afternoon. friday the activity might be a little more sparse as the atmosphere starts to dry out. it's a process we're going have to wait for. there is the fog hanging out. it's a compact layer. temperatures in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. these that is normal for this time of year. from 65 downtown to 91 degrees in concord and 90 on the nose right now in santa rosa. we are going to see temperatures slowly cooling off as we head through the evening. the first pitch of the giants game as they take on the team from down south, temperatures will be in the mid-60s at this point. partly cloudy skies overhead. i think the fog will wait until later on tonight to make its rush across the bay into some of the inland valleys. temperatures dropping down to the upper half of the 50s and the low 60s by early wednesday morning. high temperatures tomorrow within about five degrees of what's average for this time of year. mid-60s along the coast. upper 60s and mid-70s around the bay. but temperatures inland a mix of

80s and 90s. some of the hotter spots reaching up into the mid-90s, which is slightly toasty for early august. but not unreasonable. temperatures can easily get over 100 degrees this time of year. and we don't have any of that in the forecast, even with a bit more of a warm-up for thursday. i mean, a degree or so from wednesday to thursday. and then we drop back down to near normal temperatures as we head into the weekend. we are going lose some of that passing cloud cover overhead. it's still with us the next few days, but lots of sunshine in store by sunday, monday and tuesday. not overly hot, even for the inland spots. and it will be nice to kind of rid ourselves of some of the mugginess. it's not -- you mentioned houston earlier where you walk out the door. >> not the same. >> on the gulf coast you walk out in august and go ugh. >> oh, it's the worst. >> here you walk out and it's muggy. >> what's going on. i noticed it, though. it's noticeable. >> you can tell. it eventually is going to drop. we'll be back at 5:30. >> there goes your excuse not to run. sorry. sorry about that.

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journey to recovery, he took up ebiking. mosson raised around $135,000 for that cause. >> that's a long trip. >> very long. so the golden state warriors are showing off an entirely new look. >> these are their new statement edition uniforms for the 2022-'23 season. the dark blue jerseys have golden state across the chest in yellow and feature the air jordan jumpman logo. it comes 51 years to the day the team officially changed its name to golden state. we asked what you thought about the look. checking the results of the our poll. 40% say they're looking good. but 60% said i've seen better. wow. a lot of people don't like them. you can weigh in on our kpix 5 twitter page at kpix 5 tv. i think they're clean. they look like. >> i don't know. i've seen better. >> okay. >> release for people struggling to pay off traffic tickets. >> late fees tacked on to

traffic violations are burying some people alive. but now the state is stepping in to help them. we'll have that story coming up. plus, the bay area celebrates national night out. we're going take you to events getting under way right now. all aimed at improving community relations with police. plus, this is our first look inside a south bay call cent wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're gonna learn. through project up, comcast is committing $1 billion dollars so millions more students can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities.

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right now on kpix 5 and streaming on "cbs news bay area," it's national night out around the bay area. a chance to strengthen community relations with police. and it's a lifeline for people in crisis. a first look inside santa clara county's brand-new 988 call center. and a live look at our bay area bridges and highways. good news for drivers who got speeding tickets and racked up hundreds of dollars in court fees. why they might not have to pay it at all. good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. >> and i'm sara donchey. a new state law has changed thank you so much courts can collect in fees for things like traffic tickets. it just took effect last month. kpix 5's john ramos on the new rules, and why some courts are still imposing the fees. >> reporter: for most people, getting a traffic ticket is an annoying expense. but for those who are trapped in the cycle of poverty, it can be something that follows them the rest of their lives. back w