West Coast Wrap, Wednesday 10/14/2026

Please pretend I'm running. We're doing all the right places, but we have a little time left. Today, President Trump takes his midterm election message directly to voters in two more Western states. Voting day upon a paper ballot, making sure my And good evening, everyone. Welcome to West Coast Wrap. I'm Alex Savage. After working to boost Republican candidates in Arizona with a rally earlier in the afternoon, the president tonight is campaigning in Montana. Let's take you live to Kalispell. You can see crowds on hand, all waiting for the president to take the stage at this rally tonight. Kalispell is in the northwest corner of the state where Republican Aaron Flint is vying for an open U.S. House seat. He's in a competitive race against Democrat Sam Forstag. Fox's Molly Roy shows us how President Trump addressed voters in Bullhead City, Arizona, this afternoon. Good evening. Yes, President Trump took the podium for just under two hours here during a wider rally, specifically for the Arizona GOP now this specific part of Arizona Bullhead City it does straddle the border between Nevada and Arizona but the focus was a lot of it on the statewide races looking at the governor's race now his stop here today comes after going to Alaska to campaign for the incumbent senator Senator Dan Sullivan who is looking for re-election in an increasingly tight race. It's something the GOP has noticed that there are tightening races across the country, and Trump noted it in his speech here today. So we're going to elect a strong Republican majority in the House and Senate, and I think we have a really good chance. And to be honest with you know, I'm not on the ballot. And they say if I'm on the ballot, we get 49% more votes. So I'm here to say, please pretend I'm on the ballot. Right now, Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance are trying to rally Republican voters in both competitive races and some that seem to be slipping away. The most recent Fox News Power rankings predicting big gains for House Democrats this year and Senate seats that used to be solidly Republican are becoming toss-ups like races in Alaska and Texas. Back here in Arizona, there are two competitive House races on the other side of the state, though right now those are leaning Democrat. There's also a governor's race between incumbent Democrat Katie Hobbs and Republican Congressman Andy Biggs, who also spoke today. But this area of Arizona is Trump country, and just across the river is a district that's solidly Democrat. I caught up with a political scientist who told me that Trump is tossing out the traditional midterm playbook by hitting the campaign trail when past presidents in his position and approval ratings have typically kept their distance. If you go back and look at other midterm campaigns with an unpopular president, they're largely staying out of the campaign trail. They are not reminding voters, oh, this is what you don't like and why you are voting for the other party. But I honestly think that the Trump team kind of like knows no other playbook. Now, the stop today in Montana, Trump is helping campaign for Aaron Flint. He is the Republican nominee in a very competitive House district. Back to you. All right, let's get some more perspective here on this campaign blitz by the president we're seeing here in the West right now and we want to bring in political analyst Brian Sobel Brian, always good to have you on appreciate the time so the president over the past couple of days has visited Alaska Arizona and Montana with rallies being held in traditionally solid Republican territory what is the strategy behind these campaign stops Alex he's trying to firm up Republicans in these states and by extension helping Republican senatorial and congressional candidates. And as one notices, he is crisscrossing the country and really, really putting the pedal to the metal in terms of trying to be a lot of places and talk to a lot of people. Yeah, and the president continues to tell the people gathered at these rallies to pretend that he is on the ballot. Why why is that the message you feel like the president has landed on here and who are the voters he is targeting? A great question. I think part of this is Donald Trump was convinced essentially to to get into the race, to get out there and start campaigning for these various candidates around the country. And I think he is just compelled by his personality, quite frankly, to to say, hey, view this as me being on the ballot, by extension voting for these Republican candidates that are in these states where Trump is visiting, and he's visiting a whole lot of states and has been now for a couple of weeks. Yeah, there is sort of a school of thought, I guess, among Republicans, some Republicans, who sort of look at these trips by the president to traditionally red states as part of a strategy to try to replicate the voter turnout that we saw during the last presidential election and try to replicate that during the midterms here in a few weeks. Is that realistic to think you get, you know, anywhere close to that kind of turnout? Well, that's the thing. I you know, Donald Trump was very popular in many parts of the United States. He swept seven states that he was not necessarily expected to sweep when he won the presidency two years ago. He shocked really a lot of pundits and pollsters around the nation by doing so well in those swing states. And I think he is just saying, hey, if you like Donald Trump and you like me, then you'll like the people I'm endorsing. It's a risk, Alex, because again, I think as we heard earlier and in general, if you're not a very popular president, Do you really want to be calling attention to yourself and to the candidates who are running under the Republican banner? And what you have seen is that a number of candidates have tried to distance themselves from the president. And that's pretty crucial in this race as well. Yeah, I mean, obviously, we're seeing, you know, some candidates locked in these tight races, you know, who appreciate the president showing up to campaign for them. But you are seeing other candidates who are trying to create some separation between the president. What what are the risks they see in in being too closely aligned with a president who, as you said, you know, who is facing some really low approval numbers at this moment? Well, when we look at what is going on in the United States in terms of the economy and the economy, Alex, always leads elections and the economy right now in terms of of gas prices and inflation and these other things. have to be put at the feet of the president. And so these candidates that are out there are saying, hey, for all the good things that Donald Trump brings to the program, including his personal popularity, if I have to defend some of what has happened under Donald Trump, particularly in the last year, including the war in Iran, I don't want to do that, and I don't want to go out and try to tell constituents that I'm shoulder to shoulder with the president when I don't think that's going to benefit me. So a lot of that is in the mix. Yeah. Finally, here, let me ask you, Brian, I mean, there are some reports that the Republican Party has started to shift some of its campaign funds away from tight races across the country. What does it mean when you see a party shifting its campaign dollars here in the final weeks before an election? Well, everybody should know both of these parties and others pull incessantly, daily, and their campaign apparatuses end up making decisions on campaigns around the country, which ones to fortify, which ones to walk away from. And the Republicans have raised, Alex, a lot of money this cycle, the Democrats by a lot. And so they're taking their resources, which is money and people, and trying to place them where they think they have the best chances of winning the Senate races and the House races. And and so this is going to go on now for the remainder of the campaign. Yep. All right. We will keep tracking it. Appreciate you coming on tonight. Political analyst Brian Sobel. Thanks for the time. Good to have you on. Always my pleasure, Alex. Take care. Take care. All right. Now we turn to the growing threat of wildfires across California. Here's a live look at Ontario International Airport in Riverside County. This is one of the places where a red flag warning will take effect tomorrow. Fox 11's Nick Garcia is joining us now live from Los Angeles, where, Nick, there were a few small fires that kept crews busy earlier on today. I imagine those fire crews jumped on them pretty quick. Oh, yes, they were quick to them, knowing that there was some wind in the forecast. We did have a little bit of wind today. We spent the day all throughout the San Fernando Valley. We're in Porter Ranch now. The wind died down in the past hour or so, but it was a bit windy earlier today. A preview of what could be in store tomorrow with several fires. One of them breaking out overnight in Brentwood at the Veterans Affairs Veterans Administration facility there. Thankfully, crews getting that one under control. We'll take you to some video now out in the Inland Empire in San Bernardino County. Crews battled a massive fire at a metal recycling facility in Fontana also this morning. Fire officials say 25 mile per hour winds pushed flames toward neighboring businesses and prompted a number of road closures. Fire crews, though, managed to keep those flames from spreading. And Sky Fox over Tarzana in the San Fernando Valley earlier were a grass fire between two houses on Melvin Avenue quickly spread to trees and brush in the area. Neighbors jumped into action before firefighters even arrived. Let me grab a hose. So I grabbed the hose and put the fire out on the furniture. And then I look over the side, put some water in here. So I was catching three sides. We were really quite concerned if it's going to jump the street, you know, because if it would, it would have been really sad. Air support was brought in along with ground crews, firefighters protected all of those homes. None of them were lost and they were able to keep that one at just an acre all of our fires down here today just about an acre or less so very thankful for that but really officials urging people to take notice of that red flag warning impacting a lot of our area knowing just how strong those Santa Ana winds are expected to be anywhere from 40 to 70 mile per hour gusts tomorrow and of course it's warm and humidity is very low so Alex big concern for fire tomorrow. Yeah, all of the conditions for fires to really take off. Obviously, an uneasy time for a lot of folks. Nick, the people you're talking to in some of these fire-prone areas, are they sort of ready to go just in case they do have a fire that's close to their home? Yeah, that gentleman we talked to earlier, you just heard from him in Tarzana. He's ready to go. He was certainly ready to go this morning when he saw how close that fire was getting to him. But really, it's always a good reminder, especially we live in such a fire-prone area here. It's typically quite dry, and those Santa Anas, once those kick up, it's important for people to be ready. Have whatever documents you need, prescriptions, make sure that that gas tank is ready to go in case you do have to evacuate. Yeah, this is the time to be prepared. All right, Fox 11's Nick Garcia, live for us tonight in LA. Nick, we appreciate it. Thank you. We go now to the Bay Area, where thousands of PG&E customers are bracing for planned power shutoffs over the next few days, all because of the dry, windy weather that's moving in. Those conditions, of course, raising the risk of wildfires. People started getting warnings a few days ago about possible power shutoffs because of the weather conditions in Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties. It really has to do with your equipment and where it connects to. So your equipment may be connected to an area that is impacted. According to PG&E, the warm and dry weather conditions are expected to peak Thursday through Saturday. KTVU's Chief Meteorologist Mark Tamayo is tracking the fire danger across the west pretty concerning conditions here mark yeah this is the signature pattern, now it's the 10th to happen every year every fall especially in the month of october so that's why historically you've had some really bad fires this month and absolutely so yeah we're gonna see a pattern shift beginning tomorrow with those those dry offshore winds developing so that's kind of our theme increasing fire danger across a good portion of california now here's a look at the red flag of fire warnings out toward portions of the sierra One part of Northern California, that is up in Lake County. It's a red flag warning, but that's actually a fire weather watch after Thursday. So that might actually get extended to a red flag warning beyond Thursday up in Lake County. And then down in Southern California, all these areas in red, all these cities under a red flag of fire warning. Now toward the coast to Malibu, out toward Oxnard, San Fernando, and Santa Clarita. So as you can see here, that red flag warning, this is all in response to those dry offshore winds, Those Santa Ana winds that are picking up, that are expected to pick up. Winds could be gusting to 50 and maybe some of the higher peaks. We could have winds gusting to 60 to 70 miles an hour. And that defined wind direction, it's a dry air mass, so that means relative humidity coming down to right around 5%. So once again, increasing fire danger later in the week. And this is the time of year where the peak of fire season, it's been so hot, it's been so dry. And unfortunately, this event will be happening over the next couple days. In addition to that, down in Southern California, they have a high wind warning. So anytime you have a heat, which they do have, and also red flag warning, and then a high wind warning for these areas here, that's for Thursday and Friday. Definitely do not like that combination out there with, once again, the strongest winds could be going up above 60, above 70 miles an hour for the highest peaks. Also talking about some heat in Los Angeles, it's a heat advisory. Temperatures on Friday will be approaching the lower 90s, around 93 degrees. This is a signature pattern I was talking about. See the disturbance diving out to the east, impacting parts of Colorado with some rain and some snow. We had this area of high pressure offshore. This is the upper-level wind pattern, and this is the setup that brings up those increasing offshore winds. Still tracking some rain and some snow showers across parts of Colorado, at least on the satellite and the radar. But up in Seattle, talking about a nice day today. Lots of clear skies, 67 degrees for an afternoon high. In the San Francisco Bay Area, lots of sunshine, 71, although some fog did regroup near parts of the coastline out toward the Golden Gate Bridge. Southern California today, 83 degrees. Remember, those temperatures are definitely trending up over the next three days or so. And then in Phoenix, no triple digits, no 90s, no 80s. Just in the upper 70s earlier today with some sunshine. Right now, it's 72 in Vegas. Portland is 70 degrees in Seattle in the 60s. A mild day in Seattle. Rain chances in Denver. Sunshine for Phoenix. And once again, definitely warming up for portions of California. It's a pretty quiet forecast model here showing you the cloud cover and the rainfall. with maybe just some lingering rain showers in parts of Colorado for tomorrow. So here's the plan. Over the next few days, Seattle will be in the lower 70s, but we could have some rain chances as we head toward the weekend. A warmer forecast for the San Francisco Bay Area, definitely heating up in Southern California. That coupled with the dry air mass and the winds will definitely boost that fire danger that we talked a lot about over the next few days. Mark, thank you. Much more to come here on West Coast Wrap tonight. Boulder, Colorado will host the Sundance Film Festival for the first time in a few months. There's a live look at the city tonight. After the break, what's being done to ensure that festival crowds have a place to stay? Police in San Francisco say four suspects have been arrested in connection with a shooting that injured 49ers defensive lineman Keon White. It happened back in February at the end of Super Bowl weekend. White was shot in the leg during a fight with four armed men at a nightclub. Let's bring in KTVU's Heather Holmes who has more on this story And how did authorities track down all of these suspects? Well, it was a big cooperative effort, Alex. Police Chief Derek Liu of San Francisco announcing today that investigators used video as well as witness accounts to identify the suspects, also working with law enforcement in several states. He says that the suspects were taken into custody as part of this month-long investigation, which they called Operation D-Line. Now, the investigation spanned from California to Georgia, with officers seizing several guns, about 15 pounds of narcotics, and cash during the arrest. One suspect was arrested at his home in Atlanta last Wednesday. The same day, two more arrests were made here in California, in Stockton and Irvine. The fourth was on Friday in Los Angeles. Now at a news conference today, San Francisco Police Chief Lou said the operation expanded quickly with 50 search warrants and more than 250 law enforcement personnel. What started as a shooting investigation expanded rapidly. Our investigators identified multiple people involved in the incident. It started when multiple suspects, some brandishing firearms, confronted the 49ers player, which then led to a physical altercation between the group and the victim who was shot in the leg. Now, investigators are still looking into exactly what led up to the fight and the subsequent shooting. Prosecutors say that 36-year-old Gregory Walker of Mountain House, California, was the alleged gunman in the shooting that night. He is charged with assault with a firearm and was arraigned this afternoon in San Francisco. Now, while Walker and another suspect are in custody in San Francisco, The district attorney's office is working to have the other two extradited to the Bay Area at those court hearings. Hopefully, we'll learn a little bit more about whether this 49ers player was targeted because he is a player or if perhaps there was something else that started that dispute. But that will come in the subsequent. Yeah, we'll hopefully learn more about what the what the motive may have been here. But it is, you know, fascinating to see that this what started as an investigation into a shooting really sort of branched out into a much more complex case. Yeah. And when you're talking about illegal firearms that were found, authorities say in the suspect's homes and then the large amount of drugs. And Alex, we're talking about fentanyl, which we all know the dangers of that methamphetamine and cocaine. So, as you mentioned, this really kind of the tip of the iceberg in terms of what this investigation uncovered. All right, Heather, appreciate it. Thank you. In Portland, the man accused of posing as a 49ers player to scam women has pleaded not guilty. Dejan Love is facing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Prosecutors say Love used fake online dating and social media profiles to build romantic relationships with his victims and show them signs of wealth to persuade them to send him money. This scheme targeted at least 26 women spanning four states and totaled more than a million dollars in stolen funds. His trial is set to begin December 15th. We'll be right back with much more news here on West Coast Wrap. Here's a live look at Boulder, Colorado, where there is some concern about the city's ability to accommodate Sundance Film Festival crowds. Nate Belt shows us what's being done to make room. It's safe to say the people here in Boulder are already embracing the Sundance Film Festival with nearly 2,000 applications submitted for short-term rental licenses ahead of the festival. We knew in Boulder that our hotels didn't have capacity for the number of people that would be coming in town for the festival, so we put together this lodging program to allow people to rent their homes. That's why Charlene Hoffman and Visit Boulder worked with the city on creating the Festival Lodging Rental Ordinance that passed earlier this year. It allows people to rent out their home during major festivals like Sundance. Currently, Visit Boulder says more than 1,800 license applications are pending. That number keeps going up. We're receiving 30 to 40 new applications every week. Hoffman says the eagerness doesn't surprise her. I think it's really important for residents to feel part of this festival. Boulder homeowner Richard Hsu is no stranger to the idea. I've been a host in Boulder for 20 years and have hosted over 2,000 reservations from a single unit. He says it's been a great experience. We've just met some of the most amazing people from around the world. But there's a few things he thinks first-time applicants should know, like setting reasonable expectations for yourself. I think this misconception that you can put a spare couch in your basement on and you're going to make 10 grand, and it's not going to happen. Making a good first impression, he says, is key, because your home will be the first place many people see in Boulder. He also says that it's a competitive market, so it's important to know sometimes you may not even show up in somebody's specific search people don't scroll through Airbnb just like we do on Amazon we filter on there shoe says he thinks the festival will be a great pairing for the city of Boulder and hopes everybody renting puts their best foot forward it is a big event and i want us to shine visit boulder has a pricing guide on their website with suggestions based on previous booking data they say that they suggest about 250 to 300 a night for a single bedroom condo, or if you have a four-bedroom house, about $1,100 to $1,400 per night. Reporting in Boulder, Nate Belt, Fox 31. There's a live look at Miles City, Montana, about 100 miles north of the border with Wyoming. You're watching West Coast Wrap. The Trump administration has scored a victory in its legal fight with the state of California over immigration enforcement. Today, a federal appeals court ruled against a California law requiring ICE agents to display identification. The administration had sued California over that law. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the identification requirement violates the Constitution's supremacy clause, saying federal law takes priority when it conflicts with state law. New research suggests federal immigration agents are accessing driver's license and vehicle registration information from Washington's Department of Licensing despite state sanctuary laws meant to block access for immigration enforcement. Fox 13's Sam Campbell breaks down the findings from researchers at the University of Washington. The university just put out its report from its Center for Human Rights. It shows federal immigration agents exploiting loopholes to obtain driver's information from the DOL database and then using that data to make arrests. All this despite promises from Washington state to restrict, if not eliminate, cooperation with immigration enforcement. UW's article online says in part, quote, while Washington's sanctuary law forbids state agencies from sharing data with ICE or CBP for purposes of civil immigration enforcement, the data presented here shows that actions taken here to curtail federal agents' access to DMV data have been ineffective, end quote. So how are the agents getting a hold of the data? Well, researchers found four main pathways, but the study lists one source in particular more than a hundred times. It's called Inlets and it's a non-profit firm that shares driver data to law enforcement agencies across state lines. It's what state troopers among others will use when they pull you over and type in your information. UW says that's a problem because the state previously thought that loophole was solved. They apparently decided that requiring ICE and the border patrol to sign statements promising not to use it for civil immigration enforcement was enough. Well, it's not enough. As of today, the UW Center for Human Rights has documented 356 incidents of arrests carried out on our streets and highways following federal agents querying the DOL for our data. So that's hundreds of data breaches they say they've confirmed where sanctuary policies are effectively failing in practice and researchers expect this trend to accelerate. But take a look here. Fox 13 News spotted this arrest one month ago. We're not sure whether these plain-clothed agents used DOL data to track down two men who were then put into unmarked cars. It happened on I-5 South near the 85th Street exit in Seattle. DHS only addressed one of the arrests, saying the man is here illegally from Guatemala and was issued a final order to remove himself from the U.S. in 1996. The study compared Washington to Maryland, New York, and Minnesota, and the researchers say our state is lagging behind those three, leaving non-citizens exposed on the road, again, despite state policies to protect them. This, all as federal immigration authorities say they will continue to, quote, flood the zone, end quote, into sanctuary cities like Seattle. In the newsroom, Sam Campbell, Fox 13 News. All right, for more perspective on what's unfolding in Washington, we want to bring in Bill Hing, who's a professor of immigration law at the University of San Francisco. Thank you, As always, Professor, for the time, Washington has a sanctuary law in place prohibiting state agencies from sharing information with federal immigration enforcement agencies. Are you surprised at how federal agents are getting around that law? How unusual do you think this is? I'm not surprised and it's not unusual. It's all about access to data. Your viewers should understand that the big, beautiful bill, H.R. 1, that the Trump administration got through in the very first month of operation when he got sworn in. It provides an extra $170 billion for immigration enforcement. A portion of that money goes to something called the National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center that's located, of all places, in Vermont, a very blue state. And they boast a 24-7 operation, 365 days a year, where they just scrutinize data. That's what the workers are doing, constantly going over data from wherever they can get sources. And this was one source that your lead in indicated is a place where they just get the data. And and it's part of a gigantic data set that ICE employees go through day in, day out. Yeah. And obviously we heard from leaders in the state of Washington talking about the fact that they're working to try to close this loophole. But but obviously they have not been entirely successful in being able to do that here. What sort of legal recourse does a state like Washington have when you know, when it comes to federal agencies who appear to be violating state sanctuary laws? Well, here's the problem. I don't think they have a legal recourse in terms of saying you can't access this data from us. Okay. And now they're going to argue, well, you can't access this data from this other inlet operation. Here's the problem. The real practical answer is that the state has to decide whether or not it's actually going to share information. And if it doesn't share information, that's the only way they're going to stop it. So they cannot participate in these multi-state data sharing operations. Once they do that, it's fair game when it comes to ICE. Yeah. And obviously, states like Washington have to weigh the impact of not allowing this kind of license and registration data to be shared, because in many cases it is being used for for sort of a broad array of criminal investigations beyond immigration enforcement. Absolutely right. So Washington was just trying to do its job in terms of law enforcement, they have to access this data because they want to know if people crossing state lines have violated some some state law or some other state laws so that's due diligence. They share fingerprints and other information with the FBI, that's a due diligence because they want to make sure that they're putting bad guys away. What they don't count on is that ICE is going to then take that data and put it through their processing center to see if the people that are subject to that information might be non-citizens. All right. Well, we appreciate you helping us to better understand this particular issue here. That is Professor Bill Hing from the University of San Francisco. Great to have you on, as always. Thank you. Nice to see you, Alex. All right, you too. Let's get back now to our dangerous fire weather that is returning to many parts of the West. This is a live look at the sun setting from Mount Wilson. This is a camera here in L.A. County looking out over the L.A. Basin tonight. And there's a lot of concern here about hot, dry and windy weather increasing the wildfire threat here in Southern California as well as across the state. Let's bring in KTVU's chief meteorologist, Mark DeMaio, who is tracking the conditions. What are the areas you're sort of zeroing in on with these red flag conditions? Yeah, with the red flag in California, you know, we have some scattered red flag warnings. But the focus, as you mentioned, is in Southern California, especially for the higher elevations and maybe where you have some of those gaps the wind can funnel through. And that that is that's the key concern. So, you know, it's that time of year. It's not it. There's a reason this happens in October because we start to see these storms develop in the Pacific and they kind of move up and over. And that storm kind of sets up the pressure pattern that produces these winds. So, Alex, this was Oat Mountain. Have you ever hiked up Oat Mountain? I don't think I have hiked Oat Mountain. Yeah, this was near Simi Valley earlier this afternoon and the wildfire alert camera. And the concern here is the combination. It's not just the wind, but it's the heat. They have a heat advisory in place, 80s and 90s. A high wind warning, gusts will be going over 40, over 50. Maybe a few isolated spots could be approaching 70 miles an hour. And you lump all this together, and then you have high fire danger with that red flag warning Thursday, Friday, and into Saturday for portions of Southern California. And I talked about, you know, this is the pattern we tend to see in October. We have that big area of high pressure offshore, that area of low pressure you can see out toward Colorado. And you can see Southern California is stuck right in between. And as that high builds in, that's going to be one of the sources that leads to the stronger winds we have been talking about. And I always show this forecast model because it gives you an idea of the fire danger. So this kind of lumps everything together with the wind, the temperature, the relative humidity. And where you see some coverage, you can see kind of scattered in portions of Northern California, but really a lot of coverage down toward Southern California. This is Thursday afternoon. It kind of backs off a little bit into Friday morning, and then it picks up again into a Friday afternoon. So with all that said and done, you can just see the models picking up on that trend as well. And as I mentioned, it's always more concerning when you have a high wind warning stacked on top of a red flag warning. So that's what we have from Thursday and into Friday. And we showed you this graphic. actually this was um just give you one site this is Santa Clarita seven o'clock tomorrow morning 58 degrees not too bad winds out of the northeast at nine miles an hour this is what the forecast model thinks look what happens we take it into the afternoon hours getting close to 90 the relative humidity drops off a lot and winds gusting over 31 miles an hour so this is one particular site but well it'll be more widespread over the next couple days you know quickly i mean it wasn't you know a week ago when we were talking about some places in southern California getting rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel. Does that make any sort of a difference in terms of the moisture levels? Not enough. Not enough, yeah. I think you'd probably need several inches of rainfall. I mean, it maybe helps out a little bit in the short term, but this is, you know, you think about a pattern like this. This is the kind of pattern if you put, if you have your laundry, you put your clothes out on the back deck, those clothes can dry rapidly, right? Yeah, you go back in an hour, they're dry. Exactly. This is a super dry weather pattern, So things dry out. The fuel moisture, which they measure, just the brush out there, they're still very low, which you would expect this time of year. So when you couple all that or just lump everything together, that's the concern for California, especially focused to the south. Yeah, all right. It's going to be a tough couple of days. Everyone's got to be real careful, for sure. Mark, thank you. Appreciate it. Much more to come here on West Coast Rap tonight. We'll talk some football. A Thursday night showdown in the Mile High City between the Broncos and the Seahawks. We'll have a preview on what to expect from both of these teams. The Seattle Seahawks head to Denver to take on the Broncos in a Thursday night showdown in the Mile High City. Fox 13's Lauren Helmbrecht is in Denver with a preview of what to expect from the Seahawks. Line the ball up and let's play. The Seattle Seahawks don't care that they're a mile above sea level or that they're coming to Denver on a short week. Mike McDonald's team just wants to move past their Week 5 mistake-filled loss and get back out on the field. We're pretty hungry. There's a lot to correct on. There's a lot to improve. I think everyone pretty much on that field has a play or two that they're like, I wish I had that one back. And that's never great. It's never great when everyone. So I can't say it's one person. I think all of us are looking inward. And just correcting that, just sharpening up that one play. We're a good team. We know we can be a great team. and it's going to take those one-offs to go away. Seattle's defense leads the league with 11 forced turnovers and the fewest average yards allowed per game. But the Hawks aren't playing complimentary football. Sam Darnold has thrown interceptions on his first pass attempts in three of Seattle's last four halves of action. There's a sense of urgency. I think that term, you know, that phrase like sense of urgency, it's been thrown around a lot the last couple days, and it's true. You know, there needs to be a sense of urgency to get better and have ball security. For me personally, I'm going to continue to try to be as decisive as I can be and go through my reads and trust what I see, trust my feet, all those things. But, yeah, can't have turnovers. You've got to protect the football in this league, and if you don't, you'll pay. Seattle is an undefeated 15-0 under head coach Mike McDonald when the team wins the turnover battle. But he doesn't need perfection. He just needs improvement. I think our focus is on doubling down on what we do, you know, so it's a good lesson for the guys that aren't necessarily used to being like with this team, the new guys on the team, just how we handle our business, you know, which is we're loose in focus and we attack it and we find solutions and we evolve and we move forward and have each other's backs. So it's easy to say that when you're rattling off wins, but coming after losses, it's really important that we focus on those things. The Seahawks haven't played in Denver since 2018, so this environment will be new for many of the players. And Thursday is the first of three straight primetime games for the Hawks. But in the GM John Schneider era, the Seahawks have done really well in primetime. Their 42-19-1 record is the best during that time span in the NFL. The Seahawks and the Broncos kick off tomorrow at Empower Field at Mile High Stadium at 5:15 Pacific Time. Reporting in Denver for Fox 13 Sports, I'm Lauren Helmbrecht. All right, meantime, the Denver Broncos also getting ready for tomorrow's Thursday night showdown. And we're hearing from Broncos head coach Sean Payton. He knows the challenge of facing the defending Super Bowl champions on a short week. We're playing a real good defense. You know, we've got to get ready for what they do defensively. and, yeah, in a short time frame. This is a really important game. This is the most important right now on our schedule, but we'll play in bigger just because we want to go to higher heights. So right now all we can do is take care of this one and play as hard as we can in it. Like Lauren said, kickoff set for 5-15 Pacific time tomorrow night. All right, let's talk some hoops. The Golden State Valkyries gearing up for their first WNBA Finals appearance in just their second year as a franchise. They're hosting the Atlanta Dream in Game 1 of this series on Saturday at Chase Center in San Francisco. The arena is known for being one of the best environments in all of the WNBA, nicknamed Ballhalla. The Valkyries are 20-5 so far at home this season, including the playoffs. That's the best home record in the WNBA. Today, Valkyries players talked about how important building a community has been to the success of this franchise. I think it's something that we talk about all the time. It's not something that any of us take lightly. With that comes great responsibility. And so I think the way that we care for one another and the way that we connect with the community, all of it kind of goes hand in hand. Just giving back our time, our energy, and our love because we're not where we are without our fans, without Valhalla, without the investment from the community. And I do think that we understand that. Game one of this best-of-seven series gets underway Saturday afternoon. All right, to baseball now, and the L.A. Dodgers are back in Southern California with a tough task in front of them. They're hosting the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series with the Dodgers down 2-0 in this series. Fans packing Dodger Stadium for this game, hopeful their team can mount a comeback in the best-of-seven series. The Dodgers have won the last two World Series championships, and a loss today would put them down three games to none in this series. a huge hole to try to climb out from there. All right, much more to come here on West Coast Wrap tonight. A van falls into a sinkhole in Southern California. We'll explain what led to this stunning scene. In Los Angeles, crews are working to extract a van that was swallowed by a sinkhole in the Los Feliz neighborhood today. Officials say the Spectrum work van was parked along Normandy Avenue as the technician was working in the area. That's when a broken water main caused the sinkhole to open right underneath the vehicle. Of course, we're able to shut off the water, but the van has continued to sink further into that hole. Water service has now been cut off for about 30 households nearby for the time being. It's still not clear exactly when the water service will be restored. Quite the scene there. In Washington, election officials in Snohomish County are working to ease concerns from voters over a ballot typo that some worry would invalidate their vote. That typo is printed on the upper right-hand corner of the ballot return envelope. It's an extra E in the word general. Some voters caught the typo and they alerted the election auditor's office concerned that their ballot wouldn't be counted. But officials say that will not be the case. Those ballots are still valid. The error has now been corrected for all remaining ballots. And the election office is reviewing its proofreading procedures for future elections. Well, with less than three weeks to go before the midterms, Senate Democrats are planning to put observers at polling places. California Senator Alex Padilla and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced that move today. They say more than 100 trained Senate staffers will be election observers at key polling sites and vote counting centers in states with close Senate races. The goal is simple. We deter interference, promote transparency, protect voter confidence, and ensure that fair elections are decided by the voters, not by some outside force, and not bipartisan meddling. They'll be there on the ground to observe and to document if they see any instances of voter interference, any threats against election workers, and they'll monitor the counting, canvassing, and certification process. Right now, the plan is to deploy the observers across nine states, including Ohio, Georgia, and Michigan. We have an update tonight on a police shooting that happened in Thornton, Colorado. The suspect has now been arrested by authorities. 37-year-old Luis Arrabalo was taken into custody last night after police got several calls from people who spotted him in the Denver area. He's been on the run since Sunday. That's when authorities say he fired at officers who were responding to a 911 call and one officer was struck by the gunfire. That officer was treated and then released from the hospital. Officers did return fire, but the suspect was not hit. Coming up here on West Coast Wrap tonight, a huge surprise for a dedicated teacher here in the West. After the break, see how she was honored for her hard work. Korea-based Netflix today announced the company's largest ever round of layoffs. The job cuts will affect about 1,000 employees. That's 6% of the total workforce. The company's co-CEOs, Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, notified employees in an email that was sent out earlier today. Layoffs are centered in the departments of product development, technology, legal, and human resources. Well, it has been a challenging year of frost, drought, and rising costs for many farmers in Utah. But now, recent rain and snowfall is sparking some hope for better crop conditions next year. Farmers say Utah's recent snowfall is a good sign the state will have a solid snowpack going into next year. Snowpacks are critical in supplying water to farms throughout the valleys during growing season and with drought conditions in recent years some farmers have even been forced to reduce their yields to stay afloat. Still they say they're ready to go into the new season with a positive attitude. Anytime we get moisture like this in the fall. We're optimistic for next year. We're planting our winter wheat or we've got it planted and it's growing and greening up with today's rainy weather. So we're optimistic that we're going to have a good harvest next year. This first round of snow comes a little bit earlier than typically seen in Utah. Last season, the state didn't see significant snowfall until February. Well, a Southern California teacher got a surprise classroom visit this week and it included a special appearance by an NFL player and a special gift honoring her dedication to her students. Brandi Garcia is an elementary school math teacher in Hawthorne. Yesterday, Garcia got a check for $10,000 surrounded by her students. They seemed thrilled. She was named Weissburn Unified School District's Teacher of the Year last month, and she is one of four inspirational teachers recently recognized by Mazda's Community Legends program. L.A. Chargers linebacker Delshon Phillips was on hand as well to help celebrate.