Reporter he says he is very impressed with the construction of these new homes here in oakland, and everyone hes irimpressed with him. At 89, he is in there working just as hard as everyone else. The federal government may be shut down, but former president jimmy carter is hard at work, grabbing the power saw like an expert, at habitat for humanity site in oakland. If they can see what happens on a habitat project and use that same pattern in washington, everybody working together toward a common goal, that would be a Wonderful Development in our national capitol. His visit is quite a morale boost for the crew here. Workers were robbed at gunpoint while working on these homes last week. One man was pistol whipped during the attack. Not only to steal from another person but to steal from people who are looking for a good house for the first foam their life, double trial, think. It was very unfortunate incident, about were past it and i think this week is making up for last weeks drama. Habitat for humanity is building 12 town homes here in east oakland as part of the jimmy and Roslyn Carter work project. The former president is a tough boss, they say. You better be working, im hoping he doesnt walk by and see me standing here. Nobody works harder than he is. He has done a thousand times more since being president. They say the real reward is getting to mean the home owners and see their excitement. Not many people can say they met the president and the president worked on your house. Its amazing. Reporter he says its upsetting to hear bat robbery right here at the site of her future home but believes the community will pull together as one, have a good Neighborhood Watch and prevent that from happening in the future. Habitat for humanity hired extra private security guards to watch over their crews until they get this job finished. Live in oakland. Abc7 news. Developing news in richmond. Safety crews are trying to upright an overturned propane tanker that forced evacuations this morning. The tanker flipped along interstate 80 at karlson beloved around 3 00 this morning. Fire crews said the tanker is slowly leaking propane but the leak is confined to the roadway. Guests a at nearby hotel had to evacuation as a precaution. The carlson off and on ramps are closed. Pg e crews sale the gas pressure in a pipeline in san carlos should be turned off by the end of business today. The pipeline runs under the city and is being shut down following a judges order. Pg e insists the pipeline is safe but intern emails from an employee questioned the integrity of an 83yearold seam weld on the pipeline. B. A. R. T. And Union Negotiators are trying to work out a contract right now and avoid another bay area commute night maersk only four days to go before another possible b. A. R. T. Strike. Were live in oakland with the latest. Reporter talks were scheduled to begin at 10 30 this morning but that seems to be a soft start with negotiators trickling in over the last half hour. They have been coming here to this neutral ground caltrans building for months, now with just days to go until the coolingoff period deadline comes thursday night, with no deal by then, that means they could strike friday morning, but understand, that does not mean they will, and talks could continue past the deadline, with no strike. When asked about 572hour notice, they said this morning only theyre focused on getting a deal. B. A. R. T. Says basically the same thing, but does have a contingency plan in place with backup buses. As of friday the two sides were 89 million apart according to barret. 30 million according to the upon. Thats long way to go to get to the middle of the socalled settlement zone, and the deadline is thursday night. B. A. R. T. Said it did improve its wage offer last week but wouldnt say anything more and say its time to keep the negotiating at the table and not in the media. Live in oakland. Can abc7 news. Stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage of the b. A. R. T. Talks. If there is a strike, we have a wide range of resources for you at abc7 news. Com. And you can find realtime traffic conditions and download our exclusive abc news waves traffic app to help you navigate the roads, and follow us on twitter for breaking news updates. President obama appears ready to compromise to avoid a u. S. Government defaulting on its debt. A senior white house official says mr. Obama should expect a shortterm increase in the federal cap rather than one lasting longer. The statement appears to reflect the obama administers acknowledging it may not be possible to reach a deal on other longterm increase in the debt ceiling before a critical october 17th deadline. Despite the shutdown, photographers at Lauren Livermore lab is telling employees they will work this week, by midweek theyll evaluate to see if theres enough now to keep the lab open beyond friday. Congratulations for two bay area nobel Prize Winners from uc berkly and stanford. Matt keller has the story. Reporter believe it or not uc berkly and stanford students are celebrating together today, and thats because they found out their universities are now home to the newest nobel Prize Winners. Its not every day youre excited to get a phone call waking you up in the middle of the night, but for uc berkeley professor Randy Schekman it is one he has been waiting a life time for. My First Response was oh, my god. Shortly after the call the committee made it official in sweden. The assembly as today decided to award the 2013 nobel prize in physiology or medicine, jointly, to james rothman, Randy Schekman, and thomas sudhoff. Schekman and sudhoff were honored with the nobel prize for medicine for solving the how the cell organizes its transport system. Schekmans work has led to discoveries in insulin production in help help titus b vaccine. I never worked on myself but happy to have contributed in some small way to making that possible. So this is really the value of basic science. Schekman is uc berkeleys 23rd factually member to win a nobel prize. Thomas sudhoff is number 29 in stanford. He is traveling in europe so his wife took the call. He said he cooperate believe it. He wanted me to go on to the nobel prize web site to see if its real or someone pulling a prank on him. I told him its real. Reporter its not just the prestige of the nobel prize. The three professors will be splitting 1. 2 million. Speaking of money, San Francisco middle schools are getting an unprecedented boost to prepare students to succeed in this hightech world. The found irof sales force. Com is giveing 2. 7 million to the citys 12 middle schools. They made the official announcement a short time ago with the mayor. When the mayor first asked the tech giant for money, he said they asked for too little and urged the mayor to think big, come up with a man and return for moore money. Now theres computers for everybody and other things. The San Francisco board of supervisors begins debate whether to close the city parks at night. They would be offlimits between 10 00 at night and 5 00 in the morning. He said its as only way to help prevent the loss from vandalism and illegal dumping. Homeless advocates oppose the measure. Investigators trying to determine if fireworks were to blame for this fire on yerba buena island. . Have you notice a little relief at the pump . Well look at the driving force behind it. One of the bureaucratters bikers involved in the motorcycle clash in new york shares his side of the story but not everybody is buying it. Why you may feel like you overpaid if you were one of the first to get your hands on the new iphone 5c, let until you hear how little theyre now going for. Taking a live look outside right now, its a gorgeous day around the bay. Or how to find big savings on the things you need. Just make a Straight Line to safeway. Your club card gets you deals you cant find anywhere else. This week, folgers is 6. 88 for the large size. Thats a lot of coffee. Skip the warehouse. Charmin is 13. 99 for 24 double rolls. And lean cuisine entrees are just a buck 99. Real big deals this week and every week. Only at safeway. Ingredients for life. The biker at the center of a massive road rage incident on a new york city highway says he is not responsible, in an exclusive interview with abc new york Christopher Cruz says the video is not what it looks like to everyone. The 28yearold is seen on this video pulling in front of an suv, then going down. Cruz was trying to provoke a fender benitier accident, the police says. Cruz says he was trying to change lanes and figure out where his friends were. Did you have other options rather than cutting in front of the family . I didnt think i was doing anything wrong with just turning into another lane. Except you were going really slowly. The other bikes are going as slow as i am. Police arent buying cruzs story and say he set off a terrifying eight minute long chase ending with the beating of the suv driver who ran over a biker. The biker is now paralyzed. Delta airlines is still trying to figure out how a nineyearold boy flew from minneapolis to las vegas without a chaperone or ticket. He said he was part of a family while going through the screening process but the transportation security administration, then he disdistracted an Airline Boarding employee before slipping on to the plane. The crew became swooshes because the child didnt match anybody on their passenger manifest. Apparently he is a runaway and is now in protective custody this morning. A little less pain at the pump this morning. The average cost has fallen 14cents a gallon thanks to an oversupply of transportation fuel. The survey finds the average nationwide price is 3. 38. St. Louis has the lowest average at 3. 01. The highest is San Francisco, at 3. 88. The california average is 3. 83, and thats down 13 cents over the last two weeks. New this morning. If youre among the apple fans who decided to hold off before getting the iphone 5cs, you can get one at a discount. A price war has broken out after two weeks on the market. Best buy cut the price in half, selling it for only 50 with a twoyear contract. Walmart is also offering a discount and selling the 5c for half price. A beautiful weekend. Hope everyone got to enjoy it because its going to change. Its all about the falllike temperatures. Looking live from the sutro tower cam towards pre seedow and are were going to get a taste of warm monday wednesday night. We have the forecast coming up. The exclusive interview with a pakistani teen shot in the head by the taliban, she recounts that dreadful day that put her in the 2014 in the Nobel Peace Prize. A bartender literally hits the jackpot with a customer tip. And heres tonights primetime lineup on abc7. At 8, two hours of dancing with the stars, and t Officials Say they have a high ranking al qaeda leader in custody who could provide a treasure trove of information. He was captured by u. S. Commandos over the weekend. The u. S. Government had a 5 million bounty on his head for his role in the 1998 bombings of the american embassies in tanzania and kenya. He was around Osama Bin Laden in the early days of al qaeda. The attack was one of two special forces raids executed in africa. The other in somalia, where u. S. Forces targeted the Al Qaeda Group who carried out the massacre at kenyas westgate mall. Now to Diane Sawyers interview with the pakistani teen shot in the head by taliban gunman for speaking out about edation for girls. She has become in the youngest nominee for in the Nobel Peace Prize at 16. She spoke about when she was shot on her way home from school. On the day i was shot all of my friends were covered except mine. Is that wise . It was brave but was it wise . I wanted to live my life as i want. Well hear more about the remarkable story on world news with diane sawyer tonight. Now we have the accuweather forecast. The week is starting out so beautiful. It really is. We had a beautiful weekend, nice and warm. Youll notice its a bit cooler out there. You need the light sweater walking to school, and make sure you look both directions. Looking from the kgo cam, clear skies, sunshine, and the bay bridge in the background. Its going to be on the cooler side today as we head over to our live doppler 7hd radar satellite, were not getting any returns in terms of moisture, just high clouds. Looking towards the bay bridge and treasure island, you see a little haze out there, but all in all, drenched in sunshine. San francisco, your current temperature, 62. Were going to be topping out in the midsixes in to lower 70s for much of the bay area and very cool along the coast. In fact its 15 degrees difference from yesterday but cooler. This is all why because of this trough of low pressure over the pacific northwest, and thats going to be bringing not only cooler temperatures but also in moisture. The green some ofs splotches on the man indicates rain hitting the bay area, mostly in the southern portion, come wednesday night and thursday morning. But just a small taste of it. Our highs for today along the coast and santa cruz, 77 degrees. Pretty much in the lower sevens in to midsevens in for much of the south bay. 68 in downtown San Francisco. Marin, we can see some upper 70s as well, calistoga, low 80s, and thats the story for the inland temperatures as well, in the east bay, oakland, going to be mid70s there. So 80 in pittsburgh. 81 in antioch. Our lows for tonight, bit chillier. Definitely going to need the sweater if not a light jacket. So low 50s for move off the bay area. Heres the sevenday forecast. With the taste of the rain for wednesday, and going to dry up on thursday and a slight uptick in temperature for the latter part of the week and into the weekend. Sounds good. Going to love this story. A great tip. A regular customer gave an oregon bartender his keno ticket as a thank you. Turned out to be that bartenders lucky day. It was worth more than 17,000. When she tried to give it back he told her it was hers to keep. She says she plans to buy a new couch and put the rest in savings. Amazing. 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The small cafe that went up against the computer giant and won. New this morning in england, Buckingham Palace is hosting its first ever soccer match. Prince williamson hands and welcomed players this morning. It was between two of englands oldest amateur clubs. The queen gave william permission to host the games. The new father is president of the football association. Works out well. We call it soccer. Yes. Thank you so much for joining us. We want to give you the it is the middle of the fourth inning so the as are leading 30, so were keeping the updates going. Feeling the green and gold, guys. Youre sure to get a better bundle. Just choose the two, three, even four services you want to build a bundle that works for you. [ female announcer ] call at t now. Choose a uverse tripleplay bundle for just 79 a month. Get the same great price for two years. Plus switch today and get a total home dvr included for life. 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