Captured them in their identifying attire as they moved through the house. This was one of two Home Invasions that happened in fremont in the same month. Both had similar m. O. S. A wide ranging investigation but the task force resulted in the arrests of six people friday and last night. For the Home Invasion robberies in fremont, livermore as well. Conit a costa county d. A. Barry grove. A number of other Home Invasion robberies similar in nature that were continuing to investigate, and one of those includes the ornlda one but no arrests as of yet have been made in that case. Reporter orenda Armed Robbery happened last week outside the home of School Board Member carol brown and her husband thomas spaulding. The guy said give it up. I reached in my hand, pulled out my wallet and he hit me in the head with the brown. Reporter brown was shot twice and she was treated at a hospital and later released. This is one of several recent armed robberies in other cities in Contra Costa County which the fbi is investigating. Pun of those happened in pinoll, neighbor mary grogan. I now it was a gun, heard bang, bang, bang. All of a sudden then i heard the woman screaming bloody murderer. Authorities emphasize that the investigation is continuing. At least one case involved a murder. More arrests are expected. Vic lee. Abc 7 news. The man accused of torturing and killing cats in san jose pleaded guilty to all charges today. Robert farmer agreed to me agreement on 21 felony counts. Police arrested farmer last year after Surveillance Footage showed him trying to round up cats in san joses camia neighbor. Details of his plea deal were not released. Hell be sentenced in december. Owners of the dead cats stood in solidarity outside the courthouse today, many holding pictures of their pets. A woman attending the hearing got a little roughed up when a female inmate trying to escape ran over her in the hallway outside the courtroom. You can see mary here sitting on the bench in the teal blouse in this photo. All of a sudden i looked up, and a woman came barreling out. Courtroom and ran right into me and i fell to the ground, smacked my hip and and hit my head. Hoover was in pain, but she stayed for robert farmers hearing. The inmat was recaptured thanks in part to hoover being in the right place at the right time. Were getting our first look at a man accused of one of five homicides that took place in San Francisco between friday and sunday. Police believe 59yearold eugene bell killed a woman in Lower Pacific Heights on sunday afternoon. Bell is still in jail. Investigators believe bell stabbed 63yearold donna m ho ntaleono at california and pierce streets. Four other people were shot and killed over the weekend in separate incidents. No one has been arrested in those cases. San jose is paying a heavy price for failing to keep its Police Department fully staffed. The city auditor found each officer averages about eight hours of overtime per squeak every week all year long. The city has been adding mandatory overtime shifts because it doesnt have enough officers. That adds up to 450 hours per year for every officer. As a result, san joses overtime bill has more than tripled from 11 million in 2008 to 36 million last year. Are the 49ers contributing a lot of money to influence next months sclera City Council Election . Thats what a Watchdog Group is claiming today. David louie is live in santa clara with th story. David . Well, kristen, the niners may be home here in santa clara, but accusations today that the team may have been making contributions to support Certain City Council candidates have caused quite a city, and it may be up to voters next month to decide who is telling the truth. Money being secretly laundered into santa clara politics and we believe strongly that the 49ers are behind that. Reporter group stand up for santa clara claims the niners made had a 49,265 contribution to San Francisco bays blue pack whose website is promoting a slate of candidates for city council. Critics say its an effort to tip the balance on the council in favor of the niners. Otherwise were going to just be big monies in these special Interest Groups are going to continue to develop our city and take over our cities. Reporter election comes as the council is dealing with a reset of the stadium rent paid to the city. The council also fought efforts by the niners to take over a cityowned youth soccer field. The niners issued a statement to respond to the allegations saying, quote this, organization does not make a practice of commenting on political matters and will not begin doing so in a response town substantiated rumors that support the personal agendas of local politicians. Dorothy rozada, a lifelong 49ers fan, wants team ceo jed york to come clean. I want him to hold a press conference and tell the people of santa clara he will not engage in dirty politics and laundered money. Reporter blue pack was set up by a San Francisco attorney douglas chan. When asked if the money did or did not come from the niners he said the openers do not involve themselves in government. If you cant trust who youre working with and they are doing these types of dishon left things then we have a problem. Reporter in santa clara, david louie, abc 7 news. Fremont police are investigating a series of arsons. Thats right. 15 small fires have broken out in the citys warm springs district. All of them are small. Most have occurred on the weekend and early in the morning since july. Extra Police Patrols are now in effect. A man is accused of starting a brush fire in an area of Santa Cruz County known for wildfires. Investigators say jed merose of felton set the fire this morning. A worker as a nearby business spotted the fire and joint others to extinguish it. Preliminary estimates show last fridays Massive Church Fire in berkeley caused 2 million in damage. Fire Officials Say the damage is so extensive where where this fire may have started the kay mau never be known but arson has been ruled out. The fire at the First Congressional Church destroyed a Brick Office Building and part of the churchs main sanctuary. The Highway Patrol needs your help finding a man who ran o off. The owners of the house are now by his side hoping hell make it. Reporter his owners say 18yearold chance is not himself. The ranch horse may have fractured his neck after this Toyota Tundra rear ended the trailer he was in. Sharely was in the truck had a was trailing the trarl and justcating in the truck and all of a sudden we knelt the impact. We known the what it was but we fee it was. The driver was already gone reporter witness said hey that guy just got in the car and left and he was gone. They ever saw again. The california highway parole have a good description, 5 foot, shaved head and tattoos on both hands. At the time of the accident he was he cant flex his neck in any position and hes holding his ears pin back on his left side. I dont think hell be able to work again. We would very that hell. The next 24 hours are crucial. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. The Millennium Tower in San Francisco may be leaning slightly, but a report out tonight says its structural stable and will be able to withstand a large eck. Concern twrat reveals this summer that the buildings foundation was settling and they believe the nearby construction of the terminal project may be responsible for the property. Probably for this which gist gate out this morning thats safe and, and the streak ture enity he has been not compromised and thats a good thing. The expert review is appreciated and they are reviewing the new energy engineer. Expect to see crews working into the evening to patch a broken water main thats closed part of a busy street in berkeley. A viewer treated this picture of the mess at university over and. Right now roughly 30 homes and businesses do not have running water. All right. Does yahoo have a secret partner. Coming up, reports surface that the is is scanning the emails for your fbi. N new. P on your sides Michael Finney has everything your high finney has everything your High School Student new zealand am an iraq veteran. Lowering drug prices. Dollars to defeat it. Vets in voting yes on prop 61. Finney has everything your High School Student new zealand alla lot of its a hoax. Bal warminits a hoax. Itll get cooler. Itll get warmer. Its called weather. We need some Global Warming we need leaders who get it. So that we can move away from coal and oil to clean energy. Im tom steyer. If you want to do something about climate change, you can. Please. Register and vote. Nextgen California Action Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. Google is diving head first in the hardware business. Thats the theme today as the search giant unveiled a slew of giants to go all over your home and in your pocket. Abc 7 News ReporterJonathan Bloom has the story. In an old Chocolate Factory googles ceo described the world of the future. This new world of computing, it will be there everywhere. Reporter everywhere including your nightstand. Your alarm is set for weekends at 8 00 a. M. Reporter and the kitchen where it can even hear you over the music. Okay, google, whats the weather in stress co. Reporter that 130 Smart Speaker is google home and the friendly voice the new google assistant. Twoway conversation, natural dialogue between our iris and google. Reporter i say, okay, google, play house of cards on the living room tv and when we walk into the room, its already playing. You can take the assistant with you on googles new phone. We call it pixel. Reporter at 650 they didnt cut corners. Just that extra bit of premium where they are in iphone territory now. Reporter they are proud of the camera. The best Smartphone Camera anyone has ever made. Reporter an its the first phone to work with this. I would like to introduce you to daydream view. Reporter googles second vr headset made from an unconventional material. First one called cardboard is made out of cardboard and this one is made out of plastic. Feels like a pillow against your head instead of a rigid plastic device. Reporter and sean holster lovs loves the controller that came with the 80 headset. Felt accurate and quick. Reporter along with a new wifi system and chromecast that streams in 4k. A family of devices designed and built by us. This is a natural stop and were in it for the long run. Reporter . San francisco, Jonathan Bloom, abc 7 news. Yahoo is hoping u. S. Intelligence Services Search its customers incoming emails, maybe yours. Thats according to a report from reuters today. It says the sunnyvalebased company developed software to scan incoming email for key phrases. Yahoo did so to comply with an fbi directive. Thats according to this report. If true, this could be the first case of an american Internet Company agreeing to a spy agencys demand by searching all arriving messages. Reporter a u. S. Lawmaker says improper sales practices at wells fargo was not limited to consumer accounts. U. S. Senator david witter who heads the Small BusinessCommittee Says the San Franciscobased bank committed fraud against thousands of Small Business owners. Reuters first reported the allegation and government investigation has identified 10,000 Small Business accounts that were improperly opened. The bank has said it fired about 5,300 employees for improperly opening consumer accounts. You notice were wearing blue today. Thats right. Many people in the bay area, of course, because the warriors play their second preseason game at oracle tonight and its the home debut for the team star acquisition. Kevin durant. Really a fun season already. Abc 7 Sports ReporterMike Schumann is live with us. Reporter hard to believe were here at oracle getting ready for the 201617 season and it will be Kevin Durants debut here at oracle in a warriors uniform. Preseason basketball has never been as important as it is this season, and the reason is kevin durant. Hes trying to get used to a new system, new teammates, new surroundings, and we saw flashes of his former mvp brilliance saturday night against toronto up in vancouver. And k. D. Told us today that hes starting to get comfortable with his new teammates. Good thing about having really good players around you and stef is a little bit more vast in knowing what to do here than i am, klay is, andre is, and just from watching those guys i just try to follow what those guys do within the offense and add my flair to it and add what i do with a player. This is the only way im going to get better and reach the level i want to reach. Its name tag tuesday here with all the new faces on the Golden State Warriors and the clippers are coming to town and mo speights and mo buckets, one of a fan favorites, now a clipper. A little bit of a reunion of sports. Reporting live at oracle, mike shum ha nn. Going to be awesome. It will be. High School Seniors thinking going to college need that fast when applying for Financial Aid. How to do that, michael. First come and first serve and they moved it up three months. Really. This is a big change for students going to college. Applying for the free application for federal student or fafsa is already under way. This is way earlier. Three months earlier than before like i said. Consumer reports says it is important to get your application in now. This is a High School Senior with big dreams. She will need loans to pay for college. I want to pursue a career in medicine, and those careers tend to be a little bit more than expense in spite of being able to apply for Financial Aid earlier will help her and her family make more informed decisions about college affordability. Heres how it works. Submit the fafsa form. Youll get a student aid report that tells you what federal aid you qualify for like pell grants or work study and then enter that information into the net price calculator on any colleges website or on collegeabacus. Org to get a good idea of what a college will cost you before you apply. Its important to apply for fafsa as soon as the october 1st launch as possible. Many state, college and scholarship programs need your f parafsa to determine how much aid youre going to get and often its on a first come and first serve basis. Be aware if youre heading to college in 2017. Your aid package will be based on your familys 2015 taxes. Can you use the irs, data retrieval tool on the fafsa form to directly import your tax information. Dont worry if you dont know all the schools you want to apply to. List all the colleges youre considering to hold your place in line for Financial Aid. Can you always add more schools later on. Okay. This is important, too. Youve got to remember that you must reapply for fafsa every year. Now, the new application date means that youll get earlier notification about your aid packages that. Allows you to, you know, look at school to school and how much youre going to have to borrow and that kind of stuff. Have they good. Glad they moved it. People just werent ready for it. Thanks, michael, very much. Good tuesday evening. Take a look at live doppler 7 right now. Most areas clear. A few clouds passing through parts of the bay area. South beach cameras showing you the clouds over the port of oakland right now and here are your temperatures. San francisco 63. Youre in the 70s. Mountianview, san jose and oakland 69 and Half Moon Bay 61 degrees. Blue skies in san jose where it got up to the low 70s today. A little bit milder, except in santa rosa where it was much warmer today. Low to mid70s from santa rosa to noa and also livermore. A live picture from our tower camera. Youll be seeing more of this in the days ahead. Chilly tomorrow morning and milder afternoon. Were looking at a warming trend right on through saturday with a possibility of showers early next week. Computer models are not exactly in agreement on that one, so well each keep you posted on that one. First thing tomorrow morning dress warmly. Its going to be a chilly start, especially in the valleys, mid40s to mid50s when you get going under mostly clear skies. For the afternoon, a mild day. Temperatures will be in the mid to upper 70s inland right along the coast to upper 60s and it will be a breezy one but lots of sunshine for your wednesday. Take a look at the fleet week forecast. Threeday forecast, it is just going to be spectacular. Blue skies expected for blue angels friday through sunday. Temperatures will be warming friday, saturday and then had a little bit cooler sunday, so if youre going out tomorrow to check out the preactivities, its still going to be very nice, now well fast forward to october 11th next tuesday. One computer mod sell hinting at a possibility of showers tuesday evening, going into wednesday morning. The other computer model is actually dryer so well go with a slight chance. Heres where they will get a lot of rain. Hour main matthew in the atlantic. Category 4 storm. 140 max sustained winds. There are watches and warnings up. It has made a second landfall so first landfall was over 80 earlier today and the second one is over the eastern tip of cuba. Its expected to continue as a category 4 going into tomorrow and it will move towards the southeastern United States thursday afternoon and going into friday. It is going to be near the florida coastline. The east coast there, and then continuing as a category 2 along the carolina coast. Over the weekend and up along the new york coastline as a category 1. If you have family or friends there or you have travel plans there, stay tuned on hurricane matthew. Always track all of this with our abc 7 news apps. Youll want to download t. Accuweather sevenday forecast. Sunny and milder tomorrow. We warm it up for you going into the latter part of the workweek and into the weekend. Upper 80s to low 90s. Almost summer like. Upper 60s and low 70s at our beaches. Thats october for you and sundays a slight dip. Its cooler monday, tuesday noticeably cooler. Kristen and dan, we may even be talking about the possibility of showers. Another poetry of weather. Thanks, sandhya. From soccer moms to pot moms. The women who could decide a critical issue in california. Thats next. And next world news with david muir. Hurricane matthew a direct hit. The deadly category 4. Already states of emergency in the u. S. From florida up through the carolinas, and the new track at this hour showing it moving right up the coast. And the giant gas explosion leveling two ho prop 64 makes marijuana legal in california for adults 21 and over. And heres what else it does bans marijuana use in public. Permits sales only at licensed marijuana businesses, not at grocery or convenience stores. And prop 64 generates a billion in new tax revenue for california to fund afterschool programs and job training and placement initiatives. Learn more at yeson64. Org vote yes on 64. Proposition 64, the Ballot Initiative to legalize the use of recreational mayor wan a. The got some blowback from a group of moms in intelligent hoerks today. The group known as moms strong says marijuana is the reason so many of their children suffer from Mental Health issues. They point out the level of thc, the active ingredient in pot, it infinitely more powerful than decades ago. This drug causes a suite of psychiatric harms that are vulnerable and the big problem here is who is vulnerable and who is playing russian roulette with marijuana in the marijuana of today with the potency as high as 300 to 800 higher than back in yesteryear. Supporters argue legalizing pot will limit an standardize its strength so people will know what they are buying since they would be able to purchase it legally from a store rather than from a dealer out on the street. The Vice President ial debate will soon get under way right here on abc 7. Our coverage starts at 6 p. M. And it will also be Live Streaming on our abc 7 news app. The debate is the followed by dancing with the stars at 8 00 and then a special edition of abc 7 news at 9 00. Jeopardy and wheel at 10 00 and 10 30. Of course, thats all followed by abc 7 news at 11 00. We hope you join us this evening. You cant get enough of that new mac book smell. Well, now you can get it in a candle. That story is next. Theyre bringing crime, when mextheyre rapists. Ople. Are you going to have a massive Deportation Force . Youre going to have a Deportation Force. Were rounding em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. Were going to build a wall. Thats not america. Were all californians. Im tom steyer. Its time to speak out. Please, register. And vote. Vote. Nextgen California Action Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. All right. We want to thank abc 7 news viewer kristine for this instagram picture of the golden gate bridge. Isnt that stuning . Wow. Share your pictures with us on social media using the abc 7 now. You may see it an air like this or online at abc7news. Com. Good perfective. Apple fans have a new way to celebrate their favorite tech companies. And it requires no plugin or password. Check this out. A candle thats snowed to smell like a freshly unboxed mac. Seriously . Apple accessory company 12 south is selling it online. The 24 candle contains scents of mint, basil, lavender and peach. Daunt know your device had those smells, did you . Im not sure how that smells like a new mac, and like any iphone release the thing is sold out. Can you believe it . Yeah. World news tonight is coming up next. Im kristein sze. And im dan ashley. For all of us here, we tonight, breaking news. A direct hit. Hurricane matthew strikes. Pray for us the category 4 storm, deadly already. 700 miles wide. And here in the u. S. Tonight, states of emergency declared in several states. Massive evacuations planned. And the new track, showing it moving right up the coast, florida, the carolinas, potentially right through philly and new york. Also tonight, the massive gas explosion. Two homes leveled. Authorities had a 22minute warning. Donald trump, after reports he might not have paid federal income taxes for nearly two decades, tonight, trump in his own words. What he says is unfair. And the vp showdown tonight. Late developments. The man who showed up at the white house with a gun, shot by police. His al