People ran from the homes and evacuated. There was one home lost but it was empty. It burned to the ground. It is burning if a rural area. It is moving east. It is nowhere near town. They evacuated the carnegie state vehicle Recreation Area. We are told 145 firefighters are here and are being aggressive in the windy and dry conditions. There are no injuries to report. They do not know what causes caused the fire that is 5 percent contained. The fire if livermore has many of you taking to social media to show us what you are seeing. You can see a few of the snapshots sent in to the newsroom. Use abc7now. We will find your photos. Check out our photos on instagram. Weather is expected to be a factor in the firefighting efforts fed. Mike . Good morning, gays. The Altamont Pass is notorious for wind and for being one of the dry of the areas which is group out there and everything will go up in flames if the is near this. 57 for the temperature but up high we have winds gusting up to 37. In livermore the winds are only at Nine American so the potential is this for the wind to help the fire get out of control as they stay up and push the smoke into the Central Valley at tracy and this wind forecast is at livermore so add ten Miles Per Hour and they will be up to 35 Miles Per Hour around the afternoon and evening. Livermore has visibility at ten Miles Per Hour so the smoke is moving away. We are look at temperatures and feeling temperatures in the upper 50s to let 60 and mid50s to 70s with sunshine and 80 inland by we going to get to the closures in a minute and we are look at the exit of 580 eastbound at oakland road. We are stopped at a height. We will go to the map and show you what is happening. The closure, tesla road, that is closed pause of the tesla fire. We are hearing that dublin c. H. P. Has closed tesla road at greenville so be aware you will not have access to the roadways. They have a sigalert, a pickup lands on its side after flipping. Westbound 580 at 680, heavy traffic pushing to the dublin interchange. Heavy traffic as you make it over the Altamont Pass and all in automatic tracy to dublin take you an hour and ten minutes. A woman is in custody after leading c. H. P. Officers on a high speed chase through three bay area cities. It started before 3 00 this morning when the driver was spotted weaving driving up to 120 Miles Per Hour through richmond, and berkeley and across the bay bridge into San Francisco where she crashed into a hydrant. The San Jose Police are roping a new idea to help officers catch crimes happening in action. They want to mount license plate readers on garbage trucks but that is raising questions on privacy. Melanie woodrow is at sanitation facility to explain. Melanie . That is right, there are privacy concerns about the proposal. Some people worry that their data will be out there and could be compromised, places this we have been people with people they have been with. The point of the proposal i help under staffed Police Department. Critics question how it would be collected, stored, and used. San Jose City Council member said the idea would help Police Identify stolen vehicles or those used in a crime. Since the garbage trucks are already on the road he said it would only cost a few thousand dollars a year. The garbage trucks made a trip down every street on every week so it is a much better way to cover the entire city to a week. The collection companies and their employees will not be able to access the information. The general manager where we are said that he is for the idea. The proposal could go before the entire city council in the next two weeks. On the peninsula, police are trying to identify a man accused of groping a woman walking in downtown palo alto. It happened on high street Near University avenue on monday around 9 00. The woman in her 30s was walking to her car and notice add man on the bicycle. She got in the car and he muttered to her and grabbed her. She screamed and he took off. Pg e has a 40 million electric Distribution Grid Control Center in concord saying the 38,000 square foot nerve center will enhance electric reliability through the bay area and the coast. Pg e said this will help respond more quickly to outages. They have relied on customers to report outages and now the smart meters can pin point the problem. The gas tax could be raised where a bill increasing the gas tax 12 crept as flown and vehicle registration up to 100. It could generate 4 billion for road repairs. Bills increasing the legal smoking age to 21 and allow bees to place local tobacco taxes on ballot. The increase in taxes and fees requires two they they thirds of legislature to approve. And there is a challenge to the effectiveness of the fact check on backgrounds for uber and lyft drivers convicted of felonies including burglary, sex crimes and murder. Uber said the drivers are scrutinized as thoroughly as cab drivers. A new report said that the drought and excessive pumping of ground water are causing land to sink faster than ever before. The report said that land is signaturing from sacramento to bakersfield. And a section sank 13 in eight months. This has occurred before because of excessive pumping of the ground water but it is happening faster and put the infrastructure at growing risk of damage. Contra costa county Water District said the customers reduced water use by 40 james for the second straight month. The goal is 28 percent. Way to go. The cut is the greatest savings they have ever seen in the last tremendous years of drought. The bay area is stepping up as far as conserving water but we will not get water from the sky any time soon. Not for a while. Drizzle is the best. That is around bodega bay. Good morning, we have had of rain since this morning. You can see the friend is showing drizzle at the coast and over the ocean. The Golden Gate Bridge shows we have clouds this morning and cross wind at let were Miles Per Hour from west to east. We are going to were on it in the peninsula and southbound by at 78 and east bay at 76 and inland east bay a warm spot at 84 and north bay 80 and San Francisco is 68. We you know we will have arrival delays because of the pray start over because of the gray start over the peninsula. We have 48 bart trains on time now. Caltrain is not fining any delays whatever. Ace train one and three are on time. Back to the sigalert, westbound 580 at 680 in the dublin interchange you can see how slow the traffic is moving. I will show you how long it will take you at 12 Miles Per Hour it is at top speed to make it between tracy boulevard where you will fine the delays all the way up to 680 and that is a slow drive and it will take you in excess of an hour and 15 minutes. 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Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep cupertino, concord, wine country, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. A possible twist in the investigation surrounding an explosion at a washington motel. This is new video on tuesday of the blast that ripped off a 16 room section of the motel 6 in bremerton. The manager evacuated the building moments the blast after smelling gas. Three people were injured including three firefighters. Police are looking into a claim someone may have damaged the gas line after jump out of a window. Regal entertainment is inspecting backpacks and bags as people enter a theater offering 7,300 screens across the United States. It is not known how much glue the shoot insurance in colorado and louisiana had on the decision. Many do not seem to mind. Unfortunately, there have been several Mass Shootings at movie theaters so, yes, yes, we are there. I appreciate it. There are a few theaters in the bay area including in oakland and san ramon. Facebook is trying to expand from the social Media Network to a news network and Business Insider reports facebook is developing an app for breaking news alerts to users as a new study shows facebook drives more internet traffic than news sites than google. It includes 400 Media Outlets and facebook drives six billion view as movement. Target is trying to get amazon a run for the money with a better p line Shopping Experience starting in the fall they will test a program to narrow the timeframe in which customers can specific to receive a package. There should be delivery in one or two days rather than the normal four day window. Starbucks is pushing back the release of popular Pumpkin Spice latte earmarking a september 8 launch a week after last years launch day. This is a silver lining, be sipping four days sooner september 4. They are changing the recipe putting real pumpkin in there compared to artificial and make it take time to perfect. It is interesting when they use the real stuff and you think, no, it doesnt look like think, no, it doesnt look like pull kin. How about the backtoschool both, heading into the classroom, and look at what we are going to deal with, with the school district, serving the students of cambrian with clouds at 7 00, and look at the sunshine, 81 at 3 00. Have a great day. And a great year. Down in the south bay. Here is walnut creek, you can see it is cloudy. Temperature is running 60 degrees right now. It is going to be a gray morning but brighter afternoon but for the coast and maybe just a little more pray than yesterday. Clouds tonight and drizzle possible language the coast like this morning and minor fluctuation in the sevenday forecast. Heading to the south, we are 65 degrees and same in example and santa clara and sunnyvale and Mountain View and santa teresa and los gatos is 55 degrees, and we are 65 in newark, and cool in danville at 56, and brentwood is 58, and sang san pablo is 58. We have a night sea breeze. That is because of the High Pressure retreating to the south. The area of low pressure is sending the flow our way as the High Pressure keeps the jet stream and the storm track way up to our north. That is why at the coast because of the warm ocean water you will be close to average and the rest of us below average. 78 in san jose. Down to gilley to get 85, and ten degrees cooler in 75. Redwood city is 8 and san mateo is 74. With the clouds, midtoupper 60s along the coast and 68 downtown, and 70s south San Francisco and 68 if sausalito, and 76 today in novato and 80 in santa rosa and cloverdale is warm at 84. Bodega is clouds and 64 and 72 today in oakland, new around, union city, 75, and the warm spot is Castro Valley 78, and inland, the cool spot, san ramon 80, and walnut creek 82, and livermore is 8 pa and the winds are going to be really nasty in the Altamont Pass this afternoon. The sevenday outlook shows two to fourdegrees cooler tomorrow bouncing back warm on saturday and steady as she goes the roast of the the rest of the forecast. Westbound 580 at the dublin interchange, it has canceled at 680. But ten Miles Per Hour is the top sped as you pull away from airway boulevard. Folks, it will take you an hour and 36 minutes from tracy to dublin which is a terrible drive. In fact, you can see eight Miles Per Hour in the Single Digits pulling away from 205 and merging with a 80 with heavy delays on 580, as well. Possibly, some of this is due to the fire closures because the area at tesla is shut down because of the tesla fire. To the west, too, greenville at tesla, that is closed. Dublin church has closed that area. Southbound 101 in the north bay, santa rosa to petaluma is 19 minutes. Heavy traffic is bunching up near highway 116. Castro valley to the maze is 14 minutes and 101 northbound from 280 to 680 to highway 85 is 15 minutes. Students across the bay area head back to school and abc7 is saluting the crossing gars where you live. Hubert j. Lee has been a crossing guard in Redwood Heights for 18 years retired from the federal government and called oakland whom since 1973. He is stationed on 35th at 7 30 am and 1 00 oclock p. M. In the afternoon. The kids get to School Safely thanks to hubert. We would love to meet the crossing guards where you live so send us a picture with your name and their school. Top honors for several bay area high schools and what makes them the boast in the nation. Breast cancer medal for former Beverly Hills star and is suing over medical treatment. 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Her health scare has turned into a bit are lawsuit. The 44yearold is sue her former Business Managers saying she did not pay her Health Insurance and that kept her from seeing doctors. Her former managers told abc7 that her allegations are false. Time to check with a look at Good Morning America at 7 00. Dan . Good morning, coming up, ten years after hurricane katrina, robin is running home to explore the storms legacy and celebrate the resilience of those would live there in new orleans with a story that embeds the spirit, one of the survivors opening up for the first time about her own ordeal during the storm. See you at 7 00. Passengers flying in sfo can let the t. S. A. Know if they were happy with their experience moving influence security. The Washington Post said federal answers are using the kiosk with emojis at 27 aiports and 14 Social Security offices to address Customer Service complains. They will be added to reagan national, that guardia, l. A. X. 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