Strength of 1109 officers. When you factor in disabilities and military leave, the department is roughly 200 officers below that, and its expecting to lose well over 100 sworn officers this year from resignations and retirements. It means less officers on the street, more overtime for officers, higher response times, higher crime rates. Reporter the outlook of catching up is not good. A new Police Academy class starting tomorrow has a capacity of 60. The city made 29 job offers but five took jobs elsewhere and one was a noshow. That will mean the class will have 23 recruits, plus one who was previously hired. Residents of West San Jose tell us they dont see many officers on patrol, and they already know the consequences of short staffing. We are having breakins, you know, a good amount this past summer. Which never happened. I have been living there for 16 years and i hear if you were to call 911 and ask for police, it would take 20, 30 minutes for them to get out. Reporter the issue of a safe city is part of the san jose mayors race. Both candidates think the academy numbers can be boosted even as a third recruit class is planned for next year. The wage issue is something i think we can work on. You cant do anything about the pension issues right now. They are locked into the city charter. But we can certainly work with them on wages and give them second thoughts about going somewhere else. We have now come to agreement we start at 11 , thats kicking in, will kick in fully by next year. As that pay restoration comes on board, as we continue to accelerate the hiring by adding that Police Academy each year, we are going to see the numbers rebound. Reporter in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. In boston, a haz mat crew removed five people from a United Arab Emirates flight today. They all showed flulike symptoms. None had been in west africa but they will be tested as a precaution. At least three people have already been tested for ebola in boston this week. One patient showed up at a hospital yesterday. He was checked and cleared. In dallas, hospital officials are struggling to explain how ebola was transmitted to a 26yearold nurse who treated a patient who died from the disease. Thats right. Records obtained by the Associated Press say about 70 staffers were involved in the care of that patient. Doctors have to figure out why they failed to contain this deadly virus. Abc News ReporterMarcy Gonzalez has more. Reporter we are told the dallas ebola patient is awake and talking to loved ones from her isolated hospital room using face time. She is a person thats dealing with this with a heroic and graceful spirit. She is incredibly concerned. We are all incredibly concerned. Reporter a full investigation under way into how, despite wearing full proeffepr protective gear, she contracted the virus from treating the patient who died here last week and if shes the only one. If this one individual was infected and we dont know how, within the isolation unit, then it is possible that other individuals could have been infected as well. Reporter officials saying other than health care workers, there is no threat that anyone else was infected. Though one person believed to have had contact with the patient after she started showing symptoms friday is in isolation as a precaution. Her dog is also being monitored, her home decontaminated. As the cdc says, changes are being made and more training is being done at this hospital. Some experts question if its enough. Im concerned about the current approach to treating patients with ebola, and the idea that any hospital can do this safely. It takes a lot of work to use this protective gear properly. Reporter today for the first time we are hearing from the american journalist being treated for ebola at a hospital in nebraska. He tweeted today he feels like he is on the road to good health. Marcy gonzalez, abc news. Starting today, an experimental canadianmade ebola vaccine is beginning Clinical Trials on people in the united states. It will be tested on Healthy People to see how well it works, whether there are side effects and what the proper dosage is. The vaccine has done well in tests on primates. It has prevented infection when given before exposure and actually increased survival chances when given quickly after exposure to ebola. There are daily developments on this ebola crisis. Get alerts on that and other breaking news with the abc 7 news app. We will keep you up to date. Its free to download on apples app store, from google play and we have more information at abc7news. Com apps. An American Airlines flight from San Francisco to dallas this afternoon had to turn around and land again at sfo because the cabin was losing pressure. The faa says it was american flight 2293 and it happened about 2 15 this afternoon. Nobody was hurt. Now the airline and regulators are trying to figure out what went wrong before the plane is put back in the air. Check out this building demolition in San Francisco that could have ended tragically this morning. Look at this. Tearing down a building on pine street when the facade fell forward. It was not supposed to do that. The bricks crushed a wood barrier set up for pedestrians. Luckily, no one was walking along the sidewalk at the time. You can see from sky 7 hd that the debris extended on to several lanes of the street. The crews tore down the remainder of the building and then cleaned up the mess on the street. Sky 7 hd shows you where a natural gas leak forced evacuations in San Franciscos visitation valley for a short time. The trouble started when a car ran into a house and severed a gas line just after 10 00 this morning. Good news is no one was hurt. Firefighters decided to evacuate people within a 100foot radius of that leak on argonaut avenue. Crews capped the leak within an hours time. Authorities have identified the San Francisco man who died this weekend after being swept into the ocean. A coast guard crew spotted jimmy chiu floating in the water yesterday afternoon. He was fishing with another man during high surf conditions. The second person survived and is recovering at a local hospital. The coast guard is waiting for the results of drug and alcohol tests from the crew of a packed ferry boat that crashed into pier 41 in San Francisco. It happened just before 6 00 last night. Ten people on board the blue and gold ferry were sent to the hospital, mostly minor injuries. The coast guard ruled out mechanical issues and is looking into whether human error is to blame. The boat is back in operation today. A recordsetting pumpkin squashed the competition at the world pumpkin weighoff in Half Moon Bay this year. Check out this beast. It weighed in at 2,058 pounds and destroyed the runnerup by 300 pounds. The pumpkin is the largest ever on record in north america. The winner grew the pumpkin alongside five others in his front yard in napa. He says there was a lot of time, effort and luck put into growing it. You can see him there. He is the winner. The winning pumpkin was one of two that weighed more than a ton growing in his yard. Believe that . He will use the 13,000 prize to make repairs to his home. He was speechless. He was. Pretty much. That is one gigantic gourd. Lets talk about the weekend Weather Forecast we enjoyed and whats happening this week. Spencer christian is here with a look at whether it will start feeling like fall at all coming up. Its going to start suddenly and very soon, as a matter of fact. Heres live doppler 7 hd. It doesnt feel like fall yet. Warm day, especially in the inland locations, as you can see. Bright and sunny over the bay and inland. We do have clouds at the coast. Those clouds will cover much of the sky by this time tomorrow. Heres a look from the east bay hills camera westward. You see low clouds at the coast. Just a few high clouds in the sky at the moment. 63 degrees in San Francisco right now. We were up near 80 earlier today. Its cooling near the coast. 81 san jose. 87 morgan hill. 63 at Half Moon Bay. How about this view showing clouds, low level and midlevel clouds beginning to push over the bay right now. The temperature readings, 82 in santa rosa. Mid to upper 80s in petaluma, fairfield, concord and livermore. Live view at the Golden Gate Bridge where you see clouds hovering just around the top. We will see clouds increasing tonight and a few showers developing tomorrow. Dan and ama . Thank you, spencer. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, another bouncy house horror story. This one injures two Young Brothers. Plus, the simple request from a u. S. Soldier that was denied. How other passengers helped out and what the airline is saying today. And they dont agree on everything. New at 4 30, the issue that got the support of nearly all the top contenders in oaklands mayoral race. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is taking your questions on twitter and facebook. He will answer them live a little bit later. Lets take you outside now to san mateo bridge as you look live on this monday afternoon commute. So far, so good. Moving smoothly in both directions. , , now, americans everywhere are discovering that galbani ricotta inspires moments that are simply better. Mmm, galbani sfx kiss . Italys favorite cheese brand. Seven new Jersey High SchoolFootball Players are due in court this week accused of sexually assaulting younger teammates. The sayreville war memorial high students were arrested last week on sex crimes charges. The assaults happened during an alleged hazing incident. In light of the arrests, some antibullying advocates say new jerseys antibullying laws may need to be rewritten because the statutes dont specifically address teen sports. Instead, it leaves the matter up to individual schools. In New Hampshire, two Young Brothers are hospitalized after a terrifying ordeal over the weekend. They were in an inflatable toy house when a powerful gust of wind suddenly sent them 50 feet up into the air. Abc News Reporter susan sulney has the story. Reporter its a highflying horror becoming far too common. A bounce house filled with children inside taking flight. Now its happened again, this time at what should have been a fun fall festival at a New Hampshire farm. A bouncy house has blown away and landed back down. Reporter this morning, two toddlers are injured, one critically, after strong wind launched an inflatable house they were playing in as high as 30 feet into the air. Then it traveled about 50 feet before crashing down in this apple orchard. There were multiple patients. One is unconscious. It kind of flipped and came straight down. Reporter a 2yearold boy was airlifted to a boston hospital. His 3yearold brother is also hospitalized. The bounce house owner says it wasnt secured to the ground because it wasnt ready to be used. He was in a restricted area, it wasnt open to the public. Reporter the father of one of the injured boys says there was no sign that the bounce house was not open. There was no indication it was closed. Like i said, i asked how much was it and he said it was free. Reporter this is yuft the latest accident. Earlier this morning, Surveillance Video in china captured a bounce House Flipping over, injuring 14. In july, a dust devil in nevada launched an inflatable slide 300 feet, injuring two. Experts say these popular childrens attractions must be supervised and always securely staked to the ground. Abc news, washington. U. S. Airways is apologizing after one of its Flight Attendants refused to hang up a soldiers uniform during a redeye flight last week. An Airline Spokesman says the Company Simply did not get it right. When the First Sergeant asked to hang his uniform jacket in the closet, the army ranger said he didnt want it to get wrinkled. The Flight Attendant told him the closet was for first class passengers only. One passenger said the soldier deserved better. He had a chest full of medals, many deployments. All she had to say was yes but she kept saying its against company policy. A passenger in first class ended up taking the jacket and hanging it behind his chair, giving it back to the soldier once the plane landed. That person did the right thing. They absolutely did. Lets focus on the Weather Forecast. Gorgeous out there today. What about the rest of the week . Spencer christians here with the accuWeather Forecast. Looks like the weather will do the right thing. We need some rain and theres some coming our way. Maybe not a lot but a change in the current pattern nonetheless. Live doppler 7 hd, as you already know, mainly sunny right now over the bay and inland but we do have clouds at the coast and the clouds will increase during the overnight hours. Heres a beautiful view from the rooftop camera, blue sky over the bay. These are the forecast features. Spotty drizzle overnight, some light scattered showers during the day tomorrow, giving way to steadier, more widespread rain overnight tomorrow night into wednesday morning. Then we get a bit of a break on thursday and a wet, unsettled pattern moves in again for friday and saturday. Its beginning to look and feel like fall. Heres the satellite image showing High Pressure weakening as the cold front thats bringing us showers and drizzle approaches so we get rainfall and cooler weather coming our way with this approaching storm system and a pattern of unsettled weather. Heres the forecast animation overnight into about 5 00 tomorrow morning. We will see gray, drizzly conditions tomorrow morning. The drizzle may not be widespread but there will be some wet spots and thats a cautionary note for Early Morning commuters. Later in the day, we will see some widely scattered showers developing and then that more concentrated area of rain starts to push in tomorrow evening. That will continue in through wednesday morning and start to break up by about midday wednesday. The rain total forecast animation, starting 1 00 tomorrow afternoon going to 1 00 wednesday afternoon, by early afternoon wednesday, the wetter spots in the bay area will probably not have received more than a quarter inch. Generally between a tenth of an inch to quarter of an inch. Some locations may not get measurable rainfall at all but we welcome whatever we can get at this point. Overnight, again, spotty drizzle, low temperatures generally in the upper 50s, then tomorrow, in the south bay, we will see mainly cloudy skies, a spot or two of light shower activity. Highs tomorrow mainly in the low to mid 70s in the south bay, up to about 72 at san jose. On the peninsula, we will see highs of 70, san mateo. Scattered showers near the coast. Coastal highs mainly in the mid 60s tomorrow, 64 in the sunset district, downtown San Francisco, a high of 66 tomorrow. Up in the north bay, we will probably see a bit more shower activity down in the south bay or a greater chance for it. Highs in the north bay tomorrow only in the upper 60s to maybe about 70 at napa. East bay highs, 69 in oakland. 72 at fremont. In the inland east bay, mainly cloudy tomorrow with highs in the mid to upper 70s, about 75 at walnut creek up to about 78 at antioch. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Again, maybe light scattered showers during most of the day tomorrow but the more concentrated widespread rain comes in tomorrow night into wednesday. That breaks up by wednesday afternoon. Partly sunny to mainly sunny day on thursday, then rain by friday evening into Early Morning saturday and a chance again late sunday into monday. So this is truly developing into a more autumnlike pattern, certainly an unsettled pattern with periods of wet weather. Thats just what we need. Dan and ama . Thank you, spencer. This friday marks 25 years since the loma prieta earthquake struck. 15 seconds that changed life here in the bay area. This friday evening at 6 30, we look back at that day and look forward to see how Lessons Learned from loma prieta have made the bay area a safer place to live. Remember this scene of the bay bridge . Abc 7 was the first bay area News Organization to reveal the extent of the damage on october 17th, 1989 in the moments after the earth shook. We have one memorable moment here as abc 7 news anchor Cheryl Jennings spoke with the late pete wilson on the field at Candlestick Park. And we now have pete wilson standing by live at candlestick. Pete, go ahead. Cheryl, this is an extraordinary scene out here. Loma prieta struck moments before game three of the world series between the giants and the as. It caused a tenday delay. This friday, abc 7 news anchor Cheryl Jennings takes a look back with the abc 7 special 15 seconds, 25 years later, the loma prieta earthquake. We hope you can join cheryl for this indepth report. Its really remarkable stuff. Up next, physical setbacks. The aches and pains that come with taking part in dancing with the stars. New after 4 30, fast food obsession. Behind the scenes at how mcdonalds prepares its food and how it is reaching out to consumers. Giants fans, we want to see your team spirit. Email your photos to kgotv. 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