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KGO ABC7 News 600AM October 22, 2016

Along montana street. All this craziness caused by an old cast iron pipe that ruptured. The street looked more like raging rapids. This familys basement needs to dry out. What frustrates me is why dont they fix the whole pipe instead of patch mixing it . She is waiting for restored water service. This is the third time it happened. Three times it went through the house. Reporter she said this one is the first. Basement belongings are covered in plastic bags. Her neighbor remembers the last one. 2014 it was at the top of the hill and now its in the middle of the hill. Its probably the same line. Unfortunately her bmw was parked in the waters path. The pipe is four feet deep. The break created a sinkhole. You can see they reached the pipe, now they have to replace it. East bay midhas a pipe replacement program. The cracked main\ was slated to be replaced in 2017, but the utility admits mains are breaking faster than they can get to them. Right now we are at about ten miles a year, and we want to be at 40 miles. No word yet on estimated property damage. An expensive problem. A messy experience for these families. In oakland, abc7 news. Our viewers who had the abc7 news app found out about the break right when it happened. You can get updates on any breaking news as it happens. Knew this morning, Santa Clara Police are investigating how a car hit a fire hydrant and then ended up inside a restaurant. It happened this morning at the intersection of homestead and woodems road. You see water gushing really high into the air there. And the car inside a stuffed pizza restaurant. No word on injuries or arrests there. A colorado woman last seen inside sfos domestic terminal is missing this morning. 63yearold woman arrived for her flight to denver monday night but she never boarded and disappeared. She suffers from Mental Illness and requires medication. Her family believes she may have become confused and disoriented police in the south bay are looking for a man who pretended to be an officer and lured a woman into a car. It happens at deanza college. Thats in cupertino it. Heres a sketch is of the man the police are looking for. We have the story. Reporter the female student was walking to her car and parking lot a around 8 45 wednesday night when a man approached her and told her he was an Undercover Police officer. They said she be shouldnt be walking alone and she should get into the lone or they would issue a citation. The Woman Told Police the man was talking aggressively and two other people were in the car. Is a black bm the w with continued windows. When another car drove between them she was able to get away. The driver is described as thin, possibly middle eastern with a slight accent. His hair is shaved on the sides, longer and wavy on top. Students are on alert. I was upset but not totally shocked. To think that someone would go as far as to impersonate someone else, especially a Police Officer, its really concerning. And it makes you question, like, who can you trust at this point . Reporter the police chief said a real Police Officer will prove they are legitimate. They should show you a badge and an identification card, and if you have any doubts about that individual, call 911 on your cell phone. Police can also call police for a nighttime safety escort. Investigators are following up on leads and ask anyone with information on the officer impersonator to call the foothills police. Abc7 news. San Francisco Police union said they reached an impasse in talks with the department over use of force reforms. The Sticking Point is a policy that would allow officers to shoot at moving vehicles. Officers need to be able to protect the public from attacks like the one in france when a man deliberately drove into a crowd leaving 86 people dead. A Hunger Strike at the Santa Clara County jail is over this morning. About 100 inmates ate dinner for the First Time Since monday. They met yesterday with the assistant sheriff. Correctional deputies will meet three of demands, involving clothing and inmate welfare fund. The group is still hoping to end solitary confinement budget cuts will force most almeda court house toss close down in december. Its from december 23 to januar. No service will be offered to the public, including filings. A court house in oakland will remain open, but limited staffing during that time. Student leaders in u. C. Berkeley greet system will meet today to create guidelines for a ban for fraternity parties. The leaders band parties following two reported Sexual Assaults last weekend. We have the story. Reporter no official parties, thats the word following two recent Sexual Assault cases involving offcampus fraternity houses. It has been historically not treated with the severity it should be treated. So i think this is a good thing. The president of the Fraternity Council wrote on facebook, the ifc has voluntarily decided to suspend all social events until we can reevaluate our Risk Management practices and care for those affected. Weve had problems with the community here and i have some friends on the committee and they are doing good things to get rid of the problem. But the definition of party is still open to interpretation. Until cal greek leaders formalize a plan. Some question the greeks system ability to selfregulate. I dont think it would last longterm. I would be amazed if they could enforce it for a full weekend, to be honest the police are not involved with enforcing the ban because is voluntary and not law. Change has to come from within. The only time they speak around here is if something happens. But thats a good thing. If anything is going to be effective is the students banding together and making it happen. Reporter there are 18 unregistered fraternities and sororities. They are not part of the band. Abc news. 17 days to go until election day and brand new polls show voters headed to the polled to, Hillary Clinton would win. Heres the map. The demographic shifts in polling determined clinton would receive 307 electoral votes and donald trump 280. And political analysts tell abc news trumps path to 270 electoral votes is challenging. The best hope to rev up the Republican Base now and hope for a low voter turnout on election day. Hes not pursuing independents, hes not pursuing soft democrats who may not like Hillary Clinton. North carolina and ohio remain a tossup. Tossup states andtrump supporters are hopeful states lie pennsylvania, virginia and florida might tip back into play in the coming months. Hillary clinton launched an emotional new ad in which a father of a fallen son asked if his son would have a place in your america. My son was army capt. Humayun khan. He was 27 years old, and he was a muslim american. I want to ask mr. Trump, would my son have a place in your america . Khizr khan was thrown into the spotlight when he asked criticized trump for his muslim ban. His son died after saving everyone else in his unit. Trump criticized khan and has not yet apologized. We have a tool on our website to help you are prepare for election day. Click on the icon for your voice your vote, enter your zip code and address and you get a comprehensive resource guide and candidates and measures on your local ballot. Hard to believe election day is coming up just 17 days, huh . Halloween coming up too, nice weather this weekend . Yeah, real nice weather this weekend. It will feel more like fall as temperatures pull back. A gorgeous sunrise is about to unfold. If you see it, take a picture, abc7now and we will love to see it also. The bay looks pretty calm. Looking for a breezy afternoon. Ill give you an idea when that rain is going to come to your neighborhood also. All right, mike. Also next, twitter, spotify, ebay, other popular websites knocked offline. Why it could be the beginning of a larger cyberattack. And Traffic Alert for people headed to San Francisco this weekend. The driver on the bay bridge thats about to have a very 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. Homeland security and the fbi is trying to find out who was behind a wide cyberattack. Ama daetz has details. Reporter amazon, ebay, facebook, google and reddit were all slowed or brought to a stop by the attacks. The first attack came around 4 00 a. M. The ceo of u. S. Dine, inc. Said an incredibly sophisticated attack overwhelmed their servers. Many popular websites use dine to translate their web address boos numerical codes that computers loses to communicate. No codes meant no websites. Www. Twitter. Com would have no meaning because they cant go to an address. So twitter is off. Be. The first attack was resolved in two hours, mostly affecting the east coast. A Second Attack hit dine at 9 00 a. M. That hit the west coast harder. A third attack came at 1 00 p. M. The white house isnt ready to point blame. At this point i dont have any information to share about who may be responsible for that malicious activity. But experts believe it could be anyone. Anonymous is able to do this. There are various organized criminal elements operating out of various countries that are able to do this, and some other foreign states could be doing it. A security expert said this could become increasingly problematic. He wrote on his blog, many attacks appear to be testing servers rather than taking them offline wishes means someone is likely learning how to cause widespread disruption. Ama daetz, abc7 news. A grand jury indict add russian man accused of hacking into computers at three different departments, linked in, drop box, and another bay area company. The indictment unsealed yesterday alleges he stole personal information and sold it. He faces nine charges. Authorities in the Czech Republic arrested him october 5th. The russian government is trying to block his extradition, claiming u. S. Law enforcement is hunting russian citizens around the world. In Southern California a massive fire is fully contained but still burning. It started at a plant in ontario. The cardboard is fueling the flames. Business also stores wooden pallets created to keep heat inside, making them almost water resistance. Most of the area is a commercial zone. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. We are learning more about the proposal to spend 2. 9 million on a new recreational facility at San Franciscos lake merced. The plan was okayed by the citys recreation and Park Commission thursday night. It would develop space for water sports, a fishing pier, and a bird observatory. If approved, the city says it would take four years to build. There is also an incredible site. You have lakefront recreational opportunities which is not something we have a lot of. Especially access to the water in terms of kayaking, paddleboarding, boating and fishing. We will have fishing opportunities. The plan would repurpose the space previously leased by the traffic rod and gun club. Citys p. U. C. Which owns the site has spend 16 million cleaning up the lead and contaminated debris left behind by the club. East bay drivers heading to Treasure Island this weekend will notice one big difference. Abc7 news was on the bay bridge for a ribbing cutting yesterday for the new on and off ramps for westbound interstate 80. The ramps have moved from the left side of the freeway to the right side. The new ramps open today. They are said to be a safer design and necessary for a planned expansion on the island. And good news for cyclists. The planned bike path on the east span of the bridge will go all the way to the island. Caltrans will open the last part of the 4 1 2 mile stretch tomorrow. Walkers and riders wont be able to zip down to Treasure Island, they need to take a shuttle at the end of the eastern span because the roads on the island arent yet safe for cyclists and pedestrians. Now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. Lets open up the Weather Window on the east bay hills. Good morning. You see the twinkle lights of the bay bridge and San Francisco. We will have high clouds and sunshine. We have high cloud out there right now. Hoping we will have a real colorful sunrise this morning. Santa rosa 47 degrees, the cool spot. San ramon and livermore at 51. Fremont at 52. San jose, looks like san mateo at 53 and oakland and San Francisco 355. Look at Half Moon Bay about 48 degrees. This is how it looks from sutro tower right now. You see the lack of owing. It will be the high clouds and a slight sea breeze that will bring us more cooling today and tomorrow. A system for rain comes at us from the north later in the week. This system americans with the system coming at us from the north. We could get flanked and that could really be a nice soaking if it holds through. Heres a system. Its one that will bring us the high clouds. Notice the trajectory is from the northeast. It has some moisture with it. It will take more southerly route that will push it right into the heart of the north bay while the rest of are us will probably be pretty dry. But thats monday. Lets talk about today. On the peninsula today, 67 to 71. Thats the range. Cool and mild there. Along the coast whether he see patches. Sunshine today. Its noontime, high noon, 64 degrees, warming to about 69. There will be a little bit of a breeze in the afternoon. Nothing too aggressive though. All right, 66 downtown San Francisco. Just a little shy of average. 65 sausalito. Low to mid70s as you head through the north bay. I dont think there will be a lot of fog but a lot of high clouds today. Upper 60s and low 70s along the east bay shore and oakland around 69. 80s gone. Mid70s san ramon. Tonight it could be a little cooler than this morning. More 40s inland and some low 50s around the bay. Lets talk about whats going to happen monday morning. Et might as well jump ahead. Showers in the north bay. The steadier, light to moderate rain, green to yellow there moves in during the evening hour and pretty much stays there during the overnight hours while the rest of us have some drizzle for the morning commute and then it disappears and heads back north tuesday afternoon. Rainfall amounts, lets focus on the north bay. Almost nothing elsewhere south of these areas. Heres my accuweather sevenday forecast. Once it passes, partly cloudy wednesday. A little bit warmer thanks to some extra sunshine. The sea breeze comes back with the storm coming at us from the south thursday. A better chance of rain on friday. And actually this time next week we could have our heaviest rain. If we could tradeoff every other weekend, nice soaking rain to nice temperatures to soaking rain, it would help the drought considerably. Last weekend was crazy. Wasnt it, though . It was really nice. It took the northwest corner of the state out of the drought for the first time in like three years. Awesome. Bring it down here, right . Thats what im hoping. Mike, thank you. Just ahead, the funny man who made an paula feris joins us now from new york telling us what is coming up on good morning america. Rob was here with fallout from a deadly storm. And print sprint to go the finish line. Hillary Clinton Holding a sizable lead over donald trump in the polls. Now shes setting her sites on turning traditional red states blue with 17 states to go. We are covering both campaign strategies. And finally internet attack. If you had issues with your favorite websites yesterday, its because of a mass cyberattack. Paralyzing sites like amazon, netflix and twitter. Is it responsible and could our Smart Devices have contributed . Thats all coming up. See you soon. Thanks, paula. A new article. Greens struggles on and off the court agers his teammate, Klay Thompson but not because of green. It quotes an unofficial saying when green gas suspended, the warriors had a chance to prove themselves without greene but, quote, played like a bunch of cowards. Thats the part that sent thompson off. You call us cowards but you arent going to put your name to the quote . You know what i mean . You are not going to quote who said it, you will just say some executive said you are cowards . Get outta here. That made me mad. We played our hearts out, the whole season. And you are going to call us cowards and not put your name on it . Get outta here. I dont blame him. They open up their season against the spurs this week. Bill murray pretty much conference at the white house. He just wrapped up a chat with the president about winning the prize for mark twain humor. He went on to the podium and talked baseball. The cubs can advance to the world series for the First Time Since 1945 with a win over the dodgers tonight. Its been five years in the making and right now you can check out a pixar short animated movie thats getting rave reviews, and surprisingly this is not for kids. A bar of time focuses on a man returning to a place thats haunted him his entire life. The movie has already won multiple awards. We really wanted to make something that was a little bit more adult and show that animation could be a medium to tell any story. It ended up being about closer and owning up to mistakes you made or facing mistakes you made and finding the strength to move on. The movie will only be available to watch on vimeo for a limited time. We dont want to spoil the ending, but we have a link to watch it on our website, abc7news. Com. Walt disney is the Parent Co

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