In pay increase, atu asking for a 10 rise over three years. The latest offer is 9. 75 . A difference of. 75 . I asked my source here are you optimistic things will move snord well get a deal done . That those who depend on buses will not have a problem . They said nick, i want to see cautious because there is no hard deadline. Why they decided on midnight, i cant tell you if they dont reach a deal, the buses will stop rolling. Two sides in the bart dispute are preparing for a meeting of a board of inquiry in oakland. The board room member has seven days to report back and potential impact of a strike the governor would have to go to a judge to declare a 60 day cooling off period. Today marks a fire sent thick smoke spewing into the air. Lawsuits are flying as chevron defends its snefl a court of public opinion. Abc 7 news is live with a look at what changed there. Folks gathering for an event to remember this fire one year ago today. This event expected to be a demonstration of sorts. All of it meant to be a reminder of all of the city went through one year ago today. 4[c2 john still has video shot in august, that clear summer afternoon watching from the x crude unit went up in flame it went into the sky then over the city of richmond. Are you worried it might happen again . The giant plume forced residents to shelter in place for hours. Thousands complained the Health Problems later filing claims against the company. There have been other damage autos in the last month, county assessor revealed every city in Contra Costa CountyProperty Values have gone up by 30 . Its set for except for richmond. Last weekend, 200 people were arrested last week, the city filed a lawsuit, monday, chevron filed a settle aid case requiring them to pay out 2 million in fines and restitution. Some will go to a nonprofit called richmond bills. Builds. Chevron says its repaired and replaced thousands of pipe components installing a system. So that is probably the best thing to date were going to have better information next time. If there is one if there is an accident and well have better information about what people are exposed to. Daytoday. Councilman tom budd thinks of legacy of the fire may turn out to be a positive one. I guess we hope it will bode for a better, safer refinery. And better quality of life for people that live in richmond. This demonstration about to get underway at 6. 25. Im told theyll ring a bell 15 times for the 15,000 people that sought medical attention after the fire n richmond abc 7 news. Fbi needs help to catch robber thats targeted banks over the past few months. Take a look at the bandits they usually wear thick jackets, hoodies and scarfs and pistol whipped a teller. Very concerned about the Violence Associated with the high jumper bandit. That is why its a priority to try to identify individuals. And he earned nickname because of the clarity. Investigators say he pulled off two recent robberies. Livermore Police Believe a suspect a suspected Child Predator abused a son of one of his friends thchl man faces child molestation charges. Police say the victim is nine years old and abuse began years ago. Rodriguez is a registered sex offender remaining in jail. Officers in santa rosa got a call about a man with a gun threatening to shoot police. You can see from the photos they surrounded the house today on moraga drive again. Officers arrested a man they say appeared to the to be armed. Law enforcement say the man has a history of causing trouble when off medication and drinking. The father two of missing children is pleading tonight for a suspected kidnapper to turn himself n the children now the subject of a state wide amber alert. Authorities believe the 16yearold and her 8yearold the man on the right of the screen. Authorities say the children consider him their uncle. Dimaggio is accused of setting his home on fire sunday night. Inside of the home firefighters found the body of the childrens mother said to be involved in a close but pla tonic relationship with demath yochl the body of a child was also found in the fire. It has not yet been identified. Minutes ago their father addressed dimaggio. Jim, i cant fathom what youkn thinking. The damage is done. Im begging you to let my daughter go. Youve taken everything else. Hannah, we love you very much. If you have a chance you take it. You run. Youll be found. Authorities believe dimaggio is driving a blue nissan versa. The center for missing and exploited children issue add lerts throughout the country and mexico. Well, when this search went state wide last night a lot of people here in the bay area got blerts through their smart phones something people didnt know their phones would do. And it startled a lot of folks. Abc 7 news has mer on this new nationwide alert system. The text message about two missing kids came late last night here in the bay area. And the amber alert expanded state wide. Phones lit up with a noise some describe as a fire alarm scaring people sleeping in bed. This post says was awoken with a jolt and near heart tack by an amber alert on my phone. Chp twitter pages were hit with questions they tweeted a link to explain what it was about. I wob up, it rang i was so sleepy it said amber alert i was like what . Who sent to me sni dont remember signing up for these alerts. Many people didnt sign up for Wireless Emergency Alerts Program that started at the beginning of the year operate bid fema. If you own a phone capable of receiving alerts and youre in the area where an alert has been issued youll get it. I had no idea theyre sending to it my iphone until i saw it there. Not just blerts. A president can use the Wireless Emergency Alert Program to send a message and Government Agencies can also let you know of an imminent threat in the area like extreme weather or a chemical spill. Most Cell Phone Companies dont charge for alerts. Some people today said in theory it sounded like a good program but reported some trouble witness saying it disappeared when trying to find it or there was a lack of helpful information or links. I dont know what happened. Said it was an amber alert, then gave me a car, then, then it went aby. Ifjrn you have questions abt the program or would like to learn how to opt in or out you can go to our web site abc 7 news. Com and click on see it on tvn san jose, abc 7 news. Family of a missing oakland woman meeting with reporter to try to get out more information about her. Her family released two new photos of her. She was last seen in her home in North Oakland sunday evening. Shes 50 years old wearing a black and white shirt with dark jeans. Shes a Death Penalty expert and an investigator with the federal defenders office. Her loved ones say she would never leave her daughter alone. Shes never gone missing before. Police found her 2007 mini cooper yesterday in a parking lot on 3 street in oakland youre going to hear from her family tonight on abc 7 news at 11 00. Our reporting continues on twitter. Vac waigs orders remain in place for residents threatened by a fire in riverside county. So called falls fire charred nearly 1500 ache jers just about 20 contained now. It broke out in Cleveland National forest forcing evacuations in communities of lakeland village, decker canyon. Calmer winds helping crews keep the fire away from dozens of homes now. Crews struggling to contain fires north of us. Two adjacent places are burning west of mount shasta. Together charring nearly 12 square miles of National Forestland and are threatening structures in oregon a fire near grants pass. The terrain so rugged it could more than quadruple size burning another six weeks, maybe more. San francisco Presidio Cemetery reopened after a fire broke out this morning. Crews say there were no hydrants nearby. Firefighters dont know yet how this fire started but say it was not arson. I wondered what may have started it. I do know there are some some encampments of people sleeping. No one was hurt and cemetery in the damaged. Grave sites date back to the civil war. Still ahead here tonight at 6 00 were live with the new round of americas cup racing. The artemis team gets a first taste of competition since the crash on the bay. A bae area politician gets a get out of jail card. When ed chu can return home. Im spencer christian. Our cooler weather pattern continue as long with a chance of spotty drizzle. Thank you, spencer. Later big plans for a little plastic square. A device that could simplify your life if youre prone to misplacing things. Swedens team raced for the first time today. The team says getting out on the course after the deadly accident in may is a huge achievement. Abc 7 news is at the americas cup with more on the race. This run up to the cup has been dominated by new zeal yanld. Now, artemis is racing against italy. This is a big test after only nine days of practice they were out on the race course and in the gallery a lot of fans rooting for swedish team. The wife of italys helmsman watched. Hopefully theyll keep their numbers good. Hopefully get a wine italy pulled ahead in the first down wind leg we you saw a lead change. This is more competition what should have been going on here last month. For much of the last month new zealand dominated. Today the skipper acknowledged his team is building for the next kun. After a month of noncompetitive racing this is not great news for the competition. Fans like to see close races. Sponsors like to see a sport attracting media attention. So far it isnt providing a lot of either. How would you rate this one . Tough question. The boats are spectacular to watch. Largest crowd in the u. S. Can attest to that fact. Its fun. Italily crossed two minutes in front of artemis. If wed two months ago got beat up real hard. And for us to be out there racing. Such a huge achievement. There is wide prid wnt team. First he says the goal to improve but in best of seven they lost the first but a lot. Theyre going need to catch up t,t a hurry. Reportsing from the americas cup abc 7 news. A couple quick updates. Asiana airlines said it will change the number of flights to and from seoul, south korea. Starting monday, the flight to sfo will be flight 212. The return flight to seoul flight 211. Something airlines do after a disaster like the one that killed three teenagers at sfo on july 6th. Now as for wreckage sfo spokesman tells abc 7 news asiana wants to hold on to the plane but has not been able to find another facility large enough to store it. Stormer former San Francisco supervisor ed jew was transfered from a federal prison in kern county to a Halfway House last week meaning he can leave for work or medical treatment in 2009 he pleaded guilty to charges and sentenced to 64 months in prison. In his stay goes well, he becomes eligible for home confinement this month. Cleaner city is a safer city says the City Attorney releasing several travels showing extent of the problem in some neighborhoods. The city encouraging residents to send in pictures or video to help them track down dumpers and make them pay for crimes f you see any Illegal Dumping take a shot of it. We have links to the official sites where you can send it. Just ugly thing. Its crazy. People are that brazen witness we did have good bits of sunshine inland our area asks over the bay. Right now is a look at live doppler 7 hd. Some beginning to work towards the bay and moving inland overnight. We have thunderstorms this afternoon. Near actual along highway 16 there are two lightning strikes there. We saw build ups with clouds. How about this view of the western sky from our camera in emoriville. Mountain view, 69. 59 in half moon bay. Some low clouds and few broken clouds above. 65 degrees in San Francisco. 73 in livermore. Another live view of the golden gate low clouds and a big pool of bringing us a string of days with temperatures bee loaf average. Counterclockwise around that low pulling up some moisture with a little possibility of some overnight. Eastward little change low loses influence over us thachl will probably happen over the weekend. Tonight wide spread areas of low clouds and fog. Chance of drizzle, lows in mid50s and tomorrow, sunny skies highs up to about 74 in san jose. Highs from 69 in san ma ao to 73 on the coast. Foggy and partly sunny skies. Downtown a high of 64. East bay, 48 will be the high in oakland. 72 in Castro Valley highs upper 70s up to about 80 in antioch. Here is accuweather forecast. Over the weekend low 80s. Upper 70s around the bay and low 60s on the coast. Not quite as seasonal norm. Yes. More july like. More july like. Kykykyu thank you. Yes. Vodka flowing on a San Francisco city street today. Protest message behind this waste of liquor San FranciscoLgbt Community calling for a boy kout of all things russian. They poured out russian vod ka. They want it banned until russia repeels the law banning talking to children about homosexuality and outlaws so called dont go away propaganda. Its so lucrative we need to send a message do more to help gay people in russia. Stoli says its being unfairly targeted and says gays we can tell, we endorse your objective. Some say it will only hurt every day people doing nothing to sway russian leader autos tonight a signal the head fed is like lielee to rae dus bond purchases takes a toll on wall street. Officials say the program may begin to taper off this year. Generalcql motors says says it will knock 5,000 off the chevy chefo volt. He the Historic Department store building in downtown oakland has been sold. Went for 9. 8 million. They plan to put a call center with 100 new jobs sheer what taco bell has in mind for a Breakfast Menu its a waffle taco. It was the top seller at five Southern California loks where it was tested this year. Oh, my. More still to come tonight. Coming up a condition on former president george w. Bush. He is due home, tomorrow, after a surprise heart procedure. Also a former Energy Secretary steven chu on Global Warming. And remembering a bay area excel ptor wh former president bush expected to least hospital tomorrow. He is recovering after doctors inserted a stent to open a blocked artery. The problem discovered during a routine physical yesterday. That is designed to allow blood to flow through that area that was obstructed some times over time those will close off again. But during the period that that tube is open, blood is allowed to get to the heart muscle he is expected to resume activities on thursday. He was active as president and kept up his regime. President obama says taxpayers can no longer be on the hook for bad decision business mortgage lenders. Telling supporters its time to overhaul the system to help more americans afford homes with less risk to the government. Hes proposing to shutter government backed fannie mae and freddie mac giving private capitol a bigger role. Weve got a turn a page on this mentality. Going to build a housing system durable, fair and rewards responsibility for generations still to come. The president wants tochl pand rerefinancing for current homeowners and increase access to affordable rental housing. White house picked phoenix because its rebounded after being one of the countrys hardest hit area autos its been months now since dr. Steven chu stepped down as ut u. S. Energy department hes now at stanford. Abc 7 news sat down to talk about his ongoing goals before the job in washington, d. C. Heading the department of energy, steven chu taught at cal and stanford, research helped him win a nobel prize. He was director of the Lawrence Berkeley national lab yet, told me interest there is more to do by teaching again at stanford. Young people have natural curiosity. I, too, want to do that. He emphasizes Climate Change seems to be the biggest concernx uaw. Noaa says 2012 was among the 12 warmest years globally. And points out Global Warming is having a huge impact. If you look at things, storms, droughts, wildfires this and that. They say its been increasing. Number have been increasing. He says the federal government must do more to convince people if change doesnt happen quickly will be in trouble. This costs a lot of money. Iyn and in terms of personal loss autos hes been an advocate and says were not too far from producing a lot of it and doing it cheaply. Hes happen regeting to, and from work on his bicycle. Supporters of Trayvon Martin gathered for a protest this afternoon. A few dozen people held a rally to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman and want the department of justice to file civil rights charges. Protestors demanding justice for thousands they believe have been abandoned by a broken justice system. A renowned bay area artist died she was known for fountains she designed in San Francisco. Her family insisted apple preserve it or find a new place for it. There is a permanent exhibit of some of the work at the deyoung museum. Here is the story aired from don sanchez. Huge is a San Francisco treasure, she became interested in art at an internment camp during world war ii. Her inspiration came from wire baskets that held eggs she saw in mexico. She decided to take the basket changing it into something else. Into sculpture. And took off from there. We did have to clean them, just sprayed them would have a hose. The museum doesnt handle ours that way. She was experimenting. These show the affect chemicals had. They did announce students were given ditto sheets of pumpkins. She brought working artists in to San Francisco public schools. Sometimes, she did four sculptures at one time, she didnt like to put titles on her work. She is remembered for inspiring generations to appreciate art. Now with this exhibition means that legacy will continue, forever. Mayor ed lee says