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KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY September 30, 2016

Difficult. 7 news south bay reporter chris winn covering the fire and has the latest. For residents evacuated a feeling of anxiousness that cant escape. Just watch the flames and the fire. Its heart breaking. Just didnt know what is going on. Reporter mike powell has lived here for 13 years. We are a family. So everybody looks out for each other. We are always talking to each other. Texting. Emails whatever we can. Reporter we see narrow roads and rocky terrain tomorrow forecast calls for more wind. So crews spent the day cutting up cleaning break line to help contain the fire. We need to take more vegetation make to it bare earth that goes for the dozers and lines and make sure there is no possibility the fire can spread or jump over the lines. Santa clara county sheriff smith stopped by some of the stadiuming areas this afternoon to check on her deputy doing what she could to provide support. Over at base camp firefighters ar getting in the mandatory arrest period after being on the lines for the 24 hour shifts. Mean while residents in southern Santa Clara County are having a tough time with the smoke. I do have as m and do i have allergy so the more i am active the more my asthma acts up so having the air climate to deem with that too. The fire continues on the neighbors are grateful to the men and women fight to go protect the homes. To be here ad have everybody outgoing support just we are just a big family up here. This community trying to stay strochblingt as crew battle the famous above. In morgan hill, chris pin abc 7 news. Threat of monday evacuation aevrt included getting these horses to safety. Video from sky 7 on monday sho shows how dangerous conditions there are for them only on 7 news tonight david louie has that part of our loma fire coverage from a horse ranch in milpitas. I am relieved by this. I was kind of laying awake wondering how i was going to get them off the farm. Samsung and he were a challenge. Draft horses weighing 16 to 1 1800 pound each. Evacuation orders are lifted. We assured they had food. Draft horses need grass hawaii and not high grain. We are trained for that. The team has work nonstop since monday night. You may have seen this traumatic video from sky 7 early Tuesday Morning with horses yards from flames advancing on the barn. The 5 horses now safe at the county fairgrounds. Once we get out of here let them roam around and they have the run of the place. Start Drinking Water which we are concerned about so they dont dehydrate. Im sure they will recover just fine. The team work was cal fire and office of Emergency Service to make sure no horses left behind. Owner were his able to relocate 140 horses on their own but some didnt have trailers. Evacuation team took care of. That david george has plans to join them. Probably become a volunteer so i have to truck and i can donate my time. Hes a nurse by profession. Kind of different to be on the receiving end of help. Helping others and difference really kind of taken aback in a good way. Reporter this is abc 7 new news. There was as you may have notice add significant cool off today which should help the firefighters. Drew is here with a look at the weather on the fire lines drew. We just need dramatic drop to the temperature from monday we had such intense heat that cool cooler air celtsed in yesterday and continued for today. Live look and camera showing you part of the reason why advertise back. Look at these numbers. All in the 90s on monday. From san jose to oakland to napa. Fast forward to today. We have seen a 33 degree drop in temperature ins San Francisco. High of only 58 today. Only 79 in concord and 25 cooler if napa today at 74. The reason why. We track a cold front right off the coast brought back the fog first of all behind it and an area of lure will drop in and continue to cool us off. But also bring a chance of some wet weather. So we bring back the storm impact radar from 1 to 5. 5 most severe where does it rank on the storm impact scale. We talk about that and timing of the wet weather in the forecast in a few minutes. Okay thanks so much. Lets go to the east coast. Rail disaster is under investigation in new jersey tonight. You have heard about this all day probably. It happened during the mo rush hour when a commuter train was arriving in hoboken at the end of the run. But instead of slowing to a stop it barreled into the train station killing this woman who is standing on the platform. And sending more than 100 people to the hospital. Some with critical injuries. Ray has the story now from hoboken. Reporter dan ntsb investigators inside the terminal here and will be working through the night. They say the priority is to gather and collect evidence and analyze the facts and that will hopefully help them determine the cause of the fatal crash. Historic train station now a massive manage el metal concrete rock after the jam packed passenger train ran the commuter platform that was supposed to be the last stop. Boom. The whole place shook. Just shook. People couldnt walk. Some people were like covered and i guess debris. Reporter income train restricted to speed of 10 miles per hour. But this train struck with such Massive Force that it jumped the steel reinforce mr. Form. Smash down column and caving in the glass roof. Didnt stop just didnt stop. Went bumper to bumper. Traveled another 40 feet came to a rest. Hit the wall. Reporter commuters crowd into the front cars. Took the force of the brutal impact. Jumping out. Cuts and bruise. Reporter on the street triage. Dozens of plans from across the state rushed the many injured to hospital. Some needing surgery. The train engineer 48yearold Thomas Gallagher has been released from the hospital and is said to be cooperating with investigators. From the recorder we hope to get information such as speed and breaking. Reporter one fatality is 34yearold woman who lived in hoboken. Those who were injured are expected to survive. The train had video recorders on both ends. But because of how unstable the terminal is it is yet to be determined when investigators will be able to collect those items. In hoboken, new jersey, abc 7 news. Okay thanks very much. Free mont police ask for your help in hitandrun injury accident happened last night at 9 49 on fremont boulevard between union street and chapel way. Ac transit bus driver spot add womans body in the middle of the street and called 911. 43yearold woman was taken to a Trauma Center and is in critical condition. Police want to locate possible witness of course and release this video showing car driving by. Want to talk with a driver and a man who was on the ac transit bus. He left from Police Arrived and hoping he did the driver or the man can help officers in this investigation. Man accused of raking into a virginia la oh, home in march of last year drugging a couple before kidnapping the woman changed his plea to get today and accepted a deal from the government. Melanie was in federal court in sacramento when it happened. Even if the fbi wanted reporter this is the couple Police Department said lied about being drugged bound and kidnapped. People should have never had to endure what they face at the hands of mr. Mueller or at the hands of the system. Kidnapping Sexual Assault victim denise held boyfriend quinn hand tightly hours after learning matthew pleaded guilty to her kidnapping. Mr. Mueller wanted to resolve the case. He did not want to have the a trial where he would testify. Reporter as part of the plea deal the government is no longer seek ago life sentence for mueller. Instead 40 years. Right from the beginning Law Enforcement screwed up the investigation. Reporter Police Investigators first interrogated believing he murdered denise then called the kidnapping a hoax after only the cell phone was left behind and in a Statement Today the u. S. Attorney office praised Law Enforcement including Vallejo Police for the high quality of work. Couple Attorney Says fbi case agent david is also at fault. Im sure he if a i would to disclose that he had a personal relationship with the intended victim and kidnapping. Reporter intended victim was the ex fiance. Judge will make the sentencing decision in january. If ever was a man who deserveed to do life behind bars its matthew mueller. Known him since he was 4 and totally out of this character. Reporter this is more justice than we have ever gotten but wont be real justice until, until the people who botched up this investigation are held accountable. Couple attorney wants the solana county da office to charge mueller with other crimes including drugging the couple sexually assaulting denise. In San Francisco, abc 7 news. We stream the News Conference by the victim lawyer live. Our down load the app for free and see news as it happen happens. Unable the push alert athe if is to know about breaking news. Do it when you have a chance because it really does keep you up to date. Much more ahead on this thursday night. Up next. The head ranger at Yosemite National park stem stepping down. What he was accused of before the sudden departure. Also california is stepping in to help secure your retirement. Plan to force employers to provide for your wellbeing when you are working days are done. Chance of rain in the near future. Drew will have a full forecast. All of that and a lot more as we continue. All of that and a lot more as we continue. Stay with us the man who runs Yosemite National park is leaving his post in disgrace. Superintendent don announced retirement in the middle of an investigation into his management practices. A week ago he complained of toxic Work Environment to a congressional oversight committee. The staff claim don allowed bullying. Harassment. Other misconduct. He apologized to all park employee by email. Before going to yosemite he served as superintendent of Point Reyes National sea shore. California moved step closer today to having a symptom that might warn you seconds before major earthquake strike. Governor brown signed a bill that ensure a Business Plan for the system will be developed and presented to lawmakers by early 2018. Size mike Early Warning systems are designed to sense the first shock waves of large earthquak earthquake. State senator spent 10 Million Dollars on the Warning System that he says will save lives. Bart trains can stop. Cal train can stop. Manufacturing equipment. All of these things are phenomenal. Engineers plan to develop app so the mobile phone or computer can receive earthquake alert. Governor brown also signed into law the secured choice Retirement Plan. The retirement account must automatically enroll employee in the plan. Personal of each paycheck would be taken out and held in low risk investment. Nearly 7 million californians without Retirement Plan have the choice of a safety net. When somebody is on Social Security and if thats all they have its about 1200 dollars a month and thats what they live on. So we want people to have additional option so that they can supplement the Social Security. California already living in retirement argue the Younger Generation should learn how to take care of themselves. Plan goes into effect january 1st. Tonight part of san jose will be sprayed with chemicals to reduce the spread of west nile virus this map shows you the area that we are talking about that will be targeted around 101 and 8 80 is where mosquitos have tested positive for west nile. Fogging done using a truck scheduled to start at 11 00 p. M. Local crab fishermen cautiously optimistic that this year season will begin on time. Thats because test results in 4 of 6 Coastal Region show that acid levels in crab are normal for this time of year. Great news. Because last year. High acid level delay crab season until may. The acid caused by warm Ocean Temperatures and persistent algae bloom. Crab season traditionally begins in november just in time for the holidays but last year it was really a mess. All right lets move on and talk about the full weather forecast. 7 news drew is here with that. We look at really fine finish to the work week. Comfortable temperatures then all eye on the weekend especially on sunday. A little bit of wet weather. Radar showing you dry but tracking a good bit of fog out there we zoom in a little tighter from the north bay around petaluma. Santa rosa. South into San Francisco. South San Francisco. Half moon bay. Over into oakland. No cloud. They are with us on this thursday. Emeryville camera at the low oud and backing off the map. This hour in the forecast nice day tomorrow. Only fly in the ointment a rather breezy towards the evening hours. Cooling will continue through the weekend and then we track the chance of showers coming through on sunday. Out there right now the numbers mainly in the 50s where we have that fog away from the marine layer. Holding on to couple 60s like concord, brentwood and san jose checking in at 60 degrees. Overnight tonight heres the call. Fog standing around the bay. Couple cool spots like santa rosa. 49 percent. Most of us the temperatures starting out in the mid low 50s. Future tracker wind gust will see wind really pick up in the afternoon and evening. Frequent gust over 20 miles per hour. Very likely what that will do quickly help to clear the fog out by the afternoon from the coast to the bay and inland. We see a lot of sunshine to round out our friday. So high on the friday look at the comfortable in terms of autumn numbers. Below average of San Francisco. Afternoon high this time of year 70. So 61. 70 san jose. About 72 in concord. Oakland cool 64. 70 napa and breezy right along the coast. Half moon bay checking in with the temperature at 59 degrees so the 3 day forecast we look towards the weekend. It is partly cloudy days on saturday. We do remain dry for the first half of the weekend. Now on sunday we call it showers for. So i dont think everybody will see the wet wchblingts i think the best chance likely going to be the north bay. Every time we have a storm and this one is like one on the scale. Autumn shower. Less than a tenth of an inch of rain. Some spots likely to see nothing. Keep the south bay probably end up dry and best chance will be the north bay for any wet weather. Time now for the future weather hour by hour. 7 00 oclock on the sunday morning. We start to see a few light returns around ukiah clover dale. Trying to inch their way to santa rosa. Perhaps making it into the vallejo 10 00 oclock in the morning but beside that. Tough time giving south of the golden gate best chance probably in the north bay. Thats all that will clear out of here by the evening hours. Tracking for you closer to sunday and track along with the abc news app. The next 7 days for you. Breezy tomorrow evening. Partly cloudy reporting nice on your saturday. Sunday. Theres the chance of a shower out there its a one on the stormy packet scale. Still unceltsed on monday. Could be isolated start of drizzle but nothing uniform across the board. Layering clouds on tuesday. Thursday we are near average so a little bit of 7 day forecast. Nice. Milder. Yes. Thanks very much. Two topic expensive housing and long commute. Find out which cities will get and long commute. Find out which cities will get the first ever Ferry Service 7 is celebrating hispanic heritage post with post to our instagram feed. Today we recognize former nassau restaurant fernandez born and raised in central california. When he was in orbit he was the first person to use spanish in space. While tweeting. Check it out on our instagram new Ferry Company could get commuters across the bay in 12 minutes. Today the state Public Utility Commission unanimously approved Public Service from a private company. Its called prop an Company Video of the vote that hold up to 100 people apparently. Ferry service could begin as early as january. Would it include San Francisco. Oakland. Emeryville and redwood city. Company already provides Charter Service to handful of tech companies. Drivers beware. New year long crack down of speeding rolled out. San francisco officials launch the safe speeds campaign today. Focus on 12 of the city busy traffic corridor. Simply not okay to go faster than the speed limit. We know that if 10 people are hit by a car going 40 miles an hour, 9 out of 10 of those people will die at that speed. You can expect to see officers with laser speed detector in china town, tenderloin, south of market and other congested areas trying to keep us safe. Mercedesbenz may have just made a big move to take on tesla. Mir said introduced the generation eq at the paris auto show today. Electric vehicle feature as sloped back suv style body. Newest mir said comes packed with Technology Including camera instead of mirror and instead of knob and button control everything with a touch screen which is like the tesla. Mir said expects to sell it for about 50,000 dollars. Right. Another 30 minutes of 7 news at 9 00 is next. Coming up. Race for the white house. 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