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KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY September 13, 2013

Attack and gunfight at u. S. Consulate in western afghanistan. Attack happened near the town here and suicide bomber detonated explosives and damaged fence at the perimeter and taliban militant ran through them and began firing on consulate building. Early reports indicate afghan translator and 5 of the attac attackers killed. 7 civilian were injured. Keep mop toring that for you and continue to follow it on twitter at our web site. Now to the fire in new jersey. Leave in doubt the destruction south of lincoln avenue is complete. L as soon as this is over, well picower selves up and dust ourselves off and get back to work. Reporter that is governor christy talking about the jersey shore hammered by super storm sandy now experiencing more misery from the massive fire. It broke out along the boardwalk in Sea Side Park today and spread. This is the same area definite stated when sandy hit nearly 1 year ago. Work crew completed repair to the boardwalk destroyed by storm water just before memorial day now this. Latest on the news. Reporter the thick black smoke choking the area and blacking out the board walk. Scorching flames tearing through the symbol of the jersey shore rebirth. One part of the sea side boardwalk that survived super storm sandy almost a year ago destroyed. Feel like i want to throw up. After all the evident time and resources we have put in to see this going on is just unthinkable. Reporter unthinkable and out of control. Just block from his where the iconic roller coaster wept in the ocean last october. Fire apparently started in frozen cuss tarred stand thursday afternoon storming upward outward. High winds carrying burning ember like these up and down the beach front. Involving does he says of business ins the Sea Side Park section. We see businesses destroyed that were built in the summer its really sad. Reporter in a desperate effortnr they tear through plank of the newly rebuilt portion of the boardwalk trying to stop the flames from spreading further. Thats where firefighters make the stand right now. Reporter time lapse video shows one of the businesses firefighters couldnt save. There it goes. Oh, no. Reporter flames devouring this building. Skel the only now unsettling name fun town. Firefighters hope this rain will help them as they continue working to put out the flames. Cause of the fire is still under investigation and while no one was seriously hurt this is still devastating end to what was supposed to be a comeback summer for the jersey shore. This is abc news Sea Side Park new jersey. About state of emergency in colorado tonight. Rain there is staggering. By one estimate a year worth in just one day. And millions are in the flood zone. Heres clayton san del. The rain tonight is relen relentless. About nonstop soak stretching up and down colorado rocky mountain. By 6 00 oclock this morning near lafayette enough to wipe away the road suddenly. Got to the scene 3 cars in the water. Reporter two drivers rescued but one car was upside down. Rescuers brave the Rushing Water attaching cable pulling the car up right and suddenly a happened appeared. Man inside strapped aleif and under water for 1 hour. About cease opened the back door if we found him under water. Reporter as they hand him a life vest the car tumble. Finally they pull him free. All the drivers injuries were minor. Day luge washing out roads and train track causing dam to fail. Cutting off rescue team from the town of james town and lions surrounded by massive wall of debris and water. We have lost roads w. We have lost bridges. We have lost homes. Cars. And we are just now beginning to try to assess the scope of the damage. Reporter there are new evacuation tonight in the big thompson canyon. Might seem like the threat is abating but thats not the case. Reporter many ignoring the warning getting dangerously close to the worst flooding here in decades. In boulder that screws had the wettest 24 hours on record neighbors pitch in for mostly funeral effort to save homes. Hes pumping seven feet of water out of the basement. Like a jet then if count and that was it. Water. Everywhere. Reporter cal fire late today confirms the cause of the fire on mount diablo. Blaming the 3100 acre fire a target shooter. The investigation is ongoing. Fire began sunday interclayton. Now 95 percent contained with full containment expected tomorrow. Potential danger discovery in federal be in richmond. 22 years after fatal outbreak of legionnaires disease swept through the building we learn the bacteria that can cause the disease is discovered there again. Employee relevant understandably concerned. Laura has the story you will see only on 7 news jeans. I feel in nervous. Reporter long time Social Security Administration Employee Carol Griffin one of hundreds federal workers in the building richmond who received word. Bacteria was found inside the pl facility. We told it was in the men and women bathroom l on the fifth floor and in the base, somewhere in the basement. Reporter according to employee memo obtained by abc 7 news, testing done august 27th foundal positive reading for legionnella from water sampling. Goes on to say the doyvrs ri of the bacteria would have no impact on health and safety of building employees. That assurance is of little consolation to long time mye like griffin who worked here in 1991 when outbreak of legionnaires disease killed one woman and sicken more than a dozen others. I think there is a reason to be concerned. I got 622 years ago and i think could get sick again. Reporter its bacteria that cause legionnaires disease. Severe lung infection which includes knew money yeah. Another form called pontiac fever a milder illness without knew money yeah. According to spokeswoman raymond the bacteria boiled out of the building in the water system used in the rest room sink separate from the drinking water. In richmond, abc 7 new news. 12yearold girl about report her mother had been stabbed to death in nap a. Police arrested the woman husband. Happened in the 2800 block of this avenue and suspect fromyearold Carlos Hernandez vega in front of the home holding a knife. The daughter was not physically injured. She is now with other family members. Domestic workers in california could be in line for pay raise. State legislature voted to approve over time for worker housekeepers and Home Health Aide but deal only temporary and the governor still needs to sign off on it. Capitol correspondent annette now with the story from sacramento. Its not easy providing health care to the elderly or disable. Hours are often long. Sometimes requiring care gives to sleep in a nearby room. Domestic workers are currently exempt from over time pay. We feel like we are not there will sometimes being abused. Reporter he has been a care give for seven years and has missed out on a lot of time and a half pay that is standard in other professor. What would you say is the longest shift you have ever worked with no over time. 24 hours. L we sleep there. Then sometimes 5 days t. Work 7 day. All straight. No day off without over time. All members vote. Reporter lawmakers gave final approval to temporarily give Domestic Workers lake housekeepers and Health Care Aid over time pay in california. After nine hours a day or 45 hours a week. Study will help determine whether to continue it after 2017. This is to make it clear Domestic Workers provide crucial back breaking work for health care and People Living with disable. Reporter proposal water down to exclude babysitters and bill no longer mandate this but republicans worry about affordability. Bill costly for those whether cant care for themselves. Seniors and other frail camp answer depend on private Home Care Service to avoid institution tlal. Reporter the message to the governor is dont veto the bill a second time. I hope that this time he will approve this and understand our occupation. Reporter now that the proposal scaled back the California Chamber of commerce removed the opposition waving the paving the way for the signature of the governor. Federal judge deny motion by wells fargo and Deutsche Bank to place injunction on riff monday to if make foreclosure. Richmond warrants to use them to force the sale of the under water morning imminent domain is typically used to acquire about land when the owner esnt want to z. The judge will decide when to dismiss or state injunction motion. Twitter is going public exploratorium base social Media Company revealed today it filed confidential documents for initial public offering. Twitter taking advantage of federal legislation passed last year that allows company with less than 1 billion dollar in revenue to the avoid submitting documents publicly. That could help it avoid the kind of public advertisely when facebook went public last year. Twitter revenue comes from advertising estimated to be about 5 82 Million Dollars this year. Appropriately twitter made initial nouns in the meantime a tweet that read we have confidentially submitted an f 1 to the sec for planned i p o. Tweet doesnt constitute an offer of any security for sale. Twitter posted folt of the officers with the caption now back to work. Build it someone will naiment. State lawmakers approve name change for half of the bay bridge but somebody goes to court to stoypt. Lightning strike l tower at major east coast on the east coast. Flights delayed. 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[ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high speed internet. Rethink possible. Battle over naming bay bridge heats up. State lawmaker approve a plan to name the western span of the bridge after former San Francisco mayor and speaker of the assembly will brown but before fv filing the paperwork to stop it in its track. More now from wayne. Reporter it is one kind of honor to get your own table by window at this store. But how about a bridge with your name on it . Well, former San Francisco mayor and speaker of the state house willie brown has both. Ill probably still call it the bay bridge. Reporter strong votes by both bracket of the calf legislature the span will be the Willie L Brown junior bridge. Maybe. This isnt about willie its about. Reporter Public Citizen bob plant filed a stay in superior court saying the legislature pulled this off by bending rules for its own convenience public be darned. They bent the rules f. They didnt do that they wouldnt have been able to consider thi this. Reporter for instance the nomination needed to come from San Francisco. It didnt. Nor were there any public hearings and there is more. About facility named afterme. People whom you think then you feel so inclined. Ill be darn if you can be dead. Too much government. If willie was high profile. Yes absolutely. If this was simpl simple. To say no to this and call attention to if what amounts to hypocracy on the part of the legislators. Reporter years ago William Shakespeare pose the question about a road what is in a name . In 2013 its safe to say that is what used to be the bay bridge has become sweet for one man and stink for i. Everything i have ever done in life is generated protest. That means its quality. Reporter in San Francisco wayne, abc 7 news. Shasta county 68 homes destroyed by the clover fire double than earlier thought. The fire began monday in happy valley and now 65 percent contained. One resident in the middle of it all and took out camp are and started reporting. Fichlt almost like being inside of a hurricane of fire. Fichlt we thought the wind was moving it this way right in front of us and it just shifted and came right at us. Fichlt tree falling right notch hair on the arm holding the camera started to like curling up and zing my hair. Reporter incredibly dangerous. Flames were so intense people were struggling to leave. He started guiding thos and him and telling other homeowners to evacuation 8. I said throw it in and go. Grab essential. Grab family photo and pr papers and leave. There is not much left after the fire. He can relate. Years ago fire destroyed his home as well. Air Traffic Controller in Washington International airport taken to the hospital after light anything hit the control tower. At least 5 Lightning Strike hit the air field knocking out communication and suspended flips for hours. Another regional facility temporarily handled air traffic. Airport tweet add picture of a plane waiting at the gate. The worker touched Generator Panel that wasnt grounded correctly just as lightning hit the generator and knocked him to his knee and left his arm and leg numb. We are told that he is doing okay tonight. Runway completely reopen later this evening. We have seen crazy weather around the country experience. About really, really calm and quiet here but flooding in colorado. Severe flooding. About warnings until sunday and this in sierra but we are if looking at this. Sky inland and pattern in the bay area this is afternoon in the early evening thunderstorms rumble over lake tahoe just start to taper off in the last couple hours. Time lapse view of the thunderstorm clouds over lake tahoe this afternoon from our heavenly camera and you can see quite active weather pattern but not active throughout the weather. Quiet from the roof top camera across embarcadero, bay bridge. Temperatures 59 degrees in San Francisco. 62 at Oakland Redwood city. 64, 64 also in los gatos. 63 san jose. 59 hath moon bay. Another live view from the camera back at what you can see of the sky line in San Francisco with low cloud fog moving in. We have readings of 60 degrees santa rosa, 61 at napa and novato. 70 antioch and low to mid 60s at concord and livermore. Live view of the bay bridge from emeryville in the east bay. Forecast feature area of fog and locally inland warmer conditions most areas tomorrow and cooler pattern beginning on sunday. Water vapor satellite image shows calm and quiet conditions in the bay area right now but there are little active system around us and the one that is really going to have an effect on our weather is low system in the gulf of alaska into the pacific northwest. Not directly over the bay area but enough of a trough in the jet stream to feel cooler coming in by sunday. A little prefall preview of that cooling down. Temperatures wont drop sliing but feel much is cooler more autumn like right now. Low clouds fog at the coast and locally across the bay area inland. Low pressure generally in the low 60s so pretty mild overnight. Tomorrow our little warmup continues and south bay High Pressure upper 70s at santa clara and sunnyvale mid 80s at morgan hill and gilroy. Peninsula upper 70s and he had wood city and mount view mid upper 60s on the coast at pacifica and a half moon bay. Downtown San Francisco high of 70 tomorrow. 67 in the sun set district. Low to mid yits across most of the north bay from santa rosa to nap a. East bay high 73 at oakland. 74 hayward. Newark sfichblingts inland east bay high in the mid to upper 80s. Heres accuweather 7 day forecast. 2 nasty warm days coming our way tomorrow saturday. Upper 80s inland. Manipulateder 70s around the bay. Temperatures dropoff couple degrees on sunday and hold the steady pattern remainder of next week with virtually no change at all in the temperature pattern. Inform rain to speak of. No rain at all. Not yet. But we are approaching fall in 10 days so fichlt wet pattern could develop any time. Thanks expense near still to come on 7 news at 9 00 p. Jk rowling returns to harry potter for new film. Exposing tattoo woman this place has got really good chocolate shakes. growls man thats a good look for you. woman that was fun. man yeah. man let me help you out with the. woman . Oh no, i got it. man you sure . woman just pop the trunk. man vo i may not know where the road will lead, but. Im sure my subaru will get me there. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. 97 passenger dissaturday guide cruise carnival offers 110 percent refund. Free transportation home and 100 dollar on board credit. Company trying to bounce back after string of recent problems and ship breakdowns. 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