Grass. It eventually spread to 2 homes that were destroyed before the fire was ultimately brought upped control. They continueed to fight the house fire which his spread to second house. Both homes completely destroyed and able to keep the grass fire from spreading other than the spot fire that occurred later on in the incident. Witnesses person was seen running from one of the homes but no reports of any injuries. Officials say they have been unable to contact the owner of either home at this point. Investigators still trying to figure out exactly how it started. We have a leif report on this tonight on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7. Arson investigators now at the scene of car fire that happened this afternoon. Just before 6 smoke came pouring out of the garage under one rincon tower. Sprinklers helped stop the consider fir from spreading in the San Francisco parking garage during rush hour. Bmw was on fire and firefighters had to use the crow bar in order to pry open the hood. No injuries or major damage to the building was reported but the bmw badly damaged. Cal fire needed help to put out a fire that started burning in rural area south of the petaluma airport. Sky 7 hd show you the accident of the fire near the 4400 block of adobe road. Blaze destroyed 7 acres of very dry vegetation. Fire rig stayed in the area to check for hot spots. Firefighters from laboring neighborhoods help put out the flames. Firefighters mopping up after fire that broke out this afternoon in San Francisco near l 280 here. Firefighters say the flames started in the grass near a home at the end of mole tree street. Firefighters quickly put out the house fir and able to contain the grass fair before it damaged any other homes. In san jose tonight the rift between Police Officers and the city is widening. Tonight decision to impose mandatory over time is causing more conflict. Cops complain it could put the public in danger if they are over work and exhaustsed on the job. David louie has more now from San Jose Police head quurters. The decision will put the Police Department to a test. Balancing the safety of the public with safety of officers. Department will ask for volunteers first to tack on an extra 2 or 3 hours at the end of the shift. Mandatory over time will kick in when there arent enough volunteers. That doesnt sit well with the Police Officer association. Officers already involved in a voluntary over time program to fill the hole in our patrol division. Now this mandatory over time is another sign that the city council has failed to address the problems that are driving officers away and keeping the neighborhoods unsafe. Reporter gonzalez putting in a dig City Council Members for pension rae Form Campaign that has driven veteran officers an even new recruit to jump ship and join other police agency. City currently has 8 88 sworn officers. 2 21 below authorized strength. Spokesman for the Police Command staff says officer safety and Public Safety are equally important. We didnt want to put officers in harm way nor do we want to go ahead and jeopardize the public as a result of an officer can tired. We understand that our administration understands that and at the end of the day we want every officer to be safe and also want to provide the core service to our public. Reporter city council Public SafetyCommittee Meeting this afternoon when we caught up with vice mayor winn she supports the mandatory over time and hope in time it wont be necessary when more officers join the department. If officers dot want to work because they are tired, fatigued or exhausted then we wont allow them to do that. At the end of the end of the day want our residents to be safe and exhausted officers wont be able to do the job and days feet the purpose. Reporter this is abc 7 new news. Man has been put on an emergency psychiatric hold after witness say he set his own truck on fire. Happened around 8 30 this morning near the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see just how intense the flames were in the photo posted on twitter. Man now identified as Romeo Cruz Baptist from sacramento had a can of gas license and taunting firefighters for some reason. Several lanes cholesteroled as crew responded. Baptist suffered minor injuries. Car was burned up completely. Environmental group claiming that San Francisco bay is the most polluted water way in the state. Thats according to report by Environment California Research and policy center. Biggest plotter was Conoco Philip in rodeo which dumped more than 7 41,000 pounds of toxic pollution into the bay in 2012. All together polluters dumped 1. 6 Million Pound in the water that year. That is 71 percent of all toxic Water Pollution documented for California Water way. The databaseed on the epa toxic release report. New crime data shows addition of kill switch to the apple iphone last year has dramatically reduced robbery and theft. In San Francisco alone there has been a 38 percent decline in iphone theft in the past 6 months. Crimes involving phones that dont have kill switches have surge mean time exploratorium District Attorney george helped launch National Kill switch campaign. We immediately saw tremendous reduction on the suffering tell not only economically but the physical suffering of many victims as a result of a cell phone robbery. Reporter kill switch make your phone useless if it is stolen. Bill to make them mandatory in california is working its way through the legislature and today oakland mayor kwan said if the state doesnt pass it, the city of oakland will. We feel we are very, very close but still a lot of industry pressure to stop Something Like this and we think that is just not defensible. Geeling microsoft plan to incorporate kill switches in the next version of their phon phone. Samsung introduced one in april. Next week the National Transportation safety board issue official findings into what caused the crash of asian flight 2014 at sfo last year. Tonight 7 news morning anchor kristen has insight on the investigation from the woman who proceed sided over it and the day after the airliner went down. This is a story you see only on abc 7 news. If on picture perfect day nearly a year ago the unthin unthinkable happened at San FranciscoInternational Airpor airport. Listen to me. South korea airliner asian flight 214 with over 300 on board hit the sea wall while coming in for landing. More than 1 80 were injured and 3 teenagers from china were killed. Deborah then head of the National Transportation safety board safety board became the public face of the investigation. We recognize that lives were forever changed when the crash occurred. She left the ntsb after 10 years at the helm. In an interview today she told us what to expect out of next week ntsb meeting. They could issue recommendations to the aircraft manufacturer about information that might be in their manual for turning the pilot. Could make recommendation specifically to the airline. Could make recommendation to Training Center because a lot of the training is contracted out to third parties then finally make recommendations to the regulator. Based on what you saw while heading the investigation where would you assign primary responsibility for the crash. They dont like to characterizes it as signing blame because generally you cant blame an accident on one single factor. Its got to be a system of safety to help protect not just the pilot but also the passengers from events like this occurring. A lot has happened since the christopher reeve. In december the ntsb held hearings where asian blamed boeing for design flaw with the controls while boeing blamed the pilot for look of training, incorrect settings and not apworingt the landing n. February the department of transportation fined asian half Million Dollars for look of responsiveness and communication with family following the crash. And just this month the south korean government suspended asian flight for one we can when the pilot took off despite discovering an engine problem. It is actually good news in certain area and demonstrates that there is oversight by the regularlytor and that the regularlytor is willing to step in and take action when they identify deefficiency. Shes still trying to save lives now as head of the National Safety council. Nonprofit sec to prevent unintentional death from distracted driving, drug over dose or workplace danger. As for the ntsb met to go determine the cause of the asian crash that will take place next Tuesday Morning in washington. L this is abc 7 news. More to bring you on abc 7 news at 9. Lillian will be in washington for the hearing next tuesday. She will provide complete leif coverage for that so look for it as we continue. Stay with us more to bring you coming up. Exposed to anthrax. What happened inside one of the most Dangerous Lab in america. The Science Behind the world cup pwawchlt is it leading to record setting tournament scores. Spencer is here with the weather. All right dan tomorrow is the final day of spring it will serve us a sdwren russ serving of summer like warmth. Accuweather forecast coming up. Thanks. We show you how the new tension in iraq is stirring emotion of bay area warra veteran. 7 news at 9 continues veteran. 7 news at 9 continues here in just a moment wireleare awesome. They let us use our phones to do amazing things. 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Between june 6 and the 13th 75 people without the needed protective gear may have breathed it and become infected. They handled deadliest bacteria and virus news the world from smallpox and where precause of action are serious and necessary n. This Lab Scientist and doctor work as plague and west nile. Hive. Tonight the lab are shut down. Decontaminated. The Rapid Response lab is where anthrax a bacteria handled in the live form. Its the leif form of anthrax that somehow got into lower level lab. Where it may have escaped that the air no. Risk of the 75 workers spreading the disease to others. Friend or family. Not spread person to person but real concern for the workers themselves. None of the workers show any symptoms yet. Not yet in the clear. Fever chill shortness of breath. Dizzy headache if an traction untreated theres high mortality rate. 85 percent. Even if you get the right antibiotics about 40 percent still die. These workers are all being offered apartment box for 60 days and the vaccine. Just in case. For an organization that work so often with the deadly disease on the planet its a frightening mistake. I spoke to the head of lab safety cdc and hes devastated this took place. Looking hard to see what happened to make sure it doesnt happen again. Dr. Richard vesser abc news new york. Now to the world cup. Another soccer power house close to being knocked out of the world cup. Today british sock he fans san jose suffered through another poor performance by England National team this time against uruguay. At San Francisco saloon there were split allegiance too. Fans there are used to khering for uruguay top scorer swarez a star in the english premier league. But swarez was not kind to england. He netted 2 goals against the brit and left them near elimination. For the First Time Since 1958 the world cup averaging 3 goal a game. That sparked speculation about the new game ball adidas player and partly responsible for that extra offense. Tiffany wilson has more now from the Research Center where scientist have been analyzing that ball. Hero heart ache spring from the skin. If at 15. 4 ounces it weighs less than a pint but carries the weight of the world cup. If its the adidas world cup official game ball. Dr. Dr. Rob mint chief of nasa arrow physics lab tested it stichbls. First thing we notice this is a lieutenant more stable ball. Flies better. Reporter in the wind tunnel you can see smoke streaming around the ball t. It cits a different kind of turbulence than the other used in south africa. Many players dislike this one because it knuckle or moved when they kicked it. I havent had a single complaint from any of the players. I think thats a good sign for them. Reporter if this seems more exciting than year past you are right. During the first 20 games teams scored 60 gochls at this point during the last world cup they only made 46. Some fans at british pub pig and whistle credit him with the scoring soil. It seems like it a lot easier to connect and easier to control so it does seem like its leading to more goals pretty exciting. Iners not convinced. I think the opening stages there is more chance to mismatch and games may get tighter. Competition progres progresses. They can but shouldnt. Beside both teams are kicking the same ball. This is abc 7 news. And on our web site right now the world richest world cup players. Find out who gets millions to represent the team. At abc 7 news. Com. Theres a lot of money soccer at that level. I guess soil. Spencer is here with the forecast. Almost the official start of summer. Thats true. Not even 40 hours away. Arrive officially 3 51 pacific daylight time. Summer solstice looking at the dying stages of spring. Thinks our live doppler 7hd. High cloud stream go through the bay area rate now and what has been mostly clear sky up until last few hours. Wind relatively calm rate now so we skip right over those and live view of the after glow of sunset. Sun officially set at 8 36 this evening but from the east bay hills camera to the western sky bright glow there current temperature readings 56 in San Francisco. 59 appease at oakland san carlos. 68 morgan hill. 55 half moon basement nice view part of the sky lane downtown San Francisco from our exploring camera. Cloud in the background as well. 61 rate now at santa rose. 60 napa novato. 67 concord and livermore. 64 one more live view Golden Gate Bridge where mainly clear but few high cloud before there as well. Forecast feature partly cloudy tonight. Warming up tomorrow to summer like level them difficult of spring. Summer solstice saturday morning at 3 51. Look at the satellite radar composite image and clouds streaming through the bay area writ now and continue to do so during the overnight hours. Start our forecast animation at 11 00 oclock tonight at which point we have quite a bit of cloud cover around start to then out toward sunrise tomorrow morning then overnight low generally on the mailed side mainly mid 50s and resume animation now picking it up at 5 0okay tomorrow morning continuing through the daytime hours and see what little cloud cover is there in Early Morning hours disappearing by mid afternoon. High pressure will range from mid 60s on the coast low 80s around the bay. Low is in in the warmest inland location so temperatures tomorrow dropped off today. South bay tomorrow look for high mainly in the mid 80s, 85 san jose and 92 farther south at gilroy. Peninsula we see high mainly right around or just above 80 degree from redwood city and Mountain View and coast mild mid 60s at pacifica and a half man basement up in the north bay before San Francisco downtown San Francisco high of 72 tomorrow. 67 in the sun set district now for the north bay over in the coast nice mild with low to mid 60s inland warm 88 at santa rosa, 88 at napa, 86 at sonoma, east bay high 78 at oakland and san leandro and union city 91 castro vaechlt inland east bay quite warm with hay right around or just above 90 degree in most location. Heres accuweather 7 day forecast. Summer officially arrives saturday morning and first weekend of summer beautiful on one. Sunny skies both saturday sunday High Pressure inland in the upper 80s upper 70s around the baylow 60s on the coast and that temperature range will hold steady right on through most of next week. Nice steady pattern of mild to warm summer like weather. 105 before we know it. You are right about that. Okay. 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