Tonight about the video he took which is a crucial piece evidence to find out how this big fire started. Good evening, im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. The fire has burned more than 2000 acres, destroyed one home, and forced people to evacuate. It started near the summit of loma prieta. The i team has been investigating marijuana grows on that mountain for a month. Reporter i started the investigation in august. Neighbors complained to me they felt under siege but what they suspected are illegal marijuana grows and they were concerned about the possible dangers presented by those operations. Reporter ups driver came upon this. The loama fire. He sent these pictures out on facebook. I was in awe and shock. Id never seen anything like that from myself. From my first person view. Reporter he watched the helicopter land. It started from a structure. The source with knowledge took carlos video and believes he identifies where the fire may have started in an area near loma taquita road where neighbors claim was an illegal marijuana operation. Theyre heavily armed. There has been shootings in the past. Sources say theyre concentrating on that spot. It appears to identify a hell pot grow. Theyre concerned about loud pops. Carlos thought it was the sound of trees exploding. I thought that makes sense. When you put a log on the fire, you hear it popping. It could be some type of ammunition. Reporter sources tell the iteam whether it was butane canisters exploding. Cal fire says the investigation into how it started is underway. That can take up to, you know, weeks, months, possibly years. Reporter we have had a tough time reaching the current owner. The previous owner told me there was no drug operation there when he had it. A sheriffs deputy told me he saw several growers leaving the area in tears, upset about their crops going up in flames. Dan and ama . Fire crews worked in slightly cooler conditions today. The temperature fell about eight degrees from yesterday. Flames continue to threaten 300 structures including a number of homes. You cant tell. Is that my house . Somebody elses house . Just trees . Crews from across the state, a thousand firefighters plan to keep battling the flames. Cal fire mobilized to join air tankers to battle the fire from the air. Abc7 News Reporter david louie spent time with the pilot between runs and is live in gilroy. David . Reporter cal fire created a virtual fleet fleet of 15 helicopters to help supplement its air tankers. The helicopters have come from around the state and oregon with one focus, to give support to ground crews that are going in and trying to put out the visibility can be problematic. 15 helicopters are in the second day of making drops of 200 to 2600 gallons at a time. We have winds today just going to change the fire behavior for us and humidity is low still. It affects us on the helicopter flying. These buckets are named after the company that created them. Some used a line from 100 feet to 00 feet. Keeps out of the fire making a fire worse. Inside of the water, it scoops up from reservoirs or lakes. It has a valve that has these cords that go up to the release and its held up. With so many aircraft working a fire, coordinators on the ground serve as Traffic Controllers so fixed wing aircraft maintain separation. Cal fire is united stating its own helicopter and others are leased from helicopters. David louie, abc7 news. Air pollution levels are higher in Santa Clara Valley but there is no spare the air alert today. Here is a live look from one of our tower cameras. Lets get to spencer christian. There is no doubt smoke from the fire contributed to a reduction of air quality, but so far, no spare the air alert in effect today or tomorrow. Good air quality will prevail and it will be moderate and with the spoke that has accumulated. These Current Conditions in the area of the loma fire. Its 70 degrees right now. Winds are light and High Temperature trend shows a continuing cooling trend in the area that should be helpful to efforts you can keep up with the changes in weather conditions related to the fire with the abc7 news app. Ama . Thank you, spencer. A jury convicted this man, darnel washington of murdering a retired schoolteacher m her home. Suzy co was murdered in her home in hercules. Authorities say the couple went on a multi day crime spree throughout california. Washington faces the death penalty. U. S. Parks Police Released this sketch of a person of interest in the death of a man killed while playing pokemon go in San Francisco last month. Investigators are looking for this car. It was seen leaving the park after the incident. A 20yearold calvin riley was with friends and fatally shot. Some victims of a shooting in N Elementary School are getting out of the hospital tonight. A teacher and child have been released but a 6yearold child remains in critical condition. Investigators say the shooter is a teenager who killed his father at home before going to the school and opening fire this morning. Hes now in custody. Families of those killed in the terrorist attacks of september 11th are now legally allowed to sue saudi arabia after a vote in washington overturned a veto. Congress voted against the president and in favor of the legislation. The First Successful override allows for lawsuits based on allegations the saudis backed terrorists. Alice hogueland lost her son, mark bingham, in those attacks. Were thankful congress has seen fit to allow us that day in court. We have heard strange nay saying for people who should be for this bill. Opponents say the law could open the u. S. Government up to lawsuits from other countries for action of military Service Members and diplomats. Californias oldest banking institution, wells fargo is accused today of greed by the state treasurer who stripped the bank with profitable business dealings with state government. Carolyn . Reporter the state treasurer says the fraudulent accounts have damaged its customers credits and this punishment is designed to have both Financial Impact and be a blow to the banks reputation. The california state treasurer, john chung calls it a legal, an ethical outrage. The bank aadmitted opening 2 million fake accounts for customers. The state will no longer use wells fargo for buying investments and underwriting bonds and not invest in the bankssecurities. How can my office continue to entrust money to a organization that shes such little regard for heathins of californian thats placed their financial well being in its care. State Officials Say impact would be 500 million or more and chung thinks it will be a low to the image. This is the state of california and the biggest land of business for us. Reporter chung says he found the capitol hill testimony by wells fargo ceo john stump disheartening and called him to resign. Wells fargo saying in part we certainly understand the concerns that have been raised and are very sorry and take full responsibility for incidents in our retail bank. Customers praised the states actions. Helpfully, will prevent it from happening in the future. This theyve try to pulled Something Like this, theyve got to pay for it. Reporter treasurer chung mans to use his position on the states largest Pension Funds with 2 billion plus invested in wells fargo to push for long term reforms. Hard work pays off. A man smokes himself out. The common crime that has local Law Enforcement ready for anything. See where you can make 80,000 a year and still qualify for Affordable Housing. Meet a woman ticketed in a red zone jon batiste has mastered new ways to play old classics. With chase atms, he can master new ways to deposit checks too. Easy to use Chase Technology for whatever youre trying to master. Ever feel like youve been wrongly accused . That is how one woman feels right now. She got a ticket for parking in a red zone that wasnt there when she parked her car. Lets bring in vic lee in the Marina District to explain what happened. This is wild. Well, dan, its a, you know, this is franklin street and this is the red zone right here. That is the red zone were talking about. This is where the woman parked her car. Now, that is a simple story but became complicated when the sfmta responded with an explanation one woman finds hard to swallow. Ridiculous. That is how she felt. She put her car here, a legal parking space. I parked there because it was not ready red. Darrenthal has a city parking permit so she can park longer than two hours. She was going on a business trip. She came back, five days later. I saw a ticket on the car. Her parking space had been painted red while she was away. You can still see the fresh paint on leaves and litter in the gutter. The crew painted around her tire but not nice, this 110 ticket for a red zone violation. Darrenthal protested on the website and appealed. They just said the protest was denied and that i still had to pay the fine. We went to sfmta spokesman paul rose. He confirms the space was painted red when the car was parked but says darrenthal was cited not for red zone, but because she parked in that spot too long. According to the california vehicle code, you cant park in the same location more than 72 hors. But darrenthals ticket says red zone violation. She did protest the citation and was denied for these reasons. But nowhere in this rejection letter which she got from sfmta does it mention a 72 hour parking violation. Darrenthal says shell appeal again, this time in person. From red zones to red lanes, governors signed a law aimed at speeding. The ride for buses along streets in california. The law will help unclog bus lanes in San Francisco. And current laws only allow citing driver whos stop at curb spaces reserved for buss. Ted is a huge day for self driving technology. A quadriplegic received a special kind of drivers license. Kristin zee is here with the story. Kristin . Reporter Ground Breaking and inspirational. What a feeling for sam schmidt. He received a Autonomous Vehicle license. 15 years ago, i figured i was done driving on the street forever. You know . Now, anything is possible. Reporter schmidt was an indy car racer until a violent crash left him paralyzed from the neck down. This car put him back in the seat. He breathes into a tube to accelerate and blows out to break. Cameras track his Head Movement and relay that to tires for turning. Its only valid in nevada, has to be a pilot car ahead and he needs a licensed driver ready to take control just in case. Sam is good with that and when nevadas Lieutenant Governor handed him the license today, he said what happens when i get pulled over and the officer says can i see your hands . I dont think that is going to be a problem. No. That is really interesting. Thats cool. Thanks, kristin. San francisco board of supervisors is upset with cost overruns and now, theyre voting to postpone 7 million in funding for next phase of the project. Supervisors worry it may have led to adjacent Millennium Tower structural problems. Mayor ed lee says he supports the delay. I need to make sure weve got the best venues going forward, there is a debate about building techniques. Phase two contains construction of an underground rail tunnel and california high speed rail trains would share the tracks. Marine layer is back and temperatures are dropping. Continuing to look at this as i stroll over to the board to show how much cooling affect were getting. Here is a live view of the fog from our roof top camera looking over the bay. Its pushing across the bay and headed inland. Well see fog near the coast and bay overnight. Cooling into the weekend area wide. There is a chance of showers on sunday we can use that will help reduce fire danger. 24 hour temperature change, 18 degrees cooler in hayward and 1014 degrees cooler in other locations. Readings are 54 degrees in half moon bay. 55 in San Francisco. Oakland, 70 down in san jose and a warm 89 in brentwood. To our overnight lows, generally mid50s tonight and cooler near the coast. Well see low 50s and santa rosa, napa dropping down to 50 or 51 degrees. 7 00 this evening, notice advantage of the will he clouds and fog across the bay and inland. Maybe that will slow down the commute but the fog will pull back by late morning or mid day, giving us mainly sunny skies except for lingering patches of coastal fog. Highs tomorrow, breezy conditions and upper 50s on the coast to 60s and low 70s around the bay. Upper 70s to low 80s inland. Friday, will be windy on the coast and into friday night. That may increase fire risk but will remain cool. We expect a cool afternoon saturday and cooler sunday with highs in the 60s. Here is the abc7 storm impact scale. Approaching system ranks one on impact scale, bringing autumn showers and produce slippery roadways. And here is the forecast animation for the storm starting sunday morning. It will not affect all areas of the bay area, just october showers. So on we go to the accuweather forecast. Breezy and cool, cooling down over the weekend. Sunday, the coolest day with a chance of showers into monday morning. This looks like a winter forecast where you warm up a little bit. 500 square feet or 400 a night . Coming up, what you get at the newest hotel in sonoma county. Plus. Designated survivor isnt just the name of abcs newest hit show. Meet some men who carry that had title in real life after tonights new episode of because she doesnt know that it kills 40,000 californians. Every year. Because she doesnt understand what cancer is. Because she cant spell emphysema. Because she is a butterfly, who fights fires. Because she is my daughter, and the Surgeon General says that raising tobacco taxes. Is a proven way to make sure she never smokes. Thats why im voting yes on 56. So far, resort and casino has been 100 casino. Abc7 News Reporter eric thomas took the tour today. Up until now, if you wanted to visit the casino, you had to gamble on a room off site. That will change in midnovember. Now, were further fulfilling our name. Resort element takes another step forward. Owners of the casino and resort is adding resort. A 200 room hotel with spa. And in the 800 million to build and youre getting close to 1 billion. People can come and enjoy entertainment, game, and tour the wine country. Now, enjoy a spa in first class facilities. A standard room is 500 square feet, running 399 a night mid week and 499 on the weekends. Luxury suites up to 2600 square feet. Price . Dont ask. Capable of generating a lot of new jobs. It will mean well have a total of 2000 team members here. A local pastor says the hotel will lure the cost across the area. The dirty secret is prostitution. The new hotel is only going to add to this problem. Hotel Officials SaySecurity Officers and police will keep an eye out for the crimes. A major expansion for a store, beta provides a physical space for you to tryout new gadgets only Available Online and announced its receiving 20 million helping it expand to santa monica, seattle, and other locations. Beta has Head Quarters in San Francisco and one location in palo alto. Ahead, cracking down on a crime in the bay area. Ground 0 for this special task force. Also. A piece of San Francisco movie history is on the market. What it takes for you to live the mrs. Doubtfire house, ahead, on abc7 news. Sharing Video Services is common. Can it all in a days work. A look at a day in the life of a task force in the east bay targeting a common crime. Now, one county believes its come up with a way to deal. With thousands of cars in oakland and surrounding cities its a full time job of a task force to track down thieves and vehicles and oakland is ground 0. We showed today. A man wanted for violating his parole tried to escape police by running into his home in the fruit vail district and starting a fire. We called the Fire Department and oakland pd lent us a canine. He sold this pontiac trance yam to a 17yearold out of san leandro. Police say a auto thief specializes in gm vehicles and coveted engines. In a few years we have recovered, Law Enforcement recovered almost 300 stripped cam yaros in the oeshgland area the suspect is Albert Murray and police say he had a pistol magazine. In oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. The suspect of a kidnapping case is expected to change his plea in court tomorrow. Matthew mullers Attorney Says he will plead guilty and says prosecutors decided only to seek a 40year prison term instead of life. Hes charged with kidnapping Denise Huskins last year. A park in oaklands fruit veil district may soon be safer. Abc7 news was at Cesar Chavez Park as city workers upgraded a system that werent working three weeks ago when three men were shot and killed in the park. You know, it will deter some and if something does happen well be able to enforce the law. The cameras stopped working because of vandalism and water damage. It is a sign of the times in the bay areas ultra expensive housing market. The Property Managers of courtyard apartments are taking applications for 22 affordable units part of berkeleys below market rate program. Anyone making less than 82,000 a year can apply. A lottery will be held to decide who gets one of them. A home where mrs. Doubtfire was filmed is for sale. Is a piece of history. This is on a list of things to see. Its on just about every map and tourist guide. The house where Robin Williams starred in mrs. Doubt fire. The movie used a real street address and prices. And something else. We encouraged producers to h