Michael middleton was teary eyed most of the morning. Many came to embrace him and honor the memory of his daughter. He felt today should be about love, not hate. I understand people are gonna have their feelings about it. Some people are gonna be angry, some people are gonna want blood. I dont want that because then that just does it in madisons name. It kind of taints her memory if thats what people want. Justice will be served. Reporter middleton chose not to go inside the courtroom to face the teen accused of raping and killing his daughter in july. 15yearold Adrian Gonzalez faced a judge this morning and entered a plea of not guilty. The teen is being charged as an adult. He allegedly lured maddie into his apartment, carried out the attack and put her body in a dumpster. The crime devastated the Beach Community and shocked neighbors who knew Adrian Gonzalez as a gentle kid. Friends say he was contemplating suicide and was depleased depressed. I have forgiven him. I dont you know, i dont have any illegal and, you know things are gonna work themselves out. Reporter middleton said the support has been amazing. Hes not sure if he will be at the next Court Hearing scheduled october 29th. We asked Adrian Gonzalezs defense attorney if she plans to file for a change of venue ba she refused to answer. Reporting from santa cruz, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Traffic is flowing normally right now on a busy east bay freeway after it was shut down this morning after a deadly Chain Reaction crash. It happened at about 4 40 a. M. On southbound interstate 680 just south of Bollinger Canyon road in san ramon. The chp says that a car hit a big rig, then spun out in the middle of the freeway. A motorcycle then slammed into the car. The rider was thrown from the motorcycle and died at the scene. No one else was hurt. The truck hit the Center Divide and caught fire. Two other vehicles crashed trying to avoid the wreck. Only one lane was open during the investigation. All lanes will reopen just before 9 00 a. M. Now to the valley fire. Fire officials raised the numbers of destroyed to 162. That brings the total to 1,000. The fire has burned through almost 76,000 acres and this morning it was 70 contained. As ktvus alex savidge reports, fire Officials Say the valley fire is now the fourth worse wildfire in california history. Reporter well, the valley fire swept through with such little warning. There are so many homes lost. Nobody is faulting the firefighters. Look at this sign. It says, thank you, firefighters. We know you tried. Everywhere you go in the Community Today you see signs of appreciation for the hard work the thousands of firefighters still on the front lines, battling this fire. Damage assessment teams have been working to get an accurate count on how many homes burned. Calfire believes 1,050 homes were destroyed in middletown and the surrounding communities. That new assessment makes this the fourth worse wildfire in california history. There were close to 20,000 people initially ordered to evacuate and many of them stayed in shelters for more than a week. Finally this past weekend, the people of middletown were allowed to return back home and people who live in some other communities went back home as well. We talked with one family in middletown who came back to find their home the only place Still Standing on the street. We finally got home and so releashed relieved. Sad to see, we saw people who were close neighbors. It wont be the same but were all very close. They will rebuild. Reporter to help house those who lost everything in the fire, the twin pine casino has opened up 200 hotel rooms and event center. But even as middletown reopens and tries to get back to normal, there are still evacuation orders in effect for communities like cobb and Anderson Springs which were hit hard by the fire. One big issue in the communities is the fact that pg e is still working to try to restore power there. They may not have the lights back on to everyone impacted by the fire until this coming friday. Back to you. Pg e continues to repair damaged power lines and poles in the valley fire zone. Almost 900 power poles have been damaged. 480 new power poles have been installed, rebuilt and rewired. Pg e hopes to have power fully restored in the fire zone by friday night. The death of a man whose body was found near the tassajara fire in Monterey County is under investigation. His body was found inside a charred car. The tassajara fire started friday afternoon. Its burned 1,000 acres, destroyed ten homes and other buildings. That fire is about 30 contained. An air health alert has been issued by Monterey CountyHealth Officials because of smoke from the tassajara fire. They say the smoke may be a problem for several days. Children, seniors and people with heart or lung disease are being told to stay inside until the smoke clears. Evacuees of the butte fire are being allowed to return home. More than 70,000 homes have burned in aim ma door and amador and calaveras counties. Some evacuation orders were lifted yesterday. Many people returned to find their homes were lost in the fire. Our fewer coverage continues at ktvu. Com. There were posting updates and have listed a number of ways you can donate to help all of those hurt by the fire. The man accused in the kidnapping for ransom case in vallejo is set to make his First Court Appearance in federal court today. A federal complaint accuses Mathew Muller of kidnapping Denise Huskins from her home in march. She later turned up unharmed in southern california. Police initially called the story a hoax but months later, the fbi said it found evidence that it actually happened. Muller is expected to plead not guilty. Last week, muller was also in court in connection with a Home Invasion robbery in dublin. He pled no contest. Henry lee is at the Court Hearing. Well have him on live at 5 00 to talk about what happened in court and the latest on the story. Pope francis continued his tour of cuba today. Pope francis will celebrate mass in cue bea you a Third Largest city before cubas Third Largest city before heading to washington, d. C. Reporter pope francis traveling to the eastern part of cuba celebrating mass. Becoming the first pontiff to ever visit the city. Translator he invites us slowly to overcome our preconceptions and reluctances to think others, much less ourselves, can change. Reporter francis leaving after celebrating mass in revelation square. He called for cube bans to care for cubans to care for each other due to a sense of service, not ideology. In other words, take care of the people, fidel. Reporter pope francis met with the was dro brothers. The castro brothers. The pope was very happy about this meeting. Some of the members of the family of fidel were present. And the conversation was informal. Reporter this is Pope Franciss last full day in cuba before traveling to washington, d. C. Where he will speak to a joint session of congress. He will then visit new york city and celebrate mass in Madison Square garden. The popes trip to the u. S. Will end with a stop in pennsylvania where he will visit Independence Hall and celebrate mass outside of the philadelphia art museum. I will be there r well be there. See you in philadelphia. Reporter today also marks a personal anniversary for pope francis, 62 years since he decided to enter the priesthood. In havana, back to you. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton says her campaign is not taking any steps to prepare for another democrat to join the race for the white house. During an appearance on face the nation, she says nothing will be done before Vice President joe biden announces whether or not he is joining the race. This is such a personal decision, and the Vice President has to, you know, sort this out. Hes been so open in talking about how difficult this time is for him and his family and hes obviously considering what he wants to do including whether he wants to run. This was clintons first appearance on one of the sunday news interview programs in four years. On the republican side, a new poll shows Carly Fiorina gained a lot of ground after the debate last week. She was widely seen as the winner. Donald trump is still the front runner. He has 24 support from people. Thats down 8 from the previous cnn poll. Carly fiorina jumped from 3 to 15 . That bushed carson into third place with 14 that pushed carson into third place with 14 . Education officials speak out after a molestation scandal shuts down a south bay school. Another hot one day. Some people inland feeling stripledigit temperature tripledigit temperatures. Well bring in rosemary orozco. And the bay area has the rightest rate of car thefts in the country. Well tell you who leads the left and what is behind the numbers. We value sticking with things. When something works, people stick with it. More people stick with humana medicare advantage. Because we stick with them. Humana medicare advantage. The plan people stick with. Are more likely to have a to frsuccessful future. E born talking and reading to children in their first years has a huge impact on what they do with the rest of their lives. The fewer words they hear, the greater their chances of dropping out of school and getting into trouble. Talk. Read. Sing. Your words have the power to shape their world. Learn more at first5california. Com parents a south Bay Charter School is shut down today. Police arrested a school aide there last week accusing him of molesting a student. Now there are questions being raised about staff background checks being complete. Santa clara county education officials asked spark Charter School in sunnyvale to close until those records are up to date. This comes after this teachers aide, 18yearold jonathan chow, was arrested last week on child pornography and molestation charges. Hes accused of molesting an 8 yearold girl at the school. During an investigation, county officials discovered that fingerprint tests on all of the schools employees had not been completed before the school opened a month ago. Thats a violation of the state education code. What i said to them was if you do not close, im going to take forward a recommendation to my board to revoke the charter. There is a provision in California Law that allows immediate revocation if the safety of students is placed at risk. The school says its now completed those background checks on all of the employees. Theres no word yet when the Charter School will reopen. Figures show the bay area has ryest rate of car thefts in the country. Car thefts are up 10 in San Francisco. If the trend holds, the city could see the highest number of stolen cars in nearly a decade. Police say they suspect a number of cars are stolen by criminals to be used in robberies, shootings and other crimes. This comes as the car decline is coming across the rest of the state. Volkswagen is being ordered to fix 500,000 cars. The most devastating is the stop sale of the vehicles. They will not be sold here in the u. S. Under a recall. Vw is admitting it rigged u. S. Emissions tests for some 500,000 diesel cars during the last seven years. The Environmental Protection agency says volkswagen used software to allow the diesel cars to release less smock producing emissions. Vw said issued an apology saying im personally deeply sorry weve breaken the trust of our customers and public. Two lawmakers in new york want to create the First National park that hoppers the gay rights movement. In 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn in new york city helped touch off an aggressive fight. A federal park there would help give proper recognition to the gay rights movement, one senator says. Organizers have sent letters to president obama, hillly brand and a representative plan to introduce legislation supporting the idea. A measure to help homeowners protect their property against earthquakes is on the governors desk. This would provide a tax credit of homeowners for 30 for retrofitting which can run in the tens of thousands of dollars. This comes as the cities of San Francisco and los angeles are phasing in retrofitting requirements for many homeowners. The governor has until october 11th to sign or vee toy the veto the bill. It was a night of first last night at the emmys. Heres the highlights from hollywood. Game of thrones. Reporter it was a night of new winners, heartfelt speeches and amotional moments. The support of my family, the support of my beautiful new wife, im here. Reporter tracy morgan made his first public appearance, giving thanks for support he received and then announcing best drama series. They said you could win with dragons. No, i think a lot of it we talked about it a lot and we knew that no matter how well the show turned out we knew there would be some resistance. Reporter outstanding comedy went to veep and Julia Louis Dreyfus won best actress. Viola davis. Reporter as for individual honors, davis received the outstanding actress in a draw na becoming the first African American woman to win this award. I didnt know that everybody wanted me to win it so badly, but, you know, i keep saying the same quote over and over, stories never end. My story doesnt end here. Jeffrey tambor. Reporter tambor won for lead actor portraying a transgender woman in transparent. I want to thank the people. Reporter and jon hamm got it after eight tries. These people, i love desperately, i will never work with a group of people like this. Reporter and then the farewell win went to jon stewart picking up three awards. Reporter overall, andy samberg, the host, delivered on his signature song, dance and com comedy. Reporter back to you. Lets take a peek outside. Lets stay inside where the ac is on. Thats a great idea. We have another warm day around the bay area. A bit of a cooldown trickling right along the coastline. A gradual cooldown underway. Most of us arent going to feel it today. Giving you a live look here across the bay where we do have mostly sunny skies. And again temperatures already quite warm. Lets take a look at where the fog is, still well offshore. So we are mostly sunny along the coast inside the bay and for the inland communities, the sun shoo is shining as the sun is shining. We have a southwesterly breeze in napa at about 7 miles an hour. In fairfield, a northeasterly breeze. Oakland, a northwesterly breeze at about 7. And the only area where i see more of an onshore breeze on the west end of San Francisco. So the west end of San Francisco, about 65 degrees right now. You get into downtown San Francisco its still 80 degrees right now. So again, right along the coastline the only place were gonna feel the cooldown if the sea breeze picks up, 68 degrees half moon bay. But were 82 at redwood city. If you like it hot, livermore is the place to be. 95 at this lunch hour which means were likely to go a lot warmer before the day is over. Upper 80s in antioch. 90 degrees for your lunch hour in pittsburg. Another hot day for most of us especially the inland cities. Around the bay, 80s and 90s expected. As we get into tomorrow, this cooldown is gonna finally move into the bay into our inland areas. We all begin to feel it as we get into tuesday and then fall arrives on wednesday. Afternoon highs for today, mid 90s in areas like santa rosa, 100 in the forecast for st. Helena. Close to the water, 89 for sausalito. To the east bay, temperatures will be quite warm along the shoreline. Upper 80s to low 90s. Alameda, oakland, san leandro and back to about 100 or so for some of those inland spots, areas like livermore as well as brentwood. 101 expected for you there. 95 san jose. 94 for santa clara. 94 for sunnyvale. Along the peninsula, 93 in redwood city, it 88 for san bruno. And mid to upper 80s in and around the downtown San Francisco area as well as the east side of San Francisco. The extended forecast here, temperatures falling off quite a bit as we get into tuesday again. That cooldown that begins today will finally move inland as we get into tuesday afternoon. By wednesday, first day of fall, temperatures feeling quite nice. Low to mid80s in the forecast, for wednesday, thursday. We do warm it up as we get into the bay area weekend. 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