Curry fire. Right now the curry fire is 90 contained. The Biggest Issue were having, the canyons are very steep. Its very hard. The boildert cant go up there bolders cant go up there. Reporter in this rugged terrain, downing still burning trees is a top priority. A tree that falls on its own can quickly roll downhill. You see a lot of trees that are halfway burned through. You cant help firefighters working in the area where any moment the tree can fall down. Reporter the cause and origin of the fire is still under investigation. A downed power line was the focus of attention but its unclear if that is where the fire started. Battalion chief scott lindren took the high ground watching for any hot spots and signs of smoke. Right now the heat is on us, the humidities are down and with the wind were making sure the fire stays where it is supposed to. Reporter they will stay on the fire. But miss guess is they are not heading home, but south to riverside county. Were getting reports they are having dry lightning, low humidity, wind. Very easily we could be headed down there. Reporter cal fire today said that there was one structure threatened by this fire. That structure was a farmhouse. That farmhouse was not damaged. Of the 200 firefighters that were working the curry fire, cal fire says there were two injuries to firefighters and those injuries were minor. We are just east of mount diablo in contra costa county, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. As you heard from the firefighter, the weather really helped out both yesterday when there were no winds and also today when the winds kicked up tonight. Bill martin is here to explain. Normally winds would have been a problem. But the winds were light. The temperatures were up. Whats happened today. Temperatures have come up down about 5 degrees. Humiditys up. There a is a west wind thats cooling us. Even though its breesier, its a good breeze. Temperatures outside are on the cooldown. Here is the bay areas air conditioning coming in. You can still see a little bit of this north wind but its working its way up underneath the offshore flow. Lets come in real close and i will show you where the fog lies. You have ocean beach. Fog at pacifica, this live camera. We go up and there it is, bay areas air conditioning coming down. The inland areas are gonna remain hot. No records today. Definitely hot inland. Im gonna have specifics on the weekend. I will see you back here. Thank you, bill. Its a slow, sweaty ride home for some b. A. R. T. Passengers naud. The extreme heat is causing problems on the tracks and in the car. In fact b. A. R. T. Admitteds about a third of the trains have ac that fail just when its needed most. Christien kafton has more. Reporter right now, commuters are getting off the b. A. R. T. Trains. If you take a look you can see passengers are streaming out of the west station. I spoke with b. A. R. T. s station just a half hour ago and got the figures. So far, 31 delays on the trains. They say b. A. R. T. Is running on time now but there were spotty delays tied directly to the temperatures. Some passengers are still recovering from yesterdays problems. B. A. R. T. Says yesterdays sky high temperatures caused, causing them to slow to a crawl. It was like 94 degrees or Something Like that. I dont know. It was like 94 but they stopped the trains completely and we were just sitting there for a while. Reporter b. A. R. T. Directors were candid about the effect the heat has on the transit system. The weather makes our train act kind of bad. [ laughter ] but it was really hot. Reporter b. A. R. T. s spokesperson says about a third of the fleet has older, outdated airconditioning units that failed if temperatures get above 95 degrees. Yeah, that would be when you would want them. B. A. R. T. s says the surplus is just a drop in the bucket and that money needs to be prioritized. There are more safety sensitive issues that we need to spend the money on. So whether we have a little bit of money from Capital Projects such as this. Those get priority. Reporter b. A. R. T. Says it shifted staffing in anticipation of problems yesterday, setting up an all handson deck situation and says that will be the plan for future days. The longterm, storing funds and using that to upgrade systems. Were live in oakland, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. The scorching weather has been providing a boost in business for some local air conditioning companies. Hes my best friend today. Ryans been making many friends in the pleasanton air. Temperatures are close to 100. Hes been busy going from customer to customer. Fixing air Conditioning Systems that people just cant cope without in these hot temperatures. I know yesterday i went on about six, seven calls. Today this is my second one out of five so far. There were cooling companies that tell us many people are holding off on air conditioning repairs since summer is really almost over. During these hot spoel, demand for electricity always surges but the California Independent system operator is not calling for conservation or planning to declare a flex alert just yet. It says there are enough Power Resources right now, but it is still encouraging californians to reduce energy consumption, especially in the late afternoon. Thats when air conditioners drive them to the highest point of the day. Why arent officials concerned amid this heat . Coming up at 5 30, the changes making things easier on the power grid. You can find the forecast where you live by going to ktvu. Com. Click on the weather tab. State regulators okayed a controversial rate hike that will affect hundreds of thousands of californians. The state department of insurance says rate hikes for blueshield and anthem bluecross customers will have average 14 but could go as high as 20 . Anthem intends to put the new rates in effect october 1st about for about 800,000 policy oldholders. That plan was crit sti sed by members and even president obama. In an intervie with our political editor, randy shandobil, meg whitman said the state capital is filled with politicians. But is it . In two interviews at ktvu, meg whitman pointed out the state is in its 5 6th day without a budget. She blamed her fellow republican, governor schwarzenegger, if we were governor well, we would not be in the position were in. I would have started to work on this in january. Didnt governor schwarzenegger at least try to get something done, back in january . It seemed to me not with enough energy and enthusiasm. Nothing really happened until he submitted his may revision of the budget. The former ceo of ebay talked about her new ad which characterizes sacramento as a stale place filled with career politicians, a praise in a place in freed of in need of fresh blood. In sacramento complex problems seem to create gridlock and an inability to get anything done. Six years ago when governor schwarzenegger was running, first running, he said he was fresh blood. He said he had a business background. He said he had a business background and here we are. Well, governor schwarzenegger and i have entirely different backgrounds. I have led and managed very large organizations. And he was a brilliant actor and investor. He didnt know how to balance budgets. She does. As for the career politicians we point the out only 19 of the 120 state legislators in sacramento have southerned ten years or more. Twothirds have served five years or less. Midwest of them are most of them are career politicians. Most of them understand what it takes to create good jobs. How do you find a career politician if theyve been there five years or less . Well, they probably ran for office prior. Most legislatures, biographies list teachers, farmers dentists. Well, tonight jerry brown will be giving his campaign a boost with appearance in the north bay. He will be at the santa rosas slearts Memorial Building for a fundraising rally. So far hes spent about 775,000 on his campaign while meg whitman has spent millions of her own money. More bad news about the housing farther market. New home sales dropped to their lowest level on record. The Commerce Department said sales fell 12 in july. They are blaming this on the expiration of the tax credit and builders having to compete. Builders have to compete with foreclosures. The weak sales mean fewer jobs in the Construction Industry which normally powers exwhik recover whik recovery. Mortgage applications went up 5 last week. It was fueled by more people trying to refinance and take advantage of the lowest Mortgage Rates in decades. The low rates help homeowners reduce their Monthly Payments but they dont seem to be helping too much whether it comes to national whren it comes to when it comes to the stocks fell below 10,000 for the second straight today. In all the dow rose more than 9 points to end at 10,060. The nasdaq closed up by almost 18 points. For more financial and consumer news any time, go to ktvu. Com. San Francisco Police say the driver lost control of her suv and then crashed into five people yesterday, she did not have a drivers license. The victims ranged in age from their 30s on up to their 80s. They were wait forks a bus on san bruno avenue when the suv jumped the curb. Two of them were critically injured. The other three remain in serious condition. The 24yearold female driver told police her brakes failed. She was cited for driving without a license and then released. [ chanting ] reporter oakland families are gathering here to protest a plan to close the citys Child Development center just days before the start of school. That story is coming up. Presenting the cadillac summers best sales event. A fantastic opportunity to get a great offer on an all new cadillac srx Luxury Collection crossover. With a bose Premium Sound system. And an ultraview sunroof designed to let more summer time in. Summer brings out the best in all of us, so nows the perfect time to get behind the wheel of a new cadillac. Hurry in for great lease or purchase offers on an all new srx during cadillacs summers best sales event going on now at your cadillac dealer. Reporter dozens of parents, teachers are protesting out here in front of the Oakland School district. They are angs gri about closing angry about closing down seven Child Development centers. Parents say that will leave hundreds of students parents trying to find afterschool care. Where are our children gonna be when school lets out . Reporter this woman says she relies ons the centers on the centers. The politicians should be ashamed of themselves. Here we are. You have working families. Were working families. Because life travels faster than sound. Reporter this is one of the centers closing. The problem is california have yet to pass a budget. The School District spent 400,000 to keep them open this month but cant afford to do that again. The children are losing out with all of the politics going on. I know a lot of people say they are here for the children but they really arent here for the children. Reporter the School District is working on we are dealt a really bad hand by the government which continues to cut. Reporter School Starts in just five days. Parents are sceapt cal the plan will work. I happen to know that most of the Afternoon School programs are actually full. Were back live at this noisy but peaceful rally. The district is concerned about liability issues. There will be Development Centers available to children but the district plans to consolidate om of those programs some of those programs. Reporting live in oakland, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. Critics say an accounting controversy at cal state proves the urgent need for greater transparency. They are mixing private and public dollars and have lost track of whats what. They say this is the mixing of money to deliberately attempt fraud. Cal state says they are working to fix it but the union says the documents prove otherwise. San Francisco Police are looking for vandals who seem to have it out for plants and have struck again in golden gate park. This time Officials Say nine trees were cut down on park presid grow boulevard pri presidio boulevard. Since may, nearly 50 trees have been deliberately killed in golden gate and lincoln parks. Police dont know if all of the vandalism attacks, though, are related. Firefighters say they are starting to get a scandal handle on an outofcontrol wildfire in concern county. The fire has burned 300 acres so far. Cal fire says the fire is now 30 contained. No homes have been lost. And none are threatened. Some evacuation orders were issued yesterday. What parked the fire has not yet been determined. On to the weather. What a difference, bill, much cooler today than yesterday. Thats right, frank. If you are up in the valley, temperatures are about as warm as they were yesterday. About 20 degrees cooler in oakland and hayward than it was yesterday at this time. The reason why is the fog which has made its migration up the coast. Its hugging the coastline because High Pressure is still creating an offshore flow. This is fip typical it runs right up the coast. Lets take a peek. For tomorrow, weve had weve had some coastal weather the last 48 hours, tomorrow the fog is in. Well see temperature thes back at the coast in the 50s, maybe a low 60 if were lucky. Theres even drizzle possible. Dense fog on the highway. You know this area well. I know a lot of you live out here. Fog is going to come in to about oakland it will make it into berkeley. Look at the cooloff today. Santa rosa 14 degrees cooler. San rafael, 10. San francisco, 15. Oerktd was the big cooloff at 24 hours degrees oakland was the big cooloff at 24. Inland cities still really hot. Tomorrow it will be a mild day. The coastal fog will work its way further east each day as we move into the next 24 hours or each day as we move into the weekend. Pardon me. The extended forecast calls for an unusually cool weather pattern for your bay area weekend. This is really unusual. Im gonna show you some graphics that pertain to this. It will be important because you want to plan your weekend. It will be different. I will have your forecast. I will see you back here in a minute. Tiger woods and his former wife speaking about the text scandal that sex scandal that ended their marriage. There are concerns that eggs that have been recalled could still under up on your dinner table. And the heat involving the president of a university and the owner of a home. Eggs from iowa that are at the heart of a major recall could still find their way to a table near you. Producers say theres no reason not to use the eggs while federal officials investigate the outbreak. They say the eggs will be patch ourized whatever the case, the egg recall is putting more pressure on congress to toughen food safety laws. Theres no way in the United States of america consumers should die from something they ate. Despite having bipartisan support, a bill na would give the fda more power to monitor food safety and protect the public has been stuck in the senate for more than a year. Its been on the back burner. But some say we cannot afford to wait any longer. That includes people in the food industry. We support whatever the fda needs to make sure the Consumer Confidence is at the highest possible level just to make sure that we have a safe food supply. Harry reid had wanted to pass the bill before recess but ran out of time. His spokesperson says the senate may revisit it when Congress Returns to washington next month month. Aaa says more americans plan to get away for labor day this year. While the number of travelers is planning to go up 10 , the average distance traveled is expected to go down ten miles. 91 of travelers are taking road trips. With the Holiday Weekend approaching, the government has launched an ad campaign to wash people to warn people of the dangers of drunk driving. One in five people confess to having driven less than two hours after drinking. 8 of drivers said theyve drivgen drunk at least once in the past year. For 2 to 24yearolds, the average Alcohol Consumption was more than frowr drinks in four drinks in a sitting. Yesterday, we had the first bay area power alert in quite some time. Why is that . That story is still ahead. Today, the epa announces a proposal that could dramatic change californias coastline. Well tell you how coming up. Droiiiid. What this droid does will change how you do web connections. This creates a mobile 3g hotspot, powerful enough to fuel multiple devices at will. Putting you at the center of your own world wide web. Introducing the new droid x. The next generation of does. We had what are fairly rare conservation alerts as record high temperatures caused power consumption to go up. Ten years ago, we were plagued with polling rolling blackouts. Whats changed here . We go to tom vacar for some answers. Well, the recession is a big reason right now. But weve come a long way from those dark days of the blackouts. From here pg e controls the power grid. On really hot days too many air conditioners can alert the system so alerts to major users to conserve power work. And also ensures that 2003 have enough Energy Running through the system to meet our Customers Energy demands. Today customers say they think most folks are more aware. Ive been reminded how important it is to make sure the lights are all turned out before you leave, make sure the bulbs the one make sure the bulbs that are you using save energy. Use of Solar Systems on homes and businesses is way up. We have had a record amount of customers who are investing in solargenerating systems on their holes. Pg e is already building or contracting for up to 500 megawatts of solar panel. The equivalent of one gas powered fire plant. Investing in reflewable energy but also seeking to rebuild Renewable Generation sources. Biomass will soon be a major contributor. A wet winter has given us an abund