Beloved by officers and the community. Debora . Reporter in vallejo a bad crash just before 7 00 a. M. that jammed interstate 80 for the morning commute. And at the middle school in san pablo word spread. That Traffic Accident had cost them someone dear. He loved our school. He told me this was his favorite job. Reporter 53yearold ken zink was the School Resource officer. Bringing a big heart to his job. He took students to as games and went to their homes in times of trouble. He was a rock for them. Helping them bridge with their families. When theres problems, helping them at school and if they cant concentrate. Reporter this eighthgrader is one of those kids. Asking me are you okay . Like i had problems. And he used to like support me and told me what i should do. Reporter chp says he was on his harleydavidson riding in between a nissan titan and a big rig when he collided with the pickup and fell onto the tractortrailer. He was dead at the scene. A hard devastating loss for all of us. Reporter san pablos mayor described a somber city hall. Flags lowered and work set aside. Its been a slow day. You know, on purpose. Deliberate. We have to allow everyone to process and i think it was relaxing for him to get on his bike and just ride. And unfortunately in the bay area, its not a safe way to travel. We work handinhand on that campus. Trying to give these kids alternatives. Reporter those who worked alongside say he saw the big picture. When a kid would get into trouble that he was there to punish them but he would actually walk them to the process of change. Amazing man. Amazing. Reporter he also rides a motorcycle. On a harley once you are going a certain direction and the weight goes, you are going with it. Reporter does it make you rethink lane splitting . Definitely. Im going to be a lot more careful now. Reporter the chief spent the day with zinks family. He was a father of seven, coast guard officer, spent six years with el cerrito pd and then nine in san pablo. You could see officer zink with this amazing smile. Reporter at an awards night with a star wars theme ken zink dressed up as obiwan kenobi. In a school of 1000 children, he was always smiling and connecting. Almost everyone told me they talked to him just yesterday. Amazing how many people he talked to yesterday but i believe it. That he did. He checked in with everyone. He knew us by name. Its incredible. Deborah tells us students are asking if september 29 can be officer zink day going forward. A gofundme is set up for his family and we have links to that at ktvu. Com. New questions tonight about Railway Safety after a commuter train smashed into a train station in hoboken new jersey. One person on the platform was killed. 114 other people were hurt. This is just the latest in a series of commuter train wrecks across the country over the past two years. While the cause of this accident is under investigation, it highlights how many transit agencies have failed to install the latest Technology Despite requirements to do so. Fox News Reporter joel waldman is in hoboken tonight at the crash scene. Good evening, joel. Reporter frank, good evening to you. Ntsb earlier today said they were going to be able to get to that event recorder which is like a black box on an airplane of course, send that out for analysis which should have a lot of answers. But witnesses had answers saying this train did not stop at all crashing into one of the busiest train stations in the new york city area. Well be pulling the event recorder this evening. From the event recorder we hope to get information such as speed and breaking. Reporter trying to learn what went wrong around 8 45 a. M. Thursday causing this commuter train to speed off the tracks and crash into one of the new york city areas busiest train stations right at the height of morning rushhour. The crash killing a 34yearold new jersey mother standing inside the station as the impact caused part of the stations roof to collapse. [ indiscernible ] reporter in all more than 100 people are confirmed injured in the crash including the trains engineer. Hes been released from the hospital and we will be interviewing him. Reporter as part of their probe, investigators say they will look at positive train control. A Safety Technology that federal government has been pushing railroads to put into place for decades. Im concerned that new Jersey Transit as of the 2016 filing that they had to file with the federal Railroad Administration has no positive chain control in their locomotives. Reporter now, that positive train control is something the ntsb has been trying to institute for the last 40 years. Today House Minority leader nancy pelosi blasting congress for not giving them funding to institute and implement that. Meanwhile learning more about the one woman who died today. 34yearold Fabiola Bittar de kroon. Reportedly came here from brazil a year ago. With her 1yearold daughter julia. Who today she dropped off at daycare as she went to look for new homes. Tragic story here. Frank . Joel waldman in hoboken, new jersey thank you. Harvard educated lawyer accused of a bizarre kidnapping in vallejo pleaded guilty today in federal court. 39yearold Matthew Muller of South Lake Tahoe admitted guilt on the kidnapping charge as part of a plea deal. The maximum sentence is life in prison. But in return to the guilty plea, prosecutors agreed they wouldnt ask for more than 40 years. Mueller is scheduled to be back in court in january. Cameras were not allowed in the sacramento courtroom for todays hearing. Mueller admitted he broke into the home of aaron quinn and denise huskins, drugged them and kidnapped huskins. Mueller held her hostage at his home in lake tahoe and demanded ransom. He then drove huskins the woman right here to her hometown of Huntington Beach and released her. Mr. Mueller was trying to show that he was accepting responsibility and we feel that this is the way that will someday open a door for him to return to society. Attorney representing huskins and quinn said todays guilty plea is a big step toward justice but he also said Vallejo Police and the fbi mishandled this case by initially calling it a hoax. They didnt do a good job in this case. They impeded the investigation to the point where they had to suffer through two days of anguish and assault. Douglas repertory says when huskins was being held, quinn told investors that the kidnapper planned to call him but the detectives put his phone on Airplane Mode and then missed the call. Another attorney is representing the couple in a civil lawsuit against the city of vallejo. New numbers to share with you tonight from the loma fire thats burning in the santa cruz mountains. Cal fire says containment has grown to 34 . But the area burned has also gone up to 4100 acres. And the number of homes destroyed is up to eight with 300 more homes still threatened tonight. To attend ktvus Paul Chambers is along summit road where firefighters brief residents at a community meeting. What did they tell them, paul . Reporter i would say that that meeting wrapped up a little bit more than an hour ago and loma prieta elementary. We found out that one firefighter was injured earlier today. Battling the fire not sure exactly what caused it. I will tell you for the last hour there have been people out here filling up the water tanker trucks. A few miles away so they will fill up and head back out to the fire. Many people here tonight wanted to know if the fires will make them not have a home to go home to. Out there assessing everything right now. Reporter more than 100 people packed the Elementary School all in attendance were hanging on cal fires every word. Yeah. Ive been out of my home living in hotels. Reporter david strong is one of dozens of people displaced by the loma fire. Which has been burning since monday. Its like hell. Like hell came in and its burning. Everything up. I decided to go back up to save my dog. When i was trying to get my dog, the fire all up and down the mountain here. Reporter his dog survived. Cal fire says the latest numbers show eight homes destroyed, and nine other structures with one on damaged. All the paintings. And my photo equipment. My grandma stuff. And everything Priscilla Uber lives alone with Chiquita Rose where cal fire says the fire started. She says at this time shes not sure her home is one of those destroyed. But her friends have lost everything. We just have nothing. Its just lost everything. Were not out of danger. Reporter Officials Say with the temperature dropping the weather condition has changed. Increase has his firefighters preparing for the worst. This predicted winds up to 30 this weekend. Which is something we take very seriously and we will plan for as we attack this fire. Reporter cal fire says the fire is still burning in an area that is in steep terrain that they are not able to access at this time. Overnight cruise will continue to work the containment line and i will say they still say they do not know the exact cause of the fire. Frank . Paul chambers reporting live, thank you. There is some good news tonight in Sonoma County where firefighters have the saw mill 100 contained. The fire started last sunday and burned 1600 acres near the geysers about 10 miles east of cloverdale. To minor injuries reported, no structures were damaged. Because is still under investigation. The temperatures have been cooling off. We even as we press into the weekend here have a shot at some showers. Ill let you know what you can expect for your friday and the weekend. Ahead in 11 minutes the Youth Football Team cut by its league. By parents and coaches told us about the setback and the Young Players who refused to be thrown for a loss. He was incredibly charming, intelligent, passionate and compassionate. Israels former president being remembered as a visionary in the bay area. Up next the gathering of World Leaders in jerusalem for a state funeral. World leaders gathering in jerusalem as our where Funeral Services for israeli leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner shimon perez are set to begin in just three hours. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama spoke with people in San Francisco about their memories and his bay area ties. Jana . Reporter shimon peres visited the bay area as recently as four years ago. Tonight at funeral set to begin in israel, people here are reflecting as well. Long lines of mourners filed past the flag draped cop it coffin where israels ninth president shimon peres lane state outside the parliament building. Former president bill clinton arrived and paid his respect as president obama boarded a plane for israel where he will join hundreds of World Leaders for fridays funeral. Israeli flags at half staff, american flags here, also lowered at federal building. Including the federal courthouse in San Francisco. I know a lot of people who are mourning today. In israel. And i know that San Francisco has shown me that it is morning with us. And im thankful for this community for doing that. Reporter israels consul general dr. Auntie david new shimon peres and says he was a man looking to the future meeting with ed lee last year and with top tech leaders during a bay area visit four years earlier. He met with Mark Zuckerberg and sergei, he met with mark benioff. Reporter congregation emanuel in San Francisco showed us where mr. Perez spoke to an overflow crowd during that visit. He stood right here and he spoke and he was incredibly charming, intelligent. Passionate and compassionate. Reporter a man who she says kept dreaming of peace. Long after the historic 1993 israel Palestinian Peace agreement. 90 years old not only not retired, didnt seem like he was tired. Seemed like he was filled with passion for the work that had carried him up to that point. Reporter a lifes work reflected by the fact that mark buda boss plans to attend the funeral. A memorial in San Francisco is being planned for San Francisco. It will be a tribute to his life and to his dreams, his hopes. To be here in support of not just his past but the future thats ahead because of him. Reporter the consul general says starting tomorrow they will have a condolence look for the community to leave messages. Nancy pelosi is part of this u. S. Delegation that is going to jerusalem for the funeral. That happens in three hours. A man who really continued his lifes work up until the very end. Thank you. Richmond police have identified a suspect in a deadly shooting and now asking for the publics help to try to locate him. 20yearold jeremy moore is wanted in connection with the shooting of 18yearold Khalil Martinez on september 19. Police dont know the motive but they say the attack was unprovoked. Moore is 58, 130. If you seen him call 911 immediately. A pair of unsuspecting tourists were mugged in San Francisco and had their cameras stolen at 145 yesterday afternoon at the corner of greenwich and leavenworth near the bottom of the crooked section of lombard street. Investigators say they claimed to have begun. The victims were not hurt but the robbers got away on foot with their cameras. Is the latest in a string of similar crimes in that area which is often filled with tourists. Some people in the castro restrict art on edge after the release of a convicted arsonist. David munoz diaz was in jail for selling a string of fires in the castro. Before that he spent three years in jail for involuntary manslaughter. He strangled his sex partner in Buena Vista Park and then set the body on fire. I think the thing with arsonist is pretty scary but it points to a bigger problem. Were not dealing well in society with repetitive offenders. Police say for the next six months diaz was banned from 18th street between castro and hartford. Officers tell ktvu they plan to circulate his pitcher to every business within 150 yards of the bar on 18th. Which is owned by diazs former partner. A 64yearold algebra teacher is under arrest for the alleged Sexual Assault of a student. David graham was taken into custody at harker academy. He faces felony charges for Sexual Assault of a minor under 14. Investigators say the female victim recently told a friend about the alleged assault which happened in 2007 when she was just 13. The victims friend then called police. Streets of downtown san jose were jammed today but not with cars. More than 1000 union electricians, plumbers, sheet Metal Workers and pipefitters marched to a construction site near san pedro and julian. They are upset about a new luxury highrise under construction at that location. Demonstrators say the developer kt urban is bringing nonUnion Workers from outside the area who are doing the work for celebrate pay. More and more we see construction work going to workers who are from out of the area out of the state even, not getting paid good wages and not getting benefits. Its terrible for those workers, terrible for the local economy. The Union Workers are promising more demonstrations in the days ahead. We went to an office for kt urban but we were told they have no comment. Temperatures continuing on the cool side after big heat earlier this week. Saturday was hot, sunday records, monday records. Tuesday, wednesday temperatures have been trending down. Into today, where it was still a bit cooler. That helps firefighters and air quality and kind of helps the airconditioning bill as well. Theres the fog for right now. Thats where it is. A bunch of it. The fog is going to be around when you get going. Temperatures tonight down into the upper 40s and the cold spots. Were going to see a cool to mild friday. What that means is a day similar to the day today. Inland valleys are going to be hotspots, upper 70s, mostly upper 70s. May below 80. And then around the bay, just in the 60s. At the coast, hanging with jackets all day. Friday, into saturday, transitions occurring and as we get towards the weekend, weve got range talk about. Next time you see me, talking about the chance of some showers for part and beyond actually for the tie and tail end of your bay area weekend. And also look at the showers that could end up being around here next week. Regulators gave a sample of approval for two private companies to offer new commuter Ferry Service on the bay. One of the companies called prop expects to Begin Operating service between berkeley and emeryville and redwood city and San Francisco at the start of next year. Another Company Called tide line marine group says it will offer service between berkeley and San Francisco starting at the end of next month. Bay area woman with a quest to bring joy to children in refugee camps. Theyve been separated from their family. Some of the families have been hijacked at sea. How she is trying to change lives one soccerball at a time. This heyward Youth Football Team was cut from their lead. Parents and coaches are pulling together to teach these kids a life lesson about facing adversity. The parents of a Youth Football Team say their league has suddenly cut their team. The