his name is nick haney as of yesterday he had seen 3,000 people line-up at his office looking to file a claim saying they were suffering or somehow impacted by monday's fire. there are those in the community who say people are looking to take advantage. >> you know, i try to do what i can to make sure they are all legitimate. if you ask me, is there any one of them that came here that didn't feel the affects of the fire? i cannot guarantee that. >> reporter: is your claim legitimate? >> yes. i suffer from asthma. >> reporter: sky 7 hd shows the massive fire monday that is at the heart of this chevron saying it will compensate people for health problems, property damage. any loss of work or loss of business. chevron has set up a hotline. the hotline has already

received 1,000 calls. people claiming all of the above. in addition, a couple claims for sick racehorses. all of that while bay area air quality management district is reporting that there were no significant health issues in the air samples that i been taking since the fire monday. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >> we talked about the hotline many you can call: 866-260-7881. chevron says live operators will staff the phones 24/7. we've posted this number on abc7news.com. click on the see it on tv link. as soon as chevron announces the location of the compensation fund office, we'll post that as well. another fire broke out at the chevron refinery yesterday. sky 7 hd was over the scene shortly after this new fire erupted. a pipe damaged in monday's fire began leaking and sparking flame.

crews put it out within minutes. chevron's fire chief says it might not be the last. >> i would like to caution everybody that as there has been fire there and damage, there still is the opportunity and the risk that an additional small fire could break out in some of these lines that have been damaged. at this time the fire is completely out. >> chevron firefighters are standing by to make sure there aren't any more problems. until crews can get in to cleanup the unit. this week's disruption in production is causing gas prices to skyrocket in martinez, $3.89 tuesday, yesterday it was 10 cents higher, experts say prices could claim as much as 25 cents by next week. right now, more than 600 people have no power in an east oakland neighborhood i have an driver hit a power pole. the driver of a suv hit the

pole then crashed into a fire hydrant causing this mess. this happened after 3:00 this morning, 81st avenue and d street. customers don't have electricity no word on when crews will be able to restore power it could take hours. a vote will take place this morning to decide if contra costa county will increase its jail population to house convicts who usually serve in state prison. the state has given contra costa 19 million dollars. the program shifts many low level offenders from state prison to county jail in order to satisfy money. the sheriff wants to add 150 beds to the west community jail in richmond. many leaders believe the money would be better spent on alternative sentencing programs. target is holding a three-day job fair in

san francisco starting this morning to hire hire hundreds for its new store. store officials are getting ready for the fair at 4th and mission from 11 to 7 today. from 9 to 5 tomorrow and saturday. the company is looking to hire about 300 new employees. the new target store is expected to open in october. it will open about -- its will occupy 85,000 square feet or half the size of i standard stores. crews spent several hours overnight trying to stop the spread of west nile in one part of santa clara county many the fogging comes after adult mosquitoes found in and around mountain view tested positive for the disease u.s. can county vector control points out it is essential to eradicate adult mosquitoes carrying west nile to keep humans from getting the disease. the elderly and people with compromised immune systems face the biggest risk. 4:36.

a warm-up mike has been telling us about comes spare the air day. >> where will we find the most unhealthy air? >> east bay valleys. good morning. here's the satellite you can see that push of warmer air coming from the south once again. it looks like today will be about three to few degrees warmer than yesterday, still very comfortable when you step out this morning. most of us in the 50s, santa rosa 49 at 7:00, antioch, livermore, 62. clouds will try to spill across san francisco like yesterday. by noon back to the coast, plenty of sun developing low to upper 60s half moon bay into san francisco, low to upper 70s around the bay, 80s to near 90 for lunchtime. 90s 4:00, inland valleys. upper 80s south bay, a lot of 70s to mid 80s around the bay.

64 at half moon bay head to the coast for comfort, 60s there into san francisco, 70s, maybe 81 fremont at 7:00, 80s and still 90s holding on inland at 7:00. next three days 100, tomorrow and saturday could have another spare the air with poor air quality. upper 80s around the bay, warmest along the coast, mid 60s. time for traffic and sue hall. good morning. a couple of things at this early hour. northbound 85 near stevens creek, accident cleared to the right you can see traffic at the limit past the scene. elsewhere 101 northbound at will stkhroe on the off-ramp, blocking that temporarily until they get that cleared. we've been reporting the power pole down at 81st and did street in east oakland. that intersection should be avoided while they cap off that power pole and the water spewing out there macarthur maze traveling from 580, 880

and 80 towards the bay bridge traffic at the limit, no problems. into the toll no metering lights smooth sailing upper deck into san francisco, through the tunnel, no problem. sue in for frances, thanks. next, anaheim residents try to change the way city councilmembers are chosen in the wake of two recent police shootings >> why attorneys representing several news organizations are going before a colorado jung over documents in last month's movie theater shooting. bay area muslims observe ramadan under concern. their holiest time of the year interrupted by a hate crime.3q

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in san francisco don't see many clouds that is going to be true as we face the spare the air day that is going to bring searing heat and unhealthy air levels to air pollution levels to parts of the bay area. mike is tracking that. news media organization are set to go before a judge in colorado today to try to gain access to court document ms. in -- documents in the theater shooting case and going to ask the judge to scale back a gag order that bars details about the accused shooter james holmes. he's charged with multiple counts of first degree murder and attempted murder. the july 20th, shooting left 12 dead and injured 58 during a midnight showing of the new batman movie in aurora. court officials say holmes is expected at today's hearing. in southern california, many anaheim residents say they won't give up after the city council rejected a plan that community believes would

make their local government more responsive. the proposal called for having voters select members by district instead of the current system of holding city wide elections. activists believe elections would give anaheim i'm's latino community a stronger -- the mother of one of the young men spoke at the meeting. >> it is time to make a change in anaheim. it is time to make a difference in the neighborhoods of anaheim. give the children a chance to grow in a healthy environment. >> anaheim has only one person of hispanic heritage on its five-member council. half of anaheim's residents identify themselves as being latino. four boys face hate crime charges after police say they harassed muslims inside their mosque. the boys pelted the building with oranges and lemons saturday evening. several members chased the

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100s around fairfield, antioch, livermore, 99 concord, 90s throughout the north bay, 90s south bay, 80s bay shore, 66 half moon bay, 73 san francisco. a lot of 80s and 90s across the country, great lakes and pacific northwest, 70s. dallas 102. philadelphia has flight arrival delays now otherwise that yellow through ohio and mississippi river valleys where severe weather is expected today. we don't have clouds in the bay, oakland, san jose, san francisco on time. flight tracker, abc7news.com at the bottom. speaking of tracking, google has unveiled a feature that personal lighted web searches by tapping into g-mail account searchers can mine information stored inside g messages if you search amazon the search will find e-mails in your account with purchase and shippings in sent

by the online retailer. google has addressed privacy concerns by requiring users to sign in before their accounts can be included in the searches. 425 million accounts have been activated worldwide. clicking like on facebook should be an act of constitutionally protected free speech the belief of attorneys for facebook and the american civil liberties union. they claim clicking like is the equivalent of a campaign sign in your frontyard many attorneys are appealing a case of a virginia employee who they claim was fired for khreublging like on the facebook paige of his boss' political opponent. facebook has its eye on taking a drive with you cadillac has decided to produce wait calls the cadillac of -- produce what it calls cadillac of -- info entertainment systems.

>> reporter: they are calling it cue. for cadillac user experience. >> digital or switch night a snippet of your navigation map. >> reporter: pictures on a color screen you can customized. >> we have the enhanced layout. >> reporter: a display tells you where to turn and vibrating seat warns of obstacles. if you are stopped,. >> spread gestures like on your hand held many >> reporter: with apps it acts like devices designers figured out most drivers were using two or more mobile devices fiddling with them while they drive. they wanted to change that. >> we have a hidden storm bin i can lock away my ipod, phone, keep it safely and security stored >> reporter: and control with it steering wheel buttons and

voice commands. wire transportation editor says their approach is different. >> they took the touch screen technology and embraced it. >> reporter: that is good and bad. your look lacking that muscle memory where you can reach out and up something. >> reporter: this is the beginning. facebook is working to integrate with ford cars. mark zuckerberg said this >> we emergency the -- we can imagine the day when you buy a new car you can have it light -- [ unintelligible ] >> reporter: well that happen with a cadillac up screen? >> whether or not it is the best system, remains to be seen. tropical storm ernesto is building towards hurricane strength again and has skirted along mexico's southern gulf coast this morning the storm moved out over open water

yesterday after cruising the yucatan peninsula without doing damage many national hurricane center says the storm sustained winds increased to 70 miles an hour after it moved over water a hurricane when it made landfall on yucatan before midnight tuesday but weakened over land. ernesto is expected to come onshore in the verdict cruz by late this afternoon -- in veracruz by late this afternoon or early evening. a couple more hours over the water before it becomes a hurricane minimal hurricane flooding will be the biggest problem. back at home, excessive heat and poor air quality. east bay valleys have the poorest air quality this afternoon the reason spare the air was issued the rest of us close in the santa clara valley out to the coast and

north bay should be clear. lack of clouds this morning from vollmer peak towards emeryville and san francisco. starting off dry this morning, good news for the morning commute. 60s fairfield, antioch, livermore, mountain view, san jose, everybody else in the 50s comfortable now monterey bay and inland to salinas, low to mid 50s, gilroy 61. intense heat inland valleys poor air quality coastal clouds comfortable temperatures tonight, everybody going up around three to five degrees today. from 64 pacifica to about 81 in oakland. brentwood 102. almost 40° of temperature

change from pacifica to the east bay s. everybody around 100 concord, dublin and pleasanton could be around 90 fine, 98°. still -- 99, 98°, still very hot. south bay sunnyvale, -- a lot of 80s on the peninsula today millbrae, slightly more comfortable 78°. mid 60s along the coast, mid 70s downtown and south san francisco to 78 sausalito low to mid 90s north bay valleys, 30° cooler at beaches, mid to upper 60s. monterey bay mid to upper 60s monterey and carmel. mid 90s to near 100 inland. scattered thunderstorms possible around yosemite and 101, warm spot palm springs 116, l.a., 90 two 80 san diego, 87 at big sur.

another spare the air day tomorrow, possibly saturday as heat remains and then it stars to change sunday by the time we get to monday and tuesday, 10° cooler. have a good one. accident just cleared northbound 85 near stevens creek in the san jose area northbound 680 before berryessa accident in the three left lanes tow truck and crews headed there. reporting a power outage in the east oakland area power pole down at 81st and did street avoid that area if you can. -- and d street. avoid that area if you can. this is san rafael past the civic center 101 taillights southbound everything at the limit. waldo grade fog not enough to impair visibility no traffic slowing on the golden gate bridge as they get set to

configure southbound lanes, four southbound as per usual. this morning a scientist who suffered a medical emergency in and a is in new zealand after a -- in and a is in new -- in antarctica is in new zealand after a medical emergency. the rescue had been on hold while the team waited for a break in the winter weather. it was 13 below zero yesterday. there was a similar rescue of a stroke patient last year. in 9090 nine an american researcher with -- in 1999 an american research we are breast cancer was airlifted out. a passenger looked out the window saw what looked like a damaged area on the wing a handwritten note saying we

know about this you can see a cut in the flap. the airline says everything was okay. a maintenance tech was writing to let the flight crew know an approved repair had been made. airline says was someone's good intentions but did not follow procedures. the wing will be personally repaired in october. an suv struck a power pole this morning. protest plan by occupy protesters in san francisco. heating up, bay area firefighters called out to multiple wildfires. more hot temperatures on the way. good morning! wow.

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thanks for joining us i'm kristen sze. i'm eric thomas. maybe that job fair will be some place to beat the heat. >> i bet they have drinks and air conditioning, you may even find a job. good morning here's what going to happen today as fair as our air quality worse in the east bay valley, close in the santa clara valley and will get better through south bay into the bay and north east bay valleys will have the poorest air quality this afternoon. as we look at temperatures, highs around 63 to 68 sunny at the coast warm around the bay from 78 to 87 even hotter inland today with sunshine and temperatures reaching 92 possibly 102° today. locked into this pattern for the next couple