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eric thomas. >> welcome back eric. i'm kristen sze. a search is underway for a missing jet skier. the coast guard is launching a helicopter to resume the search. no word on the missing man's name. he is from san jose. he was last seen yesterday by friends in the water in front of their house. we are continuing to work on getting more information. we'll bring you the latest information as soon as we get it. developing news in shasta where firefighters are battling a 12,000 acre wildfire that has already destroyed seven homes and forced thousands to evacuate. this morning it is only 5% contained. the ponderosa fire broke out -- lilian kim reports. >> reporter: firefighters only have this fire 5% contained. so far, this fire burning

along shasta line has burned 19 square miles threatening 3,000 homes. reporter of our sister station described the scene on the ground. >> reporter: very chaotic people all over the place wondering what's going on if their house is okay if the pets are okay. people wanting information. don't have anywhere else to go >> reporter: the sheriff's department has declared a state of emergency. many families were ed -- were chased out of their home. he barely made. his arm is band aged up his arm was on fire as he -- he tried to escape on his atv. >> i was on the road there's flames on either side i looked up and everything was black like i was in a black box i drove through it and i couldn't breathe then it was fire everywhere like on all

sides. >> reporter: about 1,000 firefighters are battling the flame. so far, seven homes destroyed. zachary's house was among them. >> ranch house we go up there every weekend it has been part of my life. it was gone, nothing can i could do about it. >> reporter: lilian kim, abc7 news. a man is hospitalized in san jose with life-threatening injuries latest victim of the city's recent rash of gun violence. he was found last night 9:00 near highway 101. police say the shooter or shooters left before they got there. investigators are hoping to hear from any possible witnesses. san jose police also investigating the city's 28th homicide of the year. a man found shot to death early yesterday morning around 5 a.m.. the victim died at the scene. no motive, no suspect description. at the top of the hour, katie marzullo will have a live report the recent

outbreak of violence in the bay area's largest city. also in san jose vigil planned at 7:00 tonight for a homeless murder victim. the woman some called the screaming lady was killed by a man with a short samurai style sword last monday night she was usually seen on the sidewalk where the vigil is planned for. authorities are still trying to identify the woman who rejected offers of help from some who saw her regularly. police arrested 37-year-old marcus reynolds. investigators think squatters are to blame for a fire that gutted a building in vallejo. firefighters found the vacant army supply store in flames yesterday. the third fire on that street in a machine. the last fire was next door. investigators say there are indications people were in the building before the fire started.

major league baseball welcomes the new federal criminal investigation into melky cabrera's doping scandal. he has been suspended for 50 games. we are learning new information that the all-star game mvp tried to avoid the suspension by creating a fake website as part of his cover story to claim he unknowingly purchased a banned drug online before testing positive for synthetic testosterone. investigators uncovered the scheme, a co-author of game of shadows about the barry bonds scandal says the revelation left him no choice but to own up. >> was backed into a corner when he issued his apology. from the chronology it looked like baseball found him out about the web >> it going to be a consultant hired by his agents admitting

to pay $10,000 to buy a website. 4:30 -- back-to-school for students in the contra costa and san francisco unified districts more are enrolled in san francisco schools this year temó"n district is expected to have 500 fewer students at the high school level. san francisco schools will see less money from the state which funds districts based on enrollment. city leaders say more families with school aged children are moving because of san francisco's high cost of living. >> >> bay area baseball heroes from petaluma need to win today to stave off elimination in the little league world series. petaluma put up a great fight sunday. their opponents from tennessee unload for four runs in the 6th they win 9-6. hundreds turn out in two packed theaters yesterday to watch and cheer their team on.

>> i've been screaming a lot today. >> everybody is here so dedicated to the team, it is nice that everybody puts in so much time to come watch. >> petaluma still has another chance in the double elimination tournament, it is must-win today when they play against the team from new jersey at 1 p.m. in pennsylvania. you can watch the game on espn, right here as well. good luck guys. time for a check on the weather. haven't had a chance to watch, did get out yesterday, today looks like it will still be nice. nice weather on the way. good morning, maybe rain, hopefully they will get the game in, 60% chance they will get rain, mid 70s. back at hope, fog along the coast 2 1/2 mile visibility

half moon bay, santa rosa half mile visibility everybody else okay even with the cloud cover and a little mist. area of low pressure going to stay far enough away we'll see temperatures a few degrees warmer then it comes into play tomorrow and we have a cooling trend for the rest of the week. cloudy except inland, mainly in the 50s. lunch hour, clouds back to the coast, temperatures in the 50s through san francisco, 60s to near 70 bay, mid 70s inland. 4:00 temperatures in the 80s east bay valleys, 60s and 70s for the rest of us. 7:00 cooling-off quicker now we are losing two minutes of sunshine everyday. 50s coast san francisco oakland 60s and 70s for rest of us. next three days temperatures slowly taper as sea breeze gets stronger temperatures drop one to two degrees

everyday through thursday. time for traffic. good morning. here's some of that fog mike was talking that you will find along the coast visibility limited, we don't have major traffic trouble out of marin into san francisco, bay bridge toll with a lot of schools starting up today, you could see extra traffic on the roads later this morning. say good-bye to summertime light traffic. live shot of san mateo westbound past the toll on the right for taillights heading into foster city and westbound 24 out of laugh question into orinda, delay-free -- out of -- lafayette into orrin dark delay-free. when i said you could -- could watch that game here if i men in the bay area should be 10 a.m. our time, we are going to double check and make sure it is live and not tape

delayed. coming up, two san francisco boys going to be happy to begin 7th grade this morning. the frightening situation they found themselves in this weekend and the hero they are crediting for saving their lives. and the rock on mars that got a zapping. oññc?xús1@ú?

good morning. san francisco embarcadero area financial district buildings and ferry building we have clouds out there maybe a little mist four some of us especially around the coast and the bay we'll check in with meteorologist mike nicco and find out about weather. if you are a petaluma national the little leaguers will be playing 1 p.m. our time west coast time and they've got to win this one to stay in it and that will air on espn.

nasa's rover has zapped its first martian rock. the rover has been checking out instruments, including a laser during target practice yesterday curiosity fired 30 laser pulses over 10 seconds at a rock and a small hole in that rock. controllers will command the rover to take first short drive the two year mission is aimed at determining whether the martian environment is -- was habitable. two san francisco 7th graders are happy to be starting school today after a harrowing ordeal over the weekend. they were at a family outing at the candlestick point recreation area saturday afternoon. they got in a rowboat to get a football that landed in the water. the boat started taking on water as they tried to get

back to shore a hero emerged with 15 years experience as a lifeguard. >> football, we were like oh know we are probably not going to get it back. >> they were freaked out, 200 meter swim i was freaked out too, there was no boat i was holding two jackets with one hand doing the side stroke up to the pier. we may it happen. >> talk about tough. just then the coast guard and san francisco firefighters arrived, pulling all thee to safety along with two other would be rescuers who tried to make the long swim. >> wow. congratulations. check your fridge. there's a recall on this morning you need to know about. missouri republican senate candidate creates a controversy after making a comment about women and reign. why mitt romney and -- woman

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welcome back. pockets of sun along the coast 60s to san mateo, richmond san francisco 70s bay 80s inland especially east bay valleys. the rest of the country looking different than a couple weeks ago, 70s and 80s dominant, great falls, salt lake 90s phoenix 105. rain exiting east coast good news if you are heading that wait rain will be gone by the time you get there all major airports and local california airports on time, i think sfo going to have flight arrival degrees. 4:47. -- if -- if you bought romaine lettuce recently there's a

recall over possible e. coli. the lettuce was shipped to 19 states limited to a single lot of field fresh wrapped single head packed in a plastic bag with the upc number on the screen best buy date of august 19th. so far no reports of illnesses. mitt romney is distancing himself from a missouri congressman who says a woman's body has ways to prevent pregnancy after rape. kong todd akin is a conservative republican candidate for the u.s. senate he was asked in an interview whether abortion should be allowed in the case of rape. >> if it is a legitimate rape the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down let's assume that didn't work or something there should be punishment, but the punishment ought to be the rapist, not attacking the child. >> democrats began circulating

his comment citing statistics regarding rape and pregnancy. akin noise he misspoke. president obama -- akin now says he misspoke. president obama will visit new york and nevada wednesday he was in new hampshire over the weekend talking about medicare. romney and ryan planning to visit the granite state to speak with seniors today. britain's threats to forcibly enter the ecuador embassy going well. in a defiant address assange talked from a balcony sunday he demanded that the u.s. stop what he calls a witch-against him. ecuador granted assange asylum last week but he can't leave because he will be arrested if he leaves embassy grounds.

syria's president has made his first public appearance since a bomb tag killed four of his top security officials last month. he prayed at a mosque to mark the start of a muslim holiday security forces surrounded several mosques in the capital in a possible attempt to confuse people about where he would attend the traditional holiday prayers. members of the opposition claim his vice president has defected. new this morning, 72 sight ears -- sightseers in alaska are safe after their boat began taking on water most painses had to be transfered to a passing cruise ship. the coast guard says engineers contained flooding and the vessel is being towed to port. in los angeles county a man recovering after being

rescued from a well he was stuck in for almost 24 hours. that man was wedged in tight. he told firefighters that he fell six feet down the concrete hole trying to recover his lost shoe. it happen in the middle of the desert. firefighters say the 45-year-old is extremely lucky that a group of horseback riders heard his cries for help and called 911. >> can't think of much more frightening incident than that being wedged in like that. welcome back mister. >> was i gone? oh yes, i was. >> what did you bring us? >> my love and undying caring. >> i thought maybe you brought weather or something. >> fog, mist, he did bring that.

>> i was free. welcome back. >> thank you. >> hope you didn't have problems getting to bed last night after having a week off trying to get to bed early. low clouds over the bay area especially downtown san francisco, live doppler -- if you drive into the clouds, better chance of drizzle tomorrow. 50 in santa rosa, 62 antioch those are extremes most of us in the mid to upper 50s. monterey bane land low to mid 50s. today just about all of us warmer oakland up to 75° warmer fremont up to 64, concord three degrees to 85, san jose 77 about three degrees warmer than questioned. cloud cover through the morning will make a late push into the east bay valleys by 9:00, you are clearing out,

entire bay clear out by 11:00, pockets of sun develop along the coast this will be the warmest this week 60s 70s bay, 80s east bay valley. south bay mid 70s to low 80s. upper 60s millbrae and san mateo low to mid 70s the rest of the peninsula. 59 pacifica towards daly city cooler along the coast mid to upper 60s downtown south san francisco sausalito, 50 bodega bay, 60 stinson beach. east bay shore richmond and berkeley mid to upper 60s otherwise low to upper 70s east bay valleys 90 brentwood everybody else mid to upper 80s. 80s inland around the monterey bay from 64 to 75 in santa cruz. entire state not as hot as it was last week. low to upper 80s from

san diego into los angeles. tonight cloud cover drizzle possible at the coast 50s again. we'll drop one to two degrees tomorrow, wednesday into thursday and then as we get into saturday and sunday temperatures will be a little warmer. good morning. still can't find too much trouble on the roads. a lot of the roadwork clearing around 5:00, eastbound 80 roadwork all gone traffic flowing well westbound headlights moving towards the bay bridge delay-free out of vallejo s the carquinez bridge from the carquinez bridge down to the bay bridge here's a live shot in san jose headlights northbound 280 you can see light heading into cupertino this is 17 out of the santa cruz mountains. if you want to take mass transit no delays for ace, bart, caltrain and muni. the pittsburg antioch area eastbound 4 loveridge all

lanes temporarily blocked due to construction not picking up slowing eastbound or westbound with the waze app you can see still good through the altamont pass we are starting to pick up some traffic reported with the cars stacked up on westbound 205 out of tracy. san francisco is known for its great restaurants. now it has another one that has topped the new list. the small plate restaurant made the top of the list of this year's hot 10. the only other restaurant in california to rank -- according to her support team american swimmer diana nyad is doing the backstroke this morning as she continues to swim from cuba to florida so part of her head covered by a cap is in front to reduce contact with jellyfish.

team members say it is working. jellyfish stinks and exhaust forced her to abandon two previous attempts. an apparatus that is following her in the water creates a faint electric field designed to repel most sharks. she began the swim saturday she turns he -- 63 next sunday. for the first time in 25 years japanese women no longer have the longest life expectancy in the world that honor now belongs to women in hong kong, women there have an average life expectancy of 87 years, five months more than women in?y japan. >> the last few decades we have good scientific and medical advances in hong kong and also we are keeping our tradition as basically chinese culture. >> there's speculation that last year's devastating quake and tsunami in japan may be

partly to claim. the majority live with children or grandchildren only around 10% live on their own. hollywood is in shock this morning at the loss of a popular director. next, why police believe the death of tony scott is no accident. more violence hits the streets of san jose. what investigators are saying. some are calling it a radical change in the way california teaches youngest students. kids who begin their education in transitional kindergarten. bay area gets ready for a taste of america's cup race this week: