>> good morning. both sides are very far apart about what they want in a contract and are $100 million dollars apart. the panel they presented yesterday was appointed by governor brown and the board of inquiry listened to five hours of testimony from bart management and from the unions representing bart workers about why they have been at this gas for so long. at issue is salary, benefits and pension. the request for higher employee benefit contributions forces them into a zero game contract. bart management says that the latest offer is 9 percent raise over four years is fair. abart is asking the employees to play a larger role in sharing the cost of their generous pension. >> everything they have done since april is to delay, stall,

and impede the barring aning process. >> the board will deliver a written report to governor brown by the end of the week and the governor will decide whether to call for a 60-day couping off period. that is what bartment wants. they would stop the unions from being able to strike while both sides continue negotiating. will the governor call for the 60-day calling off period? they will run to the bargaining table at 9:00 this morning. >> in southern california, more than 500 firefighters are battling a 6,000 acre island-fire in riverside county. it is burning out-of-control 8 a miles east of los angeles and ten structures have been destroyed sin the flames ignited. ,500 have been evacuated in several small mountain communities and three have been injured including two firefighters. no estimate on when it is expected to be contained.

>> from dallas, texas, a series of shootings left four people dead and four wounds. investigators found two dead in a dallas home and two gunshot victims. the suspect fled to a nearby suburb where he was involved in another shooting the police found four people shot at the second election, two dying. police took a suspect in custody at that location. oakland police say they dedicating of i resource available to catch the gunman who shot into a home killing a father and his one-year-old son. the 20-year-old andrew thomas and his son were sleeping in the morning of a relative yesterday morning when shots rang out. andrew died instantly. his son died at the hospital. the mayor and the police chief spoke outside the city >> this is absolutely unacceptable with children being shot while they sleep in bed.

>> the two were in town for a relative's birthday and extended the stay to extend the funeral of a cousin shot and killed over the weekend. since 2011, five young children have been slot and killed in oakland, two in the last month. >> oakland police are investigating a shooting a mile from that antiviolence media conference. a man was shot and seriously injured on mcarthur boulevard before 9:00 p.m., officers found the man in front of a church and the victim was running from the gunman and the cop friend station began to a parking lot. the victim was hit several times by bullets and taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. it is believed the man was targeted with no arrests. >> in san francisco, residents in the mission district will have the opportunity to turn in their guns for cash in an effort to reduce violence. similar gun buyback events are taking place around the bay area

and their representative is donating $75,000 from his discretionary fund to pay for the buy back at 22nd street from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., 100 for regular guns and $200 for assault rifles. >> california risen officials say up to a thousand inmates could be released because of a court order. last week the supreme court upheld a lower court ruling that forces the state to reduce prison populations by 10,000 by year enbecause of dangerous evercrowding. the corrections department plans to transfer most prisoners to private prisons, county jail and other facilities but that leaves a thousand with no place to go. >> richmond community leaders ls and a group of homeowners will branch to banks today to call on them to city the city officer to buy and restructure underwater mortgages. richmond launch add ground breaking new plan to help homeowners who owe more on their

homes than they are worth. officials want to purchase the mortgages and help north than 600 homeowners refinance using the pow we of imminent demain if necessary. three trustees responded by filing a lawsuit in federal court yesterday calling for an injunction against richmond's plan. >> santa clara county is reporting the first human case of west nile virus in the bay area. an unidentified woman became ill in july and treated in the hospital. california has seen 14 confirmed human cases of west nile virus, two have been fatal. the fire is spread by mosquitoes and west nile is peaking and health officials advise wear lover sleeves and pants outside when the mosquitoes are active, cover the windows with screen and empty standing water around your home. >> a superior court judge will consider a lawsuit today from

the san mateo union while district to get the advance placement test scores of 224 students re-instated. the board threw out the results of the mills high school students after a student reported that some students were seated in roundtables during the tests and not facing in the same direction as required. the students were closely supervised and they are confident there was no cheating but if the tests are not re-instated the 224 students have to testify l study and take the exam again or be left to take a lower level course when they enter college. >> a new multi-millionaires of the three tickets that matched all the numbers last night in the powerball jackpot. two winners in new jersey and one in minnesota will split the powerball jackpot. it grew to $448 million after last minute ticket purchases. it is the third largest jackpot ever. even if you did not win the big prize, you maybe have matched a

few numbers: 5, 25, 30, 58, 59, and powerball 32. >> again, there is always next week. now the weather at 4:37. mike? >> good morning, everyone. we will talk temperatures. we winners in that respect it is not cold and it is moist this morning because of the drizzle, and frizzy if you will with temperatures around 61 in oakland and fremont and los gatos and livermore and 62 in san jose and concord and san ramon and hayward and san francisco. 57 in novato. today, the next 12 hours we will stay in the 50's to near 60 with damp and drizzle throughout the morning. as we head through most of us will be in the fists and 60's and break in the 70's inland especially in the north bay especially the east bay and the south bay to a lesser extent.

69 around the bay and 58 at the coast and we will be in the mid-50's at the coast and low-to-mid 50's everywhere. so, through the weekend, friday, it will feel like fall again with temperatures below average and the transition day saturday does not have much in the way of transition and sunday is two or three degrees warmer than saturday. summer is almost back. now, the morning commute with leyla gulen. >> per is almost back as we get closer to fall. everyone, we do have construction going on in the east bay if you travel along the 880 freeway negotiate to embarcadero you can so the slowing and southbound side we have the closure in place in the same area and that is causing the bottleneck and slowing of traffic in the southbound direction. as we look at our drive time traffic from 580 to tracy and dublin/pleasanton you have 25 minutes and highway four from antioch to concord is 15 minutes

and 101 southbound from san rafael to san francisco that is 16-minute commute. and the tolls at the bay bridge toll plaza is looking fuzzy but you can tell traffic is moving pretty well from emeryville to san francisco the cash-paying lanes have not loaded up. >> next, home invasion, a trick robbers used to get into a home and what you should necessity to avoid falling victim. money. >> good morning, another mega bank in trouble with the government. j.p. morgan chase says they are facing a criminal probe by the justice department over bad mortgages. this week the government sued bank of america over messy mortgages. a new toyota recall, front seatbelts could malfunction in pickups from 2004 to 2011 with 324,000 trucks affected.

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>> covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> vallejo police are warning residents to be careful who they let if their homes after two men posing as pg&e workers commit add home invasion robbery yesterday morning. we have details on the men that investigators are looking for. >> there were nine police cars and ambulance. >> monica caught the aftermath of the robbery at this house. the two men responsible said they were with pg&e and needed to check on a gas leak. one was wearing a pg&e hard hat

and vest. they looked legitimate. when inside, they duct taped the man and woman, a child was also home at the time. >> they put the mother in a bathtub and the six-year-old with her and the mother held on to the six-year-old. ought man gave the robbers $1,hull to -- $1,800 to leave. neighbors are concerned. he has a dog and trying to organize a neighborhood watch. awe could exchange numbers because we have a last elderly people on this block. >> vallejo police have dealt with this home invasion before, so if a work crew shows up that you were not expecting, call the company to verify. just checking an i.d. may not be enough because it could be fake. here are the descriptions of the two men: hispanic man about 5' 9" and 150 pounds, with a goatee, and brown hair and eyes with an orange pg&e hard hat and

orange pg&e vest and blue jeans. the second man is blackmail, 29 to 30 years old and 280 pounds and dark complexion and beard with scruffy goatee and blue jeans and brown boats. as for the get away, a neighbor describes seeing a gold cadillac with 20" rims. >> before you guy a small car listen to the insurance institute for highway safety latest results. as a group small cars did worse than mid-sized cars but better over all compared to small s.u.v.'s and only the two door and four-door honda civic earned "good" and getting acceptable is dodge dart and ford focus and getting marginal ratings, the

chevrolet cruise and sonic and beetle. the nissan sentra earned "poor." >> the mention is considering a land to give same-sex marriage spouses of service member health care, housing and other benefits by the end of the month. officials may have to drop a plan to give limited benefits like access to military stores and health programs to gay couples who are not married. a memo from defense secretary hagel proposes give ten daze of leave to military personnel in same-sex marriage to go to states where they can get legally married. >> a peninsula team has claimed the top seed going into tomorrow night's semi finals of the little league when regional. a viewing party was held in bell hadn't to watch the all stars play southern california and both were undefeated going in.

belmont rallied to pull out 3-2 win setting up the semi final against arizona that they shut out earlier. now they are two wins away from clinching a spot in the little league world series. tomorrow night genz arizona is televised at 6:00 p.m. on espn with the winner playing in the west region final on saturday for the big trip to williams port. the community has been working so hard to raise money to support them so they will have a whiff fell ball turn a fundraiser so look for that, folks. i cannot play whiff fell ball, sadly. >> the wind will not be blowing so much that day so maybe the ball will not curve so were. depends on how strong you get

and how competitive you are. the clouds are out there again and it is a damp morning with drizzle. as we head to the afternoon hours, look what is going do happen up north, dry thunderstorms, so thunderstorms and lightning but no rain, that evaporates before it reaches the ground so the entire area is under a high fire warning outside the bay area but if you are traveling to the areas want out. now, the cloud cover, it has of mood into the central valley and up in the foothills, just like yesterday. we will see how it peels back and maybe it is quicker today by noon more of us are seeing sunshine, especially in the east bay inland neighborhoods and into the north bay, it is just the marin, you will be socked in with clouds and all the way through san francisco as you head down to, possibly, the san mateo bridge and to the coast. even that will start to break up a little bit as we head into the afternoon hours. what effect does it have on

temperatures, in the south bay no one makes it to 80 today, everyone is in the mid-to-upper 70's but for milpitas and sunnyville at 71 and 72, los gatos at 78, and, santa cruz, may not see so much sunshine as yesterday and 67. up the peninsula we start low-to-mid 70's in palo alto and redwood city and upper 60's if millbrae and san mateo. to the coast we have 60 in pacifica, and daly city and colma today, and mid-60's for downtown and south san francisco and upper 50's and near 60 at your beaches and temperatures in the mid-to-upper 60's for most of the east bay shore and the warm spot is 70 and inland we have low-to-upper 70's at 72 at san ramon. today is a day game with the sun shining and strong and the u.v. index is high and 62 and warming to 64 degree by the end of the game. the seven-day forecast shows

baby steps, a couple of degrees warmer tomorrow, a couple of degrees warmer on saturday, and a couple of degrees warmer on sunday and monday and monday, tuesday, and wednesday, we may get the 90's back in the forecast inland neighborhoods, so, summer is coming we have just have to wait. >> we have a mattress if the lanes on 101 if you are traveling south of 92, that is where we have two lanes blocked so c.h.p. is trying to make it out there and it could be dangerous if you need to dodge it and at foster city it is loading and 680, southbound, to walnut creek to dublin is 14 minute commute and 101 southbound from santa rosa to san francisco is 51 minutes and highway 17 away from highway one to los gatos through the santa cruz mountains is 24 minutes and outside we go and we will hurricane at this, the drive in the north bay, 101, the tail lights coming southbound into

central san rafael you can see clear conditions and no construction projects and everyone is moving along at top speeds. >> we heavy add community meeting in chinatown and the abc7 news meetings are an opportunity to talk directly with us about events and issues affecting them. last night the discussion was hosted by abc7 news reporter and attended by the abc7 news management team. among the topics discussed was how the asian-american community needs to be celebrated and honoring unsung heroes and we heard of dismissment in urban areas and immigration and poverty and they talked about single rule occupancy that is honored by president bush in december. >> the high school youth spend to much time to educate people

living in single rule occupancies including seniors. [ inaudible ] >> a special thanks to everyone who attended the meeting, if your group would like to team up with abc7 news to history our next meeting, go to our community page at abc7news.com abc7news.com/community and click on meetings and we look forward to sharing the stories about last night on abc7 news. reverend fong has been on the headlines and a passionate, caring activists. >> all right, coming you, prepare for the big one, california hoof as step closer to an earthquake early warning system. >> quadruple threat the popular land festival that will try your patience coming into san francisco this weekend. >> the ferry offers free rides and we will tell you when and what they hope you will

>> hundreds of thousands of people will converge on san francisco this weekend for the outside land festival with crews putting the finishing touches on the main stage and food booths and other structures in golden gate park with 60 musical acts appearing including willie nelson and 9" nails and the red hot chili peppers. if you come into the city on saturday, be prepared for a lot of traffic starting at 12:00 at golden gate park with thousands of 49er manns descending on candlestick for the annual fanfest. the giants take on the baltimore orioles at at&t park at 1:05.

>> want something for free? the ferry service is inviting riders to hop on for a free rise from grab for the entire month of august. it is an effort to boost the local economy and promote shopping and dining at the marin county mart across the street from the ferry terminal. the offer is valid weekdays between 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for the rest of the month. to download a free ticket go to abc7news.com and click on "see it on tv." >> get to go to work we will check with the forecast. >> we will start by looking at the embarcadero where it is wet this morning because of the drizzle over toward the bay bridge which is few daysy -- which is fuzzy because of the moisture. oakland is 66 and at 7:00, and napa is 74 and san jose is nine and redwood city is 73 and livermore is 7 a and it is 15 degrees cooler-than-average. it is quiet on radar and we have a few lonely showers to the

north of lake tahoe where we will see thunderstorms. 74 in tahoe and 83 in sacramento and headed to los angeles it is warmer at 77 and palm springs is 103 and san diego is 71. leyla gulen? >> we have a downed telephone pole block the entire roadway on highway 29 at greenwood avenue. right now we have c.h.p. urging folks to take this road to get to 128 closed until 5:45. you will have to cut the wires to move the poles. in foster city a mattress is blocking lanes at southbound 101, and now we do not see too much slowing but it is blocking a couple of lanes. now, the san mateo bridge is clear and we are looking at top speeds and on to the peninsula. >> investigators think they know the cause of a shawl fire in san

francisco's presidio yesterday. the fire burned less than a couple acres of grass near the national cemetery and no build ink or sites were damaged. there are not many fires here because it is usually so foggy and it is blamed on spontaneous combustion caused by decomposing grass that sparked a flame. >> bill that would establish the first earthquake early morning system is moving forward in sacramento with the $80 million bill that will now go before the assembly appropriations committee for consideration. if approved, it triggers alarms and sending wants across the effected region and would help schoolchildren get to safe positions and shut down transportation like bart. >> next at 5:00 a.m., what an investigation is revealing about the traffic light buttons and what they are really there for. >> fighting crime with too few officers and next at 5:00,

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>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. at 5:00, thank you for joining us on thursday, i am kristen sze. >> we will check the forecast, i am eric thomas. >> it is very humid so a frizzy hair day. to miles visibility at half moon bay and a lost that is drizzle. everyone looks like they have de