>> kgo news brings you what led you to in little party bus crash in portrero and whether a man walking near it was the driver. >>the man near the scene is in the hospital where police are action to question him. abc7 news reporter joins us from stanford medical center. this is a mystery?

>> the c.h.p. is deep in the investigation trying to figure what led to the crash, not only that, but they are trying to figure out who was behind the wheel hoping the man inside the hospital who is being streeted, who survived, hoping he can answer the questions. northbound 280 at the off-ramp the driver of a van that was converted into a party bus drove off the road before 11:00 last night and want down 20' embank ment and hit a tree and leaving wreckage. the only passenger died at the scene. c.h.p. is only identifying him as a san francisco man in his late 30's. the coroner is not releasing his identity. they have not notified his family. the first responders could not find a driver. a few hours later officers discovered a man near the site and he was questioned but three was uncooperative. they tell me that he was taken

away from an ambulance and the c.h.p. is still unsure if he was the driver. >> it is unknown. we do not know. there is a possible. until we talk to him we were not able to get too much information from him. we do not know if he had a medical condition or he was just not cooperating. >> party buses have been the subject of scrutiny including july of last year when a 25-year-old was killed when she fell out of a bus traveling on highway 17 through the santa cruz mountains. it was discovered that someone pulled an emergency door opened and the bus involved this morning seems to have been converted. c.h.p. still has a lot of questions to be answered and they hope the man in the hospital will answer those. i want to make clear they say alcohol and drugs do not appear to have been a factor in the crash this morning. >> the banner you see at the

bottom of the screen recording the asiana flight 214 story, that should not be there for the unrelated stories and that fact is correct but it appliesmen coy hope for sandra coke's safe return. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is in oakland. amy? >> yes, i am receiving an e-mail from the oakland police depa the body is her

bed but we hear that will not happy today. police have called the suspect a person person in the disappearance saying they dated briefly 20 years ago. her relatives say investigators have asked them not to comment at this point in the case but released a statement thanking the public for all of the support. >> thank you, amy. this afternoon, the father of kidnap teen hannah anderson will hold a news conference with the san diego county sheriff.

he has been reunited with hannah. >> week after the kidnapper killed her brother and mother inside a burning house near san diego. hannah is safe because of four horseback riders in idaho, one a former sheriff. they spotted the teen and her abductor, james dimaggio. >> she had a scared look when i come up the true. when i turned and talked to him i had a gut feeling. >> the news flashed on and the amber alert was on the television and i told my wife, that is that girl we seen on the mountain! >> the men called police and dimaggio was slot and killed by an f.b.i. agent. we also learned in a similarity dimaggio's father was arrested in 1989 for holding a 16-year-old girl at gunpoint. the father committed suicide several years ago the. >> happening now, united states attorney general is in san francisco right now announcing major changes in sentencing guidelines for drug offenders

speaking at the annual meeting for the american bar association. matt joins us with the late breaking news. matt? >> yes, holder finished up his speech and he says a new approach is needed in the war on drugs. >> sentences are too lock, too tough, and we have a problem with the criminal justice system that can be solved by making money iment less severe. >> it has been a lot of work done in determining where the public safety is at risk and what type of offenders we have the best opportunity to rehabilitation with the least amount of societal resources dedicated to it. this is a place to start. >> those are the people in a sympathetic crowd this morning and many attorneys say minimum sentencing laws do not work. the attorney general is changing justice department policy that low level violent drug offenders are not charges with mandatory

sentences saying the federal prisons are overcrowding and wants to use community service and drug treatment, and allowing the release of the elderly and nonviolent offenders. bipartisan bill has been introduced that puts the own us on the federal judges to make more decision about minimum sentencing laws in certain cases. this was the first speech since 2009. it will not be the only big make. hillary clinton will receive the aba middle, the highest honor given by the organization and that is for her service and contributions to the legal system. >> thank you. we have a story from antioch right now that will break your heart. a little boy celebrating his birthday was attacked by two pit bulls. hunter survived the attacks yesterday and has had the first surgery at the hospital. we are told he was attacked a

neighbor's house and one was picked up by animal control and will be quarantined. the other dog remains at the neighbor's house. >> in solano county, investigators are trying to determine the cause of a four alarm fire that tore across a property this morning breaking out at 5:00 a.m. and neighbors say the flames were as high as the trees and they heard several loud explosions. according to the solano county fire department, the fire destroyed three structures and several cars. firefighters knock it down of it spread to any other building. >> details involving a man who was hit and killed while crossing a street in pittsburg. the 40-year-old victim was in a crosswalk last night around 9:00 when he was hit by a car. witnesses say he just balk tacos from a taco truck and headed home. the driver said he did not see the pedestrian until the pedestrian was right in front of him. police say the driver is cooperating and they do not

believe alcohol or drugs were a factor. >> the daily flight of asiana to sfo will have a new number starting today. they have retired flight 214. the new flight number is 212. airlines often retire flight numbers after a disaster as a way easing as jury worries. >> they plan to give $10,000 to every survivor on the flight that crashed at sfo last month. three people died and more than 300 others survivorred the crash on july 6, but the money will cover medical expenses and other up expected costs for the survivors of flight 214. the passengers can still sue the carrier after taking this money. >> bart trains are running this morning after a judge ordered a 60-day cooling-off period in contract negotiations between the transit agency and the unions. there is still the possibility employees could strike after october 10 if both sides can not reach an agreement on a new contract by then. also today, the billionaire

behind tesla motors and spacex is exacted to reveal detail on his plan to create a new form of transportation. it is called hyper loop, and the system will be able to move people from los angeles to san francisco in just 30 minutes. but it is not clear whether that system will ever become a reality. this is animation of the similar idea from a colorado company. he admitted that he does not have plans to execute this hyper loop because right now he is too focused on spacex and tesla and will reveal the plans at 1:30 this afternoon. >> coming up, swallowed up, what forced dozens of vacationers to glee their florida villa in the middle of the night. >> warning sigh republicans that -- sirens t

>> a massive sinkhole is swallowing a vacation rental near disney. what happens now? that is the question. >> last night, guests woke up to frightening sounds. >> shaking. glass breaking. >> it was the result of a sinkhole. soon the three story villa west of disney world was collapsing. this scary situation started off quietly. >> one of the guests stepped out in the street and flagged down

our security personnel and told them of a window blowing out. while he was there the security officer, another wind blow. >> then the lights went out. the building started shaking. glass shattering. >> people are yellow, get out, get out. >> in seconds a massive crack in the foundation, 40' to 50' wide. >> a door game collapsed and a couple could not get out and he broke the window to escape. >> they have 24 units and 20 people were staying there at the time of the collapse. no one was hurt. the staff was able to evacuate all the guests before the building collapsed. >> most important thing is our guests, considering the magnitude the sinkhole, are okay. >> the complex near was evacuated to be safe. officials say it was getting deeper but not wider.

>> in southern california, crews battling a destructive wildfire in riverside county are finally making huge progress and expect to have the fire contained by the end of the day, a 20,000 acre fire. it is burning 85 miles east of los angeles. and it is destroyed 26 homes and 22 buildings since it break out on wednesday. 12 people including 11 firefighters have been hurt. right now the good news is that 95 percent contained. >> repair work begins on tsunami warning sirens in san mateo county that do not work. they discovered five of eight sigh republicans -- sirens are broken. the county officials say that repair work should be finished by early september. until then, extra police and sheriff deputize are on hand to alert the public in the event of a disaster. text and e-mails will be used in

case of any emergency. >> we are looking to see if the sun is breaking through. mike nicco? >> it is breaking through on cue. inland, the areas are cleared up. from emeryville to san francisco there are still a few clouds hanging around and i will tell you that timetable and how much longer the warm weather will hang around in the seven-day outlook. >> if you are looking to resident a house at tahoe, be careful there is

>> covering antioch, petaluma, and all the bay area this is abc7 news.

>> a warning this morning of a new scam targeting people interested in representing vacation homes near lake tahoe. the police department says that more and more fake postings are popping up on legitimate rental shiites. when people contact the poster they are sent a rental agreement and asked to wire payment to an account. when the vacationers arrive they discover it was a scam and police say the suspects are using different names but, often, post the same cell phone number. police are asking homeowners to watch out for fake postings involving their properties. >> sky watchers hope for better weather to see the meteor showers, with one bay area spot offering a view. folks were hoping to see shooting stars but the fog rolled in. there should be 100 pleat -- meteors an hour.

>> will we have clear skies? >> some time. but this is right on the dividing lines of the clouds rolling in. that is the best place to see and it to the south, and mount hamilton, that is perfect. but not all of us can get up there. i will have that information, first, live doppler 7 hd showing it is quiet out there, and any drizzle this morning is gone and it was mostly at the coast and not much. you can see the cloud cover quickly evaporated pulling out of petaluma in san pablo and through the golden gate bridge with the cloud cover dissipating. we will make the noontime, we have 41 minute flight arrival delays into sfo which is down from earlier so those are getting back on track. you can see the cooler weather in san francisco and half moon bay, and 55 and 59 and a lot of mid-to-upper 60's until you get to the east bay and the south

bay and the low-to-mid 70's around concord and san ramon and antioch and san jose and los gatos and those are going to be the areas that will be the warmest the next couple of mid-mornings because they will get the sunshine first. look at downtown, it looks beautiful from emeryville with high definition back drop for the forecast and it will be brighter and warmer this afternoon. clouds covering in and possible coastal drizzle and the best two nights are the best nights to see the meteors. if you can get further inland or to the south you can see them for most of the night. summer warmth for the week with a cooling trend but it is not going to get out of hand. in san jose you can see the bright sunshine and you are going to jump the most today, 73 year, to 78, and the rest of us jump one to two degrees but it is a warming trend that we have lacked for most of august. mid-to-upper 70's for most of

the santa clara valley and santa cruz, today, as well. low-to-mid 70's on the peninsula until millbrae at 67. along the coast we will have low-to-mid 60's and we will see more sunshine than we did yesterday. mid-to-upper 60's downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and you can see what the last push of cloud is doing to petaluma and you are 76 and everyone else is in the upper 70's to low 80's. berkeley is in the upper 60's and everyone else in the low-to-mid 70's and not uncomfortable but it is getting warmer in the east bay valleys and up to 90 in brentwood. tonight, mid-50's again with drizzle along the coast account clouds are not so thick as this morning. check out the temperature in palm springs and las vegas, in the 100's and our weather is coming from there so the low that brought the cool and wet weather, now the high will be

back toward us so we will see a remain whatting trend today and tomorrow and that is probably when it will peak but it goes away on thursday and friday and notice the temperatures do not drop down too much and it comes eight back again, saturday and sunday, so this could be the longest stretch of near normal temperatures in about a month. >> all right. thank you, mike. coming up a serious case of road rage. >> what happens when you run into a ram that doesn't want to share

>> coming up at 4:00, a lot of us got a loud alarm with an am better alert and now lawmakers have an urgent message for us. and at 5:00, fans behaving badly in a banana known to a baltimore orioles player, a baseball player at the giants ballpark is creating quite a response on social media. we will hear from a witness who saw it. >> motorcycle rider in new zealand found a serious case of road rage, not from a driver. it was from angry ram. the rider was -- ouch -- rolled own the ram who was not happy to see it and rammed his motorcycle and the rider and it did not stop there it continued with the

rider chasing the man down the road. >> you feel lucky to get away with a few bruises. >> why was he filming that? get away from the ram. angry ram. >> why put yourself in that situation?

[cheers and applause] >> hi, baby. nice to see you. hello, everybody, and welcome to millionaire. kicking things off today is a music and drama teacher who says the last time he faced this type of pressure, he was disguised as boy george. from montgomery, illinois, please welcome tom jesse. hey, tom. >> hi, meredith. [cheers and applause] >> so you have to explain: what were you doing disguised as boy george? >> well, my sister and i were in a scavenger hunt road rally for a charity that she was working with, and i was her puzzle answerer. so we were in the car, but there was an '80s theme to the entire--to the entire event. so we all decided to be '80s rock stars. >> oh, and what made you pic