no other words but catastrophic, i've never, ever, seen anything like this. >> a state of emergency in colorado communities cutoff underwater. thousands evacuated after day of heavy rain and the worst could still be on the way. >> the floods claimed four lives in colorado the recent death a woman swept away in boulder and the death toll could rise. >> 80 people are unaccounted

for in boulder county. and how to coordinate disaster relief efforts. >> brandy hit shows us flood damage. >> much of the eastern rockies feeling the affects of the deluge. communities cuttoff, roads, washed away. river, creek banks spilling over with thousands forced to evacuate. operations like this one have been repeated over and over again, this man's elderly neighbor was trapped in his bed. >> got a call there was a wall of water coming out. we heard a roar. and i think that is when it came down, buried his house, filled the bedroom full of mud. >> miles and miles of flooded countryside are visible, yet, hampered by nearly imimpassable

roads, all traffic is turned away to stressed areas. more than 15 inches of rain fell in just days, about half of what normally falls during an entire year. evacuees who were stranded cutoff from anyway out are on dry land. >> i've never seen anything like this. >> muddy waters started to recede, officials warn, it's still dangerous. >> two weet of -- feet of water doesn't look life threatening but it is. schools remain closed today and tomorrow's game against fresno state has been postponed. >> the question is when will the area get a chance to dry out?

>> here is live doppler 7 hd. we'll fly across the state of colorado showing what you is going on this afternoon. it's been quiet so far today, thundershowers and thunderstorms have been in the southeastern corner of the state. and this is a look at our forecast animation starting this evening at 7:00 notice some areas of scattered rainfall and some could with locally heavy. it's a quiet pattern then, sunday a more wide spread area of rain throughout the area and that is just going to be a mess to the projection of the totals is from an inch and a half to two inches across the area it could be locally

heavier amounts. >> fire in laughern in los angeles county destroyed a building. you can see how close it got to-to-that house. within the past hour, firefighters managed to get it 80% contained burning about 40 acre autos happening now near port of oakland evicted owner of a trucking facility is refusing to leave. >> yes. wayne freedman is live with the story for us. wayne? >> if you go to mari time drive you'll see plenty of trucks, they're servicing the port. you'd never have seen as many trucks as there were here today and as much of a jam of trucks. in west oakland, trucks, trucks, everywhere. you can trace it to an eviction on old oakland service base. >> we're in the process of

moving to another yard. and you can see stuff is moving but they've cut it short. >> today, he played himself and other truckers who could not get to their rigs as the victims. >> and now, all customers want to fire me. plus i'm going to have to pay rental on l th equipment i'm supposed to get in today, they've put me close being out of business. >> the back story is more complex a developer closed a deal to turn 17 acres into a massive complex for truck that's service the port every day. the state pledged almost $50250 million to get the project running but the deadline is december 31. and he has yet to move. here is the developer. >> he think it's business, cut and dry. i think courts made it clear that the city is entitled to

possession of the property and in agreement to move forward and we plan to do that. >> on the streets of oakland there are truck was nowhere tols park. they're stacking up, no one is happy. >> i'm afraid so. there is no place for them to go what. do you expect them to do? >>. >> bart says it may train managers to operate trains if work grorz on strike again. >> bart unveiled several other ideas to move in the event of a strike during today's metropolitan transportation commission he meeting. >> bart and unions face a deadline to agree on. >> i new labor contract when the court ordered 60 day cooling off period ends. >> we're concern that had we may not have a deal by the deadline of october 10th. we think it's time for the public to think seriously about what their options and

nalt tiffs are. >> i would be concerned if they're thinking about having passengers run trains. it would be compromised if they chose to do that. >> now, bart managers ran trains once before when the system provided limited service during a strike in 1979. >> the attorney representing san francisco parks worker admits to running over and killing a woman sun bathing in a park is giving insight into the driver's side of the tragic story. >> police say the driver of the truck that ran over the victim last week therk say the 57-year-old guardner then drove wairk he was arrested several blocks from holly park. his lawyer says he's droulgt and sad. >> my client is devastated. he's never been in trouble before. he's a mess. he realizes his actions result

ntd death of a young mother. >> there is a sad, tragic irony to the story. at the time of the accident, bernaski coping with a personal tragedy n april his 20-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. >> he's not doing well, not eating and sleeping its taking a toll on him. >> prosecutors are waiting for the results of the toxicology report. wagner says he knows what is going to show. >> mr. bernaski does not drink or smoke. he's a religious man. >> wagner says it was an accident. >> at that time he did not know he hurt someone or that he killed someone. >> bernaski expressed sorrow to family and friends. we spoke to christie vonameer husband and showed the statement. after reading it he said he wanted more time to think bit before responding.

>> a court in san francisco upheld barry bonds 2011 conviction for obstruction of justice. rejecting argument that's the jury instructions tainted the verdict. bonds, at that time denied using performance-enhacing drugs to a grand jury investigating that issue in 2003. today's ruling says there was shove sent evidence to convict bonds because his statement was evasive. no word yet whether the giants slugger will appeal today's decision. the woman accused of attacking lester chambers appears -- this appears to be a different story about a skyscraper that you have, in fact. >> not sure, it went away. let's see the plan here. >> let's continue with the chambers story. he was attacked during a july music festival in hayward. and the woman involved just made her first appearance

surrounding yesterday morning and faces charges of elder abuse. >> the 73-year-old chambers was injured when the woman climbed up on stage and shoved him into an amp ply fier. >> now torkts scaffold story. >> you can see what the sfus about here, this window washing scaffold hanging from one embarcadero center, nobody was on it around 7:00 in the morning police closed off streets to both pedestrians and vehicles. >> there is danger. i can see, there is danger. >> thing he was almost 2000 pounds. i talked to the guy who is the engineer in charge of it. and the look, i can tell, we better get up there. >> the area reopened around 10:00 after crews pull that had back to the skyscrapers

roof. >> firefighters in san jose had to get out a worker after being injured on the job. officials say injuries were minor ske was able to climb up the ladder. he was tablen to the hospital. no word on what caused this problem. >> governor brown is in san francisco right now meeting with china's lead international climate negotiator. >> brown and the vice chairman will sign what the government is calling a bilateral operation on low carbon development. the agreement expands mart r partnership was china and follows trade and investment trip to china in april. >> coming up on abc 7 news at 4:00 united's big mistake. is the airline ready to honor thousands of tickets sold for next to thuj nudge something. >> also coming up why

microsoft really wants your ipad. >> and we'll let you know if authorities in new jersey are closer to figuring out what cause that had massive fire that destroyed the board walk. >> you're not getting away quickly if you're on interstate 80 near berkeley right now. slow going for drivers in both

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broadway near 11th street. our media partner reports two men began fire being at each skporj a cab driver hit in the leg by one bullet no. word on the cab driver's condition or if anyone has been arrested. the investigation delayed bart trains by 15 minutes because that shooting took place right outside of the 12th street center station. we'll continue to follow the story on twitter on abc 7 news bay area. >> it's taking a while but jet blue service is returning to normal after a computer glitch. the carrier turned to twitter to advise customers to what is going on. the system was restored but delays continued all day. >> carriers unveil pricing plans for new iphone. some people with great timing got free airline tickets. >> they can sure did. hi, emily.

>> good afternoon. the top u.s. mobile carriers are touting plans for selling the iphone. t-mobile customers can get the 5 c for zero down and monthly payments. at and t users can also pay $22 a month but the service plans cost more. and very on offering just over $23 a month over two years. u.s. sales of video game products jumped last month to $521 million marking the first four-week gain in almost two years. the about gaming industry has been slumping as gamers shifted to web based titles. microsoft wants your ipad a announcing it will take the apple tab plet off your hands and give you a $200 credit to use at its store or to buy one of the company's own surface tablets. the program just weeks ahead of microsoft's september 23th

launch event in new york city. stocks rising today, extending a weekly gain and talks of a plan for syria to surrender it's chemical weapons, apple shares closed lower for a third time this week. and it's a lucky lucky day for some united airlines passengers if you were one of the fortunate few able to snap up free tickets accidentally sold by united yesterday, you're in luck. the airline said it will honor those reservations. united says the unexpected flash sale happened for a couple hours at mid i day as a result of faulty reservations great on the web site from. bloomberg studios in san francisco, i'm emily chang with bloomberg west, back to you, have a wonderful weekend. >> tickets for zero dollars? >> would have been nice. >> that is what we charge for weather, also. >> yes. we're getting a deal. >> zero dollars worth.

>> this weekend. >> wow, wow. >> yes. >> there you go. here is a look at live doppler 7 hd. low clouds at the coast. sunny skies across most of the area. it's lovely here but it's been an active afternoon in the sierra. with an outbreak of numerous norms the last few hours near lake tahoe. they've been powerful and numerous. nice, quiet here where we are, traffic flowing well below. 67 in oakland, 77 los gatos, 59 in half moon bay. here looking across embarcadero, blue skies above the bay

looking on to the bay a beautiful afternoon. these features we'll see fog near coast and bay overnight. and preautumn patterns setting up. you can see active weather systems around us. what is a traffic developing by next friday may have a cold front swinging through the area that can bring us a chance of rain. that would be interesting. some areas of fog and near the coast and bay. low temperatures upper 50s to around 60s, sunny, mild.

and 78 in santa clara. highs in the upper 70s at redwood city mid to upper 60s on the coast. north bay highs mid 80s to calistoga to napa. east bay highs 71 at oakland. 77 in fremont. inland east bay will be warm tomorrow with highs into mid to upper 80s. here is the accu-weather forecast. cooling down sunday temperatures bouncing back with mild conditions. cooling down sharply friday that. is when we might get rain so a little bit of a fall pattern is beginning to set up. fall is officially nine day as way. >> it's friday the 13th. >> we don't have tris tris. >> no. we don't. >> and thank you,. >> okay. >> up next a north carolina

man runs into trouble, his attempt to cross the atlantic with these balloons. >> a dad's way to gelt his daughter to change the way she dresses. oh, my. donning the daisy dukes, get the job done? >> taking a look at traffic now this is the san francisco skyway. you can see it's packed. extremely heavy for drivers in both directions. especially those making their way to the loier deck of the bay bridge. stay with us. the news at

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>> a north carolina man is not sure if he'll continue a bid to become the first person to cross the atlantic with helium balloons. he lifted off in a basket hoisted by 370 balloons, however, he he got 300 miles, a malfunction forced him to touch down 12 hours into the flight. the 39-year-old says the film "up" inspired him to attempt this attempt -- attempt this flight. >> but he's trying to make it 2500 miles. >> yes. yes. >> actress nicole kidman may press charges after being bit hit by a bicyclist and knocked to the ground. take a look. a freelance paparazzo hitting the oscar winner with his bike

on a sidewalk. kidman screamed and grabbed her left ankle in pain. the 19-year-old photographer was given a tick yismt. >> -- ticket. >> linda ronstat sitting down for an interview tonight. diane sawyer talk was the 67-year-old diagnosed with parkinson's disease. before her diagnosis says she noticed inability to perform tasks including sing theerng at some point i couldn't make notes. i'd aim for a c, i'd hit a g or something. it was hard to comb hair. hard to brush teeth, wash hair. i had to get hands hands over my head. >> she has a new memoir called "simple dreams". you can see the interview with her on world news coming up at 5:30. >> coming up right here on abc 7 news at 4:00 there is progress in seara. president assad appears ready to destroy

his nation's chemical weapon autos also coming up twitter going public meaning more bay area millionaires. how koit affect city life in san francisco. >> later,000-dollar shoes helping

syria may destroy it's stockpile of a thousand tons of chemicals president assad says his nation will join the international chemical weapons convention. secretary of state john kerry says that is progress but he's taking a cautious tone with syrian and russian officials. >> president obama said today it's critical. >> any agreement needs to to be verifiable. >> syrian president as. s assad says we will sign an agreement. >> we're working hard to find the common ground to be able to make that happen. >> technical experts went through nuts and bolts of a possible game plan. here is how it could work.

chemicals would be consolidated in a few depots. ideally a large destruction facility would be built. >> will take weeks to get inspectors in. and probably lee to four years to destroy weapons. >> but the destruction of the weapons is almost a bonus. >> the mere act of turning them over takes weapons away from assad. >> kerry says next meetings will take place in two weeks. >> we discussed some of the home work and we agreed to beat again in new york. >> he says efforts leads to cooperation to bring peace to

that war torn nation. >> investigators will join the search for what caused a massive board walk fire yesterday that started in a frozen custard shop. governor christie offered encouragement after another disaster. >> we have endured and begun to come back from devastation of sandy. we will not let these fires destroy efforts. the state of new jersey will stand with the government and business owners to restart rebuilding as soon as possible. >> the cause of the fire has not been determined. firefighters keep uncovering small fires smoldering beneath rubble there. >> u.s. fish and wildlife officials investigating the death of a fresno man known for founding a group of specially trained volunteer that's work in inaccessible

parts of the high sierra. shane krogan fell east of fresno in sierra national forest. he and four other members of the crew were working with u.s. fish and wildlife agents to help clean out. >> a suspect happens to be a victim's new bride. prosecutors claim jordan graham killed her husband by pushing him from a cliff in montana's glacier national park. her attorneys argue she's not a flight right after this skpk ask if she be can released. prosecutors claim she shu she should northbound custody since she's admitted to pushing her husband off that cliff during an argument. >> she lost those rights when pushed cody off the cliff. she gets another day at home. cody does not.

>> investigators say graham told a friend she was having drouts douts about the marriage before johnson was killed. a 15-year-old boy in louisiana is facing criminal charges saying he used a mobile app to go on a virtual mass shooting in his high school. the stud jentz he does it because he was tired of getting bullied but he didn't want to hurt anyone. he's charged with terrorizing classmates and interference with operation of a school. that video has been taken down. >>. a study questions effectiveness of school antibullying programs. researchers found students at skoolz of such programs are more likely to report being bullied and suggests antibullying programs may teach bullies how to hide behaviors. authors say schools need to come up with more so fi tis ti indicated strategy autos one day after twitter filed papers

for initial public offering now, speculation mounting about what affect the influx of new millionaires swril in san francisco. >> realtors say suspect home prices to go up in and around noe valley often called northern tip of silicon valley. the dailies have been looking for a home but so far, no luck. >> it's frustrating and hard. there is so much competition. we need to spend all cash on a house that, is hard and a lot of money. >> realtors say expect the situation to get worse for home buyers now that twitter ask expected to go public. facebook went public many of the new millionaires bought homes in noe valley and liberty hill. realtors expect the same thing after twitter ipo. >> there is pent up demand for other buyer who's haven't been able to purchase. if you add people in there,

yeah well. expect it is to drive our real estate market. >> this fixer upper was listed last month at $1.4 million. it sold for $800,000 over asking. at twitter headquarters, employees kept mum, but in the neighborhood reaction is mixed about the anticipated influx of millionaires. the mission district has seen much again tri fiction. >> it concerns me the flavor of the neighborhood changes a little witness. i don't know. changes how people live here see it. >> considering when i first moved to san francisco i was experiencing an economic down turn. boy rather see people with money here than no money here. >> more money, more bidding wars is a all too familiar

neem san francisco. >> going public means more than just higher home prices. mark zuckerberg asked about that this week at the tech crunch conference in san francisco. >> i'm kind of like the person you would want to ask last how to make a smooth ipo. >> kre. he weigh e.was spoking -- poking fun at himself. facebook ipo was kind of a train wreck. stock lost a quarter value then went on to lose less than half of the ipo value, however, initial price is 38s aids share, today, shoes those shares worth $44. >> former 49er great steve young will speak to his fellow mormons about how the church is dealing with gays and lesbian asks will deliver a key note address in utah tomorrow. the youngs made news in 2008 opposing proposition 8 while

their church urged members to support al california ban on same-sex marriage. the mormon church teaches same-sex relationships are since serious conditionful but does encourage members to be compassionate towards gays and lesbians. >> coming up, snakes everywhere? the world capitol being overrun by pythons and cobras. >> and from mount tam, lots of sunshine. what is ahead for the weekend? i'll vaft coming up. >> speaking of sunshine looking perfect traffic moving nicely. abc 7

we want to update you on breaking news in downtown oakland. a shootout and we have learned now police have arrested a suspect. we've learned ohio state football team and boosters are staying at that marriott. ohio state playing cal in berkeley tomorrow. >> on the lighter side a father in utah made a fashion statement urging his teen-aged daughter to dress more modestly. take a look at pictures. they went viral after he cutoff a pair of jeans turning them into his own daisy dukes.

this after his 19-year-old daughter refused to wear longer shorts during their family nice. >> -- nights. >> my dad cares a lot more than he thought he had if he would go to those lengths and embarrass himself a little bit to prove me a point. >> more of just me making a statement but with humor instead of argument ask attitude. >> tom macintosh hopes his daughter will remember his fashion motto is modest is hottest. >> he wears those well. >> yes. >> that is a story you won't forget. >> here is a look at live doppler 7 hd. sunny skies across the bay area right now. fog at the coast. tomorrow looks quiet but

thunderstorms and rainfall rumble again over parts of the rockies including flood-ravaged colorado. let's take a look this evening, quiet and this evening, with just scattered showers and that pattern continues throughout tomorrow. but rainfall becomes heavy and organized sunday, heavy at times and pattern winds down early monday and finally relief develops on monday and hope it will continue for a while. california tomorrow, sunny skies and dry, warm highs 95 in chico. tomorrow there will be an area of active weather here in the bay area tomorrow sunny skies

and coastal fog. mild to warm with high temperatures from mid to upper 60s near the coast, on the coast to 70s around the bay. to mid to upper 80s into warmest loks so it's going to be a nice warm start to the weekend. we'll have a pleasant weekend so enjoy. >> nice. >> take a look at this slithery problem keeping temperatures busy in thailand. more snakes making their way into neighborhoods. and are officials say they're getting as many calls to remove snakes from houses as they are to put out fires. they can't figure out a reason for the numbers. >> those are not little guy autos no. that is horrifying. >> yes. yes.

cobras they will strike. >> coming up why real fountain of youth may be as close as your pillow. >> and

today a lot of drama as jim furyk reached the mark of 59 just the sixth person in pga history to reach 59 by shooting 11 birdies and one eagle. the 59 puts him in a tie for first after two rounds. he said the hard part will be calming down and settling in now to try to win the tournament. >> this afternoon a small scud study showing a good night's sleep can do wond grorz appearance. researchers took 20 people with sleep apnea snapping before pictures of them. after giving c pap machines researchers took some after photos and results show faces less puffy and red and as a

result, look younger when it comes to preventing a deadly form of cancer a health key diet seems to help. they found those with high quality diets were 15% less likely to develop pancreatic cancer. the findings particularly true for men. panny at that time yathic cancer is rare,. it is one of the most aggressive and lethal cancers only about 6% of the patients are still alive five years after diagnose yis subject of cancer marin county has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the country and researchers racing to find out why. one man wants to do his part to help. all it takes for to you help him is a new pair of shoe autos among souvenir shops you might not expect to find a high end shoe boutique.

>> i'm trail blaze wog like to see more stores come into sausalito at a level that everyone can appreciate. >> he's opening a store that is as pretty as shows -- shoes it displays. >> we're serving champagne bar and we'll pick them up by private car we're going to run a concierge out of this store. >> but the store isn't just about indulging. it's about giving. >> we're going donate 10% of the proceeds from that day to month of october to zero breast cancer marin. >> he lost two sisters to cancer, his sister robin died just six months ago. he will select a different charity each month to donate to. he thinks his sisters

would be proud. >> they'd be going crazy. >> surround by beautiful shoes and it does make a difference. the director tell meez number of insy dments marin county goring down and she thinks donations help. a man in canada discovered what is believed to be the oldest message in a bottle ever found. monday he was walking along the beach and found a bottle with a cap and there was something inside. >> i was just walking along. and i thought it looked neat. it had a message in it. i learned the guy was leaving san francisco on the steamer rainier going up to bellingham.

>> that man's name can be seen here through the glass. there is an address. he wants to have the discovery authenticated. >> up next millions of californians are a step closer to getting a raise. >> coming up at 5:00 a 3-year-old autistic girl taken to the wrong school then left behind at the end of the day. and who consumer reports and 7 on your side michael finney reveal which model is great for those culinary geniuses and which are better for the rest of

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join us for abc 7 news at 11:00. >> california may be closer to getting an earthquake warning system. >> the legislature approved warning system but didn't indicate how would it be financed. alert system senses a shock and gives up to 40-second warnings to help owe r.. >> governor brown promising to sign a bill raising state's minimum wage. >> yes that. is welcome news to folks strageling to live on the current wage. on the street workers are operating heavy machinery. inside more operations are

underway. >> the o.owner says he starts at $10 an hour. >> i'm okay with paying more. if the guy down the street is paying more and people there are paying more then everything is going work out in the end. we'll do okay because we can charge a little more. >> right now minimum wage is $8 an hour, lawmakers voted to raise it to $9 an hour in july, and $10 january 1, 2016. >> feels good. finally. we deserve it. >> helping out those. i think it's perfect. >> not to everyone. >> no. because you're talking about $1400 mortgage here, one bedroom. >> i think our employees work

hard. it's a great idea why not? >> a $10 minimum wage would be the highest in the country. san francisco beats most with $10.50. >> the california chamber of commerce oppose the rate hike. >> thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. >> abc 7 news at 5:00 begins right now. >> thank you very much. bart officials reveal it's back up plan. >> a precarious situation left a window washer scaffold hanging off i 41 floor of a high rise. >> i'm sandhya patel.

live here it's mild to warm today but interesting changes are ahead. the weekend forecast is coming up. >> gun nir an oakland hotel this afternoon good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> just moments ago police detained a suspect in the shooting. >> alan wong is live with the latest on this. allen? >> this is a active scene out here, we drove up about 20 minutes ago. police had a man detained in this vehicle. let's go to video. the man is just detained at this time in the possible shooting of that cab driver, we're told officers saw the

man running from the scene and chased him about three blocks and are now looking at surveillance video to see if he mashes the person who shot the cab driver. so far no gun has been found. let me take you back to where it happened. that is in downtown oakland. police sate cab driver was shot in front of the hotel apparently there were plenty of witnesses. if you look, people dressed in red treated and released are fans of the ohio state buck eye who's are in town for the game against the uc berkeley bears which is tomorrow. and apparently no shortage of witnesses they're trying to get that video, look at it and see if it matches the

description of the man they have detained in this car right now. >> allen, thank you very much. our reporting continues on abc 7 news bay area, another top story, bart officials warning tonight to prepare yourselves for another phone shall strike now. but they're revealing a back up plan to keep some trains rolling by having managers operate the trains. here is a live look, traffic is heavy ever since the new eastern span opened and another strike could make it worse. >> hi, dan this, top official said today until now, idea of having bart managers operating train was passengers on them is, quote, unthinkable. but the real possibility of another strike and the long