alifornia. the place to find quality, affordable coverage. financial help for those in need. and nobody can be denied because of a pre-existing condition. enroll now at coveredca.com or call 800-675-2607. kgo -- live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> bart trains are running but under a cloud of work stoppage as they iron out a deal. >> thank you for joining us. bart and union negotiators are trying to end the commuter strike net. abc7 news reporter matt keller is at the israel building in oakland where talks are going on. matt? >> negotiators arrived the past 45 minutes with hopes for a deal

as bart riders express frustration with how long it is taking for the negotiations. >> union negotiators in the federal mediator runed for more bargaining after another session ended in the early hours of the morning. neither side is saying anything specific. the negotiators say they are optimistic. they are not taking the possibility of a strike off the table. >> we will do everything we can to avert a strike. that doesn't mean we are not ready for a strike. that doesn't mean we are not able to pull off work action. we don't want to. we will stay here and go through this process with the federal mediation service and hope that both parties can achieve a deal. >> the teams were not the only ones up late. it wasn't until after 10:00 that riders found out there is no strike. if in deal is reached today, another night of uncertainty lies ahead. >> obnoxious not knowing what i will be doing in the morning, whether i have to drive in or wake up early to drive or be able to take bart the.

>> it is tough not knowing waiting up each night to see. it is tough and frustrateing. >> bart trains are running but a union leader said she is not putting a timeline on if and when they can call for a strike. >> happening now, the bart riders with special needs are speaking out today about how a bart stride disrupts their hives katie marzullo is at the transbay terminal in san francisco. katy? >> there is a rally right now but you will nature hear shouting or see a massive march. this is what you will see: the disabled community, a quiet group, just pleading with bart management and the unions to not strike. it made up of people visually impaired, some in wheelchairs and they rely on bart to get to school and appointments and work

and even drop off young children. >> i have built my life around this system. because of this system i am able to be fully contributing tax-paying system. that is not something that can be a reality for people with disabilities like mine. i take the bart from berkeley to san francisco and i need it to be independent and on my only. >> the rally organizers support bart workers and acknowledge the cutbacks the workers are dealing with and have seen him in the staff and things they use the most, for example, the elevators. though can tell they are not maintained so well. for people with disabilities driving is not an opening and to take a bus the road could be as long as two times longer than what it is with bart. the overall message from the disabled community is, please, don't do this. we need you. this group needs bart maybe more

than anyone else. >> thank you. to add to the headaches for commuters, a.c. transit workers could strike at midnight. they say they are reaching out to unions today for a face-to-face meeting but nothing is scheduled. 1,600 bus drivers and other employee could walk off tomorrow without a contract deal. talks are stalled over employee contributions to the health insurance. the agency is hoping that the governor will issue a cooling-off period. so far, no word on that. >> now, if there is a bart strike, bart plans to run 200 buses from nine stations: el cerrito, concord, lafayette, walnut creek, west oakland, san leandro, hayward and fremont. you need a round-trip ticket in advance. car pooling on 80, 880, and 680 are extended from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and c.h.p. officers will not write tickets out of regular car pool hours in also there is a strike.

in san francisco bay ferry, there will be 12 bets rather than the usual eight and we will add an extra landing at the san francisco ferry building to help reduce congestion. >> we have been asking you to tell us how you feel about the bart gas. shear a video posted. >> dear bart, i am a local bay area resident and commuter. if bart strikes i will miss my first day of my internship in san francisco. the bay area urges you to please come to an agreement as soon as possible. than you. >> you can post videos by using "dear bart," hashtag. you can find out immediately if there is a settlement or strike by download be our app allowing for push notifications with breaking news alerts. you will want to join us early tomorrow morning for the latest on the bart strike threat, with all the labor developments and

if there is a strike we will bring you commute updates with an early start tomorrow at 4:00 a.m. on the abc7 news only news. >> developing news, senate leaders have reached a deal tonight the shutdown and raise the government's debt limit. the democratic leader harry reid made the announcement at the start of the senate session this morning, the deal would re-open the government through mid-jane and extend the country's borrowing power until february leaving the president's health care law intact. >> it is hard for two sides to reach concepts us. this time it was really hard. >> this is far less than many hoped for, frankly, but it is far better than what some had sought. >> if the not passes the deal today, it still has to be approved, unchanged, by the house of representatives or everything might have to start all over again. >> here are the key dates: it would fund the government through january 15, it would extend the debt limit until

february 7, new committee would be appointed to work identity a new delegate for the year. their agreement will be due december 13th. >> that deal still has to pass the house of representatives and the senate but wall street is creating quickly to news of a possible tell. you can see the dow is up triple digit to 15,338. >> new this morning a flight from san jose to honolulu made an emergency landing. alaska airlines flight 837 just took off from san jose before 8:30 this morning and something happened to the engine. an airline spokesman said it was possibly a bird strike with a bird sucked into the engine. the plane landed safely in oakland shortly after. no injuries among the 166 people on board. the boeing 737 is examined and the passengers are now on their way to hawaii on another aircraft. >> a family is safe this morning while investigators look into

why their house caught on fire overnight and triggered their cars to explode dramatically. it was caught on video. abc7 news reporter, amy hollyfield, is on the scene. amy? >> the homeowner had a surveillance video. he gave the footage to firefighters the it shows the fires started on the side of the home where there was a pile of oily rags that he recently had been using. it shows that fire burned for a while. it saturdayed at 1:30 this morning. it raged for 13 minutes before the family of they sleeping inside woke up to noises coming from the garage. >> the family was lucky and they did a good job of getting out. an 11-year-old and her parents escaped and rank the doorbell of the neighbor across the street. i saw directly across the street 9 whole house locked to be engulfed in flames. the house and the two cars in the drive, all on fire.

even at one point, exploding. >> they were burning one of the cars had magnesium in the dab board creating a dramatic motion is and popping. >> firefighters had to tell with a power leave that came down. they eased up on the water they put on the cars so it would not trickle to the live wire. a firefighters was assigned to behalf the line. the downed line made residents feel trapped as they watched this huge fire burn. >> it was scary. i was thinking, well, we need to run down the street because we cannot drive away. i had my dog leashed and... >> when the fire was out home owner went into recovery mode locating two of their three cats and securing a hotel room. watching all of this has had quite an impact on this neighborhood. >> when it is someone that lives in your neighborhood, so close, it really hits home and feels tragic. >> investigators say the cause

of the fire doesn't look suspicious and the homeowner says he had a pile of rags with oil he used for taping his deck and that fire officials told him they likely combusted and started this fire. >> happening now on the peninsula, pg&e is venting natural gas in the same neighborhood devastated by an explosion that claimed eight lives three years ago. crews are working on a pipeline. they are warning that there could be a gas odor in the area during the process. crews expect to finish by 1:00 o'clock this afternoon. pg&e says this is normal upkeep on a distribution line which is not so large as a transmission line. that was the source of the explosion in 2010. >> happening today, pg&e is headed back do court over the natural gas pipeline that runs under can -- san carlos.

the utility is saying it is safe and they are giving an updated safety certification to prove it. there was a court order to close the line after a people me expressed concerns that the pipeline could spread like the one in san bruno. >> it is sentencing day for a cal student who beheaded an exotic bird. >> the parents of a young gill accuse evidence online bullying -- the parents of a young girl accused of online bullying go on the defensive. >> the forecast is straight ahead and it doesn't get much better than this in october: glass

>> parents of a teen arrested in a cyberbullying suicide of a florida 14-year-old safer thai daughter's facebook account was hacked. the girl jumped off a tower last month after being bullied. the parents of the 14-year-old accused say their daughter is a loving and caring girl. >> did you think of her as a bully or told she was a bully by the school? >> never. never. >> you would check her facebook? >> i would check her facebook each time she would get on it. >> you checked her facebook every night?

>> yes. >> the father of the 12-year-old accused in the case admits he should have been more vigilant. >> a law school graduate is scheduled for sentencing for be-heading an exotic bird in los angeles. the 25-year-old pleaded guilty to killing a bird last year during a drunken chase at the flamingo hotel and is facing six months in boot camp. two other berkeley students involved in the crime pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and were fined and sentenced to community service. >> when he is out of prison in a couple of weeks, dr. murray or michael jackson's personal physician, he wants to problem advertise medicine again. he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of michael jackson and was sentenced to serve four years. according to tmz, he plans to fight revoking of his license in texas and california although the proceedings are on hold in this state. he claims he was targeted because michael jackson was so

famous. >> happening today, more than 1,100 people will attend a job fair in san mateo. the boot camp is sponsored by peninsula congresswoman jackie speier but she will not attend because of the government shut down. 65 hiring employers from banks, credit units, hotel, security, and transportation companies will be there. workshops are offered. it is underway and will continue at 2:00 p.m. at the san mateo county event center. it is free. it is free. >> mike nicco is ahead with the accweather forecast. >> did you say "stay >> glassy. >> high pressure is in control but it is losing its grip so we have cooler weather on the way today and tomorrow so i will have the new numbers ahead for the seven-day outlook. >> the northern california

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>> covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> we have a light show on this bridge, but with longer nights and hours, the bay lights are getting longer. november 1, the show will shine on the western span of the bridge from sunset until sunrise

right now it ends at 2:00 a.m. >> time for a check on the forecast. guess who is on the roof? >> meteorologist, mike nicco, with a different light show: a lost sunlight. >> a lost sunlight looking at the exploritorium and all the free electricity from the solar modules. a beautiful day out here. a touch cooler than it was this time yesterday. i will explain why in a second. first, the lows this morning are no records unlike yesterday where oakland tied records but, still, 39 in novato. the valleys, san ramon, 42. cold air draining into fremont from the east bay hills, 43. and 4 in saratoga and half moon bay and everyone else is in the 50's but the oakland temperature at 49. here is the big picture, i will show you what is going on across the country because it has a

selection on our weather, the big area of low pressure to the east and high pressure on the other side over the top of us and you can see on live doppler 7 hd it is showing how dry we are, no radar returns, no clouds right now, and as you look at our winds, notice half moon bay, oakland and hayward, they are blowing more onshore, and the breezes relaxing a little bit and that is why temperatures are not so robust as they have been but they still very nice. we are already in the 70's in antioch and half moon bay and everyone else in the mid-to-upper 60's. way off in the dance you can see the high clouds and the system that is bringing us a few high clouds, sunshine and minimal cooling trend. it will move on out, just in time for a sunny, warm, and dry week, but, still, seven days without rain in the forecast. here is how it looks in san jose, beautiful sunshine over downtown, make sure you have your sunglasses.

24 hour temperature change, notice i said it would be minimum, about one to five degrees at the most. so here is what is happening. the clipper system or short wave, is a quick moving cold front with limited moisture, strong enough to push the high out of the way and weaken our offshore flow and our temperatures are dropping but 78 in san jose, warmer-than-average for this time of year and 80 in los altos and los gatos as you head up the peninsula, 74 for the cool spot and long the coast, low-to-mid 70's into downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and near 80 in the valleys and near 70 in the beaches and upper 70's near 80 loan the east bay shore and to the east bay develop. here is the seven-day forecast, we will see dips, and minor increases, but it looks like it is going to be dry all seven days. the coast will see the biggest cooling on sunday, monday, and tuesday. it is gorgeous. hope you get a chance to enjoy it. >> the sacramento mom is

defending herself for being fit. maria kong posted this photo in a sports bra and workout sports. the capping reads "what's your excuse," and it has received 16 million views and 17,000 comments, many claiming that she is trying to shame overweight mothers. she said she wanted to update her facebook photo and the intention was to inspire others. >> i didn't call you fat or lazy or say you should look like me. i never said that. i think i represent a mother who is healthy who can be a positive roll model. >> she works full time, she has no nanny and manages to exercise five to six hour as week and she teaches fitness to other new moms in her neighborhood. bay -- and she also has 180,000 "likes." she talks of her over pollution how she was heavy and she had a tough time by working out.

>> next, can you control your love of oreos, if you said no, you may not be alone. >> miss teen usa speaks out on how every

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>> the usc marching band gets a special guest, will ferrell helped raise money for the week. school in crisis, one of the largest community colleges in the country gets a new chancellor. can three save san francisco city college from closing? >> we will talk about addiction. a study finds oreo cookies as addicted as oh contain. the report from connecticut college found eating the cookies activated more neuronses in the brain's pleasure center than cocaine. and rats go after them first just like people do. >> poor rats. >> thank you for joining us. we will be on early at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning with the latest on the bart negotiations and the strike if

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