live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. san jose fire investigators are looking into who or what started the roaring fire at a recycling yard this morning. thanks for joining us. >> investigators looked at other businesses, one of which has incredible video the moment the blaze was sparked. matt? as bad as this was, and it was bad, it could have been worse. check out the tans that were dragged across the street by firefighters. next door is a1 lumber, a yard.

the flames came close but did not spread. >> a watery mess remains behind off oakland road in san jose as firefighters spent hours making sure no spark could survive. this was the scene this morning with a video from san jose fire department photographer craig rose. flames shot 35 to 45' high. firefighters surrounded the flames and shooting waters on hundreds of pallets. surveillace camera at the auto body and repair captured the first flames. the clock on the surveillance video is ten minutes fast so before 2:00 a.m. they grew better and an employee starting spraying water but it was too late they were too much for a garden hose. >> it was hard to control the fire. it is wood. it is dry wood.

it goes fast. i was afraid the flame would get into my shot. several shops are near the recycling industry and the cars were exposed to the heat. the owner of the repair shop believes two dozen cars were damaged. payment was bubbled and windows exploded. metal melted. thed if news? no one was injured. firefighters and business owners are dealing with what is left behind. >> we will use a back hoe and pull up the debris. there will be an extensive overhaul operation. >> you will be here a long-term? >> yes. >> they must have just found a hotspot because they turned on the hose and were spraying the pallets again. it could be a week before the recycling company re-opens. a truck loaded with mercedes ready for auction burned this morning and those cars are

destroyed. this is the scene at auction yard along industrial parkway in hair. the driver was in the cab sleeping when the fair starts in the engine compartment before 7:00. the fire spread as you can see to two trucks. he escaped. firefighters put out the flames in 15 minutes but the cars were destroyed. >> residents are grappling with devastation left by a fast- moving fire that ripped through a small town which now is described as "half ripped out." nick? >> we have been watching this all day with the evacuation orders in place damaging 100 homes yesterday in a few hours and 400 are evacuated today. >> the elementary schools are closed with the hallway showing burned doors and charred decks and melted chairs. smoke is still rising from the

lay ground normally this time of year would be filled with young children starting the school career. >> last night i was praying. >> the wildfire started tearing through northern weed, california, at the base of mount shasta. a small community of 3,000, a third are still ever value waited forced to get out with only the things they could carry^. >> we packed our pictures and anything we could never get back. we have fire insurance so we can get everything else back. >> the fire eating through everything in its path, with large parts of the town leveled only the foundations remaining, hopes that were in some families for egyptians. thick smoke and fears of the fast rate of the fire forced the chosing of i-5 but it was re-opened last night as crews gained ground. >> this is the latest from cal fire saying 375 acres have been burned and it is only 15

percent% contained. the area is popular with tour its this time of the year. >> thank you, nick, several other wildfires are burning including two other large ones in none california, eat of sacramento. the king fire has burned 11,000 acres and are threatening on homes. orders are in place to evacuate. crews have lost ground since monday allowing containment to drop from 10 percent to 5 percent. firefighters from fremont and berkeley and livermore and pleasanton and hayward and alameda county fire departments are helping. >> crews have been working away the clock to contain this fast moving wildfire in madera county near oakhurst that destroyed 30 homes and 289 buildings pushing 300 acres. three water wells serving the area have been destroyed, as

well, and is only 40 percent contained. we do not have word on what started the fires. >> and thousands of tourists are stranded in mexico. hurricane odile has been downgraded to tropical storm but not before leaving a trail of destruction through mexico's baja. cabo suffered a correct hit with widespread power outages. 30,000 tour is are stranded and 135 have been treated for minor injuries. east palo alto police are asking for help to find a missing teens 15-year-old who was last seen a week ago. his father took the siblings to school and when he came home the teach was gone and did not show up for school. neither did his friend would left a net including an indication they were running away. if you have seen the young man call the east palo alto police department. a union for workers at the

golden gate bridge is staging a strike over health benefits. they made sure that the public knew ahead of time how it could affect the commute. amy hollyfield joins us from the ferry terminal. eight workers did what they said they were going to do, saying it would not interrupt the ferry or the buses. who are checking it out. transit is still moving. the machinists said though would not show up for work. though did not. they are on strike. >> we on strike. >> they hit the lines before the sun came up with the golden gate bridge as the backdrop. rather than working in the bridge's machine shop, they are protesting the way they are treated. their union representative is happen telling the public speaking while they picket and calling this "a huge sacrifice." >> no one wants to do this. it is a last resort the these issues have been ongoing and it got to the point when the machinist union said "enough is

enough, we are striking." commuters heard about the strike but were not sure what to expect. >> we got text and e-mail if you were signed up for golden gate transit there would be a strike but it would not affect bus or ferry. >> as people waited for the buses they were surprised. other than having to duck through the crowd of those picketing, they did not have a problem. >> it has not impacted the commute that i can see so far. they have an issue and they have a right to strike the ought union and the bridge district negotiations have broken down over health care and no one from the bridge district was on camera but officials say they are disappointed the workers decided to strike and hope they come back to the bargaining table. the union plans to nobody but hopes the strike will chain the conscious. >> that is a great success fed. we have had all the unions on the picket lines at the bridge

and we have not actually impacted commuters but we have gotten our pentagon out. >> if there is in deal the unions say the next strike might include buses and ferries and that woman in the report who you saw said it is okay if though need to strike said she could change her tune if the buses were not running. >> ed first bitcoin transaction machine has arrived in san francisco set up as a work shop cafe in the financial district and it is an internet based country not drawn by a country or bank but exists entirely online. this machine allows users it buy and set bitcoin using actual money and the cafe owner explains why he signed on. >> it is also the first bi-directional machine in the united states, so you can buy and sell bitcoin in this machine and super excited because it is so innovative and technical

forward. >> coffee shop doesn't accept bitcoins for a lattes for example, but the company is working on it. >> if you are driving today, keep an eye out for bicycleists. there is a new law in effect designed to protect bicyclists if you drive a car you now have to stay 3' away from the bicyclists on the road. if you cannot pass someone on a pick with 3' between you c.h.p. says you have to slow down to a reasonable and prudent speed. fur cited you could be fined $35 but that goes up to $225 if you actually hit a bicyclist. >> the united states carries out more airstrikes against isis and why the pentagon says it is not ruling out the possibility of sending troops on the ground to find the militant group. >> steps being taken to fight the inbowl outbreak in west africa. >> a look outside at the gorgeous shot over the entire bay area and meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with the forecast

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>> they have continued airstrikes against isis terrorists south of baghdad today and the military says the missions are designed to help iraqi forced in the area. army leaders have said united states airstrikes will be persistent and sustainable but will not be so widespread as the shock campaign of 2003. a human rights group says thousands of people fearing

airstrikes against isis have last the group's self appointed capital in syria. >> defense secretary hagel and egypt chiefs chairman dempsey are testifying before the senate armed services committee. defense secretary hagel said the united states has built a coalition of nations willing to fight and president obama says he will not send more ground troops into iraq to fight the isis terrorists but, today, general dempsey said that is still a possibility. >> if we reap the point where i believe our advisors should accompany iraq troops on attacks against specific isil politics i will recommend that. >> has breaking flight with two companies

awarded contracts by nasa to take astronauts to and from the international space station starting in 2017. one of the companies is the owner of tesla matters. nasa will hold a news conference this afternoon at kennedy space center in florida. >> the sons taking a new step to help fight ebola. the president is traveling to atlanta to visit the headquarters for the centers for disease control. he will announce he is sending 3,000 members of the military to lie beer why and other countries to help coordinate relief. they will train hundreds of health care workers each week. ebola outbreak has killed 2,500 people. >> we will check the forecast with meteorologist mike nicco ahead. >> good morning from the broadcast center where you can see behind me plenty of sunshine, and hard to believe we are less than 36 hours away from a chance of showers.

we have a warming trend when that passes for the weekend. >> an amazing story, a shipwreck survivor and this man says a >> for bay area cities that will test

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covering daly city, dublin, los gatos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. good news for online shoppers, macy's will offer same

day deliver for products on the web site. san francisco and san jose are among only a hand will of cities where the service is offered this fall. other cities include chicago, los angeles, seattle and houston. macy's customers will be able to pick up online purchases in the store. >> enabling. >> father is involving after spending 30 hours adrift in the pacific ocean. 30 hours. he was on a fishing trip with his uncle and friends when the boat spank off the gulf of mexico on saturday. all four had life jackets on. he drived away from the other three who were spotted by another vessel and rescued on sunday after 24 hours. the 37-year-old says it was an encounter that k him going with a purpoise. >> he bound me. he changed my attitude right there, he gave me hope. >> a crew heard him yelling for help on sunday night and called the coast guard to rescue him by helicopter despite butches and

-- bumps and becauses he survived without major injuries. >> amazing. better a porpoise than a shark. >> angel in unusual form. >> we have changed in the weather. >> we will start by looking at the sunshine behind me. good morning from the top of the broadcast center where you can see the bay is calm and so or the winds. a weak area of high pressure is taking over the neighborhood and shut off the sea breeze and that is going to allow for seasonal temperatures this afternoon. look how it is taking away the cloud cover at the coast, so, a nice day to be there also. from the east bay hills camera we were watching the turkey vultures but they seem to have flown the keep. he flew right back out. we will move on and talk about what is going on in the south bay where you can see 87 at shark thank and ready to gear up for hockey season and still, it is going to be warm with sunshine in the south bay and a

lost 80's and temperatures right new 68 in san francisco, and 66 in oakland and 68 in half moon bay and everyone else is in the home 70's but for antioch and 78 and novato at 77. in emeryville it is clear with only a little haze. not too bad as far as visit business. mostly sunny and seasonal temperatures and showers are possible on when night through thursday morning and a dry and warmer weekend is coming at us for the days following the one small chance of rain. we have mid-to-upper 70's in the south bay and 80's around los gatos and morgan hill and gilroy. as we head up the peninsula it is 80 in some areas and mostly mid-to-upper 70's and low 70's in downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and upper 70's to low 80's through most of the north bay. we are seeing a couple places that could get to mid-80's. as far as long the east bay shore, mid-to-upper 70's and law

cass -- castro valley low-to-mid 80's. at the game, 68 and dropping to 62 at the end of the became following into the mid-50's. rest of us hang out in the upper 50's to mid-60. here is what is happening and i want to show you the water to give you an idea, this is the next shower producer but the moisture from odile will not make it here and there is a dry area of pressure the buffer between the two and the system will spin the energy moving to the north and try to breakthrough this area dry air but i think by wednesday night at 6:00, a few scattered showers, northwest corner of sonoma county into mendocino and lake county and you can see for the commute on thursday morning we will have our best chance of showers and they will taper through the afternoon hours. possibly .1" in santa rosa and the rest of us only .02". the streets will be wet in the

only commute if they are wet. temperatures cool on thursday and back to average open friday and morning clouds and afternoon sunshine and warmer than average weather for the weekend into monday. a small hit of wet weather and then back to summer warmth. thank you, mike, we can use that rain. scientists in new zealand have begun examining the remains of a huge squid captured in december and frozen. look how big it is. the huge squid is the heaviest squid on the planet weighing 770 pounds and the arms are each 3' long. the squid are very elusive and live at extreme depths so it is incredibly to see one so intack. >> he has two oscars and four golden globes and an award george clooney will be adding for his work as an actor,

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