gas stations. just that.nobody knows a where nobody knows your name. the chevrolet cruze eco. with an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon highway. it's the new efficient. good afternoon. i'm cheryl jennings in for ama daetz. >> i'm larry beil. we will start with the blistering heat on the way. right now, picture-perfect conditions in the bay area as you can see in this live picture, looking at downtown san francisco. >> folks have been enjoying this beautiful day but it is getting hot tomorrow, with a heat advisory already issued. spencer christian is here with the accuweather update. spencer? >> as you know, it's very very warm already. it's going to be even hotter tomorrow and friday.

let's take a look at live doppler 7 hd. you can see we have sunny skies all across the bay area from coast to inland. this is a typical pattern where we have heat waves and right now we will show you the 24 hour temperature change. notice how much warmer it is in all bay area locations now than at this time yesterday. 13 degrees warmer right now in napa. seven degrees warmer in san francisco. 11 degrees warmer in mountainview. you get the picture. the heating has begun. here's a live view from the rooftop camera looking under blue sky over the bay. here's a look at high temperatures so far today versus the records for this date. you can see that although it is quite warm, we are nowhere near record heat yet, but we may get a little closer the next couple days. nonetheless, a heat advisory has been issued for the entire bay area from noon tomorrow through 9:00 friday night. it will be widespread temperatures in the 90s, even close to 100 in some spots in the afternoon. risk of heat-related illness is high and it is advised that we avoid strenuous outdoor activity

under these conditions. here's the first forecast looking at blue sky over the golden gate. clear and mild this evening, sunny and mild tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon, hot with high temperatures ranging from mid 80s at the coast to upper 90s inland. that's just one day out of the hot days ahead. i will show you the complete forecast in a few minutes. >> spencer, thank you. >> you can keep track of the heat advisories and up to the minute forecasts any time with the abc 7 news weather app on your phone. >> it's free to download. we have more information at abc 7 news.com/app. >> a look at the east bay hills now where folks are worried about fires and fire danger. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joining us live with a look at how cal trans crews and volunteers are trying to lessen that danger. laura? >> reporter: hi, larry. this is just a small sample of all the work that was done here today on this hillside. all of the brush, the dry brush, the dead trees, that were

removed from this hillside just below hiller highlands. this work was done just in time. it may be october but the battle to beat back all the dry brush in the oakland hills is still in full force. in this case, it's a coalition of forces from cal trans, city of oakland and volunteers all working on this slope owned by cal trans just below the homes in hiller highlands. >> we are one of about 3600 homes that was destroyed by fire in the 1991 fire storm. >> reporter: gordon piper began organizing efforts like this soon after he and his wife lost their home to the massive hills fire in october 1991. >> we have vegetation management project that's removing the grass and brush to expand defensible space. we are also treating it so

hopefully it won't come back. >> reporter: those who live just above are especially pleased to see this hillside cleared since no significant work has been done here in five years. do you think it's too late? it's october 1st. >> never can tell. because we will have the indian summer so it's going to get hot again. >> reporter: with the warm winds coming from the north and warmer temperatures expected thursday and friday, the oakland fire department will supplement this effort by putting patrols on the roads in the hills. in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. another bombshell today in the controversy surrounding san francisco's fire chief. >> today, the department's brass, even battalion chiefs made it known they, too, have lost confidence in hayes-white's leadership. wayne freedman joins us with the story. wayne? >> reporter: that's all true.

joanne hayes-white is in more jeopardy today than yesterday. first she had the letter from the rank and file. now a potentially devastating letter from her chiefs, from her management team, to the mayor of the city of san francisco. they asked for her to be resigned or to be removed. >> i have worked with her and i liked her personally, yes. this is hard. >> reporter: in the opinion of battalion chief brian rubenst n rubenstein, it's time for joanne hayes-white to step down or be removed. he's a 24 year veteran of the department. that's his name on the bottom of the letter on behalf of 43 other chiefs. >> i have never seen morale this low. >> reporter: it's low because? >> i feel that it's a leadership issue. >> reporter: this criticism of hayes-white has been building for months, the firefighters union tells us. the department has a laundry list of issues from ambulance response times to facilities to style. they say this chief, who plays well to the public, has failed

to represent the department at city hall and let too many details slip. >> we want a chief that will come in in the morning, roll up their sleeves, pay attention to all the small things. who's on duty, how many ambulances do we have, what fire engines are in the shop, what do we do going forward, what's our succession plan, what are we going to do about hiring. >> reporter: this chief doesn't do that? >> we're adrift right now, unfortunately. >> reporter: chief white's office did not respond to our calls today. mayor ed lee, meantime, described it as a personal issue. he remains officially noncommittal. >> we are assessing what everybody's opinions are and making sure that we have facts in front of us and not just opinion. >> reporter: so said the mayor with an entire city department now asking for action. in san francisco, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. firefighters in vallejo say the huge amount of stuff inside a home slowed them down during a fire on gleason avenue and twelfth street this morning. it happened around 8:30 a.m. the fire spread to these buildings on the property.

no people were injured in the blaze but a cat unfortunately died. the cause of that fire is under investigation. the family of a man accused of a series of arson attacks in alameda say police have the wrong man. they face eight charges each in connection with the fires last week. family and friends were present today for the hearing and continue to insist he is innocent. >> he doesn't want to hurt animals so he doesn't eat meat. he stands up for women's rights. he puts on benefits for all kinds of human rights. he's an activist. he's a good guy. >> friends say peterson was working when the first fires began and he doesn't know the other defendant. his friends will be holding a benefit concert and start an online fund-raising campaign for his legal defense. police claim they have the right man. families affected by the napa earthquake started applying for emergency assistance today. $1 million in grants from the napa valley community federation

are now available. today is the last day the county health department is surveying. seven buildings at napa state hospital still pretty much all but off-limits. >> we have several new developments in the first reported case of ebola in the u.s. several people may have been exposed to that virus. >> we now know the man's identity. doctors upgraded his condition to serious. today his sister says he first went to an e.r. in dallas last friday and notified them that he was visiting from liberia. >> she says they sent him home with antibiotics. elizabeth herr has the story from dallas. >> reporter: health officials on high alert after the first case of ebola was diagnosed in texas. the man who traveled to u.s. from liberia is now in isolation at this dallas hospital. officials now focusing on about a dozen people he came in contact with, including several children. governor rick perry and state health officials spoke this afternoon. >> some school-age children have been identified as having had

contact with the patient, and are now being monitored at home. >> reporter: authorities have now identified the apartment complex where the ebola patient was staying. some residents there now worried about their health. >> fear is spreading. though it's one person, i mean, that affects so many people. >> reporter: the man left liberia september 19th, already infected but top health officials say he was not contagious. >> that was four or five days before he had his first symptoms. with ebola, you are not infectious until you have symptoms. >> reporter: he landed in dallas september 20th and began showing symptoms on the 24th. two days later, the man came on his own to texas presbyterian hospital. officials say he told a nurse that he had been in africa but she did not relay that information until he was sent home. on september 28th, the man was rushed back to the hospital by ambulance and on tuesday, he was admitted after testing positive

for ebola. abc's chief health and medical editor, currently in liberia for the second time, says everyone who flies out of the country is carefully screened. >> but the man in texas shows us that even when you are doing the right things, infected people can slip through. >> reporter: but the question remains how did a nurse fail to relay such critical information to the rest of the team. officials say that remains under investigation. elizabeth herr, abc news, dallas. coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00, we will hear from doctors in the south bay who explain how their medical facility would handle ebola cases here. that's coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00. health officials are reporting los angeles county's first case of enterovirus 68, a respiratory illness connected to the death of three children. >> a young patient in long beach has recovered from that virus after suffering a respiratory tract infection and limb paralysis. there is another confirmed case in l.a. but no details have been released about that patient.

>> there are specific actions that we can take to prevent the spread of infection such as this. the thing we always recommend and it's very simple to do, is to wash your hands with soap and water. simply doing that will eliminate the virus. >> health officials have confirmed a 10-year-old girl died last week from a rare combination of staph and enterovirus infections. the virus has been detected in two other children who died. federal officials say the virus' role is still not clear. that virus has made 472 people sick, mostly children, in 41 states and the district of columbia. senator barbara boxer sent a letter to the national institutes of health requesting more information about their efforts in addressing this outbreak. you may have noticed the abc 7 logo at the bottom of the screen which happens to be pink. we are wearing pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month that just began today. the logo -- >> it looks great. doesn't it?

we are inviting you to join us by taking the abc 7 news go pink pledge. go to our website, abc7news.com, for more information about that pledge. and some simple things you can do to protect yourself from cancer. that goes for women and men as well. still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, the prestigious honor for the raiders fan whose act of heroism saved a woman's life at the coliseum. also live from the giants ballpark. we will show you how giants fans are ready to go wild for tonight's wild card game. coming up new at 4:30, the axe finally falls in response to the security lapses at the white house. 7 on your side's michael finney is taking your questions on twitter and facebook and will answer them a little bit later. >> at 4:12, let's take a look at the afternoon commute. it looks great on the golden gate bridge. beautiful sunny day and virtually no traffic in either direction. we'll be right back.

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a retired marine has earned the prestigious carnegie medal for catching a woman who jumped from the upper deck of the oakland coliseum last november. the 61-year-old from stockton is one of 21 recipients of that medal. it honors people who risked their own lives to an extraordinary degree while attempting to save the life of others. he showed us the bruises he suffered last year while explaining how he positioned himself to catch that woman after the raiders game.

the honor also comes with a cash grant. >> quick thinking that day. first pitch less than an hour away in the giants wild card playoff game against the pirates. that game obviously is in pittsburghh but you can get the fan experience inside the giants home park. more security guards than fans at this point but the giants are hosting a free rally and a watch party. abc 7 news reporter matt keller talked with some excited fans earlier today. >> reporter: orange october is here. san francisco giants pride runs through the city. fans are hopeful tonight's wild card game won't be a one and done affair. >> it doesn't matter to me as long as they win, i'm happy. i don't want baseball to end. >> reporter: across the street from the stadium, workers are geared up for tonight. even more excited for quitting time and optimistic about their odds of moving on to the next round. >> volquez, who is pitching for the pirates, the only other outing he got destroyed in two innings. madison bumgarner has been

there. he hits home runs. we'll take it. better than any other pitchers. >> reporter: the championship hopes of bay area baseball fans are now solely on the shoulders of the giants. last night, the oakland a's lost a heartbreaker 9-8 to the royals in the american league wild card game. ali altman is the lone a's fans in the office. the surrounding giants fans say she's welcome to jump on to the band wagon. >> we could use the support. maybe she wants to root for a real team. she is definitely invited as long as she wears orange and black. >> not going to happen. not going to happen. sorry, guys. >> reporter: the giants are holding a wild card wednesday rally at at & t park. the gates opened at 4:00. it's free for fans. the game will then be broadcast starting at 5:00 on the big screen and if the giants win tonight, the next home game will be on monday. in san francisco, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> as for last night's a's loss, it was cruel. yet another post season kick in the gut for the team and their fans. since 2000, the a's have played in nine post season series and

advanced past the first round only once, in 2006. seven times the a's have gone to a winner take all games in a series or a one-game playoff and have lost every single time. manager bob melvin just spoke with the media as well as a's gm billy bean. we will bring you that on abc 7 news at 5:00 and 6:00. there is always next season for loyal a's fans like little olivia here. you can barely see her. among those gearing up for tonight's giants game, some pint-sized fans. this is chandler from napa. he was given a practice ball in his very first game and would not let it go. we want to see your team spirit. e-mail your fan photos at kgo-tv.com. >> i didn't realize they even had pacifiers with giants colors on them. they think of everything. >> that's right. spencer christian outside, he thinks of everything as well. he's thinking about extreme heat. >> oh, i am, indeed.

you think it was hot today, wait for the next two days. it will be quite a bit hotter in some places. live doppler 7 hd, we have sunny skies all across the bay area which is probably apparent to you already. let me move along and give you this view looking towards point rays under sunny skies. currently 75 degrees in san francisco. oakland 79. mid 80s in san carlos, san jose, morgan hill at 73 at half moon bay. here's a beautiful view looking over san francisco, under blue skies looking in all directions. 90 degrees in santa rosa and napa. 82, petaluma. 86 in livermore. one more live view from the rooftop camera looking over the bay under blue skies. these are the forecast features. it will be hot inland the next three days. near 100 in some spots the next couple days. heat advisory in effect from noon tomorrow to 9:00 p.m. friday. that also means with the rise in temperatures, increased fire danger. the satellite image showing high pressure drew north giving us an

offshore flow this morning which contributed to today's warmup. this hot pattern is going to be in place for us over the next several days. so let's take a look at our wind forecast starting 11:00 tonight, at which point winds will be variable but they won't shift as much as they did last night to an offshore pattern for tomorrow morning. it will bring us another early warmup tomorrow and that will be an even hotter day tomorrow than we had today. overnight it will be mild, breezy over the delta area, mild in most locations with low temperatures generally in the low 60s, although a little cooler up in the north bay valleys, where lows will drop into the mid 50s. so highs tomorrow starting in the south bay, lots of low 90s, 92 in san jose. 91 santa clara. 97 at morgan hill. on the peninsula, it will be hot as well with highs ranging from 89 in san mateo to 82 in redwood city, 91 in mountainview. mid 80s on the coast again. 85 in half moon bay. 84 in the sunset district of san francisco. downtown san francisco will have

a high of 86 tomorrow. north bay highs, 93 santa rosa. 94 napa. 92, sonoma. oakland, 88. san leandro, 91. castro valley and fremont. 85 in walnut creek. 84 in fairfield and antioch. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. for the next three days, through saturday, inland highs in at least the mid and mainly upper 90s. low to mid 90s around the bay, mid 80s on the coast. there will be coastal cooling on sunday, then by monday, we will see cooler conditions in all areas and tuesday and wednesday of next week, ah, welcome relief will be back to the seasonal norm. no extremes at that point. we need to make it through the next three days, though. larry and cheryl? >> spencer, thank you. >> you know it's hot when he's not wearing a tie. that's the key. up next, breast cancer awareness month. you will see how one young woman's battle against the disease is symbolic of the fight

for women of color. new after 4:30, the east bay city where thousands of workers got a raise today. let's check traffic at 4:21. this is the san mateo bridge. live look, oncoming traffic headed back to hayward. it's the usual afternoon commute situation. heavier on the left-hand side and smooth sailing on the right-hand side heading back to the peninsula.

dance enthusiasts, time to lace up the slippers. it's time to celebrate world ballet day. in honor of the day, abc 7's morning news traffic anchor and resident ballerina took part in a behind the scenes tour at the san francisco ballet and emceed the three-hour worldwide event this afternoon that streamed live on the internet. for more on world ballet day, go to abc7news.com. this also. breast cancer awareness day, the beginning of an entire month this october. we just told you that a few minutes ago. th

that's why we are wearing pink. you can see the pink circle, our circle 7 at the bottom of the screen, there it is right there, right there, right there, yeah. we want to show you this out of new york. beautiful, isn't it? >> yeah. live picture of the empire state building in new york city lit up in pink and abc news is going pink. it's a network wide initiative bringing breast cancer education to the forefront. dr. jennifer ashton explores the unique fight experienced by latinoes and women of color. >> at such a young age, with no family history of breast cancer, marlena's worries were dismissed. at age 25 when she was finally diagnosed her cancer was stage ii. >> chemotherapy and radiation. >> how are you today? >> i'm good. i'm cancer-free. yay! >> a success story. but to some degree, ortiz has defied the odds. ironically, hispanic and african-american women are less

likely to get breast cancer than white women, but their chances of dying from the disease are higher for several reasons. culturally there can be a stigma associated with breast cancer and that can delay diagnosis. there are also biological challenges, a genetic predisposition to triple negative cancers that strike harder and younger. >> african-american women and caribbean american women in particular get a much more angry form of breast cancer than white women do, and it's often harder to treat. >> reporter: because minority women often with greater economic challenges are less likely to seek out medical care, they are often diagnosed when the disease is more advanced. but there is a front line in the battle. regular mammograms. >> the challenge has been getting the message out to african-american women, to caribbean american women, to hispanic women, that mammograms are important, that mammograms save lives. >> reporter: until now, lack of

insurance was the main reason women skipped mammograms. but new health laws have made access easier. ortiz understands first-hand the difficulties women face, and advises -- >> if you do feel something, say something. demand that it's looked at by a machine, not just magical hands, right? >> reporter: dr. jennifer ashton, abc news, new york. >> we are inviting you to join us by taking the abc 7 go pink pledge. visit our website, abc7news.com, for more information on the pledge and the simple things you can do to protect yourself. just ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, the head of the secret service turns in her resignation over the white house intruder controversy. now the question is president obama ready to accept it. also, stepping up the hunt for two men responsible for a horrific attack on chickens at a central valley ranch. and literally turning lemons into lemonade. the amazing show of support for two little boys robbed of their hard-earned money and what they were saving up for. how much money do you have in your pocket right now?

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here now a check on today's headlines at 4:30. new developments with the first u.s. patient diagnosed with the ebola virus. thomas eric duncan's condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. world news tonight sent one of the first tweets today when we

learned a nurse allowed him to leave the hospital despite discovering he had been in west africa. duncan was finally isolated two days later. it may be october 1st but it feels like summer outside. temperatures are expected to be near triple digits by the end of this week. the national weather service has issued a heat advisory for the bay area starting tomorrow at noon. secret service director julia pierson has resigned amid scrutiny over security lapses at the white house. the move comes nearly two weeks after a man with a knife jumped the fence and made it deep into the white house. abc news reporter karen travers with the latest. >> reporter: with pressure mounting on the secret service, director julia pierson announced her resignation. >> she believed it was in the best interests of the agency to which she's dedicated her career. the president concluded that new leadership of that agency was required. >> reporter: pierson was on the hot seat on capitol hill yesterday as lawmakers from both parties blasted the secret service for how it handled last month's major security breach at the white house.

>> this is disgraceful. this is absolutely disgraceful. >> reporter: omar gonzalez, a 42-year-old homeless iraq veteran, jumped over the fence and made it all the way into the east room before he was neutralized by an off-duty agent. the incident sparked significant and growing concerns about the culture and effectiveness of the secret service. pierson had been the head of the agency for just 18 months. lawmakers started to call for her resignation. >> i just don't see how she could make the changes that are necessary in this position and i didn't see how she could stay in that position. >> reporter: an incident in atlanta on september 16th may have been the final straw. president obama, who is visiting the cdc headquarters that day, in an elevator there encountered a security guard who sources say began to act unprofessionally, taking photos. the secret service decided to do a background check and discovered the man had been charged with a crime in the past. such a person would not have been allowed to be that close to the president, especially because the man in atlanta

allegedly had a gun. this afternoon, omar gonzalez pled not guilty to charges stemming from the september 19th security breach. he's being held without bond. karen travers, abc news, washington. no claim of responsibility yet in what's being called a deadliest attack on the government-controlled area of syria in months. reports vary but we hear as many as 45 people were killed in twin explosions near a school. an al-jazeera report says as many as 41 of those killed were children. officials say the first car bomb exploded as school was letting out and the second blast happened as frantic parents were searching for their children. president obama and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu met today at the white house to discuss tensions between the two allies. one thing they do agree on is the u.s. response to the terrorist group isis. >> israel fully supports your effort and your leadership to defeat isis. we think everybody should support this.

and we have a shared goal of preventing iran from becoming a military nuclear power. >> as for the ongoing issues with the palestinians, netanyahu says he remains committed to a vision of peace with the two states and two peoples based on mutual recognition. the white house says that if israel moves forward with a new housing development in east jerusalem, it would distance itself from its closest allies. today, the palestinians asked the u.n. security council asked for a deadline of november 2016 for an israeli withdrawal from all palestinian territory occupied since 1967 including east jerusalem. a draft resolution circulated to council members also called for a just resolution of the status of jerusalem as the capital of two states as well as the palestinian refugee problem. pro-democracy protesters planned to step up their rallies if hong kong's leader does not step down by tomorrow. tens of thousands of people mostly students are blocking streets and disrupting business

in the city's financial district. they want china's government to give up control over who runs hong kong's top leadership position in 2017. if the current leader does not resign by tomorrow, the protesters say they will move inside government buildings. authorities are on the hunt for two men responsible for the brutal slaughter of more than 900 chickens in fresno county. the men broke into this plant in fresno and police say they beat the birds to death with a golf club and some other type of weapons. the company estimates the loss to be about $5,000 but bigger thing is the abject cruelty of the crime that is so alarming. >> the proportion of the golf club we believe we found part of that at the scene. we are asking for anyone's help that might know anything about this. >> the company is working with investigators and is offering a $5,000 reward leading to an arrest and prosecution. it released a statement this morning saying the perpetrator committed an unconscionable act of animal cruelty. this appears to be a random act of violence. the wife of a southern

california mayor has been released from custody after she shot and killed her husband last night. she says she shot daniel crespo several times as he was fighting with their 19-year-old son. police say the couple had been arguing when their son intervened. she grabbed a gun and opened fire. the 45-year-old mayor died at the hospital. the two had been married for 28 years. police released her while the district attorney determines if she should be charged with a crime or if that shooting was justified. today, san francisco marked the beginning of domestic violence awareness month with a pledge to end the silence and shine a light on the issue. groups got together to talk about a report on more than 120 reforms implemented over 12 years to reduce domestic violence in the city. they also remembered lives lost. >> we gather on this day every year to celebrate the successes that we've had and also to mourn

the loss of any domestic violence homicides and injuries that we've had for the year. >> at dusk, more than 100 community members will gather to watch san francisco city hall light up in purple to mark domestic violence awareness month. lawmakers and advocates in the bay area are celebrating a measure that cracks down on the testing of rape kits. they gathered at the state building in oakland today to applaud governor jerry brown for signing the bill yesterday. police now have 20 days to collect evidence in a rape case and then send it on to the lab. the lab has four months to process the rape kit and enter it into a national data base. one survivor waited two and a half years for her evidence to be tested. she ended up writing a play about it called "the haze" and contacted the abc 7 news i-team which launched its own investigation. >> we are working on and performing "the haze." it has gotten the attention of the san francisco police department and working with local law enforcement, especially jim o'donnell from

abc 7. >> the i-team uncovered thousands of untested rape kits that were sitting on police shelves all across the bay area. just ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, san francisco takes a major step toward bringing free wifi to every corner of the city. i'm michael finney. in today's 7 on your side q & a, it's still ahead. i'm still taking your questions on twitter and facebook. you can contact me right now. i'll answer your questions here live a little later. i'm spencer christian. let me take you to the beach. santa cruz beach, where warm weather is the big attraction today. i will show you how much warm weather is coming our way in just a moment. ...we need to break up. is it the biting? cuz i can stop? no! i love you and your show. it's cable. customers are more satisfied with u-verse. switch and we can stay together forever. forever?

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i'm in, because i'm getting the best care around. over one million people have enrolled in health insurance through covered california. soon you can join them. san francisco mayor ed lee and supervisor mark farrell announced today's launch of free wifi at 32 city parks, plazas and open spaces. mayor lee says the project is part of a larger vision to bring free wifi access to every resident in san francisco in every corner of the city. a project being made possible by a $600,000 grant from google. we have a list of all 32 places receiving the free wifi. all you have to do is go to abc7news.com. >> it will help a lot of families. just great. really nice thing to do. well, the weather is going to be heating up here. >> spencer christian sans tie. >> when it's hot, off comes the tie. today is october 1st, as you probably know. i will give you a look at the october almanac for san

francisco. the average high temperature october 1st is 72 degrees. we beat that by ten degrees already. highs so far today, 82. average high at the end of the month is 68. the highest october temperature ever recorded in san francisco was 102 degrees, back in 1987, just 27 years ago. average rainfall for the month, 1.12 inches. we would like to see more than that this month. i would rather see that after the harvest in wine country. on we go to live doppler 7 hd. mainly sunny skies across the bay area right now. as you know, it will remain that way for the next day or two. nationally tomorrow, we will be looking at thunderstorms in the upper mississippi valley, showers down to the gulf coast and of course, it will be hot over much of the state of california tomorrow, where we will see high temperatures ranging from 90 at sacramento, 93 at fresno, 96 palm springs. 94 in los angeles. that's really hot in l.a. here in the bay area tomorrow, we will see highs ranging from mid 80s at the coast to mid 90s inland. we have a heat advisory in effect from noon tomorrow to

9:00 friday night. strenuous outdoor activity is not advised. we go back to the almanac again just because we can. the hot weather continues. it will be even hotter tomorrow and friday than today. larry and cheryl? >> thanks for the warning. still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, the remarkable recovery of a dog that was rescued from a tar pit. also, the woman fighting back after she received an $8,000 water bill. i'm 7 on your side's michael finney. what happens if you sell your car to one of your kids? must they pay taxes on it? i answer that question and others when we come back insurance companies are spending millions of dollars trying to mislead you about the effects of proposition 46. well here's the truth: 46 will save lives. it will save money too. i'm bob pack, and i'm fighting for prop 46 because i lost my two children to preventable medical errors and i don't want anyone else to lose theirs. the three provisions in 46 will reduce

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one month later, clean, happy and healthy. >> amazing he was able to survive that. another heart-warming story about a dog, two 13-year-old boys and their lemonade stand that got robbed. meet spencer and his best friend, spencer. the one on the left asked his mom for a puppy. she said okay if he saved $500. his best friend, spencer on the right, thought running a lemonade stand would help achieve that goal and he was right until somebody stole all their earnings. community members in northern virginia found out about this and donations came pouring in, including one from their favorite author, jeff kinney. he skyped with the teenagers and donated $150. >> it's pretty exciting. he said that you should keep going for your goal. >> one of those cool things. >> spencer didn't quite make his $500 goal but a neighbor stepped up and gave him this westie named coconut for free.

so it worked out. >> it sure did. a nearly $8,000 water bill, that is what the city of houston expects a single mother of three to pay for a water leak on her property back in may. alicia says she is fed up. several months ago, she came home from work to find water all over her yard. she says public works came out, they repaired a leak and told her it was the city's responsibility. but then she got the water bill. >> that amount of money, i might as well pay for the whole neighborhood. if they came out and fixed it, they laid the gravel, they put the grass down, they fixed the pipe, they're responsible for it. >> houston public works claims there were two leaks that day, one on the city side of the meter and one on mobley's. they fixed her leak to prevent future water loss. she says they never told her that. the city has knocked $4,000 off the bill. she says she cannot afford that. 7 on your side's michael finney here now answering questions sent in by facebook, twitter and e-mail. we also want to ask about this woman in texas and how that might play out here in california. >> if that were to happen here,

you would have to talk to your water provider, generally around the bay area, water district, about its policy. there is no state law covering this. however, in most municipalities, you are responsible for the water from your meter to your house. the municipality or the water provider is responsible for the water from the meter to the street. if the main breaks on your property from the meter to your house, you ask your municipality or the water provider for a water loss adjustment. now, i know that in margin and over the east bay, both give a 50% adjustment above the normal water usage if it's proven there was a leak. the san francisco public utilities commission is much more generous. they offer a full adjustment. you just have to call them within 15 days of receiving your bill. even if they gave you the 50%, you can still complain and take it to the next level and say it wasn't my fault and give it a

shot. >> you have options. all right. russell e-mailed does homeowners insurance cover structural damage to your house caused by the earth settling due to severe drought? >> that's a great question. the answer is probably not. almost every homeowner's policy, as a matter of fact, everyone i have ever seen, land movement is not a reason they will pay. unless you can point to a specific trigger. something like a sump pump that didn't work or maybe a tree falls over and all the soil underneath is loose. but if it's general movement of land, whether natural or for instance, if your neighbor next door starts using a backhoe, they generally will not cover that. >> sarah e-mails if you sell a vehicle to one of your adult children, must they pay taxes on it when they register it? >> this is a great question. no. no. within your family you can give it to a spouse or domestic partner if they are an official domestic partner, or a child even an adult child, you can give or sell your car and they don't have to pay the taxes on it. that's the law in the state of

california. >> the one situation where you're not paying taxes? thank you, michael. >> you notice you have to give a car to someone. >> yeah. yeah. good point. >> thank you so much. up next, the east bay city where thousands of people are working at different places, all got a raise today. i'm dan ashley in the abc 7 newsroom. coming up new at 5:00, team in training. the new unit to fight human trafficking in san jose. and what's behind this walrus flash mob in alaska? it's a wild story.

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many berkeley workers are making more money today than they did just yesterday. the city's new minimum wage hike kicked in on this first day of october. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield has the story. >> reporter: luis was making $9.50 an hour working the overnight shift at 7-eleven in berkeley. today he makes $10 an hour thanks to the city's minimum wage increase. >> looking forward to it. it's more money in my pocket. the more i can pay child support and the more money i will be able to have left over. >> reporter: he is grateful the city council voted to help people like him but says it's hard to stretch $10 an hour in the bay area. >> the way things are going now, taxes are going up, everything's going up, $10 an hour ain't as much as it used to be back in the day. >> reporter: small business owners say this isn't a burden they can handle. >> i understand that people need to make a living wage and we do agree with that, because we all need to make a living.

but a small independent business, we also struggle to make a living. >> reporter: she says her small shop can't absorb the cost and that she will probably have to pass some of it on to her customers. her hope is that the community can look at the big picture. >> so why aren't we looking at what's available in terms of reasonable housing for people? >> i think it should be more $20 something an hour. >> reporter: union leaders in berkeley say they aren't done fighting for the low wage earners. >> if you look at the bay area, it's really hard to make an argument that business isn't booming and that workers should share in that boom, people who wash dishes, who wait tables, who clean your streets and do all sorts of tasks that make this a great place to live deserve to make a minimum wage. >> reporter: berkeley isn't stopping at $10. in a year they will go up to $11 an hour. the year after that it will go up to $12.53. the union would like to get a $15 minimum wage put on the ballot. amy hollyfield, abc 7 news.

thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm larry beil. abc 7 news at 5:00 begins right now with cheryl and dan. frightening admission about ebola danger in the united states. >> some school aged children had contact with the patient. >> even though it's happening in dallas, hospitals here are gearing up just in case. and what's behind a new unit to fight human trafficking in san jose? and in san francisco, how the firefighter mutiny against their chief now includes management. getting hot enough tomorrow for a heat advisory. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. i'll have all the temperatures coming up. an emergency room nurse at the hospital treating a man with ebola makes a serious mistake. he tells her he flew in from west africa but -- >> that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team. >> and that missed opportunity could have exposed others to

this deadly virus. now there is concern about hospital protocol everywhere. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm cheryl jennings. we know the man's name is thomas eric duncan. his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. as many as 18 people had contact with him after he became infected. five of them are children. all of them are being monitored. three first responders who rushed him to the hospital have tested negative for ebola. he left liberia apparently already infected with the disease but did not show symptoms and therefore was not contagious. everybody who flies out of libya -- liberia is supposed to be screened but as we now know, that is not always enough. >> the man in texas shows us that even when you are doing the right things, infected people can slip through. >> bay area hospitals hope it doesn't happen, but just in case, they are gearing up for the first ebola patient to walk through their doors. abc 7 news reporter david louie joins us in san jose, where he was walked through the

procedures there. >> reporter: well, patients come in here all the time with infectious diseases but ebola of course is a new disease, something not treated yet in the bay area. but there is training under way and procedures are in place here at regional medical center. for now, hospital staff can usually identify the potential of a patient with ebola because of its origin in west africa. that makes travel history a priority. from that point, regional medical center of san jose says its screening procedures are similar to how previous outbreaks have been handled. dr. elaine nelson is director of the emergency department. >> their long-standing procedures, however, we do fine-tune them, given whatever the outbreak is. that could be sars from years ago, it could have been h1n1 and now with ebola. this virus is very scary to the public. it's a very different type of virus that we haven't seen in our country before. >> reporter: the presence of fever is an x factor that determines how the patient is handled to