that came back positive among those who took care of thomas eric duncan the first nurse to come down with ebola anyone that pham is recovering and works at texas health presbyterian and took care of thomas eric duncan. 76 other health care workers who my have had contact are being monitored this morning. the outbreak has global health officials on high alert. >> it is far ahead of us. it is running faster than us. it is winning the race. >> the virus is spreading so kickly the world health organization is predicting up to 10,000 new cases in the next to months in west africa unless drastic action is taken. we are learning how nina pham and other worker may have been infected. a national nurse union is claiming the nurses worked for days without proper protective

december over confused response allowing temperature tom sit in a room with or parents because they resisted isolating him. like this morning, constant developments on ebola crisis. you can get breaking news with abc news app from apple app and google play with more information at abc7news.com/app. >> a woman stranded in her car for 19 hours is safe because of her iphone and good detective work. the 28-year-old woman is responsive and in good condition after flying off mount hamilton road on monday afternoon. the car had onstar navigation system and alerted the police that a crash happened but gave the wrong location. a police officer figured out the password and unlocked her ipad and he used apple's fine my phone app to pinpoint the

location. 20 minutes later the officers fund her 500' down a ravine outside of her car a chopper was able to airlift her out and get her to the hospital. matt will have a report at the top of the hour. the giants will try to extend the win anyway you can tonight in game four. yesterday they had another unusual way to score against the cardinals for walk off wind at at&t park. in the bottom the 10th, runners on first and second a sacrifice bunt and there was a wild throw that sail down the right field and crawford scored and the giants beat st. louis 5-4 and the celebration on the field the fifth post-season walk off in fran chinese history. they lead 2-1 in the series. the fans are thrilled but

getting to the ballpark...that is a different story. amy? >> this is where everyone wants to be, giants fever is spreading but to come down and clear your team will cost. it is crowded. and expensive. to park your car we found garages charging $100 on game day. a couple charging more than that. can you imagine if they get to the world series? don't be surprised if we see the prices going up. fans say they don't mind paying. >> if it was $500 i would pay. i would. where can you buy entertain president like that? >> the loyal fans. we met a man who came in from australia! he spent $1,000 on tickets to

two games and $225 on a jersey. this is a big congress boost to the city. people are spending while they clear. go giants! the game starts at 5:00. to reiterate game four and five are today and tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. and the series was will shift back to st. louis for game six and seven if necessary. >> two men accused of setting fires last month are due in court for a bail hearing. the two men face these couples of arson in connection with eight overnight fires september 28. the fires damaged or destroyed several homes and businesses. the family and friends say police have the wrong guy. they say he was working when the fires started. >> police have arrested a

suspect in a vicious attack on an elderly woman caught on surveillance video. the 58-year-old woman of san francisco faces felony battery charges after someone tipped off police to her identity. she is accused of pushing an 85-year old woman to the ground these weeks ago for no reason. she is held on $150,000 bail. one of the largest redwood preserves in marin will stay closed for two days after a fire ripped through the forest. it break out year at the preserve and spread quickly. firefighters say the dry drought conditions burned four acres before crews got it under control. the park remains closed because of concerns of flareups. >> san francisco courts will be back to normal after a one-day strike that shut down nine of the 23 courtrooms at justice

center and half at the civic center. at issue is $16 million the colors say could be used for a wage hike but the superior court says under state law the money had to be spent this past july. it paid for retiree health care and balancing the budget. >> officials will meet in san francisco city hall to discuss a comprehensive earthquake early warning system. the napa earthquake in august and the 25th anniversary of loma prieta highlight the need for early wanting system. last year the governor signed a bill to develop a warning system at an estimated cost of $80 million and an experimental system sounded an alarm ten seconds before it hit. officials want a similar system for the rest of the stay. a devastating earthquake happened 25 years ago on friday. we look back at the earthquake on friday knit at 6:30 here with

a special report "15 seconds, 25 years later, the loma prieta." join us for that. >> we will talk to meteorologists teaming together for the latest weather. >> we haveize drizzle. live doppler 7 hd is active. the drizzle is not everywhere but you will need rain gear early. north of santa rosa 101 is damp. heavy showers south of cloverdale. around dublin/pleasanton, getting light showers. san francisco, hit or miss showers. everyone has seen the cloud cover and everyone will see rain in the mid-morning. we will dry out this afternoon. you can see clouds. the trust called if drying

skies. the freeze will calm down. temperatures are into the 60 hooping the coast and 70's inland. leyla gulen? >> good morning, everyone. golden gate bridge shows how wet it is from marin to san francisco. the lights are glistening off the pavement with slick conditions. be careful. we have an accident an overturned vehicle at the connection between eastbound 24 and 13 headed along in the eastbound direction before you get to the caldecott tunnel tunnel is where you will find this in the westbound direction we have slowing moving from orinda to oakland. 580, tracy to dublin is still decent at 126 minutes, and antioch to concord is 14 minutes and san rafael to san francisco is 17 minutes. amazing construction project

reaches a major milestone and it will make the water supply safer. >> coming to the aid of high-tech women would put motherhood on hold. a new company perk offered to help a family. when they are ready.

covering santa rosa, berkeley, san jose and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. good morning, everyone at 4:41. a look at downtown san francisco from the camera, this is rain. it is light. and spotty. more on where it is with the weather team if if you are watching in a couple of minutes. >> on live doppler hd you can see the weather app at abc7news.com/app free at apple app and google play. >> san francisco public utilities commission celebrates the come meetings of a new

tunnel delivering water under the san francisco bay from reservoir designed to with stand the worst earthquake predicted on the faults. the $215 million protect is fixing pipes from the 19 20's and 1930's. a study said they would not survive the next big earthquake. the new item knell runs file miles across the bay from menlo park to newark. >> apple and facebook have a new perk. they are paying women to freeze their eggs so they can have a career now and start a family later. >> apple and facebook are betting the new perk will increase the number of women joining their company. >> it is furthering the conversation for females to get promoted.

>> they have an option to take on the career now and not pressured to have children. >> false book offering egg freezing and storage as part of the benefit package. am people will begin in john. apple says we want to empower women to do the best work of their lives open afternoon as they care for loved ones and raise their families. often women put off having children because of careers only to rely how hard it is to saturday a family later on. a doctor with the pacific fertility center in san francisco says this is sort of live buying life insurance. >> you dope expect to die or be hit by a truck but you buy the insurance, just in case. that is what this is. >> eggs are less viable over time. >> you have more eggs in the 20's and the percentage of good quality eggs is significantly

higher. >> do not expect all women to jump at the idea. >> getting involved in employee health and longevity and family planning it is over-the-top. creepy. >> according to the centers for disease control, 20 percent of all women in the united states wait until 35 to have their first child but the down side is they want more children it is harder to conceive. san francisco international airport has a deal with sidecar to provide airport transportation. travelers can become a service to and from the airport which until now was illegal. the permit for ride sharing is the first deal for a california airport. san francisco-paced sidecar specifics operations to me begin at sfo in 30 days and the airport is in discussions with rivals uber and lyft. now the weather forecast.

there is rain. >> meteorologist mike nicco is in the elements. good morning, mike. >> good morning, to you, we are at the ferry building where we have been dealing with drizzle but nothing steady or heavy so far. that doesn't mean that could not be happening in your neighbor. a look at what is going on with live doppler hd and give you an idea of where the wet weather is falling this morning. i had driving in from the east bay this morning and you can see how scattered this shower is so 65 or 70 percent of us are dealing with light rain and showers this morning whether it is on the peninsula, to pacifica, coming in that way, we have many others that are going to receive just enough rain through the valley and to the altamont pass, it will make the ground slick. i am sure leyla gulen has been telling you to slow down. if you are step out, it is

piled, in the mid-to-upper 50's in the north bay and low-to-mid 60 other that the coast the coolness and cold front is not here in the morning. beautiful picture from our exploritorium camera. the morning rain tapers to afternoon clouds and a few scattered showers until that time and more chances on friday and saturday and monday and tuesday and the cool air in the next seven days. you can see i radar has a good handle on it and i will show you the isolated showers. by noon they are gone. by evening, they are out of here. we will talk about temperatures today and tomorrow morning as we wake up to clouds and fog. todayer cool, mid-to-upper 60 until inland with home 70's and tonight with the fog and partly to mostly cloudy conditions we

will top out in the mid-50's, or bottom out, up to 60. we are running cooler-than-average each day with the rain open friday evening late into the evening and we will be able to get the friday evening high school find games in unless you are in the north bay, watch out for the rain the morning showers for saturday jog and monday and tuesday, we have a chance of rain that, again, could hit both of those commutes. i want to bring in chris from the california earthquake authority chief communication officer. tell us why we are here this morning, what the c.e.a. does and why it is important. >> good morning, 25 years ago loma prieta obviously struck here in california and 20 years ago the north ridge earthquake in southern california struck and created a homeowner's insurance crisis, companies

selling, insurance had a lot to deal with, because of expanding claims and they are obligated to offer earthquake expense. the california, authority move was. >> their i asked we have offered the earthquake insurance since 1996. >> and only 10 percent of the state has earthquake since and less in the bay area. why? >> earthquakes are few and far between. it has been 25 years here and the loma prieta went a major earthquake. when we had that major earthquake, we will have one in ten homes that have the financial resources available to rebuild. other folks are on their own. we are here to help get out the message whether through us or someone else. you will need your earthquake insurance if you have get were dam. >> we will talk more about that and how you can get it and how it is helpful and the

misconceptions of the earthquake insurance as affordability and what it covers as we head through the morning at the ferry building. leyla gulen, tell us about the traffic. >> thank you, mike, we do have a handful of spinouts and overturned vehicles because of the wet conditions and normally you want to take mass transit. unfortunately, we are also starting off with a 10-minute delay on bart, and the bay point direction is because of equipment malfencing. take a look at the san mateo bridge and you can see it is lit up. we have drops on the camera lens so it will be wet moving away from hayward into foster city. it is wet. we are looking at the slick and slippery conditions. eastbound side on the lower deck away from 4th to the new tower

one hane is available until 6:00. if you have work in the east bay give yourself center time. on the on-ramp to southbound 880 we have another overturned vehicle so c.h.p. is headed to the scene and hopefully that can be cleared. >> popular file storage service is responding to reports they have been hacked. drop box say they have been hacked and said their material is safe after hundreds of user names and passwords appeared posted online and the cloud storage site is measuring everyone to change their password. apple has been selling the august smart lock that connects to the existing dead beaumont and allows your own virtual keys selling for $250. >> a drop controlled by smartphone can has a video camera and can fly for 10

minutes. if successful, it should sell for under $200. those are tech bytes this mornings. good, better, best, the new rating system intended to tell you more of how the fruits and vegetables you buy were green. >> too much of a good thing? the new follow of addiction doctors are treating. 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

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simple things to protect your health and, possibly, change your life. there is a link at abc7news.com. today, a special halloween celebration gets underway at ucfs children's hospital in oakland. pediatric patients and families are inviting with a goal to make hospital stays less scary for kids. a program is hosting the party with costumes and games and crafts and brings fun and funding to hospitals at halloween all year and has raised $400,000 for children's hospital, oakland. did you have to use the wipers this morning? >> i did. you? >> yes. >> drew? >> we need the wipers and umbrellas and the raincoats. live doppler hd is active. at san francisco you will notice not everyone is seeing wet weather but it is light where you do see it in south san francisco and east bay san ramon and livermore with light

sprinkles. headed to game four, at at&t park, it is look, good, clouds and dry and cool temperatures in the 60's. good morning, drew. walnut creek has wet conditions, as well, and cross the bay area we have a handful of accidents and overturns and solo spinouts. we have pooling in some areas so you may need to hydroplane but traffic is smooth away from pleasanton hill to highway 24. over the altamont pass, it is slow. you can see the area of green is an indication of where the rain could affect your commute to the south, and certainly over highway 84 up to 680. and an overturned vehicle on the on-ramp to northbound 880 with c.h.p. open seen so hopefully that will be cleared. >> hole foods will use a orange

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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good morning on wednesday. it is wet wednesday at 5:00. first up, we will check the weather forecast. drew is here. drew? no, we are going to mike. that is okay. we are tag teaming this morning. let me tell you why we are outside because the california earthquake authority has set up an area to show us aboutics and tell us about the earthquake insurance and get us prepared when the next big one hits coming up on the 25th anniversary of loma prieta on friday. we have the great shakeout tomorrow and that is when you will want to stop, drop, cover and hold on. we will