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together to remember one of their own killed in a weekend hit-and-run crash and what they are sharing. >> a possible road rage homicide, oakland police are hooking for the person who opened fire on a mother. thanks for joining us on tuesday. boy, october is just getting away from us. it is only four more days left. we will check the forecast. mike? >> we hope october orange, or orange october ends tonight. visibility is great. santa rosa is up to ten miles and there is fog along 101 so what out for that much the day planner for the bay, is upper 40's to low 50's at 7:00. total sunshine at noon. warmer 72 at 4:00. inland, 40's to low 50's and at noon, above average, and cool in
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evening at 66 and along the coast, hazy is it at 53 degrees and in the mid-60's throughout the afternoon and low 60's by 7:00. >> it looks like bart has 43 trains running on time and that is the way to get around because antioch is sold out at hillcrest avenue and we have heavy delays further into pittsburg because of the accident. it has been pushed out of the lane. but we are up to 11 miles per hour. it was down to five miles per hour. we are looking at a heavy drive into concord because of the accident. walnut creek at 680, that is where you load up at main street to highway 24 and the sig-alert southbound 5 at 205, 580 at 37 minutes and 34 minutes on highway fur so give yourself extra time. game six of the world series
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between the giants and royals is tonight. >> if you cannot maybe it to missouri san francisco has a party for you. >> amy hollyfield is at the plaza to explain. amy? >> good morning, this is the place to be. look behind me a jumbo toronto in the plaza in san francisco will be showing the pill tonight and no alcohol will be allowed. police will be watching to make sure it is a safe party. they do want people to have a place to gather but they want it safe. >> the playerses left yesterday for kansas city pardoning buses at at&t park with their families and they caught a flight from for. the team was focused and aware of the crowd. when they arrived some players spoke to reporters including the pitcher who has a chance to win
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it for the team tonight. >> a special opportunity, i understand that just have to do all i can do to be in the moment and think about executing pitches and find anyway, anyway how, for the giants to win the game. >> the giants held an option am work out session yesterday at kauffman stadium. it was a long day of travel for the team. they are expecting a large crowd tonight to watch the game in civic center plaza so city officials are recommending you take public transportation if you are coming. the first pitch is scheduled for 5:07. thanks, amy. in kansas city it was very quiet. everyone was at work or at whom because -- at home because they were not in the streets or restaurants. >> you have to get dirty to come
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out. like the shawshank redemption to come out on the other side. that is what we doing. i can't bet you. but i am certain. >> why can't you bet? >> my bookie would not like it. >> royals know how to come back but it has been a while. in 1985 the royals won game seven to beat the st. louis cardinal. yes? bitter? >> yeah. >> okay. wayne freedman is in kansas city this morning giving a firsthand look at what it is like ahead of the game and here is a look at the twitter page, a picture of an empty bar and a tweet says they are resting up for two days to get ready for the world series game and wayne has asked is this kansas city or stephen
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king novel coming to life? >> wayne and mike shumann will have reports from kansas city through the world series. >> with the possibility of giants fans celebrating a world series win a reminder on what you should not do to cheer on the orange and black without fireworks. a man did that on saturday after the giants won and officers found a 34-year-old lighting off what they are calling a rocket type fire work and he admitted he was celebrating the win and he was cited and the fire work stash was confiscated. >> san jose state university students mourn the death of a fellow student hit by a suspected drunk driver. a memorial is growing outside the fraternity at the scene.
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nick? >> good morning, chi lam the 23-year-old student standing right in the spot behind me waiting to cross the street to his house when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver. the group of students did their best to console each other mourning the death of their friend chi lam a computer engineering major to graduate in spring killed by a drunk driver on south 10th killed at 10:00 am on sunday morning. he was standing in the bicycle lane waiting to cross the street. friends say he will be remembered as a kindhearted guy would loved to maybe others laugh. >> i wish i spent more time before this week with him. >> police say the driver is 22-year-old who hit lam and
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drover several more blocks before he crashed into another car, and got out of the car and hid in his apartment but was later arrested and booked into jail. the fraternity brothers of delta sigma phi have established a fund that has raised $17,000 hoping to cover the spends for the services and help his family. they have a memorial planned for later today. this morning, the reward has green for information leading to arrest in a possible road rage shooting that claimed the life a young woman. the award is now at $30,000 for information in the shooting death of perla avina the 30-year-old mother of four riding in the car on 98th on sunday afternoon and someone in another car shot her. investigators say perla avina
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was riding in a 1998 camry. if you have information call oakland police. bart is asking for your input on easing crowding at the two bitsest stations, the embarcadero and montgomery station in san francisco. 438,000 people reside bart on average each day. during peak periods half of those board or exit at the embarcadero and montgomery stations where the platforms are the smallest, one redesign idea including adding a secondment form allowing riders to board on both sides. you can sound off today and tomorrow at both stations. meteorologist mike nicco, what do you have? >> above average temperatures. the water temperatures are still in the low-to-mid 60's along the coast, a good four to seven degrees warmer-than-average. that is warmer than stepping outside in the east bay with
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temperatures in the mid-to-upper 40's through san ramon and to concord and 51 in antioch and only 52 at mount diabolo. redwood city is 51. everyone else is in the mid-to-upper 40's. in the afternoon, 67 at half moon bay. 69 in san francisco. low-to-mid 70's through the by sure to the south and north bay. deeper inland, fairfield and antioch and livermore and morgan hill in the upper 70's. >> we will start off with an accident on highway 87 southbound side at sky port. it is not causing delays. but we did have one lane blocked. just be aware of that. it hooks like a stalled vehicle rather than an accident the check out the rest of san jose, northbound 101 we are looking at delays away from the 280680
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split to the nimitz and then it things out. a ton of slowing through milpitas southbound nimitz approaching 237 and we will try and find out what is happening but it is causing enough delay so you should take 680. northbound traffic into fremont, it is not a problem. >> developing now, a mile high mystery. a bronco fans just disappeared at half time. get ready to say ahhh, to this k-9, a young police is going
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>> scary moments for a plane arriving in detroit metro airport for north carolina. the plane blew out two tires after it hit the runway and emergency crews surrounded the plane and got the passengers out. the runway was closed down but there were no reported injuries. >> colorado officials are searching for a man who just disappeared at half time during the bronco and chargers game. the 53-year-old got up from his seat at half time but he never returned. staff report seeing him during the third quarter but officials say that is the last time anyone saw him. he has no known health or personal problems and was not carrying a cell phone or credit card and has little cash on him. >> apple c.e.o. tim cook is criticizing alabama for lack of progress in advancing lgbt rights in a speech before the indeduction into the alabama academy of honor yesterday, his home said, he said alabama moved
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too slowly on equality for the lgbt community and compared the struggle to alabama's record on racial inequality and pointed outlaw allow an employee to be fired based on sexual orientation much. >> a dog is destined for big things. one day a puppy will be a police officer and he is ready to serve. here it is wearing an oversized vest hoping to grow into it one day. the nine week old puppy is melting hearts around the world and this was posted to the facebook page of massachusetts best dog the nonprofit provides the boston police department unit with vests. the image has gone viral. >> fans of "breaking bad," recognize the name of the drug
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lord on the show. >> why know what one has to do with another. >> just the fear factor. >> morning to be afraid it. gorgeous today. >> gorgeous today. tomorrow. thursday. and friday it is scary. >> good morning, winds are light and variable but not too much fog forming. so far, it is limited. here is a look from sutro tower with twin colding lights of the hills. sunshine today. warmth and high clouds. and wet for halloween but a cool weekend and dry and bright through the weekend and 78 could be a possible height in the south bay. 74 in redwood city. and mid-to-upper 60's along the
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coast and nearly accident downtown and mid-60's in the north bay coast and mid-70's through the valley and low-to-mid 70s along the east bay shore and we will have mid-to-upper 70s inland. tomorrow is another cool one, not so cool as this morning but 40's inland and santa rosa and napa through the valley everyone else in the low-to-mid 50's but a near now clouds are possible on the coast. the cold front has high pressure but this system is opening the door push the high for the halloween storm to come in. it is going to pick up moisture as it travels through northern pacific ocean and on friday morning, it will be here for the commute and we hope by 2:00 it will move on. but showers are behind it and chumps of energy will rotate around the trough of low
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pressure. we will have to see if the steady rain will come in the morning and turn to showers but another round is possible saturday morning by noon, though, the wet weather and frozen weather is off in the high country but we are still looking at half an inch to an inch of rain out of the system and possible up to a foot at the highest elevations in the sierra look at temperatures tomorrow: above average and to the coast, and cool on thursday with a sea breeze and low-to-mid 60's on friday with wet weather and low-to-mid sits on saturday and an extra hour of sleep on saturday night interest sunday and a slow warm trend. >> we have indecision at the maze and it is a slow rise as you move out of the maze and to san francisco, good morning, everyone, busy conditions and we 10 late construction work and it was supposed to be picked up at
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4:00 but westbound highway 237 we have gripping work being wrapped up and check out what it is doing: 880 is solid coming from the parkway up to 237 and 680 is the best bet to get an the delays. we have a sig-alert that is canceled southbound 5 at 205. we are still down to 11 miles per hour so slowly but surely the speeds are picking up and backed up from oz if if ross. >> giants picture is ready to take the mopped for game six of the world series but at 6:30 a secret let out of the bag that could end some superstitions.
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wine out a town --ç threatens o wipe out a town on the island. when it comes to cleaning your hope is bigger better? small vacs promise to get the job done were how well do they perform? >> "consumer reports" has partnered with "7 on your side" to find out. good morning, everyone, stick vacuums weigh less than ten pounds and many cost under $100. they program to be better but they cost a lot more, "consumer reports" put them to the test to let us know if they are worth it. >> need a quick pick me up to look nice for the holidays? stick vacuums from sharp and dyson promise to do the trick but claim to be as good or better than full-sized vacuums
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so "consumer reports" challenged them with the deep cleaning test, with dirt poured on and pressed in and a test normal reserved for full-sized vacuums. the stick vacs could not keep up. >> it is not enough. you need weight, and powerful brush. those under 10 pounds cannot do the job. >> compared to others they took the top three spots in "consumer reports" testing. number one is dyson "animal," doing an excellent job but it is the loudest tested. another dyson, came in a close second it is more quiet but not is good on bare floors and need to be recharged after seven
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minutes and at $500 they cost more than most uprights. if you do not mind a cord the sharp rocket is $180 and sucks up pet air like a champ. >> if you prefer pull sized one from hoover for $100 is a best buy the wind tunnel, which offers impressive cleaning and superb pet hair pickup and it does well at deep cleaning carpets. >> the morning news continues at 6:30 with the top stories. >> bill maher underfire and california students saying they don't want him as their commencement speaker. >> the giants are out of town but you can still get together with a ton of fans and watch the game with them.
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>> check out beautiful picture from the exploritorium with more sunshine on the way the next few days with an update on the friday morning and the seven-day forecast. >> in the traffic center, this is a look at walnut creek, check out the side of your screen to the right with a dump truck on the shored with c.h.p. crews blocking partly one lane with the details on what is going on here through walnut creek when we know what sounds good to your car? gasol techron. care for chevron with techron. care for your car.
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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning open tuesday with a look at the eastern span of the bay bridge with traffic getting heavy coming into san francisco. whether is not a a factor. it is a grind. coarse? fine? >> what? >> grind. >> medium. medium grind. >> meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> weather is a factor on friday because rain is on the way.
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no rain. no cloud. no fog. golden gate bridge is height and variable wind at three miles per hour. no fog. great commute. we are in the mid-40's to low 50's mainly stars. by noon, 60's everywhere, and mild lunch. and warmth will build from 68 at coast to low-to-mid 70s and by 7:00 we are in the low-to-mid 60's and by 9:00 in the 50's. be prepared headed out this evening. now here is leyla gulen. >> you need that. as we look at 680 this is at main street flashing lights to the right is a dump truck. look how slow it is move winding your way around. the map is showing the backup, and you are on the brakes from 242 through pleasant hill to walnut creek at 36 miles per
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hour for the top speed. the slowing is through concord at 31 miles per hour from highway four to 680. highway four has been material all morning and 37 miles per hour and it is taking you 40 minutes from antioch to concord westbound and 580 is not too bad from tracy to dublin. thank you at 6:31. giants fever is burning brightly , because if they win they capture the third world series in five years. >> city is putting the final towns on a huge viewing party. amy hollyfield? >> yes, this is where the party will be tonight. look behind me at the jumbo-tron. that is where they will show the game in san francisco. you can watch with other fans. you can see giants' fever all over town even on skin. we found fans getting giants'
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tattoos in anticipation for the game. or games. bars are ready to add extra security. if or when the giants when they expect it to be crazy but they hope for a into and safe crazy. fans feel confident the giants will bring home the title. >> i have high hopes. he will get it done. we will see. i don't want to see it go to game seven. >> no alcohol will be allowed as the jumbo-tron party. police are here watching carefully to make sure it is not out of hand like in 2012 when the giants won. there was vandalism. a student bus was set on fire. there were arrests. officials do not want to see that. they want a safe celebration. they will watch for any problems. they expect a large crowd. they are encourage you to take
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public transportation. first pitch is 5:07 tonight. yes, the giants starting picture lost game two to the roles last wednesday but the team has full confidence in him as long as they play giants baseball. >> got to go the same way as you always do with a sense of urgency because the provides -- royals will come out battling. >> post season has been a good expense. it is a great team over there. >> the last time the royals were down 3-2 was in 1985 and they won bought games to clay -- claim the crown. >> game six is today at kauffman stadium and if needed game seven is tomorrow.
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first pitch is 5:07 our time. >> mike shumann has been tweeting inside action for us and we will take you to the ballpark. >> ground crew working, and batting practice, and pablo is working and stretching. you want to follow mike shumann on twitter and wayne freidman @waynefreeman . >> a second dallas nurse who contracted ebola virus is free of the virus and will be released from atlanta hospital today. amber vinson will make a
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statement following her release. she is one of two dallas nurses who contracted ebola virus after treating liberian citizen thomas eric duncan. >> hundreds of earthquake victims can apply for federal assistance, the august 24, 6.0 magnitude earthquake left many in shambles and long awaited help is on the way for property owners napa and solano. fema says earthquake recovery aid is available with a thousand property owners waiting if fema to determine whether they are eligible if the funds. the assistance could include grants are low interest loans. you will find more information on how you can apply at abc7news.com. >> student groups are try to get the administration to dump the controversial commendment speaker, bill maher is scheduled to give the keynote address at the midyear graduation on december 20 but students are circulating a petition that has
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1,400 signatures on it urging cal to drop the talk to host. critics object to his bigoted and racist antimuslim statements with no respond from his publicist. >> a young girl is recovering in a frightening story after she was jumping on a trampoline and launched through a window. the ten-year-old kyla graham was at a part at gymnastics academy on antioch and this facility has three big trampolines inside a position a couple seats from the large windows and they are now boarded up and blocked off. >> i jumped and i put my hands on my face to rocket my face and flew out the window and landed on the ground. >> she has deep gashes on her arms and legs that required more than 100 stitches.
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>> welcome back. look at beautiful picture of the fall colors in foster city sent in ureport@kgo-tv.com. this is a gorgeous time of the year. speaking of chilly nights there is frost advisory up north in the northern mountains. eureka has rain and 67 in monterey and mid-70's to 80's around san diego and los angeles and mid-60's in lake tahoe and rain friday at 53 and snow on saturday and 39 and 46 with sunshine on sunday and normal highs in the upper 50's and the highest elevation possibly up to a foot of snow with rain changing to snow that could impact travel friday and saturday and we will let you how low the snow levels drop. >> we are starting off in walnut
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creek 680 with activity to the shoulder and it looks like the process is wrapping up and we had a dump truck on the shoulder that possibly broke down but plenty of slowing and as you approach it, i want to show you what the traffic lacks like down to 18 miles per hour headed through pleasant hill. highway four traffic is terrible. it is going to take 40 minutes from antioch to concord. to the west, highway 4 is decent, manageable on i-80 from america less to san pablo. thanks, at 6:41 the most anticipated video game of the year is almost here but you can only buy "call of duty," at one store weapon it comes out.
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>> and nick is in san jose with more on that story. >> good morning, chi lam's fraternity house is behind my. he was at this street right here ready to cross and struck and killed by a drunk driver. this group of students did their best to conceal each other mourning the death of their friend and classmate 123-year-old chi lam, a computer engineering major. he was to graduate in the spring. he was killed by a drunk driver in front of the house at 10:00 a.m. >> we were supposed to graduate this spring together. we were to talk together, it will be hard walking without him. >> the driver is 22-year-old who hit lam and drove several more blocks and crashed into another car half a mile away. he got out of the car and hid in his apartment but was later arrested and booked into santa
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clara jail. his fraternity brothers have established a go fund me page and the site already has raised more than $18,000 and they are helping to raise up to $50 the to help the family get here, pay for the services, and move forward. they have a memorial service planned for later this day. thank you. her kids are shaking their heads but a which officer knows she did the right thing in returning two giant bags of money she found. the off duty officer found the two stuffed bags in the middle of concord boulevard yesterday. you will not believe, 120,000 in cash was inside the bags. the officer did not want to be identified and said that doing the right thing comes from her upbringing by a single million in south central los angeles.
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>> my kids, are like, mom, what were you thinking, there was anyone on the street after i came back, for whatever reason, no one would have known. your integrity is deemed by what you do when no one is looking. >> i would report it. >> the rightful owner reported the missing money saying it was his lifesaving and the concord police handed back the bags of cash. trading is underway on wall street and we will see how your investments are doing, the dow is up 53 points to 16871. >> the next installment of "call of duty," is on sale next week. you may want to park in front of wal-mart to buy it because they are selling the "call of duty," 24 hours before the release at
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12:01 november 3. >> jake peavy pitches game six of the world series and fans are not ready to talk ability what happens -- what happens if they win, his southern talking. >> when reporters asked peavy what he would get his sons if the giants win the son took over the microphone and announced that three and his brother have already picked out a trolley car. like the giants used in our 2010 parade. so, we hope that happens. >> fans across the bay area have been sending fan pictures. how about these we have seen on our news app, and thanks for sending them to up. and animals are getting in the spirit. >> orange flowers.
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pitching, no, diaper change. we didn't neat a pitch are change with bumgarner. >> bumgarner spents peavy to do a shutout. >> you can send your fan pictures to ureport@kgo-tv.com, as well. or simply unload them to our news app. >> the bar is set pretty high. >> the weather forecast? bart set -- the bart is set pretty high and we still have rain for halloween. at 6:49 we will look at what is going on in the high plains with the cold front yesterday swept through kansas city and radar is showing clear conditions there so we will talk about what will happen in the evening and 5659 7:00 -- at 6:00 and dropping to
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the upper 30's or low 40's. there. not be much of a breeze tonight at the jumbo-tron. >> orange october sunrise is developing as we look back, and sunny and warmth building through wednesday, and cool and dry and brighter week ahead when we got beyond the storm on friday. 72 in milpitas. off the peninsula, low-to-mid 70 and mid-to-upper 60 off the peninsula coast, and mid-60's north bay coast and ten degrees of warmth added to the valleys and low-to-mid 70s through the another bay shore and mid-to-upper 70's inland and
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most of us tonight are in the low-to-mid 50's with more fog in the north bay valley. the system to the north bringing wind, rain and snow portland north but it is opening the board for halloween system. it comes on 5:00 friday morning into the north bay, a steady rain for the morning commute and hoping to get a break between the chunks of energy because another chunk will come later in the evening overnight and through saturday morning and by saturday afternoon, it is gone, rainfall amounts, still half an edge to 1" and possibly a foot of snow in the sierra. the seven-day outlook has warming peaking at 70's and 80's tomorrow and then low-to-mid 60's on friday and sunday and
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monday, a warming trend and set your clock back an hour. >> can't wait for the extra hour of sleep. >> we need rest because of the traffic has been a big mess. right now in the east bay through richmond if your travels take you to the hoffman split we are at 37 miles per hour and pushing to albany if you go to the san rafael bridge you will see more traffic willing approaching the tolls and across the bridge it is slow and go into the north bay. drive time traffic when you get beyond the half man split from albany to the maze is ten minutes on i-80 southbound 880 from fremont to san jose is 23 minutes. and 680 has a crash and i will have more information in a moment and 101 to cupertino is 14 minutes and not too bad. we have a water main break and do avoid the area until further notice. >> we back with seven things to
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of other fans at civic officer plaza, with no alcohol allowed at the celebration. >> students at san jose state are mourning the loss of one of their honor. they held a vigil for 22-year-old chi lam who died a day after being hit by a suspected driver in front of his house. police arrested the suspected driver, a 22-year-old man. >> $30,000 is offered this morning for information in the shooting death of perla avina, the 30-year-old mother of four riding in a car on 98th on sunday after when she was shot in possible road rage. >> a second dallas nurse who contracted ebola virus is slated to be released. amber vinson is free of the virus and will make a statement this morning. she treated thomas eric duncan. commuters can weigh in on the bart station of the future
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at two of the business of the stations today, and riders can weigh in on changes at the embarcadero and montgomery stations in san francisco at 7:00 this morning so in a few minutes and 4:00 today and tomorrow. >> the coast is clear. so are the inland valleys. in san jose no fog. waking up to orange sunshine. upper 60's at the coast. upper 70s inland. >> because of the wazers, they report the this accident southbound 680 near milpitas we have a minor accident possibly blocking one lane and as we take you to the nimitz we have this brand new crash southbound 880 through fremont as you approach scott creek road. be rail. -- be came. we have a lot of accidents. >> thank you for joining us. we will see you in 25 minutes for news and weather and for news and weather and trafoffee? making coffee?
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good morning, america. and breaking right now -- volcano emergency. red-hot lava threatening to wipe out an entire town in hawaii. families evacuating. the river of fire in danger of cutting off access for thousands. everything in its path at risk. >> we gotta get out of here. >> abc's rob marciano is there. new this morning, the american nurse forced into quarantine after treating ebola patients back in her home state of maine. leaving the hospital in an suv. the cdc issuing new guidelines last night. and the army isolating a general and soldiers just back from fighting the deadly disease. mystery at the denver broncos game. a father at his first football game with his family vanishes at halftime without a trace. missing for days. no cell phone, no credit cards. the stadium searching for clues on surveillance tape.
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