testament to not only impressive resume but demand for top talent. san mateo county has the lowest unemployment rate in california at 3.6%. the owner of staffing in san mateo says more clients want a work life balance and says ployers can't be as picky with some offering more money and having to take into account other factors. >> the needs of those transitioning back into the work force so they are able to obtain higher and retain the talent, as well. >> despite the competition a third generation florist says it is still all about finding the right fit. >> our candidates come from referrals because it's a family business and something we want people to be engaged in and like what they do. >> reporter: the same goes for jones who does the hiring. >> our staff is so strong that

we want people just like them so we don't have to roll the dice on a craigslist ad. >> reporter: businesses facing a new reality. in san mateo, abc 7 news. now to that brutal finish to the week on wall street. staubs plummeted again across the board on fears that china's economy is slowing. the dow plunged 530 points finishing at 16,459. experts say that is a correction. the nasdaq lost more than 170 points closing at 4706 down 3.5%. the s&p 500 dropped 64 points to finish at 1970. the recent reduction in the value of currency weighed on the markets heavily and weaker manufacturing has been affecting tech companies and their

revenue. investors say it is too early to panic. >> if you look over the last five or six years we have had some pretty wild swings and the market has always bounced back. it's not a matter of if but when. >> economists warn the worst thing a person can do is bail out. we may be in a drought but past rainfall caused major flooding problems for some san francisco neighborhoods. they decided to sue the city. this map shows the areas where the storm drains cannot handle the rain runoff. vic lee joins us with the story. >> reporter: the worst flooding here was perhaps in the early 2000s. serious storms passed through here and created a havoc. the property owners sued the city and won a $5 million pay day and it happened again last december and the sand bags are still here just in case it

happens again. this is what it looked like last december when the streets of this mission terrace neighborhood flooded. >> my car was floating across this street. >> reporter: raw sewerage mixed with storm water rushed into homes, basements, garages and contents were soaked. walls and floors were damaged. today eight months later the sand bags are an integral part of the landscape for many blocks. she still gets emotional when she talked about her grandmother who has alzheimer's disease. the water in her home's basement garage destroyed the furnace. >> she has been using a portable heater because we can't afford to replace the unit that was flooded. >> reporter: lawyer represents 50 property owners. many have had claims denied even though he says mayor ed lee promised to make them whole again. >> he understood they needed to repair their homes and the

claims would be paid. >> reporter: utilities spokesman could not respond to the lawsuit but said many claims were paid. he said improvements have been made to the system but that the flooded area has historically been vulnerable to floods. >> there is only a fair amount of capacity you can have within pipes. once you exceed that everything will come towards the lowest point. >> reporter: residents are exh0q%9 more flooding. when they chased the man who later died after becoming wedged between two buildings. the family of richard lynnyard did not speak to the media after they reviewed body cam video. they accused initially the department of beating and covering it up. today they viewed the video along side attorney john burris who said officers did nothing

wrong. >> the search teams were all within the normal range of police activity and i didn't see anything that suggested a break in it. i didn't see that. >> authorities say he died as a result of asphyxiation. investigators have tracked down the dog captured on cell phone video apparently being abused at a home. warning some people might find this video very disturbing. it shows the owner of a dog sitting and warding business, grabbing the dog by the neck and throwing it to the ground. the humane society is examining the dog. they seized all of the dogs in the woman's care including her own pets. the city says the unidentified woman did not have a permit. the district attorney could file criminal charges on monday. an enormous fire at a recycling plant air quality officials say the air is just

fine now. by the time they got there on the scene firefighters found the al cove metal and iron company consumed by flames. the fire was so huge they didn't try to go inside. soon after the roof collapsed firefighters were also worried about what was burning inside. >> there is canisters of used oil, numerous tanks in there, propane tanks and a couple pallets of lead batteries. >> it was like burning rubber more than anything and chemicals. stink. >> the smoke lingered for hours. fire officials said the wind did a good job of moving it out and did not have to issue air or smoer warnings. >> there was a fire at the same building a year ago tomorrow. neighbors were ordered to shelter in place. fire officials say washers and driers inside the building caught on fire. fire crews continue to mop up on the tesla fire. cal fire says the wildfire is

now 60% contained. the fire which broke out wednesday has burned 2,500 acres. it spread near and around homes but only one uninhabited home was destroyed. cal fire has had to fight the fire with fewer crews because of all of the wildfires burning across the state. they are just stretched so thin. >> a week ago at this time we were dealing with extreme fire conditions because of the triple digit temperatures. >> sandhya patel is here with the look at the conditions we are dealing with now. >> definitely not the triple digit heat. that's for sure. conditions are more favorable an terms of temperatures. tesla fire 80 degrees. winds 27 miles per hour gusting to 34. relative humidity at 30%. it has been breezy most of today. the next 24 hours the wind will remain out of the west which is good news despite the fact that it is going to be breezy. the westerly wind is an on shore

wind with cooler more humid air in. we are expecting winds to taper as we head towards tomorrow morning and it definitelyic loos like an improvement in the conditions in terms of the wind as we head towards tomorrow afternoon. hopefully crews can make more progress. >> thanks very much. the one year anniversary of the 6.0 napa earthquake is this coming monday. a lot of repairs have been done. abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman joins us with the story of one very visible problem with no easy solution. >> visible along highway 29 one of the little stories that have big stories. the big story is the napa quake. the little stories are all problems napa residents still face one year after the quake. if this crumbling wall were in italy or greece someone would describe it as treasured historic antiquity instead it is in napa. >> it is a hazard. >> reporter: he is merely the

messenger from the department of code enforcement for whom post earthquake issues continue one year later. this sound wall one of them. that and the unhappy residents. >> late at night someone could pull into this area and home invasion. all kinds of things can happen. >> reporter: one of eight homeowners who the city say share responsibility for the home. they are not so sure nor are they happy with their views of highway 29. >> come out here and clear the pool. people are honking and waving. >> reporter: the wall borders highway 29 residents want cal trans to help them pay for a new one. so far that strategy is not working. >> i am told and what i know is that it is on private property so it belongs to the homeowners. >> i was hoping that maybe we could get a little good neighbor fencing cht. >> reporter: reepd and around this goes. a fallen wall is hardly the

biggest issue in napa after the quake. a year later you think the issues are all resolved. no way. for instance -- >> get to wave to everybody and say hey. >> abc 7 news. we will be broadcasting live from napa monday as we mark the anniversary of the august 24th earthquake at 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. i will be in the heart of downtown napa to see how things have changed since then. we have uploaded snap shots from reporting then and now to abc7news.com cht you can visit our website to see for yourself what a difference a year has made in wine country. i hope you will tune in on monday. >> look forward to that. just ahead on abc 7 news at 5:00 he is supposedly the man with the plan to keep the raiders in oakland. did he make a key deadline today? the u.s. marines credited for saving lives a s

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music stops sc johnson, a family company. an important deadline in the effort to build new stadiums for the raiders and the as. developer had to submit his final financial plan for his coliseum city proposal. laura anthony is live in oakland with the latest on this ongoing effort. >> reporter: that's right. the city and county here know they are under the gun if they want to keep both raiders and the as, a key deadline as far as we know has been met according to floyd kemper. it is unclear where the money would come from. we are expecting a final package. >> reporter: with heavy competition from carson says

potential coliseum city developer is meeting all his deadlines. >> we are going to take all of that material and analysis and be reviewing it. our partners at the county and the city over the next couple of weeks. >> reporter: admits it is still an uphill battle to keep raiders and as in oakland as part of a $1 billion development package that would see a new stadium for each, retail, hotel and housing at the current site. >> trying to find hundreds of millions of dollars. >> no details on how he would close an estimated $400 million funding gap that does not include paying off existing debt or buying almeida county out of the deal. confident oakland can keep both raiders and the as. >> money is not the issue. it's the political will. can we get all the players together. >> confirmed he did submit his

proposal and plans to make a presentation to save oakland sports next tuesday. in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. a man thought to be carrying a handgun will be evaluated after actions force several schools to go on lockdown. in a picture showing police catching the man at the mission san rafael near 5th avenue. authorities say the man became upset when a clergyman called police. he was spotted inside the mission. they say he was not armed and no charges will be filed. a man is recovering from overdosing on heroin in the bathroom at san francisco city hall. a police sergeant found the man was not breathing and had a needle in his arm. paramedics took him to the hospital. the heroin overdose is indicative of a resurgeant drug

crisis hitting the city which he says does not have enough treatment centers. health experts need help from state legislatolegislators speaking during a hearing aides experts say new medications have come on the market that can nearly stop new hiv infections. the problem is getting the medications to the people most at risk. >> they are not in the right hands of the right people who can actually get them to the patients who need those tools to be able to diagnose, prevent and treat hiv. >> despite prevention efforts the san francisco aids foundation reported nearly 6,000 new cases in california during 2012. u.s. officials have continued military exercises with south korea in spite of rising tensions with north korea. those annual exercises were stopped yesterday after the north fired mortars. south korea fired back with

dozens of artillery rounds. leaders have threatened very strong military action and inevitable war. >> the case heightened tensions and we call to refrain from actions and rhetoric that threaten regional piece and stability. >> claims it has been provoked by south korean propaganda being broadcast from speakers along the border after two soldiers were injured after stepping on land mines. french authorities have thanked two u.s. marines who they say stopped a massacre today. the marines were on a high speed train from amsterdam to paris. they jumped the gunman known to antiterrorist agencies while he was loading an assault rifle. they disarmed him and held him until authorities arrived. a french film star had minor injuries. a central valley boy banned from wearing a rosary because it

is a violation of the school district's dress code. third grader said the principal pulled him aside and told him he is not allowed to display the rosary on campus. the boy's father went to school to find out why. >> why isn't my son allowed to wear a rosary to school. i think the thing that got to me the most is when she said it is gang affiliated. >> i hope we would not have made reference to that with a third grader. i can't speak to what was said. >> banned rosaries two years ago. officials say they did it at the request of a catholic priest. the weekend is upon us. let's take a look at what the forecast is. >> kind of foggy weather there. >> it is. right behind me a lot of cloud cover and i promise i did brush my hair and spray it. you can see the wind is blowing things around, breeze going strong this afternoon. let's take a look at live doppler 7 hd.

sea breeze along with low clouds contributing to cooler than normal conditions this afternoon. live doppler 7 hd showing you gray skies along the coast even over parts of the bay. wind out of the southwest at 29 miles per hour in fairfield. 20 in places like san jose, mountain view, sfo. a nice breeze. it's refreshing here from our exploratorium camera. 62 in san francisco. 68 oakland. morgan hills 75. highs in the low 60s at the coast to mid 80s for warmest inland valleys. there is brightness in the south bay where it is sunny. in case you like that kind of weather and not the overcast skies low 70s from santa rosa to napa. livermore 79. and here is what you are going to start off your weekend with, low clouds from our south beach camera. mostly cloudy overnight. mild to warm for the upcoming weekend. back to average temps next week so we see a warmup as we head

into next week. for the time being really a quiet pattern with jet stream aimed to the north of us. we are not expecting rain over the weekend or into early next week. steady on shore flow will continue. that means you will have a sea breeze for the afternoon and evening hours the next few days. want to show you the tropical storm kilo packing winds of 40 miles per hour while it is not strong yet it is expected to intensify into a hurricane, category one by monday afternoon. you see the lines there? those are various computer models indicating the track of this storm. most of them are aiming this system towards the hawaiien islands. if you have plans to head out there or have family mid week next week looks like the islands could be hit by rain and surf. in the atlantic we have a powerful category 3 hurricane. this is hurricane danny. it's the first named hurricane in the atlantic.

winds 115 miles per hour gusts to 140. it will continue on the west northwestward track putting it as a tropical storm in the caribbean monday morning. you can see in the dominican republic wednesday as a tropical storm. if you have plans to head in that direction keep that one in mind. mid 50s to low 60s for your saturday morning. plans a bit on the drizzly side. if kids are back to school and trying to get stuff done for the upcoming saturday morning keep that in mind. for the afternoon very pleasant. you have a few days to enjoy summer. 83 in morgan hill. 80 in san jose. 77 sunnyvale on the peninsula. 73 san mateo. cloudy on the coast. pacifica 65 degrees. also in daly city. 68 downtown san francisco. 76 san rafael. east bay 73. sunshine inland and a little warmer. 86 fairfield.

81 concord. walnut creek and livermore a nice warmer day. warmer inland tomorrow. we keep it mild to warm on sunday. notice the low 90s coming back in monday through thursday. back up to average. upper 60s to low 70s at the coast line. it has been a nice break from the hot summer weather. >> absolutely. thanks very much. it's a great way to celebrate the weekend. we have been doing it for years. >> finney's friday free stuff is next. at 5:30. >> the two americans who take down a man with an automatic weapon on a train. passengers terrified. pictures coming ennow. the hurricane we are watching hitting category 3 strength coming up. and new at 6:00 a major pickup in logging activity in california's timberland. emergency rules in effect because of

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college with a lot of parents in tow. >> a teenager from maine took a different approach to getting there. sally gardner smith spent nine months sailing to college. >> the 19 year old sailed 3,000 miles from maine to eckerd college in st. petersburg, florida. >> she had a couple of mechanical issues along the way which she fixed. >> i would sail around 50 miles a day and anchor at night and wake up at 6:00 in the morning or whenever it got bright and went until about 45 minutes before sun down. >> a full day. the most difficult part of the trip was when the dog got hit by a car and lost a leg in massachusetts. >> the dog recuperated for a month and rejoined her owner for the rest of the trip. world news tonight is coming up next. >> for all of us here we appreciate your time.

we will see you again in a half an hour. breaking news tonight. the takedown on the train. two americans wrestling down the gunman with an automatic weapon. passengers terrified. several wounded. martha raddatz with the dramatic pictures coming in now. the developing headline, the shooting inside a federal building late today in new york city. a security guard shot and later dying in the hospital. the gunman shooting himself dead. also at this hour, the hurricane in the atlantic. hitting category three strength. the track at this hour. breaking news in the case of the porch shooting of an unarmed black athlete. tonight, the jury and what they revealed a short time ago. your money. tonight, the dow plunging. down nearly 900 points in two days. what now for americans planning to retire? and the hack attack on a website for cheating spouses widens tonight. up to m