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>> family from benecia missing after family burped. their body found among the ashes. >> now the police opened a criminal investigation. >> amma is out on assignment. >> adam has 7-year-old son gavin and the mother molly have been missing for more than a we can now. >> investigators want to know where they are and what started the fire at the cabin. alan is piecing together what happened tonight and is live in be negligence for us. alan? >>reporter: yes. this is their home. neighbors knew that the family was missing but they were surprised when detectives showed up here with search warrants. now interestingly we featured the family young son gavin on abc 7 news a few years ago. now he and his parents have vanished

in a very suspicious way. >> what's that called. >> lego dance. >> 7-year-old gavin because can an. he mother father still considered missing after unidentified remains of at least 2 people were found in the rubble of the burnt out cabin in el dorado county. >> the fire was so intense and it came to a point where there is really nothing identifiable there. >> steve is the family business attorney who says the el dorado sheriff's department told him this is a criminal investigation. >> there could have been an outside force here. at play. >> that fire in the cabin happened on september 13. 3 37-year-old adam because can a an. 34-year-old molly mcphee and son gavin believed to have been in there that wean. we featured gavin 2 years ago after he saved up 100 dollars and donated it to help benetia police dog. >> what 7-year-old thinks to do that? amazing kid. >>reporter: last tuesday

police searched the home taking away computers and documents. >> the much of sheriff showed up. later on in the evening about 9 or 10 o'clock at night they towed away some white pickup truck. >>reporter: detectives also went to buchanan construction company office in benetia and questioned his business neighbors including the owner of this gym where pwu cap an 16-year-old son nolan works out. no land has been living with his grand parents since the family disappeared. in benetia, alan wong abc 7 news. >> police in palo alto look for for man who punch add mother pushing her baby in a stroller and then robbed her. take a look. tonight they release this sketch of the man accused here. on middle field road police say he punched her in the head as she was trying to stop the baby from crying. then ripped the purse off of her shoulder and took off running. baby not hurt. at the time sunnyvale charter school where police say

8-year-old girl was molested is scheduled to reopen on wednesday. school was forced to shut down for background check on school staff. 1 18-year-old jonathan ciao teacher aide accused of molesting the girl. lillian is live at spark charter school with latest on the story. lil i don't know? >>reporter: despite all this happened parents eager to get the children back to school. they are hopeful sparks can move beyond that. firm. employee should have had should have cleared a background check before they started work. that's hr 1 one.would you kno >>reporter: santa clara county superintendent blasted spark charter school for failing to complete background check on the ploy easement discovery came to lit after the arrest of 18-year-old ciao. lunch time monitor teacher aide was arrested last week accused of molesting an 8-year-old female student. michelle martinez is a parent of first and fourth grader at sparks. >> this was affordable option that was to be a great education. unfortunately the it's taken a turn that had a tragic event and i hope that

the school can recover from this. >>reporter: at tonight school board meeting board members announce the school will reopen wednesday. all background checks are now complete and and waiting county approval. board president about made it clear that even if they had completed the become ground check before school started the out come would likely have row main the same. she wrote the accused was teenager at the time he was hired and therefore his past record if any was not subject to disklesh through back ground check. ciao has since been fired as well as 2 other teacher aid and while the board couldn't talk about specifics they say when the students return on wednesday new safety procedures will be in place. in sunnyvale lil i don't know, abc 7 news. >> new at 11:00 chase was on at san francisco zoo tonight after lemur escape the habitat. it briefly got out of the cage and lemur exhibit and climbed up a tree inside the zoo. exhibit is popular with visitors of course often with special events for the animals. worker

returned the lame your to the habitat just before 10 tonight. zoo trying to figure out exactly how the little guy escaped. >> i think it's sharing the secret with all his friend. >> fwrs fires around the bay area kept firefighters very busy today. 4 alrm fire destroyed at least one home on taft street fir field. power knocked out power to hundreds of customers. comcast verizon at&t also down so customers may not be able to dial 911 rate now. >> we were over the fire at construction site martinez if where flames spread close to home. they trade to stop the that women's garden hose. spark from welding job may have started the fire. >> fire burped 3 story home to the ground in alamo. flames spread to the surrounding tree and °as well. nobody home when the fire started and nobody was hurt. >> tonight. cal fire says more than 1200 homes have burned down in the valley fire. fire in napa sonoma and lake county

now 75 percent contained. more than 75,000 acres have burned. temporary shelter and camping area at the napa county fairground calistoga is scheduled to close this thursday. governor brown asked president obama today to declare disaster for northern california so federal funds can help those affected by the valley and the butte fires as well. >> pilot narrowly escaped his plane before it crashed near military base south of fresno today. navy fighter jet wept down about 3 miles from the naval air station here. officials say the pilot ejected safely parachuted. crash iing anyed a fire but crew put it out in minutes. nobody else on beard the jet. >> pope francis will ariff in the united states tomorrow. first time in america not just as pope but ever. work top dc the first of 3 stops in the u.s. f.amma is in the initial capitol tonight with more on the pope trip that started in cuba. >> question. from dc where

less than 24 hours away from pope francis historic trip to washington. his visit comes on the heal of whirlwind tour of cuba. children sang and danced for pope francis as he arrived in santiago a. final stop on his visit to cuba. pch vatican flag waved with cuban flag when the pope arrived for big out door mass. pope never visited before. last three days here have been joyous. smiling pope from latin america seemingly at home in cuba. with fidel castro raul castro and hundreds of thus of people. pope message of compassion this woman said if, cuba and rest of the world really need. the tomorrow it's on to the united states. >> holy father is come to our country really exciting. >> flag fence in place around

washington where the pope will address congress. vatican prepared by meticulously studying his english present viewed in this message to pilgrims in philadelphia. >> we will be there. see you in fill del if i 8. the pope will deliver mass and met with family in santiago before wrapping up in kuhan a and head north to washington. president obama and the first lady will be among the dignitary greating him. we follow the pope closely and follow along on twitter and facebook as i cover the historic visit. in dc, 7 news. >> the be should you are to join amma for her reports as the pope arrives starting tomorrow here on abc 7. >> how cool is that. >> still ahead at 11. police search forty-niner fans after video goes viral on social media. you may be surprised by how much water you go through each day. we are in the talking dishes and showers.

adding up the hidden water use. >> teeny plastic bead that give your toothpaste texture may pollute the bay area much more than we thought. >> fch we are nearing end of summer with record setting hea heat. what autumn will bring coming up. >> first a look at what's coming up tonight on "jimmy kimmel live"right after 7 news at 11:00. jimmy. >> thanks. here's a snippet of what we are up to tonight. you just within an emmy. yes you have a choice to keep the emmy or trade it for what is inside in the mystery box

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>> tonight police investigating a brawl between san francisco 49ers and pittsburgh steeler fans. cell phone video show the fight outside sports bar in downey south of los angeles on sunday. police arrived after the fate broke up and talked to one man involved. he later went to the police station to file assault report. last week santa clara police arrested 4 people for attacking a minnesota viking fan outside levi stadium. >> san francisco bay is packed with plastic. new study from demonstrationist at uc berkeley found 3.9 million micro bead flow in the bay each day. micro bead used as a scrub in soap and texture to the tooth paste. researchers found 9 times more micro plastic than found in lake erie most mrutded of the grit lake. the bits are dangerous to wild life and human. >> we know in the drought we have all been asked to drink as

much water as we kachbility 8. most of us don't realize a lot of our water use is hidden. drew looks at how you may be soaking up 10 items more world trade center than you think. >> how much water do you use in a day? state statistics show the answer is about 100 gallons. but that is only what you use at home. water researchers say we are really using a lot more. >> grand total is the 1885 gallon perfect day. >> that's a lot right. >> that's a lot. all i know exclusive number is the world trade center footprint. the water take to make the food you eat and product you buy. >> non-profit called grace communication created an on license calculator so you cap figure out own l print. we had

many tested out. >> 30 51 day. >> faucet. toilet. water the yard then comes things you might not immediately connect w.water. >> how many miles per week do you drive. >> every mile uses 3 quarters gallon of water l. >> how much do you spend on dog food a month. >> pet fad requires a lot of water. so does our food. what we eat generally accounts for two-thirds of our water footprint. meat is a big factor. leif stock uses water too. >> watch what happens when we have 2 meat ether in the household. >> so delicious. >> you dumped 2000 gallon. >> the number aren't exact calculation. the ample based on people with similar habit. >> we give people a snap shot an estimate but at the same time it gives people an idea of

what they are tugly using. how do you do the lawn dry. >> rarely. i just buy more clothes. >>reporter: this ask about shopping habits. because it takes water to make about everything you buy. new pair of jeans requires hundreds of gallons of water just to grow the cotton. >> thanks for the shaming. >> i buy clothes all the time. >> there's also water use to produce electronic, television, our phone even our electricity. >>reporter: researchers say even though home water use is down, the state over all water foot pribt is going up. >> trend is that we are increasing our consumption of goods and services and water associated with that. >> many people who tried the water calculator will learn to make changes. >> could you go all meatless. >> i can do it. >>reporter: stop your shopping

for water and abc 7 news. >> we have a lot of work to do. >> i'm horrified. no shopping. no eating any more. sandhya what do we do. >> no meat that's what i do. i don't know what you are going to do. as we take a look at the high for today we did have two records fairfield 101. gilroy 103 degrees. now it hit 92 in palm strings even hotter than that in santa rosa 99 100 in there and san francisco 89 degrees. half moon bay you started to get a bit of the cooling effect 73 degrees tomorrow. everyone will feel the cooling effectsth marine air tomorrow. we see clear sky but look what's showing up south of monterey. this is the fog and it will work its way up along our coast line so going in one direction and that's

down from many of you. it's 54 right now in half moon bay. inland spot still pretty warm. you look at the 24 hour temperature change down 8 degree ins san jose. 13 62 degrees cooler compared to 24 hours p.m. ago cooler in santa fran you can see also financial trick there there. all from begins at 1:21 wednesday morning and it's warming up midweek. satellite radar showing you what's going on right now. area of low pressure brought heavy rain across the desert south west. remnant of 16 e continuing to feed moisture there so flash flood watch for southern california. brought light rain for us won't do whole lot in terms of bringing us rain but we notice a conditioning in the wind direction. it's all right t.tomorrow morning near the

coast around the bay then the fog is hanging around into the afternoon across some parts of the coastal community. inland area considerably cooler out of the 80's there cooling sea breeze felt across the entire region if you don't like the hot weather ning there. low 60's out the door better sleeping wax tonight especially since so many homes don't have ac and hard to sleep in the hot air around if you use a fan obviously. gilroy 88 san sail. mid 70's member will park will have man bay 64 glees hopefully like the temperatures much better. 68 in downtown san francisco. mid 60's daily city sen set district and north by low 90's for all trinkets. east bay berkeley oakland richmond 7743 mont inlistened

spots you are much better off than were you today. 82 concord. 81 pleasanton. sun screen plenty of sun 7 day forecast. small starts on sunday in the morning and season change we start to notice a change in our weather again. st warmth will not be the same as today. low 70's mid 90's. weekend is good. it's cooler. l should be pleasant. >> coming up next on 7 news at 11:00. saved from danger. >> little kitten has new home tonight and sen

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