37. possibly some fog lingering there. from sutro tower it is clear. everywhere. the day planner shows warmer than yesterday upper 50s to mid-60s. high clouds will gather as we head to noon, 60s at the coast and 70s around the bay and 80s inland. any showers will be san jose south but it is possible this afternoon and evening. more on that will coming up. >> thank you, mike, two small earthquakes rattled the san ramon area this morning. the latest hit 30 minutes ago. it registered 2.9 magnitude earthquake at 3:58 a.m. and before that 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit at 6:22. according to the usgs up both were centered north of crow canyon road. there are no reports of injury or damage. >> new details on a fire in marin county. crews have cleared the scene in san rafael after what started at two separate fires grew into one. you can see the flames were

large. they can be seen across san rafael and ross valley starting at mission avenue on the south end of boyd memorial park and threatened one home north of the marin academy. crews knocked down the flames in an hour. the trio accused of killing two people will be arraigned today in marin county. sean michael angold, lila scott allgood, and morrison haze lampley are charged in the case and expected to make share first court appearance. the victims, steve carter and audrey carey were found, morrison haze lampley was the gunman in both. all three are charged with multiple murders with essential circumstances making the death penalty a possibility. >> our reporter, amy hollyfield, will joins from the courthouse where proceedings will begin in a few hours. >> san francisco police are investigating related incident, a suicide and assault. a 26-year-old new yorker in town

for a medical convention committed suicide on sunday jumping from the roof of the hotel and a worker was reported missing and she was found in a penthouse suffering from life threatening injuries. while searching the room officers found evidence linking the assault to the suicide. >> i can tell you the case is being handle by a special victims unit and the unit does investigate certain cases such as crimes against children, domestic violent, sexual assault that type of thing. >> woman was taken to san francisco jennifer treatment and police need "critical," condition. >> new goes of the actions of a deputy charged in the death of a santa clara jail inmate. rodriguez is linked to searches whether someone can die from being punched in the armpit and stomach. searches were done last month, soon after michael tyree was found beaten to death in the jail. rafael rodriguez and two others

are charged with murder. in court yesterday, the judge ordered them to stay away from the, jails and inmates and pushed back the plea hearing to november 9. >> officials are trying to determine what led to accidents involving four separate agencies on bay area rails. two were deadly. including man hit by a light rail in san jose. our reporter has more. melanie? >> it is sad. at 4:30, vta say a pedestrian was hit near fruitvale. he was trapped for an hour. you can see first responders attempting to pull him out. despite the efforts, the man died at the scene. another has lived in the area 40 years. >> in train horn to let anyone know they are coming. v.t.a. said this is a designated quiet area because of the nearby homes. a spokesperson said in this case the pedestrian was trespassing and was in the right-of-way between the tracks and the fence.

>> it was not a situation that the person was in the intersection. that would not have come into play. >> she said the train can travel up to 55 miles per hour. she said that the operator began to brake after seeing the pedestrian. v.t.a. confirms there are two other fatal accidents north and south of fruitvale in the past three years. they say neither investigation found v.t.a. at fault. >> whatever can be done to keep this from happening again, that would be >> sky 7 shows where another person died after being hit by a bart train at the san bruno station on huntington avenue. it happened at 6:15 last night. person was on the tracks. the accident caused system-wide delays. >> you can see a man was hit by cal train in downtown san mateo last night. he was taken to the hospital. there is no word on his condition. this accident set off delays affecting thousands of riders

for the rest of the evening commute. >> in santa clara near from america sky 7 was over the scene where an amtrak train hit a vehicle resulting in delays for the capitol corridor, amtrak and h street trains. a man suffered minor injuries. in word on what led to the collision. >> hillary clinton remains the democratic front runner after strong performance at the first presidential debate last night. >> if you look at the republican versus the democrats when it comes to economic policy, there is no comparison. the economy does better when you have a democrat in the white house. that is why we need a democrat in the white house in january of 2017. >> five democratic candidates were on las vegas stage last night, clinton and senator bernie sanders squared off over the involvement in the middle east and gun control. sanders came to her defense when she was questioned of the issue of the controversial e-mail practices as secretary of state. >> enough of the e-mails. let's talk about the ream issues

facing -- real issues facing america. >> thank you, bernie. >> the potential candidate not on the stage, vice president biden. he is expected to announce what he is running later this week and the next democratic debate is november 14. at drake university. in iowa. say the bay area democrats have several debate want parties including young voters in san francisco at the marina district there was no clear winner but many were impressed by hillary clinton's performance. >> it does not seem to be as entertaining as the republican debates because it is not so much infighting, they respect each other. that is good but it is bad for get headlines. >> everyone enjoyed seeing secretary clinton show the ditchth of her. and she is truly the elder spokesperson. >> donald trump and ben carson and carly fiorina are among the republicans expected to take part in the next g.o.p. debate

october 28 at the university of colorado boulder. >> a new concern after the massive valley fire in napa, with officials concerned that el nino storms will wash ash into the creeks that drain into the lake reservoir. since ash is so small it is difficult to filter out and this is the possibility of drinking water quality could be affected. >> and there is work to protect communities from flooding during the el nino storms with a creek that has been a concern for those living in east palo alto and menlo park since past storms have caused major flooding. local authorities have taken steps to probably residents living along the creek by removing vegetation and reinforce the banks and more safety measures are in the works including a website to predict the creek me and two hour flood warning. >> when will the el nino rains arrive? >> the storms will arrive after

the new year when the climate prediction center thinks the best chance is to get the above average precipitation. it means that is when the doors will finally open for a longer period. 60 in wrest portal and 66 in sunny side and ferry building is the same along with the financial district. 59 in palo alto. that is the cool spot around the bay. until santa clara at 60. walnut creek, pittsburg and tracy, upper 60. more comfortable around healdsburg and petaluma is 57. you will sleep better tonight. promise. the thick fog over the golden gate bridge, west wind at ten miles per hour. it is going all the way across alcatraz and angel island getting possibly to the richmond side of the richmond-san rafael bridge. 84 to 92 inland. still feeling hot in some areas. warm with a light breeze along the cost in san francisco at 72 to 77. the heat is relaxing at 78 to

85. we have a couple of chances of showers in the seven-day forecast. leyla? >> good morning, everyone, we go back to the golden gate bridge where the dense conditions mean you must use your low beams. have not seen the zipper truck yet but i will let you know. it will expand southbound lanes. right now you can barely see your hand in front of your face. use caution when proceeding into san francisco and marin headed northbound. that is the san mateo bridge and traffic is light. we also are looking at clear conditions. fog is not aseptemberring the commute between 880 and 101. what could affect the commute is the accident southbound 880's you get to the san mateo big at highway 92 it is a crash. it is possibly blocking when lane. they are trying to get egg on the shoulder. it is an early hour and we do not see delays across the bridge. only going to take you 10 minutes. matt?

kristen? >> arson in the isles a frantic moment inside a bay area store after someone sets fire to the merchandise. >> former nab store clings to life and where he was found that is raising eye produces. is raising eye produces. >> stay tuned.

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it is not clear how long it will take. >> firm los angeles laker and keeping up with the kardashian reality star odom was found unconscious at a nevada brothel. the 35-year-old was found at the love ranch 70 miles outside las vegas. the owner told abc that he part of a bottle of c an herbal viagra. he has been staying there since saturday. they do not know if he will make it. >> scary situation in halloween aisle at the merchandise. we show you the damage account effort to take down the alleged culprit. >> this video was shot after a man walked into the san leandro wal-mart and set the halloween

costume aisle on fire. >> i wanted to make sure the families were out. the parents were helping them shop. >> mario said it was at 1:30 in the afternoon. he waited at the pharmacy for the prescription. >> she was ready to hand me the prescription and she said, sorry, fire, get out of here. everyone scrammed. we went out to the garden area and people were flocking out. >> a 40 year old oakland man would lit the fire was in the garden center earlier and picked up lighter fluid and skirted it around the store. >> if not for the store security people and the employees that put out fire it could have been much more tragic. [ inaudible ] >> the man was tackled and held until police arrived. >> scary. everyone is footballing --

freaking out. you cannot shop without having to worry about someone doing something that insane. >> if spite of the chaos, witnesses say wal-mart employees calmly led customers out of store. >> good news if you have business with the courts, hours that were reduced because of budget cuts are property back and open until 3:00 p.m. weekdays starting november 1. the night traffic court which was eliminated will be restored starting november 4. >> the port of san francisco will move forward with the plan to evict a long-term san francisco waterfront restaurant. according to the "san francisco chronicle" the sheriff plans to change the looks at sinbad's at 11:30 a.m. but the co-owner told "san francisco chronicle" it will not happen and vows to stay open. sinbads has been tied up in a legal battle over the pier to property on the embarcadero. they want to use the property to

build an expanded ferry terminal. >> a lot of februarys were -- folks were jogging on the embarcadero year. >> congratulations. >> found a cool spot. >> now, the fog and an update open what is going on, the one finger rolling across the golden gate bridge over to richmond and maybe even berkeley. but it has not moved north, and looking south on 101 it is clear. walnut creek has early risers waking up to temperatures in the mid-to-upper 60s under clear sky. it is still going to be warm, just taught so hot as it was yesterday. tracking the chance of showers from the south pay, south, still have a small chance of showers across the north bay. the coolest weather is saturday interest sunday. next week we will rebound with temperatures back above average. although it will feel like fall this weekend it will not hang around. you can see the winds in fair at 17 miles per hour so the fog is coming across the golden gate

bridge and probably hitting the richmond side of the richmond-san rafael but not sure if it will make it to the other bridges. we will watch that. today, low-to-mid 80s for most of the south bay, and san jose at 85 and los gatos and gilroy upper 80s low 90s. the peninsula could be cool, san mateo south low-to-mid 80s and millbrae is 77 and remain wither than average along the coast low-to-mid 70s with upper 70 around downtown and south san francisco and sausalito and mid-to-upper 80s through the north bay valley with low-to-mid 70s. and warm along the east bay shore with low-to-mid 80s and inland we will stump 90 in many areas and upper 80's throughout the san ramon valley. here is what will happen, cloud cover again still not so cool as we should be, mid-50 to low 60s. the set up the area of low pressure we have been watching, high pressure is retreating as the low comes in so the record heat from yesterday is again and

this is going to bring the cooling and the chance of showers. the best chance today is around the big sur coast to salinas valley to the sierra. that will shift mainly into the sierra headed to thursday. on saturday it will come from the north but it is moisture starved and when it gets here maybe some drizzle saturday morning. a stray shower in the afternoon. significantly cooler. in the 60s at the coast. 70s around the bay. 80s inland tomorrow and that will last through next week. is a from day. leyla? >> we were see if in was fog at the bay bridge toll plaza and to the north at golden gate bridge but we do not have any. if you make it to the north pay you could run into some but over the golden gate bridge it and soupy. very soupy. the altamont pass shows the drive is heavy right now at 27 miles per hour the top speed so slow and go out of tracy at 205 meeting up with 580 and you can see where it starts to dissipate

with traffic building at this hour, 40 miles an hour, as you get to green belt. continuing to livermore into dublin and we are at top speed not finding any delays and not approaching the sunol grade. the drive time traffic shows tracy to dublin at 36 minutes and we see green elsewhere, and 680 southbound from dublin to mission boulevard, 15 minutes and 85 from the south bay and northbound highway 101 to cupertino is 20 minutes. >> if i have cable, chances are you are paying your provider more than ever before. >> in today's tech bytes the rising cost of internet and cable with the average monthly bill has risen from $120 to $160 a month an increase of 35 percent in five years. companies are charging more because fewer customers as more people cut the cord. >> facebook hoping the users will skip youtube with a new video feature that shows suggested votes based on your

news feed and testing a floating window so users can watch video while managing the home page. >> the democratic debate dominated social media and bernie sanders was most mention on twitter he gained the most followers adding more than 28,000. hillary clinton added 10,000. donald trump gained 60,000 followers during the debate. >> they barely escaped a burning apartment with their lives and the community is coming together to help a mom and her two children. >> a baby born at 30,000' on a flight from taiwan to the united states. the big question: is she american? >> we leave you with abc7 now and you can watch weather and traffic where you live through traffic where you live through the entire commercial

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you live. >> happening today in san jose, community members are planning to present a check to help a mother and her two children, victims of an apartment fire. in june, 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother jumped from a window to escape the flames suffering severe burns and injuries from the 15' fall. the community raised $4,500 at a fund ray other in july and present the family with a check at 3:30 this afternoon at fire station one. >> hot debate in california is over. corrections federals have dropped the plan to allow prisoners with violent back grounds into the firefighting unit. the state wants do include inmate whose have up to seven years left on the sentences rather than the current five years. the proposal is when the prison population is smaller and the detroit has raised the fire risk. >> zuckerberg got a look at life in the lockup during a visit to san quentin visiting prisoners. the facebook founder posted a picture of facebook of him

talking with inmates taking a coding course. zuckerberg said the criminal justice system is not working and said he was inspired to learn more after weeding the book "the new jim crow," about the mass incarceration of nonviolent blacks and hispanics. >> meteorologoist mike nicco has a look at the forecast. another hot day? absolutely. 100 in palm springs. a threat of a thunderstorm. same in los angeles but low-to-mid 80s. low-to-mid 90s through the stream value. we reached the 80 i forecasted yesterday, the third consecutive day of a record in lake tahoe and another today at 78. it will be a nice day at the beach. warm. temperatures are there are now warm for running so fair and moderate breeze but sailing will be good. check out what will happen at 77 today if san francisco. we drop to 69 tomorrow. below average through saturday. look at the heat returning next week. leyla? i am fining something unusual. this is the walnut creek camera

looking to 680. do you see the brave lights around main street? up ahead all of the far right hand lanes are merging with highway 24 and they are at a standstill. we do not have anything reported by c.h.p. but our waze app said that there is possible an object on the road making the drive westbound along highway 24. ahead from that is a car that is on the shoulder. we will find out exactly what is slowing the traffic. certainly it is causing significant delays. christian and matt? >> time is running out to get in on a southwest airlines fare covering winter travel from december 2nd through 16 and january 5 through february 10. the shorter the route the more likely you can fly round trip for over $100. from the bay area you can fly under $100 to los angeles, san diego and oakland and san jose you can play to burbank and ontario and friday and sundays are excluded.

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mom gave birth to a little girl. both are doing fine. now authorities are trying to determine if the baby is a united states citizen. the rule is, if a baby is born in 12 mile radious of americans soil, it is considered a united states citizen. >> i am sure there is g.p.s. what can figure that out. >> baby and mom are doing well. >> in san jose police are on the scene of a deadly accident. next, at 5 o'clock a.m. we are live with what witnesses say may have caused the horrible collision. >> behave. the effort under way to get bay area commuters to mind their manners. manners. >> stay tuned.

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abc7 news begins with breaking news. the breaking news is in san jose where police are investigating a material car crash that killed three people and injured one pore. >> our reporter janet o is at john at 22nd and santa clara. police are still there, right, janet?