>> breaking, two break stories, sky 7 is over the scene as the lola fire threatens hundreds of home in the santa cruz mountains. the fire is only 5% contained. >> also breaking, traffic is a mess both ways on the richmond-san rafael bridge right now after a big-rig carrying contaminated soil goes up in flames. >> i am kristen sze. >> i am natasha zouves. >> the crash came during the morning commute and crippled the traffic between san rafael and richmond. >> the fire caused a mess at the tonight screen you can see the thick black smoke pouring from that. all the bottom of the screen shows sky 7 showing you the

crews working to put out the fire as drivers wait for traffic on get going. >> wayne is on the san rafael end of the bridge with the impact right now. wayne? >> good afternoon, ladies, this is a look at the richmond bridge, westbound direction. they are not affected by the backup, but look at them, they are anyway. the actual mess is on the other side. on the video, it happened at 8:02 the peak of the morning rush and the big-rig in the eastbound guardrail toledo a fire that turned the truck cab to the axle, the cargo was contaminated soil and it does not burn. no injuries and no other vehicles involved unless you count thousands of commuters who were stuck in the eastbound direction and the westbound direction, they are not happy about their options. here is one of them.

i may work in marin today. backup three hours old. it is a backup both directions. c.h.p. is diverting traffic eastbound off the bridge in san quentin and sends cars back that were on the bridge exiting off the eastbound ramp and all of it is coming together back at this point. the question is, how long will this last? c.h.p. is not saying but look at the traffic, we have the problems they had to deal with, the wreck. they have the would expect of investigating the wreck. the prospect of moving the wreck. they have to inspect the rig and the damage on the bridge, possible fire damage. this could take a while of the last time with a wreck like this on the bridge it took the better part of a day. >> thank you, wayne.

>> our other top story the loma fire burning in the santa cruz mountains in sky 7 the fire is growing and so are the evacuations with coverage of this at matt keller in san jose. matt, there are a lot of horses and other animals that can find shelter? >> yes, natasha, it is hot out here. it is a factor the firefighters will be facing battle the flames and a factor for animal evacuations with pets and people are fleeing the area. >> evacuation advisories last night turned into mandatory evacuations this morning, for people living on croy and little uvas. our cat is important, we are afraid even in nothing goes wrong with are not allowed to be back in and we are not sure where we staying. >> at the fire chasing people from the homes but animals need to be rescued. this incredible video from sky 7

shows firefighters putting water on the flames next to a building and home on casa loma and horses pace back-and-forth nervously. >> easy. easy. >> the large animal evacuation teams set up at the horseman's association in san jose. two draft horses taken and dropped off at 9:00 a.m. with more heading to the santa cruz county fairgrounds in watsonville. >> mandatory evacuation. this is video from last night when he was told to evacuate. >> tim took the video outside his home where helicopters made drops on the flames. we met up with the disabled veteran at a shopping center on the expressway. tim drove off from the property almost immediatery when three was told to evacuate. he grabbed a change of clothes and slept in the car. my wallet is there. >> you left with only this? >> this was already in my jeep. >> that is your only i.d.?

>> correct. >> now what? >> well...family. >> a lot of people relying on friends and family and there are three evacuation centers that have been set up for evacuees. you can find that information give going to abc7news.com. thank you, matt. now, our team coverage of the loma fire continues with jessica castro explaining how firefighters are trying to tackle the flames in such dry conditions. jessica? >> that is right. at this point the loma fire is not a wind driven wildfire but instead i spoke to captain oliver with cal fire he said it has been spread by the fuel and the hilly terrain. the santa clara mountains steep and rugged and fire travels quickly uphill. >> find a place...

[ inaudible ] >> from sky you can see mostly a rural area, but there are several properties there, too. >> there will be windy roads and switch backs and narrow roads and all that makes it that much more difficult for the large vehicles. >> by air there are at least four helicopters dropping water on direct targets today, using air tankers to drop retardant to drop a protective coating on some areas and that will give hand crews time to build containment lines with the help of bulldozers. >> the tactic is to drop this along the edge of the grid line and take advantage of the top of this. >> not to mention asking for mother nature's help of the >> we are hoping we do not get more winds. >> in a wind driven fire they can guess the direction but this fire, it is random. crews from cross the bay area and the state arrived this morning and they have received their assignments for the day

and the firefight is underway. in the studio i am jasmine anderson for abc7 news. >> thank you, jessica. >> you and see where the loma fire is burning, with crews busy with the sawmill fire burning sneer the sonoma lake county line near cloverdale and cal fire state 1,500 place is now 55% contained and it has been burning since sunday with more than a thousand firefighters on the scene, they are pushing and bracing for another hot day today. we are breaking developments on all the fires download the news app and enable the push alerts to get updates. >> now, developing news in the east bay a brutal attack on a couple now recovering in the hospital. abc has identified one of the victims, orinda union school district board vice president scale brown. they were bringing in groceries and two men shot and pistol-whipped them. amy hollyfield is in orinda with the story.

amy? >> yes, i smoke with the orinda police chief and the men have left orinda. he does not want to say how he knows that but he assures residents, look at the escape route, a small, one-lane road. they had to go an a curve at chair moment, a dead-end street but they got away. people reported hearing them run and later the screeching of tires. >> they are the most lovely people you would ever want to meet in the world. they take the shirt off their back for you. neighbors are outraged on the attack on her and her husband, tom spalding. she was shot senate attack but -- shot in the attack but survived. she is doing well. this morning she was awake and alert and stable. talking to family. make phone calls so that great. >> orinda police say they were followed home from the grocery store. >> two males approached them wearing halloween-style masks.

one had a pistol and demanded money, purse, wallet. the male victim complied and agreed but for some reason at that time he was pistol whipped in the head. >> a friend said the neighborhood is very upset and does not want to show her face on camera. >> my reaction is sadness and shock. now i am angry. very angry. >> police are looking for surveillance video this morning and they are also talking to witnesses and they say finding these men is their top priority right now. >> thank you, amie. a san francisco supervisor sees a big fine cut by 90% and we will explain what happened next. >> and this video is hard to watch of an officer beating a man with a baton and the fallout from this investigation. plus --. >> by the end of the evening i will be mailed for everything that has ever happened. >> why not? >> yeah, why not?

>> plenty of fireworks with trump vs. clinton. who won? we break it down. >> good morning, the winds of change are developing at the coast and for us that means good news, it means cooler wet is on the way but the mountains and the loma fire it could have devastating affect on the firefighters' ability to capture the fire. i will explain it all

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kentucky and hillary clinton are declaring victory after the debate. this morning the former secretary of state is in raleigh, north carolina, talking with students at a community college. trump is in miami after debate and he is blaming last night's sniffles on a bad microphone. >> and it was a defective mike. >> anyone blaming it on the mike is not having a good mike >> they will meet next month in st. louis for the second debate and ten days later in las vegas. hillary clinton feeling confident saying "when you have a really really really good nice #shewon." andtrumptweetingthis,numberone tr number one twitter is that trump won, and clinton said we let you know you heard from the candidates how right they were, and we had the fact checker at

work and all the truths and untruths posted on abc7news.com. >> now breaking news we first brought you on abc morning a terrible gas explosion at a home in the bronx. officials announced a new york firefighter injured in the blast has died. the chief was evacuating people in the area when the home just exploded. he was hit on head by debris. he was a 17-year veteran of the department. he leaves behind three children. four other people have minor injuries and investigators are looking into reports that it may have been a marijuana grow house. >> stunning video released by police in student with an officer beating a pan early this month and this is the first look at a brutal beating that cost the officer his job and could land him in jail. the other officer repeatedly hitting a man who said he refused to leave the train station. the officer resigned yesterday after investigators found he used excessive force here and recommended that he be fired.

the victim had swell arms and contusions. otherwise he was okay. the other officer in the video has been cleared but is required to undergo more training. >> san francisco supervisor may walk away from a $191,000 ethics fine by paying only a small fraction of it. $25,000. according to the "san francisco examiner" he was fined $200,000 for unspecified campaign activities during his 2010 run for supervisor. he sued the city to overturn the fine, and details on the negotiation led to the dramatically reduced fine have not been made public. he is continued a possible mayoral candidate in 2019. >> sharing in the pot industry coming up, an east bay city's listen for medical marijuana. >> changes for using your phone for driving, with new restrictions now in law in california. >> sky 7 is over the low h low-to-mid -- the loma fire in

the santa cruz mountains. you can watch it on our news app. meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast in and the forecast coming

>> the trend for expecting parents is to keep the gender a secret and unveil the surprise for friends and family with the camera rolling. as we know it does not go as planned, with more on the hosts of "right this minute." >> sometimes fails happen at the

worst possible time and you hope someone is recording like in this video, this couple was excited to do a gender reveal for the family but dad got too aggressive pulling the reveal string. that was not supposed to happen, if you want to find out you are having a boy or girl you have to watch the show and we will talk about that later at 3:00 and 3:30 for more trending videos. >> that is funny. >> sad for her but she does not look terribly hurt but her friends are having fun. you can catch "right this minute," right here at 3:00. >> now the forecast with meteorologist mike nicco. >> hope he gets out of the dow house long -- the doghouse long enough to have another kid. you can see the fire on sky 7 looking like it is out of control. the wind are light. that is the key to the forecast. right now. i will show you the conditions.

they are calm. in gusts. but it is hot. 91, humidity is 17%. it is the tops that are burn most because of the hot fuel and hot dry air making the vegetation more flammable. today, 88, and, tomorrow, 15 degrees cooler in the 70s, and by monday, we are almost 30 degrees cooler. the problem is, starting tomorrow the winds pickup. 25 miles per hour possible and first they come out of the west which will push everything toward san jose and morgan hill and gilroy and then out of northwest and that will push it down to watsonville so it will be cooler, absolutely, but, it will be more dangerous. air quality right new is a concern, and everyone is doing okay, good to moderate and inland east bay the santa clara valley is the most likely with poor air quality on the 25th "spare the air." "spare the air" day. the so breeze is developing at coast at 20 degree cooler there

and san francisco. cooler marine layer and clouds around the bay and inland, and below average highs next week. the winds are ten miles per hour at half moon bay and the rest of us are below that and it will take into the evening and overnight to feel the effect the marine layerer away from the coast. low 90s in the south bay today. mid-to-upper 80s in the peninsula. only mid-60s along the coast. we hid 79 in daly city. already had a record high with temperatures falling. 76 in san francisco, and if you are going to the game, you will notice the sea breeze kicking in, 66 to start with clouds and breezes and temperatures dropping down to 58, up more 80s to low 90s today and 78 in richmond, 79 in [ and everyone sells in the mid-80s along the east bay shore and of my inland, mid-90s to upper 90s so 100s are gone. in the seven-day forecast forecast you are seeing, 60 and 70s, and mainly 80s tomorrow for the coast, bay and inland and 50s at the coast on thursday and 70s and 80s the rest of us and temperatures are

dropping and the winds pick up here, also, in the santa cruz mountains and by monday, we could actually have a chance of a shower but that is seven days away. >> it is taking its time. >> the oakland city council is expectedded to vote on proposed amendments to the cannabis permit program to help fund local social services. they include requiring new marijuana business owners to gave them city 25% of the company earnings and a seat on its board and the employees or applicant must be residents oakland. in approved necessity could generate millions of dollars for the city, and one member, who authorized the state marijuana regulation said that the move would taught actually be legal. >> holding and operating a smartphone while driving for any reason will be against the law starting january 1. the governor brown signed a bill yesterday to expand california's restriction on the use of mobile phones while behind the wheel. the exception is drivers can use

the smartphone in it is mounted to the car windshield or dashboard for single swine flu funds. >> lot of advise on being a better parent and there are tips from one blogger, saying parents should become more "a," in the in i book "the mommy short's guide to remarkably average parenting." drop all the labels, she said and let it go. >> so much pressure to be perfect parent a lot mothers feel like they are bad parents. i took may kids to the amusement park and my oldest flipped out because we were leaning and i remember that day as the moment down that happened at the end or her beautiful smile when we were on the roller coaster. >> so, we have choices, as well, in shaping our experiences, and she said parents should have

selective memory, that means taking positive even when your kid can't or won't. >> hard to do. >> tears of joy, we love this, a family and perfect strangers unite to ensure this happy couple will live their remaining

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>> coming up at 4:00, hours after the first presidential debate the big push to get people to register to vote and what done to get people to the polls. at 5:00, fanning blames in the santa cruz mountains and a location where unique animals are getting special care. join us for abc7 at 4:00 and pack. >> a canadian couple overcome with emotion after being reunited, married 62 years were placed in separate nursing years for a year because of the backlog in the health care system and had to travel 40 minutes to see each other. now they are shedding happy tears and spend their remaining years side-by-side. together again. from all of us, thanks for joining us. we will be back

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