the principal called him an incredible human being. ken zink was killed in a traffic accident on the way to work. he was riding the motorcycle on interrogate 80 in vallejo and collided with a pickup truck. word spread quickly as students dealt with the grief. >> he was a father figure to me the year here in san pablo and the mist flag is at staff what and a memorial to him in the lobby. he leaves behind seven of his own children. in addition to the kids at the school who loved him. those students are planning a memorial service for him. >> san pack lows police

employees situation set up this gofundme page to help the family. it stands at $10,790. it reached the initial $10,000 goal overnight by less than 100 people in only seven hours. if you would like to help we have a link on our abc7news.com. >> now the wildfire burning in the santa cruz mountains. the aerial assault is seen here that has destroyed eight homes and nine other structures. one firefighter has been hurt. in los gatos dozens of people attended a meeting in loma prieta, some thankful, and some frustrated. the loma fire has burned 4,200 acres and now 34% contained. cal fire said the damage assessment team has now identified homes in the burned area, 325 homes remain threatened. in hoboken, new jersey, rail

service is suspended after a commuter train crashed into a station killing one person during rush hour. stehpanie has more on the investigation. >> in hoboken, fire crews are on scene and police and ntsb investigators with so many questions how, why, this new jersey transit train slammed into the station carrying hundreds of people. >> we have a train in the train station at hoboken. all the deadly new jersey train crash at the busiest commuter hub in new york city. >> it was mass chaos after the train barreled through the station in hoboken, new jersey, leaving debris everywhere and passengers stunned. passengers scrambled off the three car train moment after the crash. >> we ran over and there were a lot of people kicking out wants trying to exit the train. >> many were on the platform including a 34-year-old who lost

her life after being hit by fly debris. >> 100 people were hurt including the engineer, follow gallagher released from the hospital and cooperating with investigators. >> surveillance video shows the train heading south toward hoboken from spring valley, new york, shortly before 9:00 a.m. moving closer to the station it never slows. >> through the air, traveled another 40' and the train flying into the depot. >> investigators will be here on the scene for at least another week. i spoke with an ntsb investigator who said they found a data recorder but they are looking for a second data recorder and who cameras from the train hoping those devices will be able to provide some information as to how this happened. we hear fill be difficult for investigators to get to the

second black box. do we know the reason? >> we do. the ntsb said it is not safe for investigators to go in that. the crash caused part of the roof of the station at terminal 2 to come collapse and it is an old structure there is the possibility of asbestos inside. it could make some time for investigators to be able to go in there and dig out the second black box. >> that is a historic building. >> thank you from hoboken, new jersey. >> world leaders gathered for the funeral of israeli prime minister peress including president obama, and bill clinton joining dignitaries for the service in jerusalem. palestinian leader sat in the front row. look at this moment, abbas shakes hands with the israeli prime minister, binyamin netanyahu. peres won the nobel peace rise in 1994 for the peace daily evening with palestinians.

>> shimon peres was never cynical. it is that faith, that optimism, that belief even when all the evidence is to the year that tomorrow can be better. that makes us not just honor shimon peres but love him. >> netanyahu said that the turnout is a testament to his optimism and quest for peace. >> long time math teacher at a college prep school is accused sexually assaulting a former student and is on leave from the school now. police arrested david graham yesterday. he taught the suspected november in 2007 when she was only thin. police say the former student told a friend of the assault this past summer and the friend reported it to police. in a statement the school said that they were shocked and dismayed when the situation was where the to our attention. the school is fully cooperating.

>> police say a 20-year-old man suspected in a fatal shooting turned himself in. the 18-year-old martinez was shot and killed on bayview avenue september 19 while on way home from work. investigators believe the suspect, jeremy is a member of a gang. yesterday, police issued a $2 million arrest warrant for moore saying they do not know the motive. >> we have word big news for the art world. two priceless paintings stolen a decade ago were just found. jessica is tracking that. >> yes, they are two van gogh paintings. police in italy announced they found them 14 years after they were stolen. i will show you what they look like. this first one is called the congregation leaving the reform church, and, then, the second painting that was found...if i can work my come future for you quickly and pull it up as fast

as i can, this second one is called the the sea found in an organized crime bust naples. the group that had the paintings was known for cocaine tracking. the van gogh museum said the paintings were found without their frames but they are in relatively good condition and they do have a little bit of damage. it is unclear end the guys will be returned to amsterdam museum where they were stolen 14 years ago. a news conference is expected very soon. we should get much more information on exactly how they were found and priceless pieces of work. that is it at the live desk for now. >> the van gogh museum is one of my favorites. >> new detail of a cyber attack targeting a novato medical company. a company lost information for more than 5,000 patient when it restored the systems. the attack took place in july and the company paid a ransom to

get control back to the documents. initially they said no information was compromised. the glitch is blamed for the loss of information and all patients are now being notified. >> your accweather forecast with meteorologist mike nicco. >> now, we talked about mist that is waiting for you but you have to dress warmer. the temperatures are one to three degrees cooler than yesterday. that puts us in san francisco right around 51 from lake merced to the mission and castro and the financial district is 54 and through the ferry building it is 52 and same in downtown. we have richmond, american canyon, and san leandro and, also, palo alto at 54 and saratoga and tracy at veteran and union city and santa clara at 56 and petaluma at 51 and pacifica is 50. the bay bridge does not look too wet but this is an area where i ran into most this morning. the activity planner at the beach is gray and brisk but the cool weather is if for exercising and if you on the bay

today it will be choppy and breezy. temperatures are 60s is 70s as a dry cold front kicks up breezes this afternoon. about the same tomorrow and not so breezy, and, look at that, original 50s and 60s for sunday, and a chance of showers. look at the storm impact scale coming up next. >> good morning, we are enjoying a friday light start to the commute this morning. not a lot of company if you are heading out and taking 80 across the bay bridge the toll plaza is no delays in any of the lanes. this weekend it will be a different story. we have a lot of big events and one is hardly strictly bluegrass festival at golden gate park so we do not have closures due to this but local closures in the park, 40,000 are expected and that is today, tomorrow, and sunday, at 10:30 this morning. we have a new probable in the fremont area and we will look at that next. >> the unsolved mystery in the east bay that has police sending for this bus rider. >> all eye on the space probe as the mission comes to an end just

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>> abc7 7 morning news all morning. >> on wednesday night, two people stole guns out of a home garage, and the s.u.v. was found

abandoned in oakland. ahit-and-run accident accident left a pedestrian with critical injuries and the man was captured on surveillance video boarding a bus. cornell barnard explains why police believe he could provide valuable clues. >> we are hopeful he will come forward. this man could be the only witness to a hit-and-run accident that left a 43-year-old woman fighting for her life. the mess say it happened on wednesday. she was crossing fremont boulevard. outside a crosswalk. she was struck by a vehicle in northbound lanes. a transit bus was first on scene. driver told police as he rolled up, this man was standing near the individual on the street. he was captured on the bus security camera, appearing nervous. >> at the same time, the bus driver was trying to call 9-1-1 they have a small interaction at the door of bus and the man step on the bus, steps back off, steps on, steps off and leaves the scene. >> another bus got a picture of

man's car, a gold toyota camera, and police say it is too dark to tell in the car has any damage, they will not say in the man could be responsible for the collision. >> we would like to get in touch with him because he was there at the scene before the bus driver got there. >> unfortunately that happened but i am not surprised. >> this stretch of fremont boulevard is called "dangerous," for pedestrians, day or night. >> the cars are going at a high speed. since i have been working here there have been two people i know of that have been hit by cars. all the search continues for this man who could have crews to a hit-and-run mist. >> we are bringing your voice and your vote. supporters and were on points of the 17 ballot measures are shelling out major bucks to hopefully sway your vote when you head to the polls in november. people have donated almost $390 million to various hot button issues and election and that is $8 if million shy of a record set in 2008 when issues like

same-sex marriage went before voters. spending usually skyrockets in the final weeks best election. this year the most money spent on a single issue is by far more than $100 million spent on prop 61, an initiative to cap prescription drug prices. most it is for pharmaceutical companies. soon you can take that selfie of you and your ballot to prove that you voted. governor brown has signed off on a measure to let you take the photos of your ballot levelly. the new law will not apply to the income election because it will not take effect until january. >> we are saying thanks, the space probe intentionally crash landed on the commodity it has been chasing for a decade. it has come to the end of its useful life. it was on a course for controlled crash landing taken five miles away from the

commodity. it launched in 2004 and in 2014 its probe bounced and last power on the comet. but it managed to send the first image ever taken on a comet service before it powered down. >> they are both gone. >> rest in peace to our summer heat. temperatures is dropped 25 to 30 digs since monday and the next six days are supposed to be the warmest in san francisco. not going to happen. here is san rafael, cloudy on 101 with mist possible and breezy and fall like temperatures, a cool weekend culminating in showers on sunday, and above average temperatures will run in the middle part of next week. small craft advisory for all of bay water to the delta from noon to 9:00, 24 to 38 miles per hour. that is why we say exercising caution the water today. 50s at the coast, and 60s around at the bay, low-to-mid 70s inland. that is it for today. tonight, it will be cool again, and 40s and cloverdale and

santa rosa and napa and the rest of us in the let 50s. we rate the storms from "1" light to "5" severe and this is light less than .1" of rain but because it is scattered showers and light thunder we will have isolated areas of higher amounts. 7:00 on sunday only, looking good, by 9:00 or 10:00, it is moving to the north bay and by noon to the heart of the bay and in the afternoon influence the east bay and the south bay and by the evening hours it is over. sunday is our cool of the day, 60s and 70s and 80s by wednesday and thursday. >> good morning. we are looking at friday light traffic here through walnut creek so southbound 680, a couple of folks tapping the breaks but nothing major so far this morning. taking you and the fremont area, reports of a crash on southbound 80 before the parkway, one vehicle cut cross all lanes and hit the center divide. c.h.p. has two units on way to the scene so when they arrive we will get them more details.

use caution in the area. >> imagine getting from the east bay to san francisco in just 12 minutes. coming up how it is about to become possible. >> experts say you be saving a few blocks at the pump. >> new concern of the zika virus and countries that pregnant women are told to avoid in techbytes. >> big changes for the amber alert system. >> smartphone users can expect more detailed descriptions including photos of missing children, and newly created public safety messages sending out warnings of issues in your area. >> a new fitness tracker for kids, keeping track of everything you would expect such as steps taken and calories burned. >> and did monitor other activities such as making their beds or doing their homework. >> most of us get a new computer

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my name is eddie metcalf. i enjoworking in my yard and you know, i can't. i can't do that any more,'cuz i'm missing most of my lung. they did a cat scan of my kidneys, no more kidney stones. that's the good news. "but, we found a spot on your lung." that frankly scared the "hell" out of me. i hadn't smoked in 22 years. how could this happen to me? he said, "well, you know about radon gas?" we'll... you know, i heard about it. he said, "well, the second leading cause of cancer" "in america is radon, 22,000 people a year die from this." i literally left the doctor's office, got a test kit, put it in my house, and our result was 39.8. the upper limit is 4. we got to get this fixed. that was on a monday, and on wednesday,

our mitigation system was up and running. well, i think everybody should have their house tested. we'd never know. we'd still be living there. i could get another tumor from it. right now, it's changing my life. >> a wild police chase in san fernando valley sent people scurrying for safety to avoid

being run over t-boning a car after it ploys through a red light. the thief then drives on to a sidewalk. people thankfully jump out of way including a person pushing a baby carriage. officers captured man after he crashed into a parked car. >> jerk. >> never once seen a prius involved in a police chase. >> that changes today. >> zika virus danger zone is expanding, 11 nation countries have new been added to the do not travel list. countries are in southeast asia, including thailands, philippines and indonesia. the centers for disease control said travelers there have recently become infected with the virus in the southeast where zika virus has been a problem for yours. >> burglars robbed a photography shot on the peninsula that is about to close its doors for goods. the photography in palo alto had throughs of dollars worth of merchandise stolen last weekend according to our media partners. we talked with the owner just

last week when they announced they are shutting down both palo alto locations after 51 years. he said online shopping took too much of the business away. >> hold on to your hat because a new ferry company is hoping to that you and fellow commuters across the bay in 12 minutes. the high speedboats can hold 100 people. regulators have okayed the ferry service to begin january with stop in san francisco, oakland, emeryville and redwood city. it already provide chatter service to tech companies. >> it is little. >> 100 people. >> another opening to get across the bay. we will take it. >> please. >> breezy on bay today. be careful. good morning, everyone, here is a look from the exploritorium at pier 15 and how were the temperatures have tumbleed from 27 to 37. up to 60s and 70s today.

going to the game tonight we are a game up on the cardinals but the dodgers would love to do nothing more than knock us out of playoffs. we will go there, be loud, and beat los angeles, 7:15, 58, dropping to 56 and it looks like we last our lake tahoe camera, but we have rain on sunday, mixing with snow once the sun is setting on sunday evening. winter is make a return to the sierra. we will look at the santa cruz and the loma fire and the winds kicking up. >> we are quiet so far today. it is not complaining friday "lite" kicking us off and a look at the san mateo bridge filling in on the when side. since it is quiet we will talk about stuff this weekend with the castro street on sunday so between 4:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. the streets and everything you see in read will be closed including market at eureka and castro is closed between 16th and 19th and 17th and 18th

closed with it easier to walk or using mass transit. we are looking good out there this morning, westbound 580 tracy to dublin is in the green from the central valley and only taking you 31 minutes. >> happening today, giants fan bryan stow who survived a nearly fail building will share his story with more than 300 students. he will talk to children at west lake elementary school in daly city at 9:00 a.m. his presentation is part of the school's focus on kindness and anti-bullying behaviors. he suffered brain damage and other injuries during the brutal attack on ohing day in 2011. the foundation has him speaking for kids about bullying two or three days a week. alameda animal shelter is at risk of closing, because they are underfunded. president owners will gather outside city hall on tuesday while friends of alameda animal

shelter plead their case. the shelter is one of our perfect pet partners. >> you will probably not see significant increases in gas prices for a year because the market is saturated with supply and demand is declining, not just in the united states but in india and china because of advances in electric car and fuel efficiency. right now the average price for gasoline is $2.90 a gallon in extra and $2.70's around the state. >> starbucks, dunkin' donuts is coming for you, according to consumers company they are teaming up with coca-cola to launch ready to drink iced coffee to be sold as convenience stores and dunkin' donuts hitting the store shelves next year. given how crazy they went for dunkin' donuts opening in our area it could be a hit.

>> the devastation on ground in loma fire is getting worse and the growing frustration of neighbors waiting do hear in this homes are still sanding. >> condo owners in millennium tower demand the city reassess the value of their homes with the surprising amount they say they now are worth. >> roasts in certain california down near san diego were violent overnight and two people were arrested, and i am working on new video of what happened in el cajon. stay tuned.

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>> good morning, north bay, let's get going. it is friday, september 30, welcome. i am natasha zouves. >> i am reggie aqui. with jessica castro and meteorologist mike nicco and traffic reporter, alexis smith. how is it? >> nice and quiet. friday "lite". the bay bridge toll plaza shows, really, no trouble getting through there. we are expecting the metering lights on at 5:30. a lot green at traffic maps so far. i want to zoom in to the fremont area at 15 minutes ago i told you of a problem on southbound 880 before the parkway and a single vehicle collision with the vehicle