live where you live, this is abc 7 news. >> cleanup on aisle 4.4. an early morning earthquake shakes up grocery stores and wakes us up while serving as a big warning. i'm reggie aqui. kristen will be in later today. the 4.4 earthquake scared you this morning, geologists say good. the hayward fault is due to a much larger shake. the time to be ready is right now. let's show you where this quake hit. it septembwas centered in berker claremont avenue. amy hollyfield begins our coverage. amy? >> reporter: here at the end center we expected to find damage, first this morning we checked in with the claremont hotel. they told us everything looked fine inside. we came across the street to

this darling boutique, ellington and french. lots of china and dishes in here, everything in tact. this earthquake woke everyone up and got everyone's attention, but that's about all it did. b.a.r.t. trains got off to a slow start this morning. officials took time to check the tracks for damage from the earthquake. sleepy passengers waiting for their train in berkeley told us, quake woke them up. >> i was sleeping and my wife was working and she had called back in india and it was suddenly it was -- she felt the tremor, ran into the bedroom, woke me up then we were, like, ran out of the apartment. so it was terrifying. >> felt right someone was kind of, you know, shaking our bed. middle of the night. also it was not really sure it was an earthquake that first, and went to twitter immediately because what else do you doug? >> reporter: any damage in the house. 7. >> no, not at all. >> reporter: this video from the san

did. b.a.r.t. trains got back on schedule by 5:30 this morning. those who lived near the end center near the claremont hotel definitely felt a jolt. >> i'm always scared with earthquake. >> yeah. he's an architect. he's always scared. >> i think earthquakes are scary. >> reporter: david and elizabeth are prepared. they belong to an earthquake group and are trained for the big one. >> because i'm in this earthquake group, there's a 70% chance of having something over 7.0 magnitude in the next 10, 15 years. we really need to be prepared, everybody. they told us they have extra food and water at this hour and go bags underneath their beds. the one good thing this earthquake did for everybody is remind u.s. that we need to get ready. live in berkeley, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amen to that, amy. thank you. there's a 5% chance that today's earthquake is a fore shock for an imminent big one. the usgs says the more likely

scenario is it's a small preview of what's coming in the weeks or months or years ahead. our team coverage continues with abc 7 news reporter matt keller who's in menlo park. >> reporter: the 4.4 magnitude quake was a quick jolt, enough to wake up people across the bay area when it struck at 2:39 a.m. within an hour tens of thousands of people reported feeling it on the u.s. geological service website. >> a wake-up call literally and f figurati figuratively. >> reporter: he says this quake was deep with the epicenter near berkeley about eight miles down. deeper quakes radiate to a broader region, which why people as far away as santa cruz felt it. no surprise the quake was on the hayward fault. there have been a handful of earthquakes this size over the past ten years and the fault is due for a big one. >> we're at the 150 year anniversary for the last big earthquake of the hayward fault.

we fknow big earthquakes on thi fault happen every 150 years. >> reporter: if that sounds ominous, listen to this, the usgs says there's a 72% chance an rt quake from one of the faults in the bay area will strike with a magnitude 6.7 or larger in the next 30 years. the best way to prepare, find out how safe it is in the buildings you spend the most time in. >> the schools your children go to, your office, your home, are those buildings going to withstand strong shaking? most people, the answer is, i don't know. >> reporter: if you don't know, what can you do? find out. one way to do that is getting a structural engineer to take a look at your home. in menlo park, matt keller, abc 7 news. a decade after beginning work on an earthquake early warning system, scientists and engineers are fine tuning a west coast prototype that could be in limited public use this year. according to seismological research letters the shake alert system is currently being tested in california, also oregon and washington. one of the top of the list priorities for improving the

system would be the addition of nearly 1,000 more seismic stations. and we did send out a push alert minutes after the earthquake hit this morning. we've been sending updates throughout the morning to you. to get breaking news as it happens, download the free abc 7 news app. and enable those push alerts. now the other big story this morning, the rain. two dry days out of the next seven. let's go over now to meteorologist mike nicco for a quick look at the soggy forecast. we thought it was going to be the big headline all day until the earthquake happens. >> exactly. the push alert alerted me because i was driving to work today. i didn't feel it even though i drove almost by the epicenter, within a couple miles. the push alert worked. if you're going to be watching live doppler 7 the next couple days. the storm system came in from the south. the south got more rain and inland east bay neighborhoods than the north bay. that will be the opposite with the storm coming in tonight. a few showers around mt. st. ha

lean helena. there's moisture, but not a trigger mechanism. isolated showers possible. when two areas of low pressure join forces tonight we'll get another chance of light to moderate showers. that will linger through tomorrow. mow it's a 1 on our storm impact scale. a light storm because the winds will be light and rain totals won't cause flooding. we'll have an hour by hour look at it coming up. here's reggie. >> see you soon, thank you. there's a new development in the investigation into a fatal shooting that took place near the west oakland b.a.r.t. station. we just learned a b.a.r.t. officer did, in fact, shoot and kill one of two suspects involved in some sort of fight over a gun. this all happened just after 4:30 p.m. yesterday. commuters ran screaming after hearing shots outside upper cuts barbershop. the officer responded and opened fire hitting a man he says was in possession of the gun. the officer claims that man did not follow any commands to put down the weapon. the other man involved in the fight was hurt, but officials still don't know how. a major justice department

announcement on legalized marijuana is being met with anger and a whole lot of uncertainty this morning. attorney general jeff sessions rescinded an obama-era policy that essentially barred federal law enforcement officials from interfering with marijuana sales in the seven state where pot is sleelly sold. the policy change comes four days of the legal sale of marijuana began in california. house minority leader nancy pelosi responded on twitter saying, "attorney general sessions, your unjust war against americans who legally use marijuana is shameful and insults the democratic profession that played out in states across the country." now to the steve bannon bombshell. rocking the nation's capital. yesterday we told you about the scathing comments the former white house chief strategist made about the trump administration. now for the first time, president trump is responding publicly. here's abc news reporter arlette sines. >> reporter: president trump responded publicry for the first

time about remarks made by steve bannon telling reporters he doesn't talk to him. >> any words about steve bannon? >> i don't know, he called me a great man last night, so, you know, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. >> reporter: meanwhile attorneys for the president sent bannon a cease and dedesist letter aftere made disparaging comments about the president and his family. in an explosive new book, quoted using the words treasonous, unpatriotic, jared kushner, cam pane chair paul manafort and russian lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton. he's quoted saying special counsel robert mueller's team will crack don jr. like an egg on national tv. >> this is sclabsolutely ridicus he'd make a statement like that if he made the statement. nobody less treasonous than don jr. >> reporter: in a scathing statement, the president said, "steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. when he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind."

bannon is standing by his former boss telling listers on sirius xm's breitbart news radio -- >> nothing will come between us and president trump and his agenda, don't worry about that. >> reporter: the explosive new book "fire and fury" by michael wolfe hasn't been released yet. the president sent a letter to wolfe and his letter de-mondman they cease and desist release of the book. happening today, former san francisco supervisor will officially file her nomination papers to run for mayor. she's running to replace mayor ed lee who passed away three weeks ago from a heart attack. she says she feels she is, quote, the most qualified person to take on the vast number of problems facing our city. this will be her third run for mayor. her father, joseph, served as mayor from 1968 to 1976. new details from pg&e on the exact locations of the damaged

found near the stasrt of the north bay wildfires. unredacted versions of reports first released in late october. the reports show falling tree limbs hit pg&e power lines at three spots. address at atlas peak park, another on partrick road. a third location on bennett lane in calistoga near the start of the tubbs fire. pg&e officials stress no official cause of the fires has been identified. pg&e would to longer be allowed to pass on the cost of fines and safety violations to its customers under a bill produpr introduced by a group of state lawmakers, as the utility is being investigated as we just mentioned for the north bay wildfires. in the past, utilities tried to recover costs resulting from previous wildfires by seeking permission to increase rates even if they're found at fault for the fires. the measure would cover all electric utilities in the state.

happening now, san francisco mayor announcing a bill milestone in the city's effort to reduce the number of traffic-related deaths. this is a big deal because the city recorded 20 traffic-related deaths in 2017 which is the lowest number in san francisco history. safety officials credit the city's vision zero program, which has included projects to improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety as well as an awareness campaign. mayor breed is joining other city official to make that announcement and that is happening at city hall. happening today, a stretch of highway 1 in the north bay will re-open to traffic after being close the for nearly a year. highway 1 between muir and stinson beaches will re-open around lunchtime. it's been closed since last february after it was badly damaged by last year's record storms. only one lane of the highway is ex. ekted ed expected to re-open today because there are still repairs happening there. still expect significant delays.

a glitch affecting certain credit card customers. the reason the tech team at capital one is all hands on deck. plus, mark zuckerberg just issued his next personal challenge. after the break, his new plan for facebook in 2018.

and here's your morning money report. capital one scrambling to fix a glitch that's showing duplicate charges on customers' accounts. this impacts debit card transactions. issues with transactions started yesterday morning. the bank said their tech team is

all hands on deck to find the problem, however, there's to word when a fix is actually going to be coming. capital one says kuf s customer not be responsible for fees related to the duplicate charges which in many cases involved hundreds of dollars. street this morning. the dow jones industrial average cracked the 25,000 mark for the first time ever. in fact, the average has jumped 36% since president trump's election in november of 2016. experts say the rally has been fueled by profits, slaccelerated economic growth and enacted tax cut for businesses. mark zuckerberg says fixing bad things happening on facebook is his personal challenge for 2018. the head of the social media network posted all the details on, of course, his facebook page saying the menlo park-based company has a lot f o work to do in the new year including

protecting the community from abuse and hate. "my personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing important issues. we will not mix all mistakes or abuse but currently make too many errors preventing misuse of our tools. if we're successful this year, we'll end 2018 on a much better trajecto trajectory." would you pay 16 bucks for water, untreated water? why it's selling off of shelves including in the bay area. the reason food safety experts are issuing a warning today. here's a live look from our sutro camera. speaking of water, when is it going to be falling from the sky

now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. >> getting lost this morning in some of our minds was the fog as we got lost during the morning commute because it was pretty thick in some areas. you can still see it out there as we look from the east bay hills camera to the east across the san ramon valley and mt. diablo. visibility two miles in concord and santa rosa. at least it wasn't as dangerous as it was this morning, when it was down to less than an eighth of a mile. we have the big picture of the cold front coming in tonight, that's going to bring our next weather maker. until then, see the haze hanging out there. not a spare the air day. that's a lot of humidity left over from yesterday/this morning's showers. it's going to remain humid and mild today with scattered light showers the rest of the day. might want to take an umbrella, you may need it, but more like lou you won't. tracking the potential for a

stronger tomorrow early next ye week. 55 in lakeport, the cool spot this afternoon. warm spot, concord, livermore, san jose, at 64 degrees. notice there's not a lot of green on the map. isolated showers. in fact, we've seen sunshine from time to time across the south bay. as we head throughout the day, it will be mostly cloudy with a little more sunshine possible near 4:00. the clouds will start to thicken as the next storm approaches with those scattered showers at 9:00. also up to midnight. look how more prevalent the green and the yellows and oranges, moderate showers are, tonight, with temperatures from 48 santa rosa, to 54 in other places like san jose. let's go hour by hour. see our best chance with the southerly flow bumping up against the north bade mountains. showers there. for the rest of us random showers through 4:00. even the rest of the evening commute. we get up to about 2:30, 37k :0n the morning when the next wave starts to move in. 4:00 it's really here and going to rain during the morning commute.

will mean ponding on the ro roadways. couple hundredhs of an inch from the random showers. look what happens as we get deeper into the morning. everybody's going to be wet except for the south bay. this storm is coming in from the north so the north bay is going to take the brunt of the wet weather. see from a couple hundredths in the south bay, to nearly a quarter to a third of an inch around the bay to a half an inch to two-thirds of an inch in the north bay. now as we head through friday into the evening hours, see it tapers and by saturday morning, it's out of here. we'll deal with some drier conditions saturday and sunday. not completely sunny, but definitely drier. then that storm coming in for early next week, right now a 2. moderate on our storm impact scale. we'll have a little heavier rain and a little gustier winds. still don't think it's going to be damaging, but it's going be a little bit stronger than the last two storms or at least yesterday's storm and tonight's storm. >> how i like it because you missed the weekend. >> yeah. wasn't that nice? >> thank you for doing that. >> nice doughnut hole of dry conditions. >> doesn't always work out that way but appreciate it. we're going to talk about water but in a different way.

untreated water. that is selling for $16 per 2 1/2 gallon jug. guess what, flying off shelves. it's called raw water. it's marketed as fresh water straight from the spring. however, food safety experts say beware, they say it's a matter of time before someone gets sick. >> deer and bear and raccoons and whatnot don't really think about where they're doing their business and it may well be in the stream right upstream from where you're getting that bottle of water. >> despite the health risks, silicon valley investors are funding these raw water startups and people are still buying the product. rainbow grocery in san francisco says for the past six months, it's been selling raw water from an oregon-based company called live water. and the only thing they have left in stock, the dispensers. those sell for about 60 bucks. go figure. ayesha curry setting the record straight. the reason she does not want to

be called a basketball wife.

reminder we're on 24/7 on our abc 7 news app and abc7news.com. on our website, in light of the morning quake in berkeley, we

posted video of a usgs official explaining how active the hayward fault is. i found this really interesting. if you're logging on to abc7news.com from your phone, be sure to download the news app to get breaking news alerts then tune in for our latest news and weather on our next newscast which happens at 4:00 p.m. she juggles all sorts of titles and roles, celebrity chef, author, model, tv host, restauranteur. there's one thing ayesha curry doesn't waunt you to call her. >> one of the titles you didn't say is nba life. >> no, i -- >> that's not really a title in your view. >> no, i don't think i'll ever call myself that because i feel like, i mean, i don't think my husband would call himself chef's wife. >> there you go. >> curry appeared on abc 7's "nightline" last night and says her mother always told her to never lose yourself inside of your marriage. looks like she took that advice. her husband, of course, nba superstar steph curry, she also says she's happy she's been able to find a balance, be able to

pursue her passion and also, you know, take care of her family. why shouldn't she? >> yeah. >> i think that strength is probably something that steph likes in her, too. >> she always does so great in the interviews, handles herself so well. i don't know why we're not best friends. ayes ayesha, call me. have a great day, everybody.

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