county is reopened but they could close it again if flames from the tell thell thaell tha t direction. the fire has burned 50,000 acres of brush and timber. several neighborhoods north of redding are evacuated. good morning. here's a quick update on weather and traffic. >> i want to take a look at the wind in marin county. you see the winds are gusty at 27 miles an hour at mt. tamapais. now, at the lower levels we have a little sea breeze this morning. that's indicative of fairfievyb.

notice how is hardly soet ready for your showers in the accuweather planner. we'll stay from the upper 60s to mid-70s around the bay. and all of us, grab a jacket, 50s and 60s. hee's alexis. >> we already have two slow spots. one is the bay bridge toll plaza. we always see that this time of day before they get a few more booths open. you're use fast track, you're just fine. we're expecting the metering lights on around 5:15, 5:20. 580, tracy to dublin, 31 minutes. antioch to concord, 13 minutes on 4. happening now, the nation is

pausing to remember one of the worst days in our history. today marks 17 years since the september 11th terror attacks. >> here's a live look at the 9/11 memorial in new york city. at 5:44 this morning a moment of silence will be held to mark the exact moment 17 years ago when the first plane hit the north tower of the world trade center. when that happens we'll go live to an abc news special report. here's abc news reporter kendis gibson. >> reporter: two years laters, the attacks are taking a staggering toll on first responders. they were exposed to tox dust and debris in what one retired agentspl ca. renrom 9/11-related illnesses. that's more than eight times more than those who died on the

day of the attacks. there's a large case in recent months with 18 firefighters dying in the last year. one officer said it's like bin laden reaching out from the grave. federal agents are also at risk and the fbi director says not enough are seeking help. >> we're only beginning now to understand and witness the long-term effects of that work because nobody knows what tomorrow may bring. >> reporter: 17 years later, there is new home this year for the families who lost loved ones on that day. dna technology is helping identify more remains. >> all the profiles we generate today, these are remains we had no hope of in the past. >> the new york medical examiner's office is allowing them to extract dma from bone fragment, being able to identify hundreds more.

>> this identification commitment is as strong today as pructs fail state safety checks. nearly 11,000 samples were checked, 2,000 failed. some failed. industry experts say the standards are too strict. except some extra traffic, howard street between third and fourth streets will close at 6:00 this morning. it's for a global action climate summit that kicks off tomorrow. governor brown is hosting the even. he said he wants to bring together the world's leading minds. the summit begins tomorrow but lead-up events are already under way. yesterday people gathered at san

francisco's exploratory isco'xp talk about biodiversecity. >> we all live on this planet. >> ta coalition of groups accuss the gov of not doing enough of fracing. new details in the frightening muni bus crash in san francisco. muni says the man is 66 years old who's a long-time driver. we brought this as breaking news yesterday. the bus hit a parked car, snapped a tree and then crashed into a business. janis couldn't believe what was happening right in front of him. >> it was a total shot.

for ten minutes my entire body was shaking. >> the bus driver is being treated for life-threatening injuries and three passengers are recovering after they got hurt. officials hope to learn what went wrong from on-board camera. today san francisco's district attorney will anoups a new safety campaign and this comes after recent ride share attacks from around the bay area. we don't have all the details of the campaign area but we're told a representative from uber will be at today's conference. it's set for 1:00 this afternoon. in the south bay a generation donation is keeping a san jose holiday alive. christmas in the park will be alive due to a $15,000 donation. christmas in the park features hundreds of christmas tree decorated by local schools and groups. we start off with temperatures in the inland area,

mid to upper 50s from walnut crick and out to livermore. 50s fors places like brentwood. brentwood and antioch the warm spots. look from our east bay hills. no low clouds. we're getting off to a sunny start once the sun comes up about 6:45, 6:48. ferry ride will be breezy like yesterday. it will be choppy and we'll see white caps on the bay. comfy to warm. we said the 90s were gone after yesterday. sure enough, they will be. let's focus on san francisco. 59 and sunny. look at the mid-60s during the afteours and upper 60s close to t back up to the 50s during the evening hour. south bay, waking up at 59. we're already 74 by noon and in the upper 70s by the afternoon hours. back to 65 degrees by 8:00. east bay shoreline, a whole lot

of mid to upper 60s after starting off at 58. enjoy the extra surn shine again today. it will be quiet weatherwise for now and things but change in the seven-day ak accuweather foreca. >> just watching some typical busy spots fill in. here's 72 across the san mateo bridge. we did have a sigalert earlier on the eastbound side of 92. folks coming over from the foster city area into hayward before the 880 split, but that cleared and all lanes are back open as of about 30 minutes ago. no residual delays there. mass transit looking good this morning. ongoing gps issues out of the ace. and

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tonight at at&t park. 60 degrees at 60 degrees for first pitch. yesterday we had a fire weather watch. now it's been upgraded. red flag warning. critical fire conditions today through thursday and the areas you see in red. around the rest of the day, mid-80s to upper 80s. 81 in l.a. let's take a look at the seven-day forecast for tahoe. you can see, low 60s by thursday, but back into the 70s by the end of the weekend. in the east bay, an oakland city councilman is calling attention to the homeless crisis. tonight this man will live in a tiny home like that. then lany college students who are homeless will live in the thing. the lanytudes b is thanks to an $80,000 grant.

a recent study more money than most other bigger cities on cleaning up sidewalks and streets. $35 million a year. >> it's a 24-hour operation, 365 days on the year we have to have crews on the ground. >> reporter: the report compared san francisco to eight other communities which average $8 million a year to clean their sidewalks. you can see san francisco spends four times its per capita than los angeles or san jose. the analyst points out san francisco shells out more bucks but gets more in return. >> we measured five core services. and in the other cities, none of them provided those multiple times per week, which we found

to be the case in san francisco. so, it's a serces in power washing, homeless encah san francisco has more than seattle in the city surveyed. another factor contributing to the high cost, san francisco has way more calls for service. 77,000 last year. and according to the report, responding just about as quickly as those with drastically fewer requests. some residents are impressed. >> and i think a lot of people give it a tough time. i see the tax dollars at work. >> reporter: others not so much. >> it's a messy city. i travel a bit. you go to other cities and it's not this dirty. the plans for one to rappel down san francisco's millennium tower to inspect cracks has been pushed back a month. on saturday they'll take a

better look at crack with drone sales. inspectors will try to salvage images from the drone. once the cause of the crack will be determined quickly but it has nothing to do with the bls sinking and tilting issue. there's a new show called "gma day." i got a chance to talk to them before the big debut. they say they want you to forget about the worries of the >> infotainment. you can, check it out for an hour, maybe there's something we left out or a fact you learned and we're teaching you. >> it airs noon to one on abc7 news. >> looks like a whole lot of

fun. >> they were lovely to talk to. >> and they talked to you right before their first show. >> right. >> they were cool as a cucumber. they have a lot of experience. >> you're telling me they hang out outside of work, too. >> yeah. they said prior to this show they have hung out more offscreen than they have in the studio. they know each other pretty well. >> that should translate onto the screen. >> good luck to them. we'll be watching. let's take a look and show you what's going on here. a look at san jose where it's clear, 55 and clear for all of us. a dry cold front will bring us cooler weather tomorrow and thursday and then we'll rebound the afternoon hours and into the evening hours. there may be a few passing clouds but no marine layer clouds. here's a look at our temperatures. we'll have mid to upper 70s in

the south bay. san jose we'll hit 80. jump up to 83 in gilroy. as you head up the peninsula, a lot of mid to upper 70s. we'll have temperatures in the mid 60s along the coast today to 61, the cooler spot and the sunset. how about near 70, upper 60s once again for downtown, south san francisco. low to mid 80s in sonoma. east bay shore, 72 in oakland. 75 in hercules and castro valley. inland, mid to upper 80s. tonight's temperatures, 40s in the valleys again. a better chance of fog there. the rest of us in the upper to low 70s. back into the 60s, 70s and 80s starting friday. couple typic sw mor incidtso tat so farwe're not complaining. 27 miles an hour on 205.

201 miles an hour once you make it to 580. several miles of heavy traffic. no carpool lanes yet but no metering lights yet either. >> thanks. in the east bay the oakland raiders honored two young heroes during the team's season opener. >> thanks to their brave act of family of five, their cats all made it out alive. >> 19-year-old sara and her friend, 17-year-old gabby smith, saw a house on fire as they headed home to livermore last month. they ran into the home and helped the people inside escape the flames. last night they all got together at the coliseum. >> and i'm ecstatic the fact we all got come to this game and support our local sports. i love it. >> the young heroes tell us the family in the burning home had just woken up and probably didn't realize how fierce the fire was. >>ic t see them get that

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seven matinutes away from m accuweather forecast. monster floes monster florence, heading for the outer banks. this is going to create a storm surge that will flood the outer banks and marshy area of north carolina. we'll talk about hawaii coming up next. a portion of the holiday inn in san francisco's fisherman's wharf will be closing in october. the main building at 1300 columbus will be closing, including 242 hotel rooms. the management group for the main building did not renew its lease. the holiday inn express across the street will stay open. san francisco has a new

restaurant thanks to a boost from the city's small program. mayor breed is there to cut the ribbon. she says the city's program helped them with permitting. >> it helps install businesses navigate the crazy, bureaucratic process that exists in city hall perform many of you know about that when it comes to small businesses, when it comes to housing, when it comes to a number of things in order to get something as simple and inkred ibld as this business open. afraid alert involving a popular chain store. the contra costa fraud alert say people are being called from

people saying they are from costco and they ask for personal information, which can then lead to identity theft. the calls appear to be local but they come from outside the bay area. seven mates winutes away fr accuweather forecast. a direct hit from what's going to be a tropical storm with 50-mile-per-hour wind. we'll have wind damage and flooding. as it moves away, a great weekend is going to shape up. looking up north, we have issues in northern napa county. the winds gusting up to 25 miles an hour. bad news for walnut creek drivers. check out this camera, sig letter at 680 at the truck scales. a fedex big rig had its brakes locked up.

it can't move. that's in the three left lanes. chp is on the scene but no estimate when they can clear. i'm having a hard time understanding why they have three lanes down. i'm not sure if they tried to move and he got stuck. that's probably going to be a problem for a while. you can see this backup is growing quickly from pleasant hill into walnut creek. it is a sigalert. three lanes down. we'll talk about alternates coming up at the top of the hour. a new report ranks the most valuable college mayors. >> nobody oumber one on the lis surprise you. actuariaial science with an annl salary of $109,000. zoology is number two, followed by nuclear engineering, health and medical preparatory and mathematics rounds out the top

five. they ranked them based on salary and employment rate. journalism was number 87 on list. that's pretty far down there. >> we should have been hanging out at the zoo. did you know they were making bank? >> nope. if only we could rewind time. we don't have the same smells in this job as they do there. >> at least not every day. hundreds of thousands of north bay residents received the same phone call. next, the new push to alert you during an emergency. east bay crews are headed to the east coast

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grows overnight. >> evacuations are in effect and crews are having a hard time getting to the flames. good morning on this tuesday, september 11th. >> before we check your weather and traffic, we want to tell you about those evacuations that are under way right now. people living in mountain king road, portola avenue and alamo way down to barranca road are being evacuated to schools. >> mike, it would be nice if we had lower winds today. >> it would be nice but right now that's not the case, unfortunately. the higher you go in marin, up to tamalpais, it's gusty and and it's pointing that smoke at san francisco. that will taper throughout the morning and the winds will start blowing more towards the east in the afternoon hours. it's pretty quiet on live doppler 7. the gray mainly inland. we're