dispute. >> investigators are trying to determine how and why this fire started. >> two residents next door to the building on menker avenue had to be rescued by firefighters when they were trapped by smoke and flames. >> david louie is at the scene, and loud arguments had broke n out just as the fire broke out. >> indeed, christian and dan, and they say that the tenants of the place where the fire had started had been having a loud argument, and the nature unknown. the woman trapped by the fires told us that she was prepared to jump from the second-story window, but she didn't have to, because the fire department got here very quickly. a passerby shot this cell phone video showing the smoke billow fwrg the melker apartment complex. moments before, neighbors said they heard a argument before the fire broke out. >> the smoke is pitch black, and

the chemicals and intense and it was awful. it was just very, very tense here. >> reporter: multiple calls came into the 911 dispatchers that the woman in the next unit was trapped. >> we have smoke from the apartment and the next door neighbor is trapped. >> reporter: that woman is magdalena guzman and she has lived here for 23 years. >> translator: she got really scare and the smoke in the apartment was very dark and she wanted to go to the room and see if anyone would help her out. >> reporter: she was rescued by a firefighter who set up a ladder to the window. >> we were in rescue mode and went to second alarm and rescued using a ladder two women from the upstairs next-door unit no the fire unit. >> reporter: her pug named tiny was also rescued down the ladder and another tenant saved her family of hamsters. >> i had to get the babies out. >> reporter: what do they mean to you. >> they are my whole world. >> reporter: and a construction wo

worker on a job nearby said that he saw a half naked man running from the scene as the fire started. >> another guy comes after the guy saying, hey, why did you do this, blah, blah and jumped into one of the neighbor's backyards and disappeared. >> disappeared. >> reporter: and with possible ties to the fire, he has been placed on a 72-hour psychiatric hold for evaluation. that person has not been arrested however, and another resident did suffer some injuries and went to the hospital. in san jose, david louie, nbc 7 news. >> thank you. and firefighters are in alameda fire saved homes from a fast-growing grass fire. sky 7 was over crow canyon and cull canyon roads. the fire is in dry grass, and they quickly saved homes on crown's court, and quick response from alameda fire, and cal fire kept the three-acre grass fire from becoming a home

fire. they are using drones the try to identify the cause of this fire. and fire danger is ratcheting up once again as we are looking live outside with the embarcadero and san francisco, and nbc news meteorologist sandy patel is here, and this time of the year, we are usually out of the woods. >> yes, the fire danger period is getting extended, because it is unseasonably dry. and it is going to be the north and the east bay hills and also for solano and lake county and with the gusts out of the north and northeast and 40 to 60 miles per hour, and low humidity and any fires that do result will spread rapidly, and lake county and solano county will be involved. and now, look at the humidity in the hills, 12% at the peak, hais why there is a concern at the lower elevation, because it is dry.

15% at livermore and 15% in concord and we are facing critical fire condition especially heading kristen? >> thank you. the evening b.a.r.t. commute is getting on schedule after a scare in rockridge station the. a strange package was reported at 3:30, and the train was swept and nothing harmful was and trains however were backed up on the antioch line, and trains should be back to normal any moment now. and we have learned that oakland police have arrested a bombing suspect charged with targeting the officers with a huge march in july to protest the fatal stabbing of at b.a.r.t. station. >> reporter: the protest march drew 1,000 people on the evening of july 23rd, and they gathered at the b.a.r.t. station to

demand justice for the fatal stabbing of wilson the day before. a large crowd there, and police were there to facile the tate the event and ensure public safety. officers converged to keep the peace, and suddenly someone threw an improvised device into the skirmish line. and sky 7 shows the plume of smoke and the mayhem below. >> we were his target. the police officers were his target. >> reporter: 10 officers injured. for three months the oakland police with the help of the fbi tried to identify and track down the suspect and difficult, because he used street aliaseses and move around a lot. but good old fashioned police work, and security camera footagep and the sky aerials helped to arrest geovany gaines who police say carried the bomb. lieutenant james beer who was also injured in the bomb attack

a headed the probe. he says that security camera footage shows a juvenile accompli accomplice. >> we saw gaines pull up with a a 12 or 13-year-old and remove the object from the backpack and hand it for the 13-year-old and then the light it. you can see the 13-year-old throw it. >> the juvenile was the first to be arrested and then gaines was taken into custody and charged last week. vick lee, abc 7 news. and new questions about the shooting in the veteran's home in yountville seven months ago, and you may remember that three staffers died after being killed by a former patient. and we are looking into a deeper report, and wayne freedman is live in yountville tonight with a d the story. >> thank you, wayne n. is a a quadruple homicide and suicide and officer-involved shooting and that one of the reasons that the investigation and the reports have taken eight months, and we have not seen all of it. residents describe this as a really good day at the veterans

home, and a gourmet luncheon in the dining hall, and now the sight of another vacant building filled with heartache >> this case has been trying. >> and sergeant sanchez filled in the details of a complete report of three clinicians and unborn baby and angry former patient and the nonprofit pathway home for veterans with ptsd, and it took 5 1/2 hours that day for law enforcement to suspect confirm that albert wong had shot himself. >> he is the shooter and the one response obl for the death of the three clinicians. >> they have not released the entire report but it was a question of how a former patient could enter the treatment center well armed after making threats against the people they had killed. >> it is hard if a threat has been made ift oiome to reality. >> and john dun sbar coming to the yountville, and pathway home which has ceased operations.

>> we have heard from the clinicians who were put in some level of peril from the threats almost on a regular basis. >> there had been no reports of violence insooide of the pathwa home in eight years, and a according to the former board member jennifer brewster. >> i don't believe that you could have stopped anybody that day. >> and now the veterans home has no guard or checkpoint at the front gate, but since the killings, the highway patrol is increasing the presence here. does this feel like a safer place today? >> i would say yes. >> it is a tempered one, and too many bad remnants of the memories of the loved ones lost. >> there is no closure after losing the friends and colleagues like we did. >> today, spokesman for pathway home said that when albert wong left the prole gram, he left the support system that might have prevented this tragedy. live in yountville, wayne freedman, a bshgs krshbc 7 news

thank you. and a woman convicted of multiple fraud cases is convicted again. she has been convicted of meeting men through korean dating web sites and later calling the police to accuse them of domestic violence. when the man was arrested, she would steal his belongings, and disappear. she was arrested in june in palo alto and had been on the run after failing to appear for a court appearance. an oakland man who was in prison for a murder he did not commit as been eligible for $350,000 from the state. he was convicteded of shooting two men in 2010. he had been identified by two witnesses, including a police officer as a man picked up bay nearby car and drifen from the scene. >> it appears that the police officer which objectively, it seems appears to put the

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>> voters approved proposition c which is a corporate tax to raise money from the largest companies and moneys to fund homeless services. >> around in mountain view, proposition p passed to pay for transit projects. >> so do you think that the big businesses should pay more to pay for the xhup communities or drive them away? you can go to abc7news.com/vote to participate. and 67% saying they should pay more. >> and chris nguyen has been looking deeper r at proposition p meantime, and he is live in mountain view with more. chris? >> hi, kristen, and proponents say it is long overdue, and in fact, here in mountain the view, the city had not updated the business tax since 1954 and however, the opponents say that they are not too sure that this head tax was the right way to go. tonight, a convincing win for

proponents of the so-called head tax in mountain view. >> traffic is terrible. people have to commute great distances to work here. >> reporter: and the proposal is going to allow the city to charge taxes per employee based on the progressive scale, and the more employ the rate. google would play $149 per person. the tax overall should generate $6 million a year to alleviate the traffic problems caused by the growth of companies like google. >> we need to build an advanced transit center and a guide that we need to build. >> a although some are not so big on the plan. >> and it is going to discourage them from growing in their jurisdiction. >> some are seeing if it could work for them. sunnyvale is host of linked-n and some say that the cities should put a pause on the tax.

>> it is going to a make the infrastructure and services that make it more productive would increase the land value, and so land tax is better. >> this is a proposal that saw little opposition from company likes google which stayed quiet. >> they want transit and housing with the employees, and we are trying to be helpful with that and the tax is the way to do it. >> city officials also hope to upgrade the transit center ter behind me, and the tax would go into effect or will go into effect, i should say, on january 1st, 2020 with the slow rollout over three years. we are in mountain view tonight. i'm chris nguyen tonight, abc 7 news. thank you, chris. and we invite you the participate in the poll abc 7.com/vote if bay area businesses should have taxes in place, and 71% say yes.

for first time in state history three women have been elected in the state executive branch. the we will have the first lieutenant governor in state history. >> state comptroller, and meaning that the women are just one position away from becoming the majority. and now, we have a look at recalled windshield wipers. >> they recall ed some, but should it have been a lot more? general motors is facing litigation over windshield wi r wipers recalled two years. the national highway and transportation agency isb looking into whether the recalled 2013 suvs like this one who had detective wipers, and the federal officials want to know if the recall should have included 1.7 million vehicles,

and the officials are now checking the wipers on the chevrolet, and equinox, and suv terrains from 2010 all of the way to 2016. technology to identify and fag suspected robocalls is on the way as soon as next year. now, it is called shake and stir the. it won't stop the u calls altogether, but it is going to flag them as potentially flawed yu lent, and you decide whether to answer the phone or not, and consumer reports says that the system will work on land and cell line, and this is a big but, but scammers can still spoof legitimate numbers which is not flagged as fraudulent. y shoppers who paid for shopping with their credit cards are still paying them off this year. despite the debt, shoppers plan to spend about $116 more this

year than they planned to spend last year. about half of us admit to overspending on the holiday gift, but 16% say they regret it. yeah, so. i don't know. >> thank you, michael. >> on to the weather. >> now your accuweather forecast forecast. >> it does not feel like holiday shopping season yet. it is unseasonably mild for this time of the year. good evening. doi want to show you a lovely picture from mt. tam as the sun has set. the temperatures in the kcomfor zone, and 71 in san francisco and oakland and pacifica, you are are cooling at 56. look at the u butbeautiful shot the east bay hills camera. going from napa to santa rosa and livermore at 69, and the high so far today from the low 60s to the low 80s. here is a look at the live doppler 7, and yes, a couple of passing clouds, a on the other hand rain to speak of.

we certainly need the rain and we don't see anything in the near future. and now, the kgo roof is looking at the tower atop telegraph hill, and turning windy tonight. and the high fire danger through friday morning, and a sunny and high temperature through the x next seven days. and this time of the year, things can change rapidly, so stay tuned. now, looking at the hour by hour forecast, you can see that winds are increasing from 25 to 26 miles an nour the lower elevations and increasing to more up to 36 at calistoga, and you will see that around the commute and beyond that, it is going to be gusty, and so you want to hang on the steering wheel and allow some extra time in case trees or power lines topple. 9:00 a.m., you are looking at the gusty winds and a down sloping wind that is going to increase the fire danger. thursday night into friday, the winds come back up again and then they decrease as we head into the early part of friday. tomorrow, the 12-hour planner,

hour by hour, the sun up at 6:43 and the temperatures in the 40s and the 50s and midday mild and windy in the hills for the afternoon hours and the temperatures are in the upper 60s to the up r 70s. tomorrow morning, the winds in the hills and around lake and solano counties and the temperatures are all over the board, and where the wind is coming off of the land and blowing towards the ocean, and that down sloping wind is going to hold the temperatures up in san francisco, oakland and in low 50s and places like yu caip down to the lower 50s. and morgan hill, and pretty high in middle view there. and 69 in pacifica. the coast is clear tomorrow afternoon, and 69 in the sunset district, and 74 downtown san francisco, and north bay temperatures are mid-70s napa and novato and santa rosa. and 74 in oakland and newark inland a area, and concord and livermore. this is a look at the last six

hours, the high pressure is locked in, and blocking high and blocking the storms from getting here and everything going into the pacific northwest and right now the models are potentially going to be dry for the next seven days. you download the accuweather app and track the temperatures any time you want. the seven-day forecast. the high fire danger tomorrow, and heading into the weekend, and the temperatures will fluctuate little and the veterans day is looking dry. that dry spell is carrying over into the midweek next week. since we can't change it, i say enjoy it. >> yes. >> and so we are desperate for the rain no doubt about it, but we can't change it. so you know. >> thank you so much, sandy. >> and a lot of people wonder, what w

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reporter who angered president trump this morning. >> and a woman wearing a maroon dress tried to take the microphone from jim asking a question, and sarah sanders just revoked his white house credentials in a series of tweets. president trump expects a free press and will always a always questions, but will not tolerate a reporter putting his hands on a white house intern. and acosta said t >> and now, over land and water, the gray bmw lost control of the launch pad, and plunged into the water. this happened monday at 10:30. a chp an officer in pursuit shouted for the driver to return

to shore, and said that he is away from the kcar, and surrendered after being in the water, and waded in there and arrest arrested him and he posted it to the facebook page with caption on land, air or sea, you can't run from the chp. the historic sign in san jose has gone miss iing and the community is furious. the orchard supply hardware store with went missing from this post yesterday morning. the store the originally opened on san car low street in 1946 and the sign was installed after that. in february, all of the stores had been shutdown after being bought down by lowe's. ken jager is hoping for the the return of the beloved sign. >> it is a big sign. we have heard from some of the people that are nearby that they saw somebody with a big truck somehow enter the property, and cut the wires and took the sign away. so we are des pperately trying figure out what happened to it

and preserve it. >> google who owns the property, and hillco who is liquidating the store says they don't have the sign. >> curiouser, and curiouser, and a small surreal world and sku sculptures that have great dramas here. >> and you can see this picture from san francisco. you share your pictures with us, and you may see it on air or online at abcnews.com. and also "the view" preempted by the news conference

coming up oop abc 7 news at 6:00, could new taxes help build the bay area. and the prop that the voters pass and the unintended

consequences. also -- >> it is stagnant for too long and the residents are ready for a change. >> and oakland is preparing fors like it has not seen for years, but one thing will remain in pla place. matt chapman has are received honors that no oakland player has received before. we will have that coming up. >> thank you. and we will take you inside of the fairytale factory. >> curious contraptions is the new exhibit that opens tomorrow at san francisco's exploritorium. >> it features mechanical sculptures that tell a short story or myth or fairytale. >> and nine artists collaborated on this display. and the mythical machines are operated by >> you can see the parts and i it comes together as a beautiful story. >> the exhibit runs through

january 20th. very koolt. >> shades of da vinci. >> and we tonight, breaking developments. president trump's attorney general is forced out. tonight, jeff sessions leaving the justice department, just moments ago. just one day after the midterms, president trump asking his attorney general to resign. tonight, the phone call to sessions. the message from the president. and now, what does this mean for the mueller investigation? also tonight, president trump's combative news conference, declaring victory in the midterms. picking up senate seats, but losing the house. and the president's message tonight to republicans who did not embrace him and then lost. the dangerous hotel gas leak. several sickened. firefighters rushing to the scene. the fight in the classroom. the teacher allegedly provoked and then taking on the student,