this morning. investigators say the fire was not set on purpose but they have yet to determine the cause. good evening. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm kristen sze. the fire broke out around 2:00 this morning at the home on delano and san juan avenue near the city college campus in balboa park. abc 7 news reporter vic lee is live with more and what we've learned about this tragedy. vic? >> reporter: kristen, we're told that the fire was contained mostly to the front portion of the house. the two residents, the father and the daughter, had to be taken by firefighters through the back of the home. we are told that they died from smoke inhalation. >> the young woman arrived at the hospital. she was pronounced dead. and about 30 minutes ago we found out that the father had just passed away as well. >> reporter: that sad news came this afternoon. ricardo ron and his 23-year-old daughter camilla perished in the fire.

ron's wife died several years ago from cancer. an entire family gone. >> i knew the girl when she was like a little toddler and they were really good people. i hate that this happened to them. >> reporter: the fire broke out shortly after 2:00 this morning. father and daughter were still in the house when firefighters got to them. camilla was pronounced dead at the hospital. her father was in critical condition. >> i opened my door and i saw a firefighter pass through. >> the fireman came and banged on our door, get out, get out. >> reporter: this family lives right next door. the fire charred the side of their home. they've known their neighbors for some 20 years. camilla had just started law school. >> she started just three weeks ago. it breaks my heart this happened to her. >> look at this one. the father and her, see. i want to keep this. >> reporter: the neighbor

discovered a jewel in the rubble. a photo album. something she'll treasure forever. >> camilla is beautiful. >> reporter: this neighborhood is an old tight knit community. everyone knows one another. the loss so tragic, the pain so intense. and so sad. this is indeed a very close community. i mean, this is a neighborhood that even shuts down the streets for halloween. there's even a fourth of july parade that runs through here. this has been a terrible loss who lives here. our hearts go out to them. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> as one of the neighbors said, life can change in an instant. chp officers still investigating a frightening and firy situation in the north bay. >> it was a collision that involved two cars just after 8:00 a.m. on northbound 101 near st. vincent's drive near

marinwood. reporter wayne freedman joins us live with the latest. wayne? >> reporter: good evening. this story has changed throughout the day. we haven't had a lot of facts until the last hour, now a better picture of what happened. we still don't noknow the namesf the mother and two children injured in the accident. the little boy was 3 years old. his sister was 6 years old. they're both in the hospital as is their mother. they owe their lives tonight to three good samaritans, three witnesses, who saw this accident, got out of their cars, got into the ravine and pulled these people out after burning vehicle. this was the suv this morning at the bottom of a ravine. when the fire department, a california highway patrol arrived, they found the female driver in very bad shape at the top of the hill 80 feet above. >> she was conscious. she was able to talk to our paramedics on our helicopter a little bit in transit. definitely major. >> reporter: nor was the woman alone in the car.

rescuers found her 3-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter on the shoulder of the road. the boy was unconscious. tonight the chp confirms the three witnesses stopped and pulled everyone from the burning wreckage. >> anytime you have children involved, it brings a different level to the crash, so it's a tough one. >> reporter: witnesses say it all happened around 8:30 this morning when the suv rear-ended a car ahead of it, bounced off the center divide, crossed all lanes and tumbled into the ravine t. remained almost three hours based on worries there might be another person inside or perhaps beneath it. only after confirming that there were three victims and not four did a wrecking crew haul up the suv and take it away. by then the traffic jam extended two miles. >> and we're going to be leading right into our afternoon commute anyway. i would anticipate anybody going northbound 101 should expect delays. >> reporter: okay. so here's the latest news on this. the woman went by helicopter to john muir trauma center.

the 3-year-old boy to oakland children's hospital. the 6-year-old girl to marin general hospital. we have no updates on their conditions and we would love to talk to those people who saved their lives. live in san rafael right on the border, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> wayne, thank you. the suspect in the shooting death of a popular san leandro man appeared in court today. prosecutors have charged 34-year-old peter trevinia four counts with a semiautomatic firearm. he opened fire outside an oakland bar early last saturday during a dispute with another man. four people were hit by gunfire including 46-year-old mario perez sr. he was trying to defuse the situation and died on the way to the hospital. we have a link on our website, abc7news.com. >> we'll talk about the weather.

>> here is meteorologist sandhya patel. we had slippery roads earlier. kristen and larry, it is quieting down. we have some leftover clouds. taking you back in time, though, you will notice the spotty showers that came through the bay area. i know some people are reporting they saw wet weather and others are saying they didn't see a drop. .06 in mill valley. no measurable rain. half moon bay, .07 of an inch. kristen? >> thank you, sandhya. you can stay on top of the rising temperatures anytime with the abc 7 news app free to download. make sure you enable push alerts.

homelessness and possible solutions. something we've been focusing on as part of our efforts to build a better bay area and in walnut creek they've designated two officers to work on what they call a homeless beat. >> so far they're encouraged by the results and other east bay cities are consulting with them on this person-to-person approach. abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley rode along with them on patrol today. leslie? >> reporter: like you said, it's all about communication, getting to know these homeless people by their names, learnheir m about their personal lives. so the officers can get them into the agencies or services that will help them get out of the spiral of homelessness. we rode along on patrol today. >> how is your day going? >> slow. >> yeah? >> anybody giving you money or food? no? >> reporter: what do you think when they come up o? fir i was wriedha they ask.

>> last we spoke you were doing pretty good and you said there was housing coming and were you just waiting. i wanted to find out how we can move this forward. >> he's doing really well and i'm really proud of him. guess what, we're not getting six calls a day of a drunk laying in the cross walk, are we? >> reporter: try to get you help. >> yeah. they've been very nice to me. wave at me. stop traffic if i'm stuck in the crosswalk. the whole thing. >> reporter: 60% of the calls coming in to walnut creek police are now about transients. >> there's another huge encampment down there we haven't been to. >> reporter: they moved out of camp on jones roage 680. this is the carnage left behind. >> kitchen racks, propane

bottles i'm sure are from ace hardware. >> reporter: mattresses, sofas, discarded clothes. >> in martinez they have a clean clothes program. you pick out the clothes you want but you have to give your dirty clothes in that are soiled and they get thrown out so this doesn't happen. >> the last individual i talked to on north main street, i said, what are you doing here? to make money. how much did you make? $80. how long have you been here? 20 minutes. why did you come to walnut creek? i can make more machime money h. what do you say to that? >> reporter: police say if someone homeless is out in this affluent community holding up a sign saying anything will help, they can make $40 an hour during the holiday season it could be $100 an hour. they've seen people giving out $100 bill. doling out money will not help. much bettory douer to donate to

agencies who help the homeless. we ran into an arrest situation with a homeless man possessing meth just steps away from the shopping center. i'll have that story coming up at 6:00 tonight. in walnut creek, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. an american airlines mechanic accused of sabotaging a jet has been denied bail because of, quote, potential terrorism sympathies. he appeared in court in miami today. new evidence presented by prosecutors include information that he has a brother in iraq who may be involved with isis along with statements he made about wishing harm on non-muslims. he is not charged with a terror related crime. prosecutors claim he disabled the plane's navigation system because he was upset over stalled contract negotiations. the plane did not take off and no one was hurt. police in pennsylvania looked into the sexual assault allegations against new england

patriots receiver antonio brown, but they will not be filing any criminal charges. brown's former trainer brittany taylor filed a lawsuit against brown. a detective reached out after the suit became public. an investigation can't move forward because of an issue with the statute of limitations. brown's allegation is more than two years old stemming from an incident in june of 2017. brown spent a brief period of time with the raiders, has denied the allegations. it's unclear, if anything, what the nfl will do. brown made his debut with the patriots this weekend. new developments, governor newsom has signed a highly controversial piece of legislation to give wage and benefit protection to drivers who work for on-demand ride services and gig economy workers. the governor's office tweet this had photo of newsom signing the bill today. the legislation makes it tougher asdentonacomhey donavebefi insam

compies like trucking firms ander industries lobbied intensely against ab-5. governor newsom says he's ready to go to court to fight the trump administration's plans to revoke california's authority to set car emission standards. in washington, d.c., congress was also focusing on the environment and climate change today. >> i don't want to you listen to me. i want to you listen to the scientists. and i want you to unite behind the science. and then i want to you take real action. >> that is greta, a 16-year-old climate activist from sweden. she traveled to the united states from sweden on a zero emissions sale boat, a two-week voyage. she wanted to personally deliver the intergovernmental panel onl politicians. increased more than three degrees since before

the industrial revolution. she will speak at the united nations climate action summit on monday. >> sometimes children's voices are louder. >> yeah. students at one vallejo school went days without a math teacher. the superintendent tells us his fix for the problem. amazon rolling out a new feature that allows customers to pay with cash. cash? how that works coming up. some friends were hoping for a fun weekend in joshua tree, but they were in for an unpleasant surprise when they arrived at their airbnb.

the vallejo school district says it's fixed the go of that let 150 seventh gradeers to miss math class for most of last week. >> they got an extra helping of p.e. >> reporter: wednesday means the kids get out at 1:30 instead of

3:00 at solano middle school. it means tomorrow their seventh grade math teacher comes back. >> we had a math teacher who had to go out on leave for a couple weeks. >> reporter: but her subtraction added up to a headache when they ran out of substitute teachers. >> there were a few days there was not coverage for the class, and then kids were, in fact, sent to the gym during those days. >> reporter: spes ofcally three days last week administrators at the school decided to give about 150 seventh graders an hour of extra gym class because there was no one to teach math. clark says that was a mistake. >> that's not part of our policy sending kids to the gym. once we became aware of that, we put in corrective measures to address that. >> reporter: the mother of a seventh grader says that's not the only mistake they made. il to let surprised to find out us know what's going on with the students. >> that is an area that we

dropped the ball on and so we're working to rectify the situation to ensure that doesn't happen again. >> reporter: when there's no substitute available other teachers will give up their one-hour prep period to cover when teachers are out or administrators will have to go back into the classroom for the day. the superintendent, dr. clark, says no one here is being reprimanded over the incident, but he is making sure that on this campus and every other in the school district they know now what the correct policy should be. in vallejo, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> hopefully all squared away there. we have a lot of math right here. >> yeah, it's beyond me but meteorologist sandhya patel knows the math like this. >> i was good at math when i wa. i don't know about now.no we have some clouds but we're beginning to see more blue sky and the day is going on and that's going to be trend going into the overnight hours. here is a look at what's happening around redding, just south of mt. shasta, numerous

thunderstorms pushing through. take a look at the tahoe area. they're seeing some showers, a little bit of snow activity at the highest elevations. we're talking 9,000 feet. that snow level will be coming down as we head to tomorrow and snow as low as 7,500 to 8,000 feet. now tonight if you are stepping out, you want to take your dog out for a walk, wondering about the weather, we do have cloud cover around still. you can put away the umbrellas. it will be cool out there, 60 a live look from our east bay hills camera looking at a mix of sun and clouds looking to mt. diablo now and a lovely view, certainly brightening up. 68 in san francisco. 72 in redwood city. 73 in san jose. we are looking at a mix of sun and lingering clouds. it is right now livermore 72 degrees, starting to feel like

fall out there. no doubt about it. we are seeing some peeks of sun out there. areas of fog will form overnight. sunny and breezy tomorrow afternoon. a much warmer pattern come friday and saturday. 6:00 tonight, the clouds are shifting out. 5:00 a.m. you see the fog first thing in the morning. it's going to be confined to the coast and parts of the east bay. at 8:00 a.m. pulling away from the north bay coast but for the rest of you dealing with that fog. watch out in the morning and then for the afternoon it's nothing but sunshine. for everyone, mid-50s right around the coast, the bay. coolest spots in the north bay valleys, upper 40s. in the inland east bay you will see temperatures dropping down to the low 50s. you will need a sweater or a jacket out the door. tomorrow afternoon 68 in san francisco. 65 in half moon bay. it's going to be breezy. 76 in san rafael getting you up to the low 80s, santa rosa, fair field, concord. 78 degrees in san jose. if you're missing the warmth,

look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. it's coming back. not so much tomorrow but the warming trend on friday will push the temperatures into the low 90s. mid-90s inland. by saturday 70s at our beaches. sunday is a cooler day as we're getting ready to shift seasons. monday fall begins and those temperatures will go right back up again. it's going to be a warming trend that pushes those numbers up into the mid-90s inland by tuesday and wednesday low to mid-70s right near our beaches. we're just all about changing it up. >> all right. >> that's fine. that's good. that's the way it works. >> speaking of changing it up. something super amazing, new and cool on the midday show tomorrow because tomorrow on abc 7 we have a special edition of midday live. it's a hamilton takeover. join us as reggie aqui and i broadcast live from the theater in san francisco and take you behind the scenes of this broadway phenomenon. we have planned interviews with the stars and we follow one of them around to see how she

prepares for her role. here is a first look in a day in the life of sabrina sloan. >> 4:00 i'll start my warm-up. it's probably half an hour. do a lot of rapping in the show. if you're talking a lot during the day, you're rapping a lot, it's easy to kind of wear out the voice so i have to strengthen the whole voice. very much like being an athlete. to be self-evidence that everyone is created equal. >> sabrina is incredible in the show. i saw it a couple weeks ago. she plays angelica. you'll see her entire day up until she walks through the stage doors. all the good stuff starts at 11:00 a.m. on midday live right after "the view." >> that is very cool. that's going to be fun. >> so excited. tune in. >> are you going to sing?

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a man and his friends arrived at their rental home. half of it burned down. >> airbnb is responding. our abc sister station has the story. >> reporter: this is the weekend getaway home they were hoping for when they booked back in august. it's known as divinity rising, a picturesque dome house located in joshua tree. >> we wanted to just hang out at a nice airbnb, relax and go swinging and have a fun weekend. >> reporter: it's not the home they arrived to find this past saturday. >> we could only see the top half of the house and it looked cool. we could see a giant dome. when we got closer we saw the front of the house and it was completely destroyed.

the doors were kicked in. the windows were smashed. hatch the building was burn down with cars and trash along the front. >> reporter: they discovered there had been a report of a fire on august 29th, but a quick online search turned up even more information. >> several articles relating to a honey oil explosion and that's how we found out about the hosts being arrested. >> reporter: their next call was to airbnb for help. >> we spent two hours arguing with the representatives to try to help us. >> reporter: they found another airbnb nearby. he says his friend who initially booked the home had to pay an additional $400 to stay on such short notice. after eyewitness news reached out, they sent us this statement. we regret our initial handling of this incident did not meet the high standards we set for ourselves and agiunepeence. we've completely refunded miss spencer's trip and provided an additional booking coupon.

>> more consumer news now, amazon is making it easier for customers to purchase goods online using cash. >> i know. somebody has to explain and i know just the person. 7 on your side's michael finney is here. >> i am fascinated. we have all these brick and mortar guys trying to quit taking cash and they're coming up with a plan. this will be good for some people. listen to how this works. amazon, which has long been known for credit and debit card friendliness, cash not so much. today it announced it is teaming up with western union to help customers who want to pay with cash. the new service rolled out today is called amazon pay code. shoppers will be able to make a purchase on amazon and get a then they have that code at a local western union. most of us are cutting the cord

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on abc 7 news at 6:00, the mess on van ness could be deployed another two years. and with recycle centers shutting down almost impossible to receive bottle deposits. 7 on your side investigates all coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00. larry and kristen? if you're trying to decide what to have f dtial cheeseburger day. >> some of the chain restaurants offering deals today. applebee's, the habit and jack-in-the-box. so check them out. i think you get a free burger if you purchase something, anything, on their app. >> i'm not familiar.

>> "world news" is next. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. tonight, chilling new reporting. the airline worker who allegedly tried to sabotage a passenger jet. that flight set to take off from the u.s. and the maintenance worker accused of trying to tamper with the flight moments before takeoff. prosecutors now saying tonight alleged videos of isis killings on his phone. and word of a brother in isis. the tropical storm slamming texas and the gulf right now. up to two feet of rain possible in some places. drivers and cars submerged. dangerous winds. planes upside down. and the hurricane stl chni in the atlantic, now a cat 3. and tonight, several other tropical threats. ginger zee tracking them all. president trump tonight ordering new sanctions on iran. his secretary of state now calling that massive attack on oil facilities a, quote, act of war. the new warning.