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model s and model x. they want to see consumer complaints, software updates and any reported fires. tesla called the fires extraordinarily unusual. the company has until the end of the month to turn over the information or will be fined. reporting live in fremont, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> all right. thanks. dan noyes has a number of exclusive reports about tesla battery fires and reported issues with the autopilot feature, you can find those stories on abc7news.com. >> it is 4:30. if you're just joining us, let's get an update on your weather and traffic. hi, mike. >> hi, everybody. petaluma, fog is creating dangerously low visibility there at less than an eighth of a mile. got a little bit of fog along the coast also as jobina showed you. here's a look at the golden gate bridge. here's a bigger look at what
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you'll be dealing with. visibility down to a couple hundred feet.n. look at these temperatures. we jump from the mid 40s this morning to upper 40s to 62 at the coast, 70 to around the bay. near 70 at the coast. 74 to 78 with bone dry air at 4:00. let's get back to jobina and see if there's issues on the road. >> so far so good. we're taking a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. the cash lanes are starting to pack in there. besides that everything else is moving. if you have fastrak, good for you. the san mateo bridge, the westbound lanes are starting to fill in towards san mateo, other than that looking good. mass transit right now, we have here zero trains running, b.a.r.t. is not running yet. ace 1, no delays. buses for muni no delays. following the developing news in the deadly orinda airbnb shooting. >> tomorrow the city council
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will be discussing the future of short rentals after the halloween shooting took the lives of five people. one of them just 19. the other four in their 20s. we were with neighbors yesterday as they added flowers to a memorial outside of the rental. one of the victims was the party's deejay, omar taylor. >> never in a thousand years would i have thought that puta would have been the person that could have been involved in any type of violent situation. that was not the kid he was. >> police have not arrested anyone in connection to the shooting. abc7 news has learned there was at least one other party rentan february. airbnb's ceo announced on twitter of the weekend that the company is banning party house listings and creating a dedicated team to screen high-risk reservations. the last of the 186,000 people in sonoma counties forred to evacuate by the kincade fire are now back home. >> we should get an update from cal fire at about 7:00 this wha
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contained. crews managed to significantly slow its progress. it scorched almost 78,000 fla destroyed 374 homes 3,200 are still working this fire that started october 23rd. families are getting help restocking their refrigerators after the fire evacuations and pg&e power shutoffs. the redwood empire food bank distributed fresh produce, canned goods, pasta and more yesterday. the food bank has been making the rounds in the north bay. >> we were in petaluma, rohnert park knowing people fled south. so we were in follow thot bn t . >> world central kitchen was there to help serve a hot meal and hand out water. a wildfire assistance center is opening today at the
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healdsburg community center. fire victims can get resources from government agencies and non-profit groups. the center will open from 10:00 in the morning through 7:00 p.m. on wednesday. the community center is at 1557 healdsburg avenue. if you would like to help fire victims, we have more information on abc7news.com. breaking news at the live desk from apple. the company just announced it will give 2$2.5 billion to help with the housing crisis here in california. so here's a breakdown of apple's housing plan. the $1 billion will create an affordable housing investment fund. another $1 billion will go towards a first time home buyer mortgage assistance fund. 3$300 million worth of apple-owned land will be turned into affordable housing. 2$200 million will help with low-income housing mostly in the eople in. p the company's homestate find
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affordable housing. >> thank you very much. more democrats are starting to back center elizabeth warren for the party's presidential nomination and support for senator kamala harris is dropping according to a new poll. the poll surveyed more than 1,000 adults last month. former vice president joe biden remains the favorite with 27% support. but his lead over senator warren is shrinking. she went up from 17% in september to 21% in october. senator bernie sanders has 19% support. look at pete buttigieg, he rose to 7% in the poll. senator harris dropped from 7% in september to just 2% in october. the impeachment showdown heats up with more depositions on capitol hill this week. in a surprise twist the whistle-blower who raised a flag about president trump's phone call with the president of ukraine iseaing o to republican lawmakers. megan tevrizian is in new york with the details.
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>> reporter: as the impeachment inquiry heads into a new public phase, multiple senior level sources tell abc news that four white house officials slated foreclosed door depositions today are not expected to show up on capitol hill despite the threat of subpoena. another busy week on capitol hill amid a growing impeachment showdown. president trump still adamant he did nothing wrong, stepping up demands the whistle-blower, who raised questions about his phone call with the president of ukraine, be revealed. >> if the whistle-blower should be revealed, because the whistle-blower gave false stories. some people would call it a fraud. >> reporter: that demand, despite key congressional testimony, supporting the whistle-blower's claims. in a surprise proposal, the whistle-blower's legal team has now offered to answer congressional republicans written questions directly to them, under penalty of perjury, without having go through the democrat-controlled impeachment process. the whistle-blower's attorney telling abc news, now we have
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offered directly to the gop they have no excuses. bt some republicans say that's not enough. the top republican on the house oversight committee saying you don't get to ignite an impeachment effort and never account for your actions and role orb kes tradi orchestratin. the whistle-blower's attorney say there have already been death threats. megan tevrizian, abc news, new york. tomorrow is election day. among the issues voters in san francisco will be deciding is the fate of the city's upcoming ban e-cigarettes. proposition c would overturn the ban passed earlier this year, which is set to take effect in january. in its place, a new limited ban would take effect. that new limited ban would stop children from buying vaping products but adults could still buy them. juul spent $12 billion to support prop c and then pulled
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support in september. san mateo county supervisors may consider a ban on e-cigarette sales. they say the ordinance would be one of the toughest in the state. the ban would apply to unincorporated areas of the county. san francisco may be ready to strip a car lane from one of its busiest streets. the safety danger forcing the move. >> and teens are going wild for tiktok but washington sees a sinister motive behind the chinese-run company. >> instagram is huge with people showing off yoga poses, now comes a warning. >> too much. this is people doing too much. >> that's all ahead. first, mike nicco doesn't do it just for the gram, he does it to keep you informed. >> i do. i do not do it while doing yoga at the same time. >> perfect. >> glad you like that. let's talk about what's going on. i've been told i should do yoga. 44 in oakland. 43 in san leandro.
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just changed to 44. richmond, castro valley,hayward alameda. we're all over the place from 41 in pleasanton, 49 in san jose, 52 in san francisco. san carlos, 50. novato, 43. look at that, 36 in santa rosa. here's a look from south beach. no fog here yet. a bit of haze. that's going to be the case today. watch out for that patchy thick fog near the coast and in the usual north bay valleys. chilly and warm on mass transit. pins temperatures, 48 at 7:00. near 70 at noon. 63 at 7:00. it will cool much faster with that hour earlier sunset. we'll top out near 78 at 3:00 in the south bay. 65 at 7:00. for our east bay, starting in the 40s. topping out near 80. dropping downi to 62 under the stars at 7:00. we'll go in the search for some
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rain. it may not be a successful search. we'll talk about that. how about the commute? >> the commute is pretty good except for some spots of fog that we're seeing. some good news for you this monday morning. a live look now at san rafael. 101 is clear. we are seeing those live pictures showing that same story across the bay wear. here is san jose, 87. very clear. whoever has 87 on their commute in the morning, i'm envious, this looks so great. here we are with our drive times before we go. tracy to dublin, 37 minutes. a bit of a slowdown there. that's our usual problem spot. antioch to concord, 13 minutes. san rafael to san francisco, 16 minutes.
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at least 50% contained, there are still air quality issues around oxnard, fillmore and around those areas. that will dissipate heading towards tomorrow. 80 for the central valley. 70 in monterey. 72 in yosemite. it is quiet, sunny and warmer than average everywhere across the state. tahoe, 55 degrees. mid 60s, nearly ten degrees
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warmer than that this weekend. this is the new and still somewhat mysterious social media app blowing upg tiktok is being investigated for what it does with user information. the video app is owned by a chinese company and lawmakers and regulators are worried about personal data that can be used or misused by the chinese government. "good morning america" is looking at the app and its growing concerns at 7:00 a.m. in san francisco, muni buses are too wide for some city streets and it's causing dozens of accidents. it's especially a problem on california street between arguello boulevard and park presidio boulevard. the number of traffic lanes are being reduced from four lanes to three to allow each lane more space. sfmta will hold a public hearing on the plan thursday night at 6:00. california fish and wildlife
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is likely to delay the crab season for the sake of protecting whales. the department wants to give migrating whales extra time to swim south in waters that are free of crab pots and fishing gear. the commercial start date would be pushed from november 15th to the 23rd. fishers argue this would hurt their bottom line, but fish and wildlife promise there's will still be enough time to provide crab for thanksgiving tables. one year ago this week, california's deadliest wildfire killed 85 people in the town of paradise. >> now football has given paradise a reason to cheer as the city rises from the ashes. the paradise bobcats wrappe up a perfect 10-0 regular season with a win on friday. at the start of the season the team lacked basic supplies like footballs and uniforms. paradise high also had to rebuild its field. one of the players moms explained how her neighbors in paradise are doing.
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>> near the anniversary of something, the trauma is retriggered and so we're just coming together and doing the best we can. i believe we will rise again. we will rise up. we're strong people up on this mountain. >> the paradise bobcats are waiting to find out who they'll face in the section playoffs later this month. congrats to them. >> that's awesome. time is 4:46. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. here's mike. on outside. we'll start in san rafael. it's 42 degrees. no fog here. but as you head to the south or to the north, you will run into some significant fog. very thick in petaluma and very thick along the golden gate. that will turn into hazy sunshine with warmer than average temperatures this afternoon. we'll be keeping an eye on air quality. all week we'll have a slight offshore breeze. we'll get close to having some unhealthy air. right now it looks like we'll be okay. this pleasant pattern, if you will, means no rain all the way
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through sunday. in fact, look at the satellite. we talked about this last week. all of these storm tracks to our north and well down to our south thanks to the high to the north and low to the south. when i said this was a stubborn pattern and it would remain for a couple of weeks, i wasn't kidding. this is the second week of it. temperatures today, 80s. we have 81 in morgan hill. livermore at 80. fairfield, 83. santa rosa, 81 along with yucaipa. san francisco throughout the rest of the bay, mid to upper 70s. even a 70 in half moon bay and 77 in santa cruz. the dry air will drop down and cool quickly into the 30s in the north bay and east bay valleys. patchy fog again tomorrow. look at this. i hope you like 80 inland. all seven days low to mid 70s around the bay. 60s at the coast. >> i
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all right. good monday morning. we're taking a live look at the east bay right now. this is our emeryville80. people are headed out the door and ready for work. things are looking good on our roadways here. let's look now at the south bay. san jose 280 pretty empty. this is what we usually see around this time of the morning. glad there are no issues down there. a quick look at our drive times here. we have walnut creek to dublin, 13 minutes. santa rosa to san francisco, 47 minutes. highway 1 to los gatos, 21 minutes. >> thanks. so spacex achieved a major milestone with this latest parachute test. >> instagram may be causing an increase in yoga injuries. here's tech bites. a key milestone for spacex. >> the private company has run 13 successful tests of its crew dragon spacecraft parachute. the company founder, elon musk, said spacex needed at least ten before the crew dragon kills
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humans. the gram may be causing an increase in yoga injuries. >> people are getting injured while trying to perfect yoga poses for instagram and the pressure to perform complicated moves has added to the spike in injuries. a compelling argument for a shorter work week. >> microsoft tried to giving off its workers in japan a three-day weekend every week and productivity jumped 40%. >> not only did sales increase, but microsoft spent less on electricity and paper. >> those are your detech bites. >> so much in these instagram posts. >> if your yoga instructor is getting hurt from doing instagram poses, are they really a true yoga instructor? >> they feel like if they can't do a certain pose, no one will want to go to their class. they have to try. >> go to the yoga class with no
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the air is. using a lot of lip balm lately or chapstick, you can see this morning there's humidity and that's where the fog is. san francisco at 87. petaluma, 66. look how dry is gets this afternoon. we're down in the teens i fairfield, 20s, 30s, 40s and 40s around the bay. you think that's close to critical fire conditions, it is. we have very dry vegetation, we just don't have the wind. you can see more fog tonight. that's where the green will be. tomorrow it will be bone dry once again. get used to this. >> all right. thanks. mcdonald's ceo stepped down over relationship with an employee. the board of directors decided that steve easterbrook demonstrated poor judgment and decided to fire him. easterbrook said in an email to employees that the relationship was consensual and a mistake. the mcdonald's spokesperson declined to reveal more details about the relationship. happening today the new
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oakland panthers indoor football team will unveil their practice facility and begin signing players. dozens of players are trying to win one of the 25 spots on the panthers roster. the new tea fln e east bay with the raiders move to las vegas. the panthers will begin playing mid-march at the oakland coliseum arena. celebrities and scientists came together for the eighth annual break through prize ter mo ceremony. the ceremony at the nasa research center began with red carpet arrivals. mark zuckerberg and his wife were there to present awards. lenny kravits performed and talked about the importance of getting young people interested in science. >> there's so much pushing kids go into so many other directions, and, you know, whether it's sports, hollywood. we need as much help as we can. we live in a world where we need
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great solutions for great problems. >> the $3 million break through prizes are presented in the fields of life sciences, fundamental physics and math. let's look at what's going on. here's your air quality. that's going to be today all the way through sunday. you notice everything was yellow. now i think the forecast is underdoing the high temperatures along the coast tuesday. i think it's about spot on inland. 80s will hang around. we'll have 70s. things don't change. we may have a few more high clouds wednesday into thursday. we're going to be hanging around the 70s, even at the coast to upper 70s around the bay to even some low 80s inland. we are stuck in one of those stubborn patterns. i hope it doesn't last much longer. i looked out about 14, 15 days, not a single chance of rain. jobina? >> we are looking at the golden gate bridge. we do have a fog advisory there. there's some fog in other areas.
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just take it slow. visibility is low. also want to hop over to the bay bridge. we are seeing the slowdown that we were looking at a few minutes ago start to pick back up, things are moving there. it was slow for a moment because if i take you to the map, you can see where we had an issue, there was a car that came off the fremont street off-ramp and crashed. then it looks like someone abandoned it and it was blocking the off-ramp there. that orange line there, starting to turn green, hopefully things will keep moving this morning. >> thank you. halloween has come and gone, what better way to get rid of your pumpkin than to make it explode? >> okay. >> let's go to the great pumpkin blowout. this is in north carolina. people brought their pumpkins to the site to blow them up civil war era tornapedos.
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>> it's the education, fun. it's an opportunity for children, kids to get a chance to work on something that was used 150 years ago. >> not this? he had a good spin on this. you just want to -- >> blow something up. >> let's do pumpkins! look. people paid $10 to blow up their pumpkins, the proceeds went to education programming at the center. >> okay. can you imagine other countries watching us blow up food? >> really? all right. coming up next, why your grocery delivery may be delayed today if you use one specific company. the search for these two murder suspects who escaped from the monterey county jail. how officials realized they were gone. and krispy kreme fighting back after a college student finds a clever way to make money
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now at 5:00, a manhunt for these two murder suspects. they have been on the run from the monterey county jail for a day. the kincade fire recovery, a new assistance center opens today. the resources that will be available to survivors. >> good morning on this monday, november 4th. >> hope you're having a great start to your monday. mike is here. it will be better because of his forecast. >> it will be really pleasant. a lot of us would like some , re enjoyst don't see it.
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