i began as a young social worker in south los angeles. with gang infested housing projects that are now almost mythic, jordan downs and nickerson gardens, and i worked in these projects during what is referred to as the decade of death, when crack and unregulated gun availability laid waste to communities of color. in los angeles during the late 1980's and early 1990's, there were 1000 homicides per year in the city of los angeles, not the county, the city. now, we have between 203 hundred homicides per year. people talk about the gang problem having been addressed. i want to share with you, what i experienced, what i have learned, i am not a typical academic. i will not quote statistics to you or talk about theories. i will talk with you about practicality. pragmatic approaches, and i will talk about reality. san francisco, like los angeles learned, will never saw or deal with its gang problems effectively unless there is true collaboration. i will talk to you about what this looks like and feels like. i will speak to you about the lesso

to one million views. >> just like 26.5 million other americans, i live in a food desert, south central los angelesf the drive-through and the drive-by. the funny thing is, the drive-throughs are killing more people than the drive-byes. people are dying from curable diseases in south central los angeles. >> reporter: according to the los angeles department of public health, the populations with the highest rates of diabetes are minorities. latinos, with 13.5%, and blacks minorities. latinos, with 13.5%, and blacks at 12.4%. 12.4%. this is a strawberry? >> yes. >> reporter: finley says he has two objectiveives -- saving lives by eating better-- oh, my googoodness-- saving lives by gardening. >> this is how you change the composition of the soil is with a shovel. that's how we change our communities. >> his ideas took root in terence satler. once an aspiring football player the 20-year-old is now in culinary school studying to becoma a chef. >> the most extensive knowledge i have acquired so far has been through ron's garden because he has things you would never see, especially in the 'hood. >> this

the marine layer is pushed back so that allowed the sunshine way oun south to los angeles. he's the thing. we have the westerly winds that have been brisk today. they will keep the onshore flow in place tonight. it's suffer from allergies to today has not been a good day for you. low 50s expected. a little cloud cover at the coastline. not expecting a widespread fog event for your saturday morning. it clears out a lot earlier than we had today. let's get you outside to the live hd sky camera network. today in san jose it is clear, a little breezy here but again no major cloud cover. we had some clouds build up across the machines but that has since started to fade away. let's move to that palo alto, a lot -- off to the north emeryville there's the wind woe were tracking and off toward san francisco eventually we'll get the clouds back at the golden gate but for right now it is fog free even in san francisco if you've got dinner plans to make those outside because we're going to look at clear skies through 8 clock tonight. the jet stream that produced a few showers this week

authorities say the west nile virus has been confirmed in mosquitoes found in south los angeles county machado lake between fat wilmington and harbor city. it's the first instance of west nile in l-a county this year. l-a county officials are now strategizing about what can be done to educate and protect l-a residents. still ahead, a fatal crash with a party bus. a live update. and in a few moments let us hakeep you updated with weather, traffic, next. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. $3 custom breakfast

mainly dry, sunny highs 94 in sacramento. 81 down south in los angeles. here in the bay area, will remain cool at the coast. will you been getting coasty inland. highs into upper 50s near the coast. 90 degrees in livermore and antioch. >> what is that? >> i said near perfect. >> oh, weather. weather. >> yes. >> that is a for gone conclusion. >> thank you. >> hidden danger was a barbecue grill not fromming charcoal or propane tank autos what do you do if you have an old debt being sent to collectors and they're making it loo >>> women of all ages will now have wider access to so called morning after birth control. a judge ruled they can be sold to everyone without a prescription. the judge delayed enforcement to give the government time to appeal. the fda said the pill should be sold to those 15 and older. >> a medical emergency involving a seattle teenager prompting a warning about those wire brushes used to clean bar key cue grills. doctors performed surgery after he started complaining about severe stomach pain. doctors spotted a piece of metal in his s

this is bringing widespread rain showers with it from south western california, los angeles, and lasegas as well. it will consolidate though into wednesday. we'll see a risk of stronger thunderstorms. it's tornado season, so definitely not out of the ordinary here across kansas, oklahoma, northern texas. you could see very gusty winds. that low does develop here towards the east. washington dc, you're seeing rainfall as well. 19 here for your high. toronto, sunny skies, 23. houston and miami both into the high 20s. let's look towards europe, in western europe. very unsettled out here. in france you're in flood watches and warnings here. we have gusty winds and heavy rainfall across ireland and the uk here. now you're going to be seeing more heavy rainfall with this as well. also want to talk about this area spinning up along theball kin peninsula. you saw 80 kilometer per hour winds today. it will be persisting but gradually tapering off. the northwesterly winds will be kicking off, london and paris still rain showers for you here. that's a look at your world weather. here is a look

and the fire in south los angeles. for a story of that newspaper.ileen is joining us from connecticut. how do you deal with security versus civil liberties? caller: good morning. as far as civil liberties, i don't think that the drones that we've used in afghanistan and iraq should be allowed to fly over our own u.s. citizens. part ofthat to be a the military government, you should not have to take an oath that you will fire on a u.s. citizen. i think that the intelligence center that they have built should not be allowed to collect all of our phone calls, all of our e-mails, all of our .nternet, any of our photos there is enough storage room there to collect 100 years of information on every single citizen of the united states. host: ok. thank you for the call. from "the new york times" and "the washington post" again -- both papers focusing on that original target date of july 4. fbi officials also questioning whoolder victims wife, officials might belief might be more involved than originally thought in part because she recently decided to stop c

in this book you ask the question could a black kid from south central los angeles be the photographer for the president of the united states. what's the answer to that question? >> guest: that is a big yes. >> host: how did you get the job? >> guest: back in 2000, i was assigned by "the associated press" to cover the bush campaign. i was a staff photographer and that's my background, photojournalism. so i covered the campaign full-time for 18 months. >> host: did you get to know the president in that kind of work? >> guest: you do. you spent a lot of time on the road mostly with other journalists, and a lot of time with the staff, the campaign staff, and i really didn't think about the job until actually after the election because you might remember the election was decided that night. and during the recount, that gave me the opportunity to pursue the position if governor bush had won the election, and everything lined up. it was perfect timing for me because right after he became president-elect i had opportunity to ask him in person, and i actually took a page out of this politico p

this time in banning just south of los angeles. firefighters quickly moved in to contain it. first on the ground. then by air. the biggest firefight is still here. the springs fire that broke out in ventura county threatening thousands of homes, including neil michael's house that sits on the hill near deer creek canon. >> two days ago i was weed whacking right here, coincidentally, but it's also densible space and keeping the brush away from the house and having it with a reasonable buffer. at least 100 feet, 200 feet. >> reporter: irradic winds have been driving the fires the past few days, making their paths unpredictable, leaving local residents like lisa bowman worried. >> this is my first fire incident, i suppose, and it was a little bit terrifying because all of a sudden we're watching this black smoke come up over the horizon and getting closer, and so we started saying let's go. >> that success has come with a little help from mother nature, but it also came after years of preparation. local fire officials here have been preparing the community for a blaze like this

south here. ellis, 30 degrees. los angeles looking -- dulles, 30 degrees. sensual is looking pretty warm -- los angeles looking pretty warm. >> welcome back. let's remind you of our top stories. nawaz sharif celebrating his victory. twin blasts killed at least 46 people near the country's shared border. nine people have been arrested. bulgariaoll in suggests that boyko borisov could be heading back into power just three months after he was ousted by mass protests. i want to get more on our top story now, the event in pakistan. richard howitt, a british member of the european parliament, also an eu election observer in pakistan, monitoring this weekend's historic vote. thank you for joining us. give us your assessment of the election. was it free and fair? >> it's always going to be markup located than that. this is an election that in many ways has been marred by ,iolence with the pakistan taliban threat against three parties, really limiting, stopping them from campaigning at all. we saw 54 deaths yesterday simply that were on election nearly election rela

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we have already seen wildfires break out near los angeles and in the north bay. south bay officials want to make sure we don't see similar problems here. the city of san jose has more than 400 lots and open areas covered in tall, dry weeds. the city has a six-inch rule, meaning no weed can be taller than six inches. anything more is considered a fire hazard. they contacted them and they gave them ten days to cut down all the weeds. >> if they don't respond in the ten-daytime frame? >> we then can issue a sigh tiges to the property owner for upwards of $1,000. >> per day? >> san jose and santa clara county conduct an investigation of all the empty lots to make sure they are maintained. >> enter the hot seat this morning, boston's police commissioner. a house homeland security committee plans to look at how authorities handle these attacks. the days after that bombing has been controversial. the city's police commissioner says he will defend how his department handles the bombings. the government should have tightened security all around public events and consider more u

i spoke in fremont, california, it's an area of south central los angeles, and i asked a room of 50 kids how many of you have ever been to a dodgers game? one kid out of 50 in south central l.a. and it's become the sort of thing where if you are going to see a game, it's probably because you're selling beer for $7, $8 an hour, or you're directing people to their seats or working in concession stand. but sports themselves have become something just to be able to go to a sporting event. and you mentioned the issue of cable which is another very big deal, like the ability to watch a sporting event. >> [inaudible] >> yeah, that's sick. .. >> in los angeles, for example, everybody's cable bill is going up because of paying for the dodgers' new cable deal. so everybody's subsidizing the document dodgers. if you can afford cable your subsidizing the los angeles dodgers, and this collectivization of debt, privatization of profit, is something that sports has been doing for 40 years, and it primes us for the bank bailouts in this country. like this idea to accept it's our job as the public to bai

moves to the central valley and 83 in sacramento, and 79 in yosemite and cooling down south at upper 70's in los angeles and san diego and 100 in palm springs. >> road work as you drive from the northbound direction and southbound side is clear out of sausalito into the city. and c.h.p. has issued a high wind advisory between tracy and livermore over the altamont pass. it is looking busy approaching 580. >> thanks, a five year battle to keep san leandro hospital open is over. the hospital owner has agreed to donate the facility to alameda county and pay $22 million to keep it operating. they have been losing money at the hospital for years and last year alone it lost $40 million. >> google chief executive is offering an explanation for a problem with his voice. he says he has been diagnosed with vocal cord paralysis that dates back to when he lost his voice after a bad cold 14 years ago. same thing happened last year and he now will pay for a significant research program into the condition. >> listen up, coffee directors in -- drinkers, a fungus is destroying coffee crop in central america, affecting co

the fire is close to a cluster of water pipes and transmission towers that serve the los angeles basin to the southre some major power lines up here, a lot of power supply and power generating equipment up on this hillside and that's what these power lines are here for. this fire you can see directly underneath a lot of these high voltage lines, this is a big concern for the firefighters. >> again, it is intense. there aren't many homes up there but one small community called green valley is being evacuated. because of the difficult terrain, fire crews are attacking from the air. they are also battling temperatures in the high 80s and 25-mile-per-hour wind gusts. chief meteorologist paul deanno reports. >> 25-mile-per-hour wind gusts is not that bad considering that if you get a santa ana wind event in this particular area would you have wind gusts to 60 or 70 miles per hour so the good news is the winds are bad but not that bad. here's the not so good news. it will stay sunny, hot and it will stay dry all the way through the weekend and california the entire state is dealing with its hottest and d

los angeles. >>> former south carolina governor mark sanford had cemented his political comeback and new jerseys christie has confessed to having had a medical procedure to helping him lose weight. paul steinhauser is here with a look at why these two republicans were topics of krveg conversation this week. >> hey, alison. chris christie said his weight loss operation had nothing to do with politics. >> i did this for myself, my wife and my children. it has nothing to do with running for governor this year. with running for president at any time in my life, if i ever decided to do that. it may sound odd to some people, but this is a hell of a lot more important to me than running for president. >> but regardless of his motivation, news this week at new jersey's heavyweight republican governor have the procedure will have an effect on him if he decides to run for the white house in 2016. you know, it's plain and simple, a lot of people care about a presidential candidate's health and appearance and losing weight is almost a prerequisite for christie should he launch a white house bid. >>> mark s

. >>> we've already seen wildfires break out near los angeles and in the north bay. now south bay officials want to make sure they don't see similar problems. the city of san jose has more than 400 lots and open areas covered in those tall, dry weeds. the city has a six-inch rule, meaning no weed can be taller than six inches. anything more than that is considered a fire hazard. the city contacted the owners of this 44-acre lot and gave them ten days to cut down all the tall weeds. >> if they don't respond in the ten-day time frame? >> we then can issue a citation to the property owner for upwards of $1,000. >> that's per day? >> correct. >> san jose and santa clara county conduct monthly checks to make sure all the lots are maintained and clear of anything over six inches. >> time to start that weed-whacker. get it going out. >> you look like you're ready to go. >> inject some energy here. meteorologist christina loren, a little gray outside today. >> we have a good-looking day shaping up. it's going to be cool today. what's cool about this picture from san bruno is you can a

are pulling out the aerial artillery to combat a growing wildfire at the border of los angeles and kern counties south of bakersfield. five air tankers and four helicopters are fighting the blaze that burned 750 acres and threatens los padres national forest. >>> it used to be apple that seemed invincible but now google is on a roll. the mountain view tech giant's stock topped $900 today for the first time in its history. it's way up from a year ago. based on what we saw today, google is aiming higher. >> investors are excited about google because they are active in many areas and gaining strength. >> reporter: proving innovation is the lifeline of tech companies. google's vision for the future set going investors excited. we got a taste of it today at google's developers conference in san francisco. the highlight was a rare appearance by ceo larry page, who sounded hoarse due to strained vocal cords. he was preceded by a parade of google executives trotting out the giant's latest creations. among them, a $10 a month streaming music service to compete with the likes of spotify and pandora. >> so this

south of santa barbara. good news for the firefighting efforts across los angeles basin and into the fontana area.ll under the influence of high pressure. we will see some sunshine but that high pressure is breaking down. cooler conditions and check this out. futurecast places some condensation with drizzle tomorrow morning north of the bay bridge. and also, north of the golden gate bridge. and then by 4 p.m. tomorrow night, through our monday, chances of pop-up showers especially in the higher terrain. now, this futurecast is really painting a broader picture as we enter tuesday. so i'll just keep that umbrella handy. big changes. tonight overnight into the 40s and 50s a cooler night and tomorrow, a cooler day. 50s at the beaches. 60s, 70s peninsula. san jose topping off in the low 70s. slightly below average for this time of the year. then east of the bay, the outside number 75 in brentwood down from today's high of 90 degrees. then again, your north bay temperatures from 59 in stinson beach to 71 degrees in sonoma. low 70s also in glen ellen. the extended forecast, that chance of rain monday an

los angeles. the fire started here, just south of camarillo on may winds pushed the flames towards the southwest..cific ocean. but as of today, the springs fire is 80% contained and fire crews have done a good job of protecting nearby homes and businesses..as you can see here the fire came with in just a few feet of reaching this neighborhood, but no homes have been lost. so far only 16 outbuildings have been damaged or destroyed, 4 commercial properties have been damaged and 5 fire fighters have been treated for minor injuries more than a thousand firefighters continue to work on this blaze and the weather is also helping out as well. the santa anna winds have disappeared and rain is in the forecast for the area. finally, all evacuations and closures around the burn zone have been lifted and fire officials expect to have this fire fully contained by tuesday. in the newsroom, charles clifford kron 4 news. we are enjoying a pretty quiet conditions around the bay area. here is a live look at satellite and radar. we had a little bit of moisture earlier today. we were tracking thunderstorms. that prod

in the south, 67 in san diego, and 72 no los angeles, but 100 in palm springs. increasing clouds and 70 in tahoe. leyla gulen has a lot. >> good morning. coming away from 880, it looks nice. an early accident at 13th street is cleared. on the bay bridge, not too much traffic in the cash-paying lane because of an accident to the maze along westbound 580 involving a motorcycle. right now you are down to five miles per hour with at least one mile of heavy backup so the accident blocking two lanes is holding the traffic back and you are looking at a clear drive when you make it to the bay bridge. we have this insurance -- incident in san bruno and an early caltrain fatal accident that hit a pedestrian and that pedestrian died but we do have caltrain single tracking right >> it is charity locks ofout love is responding to new questions ofin missing hair don. people donated with adical condition, and charity watch log say they receive 1 hundred -- 100,000 dough nays each year in hair, but $6 million is missing. the president denies wrongdoing and tells abc7 news "ther

mid-80s los angeles and 78 in san diego. in the south bay today another nice day. san jose 84 for you. upper 80s in los gatos. only upper 50s only half moon bay. san francisco warming up to the early afternoon and then the sea breeze and temperatures dropping through the 60s. but 80 in petaluma, 86 in napa. so a few degrees warmer in some of our inland spots today. ed 1 castro valley. a couple degrees warming fremont at 82. here's the 90s returning for pittsburgh. the forecast upper 50s to mid-90s today. look at the 8 to 10-degree testimony drop tomorrow and that takes us through the middle of the week and a little bit of recovery by the end of the upcoming work week. we will let you know all of those details when you check us out on twitter. that's #livedoppler 7hd. check us out. >> thank you. when security becomes an issue someone will say pick a good password but what is a good password? 7 on your side's michael finney has been looking into that. >> how many passwords do you have? >> 27. >> did you just make up that number? >> yes. about five. >> about five. >> y

religious everyonetous of modern america sure of heck doesn't come from los angeles or from connecticut or -- it comes from the south, for better or for worse. >> host: justin webb, you seem particularly taken with america's suburban culture. why is that? >> guest: because we don't really have it in britain, actually. there's a genius about america suburbs because what you managed to do is live in comfort and modernity, but at its best, you kept that kind of wellspring of volunteerism, of sense of pioneer spirit, like you managed to melted the two in a way that's clever, and you also got the freedom, the -- we associate with america, but you've also, actually, got a lot of rules that we would regard as quite dramatically draconian. one, particularly from suburbs. fist day arriving in washington, d.c., we parked outside our new house, and the neighbors came round and welcomedded us as you expect, but they said, you have to move your car. why? because you parkedded facing the direction of traffic, and we lived in brussels where you park in the middle of the road and nobody cares. .. >> there a lot of aspects that you

chance of scattered showers is in the high country, with 68 in yosemite and to the south, 65 in san diego and 71 in los angeles. >> good morning, as we head to the east bay this is the drive from orinda, you could be expected here and we are looking at delays, westbound 24 beyond the tunnel we have an accident involving a motorcycle. again, it is blocking a lane so that is causing some slowing coming from orinda and to piedmont, and taking a look at the mass transit, bart and muni and caltrain and everything is running on time at this hour and if you want to avoid the wet roads we are seeing a few especially in livermore and toward antioch, and this could be a good option. >> problem for nasa, the space agency's hubble telescope is broken and they are troubling to gain control of the telescope. it cannot aim accurately. one of the three reaction wheels required to orient the spacecraft is jammed. if engineers can not find a fix they cannot look for planets outside the solar system anymore. since 2009 it has found more than 2 mix on possible planets including 280 with the same size >> the abc7 morning news cont

remember, this is a family in los angeles that has migrated from the south. tobe.ndparents had a dangerd a sense of the in the world. you have to be asleep to the past while going on in the future as well. there were a lot of those elements. well, thed" as relationship of the past to the future. , ahere we are at sundance celebration of independent films. talk about the importance of independent films. theor me, after all of books and everything, for me, this is a great moment of my career, to be able to support independent film, independent thinking. for me, if you take the whole genre of independent film -- i use the word genre -- if you take independent dome and they invariably have some influence on the industry anyway. independent film is where the real work that actors get a chance to do. this is why sundance is so brilliant. documentarian films. documentaries and everything. it is so brilliant with this work of art that, supporting the idea of documentaries. when it does that, documentaries are our place and our way of establishing our relationship to

if you're getting in your car and you're heading south, you can also expect some cooler weather in los angeles with sunny skies. 65 also with a marine layer along the coastline and very hot in palm springs with 94 degrees. let's get you outside to our sky network and a lot of blue sky in san jose. some clouds moving by on the lower end of your screen but nothing that will produce rainfall. off to the north, what you'll find here in palo alto, and producing some milder weather, at least the past few days. and on the golden gate bridge, it is fog free. if you're headed to the giants game tonight, which coincidentally is right here on nbc bay area. at 7:00 p.m. we're looking at a fog-free evening for you. as we head into monday, the storm system is going to get a little bit of motion back behind it. not a large system at this point. we do think we'll mix with some sun, some clouds and some showers here as we head into monday. that's the day you may need that umbrella. as we head into sunday, we'll get the fog building on the coastline and also potentially a little bit of drizzle. as we mentioned,

south. there could be a sprinkle or two near l.a. with highs in los angeles 72. mainly mixed conditions over the sierra tomorrow. sprinkles moving through that region as well. highs 65 in yosemite. 60 in lake tahoe. we expect mainly sunny skies into afternoon. breezy and cool. highs inland upper 60s to near 70. there is a big event going on in lodi saturday called zen fest it's a lodi lake park a celebration of zinfindel. music, food, wine goss to be sunny in lodi saturday with noorts low 80s so it will be zin-sational. >> okay. if only i could have jumped in a minute earlier there. >> still ahead a res kuf a toddler after a baby stroller rolled away and off the train tracks. >> and people work a child care center. >> i'm michael finney. a major airline extending >>> child care facilities that get money from the federal government could soon face major changes announcing it will impose tough national health and safety standards for all facility that's accept government subsidies. etc. been 15 years since the rules were last updated. >> ivf helped millions of pare

south from arkansas to florida. and the northeast and southwest will stay dry. >>> in sports now, the los angeles clippers had the best season in franchise history, but they are now one loss away from playoff elimination. memphis's zach randolph scores 10 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter as the grizzlies beat l.a., 103-93. memphis leads the series, three games to two. and the denver nuggets avoid elimination. andre iguodala forced 25 points as the nuggets' top golden state. 107-100. the warriors still hold a 3-2 series edge. >>> in hockey, the march to the stanley cup is under way. three nhl playoff games get under way. a scary moment as los angeles's robin laguerre takes a skate to the face. he actually returned to play though. justin williams ties up the game at 1-1, but in overtime kings' goalie jonathan quick misplays the puck, and alex steen scores the game-winning goal. the blues win game one, 2-1. >>> in the other series, chicago tops minnesota in overtime, 2-1. and anaheim beats detroit, 3-1. >>> in baseball, home plate at progressive field in cleveland was a launching pad last night. the indians homered

the paper says she's been making a lot of trips from los angeles to palo alto where tesla is based. and musk is often taking trips down south. >>> tesla motors was supposed to make a major announcement later today. but late last night, elon musk spilled the beans saying the company will triple its super charger coverage throughout the country. the electric car market -- by the end of the year, he expects it will cover most of the metropolitan areas allowing electric car drivers to drive coast to coast. the chargers are currently in california and on the east coast. the electric car market is getting very competitive as very severals compete for a very small market. earlier this morning, honda said it was dropping the price of its electric car. the car scott mcgrew says most people don't even know about. >> yeah, the honda what? it's the honda fitev, honda cutting the lease on that car to $259 a month. the car company will even drop the price of your lease retroactively if you already have one of these. and chevy comes in with an even cheaper car, the $199 a month spark ev. why the race to the bottom? part of it is concern o

. >> we have already seen wildfires break out near los angeles and in the north bay and now south bayfficials want to make sure we don't see similar problems here. the city of san jose has more than 400 lots and open areas covering tall, dry weeds. the city does have a six-inch rule meaning no weeds can be taller than six inches. anything more than that is considered a fire hazard. the city contacting the owner of this 44-acre lot on north first and component drive and gave him ten days to cut down all the tall weeds. >> to respond in the ten-daytime frame. >> we then can issue a citation to the property owner for upwards of $1,000? >> reporter: per day? >> correct. >> to make sure they can enforce, they conduct monthly checks on all empty lots to make sure they are being maintained. >> it can be a tough fire danger, specially with increasing temperatures. >>> let's check the forecast with meteorologist, christina loren. >> we have a pretty good onshore flow for today. our elevated fire danger last week, not so much of a factor. we are going to warm up for the weekend. showers on your

south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and

upper 80s in chico and upper 70s los angeles. 81 yosemite and paul springs 99. in santa clara, the south bay, 82. 677 redwood city. 62 pacifica u know where to go if you want to cool off. 84 santa rosa. near east bay plenty of mid-70s. a nice afternoon. breezy late in the day. and head inland look for 80 san ramon with mid-and upper 80s, perhaps a 90 not out of the question antioch and brentwood. if you are headed to the a's game this afternoon, what a day. low 70s to start out, upper 70s later. here's the outlook. talking about more warmth today. the warmest temperatures tomorrow. big cool down tuesday. takes us through the middle of the week with partly cloudy skies and still really kind of tempered by next weekend. abc weather news is another great resource for you to follow. catch us on twitter for the bay area weather conditions, rain or shown and plus much more from your favorite weather team. >> so a little hot for the bay to breakers runners. i guess not the elite once or the serious that get off and get going around 7:00 this morning. >> it's really nice right now. mid-50s for t

los angeles, that is the spring fire. the one we had two days ago that is 50% contained is the one between los angeles and just south therefire. only about 10% contained and a very rugged terrain and the winds right now aren't too bad but they'll kick up this afternoon and get hot, once again. yesterday in the 90s and santa ana winds today and as we go throughout the weekend, this is when it will improve. high temperatures in the 70s and expect to get more clouds in the forecast. today, mika, another day. more pictures and possibly even new fires. >> bill, thank you. here now is ahman who joins us. >> good morning, mika. you could probably see behind me right up into those hills those flames are really starting to pick up, once again. when we first arrived here, this whole entire mountainside was that bright red color, but kind of gone down or quieted down a little bit. only in the last few minutes it has picked up. gives you a sense of the challenge that firefighters here are facing all throughout the night because as the winds blow, the fire muoves in different directions and that's the challenge they're contending with

south bay singers. they ended up on stage with, yes, rolling stones. this is video of the stones kicking off the tour in los angeles friday night. the group performed in oakland last night with the san jose state choir as the back-up singers for one song. performed "you can't always get what you want" with mick and the stones. the director says the rock band legends have been bringing in chours as back-up on north american tour. they were selected for the bay area. guess what, they are performing again at hp pavilion. that is one of those you've got to do it to understand how exciting and cool. >> congratulations to them. >> look forward to it. >>> moving on to business and "tech now!." for years now government regulators have worried someone will make a handgun using a computer and special 3d printer. scott mcgrew says that day has come. >> good morning to you. 3d print hag become a very important development in tech. it's exactly what it sounds like, a printer that can make actual objects, printing out something you can hold in your hand. it's a quick way for engineers to prototype fast and cheap. as you point ou

. >>> to the south now crews are battling a much larger fire in ventura county northwest of los angeles. cbs reporter edward lawrence joining us live from caramio springs. what is the latest on the firefight? >> reporter: ann, we actually just got an update on that and the firefighters were able to hold the line overnight. the fire did not grow from last night to this morning and it's now 30% contained so they are making some progress but be it very small. >> how many homes have been damaged so far there? >> yeah, at this point, we have 4000 homes being threatened by the fire still. only 15 though had been damaged. none have been destroyed but just damage. we saw yesterday the fire get very very close to a very high end neighborhood in this area. million dollar homes, the flames came within 100 feet of those homes. firefighters were able to back them off. the neighborhood did not go up in flames but there's still mandatory evacuations for a lot of folks in many communities. 800 people have been displaced so far. >> have you been to any of the evacuation centers yet? we know people are o

these mid-90s from sacramento and chico, upper 90s in fresno. 80 los angeles this afternoon. 103 in palm springs. back home in the south bay look for lower 80s in milpitas. nice warm afternoon. 82 in cupertino. a little sun for santa cruz. it's 75. look for mid-70s menlo park and upper 50s with the clouds from half moon bay and pacifica. palo alto should warm to about 77. san francisco holding on to the cloud cover throughout much of the morning hours. then sunny, mid-60s to the upper 60s, depending on where you are downtown for the music festival up in napa. look for temperatures in the lower 80s around sonoma and 77 vallejo. 74 hayward and san leandro. fremont warming to about 80 today. the average high in the upper 60s to near 70. warmer today for you with 87 pittsburgh, 88 pleasanton. the accuweather seven-day forecast, today and tomorrow the warmest days out of the next seven with a wide range, upper 50s to near 60s at the coast and 90s inland. the coolest days of the week look to be then of the week with the stronger on shore push for everyone. abc7 news is another great weather resource for you to follow. go to