Two former twitter employees charged with spying for saudi arabia. Im kate larson in San Francisco. How this affects your Cyber Security. Im amanda del castillo in san jose. Drivers say its annoying and dangerous, tunnels hiding a deep pothole here on highway 101. Im Cornell Bernard. And im mc hammer. Well tell you why hes in richmond tonight supporting local entrepreneurs. Abc 7 news starts now. And that breaking news is the kinkade wildfire, no longer a threat. 100 containment reported tonight. The fire started two weeks ago scorching Sonoma County and 174 homes 174m lost. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Now to developing news. Thats right. Two twitter employees have been charged with spying for saudi arabia. This is the first time a u. S. Attorney has accused government of spying on american. Reporter well, its another example of a foreign power exploiting an American Social media company. And while we dont know what the saudis did with the private information of thousands of twitter users, we do know that they targeted their critics. Now, tonight i spoke to the reporter based here in San Francisco who broke the story. Twitter has just been a successful platform for people critical of the saudi royal family. Reporter according to prosecutors two twitter employees acting at the behest of saudi officials looked up personal information of twitter users. One of it twitter employees was paid directly by the saudi family for his services. Another looked up 6,000 accounts or more all at the interest of the saudi government. Reporter he broke the story a day after this criminal complaint was filed against the twitter employees. A u. S. Citizen and former bay area resident, he was arrested on tuesday. In addition to money he allegedly accepted a designer watch from a saudi official. Now a saudi citizen is presumably back in the middle east. One of the twitter accounts he allegedy hacked belonged to a prominent saudi dissident who was close to jamal khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who was assassinated in istanbul last year. Most of the hacking happens inside the Companies Rather than comes from outside. Reporter the Cyber Security expert and chair of the security science program. He thinks the u. S. Government needs to regulate big tech. We have to question the ability of the Tech Companies in the United States, how they are providing the privacy and security for their users data. Reporter now, twitter put out a statement which says in part we recognize the lengths bad actors will go to try and undermine our service. Were committed to protecting those who use our service to advocate for equality, individual freedoms and human rights. New developments, airbnb is promising worldwide changes in the wake of that terrible shooting at a rental that left five people dead. Among the changes announced today the company will verify 100 of listings and have a 24 7 neighbor hot line. The city council has also instructed staff to draft a temporary ban on unhosted shortterm rentals. One of the men killed in the shooting, the mother of his daughter says she also wished police had responded earlier to noise complaints at the house. I wish the party had more security or had security, you know. And i wish when the police first got the call it was too noisy they would have came. Police say their officers were outside helping respond to a mutual aid call. More than 24 hours after the polls closed ballots are still being counted in San Francisco, and some races are still too close to call. One of those is the race for district attorney. Suzy loftus has increased her lead. More than 2,200 votes separate the two. Another close race is for district 5 supervisor. Incumbent brown, a mayor breed appointee is now ahead. Thats a change from this morning. She has just over vote. Prop d attacks on raid share rides is also too close to call. Right now yes is leeing with a little more 66. 7 of the vote. We do have complete coverage of the Election Results on our website. The registrar of voters is expected to release updated vote totals tomorrow. Some vote counts might not be done until next week. Abc 7 news is focused on building a better bay area, and that includes efforts to nurture ideas and innovation with Small Business and tech entrepreneurs. Now there a new space in the east bay to foster that kind of creativity. Abc 7 reporter Cornell Bernard has the story now from downtown richmond. Reporter a celebration at the brand new home of a 9,000 square foot stateoftheart coworking Space Business incubator. Ceo Wesley Alexander is calling for all entrepreneurs. Now people have a hub where they meet other like minded people. Im not the star of the show tonight. Wesley is and his community is. Reporter mc hammer is lending his support to the space. He says when it comes to innovation, you cant touch this. It can be a great, great place for entrepreneurs to come and be surrounded by an environment that nurtures ideas. Reporter author has a space to record podcasts and she also has a space here. The project funded by a grant from chevron. The mayor says this place is the first step to revitalizing downtown richmond. Two, three years down the road, ten years somebody asks you when did downtown richmond turn around . This is it right here. Reporter a new renaissance for the city and anyone with ideas. Its exciting. Improving Street Safety is also part of building a better bay area and the focus tonight was a main artery in San Francisco. Its a common route to get onto the freeway, the project is intended to decrease traffic, support bus access and create bike lanes. 20 Parking Spaces would be eliminate and a block of paved street would become one way westbound. Were working to see what we can do with these proposal to divert traffic while still making sure people can move around the neighborhood and were not causing undo burden on other streets. A Pilot Program is set to begin next year. Building a better bay area requires adequate infrastructure, of course. In san jose some drivers say one stretch of 101 is causing concern. Puddles are causing massive mase potholes. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda del c castillo live with the story tonight. Reporter my that, and we looked for the pothole and didnt see it until it was directly in front of us. Most drivers are familiar with the standing water, but take the carpool lane heading south and youre sure to hit this sizable pothole. The problem is its submerged in water so you cant even really see it. Reporter dozens chimed in about close call and potential dangerous, so we took a drive. This view is from the oakland road overpass. In traffic cars are carefully driving through the dip. But at full speed she believes the pothole has the potential to be dead lee. Cal trans is very aware of the problem, they say this area is under constant observation. Below the surface, a water table. Theyve even had to install ten pumps to direct water away to nearby and rivers. Around 10. 5 million gallons are being pumped out per day. The water seeks through any cracks or obstructions in the surface and comes up to the top. Thats what were working with. Reporter a challenge creating these hidden potholes and a wet surface creating safety. The area does have to be dry, and well go ahead and do just our normal maintenance if we have to go and shutdown a lane. Its a bandaid and theyve continued patching it up multiple times so i appreciate the effort but its clearly not a solution. Reporter cal trans says it is working on scheduling patchwork for that specific pothole. Meanwhile drivers will have to be careful in standing water. A man opened fire at a Southern California fast food restaurant. What police say may have sparked this deadly shooting. Its a move that might not sit well with kids. Why senator Kamala Harris wants to extend the school day. Putting a creative spin on a hit song, meet the east bay elementary schoolteacher behind this viral lesson. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Sales force towers surrounded by when you take align, you have the support of a probiotic and the gastroenterologists who developed it. Align helps to soothe your occasional digestive upsets, 24 7 with a strain of bacteria you cant get anywhere else. You could say align puts the pro in probiotic. So, where you go, the pro goes. Go with align, the pros in digestive health. And try align gummies, with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. Doesnt mean you got to spend a lot because dennys brought back the super slam™. With eggs, hash browns, bacon, sausage and pancakes. All for just 6. 99. The 6. 99 super slam™ is back see you at dennys . New at 11 00, one person is dead and two more are hurt after a shooting at a churchs chicken in san diego county. Witnesses told police the shooter was a customer today at the store in otay mesa. Local media reports he tried to pay with a counterfeit 100 bill and was denied. He left and came back a few minutes later and opened fired on the workers. Officers are still searching for the man. Two escaped inmates are back where they belong in custody after three days on the run. They were caught at the u. S. Mexico border overnight, tried to come back into the United States. The murder suspects escaped sunday morning. The pair had cut a hole in the facilitys ceiling before crawling to freedom. Should a school day be as long as the workday . Senator Kamala Harris is proposing a bill to make that reality. To be clear, this would not impact every school. In the proposal for a Pilot Program 500 schools serving mainly low income families would get up to 5 mill wherein over five years to keep their doors open until 6 00 p. M. Her argument is the Current School day ends hours before 70 of parents and their workday. While were talking about teachers and schools, a pittsburgh second grade teacher has taken a groaned up song and reworked it into an up lifting rap about friendship, learning and achievement. People are going crazy about this. Abc 7 anchor eric thomas shows you what the teacher has done with her version. Reporter the original hit by lizzo is about a romance gone bad and features adult lyrics. I heard this song over the summer, loved it. Its been my jam. Reporter each year the second grade teacher dorothy chooses a song to start each day. This day she wanted truth hurts. I knew when i heard this song that its definitely not, you know, appropriate for school. Reporter so she wrote new kid friendly lyrics and taught them to the students which spawned this video which was posted on the schools facebook page. It has since gone viral with viewers attracted to the energy and positive messaging about education, learning and having each others backs. The kids like it, too. It makes us feel happy in the morning and makes us feel loved. When we sing this song we forget about all the bad things that happened. Sometimes personal life gets crazy and as soon as we sing that song its like its time for us to exhale, be in that moment, feed off each others energy. Reporter these kids will leave today with the energy theyve compiled from singing the song and theyll come back tomorrow morn [do it all again. Yeah, i love this class. In pittsburgh, eric thomas, abc 7 news. Isnt that fantastic . This afternoon lizzo tweeted about the video. She wrote this is the best thing ive watched today followed by a heart eye emoji. She responded after a user tweeted the video to her. Its so much fun and inspiring. Not just kids in that class, kids everywhere. Its true. All right lets check on our weather. Meteorologist sandhya patel tracking the forecast. We are going to be seeing some changes as we approach the weekend. That was a great video, by the way. Let me show you exploratorium camera time lapse from earlier tonight emphasis this was a short time ago watching that fog rolling in. Notice how low it is close to the ground just like the last couple of mornings. Were going to be seeing this which is reduced visibility. So your morning commute planner, use caution. Foggy areas if youre driving, light chop if youre taking the ferry across the bay. It is going to be cool so grab a jacket before you go. That fog has pushed into the north bay, into the east bay. Petaluma youve now gone to zero so it is pretty thick already. Definitely watch out. Temperatures right now anywhere from the 40s to the 50s. Lot gatos, a little bit milder. And as we take a look at whats ahead, first lets start with tomorrow. Temperatures will be changing. Well be looking at warmer conditions. Concord going from 73 today to 78 tomorrow, 5 degrees warmer. Santa rosa up 12 degrees, up to 80 and in san jose 9 degrees warmer from 67 today to 76 tomorrow. So it is definitely going to be a change. So much because as youre looking from our Golden Gate Bridge camera, its socked in. The fog is going to stick around. Emeriville visibility is not so great. Warming trend begins tomorrow afternoon with above average temperatures through the weekend. Heres a look at your weekend. Numbers will be in the 30s and 40s, and definitely watch out for that fog as it will be thick across parts of the bay area. For the afternoon, pretty mild inland. 79 in fairfield, 78 in livermore. Concord, 76 in san jose. Low 70s from oakland, san mateo, palo alto. 74 in san rafael, up to 80 in santa rosa and 77 degrees in napa. As we check out something that is encouraging, november 15th, watching this system that is going to be developing, watch what happens. We will be seeing the possibility of some rain friday night on the 15th going into saturday the 16th. Its still weeks away, but at least its encouraging. Accuweather seven day forecast morning fog giving way to a milder afternoon. Temperatures will be above average for the weekend with 60s to 80s. Still a dry pattern for veterans day and then the temperatures will flip a few degrees tuesday and wednesday. Ama and dan . Thank you, sandhya. Well, tomorrow on good morning america, just between us, you know whats better than mopping . Anything at the end of a long day, its the last thing i want to do. Well i switched to swiffer wet jet and its awesome. Its an allinone so its ready to go when i am. The cleaning solution actually breaks down dirt and grime. And the pad absorbs it deep inside. So, it prevents streaks and haze better than my old mop. 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