Iconic logos in the world. Hefners company said he died at his home at the playboy mansion of natural causes. Is survived by a wife and four children. Hugh hefner was 91. Good evening and stu for joining us. Thank you for joining us. Our other top story, a stand off in the middle of i80 in themmeryville that. Thats gunfire. The suspect police were chasing was killed and that busy stretch of freeway would be shut down for eight long hours. Pretty much a nightmare for people on the freeway. Weve been stuck out here a while. And tonight investigators discussed why opened fire. The free way didnt hope until 5 00 this evening traffic has returned normal now. Our reporter on the whole story. Cornell bernard. Jim motorists took cover when a gun battle began again police and a man driving a black suv, he refused to surrender. The police say he was wanted for a homicide in fairfield. His car was spot in sole ano county this morning and the chase was on. The police tried to get the driver to stop. A spike strip was placed in the road. After we spiked that vehicle it collided with the right shoulder. The car they were chasing had a flat tire and was starting to lose the tires. Thats when an negotiation began. Police keeping a distance with guns drawn. We dont know who fired first. Police cant be sure if the suspect fired initial shots at officers. Its pretty clear that the individual was not cooperating and fired a shot somewhere near or at the officers. The suspect died later at a hospital. Most commuter hz no choice but to wait. Weve been here since 9 00. Im on my way to work in San Francisco. I dont know exactly whats happening. Those drivers were eventually turned around by the chp. The suspects name has not been released. Police say the homicide hes wanted for happen in in fairfield in 2015. Huge chunk of elcapitan killing one and injuring others. Several were on that 3,000 foot monolith at the time. The massive rock fall happened just before 2 00 p. M. This afternoon on yosemites iconic el capitan in the middle of climbing season one killed and another injured. Video shot by other climbers shows where the rock face fell away. Yosemite National Park is a mecca for rock climbers. El capitan rises more than 3,000 feet from the Yosemite Valley floor. The park appeals to have fallen on the popular water fall trail route. Each year 100 climbing accidents happen in yosemite and as many as 25 needing to be rescued. The park tonight remains open to visitors. Two busses collided in San Francisco sending five to the hospital and snarling traffic at busy west bound freemont street and fo lrk som. Plowed in the is sidewalk hit another bus both heading to the terminal. This is incredibly uncommon. Most popular routes we transport nearly 30,000 people across the bay bridge every single day. The driver of the bus ended up on the sidewalk lost consciousness. That driver is one of the five injured. The bus remained lodged in the spot it landed while investigators checked with engineers to make sure a near by scaffolding was safe. If transit is investigating what happened. A threeyearold child in Critical Condition after being hit by a car at 22nd and mcdonald avenue. It is a red smart car with a black top as you see in the center of your screen. Police say before noon the car was driving on mcdonald and 27th when the child briefly slipped away from his mom, was struck and then airlifted to the hospital in extremely Critical Condition. Were asking the public to help us out on this one. This is a threeyearold child. It hits us pretty good. Police say if the driver had just stayed at the scene they could have talked about what happened. She belie by leaving the scene could face felony charges now. You know theres serious homeless problem on the streets of San Francisco but tonight city leaders grappling with a new twist, from San Francisco international airport. Luckily we had an officer there to intervene before anyone else was hurt. Mayor thanked the officer for his courage in fighting off an attacker with a knife yesterday avenue. The office was taken to San FranciscoGeneral Hospital after being stabbed several times. After help of other cops and civilthe officer was able to arrest the transient who was hanging around the airport. Theres a growing number of homeless. On average theres dozen homeless here at the airport per day we come in contact with. Many come on the last bart train at 1 00 a. M. The airport is a safe, warm place to spend the night. We do meet the last bart train in and theres very little reason to be at the airport unless youre a ticketed passenger. Theyre offered free bus rides to San Francisco or the south bay. We use sam trans tokens to get them on these public transportation. And officers can transport them to a homeless shelter in san mateo. We work with county Mental Health to get them to a facility or referral for jobs or whatever they can do. Pair port officials and police have established a working group with Mental Health agencies on the peninsula and hope by the end of the year to have advocates worksing full time to offer direct help to the homeless. Nick lee abc 7 news the landlord in the deadly ghost ship fire in oakland is set to collect more than 3 million in insurance payments. In insurance documents by our media partner news group shows shore has already received 275,000 and the two men both entered not guilty plea each men face 36 counts involu volumvolu manslaughter for last years inferno that killed 36 people. If one supervisor has hy e 100 stores in the city will change the way they do business. It was hot today but why did alerts go off around the bay area this morning. Happened on my phone. You will not be getting that alert again tomorrow. Ill explain why when we come back, heres a hint theres going to be a big change ahead. Thanks very much. And next an opportunity or threat . That depends on who you ask. Hear this is the new comfort food. Grown right here in california, with absolutely no antibiotics ever. A better way to grow, a better way to eat. And it starts with foster farms simply raised chicken. California grown with no antibiotics ever. all with worryfree ownership. Colors in your neighborhood. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Shift your thinking about buying your next one. S. San francisco is expected to be the first city in the country to force supermarket to report the use of antibiotics in raw Meat Products to reduce the number of drugresistant infections. Our reporter with more. It is hard to tell what is an antibiot antibioticfree or not unless the meats are properly labelled. The right to no ordinance was introduced to change that. This is to let them know what theyre buying. To get the big chains change what they purpose. Raw meat suppliers must let large retailers know if antibiotics are used and they must notify the San Francisco department of environment and the department could then minute the list. Its about shifting the market. We start to inform consumers and they start to make choices and what appears on their shelves will change. 70 of antibiotics are used on livestock i had no idea. At this hearing supervisors were talking about the misuse of antibiotics leading to resistance. More antibiotic used the more spread will be. Thats because antibiotic kill some of the animals internal bacteria but not all of them. Those left will become resist t resistant. The sit will only buy antibioticfree meats for schools, and jails. Will go before the mayor for full vote. Nbc 7 news. A mar nirks county golf course for sale has become a point of contention. There is an offer for the golf course. Environmentalists see opportunity. Golfers see a threat. It is likely to become a battle ground. 157 acres where combatants agree on one fact marin county is a beautiful place. This is special property from conservation standpoint no question about it. Its green, its trees, people in nature taking a great walk in a great park hit ago i golf ball. But its yet another land up for sale at 8. 7 million. Now the natural water slowing through are prime breeding ground for endangered species. Right now there are co salmon that hatched last winter early spring. Tom stiener sees the course sale as an opportunity to restore this land to a natural state and save those coho. He envisions hiking trails and red woods. He and the marin county parks have an ally in the trust fund to allow the county to buy it. It is a jacent to open county on both sides. Spanning the whole valley floor so you have an opportunity to open a pathway for everybody to enjoy. And really preserve this community resource. And quite possibly not as a golf course. That would be a county decision. A lot more people would like to use this habit at as a park than the people involved. Some will differ. We have a lot of park i enjoy a lot of them but this is for golfers a golfers haven. I think they can compromise and somehow keep the course and wed not impact the coho. Thats my goal. So the battle lines still in a drafting phase. I suspect there will be some unhappy people. In this beautiful place. Abc 7 news. Well, you probably didnt need your cellphone to tell you it was hot today. Thousands of people around the bay area had the alert pop up on their phones, on their screens this morning, it happened to me several times, maybe you as well, San Franciscos Health Department issued the alert to warn users of High Temperature and cooling stations and other City Services and the message asked phone users to check on neighbors, especially the elderly. Could be 95 in an apartment or house that does not have airconditioning and folk who live in those conditions will be vulnerable to heatrelated illness. We want to make sure those people know what to do, that the people who look after them know what to do, that they can get to a cooling center. This was the first time the city has used the cellphone alert system for a heatrelated advisory. My phone a number of times, sandia as well of wasnt nearly as hot as couple weeks ago. No Early September 106 in San Francisco today was 85 degrees but i think its just part of the alert, the Warning System so you take the heat seriously because it was well above average. Want to show a time lapse from our abcxploratory camera. Was a gorgeous view at sunset. No fog. That fog if you are waiting for it to bring you cooler weather its coming. Live doppelgangler 7 is seeing fog just off the coast line here and you will notice it will be heading towards the bay area as we head towards tomorrow morning. High temperatures tomorrow morning yes it was warm, unseasonally warm. We do get warm weather in the bay area in the fall but not this much, 10 degrees above average. 85 San Francisco. 87 auoakland. You will notice everyone was pretty much dealing with the warmth. Heres a live look at our abc 7 camera still warm. 70 degrees in San Francisco. Many homes here do not have ac. Hopefully the breeze will cool you off overnight. 61 in half moon bay. You are getting the cooling effects coming in early. 69 in santa rosa. Fairfield to concord to liver more. Live picture from our tower camera. The view is stunning looking towards San Francisco. Cooler pattern begins tomorrow. Expect fog along the coast tomorrow. Back to average this upcoming weekend. Coastal fog tomorrow morning. Looking at 50s. 60s. Mild weather at noon time. Low clouds to hang around in the afternoon and expect it to get breezy and cooler. Upper 60s around sunset. Tonight toing is closing in at the golden gate and will expand in the morning compute between 5 00 and 8 00 we expect fog along the coast and few patches near the beaches, rest of you will see the sun and enjoy it. It wont be accessibly hot. A little bit of fog near the coast. For the afternoon in the south bay 90 in san jose. 92 in gill roy. A warm day still not as warm on the peninsula as it has been. Mid 80s in park view. 71 in pacifica. Tomorrow in the fog and sea breeze. Breezy at times. In the north bay 60s to 80. Santa rosa 86. A nice day in oakland 82. Head inland 90 concord. You will feel temperatures drop a little bit but have to wait another day before you really notice it is much cooler on friday. Heres a look at our seven day forecast. Will carry the trend mid 60s to mid 80s all the way to next week bringing in cooler clouds dropping below average. Download our app and check the temperaturess any time you want. Thanks very much. Coffee culty area but how do we compare to cities around the country. Stay tuned for that. And celebrating hispanic heritage month on our abc bay area feed. Pictures and stories highlighting today the Mission District rock house. Check that out. You think about motown, you think detroit same thing here Mission District created by santana. It was a melting pot of musicians. Im just really happy to paint and especially in a new report says apple tv is stepping up its game when it comes to original content of a Hollywood Reporter sites multiple sources who says apple is looking for original trauma game of thrones or breaking bad it laufrm launched two apped and will acquire 2 billion in original content. Bay area cities are proud of the coffee content here. Hows it measure against other cities. Seattle is the number one coffee city in the United States followed by portland. San francisco came in third. The company analyzed 100 cities and compared price, average spending per household and total coffee shops and more. Nearly a dead heat the top three cities separated by just fractions. More to come President Trump with his Biggest Campaign promise aimed at your wall the huge proposed tax cut that the president says is nonnegotiable. A desperate plea for helm from puerto rico, you will hear from a town nearly cut off since the hurricane hit. A this is the new comfort food. Grown right here in california, with absolutely no antibiotics ever. A better way to grow, a better way to eat. And it starts with foster farms simply raised chicken. California grown with no antibiotics ever. Live where you live,this is abc 7 news. Good evening once again. Well begin this half hour with President Trump sweeping new tax plan. And californians may not like it. The plan cuts the deduction for state and local taxes, that added up to 101 billion in 2014 but if health care proved to be impossible to pass what are the chances this will be any easier for the president. After failing yet again to get a Republican Health care plan through congress President Trump is now promising to deliver on something even more ambitious. A massive new tax cut. Theres never been tax cuts like what were talking about. Details are sketchy but calls for slashing taxes on corporations now 35 to 20 . For individuals and families reducing the number of tax brackets from 7 to just 3. Doubling the standard deduction for families, that would mean no income tax whatsoever on the first 24,000 of income. President insists his plan will benefit the working class and not the wealthy. They can call me all they want its not going to help. Im doing the right thing and its not good for me, believe me. Of course is it is impossible to know how any plan will effect the president because he still has not released his tax returns. But one big provision would clearly benefit the wealthy. He wants to eliminate estate tax only paid honest ates valued 5. 5 million for individuals, 11 million for couples. While congress will make changes in the plan president insists one thing he wont budge on that huge tax cut for corporations. 20 is my number im not negotiating that number. It is a perfect number. The president doesnt explain how will pay for these hefty tax cuts leaving congress deeply divided to figure it out. It will make Health Care Look like a piece of cake. Abc news the white house. President trump is commenting on health secretarys perth fligpersonal flights. Im not happy about it and will let him know. Luxury flights cost taxpayers more than 400,000 and says those highpriced trips are now on hold. Lets move to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in puerto rico a terrible situation, the mayor saying people of san juan are starting to die. A call for help spelled on a roof top, they were able to reach out to them and help. Theres a call for millions in need. Tonight a life line to a town cut off since the hurricane. I want to talk and tell them im okay. That dont worry for me. The red cross setting up satellite internet for residents of vega ata. For lydia rivera its a god send. Once connected relief as her phone lights up with messages from her family. Leaving a voice mail for her mother. Military operations are bringing tons of equipment and supplies to the island but residents are still waiting for help. Theres supplies coming tomorrow thats what they told us. A full week after the storm rav issued this u. S. Territory thousands are still in shelters. One man posting video to facebook. My name is robert and if they see this know im okay and well taken care of. Nearly half of the island still without water. Lines of people hoping to get gas, food, even money seem longer than ever. San juans mayor says people are starting to die. Whats out there is total devastation. Total annihilation. People literally gasping for air. And a crowd at the airport. People hoping for a seat on one of the few flights out. That was eva pilgrim reporting. Now to an abc news investigation inside a russian operation that turned out ads and kmercomments and posted the facebook. Facebook admits it was paid more than 100,000 by Russian Companies and tonight will see some of those posts that americans saw during the campaign. Tonight abc news has attained some of the posts and ads congressional investigatorsors say russians planted on facebook as part of the kremlin effort to get donald trump elected. Th one warns against socalled refugees jeopardizing our national security. This ad uses a popular cartoon. Dora the explorer knows how easy it is to cross the border, its like a game. This line, we need to stop this madness. The ads come from a group called secured borders but congressional investigators say there is no such group they were created by Russian Companies which paid more than 100,000 to facebook to post them during and after the election. Their goal was to spread dissensi dissension. To spread our country apart. They did a pretty good job. Many of the ads came from an operation in st. Petersburg, russia where they were hired to send out fake news. One took under cover video hoping to expose the operation where the socalled trolls work 12hour shifts. The former employee told abc News Facebook was one of their main platforms. According to investigators ad show tonight the New York Times reporting that there is evidence that twitter may have been used more extensively than facebook in the russian influence campaign. In addition to russianlinked twitter account thats posed a americans the platform was also used for largescale automatic messages using bot accounts to spread false stories about emails from democratic operatives that had been on t obtained by russian hackers. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg responded in a facebook post, quote, trump said facebook is against him, liberals say he helped trump, both sides are upset about ideas and content they dont like, thats what running a platform for all ideas looks like. New tonight california voters may have more sway as to who the next president ial nominees are. Governor brown moving the 2020 to march. State home to eleven media markets. Traditionally held in june but remember the state moved it to february in 2008 in the hope of having more influence in the election. It was moved back to june in 2012. Now its moving again. Well, Delta Airlines offers new perk for passengers you want to know about. Plus Southwest Airlines apologizes over this video. I no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. Wondering, what if . I let go of all those feelings. Because i am cured with harvoni. Harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Its been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. And is proven to cure up to 99 of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. Certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if youve ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. Tell your doctor if youve ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni can cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Common side effects of harvoni include tiredness, headache and weakness. Ready to let go of hep c . Ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. Southwest airlines is apologizing to a passenger who is recorded being pull off the record a plane. The woman claimed to have a lifethreatening pet allergy and demanded two dogs be removed from the flight. Our sister station in los angeles has the story. What are you doing. Come on lady lets go. This is video taken from one of the passengers on the plane who spoke with us this morning about what he witnessd. When the police were trying to force her down the aisle she kept saying that i am walking, im walking, but she was pushing against them fighting them the entire time she was saying she was cooperating but she was fighting them. He says the woman was requesting to be administered a al e allergy shot. At some point she just wanted to go on the flight and they said severe al earthy we cant let you fly. This statement im a professor. What are you doing. Geez lady get off the plane. As she was removed she said she had to be on flight because her father was having surgery in los angeles. Im sorry my dad has a surgery what are you doing. They offered to rebook her on a later flight but she refused f Law Enforcement is handling the situation now but southwest says they will reach sought directly to address her concerned. At lax abc 7 eyewitness news. Delta airlines bringing in a new feature, the first global carrier to offer free mobile messaging in flight. Can exchange realtime Text Messages without paying for wifi. The free Service Starts on sunday. Free texting. Still no phone calls. Well have an update onto forecast next. If a and a vo want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase . At enterprise, we guarantee it. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Change your thinking about buying your next one. By living off the grid. Completely. Or. Set the washing machine to cold. Do your thing. Energy upgrade california. A rare and precious discovery from an American Literary legend. Previously unpublished mark twain childrens story found in the bay area. Now the story of this one of a kind find. The author mark twain saved nearly everything he wrote and now that Treasure Chest is in uc berkeley archives. They have hidden gems this by chance explains robert hurst. I dont want to belittle his role because it was quite important. This is one of the things we had not publishd. Twain told bed time stories for his daughters but never for the masses and almost never written down. This is far as i know the only story. We dont know thether stories. It is an unfinished story in it the scholar found a include. Susie is one of twains daughters. The note written on the manu script proves this is one of twains bed time stories. The manuscript became inspiration for a new childrens book. While a new author brings twain wouldnt like it. We have plenty of evidence he didnt like people tinkering with his stuff. You too can access the twain archives at cal perhaps for your own literary inspiration for more go to abc 7 news. Com. What a find. One last update of the forecast. The warmth will be fading, getting cooler fog off the coast. Tomorrow morning and afternoon will be sitting right near the beaches. Breezy as well. Warm inland. Temperatures from upper 60s. Tomorrow low to mid 80s inland. Saturday 60s to 80s. Sunday expecting very little change. Heres a look at our air quality tomorrow as the sea breeze comes up air quality will improve. Moderate for most of the bay area. Good for the South Central bay and were going to track the hurricane marieia finally moving over the open ocean. Will you notice the track moving out to sea and checking out the forecast cooling beginning tomorrow around the coast and bay. Much cooler friday. Will get you into a breezy pattern for saturday and mid 60s and mid 80s sunday. Not much change. Still a few drops. Thanks very much. All right sports. You think about retirement. Yes. Yes. I know you do. I know you often think about it. I know its never dawned on you. Youre not going anywhere. Matt kane has thought about it as well. As well. Souvenir ball. Ou go for food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. Abc 7 sports brought to you by your local toyota dealer. Good evening matt kane in his final few days as a giant will retire at the end of the season. Say threetime world series champ only giant to ever toss a perfect game and had his entire 13 year as a giant. A spec ator today. Bottom of the fifth. Lamb here it comes. There it goes. The scramble of the ball the the day. One guy drops it. Now its on. This is the one legged man hop. Gets taken down. And then the ball is loose. He got it. Fast forward bottom nine. 32 giants. Bases loaded. Grounder. Bases loaded. Dyson walked david peralta. Come on its a walk off walk. 43, d pbacks is your final. As fans soaking in the sun. Last game of the season. Hi sparky of bruce maxwell. Single up the middle as up. Now in the 8th. Robin son cano deep and gone. Bottom nine. Cana can do. Good night, game over. Drive home safely. Now its pie time. He just soaks it up. And the water. How about a little gatorade to go with your pie. Yummy. 65 athletics the final. Raiders coming off a spanking at the hands of the redskins sunday, another tough one this sunday at denver. Among the questions after three games what is happening with amari cooper, supposed to have a break out season instead is leading in dropped passes, six drops on 16 targets. Head coach. Feel like ive been yapping all over the place, nothing something i ask talk my way through. Hes going to have to do the work. I believe he will. For him i dont think hes pressing, anything like that. I think he expects so much more out of himself that he gets mad at himself. I look forward to getting out practicing throwing some balls today. Earthquakes hosting fire with potential playoff implications. Look at the header. That was spectacular. This is pretty good too. Ball hits the cross bar here. He is in the net. The ball is in the net. With the keeper. And the fire win in a route. Bad loss to the quakes 41. We showed the focus on the National Anthem throughout the sports world you got steph here, lebron here, Commission Roger Goodell here who could possibly be omitted. How do you keep clint capeolin k off that cover. Steph curry spoke about the picture today after the warriors practice. Given the kaep started all this and still without a job is a glaring omission. Thats terrible just cap capitalizing on the media nonsense you dont know have kaep in there front and center something is wrong, end of the day it is about heighting the people doing the right thing. 49 safety eric [ reading ] supported kaep in the early stages of the protest they didnt know it would move into a National Movement and then i battle with the president of the United States. The reason for protesting was against Police Brutalities not about the flag or the military. I hope we can make some changes, make our country better through doing the protest. I didnt think wed get this kind of remark from the president. But at the time we started there was a lot of hurt, a lot of emotion with things happening in this country. Especially with Police Brutality the number of people we were seeing killed online. Unarmed black people and we felt we had to Say Something so we did. What a gesture by houston an texans rookie Quarterback Deshaun Watson donated his first game check as a pro 27,000 to three cafeteria workers in houston who lost everything in Hurricane Harvey talk about making an immediate impact. Hes just a kid himself. I just became a huge Deshaun Watson fan. I think a lot of people might. Thanks larry thats great. Coming up on news at 11 00 reaction to the passing of hugh hefner. Talked about that at the top of the product cast now. The broadcast now. You will hear from two women living in the bay area whose family had a personal connection with the icon and a journalist living in the bay area desperately trying to avoid going home where she faces prison maybe even death those stories and more on channel 7 at 1 11 00. The eighth baboon born at the zoo in four years bringing the total troop to 16, one of the largest in the United States, by the way. That is sour report. We appreciate your time. We appreciate your time. We will see you again in on dramatic orchestral music [narrator] today, the stories of two murder cases, one in daytona beach, florida, the other in sydney, australia. In our first case, a wife lays down the law for her cheating husband. If she caught him again,