Administration. And a free star general sent in by the president is calling for more help. You suffered a tremendous devastation and were there with you. Good evening and thank you for joining us im dan ashley. Tonight puerto rico is under Flash Flood Warning as humanitarian crisis continues to unfold as millions are without electricity, gas and now calling out the Trump Administration about its attitude about the crisis. A midst growing frustration in puerto rico a moment of impact of anguish played out on National Television today. As the mayor of san want listened to acting Homeland Security praise the federal response. I am very satisfied. It is really a goodnews story in terms of our ability to reach people an the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane. Well maybe from where she is standing its a good news story. When you are drinking from a creek, when you dont have food from a baby its not a goodnews sto story. Im sorry damn this is not a goodnews story. This is a peoplearedieing story. This is a life or death story. We asked President Trump about dukes comments. Was elaine duke wrong to say puerto rico was a good new story. I havent heard what she said i can tell you this we have done an incredible job considering theres absolutely nothing to work with. The administration has been beefing up the militarys role. A threestar general is on the ground supervising the federal response but today that general said it was not enough and promised to bring in more resources. We will not rest, however, until the people of puerto rico are safe. These are great people. With you the president is also raising questions about whether the federal government should pay to rebuild puerto rico. He has repeatedly brought up the islands large debt tweeting this morning, Big Decisions will have to be made as to the cost of its rebuilding. The government of puerto rico will have to work with us to determine how this massive rebuilding effort will end up being one of the biggest ever will be funded. Jonathan carl abc news the white house. Meantime this weekend Many Puerto Rican communities in the bay area are having donations drives and want to make sure the donated item gets to those in need. We spoke with someone who works for the feds Disaster Medical Assistance Team who returned from the island. Its not surprising to me that theres still people saying we havent received help. This is the director of herjcy services at stanford and disaster medical assistant and was in puerto rico when the hurricane hit. This is where he spent a lot of his time in these tents for patient care. He told us people outside of san juan are just trying to surprise. They are trying to move day by day to make sure their if they need medical care can they get them there. He says the infrastructure has been devastated. More fuel distribution trucks are making their way on barges to help to get delivery trucks on the road to distribute cargo thats been sitting at the ports. Meanwhile Puerto Ricans in the bay area have been collecting goods to be sent to the island. Wants to make sure to get to those who need it the most. Problem is once we get it there we have to logistic amly get it to the people. Fred of pittsburgh said it is hard to watch things move so slow slowly. The stuff available people are not able 20 gto 2k3we9 to i. Are not able to get it to it. Hopefully it will start happening soon. They open by the time these emergency supplies leave the bay area they will be a more coordinated effort of distribution on the island. In oakland, abc 7 news. We now know the rock fall yesterday in yosemite is larger than the ones the day before. These are pictures of the mount before and half. Yesterdays fall measured nearly 400 feet tall and 150 feet wide, roughly the size of a 40story building. And its about ten times bigger than the colorassal chunk that broke off a day earlier. Reporter natalie has. Another accident in yosemite fortunately able to rescue a rock climber. The accident coming two days after another rock climber Andrew Foster was killed while visiting from wales after a rock fall at el capitan a day after that more boulders came down injuring another visitor. It just popped right out like oh, my god what are we seeing. It was a magnitude bigger than the last one. Climbers caught the incredible site on camera some describing the large sheet of rock as large as a building. Page was onto floor when she heard the massive slab break off the famed structure. We heard this thunder that was so loud and looked at each other like whoa. She sends these photos saying one of the boulders smashed through a sunroof. Geologists are looking into what caused the rock fall. The area remains open, we have posted signs to let people know. He says rock falls are part of the park and happen almost daily, they rarely impact visitors but says it is not enough to keep it from coming back. If its going to happen, going to happen. Just got to be careful, and do what you can. Yosemite remains open. Cars are at a stand still as visitors continue to come to the park. That rock climber is expected to be okay. Abc 7 news. Well, did you feel it . A weak earthquake 3. 0 quake near napa county this afternoon. Several told us geo logical survey that they felt it. Its been over three years since 6. 0 struck near napa. In this san jose courthouse a former probation counsellor was on the other side of the law, trishia capara accused of having sex with two teenage boys while they were in she was employed by the Santa Clara Probation Department her bail today was set at 655,000 and prosecutors wanted to raise it to a million. She was tasked with caring for these juveniles and she violated that trust. There are more than one victim in this case and the investigation is ongoing. Capara didnt enter a plea today but will at her next court date in two weeks. Governor bill signed a package of bills aimed at the housing cries, signed more on a dozen bills to include ways to raise more money to build more affordable units and policies to speed up stalled construction saying it is a good first step. Today you can be sure we got 15 good bills, yes, theyre good, they move the ball forward. Have they end the need for further legislation . Unfortunately not. Money provided in the package is expected to create about 90,000 affordable units in 7 to 10 years. California needs 1. 5 million Affordable Homes to meet the demand a long way to go. More than a million will converge on San Franciscos water front for fleet week and other events happening at the same time, all likely to make traffic worse than it already is. Our reporter is on this story. Take a deep breath. Leave like 20 minutes earlier and youll be all good. Forklift operator giving that stroiz drivers, traffic could raise your Blood Pressure where major events are about to launch. War of the blue angels will return to the bay area in a matter of days. Fleet week begins sunday when first navy ships arrive through the golden gate and throngs of spectator on the embarcadero. We highly encourage everyone to take transit. Howard street between 3rd and 4th is closed. Detours in place. Set up for oracle open world. The conference will bring 60,000 people to the city. That means a lot more cars will clog city streets where traffic is already a big bum erp. What do you think of the traffic down here. So bad. Okay i will not be back down here at all. Its not the first time major events collided in october. Last year we had dream force occurring at the same time as fleet week. Theres increase the security around the event and extra Marine Police will keep boaters safe. Last year a boat capsized during the air show and everyone on board was rescued. If you do have to use your vehicle just be aware theres going to be traffic, expect delays, plan your time accordingly. You will see officers in the area trying to assist with the traffic as well. Put on a good Radio Station and youll be all good. Good advice wanda. In San Francisco cornell bernard, abc 7 news. Is your jacko lantern in yeppard, what the weather is doing to a halloween tradition. Also fire is burning close to homes in santa barbaraa. Why a local airport was closed. When you look at this picture 2 looks like summer but not going to feel that way this weekend. Ill explain coming up. Thanks sandia and a exclusive look at what will become the warriors new arena in San Francisco. Francisco. Only at at t, we believe in access. Francisco. Only the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. Connecting with the things that matter most. And because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, weve created access from at t. California households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify for Home Internet at a discounted rate of 10 a month. No commitment, deposit, or installation fee. Visit att. Com accessnow to learn more. Well halloween is still over a month away if you want a pumpkin may want to act fast because of extreme rains and heat in the summer growers say it is down 25 and hasnt about this bad in 15 years and could get worse as we get closer to halloween. We go to the pumpkin farm to see conditions in the bay area. Its the beginning of the season for east bay Pumpkin Patches and things are looking good, especially to those who make getting here early a priority. We always come early. We come to play. He gets all his energy out and then we get to pick out pumpkins. Do you like to get out early an get the best selection. Yes we do. We come and have the pumpkins speak to us. For this family shopping for pumpkins a relatively new tradition. Its our sons first birthday so we wanted to come out and celebrate his birthday. Might have to pick another one. While things look good now theres some concern around Central Valley growers that the pumpkin inventory could run low come midoctober thanks to extreme heat. The heat and rain effects crops so its just kind of we dont know every year what were going to get. At this Pumpkin Patch at solano way in concord they believe theyre good to go through halloween in part because they dont get their pumpkins from california. The farms we have base in oregon are supplying and no word of a struggle here. Still some people arent laura anthony. Abc 7 news. Let me take you now to a Central Coast where a fire is burning out of control near the town of lompoc. The fire is burning close to two neighbors, so far has burned 600 acres and burned 100 homes in the area. Mandatory evacuations and near by roads are closed near by airport is closed while firefighters use it as a staging area. Pretty serious situation and its pretty windy which is not helping. Tracking our conditions on the fire lines. The fire conditions in the bay area will be elevated into the weekend facing critical fire conditions in the hills. Live doppler 7 showing the fog near the coast and parts of the bay. Wind is howling gusting 37 miles. An on shore wind coming off that cool ocean water. Fairfield 21 miles. When you check out the wind forecast for tomorrow you will notice it goes from a little bit breezy to the winds increasing as we head into the afternoon and evening hours which is precisely why the fire danger will be running high. Take a look at the wind forecast. Heading to tomorrow night winds along the coast between 25 and 35 miles. This continues late saturday into sunday morning. Youll notice 30 miles wind gusts over the coast and Higher Elevation wind as well. Into 9 00 a. M. On sunday its the north bay hills, east bay hills, diablo range. Were looking at gusts to 30 miles with low humidity it is gusty right now. See a live look from our roof camera as the flags flow in the wind. Heres a look at the temperatures. Cool spot is Half Moon Bay at 59 degrees. This marine air definitely helped to drop our temperatures as you look at this view from themmeryville camera. Everyone noticed the cool. It did spread. Heres a live picture from peer 15. Pier 15. This is how your peaked will begin. Low clouds. For fire danger in the hills. Mild this weekend. Cooler weather expected next monday through wednesday. Hour by hour we go along the beaches and around the bay. To at night will see the fog around 11 00 going into midnight and watch what happens, that fog just disappears as we head towards saturday afternoon. The wind will play a role. It will be a cool start. Up er40s. Upper 50s. Thats where you will feel the fall feeling. Crisp conditions in the morning. Lots of sunshine on the peninsula. Looking at low to upper 70s. 67 in Half Moon Bay. Breezily conditions in daly city. Downtown San Francisco 70 and sunny and a little bit warmer pretty much everywhere tomorrow afternoon. 84 santa rosa. East bay, couldnt get nicer, really mild, 76 in union city. 75 oakland. Head inland and temperatures will be in the low to mid 80s. To heat here. 83 in concord. 82 in fairfield. Hour by hour, minute by minute check the temperatures by downloading the accu weather app. Heres fleet week festivity sunday arrival of the ships. Breezy. Monday and tuesday mostly sunny and mild as the air show givens on friday going into saturday. Heres the seven day forecast. Temperatures do come down more early to middle part of next week and will have a late fall feel. 66 to 78 is all well do wednesday so pull out those sweaters thursday and friday temperatures will bounce back. Its really nice especially since we face fire danger this time of year to get a break from the heat. Thanks very much. Feeding frenzy in the monterey bay. A whale watching trip turns into a front row seat at a punch hunch back lunch well take you there. And today we honor sarah velton who oversees the philanthropy efforts of the San Francisco latino location. Please whale watchers in monterey bay got to see a feeding frenzy this week. Got to catch hump backs feeding on anchovies. After the feeding some sea lions moved in to get a share as well. Its that time of year, the bay bridge scheduled to close to continue the deplosion of the foundation of the border span. Should shut down between 9 00 and 11 00 tomorrow the final steps of the implegs whats left of the old bay bridge. Microsoft has plans to build in san jose. The seattle tech Company Bought 65 acres along highway 237 near milpitas. A microsoft Spokes Person said the company is if exploring opportunities to meet the need of future Cloud Computing and Internet Services expected to bring hundreds of new jobs to the city. Already have offices in Mountain View not far from the google plex. Starting sunday, prices rise by 25 cents and monthly parking gets a 50 increase to 82 and change. This is the first time cal train has raised fares in two years saying ridership is setting records and ticket sales pays for twothirds of the cost of running the system. A lot more to come. A shake up at the white house. Secretary of health and human the president asks for tom prices regulari iresignation a spends hundreds and thousands on air travel. And also the racist slur, the and the stern word the superintendent gave to his cadets. And only on abc 7 news the history of this man could be the reason this woman has a future. 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. Lich where you live. Good evening once again. The secretary of health and Human Services has been forced to resign because of a travel scandal accused of excessively using planes for travel. And now agrees asking for the travel records of all 24 agencies. As he boarded air force one tonight it sounded like the president had made up his mind about Health Secretary tom price. Im disa pointed in him. Hes a good man but im disappointed in him. Just before he was asked if he would last. You will make a decision whether or not to fire price. Probably some time today. Im not happy. By the time air force one landed price was out. A source tells abc 7 news the president asked the secretary to resign and he did. Price took more than two dozen work ships on luxury private jets. I heard the criticism and clearly were sensitive to the taxpayer on these incidents. Which is why i took the action i did. Those flights took more than 400,000. He promised to reimburse the government but only the cost of his own seat just 52,000. Hes paying back 52,000 is that enough. Thats unacceptable. Tonight five cabinet secretaries are under fire for expensive travel habits to the tune of more than 625,000. Today interior secretary defiant a mid revelations he spent more than 15,000 on three flights. Before we get started id like to address in the words of general swartkof on travel. He said he didnt have a choice. No commercial options existed to meet the prom gated schedule. Also under the mscope veteran Affairs Secretary saying taxpayer paid for his wife to fly to europe on a official trip where they took in t sites and attended wimbledon. Just one month earlier writing i expect this will flult decreased employee travel and generate savings. Investigation already under way into two other travel secretaries for their travel habits. Skrut pruitt is under scrutiny for installing 25,000 phone booth in his office and costly government flights including that to kentucky where he and his wife fewed the eclipse. Abc 7 news the white house. Both supporters and protesters showed up and shared messages peacefully for a fundraiser sponsored by the San Francisco republican party. Law man found guilty of contempt in court. He ignored order to stop racial profiling. Im very humbled that he did. Im not guilty thats for sure. Youll hear that. The real story pretty soon. Im not guilty. I have two parking tickets in my life. Two. Im 85 years old. He lost his reelection bid for seventh turn as Maricopa County sheriff last november. Out of cuba following string of mysterious masonic attacks, 21 have up to 50 attacks. State Department Warning not to travel to cuba claiming attacks also occurring in hotels. A very forceful message from the superintendent in the air force academy near Colorado Springs after five candidates woke up to messages calling them to go home and calling them a racial slur. If you are outraged by those words youre in the right place. That kind of behavior has no place here or in the United States air force. You should be outraged not only as an airman but as a human being. If you cant treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. The superintendent says he will continue to investigate exactly what happened and who is responsible. You know, there are all kinds of friendships but tonight we share one with a very special bond. These friends crossed paths when one of them had a near fatal car crash, the other person rescued her. Their story now from sonoma. Once they were strangers but their paths crossed just over 2 months ago when 19yearold kayla king fell asleep at the wheel and crashed her car along redwoods along the 101 and the crash impact trapped her in the car. And marshall was right behind her. In my career experience people who hit trees that hard rarely survive so i expected to see fatality. When i saw her there breathing my next thoughts was dont die on me dont die on me. Her face was crushed, put in a coma, lost her right eye, spared any brain injury and at her side was her rescuer. It made me feel better because he knew what i was going through. Its nice to have somebody that knows. Nine years ago martin was also in a nearfatal accident crushed between two fire rigs s. He understood the ordeal of recovery. Kayla is still dealing with pelvis issues and broken vertebrae. Shes done an amazing job at healing. Shes determined, staying positive, taking it one day at a time and giving it all she can. She wont take that journey alone. Martin, his wife, and kaylas mother have bonded and discovered they have kindred spirits. Shes been given a Second Chance at life which a lot of us arent. Im excited to see what the future holds. In hillsburg, abc 7 news. Great story. Coming up next, elon musks plan to get you anywhere on plan to get you anywhere on earth in 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. If spacexs elon musk gets his way you will be able to hop around anywhere on earth in an hour. These days rockets are bad subject when the president calls you rocket man its a bad thing then elon musk takes the stage and tells you his rockets will save you serious travel time. You can getet to most Long Distance places in less than half hour. Heres what musk is pitching, say youre in los angeles and have to be somewhere very far away, forget the jet, forget the space shuttle, book a seat on one of his rocket shins. Ship. Want to fly to hawaii 25 minutes. New york 25 minutes. Bfr, the b for big, the r for rocket and f for what crazy looks like. Dan says 1600 seat 18,000 miles rocket he says is possible but unlikely soon. Big part the boofrt. If he can demonstrate he can use a large booster the first stage up to 100 times then will make sense. Ill believe it when i see it. I guess it doesnt count since a a cartoon. Would you sign up to be on a rocket ship. Id do it. Youd be the first guy on that rocket. Maybe not the first guy id be the second guy. How do they account for the gforce. Astronauts deal with it. After a lot of training and they often throw up, im not sure. Yep intestinal fortitude always a concern with rockets but at least californias are used to hard to stomach problems. Beats the bullet train. Abc 7 news. Way to travel. And this will be the billion dollar new home for the Golden State Warriors 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. This just into the news room, its friday. Meteorologist here with the forecast for the weekend. Yes and were so happy its the weekend, dan. Good evening to all of you. Lets check out our live doppelgangdoppler 7. Fog around the coast and bay. Tomorrow temperatures 60s to 80s pretty mild weather. So much is going on if you are going to oktoberfest in the diamond district of oakland. Sunshine saturday mid 07s after morning temperatures in the 50s. In cupertino 67 degrees. Mild and bright in the evening hours. And we have castro street fair in San Francisco on sunday. Going from 6 7 to the low 70s. Nothing but sunshine for you no matter what event youre going to. Bridge to bridge in San Francisco sunday, if you are running, 56 degrees, the race starts at 8 00 a. M. And just the right weather with sunshine, temperatures in the 50s at race time. Coming up in the 60s not too hot. Accu weather 7 day forecast one thing missing is the heat. I dont think anybody is complaining. Next week mid to upper 70s to latter part of the work week. Now talking cooler than average today. Thats going to be well below. Nice change. Absolutely. Thanks very much. After years nba warriors will have a new arena in San Francisco and we got a personal tour of the progress. You were telling me behind the scenes how challenging this is from a engineering standpoint. Yeah because the water table is right there so you have to be careful when you are digging and how you fortify the structure and all that foundation stuff. I dont know how to do it, i cant hammer a nail. When they broke grournd months ago, since then crews have been hard at work, today we got an exclusive tour of the new arena site with the warriors president. The tour starts from a view from above the chase Center Construction site is a bee hive of activity. When it is done will be more than just an arena but to create a destination. All around the arena is beautiful public space. Its amazing i cant wait to go down there. They thought of everything, even the warriors logo on the hard hat. Would i take this for my own, i would never do such a thing. And we headed to the belly of the beast. All right lets watch the rebar here. Im doing this for the first time. Like this is, you know, if you could imagine the view. Right. So this is how people are going to cross the street from the park. And this is one of the two main entrances. Youve got the foundation down and youre about to start going up. Thats kind of why were here, right. A year from today the whole building form will be together. The roof will be on. It will be water tight and well be starting to do the interior work. We had to stop shooting for a second because theyre lowering these weights and theyre going to lift something up. For the moment cant go any farther. This is the first time ive actually be in the lobby of the chase center here we are in the lobby. I love what youve done with the place. Its beautiful. From where were standing where is steph curry going to be shooting . 50 feet that direction. Okay. Right there is center court. Locker rooms over there. Practice facility over there. And center court right here. What sent do you have, what are the emotions right now. Same as everybody who has worked on this project. This was just a dream five and half years ago. To see it come to form from ideas, to drawings and million hours of meetings i think is a real exhilarating feeling that puts a big smile on my face. A lot of people are worried about traffic and parking, best way to go will be Public Transportation the new central subway will drop you at the arena and that will connect with bart if you are heading from the beast b best bet. Theres going to be congestion. This is going to hold 18,000. If at t park can do it we could do it two more years will be open 2019. What do you have for giants. Giants need one win to avoid 100loss season. Can they get of might be the best season the giants had all season but tonight Brett Hundley was honored as most inspirational giants player of the year always a treat. Bottom of the first. Two out buster posey. Going to be a problem for padres. Double brings in joe panik. Brings in two runs. The early lead. Bottom four again buster two outs and buster posey single handily making sure they win this game. That made it 70. Forget your sweat shirt. Look at this, dress as a giant hot dog if it gets too cold thats what i advise. Right now giants leading 80 in the 7th. Abc 7 Sports Department projecting a win to avoid 100 losses. A wedding on the concourse during the asranger. Kissy, kissy. Shinsoo choo never forget your first. Top seven. As rookie nunez great in the minor, three run homer, his first ever extra base hit. As lose 53 and locks up their Third Straight last place finish. Cha chase center going to open in 2019, you figure steph and kevin durant will be there rookie jordan bell will be there he will make his debut tomorrow. Summer league 16 rebounds in one game finds himself surnrounded y allstar on a championship squad. I understand im new and i have to learn alternal of the n plays. If i mess up they just talk to me. Each day i get more and more comfortable. You can see him thinking about where he should be instead of instinctively where to play that will come. Every rookie goes through a tough transition. All of the speculation about westbrook back home, forget about that staying in okc, five years 205 million, mvp last year averaged triple double 32 points 10 assists 11 boards. Going to make over 500,000 a game. Drives me nuts. Wish i had better genes. And he signs on Kevin Durants birthday ironically. Late tonight got the answer to red shirt sophomore keller will make his first start got hurt last week is out. On second drive, got blasted by ucla defenders. So costello played well couple touchdown passes. Ran for a nine yard score. Job appears to be his. Well have highlights after the game following clemson and va tech on abc 7. Jets fans in pullman. Wazzou coming in. Someone should make jerseys for ronald jones, ii because he can fly. And their up 1410. Volleyball practice for the offensive lineman. The cougs hold and force a field goal. Jamal mara made it 170 at the break right now 2017, cougs right now. Abc sports brought to you by toyota. Sunday morning i leave for china with the warriors two preseason games in china, well have coverage from there all next week. Fantastic experience. We know theyre huge warriors fans. Will be great to see in person. Its going to be fun. Coming up tonight, one family furious after an invasion. And hundreds of ipads going home with students. Why saeducator say it will chan students lives. Ama had her baby girl on monday her name adelin beautiful name both mom and baby doing well. What a beautiful little girl congratulations we miss you, see you when you get back. Thats all for the moment. For everyone here, we appreciate your time. Well see you in a an hour on the big 7. dark music [narrator] today, the stories of two murder cases. One, in rural pennsylvania, the other in lincolnshire, england. In our first case, a cheating wife demands an unusual favor from a lover