5 am and he will focus on the tracy commute but i will also mention that interstate 80 is open right now. If you went to bed and did not know if it would be open for the morning commute, it is open. Lets start with 580. 580 at 205, slow traffic coming up on 205 from 11th and on 580 as you approach the Altamont Pass and then it looks all right to livermore and dublin. The problems on 680 from san ramon to pleasanton and into the snow grade. Looking at interstate 880 we have a good drive as well and getting out to the bay bridge toll plaza there is a small delay. Nothing major yet. Lets go back to the desk. An investigation is underway into what caused that massive fire at the Nustar Petroleum storage plant in crockett yesterday afternoon. The fire was contained but the effects are still being felt this morning. One example. All schools in the John Swett School district are closed for the day. Both directions of 80 are open to traffic in a shelter in place order was lifted last night. Sara zendehnam is live in crockett when Incident Management Team investigated through the night. Reporter thats right. Good morning. On cummings skyway which is shut down between i80 and san pablo avenue because of this incident. We know that cal osha will be out here on site investigating today. Its dark out here now so you cant see much but you can still smell the smoke in the air. Like i said you cant see much now so lets take you to video and we will break down what we know happened here yesterday. This started tuesday afternoon. An explosion at Nustar Petroleum storage plants selby terminal in crockett sent flames shooting into the air. Thick black smoke cloud in nearby towns. Two tanks containing ethanol and jet fuel exploded. Those were part of the explosion that happened here last night. That sent the flames into the air. One tank had about 167,000 gallons of the chemical. To put that in perspective that amount of liquid would fill seven average sized swimming pools. Fire Officials Say two tanks are destroyed and two others were affected but still functional. Last night nustar set all operations and shipments of products in and out of the facility are stopped. The fire was so close to the interstate that the california Highway Patrol shut down i80 in both directions for hours. The situation obviously was dangerous at times the contra costa Fire District spokesperson said one contractor was caught inside when the fire broke out. Unable to evacuate on his own because of the fire. He sought shelter in a culvert and was eventually, once of the fire was on the scene, was evacuated out of the facility. Reporter we do have a statement from nustar we got last night. I will read it for you here. They said there were two impacted tanks which were holding very low volumes of ethanol, less than 1 of tank capacity. All personnel are safe and accounted for. Whats happening today, the investigation is ongoing. There is still no cause yet. Theyre trying to figure that out as we speak. Cal osha will be out here later today on site looking through the scene. Sara zendehnam, ktvu fox 2 news. To be on the safe side all four schools in the john swett unified School District will be closed today. That includes rodeo hills elementary, cocaine is middle school, John Swett High School and willow high. Neighbors also complained about those warning sirens saying they were annoying even though they are necessary to keep people safe. As many as 12,000 People Living or working near the oil storage plant had to stay indoors while the fire was raging and they looked out for each other, especially for senior citizens. One of our neighbors is an elderly friend and she got kind of alarmed with seeing all the smoke and the alarm going off sowe both went down and sat with her for a while. Very scary ordeal lasted almost 9 hours. Before that shelter in place was over at 9 45 pm. Make sure you stay here with us at ktvu for continuing coverage of the fire at Nustar Energy. Ktvu, were there at the scene and will be there throughout the morning as investigator search for the cause of the fire in the explosion and bring you updates at ktvu. Com. We are still having aftershocks of the two earthquakes hit the bay area yesterday. Weve had three earthquakes in the past 48 hours. Usgs in the latest was a magnitude 3. 4 and it hit last night centric and Pleasant Hill around 715 close to the epicenter of monday nights 4. 5 earthquake. Earlier yesterday afternoon there was a 4. 7 in san benito counties centered 15 miles southeast of hollister. People in the small town of tres pinos felt it especially hard. The epicenter was 10 miles south of town but the earthquake was felt across northern california. The owner of a hair salon said this one felt different than the others. One of the ladies was like, i think we are having an earthquake. I was like, no way. I turned around and all the stuff was shaking on the walls. The water container was going back and forth. It was shaking pretty good. Ray county Sheriffs Department and Hollister Police and Fire Departments say there are no reports of damage. We hope you stay with us tomorrow for an earthquake so special called the country. You can watch it here on ktvu after the thursday night football sportswrap on ktvu fox 2 news. Now to last nights fourth democratic president ial primary debate. 12 of the candidates debated in ohio. It was the biggest president ial primary debate on in history. The hot topic. The impeachment inquiry and to President Trumps. Impeachment is the way that we establish that this man will not be permitted to break the law over and over without consequences. He has given us the evidence and he tried to cover it up putting it in that special server and this been a clear consciousness of guilt. Another big debate topic was the latest u. S. Troop withdrawal from syria and the conflict that has started with turkey. The slaughter of the kurds being done by turkey as yet another negative consequence of the regime change war that weve been waging in syria picks payment respectfully i think that is dead wrong. The slaughter going on in syria is not a consequence of american presence its a consequence of a withdrawal and a betrayal by this president. The next democratic debate is november 20 in georgia. Eight candidates have already qualified for that debate. Today we expect an update on plans for interstate 680 no express and hov lanes for the Contra Costa Transit Authority board will have the latest on the construction project for the 680 southbound express project during a meeting tonight. Express lane is the extended from martinez to walnut creek. The entire 680 project will cost 107 million and will be finished by late 2020. Right now there are nearly 90 miles of express lanes across the bay area. Transportation leaders say they hope to add another 125 miles by 2035. The state department of Water Resources agreed to pay butte county 12 million to fix the roads damaged after the oroville dam crisis. The nations tallest dam forced almost 200,000 people to evacuate. The repairs led to heavy truck traffic that damaged roads and butte county and betwell lawsuit by the county in august of last year. The main spillway reconstruction was completed last november but worked to extend the emergency spillway continues. The north bay Commuter Rail agency will discuss a measure that extends a quarter cent sales tax to the main source of funding. The board will discuss placing the tax extension on march ballot. The board will take Public Feedback during the review which includes an update spending plan. A poll shows 70 of voters in sonoma and marin county say they support extending the quarter cent sales tax to pay for the smart train for another 30 years. The city of oakland is blocked from collecting money from a parcel tax measure. Oakland lost a lawsuit over measure a8. The judge overseeing the case ruled that oakland claimed that it won the measure to collect and almost 200 tax per parcel was a fraud on the voters. In november 2018, is 62 of voters approved it. The city council declared it had passed saying it needed two thirds of the votes to pass. However a study of the tax measure said it actually needed 66 of the vote. Santa clara county says its made it last my best and final offer to striking county workers. Some 12,014 workers at various county departments including roads, parks and social services. The countys offer includes annual raises of 3 over five years and changes the amount workers would be required to contribute to healthcare premiums. Its not known when the unit members will vote on the offer. The county said is hoping to take the dispute to mediation if the union does not accept the proposal. Still ahead. A change to traffic plans in downtown San Francisco. We tell you what will happen soon in this major on Market Street. Three earthquakes felt around the bay area in less than 24 hours. A seismologist tells us if that may signal if a large earthquake is on the way. Interstate 80 has reopened. It looks pretty good driving in from the carquinez bridge through richmond all the way to berkeley. A break in the morning and then a lot of cloud cover on the way through the afternoon. Weak system is coming through. We will take a look at that. There are those who will say that youre too fat. Too skinny. Too hard. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. And to them we say too bad. Because at kaiser permanente, we believe that everyone deserves the right to thrive. Beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. All working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gigspeed network. 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Please see the man is described as in the early to mid 20s, 6 feet tall with light skin and black, shoulderlength hair. Stanford university is holding a meeting today after any report found alarmingly high rates of sexual assaults on campuses across the country. The study found 38 of female and 14 of male undergraduates said they had been forced into unwanted sex by the time they reach their senior year. More than 10,000 stanford students responded to the study. In San Francisco, a big change coming to Market Street soon as early as next year. The city will close two miles of Market Street to private vehicles. Henry lee has more on how this will affect cyclists, pedestrians and drivers. We will make sure we when that vote. Are you with me . A jubilant crowd outside San Francisco city hall as plans move forward to ban private cars on Market Street. In addition, we will have protected bike lanes. And we are going to have protected sidewalks. Reporter the ss mta board approved an ambitious remodel of Market Street. The goal is to improve safety and cut down on deadly crashes. Todays vote is a historic opportunity to transform the main corridor of our city into a safe and inviting place to walk, bike and take transit. Reporter is part of the battery Street Market project, all private vehicles including rogers like uber and lift will be banned from octavia to the mark oberle. Only bikes, pedestrians and mass transit will be allowed. Its time for carfree market. We see over 100 bike and pedestrian injuries per year. These are digital renderings. The sidewalks will be widened raise lighting and Safety Measures added in the underground piping and utilities would be replaced. City Officials Say they do not believe traffic will be drastically affected. Right now most of the cars crossing Market Street and so that crossing will still be there at many locations. Not many cars go up and down Market Street. Reporter but not all drivers are convinced extremely i think its best to leave it the way there is just because there are so many people moving into the city and so many vehicles. But taking out marcus reed you add more vehicles to other streets around there. Reporter construction and remodeling could begin in 2021. Cars could be banned from parts of market as early as january. Henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Lets talk about traffic. The headline this morning is 80 is open because it was closed yesterday. Some people went to bed not knowing that, they went to bed and figured i hope its open. They are joining us now and im going to tell you that it is open 80 westbound. Its functioning as normal and we will get to that in the second. This is a look at gilroy to san jose. Traffic is moving along well. Many people depend on this update as well. And as we look all the freeways here, hollister and watsonville, gilroy, 25, 156 and 152, this system looks okay. There is some swelling on 25 west over the 101 which is typical. Not out of the ordinary. Traffic is moving along well all the way up into san jose and no major issues in the valley. This is northbound 280. We talked about 80 westbound, the commute from the carquinez bridge all the way to the bay bridge is open and functioning as normal which is to say theres a little bit of slowing already at the bay bridge toll plaza. 5 17 am. What about the weather . Thats a good question, sal. Im glad i asked her. We have a mostly clear sky but clouds are knocking on the door. They will be coming in from the west and southwest but also fog which we had widespread yesterday is now beginning in advance of this front are starting to ramp up a little bit. There are actually three systems. We have the fog. The probable cloud cover and the fund itself will come down late tonight and tomorrow. If youre up in Crescent City, not too bad. After that theres really not much as we go through the next seven days. You can see good rain near the oregon border. A little bit around ukiah and redding and truckee north. Maybe some drizzle but not in the way of any rain. Cooler weather on the way. 76 yesterday in santa rosa. 72 today. Oakland down four. Little more did hit a soft 81. 75 today. San jose down two. Around the area, 70s in healdsburg, walnut creek, los gatos and gilroy. Canfield, palomo, fremont and cupertino in upper 60s and low 70s. Degas basin, in santa cruz, all 60s. Upper 60s in santa cruz. A little bit of fog on the san mateo coast. 40s and 50s on many of the temperatures. 43 in morgan hill. 49, santa cruz. Low 40s in the santa cruz mountains. 47 is popular. Santa clara, saratoga. 27 in truckee. Low 40s in ukiah. Sacramento, 49. A little bit of sun in the morning and increasing clouds throughout the late morning and the afternoon. It weak system will drag across late tonight. Is not much to it. Theres pretty good rain in the Pacific Northwest but not for us here. And result today into tomorrow will be a drop in temperatures. Below average levels. Maybe some light rain late tonight and tomorrow. May even be well most of us are sleeping. Very little here. Some of this will be drizzle or fall. Light rain will be probably in the north. There could be light rain. Cooler into tomorrow and then the breeze will pick up. Look for 50s and 60s and low 70s tomorrow. 60s and 70s for some. We topped out yesterday on the temperatures. We start warmer but not until the weekend. Especially sunday into monday. San francisco leaders said they want to tackle the issue of homelessness. I spoke to those with Mental Health issues. Next, a new plant being laid out by mayor london breed. A change at sfo. A change to help you get around a little easier. Fact coffee stains teeth. 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San francisco has two possible plans to help resolve its Mental Health crisis. Supporters say getting help for people homeless and have Mental Health issues is a big step in reducing the citys homelessness crisis. Christien kafton explains with the mayor and other leaders one. Reporter its too easy to find evidence of those in crisis on the streets of San Francisco. Now the mayor has unveiled what she says is a comprehensive plan to treat those battling Mental Health issues. Urgent care sf. The plan aims to reduce red tape, increase the number of patients who can be seen, find and retain top talent and Mental Health care and eventually provide Housing Options for those in need. The San Francisco director of Mental Health reform said the plan is aimed at helping thousands of patients in need today. Tower city is taking unprecedented steps to begin addressing those issues to and the expense of people facing the crisis of homelessness, Mental Illness and substance abuse. Urgent care sf in particular will improve our response to those individuals and needs. Reporter the city director of Public Health said the plan has the scope to begin resolving the citys ongoing homelessness and Mental Health crises. At the end of the day this plan will save lives and will make a meaningful difference with regard to the Behavioral Health crisis that we are all experiencing. Reporter at San Francisco General Hospital patients and healthcare workers celebrated a deal that will save the adult residential facility. A resource for 32 severely mentally ill san franciscans. Two months ago the facility was in danger of closing but a deal between the union, the department of health, the mayor and supervisors without keep the doors open. Supervisor Hillary Ronen has been pushing for an ambitious plan Mental Health sf which she says is fully formed with a source of funding already in the works. At this point she says the mayors plan is more a set of goals than concrete proposals. She had not identified a funding source. She is not identified when the services will come online and how they would be coordinated and most important how there will be accountability. Remember supervisor martin said as recently as last friday the Mayors Office appeared to be working on a joint plan but has now introduced urgent care sf. The supervisor saying she wants to see results knowing that could mean compromising. We are open and willing to come back to the negotiating table at any point as we have been from day one. We just hope she will stay at the table with us. Reporter the debate over these options now kicks into high gear and it may be the voters of San Francisco who decide. The supervisors plan Mental Health sf and the mayor plan urgent care sf both file paperwork to appear on the march ballot. Christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. The new democratic president ial frontrunner under fire. Elizabeth warren was feeling the heat from her competitors. After three earthquakes in and around the bay area, the effect it may have had on local refineries in the bay area. In case you are just joining us and not knowing interstate 80 is open between the carquinez bridge and here in berkeley and to oakland and the macarthur maze. We tell you about this commute and others when we come back. Quiet in the morning. Decreased increasing clouds throughout the day. It weak system on the way. We could get a little rain but not until late tonight. Its been reported that theres a cyberattack on business every 39 seconds. Ouch. I dont even want to think about it. Comcast business has a solution. We go beyond fast with a cloudbased Security System that automatically updates, so you always have the latest protection. Phishing. Malware. Risky sites. It can help block all of that. Get fast internet and add comcast business securityedge for just 29. 95 a month. Its one less thing for us to worry about. Comcast business. Beyond fast. Good morning and welcome back. Its a bit of the week. Its wednesday, october 16. Im dave clark. Im gasia mikaelian. Yesterday in the newsroom i saw women wearing boots and scarves and cozy sweaters. Its that time of year. Its cold because people are starting to bundle up. It is a little chilly but we have increasing clouds throughout the day. By tonight, maybe some light rain overnight. The clouds coming in initially are from the west and southwest. That will do some things in the atmosphere. Its been dry but it does look like we go from partly sunny to mostly cloudy and cloudy. Most of the rain will stay to the north. Of the next 57 days come up in Crescent City not too bad. For us, i think 0. 01 to 0. 05 would be good. 60s and 70s on the temperatures. We will be below average through the end of the week and then looks to be above next week. Fog is getting its act together. 40s and 50s on the temperatures. I dont think we changed too much around the bay. In the oakland and berkeley hills, low 50s. Tiburon, 49. Patchy fog with increasing clouds. Tonight we are cloudy and if we get any light rain the most would be to the north. Very little to the south. A gray day in cooler as temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s today. We take that into tomorrow. Sal is here. It is super commute time and this is a good time to remind people that interstate it is super commute time and this is a good time to remind people that interstate 80 has opened again. Last night by evening it was closed for the evening commute because of the tank fire which was right there, around here and then they had to close the freeway between highway 4 and 780. This morning its open and traffic is normal which is to say its a little slow and vallejo approaching 780 and is also slow traffic heading west on 37. This is within the normal range. Traffic is looking good. Otherwise hercules to richmond and heading out the highway for, slow traffic coming out of the bay point area toward concord. 680 is moderately heavy. Any minute drive from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and the bay bridge has metering lights on. Its a 10 minute wait. 5 32 am. Continuing coverage into what caused a fire at the Nustar Petroleum storage plant in crockett yesterday afternoon. The fire is contained this morning the effects are still being felt. All schools in the John Swett School district are closed for the day. Both directions of interstate 80 are open to traffic and a shelter in place order was lifted. Lets bring in Sara Zendehnam live from crockett. Crews were on the scene and busy through the night. Reporter good morning. Thats right. In the last 20 minutes or so we are noticing some act 230 at the scene of the fire. I will step out of the way so you can get a better look. It is dark out here now but you may be able to see the lights on that ladder truck down there. There are some other vehicles down there. We did see another fire truck down there as well. Getting an early start to this day. Even though the fire is contained, a crew spent the night putting water and foam on the fire. We do see pieces of that foam floating around. Cal osha is involved with the investigation and will be on the site today. Right now we are on cummings skyway which is set in between san pablo avenue and i80 because of this incident. We will take you to video from yesterday. Its incredible how intense these claims were. This started tuesday afternoon. An explosion at Nustar Energy Storage Facility shall be terminal in crocketts and flames into the air. Thick black smoke clouded nearby towns. Two tanks containing ethanol and jet fuel were destroyed while two others were damaged but ill functional. One tank had about 167,000 gallons of the chemical. To put that in perspective that liquid would fill about seven average sized swimming pools. Last night nustar set all operations and shipments of products in and out of the facility or stop for now. The fire was so close to the interstate the california Highway Patrol shutdown i80 in both directions for hours. It is now back open. Investigators have not said how the fire started but its something theyre working hard to figure out. There is an Ongoing Investigation as to the cause of this. This is being aided by inspectors from Contra Costa County fire. There are representatives also hear from cal osha. We will determine whether or not we need any Additional Resources or expertise as to find out what actually caused this incident. Reporter in a statement nustar corporate said there are two impacted tanks which are holding low volumes of ethanol. Less than 1 of tank capacity. All personnel are safe and accounted for. Back out here live you can see the activity that just started going on. I would say in the last 20 minutes or so. We are seeing some vehicles around this fire scene. We did see a couple of fire crews out here and other emergency vehicles as well. We are expecting cal osha to be out here today to continue the investigation. Sara zendehnam, ktvu fox 2 news. Operations at two refiners are open. This will refinery and the marathon facility in concord report mondays earthquake set off a flare incidents. The Companies Say they burned gases in those systems for 15 minutess safety shut off what caused the flaring. As you can imagine the recent bay area quakes are making people nervous. Azenith smith spoke to an expert, a seismologist who says theres no connection between the quakes in San Benito County and the quakes and Contra Costa County. Hopefully they relieve some pressure so we dont have the bigger one happen to us. Reporter tuesdays quake registered at 4. 7 north of San Juan Batista on the san andreas fault. Monday nights quake that caused this damage registered at 4. 7 north of walnut creek between the concord and calaveras faults earthquakes occur somewhat randomly and so its just a statistical chance the two earthquakes occur within 14 hours of each other in the bay area but really the quakes far away. Reporter this seismologist with the usgs, less than 2 chance, she says, these earthquakes could lead to a bigger quake. She is focused on shake alert, an Early Warning system that gives second notice of when earth week has begun. If youre in bed you recommend you put a pillow over your face so you dont get cuts on your face. Reporter seismologist forecast a big earthquake by 2043. A 72 chance of 6. 7 magnitude or greater likely rupturing the hayward fault. If everything is in rubble and the First Responders cant get to us we need to be self sufficient. Reporter county officials recommend an emergency bag with important documents. An emergency kit with the tools to turn off your gas and a mini survival kit and a caring radio. Its a bit dramatic for me and my mother cannot get to me because some of the streets were buckled. Reporter this woman was six when she was separated from her family during the quake. She realizes she is not as prepared as she should be. Gentle reminders that we need to get it together and get that at a state contact arranged and our bags packed. Reporter azenith smith, ktvu fox 2 news. Join us tomorrow night for an earthquake special called, quake country. You can watch it right here after the thursday night football sportswrap on ktvu fox 2. Last night Democratic Candidates debated in ohio. 12 candidates do not just target prompt, they also targeted the Democratic Front runners. Doug luzader is live from washington to bring us the impact of last nights debate and what it could have on the race. Reporter this was a big debate in every sense. A very crowded stage and for some candidates perhaps a final opportunity to make a mark. Your signature senator is to have a plan for everything except this. Reporter i want to get a reality check to elizabeth. I want to start with senator warren. Reporter no one was called out more last night than Elizabeth Warren. Polls. Front runner in many she had to fend off one attack after another. Many focused on her health care plan. So let me be clear on this. Cost will go up for the wealthy. They will go up for a Big Corporation and for middle class families. They will go down. Reporter its become a real point of contention. Warren has refused to acknowledge what many here believe must almost certainly be true. The h. E. R medicare for all plan would require a tax hike on the middle class. But i do think its appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up. They will go up significantly for the wealthy. Reporter Bernie Sanders proclaimed himself to be healthy making his first appearance since suffering a heart attack. Look my son did nothing wrong i did nothing wrong. Reporter and joe biden had to respond to attacks from President Trump that while serving as a vp he leaned on ukraine to help his sons business interests. There was plenty of criticism leveled at President Trump over his move to pull u. S. Forces out of Northern Syria and there was unanimous support for the ongoing impeachment probe in congress. He is indeed the most corrupt and unpatriotic president we have ever had. I swore an oath to do my job as a senator. Do my duty. This president has violated his. I will do mine. Reporter the repeated attacks on Elizabeth Warren in the meantime did help her in one sense. She was always given time to respond so her speaking time on stage eclipsed every other candidate last night. Back to you guys. Still ahead. Look for prochina protester today in the streets of San Francisco. What they want House Speaker nancy pelosi to do about the protests in hong kong. Why thousands are following this little boys story online. Why this dance was a Long Time Coming as he was fighting cancer. If you are about to hit the road, highway 24 may be in your plans. Right now its a smooth drive from lafayette to oakland. Increasing clouds throughout the day. The weak system is on tap but not until tonight. We will look at the temperatures which are coming down. People ask how i can tell my girls apart. Come on. A mom knows. Like when i chose our family eye doctor at first they all seemed identical. But then i found the ones who offer more. Male narrator when you choose a vsp private practice doctor with the orange premier banner, you can expect advanced technology and personalized attention. Schedule your eye exam today. Visit vsp. Com premier. This is what more looks like. I did once mistake mr. Cuddles for mr. Snuggles. 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The group, Chinese Americans for peace and veterans for peace or hoarding a News Conference outside the office of House Speaker nancy pelosi at 1 30 pm. They oppose a bill in congress that would in hong kongs special trading status with the United States if human rights and democracy is damaged. The house and Senate Committees both passed the bill and has support among republicans and democrats including speaker pelosi. The vote in the full house or senate has not been set. Mike pence undersecretary of state mike pompeo are heading to turkey today, expected to meet tomorrow with the turkish president to convince turkey to stop its incursion into syria. Turkey has rejected calls from the United States for an immediate ceasefire. President trumps ordered the withdrawal of american troops at the syrianis Turkish Border or we can do. The one said the incursion has displaced more than 130,000 people in Northern Syria, half her children. Translator there is no place. Its been four days since we have bathed our children. There is no water or toilet. Nothing. No hot water or gas. Russian troops have replaced american soldiers and patrolling the line between turkish and syrian armies. The Kurdish Military has attempted to strike a deal with the Syrian Government to shield themselves from Turkish Military operations. State agencies say they cannot reach those who fled the region due to fighting and roadblocks. Members of congress from withresident trump at the white house about the syria crisis and it will also be the first facetoface meeting between President Trump and House Speaker nancy pelosi since she called for the impeachment inquiry. Also today a former Senior Advisor to the secretary of state is due to go behind closed doors at a hearing about the president s dealings with ukrainian government. House republicans are pushing for a formal Impeachment Vote so they can call witnesses and issue subpoenas but House Speaker nancy pelosi says she is not yet willing to call for a formal vote. We are not here to call bluff. We are here to find the truth. To uphold the constitution of the United States. This is not a game for us. This is deadly serious. President trumps come his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his allies say the impeachment inquiry is a legitimate and they have no plans to cooperate with the subpoenas. A new report finds San Francisco businesses have created as many lowwage jobs as they have highpaying tech jobs. According to the chronicle state employment figures show the city added just over 53,000 workers earning more than 118,000 a year over the past three years but for nearly every wellpaying job came in 18 a 20 per hour position. The report suggest the city needs to plan for an additional 9300 Affordable Housing units to keep up with the rise of low wage jobs expected over the next six years. Amazon is joining the trend of sending workers away from home for healthcare in a movement to control medical costs. 380,000 amazon employees and families across the u. S. Are eligible for the travel benefits including costs for airfare, hotels and gasoline. Supporters say the companies can get competitive prices and employees can get better care while shopping around the country instead of always relying on local providers. Marmot has begun its refrigerator delivery service. We reported this summer about the program that has walmart employees stocking a refrigerator when youre not at home. The employees wear a body cameras you can see what they are doing in your home. The Service Started yesterday in kansas city, pittsburg and vero beach florida. The Service Costs 20 a month. The warriors had a preseason game tonight against the lakers. There has been a lot of changes during the offseason. Dangelo russell is a warrior after kevin durant left for the new jersey nets. Andre iguodala was traded to memphis and it looks like a salary dump. Klay thompson could be out most of the season or the whole season recovering from a torn acl. There are two preseason games left against the lakers before Opening Night next thursday against the clippers. Lets get you out the door. No rain today but that may change tomorrow. That could change tomorrow and if it does, were going to have one of those commutes that we always have when it rains but we dont have to deal with it now. This is a look at the tracy commute. We start with slow traffic on 205 and on 580. After you pass the Altamont Pass come you go up and go down and then it looks good coming down to livermore and over to dublin. No major issues at the Castro Valley y or interstate 880. This is look at interstate 880 in oakland. It does look good and if youre driving at the bay bridge there is a little backup at the toll plaza. 5 49 am. Before we get to our weather we will take a look at the northeast. Supposed to be a game 4 for the astros and the yankees. Supposed to be, again, maybe by 5 00 or 5 08 pm our time that may go through but its pretty wet there. The rain is on the way for much of the northeast. Clouds on the way for us. Mid and highlevel clouds are right there and then in front will try to slide through later tonight and into tomorrow. Does not much to it unless youre up toward Crescent City. Then you may get a little bit. The models have made it wetter for us with. 01, pointed to,. 05. Thats probably a little overdone but maybe there could be more to the system. We will see if that holds. Anyway you look at announcer less than a 10th of an inch. Cooler. Everyone will get on that. Yesterday 81 and livermore. 75 today. San jose down two, oakland down four in santa rosa down four. 70s in walnut creek and los gatos in gilroy. Canfield, palo alto and cupertino in the upper 60s and low 70s. But they could become at simpson beach come all 60s. Fog is filling in and the manta ray bay and santa cruz areas. Nothing like we saw yesterday. 38 in santa rosa. 42 at the napa airport. Mill valley, 43. San leandro and Castro Valley, 44. Hope valley, 36. Windsor, 37. A lot of low 40s. Sebastopol has dipped to 39. Dillon beach, 47. There are some cool ratings the clouds will start to move in. 41 and ukiah. 23 and truckee. Some patchy low clouds throughout the morning with increasing height and midlevel clouds. Partly sunny to mostly cloudy and cloudy later this afternoon and tonight. Overnight that weak system which is good in the Pacific Northwest, we are on the southern edge of it and there wont be much in the way of the dynamics. That will slide through tonight. Increasing clouds throughout the day. Light rain overnight into early thursday. And its out of here. The breeze will pick up thursday afternoon and evening out of the northwest and tomorrow will be the coolest day of the week. 60s and 70s on the temperatures. A little below average. We continue that trend into thursday and friday and start to rebound with a nice weekend. Were watching the fallout from that explosion and fire at the Energy Storage plant in crockett. Coming up, how people who lived there feel about being so close to industrial businesses and the possible Health Effects related to the fire. Cars in San Francisco soon will not be allowed on a two mile stretch of Market Street in downtown San Francisco. My parts of the city, more of the city, could see similar changes. First, how crews at the airport are cleaning up a messy water main break at sfo and what some believe may have caused it. Coffee before your 8 a. M. Belvita breakfast biscuits to get you through your nine, ten and your elevena. M. Team mixer. Made with a delicious blend of grains. Get 4 hours of Lasting Energy to outlast your morning. Travelers will see airport wide alphanumeric date numbering system at sfo. The system will have gates assigned with a letter and number. A spokesperson said the new system should help passengers move more quickly from checkin to security and to the gate. Its also meant to help less frequent travelers understand the layout. Meanwhile repair work continues after a water main break yesterday caused major flooding in a parking lot. Jesse gary shows us the mess left behind and explains what may have caused it. Reporter at San Francisco international, the Morning Service disruption did not impact flights but some vehicles. A dozen of which were waterlogged and caked in mud up to the wheels. About this only happened in louisiana . Not here. Reporter Maria Gonzales was one of the lucky ones. The chevy equinox sits high enough to avoid damage. Others werent so lucky. The trouble started around 11 00 tuesday when a 10 inch underground water main feeding into building 676 and 674 ruptured. We were frightened because we saw the water level rising and it wasnt stopping. Then we thought our cars. Reporter a dozen vehicles and lot 676 became inundated by the water. The pipe break comes a little more than 12 hours after a 4. 5 magnitude quake rocked the east bank sending shockwaves. Airport Officials Say they are investigating if theres a link with tuesdays trouble. Still looking into it. Difficult to say at this point. We are looking for the root cause. We would think that if it was affected by that we would have seen this much earlier on given the time that occurred but still under investigation at this time. Reporter while officials look for the why, Vehicle Owners focused on how, as and how to get their cars to Higher Ground in an adjacent lot. Elbow grease was required with this Porsche Boxster getting pushed into a spot while the owner called her insurance company. By afternoon repair work around the pipe break had become with the crew carving a hole about 20 feet in diameter and 6 feet deep. Its unknown how long repair work will take but airport operations in the flying public were not impacted. Jesse gary, ktvu fox 2 news. Actress Felicity Huffman now serving a 14 day prison sentence at the low security prison for women in dublin. As her punishment in the College Admission scandal. She pleaded guilty to paying someone to alter her daughters College Admissions test. She will also have to serve 250 hours of Community Service and pay a 30,000 fine. She is among the first parents to go to jail in connection with the College Admission scandal. A musical spinoff of greece is coming to hbo max. That streaming service announced a new series called, greece, right five. Its in production and will feature characters from the original 1978 movie as well as introducing new ones. People around the world of following a father and son from new jersey online and this morning they all have reason to celebrate. That is twoyearold kristian thomas. Hes been cancer free for 11 months and was diagnosed with leukemia last year and since then his dad has been documenting his sons Cancer Battle one dance video at a time. He said the family has gone through a lot and says they dont dwell on his sons struggles. Kristian hopes to celebrate one year of remission next month. Investigator on the scene of a massive fire at a Storage Facility in crockett the caused chaos and destruction for hours. What investigators know about what may have caused the fire. Nearby Public Schools will be closed today out of precaution. Health and Environmental Concerns among people who live near industrial businesses. It 6 00 on wednesday, october 16. Im gasia mikaelian. Good morning. Im dave clark. Is it warm enough for you . Not yet. We will talk to steve about it. Clouds are on the way. Cooling is on the agenda for the next couple of days. First, rain is on the way. Not for us but for the northeast. A possibility game 4 a bit drained out. Maybe it will roll out early enough. Thats the forecast for now if youre interested. Our forecast calls for high clouds from the west and southwest and the weak front will slide by tonight. Models have bumped up some of the to. A lot of this is 0. 01 with 0. 05. Maybe an isolated area in the hills of a 10th of an inch. 60s and 70s. All below normal for the next three days. Fog is working its way up the coast. Nothing compared to yesterday. 30s and 40s and 50s. Santa rosa at 39. Low 40s for son. Mid 40s for others. San ramon, 44. Walnut creek, 43. Low 50s in and around martinez and elsa brontk, albany and el cerrito. An increase in height and mid level clouds. Tonight its cloudy and that system will drag across bringing a slight rain and that looks to be at for the month. Forecast models bring ridge of High Pressure in and they keep it there. Cooler with increasing clouds throughout the day and temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Any rain would be late tonight anmo
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