Congressman Elijah Cummings of maryland has died at the age of morning. Lets check in with steve. A little more than drizzle out there. Light rain for some. The windshield wipers were going bigtime. Sal, i hope you were out there. Yes, sir. I gotcha. Does not much but what is there, lets get to it. Its hard to pick up on radar so its very low level but some streets are wet. 80 coming from albany to oakland and maybe where you are as well. The system is moving through and we see clearing after that rapidly and then we see the breeze pick up. Not too bad yet but it will get blustery later today. 50s on the temperatures. 60 in san jose. Look for a morning drizzle giving way to mostly sunny skies. The system yesterday was a very fall like pattern but today 50s, 60s and 70s. A little bit of rain in the morning and then out of here. You heard the. I heard you. Thats the first thing i thought about what i got into my car and i saw the missed or whatever. People are going to have a hard time, some people, driving in this weather. Even though its not torrential rain. Lets take a look at some of these commutes. Is always that other guy who doesnt drive like you. You of course are a great driver. Anyway. Westbound 580 in 205 doing well. Livermore, pleasanton, dublin and, all the way out. We dont have a lot of volume but we will see some of the roads are wet with some mist and drizzle and rain. Lets go back to the desk. Today marks 30 years since one of the most devastating earthquakes hit the bay area. The magnitude 6. 9 loma prieta quake killed 63 and injured 3800 others. Many of those who died were on the cyprus freeway in oakland when it collapsed and theres the video of the section of the upper deck of the old bay bridge that fell onto the lower deck and in the marina the earthquake ruptured a gas line in the Marina District setting off a huge fire. More than 100 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The world series was going on. The quake struck at 5 04 pm just before the start of game three of the world series between the as and the giants at candlestick park. A number of events are planned to commemorate the quake. That includes in San Francisco. A community prepared this fair at marina green at 3 00. In santa cruz the Downtown Library will host a presentation of loma prieta oral histories beginning at 4 45 pm and in Oakland Community leaders will gather with Civil Engineers and transit officials for a summit on the bay area resilience in the years following the quake. That event begins at 5 30 pm at the Structural Engineering institute on grand avenue. Later today Governor Newsom will be in oakland to unveil a new statewide earthquake Warning System that features the app called, my shake. It uses ground sensors to detect seismic activity. Amber lee shows us how the new system works. Were over the Marina District of San Francisco. Reporter the loma prieta earthquake on october 17, 1989, is an event few people in the bay area will forget. Even now 30 years later. I lived in San Francisco in 1989 and it wouldve been really helpful to know how to check in with other people in my network. Reporter if you do feel a quake reporter the nations first date would quake Warning System will be officially launched by governor gavin newsom and other officials thursday. It will be the same wireless system that issues amber alerts and an app called, my shake, that gives realtime information. Download the my shake up to get a warning when earthquake shaking is heading your way. The app will be available for download on your smartphone. If a quake is at least a magnitude 4. 5 people in the area that are likely to feel the shaking will get a warning. Earthquake. Drop, cover. Hold on. Shaking expected. Reporter the warning could come a second before, during or after a quake depending on how far you are from shower i may want to brace myself against the wall so i dont fall over. Yes. A few seconds morning would be great. Reporter some say even an alert after a quake is its an earthquake when it happens. It could be helpful. Reporter the state earthquake app was developed at uc berkeley with seismologists at u. S. Geological survey and other partners. The census quote to detect the earthquake. They can locate it and determine the magnitude. The earthquake is already started. We quickly send that information out. We can send that information faster than the ground shaking takes to arrive and we can give some leadtime. Reporter i meet down with that up. Its interesting after the earthquakes this week. Five or six people said to me the minute we checked the news and he said, was that an earthquake . How big . Where was it . Reporter questions the app should be able to answer. Seismologists caution that the early Warning System does not predict earthquakes. In oakland, amberley, ktvu fox 2 news. We hope youll join us tonight for ait on ktvu afte in two storage tanks caught fire tuesday. Firefighters and investigators spent most of the day yesterday making sure there are no flareups. While the flames are outcome investigators are expanding their efforts to determine what exactly caused the explosion. Jana katsuyama has more on the investigation that is underway. Reporter around the two destroyed ethanol tanks, layers of foam covered the leaked fuel. A containment poll at the nustar tank facility in crockett. Large trucks vacuum the Hazardous Material up in by 6 pm Contra Costa CountyFire District officials announced they were pulling out their firefighting crews leaving their investigators continue the probe. Our judgment is there is no threat of any further explosion or fire. Reporter more than 250,000 gallons of ethanol had poured out of the two damaged tanks tuesday and the flames damaged other tanks and valves. Be a venting those individual tanks to relieve pressure and eliminate any risk whatsoever of any Fire Associated with those tanks. Reporter on cummings skyway one of the contractors hired by nustar set up an airquality monitoring station. Contra costa county fire Officials Say at this point there are no Public Safety or health hazards. Weve been taking measurements all day long to assess any kind of threat from vapor, from the various sources in the facility. Reporter power was also restored allowing investigators to access video camera footage and digital files. County fire Officials Say they will investigate whether the blast was connected to an earthquake in the area. The atf and cal osha are also investigated. And issued a routine search warrant. They issued an order to preserve evidence on those two tanks and the pipes involved in the fire reporter cal osha said although they have up to six months to finish the investigation they plan to make this a top priority, interviewing employees and reviewing all safety and maintenance records. It may include sending some of the materials, pipes, etc. , to specialists for information on exactly what occurred. Reporter into the night nustar contractors were removing the spelled ethanol and Firefighting Foam with big trucks. The county said the Petrochemical Mutual Aid Organization is open to monitor operations with a specially trained firefighters. The county Fire District said it could be weeks or even months before this facility is able to reopen. Jana katsuyama, ktvu fox 2 news. Weve also learned that one of the emergency sirens in the area of the fire did not sound during the emergency. The Contra Costa CountySheriffs Office said it may have been damaged by the explosion and fire. Four other alarms did activate and rodeo in crockett to shelter in place. Push alerts were also sent to phones in the area to alert people about the possible danger. Our coverage of the nustar tank fire continues on ktvu. Com. You will find the latest updates on our homepage. New this morning the uk Prime MinisterBoris Johnson and the european on brexit. The deal apparently reached at the beginning of a two Day European Union summit in brussels. We still dont know the details but the british Prime Minister and the eu president are urging lawmakers to approve it. The eu parliaments could vote today or tomorrow. A special session in britain is expected saturday. Northern irelands party says they still oppose the outline of this new deal. Ambassador Gordon Sondland scheduled to testify in washington with House Intelligence Committee as part of the impeachment probe against president trump. Yesterday a former Senior State Department advisor Michael Mckinley told investigators he resigned last week due in part to the trump administrations dealings with ukraine. Governm being approached to perch or political opponents. San francisco is putting business ties states and still ahead proposed from bart to let riders Pass Security lines at San Francisco international airport. Good morning. I see traffic that is light although i do see the wet roads which may have something to do with why it may be slower for your commute. We will let you know more about whats going on straight ahead. Hit or miss. Is not much but where there is drizzle its intense. Dust for the morning. Later this afternoon we have sun and breezy conditions. Welcome back to mornings on 2. To date Mark Zuckerberg would outline what he describes as its most comprehensive take ever on the subject of freedom of speech and expression. Zuckerberg will explain why he believes giving a voice to people go hand in hand with bringing them together. He will also discuss the role the internet plays in free speech and the major threats against free expression. You can see this address by going to the web links section of our website, ktvu. Com, at 10 am. Teachers in chicago are on strike. The city said the Union Rejected an offer for a 16 pay raise over five years. Teachers say in the past 10 years they have endured three salary freezes and multiple furloughs and layoffs. Classes have been canceled today for about 400,000 students but chicagos tiki keeping many schools open because children need a safe place to go if they do. Today the governing council of the United Auto Workers union will vote on whether to accept a deal to end a month long strike against General Motors. They tentatively agreed to a fouryear deal that reportedly includes a commitment from General Motors to invest 9 billion in the United States and retain 9000 union jobs. If approved by the council, Union Members will then vote on approving the proposal. A vote is set for next week by striking Santa Clara County workers on what the county says is its best and final contract offer. The latest offer includes pay raises of 3 over five years and removes requirements for county employees to contribute to their healthcare coverage. However, some say this latest offer does not go far enough. We want tothout having to super commute or work two jobs or be homeless. We want to be able to live and serve our community. The workers plan to vote on that offer october 22. Mayor london breed says San Francisco is no longer doing business with the states with restrictive abortion policies. The new policy bars City Employees from traveling on city funded trips to 22 states and prohibits the city from contracting with Companies Whose headquarters are located in the states. She said the move is to send a message to the states that disregard the right to abortion. This goes into effect in 2020 and does not apply retroactively. Bart now considering a plan that will give bart riders access to the priority Airport Security lanes at sfo. Agents in those lines would have a special standing device that could show whether the passenger road art to the airport. The priority line is not the tsa precheck line but one that is usually dedicated for first and Business Class flyers. This is just a proposal at this point. The idea still needs to be approved by the board of bart, sfo and also needs to be tested for a while. 4 17 am. Lets check in with sal with a look at the commute. How does it looked . It looks okay. We have been looking at some of these commutes and they look fine. Ive been looking at the bay bridge toll plaza and i can tell you the traffic is doing well. It does not seem as if its particularly wet here at the toll plaza as you come up to the pay gates and traffic is moving well as you drive into San Francisco. Gilroy to san jose is looking s of the freeways coming in from gilroy. And in this general area. Hollister, highway 25, 129, all these highways are doin 101 looks good all the way up into san jose. And if you were driving into the west valley, mountain view, cupertinosunnyvale, all those commutes are doing very well. Lets bring steve in. Lets get to it. The baseball forecast. We will play in new york tonight. Its going to be windy. A pretty intense system for this time of year in october heading northeast up into to go back and ottawa and from boston north into maine. Bar harbor up there. Vermont. But on the backside of that there is some Cool Temperatures coming in. 40s, 30s and 40s in the great lakes and that is all sweeping in toward the northeast. It will be a cool and windy night all below average. Not way below but below. 65 in the city. 57. The average is shy of 70. Above on the low. They were below yesterday. The record is 47 and 1892 on the low and 93 and 1988. Thats all the cloud cover that went by yesterday. Yesterday had a fall feel and the system sweeping through and also from the gulf of alaska generating high waves. Surf advisory for today and tomorrow. Swells a 1020 feet and the breeze will pick up. 50s for most of the temperatures. Even in the north. Very few 40s. Lots of 50s due to cloud cover and the breeze. Morning cloud cover, drizzle and clearing and then mostly sunny and breezy as we get on the backside of that. 60s and 70s and that will be it for today. Temperatures cool. Monday was the warmest. This will probably be the coolest. And it will stay this way. One more system will clip the north friday and saturday and it looks sunny and warmer sunday into monday. 4 20 am. San francisco auditorium became a onestop shop for the homeless. Coming up, what state leaders hope the project Homeless Connect Program will do for ending the homeless crisis. Plus the reason a bay area restaurant is considering taking pg e to court. Welcome back. Governor newsom has launched a program in San Francisco to try to solve the homeless crisis. Christien kafton look at that program. Its a onestop shop for resources for the homeless and it could mean the pathway to permanent housing. Reporter hundreds of San Franciscos neediest residents piled into bill graham auditorium. Inside, converted into a onestop resource center. Project homeless connect offering medical services and Government Services like getting a drivers license or identification card. It got me some glasses. Permanent glasses. Reporter jacob said he currently lives in an sro he found that her previous project homeless connect day of sl. Er anything medical. And if they dont have it there, they can always recommend you some places. Its a place to gather information for the city and better understand the demographics of homelessness. Reporter cameras were only allowed at the inside of the beginning of the day as Governor Newsom toward the 75th day of service. The project homeless connect started when he was mayor of San Francisco. The governor saying the homelessness crisis has intensified in the last few years. He was inspired by what he saw but says programs like project homeless connect need to be an ongoing effort. You dont start with a static population of 1000 people think it will thousand people off the streets and then everybody goes home and calls it a day. Constantly are addressing issues and needs as they arise. Reporter weather team is connecting homeless san franciscans with important services, in some cases its about connecting them with human essentials. Good to go was on him providing a clean place for necessary functions. The app helps you find and access the location. Repte the city could help keep the streets clean. They just dont have a place that they call home so they are restroom scattered throughout still connected in a way. Reporter organizers estimate what could take 20 minutes a week with home was going from one place to another to get services can be done in just one day here. Project homeless connect has inspired more than 250 other cities to adopt a similar model. In San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. All this week we have spent time focusing on the homeless. One of the biggest problems in the bay area, our coverage of the bay area homeless crisis will begin this morning. We look at the funding set aside to deal with homelessness and exactly whats being done with that money. Thats coming up in our 8 00 hour of mornings on 2. Right now its 4 25 am. There is an important deadline approaching for victims of wildfires started by pg e. Coming up,a White House Briefing on syria ended with the democrats storming out on president trumps good morning. Its a little wet out there in some areas. Its not heavy rain but it could slow you down on the morning commute. Not widespread but there is some out there around albany and alameda and oakland. Maybe where you are. Other than that, pretty good and will be a cool day. Good morning and welcome back to mornings on 2. Thursday, october 17. Im dave clark. Im pam cook. Grab a jacket. Maybe even a rain jacket. Only for the morning. Its hit or miss. Its not a lot there. Dave did not have any coming in. I had windshield wipers for a while. This is a weak system and this will be it for the rest of the month. Maybe a weak system late friday and early saturday but that looks to be well to the north again. Izzle is out there. S anon the temperatu today. Below average. The high midlevel clouds from yesterday have scooted out and that weak system is dragging across giving us drizzle and light rain. Not much of a breeze right now but it is picking up. 50s on the temperatures for almost everyone. A couple of low 60s. Everyone else in the 50s so far and i dont think they will change too much unless we get el cerrito, 56. El cerrito 57. Some drizzle around el cerrito and albany. The system is flying out of the picture and High Pressure is building in so the breeze will pick up. 60s and 70s on your attempts today. For coal and 29. We will talk about the solano commute. Our friends in Solano County coming in to richmond. Thats looking pretty good so far. There is just a little bit of slow traffic on 80 at 780 but really nothing to speak of and you can see traffic looks good on the road sensors. Highway 4 is off to a good start. Interstate 80 all the way out from the carquinez bridge to the mac mays a 60 minute delay and as you get to the toll plaza you will see a small delay. As steve mentioned some roads will be wet from the small amount of drizzle that we have this morning. Lets go back to the desk. Heres a look at some of the top stories this morning. Marilyn congressman Elijah Cummings has just died at the age of 68. The longtime democratic congressman died overnight from complications of several health problems. California senator Kamala Harris tweeted