Oakland where the governor and other state leaders unveiled that new program. Reporter they had a public unveiling and a News Conference where they talked about the new earthquake Early Warning system via that my shake app. The media still here, about to leave the pier where we are. The app called, my shake, is free to download and was developed by uc berkeleys seismologists and also from around the west coast. University of washington and oregon as well. It will not be able to predict . But the app can alert users to take cover and prepare seconds before shaking, the shaking of a major quake reaches them. The system uses sensors buried in the ground across the state and it detects the start of earthquake, calculates the location and intensity and send a warning to your phone if youre in an area where shaking is likely to happen. It works similar to the amber alert system using the same wireless notification system to send out those warnings. At the unveiling and this News Conference, adjacent to the new bay bridge, California Emergency Services leaders and state leaders and the governor and the head of the uc berkeley Seismology Department announced the app is still in its prototype early stages and is not perfect but after millions of dollars and more than a decade in development, they believe its reached a point where it can be used to save lives in the event of an earthquake. When an earthquake starts we rapidly detect it and push out a warning ahead of the shaking minute you may have a few seconds, perhaps 10 or 20 seconds, worth of warning time. Not an insignificant amount of time to make sure we shut down our slowdown the bart. Make sure we slowdown or shutdown an elevator. Make sure we open an elevator door or open emergency doors or fire station garage doors. Reporter the launch of this new earthquake Early Warning alert system is meant to coincide with a 30th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. That quake on october 17, 1989 claimed 63 lives and enter 3800 and as we know caused widespread damage and San Francisco, oakland, santa cruz and other parts of the area. The earthquake Early Warning system, japan and mexico already have an alert system much like this. Southern california has had Something Like this for the past couple of years but that was regional to the los angeles area. This is the first time this system is for the entire state of california. Anyone who downloads the free my shake apps will be able to get those alerts anytime there is a 4. 5 earthquake or stronger in their area. Allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. October 17, 1989 at 5 04 pm. A moment many will never forget. Thats the data loma prieta earthquake struck creating chaos and it left the bay area forever changed. Greg liggins went to many events going on today were experts are trying to get people prepared for the next quake. Second base and the oakland as we are having an earthquake. Reporter 30 years ago on this date a sudden powerful earthquake jolted the bay area. A moment those who went through it will never forget. It was a little bit frightening. We did not know when it would stop. That was the difficulty. I was picking up my husbands birthday present in a class and china shop. Down off of the new 280. And it happened. And you could hear all the glass and all the plates and everything falling. Reporter 30 years later the experts are still trying to get people prepared for the next big one. At San Franciscos civic center plaza, Emergency Preparedness experts dispense advice on how best to prepare for the next one. Including suggestions to fortify an older home. The idea is to under the house into the crawlspace, put an anchor bolt and anchor it to the foundation and if you have the short so balls around the crawlspace, put plywood on those because in an earthquake without that plywood the house will either slide or tumble off of its foundation. Reporter many have never experienced a 6. 9 quake like loma prieta earthquake simulator on site reminder this reporter how powerful a jolt could be. In the years since the quake, much has been done in San Francisco to better prepare for and withstand the damage a major quake can bring. It depends on the infrastructure itself. San francisco is made 20 billion in investments since the earthquake so that is protecting critical lifelines like waterways, pipelines, our transportation lines and utilities. Public safety facilities, firefighters, hospitals. Reporter 30 years later the way to react to a quake has changed. Now its drop, cover and hold on to something as demonstrated by the experts. Whether its purchasing supplies or shoring up your home, experts say the only defense against mother natures sudden shift in the earth is being prepared. 30 years later after loma prieta some earthquake veterans readily admit they are not ready for the next one and they say they know its time to change. 30 years later are you better prepared for one . Not much. But i will be the. Reporter even before buying an emergency kit experts say the best thing you can do is find out who in your neighborhood can help out and he made need help in the case of a next disaster. And San Francisco, greg liggins, ktvu fox 2 news. Millions across the state took part in the california great shakeout earthquake drills today. In San Francisco the mayor london breed and the police chief and other city officials were at the rosa parks elementary to take part in that event. Students and staff demonstrated the drop, r and hold on drill and evacuation of the school building. The drill took place at 10 17. Its in remembrance of the day the earthquake happened. The superintendent said he hopes that the students take the lessons they have learned about the earthquake safety home and in turn teach their families about disaster preparedness. I have three children. Then pushing messages to me spurred me into action and thats the same thing we want for our parents to make sure they are prepared and students are ambassadors for what you need to do if an earthquake hits. City leaders also shared stories with the children of their experiences going through the 1989 loma prieta quake to bring home the message about safety. The Mayors Office said since 1989 San Francisco has invested 20 billion to prepare for the next large earthquake. This afternoon the 30th anniversary loma prieta commemoration fair will take place on the marina green. Oakland city leaders gather this morning to mark the anniversary of the earthquake and honor those who died. They say they want everyone in oakland to honor, reflect and prepare for the next quake. One of the worst disasters of the eight an earthquake was the collapse of the cyprus freeway structure in west oakland where a 42 people were killed. The oakland mayor libby schaaf said shes proud of the way her Community Came together after that disaster. I will never forget the shock of getting home to my lake merritt apartment with every window shattered and a crack in the wall so big i could see lake merritt through it. As news rolled in of the devastating loss of life, the fact that right here where we are standing, 42 people perished in the cyprus collapse. That recognition was so sobering , so saddening reporter she said the anniversary should serve as a perm reminder to prepare for the next disaster by having a plan for yourself and your family. Being trained in first aid and having emergency supplies ready to go. We do hope you will join us tonight for a ktvu earthquake special called, quake country, preparing for the next big one. You can watch it here on ktvu after the thursday night football sportswrap. Some developing news at this hour after a visit from Vice President mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo. The present of turkey has agreed to a shortterm cease fire in northern syria. Under the new agreement turkey bowl paws military operations for 120 hours to allow the u. S. Backed kurds to withdraw from affected areas in the region. After that pence said turkey has agreed to a permanent cease fire. Now we will Work Together to implement this agreement. As i said, our team is already working with ypg personnel in the safe zone for an orderly withdrawal outside the 20 mile mark and we are going to go Forward Together to bring peace and security to this region. Im very confident of that. Turkish Officials Say a permanent ceasefire depends on all their demands being met and if that happens President Trumps has agreed to withdraw all sanctions against turkey. Now to the investigation into the fire at the nustar pretoria Storage Facility in crockett. We have video taken today of investigators as they review Surveillance Video and digital files to determine a cause since tuesdays fire and explosion. Cleanup trucks remain on the site vacuuming the safety phone that was dumped on two tanks that caught fire. The shutdown order for the facility will be lifted when it can demonstrate it safe to do so. The investigation into what happened is expected to continue as long as six months. Cal osha will interview employees and check safety and minutes records. It may include sending some of the materials, pipes, etc. , to specialists for information on exactly what occurred. Investigators are looking into whether the fire is connected to mondays 4. 5 quake near pleasant hill. Authorities do not expect a jump in gas prices. They say the facility stores feel but does not produce it. Longtime baltimore congressman and civil rights leader Elijah Cummings has died. Maryland representative died overnight from complications concerning longstanding health challenges. House democrats has been absent from the chamber since undergoing an undisclosed medical procedure in september. Since his election to the house in 1996, cummings gained the respect of his colleagues as well as National Attention for his principled stance on important issues. He served as the House Oversight and Reform Committee chair and became a prominent figure in the impeachment inquiry into the president. He was 68 years old. East bay representative mourning the loss of his colleague on twitter and congress and the community. This is from eric swalwell. Elijah cummings was a thunderous force for a quality accountability and moral character, clarity and because he knew the importance of working with people from all backgrounds and parties come he got things done. America has lost a leader. Rest in peace chairman. We will have much more on the life and career of the representative coming up later in the show. Today nancy pelosi announced she is renaming a bill to lower Prescription Drug prices to honor representative cummings. Hr three will now be called the Elijah Cummings low drug cost now legislation. The bill was part of the for the people agenda. The speaker said the legislation would save the Budget Office and taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and will be reviewed this week by the house ways and means committee. Exporters of President Trump holding an anti impeachment rally today in front of the u. S. Capitol. This as the u. S. Ambassador to the eu appears before congress. We will have the latest on the impeachment inquiry straight ahead. Mark zuckerberg speaking out today about free speech on the internet. What he is calling the major threats to Free Expression around the world. And the clouds are clearing out this afternoon. That shower thread has moved out and now we are tracking a major warmup in the five day forecast. We will have that coming up after the break. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is speaking about his views on free speech of the lipid he spoke at the Georgetown Institute of politics and Public Service in washington and gave what he called his most comprehensive take on the subject of speech freedom of speech and expression. He said facebook was founded to give people a voice and the critics who at a seal the company for doing so were setting a dangerous example. And i understand the concerns that people have about how tech platforms have centralized power. But i actually believe theres a much bigger story and its how these platforms have decentralized power by putting it directly into peoples hands. Its part of this amazing expansion of voice that we have experienced through law and culture and our technology as well. In the speech zuckerberg said he considered banning political ads from facebook but said political advertising could be considered part of speech. Salesforce your marc benioff is criticizing facebook and he said the social media giant has grown so big its time for the company to be broken up. In an interview with cnn benioff called facebook and e cigarettes because its so addictive and accused facebook of going after children were running political ads that are not true and he is also concerned about how facebook is collecting data and influencing users. A wee bit of rain this morning but it gave way to blue skies today. The weekend is approaching. Lets check in with mark and find out whats going on. The weekend is getting closer to the bay area. The weather, we have a warmer day heading our way on sunday. As we head toward saturday theres the weak system that could impact Northern California and the bay area. Clear skies. Excellent visibility for your thursday afternoon. Hard to believe we were tracking a shower chance eight or 12 hours ago and were not expecting much but you have to look hard for these totals. You can see mendocino had nearly a quarter inch of rain. Booneville,. 06. Pacifica,. 04. Barely measurable in berkeley and in the santa rosa area. Heres whats happening with temperatures. Not much change over the next couple of days but the day you will notice the change will be on sunday and that will lead to a warm to hot day into early next week for monday and tuesday. We are talking about mid 80s. The warmest locations of the bay area. Mid 80s into early next week. Even out toward the coast we are taking in some 70s. Here is the satellite. You can see the storm developing but by the time the storms get here to the bay area they really fizzle out. The bulk of the act to be over the past day has been to our north around eureka and cape mendocino. We will continue to pick up some high clouds as we head to the afternoon and into friday. Maybe some extra clouds by saturday. Temperatures right now in San Francisco 61. Walnut creek, 65. Fairfield, 73. Throughout the afternoon the windspeed will be picking up. We are talking about went around 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Especially near the coast and if youre heading to the coastline later today, a High Surf Advisory just kicked in. Thats in place until 9 pm friday. We could have breakers topping 10 feet and a few isolated spots. Mavericks could maybe be approaching 23. The swell will continue to move in today and into the first half of friday. Heres the forecast model. Throughout the day we see sunshine but the wind will be up. Over 2025 Miles Per Hour. As we put this in motion, still looking okay. Friday, partly cloudy, especially in the north bay. This is friday afternoon and into saturday this system is approaching so maybe from ukiah to the north we have the possibility of a few scattered showers and that we definitely pick up some extra clouds as we approach our head into saturday afternoon. The forecast highs this afternoon, we are thinking 60s and 70s. It will be windy in pacifica and Half Moon Bay this afternoon. San jose, 72. Lower 70s toward livermore and pleasanton and heres a look at the five day forecast. This is typically the time of year we could be talking about rain chances in the bay area. We have a slight chance on saturday. The bulk of the action what little there is will be to the north but beyond saturday think beach weather. Back up into the 70s into next week. The warmest location will be inland and even around the bay, in the low to mid 80s. The november election is just weeks away. Right now state assessor and other elected city officials are holding an event in front of San Francisco city hall to get people to register before the deadline. This monday, october 21 is the last day to register to vote for next months elections. Coming up. The spooky october discovery for scientists in the monterey bay as researcher stumble upon a whale skeleton thats become a feast for octopi and other marine life. Not the big move we saw yesterday but lots of green on the market. The stock market moving higher after some companies deliver good results. The dow jones is up 50 points after a blip beneath the sea level side early in the session. The s p follows that same pattern and is slightly up. The nasdaq is also up. Markets are happy in europe because a draft deal has been reached on brexit. The uk Prime MinisterBoris Johnson said he has reached a new deal with the eu negotiators and is urging parliament to approve it this week. The british crowd rallying on the news. Significantly higher than it was before hopes of a deal suddenly rose a week ago. There are some sticking points as we saw with theresa may. They said they cant support the proposal so it looks like there will be more negotiations taking place in order to have something on the table. The british pound spiked as much as 1. 2 . Stock markets across europe rallied on that news. Climate activists were seen on top of the train during rush hour in london today. Protesters from the Extinction Rebellion climbed on top of train bringing parts of the transfer to a halt. Mobs of angry commuters rented a train as the activist was dragged down. 1400 people have been arrested since the group began blocking roads, bridges and airports in london a week ago to demand faster action on Climate Change. This week london became the first city to prohibit extension rebellions from staging protests. A study suggest travelers may be willing to pay more for plane tickets if the money is used to fight Climate Change. Researchers from the university of British Columbia asked people if they would be willing to pay a 14 carbon fee. When the fee was called a Carbon Offset and not a tax participants reacted positively. The Study Concludes people like to know where their money is going and it makes them feel better to know it could help the environment. New footage shows a whale skeleton on the seafloor of monterey is going viral. Oh my goodness. Look at that. This is incredible. This is so cool. My goodness. That reaction from a scientist during yesterdays livestream as they copies where images of scavenging fish and an octopus on the whale skeleton. Researchers from the Monterey Bay National Marine sanctuary came across the skeleton during the last deep dive for explanation vessel, nautilus, this season. Vaping company juul labs so has agreed to stop selling flavored ecigarettes. How the decision comes amidst mounting government pressure on the San Franciscobased company. A look at the legacy of baltimore congressman Elijah Cummings who came from Humble Beginnings to serve a district and his country for decades. 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. Many of those who died were on the cyprus freeway in oakland when it collapsed. His section of the upper deck of the old bay bridge also came down. The earthquake ruptured a gas line in the marina of San Francisco setting off a fire. More than 100 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The quake struck at more than 100 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The quake struck at 5 04 pm just before the start of game three of the world series that feature the as and the giants at candlestick park. A number of events are planned to commemorate the loma prieta quake and that includes in San Francisco a committee preparedness fair. On the marina green at 3 pm. In santa cruz the Downtown Library will host a presentation of loma prieta oral histories beginning at 4 45 pm today and in Oakland Community leaders will gather what Civil Engineers and transit officials for a summit on bay area resilience on the 30 years following that quake. That event will begin at 5 30 pm at the Structural Engineering institute on grand avenue. San franciscobased e cigarette maker juul labs will stop selling fruit flavored cigarettes. This comes at the Trump Administration policy expects to remove all flavored e cigarettes from the market. Last year juul stop selling its flavored ecigarettes and Retail Stores amid pressure from the fda. Customers can only get certain flavors on its age restricted website. Juul will sell its most popular flavor cement and menthol. Those products account for 60 of their retail sales. They are also the most popular flavors among teens. The flavored pots affected are mango, cream, fruit and newcomer. They are also forced to change its marketing and promotions to make sure night minors are not targeted. Planned layoffs at uber and its request for new work permits is raising questions. Uber has received several government approvals for 300 h1b work permits. The move has some asking whether uber is planning to replace u. S. Workers with cheaper foreign labor. In a filing with the state Employment Department earlier in the month, uber says its laying off nearly 400 workers at its offices in San Francisco and palo alto. Most of the workers affected are software engineers. Workers are out in full force today picketing on this day none of the strike. An estimated 1000 workers were outside the Valley Medical Center in san jose supporting the seiu local 521 strike. Members say they are fighting the countys unfair labor practices and workers from across the country are joining. We have people out here on the streets that are picketing because we have janitors, we have emergency room and nurses out here supporting us today. The main problem is we dont have all the staffing and equipment we need to do our job here appropriately. The vote is set for tuesday 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. Around 25 members of Chicago Teachers Union are in strike today after months of negotiations overpay, class size and benefits collapsed between the union and the school district. The city says that the Union Rejected an offer for a 16 pay hike over five years. Teacher say in the past 10 years they have endured three salary freezes and multiple furloughs and layoffs. We intend to be on strike until someone comes with good faith and we can honestly say that looks like a solution to us. That will make conditions better. Classes are canceled today for 400,000 students in chicago but chicago kept many schools open to give children a safe place to go. The citys mayor says an estimated 2. 5 billion a year, the Union Demands are unaffordable. Pjmedia sharing photos taken during last weeks power shut off. They say they show tree limbs that fell on power lines during events like conditions. Pg e inspections said they found 100 instances of damage including some and napa, santa clara and santa cruz county. Utility said anyone of those could have potentially sparked a fire if the powerlines had been active. Many businesses took a financial hit from the power shut off. The owner of bettys fish and chips in santa rosa said without refrigeration they threw out 12,000 worth of fish. Pg e said it will not pay for business losses and it turns out insurance will not cover that either. The Insurance Information institute suggt businesses look into buying generators which can be a tax write off. We looked into it. Its a minimum of 50,000 to in store and just buy and generator and get it installed by professional electrical contractors. The owners are considering taking pg e to small claims court. If they win they could get a maximum of 5000 and they say if enough businesses do that it may get pg es attention. San jose considering ways to provide power to hundreds of thousands in the city without using pg e. The mayor is sending a memo to the City Rules Committee next week asking staff to investigate creating a city owned utility to develop in the power powered systems such as microgrids. San jose is among a growing number of cities across the country looking for alternatives to Utility Companies in the wake of increased outages and unpredictable power grids. Pg e recently rejected San Franciscos 2. 5 billion offer to buy its own local powerlines. They say the offer was too low. Monday is the deadline for wall fire survivors to file a claim against pg e. The site set aside 8 billion for survivors of the fires and those of butte county. So far only one third of those eligible have submitted a claim. People eligible to file include people who lost their homes and also those who lost wages or suffered emotional distress. If someone, a person went and burn down your house, you to be there filing a claim. You would be there holding them responsible and this should be no different. Pg e burned out our houses. Two the judge rejected a request to extend the deadline beyond monday. You can submit a claim by going to ktvu. Com. The u. S. Ambassador to the European Union appeared before lawmakers this morning to comply with a congressional subpoena. Lauren blanchard in washington with the latest on the impeachment inquiry. Reporter President Trump departing for texas as the House Presses on in its investigation. Interviewing the ambassador to the eu behind closed doors. So far we havent seen anything that supports the unfortunate move towards and what i would consider a stampede towards impeachment. Reporter Ambassador Gordon Sondland saying in his prepared opening remarks the president told him multiple times no quid pro quo adding , quote, to the best of my recollection i do not recall any discussions with the white house on withholding u. S. Security assistance from ukraine in return for assistance with the president s 2020 reelection. And to take such steps would be wrong. I think its important we get as much information about what the intent of this administration was. Reporter he also called into question Rudy Giulianis role in addressing anticorruption efforts in ukraine saying i did not understand until much later that mr. Giulianis agenda might have also included an effort to prompt the ukrainians to investigate Vice President biden or his son or to involve ukrainians directly or indirectly in the president s 2020 reelection campaign. Sondland also addressed the text Message Exchange in which he told another diplomat there was no quid pro quo and to stop texting. The ambassador testified that any implications he was trying to avoid a record of the conversation is completely false. In washington, lauren blanchard, ktvu fox 2 news. Contra costa county is testing a driverless electric shuttle named ali and he can carry up to eight passengers in the 25 Miles Per Hour that the shuttles being tested at the naval weapons patient in congo. The ministrations that it wants to see how it handles intersection, tunnels, pedestrians and other vehicles. The Transportation Authority said its looking for a safe, electric driverless shuttle made in the u. S. Voters in marin and Sonoma County will have the final say on a quarter cent sales tax extension. Bart trains board met yesterday and approved placing the tax extension on the march ballot. Current sales tax expires in 2029. According to the press democrat Board Members spent a lot of time yesterday finalizing the details of a spending plan for wording for the ballot. Theyre calling for a Discount Program to win over voters in the cities of cloverdale, healdsburg and windsor. Is in california giant Sutter Health is settling antitrust complaints in the state. The lawsuit was filed by California Attorney general and the group of employers and unions. They accused Sutter Health exerting its power to inflict costs on Insurance Companies and patients. A tentative agreement was reached before the start of the trial. The Office Confirmed the deal but could not comment further until its approved. Sutter health operates a 24 hospitals in Northern California and continues to face a federal antitrust lawsuit. Berkeley is the fourth the city to ban government use of facial recognition technology. The measure was an amendment to the City Ordinance that required the city council to approve the purchase of surveillance technology. Tests have shown technology is faulty and often misidentifies people. The city spokesperson idthe city has never sought out the technology and has not in place. The Police Department declined comment. San francisco enacted the countrys first ban on the technology. Oakland and emeryville are considering similar messages. The number of People Living in their vehicles is increasing in oakland. According to oakland city what homeless county population of People Living in cars and vans and rvs have doubled over the last two years 1400. And all they represent 35 of the Homeless Population in oakland. The city has opened an rv safe parking site to help with this part of the crisis and plans to open two more in the coming months. Mayor breed said that San Francisco is no longer doing business with states with rejected abortion policies. This bars City Employees from traveling on city funded trips to 22 states and prohibits the city from contracting with companies that have headquarters in those states. The mayor said the move is meant to send a message to state that , quote, disregard the right to abortion. And Placer County them in her turned himself in for killing four people wanted to represent himself in court. 53yearold Shankar Hangud is accused of killing three people in roseville and a fourth person in siskiyou county. Hangud said he wanted to represent himself but changed his mind after the judge insisted that he meet with a public defender. Certainly with confession, it changes our strategy significantly. Police say hangud showed up at the mount shasta Police Department on monday with a dead body inside his car. Investigators say they later found three more bodies inside his apartment in roseville. Police believe the four victims are members of his family. Two days loma prieta anniversary as a reminder of the importance of preparedness. We look at the challenge behind retrofitting buildings in the bay area and those which remain undone 30 years later. Lots of sunshine today. The shower threat has moved out. Over the weekend is a slight chance of a sprinkle but get ready for a major warmup. We will look at the numbers coming up. Man 1 vo proof of less joint pain woman 1 oc this is my body of proof. And clearer skin. Man 2 vo proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis. Woman 2 vo . With humira. Woman 3 vo humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. 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Reporter an unexpected loss for congress and the city of baltimore with the death of representative Elijah Cummings. He passed early thursday morning from complications stemming from Lifelong Health challenges. Upset over and over again. Only one is the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. Reporter born in 1951 and raised in baltimore, he obtained his bachelors degree in Political Science from Howard University and graduated from the university of Maryland School of law. The civil rights advocate began his career in politics in the maryland house of delegates in 1981 where he served for more than a decade. Cummings eventually becoming the states first black House Speaker pro tem. The outspoken democrat was elected to the house of representatives in 1996 that he never forgot his roots, continue to advocate for the people of his district, going headtohead with President Trumps earlier this year after the president called baltimore a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess. The day that any administration disobeys a court order then on for impeachment. Because you see by the time we are in trouble. We are in big trouble. Reporter cummings rose to the ranks to chair the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee where he became a key figure in President Trumps impeachment inquiry. What does that mean . What does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces . Can take a shower . Reporter cummings stepped away from his congressional responsibilities last month for an undisclosed medical procedure. He was expected to return to the hill this week. Chairman Elijah Cummings is survived by his wife, mio, and three children. He was 68 years old. In baltimore, griff jenkins, fox news. The weather started off soggy but its cleared up nicely. Though showers are kicking out of Northern California and a good portion of Northern California. Still some showers to the north. Lots of clear skies but lots of wind in a few spots. Heres the live camera looking toward San Francisco. You can see clear skies toward the bay this afternoon. Temperatures held in check today , tomorrow and saturday but get ready for a temperature change as we head into next week. Rainfall totals, no major numbers. Looked toward mendocino, a quarter inch of rain. Nearly quarter inch of rain. San francisco, one slide showing. 03. Berkeley,. 01. The temperatures are not moving too much over the next couple of days but into the weekend, by sunday, things are warming up. And into monday and tuesday we are talking about widespread 80s across a good portion of the region. Satellite right now showing you this with a clear and sky. We have more activity out here in the pacific. Im tracking one system here that will be approaching Northern California as we head into saturday. That will be the source of some extra class to start the weekend. Right now though we have clear skies. The bulk of the shower activity lingering toward eureka and cape mendocino and we will check on the current numbers. As you can see its mainly in the 60s. A few spots approaching 70 toward fairfield. 73. San jose, 66 and Half Moon Bay at 50 member check out these current windspeeds. Not too bad at the airport but santa rosa is a different story. Sustained 21 gusting at 30 Miles Per Hour. Also breezy toward novato and near the immediate coastline, Half Moon Bay. A cost of 21. These numbers will likely increase over the next few hours. Also on the increase is the wave height. We have a High Surf Advisory that just started at 12 00 this afternoon. Lasting until tomorrow evening at 9 pm. We could have waves topping 10 feet and a few isolated spots could be approaching 20 feet so definitely keep this in mind if youre heading to the coastline over the next couple of days. Heres the forecast model showing you clear skies today. Friday we say partly cloudy with no rain threat but that system that is way off shore right now will be approaching as we had toward saturday so saturday could be tracking showers toward the north coast around eureka and cape mendocino. A slight chance for ukiah. The main impact to the bay area will be some extra clouds and that will keep temperatures and check for the first half of the weekend. Forecast highs this afternoon showing your San Francisco, 65. Santa rosa, 74. The worn spots mainly in the low to mid 70s. San jose, 72 and we are going to warm things up. You just have to wait a few days. Saturday if you extra clouds. Warming up on sunday and into monday and tuesday. 70s and 80s. Will need to watch that fire danger as those dry offshore wind will make a come back early next week. Lets move back to coverage of the loma prieta earthquake that happened 30 years ago today. The 6. 9 magnitude quake exposed flaws and vulnerabilities in many bay area structures. In the Marina District alone several buildings collapsed and dozens of others were left to unsafe to enter and ruptured gas lines that a number of park fires to home. The prompted changes to building codes including mandatory seismic retrofitting for hundreds of thousands of structures across the city of San Francisco. 30 years later some of that work still needs to be done. Basically what youre seeing now is an improving of the foundation. Reporter its a familiar sight. In San Francisco. Got a garages stripped down to the studs by construction crews. We have been extremely busy. We have generally anywhere from 1622 active jobsites on various stages. Reporter part of an effort to retrofit homes and buildings and bring them up to code. A code put in place by the city after the 1989 loma prieta earthquake. If the earthquake is Strong Enough or long enough come it could potentially collapse the building. Let what we saw in 1989 earthquake in the Marina District. Reporter this is the director of general contractor as gdm said most of the work his team does is on soft story buildings. Multilevel structures with a large opening usually a garage on the ground floor like this threestory apartment complex in the richmond district. The whole idea is to connect and to make sure that it is properly transferred to the ground and disappear. We do everything we can to fill the requirements. We have developed a program. Reporter the director of the San Francisco department of building inspections. The department oversees the mandatory soft Story Retrofit Program which required the work to be complete by september 15. Our department has Single Family and highrise, roughly 200,000 buildings. Reporter so for the city says 95 of building owners have complied. Those who havent get a warning and any court hearing. Eventually you may lose your property. Reporter still, the city and contractors warned that retrofitting of property doesnt make it earthquake proof. No matter how much work on money we spend on this type of structure, it all depends on the size of the earthquake and where the epicenter is. San francisco is one of several cities requiring soft story upgrades. City leaders say they have developed separate retrofitting ordinances for other buttons like highrises. Next, the last ever designed by americas most celebrated architect is again off the market. How much of the rear house sold for and it may surprise you. Tonight its an afc west showdown on thursday for both your on ktvu fox 2. At the start of the season the Kansas City Chiefs looked dominant but a two game losing streak means the division is open. The broncos are looking for their third win of the season as the home team. The weather and denver should be just about perfect for football and our live coverage starts tonight at 4 30 pm. I will be watching. There we go. Lets take a look at the stocks. The dell took a deep brief dip into the red but is now in green territory. Its up about 25 points at this hour. The nasdaq is a little over 30 up and the s p 500 joining a good day as well up nine points at this hour. Strip the developer suspended work at ocean white center one of San Franciscos largest projects. The building is located south of market admission and first across the street from salesforce tower. The Holdings Group is reportedly studying ways to lower construction costs. Work is continuing on the taller tower. That building will House Offices and condos when complete and will be the second tallest building in San Francisco after salesforce tower. Its scheduled to open in four years. The last home designed by architect Frank Loyd Wright just sold for 1. 7 million. The home is in phoenix and was designed in 1959. The same year he passed away at age 91. Construction finished eight years later but it only took 20 minutes to finalize the winning bid. The home is more than 3000 square feet and built on a hillside in the Phoenix Mountain preserve with views over palm canyon. The most recent owners made upgrades but kept most of the original features. Its a Frank Loyd Wright with a view and thats kind of rare for a Frank Lloyd Wright because theyre usually pretty secluded and tucked away. He designed many homes and buildings in the bay area including the Marin County Civic Center which was also completed after he passed away. That will be triple the price here. We will bring you the top headlines today. Today at 4 00 in the south bay to the city people are remembering the loma prieta earthquake on its anniversary , honoring those who lost their lives and that disaster. The latest from those ceremonies and more today coming up on the 4 extract a group of sea lions has been returned to the wild. There were seven months old when they were found off the coast of peru. Experts from an organization for research and conservation took them in for rehabilitation. They say the pups were too young to feed or protect themselves. Local animal activists say the number of sea lions in peru has decreased to just 35,000. This down from 150,030 years prior. Experts say the reason for the decrease in population is Climate Change adding that rising Ocean Temperatures are driving down the number of sh the sea lions eat. A but its hard to say goodbye. To get pretty attached but off they go. Thank you for joining us. Avenues continues on ktvu. Com, facebook and twitter. Have a good afternoon. A betrayed wife. A betrayed wife. When did you discover she had a listening device like this . Then kills his girlfriend. She described in great detail what she was going to do. Before killing herself. I will always remember that day. Coming up next. Dr. Oz season 11 starts now. I became a doctor to help people heal