John kerry washington, d. C. The president took a sales pitch to capitol hill. Later tonight making a case to a skeptical nation. The u. S. Stepped back from the brink of a military strike. The Obama Administration called for the United NationsSecurity Council to come up with a way to secure chemical weapons quickly. This can k. Not be a process of delay this, cannot be avoidance. There has to be real, measurable, tangible. Syria says it will declare weapons arsenal and sign a chemical weapons agreement. So now, russian president putin said today syrian plan can work with the u. S. Drops its threat of force, but all indications from the president suggest tla is not happening. I dont think we would have gotten to this point unless we had maintain aid credible, possibility of a mill tear strike. I dont think now is the time to let up on that. The u. S. , uk and france are working on a game plan but russia rejected a french proposal laying out a plan for securing syrian weapons but includes an authorization of a use of force. Lawmakers are he breathing a sigh of relief. People are weary of who we are. Considering the forces at work. Part is working on a new resolution aiming to give the un more time to secure syrian weapons if that fails u. S. Could use military force. Abc news, capitol hill. Now, abc news will provide live coverage of the president s address on the crisis in syria that is tonight at 6 00. Right here on abc 7. And then, coming up at 5 00 youll hear from some bay area people seeingerly waiting to watch and listen to the president s speech. One of them is an antiwar activist. Also, today, fire crews battling a smoky fire are getting close twror continuing it. They took advantage of cooler weather tonight near the summit and have dropped their estimate from last night as to how big it s Officials Say its burned about 3200 acres and now 45 contained. 75 homes are still threatened. The fire almost jumped Morgan Territory road. A flare up and windy conditions nearly blew flames into a subdivision of homes, neighbors watched it happen. Winds just swirled up and jumped to a huge tree on this side. And blew up, then went down the meadow like a river of flames. Just horrible. The fire started sunday afternoon, coming up at 5 00 abc 7 will join us live from mount diablo to take us inside of the fire line. Clover fire ruling through rural homes of Shasta County and doing damage. Cal fire reports 80 structures have been destroyed including 30 homes. The 7400 acre fire is 40 contained but moving quickly towards 500 evacuated homes. Major Power Transmission lines are threatened this, broke out yesterday in 100 degree heat and gusting winds. Rim fire has now burned 250,000 acres the assessment restoration process is just beginning. Abc 7 news is has more. This video of fire damage along the river shot on thursday. By a River Trust Board member as he twont retrieve both views to shuttle firefighters. The trust says 96 of the fire was within the river water shed. Today anticipating costs in the tens of millions of dollars. I am undoubtedly this plan is bigger than ours. This is going to take multi agency response. The rim fire began august 17th more than three weeks ago, now 80 contained and being called epic. Third biggest wildfire in california history and biggest ever in the sierra. The damage to the natural habitat recreational facilities and hetch hetchy water shed is now being assessed. The trust is working with the federal burn area emergency Recovery Team to do assessment and come up with a plan for restoration and recovery. Theyre doing assessment now. There are 70 scientists looking at hot spot areas that are going to need work immediately. Egs specially looking at rain and erosion that results. P. U. C. Says hetch hetchy infrom a structure is secure. People are worried about ash, were in the expecting a huge erosion in fact will be very small, if any. It will be another week before the p. U. C. Finishes assessing the damage to its roads. We have seen temperatures cooling. That is a benefit for firefighters. We do have cooler conditions and cooler tomorrow, here is a look weve got lots of low clouds and fog. Sheer look at current gusts 37 Miles Per Hour at fairfield. 23 Miles Per Hour gusts in concord. Sfo, 21. Half moon bay, 23. So pretty breezy. And right now looking at temperatures 69 in San Francisco. 79 san jose. Another live view from our camera, looking towards bay bridge and lots of blue skies in that direction. 71 nappa. Novato, 75. 85 antioch. Concord 73 and a live view from emoriville. Low clouds and fog stacked up at the coastline. First forecast well see fog near the coast and bai. Temperatures from mid50s to upper 70s. By afternoon tomorrow well look at sunny skies and mild conditions with highs from low 06s at the coast to low to mid80s inland where there will be lots of sun. Thank you. Pg e says its expects to pay a total of 565 million in legal settlements and other claims resulting from 2010 explosion. Pg e says that money will come from shareholders not customers. The Companies Reached settlements with 499 victims and another two cases remain. Investigators blame the blast on faulty pipeline welds. A ceremony was held marking three years since the explosion and fire that killed eight people, destroying 38 homes. University of San Francisco mourning the loss of this man, media studies professor andrew goodwin. He died in a Apartment Fire in berkeley. The 56yearold used popular music to teach cultural theory and blogged as professor of pop. The fire broke out on the third floor of his apartment building. He was taken to alta base Medical Center where he died. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A boat from japan washed on to shores of Crescent City two years after 2011 sue nam gee beginning the journey back home now being stored in menlo park. Monday, will be loaded ton ocean freighter going back to japan. The boat being used by Japanese High SchoolMarine Science Program when the school learned the boat ended up here in california. They asked for it back. People say the return is kinld of bittersweet because theyre going miss the boat. Google launched a federal privacy lawsuit today. A threejudge panel cruel ruled google street view is not exempt from federal wire tap laws. Google apologized in 2010 for collecting data from unsecured Wireless Networks as it drove around collecting data in 30 countries. A california suit is moving through the courts right now which would oversee wire tapping law autos still head at 4 00 friendly wager that is raising eye brows for at least one eye brow. Sunday between niners quarterback and his seahawks counter part. Apple unveiled two new iphones. Big improvements youll see on the next generation of cell phone autos and a judges harsh words to an ohio man whose video conpossession to killing a man in a crash gained international attention. Taking a look at traffic, this is interstate 280. You can see its moving nicely in both directions above you can see 17 interchange here all going well, apple made a big announcement two new Iphone Models now the wait is on to hit store shelves. April yale unveiled new models in its Head Quarters this morning. Both phone goes on sale september 20th a week from friday. Iphone 5 c is a more affordable model made of plastic. 5 s has upgraded camera and a fingerprint sensor. Apple ceo announced latest updates to apple operating system ios 7. Ios 7 will quickly become the worlds popular operating system. Packed with mazing features and a stunning new user interface. Ios 7 will be available fr free down load september 18th. Preorders for iphones begins on friday. Business news, big changes to the dow. Net flix rises to a record. Gaft noon, goldman sacks, visa and nike will be added to dow jones replacing bank of america hewlettpackard and alcoa. This these changes scheduled to take affect september 20th. Net flix shares rising to a high today after the company said it will integrate with a major pay tv provider. Some virgin media customers will be able to access net flix through their set top boxes. And most needed to improve their 25 billion leverage buyout according to people familiar with the matter two thirds indicated support for the transaction. Official results come this thursday. Stocks closing higher today, extending the winning streak for s and p since july. Amid signs of easing tensions in syria. And google teeming up with harvard, mitt and stanford to join ed ex, delivering advanced courses to any student around the worldtowith access to the internet. From bloomberg studios im emily chang, back to you. Thank you. Bay area job market still kind of a mixed bag. One sector is finance that is hiring. Highlevel positions being offered at todays job journal hire event in San Francisco. Some paying up to 150,000 a year, career advisors saying doing contract work is a great way to keep skills skpurnt stay marketable. Next job fair tuesday october 8th held in emoriville. 49ers and seahawks have a lot riding on sundays game. The game on snund. Yes. All right. Hope you dont like your eye brows. That is the huser we assume is going do this and shave one eye brow. That is the rival teams split the series by the way. Sunday nights game will be back in seattle. That is. You dont want to bet that . I would not want to lose an eye brow. Right. Right. Ive made a best bet on my mustache, fortunately i won the bet. Did you follow through . I didnt have to. That is because i was 15. And why if its want to go there. Yes. Yes. Lets go live to dopler 7 hd. Fog creeping locally now, sunny skies out. Inland areas. This is a foggy view. Looking over San Francisco from sutro tower now. A live view, fog near the coast p bay tonight as well as camera lens. Cooler tomorrow. In all areas of the bay area. Taking a look at water vapor warm air featuring our weather, low pressure systems chipping away at ridge so that warm san jose receding now. Follow time line overnight, fog pulling back to the coast tomorrow and cooling continuing tomorrow. Swe expect owe to see thunderstorms tomorrow so active weather there and cooler weather here for us. Overnight tonight areas of fog inland, low temperatures around 60 in locations then, tomorrow, sunny skies in south bay. High temperatures mild to warm range. Highs in mid to upper 0s there. 79 morgan hill. 75 palo alto on the coast, partly sunny skies highs in low to mid60s. San francisco a high of 67 tomorrow. 62 in the sunset district. About 72 in santa rosa. And in between will be about 73, 74 degrees. East bay, 70s in berkly. 75 union city. 77 castro valley. Union east bay mild but not warm 82 walnut creek 81 san ramone, look at the accuweather sevenday forecast. Going to be an interesting week. Cooler day, mid90s inland. That is a warm day. Temperatures tapering off a little bit going into next week. So nudging is very extreme over next several days. That is todays stash cast. Yes. See . Marketing potential there sf. I hope not. Up next twerking failure turns out to be just a prank. Who is behind this video, and why. Were learning more today how sick dozens of people got from eating tainted greek yogurt. 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Plus switch and get a total home dvr included for life. Why wait . Call today. [ male announcer ] choose at t and build your bundle. Its whatever works for you. Yes honey . Dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true . Says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and thats heart healthy. [ dad ] jan . Clint eastwood filed divorce papers against his wife, they have been married since 1996 and live in carmel. Various reports say problems started in the marriage during production of the Reality Tv Show mrs. Eastwood and company. I connick lotus esprit car has been sold at auction. The vehicle driven by roger moore as james bond to escape a helicopter attack. The bid was bee lot estimated price. Id buy it where would you ride it . I dont know. I havent figure that had out yes. Its cool as a sub. Yes. All a hoax. A big joke and got everybody. Yes. Were talking about the you tube video called worst twerk fail ever. Turns out there is more than we showed you on friday. This showed the dangerous consequences of a womans fail add tempt at twerking. Waits a prank. Well well staged. The twerker is a hollywood stunt woman and the owe comedian played the video you did not see at the end. Turns out jimmy was the mastermind behind the video pulling in nine million views on you tube. We shot the video two months ago posting it on you tube. We didnt send to it tv stations. I didnt tweet it or put it on news web sites just on the internet, you tube, let the magic happen. That is remarkable he says he up loaded the video to put an end to twerking. I say, thank you, jimmy for that. Yes. Still ahead San FranciscoDistrict Attorney calls for changes in the law to reduce overkrourding in prison. His confession went viral. The man admitting to a killing online. Also a new report out suggests california fail whitz comes to protecting patients in nursing facilities. Ask later. And what is under the hood of this High School Audio shop . Students at Washington High School get greased up to find out. With a court order hanging over the states, San Franciscos District Attorney says jails are capable of handling more intaits maits. The reason, gascone says is because low level offenders are being given a chance outside of jail. Vic . District attorney gascone advocating in a change in the law making possessions of drugs a misdemeanor. Gascone implementing his own alternatives and he says its working. Prosecutions are down by almost 70 . That may be a big reason why a lot of the county jail cells are empty. Were probably the only urban county running out of a third vacancy. George gascone says his office is die vefrting to communitybased services. They include split sentences for addicts. He says if other counties did the same, the governor fwhot have to release prisoners as courts ordered and the under lying drug use problem likely to reduce all other criminalities. Gascone says the state should change the law Lenore Anderson agrees that a prison first approach snot working. We know that resulted in high rates for people coming out of state prisons, 60 or 07 . Its been costly. Saying between a half and a third end up back in prison within three years. Not everyone supports changing drug fogs a misdemeanor. Police Officers Association president concerned that as a misdemeanor addict kobz cited on the street then released without forcing them to go through diversion programs and says if that were the case theyll likely reoffend. A new bride married about a week thousand charged with Second Degree murder in the death of her husband this happened at Glacier National park. A 22yearold told a friend she was having second thoughts about marrying her long time boyfriend just eight days after they tied the knot. Prosecutors say graham pushed him face first off of a steep cliff at the park following an argument then lied telling investigators she saw her husband driving out of town to visit a friend. The ohio driver confessed to drunking then causing a deadly wrong way crash made a Court Appearance today and faces aggravated vehicular homicide charge thats could send him to prison eight years. Lawyers say the 22yearold will plead guilty but a frustrated judge says dournz not follow proper youre here for the same reason everyone else is here. That is is that there was a you tube video stated some things. In that video, cordell admits hes to blame for the cash that killed a 61yearold father and navy veteran two months ago. State failed to protect nursing home patients in california. They poured through years of records and discovered investigators failed to look into abuse by nursing assistants. Elsie chekd herself into Claremont Place assisted living facility in southern california. She thought shed be safe. The 95yearold died from injuries she received while there. Seven years later the family still waiting for answers from investigators at the California Department of Public Health. You fear theyre going to find something if there is something there. Not theyd just put it away and morgue yet about it. I wasnt resentment. There was punching. A former nursing director visited elsie in the hospital. Her face looked like mohammed ali did a dance on it and you can see knuckles her eyes were so badly swollen and just, hanging she was miserable. It was very sad to see. Mcpherson believes someone working at Claremont Police was responsible for injuries. The Los Angeles County coroner concluded that allegations of assault could not be ruled out but no charges have been filed. Mcfierceon says she was fired from Claremont Place for unrelated reasons. Claremont place is under Different Administration and declined comment for the story. Elsies family isnt alone waiting for answers. Yearly totals shows a steady increase in complaint case thats were not being pursued. And there are 900 cases including alarming allegation thats include sus spishus deaths. He over saw investigation for department of Public Health at the time of the death. He inspected the office and says what he found was chaos. I was apalled. There were hundreds and hundreds of unassigned, uninvestigated complaints in files. Saying he was pressured to close cases quickly. Ordered to wrap up 10 cases a month. Parker says he could had no longer doller yait the dysfunction. He admits Investigation Section was poorly managed. Backlog is inexcuseable. Should not have occurred weve made a lot prof gres since then, today, any complaints that come in, theyre being screened within 48 hours. And were not building a backlog today. Totals shows backlog has been reduced. But, former chief investigator mark parker says the policy discourages gairtors from visiting scene of potential crimes. Investigators do work over the phone. If you dont go eyes on, interview people directly, talk directly, youre going miss huge amounts of information placing the public at risk. Showing most dont result in action. Fewer cases referred for investigation. Dr. Chapman admits hes troubled fewer cases are being refer Forward Legal action. We dont understand that clee kleining number, were looking into it. Its little comfort to elsies family. Her case was lost in a pile up after bus cases at department of Public Health. Her case pass tlud different state agencies, even local police. Despite questions surrounding the Death Department of health closed the case in february, seven years after she died. In an e mail the Department Admits it should have identified this allegation as a high priority. And says we regret that did not happen. Dr. Chapman says hell personal bely be looking into the case. Elsies nephew hopes the agency will step up and investigate thoroughly not only for his aunt but every wun we baby boomers get older more people are lo going to be living in these facilities youve got to have decent agencies that monitor these situations. The Los Angeles CountySheriffs Department decided to take a look at elsie folsoms death and now opened a homicide investigation. Still head quick thinking of one Police Officer helped save mains live. But first a device allowing one sick child to stay connected with classmates. From our camera, check this out. Here comes cooling fog ill have a look at temperatures in the accuweather forecast coming up. And you dont want to check this out. Thankfully youre not knit if youre watching us. Downtown traffic, San Francisco skyway exits brutal. Traffic going into the lower deck of the bay bridge headed to the east bay. Slightly better on the right side of the screen towards 101 south. Back with more in we run errands. We run to the grocery store. In fact, the average american drives fewer than 29 miles a day. The 100 electric nissan leaf goes twoandahalf times that on a single charge. Its a car. It just doesnt take gas. [ farrar ] so think about where you go in a day. Do you really need gas to get there . [ male announcer ] the 100 electric nissan leaf. Nissan. Innovation that excites. Now get a 2013 nissan leaf for 199 a month. Las vague yag yas strip getting another over the top addition. Worlds largest ferris wheel sits at an outdoor plaza. This massive project can be seen all over the city, including from airport, will start spinning early next year. Gigantic. A determined florida middle schooler wont let a rare form of cancer keep him from geding an getting an education. Its a robot outfitted with a camera and video screen allowing the teen to participate and hang out with his friends. He cannot northbound class himself. Hes in pennsylvania. Make the robot spin so you can see the classroom. So its just like a mess. Hes no longer ice yol yaitd and he is part of the class. Hes a normal kid. The robot costs about 6,000. His classmates helped raise money to pay for it. I says it has many ways help him be a normal teen during this battle. That might be one of the best uses of technology out there it is cool. Live doppler 7 showing low clouds and fog at the coast. Pushing inland and nationally, highs in the 90s, thunderstorms down through the rockies warm phoenix n. Phoenix. 87 sacramento. 100 down in palm springs. 77 in los angeles things quiet here in the bay area. Cooler than weve had the last few days. Inland highs into low to mid80s. Three days of 100 degree temperatures inland tomorrow around the bay highs in the low to mid70s and lingering patches of fog tomorrow. Well feel a bit of a warm up. Temperatures bouncing into 90s inland. For the time being a welcome relief three days of of triple digit temperature readings. Were getting a better idea of what happened to people who ate tainted greek yogurt products. Believe it or not, its about time to start thinking about the Holiday Travel season. Tips to find affordable deals and talk about one stores big by the end of the day, my dogs were barking. They used to get really tired. [barking noises] until i started gellin. Its this awesome gel, only in dr. Scholls massaging gel insoles. Its like walking on a wave. I love my dr. Scholls massaging gel insoles. When theyre in my shoes, my feet and legs feel less tired. Theyve got two layers for support and cushioning its dual wave technology. Im walking on it all day of course i feel energized im a believer. 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Its time saving information used to take longer to get. We know where exits are. Where best access is to fire trucks and personnel. The Department Hopes better informed firefighters can increase response time. All right more than 200,000 people from around the world are willing to go to mars and likely never come back. Have you applied . Theyre trying to take part in mars one a project being developed by a dutch entrepreneur. The team plans to whittle down the list by 2015. Several dozen compete in mental and physical challenges on a reality show. 47,000 of the applicants where from the u. S. Everybody wants to be on television now its been time to look at air fares. Just as Summer Travel season is coming to an end its time to start preparing for the holidays. Three tips to help you get best experience possible. Dont give us charges and that means you get extra leg room. 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Expensive item is only 200 a ledger jacket this, is a latest in a series of target lines designed with high end designers. And its fun, absolutely. Thanks michael. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 high school auto sthop classes something most of us only have seen in the movies or maybe grandpa told us about them. But theyre making a come back. Why. Coming up at 5 00 a turn for the better in fire burning on mount diablo. Were going to take you up to the fire lines. First, someone stole his guitar, equipment, now a musician has another reason to sing the blues. Those story pz more coming up at 5 00 but were going take you for a stroll down memory lane, one high school is reving up its prachl program. Few schools in the bay area encourage students to get down and dirty to repair cars. George washington high in San Francisco is reintroducing car shop as part of the cirriculum. I just like the feeling of messing with cars and i get, you can tweak cars and all that. That is what a girl should know. If a car breaks down you should know how to fix that. You snow. Here are older pictures of the auto shop which closed in 2006. So last time i saw High School Audio shop was in a movie. And there was a catchy song that went with it. Oh, yes. Favorite movey. I love that movie. Why now . Why reintroduce something many considered long gone . Many are realizing that there should be other options for students other than college. Its not simply an issue of sending kids to college. Its really preparing our students to be ready for the world. And its college and career. The trade unions and toyota gave most money to restart the program at washington. Today there is a Competition Among auto dealers to secure good mechanics. Many predict a short yachblgt cording to the bureau the nations demand is expected to grow about 17 from 2010 to 2020, 5ding 124,800 jobs. If youre succeeding in that area youre going to be well compensated. Job security is there. The number of cars isnt getting smaller someone starting out as a technician earns almost 18 an hour or 36,000. A more experienced technician can earn six figures thachl could be an attractive proposition for many students. And students from other high schools can take that course after school at washington high. Thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4 00 im larry beil. The news at 5 00 begins right now. Thank you. Next at 5 00 come along with crews battling a wildfire. Their fight just got easier. Apple big unveil dg they just phone it in . Im sandhya patel. Live on the roof of the kgotv broadcast center, winds up, temperatures down. Ill show you what is coming the rest of the week straight ahead. What a difference a day makes on the left sky 7 shows the flames and smoke from the morgan fire yesterday on the right no flames no, smoke along that part of mount diablo. Weve seen progress in the battle against that fire burning. The blaze now 45 contained and there are no visible flames in site. Now, the main reason for progress Better Weather conditions thankfully. Laura . Well weather was better today but the wind is starting to kick thup afternoon. That is the concern for firefighters trying to hold the line. Big concern is that winds may kick up embers out there and as we saw up close today, there are many of them. At the height of the fire monday this is what curry canyon looked like. The slope is blackened but no longer burning. Its all about making sure breaks around the burn burned areas are full of hole autos they try to surround the areas so when wind kicks up its starting to fuel again. So sparks dont fly into the taller grass. There was a flare up late monday that carred a charred grass to the roadway. Now wrkt fire there are areas still smoldering and hot spots. That is why you still are seeing heli