Sassoon city in an area known as potrero hill. School children on a field trip at rush ranch have been told to leave. Bay area Quality Management agency ish wrued an emergency because of smoke from that fire. People have been complaining of smoke and hazy skies. There is no fire there at this time. Now here is a live picture looking at the city. You can see a lot of smoke still in the sky. People are advised to stay indoor was windows and doors and closed and is the air Conditioning Systems to recirculate to keep that outside air from greeching inside of the home. Good afternoon, im dan ashley. Weve been following several other fires and windrelated issues today. Sky 7 checked out this brush fire today near lir livermore started just about 8 00 this morning. The flames charred about 150 ache yirs. Crews declared it under control no. One was hurt. A tree toppled and high winds howled through napa. Two people escaped with minor injuries after the tree fell on their truck along solano avenue were seeing hazy skies throughout the area, you can see Spencer Christian with a look. Well talk about peak wind gusts in just a moment. Were seeing smoky skies now. Clear skies but its hazy out there. The reason why were getting smoke, that fire burning near Solano County near fairfield. Its 81 degrees, northerly wind is pulling that smoke down south towards our area. Its why were seeing heavy smoke. Its starting to dissipate some. You can see there is a little bit of haze there. Peak wind gusts 59 Miles Per Hour. Berkeley hills, mount tam 54 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. You can see gusts 4550 hirp earlier today. Still gusting. Were expecting wind gusts to decrease overnight. Humidity, 2020 . And our live doppler 7 hd will be tracking changes. Thank you. Wind was relentless. Amy holly field shows some of the damage in the east bay. Winds did all kinds of damage outside. Keeping people on the ininside awake and nervous. He knew it sounded bad but didnt see how bad. His neighbors trees in the driveway. This was on oak crest drive. This one tore up the area of oakland. Fences fell like this one and trees were knocked down. It started a small fire when it crashed that was quickly put ou out. But debris created quite a mess. This downed tree in the kmuchbt diablo. Its mazing. Usually tracy is a bad spot. Its bizarre to come around the corner and saw it. Its crazy. A huge tree came down coming close to the people who usually arrive at a scene like this after the fact. It fell in front of us. Officer fletcher and partner were driving on the other side of the road. We asked him to describe it. Its like watching a film in slow motion. Just straight down. He says they were shocked and relieved there were no cars and pedestrians in the tree. We havent heard about injuries. Winds helped fuel the flames of this house fire leaving a family of six without a place to live it broke out after 2 30 in the morning. Investigators say the woman woke up and got other family members out safely. Officials believe the fire started in the attic. We have a weather app to let you use your smart phone to get the sevenday forecast any time. Its easy to down load go. To abc 7 news. Com for details. Police just revealed arrest of one two of suspects wanted in the arrest of this man. Charles butler died after being shot. Investigators believe his murder stemmed from a minor Traffic Accident this, video in just a moment, here, shows him bumping into another car. He intok a driver before heading into a store on west street and someone opened fire just block frtz scene. Police still looking for another suspect. Butlers organs were donated to four different people. And this man is in custody today charged with avoiing annoying minors sexual molestation and Sexual Battery saying he inappropriately touched three children ages four, seven and 16 last evening around 6 00. Washington, d. C. Authorities have yet to identify a man who set himself on fire this afternoon at the national mall. Witnesses saw him jump a can of gas on his head and light himself on fire. Passers by took off his shirts to help douse the flaichls. Hes suffered from lifethreatening injury ootz woman killed after trying to drive through barricades was delusional and believed president obama was communicating with her. The family members say shed fwhn a deteriorating mental state for a year. Her mother believes carey was struggling with port part yum depression, experts doubt that was the reason. Careys 1yearold daughter, who was in the car was not seriously hurt and is now in protective custody. Bart management insists its 89 million apart. Officials say its based on districtwide wages. Management says amount is based on wages, pensions and proposals. Thursday marks the end of the cooling off period, a possible strike by workers could happen the next day. Both sides separated by proposed length of the contract. Federal, state, local officials gathered to take a first step on what will be a new 12mile bike and pedestrian path. The first half mile segment being built through 83rd avenue. The first section will be finished next spring. 3. 6 million project being paid for through federal, regional and county funds. Sellout crowd of 48,000 people will soon make their way into Oakland Coliseum tonight. As play tigers in game one of the American League division series. Tarps have come down for the First Time Since 2006. That is a great sign, larry. Tarps still up out in center field. Maybe if as make to it world series. The as with one of the lowest payrolls in mlb but have the secondbest record in American League. This season. And tonight as are a young team they will start one of the oldest pitchers in baseball that, is 40yearold bartolo cologne. First glance he looks like one of the guys in the bleachers wearing oversized jersey. Except he can throw heat at 94 Miles Per Hour. The as have been off since sunday that, is good news for sesidus. The catcher says it may take innings for everybody to get settled in. Everyone has a break. So is going to have to battle. Same things youre going to have to mess with bad timing theyre going to have to mess with maybe not being in game form right away. So everyone going to have to deal with that. Just trying to act like you just went and played and just trying to go out there and play, i think, is the biggest thing. First pitch tonight will be at 637 p. M. Between as and tigers. Its going to be great to see the coliseum. Many tarps have been taken down and will be a raukus saef green and gold tonight. On the object of the subject of the fans i happened to stroll through parking lot, enjoying the smell of the barbecue and abc 7 News Reporter was out there all afternoon. I believe she may have sampled some fillet mignon so quite a nice assignment. Shell have the report live on abc 7 news at 5 00. For now that is a wrap from the coliseum. Im larry beil abc 7 news. Thank you, larry. Laura is a huge as fan this, is great for her autos she bot the fillet. Laurie got hot dogs but were getting a lot of pictures of young as fans. This 3yearold named harper and another young fan. Wed tlik share your fan photos as well. Send us the pictures a lot of fun. Still ahead dealing with winds there is wild weather in other parts of the country. What some people are facing. At 4 30 the search for a gunman who robbed three businesses today in oakland, opening fire each time what. Witnesses are saying. And Michael Finney is here taking your questions on twitter and facebook and will answer them later on, live, you can contact michael on facebook. Com Michael Finney abc 7 and on twitter at m finney. And taking a look at traffic right now sh walnut creek moving nicely for us this friday. Government shut down in the fourth day. Both sides say they want the shut down to end but neither seems willing to budth. However, there are new signs this afternoon that a group reaching across the aisle may be willing to get past politics a little bit. Now in, the 4th day of a shut down that has been frustrating to many. People are suffering for it. Everyone is. Feeling the pain of this. A new possibility emerged friday afternoon here in the u. S. House of representatives, the epicenter, something may be shifting. Some insiders think moderate republicans that would fund the government. There is no nend sight the leaders of both parties are holding firm laying rest with the other side. President continues to refuse to sit down with us republicans and sadly, that is a hallmark of his presidency. I said im happy to have negotiation was the republicans, Speaker Boehner on a whole range of issues but we cant do it where a gun held to the head of the American People. This isnt a damn game. The American People dont want their government shut down. Neither do i. And the markets are on edge after there appears to be little certainty congress will come together to avoid a default on the dead. Analysts say that can be catastrophic for the united states. Hellan musk is defending tesla. Yes. Hi, cory. Good afternoon, hes defending the tesla after a video of a car on fire in washington state. In the blog post he says it was traveling at high speed and struck a large object that punctured the bottom of the car and caused the fear, were down about 5 of the week. The fire and word of the fire may have contributed a selloff. Ive row yon 5 c on the market two weeks and retailers offering promotions already. And radio shack report lid offering a 50 gift card with an iphone 5 purchase, steve balmer received less than a half of his maximum bonus of 550,000 but 79 of the base salary. The board cited slow sales of the surface tab blet and not giving him a bigger bonus, stocks closing higher today, investors were optimistic lawmakers might reach a budget deal and end this debate. Amazon. Com ready to roll out a tv set top box working as a platform to run apps and deliver streaming video service. The Company Working to have it available for the holiday season. Thank you. A mandatory evacuation in place on grand aisle louisiana ahead of Tropical Storm karen now moving through the gulf of mexico. That means a hurricane watch from louisiana to florida. Karen is weakening but still ready to become the first named storm in what is going to quiet hurricane season. A blast of cold air bringing snow to the rockies in the northwest. Boulder colorado receiving snow just two weeks after flooding there. And in ka coatas, residents have wind gusts of up to 70 Miles Per Hour. Now, live to breaking news where firefighters appear to be getting a handle on this large grass fire burning interest there. Its destroyed about 500 acres and burned a building on what appears to be part of a cattle ranch. A smoke advisory because of the fire were smelling it near san francisco. Well, wind is just blowing it around. People smelled it on the peninsula. Its remarkable how far its traveled. We talk about dust storms and how jet stream carries dust storms from china to the bay area are. We have strong winds at the surface and also, a carrying smoke in the area. You can smell it here as well. At pretty pirate tweets thick up near pacific heights. You can see clear skies across the bay area on live doppler 7 hd. Its gusty now. Still, up to 25 Miles Per Hour out of the northeast in oakland. 24 in fairfield near where that fire is burning in Solano County bringing snoek smoke into the area. Look how dry it is with wind direction. Single digit humidity in santa rosa, novato teens for oakland, 12 . 13 in san jose. So with dry conditions low humidity, gusty winds fire danger remains elevated. Kgo roof camera, smoke started to disperse there. San francisco, 78 degrees, 79 oakland. 81 san jose. Upper 70s in los gatos. Temperatures upper 07s to low 80 as long the coast and 80s inland as well. Here are the temperatures. 84 santa rosa. Low 80s concord, livermore and antioch. Great day to head to beaches. People enjoying sun. Elevated fire danger into tomorrow morning and were looking at warm weather this weekend. Satellite and radar i want to show what you is bringing thus warmth. High pressure builds in. Winds coming out of this direction. And that is why were feeling warmth going to continue heading into the weekend. Overnight tonight were going to see winds dialing back. 7 00 p. M. Still 26 Miles Per Hour at fairfield. And by morning dropping off, lighter wind so youll get a chance to enjoy fis weather. Tomorrow morning cooler start temperatures upper 40s to mid50s. Tomorrow afternoon, beach weather. Mid to upper 70s coastside. Low to mid 80 as cross the bay area. Close to 08s along the coast. Temperatures dropping off cooler tuesday, wednesday, maybe youll need umbrellas. A bay area father may be the hottest husband in meerk how he was entered into a nationwide contest. Then, new at 4 30. As are hopeful so are attorneys for san jose in court trying to block a effort to stop an antitrust lawsuit. To those whoworried. Poked and prodded. Taken risks. And lived in a state of what if . Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com or call 18007526631. A san rafael man in is the running for hottest husband of america. Take a look. The firefighter says his wife entered him in the contest without telling him. His wife says her husband is truly selfless whit comes to their relationship and parenting their 4yearold daughter. Voting ends october 28th if youd like to vote for matt we have a link on our web site. Go, matt, right . One couples wedding put in limbo because of the government shut down. They were supposed to get married at the Jefferson Memorial but barricades went up and they lost their deposits on chairs, flowers and photographer autos it was a mess but Steven Colbert had them on his show, he married nem a live wedding. He officiating himself and smoky bear was the best man. Oh, perfect. Still ahead a gunman who robbed several businesses youll hear about what he did in a live report. A School Bus Driver puts lives in danger. Plus. Youve heard her voice many youve heard her voice many times now youll meet to those whove been denied equal access to health care. Welcome to covered california. Now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. Oakland Police Looking for a gunman who robbed three businesses each time firing his weapon. Vic lee is live with the story. Vic . Well, we do know that police secured a video they have not released yet but youre right. Its a scary moment this morning for employees of three different businesses. No one was hurt. The first robbery took place at 8 45 this morning. The manager told us the robber fired six rounds into the wall then demanded money. The only worker said there was none in the cash register. So the robber took two bottles of tequila instead. He did not fire right waichl he asked for money. I just gave him the money. And then hit this salon. Like the restaurant horn just opened her shop so she, too, had only a small amount of money in the cash register. Requested more. I said we just thopd saul we have. That was not the answer the gunman wanted. I was standing here fired there. The man ran out and entered the Subway Sandwich shop. I heard three shots. Bam, bam, bam. This pedestrian who did not want to be identified told me he saw the robber running out of the door. This guy came blazing out of subway waving a gun and screaming. Started to chase my friend and jumped on the freeway. He least a Business Owner tells abc 7 news he gave Police Security camera video the gunman. The latest fight played nout a courtroom today. Major League Baseball trying to lawsuit challenging baseballs antitrust exemption. Its a legal battle that could last for years. San jess yeah legal team headed to a federal courtroom to convince a judge not to dismiss the case. Commissioner bud selig argue theyre exempt from antitrust laws they saw they have exemption from a 1922 Supreme Court case. We take the position that this exemption they claim has long pass td and is gone and not relevant. The district judge will review before making a decision. No matter which way he decides, the case expected to be appealed by the losing side. As are not part of the lawsuit. However, we broke the news as sent a 25,000 check to san jose to extend the option on land for a baseball stadium. That option is alive and well. Were still trying to work with as to bring them to the south bay. Major League Baseballs toush attorney declined interviews after the hearing. A request for comment was not returned. San Jose City Council member expects this to be a protracted legal fight. Were going to dig in and keep pushing. And may have to push this to the court. Officials called Alex Rodriguez a desperate man. React together lawsuit filed yesterday. Rodriguez accuses baseball of launching a witch hunt against him, smearing his reputation and cost him tens of millions of dollars. He is appealing his 211 game suspension for violating drug agreement and labor contract. Its been a scary start stot school for students in a portland, Oregon High School this, is what students say they saw most every morning. The bus driver barely able to is stay awake. School officials told the district but nothing was done. They watched the driver heading the wrong way down a one way street on a bus. I was like you know this is a oneway street, right. Hes like oh, yeah. Oops. Nothing was done until the uncle told them get proof. They showed it to the district officials who showed it to the company who finally got rid of the driver. Pennsylvania governor apologized to comparing samesex marriage he to marriage made between a brother and steer there saz waz a controversial comment as marriage by 12yearolds. Its inappropriate anal ji. A better analogy would have been brother and sister, dont you . I dont know. Republican governor issued a Statement Today saying words were not intended to offend, he says he apologizes if they did. He says he meant to give an example of the categories of people who are not legally entitled to obtain marriage licenses in pennsylvania. Take a look at this hand written letter. A grandfather scolds his caught daughter for kicking his gay grandson out of the house after the boy decided to come out. The letter posted to a pro samesex marriage facebook page. The grandfather says, he was born this way and didnt choose it mer than being left handed. However, you have been a choice of being hurtful, narrow minded and backward. I think ill take this moment to say goodbye to you. I now have a fabulous grandson to raise. Still ahead a musical treat for some students in the bay area the special event that had mc hammer performing for them in san francisco. First, why a soldier fighting for the country calling a 12yearold boy a hero. Todays 7 on your side q and a is just ahead. Im still taking your questions. You can contact me on facebook. Com and over on twitter, ill answer questions here live in just a little bit. Looking at a live picture, smoke starting to disperse and a warm weekend is ahead. Details coming up. Sticky this friday afternoon. Cars going a u. S. Soldier is alive thanks to a boy who helped rescue him from harms way. I yelled are you okay . He said, uh, yeah. But the army staff sargeant was trapped in his kayak that was sinking last sunday. The 12yearold and his dad spotted him and threw him a life jack yet. He mead night the boat. He then started having an asthma attack and didnt have an inhaler with him. He got the inhaler from the truck and ran back with it saving his life. Quick thinking. Good work. Yes. Weve been experiencing smoky conditions throughout the bay area this, is a live picture you can see mount diablo there and haze in the sky there. Yes. Its amazing and it has been drifting all over the bay area. And that smork people talking about how if you have Health Issues you ne coughing, air quality is improving but we have a smoke advisory. Right now clear skies still hazy in spots. Tropical storm karen is disorganized latest is that it is hesitating so not a lot to it but goitsing to dump a lot of rain. 50 Miles Per Hour wind gusts now. Its stationary. Expected to work up along the gulf coast. And on this path, his is slated totals storm surge totals is expected. Temperatures for saturday, 67 in tahoe. Sunny skies there. Los angeles, 92 degrees if youre head together south. Temperatures in the bhai area on the warm side. 83 fairfield. 85 san jose. Oakland 826789 mid 08s in santa rosa and napa. 76 half moon bay. Tomorrow, tracking change thats do develop, of course. Thank you. Coming up who is siri is in the woman behind the famous iphone voice. I want to know. A res strauntd cooks up a controversial burger. Some say its in poor taste. Should furloughed government worker as ply for Unemployment Benefits . Ok at theh we co back in our day, that uverse wireless receiver. We couldnt just move the tv wherever we wanted. Yeah, our birthday entertainment was a mathemagician. Because if theres anything that improves magic, its math. The only thing he taught us was how to subtract kids from a party. Lets get some cake in you. I could go for some cake. [ male announcer ] switch and add a wireless receiver. Get uverse tv for 19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Alameda county trying a new approach to get more children vaccinated against the flu. There are clinics at local schools. Kids line up to get the flu mist vaccine. Rates could be as low as 10 . If we can vaccinate more Young Children it helps protect the whole community. It works best in young, healthy children so it can help protect elderly who are vulnerable to complications from flu. If proving effective this program will be expanded next year beyond this years three schools. Vaccinations offered for families of the students. Pope francis traveled to the hometown of his name sake today, celebrating mass and embraced disabled on a pilgrimage to assissi, italy. Urging the faithful to follow st. Francis who embraced a live of poverty and service to the poor. He dedicated his life to helping the most marginalized among us. San francisco is named after st. Francis as well. A burger in chicago restaurant is leaving a bad taste for good catholics. The ghost murder loaded with cheese, spicy sauce and topped off with a communion wafer. The owner says its in honor of the swedish metal band. Parishioners say the restaurant should stick to burgers and leave religion off the menu. The manager says he never intended to offend anyone but he will leave it on the menu until the end of the month. Hes getting a lot after tension, too. Apple customers know the voice but not the name or face until now. Hello i am susan bennett. You probably know me. Im the voice actor providing the voice for siri. Susan bennett revealed herself as that voice. The atlanta resident said she had no idea it would be used until a friend called skmer asked if she was siri. The siri voices were recorded in 2005. In the month of july, four hours a day for the whole month. When recording those voices i had no idea where they would end up. Apple has not confirmed this and you can hear they likely altered the voice just a bit. Bennett has been doing voice overwork for years saying she was the voice for the first atm machines and as well as at airports shes the voice for dwraelt airline autos nice to put a face with the voice, finally. Michael finney is here and windy b asked a friend of mine works at Social Security required to work without pay cure during this shut down. Should he apply for Unemployment Benefits . Yes. They can. This is if youre getting paid or not. However, its not as easy as you think. They need to go to their, you know employee web site. When youre a federal employee have you to go online, print a paper then fax it, take it down or mail it to the unemployment office. Weve got stuff on our web site and you can check it out. Go to employer web site and that is where youll find paper work. This comes from christine s. Im traveling with my 8yearold i know there is a restriction when i travel but can i bring a bigger bottle of baby formula. Yes. Dont think of terms of a keg or anything. Its for a baby. Its a big baby. Yes. What they are loued to go over and it doesnt have to fit in a bag but they may open it. I would bring a way to keep it fresh not that theyd open it like that then leave it open. But youre allowed to. Medicines, too. Im still envisioning a big keg of baby formula. Serving in a keg. There you go. One restaurant is charging 18 tips isnt it the law to charge 10 to 15 only . There is no law about how much gra tu ti they can charge. They can put any number down as long as they tell you on the menu first. Theyre not allowed tell what you sit then put it on the bill. Coming up next taking you live to hardly strictly blue grass festival in san francisco. Yes. Big names performing this weekend. Coming up at 5 00 how more walking could reduce the risk of breast cancer. Also. To thosuffered in silence. Hoped. And lived in a state of fear. Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com or call 8006752607. At 8 00 season preemers of last man standing, then neighbors and then, its 2020 at 10 00 then join us tonight at 11 00 in golden gate park, hardly, strictly blue grass. 90 acts, three days and its free. Its taking place in golden gate park. Wayne . Well, were kind of muddling through on this thing. Im being sarcastic. Its a very well run event. People still custodying n bonnie raitt performs at 5 45 tonight. This is all free. For blues man jesse, the job can be more than that. It can be grueling in the van eight hours per day. Its not the most financially rewarding profession. It would appear the highs appear well worth it, especially here, youre looking at a band driving to perform at hardly strictly blue grass. Well, you just, you know got to be worth it. Better be a good set then. And for them, too. Next three days this is the future of golden gate park. The multi billionaire passed away two yearsing aa. Way but bequeathed nonkeep the concert in the park going for another decade. He said this was the most selfish thing he can do because he loved being here this, is his idea of being in heaven, im sure hes in heaven listening to the acts. For music loves a mere heaven, on the grass. And just perfect weather as well. Thanks for joining us everyone. Abc 7 news at 5 00 begins right now. Thanks carolyn. Traffic in a fire in fairfield. A live report just ahead. Plus. All right we have dramatic video. Were going show thu dramatic shootout caught on camera. Im sandhya patel. Fire danger high, ill let you know how long and warm for the weekend coming up. Well we knew its coming. Hot, dry windy conditions and dangerous. Fire as cross the bay area. This is a live picture. Some hundreds of acres burned. People smelling smoke throughout the region. We can smell it here at abc 7 studios. Good evening. The Fire Department just put units in Oakland Hills because of the condition autos yes that. Is because high winds are pushing smoke and ash from the fire into its city. This fire started around noon just kept burning. Yes. Its happening on ranscomb road near the city of fairfield. That smoke likely continuing throughout the evening this, fire started off highway 12. Flames burning over a thousand acres but a dozen homes have been evacuated and School Children on a field trip were told to leave the area. At this point flames disturbed a structure in a barn with lots of hay, several pieces of farm equipment. The parkers here are large so in addition to homes there are outbuildings and lots of cows and a few dozen of them, the situation got dicey. Someone did let them out. Lets take a live picture from sky 7 hd. Cowses now roaming in a safe spot. As for containment, firefighters had the fire 70 contained and they hope to have it fully contained by night fall that. Is the latest from year, back to you in the studio. Leanne, thank you very much. A grass fire in benecia forced a closure from eastbound 780 this afternoon. Flames reported just before 3 00, fire captains called. Another alarm tote toth fire. Residents in homes pitched in with dward garden hoses there, you go, doing whatever they can to help. And some scary moments this afternoon. The fire started just before 1 00 this afternoon. Crews stop that had fire not until it burned about 130 acres of dry brush on western slope of sonoma mountains. Drivers faced delays as crews battled flames. And wind is fueling many of those fires. A viewer sent thus video. Just howling in many areas. Lets get to abc 7 news sandhya patel on whats happening with winds. Yes. You can hear windows rattling and tree in the wind. And you can see clear skies. Check out winds now. Gusting to 29 Miles Per Hour. And this area is coming out of the north which is what is dragging some of that smoke into the bay area from