System saying this is technology that is talking to each other. It is the most extensive s its kind in the state of california. It extends along a 20mile stretch of the i80 corridor between carquinez bridge and bay bridge and integrates with other local but congested thoroughfares. This is a congested area with 270,000 vehicles use the i80 corridor each day. It is the busiest in the bay area. Officials say it needs the most sophisticated stateoftheart amendments to ease the congestion. The signs are not turned on yet. That will comes later this year but there will be a demonstration this morning. A fastmoving fire has burned hundreds of acres of wooded terrain if lake county erupting yesterday afternoon. At last check it burned 450 acres and was 20 percent contained. We were there as the trees turned into giant match sticks off of elton mountain. The evacuations were ordered for several streets but then lifted. Firefighters are hopeful the higher humidity will help get a handle on the fire. New information on the leg fire that caused 1 million in damage. An effort is underway to replace computers, Musical Instruments and other items destroyed in the fire. It break out at a Community Center share by several group including loma prieta elementary. Investigators say a 17yearold accidentally started it after setting a Cardboard Box on fire to stay warm. If you would like to help out we posted the information at abc7news. Com. New details this morning surrounding a vallejo kidnapping case that was thought to be a hoax. Prosecutors charged Mathew Muller with kidnapping Denise Huskins in march. Authorities tracked him down using information from a cell phone he left behind during a Home Invasion in dublin three months later. The lawyer wants the judge to throw out the physical evidence saying i was found through an illegal search of mullers cell phone. If the evidence is thrown out the feds may have another card to play in build the case in the vallejo kidnapping. He allegedly confessed during an interview with a reporter that was recorded by the jail. Janet o is coming up with more on case including possible connections to crimes in other bay area cities. A San Francisco judge is deciding whether to schedule a murder trial for the man whats with killing a tourist on pier 14. A preliminary hearing is set to resume today. Francisco sanchez admitted firing the shot that killed kate steinle in july. He said it was an accident. He claims he found the gun beneath a bench and accidentally fired when he picked it up. He is a Mexican National who was deported five times before the shooting. The showdown over gay marriage in a small Kentucky Town moves into a federal courtroom today. The county clerk has been ordered to appear before a judge after refusing to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples. Our reporter has the latest from washington. Good morning. Attorneys for kim davis say this is a battle for religious freedom but the four couples say she must fulfill her taxpayer funded duties. Protests are growing and police now there to keep order. The day the clerk is at the officer of it will face a federal judge because of this. [ inaudible ] again and again kim davis turning away gay couples refusing to issue any marriage licenses after the Supreme Court june 26 ruling in support of samesex marriage. Under Whose Authority are you not doing this . If we go to another the we say it is okay to discriminate. One couple will not give us, but kim davis insists she will not give in. In a statement calling it a heavy were or heaven or hell decision. Some call her a hero and others call her a hypocrite after it was revealed she has been married four t bart police want a man to face attempted murder whats after they say he shot himself during a confrontation at the west oakland bart station. Cell phone video shows coe powell on the ground and two bart officers attend to him threatening to jump in front of a train when officers told him to pull out a cigarette. Officers taze him and he pulled out a gun from his waistband and he shot himself in the stomach. He is in critical. There is an effort to raise the minimum wage across Silicon Valley. San jose mayor liccardo will be joined by mayors of campbell and palo alto and cupertino and hill pete and morgan hill and a representative from the city of santa clara in the effort were it is called the largest collective effort in Silicon Valley to raise wages. Backers point to the growing company between the wealthy and working class as reasons wages need to be raised for mill wage workers. There is not a ban on shortterm rentals in tiburon with the committee being formed to look the at issue. They were considering a ban on airbnbs after getting years of complains from neighbors who rent their homes about noise and parking. A new hearing is set for october 21. Now a check on the weather. Mike . What are we expensing . Breezy conditions and temperatures about the same as yesterday, mission and downtown at 59, chrissy and presaid i didnt and ocean beach, bayview and ferry all at 60 and west portal is coolest at veteran. Richmond is a warm spot at 63 along with pittsburg at 6 pa and tracy at 68 and union city at 62, and walnut creek at 60, and fairfield is 61, and belmont is 62. Everyone else is around 55 to 59 degrees, like pacifica at 58 and santa clara at 56, and the winds are blowing with the flags unfurled this morning. Dry air is moving in so we do not see much in the way of cloud cover or this afternoon. San francisco will top out at 68 degrees and peninsula at 75 and along with the east bay and south bay at 76 and inland east bay 81 and north bay, 80 and everyone across the board is coolerthanaverage temperatures sfo this morning shows a few clouds we will not have delays like yesterday. Tomorrow the coolest and fastest freezes and warming trend that starts for the holiday weekend. Leyla . Debris is driving on 680 out of Pleasant Hill to highway 24 with no accidents reports and it stays clear through the San Ramon Valley and we do have a failing accident, however, in clayton, and this is cutting off all traffic so be aware the sigalert is in effect until further notice with alternates and detours in place. Drive time traffic, tracy to dublin is 36 minutes, 680 southbound from dublin to mission boulevard south is 16 minutes and highway 85 northbound highway 101 to cupertino is 18 minutes. A closer look at the south bay commute and friendly reminder of the transbay tube closure come up in the next report. Thanks, 4 38. The stick figures are down on a bay area bathroom are coming down. There is a mystery at the local peoples and what could be behind a grow number of starving sea birds. No chicken trying to cross the toll plaza this morning so all is looking good, with weather is looking good, with weather and traffic up for you during daly city, dublin, los gatos by bay 4 41. If you noticed instagram is acting strange you have company. The mobile photo sharing site is not working properly for everyone. Instagram tweeted it is working to fix the problem but it is not clear what the issue is. Reports from users around the world say pictures are not loading and pages are not refreshing. A San FranciscoElementary School has earned the distinction of becoming the first to adopt gender neutral bathrooms for kindergarten and 1st are no longer just for boys and girls. The school began to remove the signs at start of the school year. The principal said it is to agency a handful of students who do not fit traditional gender norms. San francisco hires two dozen workers to watch public toilets and make sure the restrooms are used only for the intended purpose. They have been plague by people using drugs or prostitution. They will make sure that no one stays inside beyond a 20minute limit. Normal use of the toilet has increased since they began the watch. It cost 1 million a year. Alarm number of dead or dying sea birds are washing up on the beaches and rescue centers are inundated with a particular species. Alan wang traveled to marin head lands where many are watching up. Holly recently found 20 dead murre sea birds along the rodeo beach and one alive flapping in the sub. It was obviously disabled and unable to fend for itself so i took it to wild care. That bird and many survivors are transferred to the bird rescue center. We are getting between five and 15 a day. Bird rescue normally receives murre as area but 45 are recoup operating. They have no muscle. Most are young, like this baby rescued on the beach at point reyes on tuesday. It is being fed fish formula to help regain weight. The International Bird rescue believes the fish are diving deeper because of warming water temperatures. If the fish are lower than the baby flus can dive for food we see a lot of sick and dying baby murres. If you find a sea bird in distress they recommend you throw a towel over it and wrap it up. Gently place it in a well ventilated box. You can take it to a Wildlife Rescue center that cares for birds or call your local animal control. Former Oakland Raiders head coach said he is sure his former team will call los angeles the new home in 2016. He now is an analyst with espn and said he said the sources is inevitable and called Southern California great place for Football Team whether it is the raiders, chargers or the raps were he was head coach of the raiders from 1998 to 2001. The warriors annual backtoschool in the Bay Initiative tips off today with five evens at local schools during the month of september. The first starting this evening at sunset Elementary School in San Francisco. The forward will appear and the goal is to raise awareness of the response of education. Absolutely. The kids are going back to school today and do they need a jacket . I think so this morning. We have cooler conditions the next couple of mornings and then summer returns for the in san jose, unlike San Francisco, and oakland, it is not the hottest month in san jose, we start at 82 and drop to 89 on the low side, 58 to 55 so if you leave the windows open you could need a blanket or two. 106 and 35 are the extremes and only. 2 of rain. Golden gate bridge at wind at 28 Miles Per Hour. Dry air and sunshine and cooler conditions today. The dry air and lack of clouds means it will be cooler and we could see 40s developing by friday morning in the north bay valley or saturday morning and friday night. Summer runs this weekend and especially in the afternoon hours, it will be warm. Live doppler hd showing a few clouds along the coast and otherwise it is quiet this morning. Look at the mid70s for most of the south bay and we should be in the lowtomid 80s and upper 70s in los gatos and morgan hill and gilroy. 75 in san jose. Redwood city is at 75, that is as warm as it gets on the peninsula down to 72 in san mateo and 70 in millbrae, mid60s along the coast today, and upper 60s in downtown, south San Francisco and sausalito and 68 degrees for those areas. 74 is the cool spot across the north bay where vallejo right there and 76 at petaluma and 80 is santa rosa north to cloverdale and clear lake and oakland at 72, union city and newark at 74 and Castro Valley at 76 and upper 70s for inland east bay neighborhoods including fairfield and livermore touching 80 to 82. June tonight and napa and santa rosa and the rest of us in the midtoupper 50s again with the peninsula coast the most likely area to see clouds. Our area of low pressure is not going anywhere pulling the cool air from alaska transporting it to our neighbor. That is dry air. All the wet weather stay to the north and they do need it, the forest fires are worse than what we have been dealing with. The sevenday outlook shows tomorrow will be the fastest for freezes and the coolest for afternoon highs. You can see the warming mid90s on sunday and monday. Midtoupper 80s away the bay and mid70s at the coast. Leyla . In the south bay, we have Clear Conditions with green on the map an indication that we are moving along at posted speeds and no acts to report. Along 101 to get to san jose airport you are move at 69 Miles Per Hour, and before you get there, 75, so slow down, and as we look at 280, the drive is nice headed into cupertino and 71 Miles Per Hour along highway 85 at highway 280. Moving up to the dumbarton bridge, another nice accidentfree commute between newark and East Palo Alto and the neighbor to the north is the san mateo bridge and nine minutes between 880 and 101 on to the peninsula, and morning to slow you down and in the eastbound direction it is maintaining a clear condition and what is happening this weekend, starting on saturday, we are going do have the transbay tube close so the west oakland bart station will be closed with service resuming on Tuesday Morning at 4 00 a. M. Just in time for the Tuesday Morning commute after labor day. Morning commute after labor day. The worlds first smartphone has a large 5. 5 display exceeding all current pixel models on sale in november. The switch from tech books to gadget is forcing backpack makers to are do their products. They do have to be flexible and water resistant. Water and electronics do not mix. There are some with builtin battery champions. A new spin on polaroid. It is expected to be on sale later this year for 100 with a build in printer. Just like the old ones. They put their lives on the line to save a man from an oncoming rain and a special honor two Police Officers are getting. An arbys worker is refusing to serve a customer and now a to serve a customer and now a call for picketing the c hey let me help with that. Oh, thank you introducing the oneandonly Volkswagen Golf sportwagen. The sportier utility vehicle. The abc7 news app on the go on your schedule. News that lives where you live. Arbys is apologizing when a worker refused to serve food to a Police Sergeant because she is a Police Officer and told sergeant he did not want did tell her a sandwich and when martin got her food she was not eating it and this is called isolated, and a rest was organized outside the restaurant by wives of Police Officers in the community. It is an attempted car theft you will have to see to believe. Look at this surveillance video. A man left the car running outside a Washington Gas station and you could see another man getting in the car taking off and the owner of the car runs out, jumps in and is nearly thrown out of the car as the driver tries to get away but the car came to a stop. The owner pulled the other man out and a bystander helps hold him down until police arrive. The caltrain board will honor two Sheriff Deputies and a Security Guard for their heroic effort. Dale thompson was patrolling a station and he prevent add suicide attempt. The deputies made the headlines this month after they save the driver of a stalled car from an oncoming train. The sermon kick off at 10 00 a. M. In san carlos with local dignitaries including Jackie Speier are expected to attend. We salute you. The weather should be mild. A lot of sunshine. Breezy. Hold on to the hot and the steering wheel. You want some beach warmth . Saturday at significant in Half Moon Bay and 75 on sunday to 73 on monday, and this could be just a few degrees underdone. The difference will be because we have a Northern Wind and we will have temperatures that will drop reasonable and the low 60. Rather than the mid60s which is before average. Temperatures in the 80s through the central valley. 71 if lake. 82 in yosemite. It is cooler than average around san diego and los angeles, mid70s there. But 102 in palm springs. You said 101 maybe you are thinking because i was going to show you 101 in the north bay. We have that connection. 101 out of san rafael toward 580, continuing into mill valley, toward sausalito, through the tunnel and to the Golden Gate Bridge traffic could not be better and we saw the zipper truck making its trek at midspan headed to the marin side to expand the southbound lanes and traffic has no fog to get in the way. We will take you back over to the drive here in san jose traffic is moving along without a pitch. Tesla c. E. O. Said that the long awaited model 3 will be unveiled next march. Tesla c. E. O. Elon musk said the lower cost sedan will start production in two years, fully operational factory needed. A if you are taking test drivers saying the car will said for 35 with preorders after the march unveiling. Morning is preparing to remember the 9 11 attacks, with crews testing the tower of lights mashing where the World Trade Center stood. The trip suit a shining symbol of pride, healing and resilience and a visual memorial to those would died. The towers of light are lit each anniversary and turned off at dawn. Now a shocking story out of cran ford, new jersey, officials at a local day care apologize to parents whose children were forced to take part in a fight club. Two workers at the center were charged on tuesday for inciting fights among the Young Children ages 46. They are accused of recording the fights and sharing clips with trends on social media. Authorities learned of the alleges in midaugust when the workers were suspended and both will be arraigned tomorrow. East bay chick were now famous is awaiting adoption after quite an eventful day yesterday. Leyla was talking ability this year. An abc7 viewer tweeted this photo of the chicken standing in the middle of traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. A short time later the Highway Patrol caught the chicken but first there was extensive traffic delays for thousands of drivers. Here it is. The Oakland Animal Services shelter, someone has started a twitter account for the bridge chicken that seems to be getting along with two of thors there but they are not driving. I am happy to hear it is a happy ending but why during the we morning beak. This could be the photo bomb to end all. 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