Grieving the loss of a marine Fighter Pilot from san mateo county. Major taj sareen died in england yesterday when the f18 crashed at a Royal Air Force base northeast of london. Officials say he ejected but did not survive. Taj sareen graduated from the university of San Francisco in 2004. He was a marine corps fireFighter Pilot for 11 years. The jet was one of six coming back to the United States from the persian gulf. Taj sareen was stationed at miramar in san diego county. He leaves a family and young daughter. At 7 00, Hillary Clinton will testify before the House Select Committee on benghazi. The former secretary of state faces criticism over her role in the 2012 deadly attack on an american diplomatic compound. The committee wants to know why the United States was in benghazi in the first place and if the delegate of four americans including the bay area native and ambassador, Chris Stevens could have been prevented. She will face questions of her private mail account for gatt business related to benghazi. A New Washington post abc news poll shows that 53 percent of members believe benghazi investigation is politically motivated. However, 54 percent disapprove of hour Hillary Clinton has felt with questions on the issue. Former republican Vice President candidate paul ryan is poised to be the next House Speaker winning support of the freedom cause during a closed door meeting last night. The group of three dozen rebellious conservatives were the hold outs in supporting ryan. The san jose restaurant at the center of a shigella outbreak faces two lawsuits this morning. A man came down with it filed the first suit yesterday and there are now 93 cases in the san jose area linked to the san jose area linked to the Police Police if university of california president Janet Napolitano gets her way thousands of ungraduates will be allowed into to system next year with a plan that will revealed at a board of regents meeting in San Francisco next month. That is according to the Los Angeles Times and she will not go into details but we know that the legislature is promising an extra 25 million in funding if the system can roll an extra 5,000 undergraduates in the 20162017 school year. Critics wonder if the system can add enough dorm rooms and classes in time for the new students. Five Police Departments plan to benefit up forces with federal money, according to the contra costa times. The departments in oakland, richmond, vallejo and pittsburg will receive federal grants. The goal is to reduce gun violence and improve Community Involvement with police and increase youth outreach. A San Jose Police officer considered a role model no longer has a job. It has been confirmed that philip white is no longer with the department. Last year he posted controversial tweets antagonizing the black lives Matter Movement. Janet o has more. Got to use your head. The officer white, a 20 career veteran with San Jose Police, often worked with kids on gang prevention and education. But the personal life drew national criticism. White threatened protesters in the black slaves Matter Movement by saying in a tweet last december threaten me or my family and i use my god given and lawappointed right and duty to kill you. Copslivesmatter. He wrote if anyone feel they cannot british or their lives matter i am at the movies off duty carry my gun. I thought, wow. An after scan American CommunityService Agency in san jose was among the protesters calling for his removal. He thinks the right decision has been made. If his words, what he felt as an officer but his level of responsibility in using better choice of words. He is hopeful this negative incident can turned interest some positive. If we can continue partnering and seeing engagement with the community, the badge will become more of a protection rather than of fear. Asteps to improve relationships and build trust overtime. Today, friends and family will mark the second anniversary of the shooting death of a 13yearold boy by a sonoma, sheriff deputy. There will be a candlelight vigil for andy lopez and picket in front of the Sheriffs Office at 4 00 people. In 2013, lopez was carrying a toy gun that deputies say looked like a real ak47 and as he walk ed down the downtown santa rosa area. A deputy feeder for his safety when he shot killed lopez. The deputy was cleared of ring of wrongdoing. A man is linked to a third abduction case after approaching a girl in the area of College Avenue and webster and tried to lure the girl into a van. She refused. It is believed the same man who approached three girls minutes later and tried to get them in the vehicle of the he chased them but they managed to get away. Police say the man was driving a black fullsized cargo van with no side or rear windows. Plea agreements are in place for to men suspected of looting during the valley fire. The two were arrested last month, one pleading guilty to two charges of burglary and is expected to bring a give year prison sentence. Other suspect pleaded guilty to being in a restricted area during a disaster and was sentenced to 75 days in jail with three years probation. Officials say the cases against three other suspected letters will be resolved soon. The habitat for humanity is helping lowincome families rebuild and repair homes lost if the valley fire. That is according to the press democrat hoping to raise 1 million. You must be from low income families and be uninsured or underinsured and own the land you live on. It is cool, will that continue . In the morning but in the afternoon, it will be warm, again, so we have another large temperature spread. Watch out for the low clouds developing along the coast this morning why ocean beach is thick, and west portal is 56, and sunny side is 58 and mission and bayview and Park Presidio and crissy field is 59, and downtown, 58, Ferry Building is 60 and headed into the financial district it and 59, coolest weather in the north bay, healdsburg is 48, petaluma is 52, and young city, at 56, and santa clara is cool at 50 and pleasanton is 52 and pittsburg is at 59. The Golden Gate Bridge where we have a southwest wind at 15 Miles Per Hour so i expect some clouds do creep in and possibly over the Golden Gate Bridge as we head through the morning commute. 81 to 85 inland and reesey in the hills again, and mostly sunny an the bay, and interest San Francisco and not so much sunshine as yesterday or as warm. The bay is not so warm a couple of degrees cooler 7480 and the real cooling is hitting this weekend with another chance of rain on the way, then, also. Hail . Good morning, everyone, if you are just waking up this is macarthur maze with emeryville camera with tail lights headed to the bay bridge looking good and we have a very clear condition. We have construction eastbound on 82, eastbound 580, the transition is all lanes closed until 6 00. The detours are in place. I want to take you right over here, and we do have a new accident in the westbound direction in the tunnel with the slowing eastbound. We are trying to find out more information on that. Right now, westbound traffic is moving on fine and we have some slowing in the eastbound direction so it is probably where it is elected. Starting today, if you are in San Francisco, Howard Street will be closed define 3rd and 4th with muni rerouted. Kristen and eric . 4 39. Carmakers are doing everything they can to keep you connected on the road and why they could be putting your safety at risk. How far would you go do find your missing pet . A search led a scat owner to the nations heartland. Nations heartland. Stay tuned. Here in vineland, home of progresso, we love all kinds of chicken soups. But just one kind of chicken. White breast meat chicken every time. So if youre not going to make your own chicken soup tonight, do what we do. Make it progresso. You say avocado old el paso says. Zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand n stuff tortillas. record scratch you say stand n stuff tortillas old el paso says. Start somewhere fresh but these liquid gels are new. Gels and go. Mucinex fast max. Its the same difference. This one is max strength and fights mucus. Mucinex fast max. The only cold and flu liquid gel thats maxstrength and fights mucus. Lets end this. Itll be here before you know it. Hello, halloween. Its the one night when everybody dresses up. And that includes dinner. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Antioch, petaluma, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. It is 4 42. This is the missing 8yearold boy with autism reunited with his parents in hayward. The boy got upset and ran off from p. E. Class and he was found five hows later four miles away. Very, very happy with the Hayward Police and the Alameda County sheriff. We are very glad to have our son back. He went to mcdonalds to get a happy meal. The school staff and parent volunteers helped Police Search for the boy. Hands free devices in cars that use voice commands are still highly distracting for drivers. University of ultimate it researchers say it can take up to 27 seconds for a driver using a voice activated Entertainment System to regainful alertness after making a command. A car going 25 Miles Per Hour can travel a length of these football fields before your brain fully recovers from the act of changing music or dialing a number. Sobering. How far would you go to find your missing pet . A womans search took her to member. Here are the detail on the mission. I dont like cats, i have never been super into cats. She does not consider herself a cat love are but for sheba. She is laid back wonderful cat. So when she want missing, she was determined to find her cat. She suspected sheba was taken by family of her deceased neighbor while they hauled the belongings back. She friendly and show jumped into the back of the truck, or, maybe they took her because she is such a nice cat. She tracked them to omaha, nebraska, 1,600 miles away and county can them by social media and text messages, she offer them a reward, but there was this response. There was only one thing to do call in a pet detective. Private investigator went to the suspected persons home in omaha, and the woman who refused to speak with us claims sheba was her fathers cat and turned it over after seeing proof it was not. She was completely shocked when i pulled the picture out of sheba. After 18 days, sheba was flown home. When i knew where she was i could not leave her. She still claim she is not a cat loveer. 4 45. Tonight the 49ers battle the biggest rivals, the Seattle Seahawks with kickoff for the game is 5 25 and agencies are preparing for a traffic headache with the game coinciding with rush hour. There are ten extra strains before the game and 12 extra trains after the game. There is a regular weekday for caltrain but, they will add two special northbound trains after the imagineup. General parking lots open at 1 55 p. M. With stadium gates opening at 3 25 p. M. How does it look for the tailgating and game viewing . From. You need some sunscreen because it will be warm and bright. Here is my forecast kickoff is 5 25 with total sunshine at 75. Sun will set at 6 23 and will fall into the mid60s by the time the game helps at 3 1 2 hours later puts you around 9 00. You can see the change for today, we have a dry cold front bearing down on us and it is inducing a little bit of a sea breeze here. We will have almost total sunshine this afternoon and a few clouds at the coast and a few high clouds early this morning and then it will become sunny and because of the wind shift will not be quite so warm but above average. The real cooling trend is this evening with a chance rain on sunday but more likely that wendesdays chance is going to be more fruitful. Here is a look at the light and variable for the most part but fairfield is showing an onshore breeze and outside of the north bay we do not have that much of thick fog, with petaluma at quartermile, and quarter in santa rosa and 101 is foggy. Half moon bay is six. Everyone else is quiet. A few clouds along the east bay shoreline through the morning. Our two areas of high pressure, including the cold dropped right here and that is what is starting for bisect the high and weakening it and why we will drop a degree or two today. You will probable not notice it. Our temperatures are in the upper 70s in milpitas and everyone else in the lowtomid 80s and 7 in santa cruz. Still, mild to warm on the peninsula, and midtoupper 70s millbrae and san mateo and menlo park and palo alto and redwood city and los altos at 80 and cooler conditions at the coast today midtoupper 60s and lowtomid 70s downtown and south San Francisco and sausalito, and lowtomid 80s through the north bay valley and midtoupper 70s along the east bay shoreline with oakland and san leandro at 77 and we will head inland, lowtomid 80s from san ramon at young to livermore in antioch at 85. My sevenday forecast shows tomorrow, temperature is maybe a degree or two cooler than today and we are in the 60s and 70s across the board by sunday with a slight chance of a shower and that is mainly across the north bay and it will feel like call fall next week. Here is the commute. Good morning, everyone, using our exclusive waze app we are tracking a major accident right at the town fell traveling westbound, there is confirmation because of the wazers that the accident is, next, in the westbound direction. As we zoom in you can see, now, the slowing is building as you come in from or republican da through the tunnel out to oakland. So, we did see a lot of slowing in the eastbound direction but, now, all of the slowing is certainly westbound with two cars involved and c. H. P. Is this running a traffic break as we speak, with possible injuries involved and cars are involved. We will take you to the south bay with clear conditions, and this is a necessary way to wake up if you are headed to work at this moment you have green conditions and posted speed at 101 beyond 280 and 680 at the anyone its to the san jose airport, 280 into cupertino, no problem, and through milpitas there is some construction. Youtube is challenging hulu and netflix. Here are the tech bytes. Youtube is hoping you will pay 10 to watch videos ad free we with exclusive content launching next wednesday with a free one month trial. Nike is going back to the future creating a real life version of the selftying sneakers and Michael J Fox shows them off last night on jimmy kimmel and are selflacing and be tightened or loosened and will be available next spring sold only by auction. So cool. Airbnb and on the offensive, with a way to target a ballot measure aimed at limiting shortterm rentals. A wouldbe package thief caught on camera and the porch struggle the criminal was not expecting. When you see news happening where you live, take a foe tore where you live, take a foe tore or video and share it with us. I am beautiful in every single way words, cant bring me down words, cant bring me down that sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Take a look, Concord Police want to know if you recognize this thief trying to steal a package from a porch in crystal ramp. She could not lift it. Whatever is in the box is heavy and she decided to steal the dirty shoes from the front porch, instead. They are calling it an epic crook fail. If you know the thief contact the police. Airbnb will remove ads that take a swipe at a move to limit private rentals in the city. Here is an ad on a muni bus shelter suggesting that San Franciscos Public Library system should be spending money the company pays in taxes to stay open later. Here is another post high above union square saying not to spend all money in one place. Airbnb is the target of a proposition next in on the ballot, if passed, it would limit private rentals through sites like airbnb to 75 nights and force guests to pay the hotel tax. California flood preparedness is underway and marin is looking for dedicateed weather watcher forces rainy season. No registration is necessary to attend the orientation. All ables can volunteer even children with parental permission with 1,300 state wood including 45 in marin county. You do not have to be as trained. Good morning, everyone, something for you and your kids to do together and we can always use more reports. The more reports we get the better our forecasting is. Help us help you. 69 in monterey. 63 in lake tahoe. Midtoupper 70s around san diego and, also, los angeles. Here is a look at olaf still looking like itants it go to hawaii but it is coming our way and by wednesday it could bring us a soaking rain. Leyla . Okay, we will move on and we are heading back over to the tunnel with delays in the east direction but there is slowing westbound because of an accident involving two vehicles, westbound highway 24, at the tunnel with all lanes blocked by the c. H. P. So they can clear the accident to the shoulder. Further to the south the drive along 880 and 680 show top speeds. When you are closer to michigan boulevard north we see a sight tap on the brakes and eastbound highway 37 at mcarthur boulevard the construction is until 6 00. It is 4 56. This morning, the host cities for 2016 tour of california will be announced in san diego, the demanding bicycling course covers hundreds of scenic miles in the state and san diego will be the host cities given the backdrop to the 10 30 announcement. Next year, the race will be big with 200 riders preparing for the olympics or Tour De France and featuring a fur day four stage womens race for the first Time Starting may 19. A press conference is streamed live at 10 30 with a link on our website at abc7news. Com. A hawaiian man is sharing a story of survival minutes away from death be i attack by a massive shark but the will to live was stronger. Tony lee told reporters from the hospital bed of the attack over the weekend off the coast of oahu with boat its legs if his mouth and pull him under repeatedly but he put up a fight. I had goggles on and i could see clearly, everything. I knew. I thought if i punched him enough he would let me go but he wasnt doing it. Lee lost a foot and will under go surgery today to save the second foot. He is an athlete and doctors say that will help in the recovery. He said he looks forward getting back to hiking and baking. Biking. A Fighter Pilot dies overseas with the heroic action that may have saved lives. A shopping boost to the bay area economy with two Stores Opening today sure to lure people looking for bargains. We leave you with abc7 now and a look at the macarthur maze and the traffic flowing maze and the traffic flowing through unimpeded. Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Good morning, this thursday, at 5 oclock a. M. , and it is nippy. It is. But it is no longer thursday, it is friday eve. Friday eve. It is friday lite. It is meteorologist mike nicco. Still thursday though, you have to go to work. That is right. Optimist. Now, fog, less than quartermile at petaluma and up 101 through rohnert park and quartermile in santa rosa. We are looking to the weekend because it will be cooler than. Physical then i will watch sfo