15minute address, president obama tried to answer some of those concerns. Tonight i want to talk to you about syria. Speaking directly to warweary americans, the president argued the u. S. Must be prepared to act. The purpose of this strike would be to deter assad from using chemical weapons, to degrade his regimes ability to use them and to make clear to the world that we will not tolerate their use. The details, any military strike would be limited in duration and scope, and he assured americans no boots on the ground. I will not pursue an openended action like iraq or afghanistan. The president laid out the evidence of the august attack and said the regime of Bashar Al Assad are responsible. The images of many massacre are sickening, men, women, children lying in rows killed by poison gas, others foaming at the mouth gasping for breath. And as the president makes his case for military action, a potential alternative emerged tuesday. Syria agreed to a russian plan to turn over its chemical weapons, but hurdles remain, like the exact language and a potential resolution. This initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force. In congress, some hesitation but also optimism that a strike could be avoided. I am very skeptical, very, very skeptical, but the fact is that you cant pass up this opportunity if it is one. The question is how long is president obama willing to wait. So, now, the focus shifts to secretary of state john kerry. Hes going to be traveling to switzerland on thursday where hell meet with his russian counter part, and sources say president obama has asked congress to hold off on a vote until those two negotiate. Were live in washington. Im tori reporting. San franciscos Commonwealth Club had a serious schedule tonight. We talked to some audience members right after the president s speech for their reaction. I thought his speech was very balanced. I thought it was a good approach both in terms of the conclusion that he reached and then also from a political Strategic Point of view. It really annoys me that hes even considering this russian, like, what russia proposed today of assad giving up his chemical weapons because i know that regime. I know how they think. Some syrians tell us they feel the u. S. Must strike to keep the moral high ground. Well have more reaction for you tonight at 10 00 on ktvu. Now, to the fire at mount diabl o. Its called the morgan fire. Just minutes ago we got new numbers from fire officials. Cal fire says the fire is now 60 contained with more than 3200 acres burned down from the previousest mat due to better mapping. Ordzs were lifted about an hour ago and homes are no longer threatened. Most roads are also reopened. All we could hear, 50 trucks showed up in no time, and they were just saying, safe the houses, save the houses. Firefighters spent much of today carving out lines on the edge and tackling hot spots with water drops. Paul is live tonight in clayton. Paul, you spoke to resident who is saw flames approaching their homes. Gasia, they say theyre very very close. I will tell you were outside the clayton library, which doubled as a shelter during the first three days of the fire. The red cross packed up about an hour and a half ago. One good thing came out of it, community pride. Part of the land is still smoulders three days after the morgan fire began, and just as some thought they were in a clear, a flare up. It broke my heart to watch the mountain burn. It almost looks like bombs went off around here. We had the fireman telling us you need to go and five minutes later theyre saying no, the fire broke out again over here. We want you to hold. For 47 years, owned and operated the farms in clayton. Cooper says last night when their mother told her they needed to evacuate, she drove from her blue canyon home to help out. I wasnt here 20 minutes when things started exploding. The fire was off on our left side. It was coming down in the front. Put in the familys farm with regular size horses, peacocks goats and other animals in jeopardy, but cooper says thankfully the firefighters acted quickly to save the day. Thank god for the firefighters. Theyre unbelievable. I cant praise them enough. Peter is a friend of koochers. He says this tragedy brought out the best in the community. I stopped and handed out my card for anybody needing a horse trailer. There were so much donations coming in, water and food, they were actually saying they had enough. The red cross said the first night a few people stopped by and today just one person was there before they closed the shelter. People were allow today return back to their homes just one hour ago. Live in clayton, paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. A smoke advisory continues tomorrow for people on or near mount diablo in the path of the fire. If the air smells like smoke you should spend more time in doors with the air conditioner set to recirculate. Anyone with respiratory or heart problems may want to consult their doctors. Police meanwhile are now investigating a coldhearted theft case. Ahead in five minutes, a replaceable item taken by burglars targeting firefighters on the front lines. In berkeley, a community is in mourning over the death of a College Professor killed in an apartment fire. It happened about 1 40 a. M. On the third floor of a complex on oregon street near telegraph avenue. Seven people made it out safely, but firefighters say when they got there, they found 56yearold Andrew Goodwin trapped inside. He was rushed to the hospital where he died. Goodwin was a professor of media studies and pop culture at usf. Those who knew him say hell be missed. He was kind of a fixture in the neighborhood. Im sure a lot of people are sad to see him go. Authorities say theyre still investigating as to what caused the fire. Neighbors tell us that goodwin was known to burn candles and incense. 565 million, thats how much pg e says it will pay due to the san bruno pipeline explosion three years ago. The utility released that figure in a filing yesterday. It includes 455 million pg e already agreed to pay plus 110 million estimated from recent settlements and claims. Pg e says it still needs to reach settlements in two cases. The third anniversary of the explosion was just yesterday. A group of activists sue a uk uc berkeley and various agencies went before a judge today. The group by any means necessary says they were beaten during an occupy protest back in november of 2011. The University Filed a motion trying to dismiss the suit. Today the University Said what happened that day does not reflect its values but says the actions were legally justified. One of San Franciscos major thoroughfares was in line for a drastic and controversial change. The board of supervisors okayed a plan for dedicated bus lanes. The idea is to get muni moving faster and increase ridership but many residents say the plan also means a loss of Parking Spaces thatll hurt them and their businesses. A man who collapsed and almost died at the san jose airport had a chance today to thank the Police Officer who saved him. Michael nunez is recovering at oconnor hospital, and this afternoon, officer robert dale stopped to visit him and give him a hug. Dale respond today a man having a possible heart attack. When he saw nunez on the floor he used an artificial external fib ril later to revooef him. He saved my life. I had to thank him and shake his hand. First time ive actually had to use to help someone come back. Everything worked great. Officer dale has worked for years training other officers to use the equipment, but had never used one himself in an emergency. He hopes his story will encourage people to get cpr training patient dumping to court. Klassaction lawsuit was filed today by City Attorney dennis. It seeks a reimbursement after 500,000 for the care of at least 20 patients bussed from a staterun Mental Hospital in las vegas to San Francisco since 2008. It also asks to bar nevada from similar practices in the future. Nevada Officials Say its policies are appropriate. San francisco failed to make a Strong Enough case in its lawsuit. Education not incarceration. Dozens of inmate advocates rallied today in sacramento against the states plan to deal with overcrowded prisons. Under the plan the state would spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to house state offenders in private prisons and other facilities. The plan must now be approved by a panel of judges. Advocates say it makes more sense to release thousands of prisoners who have credits for Good Behavior shows the bats flying from a building on the campus of elementary school. A memo about the bats went home to parents yesterday. The district says the creatures are not living inside the building but in some trim on the outside. County health Officials Say that bats dont pose a danger unless theyre living in the same kts vu first brought you this story last nielth on the 10 00 news. This video was taken yesterday. The woman violently kicks and yanks three dogs she was walking yesterday. The man was arrested just about two hours ago at a homeless encampment on capital expressway. Her name has not been released. Police are now involved in trying to solve a Fire Department break in. The low blow to contra costa firefighters battling flames on mount diablos front line. New economy iphones, but its latest and greatest is evolution on steroids. A dramatic drop in temperatures is being felt around the bay area and for some, the winds are howling. Where we are dealing with a wind advisory and im lining up your wednesday numbers coming up. Firefighters are working tonight prevent more destruction from a wild fire. Its called clover fire burning about ten miles southwest of redding. The fire has grown to 7400 acres since it started yesterday afternoon. More than 100 structures, many of them homes have been destroyed or damaged. The fire is now 40 contained but Officials Say winds and low humidity are making the fire fight especially difficult. Federal fire Officials Say the fighting the rim fire burning in and around yosemite has reached 100 million and the job is far from finished. Containment remains at 80 . The fire has burned more than 254,000 acres or nearly 400 square miles since it started august 17th. Update on the morgan fire which continues to burn tonight in contra costa county. Give you a live look here whats happening at mount diablo. Firefighters say the fire is now 50 contained and tonight evacwees are being allowed to return to their home. More than 3200 acres have burned. Authorities tonight are looking for the thief or thieves who targeted two continue ra costa fire houses while crews were on the front lines of that fire. As christian reports, in one case, what they took cant be replaced. Were thinking that they just pried this door open here. Cherry was on it have the firefighters protecting homes from the morgan fire. He returned to station 7 sunday afternoon to discover a burglar targ etded their station. Once you go out there and protect other peoples property and come back and find your own was broken into, kind of hard to take. Cherry says a burglar made their way into a station and into dorm area. This is one of the areas they broke into. He say it is burglar pried open lockers like this one looking for valuables. Soon as i looked around, something didnt look right. I looked for my ipad. It was missing. My bag had been runlaged through. They took my watch and my ring. And not just any ring. No. Were talking about my wedding ring. Yeah. My wedding ring was taken and so was another firefighter. His wedding ring was taken, too. We had attempt to break in about 2 30 on monday morning. Just hours later, someone targeted station 3 just six miles away trying to break in through this window. Actually, the crew was in quarters at the time, and the captain was actually sleep in bed when he heard someone actually trying to pull off the screen right next 2 feet away from him. The firefighters here scared that person off. Now, the county is looking to prevent similar break ins. Weir going to be reevaluating all the stations security all the way across the county. The Fire District says newer stations already have security measures in place to discourage thieves, and theyre looking at retrofitting older stations like this one to make getting into areas like this more difficult. In walnut creek, ktvu channel 2 news. Now, ktvu. Com this time lapse video of the mount diablo fire, which we first showed you yesterday. Its actually comprised of still photos taken every six seconds. Its getting an awful lot of viewer hits on our web site. If youd like to see more, go to ktvu. Com and look under the hot topics section. Happening now in richmond, city leaders are talking about dropping a controversial plan to buy hundreds of mortgages from struggling homeowners. In july, the city announced plans to use imminent domain to force the sale of mortgages if lenders did not accept the offer. An agenda item in Tonights City Council meeting proposes withdrawing the offers saying it could compromise the citys ability to operate efficiently. Google says its considering its next steps after losing an appeal over a privacy lawsuit regarding its street view practices. An Appeals Court today rejected googles bid to dismiss the suit by enabling its vehicles to collect personal information such as emails and passwords through unsecured wireless networks. Google apologized for the snooping and promised to stop collecting the data but added what it did was not illegal. San franciscobased twitter says its buying mobile ad startup. The 350 million deal makes twitters largest acquisition to date. The acquisition is also fueling speculation twitter is working to expand its advertising options, kind of an initial Public Offering expected as soon as this year. Continuing coverage of todays big announcement from cupertinos apple about its next generation iphones. The 5s and 5c will be available in an array of colors in a matter of days. Apple is promising smart phones that work much faster than its current iphone. Tom takes a closer look at some of the big changes inside and outside for apples next generation devices. Here at apples headquarters two models debuts, the new top of the line 5s comes in brushed gold, silver and gray in stores on the 20th. The 5s has powerful chichs that double the speed of the current model. 2 to 400 depending on memory. You have a Computing Power device in your pocket. When developers can take advantage of that kind of speed, theyre going to create a whole new gin ration of exciting apps we havent thought of yet. The rapid fire Smart Technology takes better clearer pictures as well as realtime and slow motion video and for fast secure access, a fingerprint reader on the button for one or several users. The finger pribt sensor, that was a surprise to me because ive never seen a fingerprint sensor that works so but they seem to be pretty confident. Also the new lowerpriced 5c, cheaper plastic encased iphones in blue, pink, yellow, green and white. These are geared towards picking up fires unable or unwilling to pay for the aluminum cased models. Its basically a no compromise. Its the same phone as you get in the five currently. Its the same phone for a hundred dollars less. You get the same phone for less money and a bit more fun can iness, i guess. 99 for a 16 gigabyte model, 199 for the 32gig version. Having a palette of colors gives choice in different countries. Green is one of those favorite colors in korea. Despite that apple shares closed today more than 200 below the record 702 a share. It fetches just over a year ago. Tom vacar ktvu channel 2 news. More details now, apple also announced today it next mobile operating system ios 7 will be available as a Free Download to iphone and ipad users september 18th. Ios 7 offers an allnew so you have the ware design with new colors, i cons and animation. Apple shares today closed down more than 2 . Analysts say investors dont believe the new devices are equiped with musthave features. The Broader Market fared much better with. Nasdaq was up 22. The increases appear to reflect belief u. S. Attack on syria is not certain. Meteorologist rose mary orozco here. We are feeling it today, rose mary. A huge drop in some cases. Chances are i do not need to tell you today was a cooler day. 20 that 25degrees in some cases. Fairfield 25 degrees you about take the prize for being the coolest in a 24hour change there. Weve got low clouds banked up against the coastline, and if you look close enough, you can see they have crossed into the east bay. Were look at partly cloudy skies over areas of oakland, santa rosa, those clouds are rolling back in your direction, and the winds are howling in some cases. Take a look. 28 Miles Per Hour in fairfield. This is actually let up just a little bit. Through the delta, the winds have been gusting to 35 Miles Per Hour and could gust even a little stronger as we get into the evening hours. The National Weather service has decided to issue a wind advisory for this section here. Val val, ve knee sha driving into fairfield along i80, highway 12 very very tough at times. This going on until 3 00 in the morning. Outside of that, the winds have been on shore and been quite strong at times even in areas where theyre fighting that fire out there. So firefighters still working hard to get ahold of that and get it well put out for sure. 65 degrees in wall mutt creek right now low 70s in livermore and low 70s near mount diablo where the fire continues to burn. Meanwhile around the bay area, 69 in oakland, 63 San Francisco. 67 in napa. A big drop in temperatures and as we get into tomorrow morning, take a look. The low clouds now moufing inland. Havent seen this in a few days, perhaps all the way into the central valley. It will burn back, and we will be left with mostly sunny skies. Temperatures as we start tomorrow in the 50s to low 60s. 55 for santa rosa. 50 degrees for oakland. Low 60s san jose. 7 santa rosa. 72 for san rafael. 72 in oakland. Mid 60s for San Francisco. 80 degrees san jose. 84 morgan hill. These numbers are a lot like what we had today. As we get into thursday, temperatures will warm just lightly, but its really not until friday that we feel a heat up back into the 90s for our inland cities. Take a look at the bay area weekend. Its nice. Upper 80s to near 90s for inland cities. Low to mid 70s around the bay and 60s for the coast. Gasia. Thank you, rosemary. A popular brand of yogurt under scrutiny tonight and, roy, talk about a high roller. Well explain how the latest big budget vegas attraction is now on the up and up. Meet the latest high roller in las vegas. The vegas strip is now home to the largest fer ris wheel in the world. 55 stories high, more than a thousand feet tall. When complete, itll consist of 3. 5 Million Pounds of steel. Thats about the same as 200 hummers. The fer ris wheel takes 30 minutes to make one revolution. The fda is investigating dozens of reports of illnesses from rauled greek yogurt. No link has been confirmed, but the fda says at least 89 people reported getting sick after eating chobani greek yogurt manufactured in idaho. People who sell dogs online now have to comply with the same rules as other dog breeders. Online sellers must now either allow buyers to see the animals before they buy or else allow federal inspectors to look over their facilities. The u. S. Agriculture department announced these new regulations just today. Theyre meant to crack down on puppy mills. Right now the rules only apply to the sale of dogs but could be expand today include other animals. Thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. Well see you the next time news breaks. Im gasia mikaelian. Our coverage continues on the 10 00 news as evacuees return home after that devastating wild fire in mount diablo. Keep in mind were always here for you at ktvu. Com and tmz is up next right here on tv 36. [captioning made possible by warner bros. Domestic television distribution] today on tmz imagine my surprise. Demi moore shows up with ashton kuchar. She wants him to pay her spousal support. Someone should pay for that crappy jobs movie. Kanye firing back at ray j. He called him brandys little sister. Big burn. Meredith baxterbirney