Us. Tonight friends and family of one of the men accused claims he has an air tight alibi. They are facing charges in ala media. Petersons family says there is no way he is involved. Nick . Theyre putting their money where their mouth is, raising thousands of dollars and they say its impossible that peterson is involved in this arson because he was at work. Hannah flores is convinced that peterson is innocent. I want people to know that steven did not set the fires he was at work at that time. She just picked him up in front of his house and havent checked on his alibi. The fires damaged or destroyed several homes and businesses many remain behind crime scene tape today, peterson made his Second Court Appearance friends and family are saying cops have the wrong guy. There are facts. If youre to say were in a state of denial, facts are facts he wasnt off work. Impossible. I was with him from 7 00 to 1 45 sunday morning working at roosters. Petersons friends say he was here at roosters road hues working as a sound tech. I can assure you were following up every lead in this case. Lieutenant says she knows more than she can share without compromising this investigation and her detectives do not take sides. Theyre objective fact finders. I think the District Attorney is convinced of that as well. Peterson being held on 750,000 bail. Friends are using social media to voice their support. They have started a go fund me page to help pay legal bills we need to stick together because theyve got the wrong guy. We dont want to see this go further. The next court date is in two weeks. Tomorrow, temperatures have people lounging in San Franciscos dolores park. San francisco could reach nearly 90 tomorrow in october with higher temperatures inland. Spencer . You can see we have sunny skies aross the bay area. That is where weve been all day its been warm. And here are the look at the sky highs its warm, but not hot yet. 93 in santa rosa. Highest reading in the bay area. But there is warmer weather still to come. We have a heat advisory including beaches that is in effect from noon tomorrow until 9 00 p. M friday. Well see wide spread high temperatures into 90s the risk of heat related illness is there. Spencer, thank you. You can keep track of the heat and get forecasts on your phone. Down load it for free from Apple App Store or google play. With this heat after a long dry summer comes risks of wildfire. Firefighters are on alert. It can change a hurry. That is right. With this heat advisory were told fire may be out conpatrol. Im told it hasnt been cleared in several years today that work was finally completed and with that it mate be just in timeme. Today, the sign says moderate. With a heat advisory, conditions could change quickly. That is why the battle to beat back brush is in full force. In this case, its a coalition of forces all working on this slope owned by caltrans just below homes in killer highlands. Were hauling dead wood out here. One of about 3600 homes destroyed by fire in 1991 fire storm. Gordon piper began organizing efforts like this soon after he and his wife lost heir home in october. Temperatures if we have in amount of vegetation that is in the community. Those that live above are pleased to see this hillside cleared since no work has been done here in five years. So do you think its too late . There is indian summer. Its going to get hot again. With warmer temperatures expected Oakland Fire Department will supplement this effort by putting patrols on the roads in the hills. The attorney general for an oakland teenager declared brain dead filed papers for her to be declared alive again. He says he has tests showing jahi mcmath does have brain activity n december the 13yearold went into a kema following a surgery at ucsf hospital. A team of doctors certified she has no brain activity the family insisted she was alive and had her moved to a private facility. If a Court Approved hospital or taxpayers could be on support for her life support costs. Today a group of firefighters came forward to tell the mayor they lost confidence in joanne hayswhite. When this 24 year veteran of the San Francisco Fire Department, a battalion chief agreed to be interviewed he said it was the last thing he wanted but had to be done. Ive never seen morale this low its low because . I feel leadership issue. By tough, the chief means chief joanne hayswhite facing criticism from all branchs of the department. First a letter from the rank and file asking for her removal. Today another letter from her managers. 44 chiefs we felt its important to have a consensus. And a vast majority of looking for a change in administration to be able to solve our problems the most publicized, ambulance response times a log taken from the year shows delays in cases of an hour and a half where ten minutes is the standard. To me this is an index of pain and suffering for San Francisco theyre waiting too long for help the department has been criticized for the handling of the asiana air disaster. Crews now sleep in a Fire Training classroom because their fire house is closed due to black mold. Celtics say she misses details for the department. We want a chief that will Pay Attention to small things when asked about that second letter mayor ed lee played it safe and noncommittal. Were assessing what everybodys opinions are and making sure that we have facts in front of us. That from a mayor with a Fire Department demanding action. San francisco supervisor as agreed to pay 15 million to the family of a woman killed in city park last year. The 35yearold was sun bathing when hit by a city recreation and parks vehicle. The driver, a fwardner says he didnt realize he he hayed anyone. Officials wanted to avoid putting the family through trial they reached a settlement with her husband and their 2yearold child you know were wearing pink for the start of Breast Cancer wareness month. Still, a place you can turb turn for resources you need to help fight this disease. What you can go to get nnected 247 reports of victims being scammed are starting to surface a warning for all of us. Colorful crosswalks now in place in San Franciscos castro district. Bulldog [yawning] its finally morning i cant wait to get to mattress discounters because the tempurpedic bonus event is ending soon. Ill have first pick from the huge selection of tempurpedic mattresses. Then, ill get to choose 300 in pillows, sheets, and other free gifts. On top of that, up to 48 months interestfree financing. Its a Beautiful Day for mattress discounters tempurpedic bonus event. Mmm, some alarm clock you turned out to be. Mattress discounters well, we know pink is the color of the month. Breast cancer wareness month is being observed across the country. Abc7 is going pink with our bug on the lower right of the screen there. Were focusing on an oers called Breast Cancer Emergency Fund and what it does for low income women that are diagnosed. You guys are wearing pink and i am not. Everybody should be today. You know you seldom stop to think what happens to a woman when diagnosed with Breast Cancer and needs to stop working. This organization takes care of some of the Household Expenses while the patient focuses on the important thing which is her health. I was thinking i can never reach my goals you know, they stepped in, they gave me piece of mind. We can cover their rent, utility bills their basic living expenses. The majority of the women live in under served communities many are single moms. She will help asian women navigate throughout the sigs tim. I found out for the new immigrants they dont know where to get help. They are losing resources. October is Breast Cancer wareness month the fund has its yearly fundraiser called this old bag. Designers and others donate hand bags to the auction. Weve created a pink cocktail. Proceeds will be going back to the organization. The drink is called the girls. For every cocktail sold, the Emergency Fund will get 1 the hotel will donate 10 for each tea seating. Its part of a commitment to communities around the world. Underprivileged children, poverty, environmental conversation. In the communities in which we do our business. And the risk will be all lit up in pink to bring awareness to Breast Cancer. I want to remind everyone Breast Cancer Emergency Fund will have a big event october 17th. At the bentley resort. Thank you. See you there. Yes. San francisco is a step closer to its dream of free wifi thanks to a partnership with google. And it puts internet southbounding is hes into hands of those who might be out of reach. Internet access is no longer a luxury. Its a necessity. Supervisor mark farrell has been talk talking to google about this. Google is proud to provide free wifi in San Francisco. It true. The office includes google glass base camp. And this time, google is doing something for everyone. One of the things that is special is that its here n a part of town that is under served. The tender loin rec center is one of 32 where three wifi is now live. My phone is working. Supervisor jane kim says its a link to applications and connecting with family. Our residents said yes we want Tech Companies will come so we can access the internet. For the mayor it wasnt just about getting wf ifi but right terms. Youre anonymous nobody is collecting data. I like that. The mayor says its open and private as San Francisco joinses mountain view, chicago and new york. Were excited to ask google what is next. Here are the rainbow sidewalks being widened and trees being planted as well the castro will be home to rainbow honor walk. That looks great. I love it. Spencer christian is here with warnings for us. Very warm we have sunny skies across the bay area now and we have had all day. Lets take a look at readings 74 degrees in San Francisco. 79 san jose. 73 half moon bay. Ocean beach, right . Is that ocean beach . 82 in napa. Mid 80s in livermore. Another live view looking at Western Skies hot inland and of course there is increased fire danger, High Pressure centered all over the place. There is this mass of warm air, this High Pressure ridge will be in charge of weather for next several days. Here is our wind forecast. During overnight hours, winds shift p by mid morning well have an off shore flow meaning early warm up and is going to be hot and cooler in the north bay valleys. Afternoon, sunny, warm to hot. Mid80s on the coast. North bay highs 94 in santa rosa. And inland east bay, low to mid90s. Here is the accuweather forecast of the temperatures near 100 degrees friday. Certainly upper 90s, mid90s around the bay. Starting to get Coastal Cooling on sunday. Temperatures dropping off on monday well have a more seasonal range of highs tuesday and wednesday. Here is a live view of the Empire State Building in new york lit up in pink. My exwife, mother of my children, my comp pan wrin for 30 years had two bouts of Breast Cancer and she is thankfully cancer free today thank you for sharing that. Moving on. Yes. How about sports fans . Take a look at this. As may be having a playoff. This is a family of fans e mail or tweet them to us. And coming up here a brutal act of animal cruelty. Drag queens reserve the right foster farms is offering a 5,000 award in slaughter of hundreds of chickens according to the Sheriffs Department someone broke into this facility and killed more than 900 chickens with a golf club. Investigators found a piece of the club at the scene where the suspects pulled back a fence and broke into a shed. One deputy called it psychopathic behavior. Facebook issued an apology owe a group of drag queens. Theyve been complaining about a facebook policy that requires them to use their real names on the accounts. The drag queens say its their way of weeding out harassment. Face wookbook says it will change the way its enforced. A retired California Marine earned a Carnegie Medal for catching a woman that jumped from the upper deck of the oakland coliseum. Shes one of 21 recipients this year. The honor awarded to people who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree attempting to save lives of others he showed us the bruises suffered while explaining how he positioned himself to watch the woman. He jumped in and saved them. Still coming up a pair of startling developments in the ebola crisis. Ebola crisis. Insurance because it was too expensive. As a professional dancer, i tend to beat up my body a lot, and having Health Insurance is a priority for me. Its a relief to be able to keep the same doctor. I was born with a back condition that required surgery. Im paying a fraction of what i used to pay. Even with my back issues, im able to afford Health Insurance. Im in. Im in. Im in. For the first time ever. Over one Million People have enrolled in Health Insurance through covered california. Soon, you can join them. Today we learned some School Aged Children have add contact with the patient now being monitored for signs of the disease. Texas governor rick perry unleashing a bomb shell that a patient with ebola had contact with children in this neighborhood. That is not the only bomb shell tonight. It turns out the patient was asked by a nurse whether hed been to africa. He told her yes but the nurse did not tell the rest of the hospital team. The patient was allowed to go home only to return with ebola symptoms. Every time a patient walks into a hospital, the staff has to play detective finding out where that person has been. With eblo following procedures is never more important. The doctors and staff are ready for the first case they know how critical is to determine travel history. If this person does have fever, that person is potentially contagious to other people by direct contact. If the person does not have symptoms hes considered not to be contagious owe other people. Isolation is the next step to protect other patientses ask staff transmission of ebola requires contract with fluids the hospital staff would enter protective clothing and masks. Regional is keeping in kwakt the cdc ask county health officials. However, they may change as experience is limited compared to previous outbreaks. Theyre longstanding procedures. However, we do fine tune them. With whatever the outbreak is. Could have been sars. Its a different type of virus. The speed of travel today can accelerate the spread. 4. 2 million at sfo, and 65,000 at minetta san jose. And we learned the texas patient Thomas Eric Duncan flew part of the way on yufrd airlines and flew united from brusselss in washington, d. C. Ask took another flight from there to dallas. That is on september 20th. This is frightening and youre more likely were told to die from the flu than ebola virus. Cdc says vaccinations prevented six and a half million illnesses kept 79,000 people out of the hospital. A big blow for public pension recipients a judge said the city must treat Pension Funds like any other dea debt. The attorneys argue it must continue making full pension contributions but the judge disagrees Franklin Templeton is trying to collect on a three million loan the director of the secret service resigned after tough questions and heavy criticism from lawmakers before recent security breeches two weeks ago a hahn with a knife jumped the fence and made it deep into the white house yesterday, details of another breech. An Armed Security guard with an arrest history was in the same elevator with the president in atlanta. A global effort to show solidarity with protestors in hong kong today. This to protest violation oppressions by hong kong police. This group says its closely monitoring whats happening in hong kong. There have been quiet the last day 20042. But nobody thinks peaceful is going to last forever. Theyd stay there as well as they can. Theyre threatening to occupy key government buildings unless a top official resigns. Cal train is launching a Suicide Prevention page on its web site that includes a crisis hot line number, part of the continuing ef norts to encourage the community to prevent suicides police say 23 people are in danger of we have dealt with hundreds of Mental Health and suicide related calls this is a real problem. Its uncomfortable for real people it has been 13 deaths per year. Abc7 news i team got a thank you for a new law mandating the testing of rape kits the lab has four months to process the kit and enter it into a National Data base. One survivor got her story out by writing a play. I was told my rape was not a good enough rape to be tested. And the only way my rape kit was tested is by me writing a solo show called the haze she revealed thousands of untested kits had been sitting on shelves across the bay area. Just ahead tonight scammers begin to pray on victims of the napa earthquake. Its been more than a month since a 6. 0 napa earthquake hit. Authorities warned it would happen. So did Michael Finney whore wit the callers offering federal grants. The federal government has not offered assistance to any individual homeowners but that hasnt stopped scammers from posing as workers. This disaster, ive been trying to clean it an hour now. Mike lowell took this video after the big jolt rocked him and his girlfriend out of bed. The quake sent living room glass all over owe the floor. This fish, the loen survivor he learned renters insurance would not cover damage. So someone phoned him to say hed been awarded a grant to make thousands of dollars in repairs, he was elated. 7,000 would come in handy. Mike was instructed to go to a Convenience Store and purchase a Prepaid Debit Card the scammers told him to read them the account number on the back of the card to confirm identification because hed need an id to use it. Once giving him the number they withdraw the 310 on the card. Just felt burned. And stupid similar to a scam inmates are operating from inside prisons Northern California Computer Crimes Task force isnt naming involvement. I have no reason to believe its only in one prison. Inmates posing as Sheriff Deputies threatened to arrest people p the north bay if they didnt pay a fine for failing to appear for jury duty. Just like with quake scam, victims instructed to purchase the debit cards. Very convincing and reassuring. Authorities say its too early to tell. You should be cautious when using Prepaid Debit Cards. Never give the numbers to someone you dont know. If you have been victimized report it to your local police or Sheriffs Department right away. And also, contact me. You can do that by going to abc7 news. Com and click on sections tab. Coming up what it takes to rehab an injured bear cub. Rehab an injured bear cub. Now making a remarkable themstan om cheers hey guys stan the man hey, hows it goin stan . Can i get 55 on pump three . You got it, stan gas stations. Just that. Where nobody knows your name. The Chevrolet Cruze eco. With an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon highway. Its the new efficient. Whoa yeah i was testing to see if we really can turn any device in your house into a tv and the tablet worked just fine but i wanted to see if the phone will work as well. So i shrunk sharon. Every channels live just like on tv but its my phone. Its genius. Shh im watching tv. Tiny sharon is mean. Im right here. Watch any channel live on any device around your home. The x1 entertainment operating system only from xfinity. An incredible effort to save a bear cub is paying off we told you about the little bear two months ago. Tonight let me take you back to see how shes doing. This was the biggest wildfire in Washington State history. This is one victim. A yearold bear cub. Paws so burned she was dragging herself on elbows, poor thing. A sympathetic homeowner called wildlife officials she has burned to her face and arms. And her chest. The Wildlife Team needed help and found oit at lake tahoe wildlife care. A few years ago the center took in a cub named lil smoky. He had his paws burned. We were successful. In august a volunteer flew the cub to tahoe shchl she arrived under weight, barely able to walk now . Two months later shed shes made progress. Dr. Willis is using a broom to get her to turn around. And has been doing this every 2 or 3 days and is good. In 30 seconds its done. When she arrived she weighed 39 pounds now, almost double that. Once on the table, the loving care speeding her progress is obvious. Her ooiz are open, shes sedated so they can work without worry. Once her muzzle comes off, you can see her face is healed but feet have a way to go. The trick is getting the bandages on firmly enough. On the other side there is a party going on there are ten more cubs here a record for wildlife care. All are doing well. So theyll stay away from people when released. Probably during winter or spring. Once she recovers shell go back to Washington State. And remember how feisty she can be . That is a great sign. Shes nasty enough. Shes now having tasty dreams she likes red grapes best. The money to feed bears comes from donations the bears are eating 1200 worth of food every week. To help go to abc7 news. Com. Spencer going to take a look at temperatures. Clear skies across the bay area, taking a look at our almanac, 68, hottest, highest temperatures is 102 degrees and average rainfall is 1. 12 inches. Highs above 90 degrees. Here in the bay area, things heating up as well. High temperatures into mid90s with upper 80s on the coast. Hot and cooler into the week. Very much alive. Giants trying to quiet the crowd. One big swing. Feeling grand, sports is coming up next. Giants hoping theyre not one and done tonight playing in pittsburgh with their ace on the mound. Come and cool. And a swing and a miss. Top four. Bases loaded and high, deep and aloha. Pablo sandoval got it. Seven strike outs right there. Now in the 6th. Billy bean told reporters if he had to do it over again hed still trade sespidas. Billy may be the only person on the planet that believes this is true. Scary question is what do as do now . Trade everybody . But how . That is one thing weve been to the post season three years in a row. There are guys that are important to this club house that will be back. So we have, high hopes for next year. Things should be interesting for 49ers this sunday return of alex smith. Chiefs coming off of a route and smith razor sharp for 248 yards. Niners coach today asked about not having to face the qb. They know alex did great. Happy for success. Hes done great things to help me. Nothing but respect for him. Great job and normally gets the ball out fast. Just weve got to play our defense. Play every day. Raiders raiders players had nothing but praise. A good man lost his job. Everyone has to take responsibility for that. You know . We needed to play better. You know . Hes a good coach. Now we have to move forward. I look forward to playing under him now. Its one of the things you dont look forward to we could have done better you know . Could have changed the situation its done. Weve got to continue on. And try to win sports. How much money will it take . Is there a check big enough . No he doesnt want i know. Too easy. Right. Join me on cable channel 13. A mom attends to shame her daughter into attending class then is it harmless . Or sexist . A social media fire stor the shirt some say is sending the wrong message to women. Here is the prime time line up starting with the middle the goldbergs modern family then nashville , blackish then abc7 news at 11 00. We appreciate your tiechl see you at 9 00 and 11 00. There was mold in the house. I cant believe you guys let it go two weeks before having somebody check it. Do you know what weve been breathing and touching . Honey, we dont know if this is bad mold. What if its good mold . Like penicillin. Right, your moms reluctance to scrub anything might be making us much healthier. Seriously, how dirty can a shower get
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