Near homa preyeta. The firefighters did make quite a bit of headway and lift somed orders. That is right. They have. And chris nguyen has been covering the fire and is live with the new voelmentes. That firefighter has been taken to the hospital and we do not know the extent of the injuries but as soon as we have more information well put it on twitter, eight homes have been destroy and we know that 300 structures remain at risk. For residents, a feeling of anxiousness that cant escape. Just watching the flames and fire is heart breaking. You dont know what is going on. Reporter mike powell live atop loma prieta for 15 years. Were a family. Were talking and texting. Emails. Whatever we can. Reporter sky 7 shows us the terrain. If we need to make them wider, fine. If we need to take down vegetation, that goes for dozers as well as hand lines. Reporter sheriff laurie smith stopped by to check on her deputies. Firefighters are getting in their rest periods after being on the lines for 24 hour shifts. Meanwhile, residents in southern Santa Clara County are having a tough time with the smoke. I have asthma and allergies. The more active, the more my asthma acts up. And having the air quality, too. Reporter neighbors say theyre grateful to the ben and women fighting to protect their homes. To be here and to have everybody there, with support, were just a big family here. Reporter this community is trying to stay strong as crews battled the flames above. We just got an update on progress has been made. 4100 acres have burned but containment is up to 34 so that is good news at this hour. A Community Meeting had been held tonight at 7 00 at the Loma Prieta Elementary School in los gatos. That is the progress on containment. Part of mondays evacuation efforts included getting these horses to safety. Video shows how dangerous conditions were for them. Tonight, david louie has that part of the loma fire coverage from a horse ranch in milpitas. David . Reporter so much upheaval this week as a result of the forced evacuations. But the horses have had to suffer. Some relocated here to Whispering Hills ranch. Some people are waiting to get the evacuation orders lifted, reunions are underway. Ive been relieved. Ive been wondering how im going to get them off the farm. Sampson and elijah are a challenge, weighing about 1600 to 1800 pounds each. But theyre safe at whispering ranch. Grass horses need grass hay. Reporter the Evacuation Team has worked since monday night. Horses just yards from flames advancing on the barn. Once we let them roam around, theyll rehydrate and im sure recover just fine. Reporter the e vac teamworks to make sure no horses are left behind. Some didnt have trailers. The e vac team took care of that. David george has plans to join them. Im probably going to become a volunteer. Ive got a truck. You know . I can donate my time. Reporter george is an emergency room nurse by profession. Its different to be in the receiving end of help. Im usually helping others and i was taken aback in a good way. Reporter in milpitas, abc7 news. Air quality ranked moderate because of the fire. There is no spare the air alert. Some people are complaining about smelling smoke. A lot of folks saw sun out there today. Youre looking at a live picture. We can see the fog coming back in as well, feeling less warm than just days ago. Abc7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian looks at just how much temperatures have dropped and a chance of rain. Right . That is true. And temperatures, 73 degrees, 46 and calm winds in the area, were experiencing a cool down. The temperature changes indicates from a 3 to 8 degree drop since yesterday and overnight into tomorrow, well see a steady sea breeze and early in the morning well have some lingering fog during morning commute. Temperatures in low to mid50s. You can follow weather developments with the abc7 news app. Tanks, spencer, very much. Happening now, there is a big deal going on in the small city of brisbane. Its part of the largest issue impacting the bay area. Housing activists from San Francisco and beyond want to converge tonight. They want to demand the council say no unless its includes new housing. Brisbane is home to 5,000 people. Carolyn tyler is live with the story tonight. Carolyn . Well, brisbane is not used to being in the spotlight and having outsiders trying to tell them what to do. A number of activists manned to come here tonight to try to tell brisbane to do its share. The tiny town of brisbane finds itself at the center of the controversy. Its because of this 660 acres. The Property Owner is a developer that is housing is not in the general plan and its Planning Commission has okayed an alternative that doesnt include housing for the thousands of workers anticipated. Critics are outraged. Where are they going to live . I dont know. Community Development Director says its up to the local government to determine the regional on bli investigation. A legitimate regional issue and its undertaking a thorough and deliberative hearing process. Fewer than 5,000 people live in brisbane and 43 supported no new housing just 2 agreed to what the developer wants. The Bay Area Council representing nearly 300 of the largest employers is threatening to take brisbane to court. Brisbane is happy to accept Office Commercial development which is great. They have to accept a portion of the housing responsibility. The mayor says his city has a responsibility for the site. Developing news now in san jose. Police just arrested a long time teacher in a prep academy. David graham is accused of Sexual Assault at the harker academy. He was the girls algae bra teacher in 200school. Investigators say they plan to retrieve a black box from a commuter train that crashed and killed one woman and sent 100 people to the hospital. Part of Hoboken Terminal even collapsed into the wrecked train. One person described what happened at the moment of impact. It wasnt a jolt. It was thrown from one area to the next. Because it was crowded we didnt there wasnt much where to go. We dont know why it happened. As governor christie said, the train came in at too high of a rate of speed. Coming up, eric thomas looks at the safety of the bay area systems. A man accused of drugging a couple before kidnapping the woman changed his plea and accepted a deal from the government. Shes live now in San Francisco. In exchange for the guilty plea, the government has said it will no longer seek a life sentence, instead, 40 years. The judge will make the decision in january. Today, some veined indication for the couple police said made it up. This is the couple the Police Department said lied about being drugged, bound, and kidnapped. People should never have to face the hands of mr. Muller. The victim held her boyfriends hand tightly, hours after learning muller pled guilty to her kidnapping. Mr. Muller wanted to resolve the case. He did not want to have the trial where she would testify. Reporter the government is seeking 40 years. From the beginning, Law Enforcement screwed up this investigati investigation. Only after an invasion does Law Enforcement link him to the kidnapping. In a statement, the u. S. Attorney praised Law Enforcement, including police for the high quality of work and the couples Attorney Says the fbi case agent is also at fault. Muller said the intended victim was erins exfiancee. The judge will make a sentencing decision in january. If there is a man that decides to do live behind bars. Its muller. There wont be real justice until the people who botched up this investigation are held accountable. The attorney wants the. Weve streamed the News Conference live, you can down load the app now for free to see the news as it happens and you can enable push alerts to be the first to know about breaking news. Common complaints in the Bay Area Center around two topics. Expensive housing and long commutes. Tonight, relief is on the way for one problem. Next, which cities will get the first ever Ferry Service. Plus, a space man. Because she doesnt know that it kills 40,000 californians. Every year. Because she doesnt understand what cancer is. Because she cant spell emphysema. Because she is a butterfly, who fights fires. Because she is my daughter, and the Surgeon General says that raising tobacco taxes. Is a proven way to make sure she never smokes. Thats why im voting yes on 56. She have deputies are looking for a man that sold an suv out of a mans garage. The armed suspects followed the victim into his garage after he golt home. The suv was found abandoned in oakland. In San Francisco, police are trying to find who men who robbed two tourists from china. It happened wednesday afternoon near the crooked part of lombard street. The victims say the men threatened them with a gun, took cameras and ran away. Right in the daytime. A man was convicted and sentenced for starting a 29,000 acre wildfire in the Sequoia National forest last month. He faces 18 months in jail and has been ordered to repay the 61 million cost of fighting the fire in 25 monthly allotments. He admitted he sparked the fire while driving off road. A wildfire near cloverdale is 100 contained and burned near than 1500 acres. No word on the cause. No homes were lost. A group of lucky students if berkeley got an account of what it is like to explore and live in outer space. Abc7 News ReporterLaura Anthony was there with a visit from former astronaut scott kelly. With his feet on the ground, retired astronaut scott kelly arrived to share his experiences with the students. Many wondering what is the best part . Is it launching . Coming back and landing . The Space Shuttle . . The 52yearold and his brother were both astronauts. Nasa studied the twins to study effects of prolonged space travel on the human body. In february, scott kelly returned from the International Space station where he spent 340 consecutive days. Was it scary to come back from space . Like in the fire and stuff . Can be scary. But like i said, its also a lot of fun. Kelly is helping to promote apps like this one that allows students to conduct experiments on smart phones and other devices. Stem education and Citizen Science initiative is important in getting kids to study science. It is so important to the economy and our future. Its a message these students told us they heard loud and clear. If we dont study it, then, our whole society i believe, will fall apart. Does it make you want to study science and technology and be an astronaut . Yes. I mean, having no gravity sounds awesome. Were grateful for the crew. From space to berkeley, Laura Anthony, abc7 news. A new Ferry Company could get commuters across the bay in 12 minutes. The state Public UtilitiesCommission ApprovedPublic Service from a private company. The boats could holdup to 100 people and Ferry Service could begin in january. The Company Already provides Charter Service to a handful of tech companies. Drivers beware, a new year long crack down on speeding is being rolled out. Fail focus on 12 traffic corridors. Its simply not okay to go faster than the speed limit. If 10 people are hit by a car going 40 Miles Per Hour nine out of ten people will die at that speed. You can expect to see officers with lined check guns. We have low clouds and fog at the coast. Its a cool evening around the bay area, mainly sunny skies over the bay and inland. And were going to stay in this cool pattern and check out this live view looking over low clouds and fog. Breezy fall pattern and cooling continuing throughout the weekend and there is a chance of showers on sunday, there will be fairly light. Right now, temperatures 55 degrees in half moon bay. Mid70s across the bay and inland and tomorrow, into evening hours, most locations will see gusts at 20 Miles Per Hour around the bay area. And mostly sunny skies because of the breezes. Highs from upper 50s to mainly mid60s of the bay and low to mid70s mildest inland locations. Looks like partly cloudy skies saturday. Mid70s inland and low 70s around the bay. Temperatures dropping on sunday. And with some rain drops were expecting light rain with this system. Approaching storm ranks one, will be autumn showers and producing a tenth of an inch of rainfall, sunday morning you can see light showers moving in around mid morning sunday, then, continuing into afternoon hours, looks like showers will probably be confined to that area north of the golden gate and wind down sunday night. Temperatures dropping below average with rain drops and light scattered rain. There is a slight chance of showers monday morning and temperatures bouncing back to average range. Look at you. Just trying to make the giants weather more interesting right. Its going to be interesting. Just ahead a plan to force investors are worried about the security of buch deutsche bank. Stock in fit bit dropped more than 11 today. After a report says the companys newest trackers are not selling well. The charge 2 is selling slower than fit bit released this year. Fit bit now faces a bigger threat from apple that features Water Resistance to the new version of the apple watch. Many of us find it hard to save for retirement. Now, the state will do it. Governor brown signed in the secure choice Retirement Plan. Small businesses must enroll employees in the plan. A percentage of each check will be held in low risk investments. Nearly 7 million californian was out a Retirement Plan will have a choice of a safety net. When on Social Security and that is all they have, its about 1200 a month. That is what they live on. So we want people to have an additional option so they can supplement their Social Security. Now, workers can opt out. The law is schedule toed take affect in january but some say it will likely be in 2018. Technology may have been able to prevent this mornings deadly train crash in new jersey. Which agencies already use these systems, and which say they cant afford it. Big changes are coming up to a ballot box near you. Why your neighborhood polling place can be a thing of the past. Celebrating National Coffee day. At the new jersey engineer piloted a plane, thomas ghallager, a 29 year employee of the agency. Authorities say the train was going 30 Miles Per Hour when it crashed into the end of a platt form at the Hoboken Terminal. The woman who died was standing on the platform when was hit by debris. There are systems designed to keep a hobokentype crash from happening. Most trains have them. Reporter passengers at the cal train station in San Francisco had hoboken on their minds as they boarded trains this afternoon. People going on the train didnt expect that to happen but it did and its sad and horrific. I heard people in the first car were more injured, so i purposely sat in the back this morning. Cal train says its system is similar to the one in hoboken. So a crash this means reexamination here. Any time an unfortunate situation like this happens were always going back and looking at our protocols. One safety measure is a high tech system called positive train controls. Is sensors linked by computer that can slow, or stop a speeding train if the operator cant. It is in the testing phase and were hoping to have it operational by end of 017. The agency had trouble coming up with a cost to the project. The federal government is giving cal train more time. Controls have been in place for a decade. Counts the axels within a subway and spaces out the vehicles throughout the metro so it doesnt get too close. Bart had an auto mated system and cal train rider says. This is one of the safest methods of transportation. One rider said a little prayer before he boarded. We learned an off Duty Police Officer died today on his way to work. You can see the crash backed up traffic. He worked for san pablo Police Department but lived in dixon. We sent out a push alert with the news app when the coroner released this information just minutes ago and you can get the latest news by down loading the free app. At 6 00 today the governor signed into law a bill that would transform the way elections are conducted in california. Counties would be allowed to establish Voting Centers and they can replace polling places and every voter will receive a vote by mail ballot and today, Governor Brown legalized ballot selfies, Marin Assembly man authored this bill that wont apply to upcoming election because it doesnt take affect until january. Tomorrow is the deadline for the governor to sign or veto bills. Today is National Coffee day. Did you know its a holiday . Its National Coffee day but the line looks like this every day. Coffee is an art. He and his son grew the business one cup at a time. Were building culture not just coffee shops. The coffee has its own language. What is your favorite . New manhattan. The size of this should tell you something. They Just Announced a third round of venture capitol. 45 million. Were in los angeles and opened in washington, d. C. Boston is the next market. That means getting more beans from around the world and roasting them just right. 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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was the designated survivor twice in president bill clintons administration. You have the secret service with you. You have a football with you. The communications devices. If it happened you would be at war. It makes you think how quickly the situation could get so bad and how fragile this system is and how fragile the world is. Agencies this worked through this scenario themselves. So they were prepared. Im the guy who walked in with no knowledge of anything. And im supposed to be okay, what do you want to do . When the speech was over, he says the security vanished. Former wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson was picked nine days after september 11th. I was shocked and upset that i was going to be the designated survivor. President george bush addressed a joint session of congress, thompson was holed up in a secret government facility. They wanted to make sure if that happened, government would continue. Now, look at this. Beautiful. Spencer is back with update on the forecast. Its sunny now. Youll see behind me, its going to be sunny tomorrow, high temperatures from 50s on the coast to 60s around the bay and low 70s inland. A cool, pleasant day and rain coming our way sunday. And i do mean a lot. We expect a few hundredths of an inch in the north bay. Here is the accuweather forecast. The system coming in on sunday ranks number one on our storm impact scale, then, next week well have a little bit of i warm up. First, five days of cooler than average temperatures. Lovely. And looks good for giants game tonight right sf. It does. Indeed. That takes us to larry beil. Im not sure if theyre going to be designated survivors but well see. Giants playing for their playoff lives. What happens when pro golfers at the ryder cup invite a good evening, everyone, four games left in regular season, a threeteam fight for two wild card spots. San francisco does control their own destiny. But with a series coming up this weekend, tonights game against the rockies is more important. Johnny quato, here is johnny. Hes 175 this season, and is going to face john gray. He took a long bull pen session on tuesday. Giants need him to deliver tonight. Johnny says hes good to go. He says he didnt feel anything and is good to go. No restrictions on him. So its not like he missed time. And like i said, i took a pen, hes all set. The cardinals came into tonights game one game back of the giants for a second wild card spot facing dan straly in the reds. Yadier molina, another homer, right now it is 32 cardinals in the 8th inning. Do you know how some of us avoid going to the doctor because we dont want to hear a bad dyingnessis . That supposedly happened with dez bryant. Bryant has a hairline fracture in his knee and could miss three weeks. He feared an mri might reveal a serious injury. He thought hes going to get bad news on monday morning. And so he, like some of us do at times, avoided it. And he did come in and take care of his business. His response was not the right one. It was understandable given his responsibility and everything he puts into this. Hes an emotional person and didnt handle it the right way. The warriors started Training Camp tuesday. Theyre going to play saturday in vancouver. One of the challenges for kevin durant is figuring out how much am i going to shoot here . Warriors telling them launch it and kd says some nights mate be 25 shots, other nights, maybe seven. Warriors will have to figure out how to share the ball game by game. Its third day of camp, you know . Weve got a game here that is crazy. Its a long season. You know . Right now were just trying to keep getting better. Hockey season right around the corner. Sharks started preseason games on tuesday. The regular season begins october 12th. Team teal hopes to make it back to stanley cup final was a better result this time. But in the last 15 years only two teams have made it to the finals in consecutive seasons. San jess yeah confident theyll make it back. Weve been there and didnt get what we wanted. We got a better understanding of what it takes to get there. And how much more were going to have to give to give the goals. So its important to have a lot of guys come back and say im hungry and get enough to the start. Dan youre going to love this. Rider cup begins tomorrow, funny moment in minnesota. An american fan named dave johnson was heckling them. They said why dont you come on down and make the putt . 15 footer, draino. They put 100 down and said there it is. That is yours. That is nice. Its an easy game, isnt it . Yes. If youre going to heckle. Thanks larry. Join us tonight at 9 00 on coffee tv 20. Coming up a robot that can climb fences what the inventor is planning to do with it, at 9 00. Then at 11 00 the search for a man who boarded an east bay bus. Tonight, police say he may be able to help them with an unsolved crime that left a woman injured. On abc7 at 8 00, greys anatomy, and stay with us for abc7 news at 11 00. That is going to do it for this edition of abc7 news. Look for breaking news on twitter. From all of us here, well see you again at 9 00 and 11 00