Oakland and out to fairfield. 40s and 50s on the temps with a blustery day on the peninsula and mid50s for everybody. Woodside 51 and 57 over to fremont with mostly sunny skies and breezy to windy at times with a cooler pattern the next couple of days and we will see temperatures holding where they are today into friday and then by the weekend we will see warmer patterns. 60s and low 70s. Sal is here and what do you focus on first . The east bay commute. We went on the air at 4 00 a. M. And it was wet in some areas but now it has dried off in some spots. As steve said, the wet weather has moved out and it may be damp but it did kind of miss the morning commute and that is good for us. If you are driving on the east bay commute, 580 at the tracy triangle is very, very slow because of earlier crashes and we also had slow traffic on vasco road because of an earlier grass fire near Camino Diablo with the fire out now but it did damage with traffic on 280 and san jose slow. Its better than yesterday, anyway. Some wet weather, it was really wet. Now, it seems to be drying off. 7 02 and back to the desk. Many in the bay area have never been through an earthquake that is a magnitude 6. 9 but that is how big the loma prieta quake was 30 years ago today. I remember it. I bet you do. Greg, you got a chance to experience a simulation of an event in San Francisco . Reporter right now, im at the Civic Center Plaza and im actually in an earth quake simulator. I was in the loma prieta earthquake, a 6. 9. 30 years ago, i dont remember what it felt like but a short time ago, i got a reminder of what that experience was like. The shaking that i just went through last as six sevenths of a second and was very close to loma prieta, which did widespread damage. It was more damaging and the message as we come back live is to prepare for the next big one and if i did what the experts recommend during the demonstration, i would have dropped to the ground and covered my head and grabbed onto something. Thats what the experts recommend you do during an earthquake. To learn about that and a host of other things, come to the Civic Center Plaza and the experts will be here until 9 00 this morning and thats the latest from here. Back to you. Later this morning, governor gavin newsom will be in oakland to launch the earthquake alert system that will be the first statewide Early Warning system. Starting today, warnings will be pushed through a Smartphone App called my shake as well as the same system issuing amber alerts and it detects the start of an earthquake and cannot predict one but when it starts, alerts will be sent to areas where shaking is likely to happen more magnitude 4. 5 or greater and we hope you will stay with us because we bring the ktvu special called quake country and you will see that on ktvu after the thursday night football sports wrap. The investigation of the explosions and fires at the Nustar Petroleum plant in crockett. Surveillance videos and files are trying to figure out what caused it all with cleanup trucks still there vacuuming up the safety foam dumped on the ethanol storage tanks that burst into flames. Cal osha will interview employees and check safety and maintenance records. It may include sending some materials and pipes, etc. , to specialists for information on exactly what occurred. Investigators want to know whether the fires connected to mondays magnitude 4. 5 quake near Pleasant Hill and they dont expect a jump in gasoline prices because this facility Stores Facility stores fuel, does not produce it. Facebook seo Mark Zuckerberg will outline what he describes as the most comprehensive take on the subject of freedom of speech and expression on a Facebook Live report. He will explain why he believes giving the voice to people goes handinhand with bringing them together. He will discuss free speech and major threats against free expression. You can see the address by going to the web link section of ktvu. Com and it starts at 10 00 this morning. Salesforce co marc benioff criticizes facebook and he said its time for them to be broken up. In an interview with cnn, he called facebook the new cigarette because its addictive and he accused facebook of going after children and running political ads that were not true. Benioff is concerned about how they collect data. Next week, striking Santa Clara County voters will vote on what the county said is the best and final Contract Offer and the latest includes pay raises of 2 over five years and removes requirements for employees to contribute to the Health Care Coverage but some say the latest offer does not go far enough. We want to live here and survive without having to super commute or work two jobs or be homeless. We want to be able to live and serve our community. Those workers plan to vote on the offer october 22. Its 7 06 and people in oakland are living in vehicles and it is rising. According to them, the population of People Living in cars, vans and rvs more than doubled over the last two years to more than 1400 and they represent 35 of the oakland Homeless Population. To help with the homeless crisis, they plan to open two more in the coming months. San franciscos project homeless connect celebrated a Community Day with a special appearance from governor newsom. People gathered at the bill graham auditorium to take advantage of resources including haircuts, dental work and medical care and even job counseling. The expo Style Service day began when gavin newsom was mayor of San Francisco. The overwhelming majority of folks on the streets for years are in deep medical need. Mental health, physical health many are selfmedicating. You cant sugarcoat that. I know stats come out saying roughly one third of people are struggling and i think that is wildly underestimated. It could take the Homeless People 20 hours a week for things that could be provided at the day of service in that Program Inspired more than 250 other cities to adopt a similar model. New this morning, longtime congressman, Elijah Cummings of maryland, has died at the age of 68. He died from a variety of Health Problems at johns hopkins. Congressman cummings was chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and was a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Cummings was first elected to congress in 1996. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the flags of the u. S. Capitol to be flown at half staff due to the passing of congressman cummings. President donald trump took to twitter and said, quote, my warmest condolences to the family and many friends of congressman Elijah Cummings. I got to see firsthand the strength, passion and wisdom of this highly respected political leader. His work and voice on so many fronts will be hard, if not impossible, to replace. What a story to hear when you wake up in the morning. Another u. S. City is banning facial recognition. Coming up, why the city of berkeley said it is against the technology and other cities have already passed a similar ban. Fighting against drunk drivers. A new bill that would require all new vehicles to have alcohol detectors and who is behind the push for these devices . Yes. We have a morning commute getting a little slower with the weather on our side. Some of the rain has moved out and coming up, another look at the traffic and weather when mornings on 2 continues. There are those who will say that youre too fat. Too skinny. Too hard. Too soft. Too old. Too much. Too unexpected. Too limited. And to them we say too bad. Because at kaiser permanente, we believe that everyone deserves the right to thrive. Welcome back to mornings on 2 in the time is 7 12 with Ambassador Gordon Sondland scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the impeachment probe of President Trump. A former state department adviser, michael mckinley, told investigators he resigned last week do in part to the trump administrations dealings with ukraine. Mckinley reportedly said he was, quote, disturbed by the implication that foreign governments were approached to procure negative information on political opponents. Meetings between Vice President mike pence and the president of turkey are under way this morning. The Vice President and secretary of state, mike pompeo, are in turkey to pressure their country into a ceasefire. In a letter last week, President Donald Trump threatened sanctions and tariffs if turkey does not stop the incursion into syria. The turkish president reportedly threw the letter in the trash and made haste to fight that the syria effort will go on. [ sound of gunfire ] humanitarian groups are scrambling in syria trying to provide aid to hundreds of thousands that have been displaced and turkey is making a new push into key border towns where kurdish groups and Syrian Forces are trying to fight off or hold back the invasion. The new fighting comes as a region already faces a crisis with more than 1. 6 Million People already depending on humanitarian aid. Vice president mike pences trip to that region comes as tensions really flared yesterday during a briefing at the white house on syria between President Donald Trump and top lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Trump appeared shaken on pelosi said he had a meltdown after the house passed a measure condemning President Donald Trumps decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from northern syria. Whats really sad about it and i pray for the president all the time, his safety and that of his family, but now we have to pray for his health because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president. President donald trump later posted a photo on twitter showing Speaker Pelosi pointing her finger and accused her of having a meltdown. Pelosi later took that photo and made her cover photo on twitter. The november elections are weeks away, now in this monday, october 21 is the final day to register for the election next month and the state assessor and some elected officials are holding an event at noon today right in front of the San Francisco city hall to try to get people to register before the deadline. Voters in marin county will have the final say on the sales tax extension and they approved it for the march ballot. The current sales tax expires in 2010 he nine and they spent much of the time yesterday finalizing details of a spending plan and wording for the ballot and called for a Discount Program to win over voters and cloverdale, healdsburg and windsor. Contra costa county is testing out a shuttle that can carry eight passengers at 25 milesanhour and its being tested at the former Naval Weapons Station in concord. They want to see how it handles pedestrians and other vehicles on the road. Theyre looking for a safe electric driverless shuttle made in the u. S. A bipartisan bill moves through congress that would require ignition interlocks on new vehicles to crack down on drunk driving. Its supported by mothers against drunk driving and some people convicted of dui have to install a breathalyzer device that they have to pass or the car wont start and researchers have been testing these devices in maryland and virginia to provide a reading of the drivers bloodalcohol level after they get behind the wheel and supporters hope it will be as common as an airbag in a car. Lets get you out the door, 7 16. Traffic trouble . You are absolutely right. The Richmond Bridge, no traffic trouble but slower everywhere you look and weve been looking at some commutes for you and obviously, the eastshore freeway. 34 minutes isnt raising red flags but that is about what it should be. 35 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur bays and if you add the beautiful golden gate bridge, it was supposed to come after this. The bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for a 20 minute delay and in the east bay, the traffic is slow and the tracy triangle had an earlier crash with slow traffic on southbound 680 after stone ridge and driving south, a big backup and 880 is slow heading south. 7 17 and lets go to steve for the forecast. Light rain overnight and most of it is gone. A couple of one hundredths in san jose and in crockett by the carquinez bridge, looking good and then it will end up with beautiful donesha with the clearing taking place and clouds around the backside as we see the breeze picked up. Keith, thank you. Northeast, a noreaster. 90 milesperhour throughout much of massachusetts and the northeast. Gusting to 90 with a heck of a system and the yankees and the astros will play but it will be cold and windy. 42 in pittsburg and the wind will be a huge factor along with very, very cool temperatures. A calm 44 in rohnert park with clouds and some of it did make it to the south. 51 in redwood estates. Cooler weather. A weak system came by and theres not much left, point zero two, as we talked about and the wind is picking up and even more so with stronger gusting out of the northwest with the airflow and the direction everything is leading. Cooler than normal, 60s and 70s on the temps that wont change much. The average is 69 and the record low is 47 way back in 1892. The strong systems in the gulf of alaska are generating swells 1020 feet to danden to friday with a hyphen midlevel clouds giving a very fall like appearance and moving off with his system falling apart as it moves south. It produced a light rain in this year in looks like there is some high elevation snow and rain mixed with west at fairfield, and novato more northwest. West at concord and picking up for Half Moon Bay and san jose. 40s and 50s on the temps and probably wont drop much more than where we are now. 52 in el cerrito, 56 in richmond and 56 in clayton and pleasanton. Mostly sunny, breezy and windy with drizzle over with for us and there might be some well to the south but not much in the wind is picking up in the santa cruz mountains. Sunny and windy with 60s and 70s on the temp. Should be warmer but we wont see that until sunday and monday. 7 20 and many bay area businesses took a financial hit during the pg e power shut off. What they are saying about reimbursing customers. One bay area restaurant is considering taking pg e to court. Convicted Killer Jodi Arias make it a chance at freedom after being charged with murdering her ex boyfriend. 7 23 and lowers for convicted murderer, jodi arias, will appeal her murder conviction in the 2008 death of her former boyfriend. Her lawyers say that there was a prosecutors misconduct and a judge failed to control News Coverage and that deprived her from a fair trial. They said overwhelming evidence should outweigh mistakes made during the trial. She will not be in the courtroom and is in prison serving a life sentence. A mother from menlo park was sentenced to three weeks in prison in connection with the College Admissions scandal. She pleaded guilty and admitted to paying 15,000 to have her sons a. C. T. Test corrected in 2017 and prosecutors accused her of lying about College Applications to increase chances of being admitted. A new report by the council on islamic American Relations shows bullying of Muslim Students in california is down but still much higher than the national average. They show bullying toward Muslim Students dropped from 52 in 2017 to 40 this year and the numbers are down but the study still shows it is twice the national average. We believe the rates and numbers we see are a result of hateful rhetoric funneled by the trump administration. They said there are laws to protect muslims and targeted groups from bullying. Mayor london breed said the city is no longer doing business with restrictive abortion policy states. It bars City Employees from traveling on statefunded trips to those states and from contracting and states that have headquarters there. Mayor breed said its sending a message to states that disregard the right of abortion. A 500 tower has work suspended, a large construction project. The building is located south of market admission and first across from Salesforce Tower and they are reportedly studying ways to lower the construction costs. Work is continuing on the taller tower and the building is meant to House Offices and condos and one complete, it will be the second tallest building in San Francisco, after the Salesforce Tower and will open in four years. Time is running out for wildfire survivors to file a claim against pg e. Cal