neptune, 125 years ago. that's not all they were watching. >> it's over here, in the northeast direction. >> they noticed the dying research is the was over north america on one of its last laps around the earth. >> overtime the or built slowly degrades. the best example of something like that where we sort of prevented it is the hollow. >> the window of when and where it would crash kept changing as the day went on. >> solar activity has been causing the atmosphere to puff up and settle down again so that changes the amount of air drag that the satellite is experiencing. >> the f. a. a. put out a warning to pilots and crewmembers to be on the lookout for the satellite as it disintegrated back to earth. that didn't phase some people. >> if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. can't stop it. everybody on the ground is going to have the same chance, tanks the upper atmospheric research satellite was carried aboard a shuttle in 1991. it weighed six tons, about the size of a school bus. on its way back to earth n.a.s.a. expected 26 pieces to survive, the largest weighing more than 300 pounds. n.a.s.a. said the odds were one in trevor trillion of it striking a specific person on its way back down, which is why a school board president had no calms about going for a spin with his top down. >> no. i think the probability is probably pretty low that i'm going to actually get hit. but i've got the top down just in case, maybe i can drive under it and let it land in the back. >> abc7 news. in sunyvale police of investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy as a possible homicide. he was found in an apartment yesterday afternoon. a few minutes later police found a derespondent woman on a highway overpass and brought her to to safety. she's connected with the apartment where the boy was found but her reeling ship to the boy is unclear. >> this morning richmond police are asking for help trying to find the driver involved in a hit run and crash that killed a disabled man in a wheelchair. it happened thursday night. lifelong richmond resident david cox was riding his wheelchair when the driver of a black lexus hit him and took off. police believe it may have been an accident, but the investigation continues. friends and family gathered in san jose last night to remember a 60-year-old cindy winn. the mother and talk show host was shot to death a week ago after she was carjacked from a shopping center. we were at the vigil held at the spot near where winn was carjacked. >> it's huge loss to the family and community. >> a sand he will light vigil was held feet from where she was carjacked last friday afternoon. close to 800 people attended the vigil at the shopping center. her murder by the man who carjacked her here after shooting awç man earlier has mod the entire city. >> i'm devastated by this. i think it's heartbreaking. it could have been me, it could have been anybody. >> the vietnamese community has been hit hard. >> this is a sample situation to come and support. we are a very small community, but we are very close. >> this vigil and life celebration wags organized by her employer, nick pham, who said she was more like a sister to him, actually everyone. >> there's known that she did not love. there's known that she did not care about. there's known that she would not just drop everything to do something before before thinking about herself. >> everyone talk about her love of the vietnamese community and real estate show. no one spoke of how she died. >> throughout this and light vigil and celebration of cindy's life there was in the one mention of vengeance or anger against her suspected killer. her son called for kindness, not anger. >> i urge each and every one ever you to not be saddened or angered by the tragedy that has struck her. >> speakers included a host of city officials and san jose police chief, chris moore. he said although murder suspect paul castillo faces fly prison, whose who helped aid him will also answer for the crime. >> in san jose, abc7 news. >> family members of michelle le are honoring her life exactly four months from the day the nursing student disappeared. vigil will take place tuesday night in oakland at the university where she went to school. it comes ten days after a volunteer discovered le's body. she disappeared from a medical center in hayward. her friend is charged with her murder. police are investigating a atm scam. they necessaried a small device attached to an atm machine thursday night and called police. police said the device was set up to record customers' cards and pen snubs. they say it had been recording just over an hour before it was spotted. school officials are still trying to figure out what caused dozens of students to break out in a rash at clifford elementary in redwood city. last week one-third of the kindergartners ended up with a rash that resembled bug bites. after more than a week of cleaning and testing, the source is still a mystery. >> we don't know. we really don't know what -- where the source of the biting or the rash is. >> the classrooms and yard equipment have all been disinfected and testing is being done to determine the source. results are expected in good about a week. all the students are back in school in temporary classrooms. the family of a man who died after being treated in the emergency room of santa rosa memorial hospital is waiting for answers. 49-year-old michael torres of santa rosa was taken to the hospital by ambulance monday afternoon. twelve hours later his body was found leaning against a metal pole in the hospital parking lot. the hospital said it's investigating the case, along with the state department of health and the sonoma county sheriff's office. coming up next, college bake sales with racial overtones. the message they are sending in berkeley on affirmative action. and almeda days proposal to post grades on every restaurant in the c c c c c c c c c c c c c cc starting my progresso soup for 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right along the coast, boy, we are feeling the effects of some big changes that are beginning to tapes across the bay area today. and then we will perhaps see maybe a little bit of rain come our way tomorrow. 58 in redwood city, 56 in san francisco. take a look at the numbers in the higher elevations. 71 in fairfield with 60 in may ward. we are talking 58 in redwood city, with 69 in livermore. so you get the idea that the coast definitely feeling the breezy winds from the marine layer. look at fairfield. a west wind at 20 miles an hour. so that cooler marine air being transported eventually later on today into our inland values valleys. the low clouds at 700 feet right now. we will call it partly cloudy skies. the mist and drizzle at the coast. much cooler starting today and then by tomorrow a cold front wants to slide through the north bay, maybe provides some mist, some drizzle, and a few sprinkles for those areas north of san francisco. so here's a look at our area of low pressure that for the time being brought a threat of showers and thunderstorms to the south of us, around monterey, san benito county that had the dry lightning and lightning strikes with moisture to the south of us. now that is over. we saw a few higher clouds, but right now our live doppler 7 hd shows that santa cruz shows moisture but really nothing going on. things pretty quiet throughout the rest of the day today. but tomorrow our focus shifts to the north and west where an area of low pressure, well, it's getting cranked up here. for this time of year pretty strong of. a well-defined cold front. this wants to edge on through by tomorrow. and with it bring the clouds, definitely the cooler weather, and maybe a few sprinkles. as for today we are talking nice afternoon, but numbers much, much cooler. out of 90s. we are talking 80 campbell, 76 santa clara, as well as soup -- cupertino. 73 redwood city, 75 mountain view. san francisco coming in at 64 with partial afternoon sun. breezy day, though. the fog is going to hang right at the coast. we will see partial sunshine in the city. 76 in novato. look at 80 calistoga. east bay mid-60s, breezy winds, 72 redwood city and what a difference today. it will feel good in redwood city and dublin. lots of fog and cool 066 -- 60s around the bay here. today highs in the mid-70s and mid-80s around the bay and inland. tomorrow a slight chance of showers. looks like the winds are going offshore again monday and tuesday. a quick rebound, a rapid warmup for the early part of the week. >> fall arrived yesterday morning early but it's actually kicking in today. >> it will feel like it, too. >> lisa, thanks a lot. in sports this afternoon, undefeated cal heads to washington to take on the huskers while san jose state looks for their first win of the season against new mexico state at spartan stadium. last night the giants had their playoff hopes all but quashed by the d-backs. highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning. the giants did not want to see the arizona diamondbacks party last night. the goal this weekend was to sweep and keep the d-backs from popping the champagne at national league west champions. giants fans showing their support in the desert. scoreless until the fifth. orlando cabrera showing pop. his first homer of the year as a giant. 1-0, giants. matt cain dominate until the 7th. chris young deep to center field over the head of andres torres. paul goldsmith scores from first and we are tied at is 11. 1-1 in the eighth. sergio romo in. paul, the giant killer, going the other way. huge two-out triple. 3-1, d-backs. aubrey gets him to fly out. d-backs win the national league west. the braves were also victor yeah so the giants are five out in the wildcard chase with five to play. it's virtually impossible. a's in anaheim where jaw mya weeks is sizzling. first career home run a couple days ago. third pitch of the night and that's gone off jered weaver. he's showing some populate here and the a's are victorious, 3-1. bob latasore knew it before he got on the plane. he knew beating st. thomas would be difficult. high school football elite. he came in riding a 28 game win streak. bart huston, one of four spartan turnovers. fred cop taking advantage. huge hole up the middle. 7-0, raiders. they make it 10-0. it's tricky to get back into the game before the half. down the line to receiver andrew buckley to a wide open anthony williams. sneaky. 59 yards, but they missed the p.a.t. so it's 10-6 at the half. all raiders after that. the quarterback anthony loscano, he took a shot. eddie lost his helmet. 30-6 was the final score. the raiders host the jets. aside from winning the game they would like to make sure mark sanchez is not goofing around ordering hot dogs on the sidelines. that's what happened a couple years ago. i would like this relish with that. it was a 38-0 jet route and sanchez was chowing down in the closing moment. >> i don't eat hot dogs during the game. it's not like somebody did. i wasn't here. i hope we can make it more interesting for him so he doesn't have to eat hot dogs. hopefully we can take the mustard and relish and onions and all that and put it away. >> hot dogs among the many items you might see coming from the black hole in oakland from time to time. jets running back with adrian tomlinson, he remembers what happened in 2002 back when he was with the chargers. >> pretty soon they start throwing stuff at us. beer bottles, just everything is thrown at us. we hurry up and got off the field and continued our celebration in the locker room because we didn't want to celebrate on the field. >> the college of san mateoio inducted the first class into the school's hall of fame last night led by john madden. big names have come through that college in the school's 90 year history. former 49 bill ring and long time college and nfl coach ted tolner part of this inaugural class. >> you think about all the athletes and coaches of that been through here through the history of the school and this is the first class. it's a tremendous honor. we got here a little early, we went around and i can't believe how special this place is. i kind of for involvement we went down by the football field and the baseball field. it's spectacular. >> the nfl was able to end it's lockout in time to play all but one preseason game. nba is not going to be that lucky. the league has cancelled 43 preseason games and training camps postponed indefinitely. no surprise, the players and owners aren't even close to a deal. the regular season is supposed to begin on november 1st but most people close to the situation believe we may not see nba hoops until january, if we see them at all. golf,ajchy finding his stroke. jason day by the tree there. lost the handle on the club. he's 6 under, 2 back of scott to finish at be minus 8. a one stroke lead on choi. we have college football this afternoon, lsu versus west virginia, followed by lexus after the game around 8:30. special guest is stanford head coach david shaw in studio. hope you will join us then. have a great weekend. i'm larry beil. >> and the governor signs off on amazon tax. it holds the promise of 10,000 new jobs. and contributing to crime in >> get ready to start paying sales tax for your online purchases. yesterday in san francisco governor brown signed the amazon bill into law. the seattle based company will stop trying overturn the tax law with a referendum. instead it will lobby congress for a national online sales tax in open distribution centers that could lead to 10,000 jobs to california. >> it will bring thousands of jobs in california, hundreds of millions of dollars into the state at the time he we need the money. >> if they fail to arc. other retailers will have to start collecting the tax next september. the governor also signed off on a bill to fund water improvements for the america's cup in 2013. putting america back to work is the topic of conversation when president obama travels to the bay area tomorrow. on monday the governor will hold a town hall meeting in lincoln view. the topic, what else, jobs and economy. president obama will answer questions from a live audience made up of linked-in used and employees. in his weekly address he's focusing on the global economy and strengthening the american education system. >> what this means is if we are serious about building an economy that lasts, an economy where hard work pays off with solid, middle class jobs, we had better be serious about education. we have to pick up our game and raise our standards. >> yesterday the president announced the government will be giving states for flexibility for meeting standards for teaching and learning. it will be up to states, schools and teachers to come up with innovative ways to give children the skills they need to compete for jobs of the future. this morning there's surprising new information bat release of the two uc berkeley graduates from iran. actor sean penn may have been instrumental from getting the hikers free from prison. he met with hugo chavez and pressured to allow the iranians to release the men. sean penn played a behind the scenes roll. meanwhile shane bauer officially engaged in fellow hiker sara shourd. you see him putting the ring on his finishing are he. fattal will be the best man. abc7 laura an none think reports it's more complicated from switching lightbulbs. >> at night time it gets busy here. >> he's the pastor another true vine miniindustries in oakland. it's a place tame during the day but dramatically changes at night with drug deals, prostitution and even murder. >> if they increase the light you can see people. you don't have to come of your car look over your shoulder. >> he blamed it on lack of streetlighting. the few lights that are are here aren't very bright. oakland models it's standards over the dark sky initiative which promotes stargazing over light pollution across the country. a shield is put over a street light to keep the light shining down rather than upward the sky. >> it's nice to see the skies at night but more important are the lights of our young people, the lives of the young people. >> they provide exception necessary high crime area but for the city of oakland the larger issue may be whether brighter lighting is affordable. >> we understand the concerns of various people about crime, and this morning we sent an e-mail to the police department asking them to identify hotspots. once we get the list from the police department, we prepare a cost estimate, and then it's all about money. >> people will do all kinds of stuff in the dark that they won't do in the light. >> advice mayor brook says it's an investment the city has to make. >> if we turn up the lighting in neighbors we would have to pay pg&e. and i say that it's a matter of priorities. we pay when we have to have police to continue to come out. >> a proposal by advice mayor brooks and council member larry read to increase lighting in high crime hotspot goes toward the city's public safety committee in november. laura anthony, abc7 news. >> coming up in a couple minutes, the full forecast but right now a hint of what's to come. >> breezy winds and we are talking mist and drizzle at the coast. elsewhere inland you are talking mild, mid-and upper 60s. just wait. the cooler arrowheaded your way today. there may be some rain tomorrow. the details are next. >> also ahead, a northern california couple who took a roadside produce stand and launched a multimillion-dollar organic revolution. the story coming up. hey guys, what can i get for you? i would like a decaf 360 calories please. and for you? i'll have a triple iced 410 calories please. you want the 40 whipped calories on that? uh, you know what... i'll have this instead. 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101 in livermore. boy we have the gusty winds, the mist and drizzle this morning. heading in to san francisco you will need the wipers because not only is the moisture on the miran beside my also in the city. 6:599 official sunrise. 7:04. boy, does that sound like fog with the early sunset. we are talking about some much cooler arrowheaded our way, but not now. look at hayward, 60. 69 live more. 62 in oakland. that's about the cutoff because you get west of there, san francisco some very breezy winds. even redwood city in the 50s. 55 in novato but we have some mild low 70s by the delta. but you have the breeze that's coming your way as well. west winds up to 20 miles an hour bringing temperatures as much as 20 degrees cooler today in our east bay valley. so we are talking 80s instead of the triple digits. at the airport winds 16 miles an hour. things will ten to get active throughout the day today in terms of cooler air rushing across the bay. partly cloudy, coastal drizzle, much cooler today. tomorrow a cold front is going to slide through the bay area throughout the early morning hours or late morning and that could bring some sprinkles into marin county and points north. this system is just about done influencing our weather. it brought up some clouds from the south at subtropical moisture and dry lightning and rain was falling south around san benito county. the focus shifts to the north and west tomorrow as the cold front edges closer and closer to the bay. we have a pretty good area of low pressure winding up to the north and west of us. you see the clouds associated with the front. it is heading in a southeasterly direction so the tail end of it will drag on through here tomorrow morning. so you notice the clouds and maybe a few raindrops. and after that it looks like a pretty decent day with numbers in the 70s. not really making 80 tomorrow. today 80 in campbell, 76 cupertino. we are looking at low and mid-70s here. a nice afternoon, but, boy, it's big switch from what we were used to all week long. 64 and some partial sun. it will take a while in san francisco today. 64. in the north bay notice we've got a few 80s but you have to go pretty far north up toward cloverdale and clear lake. 77 sonoma with 68 in oakland, and 71 hayward in our inland valleys we are talking just low 80s today. 81 dublin, 82 walnut creek and lots of fog with 65 monterey and 84 gilroy. the accuweather seven-day forecast shows 70s and 80s today. if we didn't have the 90s and 100s last week, that would be pretty nice but we got used to that. it was a prolonged heat wave. tomorrow a few raindrops in the morning in the north bay maybe and a quick warmup with offshore flow and no fog. really on the weekend we are sitting cooler and breezier. >> lisa, thanks a lot. if you have ever eat in one of the reddy made salad in a bag, you owe it to the vision of a carmel valley couple. seven years ago they came up with the idea. they introduce us to the unlikely duo who dared to dream on a monterey county area and created earthbound farms. >> they took a tour and transformed it into an extraordinary journey. adventure began when they decided to take care of these raspberry bushes. the year 1984. the new york natives land in carmel valley. >> we fell in love with growing food spend joying fresh food and breathing fresh air and not living in this concrete jungle. >> in exchange for free rent the goodman's took care of the property. she was a berkeley grad and drew got his degree from santa cruz. somehow spraying the berries with chemicals didn't feel right. >> when we began farming, we were not scared by what we did not know. >> they started growing their food organically and set up a little roadside produce stand called earthbound farm. they were so busy during the week they stored their baby greens in zip lock bags to enjoy at night. >> every night we sat electric eating our or gaining salad and think this is the most amazing product. imagine if you could get this in new york, everybody would buy this. >> it started out slowly with a few local stars in 1986. but the pine nearing product weekly took off. >> in 1993 earthbound farmlanded a contract with costco. it was a deal that transformed local organic farming into big business. earthbound farm is now the largest grower of organic produce in the united states. it supports 150 growers cultivating 37,000 acres of land. the produce stand, although now more elaborate, remains a tribute to the company's humble beginnings. >> i've actually been coming here since they first opened years ago and it was just a little shed. >> there had been challenges along the way. the e. coli outbreak involving bagged spinach in 2006 killed three and sick ended more than 200. the spinach did not come from an earthbound farm grower but it was processed at their san juan plant. they provided us with it video of the facility. since then they have faced stricter regulations. they now test leafy greens before and after the washing process. >> so we have done things like implemented a raw product test and hold program where testing all the raw materials before we process them packaging specifically. >> more than 70% of food markets nationwide carry earthbound products. sales are expected to approach nearly $500 million and my raw has published two cook books celebrating her passion for organic. >> we avoid the use of more than 11.5 million pounds of chemicals every year by farming organically. that's something i feel so good about. >> they also feel good about the new products they are creating to promote healthy eating. they have introduced a new salad line called power meal. >> yes to entrepreneur, yes to innovator, yes to environmentalist, but more so we are just inspired by this idea of organic farming and healthy eating. >> drew and myra good man had no idea more than 25 years ago the raspberries would launch an organic revolution that is still growing. >> abc7 news. >> don't go 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digestive balance. try align to help retain a balanced digestive system. try the #1 gastroenterologist recommended probiotic. align. >> welcome back. earlier we were talking about the golden gate bridge shot. you couldn't really identify the bridge. what we are looking at here is transamerica pyramid. do you see it? no. neither do i. lisa argen will explain why. and it's not david copperfield, it's weather. she's coming up in a couple minutes. dozens of san francisco homeowners are getting stuck with huge repair bills for damage they didn't cause. the city is installing new wireless water meters and sometimes that work causes older, brittle pipes to burst. mears michael finney with the follow-up on the plight of this very angry homeowners. >> diane thought nothing of it when a city contractor showed up to replace her water meter until the knock on her door. >> there was a crack in the pipe. so now there's a leak. >> diane found out the waterline to her house broke during the meter installation. she had no water and since the pipe was on her property, she had to pay for the repairs, $3,000 worth. >> i said i didn't have a leak before. and now i do. so i think you should fix it. and he said, no. >> diane filed a claim with the city, which handed the case off to its contractor, vsi meter services. the contractor directed her back to the city. >> they were kind of playing hot potato. let's see if those guys will take it. let's see if those guys will take it. >> that's when diane got serious. she had her plumbers document all of the repairs and document it on videotape. >> this pipe caused the leak down here. >> john had a similar catastrophe at his san francisco rental home. >> two men were out in front and were making an attempt to replace the water meter. one man put a tool in there and started to turn it, and the other man said, no, no, no, turn it the other way, and what happened, i don't know, other than it busted the type. >> his tenants watched water flowing down the street. >> prior to that gentleman showing up, we didn't see any leakage whatsoever. >> john paid $5,800 for a new pipe and concrete and then filed a claim with the city. again, the city turned over his case to the contractor. >> i think it's unreasonable to say that it's not their fault and that we should stand the entire cost. >> if damage occurred during an install of any meter, there's an evaluation on a case by case basis of what was the cause. >> suzanne of san francisco, public utilities commissions, said pipe breaks are rare. however, there are now 45 reported cases of pipes breaking during installations since the project began in year ago. that's up from 36 cases reported to us in july. but still less than 1% of the 58,000 homes that have received new meters so far. the water department acknowledges that the installations can cause breaks. >> what tends to happen is as you set up the water, it causes a slight ripple or shock in the system. >> vsi meter services would not sit down and talk to us about the breakage problem saying it is our practice not to comment regarding individual claims. we treat claims very seriously and have a well-established process in place to respond to each and every claim. however, the water department says homeowners will have to pay for any damages to a pipe on their property unless the contractor did something wrong. it says pipes tend to burst only if they are in poor condition. >> we have to look at every single case to sea if it's the homeowner's responsibility or the contractor is to the fault. >> how likely are you to get reimbursed if your pipe breaks. >> he was astonished i document it had carefully. >> after she presented her 15 minutes of videotape to vsi, they reimbursed her. however they rejected john's claim. the contractor tells us it's because the leak was already there before the new meet wares installed. >> the pipe break doesn't always mean the city broke a pipe. >> john says it seems too coincidental. >> they came in and it it, it busted. the people are without water and i got a 58 hundred dollars bill. >> the contractor, vsi, has indemnified the city for damages it may cause during the project. once a case is turned over to the private contractor, the puc said it cannot discuss the outcome. the. the puc said people have filed claims and some were paid. if you have a problem with the new meter, let me know about it. go to abc7news.com. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> coming up next, a hands-on experience with nature today. the creepy, crawlly creatures that are a big hit among the kids, who got a preview of animal palooza. 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