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KGO ABC7 News 400PM September 28, 2016

Disheartening. Sometimes enough is enough. Reporter california treasurer john chung is accusing wells fargo of wanton greed for opening over 2 million fake Bank Accounts for customers. As punishment for one year, the state will no longer use wells fargo for buying investments or underwriting bonds and will not invest in the banks securities. How can my office continue to entrust the publics money to an organization which has shown such little regard for legions of californians to have placed their Financial Wellbeing in its care . Reporter state Officials Say the impact could be 500 million or more. Chung thinks it will also be a blow to the San Franciscobased banks reputation. If they have to get down to their knees maybe a little again next, a little prayer would help them. Reporter wells released a statement saying in part we certainly understand the concerns that have been raised. We are very sorry and take full responsibility for the incidents in our retail bank. Customers praised the states action. Corporations need to be held accountable. Its horrible that they would even do that to any of their customers. Reporter if wells fargo doesnt clean up its act chung says the states breakup with the bank could become permanent. In San Francisco, Carolyn Tyler, abc 7 news. You can see the letter from the state treasurer and a look at the time line of the account scandal on the abc 7 news app. Download the app and enable push alerts to get the latest developments and breaking news on your phone any time. Well, it has been a gutwrenching three days for families affected by the loma fire which is burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains that. Fire has now burned more than 2,200 acres. Its only 10 contained. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen joins us live with more from morgan hill with the very latest on this fire. Chris . Reporter we just spoke to they estimate more than 1,500 personnel are currently on the Ground Fighting the loma fire. If you take a look behind me, you can see some of the smoke out there and although containment is up over the last 24 hours, the fire itself did spread, and neighbors are doing what they can to support each other. At the first rate coffee house in gilroy owner Connie Thomas cant think firefighters enough for their service. Everybody wants to get together and, you know, do their part. Reporter thomas is part of a volunteer group thats trying to help some of the families who is have been evacuated even offering something as simple as a complementary cup of coffee in their time of need. I just wanted to do what i thought i would want so just donating some coffee and some breakfast, you know, and just letting them know, you know, were going to pray for snow up in the Santa Cruz Mountains temperatures on fire lines are eight degrees cooler today as compared to yesterday. Crews with cal fire will take whatever relief they can get. The drought has affect all this vegetation. It is so dry that its just like a tinder box up in there. Reporter firefighters are currently work around the clock shifts with personnel from throughout the state this. View from sky 7 shows some of the tricky terrain on loma prieta that crews are dealing with. They are having access issues to get equipment in. Would you think that you could dry a dozer in and make a road. Its not that simple. There are certain areas a dozer cannot work so thats where we bring in the hand crews. And as firefighters continue pressing on, evacuees are counting their blessings. Reporter just a restless night worrying about whether or not you still have a house to go back, to you know. I mean, my heart was hurting. I know my husbands heart was hurting. Many so grateful they made it out alive. Reporter and we expect to get another update from cal fire later tonight. So far the fire has burned at least 2,200 acres. Containment is currently at 10 with more crews expected to arrive in the coming days. Were live in morgan him im chris nguyen, abc 7 news. Thank you, chris. At least one South Bay School district is being proactive when it comes to smoke from the fire. San jose unified School District is recommending principals keep its students indoors during pe class, recess and lunchtime. Weve got some changing weather which is good news and bad news for firefighters. Really is. Spencer christian is here with a look at whats going on. Starting with the good news. Live doppler 7 shows the cooling fog is back at the coast and the dropping temperatures hurting the Fire Fighting effort. Let me take you down to the area of the loma fire. Good news. Temperatures are dropping and its much cooler than it was when the fire strikes. Humidity rising up to 31 right now. The challenging news is winds are occasionally gusty up to 10 Miles Per Hour right now and the gusts do make the Fire Fighting effort a bit more difficult. As we take a look at the temperature trend for the week ahead in the area of the loma fire, its going to continue cooling down over the weekend. Sunday will be quite cool with a high of only 61 degrees. That, of course, is very helpful to the Fire Fighting effort and its cooling down. Notice the 24hour temperature change. 17 degrees cooler than at this hour yesterday. Both san jose and oakland and much cooler in every other location as well. Keep up with all the changes and hit the latest updates and advisories and alerts with the abc 7 news app and ill have a little bit more later. Ama . Spencer, thank you. Crews fighting the sawmill fire are making progress. Cal fire reports the fire is now 85 contained, up from 75 early this morning the fire has burned 1,500 acres since it broke out sunday morning ten miles east of cloverda cloverdale. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Now to petaluma where a grass fire ripped through a neighborhood yesterday afternoon. We brought you extensive live coverage on the news at 4 00 and today people are picking through the ashes. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollifield talked with some. Residents. Reporter with heavy hearts fire victims on stuart drive and petaluma are processing what they suffered through and figuring out what to do next. I guess were going to start cleaning eventually and check on my neighbors, pick it up from there. Ive never been in a fire. Reporter as they look into how to clean up, neighbors are also still sharing stories of what they experienced yesterday afternoon. I stepped right out here, and when i looked, there was so much smoke and just embers like falling, you know, like as if you were in a volcanic eruption. Reporter rochelle knew she needed to get out of there, but first she thought of her elderly neighbor who lives alone. And i ran hover there and burnt my feet the whole time trying to get there and when i got inside she was so scared and worried. Reporter she got her out okay. Two people did suffer minor injuries and a cat died in the fire. Four homes were destroyed. Ten others were damaged. It started at 3 15 in some trees located between high what 101 and a row of homes. The homes were evacuated. The northbound side of the highway was shut down for a couple of hours. Today fire victims are mourning what they lost but also thinking about what could have been. You cant be too sad about it because you didnt lose people didnt die. I didnt lose the entire house. Its not as bad as it could have been. Reporter residents want to know what started the fire. They are wondering if something from the highway sparked it. Firefighters telling us its still under investigation. In petaluma, Amy Hollifield. Abc 7 news. The suspected teenage shooter at a South Carolina Elementary School is now in custody. Authorities say the teen injured two children and a teacher at the school in townville. 135 miles west of colombia. The victims are expected to survive. Authorities say before the teenager first killed his father at their home before opening fire at the school. In washington, lawmakers voted to overturn the president s veto of legislation that would allow families of those killed in the september 11th attacks to sue saudi arabia. There are claims that the saudis backed the attackers. Now the vote was the First Successful override of mr. Obamas president sicht he and his allies vowed to find a way to scale back the legislation fearing that this would open u. S. Residents and companies to be sued by foreign interests. Officials in fresno are investigating how two special Needs Children ingested bleach through their feeding tubes. The children were hospitalized after last weeks incident at an Elementary School. Both are expected to be okay. The school isnt saying how the water solution with bleach came into contact with the feeding tubes, only that it was an accident. The suspect at the center of a bizarre vallejo kidnapping case is set to appear in federal court tomorrow, and prosecutors are saying that Matthew Muller will change his plea now to guilty. Mullers attorney tells abc 7 news that federal prosecutors will no longer be seeking a life sentence and instead will seek a 40year prison term for the suspect. Muller is charged with kidnapping Denise Huskins last year. Vallejo Police Originally dismissed her story as a hoax. Huskins has since filed a civil lawsuit against the city. Check out this Surveillance Video of a home burglary in san jose. It happened on windsor street on august 24th. A man was caught covering his face and then later wasnt so cautious. Look at him there. Police say he broke a window to get into the house hand left in a jewelry box. San franciscos board of supervisors have voted to delay nearly 7 million of funding for the next phase of the Transbay Center project. Phase two includes building an underground rail extension from the current station south of market to the new Transbay Center. The extension would be used by caltrain and the future california high speed rail system and the board is concerned about cost overruns as well as the adjacent Millennium Tower which is sinking and mayor ed lee backs the delay. It doesnt hurt us right now. What we need to do is focus on the engineering techniques, focus on the things that were doing now to make sure were doing our best. The Transbay Joint Powers Authority tells the examiner postponement of funding could jeopardize the project. The board will discuss the funding issue at a meeting scheduled for next month. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00, a Deadly Police shooting sparks protest in southern california. Plus, cracking down on car thieves, how a lit cigarette smoked out one suspect and a bust in the east bay. Also, wrote it off and said im never going to do that. A new chance to do something he loves. The former race car driver who now gets to be the first man in the nation to get an unusual drivers license. The at 4 11, take a look at the afternoon commute here. This is 101 in san jose and southbound as is often the case at this hour is backed up. A little bit of movement in the carpool lanes. Northbound is fine a auto theft sat big problem in oakland and surrounding cities. Aches 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony spent some time with a special task force designed to curb the thieves. Laura joins us now live from oakland. Laura . Hi, dan. Chp is one of several agencies that participates in this special task force, a huge problem especially in Alameda County. More than 8,500 cars stolen so far this year. Many of them chopped up. Combating car theft is the a fulltime job for an alameda count county team helping to recover stolen vehicles. In this case a man wanted for violating his felony parole tried to escape police by running into his own home and starting a fire. We called the Fire Department and the oakland pd loaned us the canine and the smoke and parking drove him out the other end. Sold this pontiac trans am to a 17yearold out of san leandro and it had a stolen transmission into it. Reporter later in east oakland we got a look at recovered property, this time from a suspected auto thief who specializes in gm vehicles and their coveted engines. Just the last few years we Law Enforcement has recovered almost 300 strip camaros alone in the oakland area missing their engine and transmission stolen and found their missing transmissions. The suspect in this case is 35yearold albert murray. Once he steals the engines or other parts of the car he abandons the shell of the vehicle, often on the streets right around his own home. In oakland, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. Commuters in the north bay could soon be traveling on a very quiet smart train. One without cell phones. A new proposal would ban talking on cell phones on the new Train Service between santa rosa and san rafael. Abc 7 news was at the Transit Center in san rafael getting commuter reactions i understand people dont want to listen to other peoples conversations, et cetera, et cetera. However public transportation, probably a good idea. I found out way too many pieces of personal information from other peoples lives list nick to their conversations. Emergency calls would be allowed. Another owner of a smaung 7 galaxy phone purchased in china burst into flames. The phone began smoking and then caught fire while being charged. You can see its charged there. The claim comes after samsung recalled 2. 5 million note 7s after reports of other battery fires and samsung did not include china in this recall because the bayries in phones sold there came from a different supplier. Standing in line may never be the same again. Check this out. Nissan has revealed selfdriving chairs. They are equipped with sensors which allow each one to detect and follow the one in front of it. They are on display in the Public Gallery and the technology is based on the system currently available. I like that. Everybody is going to have a chair. Today happens to be a huge day for selfdriving technology and people with limited mobility. A quadriplegic former rats car driver has become the first in the nation to receive a special kind of drivers license. This is really remarkable. Abc 7 news anchor krinzy is here with the story. Reporter remarkable, incredible and indescribable. What a feeling for sam schmidt. Today he received nevadas first ever Autonomous Vehicle drivers license and immediately took his specially built car for a thrilling ride on a las vegas track. 15 years ago i figured i was done driving on the street forever and now anything is possible. Reporter schmidt was an indy car raers until a violent crash left him paralyzed from the neck down. Hes now a team owner, and this car has put him back in the drivers seat. He breathes into a tube to accelerate and blows out to brake. Cameras track his Head Movement and relay that to the tires for turning. His license comes with a few restrictions. Only vad i had in nevada. There has to be a pilot car ahead and needs a licensed driver ready to take control if needed. Sam is good with all of that and hes also just good period. Listen to to this. When nevadas Lieutenant Governor handed him the license today, and i just want to show you, he says what is happens when i get pulled over and the officer says can i see your hands, what do you think, larry and ama, im sure no officer will ever give him any trouble. Inkreshlgs an amazing story. And imagine the feeling of liberation to be back in a race car again. Incredible. We do have spencer here standing by. Things are changing. They are. Just a couple of days ago, today i heard people saying its too chilly. When is it going to warm up . Had quite a cooldown. Live doppler 7. You can see that the fog is back at the coast and it has brought along with it its usual cooling effect with the marine layer generating that cool air thats pushing well beyond the coastline. Heres the view from mt. Tam looking at the nothing kick out over the bay. Tonight we can expect to hang out overnight and continues into the weekend and theres a chachs showers on sunday and we do have big changes in our weather pattern. Right now temperature readings at 55. Half moon bay 58. 69 at heyward and 75 in san jose. Inland east bay danville 48 and concord 80. 87 up in santa rosa and overnight with the widespread areas of fog near the coast and pay and pushing locally inland, low temperatures will be mainly in the mid50s. Well see a few low 50s in some. Cooler spots up along the coastline. The forecast animation. Overnight you can see the fog drilling in there. 7 00, middle. Morning commute, widespread fog still which will probably reduce visibility to the point that the commute will be a slow one and the fog will pull back to the coastline by late morning to midday giving us mainly sunny skies over inland and bayside areas tomorrow afternoon. Highs will range up frommer 50s at the coast tomorrow to mainly mid and upper 60s to low 70s around the bay and upper 70s to near 80 in the warmest inland locations and looking ahead to friday its going to be even cooler. Windy evening developing on friday, saturday, and a cool afternoon and sunday will be the coolest day in the forecast period with inland highs reaching only in the mid to upper 60s and theres a slight chance of showers on sunday, so let me take you into sunday morning. 7 00, watch the movement here as sho

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