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383 bound for miami developed a mechanical problem on takeoff. 161 passengers and nine crew members used the emergency slides to exit the plane, and they were taken back to the terminal, but you can see on the cell phone video, these just terrifying. Several injuries have been reported, and more of the cell phone video here from inside the plane as passengers scramble to get off. Some apparently were getting yelled at because they tried to grab their carryon bags off the plane. Oh, my god. Go, go, go, go. Jump and slide. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Slide. The faa says the boeing 767 blew a tire and that damaged an engine. Another incident now. A fedex plane exploded shortly after landing in Fort Lauderdale today. Investigators said the landing gear collapsed and that caused this fire, and listen to the crowd there observing. It spread to the planes fuel tank which led to the big explosion. Firefighters hosed it down with flame retardant so they put out the fire, and both pilots were able to make it out safely. Here in the bay area, it was a traffic nightmare for commuters in San Francisco today. Three hours now that ive been in my car. Bumper to bumper and this guy is not moving. Never seen this type of traffic. Yeah. For some it took hours just to get to the bay bridge, and it wasnt just people trying to get in or out of the city. Take a live look now from sky 7 where the evening commute is just getting under way. North natalie though, you do see cars moving along. Yeah. Thats pretty actually mild right there, although you can see the city streets. Street traffic. Still a problem in some areas, and its all because of this, a big rig crash just before 5 00 a. M. Blocked three lanes on the lower deck of the bay bridge. It affected anybody who was anywhere near the approaches to the bridge. Abc 7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez with more in the financial traffic with more on a traffic jamp epic proportions. At least traffic is moving behind you, lyanne. Reporter well, as you can see, what a difference really. Earlier i tweeted wte. Basically worst traffic ever and people were affected coming into San Francisco, leaving San Francisco or just staying around. Now, we knew we would be in trouble when nearly half of the people from abc 7 news called in to say they were going to be late to work. This accident on the lower deck of the bay bridge had a Ripple Effect on most of the bay area. Ive been through like maybe this is now my sixth stop, right here right now. Its ridiculous right now. Reporter it took this truck driver 30 minutes to move one block. I ended up wiggling my way down here. Reporter george lives in the glen park neighborhood, typically a 30minute drive to downtown. From glen park to second or little and green, it was like about two and a half hours. Reporter this alameda resident had been in her car for three hours when he found her trying to cope with the traffic. Im trying to be very zen about it . Breathe in. Breathe in, breathe out. Thats what im doing reporter big rig spilled fuel on the pavement forcing the closure of four lanes. The driver is okay and the impact as reported was almost immediate. This really has spilled over on to northbound 101. The on ramp at first and harrison was closed, and the bay bridge was reduced to one lane at one point. Thats really intensified traffic on San Francisco streets. Reporter the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency typically has parking control officers at three to four on ramps during commute hours. This morning they had 25 officers directing traffic, but by then the damage had been done, unless you launched a preemptive strike. Never. Never in driving. Always b. A. R. T. Three stops. Real easy. Reporter many more wished they had done the same. In San Francisco, ly rah nne melendez, abc 7 news. And many took to social media to complain and gripe about their experiences today. Yeah. They do. Abc 7 news anchor krints y stens here to tell us what people were talking about. We saw tweets of people sharing ridiculous drive time. Like mr. Hughes, two and a half ride from concord to San Francisco. We also saw tweets from people stuck on the streets of San Francisco. This one at lou and howard and get a look at this. Drivers crawling past the accident scene once they finally got on the bay bridge. Ill roll the video shot there. We also see people like becca griping about other drivers, just kind of throwing traffic laws to the wind. She asked this guy right there, why are you in the middle of two lanes, buster . Today we had traffic gridlock in San Francisco. The one good thing is no lines at the food trucks, and you dont find that very frequently. From somewhere around third street and 17th. It took about one hour and ten minutes just to get here. Reporter and whats normal . About 15 minutes. Reporter the only ones who didnt seem to mind the gridlock were the canine commuters. Abc 7 news producer Eric Shackelford live tweeted his experience getting from the exploratorium and bay bridge. Never a good sign when multiple people get out of their cars and drivers trying to turn around from the right lane and they helped him get through and this gif pretty much sums it up. Ama . All right. Kristen, thank you. Lets take a live look from sky 7 again over San Francisco as people try to head out of town on this friday with all the traffic trouble spots that weve had all day because, you know, adding to the traffic misery this morning there was also a big rig that caught fire on eastbound 92 in san mateo east of 101. The cab and the front of the truck were engulfed in flames. Sky 7 was overhead as First Responders got to the blaze. Traffic was backed up to highway 101 as firefighters put out the fire and cleared fuel from the roadway. Multipat lanes were closed for about three hours. The road was finally cleared just before 1 30. And turning now to the weather. Its still raining a bit across the bay area, and can you see the drops on the lens from the mt. Tam camera. In concord the rain didnt keep everyone indoors. A few people ventured outdoors for a trip downtown and a very different scene in the central valley. Look at this. This is from modesto. Can you see the water as high as car doors after the rain came down too quickly and just too heavy. We do have team coverage. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman is in the north bay and we begin though with Spencer Christian. And a look at the forecast. Ama is so excited she just wants to keep going. This is exciting weather. I dont blame here. Live doppler 7. You can see the weather is calming down a little bit. A few little scattered pockets of very light shower activity, and lets take a look at our storm totals. It has been really wet the last 24 hours and uniformly wet. Ranging totals anywhere from. 8 of an inch and well north of an inch at santa rosa and mt. St. Helena. Where do we stand for rainfall so far this month of october . Doing well, hover 450 in livermore and were off to a good start, lets put it the that way. Look at the forecast animation starting at 6 00 this evening. Though we see the current showers tapering off and giving us a little bit of a break late tonight, there is another storm coming our way that will begin pushing into the area tomorrow so the weekend is, yeah, shaping up to be at least partly wet. Ill give you a closer look at that in just a moment. Larry . All right. Thank you, spencer, and a reminder you can get updated Weather Information on the abc 7 news app, and can you see heres what i like. You can scroll across the top here, and you can see hour by hour whats going to happen in the forecast, like we have the projection of rain beginning in the city at 6 00 and then it tapers off a little bit, and you can see it coming back at 10 00. Weather is the top story on the app right now along with the plane crash, well, not crash, but explosion at ohare. You can monitor live doppler 7 on the news app and get weather alerts and be sure to enable the push alerts to get the latest breaking news on your phone or tablet. Wet roads caused problems for drivers in the north bay. This accident caused a power outage after a truck slammed into a power pole on the silverado trail in napa county. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman is live in larksboro where the evening commute is just getting under way. Wayne . And thus far the commute is going along just fine. A lot of people were trying to get out of the city early because of all of the traffic and they may be taking an alternate route and thus far a lucky drive getting out of the workman bridge. Its okay. Marin county has had rain today and 2 inches for the weekend, and if youre wondering how that totals for a normal year, 260 of the normal amount for this time of the year. Thats a lot. Here comes the drip. There are countless drips in marin county which will spend much of today in a cloud, not a vicious or mean cloud but after a week like this a cloud that becomes a persistent unexpected early arriving guest. Is it supposed to rain this early in the year . No. Reporter nor are our streams to begin trickling our our reservoirs to appear so full already or our automobiles so dirty or our halloween decorations so wet. You worried about hall sfwheen. Worried about it . Reporter well, rain is a possibility. This is nothing. This is nothing. Reporter is this an anomaly or maybe a precursor of the winter to come, a drop at a time, a storm at a time. In marin county, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. Meanwhile in the south bay, the rain lasted through the night slowing the commute for drivers who were trying to get to work. One woman managed to do this. Oh, my. Car ending up on the wall separating highway 87 and the vta track. Fortunately, she is okay. Once it starts raining, the call volume increases exponentially. We have crash after crash after crash, spinouts and then secondary collisions when a car spins out and then gets hit. This pg e pole caught fire after8kamm and that blew out the transformers. If you look closely there you can see the small flames still visit iible. A remainder, rads are likely to stay wet in fact throughout weekend probably so be careful when youre heading home or heading anywhere for that matter. Abc 7 news viewers have been sending us their pictures of the stormy weather. Send us your pictures using the abc7now and you may see your photos on the air or online. Coming up at 4 00, just days before the election. Theres an unwelcome email distraction for Hillary Clinton this afternoon that has her campaign blasting the fbi. Also a double standard for San Franciscos sinking skyscraper. One city official says the city new the Millennium Tower site was dangerous and did nothing. And sustainable coffee. The next cup of my mom marnie and then she died life. Of lung cancer. So i have a personal interest in helping prevent smoking. Im tom steyer, the cochair of the yes on 56 campaign. Every year, nearly 17,000 California Kids start smoking. A third of them will die from their addiction. Tobacco taxes reduce youth smoking. Please. Vote yes on prop 56. If we can save even a few lives, its worth it. That sinking 58story Millennium Tower is stirring up more issues in the city of San Francisco. And now city officials are looking at issues with a nearby project that was actually scrapped years ago because it was projected to sink 11 inches. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee joining us live in san frncisco investigation into the sinking skyscraper. Vic . Reporter well, larry, of course this is certainly troubling to supervisor aaron peskin who is trying to get to the bottom of all of this. What happened to the sinking at Millennium Tower . And this revelation, of course, has huge implications. Why was one building approved and the other scrubbed . I mean, how many feet asmart 301 Mission Street . Reporter the committees second hearing is still focused on whether developers himmium partners concealed information about the tilting and sinking from those who bought luxury condos. The 45story high rise on 301 mission is sinking 16 inches and tilting several inches to the northwest. Supervisor Aaron Peskins other target is the Citys Department of building inspections. Did the city agency know about the unexpected settling . If so, when did it know and what did the agency do about it . Peskin asked a range of questions to building inspection officials who said they recently issued two notices of violations on the Millennium Tower which peskin called minor. The supervisor said hes still waiting for the agency to take corrective action and report back on which other buildings in the area are also settling more than expected. Peskin said he had learned that a planned high rise at 80 natoma was scrapped by city inspectors in 2004 when they learned it would sink, some 11 inches. Everybody knew that 301 mission was suffering from all the same technical problems that 80 natoma was suffering from yet at exactly the same time that the city turns down 80 natoma the same set of players actually approve a building with a very Similar Foundation just a few hundred feet away. Then there was this revelation. Interestingly enough some of the geotechnical engineers that were used in that project are the same geotechnical engineers here. Reporter well, the hearing which was held here, of course, at city hall adjourned after about two and a half hours. Three building inspection officials testified. Now, there were some new documents that were released today by the Building Inspection Department of department of building inspection and we will, of course, go through them and well comb through them to see if there are any nuggets to report later on. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Vic, since the story broke in august and then we had the haitian by peskin and they began, have there been any changes of the department of building inspection as to how they deal with developers proposing projects . Reporter well, there was one significant change, one recent significant change, and that is in the past all of the peer reviews were done by a panel which also included a consultant that was hired by the developer and now theres changes that all of the consultants on that panel will be hired by the city and not no consultant from the developers. All right. Well, that would seem to make more sense. Vic, thank you. Moving on, green days bass player is celebrating a major green milestone for coffee lovers. Abc 7 news is in richmond today as the first ever fully compostable organic whole bean coffee bags in those singleserve pods were unveiled at costco. Mike durnt was there and is excited what this means for coffee going forward. He and green day and the front man billie joe armstrong, they own oakland coffee works which is introducing this new compostable coffee packaging. So we put our money down and we said we want to do this. Lets get everybody together and lets launch the first bag. All of our bags are made from corn starches and plantbased plastics, bioplastics for now the sustainable coffee is available at some bay area Costco Stores as well as on amazon. Abc 7 News Reporter Jonathan Bloom was there today. Hell have much more on this coming up tonight at 6 00. Wow. All right. We want to talk about our weather because, wow, what an impact we have had. Storms, Spencer Christian. Its been quite stormy the last couple of days and more storms coming our way. A little bit lighter though over the weekend and into early next week. Into quite a rainy period. Live doppler 7 and at the moment conditions are relatively calm. We just have a few widely scattered area of very light showers so mainly dry at the moment but we may not remain that way very long. Check out the view of dramatic western sky from our emoriville camera. Currently 65 degrees here in San Francisco. 69 across the bay at oakland and low 70s in Mountain View and san jose and 69 at gilroy and 63 at half moon bay. This is a much milder view of clouds over sfo. Current temperature readings right now of 60 in santa rosa and mid to upper 60s at napa, novato, fairfield and livermore and clouds over the Golden Gate Bridge and it appears to be dry. Well see scattered showers overnight. Our next storm arrives tomorrow evening and well have showers and periods of rain from that storm through sunday. Maybe even some gusty winds as well. Right now were looking at overnight conditions. Again, spotty scattered showers will push through the area. It wont be weather where. Overnight lows will be mainly in the upper 50s. Okay. Heres the storm impact scale and we rank the intensity from 1 which is light to 5 which is severe and the approaching storm ranks 1 on the impact scale. Heaviest rain will be sunday morning accompanied by winds gusting 15 to 35 Miles Per Hour at times and the highest rainfall totals in the north bay. Animation starting at 7 00 tomorrow morning. Well see whatever scattered showers are break up and becoming even more widely scattered going into Late Afternoon and early evening and then tomorrow night well see a wave of steady light to moderate rain pushing into the north bay and by late tomorrow night or early sunday morning, 6 0