School to be threatened with a clown threat and they sent word to parents. It is happening across the country from South Carolina to sacramento. Here is a look at how it is looking in the bay area. There are reports of threats in oakland and schools in oakland, fairfield, and now three schools in antioch that have been threatened on social media with promises of Violent Attacks by clowns. Creepy messages or sightings have been reported in 22 states. Two will schools out of seattle canceled classes. And some students say they are still worried. We have students coming to Fairfield High School saying they are going to kill or kidnap people and specifically actually terrifies me because i have friends. I am freaking out going all over insurance gram and all i see is clowns, clowns, clowns. How does this go worldwide . Because of the clown threats, School Officials are telling parents to be extra vigilant but emphasizing to the kids do not spread threatening rumors and in they do they we can be suspend or expelled. There is in report of a single act of Violence Associated with the threats. Just promises on social media that clowns will be visiting campuses and threatening violence. From antioch i amy hollyfield. Now to hurricane matthew, taking aim at the bahamas this morning after pounding cuba and haiti. Tracking the devastation from the live desk for us. Jessica . Good morning, bahamas are ready format use which is downgraded to category three. But, still packing winds of 125 miles per hour. It has passed over cuba. We are waiting for images from cuba but i can show you the new pictures from haiti this morning where that country was hit hard by matthew. Two people died. There was massive flooding and you can see the kids on the street dealing with the water. Look at that rushing river going through haiti. We have video that shows the flooding on the streets. The country of haiti has not fully recovered from the hurricane in 2010 and this is considered the worst humanitarian disaster since six years ago when they had the devastation from the earthquake. Now they are dealing with this and a massive clean up underway this morning. Mathew heading now for the United States. That is the latest at the live desk. Thank you, jessica. Hurricane warning have been issued from the florida keys, along georgia, the carolinas with the governors in the four states declaring states of emergency. The evacuations began will begin this afternoon in South Carolina the people been stocking you on necessities like food, water, gas, and cash. Many stores are cleaned out at this point with shelves empty. President obama cancel add trip to florida today. Instead he is heading to fema headquarters in washington, dc to check on aid progress. Meteorologist mike nicco is tracking the storm. Mike . Good news. It is not so strong as this time yesterday. Live doppler hd is showing it is still a majority category 3 with winds of 125 miles per hour. It dissipate overnight. It is possible as it traverses the bahamas with 15 storm surge it could get up to a category 4 and hit florida friday morning with 10 of rain and hug the carolina coast through the weekend with 5 to 10 of rain and gusty winds. Mike, thank you. Now, the other big story is the Vice President ial candidates had voices heard in the only v. P. Debate of the entire election season. It was much more spirited than a lot of people expected. A small and bullying leader of russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration. That is stating painful facts, it is not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin. It is an indictment of the weak leadership of Hillary Clinton and president obama. Tim kaine fired back at governor mike pence. That is a very challenging part of the world. We duty have a command neither chief prepared and done it rather than somebody who goes around praising Vladimir Putin as great leader. Let me interrupt. If you watched last night you missed when both were essentially talking over each other for much of the debate and had to be wanted it stop doing that. The question this morning who won . Cnn poll after the debate, 48 said pence was the winner and 42 believe tick pics wjla. Com won. Pence appeared calmer but he constantly dodged questions about donald trump. We were at a view party at soma street food park for the debate most people wented to see fireworks. According to abc7 legal analyst there were plenty of fireworks but neither candidate actually gained an edge. Back and forth was interesting but no knock out punches or no deer in the headlight moment, so this is a draw. You will not have to wait long for another debate. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton go head to head on sunday. That is right here on abc7, with the two candidates for the United States on senate seat will face off, Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez tonight right here. We will stream it live on abc7news. Com and our free abc7 app. If you cannot catch the debate at 7 00 watch a rebroadcast at 1 42 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Very specific. Right here. We have good news, streets are back open at the concord intersection this morning following a water main break. It happened last night at mt. Diablo streets on the plaza. Crews fixed the break. No one in the area is without service. In berkeley crews work to repair a broken water main on university avenue. The water was flowing down the street and 40 homes and businesses have lost water service. The east bay mud said that the crews have been on the scene all night preparing the 12 main which is 80 years old. San Francisco Police reform is on track according to the San Francisco examiner acting chief Toney Chaplin assured a panel that recommendations are in the process, are being implemented or have been put interest miss. Recommendations include everything from body cameras to a useofforce policy. The changes come as the department was recently criticized for having institutional bias, little oversight, and lack of transparency. Firefighters in the east bay are searching for a serial arsonist. 15 small fires have been set in fremont since july. Concentrated in the warm springs district. The majority of the fires have been set overnight, most recently on sunday at 1 30 in the afternoon. We specific to a families would home was nearly burn on friday, and the family said the flames started in the bushing along warm springs boulevard and video to the fence and then and five tall trees in the backyard and the patio and deck. House. Scare me and angers me how someone could do Something Like that. Everyone loves friend. We love fremont and have lived here all our live. Trees and bushes and trash cans and dumpsters all targeted. Firefighters have almost finished their job battling the loma fire in the santa cruz mountains. Cal fire said the fire is 92 contained. All evacuation orders have been lifted much the flames have charred more than 4,400 acres since it broke out last week, 12 homes are destroy the. We discovered the fire may have started in a marijuana grow house. Remember the cooler weather we talked about . Look at that, 4 to 9 degrees cooler in the neighborhoods but napa is 15 degrees cooler and 43 degrees. In San Francisco, we have ocean beach at 52 and Ferry Building is vine and 60 in the financial district and 5 in the mission. Venus and Serena Williams 47 in palo alto, and petaluma is 47. Look at sfo it is clear on the peninsula and no need to worry about flight arrival delays. If you are doing yard work before it is hot watch out for the strong sunshine with a Small Craft Advisory for the bay if you are on the water. If you are exercising cool to mild. Activity plans, and 60s and 70s the next three days and up to the 80s, and then only 70s and 80s for friday to nearly 90 degrees. Those are coming in the forecast and i will have that next, but, if you want to go camp this weekend and looking for, maybe, somthing to take or live in, what do you have . I have a camper shell if you like it. It is in a bad spot you have to dry to the Altamont Pass and pick it up off of 580. So we got to the bottom of this, it is leg us down westbound 580 before you get to north flynn, someones camper shell flew off in the right center lane. C. H. P. Is aware and a unit is on the way to get it cleared. You backed up well into tracy. Everyone else is off to a quiet start and very light volumes at 280 and 17 in san jose. Thank you, San Franciscos sinking Millennium Tower is said to be safe in a major earthquake and some homeowners are not convinced. All the warriors returned to oracle arena and if you missed the preseason game the when i have an asthma attack. I feel like a fish with no water. Learn how to prevent your childs next asthma attack. Because even one attack is one too many. We have new details on San Franciscos sinking skyscraper. The tower is safe despite the foundation settling. The report by the developer flames construction of the transbay terminal and removal of ground water. We watched a ball roll across homeowners unlevel floor last week. He is not convinced that the building is truly safe. It raises serious concern because it talks about possible cracking of the foundation and impending failure of it. Transbay joint Powers Authority said the tower settled before their construction and the city now is asking the developer for solutions to stabilize the building. The girlfriend of as relief pitcher tweet they moving out because they are skeptical about the safety of the building. The warriors made a big splash in the return to oracle arena for a preseason game that had big buzz. They blew out the clippers 120 to 75 making 15, three pointers and fans had a chance to see kevin durant sport the blue and gold and yellow. Here is our reporter, laura anthony. He had them at hello. But the moment he stepped on the court kevin durant was the focus of most everyone inside oracle arena. His debut and fans were more than ready to welcome him. It is hard to believe dead a superstar has come to join two or three other superstars on the team. Really excited to see the new product. Mr. Kevin durant. In fact, kevin durant and the number 35 have taken a size average portion of the Warriors Team store. To say it is a hot seller is an understatement. The debut arrived on steph curry bobblehead nights and the first 10,000 fans received doll. There is a new guy, do you know who it is . Dead kevin durant. Is he good . Yes. As good at steph curry . Maybe. He is 7, plus, and loaded with talent, and there are bold predictions. [ inaudible ] at oracle arena for abc7 news. A rare chance for warriors fans with tickets on sale at 10 00 a. M. For an on practice at oracle arena held next wednesday at 6 00 p. M. With tickets costing 5. It will benefit the Warriors Community foundation. Before the practice the head coach will participate in a questionandanswer session. They open the regular season as oracle arena on october 25 against the spurs. Or they are doing that a great way for the community to see the team. Near five bucks. Tenths we are thinking of the giants hoping they win. Now over to mike nicco. Giant as fan himself. Absolutely. A lot of us are wearing orange because it is a one and done they is to win tonight or they come back home and the season is over after 163 games. The times are for us but the temperatures are for what will happen at city field. 64. Dropping to 62. The weather is not a factor. At home, the Golden Gate Bridge shows the wind is calm and the flag is barely moving around angel island at seven miles per hour. It is calm. Cooler. It will be bretter and warmer, with hot spots developing and 90s are possible friday and saturday. Slight chance of storms next week. Winds pick up this afternoon from noon to 9 00 through the bay. And our bridges. Temperatures are in the 60s long the coast in San Francisco and the rest of us in the 70s. My sevenday forecast shows what you are going to see is the possibility of 90s on friday, for sure, saturday inland and lowtomid 80s around the bay and 70s at the coast. I have the fleet week forecast when we run. Here is alexis and the traffic . I saw golden gate and the zipper truck is doing their thing. We are making that southbound side wider with in problems from marin county. And this is near the Cordelia Junction westbound 80 before state route 12. Reports of a crash blocking lanes two and three. Everyone is out of the vehicle. But that is facing the wrong way. C. H. P. Son the way. We still have the camper top westbound 580 before north flynn road slowing you down tracy to dublin up to 43 minutes. That update is next. If you look increase a job here is the chance, dozens of employers will hire today. Twitter is hot again, the major new player considering a bid to buy the company. A man goes berserk with a knife in a business and workers fought back. But, first, techbytes. There is word that yahoo scanned incoming messages last year, coming after a request from either the f. B. I. Or the Security Agency but it is not known what information intelligence officials wanted or what data they may have handed over. Google is introducing new smartphones that have Google Assistant build in. They are compatible with the new daydream Virtual Reality headset. Both are available for preorders. This could be the ultimate gift for people who love apple products. The new mac candle made by a company that specializes in apple accessories and smells like a freshly unboxed mac computer and costs 24. But it is sold out Martin Luther king jr. we hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal. John f. Kennedy the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. Barbara jordan the American Dream need not forever be deferred. Lyndon johnson this is the richest and the most powerful country. They prey on our children, spending billions. Addicting 17,000 California Kids each year. Eventually killing onethird of them. Now Tobacco Companies are spending millions to. Defeat prop 56. Because in every state thats raised tobacco taxes, smoking rates go down. So who are you going to trust . Pediatricians, cancer groups and the califronia pta who all. Support prop 56. Or the Tobacco Companies trying to kill it. Vote yes on 56. Preliminary estimates show that last fridays Massive Church Fire in berkeley cost 2 million in damage. Officials say the damage so extensive where the fire started that they may never know the cause. They have ruled out arson. Fire at the church destroy add Brick Office Building and part of the main sanctuary. Look at this knife fight caught on camera on monday inside of a Small Tech Company in oklahoma. You can see the workers tackling the 52yearold suspect here. It all started 90 minutes earlier when the man threatened several employees and left and came back with a knife screaming he was going to kill everyone. The workers took him down and held him until police arrived. It is not clear what made him so angry. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. Federal vest gifts are looking at data and video recorders recovered from last weeks deadly plane crash in new jersey. That should give speed and breaking information. According to the Associated Press a data recorder in the back of the train wasnt working the day of crash and that is against federal regulations. Investigators are analyzing the engineers cell phone, because it was in a backpack in the cab. Another Bay Area Company reportedly now interested in buying twitter, with bids expected to come in this week. San franciscobased sales force is joining the list of potential buyers according to the wall street journal and previously reported suggested Silicon Valley based google and disney, our parent company, are also interested. However, the wall street journal believes this twitter wants at least 20 billion or they will not sell. Hurricane mathews is headed to the bahamas leaving a cruise ship outraged. Passengers on carnival were supposed to set sail for the bahamas, from baltimore last weekend, hours before the trip, they got an email saying the hurricane mathew was forcing the ship to reroute to new york city and then New Brunswick and canada. Which, obviously, is not the same as the bahamas. The canada electric was canceled so. Not exactly happy people on the ship. At this state it is dock on the hudson for two days. We all have sun dresses, i am Walking Around new york city in my husbands shoes with toilet paper stuffed in the to. S. That is dire. She going to get new shoes . Crocks . The cruise ship heads back to baltimore and they want to know why they not getting bassooner if it is a big deal but those people are enjoying things. They are docked and people were still on the chairs, lounging out and making the bet of that situation. The drinks still taste the same, right, mike . Carnival cannot catch a break. Good morning, everyone, we will look at what is going on with our hourly planner. We talked about napa at 43 degrees and you will warm up into the mid70s this afternoon. As promised, a look at the fleet week forecast and i am upped the temperatures. On saturday, look at that, nearly 80 degrees in San Francisco, and, still, it is gorgeous on friday. 73. Sunday, cooler, more clouds and 70. Alexis . We have the camper top in the middle of 580. On the westbound side where we do not want anything blocking before north flynn. C. H. P. Knows in right center lane. They are on way. We have a solid line of red from tracy. That is always a tough route. A new problem, southbound 280 on way to 87 reports of another collision blocking one lane. We had an early problem in Cordelia Junction area and that now is cleared. Next traffic update is at 5 00 a. M. Heads up if you opened to be thrilled by the blue angels waxing from Treasure Island during threat week, you are out of luck. San Francisco City hers are advise people to stay away from the island because a lot of ongoing construction so areas that you may usually watch the air show from are off limits. You are urged to go to crissy field for prime air show viewing. We want to see your fleet week photos using abc7now. I challenge you to get a better photo. What can you come up with . Looking for a job . Or someone who is . There is a job fair today inside the auditorium at city college of San Francisco. Mission center location. From 10 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. More than 80 employers and 100 he crudeers will recruiters. Dress to impress. Target is going to on a new store in cupertino, they were called city targets but that name dropped to eliminate confusion. Some shoppers did not realize city targets were target stores. The store is much, much small are than the typical target offers items tailored more for people on day and daily trips. They are causing flexible format. Not exactly. Rolling off tongue, but, it is located near Stevens Creek boulevard and they are opening several cross the country. That is one. One of the best known roadways at 5 oclock a. M. Why the embarcadero is now on a list of endangered historic places. Two men who want to be the next v. P. Did not take long to mix it up in the debate. Stay tuned. Looking live outside, they are showing clear skies with the bay bridge good morning, south bay, lets get going. This is abc7 mornings. 5 00 a. M. On the dot. Time to get going on wednesday october 5. I am natasha zouves. I am reggie aqui with Jessica Castro and meteorologist mike nicco and, also, alexis smith traffic reporter. How is it looking, mike . What do you want today. Sunshine. Happiness. Here is what is going on. We will start with live doppler hd and you can see it is cloudfree. Seeing stars from sutro tower this morning. Now, it is cooler this morning, 44 to 55 and 61 to 68 from the coast inland by noon and up to 75 by 4 00. 57 to 67 by 7 00. Grab a coat this evening. Alexis . We off to a busy start. I take you to the traffic mops to the Cordelia Junction area westbound 80 before
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