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KGO ABC7 News 500AM January 17, 2014

Inside who was asleep. They all got out okay also. Next door neighbor knocked on our door, i opened the door, big flames going on. I just made sure my brothers and nieces and everybody was out of the house. Thats it. Reporter his family was okay but because pg e has to turn off the gas and the electricity, they are looking for a place to go. The red cross is here to try and help. The three people who live in the home that burped were taken to the hospital to be treated for their scrapes and bruises that they suffered during their escape and smoke inhalation. Firefighters have no idea what caused this fire or if the homes had working smoke edirectors, that would all be part of the investigation. Live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. Time now, 5 01 a check on the Weather Forecast, a bit chilly out there, michael. It is a little bit cooler. Nice observation, eric, especially along the coast, temperatures up to 20, 25 degrees cooler than yesterday. The air bone dry on live doppler 7 hd. No clouds, no fog, no moisture. Talk about todays temperatures, record highs possible again. Look for the asterisk, 72, san jose, 71, livermore and oakland, 72 in santa rosa, 70, san rafael. Still going to be warm at the coast, 74, Half Moon Bay, total snipe across the board. Here is leyla with your morning commute. A rocky start literally in duplin and pleasanton, westbound on 580ing we do have a dump truck carrying gravel and spilling all over the roadways, we do have a total vehicle spinout, 580 to the 680 connector, so, what is happening is this dump truck traveling south out of duplin, into pleasanton, sunol grade, sketchy now, all along the way, all this gravel released from the truck, unbeknownst to them, evidencely, and now chp is trying to locate them. So it is a very dangerous situation, causing really bad damage to vehicles as well. A quick live look outside and your drive in marin, quite contrary, make it out of san rafael and into San Francisco. Kristen, eric . Thank you. 5 03 now. Develop news from Southern California, the firefight continues to protect homes near l. A. From a 1700acre wildfire while the men accused of sparking it could be in deeper trouble. Katie mar glue is slow live in our newsroom. A judge upped the bail big time from 20,000 each to 500,000 each. The three men are in their early 20s, one identified as homeless. Glenn dora police say the higher bail is because of the seriousness of the crime, the extensive Property Damage and the high cost of fighting the fire. The men will make their First Court Appearance on tuesday. They have told authorities their camp fire got out of control. That was just before 6 00 yesterday morning. Since then, the fire has burned more than 1700 acres and destroyed five homes, thousands of homes had to be evacuated. People from an apartment complex barely escaped the flames. One man, rudy rosa, says with on the clothes on his back. Two pairs of pants, two shirts, two pairs of socks, my bike, thats it. Whats next for me, take it one day at a time. Glenn dora residentses allowed back home but Officials Say 870 homes remain evacuated in azblooz za where there are flare ups in the area. Back home but Officials Say 870 homes remain evacuated in azblooz za where there are flare ups in the area. A firefighter and one other person suffered minor burn injuries in the firefight. Live in the newsroom, katie marzullo, abc7 news. Thanks a lot. Right now, take you live back to the Los Angeles Area where a bizarre slowspeed chase continues. A live pictures there, the silver vad rad dough pickup truck with officers having been chasing the truck slowly for a long time. On the freeway. Then doing circles on 101 then 405 into los angeles. Officers put out spike strips. And now, one of the tires may be flat, which could explain the speed. We will keep our eye on this. See how it all ends up. A san jose man believed to be behind a dozen arson fires scheduled to be in court. 48yearold Patrick Brennan arrested wednesday night after detectives watched him for three days a young sergeant is credited with cracking the case. He says brennan kept topping each search list for convicted arsonist in the area. Brimmen was already in the Santa Clara County arson database for setting 16 hairs in 1999. Last week, nervous neighbors spent several nights on around the clock patrols. Nbc 7 News Reporter matt keller will have more from the sergeant in the next half hour. Governor brown is expected to make a major announcement this mortgage and searches say he will declare a statewide drought emergency that would allow him to seek federal help as the state faces the third dry winter in a row. The governor has been you recalled to make the call a drought emergency would allow him to call for conservation measures and have flexibility in deciding the states water priorities. San Francisco Mayor ed lee is set to deliver his state of the city address at 10 this morning. The mayor is expected to focus on house and plans to make his speech at the hunters a point naval shipyard. The area is where there are kur rently 272 Housing Units under construction. The San Francisco examiner reports that the mayor is promising to add 30,000 more Housing Units to the market within the next six years with at least half accessible to residents earning middle income or lower. A planned maximum security addition to the west contra costa jail is on hold after it failed to make the grade on a list of projects endorsed by a state agency. The Contra Costa Times reports the county had applied for an 80 million grant from a 500 million criminal justice facilities fund. The county wanted to build a standalone wing with 480 beds it would provide Program Space and facilities next to the existing jail in richmond. 49er fans are counting down to sundays nfc championship game between the niners and the seahawks. This afternoon, the nine letters wrap up their final practice in santa clara before boarding a flight to seattle. The niners are the hottest team in football, having won eight straight games, the last three coming on the road. They face the seahawks on their home field where theyve won 16 of the last 17 games. The niners are changing up their normal schedule for West Coast Road game buys traveling a day earlier than usual. The 49ers are scheduled to leaf for seattle at 4 45 this afternoon. And the rivalry between the 49ers and the seahawks fans is becoming charitable. Fans have started go fund me pages with donations going to ucsf Childrens Hospital and seattle Childrens Hospital. 49er fans started a drive last month to put up a billboard in seattle with unused funds going towards seattles Childrens Hospital. Not to be outdone, seahawks fans started a ucsf Childrens Hospital page. Seahawks fans have already raised more than 65,000 with niners fans raise morgue than 122,000. Er why they are week, the niners announced they will match up to a combined 100,000 raised. Yesterday, seahawks owner paul allen, you know, microsoft guy, tweeted that we are allin for kids at seahawks, match 112 k raised by 49ers and go hawks fans for Childrens Hospital. We have a link to the go fund on our pages, go fund me pages on our website, webb webb. Look under see it on tv. Mike shoeman will be in seattle for complete postgame coverage and let them see that super bowl ring up there. He will have another edition of verne. sviews sunday night with tight end vernon davis. Shoe played for the niners. Follow him on twitter at mike shumann. Bring the niners team some good luck. You bet. No document. Seattles fans will bring them good luck home. They dont have any dont have any rings. Mike . Wow so it begins. Yes, it does. Always fun, as long as its just fun. All right. We have mid to upper 30s on the peninsula, menlo park, 36. West side, good morning. 37. Redwood city foster city, youre sharing 39. San mateo, 43. San bruno, 47. Warm spot, like it has been, 45 there in belmont. We have 45 in san carlos. 52, San Francisco. Freezing cold in santa rosa. 28, 32. Close in san ramon and concord. Here is the way it looks from sutro tower, see the clean air over the bay, once again, great news, into the a spare the air day. Record temperatures without the air quality. Spread much smaller than yesterday, when it was about 30 degrees from santa rosa to Half Moon Bay. Low to middle 60s at noon. Enjoy the evening, starfilled sky, relatively calm and throw mid50s. Temperatures drop a couple degrees every day through the holiday weekend, low 70s saturday to mid60s sunday and monday. Leyla . We are getting some updates on that gravel truck, possibly up to four dump trucks that are traveling on 680. Wither still unclear of their exact location at this hour because they have been moving. They have been on the move. And they have been traveling into dublin, pleasanton, sip noel grade. Looks like they are all dumping some type of gravel onto the roadways thats causing quite the mess on the freeways and for other drivers and cars. First, lets just talk about some construction this morning, eastbound side of highway 4, con charge loma to hill crest, a lane blocked, last until 6 00 this morning, west bound traffic out of antioch already starting to build, but looks clear through pittsburgh and that bay point. Now, this is where we have an accident westbound side 580, south bound 680 connector, where we have that gravel that causes the solo vehicle spinout. More gravel dug out here, sip noel grade, into fremont quite possibly, but still trying to get clarification on this. It is a very slew flue which had situation, give you the details. 5 11. Evidence of a link to the target hacking attack. The americas money report is next. Also, apple iphones go on sale in china. What it could mean for the cupertino tech giants online. Forecasters change the way they warn about tornadoes and equal access to health care. Welcome to covered california. Now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com you see the end of the lowspeed clays, the driver giving himself up. What toward see from this position, but the truck is now down on its rims and been sort of skating along on the freeway. It looks like they are pulling the man out of the truck right now and gonna make an arrest. We dont know yet what this person was wanted for. Just know that this chase me andered along at speed no, sir where near highway speeds. They got their weapons drawn and at least ten of them rushing towards the vehicle. We have been asking fans to show us your game faces. You delivered. These gays mean business go niners never too young to get in on the action it is called baby game face. Look likes they are ready to see their Favorite Team make it to the super bowl. Email us your fan photos at u report at kgotv. Com. Also tweet them to us at and 7 news bay area, post them on our facebook page, be sure to like our battle of the base on the abc News Facebook page. Seattle is definitely ahead now but we know the bay area will show fans who the real champions are sneak up on them so everybody, please share that with your friends. Evidence this morning the target hacking attack may have come from overseas. Here is abc news Marci Gonzalez with americas money report. Good morning. Topping americas money, alarming new information about that big target hack. Investigators say some of the software used to steal credit card numbers was written in russia. It appears to be part of a broad and very Sophisticated Campaign against many retailers, not just target. United air lines plans to furloughing almost 700 flight attendants because not enough of them took the voluntary buyout after the merger. The airline is trying to cut 2 billion in yearly expenses. Taco bell is offering a bigger variety of beverages than ever. The fast food giant is rolling out six new drinks today, including a mountain dusan glee ya blast. That is americas money, ill Marci Gonzalez. 5 17 now. Tim cook is in china where the i phone 5 s and 5 c went on sale. He helped hand out the phones in a china mobile snore beijing. The Cupertino Company has been in negotiate information months with the stateowned cell phone carrier. China has potential Customer Base of 700 million. Now, if you you want to note price, the 5 s sells for the equivalent of 874. The 5 c costs 742. Of course, its bought in yuan there. Forecasters intend to add new advise there is warn when tornadoes or high winds ron the way. Instead of there is a light, moderate or high risk of weather, they will add marginal and enhanced. The new branding language will take effect in april if approved to the National Weather service. I dont know how that will translate. Marginal, enhanced . What was wrong with slight, moderate and doesnt make it clear to me. Do some more research on that that is the worst thing we hear, the sound bits, we didnt know it was coming. Just like, oh, really . How could you not know . Up to you to know have the Weather Radio or an app. They are trying to. Take a lack and show what you is going on. Worst thing ever as a forecaster, i didnt know. Didnt know. We told ya. Anyway. All right. Here we go radar and satellite knows where the storm tracksome knows how dry it is. Just some isolated showers in through the midwest, the great lakes and heading off toward new england. A little bit of moisture trying to creep into southern louisiana. Just nothing going on across the western third of the country here. Yeah. Here we are. East bay hills camera. Use this to talk about, big surprise, more record warmth today. Almost as warm moving forward through the entire accuweather sevenday forecast, rain unlikely the rest of the month. Take a look at whats going on, as far as our temperatures today. Look for the asterisk, record high i low to middle 70s, santa clara valley, 72, sap jose, record. 76 in gilroy. Move hup the peninsula, 73, record High Mountain view, 72, redwood city, record high, 70, millbrae. 74, Half Moon Bay, along the coast, heading to sunset, 70 degrees there 71, downtown, pretty close to a record high i did set one yesterday, 73. Santa rosa, 72, records there north bay beaches looking really nice all along the coast, low to middle 70s for, into the east bay, we will have oakland, 71 degrees, another record high. Everybody really homogenized around 70 to 72 degrees, into the east bay valleys, brentwood, 68, low 70s the rest of your neighbors, 71 today in livermore. Talk about tonight, going to be cooler, a lot of 40s around the bayshore and coast. A lot of 30s. Here is the setup, till me, does it look any different than it did yesterday . Look at the jet stream, well up into the arctic circle, monplung air into the lower twothirds. We are seeing all that moisture deflect aid way from us, means the drought is going to continue to get worse. Here is your accuweather sevenday forecast. I mean, its nice weather, if you like sunshine and warmth. Just we need some rain. I feel bad. I actually kind of like the weather. We will have temperatures above average all seven days. Heres leyla. Plenty of traffic starting to build over the altamonte pass, not quite friday light there, per usual. It might get worse because of this issue involving a couple possibly dump trucks first reporting there was just one, but then callers spoke to chp officers and said they see three to four dump trucks, along the roadways, 580, information for you in a moment. Highway 12, highway 29, red top road, napa and solano counties, widening project, all lanes now reopened. Take you right back to westbound 580, 680 connector, where we have the solo vehicle spinout due to the gravel that was spilled, more graph here, 680 through pleasanton, through sunol. Nice and quiet there, san mateo bridge, over toward the peninsula, into foster city now. Kristen, eric . Thanks a lots. One of San Franciscos most popular attractions just got bigger. This morning, the grand opening of the see lion center by pier 39, managed by the aquarium of the bay and a hope for all things see sea lion, interactive displace, educational videos, you can touch a sea lion pelt, the center adds an educational comp pope nent to a popular attraction that started by accident. You remember when they just suddenly arrived 24 years ago. 5 42, ahead, seven things to know as you search your day. Fabulous at 50, how First Lady Michelle Obama hose whove d ewelcome to covered california. Now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. Lactaid® is 100 real milk . Right. Real milk. But it wont cause me discomfort. Exactly, because its milk without the lactose. And it tastes . Its real milk come on, would i lie about this . [ female announcer ] lactaid. 100 real milk. No discomfort. 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