Is a responsibility of maintaining the defensible spaces. Our clients are kind of a panic mode. For good reason. Dan brubaker is a professional landscaper saying there is a perfect storm for fire danger. Because of the drought there is more ladder fuels. Grasses are more dry. Winds more strong. In orinda, signs read conditions moderate with you they require a watchful eye. All it takes is someone flicking a cigarette out of a car window. These grasses can just burn up the hill. And its like early 90s. The Oakland Hills fire burned for hours. Taking with it more than 3,000 homes and claiming lives of more than two dozen people. Like many, thoughing there are things in common with neighbors views, a ideal location and a need to keep the home clear of debris, and anything that could be a potential fire hazard. We cut dry weeds all the time. Heat is on the mind of oakland fire officials. High dry brush is being targeted. And fire crews are helping residents. Make sure we have our defensible space. Everyone doing their part by reducing the risk factor. Happening now officials have just list lifted a mandatory evacuation because of a major wind driven wildfire. Burning just north of rancho kooka munga. Looking at a live picture now. Its spread very quickly because of the wind officials evacuated 1600 homes and closed seven schools some areas are still under volume teary evacuation. Fire being fuelled by santa ana winds. Just in case, i decided to pack up everything from just houses down. Its scary. This might push towards houses you know . So this is your neighborhood i live down the street here. You can see how windy its been. 500 firefighters are battling flames. So far, there is no word on how it started. Flights from los angeles grounded for more than an hour after an air Traffic Control computer failed this four flights were diverted to sfo. Were live with a look at the affect on flights there. Laura . Hi, care yes lynn. This airport was impacted. Delays of several hours in cases earlier today. And this accepted three diversions. Most affected were trying to go towards Southern California or a flight from phoenix arrived two hours late. That is after the faa had solved its problems at the Los Angeles Center we understand that involved a glitch in the software in what is called their modernization system. What is your situation . Well, i, my flight is delayed. There is no back up until 6 20. I heard why they cant get me on the plane. I have a funeral im flying down im going to miss because of this. Things are slowly returning to normal. There we saw 1 to 2 hours from today. A horrible head on crash this afternoon. East of 92 a medical helicopter took them to the hospital. There is no word on what caused this crash. Happening now in the east bay a Marine Salvage company recovered where hessage that have cessna crashing into San Pablo Bay on sunday. Vic lee is live with the story. Vic . Iet happened just two miles from where im standing there. In the bay. As you said it looks like it went smoothly and quickly. They started after 4 00 ending an hour later. You can see all of the boats have now left. Now lets go up to sky 7 d. Well show you what the operation looked like. There is a large barge with a crane on it. A smaller boat i believe carried members of the ntsb as well as sheriff deputies. And waters were clear. Looks like the operation sent moojly. Here is frank miller. As theyre making a pull, the crane will tip over. Makes it good, and stable. Back to sky 7 the boat carried what it found to a nearby marinea. Now, ntsb can begin examining to try to find out what went wrong. Vic lee abc7 news. Vick, thank you. You can outsmart the bad guys. That is the lesson two south bay women learned after being kidnapped by a transient. Police believe they may not be Kenneth Middlebrooks first victims hes known to change his look. David louie is live where the trouble started. The 19yearold woman bought the story. He needed someone to drive him to see his father in Mountain View he couldnt his car because his license was suspended she drove him to Mountain View. Police arent saying what causeder to realize she was a kidnap victim. She felt like her safety was in danger. And that is when she decided not to be a victim. Convinced him she can drive him around a little bit more and got on the freeway and crashed into another car to force them to pull over to the side the crash happened on bay shore freeway. Officers arrived the kidnapper got behind the wheel and took off the nissan was abandoned a short distance away the kidnapper walked off. It appears middlebrook then jumped a fence or walked into this park, went to the home of a 61yearold woman ask kidnapped her. The woman was told to get into the lincoln town car. Middlebrook got behind the wheel thecht were heading first to berkeley then east. Then to ione. Then, there was an opportunity to escape. He ended up leaving her in the vehicle saying stay here, ill be back. As soon as she had the opportunity to leave, she drove off. Middlebrook then arrested by police and turned over to Mountain View police. Sargeant jayh echt r says people should be cautious. Be wary of people. Whether a sales pitch, you know, or someone trying to offer you money or get to you buy something. Or something as hey, can you give me a ride . You have to be careful. You never know what is going to happen. In Mountain View, abc7 news. We understand middlebrooks father told police his son suffers from post Traumatic Stress disorder. Still ahead all of the water in the middle of a drought. Why its coming from and why a Million People may have lost incentive to conserve. Why has traffic been so tough on the bay bridge . Tonight well ride along with the Highway Patrol to find out. Mark zuckerberg announcing a batch of features aimed at putting people first. 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A water fountain in oakland on a hot day we take them for granted in this time of a severe drought in california. And why not . Were not even in the rainy season. This is an exciting day for east bay mud. Opening of a long planned Water Pipeline from the Sacramento River. Here is an extremely pleased east bay mud manager. It wont make sense to not use it. When you have it available to you and you pay for it. By the time it closes 5. 2 combrinl gallons will have flowed down this creek, and into the reservoir. That is enough water to fill the o dot co coliseum, 24 times. Would you regard it as an engineering marvel . Yes. I would. What would romans say . I think theyd be impressed. Eileen white is the manager of operations and described how tree pumps put water 130 miles over coastal hills. Its luxury when the governor asked for 0 cut backs east bay mud requesting only ten saying customers reduced more. Were asking our customers to cut back on their water use. Its less than it was. Were using about 200 fal ones per person, per day. We can learn to use less. Australia theyre using 40 and 50 gallons per day. That is less water. A point of context watching a beautiful, but finite river of plenty. The morning commute has been a challenge lately. Traffic has been horrendous. Here is a live look at the evening commute. Abc7 news on some of the theorys. Back up hasnt been this bad since the last bart strike. Im an impatient person. Yes. Its a struggle. John goodwin blames it on the computers, slowing down to look at the old span. Its demolition work on the adjacent bridge that is more commanding visual presence. There are more people driving in. There are about 500 more cars during a 24 hour period. Goodman says that number is not high enough to have affect on the commute we asked for a Second Opinion and drove across the bridge with chp officer. One is the demolition of the old bridge. Second is the beauty of the new bridge. People are still in awe of the design. Thirdly we have construction by law, drivers have to slow down. Passengers and drivers take out their cameras to take a picture. That is never recommended caltrans says its only going to get bigger and the site more impressive the construction on the new bridge will continue for 3 to 5 more years. Anything that drivers want to look at is going to be a draks. Caltrans says a better, safer view is from your bicycle the new bridge has a bicycle lane. Breaking news in Southern California because of a major wind driven wildfire. In San Bernardino county. These are live pictures of the fire lines. Theyre trying to bring flames down. 1600 homes are evacuated are being allowed back in. There are santa ana winds that could pose a problem. Spencer christian is here now with that. Its been warm to hot. Another day of hot weather coming our way. You can see we have mainly sunny skies. Here is a look at the santa cruz beach. Lots of folks enjoying the beach today. 85 degrees in san francisco. And oakland. 73 degrees in half moon bay. Mount tam camera looking towards ocean bay. Clear skies. Napa, 86. 87 fairfield and 90s in livermore, heat slow to recede. These forecast features clear, mild, mostly clear and mild tonight. Warm to hot again tomorrow. But then a cooler pattern friday. Warm to hot air dominating one more day. Then we get cooling clouds and a sea breeze in all areas that are cooler friday. Well start forecast at 9 00 friday morning and well see the sea breeze developing. Low clouds moving into the bay area. So that will start the cooling trend the week ahead will be a week of change. Tomorrow, a high of 83 degrees. Temperatures bottoming out. 65 or 66 degrees that is indictive of what we can expect around the bay area. Overnight look for mainly clear skies and mild conditions once again upper 50s to low 60s. Testimony, another sunny, hot day. Highs 91. Mainly mid80s tomorrow, 86 redwood city and Mountain View. Mid70s on the coast. 86 santa rosa. 86 napa. East bay, 83 in oakland. 84 in union city. Mid90s going to antioch. Where it will be 94. Cooling down sharply friday. Saturday through next wednesday temperatures normal and average range. Upper 60s around the bay. Upper 60s to 50 on the coast. Thank you mer on the new bay bridge coming up tonight. Caltrans with a clever fix for those broken bolts. And it came with a free chocolate chip cake. [sighs] how do you guys feel about this meal i had to not cook . You should not cook more often. I will try not to take offense to that. Caltrans is using a simple solution from keeping spans to corroding and breaking filling these over the exposed epdz of the steel rod. There has been concern more could get into the rods making them susceptible to snap. Youve had v. A threaded expend a nut sticking out at the top and bottom. The caps go over those nuts and threaded ends. The problem caused 32 rods to snap last year. Only 192 are getting treatment. Caltrans says its not sure when its not sure when the other rods will be checked. The nations growth rate slowed to almost 0 because of the harsh weather but sit bouncing back. Federal reserve said it will scale back its program while keeping Interest Rates low. On that news, stock prices rose for a third day today. Cisco said tonight it plans to pour 140 million into the Technology Revolution in which the internet will be used to create a trillion ordinary things from Kitchen Appliances to cars and planes. If you think it cant get easier to order petesa, think again. There will be a commercial to order a petes wra with a click of the remote control. There is more still to come tonight at 6 00. More severe weather. Some of the damage from a spring storm dumping a foot and a half of rain Mark Zuckerberg looking to the future tonight. And oning thing youre 37 death deaths now being reported as a result of a large stun r stubborn storm system that pummelled the south eastern corner of the country. Here is a flooded underpass with Washington Monument in the background. Parts of the Nations Capital are still under two feet of water tonight. Here, you can see what the storm has done in baltimore. It washed part of a roadway out from under these cars the worst worth has been in the deep south. It washed out and took several vehicles with it. Emily schmidt begins our report tonight in pensacola. The sound of flood water through this pensacola, florida neighborhood. The effects of the 24 hours of rainfall speak for themselves. Are you ready to pull us back . A mobile, alabama firefighter called out as he rescued a man trapped in flood water, rick scott says there have been 200 in his state hes declared a state of emergency warning things may stay wad for a while because the storm system is moving slowly. No one is an miticipating it will be keep raining and raining. We thought its going to move out. Look at the fish river in alabama. Its clear there is not a lot of room for more rain. Across the region, some bridges are washed out and roads, gone. Its why emergency officials urged people to stay home. There are trees down. Turned down. You cant go further. Then, i guess, this. The deadly flooding adds to the toll. National Weather Service says 37,000 people remain in a danger zone. More heavy rain is expected. Train derailment is threatening Drinking Water supplier in richmond, virginia. You can see flames and thick black smoke rising from the train. Four tanker cars caught fire. Some of the petroleum spilled into the james river. The city has since switched to an alternate water source, firefighters are letting the blaze burn out. Oklahoma governor calling for protocols after the botched execution of a murderer he convulsed violently ten minutes after giving the second of three drugs he died of a heart attack. The first time oklahoma used this particular drug cocktail and experts say it further complicates the use of lethal injections. Physicians are not involved in the process a lot of times because its a violation of medical ethics to assist inputting someone to death. So its become a real amateur operation in terms of how we actually pout people to death in the United States. The white house says the botched executions fell short of humane standards executions now on hold in oklahoma until an investigation is completed. President obama is blaming Senate Republicans for looking an affection year increase in the federal minimum the president says the vote denied millions a way out of poverty and is urging them to take a stand. Get fired up. Get organized and make voices heard. Lets assure im going to keep working with you. And were here to raise wages for hard working americans. They estimated would it cost 500,000 people their jobs you cant drive in california without Auto Insurance or live in the United States without paying Health Insurance or paying fine. You can go into business without business insurance, but should you . This is an interesting subject. I learned a lot owning a business has been part of the American Dream from the very beginning now, because of the great recession, and the internet, more of us are finding our inner entrepreneur. There are currently 20 million homebased businesses in the United States. Small businesses often beginning in garages like this one. Kristin peterson operates out of this garage. Shes working on a new release the dreamer she produces and promotes her music and that created by others her business is growing. She offers growing, too. Youve got an indy label. Right. You do media and web sites for people. Right. Youre ink corporated. Yes. Do you have insurance . Well, that is next on the list. There are so many details when running a business its hard to keep track of everything. But insurance is cannot be overlooked. There is a study that 60 with Small Business dmotz have adequate coverage. That is a lot of people. That is joe rightout with consumer action. Its all about protecting not the assets of a Small Business, but your assets in terms of your home, familys savings because that is what is at risk in case you run foo liability. So how much does this cost . Well, tony layman from Insurance Information network says from 20 a year a simple rider to hundreds and thousands of dollars for larger, more phone shally hazardous businesses. If you have manufacturing in the home, or if you have inventory you need to keep track of. And also, any professional liability risk. Lets say youre a physical therapist. You want to have that liability coverage as well. And that brings us back to this garage, and kristin petterson. A blessing to hear you say this and bring to it my attention. I feel like its important for me at this point. If you drive your personal car for business, be acare if you get into an accident you will probably not be covered by your