The power lines are down. Thats why the southbound almaden expressway is closed. Took three hours to pull the driver from the car. That person was alert when they took him to the hospital. You still see the lines down across the roadway and the vehicle still there. We have the two southbound lanes closed z away from highway 85 in the area of leeland high school and Bret Harte Middle School. These power lines, were told by pg e, not disrupting service. Well continue to track this and the evolution of this scene as well as the rest of your commute. For now well send it to anthony for your forecast. Oh, yes, a lot of schools in that route. Take it easy this morning. Looking at chilly conditions this morning. 40s across parts of the peninsula and same deal for the east bay. Later this afternoon under mostly sunny skies. Well warm nicely. Warmer than yesterday. You can see from our sky camera network, from the north bay to the south bay, that will lead to another bright day. Grab the shades and maybe shorts today. Talking low 80s for inland valleys. Warmer in San Francisco, mid 70s there. We have rain in the forecast toward the end of the weekend. Well talk about that. We have breaking news weve been following since we came on the air at 4 30, take a look at that. Explosive flames in San Franciscos Castro District leaves several firefighters injured and a handful of people without a home. Pete suratos is live on the scene with a look at the aftermath. Good morning, pete. Reporter good morning, laura. Excuse that noise. Thats pg e just showed up. Sounds like a jack hammer theyre using. The three structures affected in the fire, a lot of it originated in the middle unit which was unoccupied. As you mentioned, there was three firefighters that were injured, but nonlifethreatening injuries. Well show you the video sent out by San Francisco fire not too long ago. There were seven folks altogether that were displaced including an elderly couple and another couple that had a kid with them. None of the folks inside those buildings were injured. Theyre receiving assistance from the american red cross. Were being told earlier there was a missing calico cat that crews are still looking for at this time. Three firefighters were sent to the hospital for injuries, including one that had what appeared to be a fractured arm. The other with cuts and bruises. Here is San Francisco fire elaborating on those injuries. They were all separate injuries, so they all didnt happen in the same low cakes at the same time. They span from musculoskeletal injuries to soft tissue injuries, from cuts to possible bone injuries. The fire was originally reported around 12 00 a. M. Crews able to get it under control a couple hours later. No word as far as what caused the fire. You can expect crews to be here as they corporate their investigation. Live in San Francisco, pete suratos for today in the bay. Hopefully made out most of that. You could hear pg e crews in the background. Police investigating a deadly shooting near a san jose elementary school, the citys 39th homicide. Police say a man walked i represented Regional Medical center. Police later determined the man had been shot in a car near doug Hill Elementary School near highway 101. The victim then drove the car filled with bullet holes to the hospital where he died a short time later. Today in the bays bob redell working on gathering new information from this story. Hell join us with an update at 6 30. There were verbal fireworks in the third and final president ial debate along with backandforth statements. Everyone talking about whether trump will accept the results of the election. Ill tell you at the time. Ill keep you in suspense. Thats horrifying. You probably heard about that this morning. Plenty of contention over russias president. Look, from everything i see, he has no respect for this person. Thats because hed rather have a puppet as president. No puppet. Youre the puppet. Nbcs bay area Mark Matthews is in las vegas. He asked pointed questions to reverend Jesse Jackson and donald trump j. Trump junior. They didnt shake hands when Hillary Clinton and donald trump walked into the debate hall. For the first 20 minutes or so, it did look like a president ial debate. Each of the candidates making their case. In the spin room after the debate, reverend Jesse Jackson had this response. If you win, its a good deal. If you lose, its rigged. Thats a disingenerous response to a serious matter. Hes willing to take on the whole american system. Donald trump junior and the Campaign Spokeswoman defended trumps statement. Why wouldnt he say ill go with what the Voters Decide . He will, kbaring rampant fraud. Every expert ive talked to says there isnt anything there. Your dad talking about voter fraud. Talking about that, busing people. Theyre saying, disaffected. Weve been doing it and not about to change now. Did al gore accept the will of the voters. Im old enough to remember 2000. He called george w. Bush to concede the election and then called back to retract the concession. The difference, of course, is al gore did not dispute the outcome of the election before the election was held. What weve heard from donald trump last night, that was a first. In las vegas, nevada, Mark Matthews for today in the bay. I remember that hanging chad debacle back in 2000. Our debate coverage continues online. We fact checked what the candidates had to say in realtime. You can read the results on our website on nbcbayarea. Com. A preliminary 3. 4 magnitude earthquake struck lake county overnight. The quake happened about 3 45 near the town of cobb. Youll recall its the same area ravaged by the valley fire. So far no reports of injuries or damage. Funeral services will take place for a beloved elderly woman killed in a Home Invasion robbery. Mouners will honor miss flo at the st. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. The 88yearold died 12 days ago from injuries suffered four weeks earlier in a robbery at her home. 19yearold zachary cuen is facing murder charges. Cuen lived near douglas and investigators say cameras caught him using her credit cards and driving her car. Todays service is scheduled for 11 00 a. M. The new year will reportedly begin with a long awaited start of a highly anticipated murder trial. According to the mercury news, january 3rd is now the firm start date for Opening Statements in the trial against antonin Garcia Torres accused in the murder of sierra lamar four years ago. Her body still has not been found. Attorneys on both sides were examining answers by prospective jurors yesterday. Its been a full week of memorable anniversaries and another one today. Significant anniversary for a tragic moment in bay area history. This marks 25 years since the Oakland Hills firestorm. 25 people died while trying to escape that fastmoving inferno that rapidly burned through 1500 acres of land and destroyed 3500 homes in oakley and berkeley. The fire was triggered by the embers from a grass fire the day before that firefighters thought was out. It was an unbelievable day, a series of weeks there in the bay area. 6 08 right now. Lets check our microclimate Weather Forecast this morning. Looking at 40s and 50s. Clear skies for everybody. No fog for you. Temperatures chilly, 49 in livermore, dropped to 45 in gilroy, 52 in san jose and 57 in San Francisco. At the coastline today were going to see warm temperatures, mid 70s for San Francisco, 76 there. A good mix of upper 70s to low 80s around the bay. Low to mid 80s for the inland valleys. The next couple days were tracking rain. Roadways moving good. Speaking of roadways, lets toss things over to mike. Over all the freeway is looking really good except for hayward and also the issue for almaden expressway in san jose. Ill take you down here first because theres a full closure for the major roadway southbound from reykjavik to ogrady. Live at the scene, theyre still working ong it. We dont see them right here but we see the pg e truck and the power lines down. Power in the area sounds like its okay including bret harte middle and leeland high school. Once they move the lines about 7 30, 8 00, then one of the southbound lanes can reopen. Well continue to track the rest of the commute as we take you to the map. Well show you the slowdown southbound 880 toward the san mateo bridge. Slowing about marina boulevard. Two lanes reported blocked at highway 92. That may have changed in the last few minutes. Well show you the travel times towards the bay bridge, those are looking great. 19 minutes from highway 4 to the maze. Standard slowing there. Back to you. Up next, a dispute gone too far . Nasty notes being left on cars in a peninsula city that has police now getting involved. Plus an unprecedented move. How Santa Clara County is vetting your votes to avoid fraud this election season. Epic fraud of a Silicon Valley company bigger than apple. Well tell you about it coming up in business and tech. Welcome back on this thursday. A nice stretch of weather this week, but get ready for changes as we head into the weekend. Were talking rain as soon as sunday evening for San Francisco and the north bay. Look at our rain chances next week. Each and every day through wednesday well track showers. That continues into thursday and friday. Were clearing out for halloween. So thats good news. Drive times in the slowing trivalley. Building for west 580. We knew that. Speeds in the 50s there. 680 south through sunol with building at 84. No problems for the south bay, 22 minutes from 85 to 85 on highway 101. The plant side of things, we talk about parking rage. After a crunch of spots has come to nasty notes that authorities are investigating. Many believe the problem spots with not enough spots near oak avenue and cleveland street. Someone leaving notes on cars saying, quote, no more illegal aliens parking on the street and, quote, too many of you are here. Police admit this is still a freedom of speech issue, but they want to get to the bottom of whats going on. It was really derogatory, a demeaning note that was inflammatory in nature so we took it very seriously. Police have identified the woman they believe is responsible pour leaving the notes and now trying to speak with her. License plate readers are being installed in danville after a rash of home burglaries. The most recent happened monday night. Surveillance video shows the suspect that police are looking for. The Police Department is working with city leaders to install 13 license plate readers throughout danville. The devices have been contin controversial for privacy concerns but police say they need a new Crime Fighting option. Devices should be up and running difficult december. Rarely seen video of machines sorting ballots already coming into the Santa Clara County registrars office. The unprecedented show and tell is an effort to put voters at ease that this election is not rigged. A suggestion of election rigging and voter fraud is completely unfounded and ridiculous, we dont take this lightly. The county says it doesnt expect voter intimidation but will be watching. The county has invited voters to come watch the counting process. Yahoo is asking the federal government to release more information about its demands that yahoo scans your emails. Scott mcgrew, yahoo wants off the hook here. Exactly right. It wants the government to say, hey, we told yahoo to look at your email, yahoo had no choice. Yahoo sent a letter to National Security director James Clapper asking to declassify the orders so they can show everybody what happened. There are the documents there. One of reuters top reporters broke the story that yahoo is scanning every email into its service at the request of or perhaps demand by the nations spy services. Teslas elon musk made a relatively obvious announcement about his company saying from here on out, all teslas built would come with sensors and Software Necessary to allow the cars to drive themselves. The software can be turned on remotely after you paid for it. Within the announcement a startling bit of news. Tesla saying new cars will temporarily lack certain features currently available such as automatic emergency braking, collision warning, lane holding and active cruise control. This is very strange because you can find these features on much less expensive cars. On kias for goodness sakes. You may have seen this commercial showing off automatic braking. Tesla is refining the system. Kia will have something tesla doesnt, at least initially. Leeco announced two phones, Virtual Reality headset, seven foot tv, bicycles and selfdriving car. Sam and laura bike, tv, cars, phones. Is that enough for you . Sounds like christmas. But wait. Theres more. Leeco is also a movie studio behind the upcoming matt damon movie the great wall as well. Theres nothing this company doesnt do. Really interesting. Very interesting company. Hiring about 12,000 people in the south bay. Well have to continue to watch. Get you a bike with a laser. Razz ma as the. Here is another thing, too, were used to the bay area shaking or being prepared for it. Drop, cover and hold, it is on for the great california shakeout. Across the state californians are invited to participate in this annual earthquake preparedness drill. This year it starts at 10 20 a. M. , todays date. In san jose the tech museum has dozens of Elementary Students joining them. In San Francisco mayor ed lee will be practicing with the students of bret harte elementary school. Parents, you know the key is practice, so its important for parents to be prepared as well. The tech museum is great about firsthand exposure. Theres an exhibit there, my kids are worried about this whole situation, but they absolutely love the shaker, it recreates the jolt. That one in 89. With the anniversary, so many people recalling where they were. Hard to forget that one. Were on edge for that next big one. Having that preparedness kit is really important, especially if you have little kids. It could be days, even weeks without power when that happens. Keep that in the back of your mind if youve got time today. Describe that earthquake kit. You can find them across the bay area in a lot of retail stores. In fact, a lot of it is just that emergency kit and extra food and water in case you lose power. Now lets switch gears. We have our sunrise coming up over san jose, a few clouds out there. Once the sun does come up, well see a bright start to the day. Temperatures are cool this morning. Youll need the jacket. 40s and 50s across most of the bay. Later this afternoon temperatures will warm quickly, even warmer than yesterday. 74 degrees for Half Moon Bay, 76 in San Francisco, and a good mix of low to mid 80s for inland valleys, from the north bay down to the south bay. 82 for the san jose area, 82 for livermore as well and 77 for oakland. High pressure in control, that means clear skies to start and really to finish. Offshore winds, thats the ingredients you get for high pressure. To the north, storm track continues to bring rain to portland and seattle. The next couple days well get a taste of that. As soon as sunday night, the system moves in. Same deal for tuesday and wednesday, another system. The first round of will probably give us. 25 for the south bay, maybe higher amounts in San Francisco, up to an inch in the north bay. Generally speaking, i think the next round of rain will give us from. 25 inch to maybe. 50 inch. We get ready for the next round for wednesday. Get the umbrellas ready once again. In the meantime, toss things over to mike for the morning commute. Good morning. We caught view of this. I saw the cones and we saw a car traveling southbound. Alan, our photographer confirmed southbound almaden expressway, one of two lanes are open. Now that southbound direction is reinstated. It will be slower. Pg e still on scene. What happened overnight there was a major crash right there. You see all the flashing lights, overturned suv hit a power pole in the area, taking that down. No power disruptions reported. Traffic flow reinstated. The northbound side is just fine. Well show you the map and talk about this. Northbound direction heads up toward highway 85, not far from Bret Harte Middle School and leeland high school. Schools should not be affected by any power problems. Roadways looking quite pleasant for the rest of the bay. Trivalley and east bay, south 680 and 880 slowing. The crash around the san mateo bridge looks like it cleared. A quick look at travel times, over here, drive time from highway 4 to the bay bridge toll plaza, 22 minutes. The slowing has started. Thanks a lot, mike. Talking about cars right now. Up next, nbc bay area responds. He rents a car for just one day but winds up with a 500 bill. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds next. Supposed to be cheaper tn owning a vehiclebut a oned ren San Francisco man in a 0 sharing a car for if day supposed to be scleep er. Brabs bay area responds, consumer investigator chris chmura shows how to help tackle the surprise charge. A few weeks later enterprise sent pick toews of damage to the car. The company held him responsible for 500 in repairs. He tried to prove he didnt wreck the car, even requesting footage from the garages security cameras. Enterprise wouldnt budge. So he called us. When we contacted enterprise, the company concluded it shouldnt have pursued bertrand anyway because it couldnt prove the c