♪ in the news this monday morning, in just a half hour, a toll lane opens on interstate 680. >> also this morning pg&e could finally release the list of natural gas pipeline locations considered the riskiest in the bay area. it's been quietly warning local cities about the risky lines in their communities. >> a live look from downtown san francisco. patchy fog to deal with this morning but nothing like tomorrow and the next day. cooler air on the way. >> road work throughout the bay area. a few lanes blocked on southbound 101 in san francisco. other details coming up. >> and an east bay man is in jail after police discover pipe bombs in his home. the unanswered question: what did he intend to do with them.

>> good monday morning where everyone. it is 4:30 a.m.. i'm eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. the first of it's kind express toll lane will open on interstate 680. >> the drivers will use the new 14-mile southbound expressway lane from pleasetantton to milpitas. it allows you to use the lane for a price. that starts out at just 30 cents when there's no traffic but as the freeway gets more congested, the price goes up to as much as $6. drivers need a fas trak transponder and signs alert the drivers to the designated entry and exit points. we'll have a live report from jenelle wang in the next half hour and megan will have traffic updates throughout the morning. >> traffic use has grown since 2006 when officials set a goal of 70% usage. the latest survey shows that goal has almost been reached with 68.6% of bridge users now having fas trak.

the number of morning drivers on the bay bridge using fas trak has nearly doubled to nearly 77%. >> pg&e could release a list of its 100 riskiest pipeline locations as soon as today. this comes after pressure from federal and state leaders including governor schwarzenegger. the utility isn't saying exactly what it plans to do but it could release the list along with maps. pg&e opposed revealing the location of the pipeline citing national security concerns. state regulators also want the utility company to develop a plan for replacing pipelines with manual shutoff valves like the one in san bruno with automatic valves. >> massive cleanup in the area of the san bruno fire is expected this week, possibly thursday. people came together sunday afternoon for a benefit at cappuccino high school. the donations and money raised will all go to victims of the

fire. cecilia vega reports from san bruno. >> whether it's at the cupcake stand or by buying one of the san bruno t-shirts that sold out early, these neighbors say it's time to chip in and help and begin healing. >> we will rebuild and we will become again a city that we want to invite you back to in a couple years from now where you see where we were and how far we've come. >> but there's still a long road ahead. construction crews boarded up the final windows in the blast zone where the only thing left standing is rubble. ♪ >> 15 years old careenna's close friend was among those who lost their homes. the fund-raiser at her high school was her idea. >> people were donating items and money and blood all in the first week. and already it's starting to die down in the news and even in the community people are already starting to say, okay, well, let's move on to the next big thing but they're going to need

help for months to come. i'm going to try to remember to be there for them. >> if the victims were here they didn't make their presence known but did express their thanks in the neighborhood. >> all the money collected will be donated to the local rotary and lions club and distributed to fire victims who need the help most. >> if you'd like to help the victims of the fire, you'll find a list of organizations working with the community on our website abc7news.com. just click on "see it on tv." >> time now is 4:34. a danville man is on jail on $650,000 bond after police say they found pipe bombs in his home. police were called to a house on amigo road after getting reports of a loud argument. officers learned the argument was over pipe bombs. 36-year-old eric dennis had three homemade bombs and materials that could be used to make more explosives. the bomb squad was called in and

police evacuated surrounding homes. they detonated the devices safely. no indication what dennis planned to do with those bombs. >> san jose police officers are protesting the elimination of the department's gang unit. the crimes enforcement team is now part of the metro unit. staffing between the two units has been slashed by one-third. the union leader say the cuts have devastating effect on public safety. >> the majority of homicides in san jose are gang-related. we simply will not have the resources to address gangs today like we did yesterday. it is a fact. >> san jose mayor chuck reed blames the police department cuts on skyrocketing pension costs. he says the combined task force will still make gang violence a priority. >> the san jose school district is looking for a plan to help school teachers with affordable housing. the examiner reports nearly a

third of the 4500 public school teachers live outside the city the teachers union has been pushing for housing help for years and believes it would help attract quality employees and reduce the high turnover rate. one school official says the board is considering a property on mission street near 16th street that could support 100 apartments with reduced rents. >> 4:36 now. yesterday was interesting. did you it rain on you? >> no. but it was cloudy. and it smelled like it could rain. you know the smell. >> yeah. what's going on? >> did bring measurable rain to the north bay, sonoma. just sprinkles everywhere else. it didn't add up to much. this morning left over clouds but a lot of clear sky out there. temperatures very mild. still in the low 60s to mid-60s oakland, concord, antioch, livermore, san jose. the rest of us in the 50s. if you look at the 24 hour temperature change, we are cooler in the north bay valleys

and we had the clouds yesterday. we don't have them this morning. 9 degrees cooler in novato, 4 santa rosa, 7 in napa with the fog forming right now. this afternoon a mostly sunny sky with richmond, san francisco, half moon bay. south bay looks like the mid to upper 70s there. upper 70s through the north bay valleys and upper 70s to near 80s in the east bay valleys. this will be a warmer start to what's going to be a cooling trend for tomorrow and wednesday. in fact, when fall arrives at 8:09 wednesday, it will probably have been after the coolest afternoon. temperatures drop nearly 6 degrees and look at some of that warmth. we could be near 90 for saturday and sunday inland, mid-80s around the bay and upper 60s at the coast. good morning, megan. >> good morning, mike. we have cal tran hard at work for your monday morning commute. starting out in san francisco southbound 101, a few lanes are blocked between bay shore and grand avenue. that should be cleared 6:00 this morning. castro valley, eastbound 580

from redwood road to cloak canyon road, a few lanes blocked there. also should be cleared 6:00 and that is causing speeds under 40 mph through that area. let's go outside for a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza where it's nice and light heading into san francisco on this monday morning. eric, kristen? >> all right. megan, thanks a lot. that new expressway lane on 680 so we'll be following that closely. >> jenelle wang will tell you more about that coming up. a council member falls victim to street crime. the storied up next. >> a disturbing discovery that has the bay area muslim community upset. >> the glitch in the fair gate did you know go-gurt is specially made to freeze and thaw by lunch time? so kids can have their favorite yogurt in their lunch box go-gurt. freeze it. thaw it. eat it up.

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good monday morning, everyone. it's 4:40 on the abc 7 morning news. this picture is dark, and that's sort of indicative what's going on in parts of san francisco right now. developing news, we're getting word of a power outage in san

francisco. pg&e says just over a thousand customers are without power in the area of clement street and 31st avenue. the lights went out just after 3:00 this morning. pg&e has crews working to determine why and to get the lights back on. we will keep following this as the morning progresses. >> oakland police are hoping a partial license plate number will lead them to the person who snatched the purse of city council woman and mayoral candidate jean qwan. she was walking to a grocery store saturday night when a man grabbed her purse. qwan chased after the suspect and was able to get a partial plate number of the vehicle he fled the scene in. her purse was found and returned to her yesterday. >> police and the f.b.i. are investigating the report of a burned quran discovered in san francisco. the muslim civil rights group care reports that the holy book was found september 12th in the trash can at the islamic society of san francisco. this is the first reported incident of the muslim holy book being burned in the bay area.

members of the muslim community say the incident is especially troubling in light of a florida pastor's threat to burn copies and a threat to build a mosque near new york's ground zero. >> muni says it's stepping unenforcement. the gates use a motion sensor to open automatically when somebody exits. some riders have discovered the sensors can be activated by reaching over the gate and waving a hand to enter without paying. muni says there's no short-term fixed for the problem. the $30 million system which is part of the transition is expected to be installed at all muni stations by next month. >> time now 4:42. u.c. berkeley grad sarah shourd is back on american soil. still ahead, her carefully worded statements to reporter and her plea to iran's president. >> the bill on governor

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conference. >> after 410 days in an iranian prison, lisa shored is back on american soil. the u.c. berkeley graduate thanked the iranny government and religious leaders for releasing her then spent the rest of her time talking about her fiancee and friend josh fattal. both remained locked up. my disappointment not sharing this with shane and josh was crushing. and i stand before you today only one-third free. >> abc this week, mahmoud ahmadinejad called her release a huge humanitarian gesture and the u.s. should release eight iranian prisoners. the mothers of fatal and bauer pleaded in a video. >> we thank you for bringing sarah home but now is the time to bring josh and shane home. >> we want people to be free and not suffer but at the end of the day there's a law who determines who stays in prison and does not. >> iran has issued

espionage-related indictments. the iranian government accuses them of crossing the iran/iraq border which sarah says was indistinguishable during their hiking trip. >> we committed no crime and we are not spies. we in no way intended any harm to the iranian government or its people. >> she was san english teacher living in syria with bauer, a journalist. the teacher travelled to the middle east to visit them. she plans to talk more about their past in the days and weeks ahead. >> by learning who we are and how we came to be in this diverse and fascinating region of the world directly from my lips, it will help clear up any doubts and end shane and josh's detention. >> u.c. berkeley professor ken wright is among those here in the bay area holding out hope. wright was one of bauer's journalism professors. >> the more it drags on, the more i think we have to worry about them, their health, their

mental health as well. >> lillian kim, abc 7 news. >> a wildfire burning outside of salt lake city is threatening 100 homes and forced more than 1,000 people to evacuate this morning. the fire broke out yesterday during artillery practice at a national guard bails 30 miles from salt lake city. dry brush caught fire and spread quickly fanned by 50 mph winds. two homes have already been burned. there's no estimate of when that fire might be contained. >> hurricane igor is expected to veer northeast away from the u.s. today although forecasters say it will still cause high surf and strong rip currents along the eastern seaboard. igor swept past bermuda last night and early this morning causing power outages on the british territory. particular weakened to barely a category 1 with sustained winds of 75 mph. no early reports of major damage or injuries. >> igor has quite the ego.

>> his ego went out the window. >> bye-bye to the ego. bye to summer this week? >> what summer! (laughter) >> exactly. and it's going to get warmer afternoon wards. fall starts at 8:09 wednesday. things are going to change. show you what's going on right now. before we get to that, it's a monday morning. you see some of the patchy fog and some of the low clouds hanging around, especially in san francisco this morning. up into the north bay valleys. looking from emeryville back to the city. you can see how calm the waters are in the bay this morning. almost mirror-like. let's talk temperatures and show you how mild it is. the coolest weather we can find, about 54 redwood city and san rafael, napa, los gatos at 55. everybody else in the upper 50s to lower 60s. looking around the rest of the monterey bay, we have patchy cloudiness here, also. temperatures upper 50s, santa cruz, monterey, salinas,

watsonville and gilroy. kind of the highlights of this forecast, brighter today, a lot more sunshine and warmer weather mainly inland today. around the bay and the coast pretty much the temperatures like yesterday. mostly cloudy tonight. look for more widespread fog and clouds tomorrow morning and that's because we're going to have a stronger sea breeze that will bring us cooler weather for tuesday and wednesday. once we get past that, again, it looks like it's going to be warmer for the weekend. a look at our 24 hour temperature change. we'll drop a little in san jose, about 3 degrees. 1 in san francisco. forecasting the same temperature in oakland. redwood city 1 degree warmer. concord and santa rosa 4 and 5 degrees warmer as we hit 77. 12 hours 13 minutes of sunshine today. east bay, may hit 80 brentwood. everybody else mid to upper 70s like danville 77 degrees. on the east bay shore, maybe a cloud or two and a lot of sunshine from oakland southward we'll have low to mid-70s.

still hold on to mid to upper 60s in berkeley. south bay mid to upper 70s. san jose about 76 along with saratoga. mostly sunny on the peninsula, the cool spot san mateo 70. low to mid-60s to the sunset at 64. near 70 in downtown, south save and sausalito. as you head northbound, you'll hit the mid to upper 70s. sunshine at your beaches. bodega bay and stinson, sunshine mid-60s. carmel, monterey, some of the clouds hanging there. mid-70s, santa cruz, watsonville and salinas. near 80 morgan hill, gilroy and hollister. tonight a little more widespread cloudiness, especially around the bay and fog to form in the north bay valleys. up in the north bay low to mid-50s while the rest of us will be in the mid to upper 50s. roller-coaster ride with temperatures. by wednesday we'll drop 4 to 6 degrees from the bay to the

coast inland areas. we'll gain all that back on thursday and then we'll keep going. temperatures low 90s inland saturday and sunday to near 70 along the coast. good morning, megan. any potential hot spots? >> good morning. we're going to start things off in walnut creek with a live look at 680. no problems as these taillights move southbound into the san ramon valley. but we have road work in concord. it's eastbound for a couple lanes blocked between willow pass and bailey road until 11:00 this morning. elsewhere along the east shore freeway, a live look at interstate 80. heading right through the berkeley area. headlights move westbound. drive time from the carquinez bridge to the maze is just a light 19 minutes. if you're commuting through the north bay this morning checking out san rafael. these taillights are moving southbound. right now the drive time from 37 to 580, 9 minutes and also mass transit looking good. no delays heading out on ace, bart, cal tran, muni, bta or ferries. all the details on the

expressway opening up today, go to abc7news.com and click on traffic link. >> thanks, megan. people walking along a stretch of san francisco's market street will notice something new this morning. crews installed a new exhibit at the auto deck gallery. it features a tesla model f. it's the one they will make at the plant in fremont. crews had to hoist it up two stories to get it into that building. the vehicle will remain on display there for several months. >> researchers at stanford have developed a cheap and fast way to purify water in poor parts of the world. richard hart reports on the drive against the silver bullet against bacteria. >> purifying water using a new method thousands of times faster than anything before it. it uses nanotechnology and silver. before milk could be pasturized or refrigerated, people would drop a silver dollar into a bottle of milk to preserve it.

silver is lethal to bacteria. if you run a minute amount of electricity, it amplifies its powers by thousands of time. stanford is making the fabric battery, cotton infused with the hottest material in research today, carbon nanotubes. the team unfused cotton with microcop spic silver nanowire. >> the time is a crazy idea of using electricity and nanowire to treat water. >> it did the trick. it enabled them to filter 98% of ecoli in this water in one pass using so little electricity it can run on 9 volt batteries. >> a very large size. no reason we cannot do thousands of gallons quickly. >> in fact, all the water used by one household in a year could be treated in just one hour with

a filter the size of a kitchen sink. safety and commercialzation requires still more work but there's a huge potential for poor communities. >> it will be used in a remote area, third world countries. >> what's more with a couple of batteries you could one day take something like this on a camping trip. with the next step in nanotechnology, rich hart, abc 7 news. >> text messages has revolutionized life for millions of deaf and hearing impaired people. for the first time they can communicate with the hearing world on its terms. at the alabama school for the deaf, some students have two hand-held texting devises. it has led to distracted driving, a rise 16 deaths in the last two years. ray lahood is holding a summit on distracted driving. >> free drinking water, the bill on governor schwarzenegger's

desk. most people are surprised to hear that many school districts do not make fresh drinking water available where students get their meals. his bill requires schools to provide water at no charge starting next july. while the bill provides no funding and company say the fix could be as simple as schools putting a pitcher of water on the table. >> just ahead on abc 7 news at 5:00, the warning going out in a santa cruz county community about a police impersonator. >> i'm jenelle wang live along highway 680 where traffic is going to get a lot smoother. i'm going to tell you about the new expressway lanes coming up. >> and fellow students mourn the loss of a marin county teen killed in a horrible traffic accident. up next what

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♪ i'm terry mcsweeney live in san bruno. is your neighborhood on the list? the list of where pg&e's most dangerous pipelines run. a complete list may be out later today. we have a partial list right now. story in a live report. >> i'm jenelle wang, live along 680 where the new expressway lane just opened. i'll have a live report coming up. >> and we'll take a look how that new expressway lane is affecting the morning commute. take a look at your entire bay area commute coming up. >> a live look from downtown san francisco. some of the clouds hangin' around the bay. the marine layer's not here so expect warmer weather before a cooling trend as fall falls into the forecast on wednesday. >> good monday morning, everyone. this week marks the beginning of