after the assassination attempt. >> always live abc seven news starts right now. >> it's not just talk. republicans say they want to send a message of unity. and that's on display at the republican national convention. as some of donald trump's former opponents take the stage to show their support. good evening. >> i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. some big names are set to speak soon, including texas senator ted cruz, florida governor ron desantis and former south carolina governor nikki haley. >> it is day two of the republican national convention. this is a live look inside in milwaukee, wisconsin. president trump made his first appearance late last night on day one of the conference. he is expected to deliver a speech on the final day, which is thursday. his newly named running mate, jd vance, is set to speak tomorrow. trump's vp pick is putting silicon valley in the spotlight. >> it is, and jd vance is apparently on the floor of the convention as we speak. abc

seven news reporter suzanne vaughn is in the newsroom with a look at the intertwining forces of politics, power and technology in the upcoming election. suzanne dan ama tech experts tell me jd vance is a very interesting pick for trump's vp and underscores the amount of money and power in the tech industry. >> donald trump's election of jd vance as his running mate is sparking conversation about vance's ties to the bay area. vance spent several years here as a venture capitalist and lived in this house near bernal heights park before moving to ohio and becoming a u.s. senator in 2022. wired reporter vittoria elliott covers platforms and power. she says vance's ties to the tech industry run deep, especially his ties to the billionaire tech pioneer peter thiel, formerly of paypal. he worked with peter thiel at mithril capital. >> and obviously peter thiel has been a really long time supporter of donald trump. >> back in june, a fund raiser in san francisco raised $12 million for trump's presidential

campaign. that big money event was hosted by billionaire david sacks and his wife. sacks is a prominent gop donor and venture capitalist. sacks spoke at the first day of the republican national convention in my hometown of san francisco, democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of crime. >> homeless encampments and open drug use. >> senator jd vance, who is friends with sacks, spent months getting silicon valley's biggest players to support trump. >> so i think we see his connections to silicon valley money really tightly intertwined. elon musk, the ceo of tesla and spacex, says choosing vance for vp was an excellent decision. i think that we've seen this sort of right movement in tech over the past several years, and i think really a great exemplar of that is elon musk, who just launched a pro-trump super pac. >> musk says he plans to donate

$45 million a month to that super pac. vance says the vp could significantly impact the tech industry. >> i think we're really going to see him maybe shape trump's posture towards the tech industry, and tech experts say having vance as a vp candidate means that technology and tech companies may play a bigger role in the white house. >> some political experts argue that billionaires and corporations are rooting for vance, saying that if trump vance win, it could be extraordinary for startups and capitalism as a whole. live in the newsroom suzanne vaughn, abc seven news. >> very interesting. >> okay, suzanne, thanks very much. let's go live now to milwaukee. and the convention floor. donald trump once again making an appearance for a second night in a row, still wearing that bandage on the right ear where he was grazed by a bullet on saturday by an attempted assassination. uh. the president, not expected to speak tonight. that will come thursday, the final night of the convention. but for the second

time in two days, he has come out to greet the crowd. jd vance is vice presidential pick, is also apparently on the floor. we'll probably get a look at him, but president trump, former president trump hoping to be president once again, having a big uh- love fest at this convention, particularly after what happened on saturday yesterday when he came out, he seemed a little somber, emotional. >> you could sort of see some emotion on his face today looks very resolved. >> you know, that's a good poin. yesterday it was probably a very sobering moment. his first public appearance at this convention after that really near death experience on saturday. and there was a different there was a more subdued mood in the crowd yesterday. this is looking more vibrant, vibrant in what you typically see in a convention. a lot of cheerleading and enthusiasm. >> yeah, we weren't sure if he was going to come out today. same with yesterday. but he decided to make an appearance

yesterday and today, but not expected again to speak until thursday. so we'll have to see what happens here. >> yeah jd vance behind him there is his vice presidential pick announced yesterday and he will speak tomorrow on wednesday to the delegates in milwaukee at the republican national convention. and again, president president trump had said he hopes that the bandage will come off by the time he speaks on thursday. we'll have to see, but still looks like the same size bandage he was wearing yesterda. >> yeah, absolutely. yesterday he came a little bit later. 7:00. our time around that, that time frame. it's an hour earlier today apparently wants to be there earlier to hear both haley and desantis speak. >> so people who have been very critical of him in the past now fully on board with this campaign. we'll get a live update from milwaukee. another one for you as you look live at the former president, now at 630, taking a look at the major moments that are playing out at the republican national convention and abc news will have extended live coverage of

the convention starting at 7 p.m. immediately after this broadcast, abc seven news at six. >> let's go now to developing news on the attempted assassination of donald trump at that pennsylvania rally last saturday, trump's campaign says he'll hold his next rally this saturday. one week later, it will be indoors in michigan. video of a call with robert f kennedy jr last weekend shows trump saying the bullet that hit his ear quote, sounded like the world's largest mosquito. the three officials tell abc news the secret service had increased trump's security weeks ago because of intelligence about a possible iranian threat to assassinate the former president. there is no sign that that is related to the shooting now, house majority leader steve scalise said he believes the secret service director should resign. scalise was shot and wounded at a congressional baseball practice. you may remember that back in 2017, one injured victim from saturday, 74

year old james kopenhaver, remains in critical condition. his family released this photo today in a statement asking for privacy. both survivors are still at pittsburgh's allegheny general hospital. the other survivor is now out of a medically induced coma. 57 year old david dutch, a former marine, was shot in the chest and the liver. he has been upgraded from critical condition. now donald trump has spoken with the family of the only person killed at saturday's rally, corey cooper. it comes after carpenter's widow said she had not heard from the former president immediately following the shooting. carpenter, a firefighter, leaves behind a wife and two daughters. he's the step nephew of a former menifee city councilman who still lives in riverside county. >> he's a firefighter and he knows his job is to save lives and i think it was just instinct that when he heard the shots, he

hits the ground and protects his loved ones. >> carpenter was 50 years old. his funeral is set for thursday. eric trump said there is, quote, no question that a trump family member will attend the funeral. you can find a live updates on the attempted assassination of former president trump on the abc seven bay area app, and at abc seven news.com. >> a letter is circulating among democrats to prevent president biden from locking up the presidential nomination before the democratic convention. >> the letter, shared by san rafael congressmember jared huffman, seeks to stop a virtual roll call among delegates planned for next week. the roll call was originally scheduled to qualify the democratic candidate for the ohio ballot, but that's no longer necessary. huffman's letter does not call for biden to step down. it says an early roll call before the convention would undermine morale in the party. now, the president made his first public appearance since the assassination attempt on former president trump and quickly pivoted to the campaign.

i am all in by repeating he will continue as the presidential nominee. that got raucous applause from the people attending the naacp convention in las vegas. president biden angrily called for a ban on assault weapons, and ar15 was used in the shooting. >> donald trump just it was an assault weapon to kill so many others, including children. it's time to outlaw them. i did once and i will do it again. >> president biden is also calling for toning down political rhetoric to avoid violence. >> coming up next, elon musk. why his exes will live in texas. >> plus, what's inside a new wave of subpoenas linked to the federal raids in oakland, including the home of mayor shengtao. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya

patel turning up the heat this week. we'll take a look at the temperatures when abc seve

wisconsin. right now you're seeing texas senator ted cruz, who is currently speaking. he took the stage just a few minutes ago. former president donald trump, he arrived moments ago, earlier than he arrived last night. and that's reportedly so he can listen to speeches by nikki haley and ron desantis, which should happen in the next half hour. so we are, of course, monitoring this and

staying on top of it for you. >> but let's move to this now. elon musk is moving the headquarters of both x, formerly known as twitter, and spacex, from california to texas. a tesla's headquarters already made that move years ago. musk says the new moves are because of a new california law that will make the state the first in the nation to ban school districts from requiring that parents be notified if their child changes their gender identification. abc seven news reporter tim johns has a look at both the support and the backlash. >> california is set to become the first state in the country to ban local school districts from requiring staff to notify parents if their child decides to change their gender identity. the move, which came after intense debate in the state legislature, has been welcomed by many. that includes daisy gardner, who herself has an lgbtq child. >> this past year, parents of queer kids have seen our children used as political footballs.

>> gardner says the sometimes fiery debates in school districts around the state have created a hostile environment for many trans and gender nonconforming students. she hopes with the new law school districts can focus more on education as opposed to culture wars. >> basically, there's been this boogeyman of the schools are going to trans your kid or the schools are going to make your kids gay. and we have finally said unequivocally, schools cannot make a kid gay or trans. >> similar feelings were shared by tony huang, the executive director of equality california. huang tells me the law will help protect queer kids safety, especially those who might come from unwelcoming households. >> we want them to be able to have those conversations at their own time, at their own pace, on their own terms, not everyone agrees with this new law, though. >> some opponents say it reduces school transparency and also infringes on parents rights. one of the law's most vocal opponents is elon musk, the father of a trans child. musk tweeting on tuesday that the law's passage was the final straw and that he'd be moving

both x and spacex out of california to texas. others, like jonathan zachrisson, the president of students first california, also opposed the new legislation. >> it's never a good idea to have policies where schools keep secrets from parents. bottom line, that's never a good policy. it erodes the trust between schools and parents. it undermines the parents fundamental right to for the upbringing of their children. >> zachrisson says the new bill was a case of government overstep. he thinks that while it only applies to public schools, the backlash over its passage will continue to grow. >> on top of that, there's going to be, litigation. there already is litigation. and this will become part of that litigation. >> the new law set to go into effect in january in san francisco. tim johns, abc seven news. >> well, we are following efforts to improve safety at san francisco's west portal station, where a speeding driver killed a family of four last march. this afternoon, the sfmta board of directors approved a pilot program to restrict traffic on

streets around west portal station. speed bumps and left turn restrictions will be added as will a barrier to protect people at the bus stop where that crash happened. the fbi investigation that took agents to the mayor's home in oakland and several other locations is now touching the police department through a new wave of subpoenas. abc seven news reporter anser hassan pieces it all together for us. >> the fbi investigation into oakland mayor shengtao and the duong family is expanding. the fbi has now subpoenaed the oakland police department. >> this is significant because what we appear to be uh- entertaining is a massive corruption investigation that is currently underway by the grand jury at the instruction of the department of justice. >> greg woods is a professor in the department of justice studies at san jose state university. he says the subpoena is not necessarily to uncover any wrongdoing by the oakland police department, but rather if any victims have filed complaints related to those under investigation, they would

call the oakland police department to report such an encounter, such a potential, victimization professor would suggest it may be also to establish a timeline. subpoenas allow the fbi to learn about the nature of the calls. and what if anything, was reported that could determine probable cause to, in fact, charge somebody with a crime to place them into custody and then to, well, continue this judicial process to hold individuals accountable? the fbi and oakland police department did not return requests for comment, but the bay area news group is reporting that a subpoena was issued to opd to turn over all internal phone directories since the beginning of march, and all police reports involving the duong family since the beginning of april. in june, the fbi raided mayor tao's house and homes belonging to members of the duong family, which owns california waste solutions, a recycling company that operates in oakland. as the abc7 i-team has reported, this may be linked in part to a campaign

contribution laundering scheme. the fbi has also subpoenaed the city of oakland, allegedly looking into sources of funding. >> it is also an investigation into the transparency of how it is that money moves through the support and the donations to the political campaigns that impact the city of oakland. >> no charges have been filed in. mayor tao has denied any wrongdoing. wood says this type of fbi grand jury investigation could go for on months if not into next year. in oakland, anser hassan, abc seven news. >> all right, it's tuesday, so i believe we're still in the cool zone. >> we are. it was nice, wasn't it? yes. >> very nice. meteorologist sandhya patel is here. sandy. yeah, it was absolutely gorgeous. >> we're going to go into the hot zone inland later on this week. so, dan, let me show you a live picture right now from emeryville. camera. you are looking towards emeryville and part of 80 there. absolutely beautiful blue skies right now. temperatures today were in the mid 60s to mid 80s, so just

really nice and mild. here's a look at what you can expect this evening if you are stepping out inland areas in the mid 70s. still clear at 9:00. upper 60s. dropping off into the low 60s and around the bay. sun shining 65 degrees. a little breezy at 7 p.m. you will notice those temperatures coming down into the upper 50s late tonight and along the coastline. a mostly sunny at 7 p.m. going down and clouds rolling in into the mid 50s. late tonight. as you look at live doppler seven, the marine layer is off the coastline. it will fill back in. as we have seen the last couple of nights, this area of low pressure has been keeping the onshore flow going. it's also been keeping our temperatures going downward this week. we've seen cooler weather and some thunderstorms have been popping up. now this low is going to move out of here, and that's what's going to allow high pressure from the four corners region to build in and bring us the warmth starting tomorrow. right now, onshore winds are pretty gusty. 31 at oakland, 27

sustained in san francisco, 30 out towards the delta. a live view from okay. and you can see a little patch of low clouds there 64 degrees in the city, 68 in oakland you're in the 70s. san jose redwood city, half moon bay, 63 degrees and nothing but sunshine from our golden gate bridge. camera 70, in santa rosa. you're in the 60s in petaluma, but really pleasant inland concord. livermore, 72 degrees along the embarcadero. the wind is blowing things around this evening. breezy to gusty. tomorrow the warming trend begins and thursday and friday, heating up inland as we will notice with that ridge coming in. so we go hour by hour, still gusty at 7:00, 25 to 30 mile an hour winds at 9 p.m. it is breezy, but the winds begin to subside and tomorrow morning it starts out with lighter winds. the winds pick up again tomorrow afternoon and evening. certainly we'll see the patchy clouds that we're seeing right now spreading as we head towards tonight. but that marine layer is going to compress. so tomorrow morning you wake up to

the fog and then most areas will clear out except for a few locations near the coast, 40s to 60s on your temperatures out the door tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon it's a warmer one. sunshine 84, in san jose, 92, in the south bay and morgan hill on the peninsula, 75 in san mateo, 60 two half moon bay, downtown san francisco, 69 degrees in the north bay. you're going to have really pleasant weather. 89 in santa rosa, 86 in san rafael, heading into the east bay, 74, oakland, 78, in fremont, inland areas 89. concord and livermore 92 degrees in fairfield and brentwood. accuweather seven day forecast each and every day. those temperatures start to go up a few degrees between tomorrow and friday. that's when the triple digits show up. mid 60s coast numbers dial back a little bit saturday, but they'll recover and this will be our reminder. it's still summer. you've got triple digits again monday and tuesday. ama and dan so it'll get hot. >> all right we're in for it. thanks andrea.

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is to cut the time of editing thousands of dna cells from one year to one day. >> can you imagine that is a huge change. abc seven news reporter luz pena shows you the progress in the race against time. >> cancer has proven the scientists can only go so fast. but now i could change that. >> for the first time, we're going to be able to use artificial intelligence to be able to do really millions, if not billions of experiments, all on the computer before we even do the first experiment trying to kill cancer cells, we got to look inside the gladstone institutes in san francisco, where teams are working together using artificial intelligence to understand cancer cells. >> doctor deepak srivastava, president of the gladstone institutes, believes this approach will save lives. >> we'll be able to take somebody's cancer that so far has been untreatable and be able

to engineer their own immune cells in ways that would specifically kill their cancer cell, according to the american cancer society, skin cancer is by far the most common of all types of cancers in the u.s. colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths for both men and women. >> these two types are the main focus for this research. >> the vision here is that we could use the machine learning models, use ai to figure out the patterns that distinguish the drivers from the background. and if we could do that, then we could do much more effective experiments. >> before ai scientists could only do a thousand edits to dna in a year. and now with ai, they can do a million edits in a day. katie parlor is a director of the gladstone institute of data science and biotechnology, leading this ai approach and working fast to find ways to tackle cancer is personal to

her. >> i'm a patient. i have patients in my family, and we don't have time to waste. >> typically, breakthroughs can take decades to make it to clinical trials. this team is aiming for a shorter timeline. >> my hope is that over a five year period, we've learned enough that we can design new types of clinical trials that can actually try to address those cancers that have so far been incurable. >> in san francisco. luz pena, abc seven news promising san francisco mayor london breed is facing a number of challenges and challengers in her recall election bid. >> hear from her on why she thinks she should get another term. >> and it is day two of the republican national convention. our live coverage will continue from milwaukee on what to expect tonight

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a new record high. the s&p 500 also hit its own fresh all time high. the nasdaq was up but shy of a record. investors are now betting on an interest rate cut in september. >> today is day two of the republican national convention. this is a live look inside in milwaukee, wisconsin. donald trump is there. we saw him arrive just moments after 6 p.m. to listen to tonight's speeches. the focus tonight is immigration. about 15 minutes ago, texas senator ted cruz mentioned the case of kate steinle, the woman who was shot and killed in 2015 as she walked along pier 14 in san francisco. and kate, think of kate steinle. >> she was 32, walking with her father on a san francisco pier when a bullet tore through her heart. the man who fired that gun, he'd been deported five times. every day

>> steinle was shot and killed by a man named jose inez garcia zarate, an undocumented immigrant who was eventually acquitted of her murder and manslaughter. in 2017, he was found guilty of gun charges and eventually deported. the killing sparked fierce debate over san francisco's sanctuary city policy. at the time, the rnc runs for a total of four days. day one yesterday was when donald trump officially received the republican nomination for president and was had named his running mate as well. >> let's go live to reporter liz nagy from our sister station in chicago. she is live in milwaukee for us tonight. hi, liz. >> hey there. night two is underway in. tonight's theme is make america safe again. just before donald trump entered the arena for a second straight night, surprising his delegates, the crowd inside was listening and cheering as one speaker after another spoke about cracking down on crime and illegal immigration. law and

order night at the republican national convention is off and rolling. fellow candidates and staunch supporters of the former president, like senate hopeful kari lake from arizona, came out fired up the solutions guys. >> they're really simple. first of all, stop the biden invasion and build the wall. and while we're building the wall, let's kick bidenomics to the curb and bring back the maga nomics. >> republicans are riding the high of former president trump's surprise appearance inside the fiserv forum monday night. like a boxer parading out to the ring, a bandaged former president trump strode onto the floor of the fiserv forum monday night. his loyal masses raptured by the moment. he is tough and he'll fight for every american with his ears still wrapped from a bullet fired at him just 48 hours earlier, the eternal showman seemed uncharacteristically emotional. republicans are now trying to change the minds of black voter.

featuring internet star amber rose in primetime. >> american families were better when donald trump was president, but the black mayor of the convention's host city is urging voters to think critically. >> when you listen to the words from the podium at fizer forum, the podium at the republican national convention, be objective, be objective. what's the spin? what's real? >> that message of unity and softening political rhetoric seems to be dissolving rather quickly. many of the speakers on stage tonight are blaming democrats for one thing after another, that they see as a failed policy. now, right now, former president trump and his new running mate, jd vance are inside the arena listening to many of the speakers. many of them, like senator, like governor nikki haley and governor ron desantis from florida, were one time his opponents. we're live in milwaukee tonight. liz nagy, abc seven news. >> all right, liz, thanks very much. live coverage of the republican national convention starts at 7:00 immediately after this broadcast. abc seven news

at six. >> today, new jersey democratic senator bob menendez was found guilty on all counts in his federal corruption trial. the jury deliberated for 13 hours over three days before returning the verdict this morning. federal prosecutors accused menendez of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for political clout. menendez pleaded not guilty to the felonies outside court today. he said he would appeal and was deeply disappointed by the verdict. he will be sentenced to october 29th. menendez faces decades in prison. >> turning now to the race for san francisco mayor. all this week, abc7 news will interview the major candidates running to lead the city. today, it was the incumbent mayor london breed. >> why do you want to lead san francisco for another term? >> i got to say i became mayor during tragedy. when ed lee died, i had to lead the city through some real challenging times related to corruption. and then the global pandemic hit. we had to save lives during that

time, we didn't have a playbook, and then we saw an explosion of crime and everything that we've done throughout that time period was really about the defense and trying to combat issues that had been building up, and something we did not anticipate. why i want to continue to be mayor is because we are on the offense. we are on the rise. >> our interviews with the san francisco mayoral candidates continue tomorrow. interim mayor mark farrell will join us in the studio and then supervisors asha safai and aaron peskin will be here on thursday and friday, respectively. and in september, abc7 news and the san francisco standard are joining forces to co-host a live debate with the top candidates. watch it live on september 25th at 6 p.m. >> part of building a better bay area is fighting for racial and social justice, and abc7 news has been focused on the topic of discrimination in the home appraisal process. today, we learned the department of housing and urban development has charged rocket mortgage, an appraiser and appraisal

management company, with race discrimination. hud alleges the fair housing act was violated during the appraisal of a black homeowners property in denver. rocket mortgage denies the charges and said it looks forward to setting the record straight in court, also saying in a statement, quote, under federal law, mortgage lenders are required to work at arm's length during the appraisal process. partnering with independent appraisal management companies who assigned the work to state licensed professional appraisers. the case now goes to an administrative law judge. we reached out to the appraiser, who also owns the appraisal management company in question, did not immediately receive a response. it's the first case of its kind since hud began taking a closer look at appraisal discrimination as a result of our reporting on this topic that began three years ago, our race and social justice reporter julian glover has reported on this topic extensively. it is a subject of our award winning abc seven originals documentary, lowballed. you can watch it on hulu, the abc seven bay area app, or check it out on youtube.

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success, not everyone likes the way it's gone about it. closing two city blocks to cars. >> city officials say it's their way of building a better bay area, and abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez is here with a look at how that's working. and lyanne the controversial move to make the closure permanent. >> right. and i if you go on a monday, it's kind of slow, but on a weekend, friday night hopping. really? yeah so you know, what san mateo is trying to figure out is how to bring people in during weekdays, morning, noon and night. in the meantime, we wanted to know why some businesses love the pedestrian mall and why others say it's not working for them. it started out as a pilot program after the pandemic,

pushing cars away from two city blocks in downtown san mateo and allowing pedestrians to be well in the driver's seat, so to speak. >> it'll be closed the next 3 to 5 years, and making the best of it. >> mackenzie jakobek is with the downtown san mateo association. she oversees 550 businesses in the area about 150 are food related services. most restaurant owners are happy having b street between first and third avenues. a pedestrian only experience. >> i don't know about everybody, but it's good for us and we like it. we want to keep it. >> local businesses say they have seen fewer drivers speeding on busy third street. >> now you know you have parklets. i have one here. you know the other businesses have parklets on the same street. so it kind of slowed people down. >> but here are the people who don't like the closure. people in cars like delivery truck drivers who have to park several blocks away to then haul their

goods. carolina valle of los amigos imports, says her 29 year family owned business has suffered about 45. >> we've lost a lot of customers because customers, they don't like to park far away, the owner of sage mediterranean wrote us an email stating some of the concerns from local businesses include lack of parking, operational challenges, lack of business and safety. >> he also says his takeout business has tanked because parking is nearly impossible to find. san mateo seems to be working on these issues by installing more of these green zones, with a limit of 24 minutes to allow for a quick pickup. the city council also recently approved designated parking spots for food delivery services like uber eats that still doesn't help valet and the nearby shoe store and unfortunately, restaurants have more say than the mom and pop shops. >> and there's only two businesses that have been here for over 25 years, and we have

no word and say. >> we asked san mateo's mayor how the city expects to help them. let's talk about victor. sure mayor. right. okay. so isn't the isn't it better if he relocated somewhere else? i mean, how do you bring business to his place? >> well, what happens and what is already happening is the people who come wandering down the mall and they go, i didn't even know there was a shoe repair store in san mateo. wow. i'm going to come back. >> we'll check back in a few months to see if his situation has improved. >> we went from primarily a 9 to 5 economy to a afternoon lunch to evening economy, while the downtown area seems to be flourishing, it's the weekends that tend to bring the bulk of their clientele, like during the weekend. >> oh my god, you're going to see a lot of younger generation. they walk around, oh my god, feel. so i feel every business got a busy city. >> officials told us they're working to bolster the number of

visitors during the week by offering something that other bay area cities struggle with. >> the new businesses that i've seen coming in, i always ask them, you know what brought you to downtown san mateo? and what i've heard over and over again is we feel really safe here. we've heard really good things about the safety. so happy. happy to report that san mateo city officials are also counting on a number of new housing developments nearby to help bring more business to the downtown area. >> but of course, it will take several more years to see that housing element come online. but san mateo says it's doing what it can to become the destination that go to place between san francisco and san jose. they're almost there. >> yeah, definitely taking some strong steps. all right. leanne thank you. >> coming up next, we're going to have a look at the seven-day forecast. we'll be warming up the rest of the week. >> plus the new rules for defensible space. what else homeowners need to do to prot

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just finished speaking. this is in milwaukee, wisconsin. donald trump did show up tonight earlier than he did last night. he wanted to listen to desantis

and nikki haley, who we saw speak just moments ago. we will likely face a new set of rules when it comes to our landscaping. the state is set to revise what qualifies as a defensible space when it comes to preventing wildfires. abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley looked into what you might have to do differently in the next few years to be fire safe. >> defensible space to many californians means clearing dead debris from around their home and cutting overhanging tree limbs. but cal fire is drafting up new rules that could lead local jurisdictions to revamp their ordinances. the new focus is on the five feet closest to your home, called zone zero, and how even things like bushes and fences can catch flying embers and torch a house like the one on the left, compared to the house on the right where wood is more than five feet away. various agencies are now advising the state on the latest fire science, including this former cal fire official. >> defensible space is not new to californians. what is new is

this first five feet, again, based on our research that is critically important to the survivability of homes that snow, five fences attaching to the side of the house, no bushes, no wood mulch and other combustible items, that could potentially ignite, allowing the fire to get to the house. >> south lake tahoe is starting to enforce requirements similar to these this week, forcing homeowners to remove landscaping and wood gates from along their walls in the wake of the caldor fire three years ago that threatened the whole town again, they have language or measures that would help keep us all saf. >> then we would definitely want to consider it. >> as homeowners, we may not like all of the wildfire rules or other rules uh, but the least the state can do is make sure that that those rules are simple and straightforward, and we know exactly what's expected of us. >> senator wiener is authorizing legislation to simplify state

wildfire maps that outline neighborhood fire severity, ris. various agencies are working to draft up the new zone zero rules that should be made official by the end of the year. i'm leslie brinkley, abc seven news. >> all right. everyone's got to do what they can to protect their property. we do indeed. >> at least the temperature is down for the time being. meteorologist sandhya patel is back with a forecast. >> yeah. dan and ama, from a fire danger perspective, this weather we've had the last couple of days has been good. it's going to start to warm up tomorrow though. still mild and breezy and half moon bay 62 degrees 69. in the city. we'll see our summer microclimates 74 in oakland. but you get into walnut creek and it's getting warm. 88 antioch, 91 degrees. looking at some of the other highs 84 in san jose, 86 in san rafael, you will notice the temperature of 92 in fairfield. the accuweather seven day forecast. it's going to get hotter for the end of the work week. we'll bring in upper 90s to low 100 seconds and then temperatures do come down a

little bit on saturday, but they come right back up again and we'll bring in more triple digit heat for monday and tuesday. so just a little reminder that it's still summer. and dan boy it sure is. >> thanks, andy. >> all right. sportscaster larry beil is here. and my friends probably freaking out right about now is brandon aiyuk your friend or. >> oh, no. no, not exactly my friend who's obsessed with iu. oh, okay. all right. >> it's a friend. tell a friend. ask him for a friend. >> okay. >> all right. tell your friend. okay. brandon is getting really impatient. he wants to get paid right now, we're a week out from training camp for veterans. aiyuk is now demanding a trade, but there is one problem with his demand. and

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really dramatic happens in the next few days, brandon aiyuk is probably not going to be there. in fact, the nfl network is reporting that aiyuk has asked to be traded. now, aiyuk has been really frustrated with the slow to non-existent pace of contract talks. meanwhile receivers like justin jefferson, jamaar chase amon-ra saint brown, they've reset the market for wide receiver salaries, topping out at $30 million a year, and the niners, they don't want to go that high. they usually find a way to get these extensions done before or during training camp. aiyuk is under

contract for the upcoming season at $14 million, so he really does not have much leverage unless he wants to forgo his paycheck for the year. meanwhile, the receiver who might replace aiyuk at some point first round pick ricky pearsall, has been placed on the non-football injury list. that means he might have gotten hurt working out on his own or, you know, some way. but details of his injury have not yet been released. the major league baseball all-star game is underway in arlington. we'll have the highlights for you at 11. safe to say, giants outfielder elliott ramos did not think he was going to be in this game. just a few months ago. ramos spent the first six weeks of the season in triple-a. injuries on the big club gave him an opportunity in the show, and he's turned into the giants best hitter like it's not even close. ramos hitting 298 with 14 homers. his path to the majors filled with ups and downs just whatever you do, whatever you have to do so you can win your spot, just do it like it is what it is. >> you got to work through it. you got to like you got to go

through that, you know what i mean? everybody goes through it. it can be tough for sure. it can be tough. i got the people that, what helped me the most is the people around me for sure. >> warriors owner joe lacob addressed the departure of splash brother klay thompson, who left for the dallas mavericks. speaking on the athletic's nba podcast, lacob said the warriors wanted klay to stay, but obviously they could not agree on dollars. >> we did try to bring him back. we wanted him back. that's the truth. i know people speculate all these things, but i can assure you we absolutely did want him back, there are business realities, obviously, in the process, and i don't want to get into the negotiations and all that stuff because it's not really fair to him or us. and it's, you know, it's without giving all the details of those discussions, which would take a long time, i just don't think the public would understand how it all went down. >> i've got time for the detail. sports on abc seven, sponsored

by smart and final. here's some of the details. klay turned down a two year, $48 million extension offer before last season. he then signed three for 50 with dallas. the math doesn't i mean he left money on the table. he could have taken the two for 48. his agent or klay badly misunderstood the impact of the new luxury tax rules because all the teams are afraid. now the restrictions if you hit what's called the second apron are so restrictive that all the teams are like, no, no, no, no, not not not us. red hot we don't want because it just it just ties you up. you can't do anything to acquire new players. so they misjudged the market and he's in dallas and hopefully it works out right. >> we wish him well thanks larry. all right. coming up next on abc seven live coverage of the republican national convention. then celebrity family feud is on at eight, followed by judge steve harvey at nine at ten and 1030. wheel of fortune and jeopardy! then, of course, stay with us for abc seven news at 11. but that is it for us for now. thank you for

joining us. >> i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley for sandyha patel, larry beil, all of us here. we appreciate your time. enjoy the rest of your evening. we'll see you again tonight a

tonight, the republican national convention right here in milwaukee, the major news already, on night two. former