♪ oh, no idea. i had no idea. -- captions by vitac -- livermore area tonight, where a fast moving grass fire has shut down lanes on 580 near flynn road, started just before 10 p.m. and has spread rapidly, scorching 100 acres. the initial report from the chp is a car caught fire in the westbound direction and the flames then spread to the grass. everyone made it out of the vehicle. cal fire says the terrain is making it difficult for firefighters. >> this used car caught on fire and it's at the old park on fire. he took off his car,

rolled. >> and tonight, an explosive fire emergency overtaking butte county, the area recovering from painful burn scars of previous wildfires. tonight, a new fire near chico that is growing fast. we're hearing stories from people who managed to get out. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley, and i'm ama daetz. >> tonight, all eyes are toward the town of chico as the park fire not only burns, but erupts in size. started yesterday afternoon with a suspect now under arrest. >> yeah, things really ballooned overnight into the early morning, but today it made its biggest jump in size yet. >> okay, just to give you an idea of where this is happening, the fire zone sits on the border of butte and tehama counties, burning just north of chico with their latest update, cal fire says the fire is nearly 125,000 acres. >> now with just 3% containment and new tonight, parts of the town of paradise, which you remember was decimated by the 2018 camp fire, are now

threatened as well. and under an evacuation warning. let's get to abc seven news reporter j.r stone. >> following the situation there. he's here with all new video and interviews tonight j.r ama dan this fire is being compared to the campfire in paradise because of the area where it is. >> i was in paradise during that fire. i remember the pain i remember the smoke and i even still remember the people evacuated in that walmart parking lot. you never like to see that this park fire has grown rapidly just like that one did. crews tell me tonight they will be in a defensive mode, doing their best to protect homes and structures. we've had some, pretty explosive fire growth throughout the day and that can be seen in this park fire video recorded thursday in butte and tehama counties near chico. >> the cloud is it's getting bigger and bigger. >> so you can see in back of me now an area where the fire is really blowing up a cal fire representative says the fire has moved closer to homes in

cohasset and forest ranch. >> when i asked thursday afternoon for clarification regarding how many homes have burned, crews told us it's unlikely to be in the hundreds at this point. but there are lost homes. paul and janet mallory, who are currently evacuated, saw a picture of their home still standing, but we're told five other nearby houses burned. when you see close friends, family, neighbors losing their homes and you're celebrating the fact that you have a home, you know you're going to go home to, you can't help but shift towards the pain that you know, that they must be suffering. truly tragic, knowing that arson is suspected, a man with an extensive criminal record is sitting in a jail cell right now without bail in connection to starting the fire. a witness said that she watched him push a burning car down a 60 foot embankment. >> i watched the guy blow up his car and then put it in neutral and roll it down the hill and

take off like nothing happened. >> it turned out to be his mother's vehicle. he was doing nothing other than watching the fire. >> so many here reminded of the campfire that burned in paradise in 2018. a fire that killed 85 people. >> there's a lot of ptsd in this county. >> there is a hope that no lives will be lost here. minimal homes destroyed. we just said it's just a house, god. >> but it's been our home and it all can be replaced. we're happy that we were out and we prayed over it. and, i believe that our house is standing today because of a miracle. >> now, if there is another positive here, those i spoke with said this time around, people and that includes officials just seem to be more prepared and ready to evacuate at a moment's notice. that arson suspect that i talked about there will face a judge on monday. j.r. stone abc seven news. >> all right jerry thanks. it's just terrifying what's happening

and so stressful for folks in that area. let's bring in abc seven news weather anchor spencer christian now because a spencer we know how far and how quickly the smoke can travel. what's the outlook here tonight. >> well dan, the smoke has been generally being carried off to the northeast up into the northern sierra by the winds out of the south southeast. >> here's a satellite image that until recently was capturing the smoke image. you can still see the fire north of chico there. see susanville off to the east northeast of chico. that's right in the path of the smoke that's been traveling into the north in a northeasterly direction into the northern sierra. now there has been some concern about whether smoke from that fire might reach its way into the bay area and affect our air quality. that is not the case, and not likely to be the case because we are to the southwest of that fire and its smoke direction. so right now we have moderate to good air quality. but of course people who are in the path of that smoke moving towards the northern sierra may in fact experience some declining air quality. i'll have our full accuweather seven day forecast in a few minutes. dan. >> all right. thanks, spencer. >> cal fire says it's battling a

total of 28 active wildfires across the state. that's more than 235,000 acres combined, or almost eight times the size of the city of san francisco. you can track every wildfire burning across the state with this interactive map on our website. it also lets you see the air quality depending on where you live. just go to abc seven news.com/fire map. >> i don't think there's anything more urgent and more frustrating than addressing the issue of encampments in the state of california, and with those words and an executive order, governor newsom taking a decisive step in the state's homelessness crisis and we're already seeing the effects taking shape tonight. >> the complex issue is certainly something we devote a lot of time to here as we work to build a better bay area and now the governor's command to start clearing encampments begins a new chapter. >> we're done. it's time to move with urgency at the local level to clean up these sites, to focus on public health and focus on public safety. there are no longer any excuses.

>> governor newsom's executive order comes after a supreme court ruling last month easing the restrictions on how cities can remove encampments. it also gives power to state agencies like caltrans to act now, the governor is pressuring local governments to take action by threatening to withhold money. >> this executive order is concerning because it says to jurisdictions that you can do what you need to do to clear people out of public spaces, it actually incentivizes jurisdictions to do that. and it's not taking into account where people are going under the order encampments that pose safety risks will be prioritized for clearing. >> anyone would be given 48 hours notice before they are cleared out. now, how is the governor's announcement being received? in our three biggest bay area cities, we checked with san francisco, oakland and san jose leaders. you can find their responses and our complete

coverage on today's order by heading to abc seven news.com or your abc seven bay area app. >> now to your voice and your vote. and the latest on september's presidential debate on abc. late today, donald trump's team claimed there is too much, quote, political chaos to finalize debate details until the democrats formalize their nominee. meanwhile, vice president kamala harris today met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu affirming support for israel and a push for a ceasefire. harris is the presumptive democratic presidential nominee, but it won't be made official until the august convention. >> i also expressed with the prime minister my serious concern about the scale of human suffering in gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians. >> israel will fight former president trump and netanyahu are scheduled to meet tomorrow. republican vice presidential candidate j.d. vance is facing criticism tonight for comments

he made back in 2021 about childless women, including vice president kamala harris. harris's stepchildren have since come to her defense, but women and families across the nation are also sharing their personal stories. in response, abc seven news reporter tim johns has more on that. and the trump team's reaction. >> donald trump's running mate, j.d. vance, is facing renewed criticism thursday night for comments he made on fox news in 2021. >> we're effectively run in this country via the democrats, be it via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made. and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. >> during the comments, vance specifically calling out, among others, vice president and presumptive democratic nominee kamala harris. while he may have singled out harris, his comments have caused fierce backlash from many people online that includes actress jennifer aniston, who has publicly struggled with fertility. she shared clips from vance's 2021 interview on instagram and called out his stance on reproductive rights,

aniston writing, quote, i truly can't believe this is coming from a potential vp of the united states. as for vance, his team says his remarks were taken out of context and a spokesperson for former president donald trump taking to x to point to other comments vance made in 2021. vance said, quote, a lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons. there are people, of course, for biological reasons, medical reasons that can't have children. the target of these remarks is not them. that response not good enough for many local leaders here in the bay area. state assembly member buffy wits called vance's comments shocking, whits condemning them on thursday and also criticizing similar statements vance has made about his belief that parents should have more power at the ballot box than those without children. >> it's antithetical to who we are as a nation. again, last i checked in the constitution, it does not say that you have to have children to participate in our democracy. >> state senator scott wiener shared wicks's view, wiener mentioning that millions of

people, including women, as well as those in the lgbtq community, would love to have children but can't for a multitude of reasons beyond just medical issues. >> it's none of j.d. vance's business whether someone decides to have a kid, or if they decide to have it sooner, have the kids sooner or later. that is their business. their business alone. and how dare he, in addition to his campaign team, vance's aunt and sister have defended his remarks, calling the attacks on him disgusting in san francisco. >> tim johns abc seven news you can count on abc seven news for all things political. >> as we race toward election day. for live updates and expert analysis on this presidential election, just head to our website, abc seven news.com/election. >> a lot more to come here to catch a cartel boss. two of the world's most notorious drug traffickers are in custody tonight. the fbi revealing more about their capture, a new crackdown on social media policies for kids coming. >> plus, this is an airtime. it's what. it's what the world

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580 at the altamont pass. this is a live look here. you can see that charred vehicle. now. it's about to be towed. this is on the westbound side of the freeway at flynn road outside of livermore. caltrans reported the car fire around 945 tonight near the right hand exit. within the hour, fire crews say it jumped to at least 100 acres. everyone

did get out of the car safely. multiple lanes, though, are closed. we will keep you updated as soon as we learn anything more. >> tonight the son of the mexican drug kingpin known as el chapo and another alleged leader of the sinaloa cartel are in federal custody. the justice department says el chapo's son, joaquin guzman lopez, and ismael el mayo zambada, are facing criminal charges after decades of evading police. the sinaloa cartel is one of the most powerful drug trafficking groups anywhere in the world, the fbi director, christopher wray, says. garcia and guzman have allegedly overseen the trafficking of tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine, heroin, meth and fentanyl into the u.s, along with related violence. >> time to get to tonight's abc seven news advancer at 11. it's our way of getting you ahead. and on top of some of the key headlines you'll be hearing about in the days to come. a little over half an hour from now, thousands of video game actors are going to strike the issue is a familiar one. there

are concerns over the use of artificial intelligence. i was at the center of two lengthy hollywood strikes last year. reporter tim pulliam, with our sister station in los angeles, has more on what the union is asking for. >> tonight, sag-aftra talent bracing for a strike at midnight. the union refusing to work for companies tied to the video game industry. after more than a year and a half of negotiations without a clear cut deal. >> as we've just announced, we are now on strike for video games. our efforts to avoid this outcome and negotiate a fair deal have been inarguably collaborative and diligent. >> the union negotiating with these ten companies as part of the interactive media agreement, or ima, to raise wages and add stronger protections for performers in the use of artificial intelligence, which sag-aftra says led to this moment. >> our ai proposals will provide comprehensive performer protection. the technology is complex, but regardless of the generative ai system in use, if your performance is being

replicated, you deserve access to essential information. you deserve to give or not give your consent, and you need to be paid properly. period. >> tonight, a spokesperson for the ima says the group found common ground on 24 out of 25 of the union's proposals, and it is disappointed by the strike, adding our offer is directly responsive to sag-aftra's concerns and extends meaningful ai protections that include requiring consent and fair compensation to all performers working under the ima. tim pulliam, abc news, los angeles. >> and our next abc seven news advancer story is from capitol hill. the full senate is expected to pass the kids online safety bill early next week. this bipartisan legislation aimed at keeping children safe on the internet cleared a key procedural hurdle today. lawmakers have been advocating for regulations for big tech, and those include mandates that companies must take reasonable

measures to protect anyone under the age of 17, as well as giving parents and guardians more control over how their kids use social platforms. if it passes the bill, heads to the house will the federal reserve cut interest rates? >> officials going to are going to meet next week, on the heels of a strong economic report. inflation is cooling and the economy expanded by nearly 3% during the second quarter of this year. something to watch is if the economy returns to the fed's target without going into recession. that's what's known as a soft landing and last happened during the 1990s. most experts believe no action will be taken on interest rates until the federal reserve's september meeting. >> after decades, southwest airlines is putting an end to its first come, first seated policy. the company announced plans today to pivot to what everyone else has assigned seating. >> i don't think it's going to go faster. i don't know what the goal is. >> that's a bummer. yeah that's rough for us. >> i think once they start having availability to do

assigned seating, that means the fares are going to go up too. >> the airline says when a customer chooses to stop flying with them and picks a competitor instead, open seating is cited as the number one reason for that decision, plus a few other updates from southwest tonight. it will enroll red eye flights for the first time, mostly out of vegas and los angeles to start with, and it will introduce premium seating options as well, >> it seems like they're making these changes for a number of reasons, the biggest one being that they're really struggling financially lately, this is a bid to increase revenue, they need the cash. bad. >> these changes will take effect next year, but we do not yet have an exact start date yet. we'll keep tabs on that. >> all right. no need to fly anywhere because our weather has cooled off. >> finally, it really is, going to become much more moderate. spencer. kristen is here with the forecast. >> great weather for staying here. right here. we're still lovely right now. here's a look

at our satellite radar composite image and the alignment of systems there. we'll show you why we're having the pattern that we have the high pressure system there drifting a little bit to the east now down to the four corners area of the southwest had been in control of our weather earlier this week and brought us that heat wave. now, this low pressure system is asserting itself and is generating a nice cooling onshore breeze. that, and it is just a breeze right now, although these winds were stronger earlier in the evening, but the cooler breezes and that breeze or that onshore flow is reinforcing the marine layer which is bringing us cooler weather as well. so the 24 hour temperature change tells a little, a little, a bit of the story. you can see it's about 2 to 5 degrees cooler in most locations right now at this time last night, hey, it's late at night. what are you going to do? right, the current temperature reading 58 degrees in san francisco. we have low to mid 60s at oakland and hayward, low 70s at san jose and redwood city, 54 at half moon bay. this is a view from mount tam. notice this thin just shallow layer of

low clouds moving out over the bay. not quite a marine layer yet, but the first sign of maybe a developing one overnight. currently is 57 degrees in santa rosa, petaluma, 5465 napa 70 at fairfield and livermore. concord is our our warm spot at 76 and even at the golden gate, where we normally would see fog this time of the night. this time of the year. it's pretty clear at the moment these are our forecast headlines. cooler air continues arriving tomorrow and saturday. the weekend outlook generally below average high temperatures, but mainly bright skies. and next week minor warming is expected, but no severe or significant warm up. overnight we will see a little bit of a marine layer developing along the coast, pushing locally out over the bay and locally inland by 6:00 630 tomorrow morning it will be quite evident, but it'll pull back to the coastline by about mid-morning. going into the midday hours. overnight, low temperatures will be mainly in the mid to upper 50s, so a comfortably cool night tonight and tomorrow with mainly sunny afternoon skies. 60 at the coast, upper 60s to low 70s

around the bay shoreline. inland areas that had been in the triple digits just a couple of days ago will only be in the low to mid 80s tomorrow. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast. it will get even cooler on saturday with inland highs just reaching maybe 80 degrees or lower as we get into sunday. monday we'll see the temperatures rising just a few degrees and by mid week to late week next week we'll see high temperatures back in a more seasonal range. low 90s ♪ do what you want ♪ get into an audi and go your own way. find your way to exceptional offers during the summer of audi sales event at you local audi dealer.

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it pairs up two popular marvel characters for one of the biggest films of the summer. there was an early premiere in redwood city, and that brought out lots of fans who gave the film rave reviews. >> great movie uh- great. i'm not going to spoil anything. it was probably the movie of the year for sure. this stands on its own great experience. i didn't even remember half of the other movies and i had a great time today. >> that's high praise. deadpool and wolverine is expected to set the record for the highest opening of an r-rated movie. disney, which is a parent company of abc seven, owns marvel. >> nice to hear it's getting good reviews from folks who attended all right, baseball's trade deadline is a few days away, and the giants are moving in the wrong direction. >> abc seven news sports

director larry beil is here. larry. >> dan i'm the dodgers. adding insult to injury in their series finale with the giants, a player the giants did not want because he can't hit. naturally beat them today with his bat in l.a

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would be giving up, but they're not winning anyway. matinee in la. giants fans in need of a stiff drink these days clayton kershaw back from shoulder surgery, season debut today elliott ramos singles off his back tyler fitzgerald in giants up two one. kershaw would go four innings. logan webb he is frustrated, not pitching well at a time. he knows he needs to lead. austin barnes a rocket off the glove of matt chapman. run scores! dodgers go up three two and nobody's happy. especially webb. went five innings, gave up four runs. here's the insult to injury. part nick ahmed breaking a44 tie with a homer off of tyler rogers. yes, the same nick ahmed the giants got rid of a couple of weeks ago because he could not hit. naturally, he hit there and this guy we know can hit shohei ohtani. next pitch number 31. dodgers wins six four. giants six under 505 and a

half out of the last wild card spot. the a's, their only all star mason miller, went on the injured list. a broken left pinky miller apparently was frustrated the other night, slammed his pitching hand onto a table in the clubhouse. don't do that. he's out at least a couple of weeks, so he'll be out when the trade deadline arrives. healthy a's and angels in anaheim. we have incoming. he bobbles it right to her. not a clean catch, but that's a souvenir. lawrence butler he's been doing work. follow the ball here. third inning we have liftoff bouncing into the centerfield pond. kind of a splash. hit his 11th and butler in the a's are down five four. they add on in the fourth. daz cameron muscles up. this is just over the yellow line. a two run homer and the lead. and nobody scored for the last five innings. a's hang on six five. history made today as padres pitcher dylan cease threw a no hitter against the nationals. first time he's ever done that, throwing a no no see struck out nine, threw 114 pitches. final out there a three nothing san diego win. brandon aiyuk and

trent williams, they want new deals. they're not practicing. but the 40 niners did give christian mccaffrey an extensio. so he's the highest paid running back in the nfl. $15.5 million a year. the nfl offensive player of the year last season hopes to see big trent on the field soon. >> yeah i mean look i you know, the business side of things as i said before, is it's the tough part about playing in the nfl. for me, i stay out of, everything really just kind of stay in my lane, focus on me and doing whatever i can to get back. but obviously, no one's a bigger fan of trent than me for obvious reasons. >> sports on abc seven, sponsored by river rock casino.

our abc7 news i-team reporter dan noyes. an easy east bay mom and president of the swim team is now under arrest, and the kids are now having to hold fundraisers to keep the club afloat. that story is one of the top things people are clicking on right now on our website. it's up for you on the top news sidebar at abc7 news.com.

>> a reminder you can watch all of our newscasts live and on demand through the abc seven bay area connected tv app. it's available for apple tv, google tv, amazon fire tv. do not forget roku. download the app now so you can start streaming. all right. thank you so much for watching tonight i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley for spencer kristen larry beil all of us here. >> we appreciate your time right now on jimmy kimmel it's guest host lamorne morris. >> have a great night. >> lou: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live" with guest host lamorne morris. tonight -- marlon wayans. matt rogers and bowen yang. plus, music from brigitte calls me baby. with cleto and the cletones.