we know work. >> a carrot in the form of cash. can that keep people in san francisco off drugs? >> always live abc seven news starts right now. this very emotionally drained. >> and i'm grateful. grateful that you have my house. >> grateful in the midst of the biggest wildfire burning in california right now. and grateful because so many other people have lost their houses. good evening. >> i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. more bay area firefighters are now heading to the largest wildfire in the country. the park fire is now at more than 373,000 acres, 580mi■!s burned n butte and tehama county. that's an area 12 times. 12 times the size of san francisco. it is now california's sixth largest wildfire in recorded history. the san francisco fire department posted video today

saying it just sent additional crews to help on the fire lines. a man accused of starting the fire, meantime, was arraigned today on arson charges. the district attorney says. ronnie stout of chico pushed a burning car down a gully. he's being held without bail and will be back in court on thursday. >> i've been asked this uh- a number of times. well why would he do this? what's the reasoning? don't know. the other is an old prosecutorial saying that if you try to figure out what happens in a crazy mind, it will drive you crazy. >> the fire has been burning for five days and is 12% contained. cal fire says 111 structures have been destroyed and at least six others damaged. >> the park fire is the largest active wildfire in california. in fact, the country affecting four counties in the state butte, plumas, shasta and tehama. it's not far from the camp fire that burned paradise in butte county back in 2018. >> abc news reporter mola lenghi

is near chico, also in butte county, with a close look at the damage done by the park fire. >> well, dan ama, the park fire still raging tonight in its path, taking out dozens and dozens of homes. this is one family's home here, just outside of chico, california. the fire burning about 575mi■!s. so far, just a devastating area that's been burned. all of that in just five days, destroying more than 100 homes. you've got scores of cars, property for some folks, literally everything that they have ever owned has been wiped out in this fire. businesses, other buildings, all torched, burned. thousands have been forced to flee. and the park fire, you know, is just one of one of more than 100 major wildfires burning across multiple states throughout the west. here tonight here in northern california, firefighters still working on spot fires, still putting out fires tonight. and this is still very much a race against time as

extreme heat is expected to move in by midweek. triple digit temperatures moving in by wednesday. so again this is very much a race against time as when those triple digit temperatures move in here guys fighting this fire will be extremely difficult. dan ama no question. >> all right. thanks very much. okay. >> so what will weather conditions be like for those firefighters. >> absolutely critical. abc seven news meteorologist lisa argen is here. she's tracking the weather on the fire lines. lisa. >> all right, you're right. and you know, our little cooldown here means 90 degrees in and around the fire. >> so that is cooler than the triple digit heat. you can see the relative humidity quite low at 23%. and those winds out of the southeast at 13, gusting to 20 miles an hour. so it is breezy. our visible satellite picture shows the smoke there from northern california blowing to the north and east to the foothills of the sacramento region and also the sierra nevada. so air quality moderate around the area. but of course, as you get closer, it is quite

unhealthy. so depending on the fire suppression and the fire behavior, it most likely will stay moderate to unhealthy here because this fire is going to burn for quite a while. so our cooldown means that we have those breezy onshore winds and temperatures are below average, but the smoke forecast you notice a little haze in the atmosphere today. well, it continue to lift on out. we had an advisory that will be gone tomorrow because we'll continue to see the northeasterly winds push that smoke into the sierra nevada. we'll talk locally about our own weather and when and how much we heat up. with my accuweather seven day forecast in a few minutes. >> ama all right. thank you so much, lisa. and you can track wildfires across the state as well as air quality with our interactive wildfire tracker. it's easy to find. bookmark it now. abc seven news.com/fire map. >> all right. now turning to a new idea that could help build a better bay area in san francisco, city officials are announcing legislation that would pay some welfare recipients up to $100 a week if they can prove they're not doing

drugs. will that work? abc seven news reporter luz pena spoke with the supervisor behind this concept. she's here with what she found out loose. >> yes, dan, up to $100 a week would be the financial incentive. the city believes this will motivate people to stay sober and encourage others to stop using drugs. according to san francisco's office of the chief medical examiner, 374 people have died from drug overdoses this year, 48 just last month. so this is another initiative by the city to tackle this crisis. on the steps of city hall, just blocks from one of the city's drug overdose hotspots, san francisco mayor london breed got candid about her personal reasons to support what they're calling the cash not drugs legislation. that i lost my sister to a drug overdose, she was down in the streets of the tenderloin. >> it was definitely very difficult. i want to make it easier. just as easy to get treatment as it is to go out there and buy dope.

>> supervisor matt dorsey is the author behind this legislation that would complement prop f, a voter passed measure that requires people on welfare to get drug tested before receiving their monthly $619 check. >> i think this is intended to be more of a carrot than a stic, but it also is based on strategies that we know work. it's a contingency management strategy that rewards people for good behavior instead of just punishing people. >> a similar program through the va showed great success in the first five years, with over 90% of participants testing negative for drugs. randy shaw, executive director of the tenderloin housing clinic, doesn't believe this is the best way for san francisco to use its resources. >> the voters have already said, you have to be in this program drug treatment in order to keep your grant going. now we're saying we're going to give you another incentive of $400 to $500 a month to do what the voters said you should do anyway. so we're going to be giving welfare recipients if

they have a drug problem, we're going to give them a $1,000 a month. >> we talked to moshan smith about what he thought. he has been sober for 12 months. would you have stopped doing drugs if they would have told you that you would have gotten $100? no i'm the one that made the choice. >> it wasn't because of somebody offering me money. >> yet he still believes this incentive could work. >> for some people, this does work too. but then it's also up to the person to now, this is not a done deal. >> this legislation still needs to be approved by the board of supervisors. if it passes by the end of this year, the city will get six months to prepare. so the projection for this legislation is mid 2025. okay. >> but louis, where's the money coming from? who's paying for this. >> yeah. great question. well san francisco is going to pay for part of it. and also the state of california. but as we know san francisco is facing a nearly $800 million two year budget deficit. >> yeah, a lot of money. all right. thanks, louis, very much.

>> uh- san francisco police officer ended up in the hospital today after a burglary suspect crashed into their car. happened just after five this morning at a shopping center on cameron drive and cardenas avenue in the park. merced area officers got a call about a burglary in progress. police tell us when they got there. they tried to stop a suspect's car. the driver took off, crashed into a patrol car. the driver is in custody and the officer's injuries are not life threatening. we're learning new details about a shooting in hayward that took the life of a 16 year old girl. a 41 year old man was also shot. he is expected to survive his injuries. abc7 news reporter suzanne fawn has the latest on the investigation. you can clearly see the extensive damage done by the bullets early sunday morning. >> police say a number of people fired several rounds at each other in front of this apartment complex on west tennyson road and then took off. >> we believe that there was an exchange of gunfire between two separate parties. >> when officers arrived, they found a 16 year old girl in the parking lot who was badly hurt. she died at the hospital. police

don't know if she was the intended target. she lived at the apartment complex where the shooting happened. police say a 41 year old man who was just passing by was caught in the crossfire. he's expected to survive. investigators are still looking into what caused the shooting. >> we do believe that there the parties know each other, don't know if there was an argument that preceded this, but we'll tell you that we believe that some of the shots were fired from a vehicle. >> witnesses describe some of the suspects involved. >> subjects were wearing hoods and masks. this was a group of young men. there were several vehicles involved. we believe that we have recovered the vehicles associated with this case. >> police believe one of the shooting suspects lives in the apartment complex. police know the identities of the two people shot, but they're not releasing that information yet. this is hayward's eighth homicide this year. police say anyone who has information about sunday's shooting should contact hayward police in hayward, suzanne phan, abc seven news. >> up next, smash and grab

thieves ransacked 16 businesses all in one building. what they stole adds up to more than material possessions. also ahea, we have been doing this for decades in a military context all around the world, flying these drones and autonomous aircraft. >> this is real technology. >> how a bay area startup is borrowing a page out of top gun to attack a fire

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lens tonight that we look at a shocking crime in a struggling part of oakland. thieves ransacking 16 small businesses in one office building in the same area. that's seen a number of businesses closed because of crime. abc seven news reporter lena howland puts this case into context. >> they kicked this one open here. they uh. you can see it right there where they kicked it. >> open door after door. ken houston shows us 16 small businesses that were kicked in and ransacked early saturday morning. >> this is the remnants of them cutting our fence right here. >> houston is the director of oakland's beautification council and one of five owners of this office building on collins drive, near hegenberger road. he believes thieves cut through two fences and broke in through an exit door on the second story. >> i've never seen it like this. it's lawless. they're not scared. it's called healthy fear and respect. they have no healthy fear. and respect for

the law. that's scary. >> houston says their space is an incubator for small businesses with primarily black and latino owners, like chris prater's barbershop. >> every single time you go through the door, you're like? it's like somebody slept in your bed who wasn't supposed to be in your house. >> their office building is directly behind the denny's on hegenberger road that closed earlier this year because of crime in the area. their building, now covered in graffiti. their parking lot now overrun by campers. it's just down the street from the 76 gas station that was raided by more than 80 thieves just three weeks ago. here's co-founder and office manager latonya hawkins. >> as more businesses close, we see you know what? what what it leads to. you know, we see people come and destroy businesses like like ours and like our tenants and like the gas station up the street. and so it's really just disheartening. disheartening because we're from here. >> according to our neighborhood

safety tracker, burglaries across the entire city of oakland are down by 21% compared to the previous three year average. oakland mayor shang tao just visited this site last week with the deputy police chief and city department of transportation director over safety and traffic concerns. oakland police said they believe at least three suspects were involved, but no arrests have been made. in oakland, lena howland, abc seven news. >> now, lena mentioned this. you can get detailed information about what crime is like, where you live with the abc seven neighborhood safety tracker. it includes information and trends for oakland, san francisco and san jose. you can find it at abc seven news, dot com. >> southern california was rattled today by a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit around 1:00 in the mojave desert outside barstow. people from los angeles to san diego to las vegas felt the shaking. no reports of damage or injuries at least two aftershocks followed the quake. a magnitude 3.5 and 2.7. >> all right, let's talk about

our weather forecast. nice and cool today. >> yes. let's get to meteorologist lisa argen for the latest. lisa. >> well you know it's not going to last. we will see the cooler weather around the bay but inland once again we're going to see a return to the heat as we get closer to the middle of the week and certainly the end of the week. so looking at our satellite picture right now, you can see all the low clouds and fog and a little system to the north and west. that is what is keeping the cool air in place. but once that passes by, we get a return to a ridge of high pressure that's going to build in to the south of us, and that will bring the heat back to the sacramento valley. the areas that have the fires and our inland valleys. so it won't be as widespread. it won't be as hot, and certainly it won't be reaching the coast. there's a look at the low cloud deck. it's going to move in quickly. and look how breezy it is from our roof camera. gorgeous picture the fog reforming here and current numbers are on the cool side. when you add in that wind 59 downtown, as well as half moon bay 65, oakland 68, in hayward, 74, in san jose.

redwood city low 70s a gorgeous view from emeryville, a couple more hours of daylight. the sun sets at 820. you can see the camera shaking there. 73 santa rosa as well as napa with some breezy winds. it is breezy and concord at 78 and 79, with the southwest wind at 18 by the delta 74, in livermore. so 24 hours ago we were milder. the big cooldown today certainly felt inland five degrees cooler in livermore, and we will be looking at those winds easing up throughout the evening hours right now. wind gusts to 30 at sfo, 22 in concord, and certainly breezy all around the base. that will happen again as the fog retreats tomorrow morning. but look how quickly it's coming back. this is from our east bay hills camera atop vollmer peak, where we'll see it deepen from anywhere from 1500ft to 2000ft. so tomorrow will be the last mile day, and then the heat returns inland. nothing to extreme. we're just talking some 90s. we will warm up through the 90s by the end of the workweek, and that will bring the warm to

hot weather back to our inland valleys. so here's a look at that fog footprint, how far it moves into the east bay. the mist and drizzle at the coast, and then it pulls back throughout the mid-morning hours. we're certainly hanging out around the san mateo coast, the marin county coastline. so cool and gray there overnight. a little bit of drizzle. we're back into the 50s. so good sleeping weather. and as we skip ahead to wednesday, you'll notice that highs are back into the low to mid 90s here. from livermore to antioch, but still pleasant in the 70s to near 80 for the bay shore. thursday looks to be a warmer day, slightly mid to upper 90s. so once again not too extreme. and then dropping a few degrees on friday. so another mild afternoon for your tuesday with highs in the mid 80s and concord upper 70s south end of the bay, san jose as well as napa 73, in san mateo. really a nice afternoon. we'll get through the morning. low clouds and fog and then sunshine on the way, but still on the cooler side for july and then a warmer day on

wednesday uh- august begins on thursday. we're warmer. in fact, those 90s feeling like summer inland and temperatures will kind of peak in the upper 90s on saturday inland though. >> okay, august here already? yes. thanks, lisa. >> okay, san francisco bay oakland international airport is about to make travel a little bit cheaper. here's a live look at the airport, which is offering new parking discounts. you see a little southwest flight there that includes $4 off all reservations in the daily parking lot. and $2 off in the economy lot. this applies only on monday through thursday. reservations. no weekends. the discounts begin this thursday, august 1st. also on august 1st, parking restrictions will finally begin to take effect on a san francisco street filled with rv dwellers. this is winston drive in the lake merced neighborhood. sfmta says parking control officers will begin sighting illegally parked rvs and campers on august 1st. the city last year voted to implement a four hour parking limit along winston drive and

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political shakeups. and, you know, silicon valley is a critical source of campaign cash with bay area connections on both presidential tickets. >> republican vice presidential candidate j.d. vance is headlining a fundraising reception on the peninsula

tonight, and we spotted trump supporters gathered outside the four seasons hotel in east palo alto this evening. officers with dogs were screening cars as they pulled up to the hotel. >> the trump campaign has not confirmed details about the event, but this certainly looks like the kind of security we've seen at past presidential fundraisers. abc7 news south bay reporter zach fuentes looks at the power of the bay area holds in this presidential race. >> the november election is fast approaching, and presidential campaigns are again turning to silicon valley donors. >> it's a cliche, but i'll repeat it we are the atm for the political world. >> and that, says political scientist melissa michaelson, makes california one of the most important states in the presidential election. >> the reality is that silicon valley has a huge amount to do with the presidential election. because of the amount of wealth here and anyone attending mondays fundraiser in palo alto will need wealth to attend. >> according to this invitation posted on the santa cruz county republicans website, people will pay up to $50,000 per couple and or as much as 25,000 for an

individual. the least expensive ticket is $3,300. you can even donate with cryptocurrency. the washington post and bloomberg report. the event is being hosted by mike belshe, ceo of the crypto company bitgo. a sign of vance's ties to the local tech community. >> i think there's a lot of excitement around having somebody with strong connections to the silicon valley on on a ticket, on a national ticket, shayne patrick connolly, chairman of the santa clara county republican party, expects the local trump vance campaign fundraiser to do well, especially because of vance's ties to the tech world. i think that's good for silicon valley and somebody who understands the issues that are important to our startup communities, especially both sides of the aisle, have seen millions in campaign donations. >> the kamala harris campaign reporting sunday that it raised $200 million in the first week of its campaign, a number michaelson said she expects will also motivate republican donors. >> republicans are seeing all this enthusiasm for harris, and that's going to make them want to rally behind their candidate. almost a will show you you think

you're excited about harris. watch how excited we can be about president trump. and so they're going to have massive fundraising efforts in the south bay. >> zach fuentes, abc seven news a congressman from california will be one of the lawmakers tasked with investigating the attempted assassination of former president trump, congressman lou correa from orange county is one of 13 lawmakers on the bipartisan panel. >> the fbi says it will interview mr. trump as a witness and a victim as they fill out the timeline of the shooting. the fbi now says on the day of the shooting, the suspect first went to the site of trump's rally at 11 a.m. he spent an hour there, then went home. at 130. the suspect left his house with a rifle, telling his parents he was heading to a shooting range. instead, he arrived back at the rally site. that was about 345. the fbi says he flew a drone over the area and then drove around. some just after 5:00, a local officer spotted the suspect and deemed

him suspicious. at 611, a local officer confronted him on the rooftop and then the suspect fired at the former president. >> a big question in the weeks since vice president kamala harris moved to the top of the ticket, will she and donald trump share a debate stage? harris communications director says the vp will be at the abc news debate on september 10th. with or without trump. the other big question who will harris select as her vice president? north carolina governor roy cooper has been one of the names floated around, but today he took himself out of consideration. cooper says he supports harris, but it's not the right time for him or for north carolina. new polling shows vice president kamala harris gains among critical groups. the latest abc news ipsos poll found 44% of independents have a favorable view of harris. that's up from 28% a week ago. harris overall favorability is up to 43% to former president trump's 36%. >> president biden is making his pitch for major reforms to the

supreme court, the courts being used to weaponize an extreme and unchecked agenda. >> this decision is a total affront to the basic expectations we have. >> the president says he wants to change the lifetime appointment. appointment for justices creating term limits. he says a president should appoint a justice every two years, with justices being capped at serving 18 years on the high court. mr. biden is also calling for a supreme court binding code of conduct. rory little, professor of law at uc law san francisco, says biden is trying to address a concern for many americans the belief that lifetime appointments to the high court create a political imbalance. >> lifetime appointments can sway the court dramatically in one direction or another. president trump, for example, had three appointments and totally changed the voting behavior of the current supreme court, this has happened sometimes in the past, but there are some presidents who've never had an appointment during their four year term. >> president biden is also calling for a constitutional

amendment that limits presidential immunity, saying, quote, we are a nation of laws, not of kings or dictators. >> happening today, iowa's strict abortion ban takes effect. it bans most abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected. heartbeat can usually be detected about six weeks into a pregnancy. the new law makes exceptions for medical emergencies and fetal abnormalities that are incompatible with life. there are also exceptions for some cases of rape and incest. vice president harris commented on the change, calling it a trump abortion ban that will take effect before many women even know they are pregnant. >> new blood tests are showing major promise in catching alzheimer's disease. a bit earlier, a new study out of sweden found one blood test has a 90% accuracy rate. it's a big deal since right now doctors rely on spinal taps for a diagnosis. blood tests are invasive, which experts say could allow significantly more people to get screened.

>> the major benefit of using blood tests for routine diagnosis of alzheimer's disease is that it's likely to bring an earlier and more accurate diagnosis to a much larger number of people. >> it's encouraging, but keep in mind we're still a long way from these tests becoming widely available. the fda hasn't formally approved any blood tests for alzheimer's, and insurance coverage is limited. nearly 7 million americans have alzheimer's disease. more medical news a new study claims anxiety may triple the risk of developing dementia. however, anxiety that was resolved early was unassociated with a greater risk. doctors say. these findings highlight the importance of addressing and treating anxiety, especially since dementia is a leading cause of death. more than 55 million people have the condition. that number is expected to rise to 139 million by the year 2050. another potential issue here wildfire

smoke. it may be worse for your brain than other types of pollution, a study released today says breathing in wildfire smoke leads to a 21% increase in the odds of a dementia diagnosis. >> thinking about when you are exposed to this, to the potential air pollution, making sure that you're putting an n95 mask on when it's an air quality day that's above 100, thinking about whether or not you can stay inside when we have those days, i think there's more to really uncover here, to really figure out what that exposure really looks like, whether it's sort of one time or whether it's a build up over a number of years. >> the problem is getting worse over time because of the frequency of extreme fire days, which have doubled since the 1980s. >> developing news the man charged with starting the massive park fire is in jail tonight without bail. ronnie stout of chico is accused of pushing a burning car down a gully, igniting the fire. last wednesday. he claims his car

accidentally caught fire and he denies pushing it down a cliff. flames have scorched more than 373,000 acres, triggering evacuations in butte, tehama, shasta and plumas counties. containment is up to 14%. the san francisco fire department says today it sent additional crews to help on the fire lines. cal fire says 111 structures have been destroyed and at least six others damaged in the park fire. wildfires like hurricanes get named. unlike hurricanes, there is no advanced planning. typically, a fire is named for a landmark nearby a road, lake, or mountain. for example, the car camp and woolsey fires were all named for nearby roads, often, dispatchers set the name of the fire. other times it's up to the first crew to get that gets to the scene. sometimes you have multiple fires burning in one place, like when lightning strikes an area. in that case, you'll hear the fires collectively called a complex. for example, the biggest fire in state history is the 20 20th august complex. a cluster of lightning sparked fires which

started in august and took months to completely contain. scientists who study fire behavior say the park fire is an indication of what is likely to be a very active fire season. experts. we spoke with at uc davis say this year is gearing up to be awful after two relatively calm fire seasons, and they're not surprised the park fire has grown so large. >> we're in a position because we have a lot of people living in the wildland urban interface where we are uh- protecting buildings, protecting lives, protecting people at the expense of letting wildfires run into into wild areas. and so fires get large. and they we should expect them to continue to get large. >> other experts say the time has come to change the way fire risk is analyzed, saying really big fuels like tree trunks weren't considered because they didn't actually drive. what happened in fires. but now they are because there's so much dead material in wildlands today. >> coming up next, the bay area

startup working to launch an unmanned air force to fight wildfires. we'll show you how the system could potentially knock out devastating fires before they have a chance to spread. stay

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has teamed up with the abc owned stations to help people navigate this new reality and become climate ready. with concerns over a destructive wildfire season growing, researchers here in the bay area are testing out a better way to fight back. nobody moves at the speed of a wildfire. but now a bay area startup is working on a different kind of quick strike force to potentially knock out the flames before they have a chance to accelerate. >> and at the end of the day, it's about providing enough speed and force to provide that initial knockdown. >> max brody is the ceo of rain. the company is perfecting software for fully autonomous, uncrewed aircraft equipped to locate, evaluate and attack emerging wildfires. located in the former control tower of the alameda naval air station, the company approaches the challenge with a kind of strategies

employed by the military, first, by taking advantage of an existing network of smoke spotting cameras already installed in fire zones like the sierra, then launching aircraft as soon as a suspected fire is detected. >> we have been doing this for decades in a military context all around the world, flying these drones and autonomous aircraft. this is real technology. >> the team is working with collaborators including sikorsky, designer of the famed black hawk helicopters adapted as a fire fighting platform, the aircraft can deliver water to target areas with speed and agility, but developers also want to make those fire killing air drops more efficient as well. that's because a significant percentage of the water dropped on wildfires doesn't actually make it to the wildfire. the target with intense heat and high winds, it can be blown off course or into a mist kind of like this that simply disappears into the air. to help solve the problem, rain

ultimately turned to engineering students at stanford. team members chris coppens and christy park say the process began with some out of the box brainstorming. >> what if we try to do something like water but boba balls, something like that? what if we did something like the consumable water packets that runners use in marathons, what are i don't know, can we use like a snow cone machine or something like that? >> what they came up with were transportable, biodegradable, highly controllable water pellets made with a machine normally used to wrap food, snacks. after testing them shake tables and pressure gauges, it was time for the big drop off a 32 foot fire tower and we loaded payloads of our pellets, approximately 25 each in a trap door bucket extended out the side of the tower, and then we released them and tracked the dispersion of those pellets as they fell, he says. the beta tests were a success

back at headquarters, engineers at rain are continuing to perfect the software that could ultimately help guide the black hawk helicopters to their target, and perhaps deliver their payload of stanford water pellets one. for max brody, it would be the fulfillment of a mission driven by watching the effects of a destructive wildfire as a child, as a kid, you know, that kind of thing just stays with you, and it has stayed with me for my entire life. >> going into the 2020 wildfire season, where the skies turned orange uh, i was convinced that this was the right time to build this technology. an autonomous air force designed to revolutionize the way we fight wildfires. >> it is showing some promise. interesting, right? well, besides reaching fires quickly, engineers at rain believe their autonomous strategy could be safer keeping humans away from the dangerous epicenters of these disasters and off the rugged terrain. >> well, we are going to get a

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stuff out. everything. lisa, it didn't last that long. >> yeah, it was pretty gloomy. in fact, most areas did clear. but as we look at our water vapor imagery, this gives you an idea of that system to the north of us that's keeping the low clouds and fog intact. and it's going to be a quick return to all the low clouds tonight. so we're already seeing that from our east bay hills camera right now. and as it moves across the bay, temperatures drop off quickly. right now it's 67 in fremont, 74 in san jose. still a few 80s holding on up in calistoga with 83 by the delta. so it is breezy out there. you'll need the jacket, but the winds easing up in the next few hours. but up to 30 miles an hour at sfo. and here's a look at that warmth coming our way in concord. we'll see some 90s, maybe some mid 90s as we get towards the end of the workweek. but as for your tuesday, it's pleasant. it's below average with 60s, downtown, 70s around the bay and you'll notice just a few mid 80s inland and the accuweather seven day forecast. the heat. it's back but it's

inland and it's only in the mid to upper 90s. we can handle that. although the bay shore stays comfortable. so better than those triple digits. yes. >> thank you lisa. >> all right. so we're stuck there. larry beil is here with sports. >> yes. the giants have some decisions to make. they've won four in a row by sell the trade deadline is tomorrow. so will blake snell be with the giants or a trade ship for a playoff

49 spot down the road. ricky pearsall is now practicing again. pearsall first round pick out of florida. he's been sidelined with a strained hamstring, but he's out on the field now. he's super quick, he's got great hands at this point, pearsall is only doing these individual drills like you see right here. nothing with the rest of the squad yet. but if his hamstring continues to improve, that is going to change in a hurry. back to aiyuk, he continues holding in his presence in camp means he's not getting fined every day for not being present, so at least there's that. but he's not participating in any workouts. coach kyle shanahan says it's actually good just to see aiyuk out there with his teammates. >> i think it's good when any of these guys have the business part of the contracts going on and everything. i think it's always good to not get too far away from football. you know, at least he can be with his teammates here. meetings get some work with the strength and conditioning coaches, things

like that. and so hopefully when things work out, it just makes a little bit of a smoother transition for the major league baseball trade deadline is tomorrow afternoon, 3:00 california time. >> the giants have to either admit they're not contenders and start selling off some key vets, or double down. it's really tricky. the giants just swept the rockies, who are terrible, but they're still two games under 500. three and a half back of the final wild card spot. blake snell is their best asset to trade, especially coming off of his career high 15 strikeout performance on saturday night and the giants looks after toiling for months and struggling. finally have a healthy pitching staff. snell situation is unusual. if he keeps pitching well, he's likely to opt out and get a big raise in free agency from another team and then you lose him for nothing. conversely, if snell pitches really poorly, then you're stuck paying him another 30 million next year. so what do you do? we'll find out soon enough. >> you know, being in this room, we believe in each other. we believe that our best baseball is ahead of us. our you know, our pitching is getting healthy, our pitching is really hitting their stride. and obviously

offensively, it seemed like we were starting to kind of put together good at bats. we got a lot of good things happening, and i think we all believe in each other. and, you know, we hope to be able to continue to push for that playoff spot. you know, i haven't heard it. >> we don't talk about that. we just you know, we just talk about preparing for a game. i don't know what transpires between the guys. you know as far as names coming up or whatever in trades. but if we can keep winning games, maybe that goes away a little bit. >> team usa basketball won their olympic opener. they beat serbia one 1084. kevin durant came back from a calf injury and scored 23 points in 17 minutes. steve kerr squad. he's got so much talent that jayson tatum, who just helped the celtics win the nba championship, did not even get to play in this game. >> at least a couple of guys who are world class, you know, some of the very best players on earth and it it you know, on the one hand, it makes no sense at all, on the other, it's, i'm asking these guys to just commit

to winning, you know, one game and then move on to the next one. i have to do the same thing. and so i felt like last night, that was the those were the combinations that made the most sense. >> and steve said afterwards, yeah, i'm the idiot that didn't play jayson tatum because they didn't even. they won by 26 sports on abc seven, sponsored by smart and final. what a nice position to be in an embarrassment of riches which all star which which, you you you. yeah. i mean, it's a good problem to have. that's why they're favored to win the gold medal. >> yeah, it's fun to watch, too. it's neat to see all these people who compete all the time play together like that. i always enjoy it. yeah all right. thanks, larry. >> all right. tonight on abc seven at eight, the bachelorette, followed at ten by the premiere of dress my tour. then stay with us for abc seven news at 11. that is it for this edition of abc seven news. thanks for joining us. i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley for lisa argen, larry beil, all of us here, we appreciate your

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