starts right now. >> plenty of talk about the doom loop and demise of san francisco, but today, community leaders cut to the celebration with a block party in the tenderloin. thanks for joining us. i'm j.r stone building a better bay area is our mission here at abc7 news. that means going beyond the national narratives and getting the real story in our communities from the people who live there. that story isn't always straightforward, and we saw that today in the tenderloin. today's love fest sf block party brought music and crowds to the street, with organizers celebrating progress for small businesses. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard talked to business owners who see signs of improvement with a long way to go to one former san francis mayor, willie brown, cutting the ribbon, unofficially ending the city's so-called doom loop, a

post covid economic narrative. >> san francisco is still trying to shake. >> we wouldn't be here if it wasn't interesting, attracted fascinating, etc. as we love san francisco, we got to enjoy the city. >> it's back. it's moving forward. the tenderloin needs love. >> adam swig says he believes in the city so much he organized this block party called love fest san francisco to support small businesses in the tenderloin. >> we all love the tenderloin. a lot of us are afraid to come down here. there's nothing to fear. there's great businesses. >> the tenderloin merchants association says the neighborhood is improving. >> signs are basic, cleaner streets, safer streets, less car break ins, less business break ins. >> jorge luna opened this larkin street taqueria five months ago. >> all the messes, they start to clean it and i think it's pretty good. >> but others say it'll take more than a love fest to change the narrative. here in the tenderloin, which still faces a lot of challenges every day. is

your business down? yeah. by how much? well, 70%. 70%, yeah. golden lotus owner hung ho says that's because of all the unhoused people living in the alley next to his eatery, keeping customers away even after homeless encampment sweeps ordered by governor gavin newsom. >> as far as on the street, some days are better than others. >> justin batiste lives and works in this neighborhood, he says. things are slowly improving and efforts like this block party are a step forward. >> i think any type of event that brings positive energy and influence and positive traffic to the neighborhood is really important. >> in san francisco, cornell, bernard, abc seven news, cornell. >> thanks so much. a child ended up hurt in a bad house fire in san jose. a time lapse video shows plenty of smoke coming off the home on clyde drive in east san jose. fire started around 245 today and was under control by 410. firefighters say the child was burned but their

injuries are not life threatening. the fire destroyed one house and burned a fence and a shed at a neighboring propert. new developments tonight in a story we've followed for months now, a fourth death penalty case is up in the air over claims of racism by prosecutors. a federal judge is ordering alameda county to either release or retry curtis irvin in a decades old murder case. for months now, the alameda county district attorney's office has been digging into old death penalty cases looking for signs of misconduct. d.a. pam price says they found evidence prosecutors excluded black and jewish people from juries. in 1991, a jury found curtis irvin guilty in a murder for hire case. irvin's attorney says prosecutors excused multiple black jurors in the case. this week, state attorney general rob bonta asked a federal judge to grant irvin a new trial, and the judge agreed.

in the north bay, a rash of tire thefts targeting specific models of cars have at least three communities in sonoma county on high alert. look at what has been going on. you can see some of that here. police are investigating at least 15 cases of tire thefts in petaluma, santa rosa and rohnert park in the last week. the thieves have been targeting honda accords and civics, along with toyota camrys and corollas all occurred overnight in apartment complexes and parking lots. owners have come out in the morning to find their cars. as you can see here, sitting on concrete blocks looking live out a nice night across the bay area and up in lake tahoe. cloudy start for the weekend for some and even some thunderstorm chances. abc seven news weather anchor spencer christian is tracking it all tonight. >> okay, here's why we had that thunderstorm chance. so those chances, i should say, looking at the satellite radar composite

image, you see that flow of monsoonal moisture that started moving through california yesterday and continued into this morning as that moisture build up in the atmosphere, there was concern that the afternoon heating of the sun would destabilize the atmosphere and trigger lightning strikes, which of course could trigger fires. but most of that moisture has moved far north and east of us. right now. it's moving over, actually towards the border with western nevada. so there still this evening, a chance of dry lightning strikes in that region, which includes lake tahoe. but here in northern california, it looks like that chance has diminished nonetheless. it's still hot, as you can see right now, we have temperature readings at or above 100 degrees in many central valley locations. it is dry, of course, breezy in some spots, so there's still fire concern, but it's reduced now or diminished because of the threat of lightning moving away. i'll have our accuweather seven day forecast in just a few minutes. j.r. >> spencer, thanks so much. we look forward to that. the park fire is growing, but nowhere near as fast as we saw a week ago. it's now california's fourth largest fire. the fire has burned 401,000 acres in

butte and tehama counties. more than 625mi■!s. containment stans at 27%. the fire has destroyed 567 buildings, with evacuations still in place in four counties. this is the busiest start to fire season that we've seen in years. cal fire says fires have burned an area the size of rhode island. more than 777,000 acres. our five year average for this point in the year is 193,000 acres. fires have destroyed 903 buildings across the state so far this year. now to your voice, your vote and the race for the white house. former president trump and his running mate j.d. vance are campaigning in atlanta tonight inside the same arena where vice president harris held her biggest campaign rally to date. this week. harris has no campaign events planned this weekend as she considers her running mate selection. abc

news reporter michelle franzen has the latest on the veepstakes and the questions over the next presidential debate. reporter vice president kamala harris securing enough delegate votes on friday to clinch the democratic nomination for president. >> i am honored to be the presumptive democratic nominee for president of the united states. >> her opponent, former president trump, is in the battleground state of georgia. this weekend, holding a rally with his running mate, ohio senator jd vance. overnight, trump said he has accepted an invitation to debate harris on fox news on september 4th. harris has not accepted the fox invitation. trump and president biden had both accepted an abc news invitation to debate on september 10th, now that biden has left the race, harris said she would keep that commitment to the abc debate. trump has falsely claimed the abc debate is, quote, terminated, but the abc invitation to both candidates remains, with just 93

days until the election, abc's fivethirtyeight polling average shows a very tight race. harris up a point and a half over donald trump nationally, shrinking the margins in the crucial swing states. harris, now with a slight edge over trump in michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania, a decision on who harris will choose to join her on the democratic ticket is expected in the coming days, sources tell abc news she's meeting with some of the top contenders this weekend. among those who have been thoroughly vetted by her campaign include arizona senator and retired astronaut mark kelly, minnesota governor tim walz and popular pennsylvania governor josh shapiro. next week, harris, along with her new running mate, will hit seven battleground states in just five days. michelle franzen abc news, new york. >> a high tech solution to illegal trash may not be doing the job, oakland says a plan to tackle illegal dumping is getting outperformed by an old

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learning one approach to fighting illegal dumping in oakland may not be paying off. we were there two years ago as the city announced new cameras meant to catch people dumping trash on oakland's streets. a new report from the city's interim public works director found that the cameras aren't working, as well as good old fashioned foot patrols. from last april through this march, the cameras caught 457 instances of illegal dumping. only 13% led to citations. the report says many of the incidents couldn't be pursued because the car's license plate wasn't clear. public works enforcement officers had better luck issuing more than 500 citations in that same time period. more homes for sale are sitting on the market longer in five bay area counties. that's according to

data from redfin obtained by our media partners at the bay area news group. 53% of homes for sale in alameda, contra costa, san francisco, san mateo and santa clara counties sat on the market for 30 days or more. why? redfin says it's because many home sellers are pricing properties too high, and interest rates have remained high to home. buyers are waiting to buy, hoping for a drop in prices. it's a beloved bay area tradition, a bay area event putting pups to the test. the world dog surfing championships brought the best of the best to pacifica today. dog surfers and their human friends were hanging ten at linda mar beach for the annual competition. there they are in the on the beach part of things too. the waves weren't too rough, but the money situation was now. organizers say the competition almost didn't happen because of the rising cost of doing business in the bay area. fortunately, a fundraiser this past spring saved the contest. it's a san

francisco tradition celebrating rock and roll roots. the big birthday party for a late rock icon who got his start in the city and tracking warmer weather ahead. abc seven weather anchor spencer christian is up next with your accuweather forecast coming up in sports, we're going to look back at blake snell's no. >> no. in cincinnati last night. and it's a call to the hall for that guy patrick willis dons a gold jacket thanking everyon

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its 50th year this weekend, highlighting asian american and pacific islander cultures. this year, the street fair was named a legacy business, recognizing the significant contribution to that brings to the city's japantown neighborhood. the celebration continues tomorrow on post street between fillmore and laguna. you climbed up a mountain and jumped off without wings to carry you in return of jerry day in san

francisco, or deadheads celebrate the late jerry garcia's birthday. they gathered mclaren park in san francisco's excelsior district for live music and vendors. the annual free festival has been running for 21 years now. excuse me. all out of the love for the iconic musician and of course, the grateful dead band, joined by spencer christian here. and i will say the update from my parents who went to jerry garcia's last concert is that there was a forecast of haze in the air, but it wasn't the kind of haze that we're used to. >> it wasn't a purple haze, was it? >> no, it might have been. that's the kind you'd see on a 420 day. >> exactly. right. well, no haze today. we had bright sunshine and a wonderful afternoon and now we're going into a wonderful evening. now, here's a look at our satellite radar composite image. and you can see we had quite a bit of monsoonal moisture flowing up through the state yesterday and early today. it's now all moving over into the nevada area, and our conditions are getting drier and breezy as well. with the surface wind speeds right now generally about 15 to 20mph across the bay

area and it is warmer this early evening than it was at this time yesterday. eight degrees warmer at fairfield and at concord, five degrees warmer at livermore, uh- here in san francisco and oakland, 1 to 2 degrees cooler than the readings yesterday at this time. here's a view from mount tam looking at a little finger of fog moving out over the bay, pushing through the golden gate. temperature readings right now are starting in san francisco 63 degrees, oakland 6874 at hayward. low to mid 80s at san jose and redwood city, and 57 at half moon bay. and we have a developing marine layer at the golden gate right now of the temperature readings as we look northward. santa rosa, 87 degrees petaluma 7577 at napa, mid 90s at fairfield and concord and livermore, 92 degrees. and on we go to our sutro tower camera looking out over san francisco as that little those little fingers of fog are extending a little farther than they were an hour ago. overnight, we'll have fog and drizzle near the coast and bay. that's been a pattern for several nights now. tomorrow and

monday we can expect warm summer weather, but not quite so warm as today. however, tuesday and wednesday it will be at least as warm as today was, as we're expecting triple digit heat in our inland areas. the forecast animation taking us into to the evening hours shows a deepening and expanding marine layer. it will push across the bay and locally inland. there'll be lots of patchy drizzle near the coastline and some onshore as well. that's also been part of our pattern the last few overnights and early mornings. but by mid-morning tomorrow, certainly by midday, we'll see mainly sunny skies away from the coast. so overnight low temperatures mainly in the upper 50s to low 60s, so relatively mild in many locations overnight, especially down in the south bay and over in the inland east bay. highs tomorrow. low 60s at the coast. we'll see mid to upper 70s around the bay shoreline and low to mid 90s inland. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast. not much change on monday perhaps even a couple of degrees cooler. but on tuesday and wednesday the heat is on or it will be on in our inland areas up to about 100 degrees in the hottest inland spots on both tuesday and wednesday. but on

thursday, a cooling trend begins and that will continue all the way into next weekend. >> seven men entered football heaven pro football hall of fame in canton, ohio, today. excuse me, of those making up the 2024 class, one of the greatest 40 niners ever play the linebacker position number 52, patrick willis. there he is donning his brand new gold jacket. the former first rounder out of ole miss played all eight seasons in san francisco. seven time pro bowl selection, earning all pro selections in each of his first six seasons. he started in each of the 112 games he played, 1225 tackles and 20.5 sacks. while all those numbers made him a hall of famer, he's thankful for all the help and support he got along the way to the 40 niners organization and the faithful >> my draft day prayer was to go to a team and give the organization, city and fans my best. when i say it takes a

village, it truly does because of all of you. i stand here today honored to be wearing this gold jacket, standing shoulder to shoulder with the great ones in the national football league. i am elated to now know that i would not be simply known as patrick willis, but as hall of famer patrick willis. mr. >> pretty cool bracket uh- to niners now. brock purdy enters his third nfl season as the unquestioned starting quarterback. obviously training camp chance to push the limits of what you can do on the field. and so far in camp, purdy has a fairly high number of interceptions in practice. not too much of a concern, though, for head coach kyle shanahan. >> always stats are made a big deal in practice and i know that'll stick out to. and you know we never want a lot of picks in practice regardless of who it is. you know brock's

never really had an interception problem. he's protected the ball pretty well in this league for his two years, and he also isn't scared to let it rip to if we were really trying to fix that. and if he had had a problem and you come out and that's all we're focusing on and he still has some stats like that, then that's something that concerns you. but that's something i really haven't been worried about. with brock on. and that's why those stats are also something that hasn't bothered me at all. >> yeah, we're talking about practice. all right. the u.s. olympic men's basketball team routed puerto rico 103 84. they finished group play undefeated. they earned the top seed going into the medal round. steph curry scored eight points in the win. anthony edwards led the way with 26. six americans were in double figures scoring, including kevin now just five points away from setting the american olympic basketball all time scoring record. they're going to play brazil in the quarters on tuesday. back to last night in cincinnati, blake snell threw the 18th no hitter in giants franchise history, a three nothing victory over the reds. not only was it his first no hitter, but his first complete game in his nine year big league career, he'd actually never thrown a pitch in the

ninth inning before. it was also his first win in a giants uniform. what a way to do it the most dangerous part of the night, though, came when logan webb and kyle harrison dumped water on him during the post game interview, and the cooler lid hit him right there on the head. >> did you have any idea going to the ballpark that you were going to be feeling this locked in? >> got him. coach hey, hey, it's cold. got him. >> i got to collect my breath. please. do they get a replay of that? that's how you not. you don't do it. hit me in the head with the dang lid. i mean, you know what? >> i've been with this guy for a few years now, and if anybody has the ability in this day was going to come at some point in time, it's blake snell. and here's your no hitter ball right here buddy. >> yeah good for blake. giants and reds playing tonight. right now those highlights at 11. >> he certainly got drenched. but what you love about blake snell his jersey was soaked before that. >> yeah i mean it's hot there in cincinnati with the humidity and stuff. what an effort. and he's

got a little bump on his head too. i'm sure he's a workhorse at that though. >> thanks, chris. and unusual view of the bay on display toda. why the exploratorium is letting the underside of this bull buoy see som this long to get put on the shelf

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concern about the location it plans to vacate and the legacy of jim valvano and his fight against cancer is going to be center stage tonight in the bay area. the special event honoring one of the major contributors, jimmy v's v foundation, tonight on abc seven news at 11. an annual tradition delighted visitors to san francisco's exploratorium today. crowds watched museum workers do the bowie pull right at noon. bowie takes measurements of our water. every year, the exploratorium lifts the bowie, floating in front of the museum out of the bay to recalibrate the instruments. they also clean off the marine organisms that attach themselves to the device. and those are some of the things that lead off. >> i was like, what is that? >> it was

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