crocodile, the manatee, compelling, charismatic species, we should save them. but this species needs conservation no less. it's equally valuable. economically, it is a symbol of this ecosystem and it is a vital player in this wild aquatic community. and hopefully, this research will ensure that it survives for future generations. there he goes. [music] report in chicago sets the stage for the dnc set to start in less

than 24 hours. >> by the grace of god, everybody is alive. >> flames devour much of a 16 unit apartment building in the east bay. what residents say helped everyone get out alive and cries for help coming from under the great highway. take crews 20ft below ground. abc seven news starts now. >> always live abc seven news starts right now. >> frankly, it'll be like a rock concert. i think people are going to be cheering and pretty excited. >> the governor of illinois has big expectations for the democratic national convention. we begin tonight with a look at what we can expect. thanks for joining us. i'm j.r. stone happening now. delegates and politicians are gathering in chicago for the dnc. abc news reporter christiane cordero is live at the united center in chicago with a look at how the democrats are trying to build on their momentum. christiane

>> hey there j.r. so the balloons are up in the rafters. the stage is set down below and delegates are arriving by the thousands here in chicago. it's an event that takes years to plan. and this year with a last minute change in plans, vice president kamala harris and running mate minnesota governor tim walz are traveling through pennsylvania en route to the democratic national convention. >> the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us. that's what this campaign is about. yes, it is about winning. and we will win, and we will win in the arena. >> this week, a packed schedule that includes speeches from the obamas and the clintons. it starts with president joe biden on monday, less than one month since he dropped out of the race. well i think the momentum is continuing to build, so i don't think we've reached even the top of where the momentum is going. >> and then we just need to roll on through to november. >> a new abc news washington post ipsos poll shows the harris walz ticket going into the convention, with momentum leading among all adults, 50% to

trump and vance's 45% outside the margin of error. vance today shrugged it off on fox news. >> we can't worry about polls. we have to run through the finish line and encourage everybody to get out there and vote. >> trump still has the upper hand on issues related to immigration, and according to the same poll, trump leads harris by nine points in trust to handle the economy and inflation. harris recently pledging to build more housing down payment assistance for first time homebuyers and a ban on price gouging on food and groceries. trump calls her agenda, quote, communist, instead, vowing mass deportations and increased tariffs. >> i want to cut taxes on americans while putting tariffs on china and foreign countries to bring our jobs back home to pennsylvania, and to take in billions and billions of dollar. >> trump and vance plan to counter all of this happening here in chicago with events in several battleground states, including arizona, north carolina and nearby wisconsin.

jr. >> christiane, we even saw protests and we saw rallies here in san francisco today. how is the dnc preparing for possible protests related to the conflict in the middle east? >> yeah, we've also seen one here in chicago, a smaller one today. look, i think the biggest takeaway is that nothing should be a surprise at this point. they've been preparing for this for months, if not years. there are barricades in place. there are street closures, and there are two major protests that are already scheduled with permits pulled on monday and thursday. and so organizers insist and officials insist, that they are here to keep everyone safe, including those protesters. jr. >> christiane, thank you so much. good luck out there this week. moving along, here's the schedule of upcoming speakers at the dnc tomorrow. president joe biden and first lady jill biden will address the crowd, along with former secretary of state hillary clinton. on tuesday, former president barack obama and second gentleman doug emhoff will take the stage. vp nominee tim walz delivers his acceptance

speech on wednesday, preceded by former president bill clinton, speaker emerita nancy pelosi and transportation secretary pete buttigieg on thursday, the final day of the dnc. vice president harris will accept the convention's nomination for president. harris, harris, you will see. >> here is harris. you will see palestine will be free. >> hundreds of pro-palestinian activists taking to the streets of oakland, hometown of vice president kamala harris. >> she might have started here, but does that mean we're going to claim her? no. >> this group gathering on the eve of the democratic national convention, demanding that harris commit to an arms embargo on israel just days after the biden administration's approval of a $20 billion weapons package to israel. we see it as critical that in a moment when working people are being squeezed by skyrocketing costs of living, that money, not go to bomb children in gaza. activists say

that money should be invested in local communities like oakland instead. i'm reminding you it's your duty to stand by palestinians. pro-palestinian protesters have followed harris on the campaign trail. she was interrupted during a recent rally speech in detroit. you know what? >> if you want donald trump to win, then say that. >> otherwise, i'm speaking. >> and outside last weekend's fundraiser in san francisco, drew richardson, the vice president, offering this response. >> we need to get the hostages out. we need a hostage deal, and we need a ceasefire. and i can't stress that strongly enough. it needs to get done the deal needs to get done, and it needs to get done. now. >> we really want to see policy changes around israel, not just words, not just lip service. >> some of these activists say they are heading to chicago to take part in protests near the dnc, to send democrats and kamala harris a message.

>> we're going to hit the streets and we're going to be pushing on all of these messages and also tying the message of ceasefire, the message of an arms embargo to uh- other progressive policies that people are going to be there demanding from the democrats. activists say they'll keep marching until an arms embargo deal happens. >> in oakland, cornel bernard abc seven news. >> abc seven news anchor julian glover will report from chicago at the democratic national convention starting tomorrow. he'll be there through thursday for harris's big speech in the east bay. an early morning fire has left several people in need of a new place to live. the fire ignited around three this morning at the woodland hills apartment on west buchanan road near railroad avenue in pittsburgh. there are 16 units in the building and four apartments were destroyed. i mean, you see, the flames right here. some tenants credit their neighbors with alerting them to the fire. everyone was able to get out safely. >> she was like, mom, mom, mom, it's a fire. i was a really

tired, it took a minute to come to. and then i smelled the smoke. and then i saw the flames. we started kicking, banging on the doors, trying to wake everyone up, it was the most scariest. and traumatic thing i've ever experienced before in my life. >> firefighters say the building did not have a sprinkler system and was not required due to the year it was built. it's not yet known what sparked this fire. three people died in a crash on interstate 880 in fremont this morning. initial chp reports say the car caught fire. the accident was reported just before six this morning on the northbound side of the warren avenue overcrossing. emergency crews arrived and determined that a single vehicle with three people inside crashed into a concrete barrier. chp says the cause of the crash is under investigation. new details about a deadly mass shooting in the city of oakland. two people died after a total of four people were shot following an argument

saturday morning. our media partner, the bay area news group, reports a 27 year old man and 35 year old woman were killed. two other women were wounded and are expected to recover. the gunman is still out there. a reward of up to $30,000 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest. a rally is calling for justice for victims of violence and an end to crime in oakland. community leaders spoke on the steps of city hall, calling attention to crime in the city and blaming the city's leadership. we need to come together sooner or later because it's going to be us that's going to save us. >> it's going to be us. it's going to bring our community back together. it's going to be us. and while we're being divided each and every day, it's still going to be us. >> the group is calling on mayor shengtao and city council members to step down. a rally yesterday in oakland featured people on the other side. they say the recall efforts are being driven by people with outside money interests. there's now a

suicide net along the golden gate bridge. but is it saving lives? construction of the net was completed in january. now we're getting an idea on if it's working or not. also, an underground rescue sends crews in san francisco 20ft below the great highway. >> i'm spencer christian. it is a gusty day around the bay area, but it's also sunny and mild. what comes next? i'll have the accuweather forecast in just a z's baking the house special. arisa's styling a new look.

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the department's history to die on duty. cso long pham was hit and killed by a suspected dui driver on august 3rd. he was directing traffic at an accident scene when he was struck by a second cso, veronica bear, who you see here was injured. people are invited to attend a vigil in pham's honor this thursday at 7:30 p.m. at san jose's vietnamese heritage garden. a crash in the north bay killed a member of sonoma county's probation department and online fundraiser for jessica avila, munoz's funeral has surpassed its goal of $20,000. police say munoz was picking up her 13 year old daughter from school when friday's crash happened in santa rosa. munoz was a juvenile correctional counselor. police say the driver, who hit munoz's car was drunk. has four previous dui arrests and was driving on a suspended license. he's now in jail. it's been eight months since crews finished the

installation of a suicide deterrent. nets below the golden gate bridge. now, bridge authorities say the nets are working and saving lives. our media partner, the san francisco standard, reports four people died this year by jumping off the bridge. now, that's about 20% of the annual average for this date. the $200 million barrier sits 20ft below the bridge and extends 20ft out. it stretches across the entire bridge. an unusual rescue for crews in san francisco, who had to pull a man from the inside of a sewage pipe. it all started around 4:00 this morning. someone called the fire department saying he heard screaming near a manhole cover on the great highway near vicente street. rescuers say the man crawled into the sewer from the beach, made his way along the inside of a pipe 20ft below the street, and then got stuck. crews had to wait for an osha permit before entering the pipe. they were able to free the man who they say was seriously hurt.

happening tomorrow. the first day of school for some 50,000 students in the san francisco unified school district. the district is in the midst of a financial crisis. school closures and job cuts are on the table. this november, san francisco voters will decide on a $790 million bond measure to improve schools and new for students. this year. algebra. algebra, that is, classes have returned to middle school. so that's exciting there. something went really wrong during a music festival. see for yourself. a ferris wheel turned into a partial ring of fire. why? the rapper performing at the time was told not to stop the show. >> i'm spencer christian, it's warmer in more places than it was at this time yesterday. in many places, i should say. and there's more warming to come. i'll have the accuweather forecast in just a moment. i love you. [vo]: and bravery. you got this. [vo]: all in the life... i love you.

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is on a ferris wheel at a music festival in germany caught fire. at least 23 people were injured, four suffered burns and one person was injured in a fall. you can see the fire there. the operator of the ferris wheel says no one was sitting in the gondola where the fire started. cause of the fire is still being investigated. local media reported the festival continued after the fire and the rapper on stage at the time says he was told to keep performing to avoid mass panic. you see it right there, but wow. amazing that everyone is okay. pretty scary. joined right now by spencer christian. i'll tell you, there's nothing scary about our weather today. not at all. gorgeous outside. >> it really is gorgeous. not even a cloud at the golden gate, which is unusual. here's a look

at what's going on with our weather, starting with the satellite radar composite image. now you notice that a spiraling area spinning sort of counterclockwise there. that's our big low pressure system offshore that yesterday brought us more clouds and some drizzle. it's lifted northward just a bit, but it still has a breezy influence on the bay area. it's pretty gusty right now with wind speeds up to 33mph at sfo, 21 mile per hour gusts at novato, and pretty breezy just about everywhere else as well. nonetheless, despite that onshore breeze, it is warmer in most places than at this time yesterday, six degrees warmer in concord and fairfield, four degrees warmer in novato and santa rosa. two degrees warmer at oakland. so let's move along and take a look at what's going on right now. live view from mount tam looking down onto the bay under sunny skies 67 degrees here in san francisco. mid 70s at oakland and hayward. we've got 77 degrees right now at both san jose and redwood city, and 66 at half moon bay. and once again, blue sky over the golden gate. we had lots of clouds there yesterday as the golden gate was socked in for most of the day, but it's bright and

breezy right now, 79 degrees up north at santa rosa right now. petaluma 72. 80 at napa. 85 at fairfield. concord 81. 80 at livermore. so it's pretty mild in most of our inland areas. and here's a view from emeryville looking toward the golden gate. and these are the forecast headlines overnight. we'll see some coastal clouds and lots of patchy drizzle. most of it will be offshore, but 1 or 2 locations on land may actually get some drizzle in the early morning hours beginning in the week. the first couple of days tomorrow and monday, sunnier tomorrow and tuesday, i should say sunny and much warmer. but later in the week we'll have a cooling trend and temperatures will drop rather sharply. but for tonight, look for that continuing onshore flow. we'll see a little bit of a marine layer developing during the early morning hours and lots of drizzle offshore as i mentioned, but it'll all burn back to the coastline by mid morning, giving way to another sunny day and a mild one tomorrow. overnight low temperatures will be mainly in the low to mid 50s, a little chillier up in the north bay where lows will drop into the upper 40s at cloverdale and santa rosa, and then tomorrow's high 63 at half moon bay, 68

here in the city, oakland 73 and right around the bay shoreline, mainly mid to upper 70s up in the north bay. look for highs of 86 at santa rosa, 79 at napa, mid to upper 80s in the inland east bay. close to 90 degrees. here's the accuweather seven day forecast notice. we'll see some 90 degree readings on tuesday as it turns hot inland. we'll see mid 90s in the warmest inland spots and up to about 80 around the bay shoreline. still warm on wednesday, but temperatures will drop a few degrees from tuesday and then later in the week, thursday, friday. going into the weekend, we'll see quite a cool down. in fact, high temperatures at the end of the week will be cooler than average for this time of the year, so the ups and downs continue. sort of like a roller coaster. >> yeah, i imagine the parks are busy in san francisco today. last day of freedom. >> they should be. >> thank you so much, spencer. it all came to an end today at the oakland coliseum, the last game ever played as what will forever be known as

rivalry really took off when the teams went head to head in the 1989 world series. known for the famous loma prieta earthquake as well. there is the coliseum as we know it, the rivalry rivalry that is will change with the a's going to sacramento next season. almost 33,000 fans on hand today. check out this play jp sears made in the fourth. no one can find the pop up from mark canha. sears finds it, then

doubles up tyler fitzgerald at first. bottom of the sixth we go. miguel andujar that's a single he singles home. daz cameron but jj bleday gets thrown out at third one zero a's after six to the seventh. we go elliott ramos. he says i am strong and i hit things hard. ties it up with this missile to center field 448ft. it was sears only mistake. game tied one one. bottom of the seventh. a's with the bases loaded, one out. blake snell gets max schumann swinging at strike three. that actually hit him. but he's out by the rule. then snell fell behind three zero to cameron but battled back. gets strike one maybe a little high. gets strike two right in the zone. then cameron grounds out to second right here to end the threat right there. yeah that's a groundout. snell is fired up. yeah. throwing his arms around. seven innings pitched ten for snell. another great outing next inning. a's manager mark kotsay maybe wasn't happy about some of those calls from snell. he gets tossed, he's arguing balls and

strikes. he wouldn't see the ending to the extras. we go. here are encarnacion. whoa. that's a shot. two run homer to center giants. take a two run lead. very. next batter we go. michael conforto as well. back to back for the giants. they lead 4 to 1. at this point. you think it's over, right? uh- think again. wrong. after an error scored a run for the a's, ryan walker finds himself with bases loaded. no one out, but he gets bleday looking at a 97 mile per hour fastball for strike three. then andujar misses at a curve ball for number two. and finally, uh- shea langeliers fans on strike three there. giants hold on to win four two. bay bridge series ends in a tie this year. a's win the first. giants win the second. after the game, bob melvin on the fitting ending. >> don't you kind of expect a game like this to end this place and the, you know, the series between the giants and the a's. so you know, it almost had to

happen like that. >> and that is sports. up next where when the community in fremont celebrates indian culture, it celebrates big.

a heatwave, it's kinda chilly in here. oh, that's because i'm pre-cooling the house with the ac before 4 pm. then i'll turn our thermostat to a comfortable 78 or higher that way i could stay cool later. ooh, what about me? you're never cool. oh.

i know >> the festival of globe india day is wrapping up today with a

parade and fair. the celebration has been part of fremont for 31 years. >> so we have a large and vibrant indian community in bay area. so on 15th august is the indian independence day. so we celebrate the indian independence day with a grand mela and parade every year. so the biggest thing in indian culture is the music and dance. >> they brought in more than 250 local dance groups of various genres. food trucks brought a variety of cuisines from different regions of india, and there were 50 floats covering different aspects of the country. looks like a great time. beautiful weather. >> the weather was perfect for that was it? yeah. >> sure was. thanks for joining us tonight on abc seven news at five. we'll see slamming the east coast. millions from d.c. to philadelphia to new york city on alert for flash flooding into tonight. the major turnaround in the race for the white house. the results of our new polling just ahead of the democratic