seven on your side is digging in, and i-team reporter melanie woodrow is here with the latest. melanie. >> dan, for the two families i spoke with, their children were having multiple covid tests because they played high school or club sports. >> they say the lab sent them a letter saying they wouldn't be billed under any circumstance. but the lab bills haven't stopped coming as covid 19 raged during the early pandemic, covid testing at schools was critical and welcomed. the testing was supposed to be free testing that we got that was performed by a laboratory that came to the school sites. debbie, who asked that we not use her last name, says her son had multiple covid tests at school, facilitated by pmh laboratory. she says she received this letter stating, quote, pm's sole compensation will be through insurance reimbursement or through the cares act. no student, staff and or family member will receive a bill from pmh from the services provided under any circumstance. >> the bill started coming probably about, i would say, eight months to a year later, she says. >> she ignored

we'll show you how it works and explai news reporter melanie woodrow explains how this is the data and tools we've been developing for tracking active fire changes. >> tatton park is a research scientist at the nasa ames research center. ames is one of ten nasa field centers in the country located in the heart of silicon valley. research and data being developed here are helping improve how communities respond to wildfires out there, especially during this active wildfire season. the thompson fire in butte county has burned more than 3000 acres. >> we use all the satellites that we launch to create improved images. so pictures of the earth that tell us exactly when a fire has started, how hot it is, what it might be burning. so what kinds of trees, grasses, how close it is to communities. and then we share that information with emergency responders. >> the data is shared in near real time with those emergency responders. it's also available to the public within 5 or 10 minutes. >> we can know where the fires start and how the fire propagate. >> we are constantly tracking fuel condition

melanie woodrow, abc seven news, sky looked beautiful there. >> looked nice. >> yeah. gorgeous view of the city, no doubt. we want to check back in now with abc seven news meteorologist sandyha patel for a look at the forecast. sandy, we cannot wait to finally cool down. >> i know, and you know what? if you just had was to julian and ama, you will find that cooling effect and take a look at these live pictures. you will notice that from mount tam we have the fog just kind of shrouding the coast. nice breeze from our kgo roof camera and a lot of sun from santa cruz to walnut creek. so we are seeing our summer microclimates right now. it is 104 degrees in fairfield, but san francisco is sitting pretty at 66 degrees. quite the variety here. looking at a live view from our santa cruz camera, where people are just escaping the heat and enjoying the coast. here's a look at what you can expect in case you want to hit the beaches this weekend. uv index will be very high, so make sure you lather on the sunscreen. a mix of sun and fog and a breezy afternoon tomorrow. stinson 70

abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow now with the story. >> at&t says nearly all of its 110 millioneless subscribers call and text message records were exposed in a massive data breach. the stolen data includes every number at&t customers called or texted, even customers of other wireless networks. the number of times they interacted and the call duration. >> i feel like this is just another incident in this trend of data privacy issues. >> in april, at&t says it learned that customer data was illegally downloaded from its workspace onto a third party cloud platform. the wireless provider says it launched an investigation and took steps to close off the illegal access point. the compromised data includes records of calls and texts between may 1st, 2022 and october 31st, 2022. it also includes records from january 2nd, 2023 for a very small number of customers for a subset of records, one or more cell site id numbers were included. data that could reveal the geographic location of one or more callers. >> i'm really wary of where my contact information is going and who has access to i

on your side melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> take a look at this.ty fair tonight. this is a drone show. it's becoming a more popular alternative to fireworks shows with all the fire and environmental hazards those bring. today was the second to last day of the fair. there will be a fireworks show to go with the drones tomorrow night. i'm cool. >> display? >> yeah. amazed by, like, how intricate some of them can be. yeah yeah. >> and who's the programmer? director? put this all together. >> oh, that's a good question. like, how do you learn how to do that? yeah, yeah. >> it's, it's anyhow interesting and safe. yes. >> that's what we care about. >> but right now our weather is not quite so safe because this heat wave just won't go away. so we still have this excessive heat warning in effect for virtually all of the bay area until 11 p.m. next wednesday. so just bear that in mind and try to stay safe and healthy under this unbearable heat. so overnight it will be pretty mild with overnight lows mainly in the upper 50s to mid 60s, which can be uncomfort

on your side melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> thank you, melanie.our next half hour on abc seven mornings barrel weekends. but it is expected to pick up steam before hitting the u.s. the warning for texas residents this morning. but first, the driver accused of killing a family of four at a san francisco bus stop enters a plea. may be arrested and they likely will be arrested or cited. >> that's a message as dozens of people are expected to show up for the so-called dolores park hill bomb event, how police plan to keep the event under control today amid safety concerns. good morning to you. i'm gloria rodriguez and we're starting this half hour with a look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. lisa. good morning. i know a lot of people have been bearing the heat the past few days, some enjoying, you know, the sunny temperatures on the coast. so how many more days of this hot weather should we. >> well, today will be the hottest. in fact, we're going to see the temperatures come up a few degrees in our inland valleys, and we still have a red

melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> beautiful day to get outside, but still hot. >> yes, and it's goingus for a little bit longer. we check back in now with sandhya. >> yeah. and let's take a look at live doppler seven right now. julianna and you will notice that we do have the fog off the coastline. otherwise quiet. but inland areas will be baking in that heat wave once again tomorrow afternoon, 105 degrees antioch, concord, 106, in livermore. i do want to show you what is ahead as far as our microclimates, there's always a place to go around this time. half moon bay fog with 66 degrees, mixing in with sun 72. in c microclimates keeping you in the warm side in oakland. here's a look at your sunday temperature. notice the heat easing. we're not quite in the mid one hundred's, but it's low one hundreds for the hot spots. by monday we're looking at mainly 90s in our inland east bay. and same thing with tuesday. so there is some moderation of the heat as we head into next week. there is the accuweather seven day forecast. dangerous heat inland tomorrow. it eases on sunday and the temperatu

melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> all right melanie, thank you.d you at home can track the wildfires burning across the state with an interactive map that you see here on our website. it also gives you an idea of fire warnings as well as air quality. it's a great resource. go to abc seven news.com/fire map. now a story new at six from the i-team. >> and i felt like i had to stand up for myself. like i had to do something to protect myself because nobody else was protecting me. >> she was the only female member of the san mateo county sheriff's swat team, and now she's about to receive what could be a record settlement for a sexual harassment case. $8 million. >> and she's giving her first interview to the i-team's. dan noyes. and dan's here with us now. >> dan, and dan, even though the county is paying that enormous amount, they are not admitting fault. there were several surprises during my interview with corinne barker, including the fact that she intends to keep working for the sheriff's department. >> and i went through uc berkeley as a pre-me

for seven on your side melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> happening today, the opening of comic-conan diego, and it's the first regular convention in five years. the festival was on hold in 2020 and 21 because of the pandemic. then it had covid protocols last year, the sag-aftra union strike canceled many panels, so now it is back to normal. comic-con runs through sunday. >> it's going to get much cooler in the next few days. a big change from the heat wave. earlier this week, spencer has the temperatures where you live and research on pain relief, my recommendation is simple: every home should have salonpas. powerful yet non-addictive. targeted and long-lasting. i recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. ♪ hisamitsu ♪ it? and it's going to get even better. here's a look at our forecast headlines. and you can see cooler air still arriving tomorrow and saturday started cooling down today, but it will be even cooler in the next couple of days. the weekend outlook below average high temperatures for late july, and then next week there'll be some gradual minor warming, but nothing major.

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abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow has the story for seven. at&t says nearly all of its 110 million wireless subscribers call and text message records were exposed in a massive data breach. >> the stolen data includes every number at&t customers called or texted, even customers of other wireless networks the number of times they interacted and the call duration. >> i feel like this is just another incident in this trend of data privacy issues. >> in april, at&t says it learned that customer data was illegally downloaded from its workspace onto a third party cloud platform. the wireless provider says it launched an investigation and took steps to close off the illegal access point. the compromised data includes records of calls and texts between may 1st, 2022 and october 31st, 2022. it also includes records from january second, 2023 for a very small number of customers. for a subset of records, one or more cell site id numbers were included. data that could reveal the geographic location of one or more callers. >> i'm really wary of where my co

abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow explains how this is the data and tools we've been developing for tracking active fire changes. >> tatton park is a research scientist at the nasa ames research center. ames is one of ten nasa field centers in the country located in the heart of silicon valley. research and data being developed here are helping improve how communities respond to wildfires out there, especially during this active wildfire season. the thompson fire in butte county has burned more than 3000 acres. >> we use all the satellites that we launch to create improved images, so pictures of the earth that tell us exactly when a fire has started, how hot it is, what it might be burning. so what kinds of trees, grasses, how close it is to communities. and then we share that information with emergency responders. >> the data is shared in near real time with those emergency responders. it's also available to the public within 5 or 10 minutes. >> we can know where the fires start and how the fire propagate. >> we are constantly tracking fuel conditions. we're creating new vegeta

abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow dug in to get some answers. >> as covid 19 raged during the early testing at schools was critical and welcomed. the testing was supposed to be free testing that we got that was performed by a laboratory that came to the school sites. debbie, who asked that we not use her last name, says her son had multiple covid tests at school, facilitated by pmh laboratory. she says she received this letter stating, quote, pm's sole compensation will be through insurance reimbursement or through the cares act. no student, staff and or family member will receive a bill from pmh from the services provided under any circumstance. the bill started coming probably about, i would say, eight months to a year later, she says. she ignored them at first, but they kept on coming years. >> it's very frustrating to be getting these bills, at least once a month. >> debbie's son's bill was for more than $300. seven on your side reviewed another student's pmh bill for more than $1,000. >> we just wanted to get it resolved. >> both families had blue shield of california insurance

abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow explains how this is the data and tool we've been developingacking active fire changes. >> tatton park is a research scientist at the nasa ames research center. ames is one of ten nasa field centers in the country located in the heart of silicon valley. research and data being developed here are helping improve how communities respond to wildfires out there, especially during this active wildfire season. the thompson fire in butte county has burned more than 3000 acres. >> we use all the satellites that we launch to create improved images, so pictures of the earth that tell us exactly when a fire has started, how hot it is, what it might be burning. so what kinds of trees, grasses, how close it is to communities. and then we share that information with emergency responders. >> the data is shared in near real time with those emergency responders. it's also available to the public within 5 or 10 minutes. >> we can know where the fire starts and how the fire propagate. >> we are constantly tracking fuel conditions. we're creating new vegetation ma

melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> now it's your morning money report.edbox is shutting down after its parent company filed for bankruptcy. of course, you remember those dvd rental kiosks. now, the company owes nearly $1 billion to over 500 creditors. that includes retailers like walmart and walgreens. nearly 1000 employees are losing their jobs. >> but i think i'm the most qualified person to run for president. i beat him once and i will beat him again. i'm not in this for my legacy. i'm in this to complete the job. i started. >> president biden, trying to reassure his allies and the american public that he is able to serve a second term during a nearly hour long press conference last night, he remained defiant, saying that he would stay in the race. >> but did he do enough to sway voters and members of his own party who are asking him to step aside? joining us now is doctor nolan higdon, a political analyst and professor of history at cal state east bay. it's good to see you this morning. so what did you make of the performance last night? >> you know,

on your side melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> we have an update now from the abc seven news i-team we've covered for five years. today, a court made a major decision in the case of two bay area men convicted of killing a plainclothes police officer in rome. an italian appeals court upheld the convictions of finnegan elder and gabriel natale-hjorth, but reduced their sentences to 15 and 11 years, respectively. they initially received life sentences. the two friends both attended moran's tamil pious high school in the summer of 2019. they were in italy on vacation. the deadly confrontation happened in what the men described as a drug deal gone wrong, and acts of self-defense. the defendants get credit for the five years they've already served in prison, and could get more time off for good behavior. the abc seven news i-team reporter dan noyes produced an award winning documentary about the case. it's called 32 seconds a deadly night in rome. it's available on demand on the abc seven bay area app. >> to be a fly on the wall inside the white house today, as president, biden met with t

. >> abc seven news melanie woodrow was in court and looks at the legal fight over the future of thise. >> scott peterson followed along over zoom while his defense attorneys asked for more than 600 pieces of evidence from the modesto police department dating back to 2002. it's part of peterson's ongoing fight to clear his name of murder. peterson was convicted in 2004 of killing his pregnant wife, laci peterson, and their unborn son, connor. a new team of lawyers with the la innocence project took up peterson's case. peterson's defense has argued that he is entitled to all of the prosecution's evidence, even if it wasn't presented during the original murder trial. prosecutors have called it a fishing expedition, and said the defense has not met their burden and is attempting to take another bite of the apple. legal analyst steve clark says the proceedings are reopening wounds for laci's family. >> this case has been litigated throughout the court system for 20 years, and nothing new has established anything other than scott peterson. is guilty, and i think that's why the prosecution

melanie woodrow, abc seven news thank you melanie. >> the park fire is so big you can see the smoke fromace on this satellite image. it's definitely keeping firefighters busy. abc news reporter jacqueline lee is in butte county with that part of the story. >> we've been here all day long at base camp, which is where firefighters from all over the state of california are coming to chico to try to help fight the park fire. so, as you can see behind me, the plume of smoke has continued to grow in size as a result of the park fire continuing to grow in size. this is a massive fire that has just burned so quickly. we're hearing about 5000 acres an hour now. the fire crews initially were out on the scene for 36 hours fighting these fires. that's because they were just initially sent to fight it, and no one could have predicted how explosive the growth had been as a result of the sheer size, making this the largest wildfire in california that california has seen currently this year. now they're needing a lot more resources, a lot more manpower to try to help fight this fire. so we're seeing cre

melanie woodrow, abc seven news. >> and now another live look at air force one. we are waiting for that door to open. president biden has just arrived in las vegas, set to speak tomorrow at the naacp's national convention. keep an eye on it. hope to go back in and take a look as soon as he emerges. all right. >> but for the moment, let's turn our attention to the weather forecast as we start another week on a cooler note. >> yes, we'll take it for now, sandhya. >> all right. we'll keep it coming. okay? ama and dan. tomorrow it's going to be very similar to today. i want to show you a live picture right now. it's absolutely beautiful out there from our san jose camera. it is sunny, 74 degrees right now. as we check out what is happening around the state. it's not a real quiet picture. we have strong thunderstorms developing in the northern california area and the sierra, an area of low pressure spinning off the coast that has been bringing us the cooler weather and the deep marine influence is providing the lift for those storms. the good thing, though, with these

abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow was in court today as attorneys argued over new dna testing.t peterson fighting to clear his name of murder. a judge hearing arguments today about evidence gathered during the original murder investigation. peterson was convicted in 2004 of killing his pregnant wife, laci peterson, and their unborn son, connor. a new team of lawyers with the la innocence project took up peterson's case. a judge previously agreed a piece of duct tape found on laci peterson's pants could be tested for dna. with both sides making arguments today for how the testing will be done and by whom, peterson's defense also arguing today that he is entitled to all of the prosecution's evidence, even if it wasn't presented during the original murder trial. in court, prosecutors read a victim impact statement from laci peterson's mother, in part saying when will this end? while talking about the pain of their loss and scott peterson's quote, relentless pursuit to leave prison, prosecutors argued the defense has not met their burden, saying just because they want it does not m

abc seven news i-team reporter melanie woodrow explains where some cars with recalls are still beingravel across the bay area every day, and a percentage of them have recalled takata airbags. the national highway traffic safety administration has called it the largest and most complex safety recall in u.s. history. still despite the nearly ten year old recall, millions of people are still at risk. patrick olson is editor in chief of carfax. >> there are more than 700,000 literal time bombs waiting in california for someone to get, and that's why we need to get these airbags out of these cars. >> our abc seven news data analyst standardized the data to account for the number of registered vehicles per state in california, there are 2046 unfixed takata airbags per 100,000 registered vehicles, putting california somewhere in the middle. when it comes to states with the most unfixed takata airbags per 100,000 registered vehicles, the issue is the chemicals inside the inflator. >> normally, when your car gets hit, they combine and explode and fill the airbag, which protects the passenger