foggy there. traffic coming into the city very slow tonight. there is where you can down load and this is what appears investigators are close to pin pointing the or yiin that sent thick plumes of black smoke across the east bay and there is investigators now piecing together what happened after crude unit four caught fire. >> there is another fire that ignited monday night. we've obtained this report from the has mat unit saying

the fire was that crude unit number four and the unit, or plant rather was shut down, resulting in flaring. the fire was contained and it burned quite a while. and there is cal osha has yet to allow investigators into the damaged unit four, the crude oil unit. the agency says it still too hazardous. you can see from sky 7 there is a huge crane that will enable them to view damage up close. we don't know the cause of the fire but it appears that removing installation is contributed to it. and there is a small leak.

the response team and crews began looking at options. >> there is that leak. >> randy sawer says workers at the scene told them they decided to remove insulation. >> there is a better view of the pipe. >> two and a half hours later, crews gab gran to unwrap insulation. >> this is when this got out of the pipe. >> it began spewing hot hydrocarbons into the air, workers ran out of the yun yismt a fire truck next to the unit was burned. >> as they peeled back inflation, boom, like trying to find a roof leak in the house.

and you get to the leak. >> and we asked him if it should have been shut down before removing insulation. >> sometimes there is local guy on the job that probably should have called the ice yol yait the leak. >> and anyone who is working for us whether they're employee or contractor has ability to stop the operation if they see something they feel puts anyone, people or environment, at right after this ook abc 7 news learning there is another fire in the same unit last fall. the fire resulted in the plant being shut down. >> and chevron home thoepz respond to claims within three

days. so many people coming forward the company opened a temporary claims office at the nevin community center. this is at the corner of 6th and nevin. the district attorney is warning of scammers delivering false claim reports to residents. they asked for confidential information including social security and bank accounts. >> there is two options, call an attorney or go through one of the two official channels to file a claim. >> and the office is open until 7:00 tonight and tomorrow from 8:00 in the morning until noon, sunday. >> there is the nevin community center, the center going to be open monday through friday from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. and saturday, 8:00 a.m. until noon.

you can call chevron about the funds. there is the number. and that is mosted for you on our web site. >> and there is a new twist in the already-bizarre case of a teenager accused of stealing celebrity chef guy fieri's lamborghini. it appears he was the target two of people who tried to break their way into juvenile hall. we're live outside juvenile hall with the latest on what sounds like a movie plot. >> this happened at 4:30 this morning and there is this area, pitch black. there is a daring atempt. but the probation chief says that it would never have worked. this suspect fled, using the

sledge hammer, on the other side was max wade's cell. personnel acted quickly. >> they recorded a break in attempt was occurring on the south wall and they're areaing thumping sounds from outside. >> investigators believe two or more people were involved breeching two security fences. they left bolt cutters behind. wade was the only high security prisoner inside of the juvenile hall facility, the only person in that area. still, the sheriff's department says there is no evidence that wade was involved in the attempted break in. >> and there he was aware he was turning 18 today, it's no secret you can't keep adults in that facility. so probably several people could have survived.

>> and the 18-year-old is accused of stealing the lamborghini and charged in a mill valley shooting. >> he's facing two charges of attempted murder and each charges carry maximum prison terms of po years to life. >> the authorities are now looking at the video and reviewing conversations he may have had and there is one thing did he not know is that they're hard to penetrate. >> window is big enough. and there is a body going through. and there is a sledge hammer hit it 15-20 times, and you

don't couldn't get out. >> on the way out, investigators believe the suspect dropped a backpack with clothes inside. no id, just clothes. that backpack was found on the street. and this is in a neighborhood nearby. >> hot weather is prompting another spare the air day. >> there is a 100 degrees in fairfield. it's up to 95 so far in morgan hill. there is oakland, 75. nice, cool with the fog there is steamy weather that isn't

over yet. i'll let you know how much weekend will be hot as well. >> thank you. >> and hot weather has energy officials urging californians to cut back on power use. that means you're advised to set air conditioners at 78 degrees or higher, make sure to turn it off when you leave as well. and abc 7 news is live now with more on this flex alert. >> the state wide flex alert has been issued but cancelled for the weekend. and a flex alert is issued there is an opportunity to get a rebate on power bills and there is continued hot temperatures asked californians to conserve

energy. and there is san diego gas and electric offering rebates to their customers for cutting back on electricity usage on certain critical summer days. and there is very effective and more when customers sign up to be notified. and there is a customer that could save about 100 dollars. >> and there is only so much electricity available and when everyone cranks up air conditioners that makes it harder to avoid outages. so paying to conserve could be a game changer. >> it is good for the power grid. and this is in indication we lose a power plant. >> in these times there is

some that say it sounds great. >> and there is a even a rebate won't motivate them. >> it's hard. i like being comfortable. >> and this looks like we're again safe for today. yellow line was a predicted usage. red line is actually usage. there is a gap there. some of the people on the red line saved money today. still to come an emotional farewell to victims of sunday's mass shooting in wisconsin. and whether a serial killer is saying with america's fascination with guns and drought conditions take a toll on crops. are we feeling affects here,

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three bay area cities will take part in a event and san jose, fremont and union city are among one of the 100 cities joining in this. today people from as far as india traveled to wisconsin to remember the six people shot to death on sunday. thousands of mourners streamed and there are photos of many victims shown on a screen and there is a man who terrorized new york city in the 70s during a shooting spree is offing advice on guns and

violence. at rest of david berkowitz known as son of sam. and he says the shootings in colorado and wisconsin show young people are losing direction and do not value live. and berkowitz added society has to take glory out of guns. he is serving time for killing six people. >> one man killed this morning as they sat inside of a parked car and there is someone outside began shooting at the car. this 24-year-old is expect died and the search continues for a gunman. >> and a coast guard ship carrying 4,000 pounds of cocaine.

and a crew sped off. the coast guard apprehended the crew. and recovered floating bails. the cutter remains in control off the coast of central america. >> concern growing that the drought affecting two thirds of the country may be the worst in decades. the agriculture department says the drought cut corn produce and soy bean production. the united states asking the u.s. to suspend a law requiring farmers to put aside owe% of corn for bio fuel. it's not affecting northern california z locally grown is not seen a jump in price. >> there is a jump in temperatures. >> cooler today around the bay this afternoon. >> there is 85 today, a

beautiful day in the south bay. taking a look we're going to pull out here, it's hard to see anything in the fog there. there is where you can now see parts of san francisco there there is our radar tracking the fog near the coastline now. you can see it's just very shallow layer. and so it's going to stay here all weekend long. 5 ain 51 degrees. and you're into mid to upper 90s and 100 in antioch. hot again inland saturday. there is temperatures going to start to come down a little bit. tomorrow morning they'll drop off. we'll see fog near the coast. inland areas clear, low to

mid-60s so should be a comfortable night. tomorrow morning starting out with that fog near the golden gate along the coast. fog pulls away and there is a ridewide range of conditions. there is a range pretty typical m summer time. you can see a good 30, 40 degree spread. this is very typical. we can get moisture riding up against the spine of the sierra. you can get heating during the day. thunderstorms beginning to develop f you're heading to what tao, isolated thunderstorms both saturday and sunday. and there is air quality remaining poor saturday here in the bay area, spare the air again. there is good air quality in the north way. high temperatures saturday, in the south bay, 89 degrees in san jose. 88 in santa clara. 94 in los gatos, warm day and there is 87 in milpitas.

there is 86 degrees for you in palo alto and mountain view. here near the coast fog. and keeping you on the cool side. 62 degrees in pacifica. daily city, 636789 upper 60s, downtown san francisco. and into north bay, 104 degrees in yu kia. east bay, 77 degrees in orkland, inlandland areas on the coasty side. there is 66 degrees inmont ray. mid 60s coast side, upper 90s sunday, cooling continuing on monday. low 60s coast and there is average by wednesday.

so coming down to normal level autos thank you. >> and are you, we want to thank three people tonight for taking part in the abc 7 sleep train dream campaign. there is all have you to do is like abc 7 news on facebook right now. and $1 will be donated to sleep train foster kids program. >> are you ready for something sweet and spicy? >> absolute lie yeah. me too. >> michael finney next with finney's friday free stuff. >> if you're tired of spending life on hold back at 6:00 to show how to

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right now sitting down with the pairts of a local marine killed in afghanistan. the lives he touched throughout the bay area. and a muni bus ad critics say are soaking the fires of hatred in the bay area. backers explain why they're running them. >> and there is pleasanton involve -- inviting you to join a cash mob. >> union square, it's a shop and dine on main street. >> the community asking folks to drop by and spend at loft 20s oodz organizers -- organizers say they're gaining traction as a

fashional trend. >> and we can do that. >> world news is coming up next. >> we'll see you at 6:00. welcome to "world news." tonight, high and dry. the eye opening new report out tonight. how the worst drought since the dust bowl could soon effect your grocery bill. tonight, "world news" back on the farm with the faces of this drought. we're at ground zero tonight. poll vault. suddenly the presidential race showing a front-runner. are the olympics changing the political game, too? lightning fast. a summer of severe weather and what the rest of us never knew about lightning. our ginger zee witnessing it first hand. and showing their mettle. the american athletes front and center. tonight, the hit song emerging from the games, as we celebrate the other heroes, the ones that cheered on our athletes back when they looked like this. our "persons of the week."

good evening. diane is off tonight. we do begin this friday night with that headline from the heartland. the government tonight saying that this historic drought is now taking a bigger toll on american farms than we first thought. and that every american family could soon end up paying the price at the grocery store. how bad is it? this is a farm in nebraska, late last summer, the stalks a healthy green and reaching about eight feet high. that's where they should be this time of year. tonight, this is how a cornfield in that same town looks today. everything burned from the sun and withered. so, tonight here, we're going to go back onto the farm to hear the faces of this drought. here's ginger zee leading us off tonight. >> reporter: a staggering one-sixth of the u.s. corn crop has been lost in just the last month. and the ultimate cost to the u.s. economy could run as high as $80 billion. farmers like john kefner of manhattan, illinois, whose plight "world news" is following, has been sounding the alarm for weeks. >> this is what a healthy ear of corn looks like.