authorities ordered two dozen new evacuation advisories including catch grounds and i until ns and homes. it is threatening 2,500 homes and hotels and catch building and highway 120 is closed in and out of the park. it is scary for people who live here. a lodge owner has been in victim bow since saturday. >> it is a roller coaster. we got reports it was burned to the ground and someone else said, no, no, it is all right. all second-hand information. >> the fire has destroyed two homes and seven outbuildings. thousands of people have evacuated, officials say yosemite national park does remain open to visitors. the rim fire is one of more than 50 major brushfires burning across the west. the largest is beaver creek fire

in idaho burning 100,000 acres which is six times bigger. >> fire officials are concerned about dry conditions in trees on mount sutro above the medical center. they will create a 100' buffer zone with 1,200 trees removed and thinned to lessen the detainer. the growth was planted 125 years ago and many fought to keep the trees. in june san francisco fire department officials warned the university about the need for 100' clear an for structures because of the hazardous fire conditions. >> bay area drivers have a week to decide how to get to work during the bay bridge closure when the new eastern span is attached. abc7 news reporter matt keller has your options next week. >> in a week the bay bridge will

be closed as they are ready to open up the eastern span. we want to give you a look at what drives will face september 3. this is animation from westbound traffic like the old span there are five lanes with no s-curve and will have shoulders. drivers headed to oakland come from the tunnel to the height. the old bridge will take years to tear down and landscaping takes time. people will have a radically different view. >> despite the factor with gawker for the passengers. >> the closure starts on wednesday and lasts through labor day weekend. on wednesday, there will be rolling traffic blocks by c.h.p. leading to the bridge with

on-ramps shut down. avoid being the car stuck on the wrong side of a closure. the alternates like the golden gate bridge are expected to be congested so be prepareed. >> notwithstandings, matt. we are a week away from the closing and two weeks away from the opening of the new bay bridge. we have continuing coverage of the big opening telephone days from now september 3 and visit abc7news.com for a detailed look at commuter resources on bart, a.c. transit and san san francio bay ferry and explore the real time traffic maps for the worst guide lock and check out live construction camera to see how close the bridge is to re-opening. we will notify twitter followers as soon as the bridge opens. >> most voters in three bay area counties would support ballot measures boosting sales or rot taxes to improve the transit

system. the "san francisco chronicle" reports 75 percent support a 1/8 sales tax and 24 percent back $850 million bond measure. the poll was taken before the july strike and has not been released but is being looked at by bart and neighbor negotiators. >> a large marijuana grow in hayward when crews responded to a house fire. neighbors called the firefighters last night when they saw smoke coming from the garage. no one was home so crews forced their way in and put out the fire and found the three bedroom house filled with 200 pot plants investigators believe wires from the overloaded meter starts the fire. authorities will confiscate the plants.

>> 15-year-old boy has a suspected hash laboratory in the shed which is the strongest form of marijuana. he lives with his mom. the police found seven grams of concentrated marijuana and 43 pounds of loose marijuana. the boy was arrested after being under surveillance for several days. >> a 19-year-old foster city man is sentenced to two years if prison for sexual battery. the man was arrested in august. he snuck into a neighbor's home and a nine-year-old girl's bedroom. the father grabbed the teen and held him until the police arrived. he admitted to breaking into a 17-year-old girl's home and fondled the girl through her clothing. he will have to register as a sex offender as part of the sentence. >> a man is accuses of a lewd act that may not be the first time in front of young children inside a burger king restaurant.

a mother says a man exposed himself and simulated a sex act in front of her and her three young daughters. the man could be involved in other cases and the description matches a stretch released of a man connected to a string of exposures across the bay area. >> antioch police are searching for a man who stabbed his pregnant girlfriend. the 18-year-old stabbed his 16-year-old girlfriend in her leg and abdomen around 10:30 yesterday morning. he got away. the girl and the baby were not seriously hurt. >> a man shot by a c.h.p. officer is accused of a violent case of road rage and now faces attempted murder. he ran down a motorcyclist on friday in oakland. this is the aftermath of the crash. a c.h.p. officer caught up with the suspect he refused orders and the officer feared for his life and he fired on the suspect

who now is in the hospital recovering. once released he will be booked. the motorcyclist he is accused of hitting from antioch is now paralyzed. >> now mike nicco has the weather. >> good morning, we start with the peninsula temperatures, it is warmest new in palo alto at 62 and redwood city at 61 and everyone else around 58 or 59 until you get to woodside at 52 degrees. we will look at san francisco and 58. oakland and hayward and los gatos at 59 and fremont is 61 and 60 in livermore and antioch and 55 in novato. the day planner the next 12 hours, clouds are increasing and they will do that through the 7:00 hour holding our temperatures in the mid-50 to near 60 and it will be sunny but for the coast will be partly sunny at noon and 60 there and of 66 around the bay and top out at 80's and the cool breeze is

going to move on and if you are away from the inland neighborhood in the evening you need the coast and we will be stick in the 60's and 50's. through the weekend, tomorrow, the warmest, but each kay, saturday and sunday, one to two degrees cooler and the sea breeze gets stronger. now, the only commute. >> good morning, everyone, fortunately, no major stalls or accidents this hour just road work to be aware of. on the oakland area southbound 880 washington, various lanes are closed for an hour and a half and the peninsula, 280, edgewood to 92, various lane are closed and that is a wonderful commute with no slowing through that area. westbound 580 through livermore area, road work continues. and the bay bridge toll plaza looks good into san francisco on the upper deck moving at the element with no delays. >> thank you very much.

next, the pit bull that malled a bay was supposed to be put down. why it is still alive this morning. >> yahoo stages a comeback and what they did that they have not been able to do this two years. >> good morning, topping "america's money," traders hope today wall street will end the losing streak after the 6th straight day in the red shedding 100 points and slipped 4.5 percent from the record high on august 2. there is a surprising new survey of what happens to wedding gifts you give: 82 percent admit to selling some of the

>> covering novato, oakland, sunnyvale and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> at 4:41 we look at the roof camera and you can see the ferry

building to the left with all the weather details coming up. >> animal control will schedule a hearing next week to decide the fate of two pit bulls that attacked a 10-year old in antioch. friends and family and people who don't know hunter came out to raise money for his medical bills at a restaurant last night. they say the boy is doing well and recovering. one of the dogs that mauled hunter while plague at a neighbor's house was supposed to be put down yesterday but that didn't happen after the owners requested a hearing. that news was a let down to the boy's mother who is disgusted of the efforts to try to save the pit bulls that almost killed her son. >> drug dogs will be seen on the campus of valley christian high school in san jose. the private christian school has hired a private company to patrol school grounds one of the first local schools do do so. they will sniff cars and lockers and hallways.

>> we look as it as being ahead of the curve and as a deter republican. >> thing dos will be called to campus at random. parents were notified and have given permission for the drug sweep. the response overall has been positive. >> france's foreign minister is raising the possibility of the use of force in syria if it is proven that president bashar al-assad regime used chemical weapons. the united states, britain and france demand that a team of experts in syria be granted immediate access to investigate the site where activists say government forces unleashed chemical weapons on civilians yesterday killing at least 100 people. victims are brought to hospitals where doctors can do little to help them. the government denies the claims but the obama administration is asking the u.n. to urgently investigate. >> more chaos in egypt. ousted former president mubarak is expected to be freed from prison at any moment. last month's military coup has some wondering if they are

headed back to mubarak's old regime. we go to washington, dc, for the latest. >> the death toll in egypt is staggering a thousand people killed in a week. enjoy, fear of more tension after two years in jail waiting for a retrial, mubarak could walk out of detail. the prime minister ordered him to be placed under house arrest. >> this is horrible. it will cancel everything we have been through, all the killing, all the blood shed, devastating. >> this is seen as a blow to the 2010 revolution and could give more weight to allegations that last in's removal of the democratically elected president by the military was a step toward running to the old regime. the state department calls it an internal issue. >> working its way through the legal system there. >> senator john mccain made the case for cutting off more than $1 billion in aid to the key united states ally.

the obama administration is still resuing that possible. >> the united states has influence but if the united states doesn't use that influence it has in influence. >> the prime minister knows losing the aid is a possibility but hopes it will not happen. >> this will be a very bad sign and it will definitely affect the military for some time but nothing -- at least one of the benefits of this movement, you can survive. >> the united states is calling on them to move to a democratically elected government and could possibly hold free elections in months. brentwood to control west nile virus. four infected birds have been discovered in brentwood and the spraying will begin at 7:50 p.m.

in the zone and it will take spraying. >> mike nicco is here and no more red flag warning. >> the fire danger is over and the thunderstorms are moving to the north with interesting weather for the weekend. we will move on through that and roller coaster is on the way but i promise it will not make you sick. you can see on live doppler 7 hd we have a lot of cloud cover around but nothing falling right now. 25 miles per hour at fairfield and impressive sea breeze. 13 at napa and everyone else is below ten miles per hour. we will talk about what will happen as we look at the camera and the clouds on top of san francisco right now, we are going to have afternoon sunshine but for the coast it will not be so prevalent and it will be mild

today. brief, warming trend tomorrow as we get more sunshine at the coast and highs are below average this weekend. so, probably the bright of the day of the next four will be tomorrow. temperatures today are below average with 79 in san jose and a lot of mid-to-upper 70's in the santa clara valley and it is warmer in los gatos and morgan hill and gilroy and mid-80's. santa cruz, you will see sunshine this afternoon headed to the boardwalk at 74 degrees. low-to-mid 70's on the peninsula but millbrae is 70 and at the coast, mid-60's stretching to downtown san francisco. south san francisco a couple of degrees warmer at 68 degrees. through the not bay valley you will deal with pleasant mid-to-upper 70's and sausalito is 68 and we will have mid-60's around bodega bay. 69 is berkeley, a cooler spot, and 70 in oakland, all the way to 76 in castro valley and fremont and richmond to 77 in

hercules and the east bay valley, mid-to-upper 80's so the weather conditions to get more comfortable in our warmest spot. tonight, the temperatures are in the mid-to-upper 50's with low 50's in the north bay and the concentration of clouds are mostly around the bay and into the north bay temperature. the low is pulling to the north with that counter-clockwise pull and the strongest wind is over all of us today but it will be over the north bay tonight. that is why you will be cloudy. if you head up to the north today, up to oregon, you can see the showers and the thunderstorms will develop as the low moves away. tomorrow morning, it will be gone and we have boundaries coming through with dry air in the afternoon and it is the best way for sunshine. two to four degrees warmer tomorrow and wees there a couple of degrees saturday and sunday. sunday is the cool of the spot in the forecast. >> good morning, everyone, we

had an early accident at sierra point but it is cleared. traffic is flowing nicely headed to the airport today. no delays. otherwise, road work northbound 680 at the sunol grade and road work to the next hour or so. in the south bay, northbound 280 the connection to 880 is closed because of construction until 5:00. the san mateo bridge for the commute, tail lights are headed in the westbound direction and you can see things are clear with in fog on the sand and a nice drive between hayward and san mateo. >> yahoo is king of the intent for the first time in more than two years, the most visited sites in the country. according to the monthly report, yahoo had 196 million unique visitors in july. that is four million more than google. unique site visits were up 20

percent from the same time last year when they were third in the rankings behind google and microsoft. >> the boy scouts of america is threatening to take an oakland-base nonprofit to court because of the name. the use of the word "scouts" is the problem. hacker scouts say they have received a letter demanding the group drop "scouts" from the name or face a lawsuit. hacker scouts which focuses on science and technology for kids, says it is hoping to reach a compromise. we post add copy of the letter on our website at abc7news.com. >> coming up, taking top honors, the bay area universities with new bragging rights this morning. >> being a good neighbor, facebook's gift for lucky

>> good morning, everyone, on this thursday morning. a look at the golden gate bridge

with traffic sparse right now. that little glaze you see, mike will explain to you coming up, but the good news is the red flag fire danger has expired. >> lucky students on the peninsula will go back to school with brand new laptops because of facebook visiting an academy to donate laptops to the entire 8th grade class and will give out other lap taps saying the goal is to provide students with the equipment they will need to lend more about technology and prepare them for high school and beyond. >> today, new students attending san francisco state will begin moving into residence hauls kicking off the welcome days for freshman, transfer, and international students with five days of activities. the first day of classes start on monday. >> new report ranks cal and stanford among the best universities in the world. the ranking of top schools in the world lists uc berkeley at

top ranked public, and harvard is number one, stanford is number two, uc berkeley is third, and then m.i.t. and number 5 is cam bridge. >> and two degrees cooler than average in livermore and three in san francisco and four degree coolers to redwood city. only 76 degrees but should be 82. a game at at&t park with the pirates in town, very good pirates. starting at 60 and dropping to 58. you can see the storms to the north, low 90's in sacramento and 93 in yosemite and 80 in tahoe and 83 in los angeles. sue? >> good morning, mike, pretty good looking thursday morning or little friday with no real

delays but just road work, westbound 4 coming from antioch you will find slow traffic from before 680 and looking pretty good when you reach pittsburg and in the concord area that will pick up any time. coming from the central valley, westbound 580, greenville to north livermore we have slowing speeds of 32 miles per hour from 205 and it picks up in livermore on the way to dublin pleasanton and 31 minutes from tracy to dublin, highway 4, the driver is a grind but not too bad in concord and 101 from san rafael to san francisco is a nice drive to marin county, and checking in with bart they have 25 trains up and running and on time, muni and caltrain, no delays. >> there is a lost buzz surrounding a new company that promises a new way to get your caffeine fix. sprayable energy is a mix of water, caffeine, and something called tyrcine and equals a

quarter cup of coffee and is safer than energy drink and no bitter taste. does it work in "good morning america" will talk about it at 7:00 a.m. and we will find out together. >> if you love oreo cookies, the double stuffed oreos may not have twice as much creamy filling at the original. a group of high school students in new york decided to test it out. they weighed ten original and ten double stuffed oreos and they say the double stuffed oreos did not measure up. they had just 1.86 amount the cream but the company stands by the double-toughed claim. >> approximately double stuffed. >> a woman in england went to aburg you are joint and ordered the triple decker and dislocated her jaw. that is the burger. the image from the restaurant calls the dish the kids in america burger, and she bit into it her jaw locked.

she thought she was fine. she wasn't. were but there is no permanent damage. >> talk about being bad if your health. >> next, at 5:00 a.m., two east bay businesses held up at gunpoint. could they be linked to arm robbery rash? >> a call to action from bay area business leaders over the bart labor dispute and what they want from governor brown.

>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news.

>> good morning, we are coming up on 5:00 a.m. on thursday. thank you for joining us. >> first up we will get you out the door with a check on the weather. mike? >> we could not have anything weather-wise to worry about as far as wet weather. live doppler 7 hd shows how dry it. marine layer is re-established and we have a lot of cloud cover increasing right now through 7:00. by the afternoon, it will be mostly sunny. temperatures are in the mid-60's along the coast in san francisco. low-to-mid 70's for most of the bay area. upper 70's in the south bay. also, the north bay, and the mid-to-upper 80's in the east bay valley. most of the temperatures are below average. sue? >> good morning, everyone, so far, so good. we can see on 24, westbound, there is road work slowing things a bit moving toward the