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. abc 7 news starts right now with live breaking news. >> and the breaking news power knocked out for thousands across the bay area tonight. at one point the outages seem to get worse by the minute. >> here is the live look at the pg&e outage map thousands of customers are still without power because of a squirrel. >> believe it or not. >> yeah. >> here is a picture of how dark it is in the east bay. >> and this was tweeted from downtown a b.a.r.t. system. b.a.r.t. trains were not stopping because of the outage, we are live in berkeley tonight with the story. allen? >> yeah dan, pg and e said that
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the downtown berkeley b.a.r.t. station is back online and power is restored. from this viewpoint there's small pockets of blacked out neighborhoods in berkeley. interestingly, pg&e said it was not caused by the heat, a squirrel came in contact with electrical equipment, with the sub station, causing this power outa age, a squirrel. >> the majority of east bay customers lost power from berkeley to richmond cars drifted slowly through sdrekzs of downtown berkeley where people walked in the dark. the back up generators at safeway turned on around 8:00 when the power went off the b.a.r.t. station shut down forcing passengers to use bus bridges to get to the next station. elevator rescues were taking place and graduation ceremonies relied on aye--- relied on i-phone
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to see on stage. >> it was kind of ragged. >> most of the uc berkeley campus was blacked out, there were pockets of uneffected customers. >> i called my sister and she is still playing her video game. she has power. >> strauptrestaurants and stores were undergoing a real melt down. >> okay, we have time lapsed video now, take a look here, showing the power outage, in san jose more than twef 00 are still in the danchlth pg&e blames the hot temperatures, not a squirrel. >> no power means no air conditioning, it's still warm out there and here is a look, abc news meteorologist is live with just how hot it got today.
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>> well, hot enough to set a new record for the day in gilroy, where it was 109 degrees. take a look for yourself. this is surpassing the previous record of 102 set back in 1973. triple digits. 106 livermore and 107 in antioch, it was blistering. 104 in concord and napa was to 101 degrees. 86 in oakland. and 76 in san francisco and half moon bay, 64 degrees, a a good 45 degree spread between half moon bay and one of our hottest spots. when you look at the live doppler 7 hd fog is on the increase i will tell you when it cool down and how long the trend will continue coming up. >> blast of triple dimth temperatures caused a big problem on b.a.r.t. some of the tracks over heated and stopped the trains. we are live in san bruno with
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the story tonight. dan, tonight, it's cool enough foor jacket today, it was hot enough to cause a mini melt down on b.a.r.t. t trains coming from the east bay saw delays and other modes of transportation were over heated too. >> it was madness. so many people. >> sarah alexander wanted to get home on b.a.r.t. to san bruno, but it was not happening. 40 minutes just for the b.a.r.t., crazy. some waited an hour to catch a train on the daly city line out of san francisco. >> three, maybe four trains that went by before i got on one because it was so packed that i could not get this. >> b.a.r.t. blames heat for the delays. track monitoring electronics over heated when the air conditioning failed. causing the computers to detect tracks that were not there. >> hot weather, rainy weather either way, it's a delay on b.a.r.t. doesn't matter.
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>> a northbound cal train was over heated and taken out of service. b.a.r.t. services are book schedule by 7:00 p.m. when the temperatures started to cool off, but sarah was already late. >> i wish i was here earlier, i had a family to feed. >> a commute that some would like to forget. >> today's hot weather created a melt down of a section is of 580 and some drivers on the freeway. it shows us road repair word that can shut down parts of the rail way for 7 hours. a patch of on pavement was weakened by a diesel spill. >> weather likely played a role in slowing traffic. a grass fire in san leandro firefighters will be on the
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scene all night. it was a small fire but look at all the smoke. you can track the news weather app, you can get it free from the app store or google play. >> three people were injured in el cerrito this weekend when a tree came crashing down in a whield child's birthday party. the tree was just enormous. look at it about 100 feet tall. a branch hit a 90-year-old man in the head he had a concussion and the great grandmother had cuts to her legs. the picnic area is closed off and most of the tree has been cut up. they said the tree looked healthy and just suddenly snapped above the roots. >> they are wondering if because of the drought, if it's just, you know, something that will continue happening and i think that was the main concern after we realized that all of us would
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be okay. >> tonight, they attended a community discussion about removing trees for fire possession. he wants the city to remove drought stricken trees. >> the warriors are getting rest before the game three, they boarded the plane to ohio. the cavs players took a red-eye flight last night after stealing game two on the warriors home court. oracle arena is known as waracle and if you have attended the game, you know why, could all the noise be hurting your ears. we talked with an expert that said is yes. >> ties the game! >> the noise level in oracle arena can literally be off the charts. look at the decibel leader on the left of the screen. jumping in the 124 range. that was not even for the plash brothers before a fan making a half court shot. that level is comparable to a
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chainsaw or rocks concert. >> and this crowd is so fired up. this fan was there last night. >> it was like nothing i have seen. >> i can understand why, it's excitement, you want to make more noise, i get it but it's not healthy for hearing. >> he treats patients with hearing loss and he had that the noise level in oracle is loud enough to to he poly cause sudden and sometimes permanent impairment. >> an auditorium that is enclosed, it's loud and the loud sound does not have an opportunity to escape. >> fans we talked to here at the team store say, the excitement inside the arena out weighs any risk. >> i think it's pretty loud, it's not too loud for me. >> the rockets/warriors fans are legendary, even king james had to acknowledge. >> the fans here are pretty
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loud. pretty, pretty good. really good. >> our experts advice to protect your hearing get ear plugs or headphones like riley curry. she might just make them a fashion statement. abc 7 news. how cute. >> boy. >> abc 7 is the only place to catch the nba finals of course. abc coverage of game three begins tomorrow at 5:30 with nba count down follow onned by the tip off at 6:00. >> prior to that abc 7 news at 4:00 and abc 7 news tonight at 4:30 and at 5:30, game three of the final. toyota, after the game will follow game three. that is jimmy kimmel live game night and an hour long edition starting at 10:30. >> we are following the warriors every step of the way on the remarkable journey. their coverage of game thee is tomorrow morning on the only
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jogging has died. she was taken off of life support by her parents. her doctors told them that she'd not survive. the high school student was jogging on point san pedro road last tuesday, she hopped in the road to get around a fallen tree where she was hit. >> san jose's airport went in to emergency mode this evening after reports of a strange noise on a flight. we see the emergency vehicles meeting the eastern airlines plane as it arrived from dallas ft. worth airport, you can see crews checking the landing gear. >> and i'm going to introduce you to apple music. apple unveiled the streaming service. it will cost $10 for a single person to move, or you can can try it for three months free when it's available. there won't be a free ad based option like pandora.
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>> a 12-year-old girl with a life threaten illness is getting her wish. she leaves tomorrow for orlando, where for a week, she can just focus on being a kid. abc news reporter was there for the big reveal. >> surprise! >> 12-year-old kayla new she got her wish when her childhood friend opened the door. she asked the make a wish foundation if she can go to orlando. >> i'm excited to to go and happy i'm stable enough to go. >> she has been diagnosed with a rare immune tissue disease. on tuesday kayla gets to leave it all behind she is going to disney world and sea dlworld.
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>> it gives her hope that you can move forward without feeling that there's no hope. >> after her wish kayla will have something else to look forward to. a new center in the fall opening. it has specialists and other patients under one roof. >> when you are in a place where there's people who are maybe worse than you you kind of realize, like you know that there are other people struggling and there are other people like you. >> but for now on, the focus is on fun, two best friends going on a trip of a lifetime. >> that is sweet. >> it is. >> but let's talk about the heat. it will ease that is good. >> yeah, we are going to get a break from the weather, and as he with look at the live doppler 7 hd here is a hint as to why the fog is closing in on the coast line. visibility has dropped. half moon bay down the 3/4 of a
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mile. just make sure you are careful on the road ways. especially if your travels take you along the coastline where the fog is sitting. temperature is 55 degrees in half moon bay, you get tall way inland around antioch and it's 30 degrees warmer. quite a spread, this is what we are used to seeing in the summer time. seasons will be changing on the 21st, we are seeing a taste of it today. the camera showing you the fog over san francisco. fog along the coast and cooling down in the next two days keep in mind, shear is what is going to bring the possibility. it's an area of low pressure that is going to help to drop our temperatures, but it will increase the cloud cover and elevate the possibility of seeing some showers and thunderstorms. it is pulling up moisture from former hurricane blanc a. that moisture is already in to southern california, it will make its way up in to our area. here is a computer animation.
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showing the fog at the coast and cooler and cloudier as we go towards 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. isolated showers and thunderstorms possible. around 10:00 p.m. tomorrow night, and that possibility will be between tuesday night and wednesday afternoon. 7:00 a.m. you see the north bay having the possibility of unsettled weather, we continue it going in to wednesday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. then it will wind down. this is when things will feel stickier. even though it's cooler. the humidity will be increasing a as we are dealing with what is left of blanc a. tomorrow morning most areas will start out mild mid to upper 50s around the bay and mid 60s inland along the coast line temperature it is in the mid 50s with the fog sit issing may feel on the cool side, you may need to dress in layers. nor the afternoon it will be a nice day, but cooler than the today in the south bay, 82, gilroy and 84 san jose and 82 in sunnyvale, and 63 in half moon
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bay. it will remain cloudy most of the day. 66 degrees and 62 in daly city. you go from the upper 90s to the low 1s. tomorrow, you drop to 78 you are going to feel the difference in the east bay, 72 oakland, and 90 is all we can get to in antioch, 88 in livermore. out of the triple digits as you look at the seven-day forecast. slight chance for a cooling and we warm it up first half of the weekend will feature mid 90s and mid 60s coast. >> thank you. >> well coming up next on abc 7 news. sketching the
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okay so a michigan man is a million dollars richer after ignoring his girlfriend's warnings about playing the lotto, he bought a scratcher even after his significant other said not to. he felt lucky, hid it from his girlfriend and scratched a off the ticket in the bathroom. he won the game's largest prize, a million dollars, the man took the lump sum of $635,000 and hopes his girlfriend won't be skeptical. >> i assume is she is not complaining. >> right. >> an amazing tribute to lebron james using know etch-a-sketch. it took him two days to finish. the art has earn him a trip to the white house. he makes a living selling t-shirts and prints use onning the the pictures he creates on the etch a sketch. >> wow interesting way to make a buck. >> yeah. >> that is amazeingamazing.
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>> we could do squares and stuff. >> rather pedestrian with my etch-a-sketching. he has the lebron scowl going on. the warriors had 24 hours to find a solution to their when account lead craig wilson books at laquinta.com. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can settle in and practice his big pitch. and when craig gets his pitch down pat, do you know what he becomes? great proposal! let's talk more over golf! great. better yet, how about over tennis? even better. a game changer! your 2 o'clock is here. oops, hold your horses. no problem. la quinta inns & suites is ready for you, so you'll be ready for business. the ready for you alert, only at lq.com. laquinta!
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what are they going to do about it and get him hope against the smothering of kas. curry not worried. >> not going to let a game alter my confidence. i know as a team, we are not going let one game alter our belief that we are going to win the series and be ready to play a good team, that is ready to go home. >> you have seen lebron's scowl during the game, now it's your turn, send us your lebron safe self selfies. to the ice. lightning goalie ben bishop had to leave game two with a mystery ailment and nobody is saying what it was. he is clearly not 100%, but made 36 saves in the game. just over 3:00 left, tied at 2. and he gets the stick down and redrikts, tampa wins 3-2 and the
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lightning take a lead. the usa versus australia. surrounded by seven defenders and still scored off of a deflection aussies tied it and in the 61st minute, team usa off to a good start with a 3-1 victory. both the giants and the a's were off. both busy with the major league draft. and the giants love to draft pitchers. they took 6'5" player from southern nevada, took him with the 18th pick. and they selected first baseman chris hau at 31 in round one. the a's selected shortstop motor infrom florida. 20th overall. former athletic brandon moss hit his 1th career homer last week. and the teammates they would ball for ransom with a real note demanding ipads and apple computers and apple watches and iphones. who comes to the rescue when the
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thing goes public? none other than apple ceo, tim cook. >> i have the ball right here. >> and we are going to give everything his teammates asked for. so everyone is happy. >> you are only going to encourage this kind of behavior. >> we want to see the ball again, i need a 64 gig ipad. >> yeah. >> thank you very much. >> abc 7 continues online twitter, facebook and on all of the apple
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of us, thanks for joining us jimmy kimmel live is next. we will see you tomorrow. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight, allison janney, paul dano, the national spelling bee champs and music from hiatus kiote. with cleto and the cletones. and once again here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪
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