>> abc7 news begins with breaking news. the breaking news is in downtown palo alto where police and fire investigating a report of a loud explosion that prompted this evacuation of stores around emerson street which is closed. this call came in an hour ago. >> we are over a chowder house near emerson. there are injuries reported and no smoke or fire ored of criminal activity. they are still check it out. >> stay with us on

twitter@abc7newsbayarea for the latest. >> down the road in mountain view traffic is at a practical standstill with lanes blocked on we through mountain view after motorcyclist died this morning in a crash with a big rig. matt keller is at the scene. matt? >> kristen, this is a terrible scene, the coroner arrived half an hour ago for the investigation. the c.h.p. has blocked off three lanes. you can see the cars emergencying interest one lane, the car pool lane and c.h.p. lined up the vehicles so commuters do is to see the body in the middle of the road happening at 9:00 a.m. c.h.p. said the motorcycle and a big rig came in contact with each other just before the exit in mountain view. the motorcycle was wiped out and the rider died at the citizen. >> it appears they pay have been splitting lanes. everything is...preliminary. we are looking for witnesses. hopefully we can get more

information as to what happened. >> c.h.p. said it appears the drier is man from fremont but the coroner. determine his identification. the motorcycle was pulled away. the driver of the big rig has been cooperative and it does not appear alcohol or druze were involved this is a busy road. check out the backup. the exit to the google cam spouse a quarter mile away and many workers head there later in the morning. the backup is several miles back to great america parkway about six miles away. if you have the opportunity, take 85 or 280 to get around this. thank you. remark is back up for hours in san jose. after an accident involving a car and a bicyclist. this happened just before 7:00 a.m. on blossom hill road at the entrance to highway 85. officers say the bicyclist was a woman around 36 or so and taken to the hospital with serious

injuries much the driver of the car stopped and is cooperating with the investigation. >> happening now, governor brown is meeting with fire officials working the rocky fire saying something has to be done about the 23 fires burning across the state. >> the message is clear. the california is bumping. what the hell you gonna do about it? it is not just california but extreme weather evens through the country and the world. it is not a game of politics. it is a net to our well-being and way of life. at least come up with some response. >> the governor is with a team of first responders including cal fire and law enforcement officials. the rocky fire is 40 percent contained. crews have kept it from growing any bigger since yesterday and held it at under 70,000 acres scorched by flames near clear lake. 43 homes, 53 outbuildings destroyed by the rocky fire in northern california. in the past half hour, a school district announced they are delaying the start of the school year because of the fire.

the first day of school is now august 17. a lost residents are still evacuated. crews do not expect to have the fire contained until next thursday at the earliest. >> a community event inviting rohnert park neighbors to have coffee with a cop was canceled over threats of violence days after cell phone video surfaced show a rohnert park police officer drawing his gun on a man in his front yard during a heated exchange. the city manager said an investigation is underway to determine if protocols were followed. police say they got word some people were planning on extending this morning's event potentially putting citizens at risk so they canceled it to be safe. >> throughs people are gearing up for the giant music festival, outside lands in golden gate park but not everyone is happy about it. amy hollyfield joins us to explain. amy? >> this should not be too busy this weekend. had concert is sold out, a very popular event, some great agents

are going to be here, elton john, the black peas and it is a lot of fun. some residents say they pay the price. >> 150,000 people plan to descend on golden gate park for the outside lands music festival people near the park are leaving. >> for the past they years we have left. during the day it is music playing all day and night. >> residents complain of loud music, a crush of people, litering and other gross behavior. >> people urinate on the corner of the garage, just sit there. they don't care. broken glass all over the place. >> you the manager of the apartment building located at 30th and full some --

>> you have to be careful so you don't run into someone and they perceive you are trying to run a crowd through a crowd and bang on the car and yelling at you. >> he wondery know can't move the concert entrance to the great highway, away from a residential area? or block his street off to cars and people for the entire weekend? all the questions are met with one bottom line. >> we have been to meeting after meeting after meeting all the citizens with the police department and those who promote this. all we have gotten, well, yeah, we sympathize with you but we are going to have it because we make too much money. >> it is a money maker. the park department said they received $2.4 million just last year alone. we asked outside lands and we asked the city about possibly moving the entrance to the great highway. they said it is a busy day and

they could have the answer for us later this afternoon. you have to think about the money that is generated from the event, the taxi drivers, people who rent out their driveways and it is a crowded and loud weekend. >> tough situation there, thanks. >> wonder if the thunderstorm possibility will be gone by tomorrow? >> meteorologist mike nicco has some answers for us. >> mike? >> great question. all the sax on stage, not the sky like tonight. on live doppler hd everything is in red, but solano county, under a high fire danger starting at 2:00 but the north pay and san francisco and it begins at 5:00 and goes through 11 o'clock tomorrow morning and even the central valley into the high country under a fire weather watch meaning the potential tore high fire danger certificate there. what to expect? scattered showers and thunder is

likely with little to no rain. when the 50,000-degree bolt of lightning hits the grounds it could spark fires and wind and water and rain evaporates and creates down gravities with holly gusty wind. a high fire danger. a timetable is remaining up. >> thank you. a san francisco doctor fighting to save her frozen embryos so she can become a summer is telling her story for the first time. the woman at the center of the high profile legal battle does an interview with abc. abc7 reporter john it o has more. >> i am doing this for my babies. >> 46-year-old mimi lee is determined to become a million. she speaks exclusively to abc discussing a bitter legal battle with her ex-husband, stephen findley. at the time the couple went through the process lee was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> how important was it to you

at that moment to preserve your ability to pro create? >> critical. >> at the center are medical concept forms boat parts signed at ucfs calling for the embryos to be destroyed if they got a divorce. in closing arguments on tuesday, his attorney said the situation is black and white. >> it is still an agreement. the agreement is in the document at least 27 times. >> but lee's attorney argues it is future a binding contract and his klein has a right to change her mind. lee waits for a judge to make a life-changing decision come november. >> i stay focused on my babies. i would do anything for them. >> lee said she doesn't expect

her ex-husband to be in her and her children if life at all despite claims from the former husband that she would manipulate the situation and try to get money from him. this certainly be a ground-breaking kiss as there are a million embryos in preservation cross the country. >> that is why it is getting so much national attention. >> happening today a court hearing is scheduled in san francisco to determine whether uber drivers can obtain class-action status against the ondemand car service asking to classify drivers as employees rather than independent drivers, governmenting minimum wage pay, mileage compensation and security benefits if class action status is grant, plaintiffs wrote be able to pool together resources and gain more leverage in the settlement. >> a warning about the plague. more on a new rare case. >> and kgo ledger radio edge end

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>> state health officials are investigating a death of the plague. a child was il almost after visiting a national forest and camping at crane not campground in yosemite national park in mid-july. the child is recovering. in other members of the family became sick. plague is a disease carried by rodents and fleas. the last infection in california

was in 2006. >> kgo radio icon ron owens is undergoing brain surgery to ease sink storms of parkinson's disease. his wife sent us the pictures of ron from the hospital getting prepared. he is part of a trial involving a procedure called deep brain stimulation we caught up with him after preoperation tests to talk about his symptoms. >> this last year has gotten worse, bumping into things, falling, harder to get up from a restaurant tables things like that. and this is the time to do it. >> his wife said the surgery is going well, the first phase of a two-party procedure with an update later today at 5 o'clock. >> so many have been asking how he is doing. >> we wish him well. >> meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with the forecast. >> you have noticed the extra humidity is in the air and that will caltran late into the possibility of some thunderstorms, a high fire danger and that is going did

come in tonight with a timetable for that and take a look at a quieter weekend forecast. >> mike, thank you. all-out scramble on a agree a cash incentive the commuters had to stop. >> shaking off the anger, why senior citizen in australia are thanking taylor swift this

>> covering santa rosa berkeley, san jose and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> a dash for cash in singapore with debris on the highway is actually thousands of dollars. yes, surprise commuters jumped

from the cars early this week to try to scoop up the money and each was around $13 united states dollars which flew out of a bag on a motorcycle. by the time the driver retracted his route or retraced the route, only a single note was left on the road. >> people put their lives at risk for that. for $13! my goodness. you can now record your favorite memories and have them automatically edited. a company is coming out with a new camera that uses data collected from the footage, microphone, g.p.s. and heart rate monitor to identify the best or most exciting moments while you are filming. it will let you set how long you want each clip to be and the software can edit into a single video coming out next year and it will sync. >> how often do you record four hours and never look at it. >> now, a gorgeous picture.

>> it is sticky. glad you noticed that. that is a bigger difference between today and today. let me take a detour quickly and show you a picture that was sent to me by peggy. she was sent this by the coastal administrator for cal fire and this happened in the rocky fire the last couple of days. someone's home, memories, automatic items wiped away by the fire. right new, temperature up there is running a little milder with humidity low at 35 percent. it is not gusting as much as it could be but the past two days were good day weather-wise so they have held the fire at 109 square miles the size of salt lake city and bigger than sacramento. over the next 4 hours our biggest gusts are tomorrow after

the thunderstorm threat. now, the thunderstorms themselves could create locally gusty winds when they develop. until then higher humidity and more clouds and thunderstorm are possible tonight and dry and cooler starting tomorrow afternoon. here is a look at mid-level and upper level moisture, it is not making it to the ground. the pump is primed by the low pressure to the west and because it is to the west the winds are coming from the southwest and heading to the upper part and elsewhere, they are light, less than ten miles per hour, but for sfo they are at 13 miles per hour. temperatures today will run in the 70s along the coast interest san francisco and upper 70s on mid-80s around the bay and the south bay and upper 80s in the north bay and low-to-mid 90s inland even with the cloud cover the muggy air mass is going to yield the temperatures. 7:00 at the cove and 69 and were directing to 65 by the time the game is over under clouds. temperatures tonight because of the cloud cover and humidity is milder than average, upper 50s to mid-60s. here is the setup, the area of

low pressure that is coming our way and you can see with the motion, it is still borrowing the moisture from guillermo. that is why we will have storms possible tonight. here we are at noon, watching the clouds thicken, evening commute is fine but by 10:00, all the way through you can see about action in the morning, scattered showers across east bay, the south bay and the peninsula, a slight chance across the north bay and tomorrow afternoon the sun comes out and the temperatures cool off and the air dries out. in fact, we will be below average tomorrow and bump back to average on saturday with morning clouds and afternoon sunshine and seasonal weather through wednesday. we could have exceptional fireworks tonight. if you see them take a picture and send it to us. we would appreciate it. # abc7now. >> leyla gulen has suggestions on how to explore where you live this website. >> headliners elton john and sam

smith are barely the tip of the iceburg performing at the outside lands as san francisco's golden gate park. thousands of concertgoers get to hear dozens of musicians across multiple stages covering every music type. do not forget your wristband. >> and there is the annual summer improv festival the long the running in northern california with a grudge map with the los angeles rival in a musical extravaganza. >> and now, the apple fair is this weekend with local cider, wine and the famous apples from the area. go to abc7news.com for more information on these events. >> america's most high profile friend has tide the knot with

jennifer aniston marrying justin exchanging vows into 70 family and friends who thought they were going to justin's birthday party. celebrity guests including howard stern. the couple have been engaged since 2012 aoff after they started dating. it is his first marriage and her second, after divorcing brad pitt. >> and from taylor swift they granted people permission to use one of her hit songs. >> a cast of 17, 17, singing and dancing to "shake it off," the video was posted with the production featuring veteran australian actress playing 17-year-olds on the last day of school. >> the group wanted to use the song but needed permission so they contacted taylor swift directly on twitter she said

"yes." she said good luck with the opening night. >> she is a class act. >> cuter than kids, four lion cubs taking their first

>> coming up at 4:00, debate night in america, we are going to take you live to cleveland as donald trump and nine other republicans get ready to square off in the first presidential debate. what is at stake as the candidates are ready to take the stage. >> four lion cubs are not two weeks but they are cuter than any kittens you have seen. >> you be the judge, the white cubs just took their first shaky steps. their mother was brought over from south africa but she helps nurture the cubs born at end of july and mostly eat and sleep. >> thank you for joining us

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