some thought it was a meteor but according to the national weather service in utah it was simply pace junk. simply pace junk. [ inaudible ] spoke to in livermore. in that explanation is not enough a harvard astronomer said it was part of a rocket that re-entered the atmosphere and is the talk of social media. if you have a video to share #abc7now news. matt? >> history will be made tonight at the democratic national convention. hillary clinton will be the first woman to accept a major party's nomination for president. president obama and vice president biden took the stage last night making their case to

delegates why hillary clinton should be elected president. >> this year in this election i'm asking you to join me to reject cynicism and reject fear and to summon what is best in us to elect hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. >> how can there be pleasure in saying you are fired. he is trying to kill us. he cares about the middle class, give me a break. that's a bunch of mulark. y. >> senator tim kaine formally accept the knox face for vice president and said he trusted hillary clinton with the life of his son who is in the military. >> jerry brown took aim at donald trump. >> trump says global warming is a hex. i say trump is a fraud. >> he difficult futured the

assertion there is no drought in california it is water mismanagement and said trump is known to reject climate science are "dangerously wrong." >> in an emotional moment, the former arizona congressman nearly killed in a shooting took the stage to endorse hillary clinton. >> speaking is difficult for me but come january, i want to say these two words: madam president! >> she was joined on stage by her husband, retired astronaut mark kelly, both said they are backing clinton because she will stand against the lobby. >> trump sad it was sad for the democrats, a policy advise for trump said speakers did not offer solutions to any problems, original offering up more rewards to the rich and well connected. democrats and even republicans spent the day slamming trump over the russian hacking of

mail. >> russia, i hope you can find the 30,000 e-mails that are miss ing. you will probably be rewarded by our press. >> donald trump tweeted that russia or any country would might have clinton e-mails should share them with the f.b.i. his running make and house speaker paul ryan said russia must stay out of the elections or face serious consequences. >> hillary clinton's lead is growing in california, a new poll of november voters showed she has a 16-point lead over donald trump 46-30% up six points from may and big gains among independent voters over her republican challenger. >> we have complete convention coverage and to reggie aqui at the top of the hour and laura anthony will be here this afternoon and tonight. >> in the east bay million of dollars worth of new programs aimed at providing traffic relief are headed your way.

our reporter, katie, has the detailed. >> good morning, natasha. they are throwing every trick they can to ease the bay bridge congestion because traffic is slowing at the toll plaza but we all know how sticky and nasty the traffic is going to be in just half an hour or so. the meant transportation commission approved $40 million in funding yesterday. all for short-term solutions to our traffic problems. the goal is to make a dent in the traffic backup in the next couple of years. some of the short-term solutions are for ferries, double decker buses and my personal favorite, better h.o.v. enforcement and commuter park lots. with the bay area continued growth, both bart and ferry system are logging record ridership numbers and last year the average weekday ridership the average weekday ridership for bart was 4

but this is not much to do to impact so money will be used to purchase double decker buses increasing capacity by 40%. short-term solutions that will get thing moving on the bay bridge in the next couple of years. what do you think is the best solution? you can defeat me directly or use hash abc7 now. >> today a land is unveiled to bring affordable housing support for small businesses and a new bart station to san francisco's mission district. it is the mission south of caesar chavez international plan. the coalition of community members and bart officials and

city politicians will speak of the plan at 10:00 a.m. on mission street. the cost of the plan is not revealed. >> evacuation orders have expanded for the soberanes firefighter forcing more people from their hopes with flames destroying 34 homes in all up from 20 yesterday. 24,000 acres are charred. the battle against the flames continued among heavy hearts. a bulldozer operator died yesterday while creating containment lines. the operator worked for a private contractor. >> extremely unfortunate. it cast as shadow over our efforts. we have to continue. >> it is the brotherhood. it is devastating. >> the fire is only 10% contained and 3,500 firefighters are still working to get it under control. >> happening today the dental board of california will hear from the public on the use of anesthesia on young dental patients after the death of a

three-year-old this month at a dental clinic. the dentist is allowed to keep practicing while the investigation in the death continues. a draft report is presented by the board on whether occurrent statues provide highest legal of protections for children. iconicking reports over what happened to an east bay man who died in the custody of pittsburg police. this is surveillance video. you can only see it here. 32-year-old martinez bailed out of the car. he ran into the garage of a home where he used to live. police were on his tail. martinez fought with officers. he bit an officer. a witness said that police did not let up as the fight continued. >> they drug him inside the house and closed the door and i heard them tasing and beating on him. i heard three or four more tasers. officials say police handcuffed him but noticed he was unresponsive. they tried to give him cpr but he died. he had a long history assault

and violent crime. a family said he was trying to turn his life around. the d.a. has launched an investigation. >> do you recognize this man? alameda county hope you can solve the case with a photo of a man created with recent technology that predicts a person's appearance based on d.n.a. that does not match any on file. only a for so of a man was found in may of 1997 in him. he is believed to have been 5' 7 and between 26 and 32. from the northern or western european family. >> today, a deal is expected in federal court from a marin trainer exposed as a fraud by abc7 training young men what wanted to join the marine at house of steel wearing a purple part in public and said he was a drill instructor and sniper. it was not true. he was never this the marines. he bought the medal online and used the medal to raise money

facing a career in prison. >> we have a statewide flex alert with power officials encouraging everyone to cut back on electricity today especially during peak hours of 2-9 people. pg&e is urging cuss temperatures to reduce power when air conditioning touchdown to drive high energy use. >> more trouble on the roads, we will check with sue and the update on what is happening on northbound 880. >> another fatal accident this morning. this is the 66th off ramp. traffic is divert the. all lanes of northbound 880 are shut down. there is a fatal accident. again, the cars are diverted 50 of 66 near the coliseum and the cars gone by are in the southbound direction. this happened just before 4:00 this morning where a pedestrian, do know why they were on the freeway, but the pedestrian was hit and you can see the traffic is stacked up northbound 880. use 580 as the alternate and

avoid 880. two hours, starting at 4:00 this morning, so, maybe by 6:00 this will be cleared. 580 is looking great. big-rigs are allowed on 580. mike? >> a fire update shows the soberanes fire it is 80 in the mountains. the humidity is single digits only 8%. the wind are light at 2-3 miles per hour. in the afternoon, they will blow southwest to west and southwest again so they are pushing pollution our way. in san jose you can see the haze in the distance. everyone is doing good whether it is fine particulate matter. here are the next three days and what you will see are temperatures slowly tapering inland while they are below average along the coast into san francisco. we will see in this trend continues through the weekend. coming up. >> still to come, dramatic video of an heiress cue in fresno

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>> benicia, san ramon, san mateo, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> we want to get straight back to breaking news that sue told us about, sig-alert on 880.

we are in oakland, with the latest. amy? >> good morning, we are at the 66th street off-ramp where track is getting off of the freeway. it is all shut down. this is northbound 880, right next to oracle arena. it is not every day we see them shut down every lane but they are gathering evidence right now and need to be able to look at all lanes on the freeway. you can see there are officers walking around looking for evidence. they have their flashlights out looking for any traces of anything to help figure out what happened. there is a scar that parked, the car of a person that hit the victim. that person stopped. we have seen them searching the car. really, focusing on it. they are trying to put together what happened. that is why they are diverting all of the traffic as of right new. not an easy thing for commuters to have to deal with.

this is northbound 880, an area you want to avoid. they do have a fatal accident they are investigating. we are right next to oracle arena. this is the 66th street off-ramp. >> we will check back with you. police are looking for a driver who crashed their car into a home killing one person and hurting eight other people. it happened last nature in los angeles. officers say the car crashed into a home where 11 were attending a prayer meeting and a witness said the driver could not make a turn, hit a sign, went airborne and straight into the house. one person died, and five are in serious condition, and three others have minor injuries. >> a dramatic video of an air recuse of a teen girl trapped in a swift wart of the river. the helicopter rescue crew responded to the call on monday. the sheriff shared this video with us. she was clinging to a tree and so afraid to let go she did not put on a rescue collar dropped

to her. time was of essence, it was very evident with type water she was in the position she was in... >> i had my arm wrapped around the log because in i left go i knew i would be sucked under. >> she was safely lited to dry land and said she and her family were floating on the river and she was pinned against a try. >> president obama and first lady have officially selected a site for the presidential library. it will be located in chicago's historic jackson park on the south side. that is located near the museum of science and industry and the eastern edge of the university of chicago campus including a library, housing the archives and the museum devoted to obama's eight years. a formal announcement is expected next week. >> happening tonight, a thousand people are expected to take part in the pokemon go crawl at the wharf in san francisco.

it comes after last week's big turn out for a similar event in delores park. organizers say the wharf will have 70 stops with active lures from 6:00 to 9:00 and 40 businesses will have a special deal for pokemon go employers. >> one guy would will not be this tonight, san jose man who claims to be the second opinion to catch a mall in pokemon go. >> this is a foote he can call himself pokemon master. >> the last one i need was this. >> he has caught them all, all 142 available poke mob in the reality game, pokemon go. for 20 straight days he walked seven or eight miles, five to six hour as day. >> i did not expect to do it in 20 days but with proper planning and strategy i was able to do it. he believes he is the second person in the world to accomplish this feat and he never walk off a cliff or into traffic. i almost walk into a life post

but that is it >> high caught a lot of pokemon here at the park in san jose and he said that places with a lot of people is where you will have the most luck. that is why he said he has so much success in san francisco, the further he traveled. he also said that he was always walking, and standing or sitting away will yield not so many. the trainers we talked to are impressed. >> i not down play it, it is cool. cool. >> just awesome. >> jealous? >> not jealous i caught what i wanted. pawlenty of critics say it is a waste of time and to that, trevor has this to say. >> my graves fine and i is a job and my bills are paid and this is something i do in my free time, i get outside and exercise. it is fun. >> proud to call himself "pokemon master." >> back to the sig-alert that sue has been tracking for us. >> how does it look?

>> not good if you travel northbound 880 all lanes are shut down at 66, by the coliseum and a shot of the 66 -- o with a fatal accident. they are waiting for the coroner to get on the scene. we will look at your alternate routes because this is somewhere to avoid. we have 580 open to big-rigs. 66 off-ramp is on. but avoid the area. stay away when possible. 580 is pretty good. here is the northbound accident on 880. avoid it. take 580. big-rigs are allowed on 580. we will check this all morning. the estimated time is two hours after 4:00 this morning. hopefully by 6:00, when the commute packs in, we will have the lanes open. mike? >> we will see in the fog made it to ... the bay bridge and it

is looking clear. now, what will happen during the forecast cycle. our summer "spare the air" day, the 12th, inland heat is holding through tomorrow. it will ease in our temperatures back to average on the high side most of next week. the winds are 12 at sfo to 22 at fairfield. you can see the sea breeze. it is so shallow it cannot head into the inland neighborhood. we have a small craft advisory that will hand around until tomorrow morning. at 3:00. temperatures are pleasant hill and lafayette in the 70s. elsewhere, we have 60s in enough movie and san jose, but 50s for the rest of us. in the south by, 82 at milpitas and upper 90s in gilroy. peninsula is low-to-mid 80s. millbrae is mid-to-upper 70s. we flirt with 60s along the coast.

mid-to-upper 60s for downtown, south san francisco, and sausalito. 82 in petaluma. 90s around santa rosa and 100 in cloverdale. along the east bay show, 72 in berkeley, and upper 90s to low 100s inland again. my seven-day forecast shows another chance of 100 degree temperatures tomorrow and they are gone for the rest of forecast. >> turning new to weather across the country, from heat to hail the united states is certainly taking a beating. >> here is a look at the country's extreme weather conditions. >> from chest to coast more severe weather in the midwest. tornado warnings in four states, , nebraska and wyoming, and tore through minnesota, this picture shows a possible twister touching down in the southern part of the state. >> north of there in canada, the storms spawned damaging hail across the border and the hail was size of tennis balls. >> the heat wave is wiping down in new york and boston with another hot day on tap cool down

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mike? >> we will start off with what will happen at the sonoma county fair. there you go, 71 at 11:00, and 87 at 3:00, drop down to 63 by the time everything is over. the hottest team in the first half of the season has not been at&t park struggles with a gale tonight at 7:15, washington is in town and temperatures in the upper 50s. >> southwest passengers caught up in the massive meltdown last week could get travel vouchers, good for 50% off of future domestic flights with an apology from the airline c.e.o. for the glitch that stalled flights for four days forcing 2,300 cancellations. thousands more were delayed and passengers were strapped in long airport lines. >> it only counts for thursday's travel is far. >> maybe you will get some

peanuts. >> we are tracking breaking news in oakland a serious crash on 880 that is slow down the morning commute. >> look ahead to hillary clinton's big night, reggie aqui is in philadelphia with the message vice president biden has for hillary clinton ahead of the speech at the dnc.

abc7 news begins with breaking news. >> from oakland, i am natasha zouves. >> i am mad keller here for reggie aqui at the dnc. now to amy hollyfield with the latest on the sig-alert. amy? >> good morning. they are moving quickly out here. they thing they will reopen all lanes in five more minutes. the coroner has come and left. the tow tuck is hauling away the car that hit the person. an investigation is wrapping up. we could see them with flashlights, looking for evidence on northbound 880. also, they had to clean up from the accident. this call came in at 4:00 this morning. someone who was walking on the freeway was hit and killed by a