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hill. 55 in san jose. no delays at sfo but look at all the 40s from santa rosa, napa novato. upper 40s believer more. plenty of sunshine and breezy at the coast. low 80s return inland, and the warmth arrives just in time for labor day. carolyn. >> lisa, thank you. we begin with breaking news out of hayward. one person is dead following a violent collision between two cars on southbound 880 north of the west a-street off-ramp. a dodge pickup and a honda accord were involved. the fatality, a young man, was in the honda. four other people were transported to the hospital with various injuries. that accident happened approximately 1:30 this morning, briefly closing all five lanes. the lanes are now back open. in other news, history has been made in vatican city this morning. mother theresa was canonized into sainthood. hundreds of thousands of people
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jammed into the square for the event. mother theresa, who died in 1977, was known as the saint of the gutters for her tireless work among the the destitute in in the indian city of calcutta. [foreign language] >> pope francis called her the model of sanctity. saint theresa also founded the missionaries of charity, now a global order of nuns identified by their trademark. >> there will be is celebration mass of saint theresa's canonization in san francisco. it will be held at saint mary's cathedral on golf street. it begins at 9:00 this morning. 49ers colin kaepernick is scheduled to speak at a church
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in san francisco this morning expanding on his views on racial injustice. kaepernick has been expressing the views both on and off the football field. kaepernick says he sits or kneels during the national anthem to protest police brutality. the police said while they don't like what kaepernick says, they defend his right to say it. here's sergio quintana. >> reporter: santa clara police officers are the front line of traffic enforcement and safety around the home of the 49ers. >> we are here to protect and serve and protect those we may disagree with. >> michael sellers has found himself caught between colin kaepernick and his police officers. members of the police officers association wrote a letter saying they are offended by his comments about police brutality. >> cops are getting paid leave for killing people. >> and they didn't like the socks he recently wore depicting a pig wearing a police cap. he wants the 49ers to do something about it. if they don't stop the workplace behavior, it could result in
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police officers not working at their facility. >> did may be their right to make a statement, however we have a job to do and that is to provide a safe environment for not only our community but the members and fans attending levi's stadium. >> 49ers fans shared their thoughts. >> it depends it on if there are a lot of police officers going against what they are saying. or is it the whole force? >> safety is an important thing. if we can problem solve and not put people in jeopardy, security at the game is really important. >> the controversy won't end soon. along with an appearance at the third baptist church, he's also pledged to donate $1 million to various charitable causes fifteen sea scouts won't forget a recent trip to the san francisco bay. their 30-foot boat overturned in the chilly waters, forcing the coast guard to come to their rescue. lisa amin gulezian has the details. [sirens]
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>> reporter: fifteen freezing kids were plucked out of the san francisco bay. their sailboat capsized minutes after leaving the slip at aquatic park. those on board think the strong wind is to blame. >> we weren't able to get the sails down or the anchor out and it just flipped over. we had everyone go to the back of the boat and hold on. >> greta as the only adult on board. >> this is what the boat looked like as the san francisco police and the coast guard responded. each boat rescued 8 passengers. >> they looked to be afraid and scared. we quickly moved in and threw a line. a line we hold on to and allow a person from the water to grab on to. >> the kids were in the 55-degree water for more than 15 minutes. medics worried hypothermia may set in. >> you always worry about the youngest ones.
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but if had non-swimmers out there, that alone could throw them into are a tiszy. >> everyone on board were wearing a life vest and most had some sailing experience. the sea scouts go out weekly even during a small craft advisory, which was issued for the entire weekend. >> this is a boat that typically goes out in small craft advisories and it can be sailed very well in those winds. >> this is the first time a sea scout boat has capsized in the bay in more than two decades. no significant injuries were reported. lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. a driver with a passenger on board crashed into another car after being shot in san francisco. it happened just before 9:00 last night. police say the victims were in a car at webster and fulton when the gunman approached and opened fire, hitting both. they drove off, crashing three blocks away at webster and fell. police have not announced any arrests. both victims should survive.
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in berkeley an out-of-control car slammed into the corner of a house. it happened just after 7:30 last night. the engine of the car briefly was on fire, but was quickly put out. the driver suffered minor injuries. in fresno, two corrections officers are in critical condition this morning after being shot in the lobby of the county jail. the suspect is in jail. he's been booked on attempted murder and being a felon in possession of a gun. that shooting happened around 8:30 yesterday morning. fifteen other people, including children, were in the lobby at the time. authorities say vang demanded to see someone in the jail, cut in line, and started pacing back and forth. when two officers confronted him about his odd behavior, he pulled out a gun and shot them both in the neck and head. vang surrendered after a brief shootout with the lieutenant. no one else was hurt. >> we are hurting right now because we have two people who work in the sheriff's office who were injured very very badly
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by someone who didn't care about them and didn't care about the public in the jail lobby. the suspect is a parolee who was previously convicted of raping three children. the jail is closed to visitors until further notice. this is the first time there's ever been a shooting at the fresno county jail. former stanford swimmer brock turner has still not returned to his home in ohio after serving a three-month sentence for rape. tmz reports turner's parents have called police in ohio asking for protection for their son. protesters are gathered outside the family home. ohio is an open-carry state, and some are armed. the sheriff there gave turner five days to register as a sex offender and begin serving his probation. he was released from the santa clara county jail on friday after serving half of a
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six-month jail sentence. brock turner initially faced up to 14 years in jail. napa police have arrested a suspect wanted for a fatal hit-and-run. two people reported seeing the man's bmw on i-80 yesterday afternoon. the police found the car and arrested a 54-year-old man of napa. russell wyant. police believe he hit a pedestrian at the intersection of monarch street and bay wide east yesterday morning. the victim died from his injuries. >> hermine is expected to regain hurricane strength sometime today. the storm is blamed for two deaths. right now hundreds of thousands of people have no power. beaches along the atlantic are closed this holiday weekend. hermine hit florida before heading north. it weakened to a tropical storm. it could cause widespread destruction the next two days before weakening again on tuesday. lisa it's that time of year.
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>> it certainly is. getting to be the most active time in the tropics now. early september in the atlantic and the pacific. we are focusing on the bay area. 54 degrees in san francisco. it's 44 in the north bay. so yes autumn in the air. we will talk about 80s 90s perhaps triple digits returning to the bay area for the week ahead coming up. >> thank you, lisa. also ahead, after this brutally tack was caught on camera, this morning a new woman is claiming she was stalked be by the same man. >> i'm here today to learn. >> republican presidential candidate donald trump visits a black church for the first time during his
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>> it's been almost two weeks since an unprovoked attack on a woman in the pacific heights neighborhood. now another woman is coming forward saying she believes the same man stalked her the same day. abc7 news reporter tiffany wilson has the story. >> reporter: the surveillance video is hard to watch. a man punches a woman's face repeatedly, even after she collapses to the ground. austin allen says this could have happened to her. >> he said something beginning with, hey, girls, with a raspy voice.
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>> around 2:30 allen and her friend returned to clay street after a night out. she said the suspect in this sketch started after them. >> we made it in the gate and locked it behind un before he got. >> both women huddled in the apartment. her friend called police twice. >> every car we heard, i was like, it's the cops, right? it's the cops, right? because i knew if he didn't get us, he could do something to someone else. >> finally the man walked away and allen went home. seventeen hours later and just a block away, this happened. >> my blood went cold when i saw that, that surveillance video, because he was wearing the exact same outfit. he had the same build. and then when i saw the sketch of him, i knew it was completely him. >> allen immediately called the san francisco police tip line. the police released a statement that reads in part, "we are looking into the possibility of a second victim." investigators from northern
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station will follow up. the kansas lafayette park is asking people if they recognize the sketch of the suspect. no one did. >> and i know a lot of people in the park, but i've never seen him. >> allen wishes her calls to police had led to a different outcome. >> i feel so bad for that woman. >> she plans to carry pepper stray with her from now on. >> again, that attack took place right in front of the tall peach building behind me. and she said she and her men -- friend were stalked on clay street. again, no arrest has been made. tiffany wilson abc7 news. >> protesters took part in song calling for the end of family detention throughout the united states. >> abc7 news was in richmond yesterday as the group sang in prayer calling for three immigration and customs enforcement family detention centers all over the country to close. the richmond facility does not house families. the protest is in solidarity
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with 22 detained mothers on a hunger strike in pennsylvania. republican presidential candidate donald trump is reaching out to the black community. yesterday in detroit he visited a black church for the first time in his campaign. trump has been criticized for appealing to minority voters by talking about problems in african-american communities, but doing it while campaigning before predominantly white crowds. during his twelve-minute speech he told the congregation he fully understands the african-american community has suffered from discrimination, and that there are many wrongs that should be made right. >> i'm here today to learn so that we can together remedy injustice in any form, and so that we can also remedy economics. >> no trump, no trump! >> a large crowd of protesters gathered outside the church.
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they say they do not support the visit and they call trump a racist. donald trump's campaign manager will be on "this week" this morning, as will democratic vice presidential nominee tim kaine. their different takes on the presidential campaigns promise to be interesting. you can see "this week" with george stephanopoulos at 8:00 right here on abc7. happening today, if you like rock music with a definite bay area vibe, head to at&t park for the san francisco fest the 2016 on the green. there is an all-star lineup. featuring journey santana the steve miller band, the doobie brothers and tower of power. transportation officials say you want to avoid that congestion that will be around the park, you should use public transit. the music begins at 3:00. >> now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >> good morning. we are looking at fog.
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live doppler 7 showing it along the coast. as we go in closer you notice livermore and walnut creek, pleasanton, 580 hayward, union city looking at gray sky. but which are looking at improving condition option along the eastern seaboard. this is what was hermine. it continues to spin off shore. 65 miles an hour. but it is moving to the north. along the western flank of it, there is no rain. they are getting sun shine along the east coast. it continues to bring the threat of very high wave action a storm surge. it will strengthen a bit before it finally weakens throughout the middle of the week. anywhere from virginia to new jersey, two to five feet above ground is what think are looking for in terms of a storm surge. into the pacific, no problems with lester. it's a tropical storm and it continues to move north of the hawaiian island chains. you can track both systems throughout the day with our news
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app. back home we are looking at the sutro tower camera. you see the city. 54 in the city. 55 mountain view. and morgan hill just 50 for you. for mt. tam it has been cooler than average here this morning. in the 40s for novato napa santa rosa. fairfield with the wind allowing nor mid-50s and upper 50s today. today the last day of not only the cooler-than-average weather we will see not too much fog in the future because the marine layer will get compressed and these numbers will do a reversal. this morning we are 7 degrees cooler in napa and novato. we will look at not only sunny skies throughout the day again today but a cool day with the breezy winds at the coast. warmup begins tomorrow for labor day and the summer heat arrives right after that. it looks like it will stay throughout the week. and here's a look at the fog footprint. this is 7:00. see how quickly it evaporates. hour by hour you notice it is
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really gone by 10:00. then we see sunny skies and it it will be hard to rea group after that. here's why. by tuesday it's compressed with numbers in the lower 90s. that begins the warmup significantly. by wednesday we are really into it with upper 90s here. 80s around the bay and thursday as well. upper 70s, it looks like perhaps in san francisco for maybe a day or so. so looking at our beaches, 70 today in santa cruz. low 70s for you the next couple of days. 69 oakland. palo alto should see 70. the accuweather seven-day forecast we have low 80s inland and mid-80s for labor day. it should be the average tomorrow. but the warmup arrives of course a day late and a dollar short. but it will continue with mid-and upper 90s inland, and 80s around the bay. this is the worst time of year for fire danger and relative low humidity, and you throw in the wind and that's not a good scenario. but it should be nice today.
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"7 on your side" michael finney looked into that question. >> the retired television kgo television engineer connected his lighting, thermostat and audio systems to his home more than a decade ago. >> the house is pretty easy. it's made it more convenient. >> the audio system in several rooms in his house can be controlled through his tablet. allen can even turn things on before he gets home. >> when i'm coming home at night, i want to be able to turn the lights on before i get home. i like to raise the temperature in the house on the heater. >> allen may be the exception. >> right now i think there's very limited acceptance. and acceptance of the smart technology. >> he's a marketing professor at san francisco state. he quotes industry studies which estimate as few as 10% of homes in the u.s. are connected to some smart technology. lighting and thermostats are the
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most likely connected devices. when it comes to home appliances, the professor sees some resistance. >> you have to demonstrate how they are superior to what you currently have. >> smart refrigerators will be able to tell you while you are at the supermarket if you are short on eggs or milk. he believes privacy concerns are partly holding consumers back. manufacturers are able to collect data about how you use their products and could potentially sell that information to third parties. for now he says, expect more incremental innovations rather than breakthroughs. there's a lightbulb that doubles as a stereo speaker for those in smaller spaces. it also has a bulb that's used as a security camera. >> it connects to your wi-fi network and sends video and audio to the cloud so you san see your house from anywhere in the world.
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smart house in san francisco to -- >> target has their first smart house in san francisco to demonstrate how the technology works. technology is here to stay. >> i like the advantages it has for me. i'm anxious to see what kind of sophistication happens in the future. >> it's estimated in ten years 70% of the homes in the u.s. will have some sort of smart technology. if you have a consumer question or need help contact us. i want to hear from you. the "7 on your side" hotline is open monday through friday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. you can also reach me on my facebook page. i'm michael finney, "7 on your side". >> apple's new spaceship campus in cupertino is close to liftoff. the drone pilot caught an aerial view of it, giving people a look at all the progress. construction updates include the near completion of two large garages, an auditorium, as well as the installation of massive glass windows and solar panels.
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building is expected to be finished by the end of the year. apple hopes employees will be in place by early 2017. >> here's a corny tribute to retiring red sox david ortiz. it opened yesterday. the 8-acre mays features a rendering of big papi's trade marked home run pose. and that is "thanks paup by" in the corn. the red sox close out their weekend series against the a's. on friday night ortiz received a bottle of fine wine from the a's as a retirement gift. still to come on abc7 mornings the campaign for support underway for the sonoma county sergeant who shot and killed 13-year-old andy lopez. and treasure hunters in southern
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check it out from our east bay hills camera. isn't this gorgeous? this is what we wait for right? the sunrise in the bay area. about ten minutes away. you see the low clouds. so the fog has infiltrated some of the east bay valleys. with that numbers in the mid-50s from mountain view to san jose. 52 morgan hill. where is the color there? just 40s. chilly conditions santa rosa, novato and looking from the suit strow tower camera this, is the forecast today. temperatures from the 40s to upper 50s this morning. and upper 50s at the shoreline. breezy low 80s inland. still below average. but feeling comfortable today and the warmth arrives for the holiday tomorrow. carolyn. >> lisa, thank you. hermine is ting to threaten the eastern seaboard.
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hermine is banking up the eastern seaboard as a powerful post tropical cyclone that's triggered storm alerts from north carolina to new england. hermine's 60 miles per hour winds strong muff to sheer metal from the side of this truck. >> it was like an explosion in my backyard. everything went up in the air and around. >> making a holiday weekend a washout for millions of would-be beach babies. along the east coast sandbags were as close as some got to the shore. they were handing them out in new jersey as the surf kicked up along with the wind. this beach was closed, but the boardwalk was packed as one tried to salvage one last blast of summer. >> everyone is pretending there isn't a tropical storm coming. they are all in denial. hermine left behind a trail of destruction. forcing hundreds of thousands to do without electricity.
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>> it's cold water. some residents had to be rescued by boat. >> it's really frustrating, especially when you feel trapped. and there's no power. >> i've had more than enough. >> hermine is expected to get stronger as it sweeps north on sunday. expect storm surges of three to five feet at high tide and significant coastal flooding and beach erosion in some areas. abc news, new york. look at this. the storm left two young raccoons without a home. it ripped down their tree. their mother is now gone. a homeowner found the little critters and started taking care of them. >> i feel like they are out here stranded and they are wet and cold. they are babies. they don't know nothing. this is all they know. >> a rescue group has stepped up to help the young raccoons. in china president obama is promising that americans relationship with great britain
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will continue as always, even in the face of brexit. at the global economic summit leaders of the world's 20 largest economies posed for a group photos. although the summit focused on climate change, the president also made sure he focused on insuring american's long time partner of continued cooperation. >> despite the turbulence of political events over the last several months, we have every intention to making sure that continues. >> the president's trip started on a sour note. when air force one first landed there was no staircase for him to use so he used an alternative exit. there was a verbal argument between a white house aid and a chinese official with the official yelling, this is our country, this is our airport. investigators have found the remains of a boy missing for nearly three decades thanks to a person of interest in the case. back in 1989 a masked gunman abducted 11-year-old jacob
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wetterling. it became a national story that led to stronger sex offenders laws. investigators reopened the case last year, which led them to child porn suspect danny heinrich. wetterling's parents confirmed that heinrich led investigators to their son's remains in central minnesota. he has not yet been charged in the case. he goes to trial for separate child porn charges in october. new details this morning regarding the sheriff's deputy involved in the shooting death of a santa rosa teenager in 2013. according to "the press democrat" deputy eric dollhouse has hired a public relations firm to burnish his image. they created website. they said he's still being targeted by activists, despite being cleared twice of any charges in the death of 13-year-old andy lopez.
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lopez was carrying a toy replica of an ak-47 when he was shot. treasure hunters in southern california turned to social media to help reunite a woman with her missing ring. they found the gold class ring with the name charlotte king -- kim while searching a now-demolished church in fullerton. people on social media saw the ring and helped them contact the owner. kim's father said she lost it in 2006 after visiting. he bought it for her over 30 years ago. >> thank you! i'm going to cry! >> after 30 years this, is the first time i'm actually able to give something back. >> as a thanks, kim gave the couple a korean tea set. if you are in the stands at a baseball game, you may have a glove on one hand and there's a good chance you have your cell phone in the other. abc7 news reporter johnathan bloom went behind the scenes at
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at&t park for a look at how they handle all those phones and why drones could soon be a big part of it. ♪ ♪ take me out to the ballgame ♪ >> in between the singing and cheering there's tweeting and sharing. fans so enthralled with their phones, they may not notice the patchwork of nondescript boxes all around them that makes it possible. above and below modern stadiums are packed with cell sites and hotspots. at a press conference at&t park at&t showed live video from a drone being used to inspect the equipment at husky stadium in seattle. >> we look at our cable and the quality checks. >> it's work that's traditionally done by climbers. now at&t are testing drones that could you prove to be not just faster and better and safer, but sometimes better. >> if we want a birds-eye view
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of the top of the tower looking down, we can't do that with a person. we can do it with drones now. >> visual inspection is one thing, but when the giants score the winning run and you have the video to prove it. how well will your phone actually work when you go to share it with the world? >> can san you hear me now? >> it's based on how networks are tested in real life. >> we put backpacks on full of equipment and we walk it. what a drone allows us to do, to fly. >> drone contractors will add a device called an echobot that measures how the network will perform for real users. they can fly the stadium about five times faster than walking it. now with the new faa rules -- >> it opens the door for at&t because we can look at potentially having our own drone pilots. >> the drone program manager said one day they could use this for all of their inspections. meaning this guy -- >> can you hear me now? >> -- might want to work on his piloting skills. ♪ at the old ball game. >> in san francisco johnathan
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bloom abc7 news. >> still ahead, the unfolding mystery of the missing naturalist john muirs. how they are tracing his travels through his journals and his plants. here's a look from the east bay camera. sunrise just around the corner. what happens with all the fog today? lisa along shortly with the full accuweather forecast.
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>> happening today, you still have time to visit the 46th annual greek festival. it's being held at the orthodox greek church on austin avenue. lots of food, music, dance and all things greek. the fun continues today and tomorrow at noon. looks like they are having a great time there and the weather is nice. >> it will being in the low 60s noontime. mid-and upper 60s by the afternoon. a little cool, but you know we are in that pattern right now. a live look from mt. tam. you see low clouds and fog have extend into the east bay. 40s here 50s there. we have a comfortable day before the heat returns. your forecast is next. >> thank you, lisa. also ahead, the giants steal one from the cubs at wrigley field with brandon crawford's aggressive base running the difference. mike shumann has the highlights and the post-game reaction coming up in sports.
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much-needed win. this was a nail-biter to the end. a young giants fan enjoying wrigley field. giants in the top of the first with two outs. the cubs third baseman throws hunter pence's grounder away. angel pagan scores from second. 1-0 san francisco. giants up 2-0 in the fifth. cubs pitcher, jake arrieta. overruns the ball. the throw is not in time. 2-1. top of sixth, still 2-1. brandon crawford singles, then stole second and third. with two outs, the wild pitch makes it 3-1. bottom of nine. cubs with the tieing run and nobody out. the bunt. nunez gets him at first. but too far off second. but he throws to crawford for the double play, and the giants with a much-needed 3-2 victory. >> we haven't been playing bad baseball, we were just coming up a little short. today was a good win for us. it don't take much to get us
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started on the right track again and hopefully that's what will happen. >> we finally got a couple breaks today. we've hit some balls hard, but today we scratch and claw and got enough runs. it's just a great game for us and a much-needed win. >> a's and red sox at the coliseum. jose canseco throwing out the first pitch, and that was the only highlight. scoring 16 runs friday night the sox keep hitting. 7 runs in 2 2/3 third innings. sox scored 7 runs in the third. gives up a two-run double to david ortiz. playing in his last game at the coliseum. red sox with 27 runs in the last two games. they scored at least one run against all four pitchers in the game. 17 hits and they go on to win 11-2. san jose state hosted by tulsa in their season opener.
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led by the fourth-year head coach ron carriger. just like the players, this guy has been preparing for this game all summer. kenny potter returning as quarterback for the spartans. first quarter, 64-yard td pass to rashied johnson, ties the game at 7. second quarter, tulsa pulling away. shane evans to dustin hobbs makes the over-the-shoulder catch. it gets worse. back to return the punt. calls for the fair catch. then he drops it. mckinley whiffed in the end zone. tulsa goes on to win big, 45-10 your final. and that's the way the ball bounces. i'm mike shumann. have a great day. >> now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >> high, everybody. good morning. fog in the east bay along the pennens law, and it's a cool start in the north bay. here's live doppler 7. we go in closer and you look at the gray sky in pleasanton, livermore, dublin san ramon and back toward hayward, union city. but it's beginning to clear out in san jose.
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we are looking at another cool but comfortable afternoon. 58 in oakland. mid-50s san jose and look at the golden gate bridge. this is kind of unusual to see how clear it is with mid-40s here. it's chilly. a lot cooler this morning than yesterday without the insulation of the low clouds and fog. 55 by the delta. 57 concord and livermore. 24 hours ago we were warmer in most spots. so this morning as you head on out you might need the extra layer. three degrees cooler in mountain view. the sun was up at 6:43 here in san francisco. it promises to be another pleasant day, but not warn. we do have that on the way for some of you tomorrow. it will remain breezy at the coast today. the summer heat arrives for the middle of the week and it will last, it looks like, through the end of the week. the low clouds and the fog that you see now really is not representative of the week ahead because as you go by hour by hour you, as this continues to
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dissipate, we aren't going to see much. tomorrow, the next day, and the follow day. so the low clouds and to go will really be going away for the foreseeable future after this morning because we've got high pressure building in bringing much warmer conditions. 66 in tahoe. 62 monterey. look at that, just 83 in sacramento. so below average there. but we will be looking at good conditions this morning if you are headed out for a dog walk or headed to the beach, it will be breezy again. but if you are on the bay a little choppy once again with the gusty winds. in san jose, you have been in the mid-70s. if you like that kind of weather, you will like today. it's going to last with low 80s the average. we will finally get to that by about tuesday. the warmest days wednesday and thursday. then still in the 80 eats by the end of the work week. so temperatures around the bay today fairly similar to yesterday. although you will notice a few more 80s in the east bay valleys up toward the delta. 82 in antioch.
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70 palo alto. the a's is an afternoon game. 65 degrees 1:00. it should be about 70 at 4:00 in the afternoon. the coolest day of the week today. tomorrow the holiday in the mid-80s. look at the warmth arrive tuesday inland. it's not horrible though. fire danger increases wednesday and thursday, upper 90s. 80 around the bay and the beaches stay comfortable. a little cooler by the end of the week, but still quite warm inland. a very typical forecast for september, right? >> yeah. and after what everybody was calling fog in san francisco it's nice to start september off with a bit of warmth. >> why not. >> thanks, lisa. and there's a detective story unfolding at the university of california. researchers are retracing the travels of john muir, one of the most famous environmentalists in history and they are revealing what he brought back to the bay area.
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abc7 news anchor dan ashley has the story. >> reporter: whether touring with teddy roosevelt or fighting for national parks, john muir is reveered as a champion of the outdoors. turns out the same environmentalist wasn't just defending nature, he was also collecting it. >> he was first and foremost a botanist and scientist. >> this is in martinez. it was muir's home in later years where he would return with plant samples from his treks across the wilderness, sketching, studying and organizing the collection in his delightfully disheveled den. >> he wrote down what he did so he could tell the public about all these natural wonders. >> while he was passionate but -- passionate about collecting, cataloging was a different story. andrew is at the university of california, which recently took possession of the plant samples. >> a lot of the collections. some unfortunately he puts
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sierra nevada on his labels. >> and he says the original cataloging project has now morphed into something after detective story. researchers plan to pour through his personal journals and letters, comparing dates and matching locations, all with the goal of learning where muir was and who he was with when he collected each plant sample. >> there's one thing about the plants he's encountering. we can join the dots. where he wasn't really known for making very detailed collection information, but he was noting down where he was in his journals. >> researchers are also photographing and digitizing the samples to make the collection available to botanists and the general public and ultimately blazing a new understanding of the man whose passion for nature saved so much of it for the rest of us. >> it's neat to go back in time and literally retrace someone's steps. >> and really it's his inspiration for people to want to go out and explore nature and
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no one picked all six so wednesday night's jackpot grows to $186 million. and the winning numbers be from last nights $31 million super lotto plus. northern got all six in that draw either. wednesday's jackpot increases to $32 million. new this morning, a 21-year-old man bought a $10 lottery ticket and is now three quarters of a million dollars richer. the ticket was a mystery crossword scratcher, was purchased at a milbrea gas station on el camino real. he said the money will change his life. the $10 scratchers are part of an effort to give out more prizes and more money to public education. that would change just about anybody's life. >> i would think so. good morning everyone. we are looking at a chilly start in the north bay but this is
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san jose where it's getting sunny. temperatures in the mid-50s there. highs today will still remain below average. 65 in san francisco. breezy along the coast. maybe a couple 80s by the delta. the accuweather seven-day forecast shows normal temperatures for holiday tomorrow. then we are tracking a warmup with temperatures in the upper 90s inland and we will stay warm through the week. you can track the warming trend on our abc7 news app. things change day-to-day. it's always good to have. >> right. thursday looks like the hottest? >> right. >> thank you, lisa and thanks for joining us on the abc7 morning. i'm carolyn tyler along with lisa argen. the news continues now jonny llnehan on twitter facebook and instagram. abc7 news continues at 9:00 a.m. "good morning america" is coming up next. have a good sunday, everyone, and a great week ahead.
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