memorabilia seller. >> i thought i was confronting friends and retrieving my property. >> it appeared to be a lock or a folly, and he's been punished significantly. >> simpson's attorneys will also point out his good behavior in prison. regardless, casual observers are divided. >> think he should have been jailed the first time when he killed his wife. i think that -- i really hope he does not get away with this again. >> he was just getting his own stuff, so i don't know. i just feel like he did his time. >> simpson needs the votes from four of the six commissioners to be granted freedom. if that happened, he'll be released october 1st. abc news will carry the parole hearing live in a special report. it starts this morning at 10:00 on abc7 and also on the app. >> in mariposa county, the huge and unpredictable wildfire spreading near yosemite park

continues to grow. look at these flames. calfire says the detwiler fire has spread to 48,000 acres. it's still only 7% contained. that has not changed since yesterday. 3,000 firefighters are on the front lines with more crews now on the way. the town of mariposa and its 2200 residents have been ordered to stay away. in addition, the residents of colterville were given an emergency evacuation order. glam flames are closing in on two sides. >> we got the animals packed up. we're waiting on the neighbors to follow us down. >> i'm not going to worry about it. i'm alive. i'm not going to stay there for it to get to me. we'll rebuild if it happens. >> so far, 29 structures have been destroyed. another 1500 are threatened. fbi agents are investigating a possible disturbance aboard a spirit airlines flight that took off from oakland international. flight 576 took off just after 4:30 p.m. bound for baltimore.

the plane was diverted to denver international instead. no one was hurt, and no word on what that disturbance was. hey, everyone. we are just getting this new video of severe weather overnight in the midwest. it really caused some significant damage in that state. the first video from wisconsin, a small airport there in crawford county was one of the hardest hit places. a hangar was damaged. it collapsed on top of a vintage plane dating back to the year 1943. quite a loss there. and i want to show you this new video that just came in from iowa. you can see homed damages after trees blew over after trees blew over. unclear if these areas were hit by a tornado. >> all right, thank you. this morning, san francisco police are investigating this deadly crash at geary and laguna. a motorcycle and a truck collided around 8:30 last night. the biker was declared dead at the scene. police say the truck driver is

cooperating with investigators. >> the next generation of caltrain about to beginning, and it promises better service and less construction. it will convert service from diesel equipment to high performance electric trains. caltrain says the new system will allow for faster and more frequent service. it will also go a long way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. caltrain expects to roll out electric trains by 2021. >> the sonoma marin rail transit or smart train plans to begin regular service soon. they told the marin ij they may get federal approval as soon as next week. the federal railroad administration's review found no red flags. it will travel 43 miles from santa rosa to downtown san rafael. there are ten stops along the railway. the schedule includes 34 trips each week day. >> san francisco's planning commission is expected to give preliminary approval for a new hotel. the project would be built on the site of the old tower

records. the examiner reports marriott international is targeting millennial tourists with their moxie hotel, features upscale dining and bars that turn to coffee houses during the day. it proposed constructing a four-story 75-room hotel. the proposal does not include any off street vehicle parking. you're just about to head out the door, and let he talk about your commute planner. we'll open the weather window on the san mateo bridge. already some traffic developing there. on the roads today, we'll go from clouds to a little fog to even sunshine during the afternoon hours. cool to warm if you're taking mass transit, and on the bay, breezy. this time south of the bay bridge. all the way down into san jose, a small craft advisory. 2:00 this afternoon until 11:00 this evening, when the west winds will blow at 15 to 20 knots. you'll have a head wind or tailwind depending on which way you're going across the bay bridge, the san mateo bridge, and dumbarton bridge.

at the coast, the small craft advisory until 9:00 tomorrow evening. a little breezy. gusts to 35. temperatures around 54 to 55. just about everywhere in san francisco. we have 53 in healdsburg. 60s around pittsburg and tracy. temperatures today, 60s along the coast into san francisco, high temperatures. 70s around the bay and 80s inland. i do have heat coming just in time for the weekend. 100s are returning. here's alexis. >> we're talking about construction at this early hour. i want to take you back to 880 between 23rd and 29th in oakland where they're working on taking down the 23rd avenue overpass. we have seen some major delays in the early morning hours. northbound side was closed. all lanes are back open as of 4:15. we got the confirmation from chp. it does look like we have lanes down on the southbound side and they should have everything back open by about 5:00. but in the meantime, a little backup. you can take eastbound 580 as long as you're not in a big rig.

and already some delays out of tracy. 580, we had an earlier collision, 580, just before north flynn. that has cleared, but some residual delays. >> this morning, arizona senator john mccain facing his -- excuse me -- toughest battle yet. coming up, details on his brain cancer diagnosis and the tributes that are being made to him. >> the warriors come up with a unique fund-raising plan for unique fund-raising plan for their new

the apartment building where the fire was. when things like this happen, i think you find a new perspective on life. hi. red cross put us in a hotel so we were able to stay together. we're strong and, if we overcame that or if we can overcome that, we can overcome anything, so. [ sniffle ]

no matter the political party, people all over the country are sending their support for senator john mccain. his type of brain cancer is an especially aggressive form. this morning, we're hearing heartfelt messages from his wife and his daughter. here's emily. >> just last week, senator john mccain was talking health care on the senate floor. >> if we're going to stay here to work, thenet's get some work done. >> but on friday, he returned to arizona to undergo surgery to remove a blood clot. that procedure leading doctors to discover a brain tumor called glioblastoma. a rare and aggressive type of brain cancer afflicted just 3 out of 100,000 people in the u.s. >> god knows how this ends. not me. but i do know this. this disease has never had a

more worthy opponent. >> close friend senator lindsey graham urging prayers wednesday night and the well wishes pouring in. in a statement, president trump saying, melania and i send our thoughts and prayers. get well soon. former presidents barack obama and bill clinton tweeting their support along with many other longtime colleagues. on cnn, dr. sanjay gupta discussed treatment aunjzs for the senator. >> this is one of those types of tumors that doesn't have a particular cure. there's not a type of treatment you can say is going to likely lead to cure. >> and mccain's family posting heartfelt messages online. a wedding photo from his wife cindy with a caption saying he is my hero. and mccain's daughter writing cancer may afflict him in many ways but it will not make him vendor. nothing ever has. this is not the first time senator mccain has battled cancers. the 80-year-old will stay in arizona to recover and then begin treatment for the brain

cancer. emily row, abc news, washington. >> president trump says he never would have appointed jeff sessions attorney general if he thought sessions would recuse himself from the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. the president called the recusal, quote, extremely unfair, during a wide ranging 50-minute interview with it "new york times." sessions has not commented on the remarks. he was the first sitting senator to back trump's presidential bid. >> next week, we'll see the most high profile group yet jared kushner, donald trump jr., and paul manafort are expected to testify. all three were at a june 2016 meeting with a russian attorney who promised damaging information about hillary clinton. rescue crews have called off the search for a missing boater in the north bay. charles todd friend owned the tomales bay oyster company and

worked as an oyster farmer for 28 years. he vanished on tuesday afternoon in choppy waters off tumalls bay after dropping off other boaters. a two-day search turned up nothing. people who knew him said he was universally loved by everyone in the tight-knit community. >> he's been growing oysters out here for decades. he's a beloved member of the community. if anybody could get out of this scrape, it would be todd. he was a tough old bird. >> sheriff's deputies inspected friend's boat yesterday, looking for clues as to what may have happened. >> a trio of women is wanted in the theft of thousands of dollars of jewelry from a dress store. petaluma police have released these picturesoffs the suspects. on last wednesday, two women distracted the clerk while a third woman took jewelry worth more than $8,000. police are looking for tips to help find these women. >> there will be a major change for this year's running of the san francisco marathon. this sunday, drivers will face numerous road closures before,

during, and after the marathon that begins at 5:30 a.m. it shows you the marathon thout taking runners around the north half of the city. all northbound traffic will be closed on the golden gate bridge. the closure goes into effect at 6:00 a.m. and lasts until 9:00 a.m. that decision was made to close the lanes as a skuft measure after the attacks in europe where cars were driven into large crowds. southbound traffi will not be impacted. the warriors have come up with a unique plan to finance their new $1 billion arena. a membership plan that's like a personal seat license but with one big difference. you get your money back, eventually. the chase center is under construction in the mission bay area in san francisco. this is video provided by the team. the membership plans would start at $15,000 per ticket and that gives you the right to buy tickets. the new twist is that in 30 years you would get a full refund from the warriors. >> think for our most ardent fans, having price certainty before they make a decision on their membership of what their

warriors season tickets will kauld in the last year of oracle arena as well as the first five years in chase center will allow them to make a very informed decision. >> if you take part in the program, you can pay with an installment plan and ticket holders can sell their memberships. the warriors say they're the first time in pro sports with this new refundable plan. >> interesting idea. >> i like it. especially since the whole thing is self-financed. even better. hi, mike. >> good morning, guys. let's talk about what going on outside by looking at the roof camera. you can see the flags, they're a little limp, but they're going to pick up. clouds are making a late charge. who likes kaunltnuity? if you like yesterday, the day before, today almost the same, but this weekend, that's when the heat comes into our inland neighborhoods. you can still be mild if you head to the coast. let's look at the cloud cover today and it's going to be really extensive in the heart of the bay through about 10:00, 10:30, then back to the coast, and even there it's going to evaporate to partly cloudy

conditions as we head into the afternoon hours. let's look at our temperatures. quite a range in the south bay. from the breezes keeping milpitas at 74. san jose, 79. not as breezy as you head down to gilroy. 87. and about 72 today in santa cruz. on the peninsula, 77 in redwood city. most of us in the low to mid 70s. millbrae at 68. along the coast, we'll be right around 60 degrees with 67 in downtown san francisco. head up through the north bay valleys. petaluma, 81, to 87 in santa rosa. along the east bay, from 70 in berkeley to 75 in fremont and castro valley, and 83 in san ramon to a few 90s around antioch and brentwood. tonight, another comfortable night. my seven-day forecast, enjoy tomorrow, especially inland, because you have the 100s saturday and sunday. then mid 90s next week while we'll be in the low to mid 80s around the bay and low to mid 60s at the coast. almost as hot as a firecracker out there. you're following a fire.

>> a brush fire. a couple of them. we're going to focus on one in the peninsula area. this is outhbound 280, the off ramp to larkspur drive is blocked due to that. not sure how it started or exactly what the circumstances are, but not much of a delay in the area. we have another one off 980 in oakland. we'll check on that in a a quick check of drive times. westbound 580, rough start here. tracy to dublin, 1:02. crash near flynn road. was blocking it, but that's causing a big delay. westbound 4 in the green at 14. and southbound 101 in the green at 17 minutes. thanks, alexis. which house will you be representing? giants fans are encouraged to dress as their favorite "game of thrones" character. the team is holding a game of thrones night at the ballpark. yesterday, the team's manage. did his post game conference sitting on an throne from the show.

fans who purchased a special ticket will get a limited edition game of thrones theme hunter pence bobblehead. >> i don't even watch the show and i'm loving this. first pitch is at 7:15. >> good for them. there is a warning out this morning about a makeup aimed at teenage girls. the dangerous substances they may contain. >> stanford engineers come up with cool tech. a robot that can actually grow itself. >> no thank you. the winter storms didn't just ease the drought. the modern day prospectors striking it rich. now this morning's tech bites. >> in today's tech bites, amazon getting into social media. >> the online retail and video giant has launched spark. it's sort of like instagram and it encourages amazon customers to post images or stories about the products they like. >> users can also tag products that can be purchased on amazon. >> the hater app has been out on the iphone for a couple of months now, enough time to get a feel for who hates what where. >> okay, so californians hate

fidget spinners. in virginia, it's dabbing pizza grease with a napkin. i know. in minnesota, they hate drinking alone. >> how else do you get the grease off the pizza? and a facebook feature is hurting our intelligence. >> according to new research, facebook likes are dumbing down the way people are communicating. experts say giving a thumbs up stopping uz from responding intelligencely, and the likes intelligencely, and the likes

a retail chain catering to teenage girls has stopped selling a glittery product. it's called just shine shimmer powder. justice stores pulled it after tests from our affil ytd in north carolina turned up asbestos and toxic metals including lead. michael finney first alerted us to the issue last night. justice stores now say they're conducting their own investigation of the makeup. it stopped selling the powder at stores and online. if san francisco's trees took a little more kept, it could be thanks to a new program. crews from the dparment of public works were out trimming trees in the castro district. it's part of a plan to have the city begin caring for the 125,000 trees that line city streets. carla short supervised the work in her trademark tree costume. she said the priority will be saving or in some cases removing the most distressed trees first. >> we're going to be trying to tackle the worst first. so what we're doing is we have

mapped out all the trees with their maintenance need, and then we're choosing clusters where there are large groups of priority one and two pruning and removal. >> i don't think she's a real tree. she's that tree you hang in your car. that's why there was a string on top. the pine tree, the scented tree. we spent too much time on this. the ballot measure sets aside nearly $20 million a year for maintenance. until now, homeowners had been responsible for maintaining treeing in front of their property. >> i would argue we haven't spent enough time on that. >> gold fever has hit the sierra foothills. people are striking it rich with gold nuggets found on the rivers months after a spillway breakage at the oroville dam. a surge of water unearthed gold in these rivers. cash for gold stores say business is booming. >> there are so many people going in gold panning and bringing us gold. really, they just want to quit their job. they really just want to put on some boots and go down to the river. that's really the truth.

>> there's gold in them there rivers. most gold panners are finding between $40 and $300 worth of gold. >> wait, now, that is a huge range. i want the $300. >> i would take $40. i could buy the tree costume. >> sounds like a tough's day work, but rewarding at the end. let's talk about what going on at the giants game weather wise. 61 degrees at 7:15, first pitch, dropping down to 58. going to be breezy, of course, let's take a look at the tropics. very active in the eastern pacific. if you're heading to hawaii, we have fernanda who is going to weaken. right now, she's creating quite a stir there with high surf advisories. but as she rolls through, the surf may drop a little bit and so with the tradewinds. it could be calmer as she passes to the north. thank faeld, no direct hit from any severe weather there. >> check this out, mike. really not looking great in walnut creek. so southbound 680, just totally

jammed. this got a lot worse very quickly. we did have a full closure overnight, but i watched them pick up the cones and they opened everything back up. i believe we still have a couple lanes closed once you make it to 24. between that and pleasant hill road into the lafayette area. so we have a pretty decent delay. i will keep an eye on that and give you an update in a few. also, we have a tree on fire, 980. we have a closure, one lane in each direction, eastbound and westbound 980 near 11th street. so far, that's not causing any delays. >> thank you. work is under way on a new oakland apartment complex right next door to another development destroyed by fire earlier this month. a ground breaking ceremony marked the start of construction on the 235-unit project located add 33rd and valdez. a city council member said recent construction fires have not deterred developers. >> i have not heard from the developers that there's fear. all developers, all entrepreneurs manage risk. there's a risk in development.

>> 15% of the units will be set aside for low-income housing. the development should be completed by the summer of 2019. okay, so do you find this creepy or super cool? let me tell you what it is. mechanical engineers at stanford have created a robot that moves like a snake and can grow like a vine. the university released this video. the robot is soft, so it can squeeze into places and then expand when it needs to. it can pull things along with it. things can be fed through it. and it can form itself into shapes. this robot prototype is powered by air. i'm going to let a mechanical engineering expert explain how it works. >> the basic mechanism of the device is called eversion. so it basically turns inside out as the material emits from the tip. by doing so, we allow more material to be fed through the center, and that allows us to grow to very long lengths. >> wow. researchers say this robot is great for difficult spaces like

searching collapsed buildings for people. a scaled down version could also be used as a medical device inside our bodies. >> i love the applications. it's just -- >> don't be scared. >> all right, the trump administration stands on immigration has many bay area families on edge. coming up next at 5:00, the way oakland's police chief plans to reach out to the city's latino community today. >> plus, today marked five years since the deadly shooting at a dark knight rises movie in colora colorado. i'm working on getting video from our colleagues next. >> also, the big story of the day, will the

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5:00 a.m. thanks for being up with us. good morning for you on this thursday, july 20th. >> looks like a decent day. i'm excited about it. >> some tweaks here and there, like where the breezes will be fastest today. right now, we have them in fairfield gusting to 29. you can see the morning sea breeze is definitely there. look at the clouds it's brought in from sutro tower. you can't see anything below 1,000 feet right now. your 12-hour day planner if you're heading out soon or through 7:00, dress for temperatures around 55 to 60 degrees. that bottom line, that's the coast. notice the temperatures in the upper 50s from noon to 4:00 to 7:00, 71, 74, and 68 around the bay, and inland, 77 at noon to 87 at 4:00, to a comfortable 74 at 7:00. 100s on the way, and i'll show you