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more of it this morning so be aware of that as you're traffic around the bay and towards the coast. a look out at the roof and you can see some of the wetness hanging in the air. had to use my windshield wipers several time coming through oakley, berkeley and san francisco and the bay bridge. 12-hour day planner same as yesterday, during the morning temperatures 58 to 61. we stay in the low 60s whether it's noon, 4:00 or 7:00 at the coast. middle temperatures, 70, 75, you 70. 76, 85, and 76 inland. . let's find out how hour morning commute is beginning. alexis. >> here's a live look at golden gate bridge. we had some pavement repair work overnight from 9 clock p.m. last night scheduled to wrap at 4:00 this morning. i've been watching this closely and the crews picked up all those cones about 3:58 this morning. we did just have the far left lane blocked now all those lanes are open as you head
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golden gate. we're look at all green conditions as we look at the big picture map. we have an issue in downtown sonoma a construction crew hit a gas line. we'll talk about that in less than ten. happening today, two suspects in the murder of a film scout at san francisco's twin peaks will make their first court appearance. 19-year-old lamont mims and fantasy decuir shot and killed edward french on twin peaks for his camera. we have learned that mims was released from jail just six days before the murder. >> he was arrested for a firearms possession charge and he was convicted of that charge and was released on his own reing so that distance. >> french was a film location scout and may have been at twin peaks working at the time. he got a break when less than two weeks after his murder a man and woman were robbed at gunpoint for their camera equipment. a college professor arrested
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in in the bay area for a deadly stabbing in chicago is head back toillinois. the professor wyndham lathem waived his right to fight extra dmigs a court appearance yesterday. he and oxford employee warren are accused of killing a man in the high rise condo last month. trebt ton darnell dur ren doe lived with lathem. they sur rend end to police friday night. they say he's going to plead not guilty when he's returned to chicago in a week or two. somewhat unexpected in san francisco, a measure to repeal a ban on flavored tobacco products as qualified for the ballot. committee behind the petition goes by the name let's be real, san francisco, and it's funded by the r.j. reynolds tobacco company. city supervisors will reconsider the ban but the chances of repealing it appear to be slim to none. if the board decides to repeal the measure will iker be set for a special election of the next scheduled city election. happening today, council
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asking for residents two cents at a special community meeting to discuss how to get more money. the reserve fund is nearly dry and here's the reason why. over a year ago a sinkhole opened up after the winter rains. federal funds to help the multi-million dollars repair didn't arrive until last month. state law restricts moraga from raising property taxes to pay for local government. the meeting is at six at the cons sill chammers. president trump's approval ratings are at an all-time low and his support is dwijd even in his base. he's firing back blaming the media for accented waiting the media instead of his accomplishments. we have that report from washington. >> reporter: good morning, president trump not giving much credence to those polls instead foc kungs hoiz supporters and turning his sites on a democrat senator. >> the most vent cnn polng
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putting his approval rate agent 38%. his favor ability among republicans, 59%. stilt commander and chief isn't putting too much stock in the findings. on monday trump unleashing a twitter tirade targeting richard brum men that will, the president insensd after he criticized the justice department's war on would-be leakers. >> i'm very concerned that the department of justice is weaponizing these laws for its personal and political ends. >> president trump also taking to twitter to blast the new york times and lamenting what he saw as a lack of media coverage about the latest sanctions on north korea. abc news, washington. the national weather service is send a crew to saulz bury maryland after a possible tornado yesterday. that video is something else. it sent cars flying, damaged a shopping center and ripped down trees and power lines. there were only minor injuries. tornadoes are rare but if
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confirmed that this would be the second in just two weeks. now a live desk update. >> from abc 7 mornings. >> hey, everyone, right now i'm watching things in houston. i want to show you the major flooding that they've dealt with overnight. there were actually flash flood warnings all night long. they've seen heavy rain there since yesterday morning, in fact, they had to rescue several people in south texas. let me see if i can quickly get things up four from some of the live pictures that i have available from houston. all right. i'm having a little trouble with that but i can tell you that they're still dealing with flooded streets right now and i'm going to be watching things this morning because if looks like the water is recede a little bit. it's not over for them yet. they're supposed to get rain the rest of this week. back to you guys. now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. >> let's take a look at that storm system stretching from maryland all the way to houston. you can see it slowly sink together south and east and it's going to continue to cause problems from houston,
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shreveport, new orleans, birmingham, raleigh durham, possibly through the next several hours. so far it's not affecting our flights. here's a look at south beach. this is one of those areas that could have a little bit of drizzle as you're coming into san francisco there. on the road spotty drizzle, mass transit, cool to warm from san francisco to our suburbs full, and on the bay small craft advisory once again. that's your commute planner. let's look at temperatures. san francisco, we're back in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. our warm spots lake merced, financial ferry building at 60, park presiddio at 61, everybody else about 57 to 59. it's not 6,759 degrees in san francisco, we're not all going to you know where it's. different 62 in san jose right now. all right. it's back to school today, east side union high school in san jose a great start and 61, a
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warm ending at 84 degrees. we'll take a look at your micro climates coming up next. i heard y laughing. >> yeah, i thought was a little warm in here this morning, mike, and that explains everything. there we go. take a look at the rods roads, we have a situation in downtown sa nome a.m. full closure between fourth and fifth streets that's because overnight a construction crew hit a gags main so they have traffic control in the area. you're going to be detoured off of that main route through downtown. no estimate, sounds like they may have to dig up the road to get to that gas line to shut it off and make repairs today. so likely a long-term situation. i will update you throughout the morning as we get more information. quick check outside a look at the san mateo bridge westbound wide open and the left side nice easy drive. a heart-breaking setback for a little league team from the east bay. they're request for a spot at the world series is still alive, the big challenge they face today. >> quite surprise for a group of
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neighbors in san francisco, why neighbors in san francisco, why they no long
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before the judge with his lawyers yesterday. he's accused of firing the that killed styly in 2016 on pier 14 in san francisco. they say he found the weapon under a bench and that it went off accidentally when he picked it up. lopez shan sanchez had been deported several times but kept returning to the u.s. illegally. the killing sparked a national debate over sanctuary cities and immigration. north bay police department she a foal low officer today by host a bone marrow donor drive. matthew medina, a seven-year veteran of the lapd suffers from a blood disorder. it requiresry bone marrow transplant to survive. today at the they will hold a done noor drive to try to find a match. the drive is from 10:00 until 2:00 today at san rafael city hall. homeowners living on an exclusive private street in san francisco are trying to figure out what they can do after finding out that street has been sold. it turns out the presiddio terrace homeowner's association
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failed to pay taxes on that street for 30 years. now those taxes are only $14 a year. city hall put the street and the sidewalks up for auction in 2015 to collect those back taxes. that's when a south bay couple bid $90,000 on it and won. neighbors just found out about the sale in late may. they're worried the new owners could charge them to park outside their own homes. >> i was always under the impression that this is our street. >> at the moment, we are loaning to hold on to this, problems like this don't come along very often. >> the residents are suing the new owners to rescind the sale. they wanted the city to reverse this. a hearing is set for october. >> pokemon go i back, but this time there's a twist. >> going to need a little help from your twrends e friends or strangers even go to go legendary. here's katy mar zula.
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>> reporter: pokemon go players gathered at the corner of market streets in san jose. >> shrinktor normal size and then you can get it. >> ngts he said we, these players air team, a team of strangers. >> that means that you could all as a group work together with people that you don't know, i don't know any of these people, and try to battle. >> they're fighting newly released legendary characters, characters so powerful it takes a group of players to defeat them. it's a new twist getting rave reviews. >> i've met a number of local players and i've gotten to know some and it's always nice, you know, when you go to these raves and people have to come together and you see people you know. >> reporter: the group dynamic is serious business. you neetd at least six or seven players but no more than 20. >> it's better to have 11 to sfeen. 20's a bit overkill but it's still nice. >> reporter: the other thing about the legend daerz is that they're rare so catching them say real feather in the cap of die hard players.
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>> essentially this snowbird only going to be around for a week so everyone's trying to get it now because it will be gone. >> reporter: a group of people is called a raid, a player can join one raid a day for free, anything more than that cost money, about a dollar a pop. >> can we make it the motion not like this, this is so -- >> this looks -- >> i know. >> not great. i'm glad people are having fun, just doesn't look great. >> happening today, the canyon little league team from san ramon will play an elimination game. >> last week they faced the orange county team. they were tied heading into the bottom of the sixth that's when the so-called so he cal team scored the winning run. they play a team from chandler, arizona, at 11:30 this morning. you can watch it on our sister network or on the watch espn app. >> it's a double elimination tournament so they're down in the losers bracket but they could win their way back and win the whole thing they just can't
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lose another game. here's what's going on down at san jose. let's take a look at your highlights. sunny afternoon on the way for all of us except for the coast. highs will struggle again today like yesterday. becoming cloudy tonight, patchy drizzle. we'll talk more to alexis about what she experienced in just a second andlit warming to a touch of autumn all the way through. my accuweather seven-day forecast. just about all of us touched by clouds this morning. let's see how quickly and where they go to by noon. it looks like we'll see a little more sunshine end land, still mostly sunny around the bay and cloudy but mainly sunny by 3:00, 4:00 around the bay, cloudy at the coast. we'll start down in the south bay, wide range from 70 phi mill pete tas, san jose 70 tooit 87 in gilroy, 68 only in santa cruz today. low to mid-70s for the rest of the peninsula. we'll have mid-60s along the coast into downtown san francisco, 65 exactly.
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67 in south san francisco, 71 sausalito, then mid 70s to mid-80s to peat lum at 76. upper 60s today in richmond, berkley and also economy land. low to mid-70s elsewhere. and last stop will be mid to upper 80s. look at all that cloud cover kwens once again, mid 50s to low 60s. we'll touch 90 a couple times inland, we'll get in the upper 70s along the bay and low to mid-60s by the coast. monday, 60, 70s, maybe some 80s inland. a little bit touch of fall but we'll keep an eye on that. it is seven days away. what's not changing at least till 9 clock is the drizzle that's out there this morning. flipped my wipers on a couple of times especially on the bay bridge this morning. not enough to get my car cleaned. still haven't made it to the car wash from last week, but my windshield's clean so that's okay. take a look at the roads this morning we're off to a quiet start.
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i don't have any collisions to report. we're watch something overnight construction projects that are in the finishing stages. the peninsula, we've got a decent back up northbound 101 through the burlingame area so until 5:00 this morning for osed repaving and resurfacing work. we saw the same thing last week as well. so hopefully they'll wrap that up in the next 15 minutes fut want to stick to 280 for an alternate. el camino real wide open as well. you look great in the green highway 4 to walnut creek. walnut creek to highway 13 in the green at 8. and tracy to dublin blin, that's in the yellow at 36 minutes. we'll look at mass trains transit e. rchltsz the trump's campaign to slash federal regulations could have dangerous consequenceles. they say they're going to stop trying to, i sleep apnea screenings for train engineers
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ad truck drivers. it caused daytime drowsiness and it has been blamed for accidents in new york, new jersey, and highway traffic accidents. hbo is being black mailed by hackers this morning. they go by the pseudonim of mr. smith. they want further rereleases of future material. five games of "gachl thrones jts have been leaked online. hbo said it's continuing to investigate and working with police and cybersecurity experts. now that the ahard winning muse kwal cal "hamilton" has left town, business could be down at some restaurants. >> they told the chronicle that "hamilton" brought in 15% to 20% more business than other shows. "hamilton" has been sold out for the last five monz months. it's final curtain call on saturday the. musical is expected to return in 2019. a new list of the top
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colleges is out and the bay area school made it to the top three. imagine going for a hike and coming across this. what they did that has park rangers giving them a thumbs up. bart has 46 stations here in the bay area, the battle is facing and building station number 47. first this morning's tech brooits bites. in today's tech bites r could roe bots soon be flying your plane. ubs has released a report that remotely controlled airliners could be taking nauf eight years. >> passengers aren't on board with that idea yet. only one in five said they would take a pilotless flight. t emotional is offering a 55 plus plan. >> it's offering seniors two lines for $60 a month but unlike other carriers this is a full-fledged smartphone plan one limited data. apple is on instagram, the company's showing off photos shot on iphones by us. >> apple curators will look for the hash tag shot on iphone and ask to share them on apple's
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sfram account. your photo could be next. >> haven't we always been >> haven't we always been shooting iph at ikea, we believe your perfect student deserves the perfect room for the perfect price. and... who's there? hey. a boy? oh, on the bed? you never told your dad and i about any... wait, what's going on now? move the flag.
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♪ when you recognize something isn't right, make the call to the veterans crisis line at 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. at ikea, we believe your perfect student deserves the perfect room for the perfect price. and... who's there? hey. a boy? oh, on the bed? you never told your dad and i about any... wait, what's going on now? move the flag. we're back at 4:51. the state park at clear lake is back open for campers this morning, six months after of this major flooding closed it. in february storms caused that like to overflow. flood water engulfed roads, flooding and campgrounds. threat forced the nearby town of
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lakeport to declare a state of emergency. this was all caught on cam, ray park visitor who goes by brian d. posted this youtube video. the visitors didn't panic and looks what's staring at them? the mount tain lie on staring them down and they did exactly the right thing. they slowly backed away and eventually the animal went about his business. the national park service says it serves as a remind they're is exactly how you're supposed to behave. the most important thing, do not run or do anything that might startle or scare the animal and never approach wild animals regardless of their size. they got their phone out. >> they did. >> they sure did do that. two public meetings are being held this month for input on a prohe'sal to extend bart to livermore. that would be near the isabelle avenue 580 interchange. it would cost about $1.3 billion
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and that's where the controversy comes in. feelings about these this are mixed. scott weaner is opposed to it, livermore's mayor says there's a critical need. >> over 70% of our residents want bart because they've been paying for bart for the last 50 years. this is something that was in the original plan. >> bart is really struggling. to put a brand new part line on top of it that will suck a lot of resources out. >>hateems like a really high pre ta bart is also exploring other options including not going forward at all or using express buses. hamg today, a new bike sharing service is launching in south san francisco, line bike will be introduced at 9:00 this morning in antiqua cav taye fe in south san francisco. line bike in san mateo is a dockless bike sharing company it's operating in some u.s. cities already. they just have to download the app and find a bike nearby. you have to scan the bike's code town-like lock if.
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when you're done park it buy a bike rack and lock it back up. costs just $1 for a 30-minute ride. let's talk about having fun here's a couple of options. we've got the sa nome mun county fair opening at 11:00. it will be partly cloudy and 66. by 3:00 sunny and a warm 78. 7:0068 and you'll grab a jacket if you're there in the economy, 57. both teams are in town, the mariners at the athletics 65 degrees at 705, dropping down to 62, increasing clouds there. over at at&t park, seven-15 perse pitch cooling to a 58 degrees. cubs andjts at at&t park. have fun had the here's alexis. i want to take you to the bay bridge, sorry, could not remember what i was going to start with there. we did have road work up in the right lane buns once against but watch those cruise pick that up early. it was scheduled till about phi:00 so i don't think we're going to see the same delays we
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saw yesterday. yesterday a tough morning all the way around we had a couple crashes to good along with it spot we're incident free nor now enjoying it while it lasts. mass transit, no delays. and if you're coming from clarksburg that 7:00 is out for papa john seas warning customers about its glut ten free pizza. they say people who are gluten intolerant shouldn't eat it they're saying it's possible the crust came into contact with the preparation process. they're telling them to use their best judgement ordering the gluten free option and domma know's also warning them to keep an eye out until this issue is resolved. i don't think you'll be surprised stand ford university made the list at number two.
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forbes magazine says the ranking is based on the direct benefits alege or university provides its students thand concludes alumni salary, gradation rate, and studen satisfaction. harvard university is number one, yale is number oth two california colleges include cal tech in pasadena and number six pomona college also in southern california rounds up the top 10. i'm calling bunk on this and this is why, neither one of our sufrts on the zblift what's with that? >> so forget everything i just said. what if you're offered unlimited paid time off for work? >> this is happening more and more with interesting results. researchers found more companies are offering unlimited vacations these days and they include tech firms like netflix, linked in, and ge. they also include lesser known companies like evernote, grub hundred, they say employees don't seem to be afwhiergz privilege. companies report some workers actually take less vacation than
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they did with a fixed time off. others take a modest two or hree extra days per year, so people not really abusing it. >> i wish i could say that would be me, b would you see me he seat would just be empty for mosof the ti. >> yeah. anary school under construction is years behind squed you'll and millions of dollars over budget. next at 5:00 a.m. answers parents will being demanding today. also next at 5:00 an update on a homicide investigation that's happening right now in san jose. these are live images coming in. a man was found dead inside a store. i'll have details ahead. a high school football program was on the verge of elimination, why the school will be field a team after all. be field a team after all. a new report
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let's get up and get going. >> this is abc 7 mornings. coming up on 5:00 a.m. welcome, it's tuesday, augustite 8th. >> you're watching us today which means you're not on vacation and you probably don't work for netflix. >> as we just talked about. >> i'm still trying to get over the fact they have as many vacation days as they want. >> unlimited vacation. >> what do they do with their lives. >> don't kn. >> why am i here mondays. >> and tuesday and wednesday and thurnd sday afriday. >> i could do this from home, technically, but that's another story. anyway, let's move on and talk about what's going on. here's a look at our winds. the sea breeze is back that 21 mile an hour wind showing up. here's a look at sfo, it's cloudy and looks like we'll have delays. as soon as i know you'll no he. 58 to 61 this morning, 60 to 76, not much of a spread just

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