too much. b.a.r.t. is also exploring other options including not going forward at all or using express buses. >> let's get over to alexis with a check of your commute. >> good morning. yeah, pretty light at 4:30. we have one issue in the san francisco area. we've got a collision reported on the transition between southbound 101 and the 80 merge here. but i don't think we're seeing any delays yet. our traffic map still showing all green in the area. a tow truck is on the way. they're trying to sort out how many lanes are blocked. i believe it is just one at this time. quick check outside. the bay bridge toll plaza. nice and loit here. we have about an hour until they flip on the metering lights. we'll take a look a overnight construction projects in less than ten. >> as promised, we'll open the weather window on the explor torium. the only place you're going to see the sunshine, hamilton, mt. tam. temperature around 58 to 62.

middle temperatures are the bay, 71 at noon, 75 at 4:00, 69 at 7:00 this evening. nothing too taxing inland. you're probably going where's the heat. and lowow 60s as we round out t coast. here's a look at franklin. came ashore last night. it still has 70-mile-per-hour winds moving to the west at 15. that means it's going to push it over mexico city as we head throughout today and the flooding devastating flooding rains and mudslides are going to be the big issue. up to 15 inches of rain will fall in the next 24 hours. reggie, natasha. >> actually, i'm going to jump in from the live desk. new video coming in of franklin, since you were just talking about it. look at this. it's causing serious flooding along mexico's eastern coast. you have been warning us about this, and as mike has been saying, you can see the cars, buses, swept up as water rushes down local streets in vara cruz, authorities ordered classes canceled at public schools today as a precaution. franklin was the first hurricane

of the atlantic hurricane season. natasha. >> we have time lapse video of franklin from hurricane hunters at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. they collect data that helps forecasters make accurate predictions and helps researchers get a better understanding of storm processes. >> developing news. google ceo addressing his employees today. >> this follows that now fired employee who wrote a memo saying women don't have the biological makeup to succeed in silicon valley. matt keller live for us from google headquarters. matt. >> he will be addressing his employees at google about diversity. he called for the town hall meeting after the controversial memo was released to the public. the engineer who wrote that is speaking out. he argued biological differences between men and women are behind the gender pay gap in tech.

he spoke with stephan mull anew about his memo and ng vrifiues.t insists by recognizing differences, the workplace can be improved. >> so if we want to make it more accessible to women, then maybe for example, cooperativeness, which is higher in women than men, we should make the workplace a place where you can actually thrive if you're cooperative. >> google fired damore after his post went viral, saying his words violate their code of conduct by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace. he is threatening legal action against google. reporting live in mountain view, matt keller. >> thank you. >> and adding to google's issues, a san francisco law firm is planning to sue the tech giant for pay bias. an attorney on the case says nearly 70 female employees have come forward. >> women have experienced sex harassment. there have been comments about their looks. they have been shown cell phone

images that they didn't want to see. they have been told that women can't perform engineering jobs. >> the labor department reviews pay roll records and says it's found a systematic problem of google underpaying women. google says it disagrees with the department of labor's conclusion and says it has no gender pay gap. >> federal investigators say a bomb threat is linked to two international investigations. according to court documents, a man with dual u.s. and israeli citizenship was hired by unidentified person to threaten a high school in march. the bomb threat forced nearly 1600 students to evacuate. investigators believe the same man is also behind more than 200 threats targeting jewish community centers this year. this morning, he is in jail in israel, awaiting extradition to the u.s. oakland police investigating after a person was killed. so far, homicide detectives will only say the person died while a crime was being committed. the victim died on rich street

around 12:30 yesterday afternoon. police have not released details about people orcars links to the case. >> an east bay high school football team is scrambling to replace more than $10,000 in stolen equipment. helmets and other items vanished in mid-july at a washington high school in fremont. the burglary only came to light this week. the gym was unlocked during a construction project, so crews could get in and out of the building. the helmets alone are worth $300 apiece. gh if you have been anywhere near san francisco's chinatown, you have seen the construction on the central subway project. eventually, muni metro service is going to extend into that neighborhood. in the meantime, some business owners say the work is causing big problems. here's abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley. >> reporter: up to 2 million visitors a year stroll through san francisco's famous chinatown. locals hit the markets here, too, but lately, business is down. >> about 15%. >> 15% fewer people coming in. this travel agency is surviving

the central subway tationde at stockton street is now slated to open in december 2019. a year later than planned. the construction zone is eating up valuable parking spots. >> we're trying to add parking because that was a direct request from the community and munchants there. they don't have enough parking. >> 12 new spots were recently carved out. >> san francisco supervisor aaron peskin's office says they have a plan in place to give a one-time hardship payment to the most impacted merchants. that could happen this fall. still, locals here say some of these longtime merchants are going out of business. >> business going down, so that's why they're going to close. yeah. >> and you felt like it was a good time to take a risk and open here? >> we are planning for the future. >> this jewelry store staged a soft opening today. a block from all the construction chaos. because in 2019, they envision

no parking problems and more people. >> no need to drive here. just take the subway. >> in san francisco's chinatown, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> it's 4:37 now. do you have that lottery fever yet? this weekend, two jackpots will total $738 million. it's just because the odds are so low, you're not even -- >> for me, it makes no difference what the lottery number is. i know for a lot of people -- >> you're doing this job for the love of it, not for the money. >> that's right. nobody matched all six numbers in last night's power ball drawing. the numbers were 12, 30, 36, 47, 62. the powerball number was 9, which is printed on the ball. i have always wanted to say that. saturday night's powerball jackpot increased to $356 million, and tomorrow night's mega millions jackpot is worth $382 million. because nobody matched all the numbers tuesday night. it's the first time that both of these jackpots have crested $350

million at the same time. yeah, i'm awfully tired. i stayed up last night partying thinking we were going to win. those 1 in 280 million odds. mistake. good morning, everybody. back to school. dress the kids for jefferson union high school district in daly city for clouds and drizzle and 58 this morning. mostly cloudy. a little sliver of sunshine and 64 this afternoon. have a great first day. a look at temperatures around san francisco. 56 in west portal to 59 in ocean beach. those are the only two areas at those areas. everybody else, 57 to 58. richmond, 58. 60, belmont, palo alto. pleasanton. 61 in wall nuktd and san jose. guess what we have. yeah, a small craft advisory. same time, same place as yesterday. so let's move on and talk about what's going to happen as far as your commute plan. if you're on the bay, that small contract advisory will affect

the commute. on the roads, drizzle, and if you're taking mass transit, cool to warm. we're on a stretch of four, today will be six days in a row of below average temperatures. start off august pretty warm, but we flipped a switch. i'll let you know if that continues in the seven-day forecast. >> overnight construction projects and they're still in the finishing stages. not seeing any big backups on the peninsula. southbound 101 between millbrae and broadway, this is where we had a lot of pasking work the last couple weeks. we have some lanes scheduled to be closed again on the southbound side until about 5:00 this morning. northbound side, we should not see backup today. drive times looking pretty good so far. southbound decision 80, six minutes. another eight, westbound 24. and westbound 580, tracy to dublin in the yellow at 37 minutes. we'll talk about mass transit up next. thanks. the love of baseball has no boundaries. the bay area little league kids coming together with friends

half a world away. >> and walmart embroiled in controversy this morning. the back to school display that has people outraged. has people outraged. >> must-see video coming in from

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council meeting, i should say. from boulder city, and a woman sitting in the back of the room suddenly has her purse burst into flames. so watch here the highlighted area. you can see this man talk taing, and then all of a sudden, that purse that just blows up. i'm going to play it one more time for you. watch that woman in the back. the boulder city fire chief says a battery malfunction ignited items inside her purse. he says he's not certain whether or not what it was. he knows it was not a cell phone battery. you can see the person there talking to reporters. well, the fire chief says not sure exactly what was involved. he knows it wasn't a battery. the woman burned her leg. she was treated at the scene, sent home. she's doing fine, but pretty scary to see, reggie. >> that is some of the craziest video i have seen. >> this morning, walmart is apologizing for a poorly organized display. it appears to show guns labeled as back to school items. a twitter user posted this

picture from a walmart store yesterday. do you see this? you can see the gun display under a sign that says own the school year like a hero. a walmart spokesperson tells cnn the company is working to identify which store put up that display. walmart sells guns at about 1800 of its 4,000 stores in the u.s. >> a chase through several counties before a suspect tried to swim away from the highway patrol. you can see how the chase covered more than 100 miles from oroville to discovery bay yesterday. sky 7 flew above highway 4 moments after officers nabbed the suspect. he spent about an hour in the river taunting officers until they managed to pull him out. >> happening today, caltrain is giving riders a chance to provide input on onboard bike storage. one proposal is to stack bikes along the train wall. another option includes parking bikes at an angle. caltrain claims no matter what, new configurations will provide

more bike storage and they'll be polling at the booth aff4th and townsend in san francisco. it will be at various stations throughout august 24th. >> kids came together for america's favorite pastime this week on the peninsula, baseball. >> a team from san mateo kicked off against a team from japan. a cultural exchange that makes them all winners. katie marzullo has that. >> they came a long way, but the baseball diamond feels like home to these young players from japan. they came to the bay area to play a team from san mateo. its arer part of a sister city tradition that dates back to 1979. >> i like playing against other people, not just people in san mateo and in california. i just like playing against people out of the country. >> the game is played every other year, and the cities host every other time, but this tradition is about so much more than baseball. >> i learned good evening.

>> the san mateo players have to take language and cultural classes because they're not just playing baseball with these japanese kids. they're hosting them in their kids. >> it's actually really fun, but the communicating part is where it kind of falls apart. but that's for google translate to come in handy. >> ken played on the team when he was a boy, and his family hosted a japanese player. now, his son plays and ken is the host. >> i would not pass this up for the world. >> it's really fun to kind of learn some japanese while they're learning some nor english. >> in 2019, it will again be japan's turn to host the game. george has made the trip many times. >> it's so great to see how the barriers are broken immediately just by kids playing together. >> a victory for everyone involved. in san mateo, katie marzullo, abc 7 news. >> maybe our kind of gray weather helped with that. none of the sun in your eyes to distract you as you're pitching or hitting, right? >> the kids like that. i think it goes either way.

hopefully they're having a good time. i'm sure we're being very hospitable. let's look at what's going on right now outside. we'll open the weather window on the east bay commute. walnut creek, 680, a little drizzle possible through those areas and pockets of sunshine today. more inland, less at the coast. cloudy and cool, drizzle tonight. and our summer warmth returns late next week. let's look at the cloud cover. had a few people in the morning meeting, i don't know if they were complaining, but wondering if they were going to see sunshine today after hardly seeing any yesterday. you can see by noon, the bay is still pretty full of clouds and definitely at the coast. the bay will be partly cloudy today. so the clouds never completely leave you. and mostly cloudy at the coast. the greatest amount of sunshine will be inland, where we'll find some of our warmest weather. especially deeper into places like morgan hill and gilroy. 74 to 80 for most of the south bay. 78 in san jose. 68 in millbrae. 72 to 76 for the peninsula. low 60s along the coast. 64 in downtown san francisco. through the north bay, we'll go

low to mid 80s today. along the east bay shore, about 68 to 73. with oakland at 69. and one last stop, about 80 to 92. quite a spread in our east bay valleys. here's a look at my seven-day forecast. looking at slightly cooler weather for saturday, sunday, and a dry cold front will mean our coolest weather monday. then you can see us rebounding back to average by the time we get to wednesday. but it's thursday now, so we're thinking about the weekend. outside lands, i'll have that forecast for you up next. you say there's closings already? >> some road closures in place, and 70,000 people expected each day. >> that's all? >> yeah, tats it. 210,000 of your closest friends going to try to get to golden gate park. we'll have more on that at 5:00 this morning. here's a look at the bridge this morning, just watched the zipper trucks come through and give you more room on the southbound side. once again, last night, we had paving work, so we're down to just one lane in the overnight hours. they have been getting this done right on time if not early the last several days. so everything is back open for this morning's commute.

quick check of mass transit. golden gate ferry f you take the larkspur ferry, we're going to continue to see capacity issues for the mv napa, out for maintenance through friday, august 18th. they thought it would be two weeks and now it's sounding like three. especially the 7:50 morning larkspur trip and the return trips from san francisco, get there early. they could sell out. we'll take a look at some drive times coming up before 5:00. >> it was an emotional reunion between a pittsburgh pennsylvania, woman, battling cancer and a southwest airline employee who went the extra mile to help her. >> last month, stacey caught an earlier flight home after a conference in nashville, but her luggage containing medication she needs for chemo the next day was still on her original flight. that flight ended up getting canceled. so a southwest employee named sarah made it her mission to find that bag. and it finally arrived at 3:00 a.m., and sarah personally drove

it to stacey's house and left this handwritten note. >> i am so grateful, and to me, i'll never forget that. she was just happy to help. she is a true hero. >> how great is this? stacey and sarah said staira restored her faith in humanity. that's just wonderful. >> this morning, the st. louis cardinals may have a new mascot. a stray cat runs out on the field at busch stadium. >> the kitty bites back. the kitty does not like being carried like that. >> no, no. she wasn't having it. member of the grounds crew getting bitten there. >> oh. >> wow. and yet, he still continues. >> the cardinals hit a grand slam home run to win the game. naturally, the kitty now has a twitter handle. >> it was a lucky cat. >> see, that's why i don't mess with cats. >> look at him. >> i don't mess with cats. >> i don't know why i'm finding

that so funny. sorry. >> first, she conquered television. now she wants a spot in your kitchen. how you can get a taste of oprah. >> okay. headed to the post office anytime soon? why it may be time to stock up on forever stamps. >> the protest against president trump comes to roost near the white house. the mystery behind this giant inflatable chicken. first this morning's tech bites. >> facebook launches a new video service today. it's called watch and allows users to view original content. so far, it includes a slate of reernl shows and a live major league baseball gamep once a week. >> walmart is seeking a patent for a new video system that would keep tabs on customers' facial expressions. >> not sure about this. it's believed the system could be used to scan for unhappy shoppers who could be helped by a store employee. they presumably could also monitor what items are making customers happy.

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sunday, august 20th, the bus will be in jack london square, giving you a chance to be a star. but you don't have to wait. you can audition online right now. we have a link at abc7news.com. potential contestants have to be at least 15 years old. >> stock up on your stamps because the price of stamps may be going up more frequently. right now, prices can't go up more than the rate of inflation. the postal service is asking to remove that restriction. they're looking for ways to make more money because it's losing package delivery business to fedex and u.p.s. >> protesters tried to rufrl a few feathers outside the white house. this giant inflatable rooster appeared in a public park just outside the white house yesterday. some say the 23-foot tall rooster looks like president trump. i'll let you decide that. ilities arer not clear who set up the giant rooster. in the spring, inflatable roosters appeared at rallies across the country demanding president trump release his tax

returns. >> orioles in town to take on the a's at the coliseum. we're back to evening games and cool weather. first pitch, 65, increasing clouds and 62. as promised, here's your outside lands forecast. golden gate park, going to be pretty gray with just a little sunshine and temperatures ranging from 56 to 57 in the morning, to 63 to 65 in the afternoon hours. maybe even a little drizzle in the afternoon. how is the morning commute going? >> so far, pretty good. i have one new issue if you're coming through the tri-valley here this morning in castro valley. westbound 580 around redwood row, a disabled tanker truck, mostly on the shoulder, a little hanging into the far right lane. no delays yet. hopefully they'll be able to get that clear before traffic picks up in the area. we have at least an hour until i think that will cause issues. westbound 80 looks great, 17 minutes. another nine across the bay bridge. and southbound 101, san francisco to sfo, you look great

at nine minutes. we'll check on overnight road work next. >> oprah winfrey hoping her popularity will be a hit in her latest business venture coming soon to a grocery store near you. >> it's all about healthier versions of comfort food. she has a line of refrigerated soups and side dishes like mashed potatoes that have cauliflower in them. or you know, pasta that's made with butternut squash. teaming up with kraft heinz to launch that line and it's going to be called, o, that's good. get it? get it? >> okay. we're just over a week from one of the most highly anticipated eclipses in years. how bay area scientists are getting ready for the big event. >> outside lands music festival starting tomorrow. we're live with the preparations under way right now. >> fearoffs a nuclear strike from north korea continue to grow. grow. the

good morning to you. it's thursday, friday eve, august 10th. >> thanks for joining us at 5:00 a.m. hope you're doing well. let's see what the forecast is going to be like. like all the other days this week? >> pretty much. we're still stuck in neutral, but things will change over the weekend. hi, everybody. let's talk about the wind. you can see they're all blowing towards the mounts. that's a nice stout sea breeze. that's the reason why temperatures will be cooler than average again this afternoon. a look at south beach, you can see some of the fog and mist that's hanging around. the drizzle is not quite as thick as it was yesterday. temperature 58 to 62 degrees. now, the bottom numbers, the no numbers are at the