hundreds of people from coming to that city. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live in berkeley to explain why. >> reporter: the mayor said this group did not apply for a permit for sunday's rally. we learned this afternoon the group did apply last friday. we obtained a letter from the city denying that permit for several reasons including lack of proper security precautions. >> we don't have an option to not fight back. >> reporter: they are a coalition of groups rejecting the plea from the mayor of berkeley to stay away from sunday's anti-marxist rally. >> fight from where you stand. you choose to method. >> we're not here to cause violence. >> reporter: amber cummings claims it's not about racism or white supremacy but these community activists aren't b

buying it. >> we don't want you here. we're not going to tolerate you're being here. >> reporter: in an effort to avoid a repeat of vents like this, the berkeley city council passed an ordinance that give police the latitude to enforce bans and set perimeters at the rally. >> giving police unprecedented power and mostly it's to stop us. >> if their issue is they can't bring a weapon, we have a problem with that. >> you want to come and peacefully assemble, we will allow that to happen. when you're intent on committing violence, that's when we're going to draw the line. >> reporter: the city is working on a specific list of banned items but is yet to release it saying it will be made public 24 hours before sunday's rally. laura anthony, abc 7 news.

the u.s. postal service says it will remove several blue collection bobbi kristixes as a measure. >> officials say it's to increase public safety and ensure the sanctity of the mail. >> community groups and businesses in berkeley are uniting against hate trying to make unity and love the most visible themes in the city. >> abc 7 news reporter is live in berkeley where the store fronts are looking a little different. >> reporter: chris and dan i'm outside the library. up with of about 30 places where you can get one of these free signs. the mayor's office printed thousands of them with hopes they end up in windows and front yard to send a message there's no place for hate in this town. store fronts in berkeley are starting to look busy the signs preaching love and tolerance plaster windows. the city of berkeley printed

20,000 of these as way to show support for the city. >> we're horrified by the chaos. >> we can't stop people from speaking but we can denounce what they're about. >> reporter: they spent the day decorating their own protest signs. >> we hope the message it sends is by far a willing majority of people in berkeley in the bay area stand against racism and against bigotry. >> reporter: the berkeley mayor's office is seeking volunteers to help plaster the city with signs saturday afternoon. they printed anti-hate posters for other neighboring towns including oakland, alameda and san jose and plan to hang this banner in civic center park. the site of the rally.

>> today workers unloaded chain link fences for the grass. golden gate bridge parking lots and visitor amenities will be closed. certain muni bus lines won't make stops in the area and all cable car lines will be operated by buses. >> a san francisco general hospital says it's prepared in case of serious injury. the public defend tedefender's reminding people to know their rights, not touch officers and truthfully identify themselves if detained. a highly anticipated ruling regarding the death penalty. the state supreme court upheld proposition 66. that's the ballot initiative to speed up executions this california. justices rejected arguments that

a provision setting a five-year limit on appeals was mandatory. the decision raises doubts that the law will skucceed. a judge sentence an oakland man today to 40 years to life in prison for his role in a gun battle that killed a 30-year-old innocent bystander. a jury convicted alex davis of second-degree murder of a 30-year-old mother of three. prosecutors say davis fired the shot that killed pierce, a bystander during a gun wattbatt that played out in march of 2015. two other men will be sentenced next month. breaking news where traffic is a big mess heading eastbound toward tracy. a alameda fire posted this. a truck carrying empty wine

bottles rolled over. several lanes are blocked. the driver was not hurt. he said he lost his brakes. there's diesel fuel leaking. it could take several hours to clear the crash. a concord family will likely be out of their home for months. a neighbor says the family and their pets barely got out in time. a recovery expert looking over the damage today says there's much more to it than that. >> the house could be rebuilt but the memories, they can't. we do our best to try to put it back together and make it as easier as simple as they can for the family. >> arson investigators were on the scene last night but no cause has been established.

professor louis was sanctioned for harassing a student in 2015. students were upset he's being allowed to return to campus. now it appears the student's voices are being heard. the stude >> reporter: the students are relieved the teacher won't be here. they don't like the way the university handled the situation. it's the second day of school here at san jose state university and already controversy over a professor who was scheduled the teach two courses this fall. >> i didn't want to take his classes. he was slated to be my advisor when i started here. i purposely did not go see him or sign up for any of his courses. >> reporter: that student is talking about professor louis.

during the last school year he was sanctioned for sexually harassing a student after the university completed an investigation. administrators were going to allow him to return to teach in te development of counselor education but late wednesday night a decision was made to not allow that. >> we have heard from our students very clearly in the past week and a half or so about concerns. again, it goes back to is this going to be a conducive learning environment. >> reporter: university officials say the department of counselor investigation will under go a complete review. it was prompted by student input collected in the spring. >> as a professor and extremelyy by the way it's happening. >> reporter: while students are leaved he won't be teaching, it leaves them in a difficult situation. a replacement professor was found for one of the courses but the other won't be offered until next spring. >> some of them this may

jeopardize their graduation because they needed the >> reporter: he's still em loiploip -- employed. beer and wine will be sold during spartan home games for the first time if five years. they dropped ban on alcohol sales back this june. san jose state opens its football season on saturday when they host south florida. scaffolding in napa is more likely for development than quake repairs. hotels are all back. restaurants are, come, try them. >> also farmed salmon escape in northwest. one calls it a nightmare. another sells anglers, please, go fishing. if it hasn't felt like summer to you much lately, don't

worry. it's going to soon. i'll show you how hot it's going to get, coming up. which repellants offer the

there's no formal commemoration of the earthquake that happened three years ago. what used to be the napa post office. wayne. >> reporter: good afternoon. used to be a post office and someday they are saying it may become a hotel, but nothing is confirmed yet. when you look at napa and their earthquake experience, there's a lesson here. this is a community that's gone through their big one. unlike the rest of the bay area that's still waiting. as the sign says napa, the words

are three years later. >> it's easily the worst quake. >> fear. just absolute fear. >> reporter: that's how napa's 6.0 earthquake felt and these images are freeze frames of a community trauma three years to the day. >> the emergency work is one tenth of the work you're going to do. the city and how you evaluat how you come through a disaster. >> reporter: she'll talk about the strength of a community pulling itself together. yt earthquake scars still abound in napa as do fences, healing wounds, parts of downtown still look like a construction zone renovating the old courthouse alone could cost $12 million. they are moving the entire campus next year due to the discovery of a new fault running directly beneath the buildings. another reminder. on the one year anniversary we

photographed her wrecked home. the rv her family slept in. the reconstruction. to this day they have yet to repair the backyard pool. >> the first thing i said to my husband when i saw our house had come off its foundation, i asked him are we ruined? are we ruined? he said i don't know. >> reporter: now we know the answer on this third anniversary, napa is far from ruined, but still with a long way to go. >> more work to do. more work to do. >> reporter: in napa, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. monday's eclipse may have caused thousands of nonnative salmon to break out of their pen in washington state. the pen has been around for about 30 years. state fish and wildlife officials believe it broke apart by high tides caused by the eclipse. up to 5,000 salmon are believed to have escaped. the main concern is they could harm the native pacific salmon and cause diseases in native

fish. they are encouraged to catch and keep as many as they want to protect the quickly diminishing native species. >> to go out there and see that many fish and catch them is great. >> some are questioning whether the eclipse really did cause the pen to break apart because the tides were higher in july and nothing happened then. a california company has created a pesticide spiked punch that lures mosquitos to their doom. it zeroes in on targets the insect hunger for nectar. field tests see a drop in mosquitos by two-thirds. it kill hundreds of thousand people each year. whether you're headed into the woods or hanging out in the backyard, insect repellant is something you should have. >> michael finney is here with recommendations for us.

been done. it protects against mosquitos and ticks. consumer reports out with new testing showing which bug sprays provide the most protection. >> to test insect repellants consumer reports enlists brave panelists to stick their arms into cages filled with swarming mosquito, all disease free, of course. consumer reports repellants with synthetics like deet. there were also plant based repellants labeled natural with ingredients like citronella, lemon grass and cedar oils. >> it's to avoid getting bitten in first place. the good news is you should only need one product to protect you against both insects. testing indicates that anything protect you should protect you from ticks.

>> reporter: the lowest scoring ones only lasted for two hours or less. consumer report says it's best to avoid the plant based natural products. >> the thing about natural r repellants is these are not registered. they don't bother to evaluate them for safety or effectiveness. that means the companies that make these are not required to prove to federal regulators that they work. >> reporter: what did make a difference is the active chemical ingredients. >> all the ones that earned our recommendation contained one of three different active ingredients and each one at a limited range of concentrates. between 15 and 30% deet. >> reporter: two products with deet earned top scores.

if you want to skip the deet, this $5 oil performed almost as well. premium insect repellant. consumer report says deet products are safe for every one and that includes children. it recommends choosing your repellant with 30% deet or less. that's still quite a bit. >> absolutely. thanks. check out this picture from forida. line of storms drop this water spout off the western coast near st. petersburg. the area sees this quite often. >> just stunning. look at that. now to the weather. >> in the gulf of mexico, hurricanes are pretty common. take a look at this hurricane harvey on live doppler 7. you can see this large hurricane is heading towards the texas coast right now. i do want to show you what category it is. it's a category 1 storm with 85

miles an hour maximum sustained winds moving to the northwest at 10. this storm is expected the make landfall as major category 3 hurricane sometime between tomorrow afternoon and evening with 125 mile an hour winds. it's going to be a slow moving soaker. saturday afternoon still a cat 2. then it will continue to dump some heavy rain across this region along with increasing the storm surge. rainfall estimates right now 15 to 25 inches with up to 35 inches in isolated areas. this hurricane may prove to be catastrophic across the area. here in the bay area a different scene. live doppler 7 showing you a bit of fog which is typical for this time of year. the fog is going to shrink over the coming days. as i does we'll see the heat building. take a look at the temperature trend for antioch. as we head towards saturday, sunday, even into monday, triple digits are showing up for our hottest inland valley.

if you been missing the hot weather, you're not going to miss it much longer. you notice that the marine layer is till with us. that's why we're not expecting the heat to really increase tomorrow. san jose, 61. today's high so far low 60s to the low 90s. some wispy clouds. here are your temperatures. everyone in the 70s in north bay and livermore 79 degrees. most of us were in the 80s except for antioch. fog will be near the coast and bay in the morning. we are looking at triple digit heat this weekend. hour by hour forecast. tonight there could be a little mist and drizzle around 7:00 near the coastline. fog will be pretty much limited.

it's not going to be very widespread. tomorrow morning's commute yes there will be some patches of fog around but maybe dense so watch out for that during the commute. for the afternoon just about everyone will be seeing the sun for your friday. temperatures first thing this the morning low 50s to the low 60s. out the door maybe an extra layer will come in handy. for the afternoon you can get rid of those. if your kids are in school they'll need the short sleeves. inland areas will be warm. temperatures in the low 90s. you can download the accuweather app and keep track of the heat coming. look at the temperatures. noticeably warmer on saturday. you'll see the 90s, 100s inland. it will remain comfortable near the coastline as we head into sunday the heat will continue. inland areas will be sizzling. on monday, still hot inland. coastal spots will remain on the mild side. hot weather expected saturday through monday with those triple

digits inland. temperatures do back off a little bit tuesday, wednesday only to creep back up again on thursday. it is still summer. we've got to keep those triple digits coming in especially since much of august has been cooler than average. >> we pay for it on sunday. >> just head to the beach. a real life indiana jones rewrite the hit books. home security goes digital. the new system that will make your house key a thing of the past. that's at 6:00. we'll be back here wi

three, two, one. >> elon musk's spacex has reached a milestone. they are launched a dozen missions this year. the most they have done in a

year and one more than russia. after carrying the satellite into space the rocket landed successfully back on a drone ship. ready for this. apple is getting ready to reveal a $1,000 iphone. the new york times reports that the company's new high end iphone will cost $999 when it's introduced next month. what's the big deal? the phone will include a nearly full screen display, wireless charging and facial recognition to updated versions of the iphone 7 will also be introduced. san francisco base square mobile payments company has opened its first physical store. this is a look at the store that opened in new york city today. the manhattan location is to help merchants who use square.

a new beer drewed with cannibus extract was shown today. now it does not contain thc. the compounds that causes marijuana related high. researchers in australia say they unlocked a secret that could change the history of mathematics. scientists say a 3700-year-old clay tablet they've decoded proves that the developed trigonomtry a thousands years before the greeks. the true meaning has alluded experts ever since. it was probably used by ancient architects to construct temples, palaces and canals.

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coming up on abc 7 news at 6:00. >> i knew she was dead. i took her always and she had no pulse. >> her sister died but the live stream continued. tonight a teenage driver defends the actions that landed her in jail. also the effort to save 100 ferral cats. beware of people at your door saying they are from the alarm company. it could cost you thousands of dollars. that's all coming up in half an hour at 6:00.

finally, if you're looking for a party on sunday, why not celebrate with big mike. >> why not? there he is. over 20 feet tall and mike is turning 50. if you're from the east bay you might recognize mike. >> mike was one of many urban roadside attractions popular long ago. just a couple of blocks away from the doggy diner. >> they're happy to have him back here. i'm sure they want him on downtown hayward. i don't think they ever wanted him this downtown hayward. they're perfectly happy to have him in the park where nobody sees him. >> big mike's birthday bash is set from sunday from 10:00 to 5:00. everyone is welcome for cake and a factory tour.

>> world news tonight is tonight, breaking news as we come on the air in the west. a major hurricane bearing down on the u.s. evacuations already under way tonight in texas. a state of emergency declared tonight in parts of louisiana. harvey rapidly gaining strength tonight. now forecast to hit as a category 3 hurricane. authorities warn up to 35 inches of rain. possibly life threatening. our team in the storm zone, and ginger zee is here with the new track just in. also breaking tonight, the hostage standoff in charleston. a man walking into a restaurant, pointing a gun into a woman's stomach. authorities then say, firing at someone else. the threat from president trump. he says he will shut down the government if that's what it takes to get funding to build the wall. but who is paying for it? the high school cheerleader.